The Megaphone

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 729.

Tommy: How are we, guys? What's happening? What's going on?

Josh: Uh, for people who tune in live, we are a few minutes late. Apologies, there were a few technical issues, but, uh, it's all good.

Tommy: Yeah, a few. Just a few's two, but then we put a zero on the other side of the two, so We're here. That is the most important thing every single day. This is a daily podcast.

Josh: A lot of conversation yesterday in regards to cleaning of one's tongue.

Tommy: I did it. Oh yeah. Yep.

Mason: Did you do it last night?

Tommy: Yeah, not the first pushback that I've given to tongue cleaning supposedly. I gave pushback on radio in Shepparton and Amy was listening to it.

George: Really?

Tommy: And she's like, yeah, you've been, you've been pushing back on tongue cleaning for years. I was like, oh, first I knew of it. I've forgotten about it.

George: How did it sound?

Tommy: No, it makes sense. I mean, look, to be fair, when I had my electric toothbrush years and years ago, I would find it interesting because it's like you could see almost like it was carving out a pattern or something like—

Josh: Play with it a bit more.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, you'd sort of get the thing on the— anyway. I brushed it last night. I followed the instructions that we were sent on Instagram, which were fucking handy.

Josh: Yeah, from our dental assistant, Gronkh. What about you, Sev? Did you brush your tongue?

Mason: I did. I gave it a go.

Tommy: I wasn't sure.

Mason: So I mean, I'm still dialling in the technique. So I went from, so from our dental assistant Gronkh, the advice was to go from the back to the front of your mouth. So you're not washing around the bacteria. I did that, but I wasn't sure. Do I keep my tongue in my mouth or am I sticking my tongue out and doing it?

Josh: I think tongue out, just like it so you can really see it.

Tommy: Sure to get to it.

Mason: Okay. Well, that's an idea. I did go tongue out the whole way.

George: Okay.

Josh: Well, you are an open mouth brusher anyway, which is its own problem. Being Georgie boy. Did you?

Tommy: Did you brush your tongue?

George: Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did. But I can't, I got a short tongue, so it's got to stay in my mouth. So, I just kind of go around. I don't know. I don't think I was like scraping. I just kind of, just kind of moved it in there.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, really? Yeah, there are tongue scrapers as well that you can get.

Mason: Oh, what if you did it with floss?

Tommy: Oh yeah, that's interesting.

Josh: It's almost like, you know, people get their brows done with the—

Mason: it was literally—

Tommy: yeah, the brows. I see that happening. We should get that done when that comes back in. Get our eyebrows on fleek. This morning had a bit of an interesting scenario play out leaving 7:30, had to get somewhere by 9 AM as we all know here. But I was driving out and like, I think it's when you've got a baby that you need to get to daycare and then dropping Amy off and then you need to be somewhere, I get in quite like frantic, like, no, we've got to get going. You know, I love being on time, can't be late. Couldn't be late to you gronks at 9 AM. And we left and we drive out of our, you know, little townhouse block and there's a dog on the road. What do you do if you see a dog on the road and you can't see an owner nearby?

Josh: You pick it up.

Tommy: You beep it?

Josh: Do you beep the dog? Does it look like a friendly dog?

Tommy: It didn't look like— it wasn't— it looked friendly. I guess I didn't think about its friendliness because it wasn't a pit bull or a Doberman or something that you'd think.

Josh: What sort of dog?

Tommy: Uh, it was like a, um, an old blue heeler, fat, you know, mutt of a thing. Um, just bit like a crossbreed, like I couldn't tell you the exact breed, but looked like a blue heeler style dog, old. Anyway, we stopped, and at that point, as soon as you stop, you can't— like, there's no closing the door and driving off on a dog that you've just actually engage with, you know, be like, it's just absolutely not the way to do it.

Josh: So what was the first bit of engagement then? You opened the door, then what?

Tommy: I drove and sort of pushed, pushed it, as in just like drove towards it to make it—

Josh: with your car?

Tommy: Well, it was very slow and the dog was just sort of— it almost looked happy to see us. And so it kind of went up onto the nature strip and I parked and we jumped out and I— Amy jumped out, we checked it, had like a little collar with no No number for a person, but a serial number for the, you know, the council, so they know whose dog it is, right? Anyway, no one around. And so, we've ended up taking this dog back to our house. And it was so sweet because it followed us and it was like friendly. And we took it inside and Amy's sister, she had to look after it at that point.

Josh: That's a fun, especially in iso, I think that's like one of the best things that could happen.

Tommy: Well, I mean, yeah, two good things. It was a good dog and we're doing a good thing. And so we left. Well, it was at that point, you know, when you're like in a frantic sort of, we gotta go, we gotta go. I felt like it was— I kind of had a moment where I was like, man, this is just one of those tests.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, you know, because you drive through this thing.

Tommy: I've got no time. I can forget this dog as quick as can be, you know, like it means nothing to me. But then when you stop and you see it's beautiful, you're like, oh. But then I saw Amy walking off with it and I was like, this is, yeah, this is definitely a test. I gotta fucking take a deep breath.

Josh: Do you think you could eventually get a dog based on this? Like, I feel like this is a movie where you end up either keeping the dog.

Tommy: Yeah, so I got back today at around 10:30, the dog was still here. Amy's sister was about to go to work. I walk in, the dog's on them on this— she's put a towel down, it's like having a little sleep. It shook my hand, didn't bark like Mr. 97's dog. Like, this is an angel.

Josh: This is what it means, shake your hand. How did the dog shake your hand? Oh, it just—

Tommy: it was sitting out and fucking put its hand out like, bullshit, shake my hand, bitch.

Josh: Were you like social distancing?

Tommy: Absolutely not. This thing was so beautiful. And anyway, the council were going to come pick it up. And, you know, it's at this point you want to keep the thing. And I start relating with people who steal dogs. Not that I think it's the right thing to do, but I totally think that people who— I wonder if there's someone out there that doesn't think they're a bad person but has found a dog and fallen in love and thought, this is my love storey now. This is— I'm taking ownership. Like, it's a dog act. Does the council come or not? Yeah, so, uh, he came, the guy, and, and I got my next-door neighbour at that point, and she said, I know this dog, I know the owner, they walk around.

Josh: Fuck off, that's my dog, I am the owner, I've got the papers.

Tommy: No, anyway, there is one thing that is— it's a bit sort of slow. I could have delivered it back to the person. Like, think about this, they have a tag on you It took this guy to come out and he's like, yeah, scratching his head. They take it back. You know what happens? You get fined. Like, you're gonna have to pay to get the dog out of the pound.

Josh: How much?

Tommy: I wanna know how much.

Josh: How much is it gonna go to the pound?

George: I think it's like $400. It's not cheap.

Tommy: Can you cheque it, Seb? Because, because I mean, we could have door knocked and saved this poor woman $400. Let's find out how much it is.

Josh: How would you have door knocked? So you would have just— so you reckon it was close to your neighborhood, obviously.

Tommy: I was worried that it was— I've never seen the dog before, but I was worried that where I pulled over, imagine if it was just the house and just walked out the front of his house, like legit lived across the road. And so that's why I got Jackie next door, who's, you know, 17 years has been living here longer. And she, and she said, no, I see that dog. I speak to the owner most days, but I don't know where she lives. She walks down behind our property and out. And so she doesn't know if it's across the road that direction or back behind our place. So either way, I think it's a good result. Definitely, it's a really good result. But it's, um, yeah, it's going to cost her.

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: Can we find any, any info, Sevs?

Josh: You would have done it for 200.

Mason: The actual cost?

Tommy: Well, whatever it is, I'll have it. I saw money, get that. I saw money.

Josh: I mean, there's a business opening the gates of neighbours and then doing it as a discount pickup.

Tommy: Well, I also thought like, why is there not an app that, so rather than they take all the money off people for looking after them, why isn't there an app that you can jump onto, put the code into if it's around their neck and it pings a message to the owner and it just says, have your dog, send cash or nudes, either one.

Josh: No. Yeah, I mean, it depends on the owner really, doesn't it? It could be a real shocker.

Tommy: I'll take whatever.

Josh: Yeah, we, we, um, actually before we get to what we did this morning, um, great job on the, uh, on the video last night. Yeah, one video a day is going strong. Well, it's—

Tommy: yesterday was my third video and a part of the, the whole premise of the video was that I'm tired, I've been up later than I normally have been engaged in a screen. My screen time on my phone's gone right down my screen time on my computer has gone astronomically up, but I haven't— I can't tell. This is how tired I am, and I'm not trying to complain, but this is a bit weird. A notification came up on my iMac, big, you know, 27-inch iMac, whatever it is. I, I thought—

Josh: yeah, an Apple.

Tommy: I'm just trying to say this, painting the picture of the size. It's not a little laptop, it's like a big screen. I, I I went to touch it. I thought the fucking big screen was a touchscreen. That's how tired I am. A notification came up, your message, Josh, and I'm just fucking touching the screen.

Mason: Trying to swipe it.

Josh: Trying to swipe.

Tommy: That legit was— Mate, this needs to be a touchscreen. That's for sure.

Josh: I mean, there is that muscle memory thing with like, I even noticed like going from my PC to my Mac, it scrolls a different way. It's enough to just throw me.

Tommy: I mean, it's a whole persona. That's like you switching personalities, Josh.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: That's like your—

Josh: Rebrand, which is coming. Before we get to the rebrand, I want to— So go and watch the video that TJ has done with Craig Harper. But what I wanted to play today was you had a different video in mind, which was a flower video.

Tommy: Well, I filmed this like early in the morning and had it done by midday, and I hadn't even started Craig Harper's video. I hadn't even started the one that I ended up posting.

Josh: And so you said to me, you said, oh yeah, I've got a video, very basics, it's basic, it's me looking at different flowers in the neighborhood. And then I brought that up on the show. Was that the reason that you decided to throw in the towel on that project?

Tommy: Nah, I think it was Georgie Boy's Hunt Day Replay and just the quality that he pushes out. And you know, it's maybe once a week, George, but you're inspiring a nation. And you inspired me to push forward.

Josh: Okay, so anyway, but the, um, the video was completed, and so you've done me a solid and you've sent it through.

George: You're gonna play it?

Josh: Yeah, we'll play it now. But TJ, did you want to keep it up your sleeve for next week? Well, well, I mean, this is the same problem, this is the same problem that I had with my photo project. You can't start, uh, hoarding creativity. So you might have a great day, you'll be like, I've done 6 videos, you can't use them. It's all about doing one a day.

Tommy: And it makes sense to have them go out. And so this is not today's video, mind you. Okay, this is— this is a bonus. Use out of, uh, you know, my Flower Power video.

Josh: Is it going to make sense for our podcast listeners?

Tommy: There'll be some sort of short, maybe 5-10 seconds of music, which is, you know, quite lovely. And there's some bits of me talking. So yeah, at the front and the back, lots of talking, middle, a little bit of talking, and it's only short.

Josh: Okay, all right. Well, before we get that, that, uh, going, here's 10 seconds of admin. 10 seconds of admin. Did you know you can actually subscribe? It's a podcast. You can do it and also give us a review at Apple Podcasts.

George: Thank you.

Josh: Here we go. This is the, the extra flower video.

Tommy: I'm just out for a walk. Well, I was getting a coffee and then I was walking home and now it's pouring rain. But in the middle of walking along thinking, this is annoying, I'm getting wet, I was noticing the colours of the leaves at the moment. I don't know if you've seen them, maybe you haven't been outside, but I'm going to push forward in this rain. I'm going to capture on my iPhone a whole bunch of these beautiful colourful trees. I may regret this.

George: There's someone back here.

Tommy: Oh, rosemary! Take some for Amy. So initially this wasn't today's video idea, but that's the beauty of this project is that I'm needing to create a new video every day, so I'm looking for opportunities, looking for things to film and capture, and this is one of them. Oh shit, wait.

Josh: I mean, with the song, I actually thought that was Bray calling to me at the end there. I was like, what the fuck? Yeah, that's good.

George: That was great.

Tommy: How good was the iPhone 11, man?

Mason: I was great. Yeah, that filming's great from the phone.

George: I thought a little bit insensitive because, um, Seb's is colorblind, but it was really good.

Tommy: Sorry, Seb. So what, did you see any of the flowers there?

Mason: It was black and white, to be honest.

Josh: Yeah, yeah. Do you see— maybe that's like, um, do you just see in black and white, Seb?

Tommy: No, no, no.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, it all makes sense.

Mason: Yeah, I mean, no, I, I saw the saturation. The iPhone did a great job.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Are you, um, are you glad that I released the other one though? Like, oh look, the thing is, we would have—

Josh: I think I would have, um, it's part of the process. I think that, that, like, the, the friction of you putting out the one that you're not happy with. Yeah, like I did what, 4 or 15 days or whatever of that photo project, and there's times where it's like this isn't great. But, and so you know it. And so it's like you're just bracing yourself for it. Like you want to preempt it. You want to be like, hey guys, this is shit. Enjoy your day. But you can't project the way you're feeling about the work onto the audience.

Tommy: George does a great job at projecting his internal monologue dialogue when he's— I love telling people I'm not a tros. George. I'm Not Happy With It Productions, that's his company. No, it's, isn't it funny though, the noise in our head about like, you know, around that, around creative endeavors, like it is, there needs to be a disconnect. There needs to be some awareness and I'm not fucking good at it. I think I've just done quite a bit of it where I'm just like, it was that thing which I said to the Shameless girls. It's like, you know, hello, my old friend, it's in my head. It's that doesn't go. And so The beauty was that the video that I ended up putting out later that day was essentially about this thing we're talking of, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the what's in your head and, you know, and getting stuff done in, in the real world, which is, you know, the, the action world, the, the stuff outside. Look, Craig said it better. Should we just play? Can we play Craig?

Josh: Yeah, we can play Craig dialogue because he speaks for 2 minutes. And the funny, the funny thing about the, um, when I felt bad about my photos, I was like, these are the worst ones I've ever done. I got a message from Seb being like, mate, these are my favorite. I was like, yeah, I don't know what the lesson is there. It's either Seb's got my taste.

Mason: Well, I can see the colors, so yeah, beautiful.

Tommy: I've been thinking like, we are all full of shit, and by full of shit—

Josh: Speak for yourself.

Tommy: Well, by full of shit, I mean we talk the absolute most, the most bullshit to ourselves. Like, Josh, you saying that to yourself That is a version of bullshit. And so, because someone else out there doesn't think that, or they do think that, but you know, there is someone that doesn't think it and it's not necessarily truth.

Josh: And so here is Craig Harper with a bit of motivation. This is the video from yesterday.

Tommy: It's only day 3 of this video project. And I'm tired. I've been up the last couple of nights and I need some motivation. I need a hit. I need my boy Craig Harper.

E: We've spoken many times about analysis paralysis, and a lot of us live in our thoughts. You know, we inhabit two worlds. We inhabit an internal world and an external world, and this is where the storeys and the self-talk and the self-loathing and the excitement and the joy and the passion and the ideas and the creative this is from where it all kind of resides. But it's not until we actually step out of that, we step out of the theoretical construct that is all of that internal stuff, when we put ourselves in the middle of the practical, the doing, by going to the gym, by physically writing that story, by playing your guitar, by you getting out with your camera and shooting some footage. Otherwise, everything is just this perpetual idea, this perpetual intention, this concept, this construct, this theory, this dream that never gets breathed life into it. There will be things that work, there will be things that don't work. I've opened businesses that didn't work, I've done presentations that didn't work. Right now I'm doing a PhD, which is— I, I'm still scared, but the only way that I can be less scared and more confident, more capable, and more resilient at that very high academic level that I feel very unqualified to be in is by putting myself in the situation. I'm still insecure, I'm still fearful, I still feel unworthy and like a fraud on a regular basis, but that's not going to go. I can't think myself out of that. Doesn't matter what the self-talk is, it's an emotion, it's a feeling. But what happens is when I put myself into a place where now I'm working against the resistance of my fear or my laziness or my procrastination, just like you do, Tom, when you go, there's got to be less lag time between my idea and my action. Once I step into that one, I'm creating results in my practical results that can be seen. And I'm also changing my operating system. I'm becoming more proactive, productive, and effective, and less stuck in my inner dialogue.

Tommy: Oh, mate, I'm fired up. What do I owe ya? $27.50. I'll PayPal it. Boom, there we go.

Josh: It's so good.

Tommy: That's good, Craig. I just— I love— he didn't even know what I was calling about.

Josh: It's like lyrics, don't you think? He should write songs. I'd love to get him to learn, like, how to play guitar.

Tommy: We spoke for like 20 minutes and I asked a bunch of other dumb questions, and the last one I literally was like, mate, I just— can you just motivate me? That's exactly what I said. I just need you to motivate me. And he just did that, and I was like, I got it, thank you. And he's like, oh yeah, okay, well, let me know if you do something with it. Like, he's, he's so—

Josh: he's always like, does he know you were recording?

Tommy: Yeah, no, yeah, well, we got off to that start where I was recording, but he's like, are we fucking— are we doing this? I was like, yeah, but I was like, I had— I didn't have much idea. I mean, that's the point of this project is you, like what Craig said, that less lag time between the idea and starting is, for me, is— and it's so funny because it's taken me years. Like, I could have probably come up with this years ago. It's funny when you actually believe something, like, and really embody it, and you go through the pain of not understanding yourself for a long time, and then you get to some, you know, like a penny drop moment is that moment where things, it all aligns, and you're like I truly understand it. And so that starting is like— it comes at the detriment sometimes, I think, of maybe the, the, the ultimate overarching quality of something. But it doesn't mean that the thing that I start will be bad. It just means that getting started is the thing that will make me work out so many things along the way, because I'm one that just fucking goes. Goes inward and shuts it off because it's almost like I can't handle that inward, that inward time, or definitely an overload. Like, I think we all probably have a version of threshold for going inward and thinking about stuff before we start, but for me, I just need less of it because I still get— like, how much creativity comes out of starting, or a project, this podcast, like simplicity as well.

Josh: I think that like the starting plays into simplicity. Like, I think that we're trying to we fuck ourselves because we think that it's like, okay, if I'm gonna do this thing— and that's why I think there's such an advantage for like beginner mindset. Like if you're just getting started, like think about how there was always a conversation that you and I had because in the early days of our friendship you were making so much, like just going out and filming things. And I'd sort of, because I'd had that you know, 7 or 8 years beforehand. It was like this weird one where it's like, oh no, you don't understand, like, this could fuck up, like, what you're doing here, like, you don't have a backup here, or there's this, or there's that. And it's like, it doesn't really serve you to be thinking about that stuff.

Tommy: Well, I mean, yeah, it doesn't serve you if it stops you from doing the thing, because the mistakes, like, they all get made, they're all part of the journey. You can't have a seamless career of no stuff-ups, which is essentially Craig, what he's saying, start businesses that fail. We've done that exact— we've done that, Josh. We've started shit and failed and started and stopped. It's like start any, any— you starting and stopping your photo thing, there's no issue there. It doesn't fucking matter. Yeah, you did it. As long as your photos—

Josh: I got the, the thing that I wanted out, like at that time what I wanted, and then you just find the new thing. And so it's like, yeah, yeah, what's the other option? The other option is like, oh, I fucked it, I'm not doing it. It's like, that's why, um, I guess there is that sort of trend to look at failure as something that we should lean into, because it's— because that's the only guarantee that we have in the whole thing.

Tommy: Yeah, leaning into the uncertainty.

Josh: Talking about failure, Yeah, I just wanted to talk about the PayPal thing. Casey brought it up.

Tommy: Oh my God, that was a big failure.

Josh: And so you mentioned PayPal at the end.

Tommy: That was inspired by our fuck-up. It's exactly why I said PayPal. I don't talk about PayPal much, but it's on my mind, to be honest. So I mean, it's not Blame Monday, but it's, um, Throw Them Under the Bus Thursday.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Thrashing Thursday. No, I don't know, like, the thing is It's a hard one because I don't know where I stand amongst it. I don't know how guilty I am in this whole thing. Um, Sevs, can you explain what's happened?

Tommy: Ah, yeah, well, so you just read your text when you sent me when I said, mate, what's going on with PayPal?

Mason: You fixed it.

Josh: It's probably—

Tommy: yeah, it just—

Mason: it was a good one. Nah, it's okay. I mean, essentially what happened was we had to create a PayPal create a PayPal account to claim the money from the orders, uh, people made for Gronkh merch.

Josh: And so the Gronkh merch, that was through, uh, Shopify. And Shopify, you just sort of turn it on and there's all different payment methods. We connected our Stripe, there's PayPal. It doesn't actually require you to do anything from day one.

Mason: You don't actually have to set up the account beforehand.

George: No.

Mason: So we, so we We got like emails saying like, create an account to claim your funds. And so, I did that on Sunday and I started to do business again.

Josh: And it was because on the 26th of May, that's when we were told that we would lose the money?

Mason: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have a month from when they make the payment to claim it, otherwise it gets refunded automatically. And so, I created the PayPal account. And, uh, as soon as you create the account, it's placed under limitations until it gets more information from you. So you got to enter like your ABN and all that sort of stuff.

Josh: Which, first of all, just quickly on that, like, you called me on this on a Sunday and I was driving and we had FaceTime open. TJ, he put his own personal name as the PayPal— like, he said, yeah, I've put the company, but I've put me as the main contact. I was like Like, that's problematic, don't you think? He should be putting any finance— if you create a bank account, you put one of the director's names, don't you?

Tommy: Yeah, you're not a director of the business.

Josh: So anyway, that was problematic.

Mason: So anyway, yeah, well, the good thing is just a user on the account and you can have multiple users.

Tommy: Yeah, right.

Mason: I didn't know that at the time, but it worked out well.

Tommy: So, okay, you're lucky.

Josh: Do you understand that bit though?

Mason: No, I get it, I get it.

Josh: Yeah, it's like you like writing cheques or something on behalf of a big media company. Anyway, so go on.

Mason: Yeah, um, yeah, and anyway, so when, when we created the account, it was put under automatic, um, limitations, and then it tried to claim all the payments while we— while our account was limited, so we couldn't actually receive or make any payments. Um, And so everyone who made a payment, it got denied. And everyone who made a payment via PayPal, it got denied. And then it's been refunded to them.

Josh: So for about— out of $3,500 of sales, about $1,000 just went right back to everyone.

Mason: Yeah.

George: Yep.

Tommy: Yeah. So, I mean, this is exciting. It's a big problem. It's not a big problem, George. They've got free merchant. So here's the thing, I just want to break even, George. We haven't broken even. Absolutely have not broken even. I did this once setting up Amy's Shopify store for her candles, and luckily I realised at 3— at 1 purchase in, so it's like $45 purchase which we'd already fulfilled and sent, and so they're, you know, it's it's all, it's all in the negatives at that point. And then the money got refunded to them. They— I mean, there's two things. The person on the other end, gronk move if they realise and then don't mention it.

Josh: But no one's— I don't think that's a problem. The gronks, most of them, we knew way before the gronks have known. And so Casey has even messaged and said she can just pay into our show email. If people want to send us donations, random amounts of money outside of that, hiatthedailytalkshow.com, that's set up now.

Tommy: Can you do that? Can you do that?

Josh: So you could just like PayPal me money, is that how it works?

Tommy: Yeah, yeah.

Mason: Well, I— maybe we need a— yeah, and I think they can.

Josh: And so how do you say hi at thedailytalkshow.com? Wouldn't that be nice?

Mason: Let's just—

Josh: well, I just need to— oh, do you just want Well, the reason I say it is because I went to Officeworks. I need to cover my new purchase, which I got from Officeworks this morning.

Tommy: It's a megaphone. It is big. Like, in Italy, there's all these people walking around selling, you know, shitty little ones. I got one when I was so pissed and annoyed so many people in Florence— no, Rome. This is like, this is king size. This is what a cop would have at a rally telling, you know, the vegans to settle down. That's what they have.

Josh: Well, the thing is, is it's actually, it's not the cost in the megaphone. It's the cost in the batteries because these use D batteries.

Tommy: What's a D battery? Is that that huge one that's like the size of a cup? Like a cup. Looks as—

Josh: Nah, it's not a cup.

Tommy: Yeah. Well, like it's a squit shot glass. Oh, okay.

George: It's a shot glass.

Tommy: Okay, shot glass. No, I remember the big batteries for the torches back in the day that were like a little brick. Yeah, yeah, okay. How much are they?

Josh: I needed 8 and they only sold the batteries in 6, so I had to get 12.

Tommy: And so how much did you pay?

Mason: And how many does it use?

Josh: Well, because I also got some other stuff because we did something today that involved all of this, so it came to $79, but I got a receipt.

Mason: That's good.

Josh: All right. And so anyway, do you want to hear—

Tommy: We need— You're saying we need money. That's why.

Josh: Yeah, we need— So, wouldn't it be great if you write "Megaphone" and send us $5? If you send $5 to our PayPal, hi@thedailytalkshow.com, anytime I use—

Tommy: Actually, no.

Josh: Once a month, I'll thank the Megaphone sponsors. And so there'll be, we can have up to what, like, brought to you by, yeah, brought to you. That could be fun.

Tommy: I actually don't mind that. You just get, that's good. That is kind of good unless, you know, there's some untoward businesses starting to send through some cash.

Josh: If you send $50, you get full naming rights of the megaphone. So it could be the Russ Keys megaphone. Every time I use it, I say the Russ Keys megaphone.

Tommy: That is quite funny. I like that.

Josh: Buythedailytalkshow.com.

Tommy: But if you were one who bought a t-shirt or hoodie, or what were they? Crewneck. The merch by PayPal. Don't do anything, Sevs will be in touch. It's— well, I don't want you to send through cash or anything unless there's that donation on the megaphone. We'll do the legwork, and we love you for supporting us, and it was our fault.

Mason: It's actually PayPal's fault.

E: When—

Mason: just blame— we're throwing PayPal under the bus. It's absolutely not my fault.

Tommy: Yeah, but they can't pay that.

Josh: That is PayPal.

Tommy: It's better to see you squirm. PayPal doesn't squirm. They're just like, yeah, I'm rich, bitch, keep my— I've got billions. Yeah, imagine all that money. Imagine all the lost money in PayPal, like it is sitting in random accounts that people can't access. I'd love to know how much all that, like, oh, nightmare.

Josh: Uh, Casey says to cheque the PayPal account. Um, do you want to hear the email?

Tommy: We just got a message.

Josh: What do we got?

Tommy: No, no, this is bucks.

Josh: This is good. 5 bucks from Casey.

Tommy: Casey sent megaphone.

Josh: You are one of the supporters of the megaphone. And so—

George: Is there going to be like a time limit on the sponsor read? So, it's like if Casey is the only one who sent in 5 bucks, she gets the whole minute or whatever?

Tommy: No.

Josh: So, I think that we— What we do is it's 10 seconds of admin. One of them is thanking our megaphone sponsors. But the thing is that will be for about 12 months because I would— There is another megaphone that I'd like to buy.

Tommy: You know, there's one thing we need to work out from Hot Accountant, how we're reconciling these random amounts of $5 coming into our business transactions.

Josh: Josh@joshjanson.com PayPal.

Tommy: Don't do that.

Josh: Just do it as a personal thing if you want. Can I do my—

Mason: So wait, this, that megaphone, you were just saying there's a nicer one that you want to get.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, there's just, I mean, this is like the—

Mason: Well, how much is it? How much? Mate, I'll look it up.

Josh: I think just under 200, you'll get a real good one. High at the down low.

Tommy: What is the difference?

Josh: They, they do the same thing, just like quality, like it's got like a better cord because it's like it— and better cord, it's also like power as well.

Tommy: You know what, just to— it's not to—

Mason: so does that mean it needs 2 D batteries?

Josh: I don't know. I would love to get one with the USB, to be honest, charging.

Tommy: Just relate it back to my videos. I'm using a, you know, someone, uh Someone messaged me and said, well, oh, love your video. What, what, what, uh, what camera are you using? What's your setup?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And, um, I remember asking all those questions before I started doing anything because I felt like there was— not saying this person is doing that, but for me, my, my site was— I was transfixed on the gear.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: You know, this is good procrastination too. And so I'm using a subpar camera and my drone just broke, so I can't get the aerials. You know, but you're just gonna—

Josh: so what I'm saying is your megaphone, yeah, mate, yeah, I'm gonna use and abuse this thing. Exactly. Well, no, we need to deconstruct the cost in the notepads and stuff like the other, like the clipboards, because I don't want to sort of lump it all in. But the— we did use the— that video is coming out tonight that TJ is working on that involves the megaphone. Can I quickly do my personal right-hand announcement?

Mason: Oh yeah, yeah, you go for it.

Josh: What were you gonna say?

Mason: Well, it's just, I mean, you don't want me reading comments. Oh, can I?

Josh: Yeah, yeah, you can read.

Mason: You've read? Okay, great. Well, Gemma's just saying, is anyone gonna do a pull-up? I'll pay $100.

Josh: You would pull up?

Tommy: Yeah. How much would you pay for a top-off pull-up?

Josh: I feel like that's thrown in with the pull-up, to be honest.

Tommy: We're drifting close to an OnlyFans account. I mean, I know So close. And it'll be all of Seb's, only Seb's. Next, Grace will move to Melbourne. There'll be an OnlyFans duo account, Grace and Seb.

Josh: All very tasteful.

Tommy: It's all, yeah, I mean, it's all just, you know, just access. That's all they want.

Josh: It's like they don't get the reference. It's referring to, um, Ben Fordham's mate Jake. Oh dear, they pull up. That's the joke. But are you still going to pay the $100?

Tommy: Yeah, pay it. No, maybe this afternoon. Yeah, we're the charity. Jim donated $100 to Beyond Blue.

Mason: You're not, you're not gonna— it's not tax deductible, that's for sure.

Josh: No.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Okay, so here we go. Um, I'm gonna do my personal rebrand announcement. Yeah. Um, I have a feeling what happened was, um, Bree's Hairdresser opened up last night or like has recently opened up. And so, Bri had her haircut. And I find that when I am at home, all of a sudden I get bored within like 10 minutes. And so, I was like thinking, what can I do? And I went to personal rebrand stuff. And so, there is the concern that I have that it's not going to live up to—

Mason: Sorry, Josh, Josh, Josh. I'm so sorry to interrupt your announcement, but I do just want to say WhalePod Analytics is the new sponsor for the megaphone.

Josh: $50! We have a megaphone sponsor! WhalePod, brought to you by WhalePod the megaphone. Thank you!

Tommy: It sounds like a whale. It's—

George: that's good.

Tommy: It does.

George: Can you put it—

Josh: somebody has to taste these 5 bucks. Hang on. Wait, Casey, I am so sorry. We need to do something.

Tommy: This is beyond done.

Josh: I think she needs to be paid out by— Rory's gonna have to cut out any other shareholders.

Tommy: No, this is too complex. This is— it's— I think it's just—

Mason: Mate, you started this. This is your fault.

Josh: Casey says put it to it. What's going on?

Tommy: Sorry guys, we've got a new sponsor. Who is it? It's Caitlin.

Josh: Oh no, Caitlin. This is a personal— are we just doing this?

Mason: How is this going to be reconciled?

Tommy: Caitlin Brianna Williams, she sent through $20. What do you— what does that get her?

Josh: That gets—

Mason: oh my God, we got $10 more from Gemma White.

Josh: This is good. This is going straight to the new megaphone.

George: That thing's paid for itself.

Mason: You're going to have it in no time.

Josh: Who said we couldn't fucking monetize this podcast? We're rich. This is good. This is good. I haven't even done the personal rebrand announcement yet. Should I announce it through the— oh my God, through the WhalePod megaphone?

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, well, do it. Yeah, do an announcement and then, um, or actually brought to you by everyone. Actually, sorry, Josh, have you got your phone set up with, um, the NDI connection to your iPhone? I wouldn't mind to see you go out onto the balcony.

Josh: No, I'm not doing it today. We'll do that. No, it has to be for a special Special occasion, I'll go out because I know Bree's currently in a meeting. I know she'll crack it, which is fair enough because I've already done the alarm. But, and the other thing too is it reflects, like the audio will reflect throughout the whole like neighborhood. I know it will.

Tommy: That's the purpose because we wanted to get WhalePod's message out there.

Josh: Well, I think what we can do is I think that we can as a special, we can do it as a I feel like you get a once-off go at it. So WhalePod needs to work out exactly what he wants the copy to be.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: And then I'll use it.

Tommy: And then you need to record a video at home by yourself that goes out on Instagram. And it's like, thanks to today's megaphone sponsor.

Josh: Well, it's forever. He's not there. He's the naming rights sponsor for the next year.

Tommy: No, that's not true. It's the most stupid fucking idea. It's the sharpest.

Josh: What do you think? What do you think?

George: It's—

Tommy: Oh, this is how it works. This is how it works. Because you're clearly not thinking about business right now. He's the naming rights sponsor of the megaphone. He's the naming rights sponsor of the megaphone until someone else knocks off his naming rights.

Josh: Oh, this is good for cash.

Tommy: This is good. As soon as someone sends $50, $60—

Josh: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The real world is they have to up the— they have to—

Mason: by 5.

Josh: They have to up it by 5. Yeah, so the next one is 55.

Mason: The bidding is 55.

Josh: This is huge. This is gonna be a snippet. Or you could do one of our, we're all homeowners, people like, how did you do it? And you can explain the whole scheme of every single day we had a new megaphone sponsor.

Tommy: This is amazing. I love it. How good are all the equipment?

George: I think Caitlin's regretting sending 20 now because it's a bit, what does she get for that?

Josh: Well, so Caitlin, you can.

Mason: This is a good point. Rain Man Whale Pod is getting the megaphone naming rights, and then are we saying it's— so yeah, the Whale Pod megaphone brought to you by— and then everyone else who's— wait, how are we including those others?

Josh: So you're saying you're trying to think— Whale Pod is forever, so it's like Eddie Head Stadium, and then we know—

Mason: yeah, it's— no, it's Eddie Head Stadium until someone tops it by $5.

Tommy: Yes.

George: Yeah, yeah.

Josh: But then you had Stadium Worked.

Tommy: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but you said forever, so Marvel paid an extra 5 months to go to Marvel Stadium.

Josh: And so what do we think about the idea is like, um, getting some form of stickers or whatever? Like they should get like a whale pod logo or something.

George: Well, I think you should record the sound of a whale into it, pre-record it, and then yeah, every time it's announced you play the whale sound.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean, it could be gone. This is what I love about it though, because it's like you could be knocked off. You at least get some mentions. And I think there's some sort of social content, Josh, that you could reel out at home, you know, on, you know, in your little dungeon, just reading out some, some kind of copy or thanking Caitlin or thanking, uh, Gemma. Who else do we have? Thanking Casey.

George: Okay.

Josh: And then obviously Sharna says there should be a fifth screen that just streams the view of the megaphone. I do like, like, the megaphone definitely needs its own spot.

Tommy: Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, definitely.

Josh: Okay, that's great. And so I feel like the megaphone's taken from my announcement, but I'm going to do it anyway.

Tommy: Okay, yeah, okay, okay. Sending cash quickly.

Mason: While are you in there? Yeah, if you get in beforehand, then yeah, yeah, stop. You might actually get naming rights.

George: Yeah, or too much.

Mason: Are we get— are we running exclusive, exclusive?

Tommy: And also, JJ, you need to think— mention WhalePod.

Mason: Yeah, I'm reloading our emails just to see if there's anything.

Josh: This is Josh from the WhalePod megaphone. I have a personal rebrand announcement. Starting May 15th, I will be removing coffee from my diet. And will now be the tea guy.

George: Thank you.

Tommy: Is that it?

George: Is that it?

Josh: Yes.

Mason: Is that all it was?

Tommy: I'm—

Josh: are you gonna go to tea?

Mason: Man, I would be absolutely—

Josh: I'm the guy with the Moccamaster and I'm just letting— Bree's furious.

George: Can I have your Moccamaster?

Josh: No, no, absolutely not, mate.

Mason: There's one at the office.

Tommy: Yeah, if you want to take that from the office, George, you can take it. You can take it home for a while.

George: That's right, I love that. If you like it here.

Josh: People are loving it in the comments. I can't get through them all. I can't read them all out now, but they're loving it.

Tommy: Can we get in the comments how long we think it will last before he has a first coffee?

Mason: Yeah.

George: Can I ask what tea is going to be your go-to?

Josh: Well, funnily enough, if you had watched my Insta stories, I did say that the What do you call it when you get a hint? A hint was I've been thinking about doing this for a long time. Oolong tea. And so, I'll probably do oolong, I'll do pu-erh.

George: I've never heard of these.

Josh: Yeah, well, you know what?

Tommy: This is real Tim Ferriss vibes. He's a tea guy, isn't he?

Josh: Well, I had the whisk, I had the matcha whisk and stuff, but no, I've got a really— I bought a nice Japanese Teapot and stuff. Yeah, Kevin Rose.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Josh: And so he did have on Twitter T-T-E-A, and he's had Dr. Andrew Weil, who has matcha.com. But maybe we should get Sarah Holloway back. Oh yeah, to chat about all things tea.

Tommy: Also Mason. Also Mason.

Josh: Oh yeah, that's a great idea. Mason from Byron. Yeah, maybe I should get into the mushies.

Mason: Yeah, I was, I was thinking about this literally this morning when I was making my smoothie. I was like, I could definitely get into mushrooms right now.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah. Well, let's get that, George.

Josh: Taylor, I think, I think Callum thinks I'm gonna last for 5 days. Caitlin thinks 4.

George: You know what you should get? You know what you should get? A, um, uh, a really good, um, what are those things that keep the tea hot that you can—

Mason: I've got one thermos.

Josh: I've got one of the best thermos you can make it into. Yeah, that's right. Who wants to sponsor?

George: Make it in the morning and just have—

Josh: I'm taking—

George: who wants this one?

Tommy: No, don't Josh! Don't, don't, don't! This is like Lulu doesn't want me on my beanie. Absolutely not.

Josh: You want to support them?

Tommy: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're just taking it beyond. Hey, um, the good thing is that you're not— this isn't saying 'I'm quitting caffeine,' you're just going off coffee because tea, like, I think they— you need at least a black tea that has coffee— it's caffeine in it. To start with and then sort of just, you know, over the day sipping your whatever you want, the other stuff. Not to tell you what to do.

Josh: It's also got a bit— it's got some other qualities.

Tommy: Like, you're on edge, we don't want to take away your medication, which is caffeine.

Josh: Well, you can do it. Cookies, show baking.

Tommy: You've never been addicted to fucking coffee in your life, you have no idea about getting off it.

Mason: Nah, he'll be right though.

Tommy: You know, we're addicts, mate.

Josh: There is a—

Tommy: take some time for the essence of this.

Mason: This is why I don't want to start. This is the exact reason why I don't want to have coffee.

Tommy: Well, oh yeah, because you don't want to be with everyone about wine.

Josh: I mean, but also you, um, you're the guy who didn't really want to drink, and then the other day people were telling you how to slow down and you're like, I like the feeling. So really, you came around.

Mason: Yeah, but that's, that's, that's literally 1.5 gins. So yeah, yeah, it's great.

Tommy: Back on it tomorrow. Back on it tomorrow. Friday night drinks.

Josh: That's almost— that could be his nickname, One and a Half Gins.

Tommy: Yeah, it's better than One and a Half Chins, to be honest.

Josh: Very true.

Tommy: All right, um, all right, that's it, that's it. Just, um, do you want to just give us sort of sign off? Can you wrap it up? Pod megaphone. Yeah, wrap it up. Do the sign off and then we're done. Love you guys. See you tomorrow.

Josh: Thank you to our naming rights sponsor of the Megaphone, WhalePod. Simply Google WhalePod to find out how Rory can help you with your analytics and podcast AI.

Mason: Actually, I've just— whalepodanalytics.com is his. I just include that.

Josh: I want to cling What was it again?

Mason: Whalepodanalytics.com.

Josh: Whalepod with an H, uh, analytics.com. Has it got an H?

Tommy: Say clean. That's not clean because you just— you see, I just do that. I just—

Mason: you know, just do the whole thing.

Josh: That's why I thought Googling would be better.

Tommy: No, but I just typed in Whalepod with an H analytics.com, the whole thing.

George: How else would you spell whale?

Josh: I don't know, you could forget the H, it's silent.

Mason: Okay, here we go. Okay, go clean from the start.

Josh: Thank you for listening to the Daily Talk Show on the megaphone, brought to you by WhalePod Analytics. That's whalepodanalytics.com. 10 seconds of admin. Have you got Instagram? Oh, perfect. Go and give us a follow and then share on Insta Stories that you're listening. It will help. See you tomorrow, guys.

Tommy: See you guys.