A Dead Car Battery

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 920.

Tommy: Happy weekend banter, everybody.

Josh: Jessica Lucas is joining us, uh, from Bendigo. Jessica, how are you?

Jess: Good, thank you. We got rid of the noise, which is good.

Tommy: Oh, that's great. You had some, uh, construction work going on. You went out and told them Um, had they received the news that—

Jess: So you can be quiet.

Tommy: How do you do it?

Jess: My dad gets paid by the hour and my dad's probably paying for him having a smoke, an extra long smoke.

Josh: Yeah, have we worked out what this podcast is costing him today?

Jess: Um, not sure.

Josh: How many tradies are on site?

Jess: Just one.

Josh: Just one, okay.

Jess: Just the one, but he's walking away now and he said that dad's coming home, so that'll be good. He'll probably walk in on us too, so.

Mason: Okay.

Tommy: Anyway, we got Mr. 97 here too, as always. Ways. Hey, Sevzies, what's happening?

Mason: I'm, I'm pretty fired up. Went to the gym this morning.

Tommy: Oh, um, what was the vibe? Did you have to book in?

Mason: Yeah, yeah, booking. Um, my membership's still broken, so I had to go there physically and ask them to lock me in for these sessions, but they're fixing that. So, okay, booking. Only maximum of 10 people in the gym. There were maybe 5 people in there this morning.

Josh: Really?

Tommy: Is that— do you think because they couldn't, or the 5 people that booked on top of the other 5 just didn't show?

Mason: No, I reckon they're saying that they've got almost no one booking in.

Josh: Oh, wow.

Mason: Really? Yes.

Josh: Waiting for 2021. Yeah.

Mason: Well, I would— so we went 6:45 this morning and it was busier than when we went on, I think it was Wednesday at 6:45 PM. So that we were— there were 4 people in our session. On at 6:45 after work on Wednesday.

Josh: And so the after-work session, that was an accident, wasn't it? You were trying to book the morning and you accidentally—

Mason: Yeah, yeah, I said, can we book him for the 6:45 session? And they, they just booked in the PM. I forgot to say AM.

Josh: Okay, and so what's, what's your preference, the, the evening or the morning?

Mason: Uh, look, you feel— you don't feel great going to the 6:45 AM session, but you feel great afterwards.

Tommy: Yeah, but then you don't feel great going to the 6:45 PM session. And then you feel fired up after it, but then you're meant to be going to bed. I used to do kickboxing, Muay Thai, and you'd absolutely thump it at 8:00 PM. And you know the boxing, Jess, your heart rate's just through the roof and you're just sweating. You come out feeling euphoric and tingly, and then you can't get to sleep. And so it's, I mean, can't we all just train at 10:00 AM and live a life of luxury?

Josh: Do you think 10:00 AM is the ultimate time?

Tommy: I reckon just like kids off, I think. Kids off, or you can go for a morning coffee, read the paper, you meet your mate at sort of 9:40, you know, have a little chinwag, talk about your session, get started at 10, shower by 11:15, out the door 11:30, and then I don't know, you've got the rest of the day.

Jess: You get no work done.

Tommy: Cheap, cheap accommodation.

Mason: But this is not so.

Tommy: Really?

Mason: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because so there's on peak and there's off peak, and off peak is when everyone's at work.

Josh: Oh, surely I should have been able to do that. I mean, I was on No Peak. Surely I should have been paid. Like, how am I paying full back in the day and not using it all? So, surely there should be a special discount. Actually, here's an idea. You know, they just keep charging you a membership. Surely there's a version which is like no plan on ever coming back fee. So, it's like, oh, you know, rather than paying the $80 a month or whatever it is, if you actually never go to the gym, you can pay $20 a month.

Mason: Well, surely you just pay your out clause, no?

Josh: No, because the out clause is the equivalent, is just $80 times the remaining months. Yeah, really?

Tommy: Yes. Now, the only, the problem is that it's their model isn't, look, they can't be seen to be like, look, we know that a lot of people don't hang around, but we're going to charge you less money for not. And so that's a reward system. You're saying be rewarded. I know it's a great idea for the guy that's pulled out and doesn't go anymore, like in that moment, but when you started, you had all intentions of using that membership. And so that's where you don't wanna start the intention being that you were going to get a cheaper membership.

Josh: What about credit at the canteen?

Tommy: At least a bit of credit.

Josh: Yeah, surely it's like you get, if you're spending $80, $40 can be used.

Tommy: Well, merch. It's some kind of merch.

Josh: For the guy who had the Virgin Active duffle bag, who just felt like too much of a fraud to ever actually use it. I don't need more Virgin Active, Fitness First. I don't need any more of that merch.

Jess: How about the gyms that do meals? That'd be handy.

Tommy: Yes.

Josh: Look, to be honest—

Jess: You didn't have to cook or you didn't have to buy Uber Eats. You just go there.

Josh: So, Bree and I are struggling at the moment. I won't mention the brand, but we did spend a little bit of money on another one of those, which I mentioned, I think last week, 'cause you were talking, TJ, about your $4 meals or whatever, $3.50 meals.

Tommy: Oh, dude, back up, so annoying. They're trying to say that on special, 2 for $15. Absolutely not. I paid $4.50 for one. Why would I think that 2 for $15 is a special?

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: And so anyway, the chicken stuff that we've got at the moment, from these like ready-made meals. Just not good.

Tommy: Jess, we were talking about that this way, there's some reason, and I should take it as a compliment, anytime I get on some kind of Google Hangout or Zoom with Jess, work-related, she's eating. I'm just like, mate, you fucking, or it's me, isn't it? Maybe you feel comfortable to eat around me.

Jess: Yeah, I mean, I'm just killing two birds with one stone, you know, like when the meeting's not with client, You know, why so aggressive?

Tommy: Why do I need to be killed? And why does the food need to be killed? Two birds, one stone. I'm one of the birds.

Jess: What do you mean?

Tommy: Food's one of the birds.

Jess: I won't kill you. I do feel comfortable eating in front of you, Tommy.

Mason: Okay.

Jess: But I'm also saving time.

Tommy: Okay. No, that's fine. That's fine. But we were talking about how the pre-made meals solve one thing, which is like you get some time, you don't have to think about it, but it doesn't actually solve Like the thought about, the thing about meal prepping, and it's like Dave Vella says about his 2-day rule, is you can't, it's what it does to you. So if you are training, you end up wanting to eat different types of food than normal. When you are cooking, like cooking a pasta 3 times a day is not sustainable. You feel sick by the end of it.

Josh: This is why the all-or-nothing thing actually works for most people, because it's like when you're all in, Yeah. It's a lot easier to be like, if you're doing the exercise, it's way easier to then eat healthy.

Tommy: 100%. 100%. Oh, I got to go pay. I'll tell you about it after. A full story.

Josh: There is a guy in high-vis with a mask tapping on TJ's window. We'll find out more very soon. Jess, what's the plans for Christmas? I saw you hanging out with your family last night. It looked lovely. What's the plans for 2020 Christmas?

Jess: Christmas is here. So, we'll set up a nice gorgeous table here with decorations. I'm not sure what the theme's gonna be this year.

Josh: Christmas, is that a fair theme?

Jess: What other themes? What colour schemes we're gonna be using?

Josh: Red and green, surely.

Mason: Christmas colors, yeah.

Jess: No, gold or silver.

Josh: Gold or silver, okay, sure.

Mason: Okay, that's a bit more primo, isn't it?

Jess: And with hints of red and green and stuff. But yeah, Christmas is here. That's changing, you say? Pardon?

Mason: Is that changing year to year, that colour scheme, or?

Jess: We change, yeah, it does, but we change houses every second year. This year, two of my cousins on that side of the family aren't going to be here, and then my sister, who's a nurse, didn't get the day off, so she's working. So, it's just me and my other sister, her boyfriend, and my parents and my grandparents.

Josh: Oh, that's nice. Rose gold. Would you ever consider rose gold?

Jess: Yeah. I mean, it could be cute. What I really want to do, I've been thinking about this for years, right? And I haven't done it. And I think this year could be the year. I want to go to Officeworks and get a 3D printed me and then make me the angel for the Christmas tree.

Josh: That's a fun idea.

Jess: I like that. And then give it to my mum for as a present. Yeah. Yeah.

Josh: So, what is it going to require? How do you get the 3D image of you?

Jess: Well, you go down to Officeworks on Bourke Street and— They scan you. Yeah, you stand in this room and it like scans your body. So I'd have to go in wearing, I don't know, like a dress. What do you think? Because angels usually wear dress and I'll have the halo and that kind of thing.

Josh: Could you do a Too Much Tully one that you give away on the show? So you and Tully go in and get the 3D and so it's both of you and someone could win.

Jess: Do you think people actually want to have us though? I don't think so.

Josh: It's pretty funny.

Jess: I don't know if Tully would find that funny, though. Really? I'm not sure, but I'll ask. I'll run it by her.

Mason: As well, you can get them up to 30 centimetres.

Jess: Yeah, they'd be huge. I'd get the— I want the biggest one, but I think they're quite expensive.

Josh: Mason's got some notes, though, of measurement, though, because yesterday he was— He's spending some time in WA and he was doing some measuring around. He wants to bring his iMac to WA.

Jess: God, buy a laptop, mate.

Josh: Yeah, you know, that's what we're talking about. And so, anyway. Mason said, I can actually carry on the iMac. And I'm like, mate, I don't think you can.

Mason: Well, no. Well, so, well, I got the tape measure out and this tape measure, annoyingly, it's in inches, which is the stupidest design ever. Like, who makes them in inches? And so anyway, so it turns out I measured, I measured, yeah, 30 inches instead of 30 centimeters. And so it was about Yeah, it wasn't— yeah.

Josh: And so you'd gone on to, um, Virgin's website and done all the measurements, but you just switched between centimetres and inches, which meant that you're completely off.

Mason: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jess: So what you were just actually thinking, you'd carry your computer onto the plane? Yeah, yeah, I've carried a whole solar panel onto a plane before.

Josh: A whole solar panel?

Jess: Yeah.

Mason: How big was it?

Jess: I had to go up to I'm sorry, I keep talking about it.

Tommy: Two birds, one stone.

Jess: For Origin, and I had to carry this stupid solar panel.

Mason: Oh, no. Oh, great.

Josh: What's the most fragile thing that you've— or what's the weirdest thing that you've ever checked? Or I guess that's pretty weird from a carry-on perspective. But have you had any sort of experiences where you've had to take a lot of luggage or anything like that, Jess?

Jess: No, only when I was coming back from London and I had to wear all of my stuff because I didn't I didn't want to pay for luggage coming back and I already was over and had to cull so much stuff. I'd already wrapped it and everything, you know, the Glad Wrap that they have for your bags. And so, I'd already gone and done that.

Josh: I wonder who does that. Why did you do that?

Jess: At that point in time, this is 28, this is 2020, no, what was it? 2010. It was when everyone was doing it, you know, it was a thing.

Tommy: You just did it because everyone else was? That is brilliant.

Jess: Oh, I mean, has Chappelle Corby just gone to bloody Bali prison? Like, you just don't know what's gonna happen.

Josh: What year did she go? I feel like she went in like '06 or something. Mays, can you look at when that happened?

Jess: That's when everyone was like freaking out, you know.

Josh: I just always feel like you would see—

Tommy: I knew you were trafficking marijuana at that stage, so it was on your mind.

Jess: It was, I just didn't want people to get into it. You know, it protects the smell and everything.

Tommy: I was thinking this week actually, I went to— remember when I went to Singapore last year? But I just— gone are the days I want to be trying to be sneaky with how much luggage I'm taking. You know, you're always doing it to save money or— It's like, it's such a bad feeling to attach to what is already can be very stressful, which is travel.

Josh: Like, just aggro the whole time. Like when I— There's been so many times where because my carry on my big bag. It's within the size limit, but the weight is completely over. So, the amount of weight that my bag that I went around the world with, 34 flights in 3 months, and I had a bag that weighed 20 kilos that I was carrying on. And there was not one issue except when we're in Germany. In Germany, they're onto this shit. And I think we're in Munich Airport and it was just a connecting flight. They saw my bag and they said, oh, can we weigh it? And I just said, oh no, like, I've already weighed it. I'm on, like, waited. I'm on a connecting flight. And they let me go. It was so lucky because, oh, you were so screwed. Well, so what we do, the weird, the weird thing is that what you do in that case with it from a camera perspective is when they go to weigh it, you take out all of your equipment and you hold it and then you give them the bag. Like, it's quite— it's a weird sort of thing, but you— because you can do that, right? Like, if you have some items that you're like carrying, that's cool. They're just weighing them. And so, the thing is like, oh, look, I'll just hold the camera, where the reality is as soon as you get it back and you get it under 7 kilos, you put all the camera gear back into the bag.

Jess: See, I thought you had to put your laptop on now. Like, from my perspective, like, the laptop is all I really take. What do you mean? We had to include it all.

Tommy: No, so as the white.

Jess: As the white.

Tommy: You can have a, it's like you see the people who have just done some shopping and they've got a bag that's full of a bunch of shit that they're just holding. So, you get your backpack as carry-on and then you get some sort of handy case.

Josh: They call it like a personal item or whatever. But the, yeah, but you should.

Tommy: But isn't this all stressful? Like if rich people aren't conniving and they're just paying for it, whereas.

Jess: They've got their gorgeous Prada bag. But you literally can't, you can't.

Josh: Carry on. This is the crazy thing. So you're in a bit of a pickle because with batteries you can't cheque them. They don't, they don't want batteries in the stowage area. Um, and so you have to, you have to bring it with you. And so that's part of the thing is it's like, hang on. And the other issue is that if they don't know the, the laws, if you have sort of decent-sized batteries, they'll question you on it. And so a lot of filmmakers will just, you just print out the battery stuff so you have the information. You tape up the little sort of the connector bit and then it's all good. Yeah. Even tape though. Do you remember? I think TJ went wheel travelling once. I had gaffer tape. They took the gaffer tape.

Tommy: Not on carry-on.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Is it because you're gonna go tie up somebody?

Josh: Well, you can use, I think we actually got some through TJ because it was the, what's known as like camera tape, which is a way sort of like a lighter, like really terrible. So, they were literally tearing it and then made the call that, yeah, it was okay.

Tommy: You could poke your tongue through it if it was wrapped around your mouth. Yeah. I mean, it's all pretty crazy.

Jess: Did you guys hear the other day about Dan Lakey?

Josh: No. Who is Dan Lakey? Sounds like a DJ.

Jess: Radio presenter. Yeah.

Tommy: Oh, Danny Lakey.

Jess: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he was on a plane and someone died.

Mason: Oh, that's not ideal.

Tommy: No.

Josh: Your reaction, Jess. And yeah, so someone died. You're a bit smiley there. And so, what happens in the case? Like, I know that they actually—

Jess: They keep them in there.

Josh: But they also—

Tommy: In the seat.

Mason: Yeah, they keep them in the seat. That's how it works.

Jess: I think what happens is there's 3—

Josh: Yeah, so they normally keep a row where if someone gets sick or if someone dies that they can put them, like lay them down.

Tommy: You know that on some international flights they have like the— there's a cabin area that's not a part of the main seating area. My brother went on a work trip with this guy to China and he was— they got separated, they're in different areas. And then he heard someone say like, "We need some medical assistance," you know, over the loudspeaker. It's like, what's going on? Anyway, it turns out his mate had been smashing Red Bulls and he reckons it had something to do with it, that he got some sort of like kidney stone from just like lack of nutrition, dehydration, just one of those people that sort of live on the energy drinks. And then he was up the back, but they put him into, yeah, they put him into a cabin area to have a lie down. Oh, that's nice. That was like a bed that was like the people's area, as in the stewardesses' area. Anyway, the best bit out of it, when he got off the flight, he's like, where is this fucking guy? And then he sees him on a buggy, a medical buggy. And so Jacko got to jump on the medical buggy and hoon through the airport.

Josh: Oh, that's good fun. It's nearly as good as first class.

Tommy: Mate, so he's, yeah, it paid to have a sick mate on a flight.

Josh: TJ, we just saw a guy in high-vis knocking on your window. What's going on?

Tommy: That was Detective Andrews. Um, he, uh, no, no, no. I woke up this morning and there's nothing worse. Like, I wanted to quickly get a coffee, a little babyccino in, and a chai latte because I'm not drinking coffee at the moment, um, with Bodhi while Amy was just doing it, you know, having a shower and stuff. And go out, the car won't start, completely dead, not even like a It's just turn.

Jess: Did you leave a light on?

Tommy: The thing is you can't leave lights on my car. It's a— well, as soon as you lock it, or even if you don't, the lights turn off.

Josh: I never like that feature though. Like, I always just turn them off because I'm like, surely there's a little— yeah, I love, love manual, you know. I'm the guy with the auto that just, you know, you can flick it in. Yeah, just at the lights. If I can go, why are you doing that, mate? Just let the car do its thing, right? Nah, I want to control when it gets out of first.

Tommy: And so anyway, I had to get Amy's sister's jump start kit. This is an investment that if you are someone that owns a car, I'd never thought about having. I don't even own jumper leads. Jumper leads are cheap, but jumper leads are a pain in the ass because they require another car. You're gonna attach them and all that shit. Imagine trying, like, on a highway, trying to back up, you know, someone's car, you know, turn around on the fucking highway. How do you even do that? You're in trouble. Anyway, this thing is—

Josh: Why is the battery going flat on the highway?

Tommy: I don't know. Could you die? How could that completely die? Car— What if, what if this— So, okay, no, here's—

Josh: Does that actually happen?

Tommy: He's exactly—

Josh: I know what you're going to say.

Tommy: You might, because no. So I jump-started the car. So this is— I ran the gauntlet. I used this box that has— you charge it via USB, or you charge it by— there's a plug that goes in. Anyway, these two little cords, you put it on the, uh, the battery bay, plug them in, press this button, start car within 30 seconds. Fuck, you know, time's on. So I run around, on, turns on.

Josh: I mean, 30 seconds is a long, long time. You wouldn't even have to run.

Tommy: I was panicked though, you know, as soon as you say— it's like Tom Cruise, you know, defusing a bomb.

Josh: You could slowly fall over. Yeah, yeah, that's me with the, um, that's me having the bed next to, next to the system. You don't have to run.

Tommy: Anyway, so I ran and, um, I got it on and then I unhooked it But I worked out that if I turn the car off, it's done. It won't turn back on. So usually if you, you, you're a gronk and you've got a fully working battery and you leave your lights on, it drains the battery. If you get a jump start again, it will recharge the battery.

Josh: Whilst you need to keep the engine going for long enough.

Tommy: So I did. I went for a coffee, I left the car on. How far did you drive? It was like 5k each way, plus leaving the car on, like I was just leaving it on.

Josh: Because that's the whole thing when you're traveling. If someone's minding your car, they'll go and take it out for a drive, you know, a 20-minute drive or whatever.

Tommy: Yeah, you gotta— helps the car, helps the car recharge. Anyway, got back, turned the car off, wouldn't start again, had to jump it. But full circle, my point, I ran the gauntlet because I drove Amy and Bodhi this morning and dropped them off But if I had turned the car off at any stage, I would have been in trouble, wouldn't have turned back on. So what if I was the Gronkh that somehow my car had a, you know, little stall or something, and then you're on the highway? Say if you're on the highway, you've somehow managed to stall your car, it's turned off, or you somehow turned it off yourself.

Josh: So would you— so the likelihood— so what's probably happened?

Tommy: Yeah, so Engine problems.

Josh: Yeah. So, something else has happened. Maybe Bodie needs to piss and that's the side of the road.

Tommy: What about this? What about this? I needed— My tyre's gone. I have to pull over.

Josh: Sure.

Tommy: But I— And then I turned it off and then I'm like, oh no, but my battery. And then you've got a tyre and a battery conundrum. You're in trouble.

Josh: Yeah. I mean, the likelihood— I mean, it does remind me of the RACV guy actually applauded me many years ago when I was 19 because I ran out of petrol outside my house. He's like, I've never had to fill up someone's petrol outside their house. I rolled, I rolled into it just outside our driveway. It was perfect.

Jess: Why don't you go get it yourself then?

Tommy: Yeah, I know.

Josh: Well, the thing is you get free, you get like, you know, free ratio or whatever. Yeah. So, I'm like, well, look, if I'm paying my RACV membership, They give you a few litres every year. It's like, what, you're not taking advantage of that petrol?

Tommy: Yes, I called roadside assistance, which I have a part of my deal with buying the car. And so, I reckon it's probably only an extra $20 that you're saving. Sorry, $20 saving if you took it into the dealership to get it, the new battery. So, I had a guy, that guy that was just here came out dropped off a new battery, installed it, checked it all.

Josh: Did you take the old one?

Tommy: Yeah, I asked him where you're taking it. He said he throws it off the pier in Elwood. It's, um, no, no, no, he said, um, takes it back to the factory where they're made and they do something with them. He didn't sound ready.

Josh: And then they put them in a car. Yeah, sounds dodgy. They put them in a car and then take them to Elwood. And so the, um, I wonder if he's making cat, like Is that a classic thing? I guess it's easier for you, but like, what are those batteries?

Mason: No, they always take them. I'm pretty sure they always take them.

Jess: You don't want to have to do anything.

Josh: And what do you do with it?

Jess: Because I got mine redone at the start of the year as well. Same thing happened. My battery literally just died. Yeah.

Josh: Where were you when it happened?

Jess: My house.

Mason: On the highway.

Tommy: Highway.

Josh: At your house.

Jess: I actually left my light on though. Okay. And then it just literally wouldn't start. So, um, yeah, we had to change it. He said it was a dying battery, so I should do it anyway. Um, and yeah, I took it home because Dad wanted it.

Josh: And what's he going to do with it?

Jess: I have no idea.

Mason: He's just got old batteries sitting out leaking battery acid all over the, um, garage.

Jess: He takes them out to work.

Josh: And what does he do at work when you have property?

Jess: No idea.

Tommy: I don't know. You store shit. Have you got cars on your property?

Josh: Like, how many don't work?

Jess: No, we've got cars at work. We've got Dad's old red one, which is 3 on the tree. I was telling you about it, Josh, wasn't I? Yeah, 3 on the tree meaning like a stick, stick shift up in the steering wheel. So you, you pull it down for 1, up for 2, and then up and down again for 3.

Tommy: Oh, how annoying.

Jess: It only has 3 gears.

Tommy: What year is this car?

Jess: Probably like 60 years old. No, it would be 60 years old. It'd be like 50 or something.

Josh: Is it a horse and cart?

Jess: You should see it. I'll send you a photo because it's funny as. It's classic.

Josh: No airbags? It's probably got those airbags that when it lets off, it fucking shoots you in the head.

Tommy: It's like one whole seat across the front. Oh, it's a bench seat.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: Oh yeah, that's right. Bench seats are great.

Tommy: Great for whiplash. Great for whiplash.

Josh: I mean, do you think that older people, like my dad is a bit of a hoarder. Not sort of like a medical-grade hoard, like not sort of like, you know, going to be on Hoarders type of thing. But he's got a lot of stuff that it's very hard for him to chuck out. Does your dad have that, Jess? Because the amount of LCD screens, like when you wanted a new computer monitor at his work, there would have been 20 screens that you got to pick from.

Jess: Yeah. Maybe, I think he is a bit of a hoarder at work. So, Dad works, he's an engineer and works with steel and things like that. He'll keep all of the offcuts and stuff because they do come in handy for like jobs and whatnot. But you should see the back of his factory. It's disgraceful. It's just—

Tommy: Hang on a sec.

Jess: —Just random shit everywhere.

Tommy: The sentence that hoarders probably use most is, "This will come in handy later." Like, that is how your problem starts. This will come in handy later. Next minute, you have a backyard full of Junk. Old batteries.

Jess: See, I think I'm a hoarder, but I'm a tidy hoarder because I can't have stuff anywhere. Like, everything has a place, but it needs to be in my cupboards and things like that. Like, I need to keep it.

Tommy: Anything sentimental, I'm— No, you're not a hoarder. Like, you don't have that much stuff. I mean, you have a small apartment, but it's still—

Josh: A lot of leather jackets, for one person.

Jess: So much stuff here as well. Mum's like, you need to take this home. I'm like, I can't, I've got no space. The back of my car is still— You just got to get rid of it.

Josh: Like, the thing is, like, when you went, when you were living in the UK, didn't you just like— When Bri and I travelled for even just 4 months, that was like our perfect time to get rid of everything. We ended up like a 2 by 2 meter, like a Kennard storage in Dandenong because it was the cheapest place. And we literally had our, uh, what's a mattress? A coffee table. Like, there was nothing, and it felt great coming back, not having to deal with that much stuff. Like, didn't you get rid of stuff when you moved overseas?

Jess: No, because I moved straight out of high school. All my stuff was here anyway, so I didn't have to touch anything or leave anything. Sure. Okay. We have a shipping container. Like, we have a shipping container full of all of our old stuff. Really? Baby stuff. Like old beds, our childhood single beds, chest of drawers, like all of our toys, that kind of stuff. What are you planning?

Josh: Are you planning some sort of film when you become famous where you're going to recreate your childhood? Yeah, yeah. Remake the bedroom.

Tommy: Kim Kardashian's 40th birthday. It was like different stages of her life.

Josh: Yeah. Like what's the—

Jess: Yeah, maybe we are hoarders.

Josh: A museum? I mean, I think it maybe is a regional trait too. You have, you've got land, so you've got— That's what I was saying. Yeah, like we don't have space, like I don't have enough space for the shit that I actually use, let alone just the, you know, having all the other shit.

Tommy: One other thing is your parents have, how long have they had that property, that house for? This one? At least that you've lived there for.

Jess: The house has been built for 11 years now, but we've had this land for ages.

Tommy: Okay, but is that where you grew up in that, not the house that you're in now, but that property? No, we grew up. Well, the thing is, 11 years ago, how old were we? 19, say 18. Yeah.

Josh: And so, town, what does that even mean?

Tommy: You're the eldest. So, the point being is if your parents move a bunch in the time that you're out, like, it confronts you. You're confronted by the shit that you have. Like, Mum and Dad have moved a couple of times, and each time they're like, do you want this?. And so, if you've got a place that you're staying in, like Mason, your parents, if they don't move, you— I mean, you don't have that much stuff either, though.

Mason: Nah, Dad loves throwing shit out. He loves. Does he? Just anything, I mean, in a binette.

Josh: Loves. That's good. He also likes buying stuff, so it's a good— Yeah, he does. In with one, out with another.

Mason: Yeah, it's perfect for selling stuff on Gumtree.

Josh: I think I'm the same, but just the— Us selling the old bike. Just a pain in the ass. Seriously, if anyone wants the bike, send me an email, josh@thedailytalkshow.com. Mate's rates, we're selling it for $150,000. We bought it for, I think it was $390,000 or something.

Tommy: I mean, you've butchered it in the selling of it.

Josh: I guess, well, because I said that it was— I mean, the thing is I'm comparing a bike that I'm getting that's worth $1,000,000.

Tommy: You actually have to call it a spin bike. Because people literally think they're gonna get a bike they can ride.

Josh: Okay, yeah, so this is a spinning fitness. You can go online and look it up. It's a— The ones at the gym. It's a spin bike, yeah. It's got like a resistance thing. It's a—

Jess: Have you put a photo up so people can see it?

Josh: Yeah, so Breece had two people reach out about it. Should we do an Insta?

Mason: Do you wanna do an Insta storey about it?

Josh: Yes, please. Thai kickers? Yeah, no, well, we had one where it's like someone from, Crambourne, and they said they were coming and it was all good. And then they said, can we meet halfway? And it's just like, if we're doing 150, we're not meeting halfway. We just can't do it. Can't justify it.

Tommy: If they commit to coming all the way. Is it on Marketplace?

Josh: It is on, I believe, Bree put it on Gumtree.

Jess: Marketplace is great as well.

Josh: Marketplace, it works. Would recommend Marketplace. Yeah, works real well. Okay.

Jess: Do you know what I've done? I've done it a couple of times now, the Camberwell Market.

Josh: I'm not setting up a stall at the Camberwell Market for my spin bike.

Jess: No, not that you buy.

Josh: Just everyone with their racks of stuff and I've just got my— get up at fucking 4:30, set up with my one bike. Who wants— I would have to sell it for about a grand to make it worthwhile. No, I'm not going to Camberwell Market to sell my bike.

Jess: Take those books behind you.

Josh: Mate, these books are the only things that I have that I'm— like, this is your 2x2 storage. Yeah, the books are very important. To me and I want to keep building it. The thing is the books to me reflect the house that we'll one day have but no— Intellectual? No, just options. The thing that I'm excited about is one day having a house, we've spoken about it in depth on previous episodes, where I have the wine cellar which I'm not necessarily sold on the wine cellar, I'm not sure anymore. I think that I could do with just like a wine sort of fridge sort of thing rather than spending too much on the real estate of the cellar.

Mason: Well, if you've got a temperature-controlled space, you may as well put your books in there instead.

Josh: Well, no, I like that. So, I've mentioned it before, Chelsea Handler, the comedian, she has books. If you watch her on any interviews that she's done, she was on Architect's Digest, but also just in the background, you'll see her on shows like Howard Stern and things like that. She's just got piles and piles of books everywhere. I love that. I love just being able to, you know, last night we had our very first, what are we calling it? The travel night that I pitched to the whole group that you guys weren't interested in with Rick Steves, the documentary.

Jess: Gosh, I don't remember this.

Josh: On Weekend at the Cottage.

Tommy: I just didn't think it had any cut-through. You would have been there.

Mason: It was— No, you were.

Josh: It was a Christmas party idea. The idea was it was going to be themed and I was going to say, okay, it's going to be Germany and we're all going to wear lederhosen or whatever and we eat German food and things like that. And it was poo-pooed by the broader group. And so, I decided to bring it to Grace and Sev who agreed. And so, last night we did Italian themed and I had books, I had the atlas out with Italy. I had a travel book on Italy.

Mason: I had a— It was great, wasn't it?

Josh: Yes. And then— TJ, this is not right.

Jess: We prepped it for the Christmas party, not for Q&A.

Tommy: And the fact of having to watch a documentary that you'd chosen. Yeah. So, we did very funny.

Josh: So, we watched Rick Steves. What did we watch? The Cinque Terre or however you say it. Yeah. Him walking around there. And then we watched 20 minutes of Rick Steves bloopers. It's very funny. Just like this travel guy who's like really nice. He's sort of, I think he's American, but he's got like Canadian vibes. Maybe he is. I don't know. He said, "Oh, it's Rick Steves here," sort of vibe. It's very funny. Is he Scottish?

Tommy: Scottish? No, he's not.

Josh: But he also, even when he walks, he's always got this—

Mason: Born in California.

Josh: Born— Thank you. He's— Always got his hands in his pockets with his thumbs exposed. That's what you do. Yeah, I know. And the great thing is that we laugh about it. And then in the bloopers, they have bits of him readjusting his hands in his pockets where it's like, "How's that finger going to look?" Yeah. So, he does it. But I did ask Jess to do an accent and text it, which I appreciate, Jess, you did. You sent a great video. Can you do the accent on the show? You just doing some American speaking?

Jess: I'll just do the same sentence because I had to do it over and over again to get one that actually sounded American. Okay, great. Here we go. Hey there, it's Jess Lucas, the American here. Happy Thanksgiving.

Tommy: It's very good, isn't it? Californian girl.

Josh: And so, I'm happy to open it. It's all about the R's. And so, if you If you're open to it, Jess, maybe you weren't in the conversation. I'm happy to broaden it out. We can do it, but you've got to get into Rick Steves because so much— It's going to go over your head because the last like hour of the night was us just pissing ourselves at Rick Steves. And I could imagine it being extremely obnoxious for anyone who doesn't like Rick Steves.

Jess: I don't even know who he is.

Tommy: I'm going to have to scrub up.

Josh: Yeah, he's sort of— His whole vibe is Older people wanting sort of a younger experience from a travelling perspective. So, Rick Steves, it's like very popular books. He's very funny.

Tommy: But he's a TV presenter as well.

Josh: He's a TV— Yeah. So, he's got like— So, you can go to Europe and do the Rick Steves travel experience type of thing. And he— Yeah, he's just— He looks like a daggy dad. He's so much— He's wearing shirts and stuff. He's just like— Rick Steves here, you know, showing you the— He's just like walking up like it just sort of walking on like rocky bits and just like, it's very funny.

Mason: It's very— He's a real quirk. He's great.

Josh: And they're all on YouTube. So, they're like 25 minutes long. Isn't that amazing? I think it must be like commute, not community TV, but maybe like an equivalent of like, I think it must be like SBS or something. I'm sure. Okay. But it's— It's awesome. So, I would highly recommend. And he goes to all different parts of Europe.

Tommy: Well, if you've got nothing planned for the weekend, strap in for some Rick. Yeah, Rick Steves.

Jess: Jay and I are going to Paris this weekend, aren't we? Yeah, that would be nice.

Josh: I'm not a fan of French food. You guys aren't invited. In a big way. I'm in Geelong anyway. Thanks for the invite.

Tommy: Yeah, we're going to Francois' and getting absolutely shit-faced over a steak.

Josh: Well, we were, we actually, the Italian, It was very nice. There's a Jamie Oliver's restaurant in Collingwood. Is there? What's it called?

Tommy: La Dame à Noix.

Josh: Jamie Oliver? No, yeah, no, it's Jamie Oliver's.

Tommy: It must be just licenced or whatever, but, um, a whole lot of these restaurants went under.

Josh: Yeah, I know, but this is some sort of, I think Deliveroo might be sort of spearheading it, but it's on Uber Eats as well, and it's Really good pizza, really good arancini balls, really good chippies.

Mason: Great chips.

Josh: Great. The aioli was great. You put a little bit of cheese on top. And so, yeah, but it was hard working out what country we were going to do because Bri initially said, let's do New Zealand and get fish and chips. So, you sort of, you're starting to design the experience based on what do you want to eat? What do you want to drink? But the, um, the problem is that Rick Steves doesn't do— like, he does Europe. Europe's his thing. We nearly did England, but it just seemed a bit boring.

Tommy: It's just a pie floater.

Josh: But we need to also— yeah, not, not great. But the other thing too is the bit that hasn't taken effect yet, but I think 2021 will happen, is actually getting dressed up in the specific clothes. So Yeah, like we're just wearing activewear, but the idea is that we should be wearing, you know, an Italian-themed— like I should have been wearing like a Formula One polo with Mexican nights, Taco Tuesdays, cheap hat.

Jess: Yeah, just keep it up.

Josh: Where do you go to— what's the Mexican place in Bendigo?

Jess: Oh, sorry, no, we don't go out with friends and stuff. It's in like Taco Tuesdays around each other's house.

Josh: Well, Mexican is the obvious one. That's the one where— and we sort of almost— we did ban it, didn't we, mate? We said no Mexican, just because I'm happy Mexican's the best cuisine in the end. It is.

Tommy: But the thing is, you went to the second most easiest to Mexican, which is getting a pizza.

Jess: Yeah, Italian is second to me.

Josh: No, but then the arancini balls, I feel like, really set it out right. It wasn't just like a— and so Bree was even talking about we could have gotten Shawcross, which is sort of a more New York style pizza because where I was, like, I just feel that I like being a good host. Like, I pride myself on it, but I just, I don't have everything I need to be the perfect host. Like, I don't have sort of like sphere, um, what's it called? Uh, what's the circle?

Mason: What? Josh wants spherical ice.

Josh: Yeah, I want like ice. It's like a ball and things like that.

Mason: One of those moulds so you can— Yeah, but even—

Josh: Yeah, you get two halves and you put it together with the water. But the—

Jess: And but the thing is, you could do like a rubber one where they like it. Yes, exactly. Like a silicon thing.

Josh: But the— I was freaking out before they got—

Mason: How does that work?

Jess: No, but I'm thinking you should do it— It should be a ball already and you tip it in, but then it's able to expand so you can pop a ball out rather than join two halves together.

Tommy: It's just a circle ice mould. Like there's— But how do you seal it?

Jess: They need to be perfectly round.

Tommy: No, so there's like ones that are— They have like a little hole at the top. That you put the water into.

Josh: Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Oh, that's a great idea.

Mason: Yeah, that's a much smarter idea. We were thinking two halves.

Tommy: Nah, you're not doing two halves. They're like a, you know, those cake tins that are like rubber. They're not rubber, but that, because that would melt, but they're like a non-melting sort of non-stick. Have you seen those cake tins? They're sick. But they're like, they're all just like, it feels like you're holding rubber. That's the same vibe as these. They, yeah, they're good. Anyway, time to buy a few of those items. Yeah.

Josh: And also, I just need, yeah, I need to find, because with Italy I didn't have many books. I only had 3. Like, I had to put— When you're pulling out the atlas, you're in trouble.

Tommy: Point out where Italy is.

Josh: Oh, look at it, it's a boot. So, that was a bit of a worry. But, you know, I think New York would be great. We've got a bunch of USA stuff. But again, too easy, too easy. If you've got any suggestions of where the cuisine should be next. We're thinking Korea, doing sort of like Korean barbecue. Why don't you go Indian? Oh, yeah, that would be nice. Nepalese food. It's sort of like a lot of— We find that we get very gassy from lentils. That's the only consideration.

Mason: Well, at least—

Tommy: I think that's a pretty general thing for everybody. I don't think— I think it's a lot of people will get that way.

Josh: When we did the eggplant and the lentil thing, That was a— I thought that I was dying for a second.

Jess: It was just gas. What about Israeli food? Yum. Oh, yum.

Josh: That would be great. Well, the Persian— So, I went to my mate's house and he cooked, it's called koobideh, which is like the kebab that's on like the real, like sort of thick, almost like a sword looking thing. And they do it on coals. That was delicious. But the problem is you need a bit of a backyard. It would be actually perfect. For Bendigo. Maybe we could do some sort of— maybe we do a multicultural day at your joint. We can have different foods. I'll bring croquettes, Dutch.

Tommy: I'll look after the spit, the lamb spit. No, you're bringing lamingtons.

Josh: Hot pots on coals.

Tommy: Oh, hot pots on coals. Yeah. Oh, you know, I want to do the, um, the— what's the New Zealand in the ground?

Mason: Oh yeah, oh, the fish.

Josh: You cover it. You don't want to use their ground though because there's that battery fluid in there, mate.

Tommy: It's like you put potatoes and, you know, have you seen, um, the first episode of, um, that show that's got Ben Shuri, you know, from Attica? He, he does it and it's like, it's called something. Mason, you're from the motherland, that's your motherland, why didn't you know this?

Mason: Yeah, but well, I don't, I've never cooked potatoes in the ground before.

Jess: Yeah, but you know, you can't fire bake potatoes.

Josh: He's got an oven. Yeah. Yeah. Does he put them in the microwave first? I know exactly what you're talking about, TJ. It's the—

Tommy: It's the hungi. It's a hungi. Hungi is a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven called an emu, a umu. It is still used for large groups on special occasions. U-M-U. I called it an emu. It looks phenomenal, dude. Oh, I could really get around that. Could see it going well. Cabbage leaves. Oh, absolutely. We need Ben Shiri. Do you reckon he'll come? Yeah, maybe.

Josh: I think they'll do something.

Mason: Have you got a good barbecue, Jess?

Josh: Have you got a good barbecue? Traeger? Yeah. Yeah, Traeger. I think your dad would get around a Traeger. Yeah, potentially. How many burgers does it do, Seb?

Mason: 60, I think it's 64 or 62 burgers at once.

Josh: 62 patties. That's what we need. Feed the whole family. They could— you could use rissoles.

Jess: I love a rissole.

Tommy: All right, let's, uh, we'll see you in Bendigo pretty soon, Jess. We're coming up, we're all jumping in the car.

Josh: Alrighty, great. All right, it's, uh, the Daily Talk Show. Enjoy your, uh, Saturday, and we'll see you tomorrow, guys. Have a good one.

Tommy: See you guys.