Tully Smyth is back! We chat about hanging out with people overseas, the Raya dating app, and getting Mr. 97 white girl wasted in LA.
Show Notes
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At a glance
From this episode’s transcript.
- –Raya is an invite-only, celebrity-focused dating app that costs about $8 USD/month, requires five 'yes' votes from committee members to join, and features a map showing nearby members' locations, which can be toggled off.
- –Tully Smyth earns $5,000 USD for every 25 people she successfully refers onto Raya, though she doesn't get final approval say.
- –Tully prefers the original live, publicly-voted format of Big Brother Australia over the new prerecorded, housemate-voted version announced for Channel 7, arguing it removes the show's voyeuristic appeal and makes for 'boring TV'.
- –Tully's dating app height parameter is 6'2" and above; she herself is 5'10" and wants to still wear heels.
- –Mason Lauder (Mr. 97) had only had one alcoholic drink in his life prior to this trip, and the hosts and Tully plan to get him drunk and set him up on Raya during the LA trip.
Questions this episode answers
What is Raya and how does it work?
According to Tully Smyth, Raya is an invite-only dating app (pitched as being for people 'in the industry') that requires a referral and five committee approvals to join, costs about $8 USD a month, uses song-based slideshow profiles instead of static photos, and has a map feature showing where other members are located, including at 'hotspot' venues.
Why does Tully Smyth prefer the old Big Brother Australia format?
Tully explains the new Channel 7 reboot will be prerecorded over a few months (like Survivor) with housemates voting each other out, rather than live nightly broadcasts with public voting; she feels this removes the voyeuristic live-feed appeal and the dynamic where the public could save divisive or entertaining contestants the house wanted gone.
Can you screenshot conversations on the Raya app?
No — Tully says Raya records your IP address if you take a screenshot, which is how they identify who leaks content to the press, since the app is very privacy-focused.
Episode TranscriptShow
Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.
Josh: It's a daily talk show live from Los Angeles or Tully Smuts' hotel room.
Tully: Weehoo.
Tommy: What's happening?
Josh: Weehoo.
Tully: Hello.
Josh: West Hollywood.
Tully: Welcome to my crib.
Tommy: Paint the picture for us.
Tully: Look, I've done well here, haven't I? So I got a free upgrade. So there's, we're in the living quarters of my room and then there's the bed in front of us, nice and plush. We have the double sink bathroom with a door, we just realized. Yeah, thanks for shutting it. I don't know why you didn't.
Tommy: I pointed out before the window that you can see straight into the shower.
Tully: It's one of those things where like you wanna be comfortable with the person 'cause sometimes you go away and you're not super, super tight with someone, like you're not married to somebody. And when you've got bathrooms like that where it's exposed, it really tests things quite early on, doesn't it?
Tommy: Have you actually had that happen?
Tully: Yeah, for sure. The Olsen in Melbourne, had a room there and I took a friend.
Josh: Oh no, I thought you were gonna say you took a shit in the hotel and it was—
Tully: No, I don't take shits.
Josh: Okay, great.
Tully: I don't shit.
Josh: Not at hotel rooms.
Tully: But yeah, I had a friend stay the night and there was just no privacy. And it was just a bit like, it just makes you skip, I don't know.
Josh: Yeah, no.
Tully: Where else do you go? You can't like run downstairs to the lobby to use the bathroom. You could actually.
Josh: How many times have you been to LA, do you reckon?
Tully: Ooh, I come a lot. I love LA. I actually wanted to move here. I come about once every year. So I was here this time last year, literally to the day this time last year. I just love it here. I love the weather. I love how it really does feel like anything's possible. I feel like you're walking down the street and you bump into people that just make you feel like you could totally make it here.
Josh: It's funny, we were talking the other day about when you go on a holiday, all of us, or you travel, all of a sudden you hang out with people that you don't normally hang out with.
Tully: Wait, are you saying that you wouldn't usually hang out with me?
Tommy: Oh mate, I usually do a run-in with Tully Smyth and then—
Tully: Hey, I was psyched to see you guys were here same time as me.
Josh: Yeah, it's great.
Tully: I was psyched. I reached out to you and I said, "Hey guys, I'm coming tomorrow. We should hang out." And then they left me on scene.
Tommy: No, no, that's not true.
Tully: You didn't reply to me. I was like, "This is so awkward. Oh my God, do they not wanna hang out with me? What have I done?" I thought our episode went really well.
Josh: No, it was great. It did go well. No, we're not great when it comes to our DMs.
Tommy: Well, no, I think—
Tully: You're on it literally all the time.
Josh: I know, we're always on it though.
Tommy: Half an hour. Response time is okay.
Tully: It was days.
Tommy: Are you more needy because you're in LA?
Tully: No, I just kind of was like, I reached out, I extended an olive branch and was like, hey, we should totally like catch up, get dinner, get drinks. And then you saw it, one of you saw it and then you just left it.
Tommy: Well, we were pulling a few olives off another branch and then we've now come over to your olive branch.
Tully: So you're just using me for my room, aren't you? That's why we're all here.
Tommy: No, but we did do Runyon this morning.
Tully: We did, we did.
Tommy: Which if you don't do Runyon when you're in LA.
Tully: Are you even in LA?
Tommy: You're not. And it was Mr. 97's first time.
Josh: Hello, welcome to the show.
Tully: He's here. He's here, guys.
Tommy: Very close to Tully. Oh my God, the rumours are true.
Tully: He's a bit cute.
Tommy: Mr. 97, what did you think of Runyon?
Mason: I loved it, it was great.
Tully: It was very quick though, right?
Mason: Yeah, yeah, it could have gone longer. I thought that was just like a stopping point and then we'd keep going.
Tommy: All right, mate, do twice.
Josh: Should we have potentially made it longer? Should we have gone up another trail?
Tommy: Well, I mean, how were you coping? Because you had a few drinks last night.
Tully: Look, I was a little bit dusty and a little bit wheezy. I actually have asthma.
Josh: Wheezy?
Tully: So I should have brought my puffer, but it wasn't that bad, was it?
Josh: So you actually have an asthma pump that you can carry with you?
Tully: Yeah, Ventolin.
Josh: Okay.
Tully: Which is super sexy.
Tommy: You shouldn't have more than, what do they say, the doctors? Do you ever feel like when you go to the pharmacist and they say, how often are you using this?
Tully: Yeah, 'cause then you have to have a preventative rather than a, this is really boring to have.
Josh: Have you had the preventative, the purple one?
Tully: I haven't, no.
Josh: You have to do that and it's like real sandy. It's like, ah, this doesn't feel like it's helping.
Tully: I have had too much of my blue Ventolin before and it makes you a little bit like jittery. A little bit racy, not in a fun way.
Tommy: So you hadn't had it before we left because you were— you had a good time?
Tully: Okay, look guys, was I late? No, no.
Tommy: Was I awake?
Tully: And I just arrived the day before. I was probably jet lagged, a little bit hungover. I had to have Maccas the night before, and yet, you know, we all made it, didn't we? And then we had a delicious breakfast.
Josh: Oh, that was good. What was that place called?
Tully: Mel's Drive-In. They wanted to do a diner. I'm like, there are so many better places to be eating here.
Tommy: Well, okay, so I think If you— so you can have the like So LA experience where you're coming over here going to all the hip places, or you can do the right experience. Yeah, it depends. I mean, I've done that experience. Mr. 97, he needs the diner experience. He's never been to America.
Tully: How'd you find the diner?
Mason: It's great. Yeah, well, I just got avocado and eggs on toast. Yeah, very Aussie.
Tully: You just got what we could have gotten back home.
Tommy: Yeah, the hipster thing at an old school diner.
Tully: We really should have all taken it seriously and gotten like chicken and waffles, pancake stack.
Josh: I think that the vegetarian thing has played to my advantage of not blowing out too much.
Tully: Look, I'm disappointed in this whole development. Last time we chat, you were trying to debut a mo.
Josh: Oh, that's right. Yeah.
Tully: And now you're trying to debut vegetarian dad saves.
Tommy: Earlier, something around the gimmicks. Yeah.
Josh: I'm the trendsetter.
Tully: I did not call you a trendsetter. I did not call you a trendsetter.
Josh: I thought I was a trendsetter. I thought it was the gimmick guy.
Tully: What was the word he was using in the car? I was like, okay, dad, tricksy.
Mason: Tricksy.
Tommy: Tricksy.
Josh: Well, I didn't want to get too tricksy about things.
Tommy: Which is not a word.
Tully: It's either Tricky or Trickster. You just combine the two.
Tommy: Do you drive when you're in LA?
Tully: No, I'm too scared to do that.
Tommy: Have you driven here?
Tully: No.
Tommy: Okay.
Tully: Okay, the traffic, if you've ever been to LA, the traffic is crazy. There are so many, like there are like 12-lane freeways. We're turning from all the wrong sides on the wrong side of the car. It just terrifies me.
Tommy: Can I see you show your elbow to the camera? It's a full-on bruise. Can you see in the camera?
Tully: It's really bruised.
Tommy: Yeah, what happened?
Tully: I think I maybe chipped it. Do you want the truth or do you want the storey that I haven't actually even, you haven't even asked how I did it.
Tommy: No, because when you said it, you jumped in the car, you're like, oh my elbow. And I looked over and I was like, I can't see shit. And then you showed it before and it was, now it's fully swollen.
Josh: We want the real story.
Tully: Okay, so I was in bed last night. It's probably about 6 or 7 PM. Obviously I just landed, so I was pretty jet lagged and I tried to stay awake for as long as I could before I could go to bed. Retainer in again, just such a catch.
Josh: Um, with retainers, do you have to change them over time? Like, you gotta— when did you get a retainer? How old were you?
Tully: Uh, no, I had Invisalign when I was an adult, so now just to keep them in place.
Tommy: So it's not— it's not—
Tully: this is not the storey I wanted to tell.
Tommy: Retainer, were you like—
Tully: absolutely not.
Josh: Well, that's what you think about retainer.
Tully: I think about like, grab it if you want, you just pop it in. It's like a see-through mouthguard.
Josh: Could anyone wear it, or it's too good? Okay. So it's a cool— yeah, it's a mouthguard.
Tully: Yeah, but it's still not sexy.
Tommy: You sleep with a mouthguard, don't you?
Tully: Anyway, so I was in bed watching some— I was watching The Wedding Planner. Great movies over here, by the way. Um, and then obviously I'm single. I'm not sure if you guys are aware. Have I mentioned that before? Yeah.
Josh: What app is it that you— oh, you can't talk about the app that you're on?
Tully: Talk about the apps. Ray is definitely worth talking about. Anyway, so someone was talking to me on an app and he was like, come for a drink. And I was like, no, I'm already in bed. I just got here. No. He's like, I'll come to your hotel bar. And I was like, oh, it's just downstairs. And I was like, okay. So I got up, got dressed, did my hair, put makeup on and went downstairs for a drink.
Josh: So what's the vibe?
Tully: The point is, is that there's a swing downstairs in the lobby and we were on the swing drunk and we both fell backwards off the swing in the Mondrian lobby with a bunch of like cool celebs wandering about. So that's nice.
Josh: So do you like the idea of doing that? I think I would absolutely not get out of bed. I would have just said no. What are you hoping for? Something? Are you hoping for a—
Tully: It's funny, my girlfriend was just talking to me about that. I am obviously only here for 9 days, so I'm not big on one-night stands, but you do, you know, the romantic in me thinks—
Josh: But you've only got 9 days.
Tully: So you have to have 9 one-night stands. No, the romantic in me thinks, what if this is the person I'm supposed to meet? So you never wanna miss out on an opportunity. He had good banter, he was very funny. He looked like Seth from The O.C. Yeah, American.
Tommy: Was it Seth from The O.C.?
Tully: No, it wasn't. It could have been though, it could have been.
Josh: Seth from The O.C., what does he look like?
Tully: He's hot.
Tommy: Is there a—
Josh: Brunette or blonde?
Tully: Brunette.
Josh: Okay.
Tommy: You did mention that you spotted a celebrity on there.
Tully: Yeah, so I wanna get Mr. 97 on Raya.
Tommy: And explain what Raya is.
Tully: So they call it Raya over here. It's R-A-Y-A. So it's a dating app. They pitch it as a dating app for people in the industry. It's basically just a dating app for hot famous people, which is why I'm on it.
Josh: Who gave you the invite?
Tully: Nev from Catfish. Yeah, um, he's a friend of mine, so he called— he actually called me. He said, you have to get this new app. And I was like, I'm already on Happn, Bumble, Tinder, Hinge.
Tommy: Mate, my plate's full. I bloody can't manage the— seriously, the top 5.
Tully: He didn't wear with a stick. So it's been around for a while then, but it's a real secret society, so they don't advertise it. Um, it's kind of like Fight Club, like you're not supposed to talk about it. Um, you have to apply to get on. There's like a waiting period. So this is what you haven't in— I can be used like reference.
Tommy: You have to have a referral So Niamh was yours and now I can be yours.
Josh: So you're like the GP. Have you referred anyone before?
Tully: Yes, yeah, I've had a few friends on there.
Tommy: Is there a—
Tully: you have to pay for it as well.
Josh: Oh no, he's still on his mum's Netflix account.
Tully: Just add it to your mum's, you know, could you use your mum's credit card?
Tommy: Would you do that? I reckon your mum would be down for that, Mr. 97.
Mason: Yeah, yeah, she'd probably—
Tully: have I mentioned that there are Victoria's Secret models on there?
Mason: Yeah, mum's gonna do it.
Tully: Mum's down. No, but it's really cool. One of the best functionalities about it that I love that none of the other apps have is that there's like a map and it shows you like where the hotspots are. So it will show you where all the members are, which is kind of, you can turn it off if you don't want people to see where you are.
Tommy: And when you say shows you, it's, you know who they are?
Tully: You can see their faces. You can click on their profiles and be like, oh, okay, so, so-and-so is at the bar literally across the road.
Tommy: It says Tully Smyth on there.
Tully: No, it says Tully. Okay, so first name. But then it links to my profile.
Tommy: First name, link profile, little icon, great.
Tully: So last night when I was downstairs on my date, he went to the bathroom. Oh, this is something I'm gonna be talking about. He went to the bathroom, I thought, I'm just gonna see who's around.
Tommy: He wasn't the knight in shining armor, she was home.
Josh: Look, he said to me, no, he was lovely.
Mason: How many days?
Josh: 8 days?
Tully: Guys, he's actually so keen, he wants to come out tonight.
Josh: I was like, oh wow, keen bean.
Tommy: We're going out. We're all going out.
Tully: Yeah, we're all going out. I wanna get Mr. 97 drunk. White girl wasted. I'm really excited. Anyway, so I saw on my little map, I saw on my little map that actor who used to be on Glee, which I used to love, was literally at that bar just there to the left of us. So I was like, do I just run, make a run for it?
Josh: It sounds like a stressful and exhausting game.
Tully: Of course you would say that. It's not a game, this is meant for a life.
Josh: It sounds a lot like a game.
Tully: It's my daily life. Of course you would say that, Dad.
Josh: And can we look at the Raya app and see who's in there now?
Tully: Yeah, absolutely. Oh, look at that.
Tommy: You've got your name on the back of your case. I do, I do. I did spot it.
Tully: Let's Face ID it. All right, so we're gonna open the app.
Josh: So it's called Raya.
Tully: They call it Raya. But how would you call it? R-A-Y-A. It's Raya.
Josh: Raya, yeah.
Tully: So see, this says members near you.
Josh: So do you have guys and girls on there?
Tully: Yeah, this is just like nearby. If I wanted to go, this is how you use it, like kind of any other app. Yes, no, yes, no. And rather than have photos, rather than have photos, there's like a slideshow. So you make a little like slideshow with a song of your choice. The song is very important. You are judged on the song as much as you're judged on your photos.
Josh: Don't do the song too well.
Tommy: So this guy that you've gone, Mike, Mike's gone, but he was He had a lot of red carpet shots.
Tully: So then see how there's like a, hang on, I'll show the camera.
Josh: Yeah, sure.
Tully: Can we see it? Can we see that?
Josh: Yeah, so there's a map and it looks like, it's like you've ordered 50 things at Uber Eats and you're keeping track of all of them at once.
Tully: And so then you can see, so when there's a place that's going off, for instance, like Soho House, which is a really sort of hip-hop happening place, you can see it will be like pulsating as in like all the beautiful people are hanging out here right now.
Josh: Brian, everyone's got really good headshots.
Mason: Hot.
Tully: It's okay. The one thing about Raya is it's really hard to go back from Raya to like Bumble or Tinder because you're going from like the elite. I mean, that's like Gary from Altona North, you know what I mean? Like, you're going from the CEO of Firefox, I shit you not, or, um, McLovin from Superbad, who's not hot to be fair. No, but like, there's some guy that's like a, you know, a chippy.
Josh: Yeah, sure.
Tommy: So who's the most—
Josh: do you use Firefox?
Tully: No, I use Chrome.
Tommy: Who's the most Preston, you knew.
Josh: Is it—
Tommy: do you actually know?
Josh: Mozilla is the company.
Tommy: I couldn't tell you who the bloody CEO of Hotmail is.
Josh: No, my point is everyone's got really impressive titles, you know.
Tully: You've got DJs, you've got producers. Yeah, yeah, you have to because you have to. That's how you get across the line.
Josh: I mean, the bloke before was a professional pretender, which means he's an actor, I guess.
Tully: Yeah, he's a bullshit artist. Who's this guy?
Josh: What are you doing?
Tully: He's a musician.
Josh: He's a musician. Social activist.
Tommy: Oh, fuck.
Tully: Spare me.
Tommy: Okay, you know what, we'll do one. I'll do two more.
Josh: Go on, take it.
Tommy: Who's the What's the most famous person you've seen online?
Tully: Oh, there's been quite a few. Matched with or seen?
Tommy: Both.
Tully: Okay, so what I tend to do is, and it's probably a bit narcissistic of me. No. But if I—
Josh: Go on.
Tully: Dad, if I see someone famous, I swipe right just to see if we match.
Josh: Okay, sure.
Tully: And then I immediately unmatch them. So there's a little guy, one of the funniest ones was the little guy from Jerry Maguire, Jonathan Lipnicki.
Josh: Oh, everyone said as a kid I looked like him.
Tully: Yeah, he has not aged well, let's just say that.
Mason: Has he really?
Tully: He looks the same in the face, but he's just a bigger guy. Okay, sure. Which is a little bit— Disconcerting.
Josh: Yeah, sure.
Tully: Who, oh, there's some people on there. Tyo Cruz is on there. Moby's on there.
Josh: Lauren Moby.
Tully: Yep, Terri Hatch is on there.
Josh: Works at Honey Burdette.
Tully: That's lingerie company, great lingerie. Who else? In terms of people I've matched with, they're all quite like, you wanna go achievable? Like people you might actually meet. So I've matched with Flume.
Mason: Oh yeah.
Tully: Hi, Harley.
Tommy: Did you know him before that?
Mason: No.
Tully: Okay. No, now I do.
Tommy: You're on a first name basis.
Tully: This is gonna be your Daily Mail article. Yeah. Well, his name's Harley. You don't want to call him by his DJ name.
Tommy: I saw what he did to that person that, um—
Tully: He ate ass. I'm all, I think real men eat ass.
Tommy: Well, he's a real man in your eyes.
Tully: Mr. 97, thoughts on eating ass?
Tommy: Sorry.
Josh: What is he— Mum, if you listen to me, I'm sorry.
Tully: He's gone weirdly quiet. It's bizarre. You were so talkative before and now you've gone quiet.
Josh: Yeah, he had such an opinion on it before. Only real men eat ass is what he was saying. You're so red.
Tully: You're going so red.
Tommy: Oh, it's great, isn't it? So we're looking at some Hollywood Hills here.
Tully: Yes, we are.
Tommy: There's like— I love looking up and seeing these amazing houses.
Tully: Knowing you're never ever going to live anywhere like that.
Josh: Exactly.
Tommy: It's a poor man's mindset just sitting here going, wow, oh wee. There's like LA moments that happen in time. They're like, it's so LA. House parties, earthquakes. Well, that kind of shit. More the fun stuff when you come as a tourist. What's been a storey or something you've done where it's like only in LA would this happen?
Tully: Okay, well, it goes back to Raya, obviously.
Tommy: All things start with Raya.
Tully: Um, so I matched with a DJ slash producer on Raya. I think I can say his name, we're friends now.
Josh: Zedd.
Tommy: Zedd, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tully: Anton.
Tommy: Oh mate, I've been for a tour through his house.
Tully: Yeah, so I would do that.
Josh: Did he know?
Tommy: Yeah, it was on YouTube. Oh, it was like Meet the DJ, like a tour of Zedd's $18 million mansion in Hollywood.
Josh: Oh, it was on YouTube.
Tommy: It was on YouTube.
Tully: So we met up, he was going bowling. Bowling's a big thing here. A lot of the celebrities like just—
Josh: 10-pin bowling.
Tully: I think they like to really bring it back down to basics when they hang out because they're so used to like all this stuff.
Mason: In their own 10-pin bowling.
Tully: No, no, no, that's what I mean, probably not, but we just went to Pins. Pins. We had a bowling match and we went back to his house and had this like full-on Hollywood party. And I remember his pool had LED lights that like would go to the beat of the music. So it would like change from like green to purple to yellow in time with— we weren't playing his music. That'd be really— oh, something's happening. We're all right, we're back on.
Josh: Um, what just happened?
Tully: I don't know, something came across the screen.
Josh: Oh really?
Mason: Yeah, that's probably a battery.
Josh: Battery? Yeah, notification.
Tommy: Maybe a notification somehow is on our screen. So you went back to Zedd's house?
Tully: Yeah, um, Zedd, bit of a Hollywood moment.
Tommy: How has he made his money?
Josh: I like—
Tully: he's actually really freaking talented. So he was also— he happened to be premiering a documentary. He's got a crazy fan base, and that premiere I love how— are you just matching with people?
Josh: No, I'm not actually matching. I'm just saying who they are. I want to find at least one good person. Someone just said real estate. I don't think they should be on the app, but they must have a lot of real estate.
Tully: I'd be— I mean, that's a really— that again, see, that's achievable though. Like, that feels relatable.
Tommy: I'm not gonna actually match. Okay, here's one. Has any of your friends found the one on Raya or on dating? Well, just on dating apps.
Tully: Yeah, absolutely. Okay, it's my friends.
Tommy: So if you— I once went to a, as a reporter, we call it speed dating night. And it was like interesting types at these speed dating events.
Tully: Yes, they are.
Tommy: But I met one person who met their wife through it. He wasn't there speed dating. He was like part of the organiser and his best mate had met his wife through it.
Tully: It's no longer like this.
Tommy: Oh, I found a stud.
Josh: Oh, he's from Melbourne.
Tully: He was married to a friend of mine. So I probably have to go no on that one.
Tommy: What's his name?
Josh: His name's Buck.
Tully: Buck Palmer.
Tommy: Oh, it's Bucky.
Josh: Buck.
Tommy: Oh, and I've seen his house.
Josh: I've gone through his house.
Tully: He was married to, um, Ashley Hart, Jess Hart's sister.
Josh: Oh yeah, well, he's on the app.
Tully: He is attractive.
Tommy: Let's, uh, you can't—
Tully: don't swipe.
Tommy: Yes, she still lives here, doesn't she, in LA?
Tully: Uh, I think so, yeah, at least though, both of them.
Tommy: Okay, and so you— do you see— do you think if, if we gave you a green card right now, would you move here?
Tully: Yeah, I would love to move here.
Mason: Yeah.
Tommy: What would you do here?
Tully: Well, that's the thing. I don't even like people like, oh, what are you here to try and, you know, to break into? I'm like, I'm not here to try and break into anything. Like I don't wanna be an actress.
Tommy: I'll be breaking into my hotel room later because I fucking lost me key.
Tully: I don't know. I just think there's just a different energy here. Don't you think?
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Oh, well, yeah, 100%.
Tully: I just feel like in, especially in our industry, I mean, I guess we're in the same industry now. I am a podcaster host.
Tommy: Yeah.
Tully: You know, there are only so many opportunities available to us in Australia. It really is a small island.
Josh: Does that mean Raya's a bit shit in Australia?
Mason: Oh, it's so bad.
Tully: And also that map functionality doesn't work in Australia.
Josh: Really?
Tully: Non-native, you think? I don't know.
Josh: I think you have to—
Tully: I think you have to, to get those spots, you have to— we have to suggest them. And no one really uses Raya properly in Australia. All you've got is like football players.
Josh: Who else is on Raya?
Tully: In Australia?
Mason: Yeah.
Tommy: Olympia Valance met her boyfriend.
Tully: She did.
Tommy: That was a success story.
Tully: Yep.
Tommy: At the moment.
Tully: I'm friend— yep, familiar with Tom.
Josh: Oh, do you have a, um, do you know what would be really helpful?
Tully: What?
Josh: When you go on a date with someone, it sort of puts it in your profile so you can keep a track of who you've dated and what date.
Tully: Oh, okay.
Josh: Dates?
Mason: Can other people go and see it or just you and them?
Tully: They keep your messages.
Josh: Oh, it's like an Uber Eats. Oh no.
Tommy: Can we read an exchange?
Tully: And this is good too, 'cause it shows you, they show you, so once you've matched with someone, because it's not geo-targeted. So even when I'm back in Australia, I can match people in LA. So then when you get to a city, it will show you who of your matches is in the city.
Josh: So did you, have you actually done preparation before getting to LA?
Tully: Absolutely.
Josh: Where it's like the week before you've changed your location. Absolutely.
Tommy: Can I read?
Tully: I don't change my occasion. I see this, I see who are my matches is in LA, and I reach out and say, hey, I'm going to be in town next week.
Tommy: What I love about you is you're an open book.
Tully: Can I read?
Tommy: Absolutely, read whatever you want.
Tully: Nick. Oh no, now I'm regretting this instantaneously.
Tommy: Well, there's a lot. You get hard, you go hard.
Tully: Actually, it's also known fact, it's really hard to get conversation going on Raya. Everyone kind of is just there for the ego stroke. No one really wants to connect with anybody. They're there to sort of match. So to get A conversation going past hey is like, oh my God, 2016.
Tommy: You've been on this for ages.
Tully: I have. Yeah.
Tommy: I didn't think so.
Josh: That's why it's been a long time.
Tommy: So some weather banter. This is from Nick. Hi, how's the weather down there?
Tully: Is that your American accent? Yeah, I would not put you down.
Tommy: Beautiful today. I'm having a pool party tomorrow, so it better stay that way.
Tully: That's me, by the way.
Josh: But does it attract wankers?
Tully: Can I find you a better one?
Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll tell you, does it attract wankers?
Tully: Absolutely.
Josh: And do you just wait and you just wait?
Tully: That's someone we were just speaking about.
Josh: Oh yeah, sure.
Tully: Great.
Tommy: I'm trying to connect dots. I can't remember.
Tully: Really?
Josh: Don't try to connect dots.
Tommy: Not on the show.
Tully: So this guy and I actually ended up dating for a bit. They're all very attractive, aren't they? God, I should get back on with them.
Josh: Tommy, Dougie.
Mason: Dougie.
Josh: Hey Dougie.
Tommy: Hey Jackson.
Josh: So day to day, are you spending more time on Raya or do you spend time on Tinder or Bumble?
Tully: Look, when I'm back home, this is the chat between me and Flavio.
Josh: Can people send photos?
Tully: No, you can't. And also another interesting fact, you can't screen grab. If you screen grab, it records your IP address. 'Cause basically if anything gets leaked to the press, 'cause they're really big on privacy, they know who leaked it 'cause they record your IP when you screen grab something.
Tommy: Another thing I love about you, I said you're an open book, but you're also open to show that you're a bit needy Because you've gone, hi, and then he said holla, and then he said, how's it going? And you said, well, I mean, I've heard of treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen.
Tully: Hang on, hang on.
Tommy: 3 months till a reply.
Tully: Can we date stamp that? That was 3 months between the first and second.
Tommy: Yeah, 9th of September, and then he replies on the 12th of December.
Tully: No, hang on, hang on. That's a double text from him. Oh, so that's me, the first one. Okay, then he's double texted me.
Tommy: Yeah, yeah, maybe he had to get through a list. You lose some credit, guys.
Tully: I've had a bit of a go.
Tommy: 'You travel a lot?' 'A little,' says Tully. And then he says, 'I love Melbourne. Yes, I'm doing a show at the Sydney MyMusicBowl.
Josh: Wanna come?' Oh, that's Flume.
Tully: That's not bad. That's pretty good. That's what I did back from Flume.
Josh: So this is a great network.
Tommy: So we're gonna get through a fair bit, I'd say.
Josh: How do we—
Tommy: that's sick.
Josh: Can we do— do you think that's—
Tommy: Wanna come?
Tully: This one's good. This one is from literally the other week.
Tommy: Did you go?
Tully: Look.
Tommy: 'Cause this was—
Tully: This was from—
Josh: We wanna go.
Tommy: You stole my elevator.
Tully: So I was at a hotel in Brisbane and it was—
Mason: they were doing Listen Out Festival.
Tully: Festival and I was waiting for the elevator and Flume and Vera Blue get into it and there's no room for me because they have all their people with them. And I was like, hey, we've been chatting on a dating app. And so I messaged him and he was like, oh, you should have said hi.
Josh: And so in regards to the process of actually getting—
Tully: It's tough. It's tough, but I have faith in you.
Josh: Yeah, so what is it gonna take?
Tully: Okay, well, let's think about how would we pitch him? So what would we say you do as a job? We have to amp it up.
Josh: So he's a producer of a—
Tully: That's fine, no, producer's fine 'cause it's kind of vague. He could be a DJ, he could be a movie producer.
Josh: He could be an actor.
Tully: Anything really.
Josh: Is podcast too povo? Should a podcast producer?
Tully: I mean, it's on trend, isn't it? You would know about trends.
Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tully: What, very importantly though, what would be your song? Because guys either go one of two ways. They go kind of like a bit alternative, like a song maybe you've never heard of before. And you're like, oh, this guy's cool. Like he's cultured.
Josh: Like what's this weird like— Someone's got the MySpace song.
Tully: Or you go the other way, like Dylan Francis. And you do like the Seinfeld theme song or like Dylan once had Stop by the Spice Girls, which I thought was very funny. So what would you, what would you ask?
Tommy: What did Flume have before?
Tully: What does he have now?
Josh: His song.
Tully: He wouldn't have. Oh, but I did match with one of the Stafford brothers and he did have his own song as his song and I gave him shit for it. What have we got here? He's got, yeah, Talk to Me, You'll Understand, Ross from Friends. So it'll be like, it's a gag.
Josh: And that was Ross from Friends?
Tully: No, it'll be like a soundbite.
Josh: Okay, sure.
Tully: Yeah, it was a gag. So what do you have? It's tough and you get so badly judged on it, like more so than your photos maybe.
Tommy: Oh, the song you picked in the car.
Mason: What song did I pick in the car?
Josh: Google playing Missy Higgins.
Mason: Oh, Lewis Capaldi. Capaldi.
Josh: Yeah.
Tully: Sing it for us. Give us a—
Mason: I'm not singing it for you.
Tommy: It was good. It was a bit folky.
Tully: Oh yeah, that's right. That's good. Like Teske Brothers vibe?
Tommy: I don't know what that is.
Mason: I think it was, maybe it was like someone you loved or something like that.
Tully: Oh, beautiful. Yeah, I think involving the word love in it is a good start.
Mason: Yeah.
Tully: Makes you seem serious, like you're here for a real time, not a short time.
Tommy: He loves Katy Perry.
Tully: I love Katy Perry too.
Tommy: So then—
Josh: Oh, what about that song?
Tommy: You guys would match. Oh my God, you would meet on a radio.
Tully: You know what's funny though? You would pick Katy Perry because you actually like her, but everyone else would assume it was a joke.
Josh: Yeah.
Tully: California Girls, what would we go with?
Josh: What's that, the new one?
Tommy: Oh, uh—
Josh: Are you singing it, Josh? I don't know, I can't remember it.
Mason: Never Get It.
Tommy: Yeah.
Tully: Just because it's over doesn't mean it's really over.
Mason: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Josh: I feel like I've seen people when they do dances to it, it's very good.
Tully: Actually, I love that.
Josh: You on TikTok again?
Tully: Oh my God, TikTok, don't get me started on TikTok.
Tommy: You don't want to be on TikTok.
Tully: No, I'm too old, but I do get stuck in wormholes. I wake up in the morning and I sit in it. I'm like, I'm just gonna listen, watch a few, and then before you know it, I'm like, it's been 2 hours and I've seen the same dance to the same song by really, really attractive people. We were never that attractive. Yeah. These teenagers. It's fricking hard.
Tommy: I think it's the makeup.
Tully: So like, they're not all made up and the dudes don't wear makeup.
Tommy: I know you're just saying they're trying, but I think the makeup stuff, like seeing like young girls watching tutorials, knowing how to put like the—
Tully: No, they're actually beautiful little girls. Like they are little, little girls and like guys. Like I feel so, you know, dressed up as like adults.
Tommy: So as well, it's like young kids are getting taller than ever. All the bloody years coming from 3 kind of short guys. Mate, I'm 6'2". Josh is—
Tully: you're 6'2"?
Josh: Yes.
Tully: Yeah, okay, so you would just scrape in on my, uh, dating app parameters.
Josh: And is that your dating app parameter?
Tully: Yeah, 6'2" and above.
Tommy: But what about me?
Tully: Because I'm so tall.
Josh: Sure.
Tommy: How tall are you?
Tully: I'm wearing heels, so I'm 5'10". So when I wear heels, I'm like 6'1". Okay, so you've got to be 6'2" and above.
Tommy: I mean, I see why small people have complexes because they've eaten this shit.
Josh: Maybe they could— yeah, they could be an app.
Tully: No, it's actually mine. It's my insecurity, do you know what I mean? Like, it's my shit.
Tommy: So you don't— have you ever dated a guy that's shorter than you?
Tully: I recently was dating a guy that was shorter, but not shorter than me, because when I'm in flats, I'm 5'10", but I want to be able to wear heels.
Tommy: Definitely no, no, under 5'10", you—
Tully: no, that's no. How tall are you?
Tommy: What about your girlfriend?
Mason: I think I'm 6 foot.
Josh: Yeah, yeah.
Tully: Beautiful. Love that for us.
Tommy: What about your girlfriend?
Tully: Yeah, that's a fair point. Some of my ex-girlfriends were shorter than me, but they were also kind of more more, um, I don't want to say dominating, um, I don't know, they seemed bigger. Like, I was like the little, like, defenseless, like, femme, and they were like— they weren't butch, but no, I don't think the height— I kind of forgot about the height because they were still my, like, protector.
Josh: Uh, in LA, what drink, uh, would you order?
Tully: Well, as we were saying before, they free pour here, guys. So when you order a vodka lime soda, you're getting a double shot vodka lime soda.
Josh: What, they're just stupid?
Tully: No, I don't think they have the same RSA laws that we have.
Tommy: Super strict. And so it's by eye. So 3 pourings.
Tully: And also because it's LA, everyone drives everywhere. So they're not as big a drinkers as we are anyway. So they only have 2 vodka lime sodas of a night.
Josh: Yeah, sure.
Tully: Which, whereas I'll have 5 in an hour.
Tommy: So tell us, what are you doing here in LA?
Tully: Well, this first couple of days I'm here for play. I actually kind of just wanted an excuse to get away from the races this year, to be fair. So we had Derby Day yesterday. Yesterday looked terrible. It was rainy as hell.
Josh: Do you feel that? Because I mean, a lot of people, if they want to avoid the races, they just stay home. Is it for you? Do you feel obliged, like the guy who says, I'll come to your hotel, to then put on makeup and actually go down?
Tully: It's a big week for work as well, so to turn it down just for no reason is tough. I also, I get really bad FOMO, so if I was in Melbourne but not at the races, I'd feel like I was missing out. So being in LA partly for play, partly for work is just like a heaven result.
Josh: Actually next year, how do you feel about, so Mr. 97's dad, Rick.
Tully: So my future father-in-law.
Josh: He asked for tickets.
Tully: Dad, I can call him dad now.
Josh: Please do.
Tully: Can we call dad?
Josh: Dad asked for if we had hookups to be able to give, get him tickets to the Birdcage, which we don't have any pull with anyone. It was a great compliment for us.
Tully: Do you know what though, to be fair, you guys could apply for a media accreditation.
Josh: Oh yeah, that doesn't mean we have to use it.
Tully: And then you would have, no, you just get a pass.
Tommy: And then we need an in to the boot cage. Like is it one of the markets?
Tully: Yeah, so you need to be invited by a PR company or a brand or you put on a drop-in list, which is kind of tricky sometimes.
Tommy: Well, I mean, I used to live for that shit and I never got it. I got it once.
Josh: I did it, yeah, I did it with Fefe and Jules.
Tommy: Yeah.
Tully: Do you know what? Just one year, I don't know. This would have been my 5th year and I got all race days. So it's a lot.
Josh: Do you think that you could would potentially next, I know it's a year, it's a long storey arc. Would you take 97 to—
Tully: 97 or 97's dad?
Josh: I think that his dad would be really happy just with knowing that his son went.
Tully: Do you know what? I promise you that if I attend a race day next year, I get a plus one, I would take 97 with me.
Tommy: So you said if I get a plus one, do you normally get plus ones or not?
Tully: Yeah, you generally do, yeah.
Josh: But you said race day, so it could be, but we're not saying Great Harbour.
Tully: I take him to like, I take him to like, Guineas Cup, like one of the non— No, I'd take you to Oaks Day because that's like Ladies' Day and then we could actually probably pimp you out.
Tommy: Yeah, that'd be great.
Tully: And I'd probably get jealous.
Tommy: What's the colour code on Ladies' Day?
Tully: Ladies' Day is pastels and pinks.
Tommy: Okay.
Tully: Yeah, so florals, pastels, pink. So yeah, every race day has rules. They're really strict.
Tommy: Dumb. Have you got a go-to plus one?
Tully: I do. We're all familiar with her, haven't we? You all met Jen? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, my manager and best friend.
Josh: How would she feel if she got a call?
Tully: Jen, she only ever wants to go to one. So she will usually pick which one she wants to go to. Derby Day is my favorite, then Cup. Guys like going to Oaks Day, obviously. So she probably—
Josh: what is it?
Tully: Why is that obvious?
Josh: And so there's more women. Okay, no, that makes sense.
Tommy: It's on a Thursday.
Tully: Yeah, it's kind of an—
Mason: yeah.
Tommy: Oh yeah, you've just like— the week's done. It's the one before.
Tully: It's a bit more chilled.
Tommy: The one before the end of like Saturday's done.
Tully: Yeah, Stakes is nowhere if you ask me.
Tommy: Well, that's the family day.
Tully: I think it's more fun in a car park. At Steaks, which when I first moved to Melbourne was such a bizarre concept for me to get my head around. I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, so you all hang in a car park and eat food out of like eskies, but you get really dressed up and this is a fun activity for everybody? They're like, yeah, it's the most fun.
Josh: It sounds fun.
Tully: Yeah, it is fun.
Josh: So you went and you liked it?
Tully: Yeah, it is fun.
Josh: Do people bring their own food and stuff?
Tully: Yeah, so it's like, it's a big thing. So generally you have to get a spot and then it's kind of catered. So you all put in money and then whoever's hosting that spot, they go like, there's mini sandwiches, there's like punch, there's grog.
Tommy: I've had some of the best chicken sandwiches in my life.
Tully: Oh, how good are— without the crust?
Tommy: Well, yeah, these were made by a friend of mine's mum.
Tully: What do you mean?
Josh: But why are the chicken— why is it so good? Why? How did you guys have the same chicken sandwich?
Tully: Because that's the kind of thing you have in the car park.
Tommy: Yeah, it's racist. Sponge cake? No, no. So cucumber sandwiches, chicken sandwiches, little mini pies, any sweets.
Tully: Yeah, yeah, cakes and stuff.
Tommy: But when you're drinking—
Josh: It's like the thing that's in the desert that people go to here.
Tommy: Mirage?
Tully: Coachella?
Tommy: No, no, it's nothing like Burning Man!
Tully: It is actually nothing like Burning Man for bogans but with far less psychedelic drugs.
Tommy: Okay, have you been to Burning Man?
Tully: I haven't. You know what, I had zero interest. Um, really, the thought of my— some of my friends have gone and like, 'It's life-changing,' you know, 'Trust me, you'd love this.' And But the thought of one of my ex-girlfriends went and they lost one of their friends for like a day in the dust. That gives me serious anxiety. Getting lost in the playa and you can't see anything and got dust in your mouth, can't breathe. Trying to like barter things, trying to like, you know, swap toilet paper for some water.
Tommy: Like, absolutely not.
Tully: That is nothing like Bali.
Josh: It was just bartering, you know, dealing with fucking—
Tully: Oh, right, okay.
Josh: That's more sort of haggling.
Tully: I was like, are you still jet lagged? What's going on with you today?
Josh: I mean, when you were on the flight, you couldn't deal with the fact that there was no Wi-Fi. So I guess the idea of going to Burning Man—
Tully: You keep little things in your brain, you throw them back at me.
Tommy: It's good, I like it.
Josh: I remember these things.
Mason: No, but I guess—
Tully: It's a style for me.
Josh: No, the Burning Man, I don't think there's any phone reception.
Tully: No, no, that would be okay 'cause we're all in the same boat. I think it's just the fact that—
Josh: Oh, I didn't know there was water involved.
Tully: No, I think it's just the fact that I couldn't sleep on the flight over here. And so I watched 4 movies, I cried, I reckon I got 40 minutes sleep.
Tommy: Yeah.
Tully: And I mean, you've done pretty well considering I didn't get much sleep last night.
Mason: Yeah.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: And so you, so you got here and then you went to bed or you—
Tully: no, you got here, went to the pool, sunbaked. My butt is burnt.
Tommy: Yeah.
Tully: Um, 97's offered to put some aloe vera on it. Thank you so much.
Josh: He's on ass duty.
Tully: He's still yet to say 3 words.
Tommy: Let's— whatever you ask him to say.
Mason: Okay, go for it.
Tommy: Josh, let's have a break. Tally, Mace, you guys take it.
Tully: Okay, so I heard a rumour say that you're not a big drinker.
Mason: No, I've only had 1 drink in my entire life.
Tully: Okay, sorry, can we just— sorry, rewind. So you're 20 years old, not even legal to be drinking here, by the way. We have to sneak him in tonight, and you've had 1 singular drink.
Josh: Yeah, you anxiety.
Mason: Yeah, what about me?
Josh: You'll be fine. You'll be out the front.
Tully: Wait, rewind. You've had one drink, like one standard drink?
Mason: It was a shot. I think it was vodka, maybe.
Tully: Wait, is this with these guys?
Mason: No, no, no.
Josh: It was with 3D Dill, our Canadian intern.
Tully: First of all, who the fuck shots straight vodka? That's the worst shot in the world, right? Am I right? Second of all, what do you mean? How did you get to 20 years old? You're a good looking guy. You're not a complete social retard. Oh, let's not use that word. So how did you, have you only had one shot?
Mason: I just, I mean, I've never really been interested in drinking.
Tully: That's because you've never gotten drunk.
Mason: Yeah.
Tully: You need to get drunk to realise how fun it is to continue to do it for the rest of your life. So tonight, I'm psyched. I'm gonna get you really drunk.
Tommy: What would you have to drink to not feel like it?
Tully: Hungover.
Tommy: Oh no, no, just drinking alcohol.
Tully: Oh yes.
Tommy: I don't know if you could stomach a Patron.
Tully: Well, you do what every white girl does. You start on stuff like vodka cranberry. Yeah, vodka cranberry or a screwdriver. So vodka OJ. Well, then you feel like you're only having—
Josh: Yeah, there's also, uh, 97 loves all things coconut. He's part of the coconut crew and they put coconut in their hair and stuff.
Tommy: Maybe cocktails, coconut.
Josh: Yeah, maybe some form of coconut as lube before. Really? Well, all organic and natural and stuff.
Tully: It's good for your hair, so when it gets in your hair, you're not like, oh, you're like, it's greasy. Yes, I'm gonna get you drunk. Are you excited?
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: I mean, it looks the part.
Tully: I know, I was like, why are you avoiding eye contact with me?
Josh: I'm his protective blanket, but no, you're going to be fine. Okay.
Tully: Are you excited? Where else best to get a little bit drunk than LA with two of your buds, me, the ring-in? Like, you know, where else would you want to do it?
Mason: Yeah, I mean, that's what I was saying to Josh before. Yeah.
Josh: I wouldn't do it back in Melbourne, but maybe I would do weed here is what he was saying.
Tully: 'Cause it's legal here.
Tommy: Did you say that? 'Cause I didn't hear those words.
Mason: No, I don't know if it was maybe.
Josh: Well, I didn't wanna make you sound like a mummy's boy, but you said that your mom said if you did weed, it wouldn't be the word. What'd she say? What was her exact words?
Tully: I love how much you speak about your mom. It's really cute.
Tommy: I think we pump it up a bit more. No, I think you don't.
Josh: She drops it all the time.
Tommy: He does.
Mason: Yeah, he does.
Josh: And I've been playing it down because I'm trying to save you so much.
Tully: Yeah, every time you mention your mom, I get a little bit more like, oh, maybe not then.
Josh: Go on. Um, what did she say?
Mason: No, mom was just saying that it's, it's the— it's a good environment to try.
Tully: Absolutely.
Josh: Try new things.
Tully: Yeah, absolutely. Molly, we, you know, whatever. Cocaine. No, we're joking. Absolutely. I can't afford that.
Josh: Um, Mr. 97 can. Uh, Big Brother. Yeah, that was announced back like a month ago on Channel 7. Uh, first of all, yeah, what's it like? People have been talking about the difference.
Tully: Yeah, I'm not sold on this new format.
Josh: Yeah, so what is the new format?
Tully: Oh my God, no. So the beauty of Big Brother, in my opinion, it's one of the original reality TV programs. Um, my favourite part about it growing up with it were like the live feeds, you know, you really felt like you were seeing these people 24/7. So you watch the show every night and then if you wanted to, which I did you'd go and watch the live feed. So you just watch them sleep, you'd watch them potter around like The Sims. Now on Channel 7, it's just been announced, no host as yet.
Josh: Yeah, could be Kashi.
Tully: I'd love to host it. No, there are rumors.
Josh: Who do you reckon would host it?
Tully: There are rumours it's gonna be Gretta Colleen again, which should be cool. Let's bring some of the old into the new, but it's not gonna be live. It's gonna be prerecorded, kind of like Survivor. So a few months.
Mason: Oh, what, a few months?
Tully: Yeah, like 3 months.
Josh: Oh, that's bullshit.
Tully: Right? It's in a studio, it's not in a house. So they're gonna like make a studio look like a warehouse apartment, which is very similar to Big Brother US.
Josh: This is Seinfeld.
Tully: I'm just not into it. Like take it back to the old school.
Mason: How do you vote?
Tully: There's no voting. We have no say in anything.
Josh: So no buying.
Tully: It's more like Big Brother US. So rather than us, rather than the housemates putting people up for eviction and then we choose who goes, the housemates will just choose who leaves every week, which just, it takes, you take away the fundamental parts of the show and the format, and you're just getting rid of them for no real reason.
Josh: Well, because not Big Brother, it's everyone in the house. Just like it's—
Tully: yeah, yeah. And also the whole— yeah, the best part about Big Brother, in my opinion, was the voyeurism of it, and you've taken that away from us.
Josh: That's sad.
Tommy: So would that mean because the people in the house vote and they get the say, people would be more—
Tully: absolutely.
Josh: Yeah, yeah, sure.
Tully: Because people— so my opinion, the last last 4 winners of Big Brother, they would have been first to be evicted by the other housemates. Because if you're playing to win, which I wasn't, you're gonna see someone who's popular or getting attention, you're gonna go, oh, we'll get rid of them. Yeah. Whereas what would happen would be in the old format, we would see that, we'd put them up, but then the public would go, absolutely not, they're hilarious, or they're troublemaking, they're causing great television, we're gonna save them. So this is gonna be a really boring show in my opinion. I don't know, I'm just—
Tommy: because it's great because then you get to see what the housemates truly think, but then the public—
Tully: totally. And it's great when you've got someone who, you know, like me for instance, who was constantly. The housemates, you know, you know, constantly putting me up for eviction. The public were like, no way. And so then you've got also the added bonus of seeing the house have to deal with me week in, week out when they want me gone.
Tommy: What did, what did you take away from that when you saw that all the people were putting you up for eviction?
Tully: I knew why. I knew that people were uncomfortable with my relationship with Drew. A lot of the people, a lot of my ex-housemates were in relationships, um, quite a few of them actually. And I know that they found it grating to watch someone who was also in a relationship behave the way I did. And I know that for a fact because a few of them tried to talk to me about it. And I've watched a couple of clips here and there of nominations and that was generally what they would say.
Josh: Oh yeah, the nomination. It was a good show.
Tully: Great show. Yeah, yeah. And now, yeah, I mean, look, it'll be interesting. I'm still gonna tune in. I'm sitting here, you know, putting it down, but—
Josh: I like the idea. I wish that it was real time because I do like the idea that I feel like as a kid, you'd be like, I wonder what they're doing in the house right now.
Tully: Yeah, totally. And also when you have a show like that, there's just so much more room for spoilers. We're gonna see who's been evicted because they're going to be out and about and like, you know what I mean? Whereas it's just, they'll be at Morris Jones getting drunk, you know, social media, probably hooking up with them knowing me, you know, I do love an ex-reality TV contestant.
Tommy: Or they'll watch this and say, Tally, can you give me a Raya invite?
Tully: Absolutely.
Josh: Okay, so the next step for the Raya invite, 97 needs to pick a song.
Tully: You need to apply first and then get across the line. So basically I work, I work with the app, so I'm on the committee So I personally approved Paris Hilton for Raya. That's a legit story. Yeah. So you have to get 5 yeses from 5 different committee members. So obviously use me as a referral. So I'll see you come through the app.
Josh: Who do we know, do you think, that would have it?
Tully: I don't know who else works for the app.
Josh: Okay.
Tommy: What do you get for working as a—
Tully: Cash money.
Tommy: Oh really?
Josh: Oh, that's good.
Tully: Yeah, I get $5K US for every 25 people I get on the app.
Tommy: Fuck off.
Tully: That's great. So this is like, how can we get more people?
Tommy: How can we make you some money?
Tully: It's harder than it sounds because yes, I can recommend somebody, but I don't get the final say whether they get through. Sure, who does? And then we all have to—
Josh: and then we can't even get a Wikipedia page.
Tully: But then what happens also, a lot of people, a lot of time, the people that— the kind of people that want to be on Raya are the kind of people that don't believe they should be paying for a dating app.
Josh: Yeah, so what's the price of it?
Tully: Oh, I think it's like $8 US a month. Okay, less than Netflix. How much is Netflix?
Tommy: But you're gonna pay for Netflix. First, his mum pays for it.
Tully: Okay, but okay, if you pay to watch, you know, your favourite TV series, wouldn't you pay to possibly sleep with a Victoria's Secret model.
Tommy: That's prostitution.
Josh: Yeah, yeah.
Tommy: You're paying for it.
Tully: No, you're paying for the opportunity.
Josh: The opportunity.
Tully: You're paying for the chance.
Mason: Is that different?
Tommy: Is that how you sell it in?
Tully: You're paying for the chance to sleep with a Victoria's Secret model. Speaking of, I didn't answer your question 'cause you guys kept talking, but I'm actually here with Boohoo to attend a party at the end of the week, of the week. So there's a Victoria's Secret model who is launching her own line with Boohoo, and they're having a massive party to celebrate, and I'm going, and I'm gonna try and get at least you an invite.
Josh: Yeah, that would be great.
Mason: Amazing.
Josh: Is it the— she's bringing out a line. Is that a line of Victoria's Secret underwear? Is it her own? How the fuck does that work?
Tully: Her own Boohoo line. So Boohoo isn't lingerie, it's like clothes. So she'll probably— she would have designed just like 3 or 4 pieces, chucked her name on it, and then that's sort of her line.
Josh: Okay, that makes sense.
Tully: As a part of Boohoo.
Tommy: Do you feel like you have a job? Like you're Is this work? Is this actually work? No, it's great. Like it's—
Josh: It's a great question.
Tommy: No, no, it's definitely not a great question.
Tully: Yeah, I do. I do have a job. I mean, I was here when—
Tommy: Average question.
Tully: I arrived yesterday and I was right onto the emails doing heaps of emails and stuff for my own podcast. So yeah, I'm definitely working.
Tommy: Do you feel too, 'cause since you last came, you've now got the podcast. Do you actually, is it something you tell, you lead with when you're having conversations with people here?
Tully: Absolutely, I much prefer to say I'm a podcast host than I'm an influencer.
Tommy: Okay.
Tully: Absolutely. It gives me substance. It makes me feel like I'm actually doing something with my life.
Tommy: What's the response you've been getting saying—
Tully: Oh wow, what's podcast about? True crime? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then actually, and then it's kind of, and then I have to go back into influencer land. So I'm like, yeah, I've got a podcast. Like, what's it about? I'm like, other influencers.
Josh: What does your Raya say?
Tully: My Raya? I think it says writer.
Josh: Okay, yeah, great.
Tully: Or maybe even blogger.
Josh: I think you could update it. Podcaster. I think that could have a bit of cut through. Because I think podcaster says is potentially intelligent.
Tully: Do you know what's hard is what I was saying to you guys earlier on off air. I worry because I know who I'm up against, right? My RAE profile is like the best there is of me. Like, there aren't better photos than that profile, mate. They're the best I've got.
Tommy: The one that we did at Runyon this morning, is that gonna—
Tully: like, yeah, definitely, definitely be adding that, uh, later on.
Josh: Someone sent me half an eye.
Tully: He's got one eye in that Keep guessing.
Josh: No, I actually got a screen grab from a friend who saw me on a Tinder app. I was being used. Like, no, no, someone—
Tully: I call bullshit. No one's using you to catfish anybody.
Josh: That's so hurtful. But no, but I was the mate. I was the person.
Tully: Oh yeah, yeah, right. I've actually, I've actually been mass swiping once and saw a guy.
Josh: Mass swiping?
Tully: Just always left, by the way.
Mason: No, no, no, no, no, no.
Josh: What's the point?
Tully: They're gross.
Josh: But what's the point of mass swiping?
Tommy: I'm trying to find a good one.
Josh: Okay, so you are still considering.
Tully: Yeah, I'm still looking at them for 3 seconds, less. And I was like, oh, he's bloody hot. It's a guy I'd already been with and he was a friend in the photo. Oh, he's hot. Damn it, I've already been there.
Josh: Do you actually, yeah.
Tully: She checked in like it returned it.
Josh: How long could you actually spend on the app before you sort of hit the end?
Tully: Do you know what I've discovered? Tinder particularly really drains your battery. Sure. So you've got to make sure you've got like a good set of— like, you want to use it for too long because it really sucks the life out of you.
Josh: So do you have like a battery?
Tully: But also my phone.
Josh: So do you actually have like an extra external charger?
Tully: Yeah, I'm bringing it with me tonight in case my phone dies.
Tommy: In case you're just on Tinder because we're so boring.
Josh: No, you'll be on radio.
Tully: Well, I just think if I don't get 97 drunk enough that he wants to make out with me, I have to have a backup plan.
Josh: Yeah, that's fair. What time do you give that to? 9 o'clock?
Tully: Well, yeah, we're supposed to be drinking it from 5. Okay, speaking of, what is the time?
Tommy: It makes the first move in, in like, what's your— you've— it seems like you got the height thing. Can a man make the first move?
Tully: Depends on the app. So Bumble, the whole thing is that women have to make the first move.
Tommy: I'm talking like in real life.
Tully: Oh, I'm pretty for— I mean, you've met me, I'm pretty forward. If I, if I like you, you're gonna know about it. If I want to kiss you, I'm just going to kiss you. I'm going to be like, I'm going to wait for him to kiss me. Like, come here.
Tommy: I'm gonna eat you alive.
Tully: Are we gonna take a camera? Can we film this whole night? Yeah, what if we strap it like a GoPro to your head for the rest of the diet?
Josh: What would we call the film?
Tommy: One Night in LA.
Tully: Yeah, that's, that's not bad. It's not bad. I just, yeah, look, now you shouldn't have told me because I'm a bit of a menace and I'm gonna have had a few drinks.
Josh: What does that mean?
Tully: I just, the fact that you haven't really had a proper drink, I just now want to get you like, I want to, I want to see you spewed in the Tonight.
Tommy: It's a crap show.
Tully: Sorry, Mum and Dad.
Josh: It's beautiful. It's a daily talk show. If you've enjoyed the show, feel free to screen grab it. Is there anything that listeners or viewers can do for Mr. 97 to help him get him on Raya or not really?
Tully: Yeah, I just keep, if you, the more followers you have, that helps.
Mason: Okay.
Tully: Follow count helps.
Mason: Fuck. 8 bucks a month.
Josh: How many have you got? 97, 280? Yeah, 300 followers. That's not gonna eat, that's less friends than a normal person. We can make it as if it's like your personal like, how are you?
Tully: Like, another one?
Josh: Should we— oh yeah, should we hide it up completely?
Tommy: Uh, I need to be confidential.
Mason: I'm a producer.
Tommy: Yeah, yeah, quite special. This is my personal—
Tully: yeah, yeah, this is my secret. Or something that's now become cool and on trend— don't talk about trends— is to not even use Instagram. That's, that's also kind of sexy if you're like, oh, I don't use social media. It's like, oh, what? That's really hot and intriguing.
Josh: Great. I was off social.
Tully: You're not hot or intriguing.
Josh: I was 2 years ago. Go.
Tully: Sure, whatever you say. I'm sure you were.
Josh: It's the, uh, it's the Daily Talk Show. hi@thedailytalkshow.com is the email address. Otherwise, we'll see you tomorrow. You ready, 97?
Mason: I'm ready.
Tully: Let's get lit.
Tommy: See you guys.
Tully: Catch you.
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