Funlympics & Birthday Planning

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show, it's The Daily Talk Show, episode 868.

Josh: Happy hump day, Gronks! What's happening? What's going on? How are we, Squirrel?

Tommy: Uh, very well. Uh, yes, we were just talking about the fact that for whatever reason we emulate each other when it comes to the way we wear our hats and hair.

Josh: Yeah, you know, men aren't that complex. Females somehow work out to sync their menstrual cycle. We just work out how to sync our hats.

Tommy: Absolutely.

Josh: Not as impressive.

Tommy: We've done that today. You've got your cock forward and I've got my nuts forward. We're ready for a good show.

Josh: We're being our best versions of ourselves. There was a guy that I worked with, uh, I said that we had the same pee cycle, and so it was always running into each other in the bathroom.

Tommy: Sure, he wasn't just going to the toilet, like he was there all the time.

Josh: Well, yeah, true. To be to the point where I was pushing the door thinking he's going to be there, and I push it and he's fucking there. It was, it was ridiculous. It was funny. It was— that was when I worked on radio in Shepparton, so maybe it was the time, like, you know, when you sort of draw this coincidence, you know, wow. But it's actually just like, it's when I finish my shift and when he starts his. But I really made something of it. Um, the other morning I was in the car and where we live in Bulleen, it's kind of perched up on the hill. We can see the city. It's lovely. You know, we're living at the top of a hill. And I can get my old radio station's frequency.

Tommy: Really? Is it? So is the station— because I know that the— is it the Dandenong Ranges? Like the Dandenongs? There's like towers there. Is that where the— surely the tower wouldn't be there if it's going to—

Josh: No, it's coming from Shepparton, 2 hours away, because the signal— You're right. I don't know the complexities. I'm not trying to talk—

Tommy: Do you know how AM works?

Josh: I think it's blowing.

Tommy: Do you know how AM works?

Josh: AM radio?

Tommy: Like the frequency. I don't know much about this, but I was watching This Week in Radiotech, which is a podcast where they have engineers on being socially awkward, but they talk about cool stuff.

Josh: And that's the byline of the show.

Tommy: It is like that. It's like the people who are never behind the mic get on and try and, you know, work out what to say. But they— So, I believe the way AM works is it goes out into the atmosphere, goes up and then comes down.

Josh: Oh, wow. I mean, it's a radio wave. Is that what it is?

Tommy: I guess so.

George: Yeah.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: It's anyway, so like, to be honest, when it's windy and it's blowing the wrong way, you don't get the signal. So, I mean, some people believe in, you know, séances, other people believe in radio frequencies. It's real. It's a real thing. It's a real thing. But right now, when we're recording this in 2020, September 30th, Joe Biden versus Donald Trump, there's an election debate. It's head-to-head. It is great television. Yeah, it is.

Tommy: I mean, is it good for the world?

Josh: No, absolutely not. But it's, it's, it is the most bizarre thing because you, it feels like you're watching a schoolyard. Brawl, like a convo between kids. Like, it's— if anything, it's like when you and I just fucking bitch at each other and we're not—

Tommy: like, if Mason was there trying to sort of rein it all in and then we just attack Mason. Yeah, sort of the vibe, isn't it?

Josh: Well, yeah, it's— it also has the vibe of the movie, you know, when the— in— you don't really watch movies, but when they go down into bunkers that have been— that were created for like when the world ended in the '90s, it's like they're old, they have old machines, and it has like old furniture. I feel like there's an old vibe looking at this even though it's in 2020. I feel like give it 10 years looking back at that debate, it is this weird—

Tommy: It's like we're looking at history, right? Like, I think that anything, anytime anything big happens, it sometimes it's that out-of-body experience where it's like you can't pit— Like, you know that this is going to be— It's like what it must have been like living when like Hitler was doing all his crazy shit, right? Like you would have been watching that being like, fuck, yeah, the shit people are going to look, look back and think how whack this is. And it feels— not comparing it, I am, but, but it does definitely have that sort of out of body. This, this can't be real. Yeah. Yeah.

Josh: You know, I've said it. We wouldn't put our hand up for the president. Definitely. Absolutely not.

Tommy: But don't you think that it reminded me the look The aesthetic reminds me of when we went into— We had to get our visas for the US.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: So, when we were going to the US, we got— They're called A-1 visas, which is like a media visa. And through that whole process, like going through the consulate, it just— There's a level of tiredness with the decor. Like you can tell that at some point it would have been really fancy and nice, but it sort of lost a little bit of its charm.

Josh: Well, I think that's what the White House would feel like. It's like they're holding on to the, the patriotic vibes of like, you know, the flags, the, the leathers, the, the hunting. It's, it's interesting because you're right, even the, the live stream video has that vibe. The colors, the, um, just the grandness of it with a few people. It's like, you know, nothing worse than living in a castle back in the day where you were 40 feet from your partner having dinner. Like, who liked that? I mean, good for COVID times, just that social distancing, but so far away.

Tommy: Yeah, no, it's not great. I mean, it reminds me now of my parents, you know, on either end of the heads of the table.

Josh: You grew up with iPads, mate.

Tommy: Yeah, exactly. No, but they love their iPads. Okay. Can you hear the sirens, by the way? A lot of sirens going on in Collingwood right now.

Josh: God.

Tommy: The world really is ending.

Josh: Yeah, hopefully not. But the other night, mate, we had some fun, didn't we? I mean, we played something called Funlympics, which is a virtual get-together and you get to have fun. And I was like, this is you wrapped up, JJ.

Tommy: Well, it's got the best of it. So it's from FunLab that they have Holy Moly, they've got Strike Bowling. I like all of these things, But if it's, you know, you've got to go there and all that sort of thing. So, this combines everything, which is the fun that you have without worrying about parking, without worrying about sort of if things go really bad, you're in the safety of your own home. So, you can just turn off the Zoom if you have a blow-up with any of your mates. Yeah.

Josh: Well, yeah. So, the other night we got together, it was Tully Smythe. Producer Jess, GB, Mr. 97, myself, you, JJ. And all that we were told was you need to come fancy dress. And then they throw the caveat in, at least do your hat, just wear something on your head that's a bit fancy. And so I built this Akubra hat that had ushis hanging as the cork fly swatters, you know, like the old-school cork hat. I just replaced them with ooshies. I thought it was very creative.

Tommy: It was a good—

George: Yeah.

Tommy: And the thing is, I did the classic panic, like to the point where Bree's on a call with someone. She goes, I've got to go and help Josh. He's panicking. Because I'm running around the house thinking, what do I have? It's— I feel like this is a classic thing when you're in school. It's like there's some sort of dress-up day and it's like, the last minute thing and you end up pulling fucking pipe cleaners together and just do some sort of shitty thing. I actually, even last day of school, we had to get dressed up and I ended up just getting dressed up in like a tutu. Like there was no— It was just because I panicked.

Josh: Well, your costume had that vibe. Georgie Boy has put together a replay of our Funlympics that he's got, and we're going to play it right now.

Tommy: Here it is.

George: It's the Daily Talk Show's Fun Lab. It was a big media company showdown. 3 shows competing for the top prize.

Josh: I've never wanted to know something so bad.

George: It was nothing. There was no prize. Too Much Tully versus the Daily Talk Show versus Hump Day Replay. Hey boys, time to choose the team names from the list.

Tommy: Pink Piñatas!

George: You like oatmeal?

Josh: Yeah, nah, let's go Orange Oatmeals.

Tommy: White Wabbits, please.

George: To delegate who competed in which event, we popped into breakout rooms.

Josh: Booty Sleep. I get it, booty.

Tommy: Like beauty.

Josh: I'll go run up and grab a mandarin. I believe we ate all the oranges, so.

Tommy: So what do we do? Um... You've muted yourself!

George: Round 1 was the Yeah Boy challenge.

Tommy: Yeah boy!

Josh: That was amazing!

George: Apparel athletics was up next— first person to put on 7 shirts . You guys are quick. Event number 3 was just feeling out a minute. Put your hands up when you think it's done.

Josh: 3, 2, 1, bang!

Tommy: Oh, hang on.

George: Josh revealed how he wasn't going to cheat.

Tommy: And so I could have sort of half-itched my nose, said, "Hey Siri, set the timer for 1 minute," but I'm not going to do that.

George: Jess had some stern advice for Tully.

Tommy: Just focus.

Josh: Like, kind of meditate on it.

George: And Mason clearly doesn't know how to cheat. Well, can I come clean about something? I've slacked Mason at 50 seconds.

Josh: I was like, but this is the thing, I had no headphones on.

George: I'll slack you at 50 and then you just have to count 10.

Tommy: This is not the first time that Mason's been pulled up for not responding to slacks.

George: For event number 4, each team needed to find their biggest book.

Josh: Gonna be something put on your fucking head or something.

George: Mason was out early.

Josh: Mason, shut up.

George: And Josh lost his mind and dropped out second. Tommy threatened Ace.

Josh: I'm at your house, bro. Let's go. Let's go.

George: And Jess made kookaburra sounds.

Josh: Kookaburra sounds.

George: And for that round, the points went to Too Much Tully. Round 5 was a stacking challenge with items no bigger than your hand.

Josh: No, Jess. No.

George: Disaster for the Oatmeals.

Josh: Hey, Tommy, you need to— Oh no, mate.

George: The final round was a scavenger hunt. GB won the first 2 rounds, thank you very much. JJ lost the plot.

Josh: That is an animal!

George: And Competitive Jess got disqualified.

Josh: Oh, ah!

George: So the final scores were Orange Oatmeals, aka Hump Day Replay, on 24. I'll take it. White Wabbits, aka The Daily Talk Show, on 26.5. And the winners were the Pink Piñatas, aka Too Much Tully, on 32.5.

Josh: Look at Josh's face!

George: And that was pretty much it.

Josh: Do you guys want the room for a bit to say goodbye to each other? No! Absolutely not!

George: Epic!

Tommy: Good work GB, and thank you Ace and Dylan who were the two gronks who looked after us.

Josh: Yeah they're from Fun Labs and like just connecting this sort of competitive nature with something fun you get this weird mix where you get people doing kookaburra sounds and gorilla noises and everyone's smiling, but still wanting to win. That's what I love about it. They've also got like virtual escape rooms, like trivia, and you get your own hosts that will run you through these games.

Tommy: I feel like this thing— Don't you think it's a classic show-off thing that happens? I feel like this is— It's the classic thing that happens at all parties, whether you're, you know, going bowling or minigolf, you end up like, there's a sense that you, there's gonna be a loudmouth like you who's pushing back on poor Ace, who's just trying to get to his job, pushing on the rules.

George: Yeah, yeah.

Tommy: What's the website for people to, if they wanna—

Josh: PartyTogether.com.au. PartyTogether.com.au.

Tommy: You can jump in.

Josh: But you do learn a lot. Like you, so you, you're not the best person to go on the team with. I've got you by my side. Yes, based on, based on. Great for a laugh and you putting yourself out there and probably not winning. But if you want to win, like, you're willing to get the laugh over the win.

Tommy: Laugh always over the win. And so that was the thing you said to me. So I can show— Do you want me to show the book that I had picked initially?

Josh: Well, one of the tasks was, yeah, you got to hold it on your head, balance a book. Which when you've got a big pill like Josh, you'd think that it'd be quite easy, you know, a lot of brains there.

Tommy: And so if you're watching the video here, I've got this, this book, uh, by Seth Godin. This is the book that I picked up to— because they didn't say at the start it's going to go on your head, and you were like, mate, they're going to ask to put it on your head. And I just pushed forward and said, I'm going to do this. But then they were worried that I was going to break my neck, and so I got to change the book. But that's a good example of I knew the game, I could have tried to rig it, but there is something funny about trying to put— did you know this cost me $200 just in delivery? That's how heavy this fucking book is.

Josh: And how much was the book itself if the delivery's $200?

Tommy: I think it was like a $300-something book, like all up with the shipping cost more than the book.

Josh: Yeah, it's great. Yeah, very much worth it. Anyway, it's a good team bonding experience for the different shows that we have in the podcast network.

Tommy: I was like fired up to the point, because the thing is, so we did Friday Night Drinks, we did all these things, but the thing is you need to be on, someone needs to be organising it. And so, DJ Precious ran out of steam. He started, you know, getting sort of animosity towards everyone. However, this is great because you've got leaders from FunLab that are actually facilitating the whole thing. So you can, everyone can relax. It's no one's responsibility. Don't you think that that changed the dynamic? If I had to be like, okay everyone, do this, do that, it would have been a clusterfuck.

Josh: Yeah, I've been on like ghost tours around the CBD and it was nice when you just, in those circumstances, I mean, the interactiveness is the walking and listening and watching. And so I do like I do like taking the back seat and being able to just be guided and have the fun. It is expensive. It is fun. Like going on tours overseas and expensive. They're expensive. I was just thinking about our trip to Santorini. That was fucking expensive, dude. But going on that, there is something about just chilling back. I think you and I are always trying to fucking grab the steering wheel off each other. Just fucking back on the road.

George: Yeah.

Tommy: The—

Josh: So when you're just chilling out, I mean, a vineyard tour, like, we haven't—

Tommy: Have we ever gone to a winery together?

Josh: Uh, have we? No, I don't think so. They are good. No, it's— But it is nice when you have the commitment where you're either at a house and you get someone who's driving and, you know, like, doing the full tour. Like, that is where you just, you know, you, you chill. I mean, for, for you and I, I think it is probably rare that you're ending up not having to put any two cents in. There is a real challenge for me, like, if I'm— it's like, you know, like, how we'll get there quicker. Like, it's my mind to scheme how we get somewhere quicker. Sure, we don't even need to be there quicker. Yeah, but somehow I want to take that back cut to get us to this place real quick.

Tommy: I mean, party buses, uh, it's a bit of an oxymoron, I think. Like, the, the issue with the party Buses, motion sickness, especially because you're turning around. Like, any time I've been on a party bus, for one, it's normally one of those old Grinders buses. Remember, like, when you were a kid? You remember Grinders, the bus company?

Josh: Oh, yeah, the bus company.

Tommy: Yeah. And so, whenever you would go to— I mean, you went to a private school, so you probably had your own coach, but we would just go into Grinders buses, right?

Josh: That had like— I mean, this is probably where it was privileged. I never thought about the buses that I was getting on.

Tommy: Yeah. So, it was just like a red, it's sort of a red colour.

Josh: Did you have beds in your ones?

Tommy: No, no bed. No first class. No, but they— There was like no aircon. I just remember like going on, you know, swimming carnival or whatever, and it would be so hot and you'd feel like you'd almost like burn your knees on the metal seats in front, that sort of That sort of vibe. But yeah, so I feel like party buses typically take these old buses that have been retired and then add some strobes. So, it's like a— It's waiting for a fatality, right? Because FunLab don't do buses, do they?

Josh: Well, they're all virtual, what they're rocking at the moment. Very safe.

George: Yeah, great.

Tommy: Okay, perfect. If they do, I'm sure they're all up to safety code. But it's just—

Josh: Maybe over in bloody Mexico or something. I'm just worrying about—

Tommy: Flashing lights, turning around, motion sickness, people not in seat belts. I think that a Zoom situation where you— It's literally like you use Zoom, it's a lot safer.

Josh: Well, if you're to talk about whether there's a higher chance of something going wrong while you're driving to work or playing a Fun Labs game. Yeah. Much more chance driving to work. Yeah, so you may as well play the fun left, left game. It's a good way to put it, JJ. There is a bus near my joint in a car park that—

Tommy: it's huge.

Josh: It could possibly be the one from your high school. It is ginormous and it's abandoned, and it's just in a car park, like a car park next to a park that I take Bodhi to.

Tommy: Like smashed out windows?

Josh: Not even. It's just got a sign on the front that says it's you know, obviously been there too long, had some like tape on it. But I was like, who the fudge is leaving just a big bus? You're like, I don't want this bus.

Tommy: Well, you can get, you can get, um, the, the school bus, the old yellow school buses. You can buy them now and you can like kit them out, like people kit them out, you know, put coffee machines in, shit like that, go on holidays.

Josh: Logan Paul's got one, the YouTuber. Oh, he had one. Or his brother. We went on— when we went to see Seth Godin in New York and we caught the train out of Manhattan up the Hudson, I've got photos on my phone that are of a bus yard. And there's something about seeing buses, the American style, the school bus, the yellow, the bright yellow, that just makes you— yeah, it's just, there's something about it. And I don't know if they would have that feeling. Do you think Americans See their buses as fondly as like the bus, the vision that Australians might have.

Tommy: Yeah, I'm not sure. Yeah, I do wonder that.

Josh: The disrespect for kangaroos in this country is appalling.

Tommy: What do you think the— I just had a thought. So, it's the last day of September. And so, in one month and one day, So, on November 1st, do you know what it is?

Josh: Mr. 97's 21st birthday.

Tommy: It is. Should I do a round of applause?

Josh: Oh, yeah.

Tommy: And so, we need to start planning. I'm not normally one to plan early, but hasn't that come up so quickly?

Josh: That, I mean, thanks to the pandemic, I feel like the last 6 months have just done that, haven't they? Like, it's full on.

George: Yeah.

Josh: I mean, we were thinking about doing the whole party, Scouts all party. Yeah, I mean, the Funlympics stuff, you could— and all their other stuff, you can get up to 5,000 people on their Zoom.

Tommy: Yeah, well, I mean, with mates, I think we counted how many mates?

Josh: Well, including us, I think it was 12. Yeah, they don't even need to have a premium account for hosting that one.

Tommy: And so what, what could we do for like What's something special that we can do for Seb's 21st birthday?

Josh: God, I was just going to say my backyard is big enough to put on something that has everyone. Have you seen the new music festival layouts over in the States? You get like this— they're— picture a big stage and then on the, the grassed area, whatever it is, they've built these little elevated, uh, stages that maybe are like 30 centimetres off the ground that are flat.

Tommy: You're describing any stage, aren't you?

Josh: No, no, no. But these are this, like, they space these out. So picture like a rugby field and you've— whatever, and you put these little pods that might be 3 by 3 metres and you get to have a little group of people on your little stage.

Tommy: That's interesting.

Josh: And so they're fenced off to each other. So for where we are You could have like, my backyard's big enough to create 12 pods for each individual person.

Tommy: 12? No, you can't have a 3x3, 12 3x3.

Josh: No, not that big. I wouldn't be as generous. I'd give a metre by a meter. You'd get your own meter, that's all. But you and I have 3x3s for sure.

Tommy: I mean, what's some other things that we could do? So I like that idea. I don't want to put the pressure. I feel like you're off suffering now, but I don't want to put that on— like, what's happening with the chickens?

Josh: If you have chickens at that point, you know, they've got their one by one. That's, that's their room. No, but so this is all depending on restrictions too, because it is— I don't know if you'll just all of a sudden be able to have 12 different— 12 people from different, you know, they're all from different houses and bubbles. Who knows? And so there is an element that we have to be conscious of the lockdown, so it could be virtual.

Tommy: Um, what would the best virtual party look like? What could we do?

Josh: Well, it would be— so each person needs to tap in. Um, bring a plug. What have we learned? What have we learned? What have we learned from doing these things, uh, virtually?

Tommy: Like, to be honest, it's probably— we probably just need Fun Limbic. Like, let's just not— let's outsource this. It's just annoying me already, don't you think?

Josh: Yes, we actually— that's exactly what's needing. We need someone to organise it for us. That's what we're saying. That's what we're pleading for. Please help. Hi@thedailytalkshow.com. Can you look after the catering, the alcohol, the, the games, the activities, all of it?

Tommy: We've got no clue. Yeah, I just think that let's, let's, uh Let's think of something.

Josh: But our big baby's growing up. He can, um, finally get his full license.

Tommy: Any highlights for, uh, if you look at Mason's career with us so far, his life with us, what's been your favorite, uh, Mr. 97 moment?

Josh: Oh God, favourite Mr. 97 moment. Just, I— there's nothing more than I like seeing that kid swim, not physically But, uh, kind of physically when he's in the environment. No, no, no, I've seen him swim. He looks great though. We have— we swam in the, um, the, the, the ocean down in, you know, Laguna Beach, I think it was Laguna Beach. But when he gets dropped into a situation like talking to the Shameless girls about dating for the first time, he's so sincere in his answers and, and thinks about it and and, and responds like he's mediating some kind of debate between Trump and Biden. But he's just— and seeing him develop from swimming, his lats are growing, you know, his deltoids are really shaping out both physically and mentally. Um, so collectively, that— those times where I've loved just seeing him being on podcasts, all of that stuff, like, it's, it's impressive to watch him him come from that kid that, you know, met me for a coffee to chat about doing something.

Tommy: He wouldn't have had a coffee.

Josh: Absolutely not.

Tommy: Was he smoking a hot chocolate?

Josh: I think he got a hot chocolate. Hojo. Got him a little hojo.

Tommy: But no one says hojo, do they?

Josh: Yeah, to the guy he is today, I'm impressed.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean, he's doing One Trick Tony. He's on that every week, a great podcast. Uh, he's doing Hump Day Replay, the daily talk show. He's on a lot of things.

Josh: It's like women, isn't it?

Tommy: Like, is it crazy? Like, here's a guy who doesn't even necessarily care about being on podcasts. Like, don't you think?

Josh: No, they're the people you want. You always don't want the person who wants to be on the reality TV show being on the reality TV show. You want the person that doesn't really care too much. But then will be a perfect candidate and say the things that you don't think they're going to say. And then, you know, the surprise and delight ones.

Tommy: We need to come up with speeches or something as well. Need to work out. So don't sort of blow your load too early.

Josh: No, this is— I'll use Descript to transcribe this, and then I'll use the notes from Descript to put it together.

Tommy: I will imagine, George— I mean, not to put the pressure on JB, but surely there's got to be a a montage of, uh, '97 moments.

Josh: Oh yeah, great.

Tommy: Awesome.

Josh: Let that sit, George.

Tommy: Yeah, thanks. I'll put it in Asana. Thank you, JB.

Josh: All right, guys.

Tommy: Great. All right, it's a daily talk show. Enjoy the rest of your day, and we'll see you tomorrow, guys. Have a good one.

Josh: See you guys.