Sharing The Juice

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 734.

Tommy: How are we, guys? What's happening? What's going on? Tuesday, how's it all cracking?

Josh: Oh, just before we, uh, hit go on the show, we had Ben Fordham call, and I said, hey mate, let's just actually talk about it on the show. So let's just get Fordo on.

Tommy: Fordo.

Ben: Hey bro.

Josh: Hey, uh, Fordo, you're live on The Daily Talk Show.

Ben: Oh, it's one of my favourite shows. Wow, this is so cool. What do I win?

Josh: Mate, you win— what does he win, George?

Ben: I want a Gronk Squad t-shirt that's a bit bigger than the one you sent me. I don't know whether I've put on weight or what's going on.

Mason: No.

Josh: Did we just send you a medium, Fordo?

Ben: What's that?

Josh: It was a medium.

Tommy: What size was it, Fordo?

Ben: Oh, let me have a look. It's in my cupboard here somewhere. I know I should probably be at work. But, um, I don't know. I've got 75 black t-shirts. I saw that you cleared out yours recently, Tommy. I need to do the same. Um, I don't know, but whatever it is, I'll let you know. I need to go one bigger because it's just, you know, do you find that thing where you're just feeling like, hang on a minute, this is now I'm feeling bad about myself because this t-shirt doesn't fit, even though I didn't even try it on to begin with.

Josh: But well, that happens. I mean, I saw like, I haven't weighed myself in a while. And I decided, look, I'm gonna do it. I'm just gonna, like, I need to confront, confront whatever I'm at based on ISO. And so at my heaviest, my heaviest I've ever been, I was 120. Uh, at my sort of slimmest, I was 85. And so I, I said to Bree, I'm like, I'm gonna go on the scales today and see what the deal is because I want to be the healthiest I've ever been at 30. And I turned 30 on September 14th, and I said, I reckon I'm gonna go I'm going to be 95 kilos is my guess. And I stood on the scales and I am 101. So, wow. Yeah.

Mason: Okay.

Josh: I've really— that's what Uber Eats will do. I've been— or maybe it's muscle mass.

Ben: Yeah, I had to— I mean, that's what kind of prompted my, you know, turning the health around. It was my— when I got to know the Uber Eats delivery guys, you know, on a personal basis, when you start, you know, offering them to be the godfather of your newborn. It's like, hang on a minute, we've become far too close. So, but I, I was heaviest 97, lightest 82, but comfortable 85, and I'm now close to 90. So I'm like, you know, looking good though. 7 off my worst, 7 off my worst, 7 off my best.

Tommy: Joining our live 24-hour livestream, you, you're looking good, mate. You scrub up nicely. What is it for you? What are you— are you eating more and moving less? I mean, that's the— that's the—

Ben: Yeah, I just think, I don't know, mate, what it is, Tommy, the alcohol thing, I was really good at going— when I did the whole health and fitness thing, I was like, okay, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I just stay off the booze. And then I give it a red-hot nudge on a Friday. But the ISO thing has made me drink. I'm back to drinking every day now. Like, I just need a couple of glasses of red wine at the end of each day, so. You know, even though the ISO thing's practically over, it's kind of stuck around with me. So I don't know, I'll have to— I'm about to start doing breakfast radio, which is going to be a shock to the system. So I think that'll be a natural point where I can say, right, oh well, I'm not going to be doing that from, you know, from that time on. So I'll just have to go nuts between now and then. I've got 2 weeks.

Tommy: Well, it's a slippery slope. It either will make you go further backwards or pull you into line. So I wish you luck.

Ben: Oh mate, can you just— can we focus on the positive? I mean, I don't want you thinking about the negative. Listen, The reason I was reaching out this afternoon, I'm sorry to reach out right when the podcast is starting. I need to know the full storey of the megaphone because I must have missed the first reference to the megaphone and now I'm listening to the further references and when I heard there's business opportunities for people associated with the megaphone, my ears pricked up.

Josh: Yeah, it's moved very quickly. And so I bought the megaphone when I was personal training the boys the other day on Thursday. Thursday.

Ben: Yep.

Josh: And was it Thursday or Wednesday? I think it was Thursday. And, um, and, uh, then I, I spent $39 on the megaphone and then about, uh, $15 on batteries.

Ben: Yeah, I heard that. Yeah.

Josh: And so what I decided was it would be good to be able to make some form of money back. And I don't know how it really went from there, and so it's just escalated.

Tommy: Well, Josh, you started throwing— well, Ben, uh, we threw out our PayPal details, which are simply our email address, hi@thedailytalkshow.com, and we were just saying send us money, help us recoup the costs. And then people started sending cash, and then it evolved, and then it became who wants to be the naming right sponsor of The Daily Talk Show's megaphone? And then we got our first bid, which was $50, and then, and then the second bid— we've got a website Mr. 97's just knocked together thedailytalkshow.com/megaphone.

Ben: And so you can see, yeah, well, and I heard that last night, but where's it at at the moment? What's the highest?

Josh: Well, so this was interesting. We, we had, uh, we've got to call Kate Mead, who's on at Ace Radio in, um, uh, Warrnambool. Is that where— where—

Ben: yeah, you've had her on before. Yeah.

Josh: And so, um, she has done a— she did a bid for $120,000, and then I was archiving my email last night and nearly archived an email where she has given another bid for $125,000, which has a whole other storey to it. So I know we need to call her after you to work out what the deal is with that.

Ben: Yeah, well, she obviously needs a welfare cheque because she's bidding against herself.

Tommy: So, um, there is a lovely storey behind it, Ben, and so technically she's the next in line, but then —You can buy it, Ben, for whatever business you like, for yourself or somebody else, for your new breakfast radio show. I know you need to sort of get the word out there about the smallest breakfast show in Sydney. Yeah, I thought that would be a good opportunity.

Josh: So if it's over $500, Ben, if you do it for over $500, Tommy is doing a special deal where he'll make you a video. So he could do a video of your new breakfast show.

Ben: Um, yeah, I've seen Tommy's videos though. They're worth about $15. So I'm more interested in, I'm more interested in the megaphone, right? I understand the megaphone's more up my alley because I, I just really like that, that, that loud noise. Um, how could I, can you, yeah, go on, but do you own, you know, for my first week of the new breakfast show, 'cause it's starting in 2 weeks, right? And, and in case you're missing it at the moment, these are free plugs I'm getting. I haven't handed over any cash so far.

Tommy: That's true. But I see what you do.

Ben: How would I say own the megaphone for the first week of my breakfast radio show?

Josh: Yeah, it's gonna— let's— we're gonna have to— so if I've learned anything about sales, where I've gone wrong previously is I put a number out there. What I should ask, what's your budget? What's your marketing budget? What do you got?

Ben: Oh man, I'd be willing to— I'd be willing to pay $250 for if I was getting, you know, I'd need— what I'd need for the— I'd need it for a week, the first week of my radio show. Yeah. And I'd need guaranteed plug, uh, in the first 5 minutes of each podcast. Okay. And I'd want it just for the 5 days. So call it— I want 2 plugs a show, 5 days. Yeah. So it's $50 a day, that's $250. Okay. Yeah, look, deal or no deal?

Josh: Oh, look, we'll tell you. What do you think?

Ben: Deal or no deal?

Josh: When is it starting, Ben?

Ben: When do we— In 2 weeks, June 1st.

Tommy: 2 weeks' time.

Josh: Well, the thing is the megaphone's gonna be worth a lot more then. So that's the risk that we have to take is whether we're scaling.

Tommy: This is a scaling partnership.

Ben: I know, I know, I know all about risk. You're taking a very big risk in turning down $250. So I know all about that.

Josh: What about 330x GST? 330x GST? That seems sort of more aligned with, I think, what the market value is now. And that's not even considering where we're gonna be at in 2 weeks.

Ben: Hmm, I think you should take the $250.

Tommy: Well, how quickly can you get us $250 via PayPal?

Ben: I can have it via PayPal within 35 minutes.

Josh: Okay, that's good.

Tommy: That's quick money. That is real good, that is real good.

Ben: And then we're blocking. I'll just say this. Yep. I just wanna make clear because I know you don't edit anything, so. The new breakfast radio show starts on 2GB on June 1st with Ben Fordham. So just in case you turn down the offer, I've got a plug there for free. So really, June 1st, 2GB, it's really worth your while now because you've given it away for nothing. You really should recoup some money just like you wanted to do with the megaphone and the battery. So you'd be mad to turn down the opportunity.

Josh: Could we do a contract? How about this? How about $250,000? Plus the Daily Talk Show gets one mention on your show.

Ben: You've already had mentions on my radio show.

Josh: No, we haven't had a breakfast show. I want the fuck out.

Ben: I want Sydney, mate. Hey, listen, prime time. Listen, listen, listen to this. There's $250. It's going once.

Tommy: No, it's taken. We're taking it.

Josh: We're taking it. We're definitely taking it.

Tommy: You have a deal. June 1st till 5th, you have naming rights sponsor, even if other people buy it. This has been— this was a deal, you know, like you start out in your career and you're locked into things early days and you got to warrant them in the future, even if we're getting $10 grand a week.

Ben: And also, mate, it sets a really good, I think, precedent and price early on to say, you know what, there's $250 and he's got it for a week and he invested early and he went hard early. So it's like it encourages other bidders and buyers out there to have a go. Don't muck around, don't sit on the sidelines. So I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll get the money into the PayPal. If Mr. 97 sends me the details right now, text them to me, you'll see it pop up by the time you finish the show.

Josh: Great. Literally all you need is— yeah, you can explain it to him. You get your Foxtel IQ kid to do it for you, he'll be able to do it.

Ben: Yeah, no, that's right. I work on AM radio, so my technological abilities are a little bit Lime. But boys, it's a pleasure doing business. Thanks so much. I'm excited.

Josh: I think that's a good deal. I feel like we got what we wanted in the end, which seems like—

Ben: No, no, no, you wanted $3.30, you idiot. You didn't get it. But as I said, it's a pleasure doing business with you.

Josh: Yeah, thank you, Ben.

Tommy: Thank you. Thanks, Bordo.

Josh: He's off. Well, that's mad.

Tommy: I mean, this is it, guys. This is how you do business. This is how you do business. This is how you monetize podcasts. Uh, the future is bright from June 1 through till 5.

Josh: And so, uh, Kate made a call to explain, like, we need to get the word on.

George: Yeah, look, yeah, let's get—

Tommy: in fairness, in fairness, we can't mention, uh, Fordo and what we're going to talk about, uh, from June 1 because he doesn't have rights until then. Who has rights is Kate Mead, and Kate Mead kind of as you mentioned, Tufordo has thrown another spanner into the works because it's her second bid. And when we say bid, we mean paid cash exchanged. Bid is not like— I was thinking that when I kept saying donation and I thought it's not really a donation, is it? Small. Yeah. What is the, what is the term? Because bid, bid could— they are getting outbidded at some point, but it's a real rock. So we're redefining bid. Essentially. Are we?

Josh: Well, how are we redefining? I think that's a lot of rah-rah. Let's call Kate anyway and find out what the—

Tommy: A bid usually is in a process, and at the end there's the highest bidder, whereas everyone along the term is guessing something.

Josh: I'm just unmuting you, Kate. Sorry.

Tommy: Hello, Kate. How are you?

E: Kate Mead. Hi, boys.

Josh: How are we? Oh, we're good, thank you. Thank you for your PayPaling. Sorry I declined your call earlier. I was actually on another call, and as I ended that call, you called. And so, did it even ring? Ah, no, went straight to voice message.

E: I thought, okay, wow, he's screening. Yeah, that's lovely. I mean, I'm throwing money at you, but okay.

Josh: And so, can you tell us the idea? Because you bid $120 and you got the megaphone. We have been yelling Kate Mead everywhere I go with the megaphone. It's been getting a lot of runtime, uh, why do a second bid?

E: Well, here's the thing, I got sick of my name, I suppose. That's where it started. Um, no, but I, I guess the moment that I saw this megaphone and the whole, okay, you can buy it, you can have naming rights, sponsors, I was like, okay, to be the number one ticket holder of any club, like, this is it. You've already got a Queen Gronkh. I can't have it. Yeah, it's one mighty huge, yep, machine. So I just thought I've gotta have it, I've gotta take it, I've gotta grab it. Yeah, get on it. And then I realized, okay, so I'm doing the Women of Influence, I'm not kind of really running a business or anything at the moment. I'm kind of in a state of not creating anything crazy at the moment. If I hear my name one more time for not actually achieving anything or doing anything, I'm gonna go crazy.

Josh: You remember that? Embrace it, we do it. It's fun. We do it.

E: Well, so then I got the guilt up because I then realised the juice, the power of the juice of the medical.

Josh: The juice is huge. Yeah, the juice is massive. Yes, you know juice.

E: Real juice. Yeah, so and all the backend and all the power of it. And I thought, I better Google my name and see how I'm coming up, right? Guess what happened? Kate Meade, Daily Talk Show. I'm everywhere.

Josh: Yeah, it's a lot of juice. It's a lot of juice.

E: Too much juice to drink. Totally changed my order of the way that I come up on a search engine. So I thought, okay, I remember what it was like starting out. And I'm not saying that I'm rolling around in money because I'm not, but when you're starting out— no, I've given you my like weekly paycheck right now. Thank you. But I remember when you start something. So I'm already a huge fan of you guys, number one, but number two, when you're starting out, you just need 1 or 2 people to believe in what you're doing, right? And I thought, you know what I've done when I've come in big and hard trying to get this big megaphone from you is I've probably stolen the idea of, you know, like building up from scratch and everyone getting opportunity and just come through like, I want it, like a toddler.

Josh: There was someone who offered $65, who I had to send an email saying, hey mate, sorry. Sorry, buddy. You sort of, you were outbid a while ago. His business is going fine, I'm sure. Yeah, so that's it.

E: Poor guy. So, okay, so yeah, so last night couldn't sleep, was thinking about the juice. By the way, I had to get up at 3:30 in the morning. Yeah, 3:30. I can't sleep. Okay, this is what I'll do. I'll make another donation. I'll one-up myself by $5, and you guys can pick someone, an amazing Gronkh that is doing incredible work that just needs a little leg up, that needs the I need the juice.

Josh: That's very generous. You're handing out, you're sharing the juice. That's the theme of today's show, sharing the load.

Tommy: And it's COVID safe, COVID safe sharing. Definitely. Kate, can I ask you, what time did you actually make the purchase? 'Cause on the email it says like 1:23 AM.

E: You're not up at that time, right? No, but I, you know, those nights, you know, the nights when you cannot sleep and you start going, okay, if I fall asleep now, I'll get 3 hours. If I fall asleep now, I'll get 2 hours. I had one of those nights last night. Oh wow. And, uh, I don't know, it's crazy times, crazy unprecedented times.

Josh: And I thought, you know what, I'll do this. And also, like, I feel like everyone's quiet. If we could get people doing bids at that time, I reckon There's a heap of shit that I do. Like, we're all more vulnerable at that time. I think that we should start like a 2 AM club where we try and get people to make bids at 2 AM because I feel like it could be good for the megaphone.

E: Why do you think those telemarketing TV shows work so well? We end up buying like the pots and the pans and the non-stick stuff. Hello. That's so true.

Tommy: It's late night. What's that film that has, um, That's a great— yeah, yeah, yeah, she's selling the mops and it's like the storey of how she became the, the mops sales.

Josh: It was like the original shop online shopping, sorry, the original TV shopping. Such a great movie.

Tommy: I can't remember. Anyway, this is the equivalent. We're, we've, we're just re— we're reigniting the telemarketing, like TV. Yeah, TV.

Josh: This is the new. And so how do we—

Tommy: so Kate, where the new Denim's— where the new Denim's Direct, to be honest.

Josh: I wonder how Denim's is going. I mean, wish.com has become the new Dan Oz, hasn't it? Like, that's like the amount of shit that I get sort of advertised on Wish to me. A lot of—

George: so much, isn't it? Ridiculous.

Josh: And so how do we, how do we do it, TJ? I feel like you had an idea.

Tommy: Well, any, any sort of just— we want to do this right. We want to make sure that we find the right person. Any sort of, not rules, but just sort of guidance that you'd send us that we can sort of take and run with, Kate?

E: I think in my past experience, always look for someone within your community that has the same values of you, that wants to get out there and just do something awesome for the world. I mean, that's what you guys are doing, right? So there will be someone already that you're thinking of that, you know, it's just a little game changer. It's a gesture, right? And when they're big and successful, Not that I am, not that I am. I pay it forward later on. And it's also the megaphone helps, right?

Josh: Like we can always say, like I can be on the sidelines yelling in the megaphone, like it was us, it was me.

Tommy: I mean, that's you. Business brand, or can it be a person or someone who wants to say thank you to somebody? Could be anything like that, or are we businessy?

E: I think you'll know. I think even me talking to you today, there's already maybe a couple that are popping up in your mind already that you're like, you know what, they're doing awesome work. Give them a little bit of a, you know, let's bring them up. Let's put a light on them for a bit.

Josh: I think that's great. Well, thank you, Kate. I think that's very kind, Kate. Yeah, it's super, super generous.

E: And proud to be a Gronk.

Josh: And I mean, it's also, I just love, like, it gives us a reason to be like, now this like nice gesture sort of rubs off on us, which which is just great, you know. It's a win-win. Win-win. It's a win-win-win is what we're talking about here. And then we'll get to Forte in June with that big cash, you know, that big AM money. Yeah, that was a good lock-in.

E: First off, I was a little bit like, don't take the money, you can go higher, boys, you can go higher.

Josh: Did I go too soft? Yeah, 'cause you're very good at negotiating.

E: Any feedback? I thought I was— it was very brave to ask for the breakfast spot shout out. I mean, now that would have been real juice.

Mason: Yeah, real juice.

Ben: That's a lot.

E: But I think the fact that you've already got Ben on side and in and he's made a commitment, it's the beginning. It's really working on that relationship. So you get him 250 now, was it? It'll be 2,500. Exactly. In 6 months, you know, baby steps.

Tommy: And I will be calling as a fake listener every morning from here. That's a great idea. Let's just do it. Yeah, definitely. Ben, just congratulations, mate. You know, it's been big support from the Daily Talk Show. That's great.

Josh: Maybe I can do the call through the megaphone and see if he picks it. How many times can I call using the megaphone? That'd be great. Thank you, Kate. Love it. Well, hopefully you get— do you nap during the day when you don't sleep much?

E: Oh yeah, so basically when you guys get off just after 1, Kate's tucking in for a nap time now.

Josh: Oh, that's great. Nice. That's good. I could get around that little, you know, little nap. All right, thanks, Kate. We'll keep you updated with how it goes.

E: Well done, boys. See you. Bye. Thanks, Kate.

Josh: Perfect. This is great. Tired up.

Tommy: Business is good. Late lunch, guys. Late lunch, boys.

Josh: Late lunch.

Tommy: Late lunch, few vinos. Get a few rosés. Nah, nah, nah. I've been so excited.

Josh: I literally haven't, if you're watching the YouTube stream, I haven't switched to us once. I've got my hands full. I've got the megaphone.

Tommy: That's good. Yeah, okay. Now we need to get to business. Finding somebody. And I think it might be done today post-show with the announcement tomorrow. The rule being, even if someone does trump the $125, we still value the honouring it. The kind, generous giveaway of the megaphone.

Josh: It would be a Gronkh move if we didn't.

Tommy: It would be real, really, really taking advantage of a charitable gesture.

Josh: Well, I think that we could all just have a think. Let's not make any sort of— Do you say brash? Rash? Rash decisions? Rash decisions.

George: Rash decisions.

Josh: Well, let's just, um, what's a rash? Can you look up the, um, the meaning of a rash decision, where it's come from?

Ben: Yes, it's something done.

Tommy: Decision to rub my arm. It is my decision to rub your— my arm on your rash, and then I get a rash. A rash decision.

George: Oh, brash. Brash works as well. Yeah, maybe it is brash. Self-assertive in a rude, noisy, and overbearing way.

Josh: Talking about—

Tommy: yeah, you know, it'd be It'd be you coming in and saying, no, no, I got it, this is who it is. It didn't happen.

Josh: So we're talking about chillin'. Yeah, I think that's the right thing. No, I was just going to say on the rash thing, we haven't given my folliculitis much love lately. I went to the pharmacist yesterday and I thought, you know what, like, I hate admin, but I'm like, I've got like, I've got these little pimply things on my head, I need to get it sorted out. Went to Chemist Warehouse. There was the guy, like there was someone behind the counter at the pharmacist. I said, hey, and I just pulled off my beanie. I'm like, I've got these like red dots on my head, like I think it's folliculitis. And he's like, oh, you'll have to chat to the pharmacist, which is because he wasn't the pharmacist. So then I had to wait, and I was waiting. I felt like a bit of a dickhead when he said like wait for the farmer. So I was just waiting. There's like 6 other people around. It was really hot because I had my North Face jacket on. I was sweating heaps. And I was just like, I was going up and down the shampoo aisle looking at like tea tree shampoos or like, can I find an antibacterial one? Can I just, anyway, I just said to Bree, I was like, nah, it's taking too long, let's go. And so, we left and walked down and there was another pharmacist only a few doors down that was sort of like a little smaller operation, walked in, he was great, showed my head, and here's an announcement. There's no shampoo, there's nothing topical that I can do. He says I have to go to a GP, I have to get antibiotics.

Tommy: Interesting, it's worth doing to see.

Josh: It's so annoying though, isn't it?

Tommy: Antibiotic, I just feel about like— No, you don't need that.

George: Would you rather cop the folliculitis than take antibiotics?

Josh: No, no, no, no, I want it gone. It's just like itchy head, it's shit. No, no, no, you got it. I want to get— and the other thing too is—

George: But why don't you just come back?

Josh: No, well, I think the thing is I'm going to stop wearing hats, I'm going to stop wearing my beanie, like I'm going to go cold turkey on all of it and really give my scalp, you know, some breathing room.

Tommy: Yeah, try that. That's a good first approach. Just to give you an update, cash has hit the account. Cash has hit the account. Ben Fordham has fronted the money squeeze. June 1 to June 5, megaphone naming the right sponsor. So we won't speak of him until then.

George: Ding ding. In between, in the time in between, the limit— oh, the current bid is still at what it is now.

Josh: So it hasn't hit—

George: it won't hit $250 until the end of that week.

Tommy: But are we booked out? Like, how long are we giving Kate's generous offer of $125?

Josh: So, I think what we do is we're gonna give a bonus day. That's what I'm committing to now.

Tommy: So, whatever— Bonus day, that is considering that no one comes in and pays $130. And so, that is even considering—

Josh: Is that a bonus day? That's not a bonus day.

Tommy: No, no, no, no. What a bonus day is, an extra day.

George: If someone comes in.

Josh: No, because if someone pays. Even if someone outbids them. No, but so the, yeah. So, the thing is that if someone bids $130,000, they get it now for until someone else outbids. So, a bonus day is someone bids, we give a day. And so, that person holds off. Yeah.

Tommy: Great, great, great. So, this person that we're going to decide today that gets Kate's gest— you know, kind gesture will have it for at least a day from— more than a day, they're gonna have it for like 2 or 3 days. So this is great, this is nice, this is where we're, you know, don't say we don't give back.

Josh: And if so, that's what we're doing. Kate's just listening, going, this is not really what I was hoping for from this. Don't say we don't do anything for you guys. Anything else, like if we're just a blue sky think through the megaphone, the future of the megaphone.

Tommy: Well, I was thinking, I mean, one Posca, a Posca pen or some kind of sort of permanent pen that is white that you can start just writing like a cast, you know, when you break your arm as a kid or you see someone who has and they get all the writing on it. I'd like you to start just doing your handwriting on the microphone.

Josh: Kate Fordo has just sent me a— Fordo's just sent me a confirmation as well. Yeah, great. Yeah, contract coming in. Contract coming in. That's not even a PayPal, that's a direct. That's even better.

Tommy: Yeah, he's just gone straight through. He's quick.

Josh: Yeah, he's just gone quick. And he's with the same bank as us, so that's going to hit the account straight away. This is good. What are we going to do with the cash? Cash in hand. So this is the thing. So we've got this cash coming in, TJ. Can we put it into like an innovation pool or like a domain names pool?

Tommy: Or like, where do we put this money? I mean, funds are pretty low. It could just be seen as cash flows. Cash flow. Cash flow.

Josh: That's pretty sad, isn't it? Can't we just take— It's just cash flow. Could we do like a 10% innovation? Could we get 10% of whatever it is that we have? Would you, given— it was everyone's idea. I'm not gonna take credit for the idea, but I bought the megaphone. And so could we do a Josh Janson Innovation Fund, which is 10% Megaphone sales and I can buy something which I think will bring value to the show.

Tommy: Yeah, when do you want it? Do you want to do it when it hits a certain point? Because then it's like, mate, you haven't got—

Josh: we can actually— well, so what's the total?

Tommy: $1,000 mark, you get 10%. Give me, give me 2 seconds.

Josh: I think the, we're about $600 once you include, uh, yeah, you'll have, you'll have about $60. So you can do a lot from the innovation fund for $60. Yeah, I could start looking at new merch. The other thing I was thinking, what do you think about, um, uh, maybe Georgie Boy can't do it because he's busy with the hump day, but I was thinking of doing a— I've never used this word because I've never worked in like, um, like retail, um, stock take. Could we do a stock take of our Gronk tees and crewnecks and put up for— because a few people have asked about the merch and we're very clear on not wanting to print anymore and we're doing exact numbers. We got a few extra t-shirts and a few crews. Should we put gronksquad.com up with the exact amount? And so for those gronks that missed out, they may have been waiting for like money to hit account, like whatever it is, so they can get the— that stuff. Do you do one of these?

Tommy: And then, and yeah, so then you on your end Through Shopify.

George: Exactly, Shopify, they've got inventory.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, inventory, inventory, that's great. Also, they're, they're inventory as well, like they, they're revolutionary in terms of their inventions. So I'm with you, Seb.

Josh: Okay, all right, well, so we'll do that. So we need to count the, um, the stock. Yeah, GB is that— I mean, it was probably—

Tommy: no, we've got to take— I don't have a t-shirt. I haven't taken a t-shirt. Okay, well, so just one.

Josh: So we just need to— and then we've got—

George: we've got photo. We got photo as well. We gotta sort out photo.

Josh: Well, he needs to pay for, for, um, like, he has to pay $3.30 if he wants a t-shirt thrown in.

Tommy: Oh yeah, I did like— I did appreciate that sort of hustle, JJ. You gotta—

George: that was good.

Tommy: I reckon even the breakfast slot was just— that was great.

Josh: Well, I think that— I reckon we're in.

Tommy: As much as he said no and he tried to sort of say that, nah, business is you know, this is how I do business. Sorry, mate, we're getting—

Josh: I think he's a guy to under-promise and over-deliver. And so I feel that he's saying, nah, nah, nah, and he'll play a 30-second sting and he's the first show—

George: the show brought to you by the Daily Talk Show.

Josh: Yeah, there could be something fun. Could we— one thing that I'd love to do, actually, this one, fuck, this reminds me of a story. Oh, I've completely forgot about this. So I just had the idea, what about if the megaphone was to move around Australia eventually? So the megaphone goes on a tour. And what that reminded me of is I remember when I was at Fifi and Jules, there was a breakfast show, a regional breakfast show that was doing a torch-style tour.. And they got like a physical torch, like a flashlight, and they passed it around Australia and it got to me and they got me to take it to London for the final bit. But I was so busy that I didn't do the thing, like I fucked it. I think I lost, I ended up losing the torch. And so I just remember getting a call from them saying, "Hey, we heard about the torch. Can we just call you and pretend that the torch is in London?" That's so— can you believe how—

Tommy: the other option is great that we gave it to this idiot who lost it.

Josh: Yeah, I think that they put in so much work that it was too much for them to handle. I remember Sam Cav was the one that's like, hey, I'm trying to remember who it was, what the radio show was.

Tommy: Jules Lund has probably definitely pushed you into doing it as well. He'd be like, great idea. Yeah. Great idea. Maybe it was Turaugen or—

Josh: I don't know. I feel like it was a show.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Ant and Beck, but they weren't, they were ARN, weren't they? It was something like that.

Tommy: It was 2 girls. Well, if you didn't get in trouble for it, it couldn't have been a big breakfast show. Yeah. It has to have been a small little fish. I can't believe it.

Josh: It seems like such an easy win to— and also just a great opportunity for me. Like, I would look like a hero.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, I know. Uh, we can't go on holidays, but the megaphone can via AusPost, DHL, or whatever service that we choose. It could go around Australia.

Josh: I mean, it seems like sharing a megaphone is a nightmare from a COVID-19 perspective.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, well, you could spray it down, you could do the operation before you start. Like, I saw someone giving away money on YouTube and they legit laid it all out, wore gloves, masks, sprayed it with sanitizer, put the money back into an envelope, and that's how they sent it out. It was a good precaution, mate. I fucking shook a hand. I shook someone's hand last night. Oh really? Caution. I, I shook a hand last night.

Josh: Was it Mark the Butcher? No, no, he wouldn't. By the way, that was great. Go cheque out Tommy's video from Yesterday supporting local business, a butcher.

Tommy: We'll send it out on WhatsApp too, so you can get a little cheeky inbox. Hayden Dibbs' dad, I just, I lost it. I don't know, it was just—

Josh: whose hand went out first?

Tommy: Me. I fucked it. I can't believe I did it.

Josh: And what did he, what was the reaction?

Tommy: He shook it. He didn't flinch. No hesitation, really? Wow. No, not one bit. Not at all. Not at all. Soft, nice hand. Like, I remember it so vividly, like As soon as it touched, I said, oh God, I've just shook your hand.

Josh: It's like a one-night stand without protection, isn't it? Like it has that sort of vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like risky. It was a little bit fun, but maybe you fucked yourself forever. You'll never know. Was it worth it?

Tommy: I mean, it was soft exchange and if I don't get sick, I'm happy with it. Yeah, but you don't want to be that guy.

Josh: You can't be the guy now. This is the whole thing. It was a thrill for the night, but you don't want to be the guy that's doing that all the time now.

Tommy: Absolutely not. I tell you what, Mum, Mum, Mum's got a bit of a cold. Dad had it. She got it off Dad, and Mum said, Tim, you should go get tested for COVID. He doesn't think he has it, but toxic masculinity, he's not doing any of that. He won't get tested. He said, I'm not good. No, 'Not. I don't have it.' And I said, 'How do you know you don't have it? That's the point. You don't know that— you don't know if you have it.' Would you go get it? Definitely. Now, until I worked out— until— here's what you gotta weigh up. Mum, I just spoke to her before, went and did the drive-through at Chadstone to get the swab up the nose, so she's been tested. Finds out in 2 days she has to quarantine for 5 days. This is what they tell you. So yeah, so remember, because I almost was like, I'll make a video, I'll go get tested when they had it open to any gronk with no symptoms, just everybody's being tested. They've done 260,000 tests in the last month in Australia and— sorry, sorry, in Victoria alone. And so Mum now has to quarantine. And so I'm glad I didn't go and just do it because you wouldn't have been able to leave the house for 5 days.

Josh: Well, Mum did that. She quarantined and she was— Her biggest concern, because it's such a long wait, the car battery, because you're stopping and starting all the time. And they actually have jumper leads there because people are running out of battery just waiting.

Tommy: They've got medics for humans, medics for cars. They've got everything.

Josh: They've got a resus team. Not everyone's booking a Tesla, Seb.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Did she take your dad's long white car? No, she took the Mazda. Mazda 3, is that the like the i30 equivalent, the Mazda?

Tommy: Does your mum turn the car on and off? Like if she's—

Josh: I think it's because you've been stopped for a long time.

Tommy: Yeah, maybe they don't.

Josh: We can ask her what the experience was like. Have we ever had her on the show before? Let's see if she answers.

Tommy: Just don't tell her because she might freak out.

Josh: How long should we be on the line?

Tommy: You just speak to mum.

Josh: She— so I saw her on Saturday night for Bree's birthday and she said, uh, Tommy Jacket has added me on Facebook. And I said, yeah. And she says, should I accept? I was like, yeah, what, like, why not? She goes, this isn't content, is it? I don't think so.

Tommy: She took, she took a few days to accept. That's harsh.

Josh: She says, I only, she said, I only add people that I'm friends with. I just like, "Mum, it's not for content. Just accept it's absolutely fine." And then she did say, like, you know, you see her just sort of quiet on her iPad and she says, "I've accepted him." It's not content yet, Lynn, but it could happen. It is always a possibility. All right, here we go. Let's just call her. Let's see if she answers. It's 12:37 Tuesday. She might be in the dental surgery. Will you leave a message? Can I leave a message? It's probably because she's probably got patients.

Mason: The screen is right out front. Hi, I'm just about to see a patient. I'll call you back in a minute. Okay, all right.

Josh: Thank you, bye. That was her. That was not a voicemail.

Tommy: I thought that was a message.

Josh: It had a vibe to it.

Tommy: That's quite, that's like, she's about to say, I'm just about to see a patient, I'll call you back, bye.

Josh: Good that she answered.

Tommy: Yeah, that was lovely. It's always, it's nice. It's my mum usually answers with, um, oh, is everything all right? Like something is always going on, like she's always a bit worried.

Josh: I'm always FaceTiming. I always FaceTime. I haven't, like, I literally, um, you You didn't have her in favourites. I used to call her all the time. But I think that with the, once you get older and your parents start asking, do you have work work? Like that work work thing has become like a big joke at our place. Like, oh, have you got work work on?

Tommy: That's good, that's good. Who is in your favourites, Sev? And then we'll get George's favourites. This is on your iPhone.

George: Well, see, I've never, I never used favourites.

Tommy: Favorites before because you don't make phone calls, bro.

George: No, but I FaceTime a lot, so I don't— I, I use FaceTime heaps, but I just don't— I just don't—

Tommy: Who is on your favorites? Or is that—

George: I've just favorited— I've just favorited Grace just then.

Josh: You literally were talking— No, no, no, before the show about getting joint bank accounts and you haven't yet. Um, really?

George: I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just favorited No, I favorited her like probably maybe 3 weeks, 2 weeks ago.

Josh: Ah, so did you just say you added her just then? Did you not just say you added her to—

George: Nah, nah. So I, I just use my recent calls and you just go because they're my favourites anyway.

Tommy: Yeah, it's not about going to your favourites to make the call. Like, I do the same, but I have a favourites list, and so don't complicate it.

Josh: So George is your only one?

Tommy: Yeah, I'm the same.

Josh: I got no one in my favorites. Really?

Tommy: Blank. Yeah, whack us in there, Sunday. This is like the—

Josh: I love favorites. Yeah, this is the new—

George: I thought favourites were automatic, like I just thought it'd do it based off who you call the most as opposed to like, I'm gonna favourite you.

Josh: How many favourites have you got, TJ?

Tommy: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9.

Josh: I've got 9. I have 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, I think 10 or 11.

George: What's the point when you've got 12?

Josh: Well, because you can see them all. So the people I've got, you may as well see. Brianna Phillips, Tommy Jackett, Naysan Naraki, Blaz Roba, Till, Mr. 97, Peter Shepherd, Derek Myers, Gemma Watts, Harry Lodge, George Martin. There you go, that's mine. That's nice.

Tommy: I'm adding George.

Josh: Yeah, TJ's adding on top. I'm adding Naysan and George.

Tommy: Yeah, it was a contentious— I wasn't in Josh's. No, sorry, Josh wasn't in mine. But he— you also have Jansen spelled wrong. Uh, I had it spelled wrong for many, many years. It was almost a bit of an egg, to be honest. I was like, always got one up on you. Um, Amy Jacket, Josh Jansen, Joanne Jacket, Michael Jacket, Rhys Mitchell, Ant Jacket, Tim Jacket, Matt Barr, Batman Campton, which is Conspiracy Jimmy. Um, so that's, that's my list. I don't call Matt that much. We used to live together. Love him, but haven't— we speak maybe once every couple of months. He lives down the coast. But everyone else, regular, regular.

Josh: Yeah, for me, I think Till, Till I used to call every sort of second day. I haven't called Till in a couple of months. I should see how he's going. It's a good little audit. You know, see, I've got a phone list.

Tommy: That is great. Yeah, cheque your favorites. And if you haven't called one of them in the last 3, 4 weeks. Call it snip, snip.

Josh: Yes, definitely. Or cut them.

Tommy: Call them or cut them. That's a good 3. Cut them or cut— no, you got George. You have to add Han for Hannah first. That's the deal. Your partner first, Gronk Squad second.

Josh: Did you remember going into, um, uh, in Chrome, go view no source, uh, view the was no source or whatever to be able to see if someone had hidden their MySpace top friends. You could still see them. No, I remember it happening.

George: Right-click, inspect. Is that what you're doing?

Josh: No, no, this is prior to the inspect. It was like a view, uh, oh yeah, right-click, view, view no source, I think it was called, or something. Yeah, it basically would get rid of all the, um, see, like, all the styling so you could sort of see what's being hidden.

Tommy: Yeah, I am not the life hack guy, but I've just discovered a life hack, and this is for Mr. 99 Cent Back on Favourites. Oh, Lynne's calling back.

Josh: What's going on?

Tommy: Okay, hang on, I'll come back with that life hack.

Josh: Uh, Mrs. Jansen, you're on the daily talk show. Are you okay with that?

Mason: Yes, I am okay.

Josh: Okay, good. We're talking about the COVID-19 thing. Yes. What was the experience like? Um, getting tested. What was the experience like?

E: It wasn't that bad really.

Mason: Um, the worst part was lining up in the car and worrying my battery was going to go flat. Yeah, I've told that.

Josh: Um, was it— and what car is that? The Mazda? Yeah, Mazda 3.

Tommy: Yeah, Lynn, Tommy Jacket here, best friend on Facebook. Um, it's nice to be connected, you know, officially. What, uh, were you turning your car on and off? Was that it, or you were You had to—

Mason: what are you doing? There were signs up everywhere saying that you had to turn the engine off, and, um, because it's an undercover car park, and so if you, um, didn't, then you would asphyxiate the people doing the testing.

Josh: Nightmare. Did you have to wee? Casey was saying in the comments that she— the worst part was needing to wee or having to—

Mason: there was, there was a, um, a toilet, you know, one of those portable portable toilet there, yeah. But I didn't need to.

Tommy: Did you use it?

Mason: No. But it was reassuring, no, it was reassuring to know it was there.

Tommy: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And so you isolated for 5 days post-test, or is that—

Mason: No, I had to do, because I'm a health worker, I told them that and they said my test results would be within 3 days. So I went on Friday, and I actually got my results on Sunday, so I did stay at home until I got the results.

Tommy: Yeah, good one. So it's, yes, until you get the results, and then if you actually have it, it's another 14 days on top.

Josh: If you have it, then you have to, yeah. So you work at a dentist. What are the different things that you're doing now at the dental surgery to stay safe?

Mason: Well, I'm actually hiding in a patient makeup mat, So if they do, I'm going to hang up quickly. When a patient arrives, they have to wait in the car park because I'm not having people in the waiting room for any period of time, and I don't let patients cross over in the waiting room. So when they arrive, I cheque their temperature, I sanitise their hands, and then pretty much we put them in straight away. In the surgery, everything infection control is always at, you know, max, so that's not such a big thing. The dentist and nurse are now wearing shields, which they didn't used to. They just used to wear their masks, and they're also wearing shower cap things. So, and then when patient comes out, I make them put their hand in a freezer bag so that when they touch the keypad of the FPOS machine They're not putting anything in.

Josh: Do they keep the freezer bag?

Mason: I tell them they can because it can come in handy, or else there's the rubbish bin right next to it that they can put it in.

Josh: And Lynne, how long do you reckon this— sorry?

Tommy: How long do you think this will continue for?

Mason: Who knows? I don't think we'll ever go back to totally normal because when HIV first read its ugly head. Infection control changed heaps in dental surgeries. So we went from wearing no gloves and masks to, you know, full infection control. So I think things will be different forever.

Josh: What year did you start dental nursing? '75. 1975. And so the— with the— wasn't there a case or something that happened with the HIV that then made the sort of the dental industry get their shit together.

Mason: There was, there was, and I can't— I think it may have been a dentist that infected a patient. I keep— I can't remember really that far back, but I think that was the case, and then things changed. Yeah, okay.

Josh: Thank you for the chat.

Mason: All right, well, now I have to go and take my gloves off and put new gloves on because I've picked up my phone. So we're not doing good things to the environment because there's so much plastic plastic and rubber and everything going there. So it's a choice, you die or the environment.

Tommy: I mean, it's a big problem that now needs to be solved. So it's, um, yeah, anyway, everything is—

Josh: yeah, what was that, TJ?

Tommy: Uh, just that we speak on Facebook. We'll probably— I'll like something of yours later, Lynn. Actually, in right now.

Mason: Oh great. Um, what was I gonna say? Yeah, my keyboard and mouse and everything in in the reception area, I put Glad Wraps and stuff on Josh. Yeah, I do do that. Okay, all right, have a good day.

Tommy: I just, I just like your post from 4 hours ago.

Josh: Anyway, what is she posting 4 hours ago?

Tommy: Uh, I love little penguin. I love little penguins. They must be very happy without the crowds watching them every night. This is very funny. And then it's a 10 News bulletin.

Mason: Yeah, it's the guy who, um, is, um, calling the penguins as they walk along. Anyway, Look at it.

Tommy: Yeah, very cute content. Keep it coming, keep it coming. Bye. Yeah, thanks for having me.

Josh: There we go, Lynn Jansen.

Tommy: Lynn was great. It was great. Good fun commentary on the dental stuff. That's interesting.

Josh: Yeah, I should have asked her about the tongue scrapers as well. Oh yeah, yeah, maybe we can get some.

Tommy: I love it. I used to love getting the— I mean, the experience of going to the dentist back in the day, like, think about, um, Bond Street Dental, the big sort of open area where it's fun to go and sit in there and sort of watch the big screens or get some mints. I wonder what is going to happen in over the next, say, year, 12 months with the ones that sort of have that— they've created an environment for clients to sort of, you know, hang out before, or, you know, it's gonna— it's all gonna be different, very different. Wow.

Josh: Well, they reckon the— I was reading an article, the end of the A380 and all the, the big jets because they're like, oh, you're not going to be able to have that amount of people in a plane. So that's annoying, dude. I love the A380. I mean, but it is a bit of a— it had a few problems. I've noticed a bunch— I've said it to you, um, each time we're Zooming in the morning, but I've been seeing more and more planes fly over the CBD in Melbourne, a bunch of Air New Zealand flights.

Tommy: Yep. Um, Jetstar have seen— I did see an article that read, uh, plane spotters would be, uh, devastated that they're missing out on all the unusual planes. It was not that— that's a long airline, but long headline. But basically they were saying there's all these unusual planes flying in the skies at the moment, and it would be ideal for plane spotters who could be out looking for them. They must be moving aircraft around, or it's like be seeing less and there's more interesting ones flying at the moment because maybe they're just taking them for a run. But yeah, interesting.

Josh: I mean, I go through moments of, you know, like, um, we're talking about, you know, what's it going to be like? Are we going to, you know, like going to the pub and all that sort of thing? Then you hear the delivery guy that closes down 12 McDonald's because he's got COVID-19. You think about how easily shit can get closed down, right? Like, I feel like it would we're on, man, we're kidding ourselves if we think that this is just like— if one person can fuck shit up, like, it's— well, so the rule—

Tommy: yeah, I guess, yeah. So what, what the going to the pub isn't, isn't considering is that, uh, the rule around if you do get it or someone who has been in contact with you, like the reason they have this app. So if Mum got it I would need to quarantine because I've been around Mum. George, I've seen you in the last couple of days. Hayden, Dib, and Ryan, John, I was in the car with last night.

Josh: Hayden seeks dad, definitely, because you basically fucked him. Yeah, fair back.

Tommy: Anyway, like, is that what you do? Back with Mr. Dib. Yeah, he threw in a hat too.

Josh: Oh, that's nice. It was—

Tommy: yeah, he gave me the, the bull hat. Anyway, it's, um, considering 11 people in Australia have had it been diagnosed in the last 24 hours, confirmed cases, it's like a very low chance. But it's not to say that what you're saying isn't true, because that, yeah, that, that guy who was just a delivery driver rocked up to, yeah, all these different ones.

Josh: But then I also think about like, it all just started with one person. I think about that, like, so it has to— it starts somewhere and then it spreads. I mean, that's crazy. I feel like I'm a bit of a dummy the way I'm saying this, but like, no, when you— so if you think about that You just need one gronk to really go out and amongst it. And then all of those gronks to see other people. I know this is what they've been saying on the news, but it's pretty crazy.

Tommy: But the guy, the 12 Maccas closing down, the driver asymptomatic, didn't feel it, didn't feel that he had anything and got tested and yeah.

Josh: I've got a sore throat. You should get tested. Do you? I think you should get tested.

George: I've had it for 2 and a bit days now. I think you should. You haven't slept?

Josh: Heater on or something?

Tommy: It's that he hasn't slept with a heater on because his room's fucking freezing.

Josh: He needs to sort that shit out. I'm not comfortable with you not getting tested. Can you get tested? Yeah, do it. How are you gonna get there? Can you just go? I don't know. You're gonna have to walk.

Tommy: Yeah, you just go. Uber just needs water.

Josh: Yeah, exactly. Okay, yeah, everyone's getting real angry. You need to get tested. Okay, get— so, um, this is why they have testing.

Tommy: Chadstone Shopping Centre or Shoppo. Shoppo's doing it. Chadstone, bro.

George: Yeah, I guess. I haven't seen anyone though.

Tommy: It doesn't matter, that's not the point.

Josh: The point is they're testing. Georgie boy really wants to go to the pub. At all, is he? I think he's just left. Don't even bother changing the battery.

Tommy: All right, we're about to finish up. Uh, we don't need you for 5 days. I'll, I'll do all the outdoor activity work. I know, that's probably why I'd be pissed off. You'd be pissed that you couldn't go to the local park and do some chin-ups. That'd be fine, wouldn't you?

Josh: 10 seconds of admin. Have you given us a review on Apple Podcasts? Would really appreciate it. And just go and click that subscribe button as well, I guess. He's turned it back on.

George: He wasn't—

Josh: there he is. All right guys, great. All right, uh, it's a daily talk show. We'll, uh, see you tomorrow, and I'll, um, I'll WhatsApp over the, uh, TJ's video from today. Go cheque it out.

Tommy: And also, uh, give us an email or however you want to get in touch with us if you think you have somebody who has a business or something that they want to get out there through the megaphone. Taking suggestions as well.

Josh: See you tomorrow, guys. See you guys.