Exclusives, Crumpets & Costco

Josh: The Daily Talk Show. It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 822.

Tommy: Happy weekend, banter gronks. What's happening? What's going on? Jess, Sevs, welcome.

Mason: What's happening?

Tommy: Welcome, mate. Uh, you both fired up. Oh yeah, you're always welcome on weekends. Um, but mate, this quickly, straight out the gates, uh, need to sort of level something out here, Jess. Um, Who's getting the exclusives? Is it Too Much Tully? I mean, you've been on 3 podcasts this week. Does Too Much Tully get the exclusives now that that's sort of blown up?

Josh: On the personal life?

Tommy: On your personal life, because you've been talking dating on Too Much Tully and it's absolute juice. And I just feel like you're going to be holding shit from us from now moving forward.

Jess: Yeah, I feel like I've got to give it to Tully because I'm actually on the show now. You guys don't have me on enough.

Josh: Oh, this is hurtful. I mean, for someone who wouldn't come on Weekend Banter because she had other stuff to do, and now you're saying this.

Jess: Trying to move the needle forward for you, Josh.

Josh: No, no, no, I appreciate it. And so can you give us an exclusive, something that you haven't told, revealed on Too Much Tully?

Jess: Mm-hmm. Um, okay, I have set up a Zoom chat officially for this weekend for a date, which I revealed on Too Much Tully.

Josh: And yeah, it's a round of applause. Go on, go on.

Tommy: There's a bunch of single people off in the wings clapping.

Josh: Thanks, guys.

Jess: Um, yeah, there you go. I'll let you know how it goes.

Tommy: And so can we just sort of backtrack? Give us the storey leading up until that point about what's been happening. 'Cause this is juicy.

Jess: So I matched with a guy on Hinge, and I think I told you guys that I had an aversion to dating apps because I don't like men on them. However, COVID has really changed a lot of things, and I feel like it's my only resource now to find someone. So I—

Josh: Does that mean the men have changed as well?

Jess: Nah, they're still, I don't wanna generalize, but a lot of them are very much on there just for one thing, and I'm like, come on.

Tommy: You know, Josh, as Buddha says, change your internals, change the men.

Josh: Is that what they say?

Tommy: No, no, no, not at all. It's like change you, change the world.

Josh: Well, I just find it interesting, 'cause if you're going back on it, Jess, I thought that maybe other guy, like guys would be like, oh, I wanna find, I don't just want a one-night stand, I want something long-term. What am I gonna do when they're going on the platforms too? But you're saying that's not the case.

Jess: No, I mean, there might be, but I don't know, I haven't, I've come across one guy. So this is the guy, right? So he is, nice and has a dog that I want to get. And yeah, I don't know.

Josh: Are you on a breeder website? You just said—

Jess: I am on breeder websites, but I didn't come across him through that.

Josh: Okay.

Jess: They're a little bit hectic. Like, people on breeder websites are hectic. Like, they're obsessed. Yeah.

Josh: Like forums?

Jess: Yeah.

Tommy: Yeah.

Jess: And if I want a Whippet or an Italian Greyhound, like, then—

Josh: And so what has he got?

Jess: He's got an Italian Greyhound. Okay.

Tommy: Yeah, great. And so, this is great because when we first met you, you weren't on the apps and it's kind of like forced you into this, which I'm proud of you. And so, where it's led you to is, which you and I spoke, you were very nervous about potentially doing a Zoom date. Is there more nerves for a Zoom date versus a real-life date? Which one would be more nerve-wracking?

Jess: At least on a Zoom date, I can probably just hang up and just like fully ghost him, which I know is probably not the right thing to do.

Josh: Just pretend your internet's not working and then just bail, bail, bail.

Jess: Even though I have ethernet.

Josh: That's really shitty. But you've got ethernet. I respect that. Yeah, go on.

Tommy: You know what, Ethan, I'm going to use this lighting as well.

Jess: So thanks for that.

Josh: So, but that's what I was going to ask. I would really appreciate it if you used the microphone and the headphones.

Jess: I'm not.

Josh: I'm getting rid of it.

Mason: Really? Oh, no, it's a great idea. No, can you please, please, please, please?

Jess: No, because I think I'm a wanker.

Tommy: No, no, you can, you can go low. Jess, lift your— you could take it out to the lounge room. You can get it to a point where you can't see the mic. It'll still sound better than using the computer audio. And don't wear your headphones, you know, if you want to do your hair. Are you going to dress up? What's going to happen?

Jess: No, I think Tully told me that I need to keep it casual. So she was like, I don't even put on makeup, I just wear what I'm wearing during the day. And I was like, I don't know. I don't know about that. Like, I feel like I'll wear something— like, I wear makeup at home anyway, so I think I'll keep makeup. I'll probably just do my hair like this or something. And yeah, maybe t-shirt.

Tommy: You do makeup at home when you're not having to work or doing anything? You're just around the house? You like that?

Jess: Like, a little bit, yeah, because it wakes you up in the morning. I don't know. And then you feel fresh. I mean, I don't wear it all day.

Tommy: I wore it yesterday.

Josh: Coffee.

Tommy: I literally feel nothing like eyeliner that gets you peeking.

Josh: Yeah, I, I sort of, I sort of get that.

Jess: No, you know, you sort of do a crisp wing and you're fucking set for the day.

Josh: Do you? And so what's the, um, what do you think the format of the Zoom call is going to be? So like, what's the structure going to be?

Jess: I don't know. I'm gonna— he doesn't know. Oh, can you guys hear that?

Josh: Yeah, that's fine.

Jess: Yeah. Okay, sorry.

Josh: Um, are you saying that because it's like it could be tradies that you could be I saw them, they parked out the front.

Jess: I'll, um, I'll go cheque them out.

Tommy: She's already punctured one of their tires.

Jess: She's gonna go help them change their wheels. Um, okay, so date structure, I'm not sure. I feel like one of the easier questions is going to be, show me your dog, um, so that we can talk about that for a little bit.

Josh: Yeah, that's funny. That's funny. Yeah, too. And but also it's got that little bit of innuendo, which is quite cheeky. So I was like, the first thing, I know this might be a little bit weird.

Jess: A bit forward.

Josh: Yeah, a bit forward, but can you show me your dog?

Tommy: I like that.

Josh: Yes. Okay, and so have you spoken at all with him?

Tommy: Or you can even do, show me your puppy. Both of them work, D or P, whatever.

Josh: It's a shame he doesn't have a cocker spaniel, 'cause that would be—

Jess: Sexy Tommy saying, show me your penis.

Josh: Penis, yeah, yeah.

Jess: Flop your penis out. Flop your penis out.

Josh: It's a good memoir title. And so anyway, the, um, so have you spoken at all? Like, what's the, what's the instant messaging like?

Jess: Oh, um, yeah, so we transitioned off Hinge onto text. So I, like, we're on that and we have been texting all like week, but I find it a little bit awkward because I like, I don't know him and I'm just texting this random guy and I, I don't really like that side of things. So that's why I'm like, okay I just need to do Zoom because I'm not texting for the next 5 weeks before I can meet anyone.

Tommy: Like, it's just kind of weird because you want to, you want to feel more personable, like you've seen the person.

Jess: Yeah, I don't really— yeah, personable for sure. But like, what's the point if I know that I'm not going to get along with him? So in real life, was that also a criticism from a dating perspective?

Josh: Was it you that was telling me that one guy was pissed off that you didn't write back to him? Yeah, was that you? Yeah. So is texting maybe not a strong, strong point for you?

Jess: Yeah, I'm either really good or I'm really not good. And I think because I wear an Apple Watch, I don't know if you guys do this, but you cheque it and you're reading, you're like, cool, dismiss.

Josh: Yeah, that's what I do with Slack.

Tommy: Yeah, you're actually really annoying in conversations, Jess, because you pick up your hand like a loser, and then I forget to write back to text messages.

Jess: So I'm really bad on text, but, um, Yeah, I don't know. Hopefully it's all good. Hopefully it works out. Would be nice.

Tommy: I'm pumped. All right, so then what I'm hearing, Josh, is that we're not getting the exclusive of how the date went. It will be on Too Much Tully.

Josh: Yeah, I mean, I knew something was up. I knew that Jess had sort of developed from a life perspective, like things were happening because I've decided that only on Thursdays, I'm going to download Instagram and enjoy it.

Tommy: Oh yeah, yeah.

Josh: And so I just did the rounds, I'm just like on Instagram and I'm like looking around and I see, I'm like, hang on, I, I like to see how many followers Jess is like. I want to sort of get a sense of like how much Jess is growing from an influencer perspective, like how far off is she from being monetized. And, um, and I was like, oh yeah, she's at 841. I thought she was at 42 the last— anyway, it doesn't matter. Anyway, I then, um look at the posts and I see that the post that I did for her that I crafted has been taken down.

Tommy: Oh geez, really? It has. It's been—

Josh: wow.

Tommy: Is that— I— because I doubled down and saying, Jess, you haven't even posted since that last one. You've got lots of great stuff going on. You got to be sharing. I mean, at this point you should just remove every other photo other than you in the hot dog suit.

Josh: Yeah. Like that should be heaps of the hot dog.

Jess: Or make it a massive grid one.

Josh: Yes, yes, that would be great. And so Jess, what was the rate? 'Cause like I did, it sort of feels like even though I wasn't in the photo, it sort of feels like you're sort of trying to remove history or it's like you don't want to be associated with this or—

Tommy: Just tell us what's your thinking? What is your thinking behind that?

Jess: So just so everyone else knows, I haven't posted since the 18th of August last year myself. Josh has, um, and I obviously didn't like that photo. It was just so overexposed and it just like didn't— it was just— I didn't like it.

Mason: We need a photo on the 1D.

Josh: Wait, so was it the—

Jess: yes, so I want a team photo.

Josh: Yeah, we can definitely do it. We can definitely do that. But so the criticism, the overexposure thing pisses me off because the Bree says this all the time, but it's not the exposure because it was exposed correctly. What didn't you like about you in the photo?

Jess: Ridiculous.

Josh: You said that's the whole thing, so you thought that you looked, uh, pale. Is that— is overexposed, that's what you're saying?

Jess: Um, I looked like pixelated or something, and I just didn't like the vibe of it.

Josh: I have to explain this, it's visco. That's how— like, I don't think it was, but anyway.

Tommy: Okay, so, so I mean, we have resources.

Jess: I'll unarchive it. Unarchive it so you can see it.

Tommy: All right, great. I mean, it's a big move. Do you think when you did that, you'd be like, oh, Josh is going to bring this up for sure? I do think that.

Jess: Yeah, and I did it weeks ago. And—

Tommy: oh, did you?

Jess: Um, yeah, I did it like 2 weeks ago and I was like, I tidied up my Instagram actually because I was like—

Mason: did that coincide with anything?

Josh: Yeah, that's what I wanted to say.

Mason: Coincide with you starting with the new dog? Yeah.

Jess: Potentially, yeah, because I'm on public. So like, you, uh, yeah, usually if I was on private, I probably wouldn't give a shit.

Mason: But like, have you got a follow finding me now from the guy?

Josh: Yeah. Okay, so do you know, do you know their full— do you know the guy's full name?

Jess: Yeah, I've stalked him. He doesn't have Instagram. He has Facebook, but it's all locked down. Um, yeah, but do you know what I did? I'm such a dickhead. I received flowers yesterday off Tully and I took a photo of it. I sent it to you guys and I didn't realize, but my full name, the podcast Too Much Tully was like care of, and then my whole address was there and I sent it to him.

Josh: Oh, oh no.

Tommy: Oh no.

Jess: So if I don't rock up to work next week, you know why.

Josh: So yeah, that's not, that's not right.

Tommy: And what did you say? What do you, what's this banter? This sounds strong if you're sending a photo.

Josh: What did you say?

Tommy: Flowers. Um, work colleagues got me some of these.

Jess: Yeah, these are the flowers I like. Yeah, yeah.

Josh: What was the actual banter around it?

Jess: I don't know, he just said, how's your day? I was like, brilliant, I got flowers. Um, let's have a look.

Josh: And what did he say?

Tommy: The panic. You didn't write back.

Jess: See, this is the problem with dating that would He said, "Those flowers were so nice.

Tommy: What was the occasion?" And you haven't written back?

Jess: I know I did write back.

Josh: And so, this is the worry I think with dating is to know that if you're writing to someone that potentially they have a podcast and it will all be shared. Like that's a concern in 2020, isn't it?

Tommy: No, I think you have been desperate.

Jess: He works in media too.

Josh: He works in media? Ah, but can he build anything? That was a prerequisite, wasn't it?

Jess: It was a prerequisite, yeah. He's probably got like super soft hands and isn't maybe my type, but whatever. We work in the same industry.

Josh: Nothing wrong with soft hands.

Tommy: You have, you've been, you've been selective. I think you haven't revealed too much and it's, you've spoken about him nicely, so I hope it works out. I mean, but that's the thing, it doesn't, it's one in like, you know, you might— you can have 10 of these going. Is that okay? In your books, you don't want 10.

Jess: Don't have time for that.

Josh: You could do it like a Friday night drinks, get them all on the Zoom at the same time, just bring them in. But you could even do it in a waiting room. Yeah, you could do a waiting room scenario where you only bring one in at a time.

Tommy: Yeah, we could have Charles. We could have Charles in the waiting room.

Josh: Yeah, that'd be perfect. Do it through me.

Jess: Breakout rooms as well. And like fight till the death and then whoever comes back is like—

Josh: So, like, what is your style when it comes to engaging with people? Like, are you taking a different approach to what you normally would?

Jess: Not really, no, I don't think so. Just you've got to get the banter straight up, otherwise it just gets real dry.

Josh: And so what does that mean? What does banter mean?

Jess: I'm so sorry, like, this is as loud as it's been all night.

Tommy: Did you have a curry last night? What's going on?

Josh: I have no idea, but it's bhai.

Jess: Vibrating my whole house.

Josh: That's okay. And so, so what does good banter mean? Like, what is it? What does it sound like?

Jess: They're not really questions. It's kind of just like back and forth of like just statements, I think.

Josh: Can I also just say, Jess, it's so— we are so lucky that you're using a dynamic mic. This is— if you were using condenser mic right now, yeah, yeah, I'd be picking it all up. I know I've said this many times before, but this is why I have a dynamic mic.

Jess: This is outrageous.

Josh: It's okay.

Tommy: It must be louder on your end.

Mason: It's actually not. It's not super loud on our end.

Josh: So 97, we haven't heard from you. What's going on? How's your week been?

Mason: Ah, been a good week. I mean, just getting, getting One Trick Tony, uh, out. It's been so much fun. So I've just been pretty much focusing on that all week.

Josh: It's, it's a, it's quite bassy, isn't it?

Tommy: There's a lot going on.

Josh: Is it a roadworks?

Jess: What is that? It sounds like a jackhammer. Yeah, I have no idea because there's plumbers out the front. Um, and yeah, I have no idea because it feels like they follow me. Yeah, the leaking, the one upstairs. Yeah, no, that's not leaking. She just forgets to turn the taps off and floods my apartment.

Tommy: What? What a gronk! Just forgets to turn her taps off.

Jess: Yeah, she came, um, rushing down the stairs the other day and like was like frantically knocking on my door and was like, is your, is your house flooding again? And I was like, no, like, I'm okay. I was like, what's going on? She's like, I've got this beautiful big bath in Sorrento and like it takes longer to fill and I just forget. I was like, cool. Well, just remember to turn your taps off, you know. She flooded my apartment when I was in Bendigo and then came down. It was like all coming down the walls and So my sister was here. So my sister came out, was going to the supermarket, saw flowers, and I think it was like Glen 20 or something on the floor out the front to say sorry.

Josh: And then 20, that is a combo. Yeah, that's how I apologise to Brave.

Tommy: My dirty, dirty behavior.

Josh: Yeah, I've given you some Glen 20 and there's an apology note.

Jess: Um, and so Emma went to the supermarket and then came back and they were gone.

Mason: What?

Jess: So like, yeah, so she left flowers and Glen 20 or whatever it was and then took them.

Josh: I reckon they've been stolen.

Mason: I reckon someone's— yeah, someone absolutely took them.

Jess: But how would you take the Glen 20? I reckon it's her.

Josh: Yeah, so you think that is weird?

Tommy: Regret, regret, like, oh no, I regret that decision. That's too forward.

Jess: But why would you do that?

Tommy: Bury it, bury it.

Josh: Have you ever done Have you ever bought an apology gift? I mean, it's pretty severe if something's so bad that you need to buy an apology gift.

Jess: It's so funny that you bring this up because the vase that I put the flowers in that Tully got me was an apology gift, and I was thinking about it. It was from my ex-boyfriend. I was like, I'm gonna fucking smash this after this.

Tommy: Can we smash it on camera?

Jess: Who buys a vase as well?

Mason: A vase is anything for an apology.

Josh: Did it include flowers?

Jess: No.

Josh: Okay.

Jess: And also the reason that he gave it to me was fucked. I was like, oh, why have I still got this?

Tommy: Yeah, we'll smash it for sure.

Josh: I'm gonna smash it. It's a very specific—

Mason: it's a long-lasting play. Like, it's, it's something that you'd keep around because you only, you only bring the vase out when you get flowers occasionally. And so it's a reminder every single time you get flowers.

Tommy: I mean, if you look at your photo frames, all that stuff, I mean, the photo frame's okay.

Josh: I had a friend that, um, she got a photo frame and, uh, broke up with her boyfriend and then went to change out the photo and he'd actually put a note in there in preparation for if they were to break up. No, hey, you're changing, you're changing the photo. Which means that we're public.

Tommy: That is genius.

Josh: But I don't look at photo frames like that. I've never changed a photo in a photo frame. Like once a photo frame's in there, like a photo is in a photo frame, I don't want to have to deal with it.

Mason: What's a photo frame gift? Like, is that just going to Kmart and picking up an $8 one or are you going out to get like a $150 frame?

Josh: No, well, so a photo frame, it's a great inexpensive gift or a very quick one. Like if you, I've definitely done it as a little add-on before where it's like, fuck, fuck, fuck, what am I— oh, go to Kmart section, you get the photo printed. It's the closest thing that I get to doing crafts, like, yeah, getting the photo, aligning the photo.

Tommy: It's, it's quick with a massive reward. Like, it seems more thoughtful than it is.

Josh: It's always there.

Tommy: And yes, yeah, we can't go too stingy on it. You don't want to go you know, $4 frame. But then again, there are some frames that look pretty good, you know, on a budget.

Josh: I mean, nothing came up for you, was it?

Tommy: Wood ones. Um, anything, anything you're fired up about this week, guys? Like, just things that are pissing you off, always good to air them out. I mean, where does Jess start?

Josh: Yeah, yeah, the jackhammer's not great. I think— oh, look, for me it's just the, um, the Instagram. So I went— I like the Reels, very good, good play Instagram. I like Reels. I spend a lot of time sort of swiping and looking at them, and I sort of— and I realised the reason why I don't like being on Instagram, because I start seeing all these things. So I was like getting myself ready to— like, I did the, um, the Big Media Company, um, Instagram, where Jess is like, oh, we should get some stuff on Big Media Company's Instagram so people know that we're actually in business.

Tommy: And then it consumed 2 hours from both Josh and I.

Josh: Yeah, so then I was like, the evening, then I was flooding, then I just like, yes, I'm going to do this right now. And then you see other reels, I'm like, why, we should be doing this. Like, Tommy would be perfect to doing these reels. And then I was like, I was catching myself fucking just flying off messages, everyone. Yeah, yeah, you do this, you do that, Sevs, how far off is it? And so I just, I can't have— it's, it's almost like, this is what it's like, it's like I'm a traffic controller of a, uh, what's it called when you do that for planes? The traffic controller?

Tommy: Air traffic control.

Josh: Traffic controller.

Tommy: Yeah, but that's up in the tower. Yeah, but you're down on the ground.

Josh: You're on the tarmac. So it's like I'm an air traffic controller, but then I have the fucking plane app on my phone and I'm like looking and I'm getting like triggered that I need to be fucking working out where the A380 is. It's like, no, I don't need to you know, I, I can't have my phone as always being the fucking— the work and personal and everything. Oh yeah, so that's the thing that's been, um, I mean, yeah, what, what the, the Reels thing—

Tommy: Instagram Reels— is there is an allure for creators to think that this is the new thing I need to jump on, when what it's great is for the, the consumer, so the person who isn't creating, just to be on there and be able to endlessly scroll at volume— voluminous content. Like, there's so much there. And so that's where I think it's a trap when you think we've got to jump on this thing. But it's like, the thing is just the new bit. The video stuff is there. We've been editing videos. It's just a new capability within the app. And so when I see video creators thinking, oh, this is the thing thing. They've missed the point of— they've been able to do it for a while. It's like, yeah, you've had the skill to be able to edit the videos like that. It's just the, the Reels— maybe they're giving priority to the algorithm with Reels content, so stuff that's actually made in-app, which is, which is hard.

Josh: And so yeah, I thought, I thought Junkie relapsed last night, um, but I'm really glad to hear Every Thursday, every Thursday, I, I, or, you know, I do it and then it's— that's it, that's it for me. And then I deleted all—

Mason: you went through an uninstall and then a reinstall and then an uninstall? Yeah, that all happened after 6 PM last night.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, just like a lot of things, a lot of things happening.

Tommy: So what did you do?

Mason: You uninstalled, reinstalled, uninstalled it, and then decided, oh no, hang on, I need it back, reinstalled it.

Tommy: Oh, so you like double dipped in the day?

Mason: Yeah, and then later on uninstalled again?

Josh: Yes. So I've got an idea.

Jess: Put it in a folder on a second, like your third or fourth slide.

Tommy: Mate, you can't put heroin on the top shelf. Yeah, yeah, you work out where the ladder is.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jess: I can't have chocolate in the house.

Josh: Yeah, yeah. No, but seriously, that's, that's like me, Jess. Like, we had, um, so I was flexing earlier in the week with 97. I was doing a FaceTime, I was showing him all the sparkling water that we'd bought. And so, I bought all this Mt. Franklin's, but I may have even shown you, Jess. I was really doing the rounds showing everyone how full my fridge was.

Jess: I was really excited.

Josh: I was very excited. Anyway, finished it all. It's all gone. And so, I've got no, I've been probably having half a dozen cans a day of this fizzy water. And so, 'cause we had like, and so, it's all gone. So, we had a full massive fridge. And it's just— and it creeps up on you.

Mason: So it looked like you had a 24-pack at least in there.

Josh: Yeah, yeah.

Mason: And it was gone. It was gone within 3 days.

Josh: Yes.

Tommy: Yeah, well, I say it's better than beer and it's better than Coke.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Tommy: Yeah, it's fizzy water with flavor.

Josh: I mean, yeah, so it's, it's a little bit annoying. What about you, TJ? Is anything being, uh, angering you?

Tommy: Oh, it's more, um more people with fake followers. For some reason I've just been fired up. People just bullshitting, get off Instagram. Yeah, it's not even there. It's Instagram, it's LinkedIn. You just— it's one of those traps that I get, find myself in a conversation probably saying shit I shouldn't because I'm like just in the moment about like, you know, when you have a conversation, you're speaking to somebody like, ah, between you, me, and the lamppost. Oh yeah, but then you realise that you shouldn't even— it's not even that bad, but I'm just like, I I wouldn't prob—

Josh: yeah, if it came out, I wouldn't give a fuck, but it seems a bit low status.

Tommy: Yes, yes, yes, yes, that's the point. And so it's not— I, it's, I guess, like I see lying as nothing to do with who I am as a person. You don't want that also attached of like being a bitch, bitching about shit.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And so it's, um, fired up about it. I mean, I just, yeah. It's, it's, it blows my mind that people are— I think it's like the, the being fake or trying to hack the system that we're playing, um, the, the, the more truthful game that is harder for most. And it's like you realise how hard it is to sort of not— like, it's easier to inflate and bullshit to get you closer to where the people who are trying to do it well are going slow and steady.

Josh: And so there's lots of shortcuts. And so that's what you're pointing out, is it's like there's so many shortcuts, everyone seems to be taking the shortcuts. But I guess the beauty of it is, is that we're not, uh, we're in it for the scenic route. We love like what, like what people are missing out on is, yeah, you can fucking go direct to the Twelve Apostles, but you're missing the fucking Great Ocean Road. You fucking idiots, you know, Great Ocean Road's the best bit. Yeah, yeah, we can go the big—

Tommy: we can go the Big Sur from, you know, LA up to San Francisco. That's the way we go. Yeah, but doing, doing the highway straight up the guts, 5 hours. Yeah, I'd rather take 12. Better analogy.

Josh: Are you— are you—

Jess: are you— Route 66?

Josh: No, that is not— that's Highway 1.

Mason: It's across, isn't it?

Tommy: Yeah, Route 66 is from like outside of Vegas through Past the Grand Canyon. It's all—

Josh: it is confusing though, Jess, because there's Route 1, or high— sorry, Highway 1 and Highway 101. And Bree and I fucked it up, and we were meant to go from Los Angeles to San Francisco. This was a few years ago, the scenic route, and we ended up fucking in San Francisco and we hadn't seen like anything.

Tommy: Yeah, 101. You took the 101, not the 1. Highway 1.

Josh: Yeah, so it's a bit of a trap. Are you a road trip kind of gal?

Jess: Yeah, I love a road trip.

Josh: Okay.

Jess: Well, I do that road trip. I do the Great Ocean Road every year.

Josh: Really? I reckon I go—

Jess: Except last year, to be fair.

Josh: I think I probably, not to brag.

Tommy: And you won't do it this year.

Josh: But guys, would you say that I'm like, I'm not just trying to impress Jess here. I am the Great Ocean Road guy.

Tommy: In the past, it's been a weird thing where you pull people in and you become a tour guide.

Josh: Yeah, so overseas traveler, like anyone, like people that I know, it's like if someone's come to Australia, I will—

Tommy: it's not—

Josh: yeah, it's not like I'm like, hey, I'm at the Backpackers. Man, you sound like you're around here. Yeah, I am, and I've got a car. Come on, let's go. Um, yeah, no, I, I do like the experience of the, um, the Great Ocean Road and going through the whole thing, making a day of it.

Jess: It is good. A day? No, you stay there. You stay in Port Campbell at the Backpackers and you go to the pub.

Tommy: Oh yeah, absolutely not.

Jess: And then you go out for breakfast the next day and then you drive back and it's the most glorious trip ever.

Tommy: Yeah, Port Campbell is beautiful. It's, uh, there's a, there's a motel that's probably better than the Backpackers.

Josh: I think, is that near Portland?

Tommy: Portland's further on.

Josh: Portland's— so Bree and I would drive to like Portland or whatever. We've stayed, I think, in Portland, but Yeah, actually before.

Tommy: Yeah, Port Campbell's where I flew the drone and got in trouble by the locals.

Josh: Oh, that's right.

Jess: That's right. Last time I was there, I saw so many drones and they were like flip-flopping around and like that shit makes me nervous.

Josh: A lot of cowboys.

Jess: I've never driven a drone.

Tommy: What is wrong?

Jess: The drone's just like kind of like going random.

Tommy: Are you sure you're not seeing a bird? Because that drones don't flip-flop, they're pretty steady.

Jess: That's why they were like fucking around. I've got a 4-axis gimbal and and they're, um, yeah, they're really steady.

Josh: But if it's windy, I get how like when people do the big manoeuvres or whatever, trying to impress their friends in the caravan park. That's pretty cool.

Jess: Johnny, look at this, like London Bridge or whatever it is.

Tommy: Oh yeah, yeah, it's actually illegal.

Mason: It's—

Tommy: you can't fly drones down there, so it's a bit annoying, you know. Fun sponge. Um, Seb, anything you're fired up about this week, mate?

Mason: Uh, not pissed off, but I, I am, I am fired up about this place that Mum found, it's the— so we've had issues getting frozen berries as everyone else has. And so Mum went online on the website.

Tommy: I don't know this. What are you talking about? What's the issue? I'm not a frozen berry guy. It's not a part of my brand.

Mason: But you can't— you can only get 2 packets of frozen berries and they're out of stock pretty much in every supermarket.

Tommy: Okay, because people are panic buying them and stocking up. Yes.

Mason: And so that— so that— so that's getting me fired up because I can't have my smoothie in the morning.

Josh: So what have you been having?

Mason: Uh, nothing. Or crumpets at lunchtime.

Tommy: You've really thrown it in. He's like, fuck it, if I can't have water, I'm waiting and I'm having Coke. Yeah, I'm just gonna drink Coke because I'm pissed.

Josh: Well, crumpets aren't even— I don't even respect crumpets for breakfast, let alone lunch. Yeah, I fucking hate crumpets.

Jess: Are you kidding?

Josh: I hate crumpets.

Mason: Crumpets are better than bread.

Tommy: Are you not?

Mason: Crumpets are better than bread.

Josh: No, no, no, you're silly. You're a silly boy.

Tommy: That is pretty silly.

Josh: That's actually silly. Yeah, yeah, mate, if that was the case, how often are you like, um, you can get bread in the most beautiful parts of the world. You're not going to fucking—

Mason: Depends on the bread. If crumpets is nicer than like a Tip Top.

Tommy: So crumpets, uh, what's, what's the other one that looks like it's made in a mould? Um, like it's— no, they're crumpets and then like rectangular crumpets? Yeah, so crumpets are the circular, it's just like that.

Mason: I think—

Josh: no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're thinking of an English muffin.

Tommy: No, yeah, I'm on this muffin. So the crumpets look like they are made in a mold.

Josh: How do you make them? I love English muffins by the way. My issue is with crumpets Yeah.

Mason: And so, ham and cheese English muffin with a poached egg and hollandaise sauce on top is delicious.

Tommy: A crumpet tastes like a piece of rubber. And then when you add some butter and honey, it tastes like, you know, something nice. I, yeah, look, I'm not, I don't mind a crumpet every now and then, but I know what you mean, Josh. It is, if you're really to question the crumpets, crumpets are like margarine and butter.

Josh: What are they? That's very good. That's a good joke. No, but it's true. No, crumpets. I'm looking at Google Images of what people make with crumpets. I think the biggest— crumpets have a brand problem.

Mason: I've never actually had a crumpet, to be honest.

Josh: But the brand problem is that you were talking about savory, Mase. Everything that I'm seeing that the crumpet does is sweet.

Jess: Really? Yeah.

Tommy: What do you do?

Jess: I have Vegemite on a crumpet.

Mason: A bit of— no, absolutely you can. So, I do like margarine on the bottom or whatever. There's your first issue.

Josh: Yeah, it's actually Olive Grove.

Mason: Oh, it's actually the one, um, it feels—

Josh: the guy who cares about diseases and cancer and stuff and you're having margarine.

Mason: Olive Grove, that's all right.

Josh: What's Olive Grove? I don't know, I'm sorry, I'm not across this.

Mason: It's, it's essentially like it's butter made out of olives.

Tommy: Well, it's not butter because butter It's margarine texture, you're meaning?

Mason: It's like, it's like that sunflower bullshit, you know? You know that sunflower butter that they have? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's like that but made from olive stuff. Anyway, olive oil.

Tommy: It's like meant to— olive made from the same. Yeah.

Josh: And so it doesn't have the yucky things that, that margarine has?

Mason: No, I don't think so.

Josh: Okay.

Mason: I think it's, I think it's a little bit better for you. But anyway, so I have that and then peanut butter and then If I'm feeling naughty, I'll put Vegemite on it as well and then cheese on top.

Josh: Yeah, okay.

Mason: And that's like—

Josh: and so anyway, what are you fired up about?

Mason: Well, so that was annoying, and so Mum on the weekend found this website which essentially—

Josh: the dark web.

Mason: Mum found this, this website called Fair Dinks, but it delivers everything that Costco has to your door in Melbourne for $14 flat fee. So we got 8 kg of frozen berries for the same price as what you'd go down to Aldi and pick them up for, and they got delivered to our front door in 2 days.

Josh: Wow, sounding a lot like a live raid, but it sounds good.

Mason: No, I'm, I'm fired up. Like, like frozen berries, if you need them, fuck it, that's where you go.

Tommy: This site though, Josh, I just jumped on, you can get a Fiesta voice, the singing machine, for $46.

Josh: This is the thing, I mean, so TJ, Mace was talking about this, uh, earlier in the week. The weirdness of it is that, um, normally I feel like, um, obviously like Woolworths and Coles, all that sort of thing, they have professional photos, but also there's like categories Oh, wow. But the way that they sort of set it out is it's like they're putting everything together. So you could— next to the Tip Top Abbott's English muffins, 2 loaves, there's a body glove. Look, it's— What the fuck is a body glove?

Mason: You're not sure if someone's touched your food or not when you order from the website.

Tommy: Oh, dude, nah, here's what I reckon.

Mason: That's what it looks like, but it's solid.

Tommy: I reckon someone's—

Josh: Solid, yeah, yeah.

Tommy: I reckon someone has literally— the photos look like someone has just gone to the store, pulled out their phone, and just taken a quick snap, and then built out a website and offered a delivery service for Costco. Don't you think?

Mason: Yeah, yeah. But so what they actually— Costco actually pack it themselves. They do the—

Tommy: oh wow, so they're in bed with them.

Mason: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so it's— we, we found that. I haven't ordered anything else except Well, Mum hasn't ordered anything else except frozen berries, but when I saw seasonal, I clicked on seasonal.

Josh: I thought that I was going to get seasonal fruits and veg, but it's all Halloween.

Mason: You're just, you're just getting an animated werewolf with LED eyes and sounds for $250.

Tommy: Mate, there's some good stuff in here.

Mason: Yeah, I could get around, like, even, um, like, I think this is where you do your panic buying.

Josh: Yeah.

Mason: This is if you want your— I mean, I don't know if they've got massive cans of black beans, but yeah, I think this is our new, um, mixed berry supplier.

Josh: Okay. And so you've only got— did you not feel like it was a little bit of a waste? No, just getting the fruit though.

Mason: Absolutely not, because it's the same price as going to the supermarket and getting it, and it's, it's essential, like it gets delivered to you for the same price, so How do they do the freezer?

Josh: We've got, they've got an industrial freezer. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. Have you heard about that? Like, not to create any sort of panic, but they reckon that the frozen food stuff is the contributor potentially for a bit of the COVID we're seeing in the world. You seen this?

Tommy: Well, they're saying it can be frozen, so. If the virus is caught on a piece of food or on a piece of food and then that gets frozen. Wow.

Josh: Wow. So, what does that mean? Because I remember—

Mason: You gotta microwave your spinach.

Josh: Yeah, I mean, yeah, you will, baby.

Tommy: You will. This is why I stopped. You need to microwave that spinach before you put it in.

Josh: Jess, I feel like being the same age, you might remember the peanut shortage. Do you remember the peanut shortage?

Jess: No.

Tommy: Okay, yeah, there was that one. There was also, Josh, um, they put a stop to frozen ice cream, soft serve ice cream, salmonella. There was like across a huge, huge flock of, um, either vans or like machines that had received a product and they all got, um, they all got, yeah, salmonella, um, in, in, in it. And then they had to cease production of it.

Mason: That's not what you want.

Tommy: Sad day for Mr. Peanut.

Josh: When was the— So, I think it was, yeah, I think it was in 1999. I'm just looking at a Financial Review article. There was some rat faeces found in some roasted peanuts.

Mason: Oh, no.

Josh: And so, yeah, because do you remember the song, peanut butter, yes please. Peanut butter, not cheese. Da da da da da da da da da. Do you remember that song?

Jess: No.

Tommy: No, but another one you guys might remember, 2006, the banana shortage where bananas skyrocketed. They were as bloody expensive as gold. In Australia, there was $300 million worth of fruit destroyed from Cyclone. Isn't that fucking crazy?

Mason: Cyclones in Queensland. Yeah, it's outrageous.

Josh: I mean, Jess, do you remember the 1998, um, the gas— when the gas fucked up in Melbourne? You may not have had that in Bendigo. Maybe you didn't have that issue. You didn't have gas.

Jess: No, we live off gas.

Tommy: You live off a gas explosion?

Josh: Live off it?

Jess: Regional towns, you know, generally have LPG. A lot of like, you know, when you're in the rural kind of communities. I mean, I probably didn't, but yeah.

Josh: Okay.

Jess: Good story, Jess.

Josh: No, no, that was really good. I mean, it was a silly question from my part. Yeah, very good. Any other news? Anything else to report? Nah, that's about it.

Tommy: I've got one. What I'm fired up from a positive perspective is Jess being on 3 different podcasts this week. Seb's, you know, pumping out and helping and being a part of 3 podcasts casts, not just 3 of ours, Josh. 3 separate ones, which— it's amazing. We got Too Much Tully, One Trick Tony, Hump Day Replay. Oh, hang on, 4! The Daily Talk Show. You've been a part of 4.

Jess: It's been—

Tommy: fuck, Sevs, Sevs. Yeah, well done. It's pumped up, fired up.

Josh: Yeah, uh, One Trick Tony, you can listen to it. Go on to, uh, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. That's always great. Uh, yeah, perfect. All right, well, enjoy the rest of your weekend. Tomorrow we've got Georgie Boy. So Jess, thank you for joining us for the Saturday and for the construction sounds, and good luck.

Tommy: And good luck.

Josh: Yes, and give us all the, all the day we want. You know, we want all the details. You know what we're like.

Tommy: Yeah, can you screen, can you record it please?

Josh: Yeah, actually I feel like that's it.

Jess: Imagine if he saw that I was recording it, how awkward.

Josh: Oh yeah, that's, there's, that's right. Yeah, so how about this? So I mean I think I've told everyone, I didn't tell Sev's actually yet. A mate of ours had a very big recording with a massive artist who's based in Sydney and our mate's based in Melbourne. And so he got a microphone, a high quality microphone sent to this artist. And I got this message back, got a message back from him saying, Mate, the microphone worked perfectly. It was crystal clear. And Scooter Derek had organised the microphone for him. So he was like, you know, thanks for that. However, I forgot to fucking press record on Zencastr and the whole, the whole, it's not recorded.

Tommy: Oh no. That is so frustrating.

Josh: Sebbs, did you hear that story? Oh no, I haven't heard it. You just weren't really, I couldn't tell if you were.

Mason: No, I was just— I was feeling the emotions that that person would have felt.

Josh: Yeah, it's not great, is it? It's very frustrating.

Mason: That's—

Josh: anyway, hi@thedailytalkshow.com if you want to send us an email. Otherwise, enjoy the rest of your Saturday, and we'll see you tomorrow. Have a good one.

Tommy: See you guys.