Pubs, Saunas and Sponsors

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 732.

Tommy: What's happening, guys? What's going on? Happy Sunday. How are you feeling?

Josh: Fired up, right? Uh, beautiful weather in Melbourne.

George: Good.

Josh: A little bit chilly, but, uh, blue skies like yesterday.

Tommy: We're at 12 o'clock on the dot. Has, um, any caffeine withdrawals yet, JJ?

Josh: No, all good. What have I had? Any form of caffeine? No, I haven't. No, I'm just drinking my SodaStream, my fizzy water. Feeling good. I haven't even got tea because as the tea guy, I still couldn't work out to go and get tea before I started. So, I had one on the Friday, which was a Green Rose, which was nice. But I feel like I don't want it to be that florally. I don't want to be drinking sort of floral drinks.

Tommy: Yeah, not too fancy. I like to get fancy before bedtime. Just something a bit sweet, you know, something feels a bit naughty. Tea can feel a bit naughty even though it's not. So yeah.

Josh: What have you been up to? What's happening?

Tommy: Oh mate, I'm just pumped. Another put it in the calendar. Okay, put it in the calendar. June 1st, George and I will be at the pub because they're planning to open the pubs and restaurants from June 1st. 1/2020. This is some great news, great news from Daniel Andrews. Uh, maximum 20 patrons, that would be good. Uh, table service only. But get this, you have to leave your— like, when you go in, you have to leave your name that you were there. Like, they have record of who was at the pub. Isn't that bizarre? Like, it's for contract tracing.

George: Name, address, contact number, everything.

Tommy: Yeah, isn't that full-on?

Josh: No more punch-ons. Yeah, a little bit more sort of, um, obvious who's done it.

Tommy: Well, yeah, it makes you think a bit more before you start punching people in the pub. But I mean, you shouldn't be punching people in the pub anyway.

Josh: So June 1st, so that means— because I didn't realize, but I was seeing on the news that like Sydney are out and about at the moment. They're like going out and going to cafes and shit.

Tommy: Yeah, because the— I'm not sure what they're doing out there, but the decision, the final decision's from the person running the state. And so, the Premier. Old mate, old mate Premier Daniel Andrews, he's been pretty tough. And so, June 1st, it's like 2 and a bit weeks away. But George, what do you got planned for Monday night, Monday arvo, June 1st? You got anything in the calendar?

George: Nothing in the calendar so far, Tommy. So we— yeah, okay, we might—

Tommy: yeah, great, great, great. I actually wasn't inviting you, I was just seeing if you were going to go to the pub. But, uh, no, I love you, Josh. I wonder though if we'd have to walk around, like, because there's 20— there's a rule of 20. Do you think you'd have to just— we might be legging it for 10Ks just sussing every pub in Abbotsford, every pub in Collingwood, trying to find one that is open.

Josh: But also, like, isn't there's the reality of it that it's Coronavirus hasn't magically gone away. So if we all do this, like, I mean, if we learned anything, we decided to go and start working from home before they, there were still people going to concerts. You could still go to an event of 500+ people. So I don't know whether my gauge, I don't like leaving the house anyway, but my gauge is like, just because they say we can do it, um, doesn't mean that we should be going out all the time.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean, I looked at— you just jump into the comments of that post that I just showed, a post for everyone playing at home listening. I just showed a post that sort of was posted on Daniel Andrews' wall about this, and in the comments it's, it's exactly that, Josh. There's a bunch of people saying just because we can doesn't mean we have to. And so, but I think there's— I think the reality is that there's a bunch of people with that thinking and they will stay home, and then the whole point of the 20 people. And it's like, dude, there are some bars that won't be able to open. They don't have enough room to have— they'll have 5 people in there and it's not worth their time. Like, it's per 4 meters, 1 person, and all these other rules.

Josh: Like, if you could only have— if you could only have one thing, say, with everything that's shutting down at the moment, if you had to pick whether it was go and sit down at a cafe breakfast or go to a pub or being able to go to the gym, which one would you be picking?

Tommy: Um, I mean, I think the, the best is the gyms. Not to say that that's a— gyms, you're probably closer than the pub.

Josh: You're sweating, panting, you know, just as in like experience stuff that you actually just want to do.

Tommy: Yeah, I wouldn't mind. I don't have a gym membership at the moment, but I was going to get one just before, so I'm glad I didn't because I would have to put it on hold because I wouldn't be paying it. But yeah, so I'd like to go to the gym. I'd like to be able to get a routine back in place. I think a lot of people want the gyms open, but a lot of people want the pubs open, I guess.

Josh: George, what were you saying? Did you ask GB?

Tommy: No, he fits in the pub category. It's pretty, uh, it's obvious.

Josh: Well, do you think that maybe— I feel like one thing that would be good and maybe I'm being a dictator, but maybe people should pick one thing. So, it's like what I feel like would potentially happen is it's like the gronks who will go out on day one of an evening and really take advantage might also be the gronks that go to the gym and that will go like do everything, right? Like what about the idea of we all get to pick the one thing that you do, because otherwise you're going to get super spreaders, right? Like if there's people going out and they're literally doing everything, they're going to fucking Supre, is Supre still around? I don't know. Like going to the shops, buying stuff at the shops and then going to the gym and then going to a pub. Like people will probably go out more than what they did prior to the lockdowns.

Tommy: Yeah, I think there are still a bunch of people that are scared, but yeah, you're right. I mean, the asymptomatic people that, have it, don't feel anything, don't know they have it, and are spreading it like wildfire. Like, it— that is the reality. But I think I, yeah, I was, I was very much like, shut it down, close it off, and for a long time. But it's so like, the cases here in Australia are so low comparatively from around the world. It is done. We've done really well here, and it has to open back up. The economy is going to absolutely fucking shit itself.. And now they're, they're just a bit more equipped. And so there's no other option, I don't think, other than starting to slowly open it up and people getting this and understanding who are the asymptomatic. Like, how do you find these people that are asymptomatic? It's going to have to, you know, they're going to have to have encounters with people. Sorry, he's saying Bodhi's yelling that there's a grasshopper looking at me. Praying mantis. Oh, he's found a praying mantis. Oh mate, be careful, be careful. But yeah, so we're going to have to find these people, and unfortunately it's probably going to have to come from people understanding where the spread is and who's got it. And so I don't know. Yeah, I mean, stay home, Josh, it's fine. It's— there will be a bunch of people that— I think it is an okay thing to do. It's not like you have to, you know.

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: I mean, I'm— yeah, I feel okay to have a beer with George. George, do you feel okay to have a beer with me?

George: Yeah, I think— I mean, I think we'd be sensible. Like, I'm definitely not keen to go out, you know, into a packed pub anytime soon. Or a meetup.

Josh: It sounded like you were sort of announcing a meetup.

Tommy: Yeah, we're taking Friday night drinks off Zoom and into real life.

George: Yeah, straight away.

Tommy: And there, straight away, I've booked out a pub, there's going to be 20 people, and we've moved it to a Monday, and it happens to fall on June 1st. So who's with me?

Josh: I mean, you're not really— you're not necessarily the— I mean, you've gone many, many months without being at a pub, haven't you, previously?

Tommy: Or the last time I was out with George, we were drinking beers every Friday arvo or roundabout. We started doing that. We did a few beers. And so like, I reckon if there was nothing, you know, corona, we would have kept going. Rory even joined the last one. It was quite fun. Yeah, but, um, no, I don't know, it's, uh, just more appreciative for the shit. So when the gym does open, give it a real good crack, you know.

Josh: Yeah, great.

George: Theaters as well. I miss theaters.

Josh: Are you like a good—

George: yeah.

Tommy: Well, you're talking shows, right?

George: Yeah, like, yes, live shows, comedy or musicals. I reckon, you know, that's the sort of stuff that I'm pumped to get back into.

Josh: Yeah, kind of about— I mean, would it be— Sevs, for you, was it the gym? Is that the one that you would go to?

Mason: Yeah, but even then, like, I'm— I don't know how long it's going to take. Like, I'm pretty hesitant to go back to the gym at the moment. Even like, I don't know, give it maybe 2, another 2 and a bit months or something like that, and then I'd probably be happy going back. But if they opened it in the next like month, definitely not going.

Josh: And so how much of it is that so grotty previous to the coronavirus?

Mason: But even like saunas and shit, like not, not ideal. Like if you're packing like 16 people into a sauna, like that's not ideal.

Tommy: I mean, you, you, you're the sauna guy telling the guys who don't go to the sauna that saunas are gross.

Mason: Yeah, they are.

Tommy: You've had a change of heart.

Mason: They're great, but they're great. No, they're great, but they're gross.

Tommy: Just great but gross.

Josh: I feel like this is you communicating. I feel like you've been priming for the past 2 months to get your own sauna. I feel like this is getting closer and closer to reality.

Tommy: How far off? If there's someone who knows how to justify a purchase, it's you. And so you're spotting it. It's perfect that you— I trust in JJ to know when Seb's priming for a purchase.

Josh: Are you priming for a purchase?

Mason: I was thinking about it.

Tommy: Yeah, I hope you get it because it is— it's one bit bizarre, but— and quirky, which is what I love about it. Like, the dude— I know a bunch of people have them, and Conspiracy Jimmy is showing me the ones you can get.

Josh: Well, the thing is, like, a wooden, like, cupboards kind of thing.

Mason: Yeah, literally, it's pretty easy to get like an infrared one because you can just plug it into the normal power. But when you're getting like the, um, the ones with like coals and heating elements and stuff, it has to be wired into the circuit. So you got to get an electrician around to wire it in.

Tommy: So yeah, it's like, that's, that's my pushback. I can— it's like, run it, I've got it like different power.

Jess: Yeah.

Mason: Yeah, I know the one that I want to buy, but it's just—

Josh: How much is it?

Mason: It's about 2 and a bit grand.

Josh: I mean, it's not crazy.

Tommy: Like, 2 and a half grand is nothing.

Josh: How much is like the service? What's the like servicing of— Oh, so not servicing, but like what's the setup cost? Like, you're going to have to get some sort of—

Mason: Well, electrician's probably— Yeah, electrician. I have no idea, to be honest, because I don't have a clue what it is for wiring it in. But yeah, I would reckon. Hopefully under a grand to install it.

Tommy: Sure. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, my bro's an electrician. We could find out. He's nearly fully qualified, so he'd be able to do it himself. Um, can you tell me the name of the sauna and where, like, where you'd get it from? What's the name? I just want to have a quick look at it.

Mason: It's, um, hang on, I gotta, I gotta look it up again. I had it bookmarked a while ago, but I got rid of it.

Tommy: Uh, just, that's when a dream is being crushed, when you've taken it out of your bookmarks.

Mason: Literally.

Tommy: Yeah, I did bookmark actually just recently. Got rid of a bunch. Nothing that important though. Oh yeah, no saunas in there.

Mason: Luxo Living, here we go.

Tommy: What's it called?

Josh: Luxo, of course.

Mason: Luxo Living. Yeah, okay, here we go. It's, uh, do you want me to slack it to you or just want me to read it out?

Tommy: Just, yeah, read it out.

Mason: So it's a, uh, it's $2,660, 6-person traditional Finnish steam sauna, uh and it's, it's literally, it's literally a cubby house. So it's just all made of wood, and I'm guessing it's flat pack, um, and you just, you just plonk it in your garage or something like that.

Tommy: This is great.

Josh: What sort of temperatures does it get to?

Tommy: JJ, can you see it there?

Mason: Yeah, yeah.

Josh: Oh yeah, great.

Mason: That's, that's what, that's what it'll look like. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

George: Oh, that's pretty cool.

Tommy: Little Sam's wrong way.

Mason: So yeah, that's, um That's the one that I'm looking at at the moment.

Tommy: I mean, power play. Grace rocks up, yeah babe, I got a sauna, cheque it.

Mason: Garage, sure, remember, your bed, blinds, sauna, just yeah, all of it, you know, connect it straight onto your room. Yeah, oh yes, on the side, your side door goes, it won't be tall, yeah, it won't, it won't be tall enough, but I do have like a little, um Oh, hang on. I do have like a little under the house bit right next to in my bedroom and it's like a door that you can open to get under, but I don't think it's going to be tall enough.

Josh: And what's the temperature? Like, what temp are you getting it to?

Mason: It goes to 80 degrees.

George: Okay.

Josh: It's not too hot. Like, I've been like slamming like the shower. When I go in the shower, I'm putting it like extremely hot because of this cold weather. And we have like the wind, windows open. What do you reckon?

Tommy: Yeah, I reckon like, um, 60, 38 or 40, 42 maybe.

Mason: Real hot.

Tommy: No, no, no, no, no. The thing is, it's more just your skin also makes the difference. You can be in 100 degrees, but it's—

Josh: yeah, you don't want to—

Tommy: you're submerged. You have to be like the dry heat. That's why they're saying you like a steam room can't be the heat of a dry room because you would literally cook because of the moisture. It's too much. Um, I saw a video on Facebook, a guy got caught, uh, stuck in one, like had it at home, and he got stuck in it for 12 hours. 12 fucking hours. A sauna?

Mason: No, you won't die.

Josh: Yeah, I mean, it's like—

Mason: how do you manage that? You'd punch a hole in it, surely.

Tommy: Oh, he was trying down or something, and they, and they just, they showed different because there was a camera in there. I don't know, maybe, maybe. Why is there a camera in the sauna? And why does a sauna lock? Because saunas are pretty much like this. I've never seen a lock on a sauna door, right? Have you ever seen a lock on a sauna door for this reason? No, no, I haven't seen a nightmare. Nightmare. What would you do? You'd just lie down at the bottom, wouldn't you? Like, like, because the heat rises and so it is cooler. Yeah, so there's two levels usually under the door.

Mason: Yeah, under the door there's like a little gap as well that some air can come in, but just be sucking at it. Yeah, you'd, yeah, you'd definitely be on the floor.

Tommy: JJ, would you chuck in 500 And I'd be happy for it to come from the business for Sev to get a sauna because—

Josh: Well, I'm just worried that we haven't used the fireplace enough yet. You were— you promised a lot of fireplace content.

Tommy: Oh, we've already got 2 episodes out of that. It was an $80 purchase. We're talking $500. And the point being is you've never been in a sauna. And so it was one of the firsts that we wanted you to do. You spoke with Ash Williams about it. That was when you broke down the friendship between Ash and the Daily Talk Show, where you nearly pulled him apart on the show for 40 minutes. And we were working out what he could do for the first time in 2020, and yours was do a sauna, a sauna for the first time. So what do you reckon?

Josh: Yeah, maybe. I mean, we just had the meeting with the accountant. I don't know, like the $500 on the sauna, like you're— I'm normally the loose guy, and I know I just bought a megaphone. The megaphone's paying for itself, but I don't know, I feel like maybe we can, um, maybe you could set up a GoFundMe. Yeah, yeah, I think we could do that.

Tommy: You could do a GoFundMe for Seb's sauna. Yeah, would you let— what would the rules of the sauna be, Mr. 97?

Mason: Um, as in for, for people who fund it?

Josh: Well, so this is the problem. You don't want it fucking communal. The reason you want to get your own sauna is so that you don't have to have gronks in there, right?

Tommy: Random gronks. I'm talking about random close, the close ones like us. Like, that's what I'm trying to work out.

Mason: Yeah, yeah, no, you can cut, you can, you can absolutely come over and use it.

Tommy: Absolutely.

Josh: How often? As a kid who grew up with a pool, I know how this sort of stuff goes. People rock up with towels and expect to just jump in. I feel like they're—

Tommy: Bizarre, isn't it?

Josh: I feel like maybe this investment—

Jess: I would—

Josh: I'm also cautious of this $500 investment giving TJ some ownership over it where all of us— Because I don't think I would go there that often.

Tommy: To be honest, the only reason I mentioned the $500, I was going to say come from your pocket so you could use a sauna for the first time.

Josh: What's other expensive things? Expensive sauna. But, um, hey mate, hey boss.

Tommy: Somehow Bodhi's worked out how to turn on the mini speaker with Spider-Man. Yeah, I feel like an animal.

Josh: So yeah, if there were the— so, Siv, you would have sort of— so you could use an open restriction.

Mason: Yeah, yeah. Also, we'd have time. Yeah, but there's— there'd have to be restrictions, so you wouldn't you wouldn't be allowed to come after, say, like, I don't know, like 8, maybe 8 o'clock's too late, but like, yeah, just, I'm just trying to work it out between like, you know, you're at work for until like, I don't know, say 6 or whatever, and then you've got between 6 and 8 o'clock, you've got that time period, but then it's also the thing of like, how do you get into it? Like, 'cause the garage, like it's in the garage.

Josh: And you don't own the property, like your mum and dad, like how are they gonna feel about You know, you're gonna have to ask them.

Mason: Yeah, yeah.

Josh: I mean, does mum and dad want one?

Mason: Mum wants— mum would use it. Dad, he's not too keen on them.

Josh: Really?

Tommy: Why?

George: You've got a pool as well though.

Mason: I think he's— I got— yeah, but it's empty.

Tommy: So maybe put your sauna in the pool.

Mason: Sauna in the pool. Yeah, not a bad idea. Actually, it does collect water, so that's probably not good. Yeah, yeah, no, Dad's not super— he just doesn't like the feeling of them, whereas Mum enjoys it. So Mum would— and so I don't think Dad would— Dad wouldn't stop me. He'd be like, yeah, great, like, I'm not gonna pay for— I'm not gonna pay for anything, but you can put it in there if you want it.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, hard one to work out the—

Mason: what, what the electricity costs for it, to be honest, because we were trying to work out if Mum's using it, it can just go on the, um Just go on the family.

Josh: So you're just— so you're going to trick your mum to use it so she covers the cost?

George: Surely it would use heaps.

Josh: Absolutely.

George: That would just like—

Josh: heating in a house is a problem on getting something to 80 degrees or whatever it is.

Mason: It's probably— I reckon it's— I reckon it's okay. It's probably like, you're, you're not—

George: it's on—

Mason: it's not on 24/7. Like, it'd just be on for— it takes like 90 minutes to heat up or whatever, and then you're in it for say an hour.

Josh: So Would you allow your dog, Abby? Would you think dogs would like saunas?

Tommy: No, no, probably not.

Josh: No, definitely not.

Mason: It's probably alright for them. Like, it's probably beneficial in terms of health stuff.

Josh: But that's what I mean. I feel like you're the type of guy to read an article and then accidentally kill your dog by putting her in the sauna.

Mason: Yeah, well, I mean, if it extends her lifespan like it does with people, then it's not a bad thing. Bad idea.

Tommy: I tell you who I reckon would get around Seb's sauna— our hot accountant. I reckon he'd, uh, he'd be coming over. Jase would be popping in just quick on the way home, head over to Bowen, quick sauna, then, uh, off you go. It could be good. Sauna cam. Seb does the show from the sauna from here on in.

Josh: Getting a, getting a GoPro, um, on the megaphone. Uh, we said, we said yesterday that, uh, we were pausing all transactions of the megaphone because it was getting out of hand. Do you remember that?

Mason: We can't actually, we can't actually pause them.

Tommy: Well, no, Josh, you did say it, and it was a good idea because it was, you know, they were coming through thick and fast, and, and we needed to have some kind of formalised spreadsheet to be able to track who sent money, all of that. And so where are we landing today, JJ? Because it is—

Josh: well, what are you laughing at with George, Sebbs? What did I miss?

Mason: No, just George was just laughing at thick and fast.

Tommy: Thick, T-H-I-C-C-C. Because it wasn't thick and fast?

Josh: Is that the funny?

Tommy: I don't know, it's probably best not to always ask why people are laughing. Just let it play out.

Josh: All right, so the, so the other issue, so, so what's happened is we have had a new megaphone sponsor who has given us by far the most amount of cash so far when it comes to naming rights sponsorship.

Tommy: Not the video $500 amount where you get a video thrown in, thanks to me, but this is still unbelievable. This is the highest amount contributed to become a Megaphone naming rights sponsor.

Josh: But the thing is, um, I brought up that on— I don't want anyone to be upset around how we're doing it, you know. I've got the sensitivities of what, you know, stressing people out. And we did get a few people on PayPal who donated amounts, uh, that was below the $50. Now, TJ, initially in our pre-show chat, you said no, the terms were that you— they do not get a read on the megaphone. It was only after George did his ad that anyone over $5, uh, gets a mention over the megaphone. What is your interpretation?

Tommy: Well, a bunch of people already got shoutouts. So when we first came up with this idea— and if you are new to the podcast, uh, Josh bought a, um, megaphone that was probably not worth resetting, to be honest. If you hear the podcast, $75. And, and do you want me to fucking reset this or not? No, no, like it makes sense. It makes total sense because on the day we didn't—

George: um, on the—

Tommy: we spent 70-something bucks in total. Are you on the day?

Mason: So it's like 30, 30 bucks in, um, batteries. Oh, that's fair. On batteries.

Tommy: On the day we just— you said we need to pay for this thing, maybe people could send us money on PayPal. And then all of a sudden, I mean, ask and you shall receive. People started sending money to hi@thedailytalkshow.com which is our PayPal send money, and they were coming through. And then it got to the point where Rory sent through 50, and then we thought, well, that's the naming right of the megaphone. And then it started to flow on, and so everyone did get a mention. Gemma, you can mention the names. Gemma, I think of Casey, a few others. And then Caitlin.

Josh: And so, you know, so I mentioned them all over them over the megaphone?

Tommy: I'm pretty sure you did, or you're just mentioning—

Mason: maybe just, maybe just, maybe we could do it just to be safe.

Josh: I think that's what I said.

Tommy: The new rule, new rule.

Mason: I think it's—

Josh: I feel like we just want to clean up our PayPal debts and make sure everyone's happy.

Tommy: All right, yeah, no, I get it.

Josh: And so, so what I'll do is I'll announce the new megaphone sponsor, um, and then I'll say thank you to the previous people who gave us pay pal money, and then this is the last time we speak about them unless there was another over $5 transaction.

Mason: Yeah, sure.

Josh: Is that right, GB?

George: Yeah, that actually makes sense. So yeah, so then if someone donates $5 now, they can get a mention on tomorrow's show. Yeah.

Josh: Okay.

George: Is that right? Love it.

Josh: The only thing is I think that we need to get better at giving the naming rights sponsor something more. Like, I feel like we need to, whether it's the tone of my voice or the amount of times that I do it, but I feel like there needs to be a way to really— Oh, yes.

Mason: What about this? What if you intro the show on the megaphone?

Josh: Yeah, we could do that.

Tommy: And that becomes, that becomes a complete podcast naming right to the show. It is. I mean, that is pretty good.

George: It's got to be worth more than $50.

Tommy: That's what I mean. That's what I'm saying. What's going on?

Josh: It's going up quickly.

Tommy: JJ, you missed it. Friday night drinks, I had, um, Jess, uh, who looks after brands and partnerships for the Daily Talk Show. I had to break it to her in front of everyone what we were doing with the megaphone. And she was, I think, oof, oof. I think it was about the offering and how good it is. So we need to sort of get these through before she leaves us, to be honest.

Josh: Yeah, sure. Yeah, I mean, you get in early, you get the benefits. Okay, all right. So I nearly used the megaphone last night, by the way. I heard some yelling outside. Oh, you should please. I started to write some of them. Can you please?

Tommy: Megaphone sponsor, you yell it out, you yell out the name of the sponsor and then, can you please go?

Josh: Well, I had a moment of, do you think I would get in trouble? So, say like a minor incident. So, say people arguing outside due to an incident between a car and a pedestrian, you know, some sort of yelling match. If I was, and it was say after 11 PM, If I was to use the megaphone siren and tell them to stop, do you think that the police would be impressed or disappointed in me?

Tommy: I reckon they would be disappointed. I don't know. Was it you that told me the storey about the megaphone in the car?

Josh: Yeah. So, yeah. So, there was— I saw a prank YouTube channel that got done for impersonating police because they had a megaphone in their car and they were doing the siren. If you do sirens outside cars, it sort of implies that you're emergency services.

Tommy: Yeah. I mean, as good as I got it, you know, the flash from the top of a camera that you can sort of just trigger off, trigger off automatically. I used to get down in my street behind my parents' car, and as a car drove past, I would flash it.

Josh: So, it's big on TikTok at the moment.

George: Is it?

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what they're all doing.

Tommy: To pretend people are getting tickets.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: And they film it and they laugh because they just like, people slam on their brakes. Which is funny because at that point you've already been gotten.

Tommy: So yes, but you do, it is the thing and your heart sinks and I'm just like, oh, it is the worst feeling. Anyway, sorry, I digress.

Josh: Anyway, so let's, um, let's introduce the slate.

Tommy: Yep, cleaning the slate.

Josh: Here we go.

Jess: The new sponsor for the Daily Talk Show megaphone is Kate Mead. Check Kate Mead out on Instagram, cheque out her podcast, the Women of Influence Podcast, and she also is the co-host at Ace Radio's morning breakfast show, The Morning Rush. Thank you, Kate Mead, and you are the official sponsor at $120. Now, with a little bit of admin, I would also like to thank Friday's Donations. Casey Irwin of $5— not of $5, but she donated $5. I feel like I'm part of the kids hospital, you know, they do the readout and they say, you know, of Endeavour Hills. Uh, Caitlin Williams for $20, thank you Caitlin. And Gemma Watts for $10 from Balwyn North, thank you so much for your support.

Tommy: Thank you, love it. Well done. 471 was the episode that Kate Mead was on The Daily Talk Show. Just type in Kate Mead, The Daily Talk Show into Google and you can listen to her episode. And Kate loves— the thing about Kate, she appreciates a hustle. She is one of the greatest hustlers. She, yeah, she was telling us the storeys about just on the podcast episode. About how she got a, you know, a big dance festival off the ground and the sort of strings she pulled and the great things she did. And so that's why—

Mason: Getting into radio as well with all the balloons.

Josh: That's great.

Tommy: Oh yeah, she's— See, this is creative.

Josh: I believe 5 penguins died for that, but, but, um, you know, you do what you got to do.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, to get on that radio. Absolutely, absolutely.

Josh: The, um, it's good.

Tommy: So I wonder, I mean, Kate has it until someone knocks her off. So unless someone pays $120, what is it, $25, George? That's the next, if you want.

George: $5 increments.

Tommy: Great.

Josh: And so we are putting a pause. Don't do it now because we want to set up the website. Because what I don't want to happen is we have 3 people all give us $125 and then we're in a pickle.

Mason: Yeah, yeah, that'd be annoying.

Josh: And so we can just set up that site just on the website stuff.

Mason: Yeah, I was about to say, um, either late later today or tomorrow it'll be done.

Josh: Okay. Oh, and so it'll be /megaphone.

George: Love that.

Tommy: Okay, love that.

George: All right, good.

Tommy: Megaphone. I'm excited to see this. Any, um, teasers, Sevs? What do you— what are we thinking? What's the layout?

Mason: Uh, just sort of like leaderboard sort of vibes, hopefully with a megaphone up the top that plays the latest announcement. Um, and then we can bring in Georgie Boy's video that explains it all. Just, just sort of a basic sort of landing page.

Josh: Yeah, like a real sales funnel. Should we get something for sales?

Mason: Real sales funnel.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mason: We've got HubSpot all over it.

George: Yeah, what about a button? Like a button? Donate now.

Mason: Yeah, donate PayPal button. Yeah, we can do that. Yeah, yeah, we can make it all.

Tommy: Um, can we use the photo of me with my top off and you with your top off and you holding the megaphone over my mouth as the, uh, as the same— yeah, it's just a real thirst trap.

Josh: Did you see that? I— because I put up that, that, um, post and I used that thumbnail. What was your first impression?

Tommy: Like, I was like, that's fucking amazing. I I didn't remember the shot because I was thinking, what thumbnail could you use? And I was like, I think I said to you, yeah, just go Seb with his top off. Yeah, yeah, I thought that was it, but I think it was weirder and better. And, uh, and two rigs, two rigs is better than one.

Josh: On the Instagram thing, uh, I've, um, I've done the camp van tile. And so if you go to Josh Janson on Instagram, you'll see camp van's tile. You'll also see another Monopoly screen grab, which all of a sudden I've gotten self-conscious based on Georgie boy's criticism. But did you see that I won?

George: Did you win? I did. You've won 2. Have you lost any or have you just been posting?

Josh: No, no, I've lost a few, but the last 2 I've won. I've actually, I've worked out the whole thing.

Tommy: Who are you playing, JJ?

Mason: What is it?

Josh: Well, yesterday we played with Diavella and Nat. And so, I mean, playing with a minimalist, it's great for Monopoly because he's, you know, he's not buying anything.

Tommy: Anti-property.

Josh: Yeah, real minimal, a lot of cash.

Tommy: Just bought the dog, or what's the little dog character?

Josh: Yeah, well, the funny thing is they, um, I feel like I've created a persona within the Monopoly game unlike the, um, so unlike, not unlike the, um, my PT character, you know, like an over-exaggerated version of myself. And, um, and so Bree or tells everyone before you play, like, Josh is real mean when it comes to playing, so don't— be careful with deals, don't do deals with him. But, um, no, what got it was the, um, I got the blues on the right side, the Mayfair, and, um, I can't remember the other— Park Lane. Yeah. And, uh, I just filled that with, um, houses, and that was sort of—

Mason: and that, and that got you through.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Yeah, really, it was massive. I paid—

Mason: How many people land on them?

Josh: Yeah, well, I paid— How about this? So, um, Mayfair— It was Park Lane. You can buy, I think, for $400. I wanted it. I already had Mayfair, and, um, so I did a deal with Nat where she gave me— Like, she gave me Park Lane. I gave her $700, and it was like— Because I offered her $600 and she's like, absolutely not, it's gonna have to be higher than that. And I paid $700. I feel like that's a huge deal. I was left with less than $100 in my bank.

Mason: More than double?

Josh: No, no, no, it's $400.

Mason: And I think it's— I actually think it's $300.

George: Oh really?

Mason: For Park Lane? I think so.

Josh: Yeah, now you— I think you could be right. Can we get it?

Mason: And there's $400 for Mayfair.

George: Yep.

Mason: Do I need to— I'll— I can open the app. I'll open the app.

Josh: No, well, it'll be the same for the— I don't think Okay. Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, Monopoly is going great. I would— it's really, really fun. Like, if anyone's been thinking about playing Monopoly, definitely give it a crack.

Jess: Yeah.

Josh: We had to actually upend— Yeah. How long did they go for?

George: How long does a game go for? Yeah.

Josh: I reckon around 2 and a half hours. And so it was when we kicked on. When we started, it was like, yeah, because there's no fucking around with banks and all that. So like, it's very quick in that regard. And so 1 PM Melbourne time was 8 PM LA time. And so I may have had like a red wine straight after the show yesterday at 1 PM.

Tommy: That's all right, Saturday.

Josh: Ate some cheese. It was great. I closed the blinds like it was dark, put the fireplace on in the, um, on the TV.

Tommy: Oh great. And it was a lovely day. Like, that's the opposite of what yesterday was. It was a lift the blinds up and get outside. Yeah, no, it made sense.

Josh: I've also still— I've got an audiobook that I want to recommend. It's awesome. I've already listened to like 3 hours of it, um, just yesterday. Bree and I have been listening to it together, and she agrees that it's like one of the best we've listened to. It is The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons in Creative Leadership. And it's by Robert Iger, who's the CEO of Walt Disney Company.

Mason: Ah, Bob.

Josh: Yeah.

George: Sounds good. Exactly.

Josh: Yeah, it's very, very good. And so, he— I haven't kept up to date with everything, but he changed roles in Feb, like sort of stood down as the Disney CEO But then with all the board— Yeah, I think it was chairman, maybe. I don't know what he was, but I think he's like gone back into the role with all the coronavirus stuff. It's very interesting. Like, he talks about, you know, having to call, or like he called a family whose kid was killed by an alligator in like one of the resorts. Just shit like, like just this, all this random shit. Opening the Shanghai, uh, Disneyland or whatever they call it. But yeah, it's very good.

Mason: I mean, he's done so— he's done—

Josh: is Georgie Boy meditating, by the way?

Mason: No, he's definitely just—

Josh: I think he's just—

Mason: he's absolutely lost. Oh, there he is.

Josh: Okay, Georgie Boy, you're back. Yep.

George: Um, that was—

Tommy: he's just— just—

Mason: he's—

Tommy: he's done heaps.

Mason: Like, they literally acquired like Pixar and, um, Lucasfilm, which does all the Star Wars, Marvel, uh, just a bunch of like— maybe like Fox as well, Fox Entertainment. He, he was, he was one leading all the acquisitions and stuff. It's crazy.

Josh: So he led like— he was high up at, um, ABC, and then Disney bought ABC. That's crazy because it's like, yeah, the— this is like early '90s and all that sort of thing, and seeing the sort of shit that he, um, you know his whole career and stuff. I just felt like it was very interesting.

George: Yeah.

Tommy: Um, did you hear about the guy that, thanks to coronavirus and Disneyland closing, uh, ended his 2,995-day in-a-row streak going to Disneyland? And the only reason he stopped— the only reason he stopped is because of coronavirus and them closing it down.

Josh: That'd be so— that's like the guy, um, Super Size Me, where he, um, he, uh, he, he was having a Big Mac every day. He only ate Big Macs. Yeah.

Tommy: Jesus. I mean, how annoyed would you be at 95? Like, 2,995. You'd want it to round out to 3 grand. 3K. Oh, please, please. How annoying. Anyway, he said he was paying for it.

Mason: If he was just a member now, at that point, he just gets free entry, surely.

Tommy: I fucking hope so. That joint, you've been, Josh.

Mason: Unlimited season pass. How much did it cost you?

Tommy: $150, $200 each for the day or something?

Josh: Oh, Disney World was so expensive. Yeah, we ended up like, no, it was like, I think for, we spent over $1,000 on all of the stuff for that trip, just for the like, the—

Mason: There must be a pass that you can get, surely.

Josh: Yeah, there's the quick, the—

George: Is it worth it?

Josh: Nah, I'm not a big theme park guy.

George: No.

Tommy: Um, ah, so he's, he's been going— the guy from that was going every time it was open, so it was consecutive to the days that Disneyland was open, which is still—

Mason: so he can still continue his streak?

Tommy: No, he stopped it. It's too long. He said no, it's the end of my streak.

Mason: Oh really?

Tommy: The streak?

Mason: $1,300.

Tommy: The streak's been ended, by the way. He's probably paying it. I mean, what are you doing at that point unless you've got a YouTube channel where you sort of Monetising it.

Josh: I know people that like buy the, like who live in the US, they live not that far from Anaheim. And so, they'll like for Disneyland, they'll get the year pass. They have like the full legit like ears, like the real good ones, like the high qual that you're probably spending $100 on. God. And they go like, you know, a few times a year, that's sort of their that's their holidays they go to.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean, people do fucking love it. He was getting 20,000 steps in a day when he was going there. I mean, it's— he just saw it's been good for me as the gym, he said. It's classic. I mean, it's just a— that's his park that he walks around.

Josh: I think that's— I mean, it would be fun. Like, I mean, good vibe, good vibe, candy smell in the air.

Tommy: Just—

George: he'd be eating like hot dogs and dagwood dogs. Yeah, the steps doesn't really make much of a difference.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, he's doing— how many steps did you say?

Tommy: Yeah, 20,000.

Josh: 20,000. But eating—

Tommy: be there for a couple hours.

Josh: Yeah, yeah. 10 seconds of admin. Take a screen grab right now of you listening to the show, post it on Instagram as a story, and we'll regram it. What a deal, right?

Tommy: One of the best.

Josh: And any, uh, any final words? Any other bits and pieces?

Tommy: We'll see you tomorrow. I'm gonna go enjoy the sun.

George: Lovely.

Josh: All right, see you then, guys. Have a good Sunday.

Tommy: See you guys.