The Worst Three Way

BK: The Daily Talk Show, episode 296.1.

Tommy: Yeah, because this is the second time we're doing this episode. Yeah, this, you know, as much as I pushed back yesterday on the walkie-talkie idea, I'm very disappointed that we lost an entire show because that was some of the, some of the greatest train wreck radio-esque style.

Josh: No, absolutely not.

Tommy: I got the podcast bit in there, but it was kind of funny.

Josh: Well, so yeah, what happened was we're using this, it's a great system by RØDE. It's an upgrade from what we had. The one thing is that it relies on power. We're used to having a battery backup.

Tommy: Yeah. And so it's gronk-proofing your machine. We'd been using a gronk-proof machine.

Josh: And so we get a little few extra things. We can have calls. We had what was the best thing to ever happen to our show, which was we had BK across the road, 41 metres away. In his train carriage. And then our mate Russ Keys at the Telstra building in the CBD had tuned in. We'd all tuned into, uh, Channel 16 on the walkie-talkies. We had a walkie-talkie. Yeah, BK had a walkie-talkie.

Tommy: He had this very one.

Josh: Russ had a walkie-talkie. We managed to get BK— are you a little bit upset about it? Why am I feeling like I'm gonna cry? It's no big deal. We had BK come, he walked up this way.

George: Yeah.

Josh: He comes into the room, we have this fucking great bit, and then BK walks out. And as I go to fix my seat, I knocked the power cable.

Tommy: You unplugged the power cable from the wall. And so I reckon we lost the episode because the file doesn't work.

Josh: So we'll put— we've contacted RØDE and see what they can do. They can't really help it if fucking gronks are using their shit to fuck things up.

Tommy: But what happened was we actually got BK here in Collingwood to speak to Russ, who brought from home a walkie-talkie in the CBD. This is a long way away. And so it ended up being that BK couldn't hear us, but Russ and BK were having a conversation via radio walkie-talkie.

George: So this was the—

Josh: I'd said initially to you before we got into the show, I said, we'll give it 7 minutes. That's all I want for this segment.

Tommy: It died at 20-something minutes. Yeah, you got so much time.

Josh: So I got so much time. However, I think that, I know that D'Avella says that every app doesn't have to be better than the other.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: But it sort of feels like it needs to be.

George: So.

Tommy: Well, it was a great app.

Josh: And well, 'cause even, do you know what's really upsetting is Russ Keyes does like an Instagram story. His Instagram storey said.

Tommy: It was a win.

Josh: Melbourne HQ to Easies via CB radio, the Daily Talk Show, Russ Key chats to BK, Josh Janson, childhood dreams comes true.

George: And in a moment comes crashing down.

Tommy: Should we just at least call BK and break news to him?

Josh: Well, so this is what I think we do. If we're gonna one-up it, I think that the— if I was to put a point of like a loose link, a shit link, is this building here, right? So I think this is what we do.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: My place is on the 5th story. Yeah. What I want to do is I would like to give my chair to Mr. 97.

Tommy: That's a big— I mean, he doesn't give his chair to anybody.

Josh: And so what, what I want to do is I want to FaceTime you.

Tommy: Yeah, so FaceTime audio.

Josh: FaceTime audio. And then I'm going to go to my— I'm going to take both radios.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: I'm going to give one to BK, and then I'm going to go up to above the Bottle O where I live, and then we'll get Russ on and we'll try and three-way, just BK, Russ, and I three-waying. So I'll have audio through the FaceTime.

Tommy: So I will say, uh, BK does have meetings starting at 11, which is in 24 minutes.

Josh: Okay, great.

Tommy: So should I at least call him?

Josh: Can you call him and I'll just tell him that Josh is just gonna be down the stairs and we'll give you the thing?

George: I think—

Tommy: do you know where he is though? Like where his actual office entrance is?

Josh: No idea. So I just have to go out the front?

Tommy: Yeah, but it's going to take him 5 minutes to get to you, or like he has to go down the lift and then out and down an alleyway and then back. So there is a bit of logistics there. You know your way where you walk?

Josh: Am I meant to go out the back?

Tommy: Go that way, and you know where the alleyway is behind Easys? Wait there.

Josh: Okay, great. Okay, I'll do that.

Tommy: Should I call BK and tell him?

Josh: Yeah, please, yes.

Tommy: All right, well, maybe you should just wait because he might not actually—

Josh: No, that's fine, we're making it up. It's all good. I'll give it to anyone.

BK: Hey, how are you?

Tommy: BK.

BK: Hey, how are you?

Tommy: Mate, we need to break some pretty horrible news to you.

George: Oh, what happened?

Tommy: Um, just make sure you talk a bit louder for me. Uh, we lost the whole entire episode.

BK: What do you mean?

Tommy: So as you— as you were leaving—

BK: oh no, did I do something?

Tommy: You didn't do anything. We, we didn't make sure that— can we hear him, Mr. 97?

Mason: Yeah, can you turn your volume off on your phone at all? Is that full on your phone?

Josh: Oh, okay.

Mason: Yeah, in terms of that.

Tommy: Yep. Can you talk to me now?

BK: Yeah, I can hear you.

Tommy: Okay, great, you're hearing me. So when you left, Josh, uh, it was a gronk move. He positioned himself back into the shot and accidentally pulled out the power that powers the unit, and we lost the file because it corrupted. So—

BK: oh my God, no way!

Tommy: So what— so I know you've got my house keys. I know, I know you are a busy man. You've got stuff to do at 11. Is that Correct?

BK: Uh, well, that's been pushed back now, so I'm still— I'm actually, I'm actually good. Okay, until 2.

Tommy: So if you go down to the alleyway where, um, where your office is, Josh will meet you. If you want to walk to like the main street on the alleyway, he'll meet you and he's going to give you a, um, a radio, a walkie-talkie, and then he's going to go to his place and see if we can connect up with him. Are you good with that?

BK: Yeah, that's fine. No worries.

Tommy: All right, all right. Wait, wait for Josh. He'll be there in 2 minutes. Not even, 1 minute.

Jess: Yeah. Okay.

Tommy: All right, mate.

BK: Okay.

Tommy: See you, buddy. All right, this is all happening.

Josh: Crazy.

Tommy: So Mr. 97's joined the shot.

Jess: Yeah.

Tommy: Mate, what's going on?

Mason: Not too much.

Tommy: Please tell me you haven't, from yesterday's episode, put together a disclaimer going into your days.

Mason: No, definitely not. Definitely not.

Tommy: You're not doing that. It was a horrible idea by Josh. I'm glad he's gone 'cause now I can actually just say, I said it was a bad idea yesterday. It's a horrible idea.

Mason: Yeah, it wasn't great.

Tommy: But is there any update that you can give us?

Mason: Yeah, something might be in the works.

Tommy: Really? So you're working on it, on a date?

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: Really?

Jess: Yeah.

Tommy: Give me more, come on.

Mason: Yeah, we're just chatting, trying to find a day to go work out.

Tommy: What, to work out?

George: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Mason: We're just working out a date.

Tommy: I mean, I think everyone heard work out, a day to work out. All right, we're getting a call from Josh here. Let me take this. Yes, Josh, you there?

George: Yes, I'm here. Can you hear me?

Tommy: Yeah, I can hear you. You sound like you've run a marathon.

George: Uh, I basically— I've given BK the walkie-talkie. And how's the show? How's Mr. 97 going?

Tommy: Oh, he's great.

Josh: He's sitting here.

Tommy: He's gone red because I asked him about a date. Um, but that's the standard. It's pretty standard, Mr. 97. Yeah, uh, BK's ready for you. So he should be there in a few moments.

George: Okay, perfect. Well, yeah, I'm just walking along passing a lot of tradespeople, and so I'm about to go into the lift.

Tommy: But, um, into the lift?

George: Well, a few minutes away because I'm going to go up to my apartment.

Tommy: Have you given BK the— yeah, yes, yes, yes, great. Yes, sorry. Okay, yep, amazing. You're ahead of schedule.

George: Yeah, perfect. Oh, great. So yeah, I reckon I'll be up above the bottle-o in the next 2 minutes. The biggest weak— the weakest link right now is Russ Keys.

Tommy: Yeah, well, he's actually a full-time job and he's pretty senior.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: So you might have to give him a call and tell him to activate his radio because I'm sure he's not just in the office with the radio on.

George: Yeah, absolutely.

Tommy: That would be seriously funny.

Mason: Mid-meeting, you just hear Josh's voice popping up on the walkie-talkie.

Tommy: Can you— what did he call— what did BK use? Rubber ducky?

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: Called him a rubber ducky. What is that lingo? Why do you— do you want me to look up some, um, terms and walkie-talkies?

George: Radio lingo, please.

Tommy: Yeah, CB radio lingo. All right, this is real time, guys. List of CB slang.

Mason: Here we go.

Tommy: Great. So, um, so Alpha is a, uh, Papa Bear.

George: What's Papa Bear?

Tommy: Police officer with a CB.

George: Papa Bear, that's what Papa Bear is.

Tommy: Baby Bear, it's a, it's a rookie police officer.

George: I'll be a Baby Bear.

Tommy: Bear. Um, oh my God, it says Josh Anthony.

George: Big baby, big baby. Maybe big baby should be my name.

Mason: Big—

Tommy: yes, can we do big baby bear? Um, okay, great. Bear trap is radar or speed trap. Um, a bear with ears is a police officer monitoring the CB airwaves. So I mean, this sounds like this is a criminal who has written this Wikipedia page. Um, oh, trucks and non-police vehicles. This is giving you what you fit into.

George: Okay, I'm about to go into the lift, so I'll call you back soon, guys. All right, keep asking 97s about dates while I'm not here.

Mason: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

BK: Great, thank you.

Josh: All right, catch you.

George: Thank you. Goodbye, baby.

BK: Out.

Tommy: Goodbye. There's some weird ones here. Um, turkey hearse, a truck with a load of turkeys headed for slaughter. Turkey hearse, I get it, I get it. That's, that's pretty— it's a horrible—

Mason: as if they've only done turkeys.

Tommy: Yeah, well, I mean, this is America, it sounds like America. Yeah, there's a lot more turkeys being eaten in America, let's be honest, Mr. 97. So, uh, yeah, back to your dating. Um, what, like, this is where I think— tell me if I'm wrong— have you said, great, here's a few options? I mean, not that specific, but like, hey, how about this date? Are you available this time here? Because I think leading it is, is probably a good way to go about it.

George: There's no ambiguity.

Mason: There was, there was a potential for Sunday, but that didn't happen.

Tommy: So, oh well, we haven't— we've got our big media company.

Mason: No, no, no, no, no, last Sunday.

Tommy: And what happened? Far out, this is coming out, this is Tuesday and he didn't break it till yesterday. But he's apprehensive. You don't have to answer my questions. That was my advice also to you. Yeah. But so there's potentially something happening.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Yeah.

Jess: God.

Tommy: So what I'm taking from it is that he's been workshopping dates and times with the girl, and it was booked in for Sunday, and someone pulled the pin.

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: And I don't think it was Mr. 97. I mean, read into that what you will. This is, um, and how did you feel about that? Because I think that's, that's like a classic case in the dating scene, is like people pulling out and then you trying to work out what that means.

Mason: No, it's, it, it did, it didn't bother me too much. I mean, because we've, we've been talking since, so It doesn't. Yeah, it was genuine.

Tommy: So the banter is strong. Yeah.

Jess: Yeah.

Tommy: So you accepted the reason. Oh, you didn't think too much about it?

Mason: No, it was legit. It was, yeah, she was genuine about it.

Jess: So, okay.

Tommy: And have we heard from the other person that you went on the date with? Or is any of the— That's a bit of a trap question. I'm trying to help you here. Is there, Learnings from that first date that you had, which was your very first date. Is there actually a learning from that based on what you guys did on the night? You know, a little update. They took the dogs to the park, they cooked food, all of this stuff. Any learnings from that? He can wait.

Mason: Probably just not to worry about it. It's all fine.

Tommy: I mean, I was edging for maybe don't go full on like cooking dinner, walking to the dog park.

Mason: Go hard.

Tommy: Yeah. Anyway, here's Josh. Hey mate.

George: You take a long time to answer when I'm not there.

BK: What's going on?

Tommy: Mate, Mr. 97 was delving some, you know, going deep. I think the weak link has been you in the situation because I've found out that he had a date booked for Sunday night, last Sunday night, but it got cancelled.

Mason: It would have been during the day, but yeah, or Sunday.

Tommy: Yeah, dude.

BK: What the fuck?

Tommy: We're making ground here. I'm pretty much like Dr. Phil. I'm getting the best out of this kid.

George: This is all planned. If 97 only knew the sort of reverse psychology. That whole thing was a stunt. BK's in on it. It's all— it's all for— okay, so the other— the only problem I'm experiencing is this 16 seems like it's a bit of a, uh, uh, trafficked, uh, number. Like I'm picking up some other people.

Tommy: Oh really?

George: I'm just gonna try and get BK though. Okay, let's try it now.

Tommy: Let's do this.

George: Radio cheque please, radio check.

BK: I don't think that—

George: I don't think that was BK.

Tommy: Yeah, I will say last time we did it with BK, his voice sounded It was either putting on a radio, like a CB radio voice.

George: BK, could you please change to channel 15?

Mason: Over.

Tommy: That's considering he knows how to do that. This is where we could lose him.

George: Radio check, please. Radio check.

Josh: He's learning how to use it. This is the problem with being so high up, guys.

George: I'm getting so many signals. Stand by. Radio check, please. Radio check.

Tommy: Yeah, I reckon he's picked up somebody else. Yeah, you sound like you've picked up tradies.

George: Yeah, um, hang on. Oh wait, hang on, what am I doing here? Let's, uh, can you—

Tommy: BK, can you hear me?

George: Over.

BK: I've gone back to 16.

Jess: I will say this sounds absolutely absolutely horrible job on our end. Yeah.

George: Okay. All right. So it sounds horrible on my end as well.

Tommy: Can you text me Russ Keys' number or can you get him on three-way right now and we'll break the news to him? You get him on three-way please.

George: Yeah.

Josh: Okay, cool.

BK: All right.

George: Stand by.

BK: Hang on.

Tommy: Oh, we're on FaceTime audio. I wonder if you can do FaceTime group FaceTime.

George: Yeah. Yeah.

Tommy: Can you?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Geez, you're a man of the future, aren't you, Mr. 97? So what are you thinking for this next date? I'm gonna turn Josh down.

Mason: Yeah, probably just catch up for coffee or something like that.

Tommy: Okay, so you've gone—

Mason: It's gone from a serious to just a little chill thing.

Tommy: You mean you went the full hog cooking and dog walking the first time? And so it's now you're just back to basics.

Jess: Yeah.

Tommy: Which I think is cool 'cause then it sets the tone. There's not much, it's just, you're actually meeting this person and seeing if you have any sparks. Yeah, this is interesting. I mean, I love seeing you go red. It's as bright as our record button on this.

BK: Jeez.

Tommy: So what do you think about this, uh, CB radio segment that we have, Josh? Oh, hang on.

George: Uh, so, uh, we couldn't merge on FaceTime. I'm gonna call you back on a normal line.

BK: Okay, standby.

Tommy: Okay, bye.

Mason: Uh, what I think about— Josh loves it. Yeah, it's so funny just seeing, seeing how, uh, enthusiastic he gets about doing all of it. He loves it so much.

Tommy: I get I got a great sense, I got a great visual picture of him out in the forest and him, you know, trying to contact his mum while he was out in the forest as a small young, you know, like a little child just out in the wilderness just yelling. I mean, it's actually a great scene for the start of a horror film where he gets taken. Anyway, that went a bit dark.

Josh: Here we go.

Tommy: Hello, Tommy speaking.

BK: All right, Tommy, here we go. I'm gonna let you do the talking to Russ, okay? Can you break to him?

Jess: Yeah.

Tommy: Russ, this is taking longer than I thought. Russ, hey mate, you there? Oh yeah, yeah, we've got some pretty sad news, mate.

Jess: What's happened, dude?

Tommy: Um, so you know that piece of gold that we created about 35 minutes ago where you managed to contact BK in Collingwood and you're in the CBD on a CB radio?

BK: Yeah.

Tommy: Josh actually knocked the power out and we lost the whole entire episode.

BK: Oh, you're joking.

Tommy: The disappointment's real, Russ. Uh, Josh is here with us.

BK: Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm currently on the, um, on the 5th floor above the bottle-o. And so he thought that the only— with the sort of motto of always one-upping every episode, we need to be able to one-up now. So the only thing I could think of is 3-waying with you and BK right now. Yeah, uh, with me me being, uh, at my place, the Fotolo, and you being at the Telstra building. Are you okay? The frequency 16 is very, uh, uh, there's a lot of, a lot going on. Yeah, do you mind going to, uh, number 7, please? Yeah, no worries. Yeah, perfect. All right, great. And in the meantime, uh, yeah, uh, be on standby, and when you're ready, just give us a give us a radio check. No, it's okay. Great, thanks, mate. All right, catch ya. Thanks, Russ. Um, uh, Tommy?

Tommy: Yeah, mate?

BK: So we'll need to, um, we need to tell BK to get on Channel 7. There's a lot of logistics going on. Do you mind just, uh, messaging him and letting him know?

Tommy: Yeah, I can message him.

BK: Thank you.

Tommy: Um, great.

BK: And so what was the date meant to be on Sunday? Uh, 97.

Mason: I was thinking like a little catch-up, uh, around coffee.

George: Okay.

Mason: Yeah, just, just go, just go to like a coffee shop or something like that and get a hot chocolate. I'd get a hot chocolate anyway.

Tommy: Yeah.

BK: Yeah.

Tommy: How do you feel about getting a hot chocolate? Like, fine. Yeah. Yeah, it's fine.

BK: Yeah, it's like having a sparkling water at a pub.

Tommy: Do you reckon?

BK: Like a soda? Yeah, I think it's okay.

Tommy: Yeah. Okay, I think I'm just hearing something Um, I've asked BK, I've texted him and said get on here.

BK: Radio cheque please. This signal is amazing, this is better than ever. Uh, what's the weather like where you are?

Tommy: This is pretty poor signal on our end.

Jess: Considering, uh, some of the hot days we've had, but, uh, it's just the way I like it.

BK: Over. Hey, baby boy here, uh, could you actually go out of the train carriage or whatever and see if you can see me above the bottle-o? Over.

Tommy: Oh, he's waving to you. He's waving to you, Josh.

BK: I can see him. This is fucking perfect. This is so good. This is better than what we had before, guys.

Tommy: And what about Russ? We need to bring him into the equation.

BK: Yeah, so could you imagine a line of sight like an internet connection? Like, it's perfect.

Tommy: It's a bit of an in-joke and in conversation, guys.

BK: Yeah, Josh, absolutely.

Tommy: One suggestion, one suggestion, Josh, keep the conversation very limited, just short. Russ is in.

Jess: G'day guys, uh, Channel 7, over.

BK: How's the weather there, Russ, over?

Jess: Yeah, calling from HQ at the city of Exhibition Street, so everything's going well.

BK: What is the weather like, Russ, over?

Jess: Yeah, the weather up here is 5 stars.

BK: BK, how are you feeling? We've done it all in between the time of 11, like before 11 o'clock. This feels like potentially the best show we've done. Um, uh, any other thoughts, Russ, to BK? As you know, you both listened to the show. Over. Thank you, uh, Russ. And maybe we could even— maybe you could speak to the friends at Telstra about hooking us up with, uh, some fast internet.

Jess: I'm more excited about being able to order a burger from work here.

Tommy: Oh, that's good.

BK: Teleported. Uh, any— now I'm just going to quickly put, uh, Tommy on speaker. Tommy, when I say go, you can give— you can say anything to them over the thing, okay? All right, give me a second. Hang on. Are you ready, TJ?

Tommy: Yeah, I'm ready.

BK: All right, ready, 3, 2, go.

Tommy: Uh, yeah, g'day boys, um, could you tell Josh to return to nest? That's all I got.

BK: Can you repeat yourself? Could you hear Tommy? Over.

Tommy: Nah, this is where It's fast going downhill now, Josh. Let's, let's abort at the top.

BK: Tommy, say something now. Say something now.

Tommy: Yep, guys, it has been great. Josh will be returning to nest. Thank you. Over.

BK: Did you get that, boys?

Jess: I'm very excited that, uh, I'm part of this experience, guys.

BK: From the top of the bottle, my name is, uh, Baby Boy. And, uh, BK, if you could do your sign-off now, that'd be great. There we go, we've done it, guys.

Tommy: You've done it.

BK: Thank you. The 3 kilometers— I've done it. Thanks for coming.

Tommy: Yeah, you've done it.

BK: It's been a massive achievement for everyone, mainly through my logistics. Yeah, but thank you, Russ. Thank you, Telstra. Thank you, BK. And thank you, Collingwood.

Jess: Yeah.

Tommy: And is that over to us, or are you still, still talking?

BK: Uh, we're done now.

Tommy: We're done. All right, we'll just finish the episode with you on the rooftop via the phone.

BK: Was that more than 7 minutes?

Tommy: Uh, dude, that's been 24 minutes and potentially some of our worst podcasting to date.

Jess: Really?

George: That was—

BK: do you think it was given the genius that was, um, the, the— what was The Last Step better? That would be annoying.

Tommy: Yeah, The Last Step was just— it just happened. Yeah, I mean, we're mourning the loss of something that was pretty great, and I think that we've We've definitely come back and got close to it, but you know, it'll be one of those ones that we'll remember for years to come.

BK: Yeah, you said you didn't want pantomime. I'm sorry.

Tommy: Yeah, it's, uh, yeah, it's, um, it's an interesting one. If, if only the quality that we could hear the, the CB radio or the walkie-talkie was better. If we could work out a way to plug it in, yeah, then you could, you could have one.

BK: Could you hear what the guys were saying?

Mason: Not sort of, not really, to bits and pieces.

Tommy: And especially when we know Conspiracy Jimmy listens to these in triple speed. Yeah, he legit won't hear— he won't hear a word. Um, but I reckon we— I reckon we abort ship because the secondary screen that we use to view ourselves has gone off. Yeah, and I'm freaking the fuck out.

BK: Everything happened. What, like, what's the fucking deal? We haven't had any technical issues It's called 296 episodes, and in the last day and a half we've had the wrong ep go out, and we've, we've only lost one other episode in 296.

Tommy: It's pretty phenomenal. I think in terms of statistically, that is very low. Yeah, for the amount— like, if we had only done 29 and we'd lost one, we'd be devastated. But, um, I think we've, we've survived this and we got through. So thank you for bearing with with us on this episode because this is the second attempt at something similar, but we couldn't even recreate what it was. I think we created something great, like, but the other thing was pretty fucking amazing.

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: Anyway, okay guys, uh, you probably need a bit of a nap now at your house.

BK: Have anything in the fridge? I would normally— this would be a perfect time for me just to eat shit. Yeah, but like, we literally got nothing. Nicole's online order is coming, um, tonight. So anyway, anyway, talk show.

Tommy: Yep, he's still wrapping it up even when he's not in the studio.

BK: You can, you can wrap it up.

Tommy: No, actually, I'm selfless. Mason, wrap up the episode. Mr. 97, sorry. Uh, this has been The Daily Talk Show.

Mason: If you've got an email, send it to us, hi@thedailytalkshow.com. And, uh, we'll see you tomorrow.

Tommy: See you guys.

Jess: Bye.

Mason: Nailed it.