We chat about George's awkward social distancing experience this morning, Josh's latest rebrand, updating and analysing your Instagram bio, and taking new DPs.
Show Notes
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At a glance
From this episode’s transcript.
- –Josh Janssen publicly committed to a new personal brand as 'the Chores Guy,' pledging to take over household chores like dishes, laundry, making the bed and bins, and to document it via Instagram Stories for accountability.
- –The group discussed practical advice for Instagram bios: avoid non-clickable URLs, be cautious about leading with job titles, and that subtlety/humility (e.g., not stating seniority) can read well.
- –Casual money-saving topics covered included Flybuys, Cash Rewards browser extensions, and a recent cut to Amazon Affiliate commission rates.
- –Melbourne had removed roughly 80 manual pedestrian-crossing buttons during COVID, replacing them with automatic crossings during certain hours.
- –Tommy proposed giving Josh's chores-guy commitment a 7-day trial period as an accountability check-in.
Questions this episode answers
What was Josh Janssen's 'personal rebrand' announced in this episode?
Josh announced he was becoming 'the Chores Guy,' committing to do all the household chores — dishes, laundry, making the bed, bins, recycling — so his partner Bree wouldn't have to, and planned to document the chores via Instagram Stories for accountability.
What cashback or loyalty programs did the hosts discuss?
They discussed Flybuys supermarket points, Qantas frequent flyer promotions, and the Cash Rewards website/browser extension that gives users a cut of referral commissions, as well as a recent reduction in Amazon Affiliate commission rates.
What Instagram bio advice did Josh give?
Josh suggested not putting URLs in a bio if they aren't clickable, being wary of leading with job titles that over-define identity, and that using consistent formatting and subtle, humble language (rather than stating rank/seniority) reads better.
Episode TranscriptShow
Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 688.
Tommy: Happy Sunday, Gronks! What's going on?
George: How are we?
Josh: Very well, thank you.
Tommy: George is fired up. Never seen him this fired up in his life.
Mason: Pumped, isn't he?
Tommy: Look at him.
George: I'm pumped. My room's looking very orange at the moment. Yeah, the sun's coming.
Tommy: It's a lovely day. It's a lovely day here.
George: It is a lovely day.
Tommy: There's a lot of people out and about. A lot. Petrol is cheap.
George: We were walking down the street this morning to go and get some supplies. And I noticed that too, there were heaps of people out. And we're walking down the street, we saw this guy who we haven't seen for like a year. And got up closer to him. Hannah's had some sort of brain fart where she's just gone, "Hey!" Went to hug him. And he literally jumped back. He was holding some new gloves that he bought and he slapped her with the gloves. What are you doing? What are you doing? Trying to fucking kill me?
Tommy: Ah! That's great.
George: I was like leaping in between them. Oh, it was all happening.
Tommy: That's great. You thought he was attacking Hannah, you front kicked him, and now you're going to court. And it was just meant to be a trip to the shop. God, that's crazy.
George: She felt like she had to.
Tommy: Yeah, definitely self-defense. There, um, I've seen in Melbourne, you know how we're talking about binning stuff after corona? They've binned the, uh, 80, um, what do you call it, uh, buttons that you press to go across the pedestrian crossing. They've, um, removed 80 of them and put in automatic ones between certain times, like, oh, that's good, for majority of the time that people would be using them.
Josh: So, uh, TJ, can you go out of your Skype and go back in? Yeah, yeah, um, just because it's a little bit—
Mason: probably just turn your video off and on. That works.
George: Yeah, that could help.
Tommy: Try that.
Josh: What's been happening, Sevs?
Mason: Oh, I mean, not too much. We were FaceTiming just before, trying to sort out some of my, um, internet problems. Mum's not able to connect to the network on her laptop, so she's been hotspotting all week.
Josh: Has it fixed?
Mason: Um, well, she's not home yet, so she was out on a walk, so I'm still waiting for her to get back, and then and then I'll have to cheque it out. But it was two buttons.
Josh: Yeah, well, that's why I said—
Tommy: Did you turn the router on and off again and it's fixed it?
Mason: Yeah, well, it turned out that one of the problems was I actually didn't have the power cable in one of the access points.
Josh: So like, he didn't— he actually didn't have the thing turned on.
George: I didn't have the camera on.
Mason: And so I was just like, I was just fucking around.
Tommy: We've all got our flaws, you know. Yeah, George is, you know, highly technical editor, but fucking can hardly do anything else.
Josh: Shannon's saying in the comments she's watching us on her 65-inch TV.
Tommy: Solid.
Josh: The—
George: how do I look, Shannon?
Josh: From a TV size? George, what are you rocking at your joint?
George: I think it's, it's probably 48, I reckon.
Josh: 48, 44. You okay?
George: It's only HD as well.
Tommy: Really?
George: Sorry, little man. Yeah, it's a, uh, Sonic. Oh no, like Really? Sonic, like S-O-N-I-Q. Yeah, yeah, with a Q maybe.
Mason: It's Q, isn't it? Yeah.
Josh: Have you thought about upgrading it?
George: Yeah, all the time.
Tommy: What have you thought about? Much more than that, or nah?
George: Sometimes I see the big ones at Aldi and I go, oh, maybe I should just get an Aldi one, smart TV for like $500.
Josh: I feel like it probably is as good. Like the Sonic one, how long ago did you get that?
George: Yeah, Chloe got it like 4 years ago. It was a display one. She said, can I have the display one for cheaper? And they said, yeah, okay.
Tommy: Go Kogan. It's good. It's good. It's cheap. Yeah, they're better than they were a couple of years ago. But I mean, how much did you spend on your telly, Josh? Is that a new one?
Josh: I bought it now. We got ours like 4 years ago and spent more than you would normally. Like, we spent $1,800. But that has done us for all this time. So it's a 55-inch. It's done very well. But anyway, it's not about the— Seb, you've got like a 75-inch, don't you? Or a projector?
Mason: Do you? No, we've got a 65 as well.
Tommy: Okay.
Mason: But Dad does want to go 75 for the next one because we're getting a full refund on it.
Josh: Has that not happened yet? 4K, yeah.
Mason: Well, no, so it's all happening. I think they sent me a text earlier in the day just asking when the best time is to come pick it up. So I think it's happening Tuesday or Wednesday, maybe Wednesday.
Josh: Wait, so was this the replacement? Because I thought you guys were getting the full cash back.
Mason: We are, yeah. So their Samsung is coming back because we had like this white panel down the side, like our display, and so they couldn't fix it.
Josh: They're just gonna—
Mason: yeah, yeah, they're gonna refund the whole thing. But it's, it's 4 years old and they're coming to pick it up.
Tommy: Surely this stuff is cheap now. Like with all the point things that people, you know, Qantas pushing to— God, I've never got more emails from Qantas than in the last sort of 3 weeks to my one that's attached to my frequent flyer.
Josh: What are they saying?
Tommy: Oh, wine. Want to get wine. Like they've got all these other little businesses like Qantas this and Qantas that. They're wanting me to sign up for everything. Fuck that.
Josh: Well, I wonder if like if Virgin shits the bed— Velocity, I think, are owned by different companies. I wonder if the frequent flyer programme will stay. Seems like a frequent flyer program.
Tommy: And the only good thing about, yeah, the airline thing is that it is something you're spending cash, a fair bit of cash over a year or something. Whereas what else are you spending cash on that you could claim? Does anyone actually claim like Flybuys points or like at the supermarket?
George: Oh, my sister does.
Tommy: She does?
George: Yeah, I can always tell when she's gone for something for Flybuys because there's just something weird in the pantry. Like some crazy weird type of Pop-Tart or something. It's like, what's this for? Oh, flybys.
Tommy: I tell you what, it's almost like the gift of having the position of an office manager is the person who does all the shopping for the business. You put your flybys onto that.
Josh: Oh, this is what Amy does, right?
Tommy: Well, she has in the past, but then she worked out some other guy was like onto this thing and had been for a very long time. And so she'd worked out like he's definitely racked up thousands and the bigger the business, I mean, I wonder if people are, it's like there was people at either Woolworths or Coles who had their own card next to their checkout and was swiping it.
Josh: You can't do that.
Tommy: No, it's absolutely illegal, but people were doing it for quite some time.
Josh: I'm just gonna reset your video, TJ, 'cause it's still annoying the shit out of me. It's way out of sync. The— are you— there's Cash Rewards. Have you heard of the Cash Rewards website?
Mason: Like the shop back, the cash back?
Josh: Yeah, so there's like where you actually get like, yeah, you get money back. Exactly.
Tommy: For what? For spending? Spend money, get money back?
George: Yeah.
Mason: So if you— so they set up, you've got like an add-on that goes in your browser and so it'll track you as you go through to wherever you're buying from. And so, they'll use their, they're pretty much referring you. And so, then they're gonna pass on the money that they're making, the commission they're making from the referral, and they're gonna pass some of that or all of it back onto you.
Tommy: Yeah, geez.
Josh: Well, even the Amazon Affiliates just lowered their rate. Have you seen this?
Mason: Even more? We only got a couple of bucks from that.
Josh: It's like at 1% or something. They've reduced it a bunch. People are pretty pissed.
Tommy: Oh, come on, Jeff. He's now worth $135 billion. He jumped up about $30 billion in the last couple of months in his net worth. Unbelievable.
Josh: Guys, I wanted to have a bit of a personal announcement.
Tommy: God, I mean, I saw this sort of photo and I was thinking— no, your video, sorry. I just saw the thumbnail of it, right? And I was like, oh, he shaved his head. No, no, but no, you've just slicked your hair.
Josh: So my hair Shannon did say you were looking great, Jase.
Mason: Uh, Jase?
Josh: No, Josh.
Mason: Fresh out of the shower.
Tommy: He's changing his name to Jase. He's changed his name to Jase and you just bloody blew it, Mason. Yeah, no, he wants to be more like Jase Hawkins and he's gone for the full name, Jase.
Josh: He's looking lean. When they did the dance with his top off, I think he's got an okay rig.
Tommy: I hadn't seen his body underneath his top before, so yeah, I haven't got anything to worry about.
Josh: It's always a win when you do. The one reveal.
Tommy: You hope on the one reveal, yeah, that people are saying you're looking good.
Josh: You gotta feel lean when you're doing your reveal, don't you? Like, if you're someone who doesn't really get their rig out— I had this whole strategy that I was going to get real lean, and then fucking when Bree— by the time Bree and I got to Europe, I was going to get, you know, the one shot.
Tommy: Yeah, you've got to be pretty confident for that shot of like a top off standing there.
Josh: Like, there was a top off on, uh, on the boat, and I just sort of just dealt with it. Um, everyone else did too. But no, so my, um, announcement, uh, personal rebrands— we've spoken a lot about it over the years.
Tommy: Yeah, in 2020, I don't know, I, I don't think there's been a JJ personal rebrand in quite some time.
Josh: I've been pretty consistent, but but I think, um, it's time to do something. And so I've decided, um, that you've used time for a personal rebrand. And so starting today, I am becoming the Chores Guy.
Tommy: Sure.
Josh: So Organized August was obviously really— beg your pardon.
George: Oh, doing all chores? Is that what you're doing?
Josh: Well, so yeah, what I was thinking—
Mason: there's still a delay.
Josh: There's a bit— a lot of delays going. Sorry, guys.
Tommy: No, no, no, but it adds to the underwhelm. It makes him seem like he's super underwhelmed with what you've said.
Josh: Yeah, yeah. So no, so I, um, what I've realized— this happened to me, um, today, uh, Bree was out and there was a few things I needed to do. There was the, um the dishwasher, there was sorting out the rubbish, there was making the bed. There was a lot that I had to do today. And I waited until sort of half an hour before the show before I did them all. And I thought, you know what, like, I actually fucking love this. Like, it felt good. I was like, this is actually super easy. And the only reason that I haven't done chores is because of my previous brand, which is about pushing back. And so because this is me saying it, I'm doing it. I am the chores guy. I'm cool. I'm, I'm gonna do all chores so Bree doesn't have to do anything anymore. I'm doing all the washing, the cleaning, the vacuuming, making the bed, putting my undies away. Making sure there's no water after I take a shower, towels are up, bins out, recycling done.
Tommy: Didn't we decide that— Is Bree leaving the house? Have you split up?
Josh: Bree's no longer with me after yesterday's show. I just thought it was the best way to tell you guys that I am the chores guy.
Tommy: It was either become the chores guy or actually live in a sty.
Josh: No, so what do we think? Any sort of— Does anyone want to join me on this rebrand? Bree's just said in the comments, oh wow, thanks.
Tommy: Who did?
Josh: Bree? Bree's not home at the moment.
Tommy: Oh, she doesn't know about this. She hasn't even got this announced. Where's the exclusive side?
Josh: Oh yeah, sorry.
Tommy: Geez, that wasn't me.
Mason: Yeah, I know.
Josh: Yeah, sorry. No, it's so—
Mason: Lyndon called it early as well.
Josh: Really? But how did Lyndon call it early?
Mason: Oh, as in just run the banner.
Josh: Yeah, so I am Snippet. I'm the chores guy. That's what I do. That's my rebrand. And so that means everything from doing the dishes, washing clothes, making sure the bathroom— the water's not there. But most importantly, the dust issue. You know, I was complaining about the dust. I could have just dusted it. So I'm going to do that now.
Tommy: That's what I said.
George: Just dust it.
Tommy: No, look, to be fair, it is, it's a good thing for you to be doing, stepping up, pulling your weight around the house.
Josh: And so I don't want Bree to do anything. So what I'm going to get pissed off at now as part of the rebrand is if Bree tries to do anything.
George: Not having it.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: I mean, but Bree loves it. I mean, sorry. I don't know if she loves it, but she is very anal when it comes to your place, which is why it looks so amazing. And so I'm just worried that Her breaking the habit. So what does she become? The non-chores girl.
Josh: She has to find some hobbies.
Tommy: I mean, the worry is that you don't want to start a podcast, make it like this shit. It's boring. Like a lot, like, I mean, it is just a reframing, but it doesn't, maybe you don't even need that in, it doesn't have to be good to do it. George, what do you do around the house? Like, what would Hannah say?
George: Washing dishes. I do dishes. And she does pretty much everything else. She'll do washing clothes, cleaning bathroom, that sort of stuff.
Josh: Do you think that sort of contributes to your positive outlook on life because you're not doing anything?
George: Yeah, potentially, maybe. But I like doing the dishes. I don't mind it.
Tommy: Yeah, we've done the dishes together.
George: It was beautiful.
Tommy: Yeah, really close to 7 shorts.
George: Yeah, I hate hanging them up.
Mason: I've only got 7 undies to do.
Josh: Half of them are your dad's.
Tommy: I've, uh, I reckon since being working from home, definitely done more because you're here, like, definitely just unpacked the, like, done a lot more chores because I'm like, fuck. I think maybe it's like you end up— do you think that's a part of it, Josh? Like, you're at home or you're seeing it, you're around it more, whereas if you're out for 12 hours a day The time that you're home is like 4 hours before bed.
Josh: And then, well, it's also, I think, um, yeah, it becomes more visible, I think. And because we're both sort of experiencing the same thing, it's very easy when you're sort of off schedule. I'm just sort of not in the house and then things just magically happen, whereas now I'm sort of seeing it all.
Tommy: And are you seeing Bree do it? This is why you're thinking, fuck, well, what am I doing?
Josh: Is because I, I also like it too. And so, there's a bunch of things. So—
George: You've never done it. How do you know if you like it?
Josh: Well, I did it like—
George: Are you starting today?
Josh: So, today I joined—
Mason: Which chore are you looking forward to most?
Josh: Which chore? I reckon the dishes are a real easy one. Like, they're so overstated. And so, I'm looking forward to doing the dishes, but also just putting the dishes away. So that's definitely one. I think making the bed is easy. Even just picking your undies up off the floor seems like a real quick win.
Tommy: I love it. No, I know it has to be a big announcement for it to pay off. I think we'll get some check-ins during the week.
Josh: Well, the other thing I was thinking— Give it 7 days.
Tommy: See if you can do 7 days of the chore guy.
Josh: Well, I didn't want to announce it like that because it seems like, I feel like I'd be criticised if I sort of gave it a 7-day block, but I think it's good to start there. Well, at least until next week.
Tommy: So that's—
Mason: what does success look like?
Josh: So success— well, so the thing is—
Tommy: who's it for? What's it for?
Josh: Yeah, so what I want to do is I want to create a list, and that list will have, um, that will have every sort of chore that I'll be doing. And so I want to work with Bree now in putting together what that list is, and once we've worked out that list, then nothing else can be added to it. And so, and yeah, I think that there's the other thing too is I think that I will be more— I think I'll do more if I sort of involve— Are you okay, George? Yeah, this is funny. The— I think I'll do more with the Insta stories. So, I was thinking what about every time I'm doing a chore I don't talk about the fact that I'm doing a chore, but I just so happen to be giving. So for instance, if you look back at the announcement that I made, I was emptying the dishwasher behind me. And so I feel like that can be a good accountability thing. Every time I'm doing a chore, if I'm picking something up, if I'm washing something down, if I'm doing the bed, that's where I do my Insta Stories. Okay.
George: That's so boring.
Josh: I mean, maybe you should set up a personal account I mean, what have you got, George? Your Instagram?
Tommy: The Chor Hall. Yeah, the Chor.
Josh: The Chor Hall.
Josh: I'm not putting up storeys of every time I do the dishes.
Josh: But you've had your own anxieties around Instagram, haven't you?
George: Yeah, well, that's just why I just don't really—
Tommy: You didn't need to give him a jab to the guts there, Josh.
Josh: Well, he didn't— he responded probably worse than what I thought he was going to.
Tommy: It was really sad, actually.
Josh: I feel like George—
Mason: You were so happy.
Josh: You okay?
George: I'm good, I'm just so lagged with that. Okay, more watching. I'm just watching you guys.
Tommy: Thanks for— it's just the guy, a weirdo in the room in the corner.
Josh: George updated his Instagram bio.
George: Oh yeah, when I was drunk the other night.
Tommy: Hang on, hang on, have you just sussed— have you just worked this out, Josh?
Josh: Look, I just have this thing.
Tommy: No, but how? I'm not gonna judge you. I'm impressed actually.
Josh: I have like a photographic memory. And so if you have changed, if you've changed your Insta bio, even if it's cryptic, JJ sees it, okay? So if you've made any changes, it could be a single word, JJ knows. George says, if you're somewhat, uh, somehow there— sorry, if you're somehow here, go to @TheDailyTalkShow instead. Way more fun.
Tommy: I mean, I appreciate it.
George: It's nice, isn't it?
Tommy: It's beautiful, mate.
George: I'm thinking about changing my profile pic.
Josh: Oh yeah, what too?
George: I've had the same one since I start. I don't know, just mix it up a bit.
Mason: So do we need to take a photo? Yeah, do a shoot.
George: Yeah, maybe.
Josh: Grace says, haha, my friends and I update our IG bios when we are drunk as well.
George: Oh, okay. Yeah, it was midnight after the, um, after the podcast, so yeah, I was feeling a lot of love for the Daily Talk Show at the time.
Tommy: Do you think it means something, Josh? Like, you— because I know you look, look beyond just the words. What are you thinking it means that George has done this?
Josh: The— No, I think that it probably— I think it's great for George. I think he needs to update the photo. So, for instance, my bio at the moment, I could definitely— Is it too early to mention chores in my bio?
Tommy: I mean, this is the thing. You've been the insert word guy a lot of the times.— and you want to make it stick. So what do you think? This is probably just like throwing it back at you. What has worked for the amount of things you've said you're the guy? What is the— what makes it work?
Josh: Yeah, putting it in the bio. So what about that? Hanging out with mates and hanging out the washing.
Tommy: Yeah, not bad. What about just, um, chore guy and then like a I don't know about the actual— I vacuum, so I'm like a man who does chores.
Josh: I don't know if I want to be the— I don't know if it's— I'm not registering the, um, the choresguy.com.
Tommy: No, no, no, you don't have to, but just, um, filmmaker, podcaster, creator, chore doer.
Josh: Yeah, chore doer. Chore doer.
Tommy: Chore whore. Chore whore. Hey, um, I've just changed something on my— on my— can you just jump onto my Okay, can you just jump onto my bio, my Instagram account, @tommyjacket, and tell me if you've, um, tell me what I've changed? Not you, Mason, nor George. This is Josh. Okay, I reckon you'll get it within a few seconds. Um, just a small little change just to see, see how he feels, get a bit of feedback on it.
Josh: If you added— this is, this is just—
Tommy: yeah, see, this is unprompted. I reckon you feel it while you're sleeping and then you wake up. Did you want filmmaker?
Josh: Have you always had filmmaker? Nah. Oh, that's okay.
Mason: Filmmaker.
Josh: I don't know, actually, you've always had the My Podcast with the arrow down. Maybe it wasn't the dailytalkshow.com URL. Was it a different URL?
Mason: Um, it's the show.
Josh: I feel like the spacing's wrong.
Mason: Come on, mate. Come on, mate.
Tommy: Oh, Mason's got it.
George: Producer.
Mason: I've got it. I've got it.
Josh: Oh, it hasn't updated then. Hang on.
Mason: No, no, it's updated. Wait, can I, can I guess?
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: You can guess.
Mason: You've added creator at The Daily Talk Show. That's the new bit.
Josh: No, big media company, creator big media company.
Mason: It was always creator.
Josh: This Morning.
Mason: Yeah, but and then he added the at The Daily Talk Show underneath it.
Josh: Yeah, that's what it is.
George: Can I guess?
Mason: Is that what it is?
Tommy: Yeah, yeah, go for it, George.
George: I reckon you've now got producer under your name when you used to have public figure.
Tommy: Uh, no, no, no. Um, I don't think you've all got it wrong. I changed my profile photo.
Josh: Oh, we weren't looking at the fucking photo.
Tommy: Oh, but sorry, I just— I said my profile. You've just said look at my profile space.
Josh: Either close— don't have the spaces after the slash— slashes.
Tommy: Oh yeah, like that?
Josh: No, but— or just be consistent because you've got filmmakerspace/podcaster, then slash without space. I think just fuck the spaces off, you don't need the space.
Tommy: Yeah, just get it all together. Yeah, no worries.
George: When are you gonna change yours, Josh, to over 600 episodes?
Josh: I thought about this. I mean, 500. Mine says filmmaker and it's got a cinema camera, podcaster and it's got a traditional microphone because I'm not an amateur. If you type in microphone into the emojis, you will get sort of a standard handheld where you can see that's not what we use. On a 10-year journey to build one of Australia's best media brands at The Daily Talk Show, 7 days a week and over 500 episodes so far.
Tommy: There's a few things that I have never thought about putting in my bio, and it's one, like a location. At this moment, I feel like people are wanting to really cement that they're a part of their brand is I'm travelling nor here nor there. I might be everywhere. And the other one is, yeah, I imagine if I just had a little, yeah, Collingwood 9 to 5, Abbotsford 9 to 5, believe.
Josh: You could just update it.
Tommy: The other one is a little lock and love heart and then the symbol to the person's name that you're in love with.
Josh: Bree has this. She has the heart @JoshJanson. Oh, that's, I mean, she's also got a chocolate bar, but that's because she works.
Tommy: And so for the guy that looks into stuff and 'Cause I could easily just go, oh, that's cute. You're just going out with each other. But Josh, what does that actually mean? When you look at somebody who does that, not Bree, let's take it out. What is it? What are you stating? What are you saying? Look beyond the bio.
Josh: There's a bit of identity. It's like, hey guys.
Tommy: Yeah, sorry, I've got an idea. Beyond the bio. And it's Josh dissecting people's bios and what it really means and where they're at in life.
Josh: Put your Instagram handle in the chat and I'll deconstruct your bio. Bio.
Tommy: I just read one.
Josh: I think like what I think about Bree, so she says marketing with a chocolate bar and says @HeyTiger. I say with that is she's humble because she hasn't put marketing director. She's kept it sort of, you know, she could be any level.
Mason: She kept it subtle.
Josh: Kept it subtle, marketing, and then the chocolate bar. I think what I like is that she's used emojis that are all the colour red.
Mason: Branding.
Josh: If I was to criticize, you're not your job. And so, and but I've fallen for this as well. I've said filmmaker, I've said all these things up front. I guess we need to be careful about sort of defining ourselves.
George: Yep.
Josh: But I think like Sev's, I think is a real issue.
Tommy: Well, we just got— I'm still blown away. His identity is pretty tied up to the show, guys.
George: I love it.
Josh: So @TheDailyTalkShow.
Tommy: Yep, and then the web.
Mason: That's it.
Tommy: But I do like that it's producer, which is the category. It's producer and then it's her name.
Mason: Clear as kind.
Tommy: Clear as kind.
Mason: Yeah, you know what it is.
Tommy: So clear as kind or creepy.
Josh: Grace says hers is just words. I'd say it's cryptic. Grace is, uh, uh, it might exist. Now, I believe it used to say it definitely exists. And so the change from definitely to might. Oh, what do we read into that? Is it—
George: did it really? Or are you making that up?
Mason: Yeah, no, I think I remember that as well.
George: That's a great pickup.
Mason: That's a great— yeah, that's a good pickup.
George: So, what does that mean?
Josh: It definitely exists.
George: I know.
Mason: How did it go from definitely to might? That's gotten worse.
Josh: Um, yeah, future alone. I don't know, it's a hard— let's not deconstruct it.
Mason: But we can— what about Gemma's? Gem, I think Gemma's got a good bio.
Josh: Okay, let's have a look at Gem K. Watts.
Tommy: Hello, there is not one single personal thing about me on my Instagram, she says.
Josh: Who's— okay, this is, uh, it's very professional. So straight up criticism, do not put URLs in a bio if you can't click on them.
Tommy: Who's done that? Gemma?
Josh: Gemma, yeah.
George: Yeah, you're right.
Josh: She's saying it's glowjournal.com, direct. Well, it's a branded self. I'd probably consolidate all of these domain names.
Mason: Um, the email is hard as well, like hello@gmkwatts.com, and then management. Like, that's— do you leave that for the email?
Josh: Do you think I could have a URL for management? Like, could we— Seb, how do you feel about TJ and I putting your email address as management?
Mason: Oh yeah, great.
Tommy: Actually, Josh, you know how many opportunities are going to slip through?
Josh: Yeah, I mean, yeah, if we know anything, that is a lot.
Tommy: Hang on, hang on. In defence of Gemma, Gemma has the most followers out of all of us, and I have seen, like, people with a lot of followers do the directs to Like, I wonder how many opportunities are coming through these, these things where you have just written it and it's not a hyperlink in the bio.
Mason: And her feed is so dialled in.
Josh: Yeah, it is.
Tommy: I mean, yeah, she's— it's very thoughtful. It's thoughtful.
Josh: Sevs, Grace says my bio was a bit of an in-joke with a couple of mates. Do you know the in-joke?
Mason: No, I'm not in on that joke.
Josh: Okay.
Tommy: Um, and Gemma says, guys, the number of jobs I get from Instagram. Shannon Tilney has nothing in her bio.
Josh: Yeah, that says something, doesn't it?
George: What about Hayden Dibbs' bio?
Josh: Let's have a look.
George: Very in your face.
Josh: Let's have a look.
George: I like it.
Tommy: He identifies himself as a RED camera.
Josh: So what I appreciate at Northside Kid: eat good food, make good films, take good photos. I like sort of the consistency and the good Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think that we all need to do a bit of an audit. He hasn't used any emojis.
Mason: Um, Showbaker's got a great bio.
Josh: Show— let's have a look at Showbaker's.
George: What?
Tommy: Read it out.
Mason: So it's got a lot— there are a couple of quotes.
Josh: What's going on?
Tommy: Sorry, go say it again. I've lost it. I don't know why Seb's has turned into tomato. I coughed at the moment you said something, Josh, so I Can you say it again, or is it not one of those things?
Mason: No, you probably don't want to. Um, no, so she's got, what, 4 quotes? What have we always said is the most important thing? Breakfast. Family. Family, right? I thought you meant of the things you ate.
Josh: So that's some sort of quote from a film.
Mason: And then there's a little— what is that, a blog?
George: I know it's a bit of stand-up.
Mason: Oh, buy t-shirts. Oh great.
Josh: To be honest, the biggest, um, the biggest play on Instagram, which I've only just realized, um, it's the emoji in the name.
Tommy: Oh yeah, what do you mean? As in just like, who's Grace?
Mason: Is that—
George: yeah, Grace.
Josh: So what's Grace Got Serves?
Mason: Um, she's got the world, a bit of travel, and then, and that's like a flower.
Josh: Okay, so she likes flowers.
Mason: You've never seen Sweet Travel?
Josh: Okay, I like the idea of George. I feel like you could be the type of guy to go single name on your actual life.
Mason: Just George.
Josh: I think that would be nice. Get rid of Martin. George, do it all. What is— what's Dotty?
George: Dotty, Sidoti, Sidoti, Hannah Sidoti, D-O-T-I. It's just a little message to her.
Josh: Dotty? What?
George: So is that her last name? Is Sidoti, S-I-D-O-T-I.
Josh: And then what's that black thing? What's that emoji? Because I've got the black, the little dot.
George: I've got a little dot.
Josh: Ah, so is that meant to be?
Mason: I would have gone Dotty. So Dotty, Dotty, Dotty.
George: Yeah. Okay, but it's—
Tommy: but it looks like that's—
Mason: no, I like that. That's a real— it's a nice subtle, um, subtle message. It's kind of cute.
George: The idea is no one— you're not meant to know why. I don't know. I don't know why I said that.
Tommy: Alexandra says that it's a quote from Arrested Development in her bio. I think it's quite quirky. It's quirky. Gemma loves Hannah.
Josh: I just don't know why George is—
Mason: I love Hannah—
Josh: bearing the lead on Hannah. Like, I think just be You've been together for, well, 9 years, 7 years, 7.
George: I mean, yeah, I don't want to go too—
Tommy: nah, I look, look, chic.
Mason: You've done a great look, like, look out, look how, how many times she appears in your face.
George: It's, I think, 90% of my feed is just her because she's better looking good info.
Josh: Okay, all right. Yeah, well, yeah, I think we could do some updates. TJ, what are you gonna— if we were to commit to something on the—
Tommy: I just did my— I did, that's pretty big. I just changed my profile photo. Okay, that's a big move.
Josh: I don't know what I would change.
Tommy: And then I fixed the, um, spaces and shit, so that's all done.
Josh: Maybe I try to get us— uh, you need to fix a lot.
Tommy: Fix your head, man.
Mason: I actually do. It's still blonde. It's quite, um—
Tommy: no, that was good. I loved you blonde. I mean, who are you misleading? Yeah, yeah, it's all right.
Josh: I would like a new profile pic. Maybe I can get Bri to take one of me when I'm doing a loan outside tonight.
Tommy: Oh, that's a good idea because you've got the nice camera. Yeah, lean forward, your classic lean forward. Just take that, just take that. Can you put your tongue between your teeth? Oh, that's it, that's it.
Josh: That could be the peak. Sorry guys.
Tommy: No, it's actually not bad.
Josh: Is that good?
Tommy: Got it, got it.
Josh: Was I looking? That's it, right in the camera. Okay, good. And George, you can make any changes?
George: I'm gonna do a profile pickup update by the end of the week.
Tommy: Get it close to your face, George, so you can see your face.
George: Yeah.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Like you don't want it too far away. It's, you don't want too big.
George: I think I wanna get probably not one here. It's a bit much.
Josh: Your internet's fucked, George. We're gonna leave it there.
Mason: Yes, it's absolutely not good.
Tommy: Fix your internet before you fix your bio.
Josh: Yeah.
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Josh: Yeah, I want to know what's the motion.
Tommy: So no, I know, I know.
Mason: No, no, no, I'm sorry.
Josh: 90% off.
Mason: How do you know?
Tommy: No, no, uh, Angelo is becoming the chores guy too. This is exactly what's happening. You just beat him to the punch.
Josh: We'll have our announcements. Yeah, but I've sort of— what do we think? I did a Slack about the, the 24th, doing something on the 24th, TJ.
Tommy: Oh yeah, that's a— that, that deserves an announcement outside of this, so let's hold off.
Josh: Friday the 24th.
Tommy: Because it has some logistics.
Mason: Just quickly, are you— don't announce it.
Josh: No, no, we're not announcing it.
Mason: You can't lock it in. No, no, but I don't, I don't even know if you want to tease it right now because I—
Tommy: yeah, absolutely not.
Mason: We need to, we need to sort of fill it out a little bit more, like We haven't even got confirmation from TJ. This is like, this is, it's big.
Tommy: This is Josh. Josh moving states and hasn't told Bri yet but tells the Daily Talk.
Josh: Um, anyway, I'm off to, I've got to, got to do the bed, so I gotta go.
Tommy: But, uh, all right guys, love you.
Josh: Uh, see you later guys, have a good one. We'll see you tomorrow at 11 AM for our normal scheduled shows. Have a lovely Sunday night.
Tommy: See you guys.
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