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Episode 83530:18

The Pink-Tailed Possum

We chat about today's Fat Fridays order, trying new food, taking a possum to the vet, trolls, and feeling sick.

Show Notes

00:00Our Fat Fridays order
07:38Trying new food
10:25Taking a possum to the vet
16:01Possum catching
19:29Tommy's plans for the weekend
22:32Trolls
27:36Feeling sick

At a glance

From this episode’s transcript.

  • –Tommy conducts a Fat Friday mochi taste test with Josh, sampling white, chocolate, mango, peanut butter and charcoal flavours bought from Coles Local.
  • –Tommy and Josh debate whether Coles Local is comparable to IGA or more like a mini Whole Foods.
  • –Josh recounts accidentally eating lamb brains in Pakistan after misunderstanding a restaurant recommendation.
  • –Tommy recounts Amy's sister bringing home an injured possum, which triggers the memory of Amy's waters breaking on the show's studio couch.
  • –Josh tells a childhood story about his dad spray-painting a captured possum pink to identify it after releasing it repeatedly.
  • –Shane Jacobson and Magda Szubanski faced online abuse after appearing in a mask-promoting ad, prompting a discussion about public backlash against celebrities during COVID.

Questions this episode answers

What is mochi and what does it taste like?

According to Tommy, mochi is a Japanese rice cake made from mochigome (short grain glutinous rice), sometimes mixed with water, sugar and cornstarch, pounded into paste and moulded into shape. During the taste test, Josh describes it as having a frozen-marshmallow-like, rubbery texture with flavours including coconut (white), chocolate, mango, and an unidentifiable peanut-buttery charcoal variety.

Why were Shane Jacobson and Magda Szubanski getting hate online?

Shane Jacobson appeared in an ad joking about condoms versus masks to encourage mask-wearing during COVID, and he and Magda Szubanski subsequently received abusive, fat-shaming and threatening messages, which Shane posted about on social media, prompting Tommy and Josh to discuss the backlash.

Is it legal to keep a wild possum as a pet in Victoria?

Tommy mentions it's actually illegal to look after a possum without a licence in Victoria, something he says he learned the hard way.

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Episode TranscriptShow
0:00

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.

0:03

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 835.

0:07

Tommy: Happy Fat Friday, you gronks. What's happening? What's going on?

0:10

Josh: So I'm either going to be happy or sad. So you've organised Fat Fridays and yeah, I was pumped. I was excited. I'm like, uh, Tommy's dropping something off, that's awesome. And then you said I had to put it in the freezer.

0:26

Tommy: Well, I, I, we need to redeem Your— see, if you haven't been following along with the Fat Fridays, Josh has been just— he's been getting things that weren't really meant to be frozen, definitely weren't meant to be frozen, and they've been frozen, and it's really set you off.

0:44

Josh: I guess it's like getting these in the freezer because I was— because of the trauma that I have with frozen food. But I did, and so they sort of look like ball-y type, almost like a macaron that has not been, um, that's one piece of a macaron, if that makes sense.

1:03

Tommy: Another way of describing is they look like small colourful pebbles, or they look like marshmallow balls, like, oh, there goes one. And when you touch them, they feel like marshmallows, or they feel like some kind of like rubber, like some kind of soft rubber. Anyway, So, I— Don't eat one yet. Don't eat one yet because—

1:26

Josh: I really want, I've been waiting.

1:28

Tommy: I want you to review it and I want to sort of get you to have the right flavour to start with. No, I need to have you to have the right flavour. So, I've got like yellow, pink, green, brown, white, and sort of a charcoal.

1:41

Josh: Yes, yes, yes.

1:42

Tommy: I went to Coles Local ages ago when it first opened or sort of after it was, the hype had sort of really set in and everyone was flocking there. Coles Local's like the Whole Foods of Australia, of Victoria. Anyway, I got this random— It's not, it's, well, it's small Coles.

2:02

Josh: It's like IGA.

2:05

Tommy: Yeah, but it's different. No, I don't agree.

2:07

Josh: I just feel like Whole Foods is like a whole nother thing. I don't know.

2:11

Tommy: Well, Whole Foods is a higher level, but I feel like they've taken a real thought to this. They have a cafe area. A lot of IGAs don't. They have like specific brands of takeaway food that they've brought in. They've got like a bread slicer. Mate, don't you dare talk Coles like that.

2:29

Josh: I haven't actually been to a Coles local.

2:31

Tommy: How's the cheek on you, dude? Have you been sipping back that fucking OJ I got you? Because I made that. I made that with a machine.

2:38

Josh: I haven't, but I will. I need some vitamin C because I feel like—

2:41

Tommy: That's why I got it for you, baby. Thank you. So I got a text message, not a text message, sorry. I got an Insta message from a girl named Marie. And it just started with LMAO. So she's on the ground laughing right now. Um, my friends make laughing my ass off. So she's— her ass is falling off.

2:58

Josh: If she was— if she was ROFL—

3:02

Tommy: oh, that's that ruffle.

3:03

Josh: Yeah, ruffle, rolling on the floor laughing. That's right, laughing her ass off. Yep.

3:08

Tommy: So it's actually pretty serious. Someone should— I should fucking call an ambulance. Her ass— you fucking catch her ass, it's rolling away. Anyway, she said LMAO, my friends make fun of me for driving all the way to Rose Bay just for mochi. And I YouTubed Coles Rose Bay hoping somebody made a video on it. I'm dying. Who even reviews Coles? That's amazing. Thanks. I actually needed it. And so I didn't review Coles Rose Bay. I reviewed Coles local in Hawthorn. Yeah. But they sell the same. They sell mochi and that is what you have right in front of you.

3:45

Josh: Okay.

3:45

Tommy: What is mochi? Mochi? Mochi? I think it might be Japanese. I think it might be—

3:50

Josh: What flavour am I starting with?

3:52

Tommy: You need to start with the white one.

3:53

Josh: Okay.

3:54

Tommy: I want to win you over with white. Okay. And, uh, and so run me through the texture, the feel, the smell, the taste.

4:01

Josh: Straight away it's like, um, yeah, it is like a frozen marshmallow, but it's sticking. It's like a frozen powder, and it's, uh, but it's a ball, and it's, uh, it's annoying to hold.

4:16

Tommy: Well, make sure you—

4:18

Josh: Yeah, go for it.

4:19

Tommy: No, no, no, bite half of it, you gronk. That way you can see what's inside. All right, he's taking a little bit of a bite.

4:26

Josh: It's a—

4:27

Tommy: he's struggling a bit. He's pulling at it with his teeth. What do you think?

4:37

Josh: What is it?

4:39

Tommy: What's it like? What's the flavor? What do you think?

4:43

Josh: Tastes like, um, ice cream that's good for you or something.

4:50

Tommy: Mochi is a Japanese rice cake made of mochigom, a short grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch. The rice is pounded into paste and moulded into the desired shape. In Japan, it's traditionally made in a ceremony called mochitsuki. Mochitsuki. Uh, I had never had a mochi until I went to that Coles, and I was confused as— because as confused as you. And I found— I bought some for Mason back in the day. I, I find these one, the white ones, are my favourite because they're like coconutty.

5:32

Josh: What's brown?

5:35

Tommy: I don't know.

5:36

Josh: I look not to sound like unrefined in regards to my taste.

5:42

Tommy: Well, cultured.

5:43

Josh: Yeah, cultured, like, but I don't know, they're fine, they're fine. But it's like bubble tea. I won't cry about it, but fuck, it's like you're being like, it's great that you've done it, but I was expecting, um, cake in the middle or something.

6:04

Tommy: Frozen cake.

6:04

Josh: But he's going for another.

6:06

Tommy: There's, um, 7 that I've got him. Okay, are they winning? The chocolate one's nice. Chocolate one's good.

6:19

Josh: The outside is just like a weird texture.

6:24

Tommy: It's, it's literally like latex, rubber or something, isn't it?

6:30

Josh: Is that what you wanted in a dessert?

6:33

Tommy: Well, I feel like, um, Asian culture do some kooky shit, like the way they do desserts. Like, this is probably my favourite Japanese dessert I've ever had. I don't, I don't think I've had a lot of Japanese desserts, but I respect this. I respect this a lot.

6:52

Josh: Yellow one, if it's like a lemon curd, I would like it.

6:56

Tommy: Well, try it, mate. I'm not stopping you.

6:58

Josh: Yeah, I know, but I'm safe at home. How did this— how am I trying crazy? It's like I'm traveling.

7:07

Tommy: Yeah, I'm trying the yellow one too, dude. You're really gonna feel them. They can— they confuse you when you pick them up, don't they? Like your fingers are confused. Oh, Mango.

7:20

Josh: Mango, you're right.

7:21

Tommy: Yeah, Mango. Mango.

7:23

Josh: It's quite nice.

7:25

Tommy: Yeah, look, I don't, I don't know if I'm gonna get through the 7 that I've purchased for both of us. But anyway, happy Friday, happy Fat Fridays. Enjoy your mochi.

7:37

Josh: Have you tried any really crazy stuff when traveling?

7:41

Tommy: No, no, not, not to the— I feel like, uh, in, in, uh, comparison to someone like Sev's I'm probably out there. Yeah, but I guess that's not hard. But, um, no, I've had no problem trying stuff. I haven't been to— I've been to Bali and Singapore, but that's— but I haven't gone sort of crazy. Not that you can really there, but I feel like street markets in Thailand or, or, you know, the street markets in, in China are probably more so on the crazy edge.

8:22

Josh: Yeah, eating. When I was in Pakistan, I was, um, at a restaurant and they said, um, oh, you like lamb brains? I said, oh no, thank you. And like, oh no, that's what you've, you've been inhaling. I thought it was some other dish and I'd eaten like I was being a real greedy, greedy bastard. And it turns out it was the The one where it's like, it's so fatty that they say you should like watch how much you eat because you can really hurt your stomach. Oh really? Yeah, you're only meant to have a certain amount, like, you know, once every 2 weeks or whatever.

9:01

Tommy: OD'd on fat.

9:01

Josh: Yeah, yeah, but it was, it was delicious. It was very good.

9:04

Tommy: Oh well, I mean, how do they feel in terms of—

9:09

Josh: Oh, like, like they're fine. I just, I reckon it's probably the I sound like a real gronk around, like, I like trying new things. Even I'm not even really, um, I'm not a picky eater, but like Bree and I were talking the other day, I'm not really an egg noodle guy. I just, um, or even do you know what this reminds me a little bit of? There's like a Persian ice cream, or like even in, um, maybe Turkey or something. It's like a— no, Pakistan does it too. It's like a rice ice cream. What do they call it? Let's have a look.

9:48

Tommy: Rice cream.

9:49

Josh: It's a good idea. Um, I'm not sure what it was. Uh, falooda. Falooda, I think it's called. And, um, yeah, they put like, uh, all different stuff in it. But yeah, I'm just— yeah, I don't know. Like, I'm a— I am a dessert guy. I do like desserts.

10:10

Tommy: Um, but it sounds like you're not the dessert guy if you don't like this. Yeah, tiramisu.

10:15

Josh: You like tiramisu? Yeah, yeah, I like tiramisu.

10:19

Tommy: So, um, Amy said—

10:20

Josh: oh, Amy wasn't a big tiramisu guy, would never order it, but now would you?

10:24

Tommy: Yeah. Amy's had to jet off to, uh, drop an animal at the vet.

10:31

Josh: You don't even have a pet? What's going on?

10:33

Tommy: No pet, mate. No pet here. And I'm glad that we have no pets because I didn't think I'd have to, you know, be a part of or connected to vet runs.

10:42

Josh: Yeah.

10:43

Tommy: Parents have dogs and stuff, you know, a dog, but I sort of glaze over when I hear that they're taken to the vet. Just, you know, uh, Amy's sister came home, found on the ground a small animal. What sort of animal? I was like, mate, what? I was just like, just cooking. In the kitchen. I'm like, oh, not for me, it's not for me right now. I don't want to engage. And next minute there's a box bringing in a small sort of maybe marsupial. I don't think they're marsupials. No, it's not a marsupial. Possum. Possum marsupial?

11:20

Josh: I think so.

11:21

Tommy: Marsupial just means they've got a little pouch, don't they? Oh, possums have pouches. I'm not sure. Anyhow, uh, this thing came in and I, and I was like, mate, that's a small dog. It's not the size of it, just the way it looked. Not at all. Very docile, very just like out of it. Tiny though, the size of your fist, the size of 4 mochis put together. Yeah, so it's, it's quite small. But at that point I'm just like, oh no. And they're calling numbers, they, you know, you know what You know the panic that I had when Amy's waters broke? When you were on the phone to me.

12:02

Josh: Oh, that's right.

12:03

Tommy: And I said, oh mate, I gotta go. Amy's just—

12:04

Josh: I was like, Amy! Fucking knock on the floor.

12:08

Tommy: She was on the couch. I was like, oh wow. And I had to run and get a towel.

12:14

Josh: Yeah, yeah.

12:15

Tommy: I had to run and get a couch.

12:17

Josh: This gum tree, you're just trying to fucking— mate, ah, that's—

12:20

Tommy: Oh my God. Do you know that couch is at The Office?

12:24

Josh: Oh, is that the couch?

12:26

Tommy: That's the couch.

12:28

Josh: Oh, great.

12:28

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show studio couch has—

12:30

Josh: That's very special.

12:32

Tommy: That is very special. I didn't even think about that. Now I don't ever want to get rid of it. So Amy's waters broke on that, and I could not fucking believe how much water was there. And that towel just had to sort of get to work, you know. Anyway, um, I struggled.

12:47

Josh: We've always thought there was a history in The Office couch, like When you look at it, you can tell it's been through a bit.

12:54

Tommy: Hell and back. Once I came home to my Bondi apartment, one better, with Amy. And yeah, I'd been playing up. Yeah, I'd been a bit naughty, stayed out a bit late, and my bed was made on that couch. There's a storey for you.

13:07

Josh: I like that. So, you've slept on it 6 times.

13:09

Tommy: And so, I was like, alright, I'm lying on that. I'm sleeping on that. Next minute I'm back in the bed.

13:13

Josh: Good one. Good one.

13:15

Tommy: It's—

13:15

Josh: And so, anyway, so—

13:16

Tommy: But I freaked out trying to get the number right because it's like, it's the same when you're like, Fuck, who am I calling? So the girls are calling and my sister comes in and says, um, do we have wire here? What the fuck?

13:30

Josh: Wire?

13:31

Tommy: Why have we got wire? I've got no wire here. What do you mean wire in Victoria?

13:35

Josh: There's wire everywhere.

13:37

Tommy: It's some wildlife thing in New South Wales. And so is there the wire? Is there an equivalent of wire here in Victoria? Over my head again. And, um, and so Amy's called the guy in New South Wales. It's like, yeah, what's your address? And she's like, blah blah blah, you know, Victoria. Oh, we're New South Wales. Yeah, I know, but, um, we didn't know the number in Victoria.

14:01

Josh: Oh no, wouldn't you probably lead with that?

14:04

Tommy: I know, but it's the panic. It's the similar thing of me trying to call the hospital that I needed to take Amy to, uh, to, and I'm like, so what's the deal?

14:13

Josh: You have to call them, be like, hey, we're on our way.

14:16

Tommy: I think it was all too much for me, to be honest. That's probably why I just didn't save it in my phone. Yeah, there's probably a bunch of things that you could do. Yeah, in prep, dude, the checklist, the bag ready to go, check. It's fucking a, uh, food pack, check. It's—

14:33

Josh: what sort of food?

14:35

Tommy: Uh, to be honest, you had that sorted. Had that sorted. Had, um, some— had, had maybe some clinkers. There was some sour worms.

14:44

Josh: So, it's good stuff.

14:45

Tommy: It's good stuff. And Amy had basically— She had one snake and I smashed everything else because she wasn't hungry. She's in pain.

14:55

Josh: It was like when Bree did a half marathon and I met her at different points handing her jelly snakes, but she didn't want them. So, I just ended up watching her doing a half marathon while I— 8 chilli snakes.

15:10

Tommy: Yeah, you just got to save it in you. I mean, it's probably one of those things, you're like, save a local vet, save your local hospital. Um, obviously, zero, zero, zero person need to save a vet number. Well, if you've got a soul unlike myself, uh, I don't have one, you would pick up an animal. And so Amy, I just messaged her said, are you here? And she said, uh, went to the vet back in '10. And so she's taken this little animal.

15:41

Josh: Awesome.

15:42

Tommy: Not yet, uh, identified.

15:45

Josh: You don't know?

15:45

Tommy: Not yet identified.

15:46

Josh: It's a rat. It's a stray rat. That's pretty funny. Oh, um, yeah, yeah. When, uh, when I was a kid, my dad, for whatever reason, Very angry at our possums that would sort of wake us up and all that sort of thing. And so, he got cage, like a cage and would catch them and then put them in the back of the ute and then would drive 15 minutes and then would drop them off. And so, I had to stay in the ute, like in the car, a bit of it. And he would, Dad would get out and he would let the cage open. And because the possum would be hissing like real scary shit, and it would like run off and would do it near a tree, and it would run up the big trees. And it happened like 3 or 4 times to the point where Dad had like— at this point I think he's going a bit crazy because he's like, they're coming back, it's the same fucking possum. Yeah, my mum's like, Richard, Don't be stupid. Nah, it's the same fucking possum. That's— and, and so, uh, in a rage, he got some pink spray paint and spray painted the back of the possum.

17:11

Tommy: So, and it's now a new species in Victoria, the pink-tailed possum.

17:14

Josh: Yeah, never, never came back. It didn't? It didn't come back? No. Oh geez.

17:20

Tommy: So, oh, now I respect that. I learned the hard way though, my, um, about capturing possums. It's actually illegal to look after a possum without a licence in Victoria. It's to try and have one. Yeah, it's fucking bullshit. First they start with a fucking mask and now it's a fucking possum.

17:39

Josh: I can't have a barbecue out the back if it's fucking, you know.

17:44

Tommy: Anyway, this kid, this kid Dean, who I stayed at his house once, he had a Dean, I actually watched Dean get bashed later in life by another kid we went to primary school with.

17:58

Josh: Another Dean?

17:59

Tommy: Nah, by another guy, and I had to fucking jump in. I felt sorry for Dean. Dean was a nice young guy.

18:05

Josh: Anyway, why did someone try and beat him up?

18:08

Tommy: Oh, there was some beef between them. Moss, do you want one of these? I'm just hanging, palming off the mochi now. Um, there you go. I feel like you should like freeze if you want them for later.

18:17

Josh: I feel like someone who loves filet-o-fish would love a mochi. Yeah. I think like it's a refined palate thing. Yeah.

18:26

Tommy: Refined palate. Definitely. It'd be good to sort of get the girls on later from the episode to try mochi and give it their two cents. I'd like to hear from Bree what she thinks of mochi. Anyway. Yeah. Dean's Place. We thought it was hilarious to just put a cage out with a bit of apple in it. Which was a possum catching cage. And mate, the thing just— just fucking evil. Just sounded like a vampire. Never again. I mean, they don't want to be captured like that. It's pretty fucked up, to be honest.

19:02

Josh: I'm just messaging Bray. Uh, can you taste test something on cam?

19:09

Tommy: Um, this is, uh— can we, can we get a, um— was it a possum? Can we get a confirmation that was a possum? It was a possum. Yeah, was that pink tail possum? Richard Jansen? They mentioned Richard.

19:22

Josh: Jesus Christ, what the fuck are you talking about? Um, what are you gonna do on the weekend? What do you got planned?

19:30

Tommy: Uh, mate, uh, a couple of things. Got a few new items of furniture arriving.

19:36

Josh: Oh, the, um, the couch.

19:37

Tommy: Got the couch. Oh yeah, that's good. The couch, um, holder. The fart hole. The history-less couch. No, nothing's happened on this couch yet.

19:47

Josh: Sure.

19:49

Tommy: Well, I mean, did your couch come in a big box? Did it feel like it was unopened?

19:54

Josh: Yeah, yeah, no, they come new.

19:57

Tommy: It's a good point. I wonder if anyone sat on the couch that you purchased, even when they are new, from— you reckon just a little, little bum? No, no, bum sit. Anyway, got that to set up. You know, got a new dining table.

20:11

Josh: Oh, that's exciting.

20:12

Tommy: Is it circular?

20:13

Josh: What sort of shape?

20:15

Tommy: Uh, it's just, you know, 6-seater, 4-seater that turns into a 6-seater when you pull it out. Rectangle?

20:21

Josh: Okay.

20:22

Tommy: Usually, I mean, if you've probably got an elaborate house if you've gone a square table, don't you think?

20:29

Josh: Yeah, I guess. Like, is it just that it's a bit designery?

20:34

Tommy: It would be. It really needed—

20:36

Josh: maybe—

20:38

Tommy: I think inefficient for the most part.

20:39

Josh: Huge, because you need to have enough room for—

20:43

Tommy: true—

20:44

Josh: 2 on either side, on all sides. So it's an 8-person table, which is very big.

20:51

Tommy: It would really fill the centre of a room. Like, instead of just putting it off to the side, doesn't really work.

20:57

Josh: Apparently the circular ones are the best in small Spaces. Really? Yeah, but we, um, we have a marble, uh, lounge— what's it called? Like a coffee table.

21:09

Tommy: Oh yeah.

21:11

Josh: And Bree was like obsessed with it. Like, this is one of our, you know, big purchases.

21:16

Tommy: Yeah.

21:16

Josh: And it turns out that the marble is actually only a really, really thin layer on top, and then it's just fake marble. I think you were the one that pointed this out to us.

21:27

Tommy: No, I feel like that's too— sorry, I must— I feel like Bodhi's just ruining my shot. He's just flicking on the light on and off. That's right.

21:37

Josh: So, um, do you want Bodhi to taste test one?

21:41

Tommy: No, no, he said too much sugar. Can't give him—

21:44

Josh: it's actually— there's not much, it's not very sweet.

21:46

Tommy: I know it's not sweet, but it's definitely got sugar in it.

21:49

Josh: It's like— I feel like those—

21:51

Tommy: is she gonna do it? Is she keen on it?

21:53

Josh: She might be. She might be on a call. Give me— I'm just gonna go say, let's have a look.

21:56

Tommy: All right, all right. Yeah, now Bodhi's had way too much sugar. I'm talking to myself now. Tommy, you should stop, stop giving Bodhi sugar. You know, I try, I try. Look, he, he likes to go nuts, and then sometimes you just need a— it's a catch-22 because you're like, it stops them going nuts, but then they just spark back up within 5 minutes. And so It's no good.

22:18

Josh: She's on a work call and it seems appropriate for me to say, can you come taste test something?

22:24

Tommy: Okay, not everyone's work is as fun as ours.

22:26

Josh: Come on.

22:27

Tommy: Hey, um, just quickly, I mentioned to you yesterday that the online trolls are out in force. Yeah, um, Sam Harris— I mean, you could call these trolls or activists— Sam Harris, meditation teacher, neuroscientist, for some reason he put up a post that had nothing to do with veganism. And in the comment section, I was like, I should have just read the first one. I was like, that seems out of place. And it was about like, Sam, why aren't you vegan? And then the next one and the next one, next one, it was all about veganism. And I was like, oh my God, it's like they've—

23:03

Josh: they must have like a forum where they're like, we know you hate vegans based on— we've done surveys and every survey Someone says, I wish Tommy was more open-minded.

23:17

Tommy: Absolutely not. I've got no problem with them. No. And so, yeah, he's been getting a bunch of hate coming from them, which I didn't look too deeply into. I mean, didn't look too deeply into why it's all going on. And then I saw your mate Shane Jacobson.

23:37

Josh: Oh yeah, he's been copping it with Magda as well.

23:39

Tommy: With Magna. I mean, Magna, Magna, Magna, Magna Szabanski. Yeah. Hang on.

23:50

Josh: Say it.

23:51

Tommy: Magda.

23:52

Josh: Yeah. Magda.

23:53

Tommy: M-A-G-D-A. Magda.

23:54

Josh: Yeah. Yeah.

23:54

Tommy: Not Magna. I might have put an N in there.

23:57

Josh: Yeah.

23:57

Tommy: Magda Szabanski.

23:59

Josh: Szabanski. Yeah. Yeah. And she said Szabanski, doesn't she? Szabanski.

24:02

Tommy: Yeah.

24:02

Josh: Yeah. We always fuck up.

24:04

Tommy: She's gone.

24:05

Josh: Which I was, um.

24:06

Tommy: So the connection to it, uh, Shane is an Australian icon. He's a TV superstar, actor, amazing actor, and he's in a commercial at the moment which I happen to see, whether it was on a Facebook pre-roll or— sorry, a YouTube pre-roll ad. You wouldn't have seen it, Josh, because you don't, you don't fucking put up with that shit. And it's this great little clip of Shane sort of working on a car and he sort of comes up, he's like, oh hey, hey there. And you know, in his Shane style, and it's a real Aussie dude, and he kind of talks about sort of condoms back in the day, you know. He pulls out this thing of condoms that drops down and he's like, buddy, you know, you put these on. Or, and then he's like, the modern day thing is, you know, you got to put a mask on. And so there's this connection, it's this funny gag between so the old approach to condoms and then this new approach to masks. And I just thought, fuck, he's such a good actor. Like, he delivered it so well. It's so Shane, and it was so not much other than just saying it was a light-hearted mask up.

25:07

Josh: Yeah, yeah.

25:09

Tommy: Which I, I actually, I honestly didn't think anything of it other than I love Shane, he's awesome. Um, and then I see this Facebook status— it was on Facebook and Insta— that says since doing an ad just to say wear a mask Myself and my friend Magda have been abused, fat-shamed, and threatened. For me, mostly on Facebook, aka hate book, and the worst messages are direct messages that others can't see. Interestingly, apparently, uh, I should stick to my day job. Funny thing is, being on TV was my day job until COVID. Also, apparently people don't like actors having an opinion, even 'Even though my opinion was just whack on a mask, yet all those people yelling at me with filled opinions and wholesale quantities of pure hate, and yet apparently they all know more than me irrespective of what their day job is.' He goes on to just sort of talk about, you know, the hate he's had from it. And I was just so confused. Oh, the ad's actually on his Instagram if you want to see it. The Shane Jacobson. It's just on there.

26:22

Josh: It's just people— we've spoken about this, haven't we? Just angry.

26:27

Tommy: What is it? Do you think it's a, you know, we don't need to get into what they're talking about necessarily, but maybe it's a thing of that— it's a current timing thing. Like, it's a— you go for a drive, people get upset.

26:39

Josh: People get upset with celebrities, especially in these times, right? Like, if you think about it, when everyone's feeling a bit down or whatever, it seems like a real— it's like punching up. People love punching up, and that's what they're essentially doing. And then you put with it, um, you know, like, for whatever reason, masks have somehow become some sort of political statement where it's somehow communicating your, um, you know, the way that, you know, that your political leaning. And I guess that's part of it too. But, um, people don't like being told what to do as well. So, but yeah, people are idiots. It's very annoying.

27:24

Tommy: Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm surprised you haven't gone fucking off your rocker about it all. You don't like being told what to do, but you seem to—

27:31

Josh: Oh yeah, I mean, if it's, it's going to keep people alive, man. I'm feeling shit house. I'm sick. I'm sorry.

27:39

Tommy: Oh no, the mochi. The fucking mochi's got you. Mochi gotcha.

27:43

Josh: Just real fucking, real snotty. Yeah, I'm not fucking like— I don't have COVID.

27:49

Tommy: Are you gonna drink? So that OJ I got you so you could try it. I got it so because I say to you, drink, have some vitamin C, you always just come back with the real world examples. I had, uh, that's what you said yesterday.

28:03

Josh: I had like 5. Today. That's a lot of mandarins. Mandarin was so—

28:08

Tommy: 5 already.

28:09

Josh: We got them delivered. What do you reckon fucking 10 mandarins cost?

28:14

Tommy: Oh, you're looking at, I reckon, like, I reckon like 80 cents a piece, a unit.

28:20

Josh: That was 80 cents, less than $3 for the whole pack of 10.

28:24

Tommy: Wow. I guess mandarin maybe. I mean, orange is more expensive.

28:27

Josh: Seedless, you can eat the whole thing.

28:30

Tommy: I mean It's great. Don't get me started on seedless, mate. What they've been doing artificially to fruit for centuries is fucking beyond me.

28:37

Josh: I love seedless, very handy.

28:39

Tommy: Righty, well, maybe just, um, go bin those mochis. We're not going to get a review from Breezer. I would like to— I would like— I would like Breezer to try one.

28:48

Josh: And what's the other— what's the pink flavoured one?

28:52

Tommy: I couldn't—

28:52

Josh: what's the charcoal one? I'm gonna finish.

28:54

Tommy: I mean, they're the— they're the bizarre ones because you could go yellow equals some kind of fruit and definitely mango. But what is pink?

29:02

Josh: One, they've gone—

29:03

Tommy: okay, go the obscure one. Okay, here we go. He's, he's gone. When we say charcoal, it fucking legit looks like dusty charcoal. What flavour we got, baby?

29:17

Josh: Peanut butter.

29:19

Tommy: Peanut butter. Oh, we've got him back.

29:22

Josh: No, what is that?

29:23

Tommy: I don't know, mate. You're the one tasting it. I haven't got one. I've given them off to my family. What's going on? Talk me through the flavors. Pretend you're Anthony Bourdain.

29:41

Josh: What do you reckon? I don't know. Nutty.

29:47

Tommy: Any flavor, or you just literally ate something that tasted like nothing?

29:52

Josh: What's the, um, pistachio? Maybe.

29:55

Tommy: Oh yeah, maybe. All right, imagine this cooking show. Hey, what's your pasta sauce taste like? I couldn't tell you, I actually fucking don't know.

30:10

Josh: All right guys, uh, enjoy the rest of your Friday. Have a good one, we'll see you tomorrow.

30:15

Tommy: Love you guys.

30:15

Josh: Bye bye.

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