Three Greedy Pigs With Rhys Mitchell

Rhys: The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 587.

Tommy: We got Reece Mitchell in the building, all the way from Los Angeles, California.

Rhys: Wow, all the way from Collingwood. I've been here for a few months.

Tommy: Well, last time we were on the, uh, front steps of our Airbnb. We've upgraded to what you've dubbed the sauna.

Rhys: Yeah, it looks like a sauna. I think that as an episode pitch You should do one in a sauna. We've thought about it and wear the sweaters. I like to see how long you can last.

Josh: Actually, I'm actually more comfortable wearing sweaters in there. It's just getting my rig out.

Tommy: When you go very quick, you'll be out very quickly just because you'd be so fucking hot. It'd be so yuck. Did you—

Josh: when you guys were playing like sports as kids, did you ever remember they would make some kids be skins?

Tommy: No. What do you mean they'd make?

Josh: So you'd have—

Rhys: who's they?

Josh: So the footy. So they would have two teams like, okay, play, uh, half are skins, and so half of the people have to take their tops off so you know who's on which team.

Tommy: As in skins, as in bearskin?

Josh: Yeah, you take your top off.

Tommy: What was the name of your coach?

Rhys: Who is your PE teacher? Which jail is he in? That's so fucked up.

Josh: Have you never heard of that?

Tommy: Yeah, we went to a prestigious private school.

Josh: George, have you heard of skins? Yeah, I've heard of shirts and skins.

Rhys: Yeah, it sounds kind of rough.

Josh: Not at my school though.

Rhys: No, in jail, in the yard.

Josh: No, it was It was at the footy club. Mason, no sense.

Mason: I've heard of it. I've never— so I've never experienced it.

Tommy: I played footy for club and there was different jumpers, like they sometimes had— oh yeah, you're talking ribbons.

Josh: This is— I'm talking, they were definitely— they've probably gotten rid of skins.

Tommy: And so you're saying you had to get your rig out?

Josh: Well, no, so that would separate the teams into two, and so I would just be like, please not skins, please not skins. They're like, okay, yeah, Josh's team, your skins.

Rhys: Oh, fuck it. That's humiliating actually.

Josh: And if you don't feel comfortable doing that, especially because I used to run around the oval and I was always the last to finish and no one could start training until everyone had finished running around. And so the whole team would come and cheer me on as I ran the final lap on my own.

Rhys: Was the teacher ever in skins?

Josh: It wasn't. It was an actual footy club.

Tommy: Okay, but was the coach in skins?

Rhys: The coach, he would always qualify. Yeah, yeah. The coach had— He's a hobbyist. Right, boys?

Josh: No, the coach, he was a hairdresser, actually. A good rig.

Rhys: Okay, so he was in skin.

Josh: Yeah, no, definitely. He's always just like— he's always like, um, he had a good—

Rhys: he's doing massage.

Tommy: Yeah, no, it was gestures with his hands.

Rhys: Anyway, I'm glad there's a record of this because you're gonna need to tell the cops.

Josh: Yeah, it's, um, no, it was fine.

Tommy: Okay, happy Fat Fridays, Reece. It's, um, your first Fat Friday.

Rhys: No, and cheat day.

Tommy: Yeah, but you've already— you've already blown it, haven't you?

Rhys: Yeah, I forgot we were doing Fat Friday. What have you eaten? I ate eggs.

Josh: How many?

Rhys: 2. And I ate olive bread. Olive— yum!

Josh: Where from?

Rhys: I'm not sure. It's at my girlfriend's house. She had olive bread.

Tommy: There is a lot going on here, guys. It's very heavy what I've got. Mr. 97, can you run us through what you've got?

Josh: Did you go DoorDash?

Tommy: No, we went Uber Eats and they're using DoorDash.

Rhys: What does that mean?

Josh: No, they're using just DoorDash stickers.

Tommy: I don't know how much DoorDash I've had this month. This is BM.

Mason: Oh yeah, okay, so that's the Big Mok. There are two of them, one for you, Tommy.

Tommy: No, it's not having it. No, having it— I've already had it before. I can't eat it. Oh, only because I— it's, it's silly.

Mason: I didn't know you've had it before. You didn't tell me this.

Tommy: Yeah, but we can switch it up.

Mason: Reese can have one.

Tommy: Thank you. So this is an all-vegan burger place on, uh, Smith Street. I just don't want to have the same thing twice. I want to try something.

Josh: Well, I have a feeling it's going to end up in a blow-up.

Mason: Potentially.

Tommy: No, just fucking switch it up.

Josh: No, no, no, Seb's has organized. I said to him, just get a range of shit and he's gone specifically for what he thinks people would want.

Tommy: All right, that's not how it's going to roll.

Rhys: Oh my God, this is trouble in the sauna.

Josh: This is—

Tommy: so who wants a Big Mac?

Rhys: I got it.

Tommy: Reece has got it. Someone else? Coming your way, George. George has been—

Josh: I'll have your one. Yeah, I'll just have one.

Rhys: So where are these from?

Mason: This is from Green Burger in Collingwood.

Rhys: Oh, vegan burgers, that's great.

Tommy: Yeah, and so there's some sort of— I mean, this feels like it's a ton.

Mason: There are 2 burritos.

Tommy: 2 burritos. I mean, Josh, if you want— I'm not gonna—

Josh: no, no, that's— oh, that is—

Rhys: I just want a few.

Josh: You can have the burrito. That's very heavy. What's in the burrito, Mr. 97?

Tommy: Jesus.

Josh: Uh, it looks real good. What's there?

Tommy: We're getting there. We got like— there's still a shitload more.

Josh: Or chippies, the standard chips. I mean, chips are vegetarian as a standard.

Tommy: Oh, but they're sweet. They're kind of sweet.

Josh: They're candied.

Tommy: What are they made of?

Mason: Yeah, so they've got, um—

Josh: Oh no, that's bizarre.

Rhys: They've got—

Mason: The website didn't have it.

Rhys: Is that like, um, it's like churros or—

Mason: Yeah, so it's, it's— I think it's got some sort of like, um, cookies and cream flavouring on top of the chips.

Tommy: Oh, they're good. And here's another burrito. Here's another burrito.

Mason: And so George has the Colonel, which is, um, Chicken. Chicken, but not actually chicken.

Tommy: All right, I'm gonna—

Josh: I don't throw it now.

Tommy: And you've got a burrito, mate.

Josh: Yeah, yeah. Okay, and we'll take a—

Tommy: Josh, I'll just eat from this end and we'll switch over.

Rhys: Well, I haven't eaten McDonald's in God knows what. It smells like—

Tommy: yeah, so it's gonna be a Big Mac, but it's not a Big Mac. Yeah, so they've attempted to create a Big Mac based on that smell. Talking to the microphones.

Rhys: Okay, if I, if I was blindfolded and someone This is such a weird scenario, hypothetical scenario. If his old footy coach tied me up and skins or no skins, in skins, and put this near me and said, what is that? This is so— what would you say? I'd say Big Mac.

Tommy: Can we do it?

Rhys: It smells exactly like one.

Tommy: Yeah, it does. It smells exactly like one.

Rhys: I haven't had one since the '90s, I would say, but really, it smells just like one.

Josh: Missing out.

Tommy: So the reason I went plant-based is because Reece said, can we do vejo? I said, yeah, we'll make that happen.

Rhys: Appreciate it.

Tommy: Um, I wish we had scales because I would weigh this thing. That— this burrito, no joke, is, is— I mean, it's got a— it's a full pot plant.

Mason: Oh, it's solid.

Rhys: It really is like holding a pot plant or like a really thick lizard. It's like eating a bird or something.

Josh: What do you think, George, of your—

Rhys: It's heavy.

Tommy: It's so good.

Rhys: Really?

Tommy: Really?

Josh: It's delicious. I reckon it's better than Uh, the McVeggie. Okay, yeah, oh yeah, because yeah, last week you were— he's not a veggie, no, he's not a vegetarian. This is vegan chicken, right? But as it— but you're George, you eat meat?

Tommy: I do, yeah.

Josh: Okay, no problem. But this tastes like chicken.

Rhys: Really?

Josh: Tastes like KFC.

Rhys: Can you show me it?

Josh: Like, you want a bite?

Rhys: Yeah, you want to bite this?

Josh: All right, this is great.

Tommy: Oh my God, they're in skins sharing burgers.

Rhys: This is cute. Oh my God. Look at that.

Josh: Let's see.

Tommy: It looks like fried chicken.

Josh: Yeah, it does.

Tommy: Looks— yeah, it really does.

Josh: I have one more bite of this, mate.

Tommy: I've had about 2 bites of that. Amazing. I'll get a knife.

Rhys: I'll get a knife.

Josh: So where is this from again?

Mason: Green Burger.

Josh: Whereabouts?

Mason: Uh, 240 Smith Street, I think it is.

Josh: Very specific.

Tommy: That was good memory.

Rhys: Do they know that their food's gonna end up on a show?

Josh: No.

Rhys: Interesting.

Josh: So no obligation to say nice things if you don't think it's good.

Tommy: I'm just gonna get a knife, you guys talk.

Rhys: No, I'm actually like, I'm actually impressed. It does taste like real, it tastes like a real burger.

Josh: When, when you, uh, come to Melbourne, what it, what food feels like home for you?

Rhys: Avocado. And I know they're everywhere, but, and also cheaper in California. Just reminds me of Melbourne, like a smashed avo.

Josh: Um, Do you think that the, the smashed avo in the US is different to that of Australia?

Rhys: I think so. I think the produce is different. I prefer the produce here. Yeah, yeah, they seem to just taste fresher here.

Josh: Yeah, I mean, where are you being eating? Where's your go-to's in, in Melbourne? Oh, do you want this now? Do you want this?

Tommy: Yeah, I'll just put it over here. We've got a lot going on.

Rhys: I guess I make a lot of stuff, really.

Josh: Yeah, you know, you, you went to Whole Foods or you go somewhere else? What's the place you go?

Rhys: Oh, in the States?

Josh: Yeah.

Rhys: Um, yeah, I'll go there for shopping. Yeah, yeah, I'll go there. Trader Joe's maybe.

Josh: We don't have really the equivalent in Australia in a big way.

Tommy: Of what?

Josh: Like Whole Foods.

Tommy: Like you've got it and it's gone.

Josh: About Life is not in Melbourne anymore.

Rhys: Well, that was good.

Tommy: It was in Sydney, so it was huge. In Double Bay, affluent suburb, lots of money, lots of people spending cash. They couldn't survive. Which is so disappointing. I mean, I went over Christmas like, oh, let's go there and get some food. Not there. Woolworths have done a version of it. Look up Mr. O7, look up About Life Double Bay and it'll come up with the Woolworths equivalent. It's like deli, they make pizzas. It's, they're trying to, it's trying to be like the Whole Foods food section and some higher end Shit. The problem is we don't have enough people here to sustain those kind of businesses. Think about why businesses in America are open all night, because there's as many— there's people there to go.

Rhys: And I know everything seems to shut here at like 6 PM.

Tommy: Um, do you feel like you're—

Josh: yeah, no, name 3 shops that close at 6.

Tommy: Uh, the 6 o'clock knockoff.

Rhys: No, 7. Can you look up 3 shops that close at 6?

Josh: How would you look that up?

Rhys: Type in 3 shops that close at 6 Melbourne.

Josh: No, seriously, what closes at 6?

Tommy: He's being hyperbolic.

Josh: Yeah, but name one. That's not hyperbolic, is it? Isn't that— you've said something.

Rhys: The bank, the post office.

Josh: Okay.

Rhys: And some pharmacies.

Josh: Okay, sure. Yeah, you're right, you're right.

Rhys: Let's leave it. All right. Um, I, I also—

Tommy: I've got this for you, Josh, I think.

Josh: Oh, thank you.

Rhys: Wow, what's that?

Mason: Is that the biggest one?

Tommy: We're just, we're just at the biggest one.

Josh: We're doing whatever.

Rhys: We're doing whatever. Okay, are you a shake expert?

Mason: I got you a large, Josh.

Josh: Oh, thank you. That's okay, I don't need it. It sounds like TJ wants a large.

Tommy: No, no, it's not large. I'm just getting them out as they're in order. What are they?

Rhys: I feel like I'm being kept out of the loop here.

Josh: So what is it?

Tommy: They're all the same. They're all— oh, that's large. Yeah, that is the large. That is the only one that's the large out of all of them, and I've given it to Josh. Yeah, they look like baby ice cream. Oh my God, that smells amazing.

Josh: It's very, um, it doesn't have much weight to it. Not very heavy.

Tommy: These are vegan thick shakes. And I— and Mr. Nice Guy was giving this heaps of heat saying, strawberry, yuck, who would do that? It actually smells ridiculous. Smell that, smell that, baby.

Josh: Oh, the smell of strawberry. Okay, the burrito is great, by the way.

Rhys: Smell of strawberry. Good.

Tommy: Oh wow, I mean, it is— I know what you mean, it's on the fake end of strawberry, right? But I quite like the fake strawberry. I try— I like the fake flavors, you know. I'm a fake kind of guy.

Rhys: That tastes like, um, Nesquik.

Josh: Oh yeah, old school. I'm fine, thank you.

Rhys: You don't like sharing straws and stuff?

Josh: No, I don't mind. I actually don't mind. I see it as a rapport-building exercise. Here, I'll have some just to—

Rhys: it is good for rapport.

Josh: Do you want me to deep throat it as well?

Rhys: No, you're good. You do you, whatever makes you comfortable.

Josh: Do you, coach?

Tommy: All right, who wants chocolate? One of you boys want chocolate?

Josh: Grace is done with it.

Rhys: I love this a lot. I'm like, I'm not touching it.

Tommy: This is— yeah, wow.

Rhys: This is low-key.

Tommy: Yeah, vanilla.

Rhys: That's really cash, you know? Yeah, that has a real sophistication about it.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, because it's not trying too hard, but you gotta search for the flavor.

Rhys: Like, this is—

Josh: that's— it's a lot in the face.

Rhys: Yeah, yeah, it's really like, I'm here.

Tommy: Uh, do you feel like you're on holidays when you're coming back to Melbourne?

Rhys: Not really. I mean, you know, because I get yes and no. I think catching up with everybody sometimes feels hard. I know that's a good problem, but seeing all friends and family and yeah, I always am letting someone down because I'm not here for that long. So that feels stressful.

Josh: I know, because it's called the Letdown Tour.

Rhys: That's the name of my autobiography.

Tommy: Letdown.

Josh: Like a lot of people would do.

Rhys: That's that great show on ABC.

Josh: Anyway, have you ever considered doing like a, um, a drinks where you're like, hey everyone, all you degrade relationships I don't have time for—

Rhys: that's a great preface.

Josh: No, just everyone. I just say like, hey, degrade. No, just like, so if you've got different levels, you've got to see your family, you've got to see— like, you get to a point where it's like, hang on, do I have time for everyone?

Rhys: Right.

Josh: Have you considered just having an open door policy at a local pub that people— I've never done this in my life, but I hear that's what people say.

Rhys: That's a good idea. Um, I also maybe don't want to do it.

Josh: Yeah, no, you know what I mean? Yeah, definitely.

Rhys: It seems like that's why I've never done it. Stressful.

Tommy: I think, um, the, the difference with you, Reece, between Josh and myself to some degree, you have a lot of friends. Yeah, like a lot of— but like, um, did you say Reece's Instagram when he's— when it was his birthday last week. Happy birthday, baby. Thank you. Happy birthday.

Rhys: Yeah, thank you.

Tommy: 32?

Rhys: 23.

Tommy: Oh yeah, 23.

Rhys: Just kidding. Um, in LA I'm 23, in Australia I'm 32.

Josh: By the way, they were beautiful.

Rhys: Thank you, appreciate it.

Tommy: 23-year-old headshots. Yeah. Uh, so he, um, you got a lot of friends. So many people doing an Instagram storey saying happy birthday. Yeah, either it's your influencer friends that love to get on the Instagram. How many of those people are actually texting you and saying happy birthday?

Rhys: I don't know them.

Tommy: Oh, you don't know these people?

Rhys: It was a promotion post. I just did a boost or whatever you do.

Josh: Yeah, it's a Cameo integration.

Rhys: I know them. I mean, it would be nuts if I didn't know them, right? Oh, you asked if I, uh, if they got—

Tommy: if they texted you as well, um, or they just—

Rhys: their version of it, I think they DM me maybe. DM you, that's probably the version of a text, right?

Tommy: Do you have a hierarchy within sort of comms? That is the most sort of meaningful to—

Josh: like WhatsApp versus text message versus Instagram?

Tommy: Yeah, sending emojis.

Rhys: You know what I like the most? I love an email.

Josh: Oh yeah? Do you want to be email buddies?

Rhys: Yeah, absolutely. Genuinely, I'd love to.

Josh: Do you have an email signature?

Rhys: Um, it says thank you and I have a picture of a kangaroo.

Josh: Do you have your name on the signature?

Rhys: No, just my initials, RM.

Josh: I love that. Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's the ultimate power move when you have— because the idea of an initial is to make it easy for you.

Rhys: Yep.

Josh: And what you're saying is I don't even have time to write my name when doing the signature.

Rhys: Yeah. And it's automated. Yeah.

Josh: So no, I love that.

Rhys: So I love email. I like text message.

Tommy: Text message.

Rhys: I hate— oh, then Instagram message if I know you. If I don't know you, please don't. Instant DM you.

Tommy: What if it turned into something?

Josh: So you would prefer someone who doesn't know you to text you rather than DM? No.

Rhys: Someone I don't know?

Josh: Don't contact you. Contact. What about new relationships?

Rhys: Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I loved that sound.

Mason: Yeah, it was good.

Rhys: That was great. Sounded like you were squeezing into a tight boot. In front of the coach.

Tommy: Yeah.

Rhys: Oh, God. Sorry.

Josh: No, that's fine.

Rhys: Okay. Can I try the chocolate? Yeah, I don't know. I, I don't re— who wants to chat to people they don't know? That seems—

Tommy: yeah, this is weird.

Rhys: We're talking, we're like, okay, friends. We're doing friends. Okay, email number one. You have an email and it's almost like it comes up on my phone. It's like a text. It's like, it's the best. Love an email.

Tommy: Yeah.

Rhys: Uh, then text message and then Instagram DM. Then phone call. I hate talking on phone calls.

Josh: Is it, is it—

Tommy: yeah, you do have a message.

Rhys: I don't answer phone calls. They freak me out.

Tommy: Why?

Rhys: I don't know.

Tommy: But what about like, say if it's me, you've known for fucking nearly 20 years, 25 years. How old are we? 23. So it's impossible.

Rhys: Yeah. Oh, you know what I'd love? Um, can I give you a call?

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, right now.

Rhys: It's good. Or when's good? And then do it. I don't like the unexpected phone call. I think it— I always associate it with bad news.

Josh: Why?

Tommy: What happened?

Rhys: I don't know. If you think about it, I always think you're calling me because there's been an emergency.

Tommy: Well, I have done that in the past when we were young.

Rhys: Yeah, and maybe that has Fuck, I remember that fucking phone call.

Tommy: That was horrible.

Rhys: So maybe that's part of my issue with it. And it's not just you, it's with everyone.

Tommy: What about, um, you've got a girlfriend? I haven't met her. She seems lovely.

Rhys: She's awesome.

Tommy: She does great music. Yeah, let's give her a plug.

Josh: What sort of music?

Rhys: You should put her on the show.

Tommy: Yeah, there we go.

Josh: We're gonna put her on the show. Yeah, we'll ask her.

Rhys: I don't know the correct terminology.

Josh: We'll just have her on the show.

Rhys: Put it, uh, have her on the show.

Tommy: Yeah, we'll get it.

Rhys: This is the best one. It's coconut energy.

Tommy: It's all coconut.

Rhys: Coconut.

Tommy: They're all coconut-based. So yeah, so with it, what about with yum? What about with you, Misa?

Rhys: Yeah, I'd answer that.

Josh: How often are you talking on the phone?

Rhys: It's like a cop with a burger. Has a cop, like, detective who can't help it. That's almost a good show, a greedy police officer. We're two cops just called fat pigs. Oops. They're always doing interrogations, but they can't help themselves but eat junk food.

Josh: Well, you see that like when you watch interrogations because they go for hours.

Rhys: Yeah, they get hungry. It'd be good if they were eating the person they're interrogating's lunch as well as a power move.

Tommy: You want that? Absolutely not.

Rhys: No thanks.

Josh: This is— I'm really happy with it. What was in the burrito, by the way, Sebbs?

Mason: Black beans, avocado, lettuce, and then their chicken alternative.

Tommy: It has the texture of chicken.

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: Wow. Okay, so you're asking—

Rhys: this is so like a think tank, you know what I mean?

Mason: Yeah, yeah.

Tommy: What do you mean, a think tank?

Rhys: We're doing a think tank.

Tommy: Yeah, think tank. You get together, say, I reckon like, what's it, McCain's the fried, you know, the frozen meals. They get together and test it in a room and do a think tank around the flavors. What should we call this? What's it bringing?

Rhys: We should call it Tanks Who Think. I once went to one for laundry powder.

Tommy: Did you?

Josh: What for?

Rhys: Someone paid me for cash.

Josh: In LA?

Rhys: In Australia many years ago.

Tommy: And surely that was through like some kind of family friend.

Rhys: Utterly boring. Terrible day.

Josh: Well, actually, a lady who taught me how to shoot Super 8 at VCA, her main gig was market research.

Rhys: Who was that?

Josh: And she would do basically a, you'd end up on her list like she would teach you Super 8 and she's like, by the way, just before I go, everyone, if anyone wants to make some quick cash. And so I reckon I still got the emails from Moira.

Rhys: I guess she knows that because your only skill is Super 8 photography, you're unemployable. Potentially.

Josh: Funny.

Tommy: It's, um, George, could you grab the tissues? This baby's gonna—

Josh: it's got too much.

Rhys: You just call yourself baby?

Tommy: Baby's got too much.

Josh: I like that.

Rhys: That's so— that's self-love and self-care. What's that, Kleenex?

Tommy: Yeah, would you like one?

Rhys: Yeah.

Josh: Do you have Kleenex in the US?

Tommy: Um, isn't that where it's from?

Rhys: Oh, it's got a smell.

Josh: It's eucalyptus.

Tommy: Isn't that where it's from, Kleenex?

Josh: Aloe vera.

Tommy: Have a— I assume all the big brands, like the— look up Kleenex, mate.

Rhys: Oh my God, I love this show.

Tommy: I associate it with the Dyson. Now we're trying to, we're trying to discover where the big brands are.

Josh: Baby needs to know about Kleenex.

Rhys: Yeah, baby needs to know info about his Kleenex. Is baby's Kleenex from America?

Josh: That's got very Australiana vibes, I feel, because of the eucalyptus smell. Is it eucalyptus? It is, isn't it?

Rhys: Okay, this is a tour de force.

Tommy: You like it?

Rhys: Put that on their website.

Josh: What does tour de force mean?

Rhys: You know, No, powerful.

Josh: Tour de force. What does the tour mean? You know the, um, what's the Tour de France?

Rhys: Yeah, force.

Josh: And so tour de force is— this is a race? No, tour de— what does tour de mean?

Rhys: Look it up. 97. The exact definition of tour de force, it's like, um, have you— it's a journey of strength and power.

Mason: It's like, it's, um A performance or achievement that has been accomplished or managed with great skill. Like Kleenex is in the US. Kleenex is in the US, yeah.

Rhys: Not je ne sais quoi. Doesn't that mean I don't know?

Josh: No, je ne sais quoi is like, uh, there's something a bit so je ne sais quoi about George.

Rhys: But it doesn't mean anything.

Josh: No, it means— it means— where's 97 gone, by the way?

Rhys: He took off.

Tommy: Oh, he's getting, um, some camera gear. It's being delivered.

Josh: Okay. Um, no, the, uh, je ne sais quoi means like, oh, it's quirky, it's hard to, it's hard to explain, it's just got something wow about it. Just like, oh, je ne sais quoi.

Rhys: But what is the actual translation, George?

Josh: I have no idea. Oh, fuck, can you come back now? We've just asked George a question and he's just, he hasn't— we just want to know the definition. I thought it was like your final, your, your special touch or something.

Rhys: I think it is, but I think the actual translation doesn't mean anything.

Josh: What's the, what's the translation of je ne sais quoi?

Rhys: I think the idea is that you don't really know what the thing is. You use that phrase because it's a certain feeling or energy that it evokes, but we don't know what it is.

Josh: So you knew more than I did and you let me try and explain like an idiot.

Rhys: I could be wrong. Let's find out.

Mason: An indefinable quality that makes something distinctive or attractive.

Rhys: I think, I think, I think we were both right.

Josh: Yeah, great. I think like my personality is very je ne sais quoi.

Mason: Something that you can't exactly point out.

Tommy: No, we can point it out, mate. It's fucking weird.

Rhys: I like your personality.

Josh: I think we love it. How would you describe it?

Rhys: I would say— I would say je ne sais quoi. No, I'd say— let's say you're—

Josh: Am I pretty like straight edge? Well, not straight edge, not the right word, but just—

Rhys: You're surprisingly eccentric. At first you might not present that way, but then the more you get to know you, you realise you're quite quirky.

Josh: And that's what I think in a very lateral way. That's what I worry about, is that like sometimes I think maybe I need to do things to communicate that I'm weirder because I—

Tommy: Mate, you're wearing shorts.

Josh: Running shorts into a business meeting. You're fucking—

Rhys: Oh, sorry, this is the weirdest business meeting of all time.

Tommy: You're sending signals. No, but the—

Rhys: I can't do the sweet chips.

Josh: I'll do a couple of them. What, because of calories?

Rhys: Because of like, I don't want to get diabetes. That is nuts.

Josh: We've got Dr. Sugar on the show tomorrow.

Rhys: Do you? You should. I just had my levels checked because I kept getting really tired at the end of the day.

Josh: Really? What are you eating at the end of the day?

Rhys: Those.

Tommy: Come try them, George.

Rhys: No, I just, I don't know, it's fine. My sugars are fine. I thought I was having sugar crashes or something.

Tommy: Give them to Mace too.

Rhys: Because ever since I stopped drinking alcohol, I haven't had one, one beer because it was mainly beer. Yeah, we love our beer. I haven't had one beer for 7 months or so.

Tommy: One drop of alcohol? One drop of alcohol.

Mason: Okay.

Josh: Yeah.

Rhys: Um, and I found that I've developed a sugar addiction, you know.

Tommy: I ever say to feel something.

Josh: What do you, um, what do you eat?

Rhys: Um, well, I just find myself foods that either— I never used to eat sweets and stuff, but now I'll be like, oh, I wouldn't mind cake. Oh yeah, what the fuck is that about cake? What am I, 10? Adults should not eat cake. It's just something so pathetic about when like Just eat. Oh, we have to eat this little soft sweet thing. It's so pathetic that we're addicted to those things, don't you think? Well, no, we can't beat this tiny little sweet cupcake. Like, that will always beat us.

Josh: I think the most pathetic— my dad calls it a sliver. I'll just have a sliver.

Rhys: Yeah, sliver. I think that's a better approach though.

Josh: No, but the thing is, he never wants a sliver.

Rhys: Well, he cuts a sliver and eats the rest.

Josh: But I just— yeah, there's something— I think there's something more pathetic about it. When someone says, would you like a piece of cake? If you respond, just a sliver, go fuck yourself.

Tommy: Well, are you getting it done over a bunch of small pieces?

Josh: Or— well, that's the whole thing, because if you want to have— you want to have a bit of that one and that one, you want a bit of the sponge cake as well as the, um—

Rhys: oh, I know what you mean. I kind of like the sliver though, because it's like you're not being—

Tommy: is it slither?

Rhys: Slither.

Tommy: You think it's a sliver?

Rhys: You know what I love about this show? It is so rogue. Like, it's always going off-road, and no matter what direction you think you're heading in, you're not. You're going the other way. But I always have this sense of like, okay, we're about to start.

Josh: Yeah.

Rhys: And then it just ends. I like that about it. There's a— I feel like— I feel so relaxed on this show.

Josh: So you're saying Slither?

Rhys: It's a Slither.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: So Sliver.

Mason: Sliver.

Rhys: Sliver.

Josh: Why were you so confident, George? Because I had to say Slither, and then someone corrected me.

Tommy: On a podcast.

Josh: I mean, that's— isn't that life? Life is about being corrected for words and then finding other people that you can correct on the fuck-ups.

Tommy: No, that's you. That's your personality quirk right there. Because I think you do it more than most, like, just, just on a general rule. Because I think I, I don't give a fuck what I— like, if it's wrong, I don't care.

Rhys: And are you happy to learn and move? And yeah, I will.

Tommy: Like, as much as that I slowly change. And so it's like, it starts with anger. Most people feel like— I think the people who tell people to change it, it's a projection of some kind of reason.

Josh: You know, my mum.

Tommy: Yeah, fear of like how they felt with it.

Rhys: My dad always corrected my language because he taught English for a long time. I did it at school, so that was a big thing in the household. I remember grammar.

Josh: I did a whole video Again, this is a VCA thing, short film, and I was starring in it because I couldn't— the person I wanted to get it wouldn't, wouldn't star.

Rhys: So I told myself, actually, do you know Jonathan Alfter Hyde?

Josh: He's an Australian filmmaker. Anyway, he did Van Diemen's Land.

Rhys: Oh wow.

Josh: Yeah, he directed that. And so he was one of the, the, the not lecturers, but like one of the people. It was like teen flicks. Going back 2005 or 6, and I played this character and in it I said advertisement. And my mum said, that's the American advertisement. Yeah, it's advertisement.

Rhys: Advertisement.

Josh: Yeah, I'd fucked the whole film.

Rhys: Well, not really.

Josh: I was an Australian character.

Rhys: Doesn't matter. Maybe he lived abroad for a while.

Tommy: Yeah. And you were going for an American audience.

Josh: I didn't have that sort of perspective.

Rhys: What, so you're like, the film's ruined?

Josh: I haven't shot yet.

Rhys: You could have done ADR, by the way.

Tommy: Ah, the same.

Josh: Have you heard about the ADR that Tommy's done?

Rhys: Oh my God, what?

Tommy: Oh, is it? No, not a big one.

Josh: For the, um, proposal, uh, of, um, proposing to Amy, you dubbed it.

Tommy: Well, I did record the audio, but it was very shit.

Rhys: Fixed up your vowels.

Tommy: And then there was a guy, you know, there's a guy that's pretty quick to criticise other people.

Josh: It was me.

Rhys: So the thing was driven from fear of past experience, but I appreciate him.

Josh: But he was next to the water and all he could hear was the water. I said, I reckon if you dub it, dub it and just say, will you marry me? Like, that would be great. Like, that would just seal the deal, just make it a lot stronger. Anyway, not only did he do that, but he got Amy to dub hers.

Rhys: Say it's almost— it's become a soap opera.

Josh: It was one take.

Rhys: I was there standing there.

Tommy: She was pissed off about doing it.

Rhys: She didn't want to do it, and I got her in one take.

Josh: It worked really well.

Rhys: You know what, Bodhi will appreciate it.

Tommy: Yeah, because you'll think it's—

Josh: well, because you watch it and then you're like, did she say yes?

Rhys: Yeah, she didn't know.

Josh: But now you do know because it's a cliffhanger.

Rhys: You could have cut to an ad break and then—

Josh: oh yeah, that's true.

Rhys: Yeah, different location, different time. Start season 2 if she says yeah.

Tommy: I'll do a real close-up on her mouth.

Josh: Yes, that's actually a good idea. Have you done much ADR? In your lifetime?

Rhys: Yeah, a lot.

Tommy: They do. It's huge in movies. I saw a guy, um, uh, Stapleton— no, a guy doing a series over in America. It's just finished up, but he'd like— he's like, I'm spending 3 days in ADR. Yeah, for the season.

Josh: They forgot to record audio.

Tommy: What is it? Are they doing it outside?

Rhys: Well, there might be— yeah, there might be a number of issues.

Josh: And so it like—

Rhys: that could be to do with the weather.

Tommy: And so you're listening back to your dialogue that was recorded that was really shit.

Rhys: Yeah.

Tommy: And then you're saying it as you're hearing it.

Rhys: Exactly. Or they might want to change the tone or intonation, or they might want to add lines, you know.

Tommy: And does it look the same? Like, are you— you think it looks exactly the same?

Rhys: Yeah, like it'll have the text on the screen and you'll see your— the piece that they want to re-record, and then they'll play it over. There's different ways to do it. You can just like Um, you can multiple auditions. Yeah, copy, like repeat and copy, hear it and copy it. Yeah, just say it more clear. Or there might be— you might have like the director or someone telling you they want a different, slightly different performance.

Josh: What about different lines? Like obviously if your back's turned. Yeah, I've seen that a couple of times in films where it's like, oh, you get a script and it'll be on the thing.

Rhys: So we're adding this and stuff.

Josh: Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?

Rhys: Yeah.

Tommy: Why are they like still in so many movies there? If you look for the across-shoulder dialogue scene and, and they're not— the person speaking's face isn't on camera, but you can see jaw movement and you know it's not in time with the—

Josh: it just fucked continuity.

Tommy: But it's amazing how bigger productions do that.

Rhys: Yeah, because it's still, it's still impossible to get it perfect, really.

Tommy: Well, I've heard of actors that like will leave at the time that they are doing the over-shoulder stuff. They're lazy.

Rhys: I'm not gonna stand in.

Tommy: They get the stand-in to come in.

Josh: Have you ever had a stand-in?

Rhys: Um, yeah, I have. I had one on the film I did in Utah.

Tommy: Um, is this when we're speaking in the hot tub? You're in the hot tub, the hot tub calling me.

Rhys: I love how that's—

Tommy: I just remember I was literally just— he's faced— we're FaceTiming each other and he was in a hot tub. Yeah, that was Skins. They had a Skins game.

Rhys: Oh, Skins in a hot tub. They The little hotel they put us in had hot tubs on the balcony. I think I've spoken about it endlessly.

Josh: It's so good.

Tommy: Oh, you FaceTimed from there?

Rhys: I FaceTimed.

Tommy: It was a big highlight.

Rhys: It was a highlight.

Tommy: I mean, the guy that doesn't like phone calls actually FaceTimed me.

Rhys: Oh, that's the thing I was going to say. Weird, weird quirk. Weird quirk. When it comes to— I feel sick, by the way. When it comes to the phone call thing.

Josh: You're definitely phlegmy. Whatever's happened here.

Tommy: No, it's because you've had coconut.

Rhys: It's such high fat with the coconut.

Josh: Um, you reckon that's what it is?

Rhys: Yeah, and that he can stop the brioche.

Tommy: You can stop drinking your large, Josh.

Mason: No, that's a potato bun.

Rhys: What's that mean? It's made of potatoes, so it's like gnocchi.

Tommy: It's a big gnocchi.

Rhys: It's a big gnocchi. So it's a gnocchi bun, they should call it that. Um, so it's a potato cake gnocchi bun. Um, I can't remember what I was saying. You said I'm like having a sugar crash or something. FaceTime? Yeah, like a FaceTime. Strangely, I prefer you to FaceTime me. Then phone call me. So you said that's something more lighthearted about a FaceTime than a phone call might be devastating news, where no one's going to FaceTime you and be like, something terrible happened. Yeah, unless they're live on the scene and want to show you.

Tommy: With— but still, in saying that, you're not saying you'll answer if I do it.

Rhys: If you FaceTime me, I will.

Tommy: Okay, great.

Rhys: If I can, I'm not in public or like at the doctor's.

Tommy: I think I'm the problem because I called you when something really bad happened.

Rhys: I do think it changed my brain.

Tommy: It was, it was very bad. We were 17 and a friend had passed away, taken his life, and I called Reece. Oh, it's no good.

Josh: What'd you think of when you were having the comp— before you made the phone call?

Tommy: Nothing, because I just got off the fucking phone with his mum who'd called me. That's a trippy phone call.

Josh: Do you wish that she didn't call and it was done a different way?

Tommy: It was her way of doing it. But I literally said to her, it's a joke, right? Like, it was just the dumbest thing to ever say because obviously someone's not gonna joke.

Rhys: You don't know how you're gonna respond.

Tommy: But it was the weirdest fucking thing on earth. And so I was about— I was in bed going to sleep and I was— it was dark in my room.

Rhys: It was light, I remember. Yeah.

Tommy: And, and then I got that phone call. I was 18 because I went and picked up Karim.

Rhys: Yeah.

Tommy: And then we came to my house. Yeah.

Rhys: And then we went Anyway, yeah, the next day.

Tommy: But yeah, so I fucked it for him. But I FaceTimed him because FaceTime wasn't around then when that happened.

Josh: WhatsApp isn't around. Instagram DMs aren't around. The, uh, FaceTime, the video component of it—

Tommy: let's talk about it.

Josh: No, I guess that, I guess that, I guess that's part of it. It's the, it's the video bit.

Tommy: Yeah, you're seeing, you actually I don't know. Yeah, what is it, Reece?

Rhys: Um, I don't know. I think I like to make eye contact. If it's going to be like— if we're not going to be standing in the same room looking at each other, put it in writing so I can— sure, I like the email because I can revisit it.

Josh: So I think it'd be great. I'd love to start an email relationship with you, so let's do that.

Rhys: Literally, you can.

Josh: Cool. Because my mum used to be right— like, when I was a kid, she would email her friends every day. That email was like, this is what I got up to today. What have you— oh yeah, yeah, Richard's off doing this.

Mason: Yeah.

Rhys: Yeah, I like it, I like it. Especially with living away, sometimes my phone number changes. I feel really unwell. Phone number changes a lot.

Josh: What do you reckon it was?

Tommy: It's just the thickness.

Rhys: I've eaten a lot today, it's a lot for me.

Tommy: It's just a lot.

Rhys: I usually don't do breakfast, and now I've done 2 breakfasts.

Josh: Yeah, our mate Pete does 6 eggs in the morning.

Rhys: What does Pete do? Is he a bulldog?

Josh: No, he's 6 foot 7.

Tommy: If he's not eating bread and stuff, it's easy.

Rhys: No, Pete eats 6 eggs.

Tommy: Yeah, 6 eggs is good, dude.

Josh: Yeah, I mean, it's good.

Tommy: Like, it would actually feel lighter than having one bite of the gnocchi.

Rhys: But you're probably right. Like, so does Pete lift weights? Like, is he a powerlifter?

Tommy: Does some CrossFit?

Rhys: Yeah, he does CrossFit. Tell me about CrossFit.

Tommy: He's 6 foot 7.

Rhys: I want to hear about CrossFit. I don't understand it. Um, I'm serious.

Josh: Do you know about kipping?

Rhys: Yeah, I used to be a gymnast.

Josh: Did we speak about kipping before?

Rhys: Like doing a kip? Yeah, yeah, I used to compete in gymnastics.

Josh: How are your shoulders?

Rhys: My shoulders? Oh, they're good. Broad. I don't know, you never have any issue.

Josh: I always worry about shoulders when it comes to gymnast stuff. A lot of pressure on the shoulders.

Tommy: Yeah, if that's your main concern, just give up gym.

Rhys: Yeah, I agree.

Josh: How are your scapulas?

Rhys: Ah, fine.

Tommy: You're talking to someone who's been doing gym since he was 5 or 6.

Rhys: The issue is my knees and ankles are fucked.

Josh: What do you mean you've been doing gym since you're 5 or 6?

Rhys: I love that. Detective's back and now all the food's gone, so he's angry. Watch out, bad guys.

Josh: The gym—

Tommy: the— I got into it.

Rhys: I honestly think let's pitch Fat Pigs to, um, SBS or ABC. How can they go for it, don't you think? You too. Yeah, there you go.

Tommy: Uber Eats.

Rhys: Good spot. Hey, partnership.

Josh: It's just like, look, we're going to talk to you in a moment. What do you you want.

Tommy: Yeah, I'm gonna write the ticket.

Rhys: The Uber rider distracted with the food and argue over it and never get the confession.

Josh: It's actually a funny skit, isn't it?

Rhys: But no, so far on this, even though I felt quite ill— this is quite unwell.

Josh: It almost feels like you're trying to get enough. It feels like there's a tipping point at the moment. It's annoying my throat, but it feels like if I get enough, I'll be right, that it will all clear.

Rhys: You know, it'd be good if we all puked That would be such—

Josh: it's almost, you know, it's the equivalent of like when you've got a drain that blocks and you've got one of two options. You can either try and get it down or you can add more water with the hope that it will all go down.

Rhys: What drain? What drain?

Josh: Like, we had like— yeah, we have a sink like that had that issue.

Rhys: You obviously need to clean that.

Tommy: That's done.

Josh: What do you—

Tommy: why'd you, uh, because it's got balsamic in it.

Rhys: Get out! What are you talking about?

Josh: The strawberry shake has balsamic? Yeah.

Rhys: Okay, this is like— there is one person who works there who is too eccentric for this job. It should be like a fine artist. He's trying to be like on MasterChef but with making smoothies.

Tommy: Oh wow.

Rhys: Um, but somebody got fired from Attica, now works at a smoothie shop. Sea foam and mushroom foam and gnocchi. It is balsamic vinegar strawberry shake.

Tommy: There's not many plant— completely vegan plant-based burger places in Melbourne.

Rhys: There's a shitload in LA.

Tommy: Yeah, but we don't have that impossible meat season here yet.

Rhys: DiCaprio is like an investor in like Beyond Meat and stuff. What about the, um, run by famous people, all the burger shops? So weird. What is this, paper straw? Yeah, I love what it does for turtles and penguins. They're really hard to use. Yeah, yeah, it's a nightmare.

Tommy: Yeah, it's what it doesn't do for them.

Rhys: Yeah, I think we should just like get rid of straws Who needs a straw?

Tommy: Everyone in America. But since we went to Whole Foods—

Rhys: Straw should be illegal.

Josh: If you bleach your teeth, straws are the ones to use.

Rhys: That's the only time you should be allowed to use a paper straw is when you bleach your teeth. Otherwise, just drink it.

Tommy: We can use—

Josh: I'm worried that, say, with something like this, that if it's not properly sort of blended, that you might get a chunk in the head.

Tommy: What do you mean a chunk in the head?

Josh: So if you do it like that and then a piece of banana hits you or something.

Rhys: Well, how would it hit you in the head?

Josh: Because if you're tipping it back, how hard are you going? Well, if you're finishing, if you get near the end, you know, you get near the end, you can nearly be on a whole like 90-degree angle and then a banana hits you in the face. Well, it could. I think it's happened.

Rhys: I think you bounce back.

Josh: I've definitely got stuff on my nose before from doing that.

Rhys: Yeah, on your— like the fixed.

Josh: It's not going to hurt, I guess.

Rhys: I think, I think for the damage that straws do to the world, it's worth taking a couple bananas to the face.

Josh: I'm still curious about the 5 or 6. Were you going to the gym when you were 5 or 6?

Tommy: Oh, he's thinking—

Rhys: I did like gym. I did like the kids' gym, like Gym Baroo, whatever it was called. And then I just continued to do gymnastics.

Josh: So that's different to the gym because you hear—

Rhys: Oh, the gym. No, I did gymnastics. I can practice, like trained in gymnastics.

Tommy: It was relevant to say gym in the context of us talking about him doing—

Josh: Well, you said he was so fit. Like, oh, he's so fit.

Tommy: He's been going to the gym.

Josh: Gymnastics.

Rhys: It's a gym.

Josh: Okay.

Tommy: They call it gym too. It's just—

Rhys: Yeah.

Josh: And so could you do a backflip?

Rhys: Yeah. You know, the weirdest thing was I learned how to run up a wall and do a backflip in a dream because I did it in a dream. I saw myself doing— I still— very, very visceral dream of me running up a wall doing a backflip. And then I went to the— down the street Taking Gabby for a walk. My dog. Stinger.

Tommy: Yeah.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: Great dog.

Tommy: One of those dogs. One of those dogs that's in the family for 17 years.

Rhys: Like a sibling. Becomes a real person. Hungarian Vizsla with a thyroid problem.

Tommy: Oh yeah.

Rhys: Huge.

Tommy: Wag the shit out of its arse. It gets so much momentum wagging its tail that it's—

Rhys: It would wobble like its back would spin out.

Josh: Did you know it had a thyroid issue?

Rhys: Oh God, yeah.

Josh: When you first got—

Rhys: Yeah, they told us like she's you know, she's gonna have weight issues her whole life. We're like, she's got the best personality, who cares? And you know, what did you feed her? Like regular stuff. She was just—

Josh: no sugar.

Rhys: Um, every now and then I would give her Nutella, um, just because I liked how much she liked it. I gotta say, I was not— I was not really take— I probably should have respected the fact that she had thyroid, you know, like I just let her eat a lot of really yum stuff.

Josh: I saw someone the other day on Instagram, on Insta Stories, they cook their dog a $10 steak every night.

Rhys: Yeah, that's weird. I mean, we did make great food for her too. She was— she lived a long time for a dog that was born sick. She lived a really happy and healthy life. Anyway, I took her for a walk. She never really walked because she was very lazy. Get to the beach and just would sleep, like, you know, at the— and then anyway, I ran up a wall and did a backflip. And she was the only one who witnessed it.

Josh: Could you do one after the show? Could we film you doing one?

Rhys: That was like so long ago.

Josh: Yeah, but I'd have to practice. I drove for the first time so long ago. I still can drive.

Rhys: Yeah. Okay. I like that pitch.

Tommy: When was the last time? Not as much physical exertion.

Rhys: I couldn't even be bothered justifying that by answering it.

Josh: But when was the last time you did a backflip? I asked you, can you do a backflip? You said yes.

Rhys: I can do a backflip.

Josh: Can you do one?

Rhys: Oh, like a back— running up the wall and doing backflips?

Josh: Is that harder? I assumed that the running up the wall was easier because it's sort of giving you a bit of momentum.

Rhys: No, it's much harder because you've got to pop off the wall. I can do them on the ground from a round off a lot easier.

Tommy: There's some amazing Instagram.

Rhys: I'll do one for you.

Josh: Have you hurt yourself at all doing one?

Tommy: Yes.

Josh: Worst injury?

Rhys: Um, the worst injury I had from a flip was flipping over I did a side salt when the gymnastics sort of moved more into just doing acrobatics. I flipped over a box and I landed on like my ankle, but there was a lot of people around, so I just like walk it off like I was fine. But it was terrible pain. Oh, and I think I once landed with two straight legs. Oh, and just felt my knee like, uh, rip.

Josh: Did you, um, did you get an X-ray for your ankle?

Rhys: No, because I was just— didn't even— I was so young when I was competing. I was like, it'll get better.

Josh: Did it?

Rhys: It did, but it always clicks now.

Tommy: Oh, what about, um, Serge? Remember Serge? So when we were at Wesley, there was a gymnastics hall there. It's amazing, like trampoline with a big pit, like so, so much cool shit. Anyway, this big Russian gymnastics—

Rhys: he looked like a thumb in a tracksuit.

Tommy: I loved him.

Rhys: Yeah, it's just like—

Tommy: and he was missing a finger, which he said got taken by a bear in Russia.

Josh: Yeah, that's a good story.

Tommy: We're all so scared of him. He used to flick us Yeah, he used to do this thing where he'd hold his hand on your forehead and pull a finger back and let it go.

Josh: That's what you do to Bodhi.

Tommy: Now I flick him, like I use, like I do the, like, you're flicking action if you're flicking a cigarette butt like a gronk.

Josh: Okay, but he would hold that.

Tommy: No, no, he would hold his hand flat and then pull a finger back and then let go of it, and it would hit.

Josh: Were you in Skins?

Tommy: It was on my forehead.

Josh: Why?

Tommy: No, I just did it.

Josh: We're like Was it like an exit? Was it punishment? Yeah.

Rhys: If you didn't do the training at Russian standard, he'd flick you. He would flick you. And he'd go, "Boys, just little one." When he did a pinky, remember? Just little one. Like, you're like, oh, okay. And he'd go bang. It was like being— it was a lot of power came off that finger.

Tommy: Because he had such strong hands.

Rhys: I always wanted the one that was eaten by a bear because it's half a finger, less of an impact.

Josh: The, um, Russian kettlebell swings versus American kettlebell swings.

Rhys: Oh my God, what is the question?

Tommy: Yeah, what do you say?

Josh: Just like there's two different types of kettlebell swings.

Tommy: Was it just a different move?

Josh: Uh, no, it's a different style.

Rhys: I like the Russian style. I feel like Russians are the toughest people.

Josh: Can you look up the difference, Seb?

Rhys: That's a—

Josh: I think the Russian one might be, uh, might go up higher, right? So I think— or maybe it's the other way around. But the American go— like, one goes up to about— what's that, 90-degree angle or whatever? Then one goes above. What are you finding on it, Sebbs?

Mason: Um, just reading now.

Tommy: Were you just trying to find something Russian-related to add to that conversation?

Josh: No, well, I was just trying to work out, are Russians more extreme?

Tommy: I think they are.

Rhys: Have you ever watched Russian dashcam videos on YouTube? That's all you need to look at to be like, wow, a day in the life of like living in Russia. If it's like this, you must be pretty Tough.

Tommy: Well, think about the cold weather.

Rhys: Yeah, they're always fighting and stuff on those videos. Yeah, I'm just going off dash cam videos. I know nothing about Russia and, and Putin as their dictator leader.

Tommy: Well, I'm scared to say anything.

Mason: American kettlebell swings are above the head and then Russians stop at 90 degrees.

Rhys: I like Russian.

Josh: So Russian, I lean Russian. Conservative.

Rhys: I lean Russian when it comes to kettlebell swings. I'm with Russia.

Josh: Did you hear, did you hear, um, When the Americans got to the moon first. Yeah. And the leader of the Soviet Union actually got a bunch of astronauts into a room and he said, we're going to land on the sun.

Rhys: Is that true?

Josh: Yeah. And so, and then one of the astronauts said, we can't, like, it's way too hot. And he slapped the guy in the face. He said, no, stupid, we'll land at night.

Rhys: Oh, good one.

Josh: I heard that joke on the weekend.

Rhys: I wish you did a Russian accent.

Josh: I can't.

Tommy: That would have been good.

Josh: There's a guy that I started following.

Rhys: Can you try it again with a Russian accent? Yeah, just do the punchline with a Russian accent.

Tommy: Why don't we land?

Rhys: Okay, ready? Let's do it. Ready? Um, well, why don't we, uh, we can't land on the sun.

Josh: Wait, well, you do the accent.

Rhys: No, you do it. Okay, I'm just an American astronaut.

Josh: No, no, it wasn't it, it was a Soviet astronaut.

Rhys: This is an American This is an Australian astronaut who lives in Russia and works there.

Tommy: Like Aaron Young from Tigger.

Rhys: Yeah. So, oh, we can't, we can't land on the sun. Yeah, it's too hot. Ah, you idiot.

Josh: We'll go at night.

Mason: Great.

Josh: Is that good?

Rhys: I don't think it was Russian, but it was definitely a choice.

Josh: It was a change. I liked it. Sev's the, um, there's a guy Yakov. It was a comedian. Yakov. Yakov. Y-A-K-O-V, I think. I've started following him on Instagram. It was a comedian that was real—

Mason: Smirnoff?

Tommy: Yeah, no, Smirnoff's the vodka.

Josh: What's his full name? Yakov Smirnoff.

Mason: Smirnoff.

Josh: Yeah, it was a comedian that like, um, when the Americans and the Soviets were fighting, he, uh, immigrated to the US and he was getting so much work because people like— it was a great way of disarming the Soviets and all that sort of thing. But as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed, he was out of work. He's now a kettlebell coach. He's got a doctorate in psychology. I just thought I went down this massive rabbit hole on the weekend.

Rhys: You love to research, don't you? You seem like if you're interested in the thing, you'll go 100%, find out everything about it. Have you always been that way? Yeah, yeah, I am actually.

Josh: Yeah, I think that I just, um, especially YouTube on the TV, I could watch like—

Rhys: yeah, you know when you get into the weird parts of YouTube and you're like, that's all, get out of here. Like, you know, do you know what? YouTube has some deep holes.

Josh: I don't go that deep into the weird stuff, although do you know the, the really weird stuff is Amazon Prime Like most, most, uh, like Amazon Prime have a very low barrier to entry.

Tommy: Like, so we could get a show.

Josh: Yeah, we could put this show.

Mason: Yeah, we can put our show on Amazon Prime.

Josh: And so the thing is that when I am—

Tommy: who would have access to it? Is that people in America?

Josh: Everyone in Australia, in the US. Um, we could do it. But the interesting thing is on the Apple TV there's a search function which is quite handy because what it will do is you can search a movie and it will tell you if it's on any of the platform— like what platforms it's on. So I could type in, say, um, The Daily Talk Show. Bad example. Let's say, um, Flubber. Um, better example.

Tommy: Is that a better example?

Josh: Flubber is more popular than The Daily Talk Show.

Tommy: Is it a real thing?

Rhys: Flubber?

Josh: As in the, um, yeah, the movie about that goo.

Rhys: Yes, that like lives with, uh, Robin Williams.

Josh: And so if you searched Flubber into Apple TV it will tell you, it will say, oh, this is on Disney Plus, this is on Netflix. Or if it's not available, you can just rent or buy it. It's a great one because it's like normally, you know, if you're going to go on iTunes or whatever, you're going to have to pay. Yes. But this is sort of this global one. So it'd be like, oh, it's actually on SBS On Demand.

Tommy: So it's telling you and pushing you away from the product.

Josh: Well, it's pushing you to—

Rhys: So it's—

Josh: Yeah, it's— But I even signed up for this thing called Docplay, which is like a Netflix for documentaries because they had Levison Woods, this adventurer.

Tommy: Documentary guy.

Josh: Yeah, he had his documentaries on the platform, and so I signed up.

Rhys: That sounds good, the documentary channel.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, DocPlay.

Rhys: I want to do that.

Josh: There's another one called CuriosityStream.

Rhys: Yeah, we gotta become email, um, pen pals because you can give—

Josh: you like documentaries? Love. What do you know? Maybe what I want— do you know much about Iran?

Rhys: I'd love to watch a doco on it.

Josh: Yeah, I've got like 10.

Tommy: What's your biggest thread on email? Like, have you got a chain going with somebody that's at You know, if we're doing client work with agency, it's probably about 70, 80 emails.

Rhys: It would be my, um, it would be my agent and manager, probably just one chain. Yeah, them talking to each other, us all chatting because we get along really well. But also then we'll talk about work stuff, and then we talk about life stuff, and then we talk about—

Josh: oh, that's fun.

Rhys: And as things come in, yeah.

Josh: How do you feel about like a daily practise of you and I emailing, or is it too much?

Rhys: I'm happy with that.

Josh: Maybe every weekday.

Rhys: Every weekday?

Josh: Well, yeah, I was actually going through that. I said every day, but I was like, you know what, that's probably too hard.

Rhys: So not weekends?

Josh: No. What about on Monday?

Tommy: What about—

Josh: what about what Monday's email's like?

Tommy: What we could do, one word, one word back and forth that creates a storey and you're both adding to it.

Josh: That's more like improv, isn't it?

Tommy: Email.

Rhys: Tommy should jump in too. I don't like being exclusive.

Tommy: Well, why don't you FaceTime?

Josh: Or even Shane, why don't you guys have—

Tommy: why don't we just like see what—

Rhys: see when we need to communicate. When that comes up, let's not make a— let's not make a rule of it. It's not like a daily talk show. It's not gonna be the daily email. We don't need to do that. It's only if we want to chat. This is not— talk to me, reach out.

Josh: I'll give you an example, and I get this. I'm already looking ahead and where it could go.

Rhys: Oh God.

Josh: But I understand the marriage. Yeah, no, I understand the nuance. So this same thing happened with Pete, who we talked about, the 6 Egg guy.

Rhys: He, uh, can we just call him Six Eggs?

Josh: That's actually a good nickname.

Rhys: Six Eggs.

Josh: What do you think? We call him Tall Gronkh. Six Eggs.

Rhys: Why don't you just call him Eggs?

Josh: Eggs is good as well. Egg Boy.

Rhys: Egg Boy. There you go.

Tommy: He's already taken.

Rhys: Oh, he's Eggman.

Josh: Oh yeah, he's Eggman now.

Rhys: He's Eggman.

Josh: True.

Rhys: Okay, or Egg Pete.

Josh: Egg Yolk.

Rhys: Let's call him Peg.

Josh: I don't get it. Peg. Pete Egg. Yeah, Pete Egg. Oh, that's funny.

Rhys: Peg is good.

Tommy: So Peg, you— when you first—

Josh: so when we first started hanging out with Peg, yeah, I was like, um, Peg Six, yeah, Peg Six, um, I said I wanted to start walking with him and I was like, you know what, walking is a gateway to running. Not in my life it is. Okay, okay. But so anyway, so I wanted to walk with him, gateway to Maccas. Yeah, it's a gateway for a latte because you're walking to get a coffee, right? This happened to me.

Rhys: Try running there, that way you get a workout in as well.

Josh: Workout your walking is a good— like, there's a book, um, Brain Rules, and it talks about the benefits of walking.

Rhys: Anyway, I feel like he's angry with me because he talks about benefits because you can't tell the guy that exercising, walking, But Peg Six loves exercising.

Josh: Yeah, he's an exerciser.

Rhys: You could do Russian kettlebell swings after a few eggs.

Josh: Yeah, we could do that. But so I wanted to get the walking across the line. So what I said to him was, I'm like, hey, I'm reading this book at the moment. Do you want to like, we'll both read it and then we'll talk about it.

Rhys: It's got a book club.

Josh: Yeah, well, I've got that too. I've got a book club. Okay. The Daily Talk Show has a book club. I'll give you the email. Yeah, really?

Rhys: I didn't know that. That's cool.

Josh: We've actually got an update about our affiliate program. It's changing. Thanks, George. So the first day when I saw him, I had said, we're going to catch up and talk about the book. I arrive, we start walking. I tell him I haven't read the book.

Rhys: Oh, how'd that go down?

Josh: It was fine. I was like, yeah, he'd read a bit of it. And so I could ask him, I'm like, so what's the deal with the book? Just tell me. It's almost like an abridged sort of audiobook. And so he's telling me about it and all that sort of thing while eating eggs. Yeah, exactly, he's already eaten them. And so then I said, um, oh, like, maybe we should do this again sometime. Before you know it, the reason I tell this storey is, uh, we now walk every single week and we've done it for—

Rhys: talk about books?

Josh: No, no, just nothing, just talk. Over 60 weeks we've done it. So, so my point is, yeah, that just like the email, like you're saying, like, I saw the opportunity. I knew that he the idea of me— if I said to him, hey, I want to commit to 60 weeks of walking, he would have said no, just like you with the email. And so I probably misjudged by saying, hey, let's do one a day. I'm just gonna do one a day to me.

Tommy: Yeah, well, it gets really sad 20 days in, Reece hasn't responded, but I'll face it.

Rhys: Maybe it's good.

Josh: No, but you're good with email.

Rhys: You're hoping to do 60— 60— what was it, 60 days of walking? This is 60 days of emailing.

Josh: I think it'd be fun just to do a regular email.

Rhys: I agree.

Josh: It can be quite short.

Rhys: Not every day. It's a lot.

Josh: Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

Rhys: That's better than every day.

Josh: Yeah, because then it allows for— because obviously the time difference will get annoying.

Tommy: You've got to get— I feel like—

Rhys: what time is it?

Tommy: You're trying to distract me. I was having you out. You're going to go to your accountant, which could be a massive lie or the truth.

Josh: Who's your accountant?

Rhys: Let's not talk about my accountant on here.

Josh: We use Jason from RBK Advisory.

Tommy: They're great.

Josh: We've got to get off to— I've got to email But also Venture IP.

Rhys: We haven't started yet, have we?

Josh: Yeah, we can press record before we go. Venture IP. Do you know about web hosting? Do you know what web hosting is?

Tommy: Have you got a website, Reece?

Rhys: No. You want to make me one?

Tommy: No, but Mr. 97 might.

Rhys: Yeah.

Mason: Yeah.

Rhys: If you want to make me a website, I'd love to chat.

Josh: So if you got a great website built, like say a developer built you a website, a custom job, it could be 97. You have a domain name, right? Do you have a domain name?

Rhys: I don't have a website.

Josh: Have you got a domain name though? Do you have reesmitchell.com?

Rhys: No.

Josh: What? Can you see if it's available?

Rhys: It will not be available.

Tommy: If it's available, we'll buy it through Eventripe.

Rhys: Wow, okay.

Josh: Why do you think it's not going to be available?

Rhys: I can't imagine my name's that rare.

Josh: Do you see it a lot around the place?

Rhys: Not really.

Tommy: I've never met a Reece Mitchell. I've met Mitchells, but not Reece.

Rhys: I don't know, maybe in Wales there's like 15 Reece Mitchells.

Mason: Taken.

Rhys: Really?

Tommy: .com.

Josh: I feel like you're the kind of guy who doesn't realise you own it, but you own it.

Rhys: That could be true.

Josh: Your agent probably owns it.

Rhys: I don't know, they just have me on their site.

Josh: Anyway, if you were thinking about it, yeah, and you could use to build a site, you could use Venture IP.

Rhys: Oh, I see.

Josh: And so they're, they're a web host company.

Rhys: Are they good?

Josh: They're 24-hour, 7-day-a-week support. They're based in Melbourne, which is great.

Tommy: They can call them. So, uh, I was calling them at 4 AM once and they were answering. Yeah, yeah, he just wanted to chat too, just to say hi, just wanted to send them an email. Turned out one of the people who actually might worked on our website listened to our show.

Josh: No joke.

Rhys: That's cool. So they're probably listening now, probably potentially. Well, I'm glad that they're supporting you guys. This is a cool show.

Josh: No, they're actually not. We just, we just want to tell you about it.

Rhys: But like the burgers. Yeah, yeah.

Josh: But if you use the promo code TTS on checkout Um, if you're using shared web hosting, you get that, you get 50% off.

Rhys: Okay.

Josh: For the first year.

Rhys: I know you're telling me to be really telling them.

Josh: What do you mean?

Rhys: I'm just saying, get— you're telling that audience, audience, like, oh, this is just a natural conversation talking about how you could get 50% off if you use the promo code. I'm just saying, tell Mr. 97 he can build my website. I don't want to hear about it.

Josh: You're an actor. I thought—

Tommy: it doesn't—

Rhys: isn't this a business? I'm great.

Josh: Do you do this on average?

Rhys: Do you design for the audience to me? Do you do this on I'll do that when I leave. But Mr. 97, happy to do that. You can do my website.

Josh: Do you do that on shoot?

Rhys: Do what?

Josh: Just being like, are you being you now or are you acting? Like, do you do a bit of that? Yeah, it's like, this is all made up, guys.

Rhys: If you work with a method actor, maybe.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Oh yeah, Ben Mendelsohn.

Rhys: I don't know.

Josh: So you just cry now because the camera's on?

Rhys: That's fine. You're beating me. Are you okay? Why are we going? We haven't even had a chat yet.

Josh: It's a daily talk show. If you enjoy the podcast, 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts.

Rhys: Yeah, I gave it 5.

Josh: Did you have— you—

Rhys: yeah, I did.

Josh: Good, thank you.

Rhys: I really like it. I'm a fan.

Josh: Uh, Reece Mitchell, uh, Drip Coffee on Instagram. Yep.

Rhys: And I don't have a website yet, but stay tuned. We're going to use that thing. That's right, let's do it.

Tommy: Thanks, mate.

Rhys: Ciao for now. See you on the beach. See ya.