The Gingerbread Castle

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 538.

Tommy: It's Fat Fridays and we've got Harry.

Harry: So the Cat Cafe failed through, boys. Very disappointed.

Tommy: No, no meow meows in here. What about TV's Harry Lodge?

Josh: What is that? Television's Harry Lodge?

Tommy: TV's Harry Lodge, or something around that.

Harry: I mean, is this my nickname?

Josh: Is that where we're going?

Tommy: Yeah, I'm just trying to work out, um, Harry Lodge.

Josh: What about a TV gossip segment? Do you think that you could get behind doing—

Harry: Oh, I love TV gossip.

Tommy: Yeah, what is the latest? Give us something, give us something. Um, and you could make it up because I don't watch television.

Harry: Channel 7 just dropped Sunday night in— well, they dropped Sunday night, uh, 7, uh, TV Tonight or whatever that their show is. Uh, they dropped it in Australia-wide a few years ago, but they just dropped it in Perth and Adelaide. And the interesting thing is, rumours have it that an ex-Sunday Night or TV Tonight, whatever the show was, has left Seven because they axed the show and has moved to the Today Show for the 2020 lineup.

Tommy: Do we know who that person is?

Harry: I did, but I can't remember.

Mason: Is it on TV Tonight?

Harry: It is. Or Media Spy. It's on one of the two. Media Spy, that's another website, and it's like a big forum and you just like comment like I don't like the colours lighting they're using on the news tonight.

Josh: Oh really?

Tommy: Have you ever spoken to a person that is like— you ever met them in real life, IRL? Have you met them?

Josh: Like someone who you met online and in one of those forums?

Tommy: I'm just trying to work out what kind of cat forum.

Josh: No, no, because we're online friends that have turned real internet friends.

Harry: Yeah, internet people.

Tommy: Does this feel real, Harry?

Harry: What do you mean?

Tommy: Like, does it feel real? A real friendship.

Josh: Yeah.

Harry: Yeah.

Josh: Okay, good.

Harry: Yeah, I'm not sure where you're going.

Josh: No, well, I guess people can sometimes question the quality of an internet friend, but I think that we've proven that, uh, internet friends are real.

Tommy: I mean, the door is open. We had 3D Deal, he stayed with us, you know, working for 4 months.

Josh: Yeah, 4 months. And he was actually living in the building too. We can say that now, can't we?

Tommy: Can we? Probably not.

Harry: Was he living on site?

Tommy: No, I wasn't on site.

Harry: Oh, I was gonna say.

Josh: But that kitchen got used a lot.

Tommy: And what was amazing is the hours he put in.

Mason: Bathroom and shower.

Tommy: Yeah, exactly. The overtime he put in. So it was never really felt like he left.

Mason: Exactly.

Tommy: We'll just say that. So Harry, today we tasked you, actually earlier in the week, and the cat cafe has obviously fallen through, but you've done something for us today for Fat Friday.

Harry: So Leah dropped off a DIY— what do you call it?

Josh: Um, gingerbread.

Harry: Gingerbread house. And so I put that together. I went down—

Josh: Have you done this before?

Harry: Gingerbread house?

Josh: Yeah.

Harry: No.

Josh: What's not— what's Christmas normally? Do you celebrate Christmas?

Harry: Yeah, we do.

Josh: What does Christmas look like? What's your fondest memory growing up with Christmas in your 18 years?

Harry: Um, putting up the tree.

Tommy: Oh yeah, have you done it this year?

Harry: No, we haven't because Mum— I think we spoke about this the other day— Mum's decided she doesn't want a tree and she wants some Sticks.

Tommy: Yeah, I went to Mum's place last night and she's now got this tiny little thing and got like the baby Jesus and like, you know, the animals like from the nativity set. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From the Bible.

Josh: Yeah. Well, Bree, when she was working at Suzanne Sports Girl, they would do those big sample sales and part of it is like all the visual merchandising. And so she's got some wooden trays that were used in store.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: We got them for like $5 or whatever. And she's got a big one and a small one.

Tommy: Don't know if it was delivery of the tree coincided with me having a sneezing fit.

Josh: Oh no.

Tommy: I don't quite know yet. I haven't spent enough time at home to know if it's that.

Josh: Just take an antihistamine each day. Just hope it's the same one.

Tommy: Every day until I, until the end of Christmas.

Josh: And so you've, so Leah, our mate who was on the show. Was it this week?

Harry: She was on last week.

Mason: Last week.

Harry: She was last Fat Friday.

Josh: Oh yeah, that's right.

Mason: One week ago.

Josh: And so her and I were catching up because we are emceeing the Friends in Me event that's happening on at Melbourne Museum, December 14th.

Mason: Carols by Daylight.

Harry: $30 a ticket. Get it.

Josh: Perfect. And yeah, so that's December 14th. Anyway, her and I were practising that and she brought in this gift for us, which is the gingerbread set.

Tommy: What were you practicing, just by the way? Because I wasn't here.

Josh: Oh yeah, well, it was quite— there was a lot going on.

Tommy: Did you, did you say to her, okay, here's a, here's a plethora of sort of bits? Yeah, because I'm a bits guy. I'm a bits guy.

Josh: Would you like to hear the bits?

Mason: Yeah, there were bits.

Josh: There were bits of stuff around. I'm like, I wanted to do something with the chocolate calendar. What's that called?

Mason: Advent calendar.

Josh: Advent calendar. Advent calendar. Can you look up what an advent calendar actually is? What does advent mean? But anyway, I thought it would be fun to say because a friend of me they're supporting kids who don't fit in. And I think that like we can all relate, like growing up and not fitting in, uh, can be kids on the spectrum or all different types anyway. So I thought, what can they get behind? So one thing I was thinking of was like talking about dinosaurs and stuff like that, like the, uh, the museum. And I was thinking of coming out with a, uh, actual fake bone and say that I had picked it off the museum. What do you think of that gag?

Harry: That's all right.

Tommy: I don't mind it. Where do you go from there?

Josh: Is it—

Tommy: where's the beginning? Where's the meat on the bone? The bone's there, there's no meat.

Josh: And so there was that shit, right?

Tommy: And then there was the Advent.

Josh: That was a good bit, wasn't it?

Harry: That was great.

Josh: And so then the Advent bit— I mean, the bone's very old, there's no meat. Uh, but no, the Advent calendar bit was, hey everyone, like, I've actually just realised that the last 4 days I've forgotten to eat my chocolates. And so what we're going to do is I'm going to ask you a question And you got to think of the answer. Yeah. And then we're going to do 4 questions throughout the whole thing. And then at the end, one person— I sort of fucked it up. Each time you ask, if you answer a question correctly, you get to open one of my chocolates to catch us up.

Mason: And do you eat the chocolate or did they?

Josh: They eat the chocolate.

Tommy: Didn't you have a storey about Advent calendar from back when you were a kid?

Josh: So some people would access it from the back, but the way that I would do it is you just flick it open, take out and close. And so you, you could sort of eat them.

Tommy: The doors, you're only accessing it from the back.

Harry: That's what you're supposed to do.

Tommy: You're only accessing, anyone who's accessing from the back is because it's not the day. It's, they're on the 20th day on day 2. Do you know how it works? 24 days, 25 days in the lead up to Christmas. Each day you get a choccy, open the door. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, who created this shit? Mr. Nice Hands, did you find anything about it?

Mason: Yeah, so it means it's a time of waiting and preparation for something to happen. So in the case of the advent calendar, it's created by the Christian church and it's waiting for Christmas and the return of Jesus.

Josh: Did it start as chocolate? Actually, he's working on it.

Tommy: Started as, um, beer from a 24 slab leading to the—

Josh: That's not true.

Tommy: Yeah, there is beer advent calendars.

Josh: Why? So even like, um, Lindt And Mecca doing the whole ball— oh, what's Mecca's one?

Harry: I think it's makeup.

Josh: Oh, so each time— I mean, but how much—

Tommy: Are you confusing this with Shameless giving away some kind of product on 12 Days of Shameless?

Josh: Is that what you're referring to? No, no, not a shameless fan.

Tommy: You're a shameless fan, Harry!

Harry: I've listened to it.

Josh: It's um... What does that mean? You like his entertainment choices?

Harry: So I've listened to about 5 episodes.

Josh: That's a fair few.

Harry: Yeah.

Tommy: You're a fanboy.

Harry: I'm a fan.

Josh: What do you like about the show? About Shameless? What do you like?

Harry: It's open and it's like YouTube, but the female version.

Tommy: That's nice.

Josh: Which one's Michelle and which one's Zara?

Harry: I only listen to the audio.

Josh: As in with—

Tommy: you don't know who they are?

Harry: Like, I don't know their faces.

Tommy: Their voices.

Harry: Yeah.

Josh: So you wouldn't be able to put— what do you think, 97? Who's Michelle? Who's Zara?

Mason: Michelle's Tommy and Zara's Josh.

Josh: Okay.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: All right, that's good.

Harry: He's thought about this before because he was quick.

Mason: No, I thought about it while they were asking you, so—

Josh: because he knew that you would joke.

Tommy: All right, so you got the advent calendar gear?

Josh: Yeah, yeah, so I've got all that sort of stuff. But anyway, uh, Leah was nice enough to give us the gingerbread thing because she knows good content.

Tommy: And she's a very generous person. Thank you, Leah.

Josh: Uh, so what, what is left? What did you need What did she actually give you?

Harry: So she give us— she give us— she gave us like a little deal. Like, it's like an IKEA gingerbread house.

Tommy: It's a flat pack.

Harry: Yeah, it's a flat pack, but you don't have the glue to stick it all together.

Josh: Well, IKEA doesn't use glue.

Harry: Yeah, but you need glue sometimes with IKEA products.

Mason: Do you though?

Harry: Yeah, sometimes they fall apart.

Tommy: Can I tell you a quick story?

Harry: Yep.

Tommy: Sorry to derail you. Speaking of my old man. He used to be a landscape architect, you know, handling the big jobs in Toorak. I worked with him for a bit, working on some unbelievable— hundreds of thousands of dollars people are spending on their gardens. So amazing. He's, you know, a bit old now. He doesn't have the business anymore. He's doing like property maintenance, property management. So not property management, maintenance of properties for a real estate agency. And So he just gets thrown these tasks, right?

Josh: Are they all single properties or does he do— would he look after like an apartment block like Bree?

Tommy: He does that. Yeah, he does some of that. So it just depends. Some of those—

Josh: the newer ones all have— Bree has a theory that the people that look after ours actually owns— like they were the developers or whatever.

Tommy: Yeah, they can be. So one of the guy who used to work in my personal training studio, he left the PT industry because one of his clients was a developer who had this building that he'd just built and needed somebody full-time as the property manager.

Josh: Well, because the cleaner at our place that also like takes in all the bins drives like a $300,000 car. So I'm sure there must be some sort of connection to the developer.

Tommy: Anyway, Dad's furious at the moment. He's, you know, one of those stories. Don't get me started. I'm sure he wouldn't like me telling this, but I will anyway. Love you, Dad. He got asked, hey, can you come and put together this flat pack from IKEA? He's like, okay. And then sort of looked it up online, was like, you need 2 people. It says on there you need 2 people. So he's like, all right. He goes around with the guy who actually built this wall. Oh yeah, the heart that he did the labor. I just fucking brought up some wood with you, Gronks. Anyway, he, he, it took them 7 hours. That's, I feel like, no, my dad is fucking handy. You've seen him, you know what he's capable of. He's so handy.

Josh: Is it the difference between like you can do everything on the back of a napkin, but if it's a spreadsheet—

Tommy: No, no, no. They had the instructions. It was in 70 pieces. It was—

Josh: What was it?

Tommy: It was a full house. It was like a cupboard that had like hanging racks and different drawer units. So think about that in a flat pack.

Josh: This is what MPBHD's always doing.

Harry: Marques.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: So as a business, you charge for your hourly rate. It's 7 hours, 2 people. The fucking, the fee is $800 or something bucks, which is fair, two people.

Josh: Do they crack it, the owners?

Tommy: This is the worst thing. Have a guess how much IKEA charge to get it done, to do the same thing that would take them, say if you knew how to do it, you had two people, cut it in half, it's still 4 hours. $160, $190 bucks.

Josh: Yeah, so that's the annoying thing.

Tommy: But so they're subsidising Of course they're going, if we have just a billion-dollar business, we're just, you know, sharing the cost around the whole.

Josh: So how did your dad find out how much they care about?

Tommy: There's clearly a system in place. He looked online and then they fucking saw it and were like, what? It's more than the cost of the item. And so he's just—

Josh: So what do you do at that point?

Tommy: Oh, he was adamant that he wasn't going to budge. And I mean, they're going to— because they put through a purchase order of something. And so it's like Anyway, my dad's a good guy, so he's trying to just say, hey, this is how—

Josh: like, was there an estimate though?

Tommy: No, they're just like, can you please get this done today? And he said, I can do it tomorrow. And they said, okay, done. Okay. And so he's like, all right, it's pretty straightforward. Like, they actually just send you sort of like a purchase order style thing, like a job order, and then you do the job and submit the invoice.

Josh: And the whole sharing economy thing, or people, you know, people being able to hire— I was watching A Current Affair the other night as I tend to do. Do you like A Current Affair?

Harry: I do.

Josh: Yeah. Anyway, they, they had like a lady who was making $35 per dog that she looked after. And so she could have like a bunch of dogs. Like, I could— I could double my food budget with this. This idea.

Tommy: Yeah. There's an Uber. There's an Uber-style, like, pet looking after.

Josh: So, talking of—

Mason: You have to walk them and pick up their shit.

Josh: Yeah, that's the one.

Mason: Feed them.

Tommy: But anyway, paid cash at least.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: So all the other— this lady was like, picking up shit for $0.

Josh: Yeah, they're paying. They're paying. That's outrageous.

Tommy: They're shitting out the money they spend on the food.

Josh: Yeah, they're feeding— they're using their cash to feed some other shit out.

Tommy: It's shit money that you can't get back.

Josh: I think pets are interesting in that regard. Yeah, like the— you're essentially like, I feel like it's a pretty well-off thing having a pet, don't you think? Because like, I have sorted out my life. I know I can do my laundry, I can do all those sorts.

Tommy: They save people's lives as well in terms of just mentally.

Josh: Well, you see there's all the, um, the stuff with the US airlines. You get like a— go to the doctors and you get a certificate so you can take your dog on board.

Tommy: You can take a pig on board. A pig is classified as a companion animal. Yeah, look it up. There's this great storey about a pig. They kicked it off because it was farting. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was like, we— you gotta go.

Josh: But But imagine what happens if everyone, what is it? Is it a companion? What's the specific terminology? Emotional support animal. Emotional support animal. So, what happens if on a plane of 200 people, they all bring their emotional support animal? Like, 'cause this is what's happening in the States. Everyone seems to be doing it. Surely it's going to get to a point where they're like, we're going to have to cut this off. Don't you think, Harry?

Harry: Yeah, but.

Tommy: Have you got any pets, mate?

Harry: I've got a few. Yeah.

Tommy: What do you got? Reel them off. Uh, you live on a farm? That's good.

Harry: Aquarium of fish.

Josh: What sort of fish?

Harry: I don't know what they are, just fish.

Josh: Who's looking after them at the moment?

Harry: Ella, I hope.

Josh: Okay. Did you give her instructions? Yeah. Ella's your sister?

Harry: Yeah. Um, 2 cats, 2 dogs, birds, sometimes lambs.

Josh: An aviary?

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: Just, you let them out? Have you clipped them?

Harry: No.

Tommy: Sometimes though, sometimes lambs, cows.

Harry: No, no, they smell too much.

Josh: Is a plural of lamb, like, you know, sheep is sheep, not sheep.

Mason: Lamb.

Josh: Lamb. More than two lambs.

Tommy: We have lamb. Is that how you say it? We have lamb.

Mason: We have lambs.

Josh: Yeah, lambs, plural. Anyway, uh, but what I was getting to around the sharing economy stuff, uh, in regional areas, obviously around here we have a bunch of different— so sharing economy, I was thinking about your dad with the IKEA thing. It's sort of like Airtasker. You can hire someone.

Tommy: The poor bastard on Airtasker. I'll do that for $150.

Mason: They've got a partnership with Airtasker.

Josh: IKEA does.

Mason: IKEA.

Tommy: Is that why they're—

Mason: In South Australia, IKEA doesn't do it for you, so you have to get someone from Airtasker to do it. And they recommend it on their website.

Tommy: Yeah, IKEA does it through them here in Melbourne.

Josh: And so is there anything like that that's done well regionally?

Harry: Not really, no.

Tommy: What about delivery of food? Can you get anything out to the farm?

Harry: No, no.

Tommy: You can probably get— supermarket delivers grocery stuff.

Josh: Do you get Coles online delivered?

Harry: We've got no Coles near us. Nearest Coles is like an hour and a half.

Josh: Do you choose like Coles online would be great so you don't have to drive?

Tommy: Uh, fun fact Harry told me earlier is that, uh, how long you been driving?

Harry: Me?

Tommy: Yeah, because he lives a kilometer, like his front gate's a kilometre from the house. So it's the property, on the property you're travelling a kilometer. Yeah.

Harry: You used to— Oh, like since we were real little.

Tommy: How old?

Harry: 6, 7, maybe.

Tommy: 6 driving cars. So you were—

Josh: Can you drive manual?

Harry: Yeah. How did you touch the pedals? Put the seat right forward.

Mason: Oh yeah.

Tommy: I love it. He's crafty. Anyway, so you've used your initiative today and you've got the flat pack from Leah for gingerbread house.

Josh: And so you've— the annoying thing was We gave you the company card, which you've been craving this whole week. You keep saying—

Tommy: Dropping it in, company card, company card.

Josh: You did want to use the company card, didn't you?

Harry: Well, I didn't care if I put it on my Apple Pay because mum tops that up. So it didn't seem like a big deal.

Tommy: 97.

Josh: Oh, watch out, 97. That's all right. So 97 is just bringing over what Harry, work experience Harry's made.

Tommy: Yeah, you need to face it. Yes.

Harry: So I went to Woolies and I got a lot of help from the staff at Woolies.

Josh: Really? You spoke? Never spoken to the staff.

Harry: Yeah, because I got really lost.

Josh: Okay.

Tommy: In the Woolies?

Harry: In the Woolies.

Josh: What did you say to them?

Harry: Excuse me, I'm making a gingerbread castle. Can you tell me where so-and-so and so-and-so is?

Josh: And what were those things?

Harry: All sorts of stuff. Sugar, caster sugar for snow. But then she recommended I didn't use caster sugar because it was too heavy and lollies, all sorts of stuff.

Josh: That's very specific knowledge. Like, I know on the week of—

Harry: Amazing.

Josh: Yeah. The week of sort of slamming Harvey Norman. The fact that the person at Woolworths has suggested construction material advice on a gingerbread house, which you've called a castle, and she's been able to interpret that and give you exactly what you need is pretty amazing.

Harry: Well, I'll put it on the Instagram stories, and she didn't want to be shown, but you can actually hear her going, that one, no, not that one, not that one.

Josh: Did you ask her? Did you say, can I use—

Harry: yeah, she said, no, I don't think we can as employees, otherwise I would.

Josh: So did you say that you're on a podcast? Have you done a— because 3D Deal was very— like, he was known to drop in the fact that he was on a show.

Harry: Well, I get cheap stuff all the time for theatre because I always say we're, we're a rural theatre company, volunteer-based, da da da da da. And they just go, oh, we'll give you 50% off.

Josh: Right. On what sort of things?

Harry: Spotlight? I got AV rack for free donated.

Josh: We just had to pay.

Harry: Somewhere here in Melbourne.

Josh: Okay.

Harry: Um, Comms Direct.

Josh: Oh yeah, what else have you gotten?

Harry: Um, Smoke Fluid from DJ City. Um, I tried Store DJ, but they didn't give me—

Josh: DJ City was good.

Harry: DJ City were good.

Josh: Okay.

Tommy: Uh, and so you've used— did you— you didn't follow her advice her first time around? You got the castor sugar?

Harry: Yeah. So she walked off and so she said don't get the castor sugar because it was too heavy. So I got, um, coconut flour because I thought 97 would like that. Um, and just shitloads of lollies. And I went to get, uh, they had like packet mix, uh, icing, icing, icing. And the lady said, yeah, this one will be good. So I got that and then I put it in the pot. You don't have a pot, so I had to use a vase or something that was up on the shelf.

Mason: It was actually the lolly jar.

Josh: Oh, it wouldn't have been a vase.

Mason: Cookie and lolly jar.

Harry: Yes, I was stirring it with a fork.

Josh: How did 3D Dill survive?

Tommy: He just like, he's a resourceful little fella.

Josh: What did he do?

Tommy: He figured it out.

Josh: Yeah.

Harry: So go on. So I did that, but I added too much water.

Josh: So you said that because this is the thing. Tommy and I went to go out and we're coming back.

Harry: Yeah.

Josh: And then we're like, Harry's out of the office and you're coming towards us. What's this? And you said I was meant to add 50ml of water for the icing and you put 4 cups.

Harry: I think so, because I had nothing to measure, so I just sat it in the sink.

Josh: Do you know—

Harry: shh, that'll be enough.

Josh: Did you know how much 50ml is?

Harry: No, I can't visualise it. No, it's 4—

Tommy: it's, it's a liter. So cups usually—

Harry: no, no, 50ml.

Tommy: Oh, sorry, 50ml. But what you put in was a liter, pretty much. 4 cups.

Josh: Yeah. So think about this.

Harry: Well, Well, that's an exaggeration. About that deep in the lolly jar.

Josh: Okay, so look at this. So this here is a 600ml bottle of Coke No Sugar. So that would be around 8% or something, right? Is that correct? And so about 8%.

Tommy: It's a small amount. And if the thing about adding fluid to powders is like add less and then mix because you can't go backwards.

Harry: It's like edibles.

Josh: Could you imagine this guy on edibles?

Harry: So I said, 97, what do I do? And he goes, add flour to it.

Josh: So I put Did you say that? No, you said—

Mason: Yeah, I said add flour. And then Harry said he's got coconut flour. I was like, I don't know if that'll taste great.

Harry: And then I go, too late. So I tried to do coconut flour and that didn't work.

Tommy: You're a monster.

Harry: So I hightailed it back to the Woolies and I got Betty Crocker's and just put that in there.

Tommy: So now can you just describe what we're seeing for the listeners?

Harry: So we've got a gingerbread castle. It's got snake lollies on the architraves of the roofline.

Josh: Lovely.

Harry: Coconut flowers.

Josh: Where did you learn the word architraves?

Harry: I don't know. I watch a lot of—

Josh: Grand Designs?

Harry: No, no, no. Selling Houses Australia.

Josh: Selling Houses Australia. Why Selling Houses Australia?

Harry: Because I like Shayna and that— Shayna Blaze? Shayna Blaze and Andrew Winter. He's funny. I like him.

Josh: Do you know what I reckon you would love? Guaranteed you love the show The Living Room.

Harry: Yeah, with Amanda Keller.

Josh: Yes.

Mason: Do you like that one?

Harry: Yeah, I think the humour is a bit too forced for my liking.

Josh: Is it because of Miguel? Miguel, he's a bit full-on, isn't he?

Harry: Yeah, I've only watched about one episode. It was actually quite recently. Chris was in Antarctica.

Tommy: Yeah, Chris Brown.

Josh: Yeah. Okay, I'm sorry to get distracted. And so what else? So the architraves.

Harry: We've got, um, and we've got sort of, uh, love hearts and stars levitating on the side.

Josh: So you bought them?

Harry: Uh, no, they were in the kit.

Josh: Oh, that's good, because, uh, Tommy asked you to get a receipt and you forgot that.

Tommy: Yeah, so it's all about company card. Keep them safe.

Josh: Always get— so what did you spend?

Harry: Um, I think would have been about $10.

Josh: Oh, that's good.

Harry: And then another $6 for the icing.

Josh: Oh my God, have you used my calendar?

Harry: I said, I said, what do we do? We don't have a, um, um, uh, like chopping block.

Tommy: So what Josh is referring to is the lunar calendar that lasts for this year. It's a 2019 lunar calendar. I saw it under the couch, which he brought it in, then just dumped under there. And so I looked at Mason and thought, this is perfect. Mason said, we'll just wipe it off, we'll just wipe it off. Yeah, and so we'll use it for the next.

Josh: So do we need to crack it open?

Harry: Oh yeah, so I mean, you want to eat something, so what are you going to crack it open with?

Josh: Just my hands.

Harry: Okay, okay, go for it.

Tommy: I think it's going to be too messy. How about I just take one of the sides off?

Josh: Yeah, that's what I was going to do.

Tommy: Okay, just like a— I'll take the snake off. Do you want that? That looks good. Get that in here.

Josh: Do you want that?

Harry: No, you can have it.

Tommy: It's gone all over Harry. I'm just going to pull off this side to reveal. Oh yeah, oh, how good is that? What's inside?

Josh: Turn around.

Tommy: Oh, so he's put a whole bunch of—

Harry: where all the lollies went. I had to sort of shove them through the doorway on the house.

Josh: Why didn't you put them in first and then close the door? I can actually— I can taste the coconut. The coconut wasn't a bad idea, actually. It's nice. Harry's just throwing 97 kinds. Please, Harry, thank you. Um, you've done a great job.

Harry: Thank you.

Tommy: Well done, Harry. I mean, the Can you tell?

Harry: Oh, I got first in my hospitality class.

Josh: Did you really?

Harry: Yep, I was the only student though.

Josh: How do they run a class with one student?

Harry: I don't know.

Josh: So what did it look like?

Harry: Just a lot of teacher-student time, and we had year 11s in there too.

Josh: And what is hospitality?

Harry: So that's like, um, cooking, um, running like businesses like retail stores, accommodation.

Josh: I think you'd do so well in the hospo, especially accommodation and stuff like— just, I could imagine you showing people to their room.

Harry: I couldn't stand it.

Josh: Why?

Tommy: Do you like people, Harry? Yeah, just the right ones. Depends on who they are.

Josh: And so, if you— do you have a plan B? I know that Anna— is this— is that because Anna and Kate said don't have plan B?

Harry: Plan B, yeah.

Josh: No, but it's okay.

Harry: I should have said that instead of girls.

Josh: That was good what you said. What's that? Can I have some too, Tommy, please? Um, Jesus Christ, what's, what's, what is the thing that you think that you would do if you weren't following the whole media route?

Harry: I don't know. I do sometimes look at, um, nurseries and go, I would love to work in a nursery.

Tommy: Plant nursery or baby nursery?

Harry: Plant nursery.

Tommy: Okay, a lot less crying at those ones. No, they're nice.

Josh: Do people call kids— like, what's a nursery?

Tommy: The nursery, like the baby, baby room. Like, the nursery is the children, like the— so Bodhi was in the nursery to start with or something.

Josh: Do you have plants at home that you look after?

Harry: I don't look after any.

Josh: So what's the— where do you get that?

Harry: I just like the greenery, just looking at it, not, not maintaining it, just looking at it.

Tommy: You'd have to sell it, learn how to keep, keep it.

Harry: Keep care. Tommy likes looking at them too, by the looks of those plants over there.

Tommy: Oh, our plants have butchered it. I've got some ideas for the coming year about how we stylize our studio.

Josh: What do you think?

Tommy: Fake? No, definitely not fake. There's just an easier way. It's actually the original idea that I had. Just requires a bit of—

Josh: The planter boxes?

Tommy: Yeah, it requires a bit of— I mean, they're already planter boxes. This is a specific mesh wall with a—

Harry: Vertical garden?

Tommy: Yeah, it's a bit like a vertical garden. It'll take a little bit of an effort. So, um, I don't have the energy this year, to be honest, Harry. How about you, mate? How's your energy levels?

Harry: Going down.

Josh: Uh, where do you go for holidays when you go on a holiday?

Harry: We went to Port— we've gone to Port Fairy past couple of years.

Tommy: What's Port Fairy?

Harry: Other side of Warrnambool, 20kms. Oh yeah, west of Warrnambool.

Tommy: So you drive there? Is your family, uh, a ski on the river?

Harry: No, Daddy's. Dad used to be a real good skier. But he's given that up. And I don't—

Tommy: young man's game.

Harry: I've gone skiing on a board, like kneeboard, but I don't really enjoy it.

Tommy: A bit too much. It's a bit dangerous.

Josh: Where do you want to— because you mentioned in the Teenage Boss, um, video that you wanted to go to the US and you want to meet Ellen DeGeneres, which you mentioned on the show previously, but we didn't put, put it together that you're actually the star of the show.

Tommy: Um, We didn't know you were TV's Harry Lodge yet.

Josh: Do you have a dream to travel? Tell us your dreams.

Harry: I'd like to go to New York, spend about a month in New York.

Josh: Do what?

Harry: Oh, lots of things.

Tommy: Um, what do you know about— you've never been there, what do you know about it?

Harry: I don't know much about it. I just think it looks pretty in photos. Like, I like the concrete jungle. Um, and then I'll head across to Las Vegas because on Animal Planet there was— they got cancelled— a TV show about making fish tanks, Tanked. And they, they operate out of Las Vegas and they do tours.

Josh: And what, what is that?

Harry: They build like big, big massive aquariums.

Mason: Like Vegas?

Harry: Yeah.

Josh: So it's not the typical Vegas Strip experience?

Harry: No, but I would like to see the Bellagio.

Tommy: It's amazing.

Josh: What is— because you mentioned Bellagio more than once.

Tommy: What did I say? Oh, we were doing referencing.

Josh: Yeah, Mardi Gras effect on our, on our mixer. What is it about Bellagio? How do you even have that in your mind?

Harry: Because Tank built a tank there. That's how I found out about it. And then I just went, oh, so Vegas.

Josh: What about— I mean, you're missing Hollywood. Yeah, surely you want to go.

Tommy: Okay, this is exactly my 2012 trip.

Josh: Yeah, this is good.

Tommy: New York, Vegas.

Harry: And then I'll head across to LA, do like Universal, Warner Brothers, all those stuff.

Josh: When do you think you'll do it?

Harry: Oh, I don't know.

Josh: As your dad was saying in the, the TV show, that you got no idea about money.

Harry: Yeah, I do, I do. I've got some good savings, but it's just we don't talk about them much, so he doesn't really know what I've got up my sleeve.

Josh: What does that mean?

Harry: Look, Like, I could— I've got a bit of money, but he doesn't know that.

Josh: Where do you keep it?

Harry: In the bank. Mum manages my bank account still.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean, you're 18 now, mate.

Harry: Yeah, I know. I've got my Bendigo account where I take stuff out of the NAB account, which Mum manages.

Josh: I'm surprised you're not doing Dolomites still.

Tommy: Did you do Dolomites?

Harry: I did, I did, but I— we didn't— we weren't very good at it.

Josh: Yeah, I was always, um Yeah, I look at kids are getting cash in there, I'm like, what's that all for? Like, I was just enjoying my lunch orders.

Harry: But I understand we ended that account about 2 years ago and there was only $65 in it.

Josh: Really? And so, um, your mum manages your money, but you— why do you transfer from different accounts?

Harry: Because I like Bendigo Bank and NAB don't have Apple Pay. And Apple Pay, I like Apple Pay.

Josh: And so, but you— what do you like about Bendigo Bank? Because I guess in like 2019, what's the difference between banks?

Harry: It was I actually started looking into doing my own money when the Royal Commission happened.

Tommy: And that's what does that mean?

Harry: Like, the Royal Commission into banking?

Josh: Yeah, but you said starting your own.

Harry: Oh, starting my own bank account.

Josh: Okay, sure.

Harry: But, um, Mum won't give me the money out of the NAB account.

Tommy: Really?

Josh: Do that now.

Harry: Okay, I can't.

Tommy: You're 18, you've got access.

Harry: Go and do it.

Tommy: Have you read The Barefoot Investor?

Harry: Yes.

Tommy: You have? What do you think? Give us the Harry review.

Harry: Well, I don't like the idea of writing. He listens, doesn't he?

Josh: No, no, no. Good.

Harry: This is a client, like I struggled to follow along with it because it was going on a date and writing on napkin, and I was just like, you discuss this and this with your partner. It's like, but I discuss it with myself, you know?

Tommy: Yeah, you can go on a solo date night.

Harry: Yeah, I know, but it was just I didn't see the purpose of doing it on a date.

Tommy: That's how you couldn't get past his date stuff.

Harry: Yeah, the whole date thing. And then ING— was he paid by ING? No, because the whole thing is ING, ING.

Tommy: Yeah. And so I went, I mean, he's been asked that a lot.

Harry: Has he?

Josh: Good.

Harry: I don't want to be the only one.

Josh: That's right. So were you— why didn't you open an ING?

Harry: We've got no ING near us.

Tommy: There's no—

Josh: there's no ING. It's an online bank.

Harry: Oh, is it?

Mason: You go into AusPost and can drop in money. So as long as there's an AusPost—

Harry: you're with them, aren't you? Yep.

Josh: But there's also— what's this one that Hayden Diz has been talking about?

Tommy: Up.

Josh: Jordan Michaelides had the founder.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Yeah. So what's the deal with Up?

Mason: It's a digital bank.

Josh: So what's the difference between ING and— ING is a digital bank.

Mason: It's literally just their app. The way they just— the way that they categorise transactions and stuff, it makes it look a bit nicer than just your normal bank statement.

Tommy: And then there's some— yeah, but then there's some little tricks like it can round up. So it's like $385, it rounds it up to the Yeah, when you buy coffee, it takes the extra cents and puts it on you. Yeah, it puts it in a savings.

Josh: What happens, my coffee's around $6, like a round number.

Tommy: Is it $6?

Josh: Is it going to $7?

Tommy: No, it actually just says you're saving. You're a fucking idiot.

Josh: What do you pay for coffee?

Tommy: Oh, it depends where we go. $6.80.

Josh: Mine can get to $6.50 if I go highest.

Tommy: $4 max.

Josh: Yeah, that's because it's small.

Tommy: Yeah, I just— and it's normal cow's milk.

Josh: Are you, um, you don't do any coffee, Harry?

Harry: Not really. I do sometimes, but I don't need, I don't need caffeine. I do drink a lot of chai latte. I like chai latte.

Tommy: Yeah, what do you like about it? What's the flavour like?

Harry: I always go spice, not vanilla. And actually, I went to the coffee club when I got here on the train, and the lady processed my order, and then I went, that, that, that was spice, wasn't it? She goes, no, it was vanilla. And I sort of had a little bit of a freak out because I don't like vanilla and spice. I didn't finish it, but I liked spice.

Josh: Couldn't you just ask her right then and there to—

Harry: No, she couldn't change it because she'd already run it through the point of sale.

Josh: No, no, I call bullshit. What was this? Which coffee club?

Harry: Let's call them out.

Josh: Yeah, coffee club.

Tommy: I'm trying to call people out, to be honest.

Harry: Spencer Street.

Tommy: But you can just push them a bit. They'll probably be like, I'll walk to the machine and tell him to change it.

Josh: Yeah, I feel like maybe you didn't push hard enough.

Harry: No, well, I did at Macca's. We went on a school excursion. And they were really, really rude to us. And they're like, can you please order over at the self-serve checkout? And I said, but— and she told me this and I said, but I'm going to need to walk over there, process my order, then walk back because I need to pay with cash and then walk back and then go and get my meal. So it'll be quicker for both you and me if you just did it like this. And she goes, oh, okay. And my science teacher thought that was great. Yeah.

Tommy: So do you lean into these moments? Moments? Say for instance, I know a lot of people—

Harry: Custom is always right.

Tommy: Anxiety about even asking. Say if you had a 50-buck note, you need to split it up, you're like, fuck, I need some change. Would you feel anything inside about changing it, asking to change it? No, no, you're pretty comfortable in the uncomfortable. That's good, that's a good strength in life if you can lean into that, see it as a bit of a game.

Josh: What would you tell people who, you know, might be 15 years old, they're seeing what you're doing and all of that sort of stuff, what would be some advice that you'd give?

Harry: Just do it. Just get started and don't stop. And don't— what I heard when I was doing my Year 12 exams was don't stress about Year 12. Like, don't, don't overthink about Year 12. Keep creating content because the second you stop creating content and put all that energy into Year 12 that lowers— like, you don't have as much content or showreel or anything showreel to show off. Yeah.

Josh: What do you think of Gary Vee's 100 pieces of content a day strategy?

Harry: I don't know how you do that. I haven't heard of the strategy.

Josh: What's this? Post 100 times a day?

Harry: How do you do that?

Josh: I mean, I guess that's what— that's like 5 times an hour.

Harry: No, I couldn't do that.

Josh: It's a lot of tweets.

Harry: It's a lot of—

Tommy: yeah, there's all different types.

Josh: So just, just do it. Were you just doing it when you're 15?

Tommy: Yeah, and he's on telly. Oh, that was 16. Sorry, man, but, um, you were prepping for being on telly.

Josh: Was there anything that missed opportunities or stuff or things that you look back at? What was— what—

Harry: I've missed so many opportunities that I just— lots of opportunities that have popped up here in Melbourne and I just haven't done it because it's so far away.

Tommy: Like what?

Harry: Uh, all sorts of stuff, like work experience at a radio station here. I went to Bendigo instead. All sorts of things.

Josh: I'm like, Keegs was at the radio station in Bendigo.

Harry: I did Life FM, which is a Catholic station.

Josh: Yeah, there was— he does Hit.

Harry: Yeah, Southern Cross. Yeah, yeah, because they broadcast Channel 9 in regional areas now.

Josh: Southern Cross does.

Harry: Yeah, they used to broadcast 10, but they swapped and now WIN broadcasts.

Josh: Any drama in regards to like, obviously you're across the TV stuff. Anything that you're seeing in the media landscape in general at the moment? Here, the SCA made 50 redundancies or something, 90 redundancies, and lots of, uh, regional broadcasters closing their newsrooms is another thing that's happening.

Harry: Yeah, more and more.

Josh: Do you read a lot of news?

Harry: Uh, I don't read it, I just sort of scroll through and just read the headlines.

Josh: Or what do you— what's your go-to?

Harry: Uh, Reddit.

Josh: Reddit, okay. You got a Reddit account and stuff? Yeah. Are you an upvoter? Do you get into it?

Harry: Yeah, I do. I got— what did I post ages ago? I posted something ages ago and I got like 80 upvotes.

Josh: Oh wow.

Harry: What was it? I can't remember.

Josh: How do you feel? Word? Yeah.

Tommy: Was that like— were you writing? Was it like a—

Harry: no, no, it was just a photo. I can't—

Tommy: it's a cat.

Harry: I don't have my phone, otherwise I'd see what it was.

Josh: Can you, um— how do you feel about getting involved because I set up our subreddit. Yeah, reddit.com/r/thedailytalkshow. Um, how many— 97, can you look at how many, uh, people follow that subreddit? I think, uh, this time last year it was about 24.

Tommy: If it's got more, 28.

Josh: 28.

Harry: Do you pump it? You don't pump it though.

Josh: Never pumping.

Tommy: No.

Josh: So cool. Would you pump it for us now?

Harry: Yes, if you want exclusive content from The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: Oh, Is that what you mean? No, no, I thought you meant pump it as in just get into it, go hard. Do you pump it? Are you putting stuff out there? I say that more as a plug. Do we plug it? No.

Harry: No.

Tommy: Do we pump it?

Josh: No. But I think there is room to pump it. I think that if you were to every day listen to the Daily Talk Show and give us Harry's thoughts or something in the subreddit, I think that it could actually bring some life.

Harry: So, like my My true sense.

Josh: Yeah, does that interest you, or—

Harry: hmm, just— it'll be— it'll have shit spelling.

Josh: Are you not a good speller?

Harry: I can't spell to save myself.

Tommy: Grammarly.

Harry: Grammarly. I use Grammarly, but I couldn't do that in my exam. My business teacher told me I'll be shitting my— oh, she didn't say I was shit, but she said I needed to lift my spelling game because you can't spell business wrong in a business exam.

Tommy: And you said fuck off. Got around that one, didn't he? Uh, anyway, mate, Harry, what a week it's been with you here, mate. I've been in a much brighter, lighter place.

Harry: As Josh said, good fun.

Josh: I was saying to Bri, I've said it to basically everyone, I'm like, I like Harry being in the office. Waking up this morning, I'm like, I'm excited Harry's gonna come in.

Harry: Bri doesn't follow me. Amy does. Oh, Bri doesn't. So she's not that—

Josh: she does follow a lot of people. Do you want me to just—

Harry: yeah, just message her for it, please, and say, can you follow Harry?

Josh: Yeah, I'll do that now. I'm so sorry.

Harry: Thank you.

Tommy: No, it's great. I've got a quick confession of a gronk. Yeah, um, during, uh, Wednesday's chat we had lady brains, Kate and Anna, and during it I was thinking what— I was like, I was just smelling something. I was thinking, what is that?

Josh: Have I shit my pants?

Tommy: I didn't shit my pants. You usually feel that one sometimes. Look, if you haven't felt it and you shat yourself before—

Josh: this is going No, no, I'll get there, I'll get there.

Harry: And then I was like, nothing's funnier than when you shat yourself on the boat. Oh, that's the funniest story.

Tommy: It's Amy's favourite too, she loves it. Um, mainly because I was with another woman at that time. No, but I, um, I was smelling, I was like, fuck, that's my feet, I can smell my shoes.

Josh: Yeah, actually, now that you Tell me.

Harry: I didn't notice anything.

Tommy: Fuck, it's so annoying.

Harry: But I was sitting over there and whoop whoop.

Tommy: I'm just fucking putting my feet up like as far under as I can.

Josh: Oh, that's what that— yeah, I've smelled that. But it's funny because you're right, it's new though, dude. It's new. Uh, last maybe 3 days ago. I feel like when we were on that MTV call, maybe it's like fresh.

Tommy: I don't know what happened. Mr. 97, you got smelly feet? How does it— how does it just start?

Josh: Where did it come from? Where did it come from, dude?

Mason: No, I Well, it's just moist feet.

Tommy: Yeah, because my feet don't like it. I've had the shoes for like— I haven't smelled like—

Mason: I mean, maybe it's just the weather. Maybe it was humid a couple of days ago. Maybe it's just the sort of moisture and the heat and it's just— but the thing is, you just got to keep your shoes on. If I took—

Josh: did you take your shoes off?

Harry: No, no, I was going to take mine off earlier.

Mason: Oh really? Yours leaks out of your shoes?

Tommy: See, mine's— they're airy shoes.

Mason: Mine's just fully contained.

Tommy: Yeah, so you're holding the smell in until I get home. Yeah, I think a lot of people would struggle with that.

Mason: Just, yeah, you can get shoe deodorizer.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean, you can use baking soda and that, that kind of stuff.

Harry: Use baking soda to clean your teeth.

Josh: You could, yeah.

Tommy: I'm gonna whack it in, um, whack in the washing machine. Washing machine.

Josh: That's a good one.

Tommy: And get a new pair of shoes.

Josh: So the thing is, like, I like, um, I get sad about these things with people going, and because I like to think, like, what What can we do? What can you keep doing for the show? What's something that you would enjoy so we can always have a bit of Harry in our life?

Harry: I don't know. I haven't thought about that.

Josh: Really? You haven't thought about— Oh, it's going to be sad when it finishes. Opportunity, opportunity, opportunity.

Harry: I thought that, but I haven't really thought.

Josh: Have you thought that potentially, like, if you're doing RMIT or whatever, JMC or whatever you end up deciding?

Harry: I haven't thought about it.

Tommy: What have you said?

Harry: I haven't had time to think about it.

Josh: What's the HEC stat on an RMIT course?

Harry: I've got no idea, really. I haven't looked into it.

Josh: Harry doesn't give a fuck. No, I can just put it on the counter.

Tommy: Mum's topping up the count. Um, no, does that— I mean, it's such a thought now, like spending over 3 years, $60K, $80K on schooling.

Harry: Did you have a big HECS debt?

Mason: No, they're usually about $10K. I don't know, universities is usually like $10,000 a year.

Josh: You cost your parents like $10 grand?

Mason: Yeah, no, no, it was $2,500.

Josh: $2,500 grand?

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: So what did you study?

Harry: You were at Swinburne, right?

Mason: Yeah, yeah, doing a plain business degree.

Josh: Uh-huh. It worked out to be about $1,000 a day at 2.5 grand. You did about 2 days. How long were you there actually for?

Mason: Uh, it was, it would have been one, one semester.

Josh: So this was only like, this was like a year and a half ago? Yeah. So does that mean like a year and a half ago, did you have like a fucking backpack full of textbooks No, no, no.

Tommy: Snack lunch?

Mason: No, no, I didn't, I didn't buy any of the textbooks.

Josh: So you were that non-committal?

Mason: Yeah, from the start.

Josh: Yeah, you're like, I don't want to actually do this.

Mason: Yeah, I didn't get any textbooks. I didn't buy anything.

Josh: And so, yeah, you haven't answered the question. What, how could we keep you involved?

Harry: I honestly don't know. I haven't thought about it.

Tommy: What would Michael Bungay Stanislas say?

Josh: Yeah, what's the real challenge here for you?

Harry: I don't know, there is no challenge. Well, Let me reword that. There, there, it's going to be difficult leaving after this week because this week has been so enjoyable and it's taught me so much, especially like finally finding somewhere I can fit in, like being in the city and being with other creative like-minded people.

Josh: Um, what else? Sorry, what else?

Harry: That was the second question. Um, it'll be difficult to leave because my eczema gets really bad when I go home, but it's really good here in the city.

Josh: What's the real challenge here for you?

Harry: My real challenge here, um, going back home, going back, um, going back into the routine of what it's like at home will be challenging.

Josh: What else?

Harry: Oh, um, uh, I, I hate these things. Can we just do a fast five and get it done?

Josh: Yeah, you brought up a good point. So Fast Five, there was something that, um, I had mentioned is when did we do the first Fast Five? Oh, we did it with Matt D'Avella. Was that the first time?

Tommy: No, we did the Fast Five on the night that we did MTV, uh, but was that before we left for LA? It was. Yeah, that was before we left. And so yeah, we're working with MTV, we're doing something for them. And Visit Victoria called Last Night Live, where we go to an event and create stories, Instagram content. And in it we have to speak to a few people at the event.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And you wanted to do your Fast Five. Yeah.

Josh: And it was just like, okay, what's a benchmark? What's an easy way that we can get through a few questions? I came up with Fast Five. Tommy saw it as a bit of a joke and thought it was a bit dumb. Anyway, 97, you probably don't know this, but we were in a meeting and Harry asked to Could he listen in on our calls? And there were Skype calls or whatever, like there was potential video. And so I said, Harry, can you just move along to the side because you're sort of in the frame of the shot? He sat there and listened. And Harry, what happened when I said— because they were trying to come up with ideas.

Harry: They loved it.

Josh: Yeah.

Harry: And Josh looked straight at Tommy like, see, it's a good idea.

Josh: They were like, I said, how about Fast Five for NGV? And they're like, oh, amazing. Love it. Great idea.

Tommy: To be fair, didn't you do a Fast Five?

Josh: It never made it because they weren't sure on the person. Sure.

Tommy: It hit the cutting room floor. But I reckon round 2.

Josh: Oh, we'll do a Fast Five now.

Tommy: If we can get it in. Let's see if we can get it into the MTV content. But also let's do a practise Fast Five here.

Josh: All right.

Tommy: It's Fast Five.

Josh: Harry Lodge. My name's Josh. Harry, how are you today?

Harry: Good, thank you.

Josh: That's not one of the questions. I'm going to ask you 5 questions really quickly under 5 minutes. All right, you ready?

Tommy: We actually, we're creating Instagram stories.

Harry: It's like something Alan would do, like he shot that game where you grab the ball.

Tommy: Each answer can't be longer than 10 seconds.

Josh: Yeah, each answer can't be longer than 10 seconds. Ready to play?

Harry: Ready.

Josh: Okay, almond milk or cow's milk?

Harry: Cow's milk.

Josh: Tea or coffee?

Harry: Tea.

Josh: What's your favourite color?

Harry: Green.

Josh: What is your favourite animal?

Harry: Cats.

Josh: What do you ask for when you get a haircut?

Harry: Short on the sides and a bit longer on the top, but not enough for my cowlick to grow through.

Josh: How many is that?

Tommy: Yeah, 5. That was 5.

Harry: Solid.

Tommy: Great answer at the final one, Harry.

Josh: What was the final one? What did you say?

Tommy: The Fats Five purely relies on the talent, and I think we've got the right talent today.

Josh: Yeah, it's great.

Tommy: Okay, so you That was good.

Josh: Now, good start. Great. Thanks, Harry. 97.

Tommy: Admin.

Josh: Admin.

Tommy: You've got 1 minute to get through the admin.

Josh: Getting real heavy on the benchmarks.

Tommy: I like— I've always wanted to get this one over the line.

Josh: Do we need a ticking sound though?

Mason: Yeah. Tick, tick, tick.

Josh: Okay. It's the admin min.

Mason: Admin min.

Josh: Okay. Admin min starts now.

Mason: Great. So I reached out to Dan Dibb, who did the Daily Talk Show wrap earlier in the year. And I wanted to get a Christmas— a wrap for the 12 Days of Christmas coming up, and I wanted it to be around the year of the Gronkh. But we need suggestions for what might go on the wrap.

Josh: Great. Right, uh, that's the admin min. Have you got any thoughts, Harry? What are some of the highlights of the Daily Talk Show for last year?

Mason: 2019.

Harry: The bleaching of the hair would have to be one.

Mason: Yeah, great.

Josh: Jemma Watts has to have a mention.

Tommy: Yeah, Scooter Derek.

Harry: Yep.

Tommy: Our LA trip, just because it cost us so much money.

Josh: Yeah, definitely. It's leverage.

Harry: Um, what else?

Mason: Could you workshop a sentence potentially?

Josh: Oh yeah, a rhyme.

Tommy: What about, uh, are you just saying workshop outside?

Josh: No, I think we do it now.

Mason: I was meaning on the show.

Harry: Off you go. Just like one, one line. Just— yeah, you start.

Josh: Josh watched the doco Game Changers, went and fed Joe, and didn't last ages.

Tommy: There's your line.

Josh: Hang on, we'll do one more. No, no, no, we'll do one about Tommy. Oh, you've got to do it now.

Harry: Nah, you gotta do it.

Josh: Yeah, nah, no, no, no, no, do it for Harry. It's his last fucking day.

Tommy: Well, I need something. What's, what's a topic? What's something that we've done? Need some stimulus.

Josh: Is his last day, are you going to do weekend banter or no? You doing weekend banter?

Tommy: That's tomorrow. Yeah. No, I reckon we can get Harry back for weekend banter.

Josh: Okay. All right. Well, we'll do that. We'll maybe have a think, Harry, about potential bits that you could do.

Tommy: So that's the admin. You actually want suggestions.

Harry: Can you put it out to the audience?

Tommy: Yeah, we'll get you to put it out on Instagram. People love it. Love you on the Instagram.

Josh: Can you do more Instagram stuff? What is your— What's the block?

Harry: Well, I did a few today with the Woolies.

Josh: Okay. Yeah, that was good.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: All right. It's The Daily Talk Show. If you've enjoyed the show, give us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts. Also, if you are on Instagram, @thedailytalkshow, that's where we're at. That's where Harry's been doing the Insta stories. We also love when you do Insta storeys and tag us up and say—

Harry: I totally stuffed up.

Josh: What happened?

Harry: Well, actually, I did a good thing. QMS, who do the billboards, they followed me out of the blue.

Josh: Who?

Harry: QMS?

Tommy: CMS? CMS? You see it down on the bottom.

Harry: You see a billboard, I'm the one to come to now.

Tommy: Well, you still got to pay for it, Harry.

Harry: I'm the company ambassador.

Josh: He's got the company card.

Harry: Yeah. Yeah.

Josh: Why, you're their ambassador? What does that mean? Because they follow you?

Harry: Yeah.

Josh: How many did they follow?

Harry: Pardon?

Josh: How many people did they follow?

Harry: I'm not sure, but I felt special. Okay.

Mason: Oh, is that the thing you messaged in yesterday saying they finally followed me?

Harry: And I did the bloody— because Josh wanted me to do some sort of question thing the other day, which fell flat. That fell flat because what I forgot to do was save it, because obviously it ends after X amount of hours and I didn't save it.

Josh: We get very low engagement when it comes to asking questions.

Harry: And all the people are smartass. They're all smartass comments.

Tommy: All the Gronks are lazy. Yeah, they're just like, as long as they can write it, it's fine. Hot or not. Yeah, and that's all, that's about the extent.

Josh: And so, Harry, the other thing you were saying is I was asking you about how we promote Big Media Company and our video production services. Your feedback is you think it sounds like we're pumping our tyres when we talk about our services.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: And so we need a different voice. I'm comfortable given the fact that you are not an employee of the Big Media Company to be that voice.

Harry: I think you should pay like a proper voiceover artist.

Tommy: Well, can we just get a little bit at least right now?

Josh: Okay, just talking about what we do and then sign off and do it the way that you want it because you're very specific in the sort of the copy.

Harry: Because I was thinking about it in the shower because like when you—

Josh: that's where I do bring your own body wash.

Harry: Yes.

Josh: Into— okay, what do you use?

Harry: Uh, Heads and Shoulders.

Josh: Heads and Shoulders for body? Was that just for hair?

Harry: Just for hair.

Josh: Okay. Have you tried the, um, Get On Track?

Tommy: So Harry, finish it.

Josh: Okay, coconut stuff. The goat milk is very good, especially if you've got like eczema or whatever.

Mason: Is Head and Shoulders?

Josh: No, Head and Shoulders would be good for that.

Mason: Is it Dove?

Josh: I feel like Dove is a bit sort of cliché.

Tommy: They're not using goats.

Harry: Palmolive.

Josh: But the goat milk one has been very good for my skin irritation.

Harry: Send me a photo, please.

Josh: Okay, of the skin irritation?

Harry: Yeah, no, of the bottle.

Tommy: Okay, I want before, after. I want truth. I want testimonial.

Josh: Okay, great.

Tommy: Harry, uh, take it away.

Harry: Yeah, this podcast is being produced by Big Media Company, bigmediacompany.com. Is that what you wanted?

Josh: But you haven't explained what we do.

Harry: Um, uh, what did I say the other day? Can you just insert what I said the other day? Uh, for all your short— uh, if you want a short promotional video, corporate video, or— oh, I need 3. I need 3.

Josh: Video production.

Harry: Or video production. Feel free to contact Big Media Company at bigmediacompany.com.

Josh: You like the name Big Media Company?

Harry: Yeah, it runs off the tongue quite nicely, doesn't it?

Josh: Okay, thanks, Harry. It's a daily talk show. See you tomorrow for Weekend Banter. See you guys.