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Erik: The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: It's a Daily Talk Show episode 284.

Tommy: Fat Friday. It's good.

Josh: Wow, that was quite loud.

Tommy: Oh Jesus.

Josh: Not on the fucking laptop.

Tommy: The one thing that is— I just cracked a can of kombucha.

Josh: Because you're being silly.

Tommy: No, but no, I legit just tried to crack that. There's video evidence. If I crack like a, like a gronk, comment, but The thing that's the least fizzy is kombucha. It's like flat soft drink.

Josh: The least fizzy is non-fizzy drink.

Tommy: Well, the least fizzy of the fizzy variety is kombucha because it's naturally fizzed. Okay, I don't know if that's true, but if it is, what do you mean? There's no carbonation to this, no added carbonation other than natural fermentation. Sounded professional, didn't it?

Josh: But you said— wait, you said that this is the least fizzy because it's natural?

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: And so true though.

Tommy: Yes, kombucha is—

Josh: I understand it's a ferment. It's like an acid.

Tommy: But it bubbles to beer. Beer just, the way they do it.

Josh: Beer doesn't have bubbles though, does it? Or it does? Yeah? Is beer carbonated or beer?

Tommy: Well, see, here's the thing. This is an interesting one. I know where we're going because—

Josh: No, I don't.

Tommy: Fizzy water, so you have the, like you can, a SodaStream at home, you add the bubbles to it. Whereas the way they do this, they obviously put this into a can and it's like, not, or however you do it in a big vat, it's not fizzy at that point. It's just water and added stuff. And then the fermentation process creates the bubbles in it, creates the fizz to it. So that's what I mean by it being the least fizzy of a fizzy variety, if you know what I mean.

Josh: Sounds like it. Okay, I'll open it.

Tommy: Yeah, but be careful, this is fat.

Josh: So it's Fat Fridays. And did you get this from Casati's downstairs?

Tommy: Yeah, downstairs. I mean, this is probably the least fattening thing to have on a Friday.

Josh: Uh, Mr. 97, come in please.

Tommy: Yeah, sorry, son.

Josh: Uh, we gave you the task. Uh, what was the task? What did we say?

Mason: Oh yeah, Tommy and Josh tasked me with, um, figuring out what to do for Fat Fridays.

Josh: Okay, and we have— we don't know what you've done.

Mason: No, no surprise.

Josh: But you've been microwaving this fucking thing for 40 minutes.

Tommy: Yeah, what did I give you? What was the budget?

Mason: $60.

Tommy: $60.

Josh: How much did you spend?

Mason: Half, $30.

Josh: $30, okay.

Tommy: Mate, what was the meaning be like, you didn't need to be cost conscious.

Josh: Did you go to—

Tommy: did you need to spend more? Like, you trying to do this on a budget?

Mason: No, it's fine.

Josh: Okay, great. That's good.

Tommy: You know something about our financials that I don't. Is that why he's penny pinching?

Josh: I appreciate it. But does Mr. 97 get to pocket the other $30? That's the real good bit.

Tommy: I actually haven't given him anything for it.

Josh: So he's okay.

Tommy: I said to him, dude, 'If you want me to give you the card or I'll send the money through.' He didn't even say anything.

Josh: You never even have your own card with you.

Tommy: I know, but I was going to make it work for him because he went out of his way, but he's gone out of his way.

Josh: So I heard a beep. Have you got to go collect it now?

Mason: Yeah, yeah, I'll go, um, I'll go grab the—

Erik: go grab—

Tommy: he doesn't want to say the thing. It's a surprise. He didn't want to say the thing. The poor bugger's been cooking this thing in a microwave for about 15 minutes. Well, he was taking his bag with him. Far out. I'm excited. I'm excited at how excited he has has been about this. If you don't follow him, follow him, Mr. 97 on Instagram.

Josh: M-R-97.

Tommy: 97.

Josh: Yeah, like as in reaching out.

Tommy: 97. He, um, he's been doing Insta stories, which I've never seen the kid do.

Josh: This is great.

Tommy: And should I just play a little bit of one of them? Not that it'll sound any, any good.

Josh: It'll sound like shit.

Tommy: Yeah, just let me just—

Josh: we'll get, we'll get Mr. 90— how about this? No, we'll just get Mr. 97 to add them as highlights so people can go watch.

Tommy: Oh, good idea. Yeah, great idea. We'll go to his, yeah, Mr. 97. But last night he's heading down to the shops. He's fucking pumped. I stopped as soon as I knew what he was doing. I was like, not gonna watch it. Not gonna watch this. Don't wanna know what he's doing for us.

Josh: Do you have, like when you were growing up, did you have certain meals? Mr. 97's 19. When you were 19, were you cooking yourself anything?

Tommy: Yeah, I was doing like tuna and rice for bodybuilding purposes, trying to get bulked. I will say though, Mr. 97, you said he's 19. That's fucking 11 years younger than me. I don't feel like— either I've got this warped— like maybe I'm becoming an old fart, but I don't feel 11 years older than that kid.

Josh: I don't think he's a kid anymore either.

Tommy: Well, I mean, he's 11 years younger, he still lives at home, he's 19.

Josh: Yeah, it's strange, isn't it? Because he's a lot more mature than us in a lot of ways. Yeah, that's why I feel he's got his life together.

Tommy: Well, we work with somebody and the other day and Josh just checked their age and you were like, holy, this guy's like, he looked great for our age.

Josh: Yeah, he did. Yeah.

Tommy: And then John Safran, when we bumped into John, I was like, I was going through my— because I've just uploaded all my photos to Google.

Josh: You said you went to his 40th. I'm like, mate, he's not even— he wouldn't even be 40. You went to his 30th and then you looked on Wikipedia.

Tommy: I looked on Wikipedia, he's like 46 and it was 6 years ago.

Josh: John looks amazing, mate.

Tommy: He looks real good.

Josh: Okay, so it's all coming out. Here we go, here we go, here we go. So I can see, here we go. Wow, wait, oh, with black beans. Yes, this is great. Oh, Mr. Noi's saying he's coming around.

Tommy: He's got other stuff for it.

Josh: He's very smiley.

Tommy: So if you're listening, he's brought from home a huge serving tray and now he's got some, a huge serving tray. In the serving tray is, it's huge. It's a pile of, is this meat? I'll let him explain, but it's basically nachos. It's like a loaded nachos.

Josh: This looks phenomenal. Oh yeah. Please, 97, you can do the full unveiling. You can sort it out. Okay, he's gonna— what, you've given us a whole avocado. Have I got to cut it up and do it all? We'll work it out.

Tommy: He'll work this out. You need to work this out while we're talking.

Josh: Okay. Oh, you got a grater? Mate, this is— I've never— this is a great— this is like a handle grater.

Tommy: Oh geez, what has he done?

Josh: Oh, he's done the bit. Now can I have one of them first? Oh wow.

Tommy: Explain what these are, Josh.

Josh: 97 has done the famous peanut butter cups that we ate out the front of his house.

Tommy: Yeah, these are ridiculous. These look like massive Reese's Pieces, like king-size Reese's Pieces.

Josh: Holy shit, I'm gonna have one.

Tommy: You eat it in one go? They're like little buckets filled with—

Josh: would you eat that?

Tommy: They're little buckets filled with peanut butter, and the bucket is made of Chocolate. This is so good.

Josh: Oh my goodness.

Tommy: Oh, it is.

Josh: Mmm.

Tommy: That's real good.

Josh: How do you do the peanut mini game on the microphone? Nice serving.

Tommy: Come back in.

Josh: How do you do the peanut butter? How do you make it so like that texture?

Tommy: Coconut oil.

Mason: You mix coconut oil into it.

Josh: In the peanut butter as well?

Tommy: Yeah.

Derek: Yum.

Tommy: We've given the kid the task of doing Fat Fridays, but he's done Fit as fuck Fridays. Yeah, this is something you'd see Steph Clare Smith feasting on and thinking it's super naughty.

Mason: Yeah, I went for the, uh, I went for the, uh, healthy, healthy option so you can blow out without feeling guilty. And then I had to get the Doritos as well just to make it fattening.

Tommy: You've gone Dorito. You say Doritos, these are just pieces of corn chips.

Josh: Yeah, he needed to get that credit out. He's like, mate, I'm not gonna chat, I'm not going to spend that much money because I got it all for free.

Mason: I don't know how we're going to do this.

Tommy: Yeah, so you're going to keep doing it while Josh and I are talking.

Josh: Can I start the nachos or do we need to add— uh, yeah, what is it?

Mason: It is better with cheese on it.

Tommy: Yeah, add the cheese, do it all. We'll let you do it while Josh and I actually talk to each other.

Josh: Do you have this at home normally or—

Mason: yeah, yeah, it's a common, common Mexican, just without the Doritos.

Josh: Without the Doritos?

Mason: Yeah, just, just that and there's like some zucchini and All right, mate, more veggies.

Tommy: What prison do you live in?

Josh: No, it looks amazing.

Tommy: No, I know it looks good, but you need the Doritos, don't you?

Josh: Yeah, the, the black. Oh, so you're just putting some lime on it?

Tommy: Oh, mate, he's Jamie Oliver. This, Mason, you're the gift that keeps on giving. You saved us $30. Yeah, you've, uh, you've brought the goods. But maybe we'll just let him finish. Josh, I wanted to talk to you about the, um, the, the, the revelation I've had, but you had it a year ago, a year and a half ago. Google Photos. Yeah, it's— so basically I've become obsessed with finding the photos on my hard drives and uploading them into the, into the cloud, into Google Photos.

Josh: And you used to give me so much pushback on— I used to be the one who would be, anytime I would get nostalgic, I would go down a rabbit hole and find photos.

Tommy: Yeah, well, all you need to do is literally because you've got them all in Google Photos, just type in the person, type in the place, type in the date or the month or something close to it, which unless you have access to it, it doesn't really matter. Like, it makes it sensical to whip out your phone when you're having a convo to go cheque this.

Josh: Here's a photo from 2013.

Tommy: Yeah, but I am thinking, because we have some people around us that give us pushback on using technology like this.

Josh: Well, uh, Conspiracy Jimmy Yeah, you and him were best mates. No worries, 97's just washing his hands. He's managed to get two, uh, a whole lot. I reckon we only need the one avocado. He's put a whole— he's cut up a whole avocado and put it on top. Yeah, but you and Jimmy— can I have another one of the peanut things or should I wait?

Tommy: Yeah, I reckon you wait.

Josh: Uh, Mr. 97— sorry, Conspiracy Jimmy and you, uh, you grew up together.

Tommy: Yeah, pretty loose, very loose.

Josh: Do you think that you could actually get in like— and he doesn't like the idea that all these photos are up available on Google Photos.

Tommy: Well, I didn't ask him his permission, so I was pretty rampant with my camera when I was younger. Like, I had this Olympus thing that was like, literally felt like a brick. It was digital, about 2 megapixels, but I'd take heaps of photos at the parties I had. And there was like Nokia phones that were taking photos.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And I'm happy that I was savvy enough to actually get them onto my computer and keep them. Like, MSN was flying around, this shitty messaging programme where you could send—

Josh: everyone knows what MSN is.

Tommy: Sorry, 19-year-old kid, never, never used it.

Josh: Yeah, but he knows, heard of it. Oh, this is great. He's currently grating cheese.

Tommy: Yes.

Josh: Yeah, but there's two types of cheeses too, which is— that's the next level bit.

Tommy: If you're just listening and you want to see Mr. 97 grate cheese right now, just skip to about 10 and a half minutes on YouTube and you'll see him grating this cheese. This is lovely. But so I, I went into a dark place because after putting these photos onto the computer, I was seeing images of me when I was 14, 15, 16 at house parties and just Woodstock bourbon in hand. It's the very opposite of what your 15-year-old photos—

Josh: my teenage years weren't dark. The darkest thing that happened to me was kids calling me fat. But you dealt with fucking kids killing themselves.

Tommy: Yeah, but even just It's just out even like, I mean, that's super fucking dark and that was a— that was horrible. But even the dark cloud is just like the what we were doing, like you just see like this image is this of kids trying to fucking get through these teenage years. Like it's, it's everything I don't want my child to go through, but it's everything that shaped me as a person today.

Josh: So what was it?

Tommy: Is it the alcohol I think it's, yeah, the mixture of alcohol, fucking testosterone, like hormones. You know, everyone's got pimples in their face. Like, it's, it's just times that you're so young and you've got no idea about anything. You're not— you don't have any concept of what life will be like after school.

Josh: Do you think that you were depressed when you were a kid?

Tommy: No, I wouldn't identify as having depression ever.

Erik: Like, I'm—

Tommy: but I was definitely Like as soon as I left school, I was such, so much more of a happy person. It was like, literally felt like I dropped the Caribbean. Remember those bags that kids used to wear?

Erik: No.

Tommy: You might not have been in the cool club.

Josh: Was that at the Caribbean Garden?

Tommy: All the cool kids wore Caribbean bags. They're called like, the brand I think was Carabina, Caribbean bags. They were like, you could get different colors, but they were like the hip thing to be wearing. Anyway, I felt like that had dropped off my back. But looking at these photos brings up, it's literally like it brings up all the emotion that I felt. In those days, which was dark. But like you said, Conspiracy Jimmy, these photos are now on the cloud, which aren't accessible by the public. But is it like, how much should we be worrying about this? I think you're more savvy about knowing what we should and shouldn't do, because I could easily go, look, there's, you know, I haven't done anything, you know, I'm not hiding anything. I'm— if some stuff leaked, it's not like it is going to ruin everything. So what should I worry about? But I think, is there a naivety to that mindset of going CCTV, put it everywhere, it doesn't matter, I'm not doing anything wrong?

Josh: I'm the, I'm the guy that, um, put his genetics up, spat into a tube, and, and it's currently available online for anyone. Or not for anyone, but people can like say, oh, I'm your relative, connect with me.

Tommy: Ah yeah, and they're pulling data from that to like formulate what genes people have for being a morning person or a night person. Like I've seen them take, Mr. 97 showed me this research where they were pulling on, what's the company you used?

Josh: 23andMe.

Tommy: Yeah, pulling on that data.

Josh: So yeah, I think it's probably—

Tommy: But I still think you do all these things, but I think you also have the understanding. We know what to do, we don't do what we know. So if you know that it's not a good thing, but you still do it, doesn't that make you a bad person?

Josh: I think that, probably all these things that are allowing more convenience is taking something away. It's like Apple with— I was saying somewhere that Apple wants to take 50% of revenue for Apple News, so the money that's made through that. But think about if we actually all start using Apple News, and then you have this big company that is controlling everything we see. And that's what's happening with Facebook, that's happening with all these things. Um, Google, yeah, it feels like it's crazy to think of how much data we've given them. Yeah, because they have their facial recognition stuff, so they can see— think about the information you've given based on how you change, like the age, like, and how you look different and all those changes. And then imagine what that's done to all of your friends as well that you've uploaded to.

Tommy: I mean, we haven't seen crimes happen just of yet, just yet, of, you know, people using these things and being like— I think about the podcast.

Josh: Could we get Conspiracy Jimmy on? Jimmy, Conspiracy Jimmy, Conspiracy Jimmy, can we, can we cover your face and you can come on?

Tommy: Cover your face and we'll just hear your voice. Come on, he's run off.

Josh: Jimmy. No, absolutely no way.

Tommy: It adds to the narrative of this guy who's wanting to escape any publicity. But like, even our podcast, the, like, the amount of minutes of us talking that are out there and constructing potentially some— there could be a phone call of you and I that could be constructed that is very damaging that we never actually made.

Josh: Like a soundboard.

Tommy: There could be some soundboard.

Josh: Could we do that? Could we get—

Tommy: let's make it—

Josh: it'd be fun to create a Daily Talk Show soundboard. Yeah.

Tommy: 'Basement for your Gronk.' Yeah, and then you can make— I used to do that prank calls. E-Beams World, which you never used to go to, it was like a mix of games that you could play online, weird stories, time zone and porn.

Josh: Oh, it's a website?

Tommy: Yeah, it's still around. So there's like funny cat videos, people hurting themselves, fighting videos, like UFC porn, games, like news. It was weird. But I found the site when I was probably like 7— 16, and I haven't been there since. But I used to go to it because it also had a soundboard, and I'd get up Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Josh: What do you mean it's got a soundboard?

Tommy: It had an area where it's like, come to the soundboard.

Josh: It'd be all in Flash.

Tommy: Yeah, and so like clicking Arnold Schwarzenegger, um, you know, get to the chopper, like calling people and doing prank calls, which I thought was hilarious.

Josh: It would be super annoying. I do remember, um, the Arnold Schwarzenegger one. He really got a big sort of play on the soundboards.

Tommy: You totally know who it is as soon as like, all right, you gronk.

Josh: Uh, Mr. 97, would you be able to create a soundboard for the Daily Talk Show? Taking our first bit, he's saying yes.

Tommy: I've never seen the kid say no to anything, so he goes in confidence. That's what I like. One thing I like about him, he's similar to me. Yeah, very confident cowboy. Yeah, I like it, I like it, son.

Josh: Um, yesterday I didn't swallow it. A corn chip properly.

Tommy: Oh geez. Um, yesterday Valentine's Day.

Josh: I'm okay. What'd you get Amy?

Tommy: It was also my son's birthday, which rattles the whole day. So it's like—

Josh: I don't think I started saying being rattled until I met you.

Tommy: Yeah, it's— I guess it's one of those things.

Josh: Everything just rattles you. Oh geez, I just felt rattled.

Tommy: Because I think it gives such a great visual of someone who's like Yeah, I just went to pick up the car. Picture a guy, this is rattled, the guy who is on his phone at the lights and hears the lights go, or he hears what he thinks is like the walking sign, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, and he starts walking. The Gronkh started walking but it was the other directions thing and he nearly gets hit by a car. He's looking down at his phone and he fucking has to jump back and he's just sitting on the corner. That's the guy who's rattled.

Josh: And so you feel— that's a good visual. That visual is what you had yesterday for— because it was Bodhi's birthday and Valentine's Day.

Tommy: Well, it rattles the day. I'm kind of left there going, fuck, it's my son's birthday. Yeah, I've got this person that I love and it's Valentine's Day, this constructed bullshit of a day.

Josh: Well, that sort of sets up how you went with it.

Tommy: I know, I know. But you know what I did? I was walking, I was like, "Nah, we work near each other now, we're gonna have lunch. Let's have lunch, darling. Great, let's meet. I've got a free voucher for a local establishment that I'm gonna take you to." You used the Nando's voucher? Yeah, it was the last remaining dollars on our Nando's gift voucher. So we met there and I was walking there, I was like, "Fuck, there's a flower shop right here and I gotta get her a flower." So I looked on the maps 'cause I've got her on Find My Friends so I can see where she is, how close she is to me. Has she turned it back on? No, it went turned off because of some backup thing she did.

Josh: That's what she said anyway.

Tommy: So anyway, I'm seeing that she's only 5 minutes away. So I duck into this flower shop. And at this point I'm like, you know what? I actually thought it'd be lovely. She'll walk back into the office and she'll have flowers. Like it's all about, as much as I have that like external sort of validation of love, I'm like, there is actually something nice when you sort of walk in, you got these and, oh, is that, oh, who bought you that? Obviously, who bought you those? Obviously it's, oh, look at that, you got something. And so it's, there is something that then makes her feel nice. I don't know about the other person, maybe they're devo 'cause they didn't get any. But I did think about it, like maybe I do it because of that and maybe I do it 'cause I love her as well and it's thoughtful and she'll love it. So I did it.

Josh: Were there many people at the, did they, for one, did they up the price?

Derek: Yeah.

Josh: On the flowers, do you think?

Tommy: It's not a day you'll get a discount at a flower shop, that's for sure.

Josh: But they're not charging.

Tommy: Every fucking man and his dog at a flower shop on Valentine's Day, a bit rattled. You know what they do when they're rattled? They buy the $7.50 single rose.

Josh: Really?

Tommy: Didn't do it. I was like, for one, I was like, I don't want to be that guy who looks like he's fucking forgotten Valentine's Day and has gone to the closest flower store and bought bought one rose.

Josh: Aldi had a special on roses.

Erik: Did they?

Josh: 97. Did you just come on to the, to Mike?

Tommy: He's our Aldi correspondent.

Josh: He's our Aldi correspondent.

Mason: Where we picked up all the stuff as well.

Josh: Oh really? Brought to you by Aldi.

Mason: Nice plug.

Josh: So how did, um, yeah, did you see this Aldi deal as well for the roses?

Mason: Yeah, they had 50 for $50.

Josh: Now was it just rose petals or was it the full rose?

Mason: No, full rose. And 60-day money-back guarantee. So take them back once you're done.

Tommy: What do you mean 60-day guarantee?

Josh: Go cheque it out, it's literally—

Mason: it was on AusBargain.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, it's on AusBargain.

Tommy: That's surely just a piece of gear. The marketing team are like, this is actually pretty funny. No one's going to bring back the roses because they've given them to their girlfriend.

Josh: I reckon nobody's thinking about anything being fun— they're German. Yeah, it's a— it's Sven, it's just a really good deal, don't you think?

Tommy: But they have to have thought Will people bring this back? Like it's all the mattress companies do, 100-day guarantee. They hardly get any sent back and if they get them sent back, they give them away.

Josh: Is it because, Mr. 97, is the money-back guarantee, is that a standard across all products?

Mason: Yeah, everything.

Tommy: Okay.

Josh: So they haven't done it especially for the roses.

Tommy: Can we take this back?

Josh: Yeah, he's gonna scoop, yeah, he'll scoop any leftovers, any of the mints that we don't eat.

Tommy: We know you didn't have a Valentine's Day, go away.

Josh: No, no, I wanna quickly know, I wanna know from 97 beforehand, 97, can you just tell us what the preparation was for the food?

Tommy: We're veering off Valentine's Day for one moment. We're just gonna wrap up the food talk as Josh and I take a few more bites. Love this, go.

Josh: What do you reckon? So what was the preparation? Were there any challenges?

Mason: Nah, you literally just throw it all into one box. So there's like, black beans, kidney beans, chickpeas, brown rice, beef mince, garlic, pumpkin.

Tommy: Oh, is it quinoa in there?

Mason: Yeah, a bit of quinoa. It's brown rice and quinoa.

Tommy: This kid, what else?

Mason: Carrot, sweet potato. You literally throw it in and it's done in like half an hour.

Josh: You're trying to hide the veggies from the baby? Yeah, pretty much. It's gonna be that.

Tommy: Well, I was, I was gonna put zucchini zucchini in it.

Mason: I was like, uh, I would have liked a little zucchini, I think.

Josh: So what— so this cheese, ricotta cheese, do you normally add it on top or what's the deal?

Mason: Yeah, I usually throw ricotta on top and, uh, avocado as well.

Tommy: Okay, he's, he's a very healthy guy.

Josh: Yeah, where did all the being healthy come from? It was— are your parents super healthy?

Mason: Yeah, we're pretty healthy. Yeah, we're pretty healthy, healthy family. But I think just listening to like Joe Rogan and, um Really? Rhonda Patrick. Yeah, that really solidified.

Tommy: Yeah, you, you—

Mason: everything with like veggies and stuff.

Josh: I've seen Joe Rogan's rig. Not that lean.

Tommy: He's lean as fuck, dude.

Mason: Yeah, he's pretty swole.

Tommy: He's, he's muscular. He's, he's body fat and muscle mass. I feel like he's very—

Josh: I feel like he's one of those guys though with a t-shirt on them, like, I can't tell if you're jacked or if you're fat.

Tommy: No, no, it's his body shape. He's like a small dude. How tall is he? Yeah, how tall is Joe Rogan? I reckon 5'7".

Josh: 1.7. So that's 170 centimeters. So that's— I'm 186 or something.

Tommy: Yeah, in feet. So we're trying to get it to feet.

Josh: No, he's, he's 0.05 of a foot. There we go.

Tommy: He's 5'6".

Josh: What did I say? I don't know.

Mason: I think you said 5 something.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, I reckon it's close. Anyway, I— yeah, he's just like muscular. Anyway, we're now just talking about Joe Rogan's rig, but he's ripped. Yeah, you joke us there. This is really good, Mr. 97.

Josh: Yeah, uh, thank you, thank you for doing that.

Tommy: So what's the, what's the prep time? And what is the— what's the—

Mason: the reheat time and then the prep?

Josh: Reheats longer than the prep is the title of the show.

Mason: Probably maybe half, half an hour to make, to make that.

Josh: Did mum help you?

Mason: Nah.

Josh: Really?

Mason: James, my little brother, helps me with the, uh, that's right.

Josh: He's here.

Tommy: Thanks, James.

Josh: James, shout out to James. Yeah, he's really— I could definitely— the, the cups have been done before. That's you, you're not your first rodeo with the— no, that, that actually really— but James helped.

Mason: No, James has never done them in cups before.

Erik: Really?

Tommy: Nailed it, bro.

Josh: The cups is like next level stuff. And just very quickly, uh, we drove you home the other day and we're talking about this beef that I had in the fridge And we took the pressure off me by, 'cause Bray said, "Did you have the leftover beef?" I said, "No." And then I said, "Mr. 97, will you eat the leftover beef? Can you bring some salad and eat the beef?" Yeah. And so you said yes.

Mason: I brought the salad.

Josh: Yeah. And then I was out of the office and then I got told by Tommy that you didn't eat the beef.

Tommy: I threw him under the bus. There was an intensity from Josh towards Mr. 97 for him to eat this. So it was like, yeah, for sure, I could totally tell. It's like, I fucking have spent—

Mason: well, you're getting off the hook with Bree as well.

Josh: Yeah, that's what it was mainly because I told Bree this. I also, to be honest, don't want to have to clean out the Tupperware. So it's like, if Mr. 97 can eat all of it, I don't have to clean it.

Tommy: And when he opened it, I was in here, you weren't here, and I'm like, oh, you're gonna eat that? He's like, yeah. Then opens it, there was so much in there, dude. This poor kid had to try and get through it all. And what'd you end up doing?

Mason: Didn't eat any of it.

Josh: Yeah, so what—

Mason: we're gonna preface it with, when we're in the car, I told you that I've had bad pulled pork before. I got it from Coles and it was literally—

Josh: this is a massive slam.

Tommy: Yeah, I know, throwing shade.

Josh: Uh, Derek's just walking past. Uh, feel free to have some nachos from us, Derek, made by Mr. 97.

Tommy: Um, yeah, he's throwing shade at Coles because he's an Audi sponsor. He heard nachos and he's coming back, so Mr.

Josh: 97 has created this for Cut Throat. You gotta walk in, come on, come in, come into frame.

Tommy: Basically this street where we have our office is filled with other creative goons and here's another one. He's just prepping his beard, he's got a hole in his top, you can't fix that.

Josh: But before we get—

Tommy: Literally at your nipple, that hole.

Erik: Before we get—

Tommy: That is amazing.

Mason: Oh Jesus.

Josh: Come on, that's crazy. I just want to finish it. Oh wow. Before we get Derek on, just 97. So you felt that the beef was too similar to the pulled pork?

Mason: Yeah, after the pulled pork I threw up like all night and then, yeah, it just reminded me when I smelt and tasted your pulled beef.

Josh: And I just thought that you did, yeah, 'cause I had thought that you had just been like, nah, I don't want it. But what Tommy told me, which I really appreciate, is that you were sort of gagging trying to eat my beef.

Mason: Yeah, I wanted to give it a go.

Josh: Okay, all right, thanks, mate.

Tommy: Thanks for today, mate. Just quickly before we do have Derek on, I will get back to my Valentine's Day story.

Josh: Derek from What Now and Castaway Studios. What's going on, mate?

Derek: Who was gagging on your beef?

Josh: Mr. 97, it was shredded beef. Shredded beef. What's going on? What's happening?

Derek: I've just come for a bit of this.

Josh: Yeah, so this is made by 97. It's got like a bunch of beans in it. It's like a healthy sort of nachos. What's been— you recorded More Than a Wheelin' yesterday with Sean. Yeah, can you fucking— yeah, you're a mic check.

Tommy: He's got a podcast studio.

Derek: I was kind of more focused on my look.

Josh: Oh yeah, no, true, true.

Tommy: This is new for you.

Josh: I appreciate it.

Tommy: What are you doing? What, you were coming up to see us?

Derek: Yeah, we wanted to show you my new tech.

Josh: What do you got?

Tommy: All right, he's got a, um— Jesus, he's got my camera that I've uploaded all those photos from 1999. Derek's showing like an old point-and-shoot camera talking This is basically the one I described earlier in this episode.

Josh: What happened?

Derek: I bought it at a garage sale for my daughter, my 8-year-old daughter, for $5. Yeah, no cables, no— had a battery in it. Yeah, no SD, no cables, no charger, nothing, just because she wanted to, uh—

Tommy: it's 7.2 megapixels.

Josh: It actually, it does a really nice photo, but this reminds me of the camera that I had on school camp in grade like 10. Yeah, so go on.

Derek: So I got on eBay that night to to find a charger and a battery and all that to get her camera rolling. And, uh, I found this one.

Josh: Wait, so this isn't the one you saw at the garage sale?

Derek: Well, it could be, I'm not sure, I've mixed them up. But then there was one that was $5, no one had bid on it, with the cables, the charger, and the SD card. And so I bid on that to get the charger.

Tommy: Ah, I see.

Derek: And now I've got two stupid little silver cameras for $10.

Josh: Tommy has—

Tommy: so that's why you came to our office?

Derek: You wanted to show off my great deal?

Josh: No, it is, it is a very good deal. It's the, it's the— does it spark joy?

Derek: Sparks joy because in my studio, you know, Castaway Studios, 7 Easy Street, Collingwood.

Josh: There you go, the only time he has good mic technique when he's plugging. I appreciate that, keep going.

Derek: So the idea is that people do a show and then they want to get a picture, they go, oh, can you take a picture? And I've got a camera the Canon M50 set up on the tripod with a little extra screen and all wired up.

Josh: So it's legit.

Derek: So it's legit for streaming, and it's just a pain in the ass to disconnect it all to hold it in your hand and take a couple of pictures.

Josh: But that, do you know what would be sick?

Derek: You know, funny if you use your own phone.

Erik: Why?

Derek: I don't know, they just think you're going to instantly use it for your own sick purposes.

Tommy: Well, if you've got it, um, connecting to Google Photos. Google Photos, it will. I will have it forever.

Josh: But Derek, have you locked in that guy that, you know, there was a guy looking at the studio.

Tommy: No, he didn't do it.

Josh: Did that film one end up happening or no? Maybe you look at the photography, film photography.

Derek: Moving forward.

Josh: It's moving forward. So that would be sick because that is a guy who does like film photography. Could you get him to do something where you could do like Polaroids or like old school, like even using old point-and-shoot disposable cameras and get them processed in the front room.

Tommy: The look of Derek is, that's too much work.

Derek: No, because I thought you were talking about the guy who wants to set up a whole professional streaming in my— oh no, in my studio.

Josh: Oh no, this guy, no, no, no, I actually don't know what either— talking about the film, the film canister guy.

Derek: Yeah, that is, that is, I reckon, 80%.

Tommy: And so sorry, sorry, Trevor Long, this is a very in conversation on our podcast.

Josh: Yeah, it is. Well, this is how we roll. But no, so you—

Derek: Hang on, wait a minute, sorry. Josh shouldn't be here today.

Erik: Why?

Derek: Well, it's his weekend.

Josh: Jesus.

Tommy: That is true.

Derek: I hope Trevor, I hope you're at home having a relax too.

Josh: No, the start of the— What you think that you're basing that on, you need 2-day weekends.

Tommy: Yeah, because that's how everyone else does.

Derek: Primary schools, high schools, banks, keep going. Yeah, it goes forever. We do have a 2-day weekend, that's our culture.

Josh: Just so the film, the film photography thing, um, I feel like you would be into that, like taking photo photos, or no, not really, mate?

Tommy: Just get a Polaroid that prints it out instantly.

Josh: The Polaroid would be sick.

Tommy: I think that's a good idea.

Josh: Basically because you've got a show, Aussie Vinyl Show, which is it even a podcast yet or is it still an Instagram account?

Derek: There's 2 episodes of, you know, preppy prep.

Josh: Okay, well, but I think it would be cool if you're doing the vinyl like a music show, to then have some form of analogue photos would be sick.

Derek: Because you're right, it— the comfort zone with that, like I said, like having this weirdly creates a sort of a comfort zone because it's a camera and you're taking a picture. It's not personal, like suddenly they've given you permission. Yeah, like people go, I use my phone. You go, well, I've got mine here. And they go, but they think, oh, you've just they've just sort of signed up to be part of your advertising.

Tommy: I probably have a spare one which is true, 10 times better than that for you. If you haven't been—

Derek: I hope it's $5.

Tommy: Well, it's—

Josh: yeah, I reckon I haven't been using my ARRI.

Derek: I didn't even want any, my daughter wanted it.

Josh: But do you know, that actually reminds me, I had someone that I was filming the other week, they were doing a performance, a musical performance, and I'm filming with our cinema camera and she got someone next to me filming on her iPhone. As if she thought I was gonna fuck it up or whatever. It was a bit of a nightmare. Then halfway, halfway through that filming, she used a special app that then must have done some sort of like an Insta Story loop, so it started playing back the video live and we had to cut the whole thing and start again.

Tommy: It's like the photographer on a video shoot where we're recording sound and they're just like— The amount of people that have asked me, "Oh, can we just turn that off?" that sound? It's like, no, it's actually mechanical.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, unless it's the A7S or like the mirrorless.

Tommy: You still can't turn that off.

Josh: A7S is silent? No, no, not completely.

Tommy: No, no, no, mirrorless cameras have this really cool like—

Josh: oh, that's like a different sound. There is a camera, there is a camera that has zero sound. Derek's been eyeing off one of the chocolate peanut butter. I'm gonna get back to our show. I want Derek Rick to review, review it. All right, okay, he's having another nacho thing. All right, so this was also created by Mr. 97 and his younger bro.

Derek: They were game changers when they started appearing in the, um, posh confectionery stores.

Josh: Yeah, Reese's. So this is not Reese's, obviously.

Derek: This is better.

Josh: This is a healthier version. Oh no, no, have it, you'll be right. And can you explain, before you put it in your mouth, can you explain what happened to your top for there to be a hole right at nipple?

Derek: Well, it's not right at the nipple, it's down here.

Tommy: Okay, yeah, it's all right. He's dropping peanut butter everywhere. I don't actually— I think we're going to keep single thought here today.

Derek: I don't know where this t-shirt— I've never seen this t-shirt before in my life. It was in my t-shirt drawer. I'm guessing it is my wife's or something.

Josh: I don't know.

Tommy: I feel like I've got two babies here that I'm looking after right now.

Josh: Describe it.

Tommy: He went the whole—

Josh: describe the whole hog. He looks like he's fucking—

Derek: it's so good, it tastes healthy.

Josh: Yeah. Looks like the toilet paper broke on your hands. Fuck that. All right, anyway, thanks Scooter Derek. Thanks, Josh. Have you got an official date, start date for WhatNow?

Derek: We're rebranding.

Josh: Okay, do you have a new name?

Derek: We use the same platform so we don't have to get new fans.

Josh: Okay, great.

Derek: We don't, we're talking about names. Okay, yeah, I like Pull My Finger.

Josh: It's a very— it's because it's a dad podcast.

Derek: Yeah, yeah.

Mason: What do you think?

Tommy: Um, for the pun of it, for the pun of it, I don't know, dad jokes, like something around the dad joke thing.

Derek: It is the classic. To me, that's the quintessential dad.

Josh: You say, put my finger, you go, yeah, all right, Dad, or all right, Uncle. All right, yeah, right. Uh, thanks, Des.

Derek: Thanks for the tucker.

Tommy: Um, positive affirmation always goes down. He's actually trying to take it. Can you— mate, you probably have to get closer on a 7 megapixel pixel camera, but he's done it. So I'm in this fucking florist and I don't want to be the guy that's just getting one rose. Like, I don't want to be the person walking down the street with the rose because I feel like it's so clichéd.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: So I went with something else. What? With some kind of like, I don't know, some native, some lily. It was beautiful. It was just like similar cost. It was like a bunch of them rather than one. And they actually like it. They're blooming.

Josh: And what was Amy's reaction?

Tommy: This is what happens when you've been married for a little while. Hand them over.

Josh: Wait, to be clear, you're talking as if you've been together for 30 years.

Tommy: Nearly 7. A little while.

Josh: Married? Married?

Tommy: I've been together for nearly 7 years.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And I'm sure you can experience this too. What I'm saying is, when all the fucking, uh, juice is out of your relationship, I'm sure you've done this too. Hand it over and she's like, oh, that's It's so beautiful. So this is the time, this is the only time that you're not saying sorry for something. So whether you're— which probably wouldn't happen, like you're probably in a bad relationship if you're 6 months in and she's saying that. Yeah, he's saying that. That's what I meant. I know I haven't been fucking married for a long time, but just in terms of relationship. So it was nice. But then what I wanted to know when she got home, what did all her friends say in the office? Nothing. No one ever— no one said anything to her. So my thinking of her just getting all this sort of nice affirmation didn't happen because they knew that you—

Josh: why you were doing it. I knew that. But then you followed it up with an Instagram post, which was lovely.

Tommy: Oh yeah, put up a nice pic from our wedding, which is—

Erik: yes.

Josh: Did you— do you tell Amy before you do it, like, I'm going to use this photo, what do you think?

Tommy: Nah, nah, I just— I just used it. I didn't— I mean, that's the thing, I find it really weird putting out posts when half the time if when you were doing, when you or Bree would do it, 'cause I know what you guys do. I know you like, you live together. It's like, all I have is a picture in my head of you sitting next to her and doing this lovely—

Josh: That's what I imagined.

Tommy: Yeah, exactly. That's where I'm like, I battled that. I was like, I bet you people are gonna think I'm actually sitting next to Amy and I wrote this. She was in the shower, guys.

Josh: Oh, great.

Tommy: So then she was in her bedroom.

Josh: She said, oh, that's, oh, that's nice.

Tommy: Did you get Bree anything?

Josh: Yeah, I did. That's nice.

Tommy: But you had to say sorry for something?

Josh: No, it was good. It was actually, I caught her off guard, which I love.

Tommy: Another keep cup?

Josh: No, it was actually a, she'd asked, well, we'd been at a place like that Milligram. Remember I talk about Doncaster Milligram?

Tommy: Oh yeah, yeah, the expensive typo.

Josh: Yeah, no, no, no, the premium typo. It's like the expensive gift shop.

Tommy: Anyway, isn't that what I said? Typo?

Josh: No, typo is not premium though.

Tommy: No, I said like, like it's, it's like the expensive gift shop, like the expensive typo. Yeah, which I was referring to Miller's, the expensive one.

Josh: I understand, but it's not just typo stuff that's expensive, it's actually high quality, good stuff. Typo feels like they've gone on to Alibaba.

Tommy: Now we're talking about expensive versus quality.

Josh: Quality.

Tommy: Yeah, I think usually expensive comes with some kind of quality.

Josh: Yeah, okay. No, but they're a premium, they do great stuff. Anyway, I haven't really bought anything from there, but Bree had seen this wallet, this purse, lovely, uh, like a week and a half ago and said, I love that, it's great. Anyway, as we're driving home, I was late to that. What time did you give the flowers?

Tommy: Oh, lunchtime before.

Josh: Okay. Yeah, so I was— it was getting close to the end of the day. And, um, Bree's like, what day is it? I'm like, Thursday. I'm like, actually, the, um, the shops are still open. Can we go to Doncaster? So we went to Doncaster, had some Nando's, and then we, uh, I said, I'm— I just want to get you something. Can you go or whatever? And she said, are you going to your favourite shop, which is Milligram?

Erik: Yeah.

Josh: And that sort of annoyed me. And so I said no. And so then I was like, that's annoying. So what I did was I walked one way and then let her go and then I went back to Milligram and I got the purse and then I went to the cheapest looking bookshop, you know, like the, it's like the book grocer style thing but they actually have books and got a book that she wanted.

Tommy: They had it?

Josh: Yeah, they actually had it.

Tommy: I know that you needed to get that.

Josh: Yeah, I wanted to get this book, "Normal People" by Sally someone. Anyway, went to, It's like, it almost looks like the not quite right NQR stores, but it's QBE or something anyway, I don't know. It doesn't look very nice. It's not like one of those stores that you sort of walk around and enjoy. It feels like, yeah.

Tommy: Similar to Aldi.

Josh: Yeah, exactly. But great prices. But funnily enough, a lot of those cheaper stores charge a lot for their like good books. They'll have like a bunch of shit books that are cheap and they'll lead with that. But then you actually go to the bestsellers and they cost most. Anyway, I put the book, uh, and I put the wallet, uh, into the shitty shop bag, right? And so Bree thought that I just— and she knows I'm obsessed with books, and so me buying a book is like Homer Simpson buying Marge a bowling ball.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Josh: It feels more like for Homer than it does for her. And so it was great because I wasn't on to you. Yes.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: Okay. And so there was the initial, ah, Thanks. And because I pulled the thing out, I didn't write a card. Not good enough to write a card. Takes a lot of work.

Tommy: Well, we are both the guys who got the present 5 minutes.

Josh: We're not card writers. That's one thing Mr. 97 kills at. Yeah, a good card. Yeah, he wrote the nicest card. And then I felt like a gronk because we gave him an Amazon card that I was quickly fucking scribbling, you know, to Mason, and then just getting it done and it's just like reading this beautiful essay and it's just like, he's gonna dump us.

Tommy: And so was she happy with what you got?

Josh: Yeah, she was right. That's nice. And but she did follow it up with like, "Oh, it just feels so nice because I can't remember the last time you got me something." Yep, they always close it off with that one. But then I was like, you know what? I actually, I had a lot of joy doing it. I'm like—

Tommy: No, I know, yeah.

Josh: And so I'm like, you know what? Maybe rather than buying, every time I'm gonna buy a book now, I'll just buy Brea book.

Tommy: Maybe you can probably workshop that one.

Josh: We got some, we got some emails, uh, it was mainly about the big thing that's been sort of rocking the podcast of late is the in the line or on the line. Do you want to— can you update people? I have some nachos.

Tommy: Picture Mason, he's at Aldi and you know that there's long lines at Aldi to cheque out If Mason, you see him over there and he's just standing there in amongst all the people, what is he?

Josh: Is he in the line or is he on the line?

Tommy: Which I thought it's— you're fucking— you're in the line in Australia. That's what everyone says here. You're not on the line. There's not actually a fucking line that you're standing on.

Josh: So, well, I listen to SiriusXM radio in the States. I would listen to Howard Stern, and multiple times I heard 'on the line.' Yeah.

Tommy: That's out of bloody near Times Square. It's very, very New York.

Josh: And so, uh, we, we spoke about it earlier in the week. Matt Diavella commented and said, in the line, not on the line. He's based in Los Angeles, LA. And, uh, but we've had more clarity. We've had a few, we've had a few emails about it actually.

Tommy: We're building out a case. There's currently 3 people that have told us.

Josh: So we've got Eric. Yeah, can we, can Eric have a nickname? Homeboy Eric. Boy Eric, I love him. He's just—

Tommy: yeah, Energy Eric.

Josh: Energy Eric.

Tommy: His energy is—

Josh: no, we've got to— I think there's a better one.

Tommy: Yeah, we'll workshop it.

Josh: Eric, he's got like Gary Vee vibes.

Tommy: Oh yeah, yeah, he's, he's legit.

Josh: Eric B. Yes, or something.

Tommy: We'll get there.

Josh: We'll think about Eric. If you've got a nickname that people call you, let us know.

Tommy: Does anyone call you something to start with?

Josh: Maybe E-Money. We'll work on it.

Tommy: Motivation Eric, he's spinning a whole lot of truth. Uh, so Eric's chimed in on this.

Josh: Yeah, he said, he said, uh, yes, it's on the line. So I can remember my mum yelling at me all the time like, damn it, I'm on the line.

Tommy: Interesting.

Josh: So there's that one.

Tommy: Uh, he's in, he's in Norfolk, so he's like not far, maybe 5 hours from New York City.

Josh: Do you know what, he's actually Um, this is very unconventional. I just— this is— give it— this has been a bit of a clusterfuck episode. I know, afterwards you're gonna be like, I just didn't feel good about that one because we've gone everywhere. I get it.

Erik: Yeah, whatever.

Tommy: I was just trying to tell a Valentine's Day story.

Josh: Yeah, I got there. All right, 30 minutes later, you're rattled.

Tommy: I'm fucking shaking.

Josh: You're rattled, right? You're gonna be like— and so why don't we really blow it up by— Eric has put his phone number, mate.

Tommy: Call him at the end, you know. What time is it in Norfolk, USA?

Josh: It's 8:13 PM.

Tommy: I reckon we could—

Josh: yeah, I think it's fine.

Tommy: I don't think that was the right location, but it'll be around there. Let's try and call him.

Josh: All right, so what we'll do—

Tommy: the thing is, put him on loudspeaker. We haven't set up that.

Josh: No, no, no, it's easy, it's easy. Do you want to just get the other headphones with the big end? 97, can you sort that out? First place, the one that doesn't have the big end. I think the big end might be on its own. Um, so what I'm going to do, so we're using the RODECaster, which what you can do is I just turn Bluetooth on and I can just start making the calls. Let's have a look. All right, his number. Uh, all right, thanks, 97s. All right, so TJ's putting it in there.

Tommy: Um, this is happening.

Josh: This is huge. So just, can you hear? Just have a listen. What, what number is it, Mason? You can hear it? Okay, great.

Tommy: I can hear it.

Josh: All right, so a good opportunity to use a bit of music. No, no, do that. Sorry. All right, so I'm just putting in Eric's number. I don't know, I don't have any, um, with Optus— sorry, Telstra. I don't think I'm going international, so I'll just get the Stung. Yeah, I don't think it will be much.

Tommy: I don't think it'll be much.

Josh: All right, 3.

Tommy: Whoops, Mr. 97 saved us $30.

Josh: Yeah, exactly.

Tommy: All right, all right, so we're calling Eric. So Eric, I don't know how he came across our show on the interwebs, uh, but he follows us on Instagram and he's just been—

Josh: oh, here we go—

Tommy: he's just, he's been chiming in and we're loving it.

Josh: All right, this is great. Do you reckon he'll answer?

Tommy: I hope so. We'll leave him a message if he doesn't.

Derek: He'll love it.

Tommy: He'd be seeing Australia calling through on his phone, on his cell.

Josh: Come on, Eric.

Erik: Hello?

Josh: Hey, is that Eric?

Erik: Yeah.

Tommy: Yo, Eric, it's Tommy and Josh from the Daily Talk Show.

Erik: I figured this who that was.

Josh: Yeah, what's going on, man?

Erik: I was like, who the fuck is calling you from Australia?

Josh: What, what time is it, uh, right now?

Erik: Uh, like, uh, 8 o'clock.

Tommy: Okay, we got it right. Eric, mate, we love your videos, and we were just talking about how you sent through an email about On The Line or In The Line. I was just saying to Josh I don't know how you came across us. How did you, bro?

Josh: Yeah, how did you find the Daily Talk Show?

Erik: Um, how do I find it? Uh, I think one day I was listening— oh, I know, your buddy Matt Diavella.

Josh: Ah, Diavella.

Erik: Yeah, great. Yeah, now how did I meet him? I have no idea.

Josh: Yeah, amazing. And what have you been up to? You're the very first caller we've ever done on the show. We're using the RODECaster and have it all plugged in.

Tommy: This was very live.

Josh: This is live and last minute. Uh, what's your day been like? You're like a pen pal for us. What have you been up to today?

Erik: Um, so apparently I was forced into doing this 13-mile walk.

Josh: 13 miles?

Erik: So I'm like, yeah, I'm like sore as hell right about now.

Josh: It's like half a marathon, I think, isn't it?

Erik: Uh, I don't really know. Yeah, I've never done it before in my life.

Tommy: 20 kilometres in, uh, yeah, that's just under half a marathon.

Josh: And so what did you have to— did you have— how much water did you bring? What did you eat on the way?

Erik: Oh, so, uh, one of the persons who I was walking with was like, let's go to— we have 7-Elevens over there.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, we've got something. Yeah, man.

Tommy: Uh, did you see my video? Yeah, yeah, I made a video about it.

Erik: Yeah, um, so she was like, let's go to 7-Eleven. And uh— oh well, um, to a store, you know? Because they're not paying you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot my bad! I fucked about that a lot, like man, "They're not paying me!" Don't say that anyway. So we went to this particular store that sells food. And they were like, you should drink this tea, or this, this drink. And I'm like, uh, because the drink's not paying me either. Yeah. And, uh, it's like kale cabbage, it's like juicing tea.

Josh: I can't believe they had that at that store.

Erik: Yeah. Um, I actually have it on video that I'm supposed to edit, but it's not done yet because I'm like kissing my wounds right now. Yeah. But, uh That will be up tomorrow sometime, maybe.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Hey Eric, and, uh, yeah, just quickly, yeah, how do I, how do I explain to people what you, what you do? Like, all the way I do explain is like, Eric, man, he's like full of energy, he's got these fast cuts, like it's, he's funny.

Josh: I described you as like Gary Vee, Gary Vee.

Erik: Yeah, I don't know if I'm Jerry Z because I don't cuss that much, but, uh, because partially because my mom watches those videos. Yeah, but, um, um, I don't really know how to explain myself. Um, I kind of like to— so I think I was listening to one show you did a couple I don't remember what it was, but one of the people was like, what will happen if our kids looked at us and said, what, a bunch of white guys just sitting here doing that?

Josh: Yeah.

Erik: Yeah. And so I think if you had to explain me, I would say that I'm the guy who's trying to prove that it can be done in another community.

Josh: Yeah. Great.

Mason: Awesome.

Erik: If that makes any sense.

Josh: Yeah, absolutely.

Tommy: It does. It's like, you've got to a whole bunch of knowledge within, within you. The stuff you're talking about, what, what's your background? You've been to uni, you're working at the moment.

Erik: So, um, I, uh, I grew up in the serious religious community. Yeah. Um, if there is a denomination or a reformation, I'd probably have a family member that's in it. Scientology. And I don't know, but you know, I thought I'd get it, so he might be there.

Tommy: I thought I'd get you there, to be honest.

Erik: No, I mean, I'm sure I may have some brothers and sisters over there, you know. It's kind of hard when you're a bastard child. But, um, uh, but yeah, so I grew up in that environment and, uh, I thought that I wanted to be a preacher. Yeah. And then the world turned and church people lost their shit. So I was like, no, I don't kind of want to do that anymore. But I've always been a spiritual guy. I just hate the religious part. Yeah. And I've always been a practical guy. So I'm like, okay, we're in this environment. Especially in America where even in 2019 it's still Black people on one side, white people on the other. And if you ever see a Black person on the other side of the fence, he's either a traitor or something else. So for me, it was always— I had to privilege of being friends with guys like yourself.

Josh: Yeah, I was gonna say, I hope we didn't fuck anything up because you're on the, like, the Daily Talk Show. We couldn't be as wide— any more wide if we tried.

Erik: I mean, you know, if you could screw up my life halfway around the world, then I don't know what to say about my options right now.

Tommy: Have you seen Catfish, the TV show? It's possible, Eric.

Josh: It's possible.

Erik: Um, seeing that I watch much TV, then probably not.

Josh: But how much, how much weight have you lost, man? You've, you've like, you're smashing it at the moment.

Erik: Um, so I, uh, so the funny thing, it started as a project.

Josh: Yeah.

Erik: Uh, that my city is doing. And we were like, well, how do you motivate Black people? And I was like, hell, I don't know, just because I'm Black I'm supposed to know that thing? And so I went to a couple of my buddies and they're like, yeah, we don't know this stuff because it's like, I think I've said this to you, oh, I don't know if I said this, anyway, I'm gonna say it now. A lot of times, I think people think that because sometimes we miss our privilege and we think that everybody is as smart and as knowledgeable as we are. Yeah. And it's like, I know people in certain parts of the city that just got running water last Tuesday. Wow. And so, and their mentality is still probably just as slow as the water was. And so it's like, yeah, you kind of have to do it and then we'll see it, we'll follow. So I'm like, okay. So it became a, let me go and do it and then show you how this works and then you come along.

Josh: Yeah.

Erik: And it was like, if I walked 1 mile, they had to walk a half a mile. So I'd have to walk 2 miles for them to walk a mile. And it just— I had to keep pushing because if, if I didn't bring that energy, it's like it takes all of that just to get one person to move a mile.

Josh: Yeah, it's amazing. So is it like social work? Is that what— if you were to talk about what you— because obviously you're talking about, um, you're not into necessarily the religious side of all the stuff you're doing. How do you describe, you know, what you're on a mission to do?

Erik: So truthfully, I don't even know if it has a title.

Josh: Yeah.

Erik: Some people would call it social work, other people would call it church work, other people would call it activism. It's kind of like it is all in one, but I think for me it's just proving it can be done. Yeah. And It's like, to, to someone like you or me, what I do may be the most boring thing or the most basic thing ever, but you'll be surprised how many people on planet Earth is like, that happens? You can do that? And it's like, oh, how do you make those videos? Like, you'll look at them and you'll go, yeah, I know how he did it. Like, everybody knows that. But to me, it's like, how did you scoop it out and jump cut it and do all that? That was cool. And it's like, that was basic, but okay.

Tommy: No, I love them.

Erik: So if you— right, so it's really trying to introduce a new side of the world to the people who probably either don't know it exists or don't think it exists for them. And I guess that's the best way to playing it, man.

Josh: That's awesome, that's super cool.

Tommy: We, um, we kind of want you to be our American correspondent. Yeah, would you be up for the task?

Erik: Uh, let me see, um, that comes with a huge Lipton iced tea bill.

Josh: No, um, brought to you by Lipton iced tea. We could literally— we could get that if we can get them as a sponsor.

Erik: I mean, you know, if you could do that, then God, I'll be here at your mercy. Uh, I have absolutely no problem with that. I think you guys are, are pretty funny. Like I said, um, I listen to every last one of your podcasts except for this one, and, uh, and I, I think it's amazing.

Josh: Oh, awesome, man.

Tommy: Thank you so much. And just, um, by the way, we have permission to use this audio.

Erik: Wouldn't it be a shame, uh, if you didn't? I would have answered the phone.

Josh: Um, hey Eric, we want to come up with a nickname for you. What's, uh, you know, we've got— because we've got Mr. 97, we've got Conspiracy Jimmy, we have Scooter Derek. What is Eric's nickname going to be? If you were to give yourself a nickname, what do you think? Go for it.

Erik: Let's see, one that wouldn't be screwed by every black group on the planet Earth? I don't know. Um, how about, how about I'll let you, uh, what about something with Ice-T?

Josh: I think, what about Lipton? Like, let's go full, full brand name. And what are your favorite, what are your top 5 foods? I think that, that's a good way of Starting with, uh, coming up with a nickname.

Erik: My top 5 food?

Josh: Yeah.

Erik: Uh, let me see. Uh, well, you can only narrow that down to 3. Uh, fried chicken.

Josh: Fried chicken, great.

Erik: Yes, I'll die with a piece of chicken in my mouth.

Josh: Perfect. Great. What's your favourite fried chicken place? KFC?

Erik: My kitchen.

Josh: What is it called?

Erik: Actually, KFC is delightful.

Josh: Really? Yeah.

Tommy: Do you have, um, let's stick to it.

Josh: What are the other two?

Erik: Sorry, Eric, what did you say?

Tommy: What are the other two favourite foods? So we've got fried chicken.

Erik: Other, other two favourite foods, let me see. Uh, God, man, that's a hard one because literally I eat that all day.

Tommy: So you just, you just It was fried chicken 3 times. That's what you said your favourite 3 foods were.

Erik: You, you're— so one day I'll have to, because my leg hurts, but remind me to go downstairs and open the freezer and just show you how much chicken is in that thing.

Josh: So do you actually fry it yourself?

Erik: Yeah.

Josh: Oh man, we need to— there's definitely something I would never even think about sort of doing that. But you have a fryer, so you actually have a deep fryer at home?

Erik: Yeah.

Josh: Oh, that's sick.

Tommy: Can you send us a photo?

Erik: We have stoves, we have stoves with gas and everything, man. We're high-tech over here, man.

Josh: Yeah, that's awesome.

Tommy: Um, all right, we'll workshop a name.

Josh: Yeah, if you have any thoughts in the meantime, let us know. And let's, let's do like a weekly— let's do a weekly chat whenever we have something that's, uh, American-related, or if we need some if we need a chicken, a fried chicken expert, you're our go-to guy. And when we do seal a deal with 7-Eleven or Lipton, we'll get you involved with that too.

Erik: If you get a deal with 7-Eleven, I'd be at your mercy.

Tommy: I've got no luck.

Josh: I reckon we could.

Tommy: You think I can get a deal with 7-Eleven?

Josh: Yeah, I reckon if Eric was involved.

Tommy: Yeah, I guess.

Josh: Could be like one of the big faces. There's been Jared from Subway.

Tommy: Bringing him into the area.

Erik: Oh God, don't compare me with that guy.

Josh: Eric from Seven Eleven. Well, this is the risk, right? We're all taking— like, you're taking a risk on us that we've got clean records. We're doing the same here. It's a great little interaction. And you know what? Subway lost, didn't they?

Tommy: Uh, thanks, Eric.

Josh: Catch you, Eric. Have a good night.

Erik: All right, man.

Josh: Chat to you soon.

Erik: You have fun.

Josh: Catch you, mate.

Tommy: See you, bro.

Erik: All right, bye.

Josh: Can you believe that worked?

Tommy: That's amazing.

Josh: That was— we haven't tried that before, so, so we've really, uh, like, I railroaded this episode trying new things many times. I think that that worked, that worked well though.

Tommy: But, um, yeah, we've, we've gone everywhere and, and we're back and you're rattled and I'm fucking rattled.

Josh: Any final, any final things?

Tommy: I really want to just sink my teeth into this stuff, so yeah, yeah, let's wrap this up. Fat Friday.

Josh: Thank you, Mr. 97.

Tommy: I thank you, Mr. 97 too. I was saying Eric.

Josh: Oh yeah, thank you, Eric, as well. Thanks, Eric, official correspondent.

Tommy: Mate, well done. Seriously, this is great. This is like—

Josh: who are you talking to?

Tommy: I'm talking to Mr. 97. I forgot that we actually put out the audio of this show too. I was looking, I was eyeballing.

Josh: Daily Talk Show, everyone. Anyway, hyperdailytalkshow.com.

Tommy: Happy Friday.

Josh: If you want to send us an email, catch us.

Tommy: See you guys.

Josh: Bye.