We chat about Fruity Friday, honeypots, a skateboarding adventure, seeds in a pomegranate, nervous ticks and Toni's new Air Fryer.
Show Notes
At a glance
From this episode’s transcript.
- –Josh is attempting to get healthier ahead of turning 30, including cutting out meat and following the 'How Not to Die' cookbook, which inspired the 'Fruit Salad Friday' segment rebrand from 'Fat Fridays'.
- –Tommy shares a personal near-miss story: a Mack truck flipped on a highway slip lane shortly after he and his son Bodhi skateboarded past the same spot on an electric skateboard.
- –A phone call with guest Toni Lodge clarifies that pomegranates don't have an identical seed count, contrary to a fact she'd previously shared, and the show finds a citation of 613 seeds.
- –Household/hygiene caution during COVID is discussed, including Tommy declining a routine fire-alarm inspection visit to limit visitors to the house during the pandemic.
- –The episode ends with hosts brainstorming future themed Friday segments (e.g., 'Fungus Fridays', 'Flavoursome Fridays') as alliterative successors to Fruity Friday.
Questions this episode answers
Do all pomegranates have the same number of seeds?
No. During a phone call, guest Toni Lodge clarifies she never said pomegranates all have exactly the same number of seeds, just that there's a similar range; Josh looks up a figure online and cites 613 seeds as an example count.
What is 'honeypotting'?
Tommy and Josh look up the slang term on Urban Dictionary mid-episode and read out definitions, including one describing it as using something a person enjoys or finds arousing to manipulate them, alongside unrelated definitions about honey pots as a euphemism.
What happened when Tommy was skateboarding with his son Bodhi?
Tommy describes riding his electric Evolve skateboard with his son Bodhi holding onto his leg near a highway slip lane, then shortly afterward discovering a Mack truck had flipped onto its side at the exact spot they'd passed, narrowly missing being there when it happened.
Episode TranscriptShow
Josh: The Daily Talk Show. It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 828.
Tommy: Happy Fat Fridays, Gronks. What's happening? What's going on?
Josh: Rebrand, uh, with, uh, I'm turning 30 very soon. I said to you, uh, I mentioned a few weeks ago, I, I want to be somewhat healthy by the time— I don't want to be the most, the, the unhealthiest I've ever been when I turn 30.
Tommy: Mate, you've left it late. You've been in training for 29 years.
Josh: I know, I'm cramming, I'm cramming. And so that has involved over the past week, haven't been eating meat and all that sort of thing, and just following that How Not to Die food cookbook.
Tommy: Yeah, great.
Josh: So for Fat Fridays, do you want to announce what it's now called?
Tommy: Yeah, today's edition of Fat Fridays is Fruit Salad Friday.
Josh: Oh, now, is that yogurt?
Tommy: That's yoghurt on there. What's wrong with yogurt? Uh, yeah, what's wrong with the yogurt?
Josh: Uh, nothing, that's fine. Can I show you what I've got?
Tommy: My wife, my wife has, uh, absolutely killed this. There's a cute little strawberry on top, there's some granola. Like, I'm just, you know, it's the naughty Fruit Salad Friday for me.
Josh: Yeah, it's a real dessert. And so I have, uh, I haven't even sort of planned it yet, but I've got a— I've got the knife to be able to, um to cut up the fruit. Can you guess?
Unknown: Yep.
Tommy: Um, if you're needing a knife, I think it's something— and it was a sharp one, unless you're just being a gronk who's cutting a banana with a fucking razor-sharp knife, which I do, I do, and I'm a gronk. Uh, I think you've got some kind of mandarin— no, no, sorry, sorry, orange, orange to cut through. Mandarin you do with your hands. Um, fuck, I don't know. You're not cutting blueberries with a, with a big shank.
Josh: What is it? Oh, it's passion fruit.
Tommy: Passion fruit?
Josh: No, no, no, it's not.
Tommy: Oh, pineapple. Pineapple.
Josh: It is, um, I'll give you the, the brand. It's a brand, uh, Zespri. What do you reckon Zespri does? It's jumbo.
Tommy: Oh, oh, mate, are you a grapefruit guy or Please don't tell me you're doing grapefruit and sugar.
Josh: A camel's testicle by the looks of it, but it's a kiwi fruit from New Zealand. And then also, you are right, I've got the PFP Ruby Blush grapefruit.
Tommy: Why not just a small one?
Josh: Why don't you try that first? No, it's fucking— it looks— Use my hand.
Tommy: That's not it.
Josh: That's—
Tommy: I mean, unless you've got big hands. Which I do. That's— grapefruits are usually bigger. I guess my hand. I just looked at my hand and I was like, no, that would probably be the size of the grapefruit.
Josh: Which one do you want me to start with?
Tommy: You are on a small screen on my computer, so I'm seeing how it's looking small. Start with the grapefruit because that's a— it's a divider. Not everyone likes grapefruit.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Like it's a— it's a bit— a little bit sour. A little bit, what is it, tart? I don't know. What's the descriptive for a grapefruit? How would you describe the flavour of grapefruit?
Josh: Sort of flavour?
Tommy: Well, that can be sour.
Josh: And a lot of flesh, would you say?
Tommy: There's a lot of flesh on that. But the colour of a grapefruit is one of my favourite.
Josh: It's beautiful, isn't it? Yeah.
Tommy: Yeah. I'll tell you what a great drink is. Grapefruit. Vodka, and that's it. Grapefruit and vodka. Oh, real good. And some lime in there. I don't know.
Josh: So I was trying to—
Tommy: I mean, you could have grapefruit, sort of squeeze of grapefruit in a G&T, maybe that will sort of— but at that point, you're just, you're bastardising a good drink already.
Josh: Any tips on how I eat the grapefruit?
Tommy: Oh, my mum used to cut up grapefruit and sprinkle raw sugar onto the top.
Josh: Mum, what are you doing?
Tommy: Mum, you naughty dog. Just a naughty afternoon treat.
Josh: It's very— it seems a bit silly.
Tommy: Yeah, yeah. Look, the fruit that I don't like— strawberries for me, I'm not like— yeah, they're good and I know people love them. It's probably one of the favourites for people. Yeah, not for me, not for me. But I like that, like, I still eat them, that's the thing. But I'm never going, oh, I'm dying for a strawberry.
Josh: Do you like the cherries, like the candied cherries that come on like a mud cake?
Tommy: Yeah, because they're so naughty. They taste like you could sort of die of cancer the following week.
Josh: Yeah, and it's got like, it's got a vibe, doesn't it?
Tommy: And so I'll tell you what, we go on, go for it. Now I was just going to talk about some honey issues in my household.
Josh: Well, before you get to the honey issues, I just want to say with the grapefruit, I ate one yesterday and I was not wanting to cut into that, so I'm using a spoon. And I've seen sort of— I'm sure I've seen like a, like Steph Clare Smith or Laura Henshaw sort of eating out of a grapefruit potentially Yeah. And so, I like that idea of scooping it out, but it was squirting everywhere. And so, what I'm trying to do this time is actually dig into some of the flesh. So, I will be eating some of the flesh, but it means that I'm not just like squishing into the juicy bit. Does that make sense? Yeah.
Tommy: Yeah. I tell you what, it's a real dad move. Watching my father, demolish 98% of an apple. The guy would be shitting seeds. But I always just was like, mate, if there's ever a way to tell a real man, he eats 98% of his apple. And that's my dad, just real sort of— it's either like you're not sure if your next meal's coming, or you just, I don't know, you really love it. But either way, anyway, honey issue, before I get to a big incident that I've witnessed. Honey issue in my household. My wife is the cornerstone. She's the pillar of our family. She's holding up the fucking fort. You know, she's the beams of the house, keeping it together. And she usually, she gets stuck. Like she's bought the couch recently. She's bought a new little dinner table for us. Like if our house ever looks good, it's because of her. And she thinks about the little things. Honey pot, real cute. You know, like, you know, Pooh Bear, Pooh Bear has one. You've got like a little wooden stick that goes into it.
Josh: Yeah. Yeah.
Tommy: I mean, your vibe, you're the honey pot guy. Even if you didn't eat honey, it's a good visual.
Josh: What is, what's the honey pot? What's the definition of a honey pot? Isn't a honey pot some form of—
Tommy: Honey potting in dating terms?
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Isn't that the opposite of a honey pot? Like it's the opposite of a Sugar Daddy, Honey Pot, is it?
Josh: No, I'm not sure. Can you look at it? It's too much for me to eat, put that all in my mouth to avoid the, um, juice going everywhere.
Tommy: The juice, I, I, it will go everywhere if you did that. Try to enjoy it, mate.
Josh: Well, I just kind of do it so that it doesn't get juice all over the keyboard.
Tommy: Why did you not bring it? Did you not bring, did you not bring a plate?
Josh: No, I brought a plate, but it's so squirrely.
Tommy: Put it on the plate and turn it upside down so it's like more of the— okay, yeah, he's gone. Is that the whole thing? No, it's not the whole thing, he's gone half. Um, anyway, honeypot meaning, uh, I know I've found a pot of honey. I'm on the wrong thing. A romantic pet name, honey. No, honeypot, Urban Dictionary. Oh, here we go. It's a vagina. Her pussy is so sweet it can be only— it can only be called a honeypot.
Josh: But what's honeypotting?
Tommy: Getting— get— finding sweet pussy?
Josh: I don't know.
Tommy: I'm gonna look it up.
Josh: Yeah, so go on.
Tommy: So honey, this is—
Josh: is it— I bet it says honey on the side on this honeypot that Amy wants to get.
Tommy: No, we have it, and so it's yellow, of course, which a honeypot should be yellow in some respects. That's what comes to mind.
Josh: So, honey-potting.
Tommy: Bees-y, yelly.
Josh: When a person uses things that you either enjoy or arouse you to do what they want. He loved girls with glasses and thought that bitch was as blind as a bat. She was honey-potting him. He loved girls with glasses. I don't quite understand it. Honey-potting.
Tommy: Well, if it's urban— Is it Urban Dictionary? It's, uh, It's all made up.
Josh: To good naturally insert one's finger into a partner's— no, it's not that either.
Tommy: The internet, thanks. That was, that was the, that is the sort of echoing, uh, internal monologue of the internet right there. It's confusion, you know, sticking a finger in there.
Josh: Um, and so, so why is she get— why is Amy getting a honeypot?
Tommy: Because it looks good, and in my head it functions It should be like awesome for accessing honey. And so, it's got the stick that goes in with the sort of like swirl, like the honeycomb sort of end of the wooden stick. It's beautiful. My problem is in winter, dude, it's impossible to get the honey out. Like it comes out as just like you've got a handful of it. Like it's so, it's almost like toffee that's just sort of been hot and sort of melted down. Now it's like really at that sort of sticky stage. And so it is the most infuriating thing. I'm just absolutely impatient for the honey pot because you have to put it in, you have to turn it in your finger so it wraps the honey around its little thing at the end, and then you take it over and then you wait for it to start drizzling. I mean, Amy did just say she put honey on, on my fruit salad and she said, I zapped it for 10 seconds in the microwave and it was all the whole honey pot. The whole pot. The whole pot. And at that point, I just want my, you know, squeezer, cappellello. What is it called? Cappanello honey or something, whatever it is.
Josh: Well, you put those in sort of hot water, don't you?
Tommy: Yeah, you can get it going. Yeah, that's it.
Josh: I mean, that's almost hotel sort of action, having one of those.
Tommy: It is. Yeah, it's like a kind of cool. Although it's the equivalent— I think the honey pot is like having salt in a little ramekin that people use their fingers to get it out. And so there's this chance of someone sort of dropping in a fingernail. So a pot of honey in a hotel room. Well, I might— that, that, that's gone. COVID, that's gone. We were talking about that recent, uh, the start of COVID what's done after COVID. Mate, fingering, fingering, fingering salt, like just putting— yeah, mate, you're never fingering anyone again. Yeah, unless you're getting tested before. No, but the, um, anyway, no, the, uh, what was about to say?
Josh: Oh, the salt thing, man, can I just say, oh, it's very tarty, very like sort of making me smile. Uh, but the—
Tommy: finally.
Josh: Yeah, I know, it's been a while. No, but these The salt thing, because we've got fancy salt now. We've actually got a smoked salt that I've been using, and I do feel like I do the whole grab a pinch and put it onto whatever I'm working on, but sometimes I'm like, I've got some fucking raw egg on my hands or other things, and it's like, surely that's happening to Gordon Ramsay as well.
Tommy: Wow. I mean, this is— you've got to think more about this stuff now. Moving forward, like just the consideration for hygiene. I just knocked back, I mean, we're moving this house, we're moving house, but we just got a call from the detectors. So the detectives, no, detector inspectors, they come and cheque your, you know, fire alarms. And I knocked them back. Sorry, but no thank you. Even though it's the requirement, it's like, not in this time. She was fine with it. She's like, oh, okay. Yeah, I know you, so you're moving, so we can just do it when you leave. But they did a full spiel about everyone, like, um, uh, everyone's checked they haven't been overseas or they haven't needed to quarantine, blah blah blah. Like, she gave a full spiel and I was like, nice to know, but absolutely not in this time. Yeah, eliminate. Less people in your house. Like, you should be able to, you know, know exactly who's been in your house and it should only be family for the next little while.
Josh: Unless you're surprised they're even calling about it. But, um, yeah, me too. I guess it's that whole thing, it's like, um, uh, a fire alarm going, like there's things that will outweigh COVID. So if your fire alarm goes off, you've got to leave the house.
Tommy: Yep. Yeah, it's emergency, got to get out of there. Mate, I tell you what, Bodhi and I, the adventure club's back open, but unfortunately it's Bodhi and I.
Josh: And I saw you skateboarding.
Tommy: Yep, so it is a beautiful age. This is what I've been waiting for. It's like when you get a dog and it's not trained and, you know, you get that time where it just does what you want and it sleeps on you, you know. I guess that's— you just become really controlling at that point.
Josh: Heel!
Tommy: Get fucking by me! Go pick that up! Anyway, Bodhi's at the age where he's real keen on sort of getting out and about, and one of those things is skateboarding. And I did it when he was really young, but it was probably frowned upon from most people watching from the outside because he's so young. But I put him in between my legs of the skateboard, and I've got an electric skateboard, an Evolve board, and he holds on to my back leg, sort of puts his arm around and holds my thigh. And at the front, he has his hand up and I hold his hand. And we did this, but we would only go 20 metres or something at a time. But now he's keen, and so we've been doing probably about a 4K to 5K circuit on my board.
Josh: Really?
Tommy: And we both, we have matching, we have matching helmets. He's just a little pipsqueak one and I've got my bigger buffhead one. And he's got the Daily Talk Show sticker on it and he's got an Up Bank sticker on there too. And so today we went for a sort of a little early morning and headed up to a coffee shop. So it's like a nice round circuit. You go get a babyccino and then you hoon back down. And there's this bit where it was sort of like coming into this sort of slip lane between the highway and the houses, and it's a bike track. And so, you've got to go past sort of like an exit ramp off a highway. And when we got— when we went to the café, it gave me a bit of a fright because these huge Mack trucks are pulling off the highway and it's like onto Bullion Road off the M3. Anyway, on the way back, We looked and I sort of locked eyes with the big truck drivers. There was probably 2 or 3 trucks lined up to get off the highway at that point. I was like, oh cool. And Bodhi's loving it, just looking at the big Macs. And, um, anyway, went off, went halfway, you know, got halfway back to see the car. And then as we're sort of nearly at the car, because we stopped, and I saw some fire engine sounds— I saw— sorry, I saw some fire engines hooting past on the highway. I wonder what that is. Anyway, that was it.
Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tommy: Emergency, emergency. And anyway, we got in the car and went for a bit of a hoon. And then we sort of did a block, went back up and came to where those big trucks had been parked. And I'm like, oh my God, what the fuck? A Mack truck had turned the corner and it's turning the corner. And so it's a slip lane off the highway. And then you turn right and you go across the highway on a bridge. That go, you know, highway goes underneath it. This Mack truck has turned the corner and flipped, and it's turned onto its side. The back of it has hit the railing of the highway fence, and it's fallen and crushed the back of it onto the fence. Luckily, heaps of shit didn't come out the back or something. And the driver, what do you got, the fright of his fucking life. Why do you call it a Mack truck?
Josh: I'm just looking at a Mack truck.
Tommy: Oh, look at it.
Josh: It's like a truck.
Tommy: Big Mack truck. Big Mack truck.
Josh: It's a brand.
Tommy: That's the name of it. That's it.
Josh: Mack. Yeah, yeah. It's—
Tommy: Bodie loves his Mack truck. But it's— think of the biggest truck you see when you're— when you're, um, the tall and shit down the highway.
Unknown: Yeah.
Tommy: And that's it. And it's just rolled over. But I reckon it was the truck that I was looking at because I was doing the math, like the timing-wise, it was would have been by the time I got out of there and then got like, got around, it was perfect timing. So I reckon like, fuck, I reckon if we were, you know, half a minute later, I wonder if it's happened. I wonder if it would have happened. It would have been scary.
Josh: How was the driver? Was the driver okay?
Tommy: It looked all fine. Everyone was fine.
Unknown: It's—
Tommy: I think about those things of like, imagine if it was just a 30 centimetres more and it went over.
Josh: I mean, that's a pretty good photo of it, right? How easy it is to, um, uh, you know, die, which is pretty dark. Uh, I was, um, talking to Toni Lodge from One Trick Toni, and she was telling me that, uh, pomegranates have the exact same number of seeds. Every single one of them have the same amount of seeds.
Tommy: Shut your face.
Josh: Did you know this?
Tommy: Really?
Josh: Well, the only thing—
Tommy: the only reason that it's a good one you could reel off and just totally pull the wool over people's eyes, because who's counting? Who's going to do that?
Josh: Well, this is the thing, I reckon she's bullshitted a little bit because I'm sure she said that there were 10 seeds, uh, per pomegranate. But I'm just looking and the answer says 613 seeds are in a pomegranate. Should we call her? She'll definitely—
Tommy: Can we call her? We need it. We need some facts.
Josh: Okay.
Tommy: But that is like, you know, there's no zebra with the same stripes. There's not one snowflake that is identical. It's unique every single time.
Josh: Here we go.
Tommy: You know, there's only one Josh Jansen, to be honest.
Josh: Give me a second.
Tommy: There's a couple of Tommy Jackets. Just go to Fitness First, fuck it, in the shower.
Josh: All right, here we go. Let's see if I can— is this going to work? I know it's still not working. Fucked it again. Um, but we're going to get her on because, I mean, pomegranates you get in, um, I can't get it. You smashed avo, all that sort of shit.
Tommy: Yeah, it is, it is. Never bought one in my life. Cannot say I've ever purchased a pomegranate. Well, I don't even know if I've been asked to do it.
Josh: I think you can buy them in, like, you can just buy the seeds. There we go.
Tommy: Well, yeah, I mean, this is a huge— yes, yes, yes.
Josh: Okay.
Tommy: Yeah, I wonder how she answers your calls, Josh.
Josh: Yeah, I was trying to connect you. I was trying to connect you to the mixer. You're on the daily talk show with, uh, Josh and Tommy, how are you?
Tommy: G'day, Tony.
Unknown: I'm gonna be famous.
Josh: This is massive for you. Um, congratulations. Uh, hey, uh, pomegranates. Was it— was it you that I was speaking to about pomegranates the other day?
Unknown: Um, of course it was me. You don't have any other friends.
Josh: That's very true. How many seeds did you say were in a pomegranate?
Unknown: I did not confirm how many there were. I just know that there's some amount Um, with a— like, I think there's like a leeway of 10 either side. I just know that there's the same amount in every pomegranate.
Josh: So there's more than— because I thought you were telling me there was 10 seeds per pomegranate, and I just—
Unknown: Oh no, there's hundreds.
Josh: Okay, yeah, there's 613.
Unknown: Do you want to tell all your producers that they can't Google this, or—
Josh: Yeah, I know. Well, we'll call you instead. Uh, what's news anyway?
Unknown: Oh, well, I mean, now I have to say, because I'm on this podcast, my very first time.
Josh: This is great. I mean, the connection's not great, I'll be honest. It's probably— it's not ideal for your brand. Oh, oh, that's, that's okay.
Unknown: You could have given me a bit of notice. I could have hooked something up.
Josh: No, no, no, it was just— I just wanted to run past the pomegranate thing.
Unknown: Oh, tell me, how are you? I'm not really interested in Josh.
Tommy: Yeah, I'm good, mate. I'm good. Loving the show. You're doing very well with the podcast.
Unknown: Oh, thank you.
Tommy: Sorry about, sorry about 97. Uh, you know, he's, he's young, he's young and he's getting, and he's just getting started. So, um, I'm glad you, uh, put up with him. No, no, no, it was great. Love the episode.
Josh: He was strong.
Tommy: How are you feeling?
Josh: He was, he was high. We're talking, TJ and I were talking about it. You know that 97 is stressed. He's when he sort of talks like, like he's like, oh, hey, yeah, thanks for having me on. Yeah, I'm so happy.
Unknown: I listened again, um, to the episode that was released today, One Trick Pony, uh, the podcast. Yeah. Um, and he does sound incredibly nervous. Um, and I hope I didn't put him through his paces too much.
Josh: I think it was good.
Tommy: No, it's great. What do you do, Tony, when you're nervous? What's your kind of tell? Because Seb lifts, lifts the octave of his voice. He's almost singing like, like you, Tony.
Unknown: I get a bit snappy, like in real life, before I do something, if I'm nervous, I get a bit snappy.
Tommy: I was going to say, in the interview, in a nervous, anxious moment, you just had an interview, just, fuck, what are you looking at, mate? No, you're in an interview.
Josh: Well, you can't do it. Yeah, but what about like on stage? Do you get nervous on stage?
Unknown: No, no, I couldn't tell you about that.
Josh: Oh, that's funny. I get hot sometimes. I like get a prickly back, actually get like hives and stuff. Yeah, you never get that?
Unknown: No.
Josh: Okay.
Unknown: No, but I'll probably—
Josh: Okay, I'm glad. Uh, we're celebrating fruit today. Uh, what's, what's your favourite fruit?
Unknown: Mango.
Josh: Mango. The mango is good, isn't it?
Unknown: Um, what other fruit do I like?
Tommy: Tony, quick one about the mango.
Unknown: Yep.
Tommy: How do you attack the seed? How do you approach the internals of the mango?
Unknown: It's not a good look. So you go— it's on her OnlyFans. So you know how you like slice the cheeks off and then do that thing where you like pop it inside out and then with the seed I just peel the skin off and then just attack it like a rabid dog.
Josh: No, I get that.
Unknown: There's no other way.
Josh: Yeah, I agree.
Tommy: All you have is a, uh, a niche product that could be created. That's the thing with that is the fingers, what happens to your fingers and it's slipping around. I wonder if there's like a, a mango clamp, you know, that gives you sort of like— it's a, it's almost like a corkscrew-esque handheld device that you jump it and, you know, you just really just get into it.
Josh: Well, I'm actually looking right now. I've just Googled— there's a, um, mango pitter that will, um, get rid of the mango— I'm sorry, to get rid of the seed thing, whatever the fuck it is, the middle bit.
Tommy: Yeah, that looks good. But Tony, would you like this for your birthday?
Unknown: Yeah, well, you know, I mean, the mango seed, it's very hairy, isn't it? You know how it's got all the things. So the worst thing is that you need to eat the mango and then you need a lot of floss.
Tommy: Oh my God, I don't spend much time on TikTok, Tony, but I did see a TikTok of somebody who took, took a mango seed, washes it, hair dries it, and then puts little eyes on it, and it just looks like this sort of like fuzzy-haired individual. Looks like a kooky little bird or something. I might do that.
Unknown: I might go and buy a mango and get a little shred. It's like a Kinder Surprise, like a healthy Kinder Surprise.
Josh: Have you had the dry mango? Like the— I, I once at Costco bought like a big bag.
Unknown: It's bloody good. But how dangerous is dried fruit? All of a sudden, a couple of bits of Dried apricot, you're making the equivalent of 12 kilos of raw apricot.
Josh: Yeah, dried fruit. It's like, it is delicious, but it's not ideal. What about—
Unknown: It's dangerous, Dan.
Josh: Do you remember like school, like the canteen, they had those, it was like dried fruit, but they were in all like, like palaty things?
Unknown: No.
Josh: I remember these things.
Tommy: I remember the straps. I remember the fruit straps. It seems— The pellets. Yeah, they're like a strawberry.
Josh: They're like a— Nah, they're like circular sort of, um, bit like a cylinder maybe is the description. And it's sort of— They had, um, fuck, I wonder what they were. Fruit, fruit something. Fuck, I'm not gonna know. What was your go-to?
Unknown: Was it like a lolly?
Josh: Nah, it felt like it was a slightly healthier. What was your go-to can— Uh, like, uh, canteen food when you were growing up?
Unknown: Um, the bottom half of a cheesy. Did you guys have cheesies? Like, so it was a white bread roll cut in half with cheese on it and, um, grated carrot. Oh no. Um, oh, and they sold like— I know, how random is that? Cheese and carrot. And they sold the top half and the bottom half, and you'd go up like, can I have the bottom half of cheesy? Because the top half had like the weird knots. In the roll.
Josh: A cheesy— maybe this is a WA thing. I've never heard of a cheesy before.
Unknown: Oh yeah, and they were like, I don't know, probably 50 cents or a dollar or something. And yeah, it was grated cheese and grated carrot, just like grilled, and that was so good.
Josh: It's like—
Tommy: were you in prison, Tony?
Josh: Sounds real—
Unknown: sounds like prison food, to be honest.
Josh: Did you have, um, Pizza like, um, pockets.
Unknown: Pizza singles and pizza pockets.
Josh: Yeah, yeah.
Unknown: Why can't we buy those?
Josh: Yeah, I mean, I sort of— I feel like they would have been a good ISO treat, just having a bunch of pizza pockets in the freezer.
Unknown: Well, I just got an air fryer. I could probably cook a pizza pocket in my air fryer.
Josh: It would be fucking good too. But you were talking about— we were texting about a chimichanga. Um, about doing that.
Tommy: Did you know what it is, Tony? Do you know what it is?
Unknown: A chimichanga?
Josh: Yeah, yeah, it's a fried burrito. But so what are you gonna cook? What was the— I feel like if you get something like an air fryer, you have an idea of what you want to do with it.
Unknown: Um, I actually don't, and we're trying to be really healthy at the moment, so we actually don't have any food in the house that we can fry. So it's been sitting on the bench for 3 days and we're desperate to fry something, but we don't know.
Tommy: Just pull out anything. What can you—
Josh: I mean, that's not healthy. Yeah, you're trying to be healthy, but just on like a week, a weekend thing.
Unknown: I obviously don't have a Mars Bar in my house.
Josh: Okay.
Tommy: Yeah, it's not, um, I don't think it does. Like, you see the chips that it does, the potatoes it spits out, like you can't be eating those thinking you're at the local swimming pool and you just got some hot fries. It doesn't work like that because it's, it's not the same. They're trying to, they're trying to get it to the same, like it's a, I mean, there is a, it's not going to taste as good. It's like saying the thing with less sugar tastes sweet, like better.
Josh: But so what are they doing? So that's better, but it's like, put oil, do you put oil and it's sort of, how does it work, Tony?
Unknown: I actually, I don't. No, but from the research that I've done via Hamish Blake's Instagram, um, from what I can tell is that you maybe use that spray oil, you know, that really posh can of oil and you just like give everything a light spray instead of submerging it in oil or like shallow frying it on the, um, stovetop. Then you pop it in there and then the air like circulates really fast. And it grabs onto the tiny bit of oil and then like crisps up all the edge of whatever it is.
Josh: Do you know what I think you should use with it? On Sunday you should make, um, corn fritters for breakfast.
Unknown: Oh yeah, it's very specific.
Josh: On Sunday I just feel like it's a Sunday, it's a nice Sunday treat sort of thing. Have some corn fritters. I wonder how it goes.
Tommy: Don't you dare do them on a Saturday, Tony.
Unknown: Do not. It's very threatening, isn't it? You do it any other day, they're not going to be as good.
Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you've got to have it. This is the equivalent, like, getting an air fryer and but also deciding to be healthy is like buying a, like, a bread maker and deciding that you're not doing carbs, isn't it? Like, what the fuck are you gonna do with it?
Unknown: Well, it's ISO, and I feel like I just want to buy nice things to make myself feel good.
Tommy: I feel you. Um, I just typed in top, top things to use in an air fryer and, uh, okay, so baked potatoes, bacon, pork chops, mini calzones, sweet potato chips, mozzarella sticks, butter fried chicken, and chocolate chip cookies. I mean, this is a chocolate— it's getting worse as it goes down. It's getting worse as it goes out, health-wise. But I mean, that's, uh, that's— it doesn't look too bad actually. The bacon looks all right. Are you, um, do you eat meat, Tony?
Unknown: I do, but I don't know if I'd put bacon in an air fryer.
Tommy: Well, it looked pretty good. All these things look amazing. I'm going to email you.
Unknown: I don't like— yeah, flick it through, flick it through. Yeah, um, I don't like bacon crispy.
Tommy: I like my bacon like almost No, no, yeah, Tony, I want it bloody snorting on the plate!
Unknown: You know those people?
Tommy: You know there's dads that say, oh mate, if it's not bloody— If I can't see your heartbeat, I don't want the steak.
Josh: Yeah, that's fucking gross. No, thank you, Tony. Well, love you, Tony.
Tommy: You're a bloody weapon.
Josh: I'm sorry.
Unknown: Okay, great.
Josh: Yeah, well, that was it. We're sort of— let's be honest, we're running out of shit to do. TJ and I have been doing the show all the week with just the two of us, and you see where it sort of, um—
Unknown: God, you called me as a last resort.
Josh: Yeah, I thought you had something on the pomegranate bit, but that's all good, you know. Yeah, yeah, it was, it was a fruit theme, so I'm sort of annoyed we talked about the If you were to fry a fruit, you could do an apple.
Tommy: Apple, I've seen it. Pineapple.
Josh: What about a pineapple, um, what's those things called?
Unknown: Pineapple fritter?
Josh: Yeah, is that what Jase has from Red Rooster? It's a pineapple.
Unknown: Um, it's what everybody should have from Red Rooster because it's delicious.
Josh: Who, to be honest, are you really going to Red Rooster? I'm always curious about people who go to Red Rooster.
Unknown: Oh, I like a flavour wrap.
Josh: They are really good. Yeah, Bree and I went through a time eating a lot of Flavouraps.
Unknown: Yeah, sorry folks, can't do a brew through if you enjoy a Flavourap, personally. And that's all I'll say.
Josh: No, we couldn't really hear it anyway. But thank you, Toni. Enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you for answering.
Unknown: Thank you so much for having me. Sorry my phone line's so awful.
Josh: No, that's okay. I think it's 'cause it's connected via Bluetooth. Bad. So no, it's all good. All right, have a good one.
Unknown: Bye.
Tommy: See you, Tony.
Unknown: Bye. Bye.
Josh: So I cut her off.
Tommy: You can't, mate. She was trying to say bye to me. Sorry about that. Well, anyway, it's, uh, no, I appreciate the mission towards your 30th, Josh. It's, um, I'm here to support it with our Fruity Fridays.
Josh: Thank you. Are we doing it every Friday?
Tommy: No, we can mix it up. Could be a Fitness Friday, it could be one, you know, just whatever rhymes with FNF. We've got it.
Josh: Alliteration. What could it be? Um, what's it— what's it— next week we could do Fungus Fridays and do, um— oh yeah, like mushrooms.
Tommy: Mushrooms, yeah, that's a great idea.
Josh: Okay, it's— what else? Flavours. Red Rooster Flavours.
Tommy: Yeah, that's when you just want to get back to eating normal, eating what we normally did. Flavoursome Fridays.
Josh: The Flavours out there, great. They're like a rap they do.
Tommy: Oh, yeah, yeah, got it. All right, all right, guys, we love you.
Josh: It's a daily talk show. See you tomorrow for Weekend Banter. Have a good one.
Unknown: See you guys.
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