Cooking Tips & Lost Keys

Josh: Oh, what have I done?

Tommy: Oh, it's Friday, that's what you are.

Josh: That's, that's, you know what, it's— don't mind the music, everyone. It's a little— I should remember that it's on a loop, and so if I don't turn the loop off, it just starts. So I timed it perfectly. Either way, mate, it actually works quite well.

Mason: It actually worked well.

Josh: So we could do it that when the music stops we go live and then by the time the intro finishes, the music starts.

Tommy: Yeah, it was, it was nice.

Josh: I'm feeling Monty Friday.

Tommy: Friday, how are we all? What's happening?

Jess: Very good.

Josh: I'm feeling good, feeling good. I'm excited to see your video today.

Tommy: Oh God, I mean, it's one of those things we were having. So today, Friday I have to put out a video, doing a video a day, but this time I've got George helping. So can I claim it if George is editing it? That's what I need to know before I tell you what the video is about.

Josh: And no, what do you think, Sebbs?

Mason: Yeah, no, I reckon it's okay because there is a lot of work that goes into the editing. Um, but I think the filming of it all and the concept and all of that, I think, I think it's fair that you can take a 50% claim in it.

Josh: So a 50% claim. So it's now a Georgie Boy and TJ co-creation. Maybe that could be a Friday fun one. Could you guys do on a Friday, you co-create?

Mason: Do you say co-crea?

Tommy: I think we work. We're not procreating, that's for sure. Uh, we might co-create, and I, I won't, you know, I won't say no. George, do you enjoy collabing with myself and shooting and getting around the content.

George: I love it. It was so much fun. Um, but the edit is going to be good. Just so we're on the same page here, are we, are we talking about it, or we shot this?

Tommy: Well, I don't know. I, I feel like we can't talk too much about it, but let's just say— should we just say what it's about?

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give us the concept.

Tommy: Yeah, the con— so the concept is I messaged George last night and I said, can we—

Josh: was this when you were pissed?

Tommy: Yeah, I was a bit— I was on fire. I was on fire. I was editing. I've still got my wine glass next to my table.

Mason: Oh great.

Tommy: I messaged Amy upstairs and said, babe, can you order me a kebab? I sent her the place I wanted it from. And, um, and so that came while editing and pissed. And in the same sort of breath, I was shooting out texts left, right, and center. And I sent one to George. And I said, uh, I said we should, uh, what did I say? Hang on, sorry, I'm just looking through this. Anyway, I basically said, can we shoot a making of the Georgie Boys Hump Day replay? And George, serendipitous, because you told me this morning that you just got out of the shower. And what were you thinking in the shower last night just before I texted?

George: Yeah, exactly the same thing. I got out and I was like, it'd be fun to do a making of one of these videos. But then I was like, oh, but I shoot it all myself. I'm gonna have to get Tommy or Josh to shoot it. And I was like, ah, just sort of put in the back, on the back burner. And then you called me like an hour later.

Tommy: I was like, sorry, that's why, that's why I can't see it in my text because I was that pissed I forgot I called George.

Josh: So that's coming— what time is it going to come out, Georgie boy?

George: Uh, 5 o'clock.

Josh: Oh, that's good.

Tommy: 5 PM, I'll be in the studio. I reckon we're gonna have a beverage together on that last half hour of an edit and then, um, and then hit publish. So Josh, this needs to be shot out from every platform that we have.

Josh: Discord, WhatsApp, yep, the Facebook group. I'm going to stick it on bloody Reddit. I'm going to put on our Reddit.

Tommy: Oh really? Yeah, you know what, let's do our Slack channel. Let's do our Slack channel. There's a bunch of people that work in the office that are on there. I reckon we get this out and Oh, it's so good. It's so good.

Josh: Well, I got a really annoying text from Sev. I don't actually know if it was last night or this morning, you know, like you just, you look at it and you're like, whenever you got it, it was too much to deal with in that moment.

Mason: I actually, I did realise that because you didn't reply to it immediately.

Josh: I was like, I don't know what I'm going to say to this. I don't get it. Like I sort of, so I get a text. What time is it? 9:34 PM. I was already in bed at that.

Jess: Point.

Mason: Me too.

Tommy: Uh, I was texting you then, Josh.

Josh: Yeah, you were blowing up my phone. I just sort of waited until— yeah, you were, you were hitting me hard. It's one of those things where it's like, I'm not, I'm not annoyed or anything, but I just haven't had time. So I just sort of go through and be like, yeah, yeah, the song's called El Monte. Uh, yeah, um, and, uh, yeah, Lee is super nice. Uh, you know, that's like it's going through sort of one by one. But no, so the message, the message from 97 at 9:34 PM was, for fuck's sake. And if we've learned anything, Sev's just getting annoyed. Like, he's done exactly what he does in real life, which is rather than saying what's happened, he's blowing up first. He's going, oh no, oh, for fuck's sake. Okay, here we go. He's priming me in the message, for fuck's sake. Just realised I sent my Bellroy bag back. And that's fine. Like sending his Bellroy bag back, that was— I knew that. With the office keys in. It's very annoying.

Mason: Absolute disaster.

Josh: Did you not look?

Tommy: For fuck's sake.

Josh: I mean, is a part of me went to the thing like this guy never thought we're going back to the office. You knew we were like working from home. Sending the keys back to Bellroy. So you said you're going to email the guy, your second email was, I just emailed the bloke or whatever to see if he can find it. Have you heard back from Bellroy?

Mason: Haven't heard back from them yet.

Tommy: Okay, so look, so you bought it, you bought a brand new bag, why were your keys in it? Did you use it once and no, so this is absolutely not.

Mason: So this is the thing, I return, like, because I've had that bag for maybe about a year now.

Josh: So, Bellroy is a bag brand and they do like wallets and all that sort of thing. And so, do you want to show the bag?

George: Yeah.

Mason: Well, so this is my new bag. And so—

Josh: It's a black bag. It's very sort of minimal. Could imagine a guy in Collingwood or somewhere in the north walking with it. It's quite nice.

Unknown: Yeah.

George: Yeah, that is nice.

Mason: Anyway, so, I initially had a sort of like light grey colour one and I've had it for about a year and one of the handles broke off it. And so I did a warranty claim and I sent it back to them and they sent me out a new one, same color, and that one was also missing a handle. It was just a production issue.

Josh: And was it a handle or it was just like the little tab, wasn't it?

Mason: Like the— yeah, the handle on the zip, the little tab to open it.

Josh: So I just thought like, I remember taking them off for that. Yeah, that's the whole thing. I remember being a kid and one of them falling off and, you know, you cry and then your mum just comes over and just go, there you go, it's back on, it's fine.

Mason: No, it wasn't going back on.

Josh: And so because you had another bag, I was like, why don't you take the, the little tag— you describe me as a handle, it's not a fucking handle, it's a little, it's a little piece of string that makes the zipper a bit easier.

Tommy: Yeah, so because that's what you go to grab. Can you not see the zip if the, if the little beige colored, what you call a handle?

Mason: Yeah, I mean, well, the problem was like, I, I broke it initially, like the leather, like it came off or whatever, and then the one that they sent me, it was also missing one, and I'm I was like, I don't know if this is worth it, but they have sent me a new one, so I'm just gonna ask for a new one and say this one is missing the strap, the tag. And anyway, so I'd already put all my stuff into this new bag because I was like, great, it's all sorted. I'll leave it because I got a little hook in my room.

Josh: What is it like? What do you have? You're just making out like it's— you've got lots of stuff.

Mason: Nah, just like, just, just, I mean, it literally just is That literally just case, just case. Anyway, so I put, I put my keys in there ready to go when we go back into the office, and then I realised that it was missing a tab on it. And so I sent them an email, they sent me a new bag, and then as soon as that came, as soon as it arrived at my house, I switched the other bag out and put it back in and did a return without even thinking about my key. And so now my keys is up in New South Wales in their warehouse inside, inside the pocket.

George: There's—

Mason: it's literally like on— there's a little key ring in the bag, and so it's currently attached to that up in Sydney.

Josh: Could—

Tommy: at what moment did you realise that you didn't have the keys?

Mason: Last night when I— when— because I was— because I had to go into the office this morning to do the merch orders, and so it was like I was brushing my teeth and then I thought about it. I was like Oh no. And so I ran downstairs and I checked this.

Josh: Grabbed your phone and texted me.

Tommy: Yeah, that was him running, for fuck's sake, as he runs.

Josh: Hey Siri, text Josh Janson.

Mason: You know, it was actually Siri who put the for fuck's sake in there.

Unknown: You'll need to unlock your iPhone first.

Josh: Oh, sorry, hang on, that's me. That was just Siri.

Mason: But yeah, anyway, so that's annoying. Yeah.

Tommy: I mean, I would be on the phone. I don't feel like an— I feel too disempowered. Like, I don't feel connected through email. And unless you got some response instantly, like, I feel like I need to speak to a human being at that point and be like, this is what's happened. I need help. Please, please. Don't we have a contact there?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: At Bellworld?

Josh: Yeah, my mate, my mate Jo works there. I could give her a— I'll give her a buzz after this. But if it's— I mean, I sort of feel embarrassed about the whole thing. Like saying, oh, you know, because she's heard from the outer, the whole conundrum. Like every time that Seb has an issue, I contact her. And so it's gotten to the point where I feel embarrassed mentioning anything because there's been so many things.

George: Yeah.

Tommy: So many things that have just happened. Well, this implicates that. The key that you've lost is not just one you can go and get cut. These are like the ones that you have like a number on them. You know, they're not— you're not gonna save—

Mason: can we not cut it?

George: Yeah, you can get that cut for sure.

Josh: You can get it, you can.

Tommy: But they're more of a security key, like they're the bigger ones, they're not just the small ones. Like, you really should have them all sort of registered, who's got what. And so currently someone has access. And then that begs the question, these people, do they know where the office is? Not saying they're going to do anything, but if you lose a key, like if you lost your key, insurance issue, and you had your Wow, someone's got a key to the studio. It's Seb's.

Mason: Yeah, not ideal.

Tommy: Look at him. That's it.

Josh: I mean, so we need a video of the person at the warehouse destroying the key.

Mason: No, absolutely not. I asked him if he could send it back.

Tommy: That is a lot of admin.

Mason: Like, is that so much?

Tommy: I just ain't good.

Mason: Nah, nah, they've, they've got it dialled in. Fulfillment center, literally they could stick it in a bag and send it back. I don't think it's that much for them, to be honest. Like, they're lovely, and I just, I just think it'd be nice if they could do that.

Josh: I reckon I have one key from every place I've ever worked, but I find it after the fact. I'm like, oh, there's the— I wonder how they're getting into that, that room now. Or the, um, I'm pretty sure I've got my Southern Cross Austereo, um, name badge.

Tommy: Oh, I am Yeah, I had one for ages. I don't know where it's gone. I mean, that they cancel those, don't they? Like the, um, Swiper. It's like they just deactivate it on an account. I mean, this is annoying. Like, I've got to take my computer back to Apple at some point. I saw, uh, Rob, who owns Quad Lock, I saw the experience of him because they've just opened up Apple Stores. I saw him at Southland. He was posting some photos saying very different experience They give you face masks in the Apple Store. It looks like a nightclub but with 1.5-meter distancing between— within the line out the front.

Mason: A lot of queues.

Tommy: Nightmare.

Josh: Have you, um, is this about your speaker having distortion?

Tommy: Yeah, I just— yeah, I mean, I don't really—

Josh: because it's over the year, I think. I think we need to get that sorted quickly because it will go over the warranty.

Tommy: I could also, I could also push and say I've been meaning to take this in, but you guys have been closed for the last, yeah, 3 months.

Mason: I think that's— they definitely honour it.

Tommy: Yeah, Apple are good like that.

George: They are good.

Tommy: Yeah, too much admin. It is.

Josh: So you went to the— you went to Coles yesterday. You, you put that video out.

Tommy: Oh, put that out. Coles Express, uh, Coles Local. Dude, what a joint. All right, hands down the best coffee from a machine, so not made by a human being. Best coffee I've ever had. It was $2, which is ridiculous. You pay just PayPass, it's tap and go on the machine, and it spits out what you can pick. Any, any flavor. You can even pick what strength you like, which is my gripe with 7-Eleven and all these other places. You can't get a strong one if you want a latte. It's just fucking milk and a bit of coffee flavor. This is strong flat white, $2, don't even have to speak to anyone, no hipster barista, just in and out.

Josh: Like, that was anything dumb that was in there that you thought like, okay, this is just ridiculous hype but not really adding value?

Tommy: They're pushing to do a lot more just taking away, like playing into people being lazy. Just like, which is good in some respects, like get anything take home that like is great. I was hoping one of those food bars like Whole Foods, but I don't think they're that clean. They don't have one. You know, it's like—

Josh: Surely all those things, are there still the, what's the Australian one that we would go to? About Life?

Tommy: Oh, About Life, nah. So About Life was the closest thing to Whole Foods in Australia. There was one in Sydney, Amy and I, when we were living together up there, we would get dinner and share one small box, which you could fill up really high. It was like $5 each. Like that's how cheap it was. And it was great 'cause it was fresh produce.

Josh: And one in Melbourne too, Port Melbourne.

Tommy: Yeah, one in Port Melbourne. I'm not sure if it's still there, but the one in Sydney's gone. It's been taken over by Woolworths who have done like some deli, Woolworths Deli. Anyway, man, this is impressive. Like, if Coles are starting to roll these out across Australia, it's a good thing. They're just, I mean, I couldn't imagine them in like Shepparton or something like that.

George: Why? The pet food section was crazy.

Josh: The pet food was dumb. Like, surely that was the dumb section. Like peanut butter, like, where's the, I guess pet owners, there's some appeal. But I just feel like a lot of rah-rah, a lot of time is being spent.

Mason: A lot of rah-rah.

Josh: On a section that like, which, yeah, who is buying their pet peanut butter biscuits?

Tommy: I don't know, man.

George: People would for sure.

Tommy: It is, it's the nut section. It is interesting though, because they've still, people aren't caring about dogs' health because, you know, like the nut section, the DIY nut collection and whey station, that's gone. Like they've bagged them all up at this moment. So nobody, no gronk can put their grubby hands, i.e. Bodhi just grabbing a little choccy at the supermarket and, you know, putting his little dirty hands in there. They've bagged them up, but in the dog food section it's, um, free-for-all, like it's still there.

Josh: Okay, yeah, sure.

Tommy: I mean, I don't know if dogs can get coronavirus, but I was thinking, because I was joking that I was going to get you a peanut butter biscuit that was a dog biscuit, completely edible by a human, No, it was literally just like peanuts, coconut oil, rice flour, some bullshit, and then you could have eaten it, Jason.

Josh: I reckon whatever the some bullshit was is probably the bit that I shouldn't be eating. You sort of got me, so like, that sounds like a great raw treat, but there's some bullshit. It's just like something disgusting, I'm sure.

George: How are your teeth feeling?

Mason: Oh, they're still, mate, they're still a bit sensitive, to be honest.

Josh: What have you done? Have you had a bleaching? Have you had your teeth done?

Unknown: Nah.

Josh: Now why are your teeth sensitive?

Mason: I don't know, I just, just, I mean, just since ISO, I reckon they've just, especially like along the top, they're just a bit sensitive to cold. Cold, yeah, temperature. I've noticed it drinking like water and stuff. When you have cold water from the tap, it starts to hurt, or when I bite into toothpaste in the fridge. I just Colgate 20, the red one, 12-hour.

Josh: Yeah, I use the red one. I love the red one.

George: The red one makes your teeth sensitive. Really?

Mason: Why is that?

George: Yeah, don't know.

Mason: I mean, we just got—

Josh: how do you know that?

Mason: Are you sure about that?

Tommy: Yeah, because I use it.

George: I have sensitive teeth.

Tommy: Yeah, that's what he's extrapolated.

Mason: It's real.

Josh: I don't know if that's how it works.

Tommy: No, the— what I do know, and I don't know why, If your teeth are affected by hot water, it's a real issue. Cold water, not so much. Amy, 'cause Amy used to be a manager of an orthodontic practice, like an Invisalign clinic. And the other week I was like, oh, this is a bit affected by temperature. And she's like, not hot, is it? I was like, nah. She's like, okay, good. Hot's bad. Can we look up what that means? If your teeth are affected by hot water.

Mason: Well, I'm actually looking to go to the dentist when I get back.

Josh: We can call my mum about those two issues. It feels like two that link together. Jansen is definitely going to have an opinion on.

Mason: Well, I've got one of my, one of my front teeth is, it actually doesn't respond to any temperature. Oh, like it's full.

Josh: Yeah, well, that's because it's dead. Yeah, is that what you were saying?

Mason: Yeah, yeah, apparently.

George: Yeah. Is it?

Tommy: Wow, you got a dead tooth.

Jess: Hello.

Josh: Hello, Mrs. Jansen, you're on the Daily Talk Show again. Um, we've got a dental question.

Jess: Um, yeah, I hope I can help you.

Josh: You know the red the red toothpaste, the Colgate, the one that's in the red, silver, like sort of metallic.

Jess: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Josh: Optic White, I think it's called.

Jess: The whitening one, yeah.

Josh: Have you heard people talk about sensitive, like that making your teeth more sensitive?

Jess: Any whitening toothpaste can make your teeth sensitive, and when you get your teeth whitened, they become very sensitive. So, and actually, when I used it, it made my quite sensitive to.

Josh: Okay, all right, well that's good. So Georgie Boy, you're right on that. And then TJ, you had one in regards to temperature, a question?

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, what is, uh, is there a difference, I guess we could just ask, between the reason of why you're affected by cold or hot water? Like, is hot worse to be sensitive to than cold?

Jess: Yeah, if you're sensitive to hot on a tooth, it means the tooth's dying usually.

Josh: Okay.

Jess: Oh, okay.

Josh: And so if 97's got sort of a few sensitive teeth at the top, top sort of section of his mouth, anything that he can do right now? He is using Optic White.

Jess: Um, stop using Optic White, get some Colgate Sensitive. I reckon that's quite good.

Mason: Okay, okay, great. What about Sensodyne?

Jess: I'm just talking to you from San Remo.

Josh: Oh really? That's nice.

Jess: Yeah, looking at the pelicans right now.

Josh: A lovely day off. Sensodyne, what do you think of Sensodyne?

Jess: Um, yeah, Sensodyne's fine. Yeah, I've got samples.

Josh: Oh, you've got samples, that's good.

Jess: I've got samples of Sensodyne and Colgate.

Josh: Okay, great.

Jess: All right, enjoy your day. Oh, great.

Josh: That's exciting.

Jess: News for everybody.

Josh: We'll do a show once it's done.

Jess: Okay, great.

Josh: Thank you.

Jess: Thanks, Lyn.

Tommy: See you then.

Josh: Lyn Jansen there, my mum.

Tommy: That's amazing. Broken dirt on a new home build. That's what dreams are made of. Hey, look up pelican eating a pigeon. It is crazy. Oh my God, it's full on. This, this little nasty pelican— it could be a seagull. It just, you know, the big, big beaked and the big gull— is it gullet? Like a gull underneath them. Oh, it's full on, dude. It's so full on. Flies off with one. Just puts a— I mean, you can't eat it, like it's not gonna actually swallow it.

Mason: It just holds it in its mouth, right? In its little—

Tommy: and then flew off. I just spent so much time watching. I was just typing pelicans eating birds.

Mason: Oh, it's not good.

Tommy: Mental.

Josh: TJ, have you ever cooked a whole chicken? Roast chicken?

Tommy: Uh, no. I mean, I was gonna say yes, but no, my wife does it. As in, I was gonna, you know, then you're just like, yeah, yeah, all the time, every Sunday. It was like, absolutely, do Do I do anything? No, I cut the potatoes. But Amy does it every Sunday. We did one. Yeah, it's our new routine. Really simple. Shove a, you know, you just, I mean, this is, say this, I didn't do it, but you shove a lemon up its ass.

Josh: And what are we talking about here? And then she makes the roast chicken.

Tommy: No, no, no, no, she's absolutely nailed it.

Josh: The, um, why do you want to do a rice chook? Yeah, no, so I, I was watching the— yeah, go on.

Mason: What's the deal with beer? The beer can up there?

Josh: I have heard that. It seems like a little bit, um, yeah, it will, because so I was watching— you could be gimmicky— because I was watching, um, the Gordon Ramsay thing last night and he was— there was just— I feel like I haven't seen many celebrity cooks make like a roast chicken, and there's something quite confronting about just as they're like shoving shit into the chicken and trying to fill it out. It's just like manhandling it. And then they like— does Amy tie up the chicken at the end?

Tommy: Uh, no, no, that's, that's pretty fancy.

Josh: Yeah, so we just like tied the chicken, it just keeps its shape. But I'm thinking about on the weekend cooking a roast chicken, but I've been I'm very funny when it comes to like, I feel like I never really get into the full chicken. Like, I'm not a guy that will eat every little bit. Like, I'm sort of a white meat breast guy. Yeah, I'm a breast, definitely a breast guy.

Mason: I'm definitely a breast guy as well.

Josh: I think we got that clean too.

Mason: Got it clean.

Josh: No. What about you, Tajoy? Do you like the whole chicken?

Mason: Or are you a leg guy?

Josh: Or are you a breast guy?

George: I'm a wings and legs guy. Okay, yeah, breasts are good, but, um, breasts are, um, but they can be a bit— they're easily overcooked, breasts. So thighs, like, in a curry, you use—

Josh: that is the light.

Mason: How bad is that?

Josh: Hang on, that's very annoying. You want an absolute disaster.

Tommy: Um, yeah, so for fuck's sake.

Josh: Yeah, fuck's sake.

Tommy: JJ, you should go though to the Coles local in Glenferry. Get your chook, get a coffee, get some sweets for your Sunday roast.

Josh: Oh yeah, that could be nice.

Tommy: Yeah, whatever you want to do.

Josh: What else? Like, I feel like this is, this is all I can talk about is all the cooking stuff at the moment.

Tommy: Well, it's what you're consuming. I mean, it's either that or Podcast Wars with Barstool Sports, that network, which is highly, highly entertaining for anyone.

Josh: If, um, Call Her Daddy— if you listen to the latest episode of their podcast, it's very interesting. A lot of drama, a lot of drama. You can get around it. There's all articles and stuff. Like, can you imagine a podcast in Australia getting that amount of media attention?

Mason: That's crazy.

Josh: New York Times, it's everywhere.

Tommy: It feels like a different world, but I mean They are on contracts making $500,000 a year as like talent. Yeah, on a podcast. It's—

Mason: you see, $100K an app.

Josh: Who says next level?

Mason: $100K an app. That's how much they— that's how much the, um, Barca Media's— okay, Barca Sports getting.

Josh: Yeah, interesting. It's one of those things like, I love when I discover something I have never heard of before. It's like, um, in the Discord A few of the gronks were recommending, what is it called? It's the kitchen, the YouTube, there's like a YouTube channel and it's like kitchens, like imagine Architects Digest, remember I spoke about that? And this is like the kitchen version. So, you can watch like cooking and all that sort of thing. If someone says in the comments, bon appétit is the, is the name. Did you know that, um, Gordon Ramsay is fluent in French?

Mason: Really?

Tommy: Really?

Josh: That's pretty good.

George: And he actually started out as a professional footballer, soccer player, I believe.

Mason: Really?

Josh: I didn't—

George: I didn't know that. I think he played for England.

Tommy: It's like when someone says—

Josh: No, I think—

Mason: I mean, actually, he's done triathlon.

Josh: Did you just say TJ?

Tommy: It's like when someone says fuck and they say, oh, pardon my French. Gordon Ramsay swears a lot.

Josh: No, but he, he learned his craft. He spent a bunch of time in— you know how I was when we had Michelle Battersby on? I was slamming French cuisine. He was really talking it up. But I'm not really a shrooms guy. I haven't had many mushrooms. Like, I wouldn't know if you showed me a mushroom. I wouldn't be able to tell you what it is and whether it was safe if it's safe to eat.

Tommy: Well, I don't think I could tell you if it's safe to eat unless you know for sure that it's from it. Yeah, yeah, if it's from a supermarket. But if you just pulled up a mushroom and said, what do you reckon? I'd be like, I don't know.

Josh: If I gave you an eggplant and you had to cook it, an eggplant, how would you cook it?

Tommy: Um, roast it.

Josh: How would you roast it? Just, uh, just describe the process of how you put it in to roast it.

Tommy: I don't even know. Cut it in half, put some shit inside of it, put it back together, rub it with salt and pepper and oil.

Mason: I think you do, I think you do like sort of like strips of it, and then you're, and then you're, and then you're putting it down on the tray. I'd probably go for an eggplant dip, to be honest.

George: Josh is going to say that you put it on the, on the actual flame. Is that what you're going to say?

Josh: No, no, no, no. I've, I mean, I remember doing that as a kid with a capsicum because I saw, um I think, uh, Jeff Jans do it. But no, the, uh, what you can do is, uh, there's a lot of bitterness in eggplant. Did you know that? It's quite a bitter vegetable. Beautiful vegetable if treated, um, correctly and well and respected. It's sort of, um, in Europe they call it an aubergine. And so what I would recommend— eggplant does, doesn't it? What I would recommend is you've got to wet your knife first. Before you cut it. And so you cut it in half. Now you just want to score it back and forth, score it. That's all good. Now there's a lot of— if you just sort of put it in the oven, then there's a lot of bitterness from the water. Eggplant holds a lot of water. And so what you need to do is after scoring it, you need to put a bunch of water— sorry, a bunch of salt A bunch of salt, not water, cancel the water bit. Put a bunch of salt on the top of the eggplant, really be generous with it. And then if you can find a tray where you have like one of those like the grid things, you know, so it's got like separation between the tray, put it upside down so the flesh is facing down. Now, what's going to happen is the water will drip if you leave that for 15 minutes. When you pick the eggplant up, it will be soaked, and all you need to do is get a bit of paper towel and wipe it down. And so that's one of the main, the main tips before doing it. And then on top of that, TJ, before you put it into the oven, what I'd recommend is just cutting up some garlic. Don't mince it, don't, don't crush it. You want the, the full bits. You cut it and then just place it into those scored sections. And what's going to happen is through this, it's going to be about 40 minutes that you're going to spend putting it in the oven. That, uh, that garlic is going to purify. It's going to turn into a puree. And so, um, when you take it out, it's going to almost— you're going to scoop it out with a spoon. It's going to be like a baba ganoush or a kashkhan bademjun, as they say in, in Iran. And so that would be beautiful. You could use it, you could have it hot Or the next day. Did you hit your head last night?

Mason: Maybe he has got photographic memory.

Tommy: Have you woken up from a stroke?

Mason: He's definitely been struck by lightning.

Josh: Absolutely.

Tommy: And so, no, but I'm joking. In saying that, Josh, we're going to Coburg today. Did you want to get a kebab?

Josh: No, because I'm fucking— I'm fasting in like— like I've started fasting already because I had— I've already had like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Already now so that I didn't. But no, I would love— I can film you having a— actually, if we did it before 2, I could have something cheeky before 2, something small, you know. Yeah, isn't it such a—

George: need to send that, need to send that snippet to, um, Dave Thornton.

Jess: Why?

George: Show how far you've come. Oh yeah, when he was on the show, you were talking, you were talking about food and he was calling you an alien.

Tommy: Hang on, can I just get a confirmation? You don't have to put this in what you send to Dave. Have you done just what you told us? Like, have you done that exact process?

Josh: No, no, no, not yet, not yet. But I'm going to, like, that's what I want to do on the weekend. I'm getting, but I've said to Bree, like, the annoying part is that Bree sees that every single time Gordon Ramsay recommends some sort of product, she just fucking eye rolls because she's like, you're going to want that one, aren't you? I was like, yeah. And so the current contentious issue is the chopping board. I need a chopping board, a good quality chopping board. And we have Global Knives. But the thing is, I hadn't been get like really good. Like my brother's ex-girlfriend worked at like a wholesaler, got a really good price on Global Knives. And the thing is that I hadn't been sharpening them. And then Gordon Ramsay was like, you need to sharpen them before every use. And if you don't, you're going to ruin the knife. I just looked over to the Global, you know, the $1,000 knives. I'm like, man, they're done. They're done. You have to get new ones. I don't put them in the dishwasher. No, that's good.

Mason: But the thing is, a knife sharpener.

Josh: Well, so we've got one of those ones where it's like, it's a water thing and you put it on and it's like you go back and forth. But I want what Gordon was using, was like a stick, steel stick. And like, you do it slowly. You don't want to cut yourself.

Tommy: Oh, just like the guy in the video I made earlier in the week. He's just sharpening his knife. We had one of those as a kid. It's just like— I don't even know what it is, a piece of metal.

Josh: It's a steel sharpener thing.

Mason: We've got one.

Jess: It—

Tommy: when you do appreciate a sharp knife, like something that you don't— when you just like— yeah, it's something about having a sharp knife cutting through. It's just like butter cutting through meat, tomatoes.

Jess: Jesus.

Mason: Oh yeah, tomatoes, you notice it especially.

Josh: Well, the other thing too is it's like produce-wise, like I think I'm gonna have to— the big challenge for me is just gonna get used to going out to the shops and getting stuff. That's the biggest barrier.

Tommy: Lots of people around. It's really picking back up, isn't it, Georgie boy?

George: Yeah. Do a weekly shop, Josh. Yeah, I reckon you could do that.

Jess: Yeah.

Josh: Well, I think that— I mean, oh, how did your, um, how'd your slow cooker go?

George: Oh yeah, it's delicious. I got some for lunch, so I'm gonna have that after.

Mason: Um, yum, really good.

George: Turned out, turned out beautiful. Um, how's yours going, Seb? Have you done any today, or?

Mason: Yeah, nah. I mean, how was your wine?

George: Still me. The wine?

Mason: Yeah, still you.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah.

Mason: Did you pick up— You picked up some wine last night?

Jess: Yeah.

Mason: Oh, you didn't pick up, you, you just opened a bottle.

George: Oh, from— no, in the, in the shop when we were doing the Discord phone call, had apple pie. Is that what you're talking about?

Mason: Apple pie? No, I thought on the episode you said you'd pick up wine, but how was the apple pie?

George: This is going great.

Josh: Um, this is what happens when George and Sevs are left to talk amongst themselves. Go on, this is great.

George: The apple pie was nice. It was a Nana's 4-pack. For $4 from Woolies, and we had it with some—

Mason: Was that enough?

George: Yeah, a full pack, one each, 4-pack of little ones. Yeah, one each. Okay, had it with some cream and ice cream, so that was nice. But the, the shanks were just superb.

Tommy: The daifuku, right?

George: That's all you got?

Tommy: Lucky baby's getting this on a Friday from Sevs and George. George has already been on the Prosecco this morning at 9:30 AM. It's, uh, it's a part of the video. It's part of the video.

Josh: Yeah, it's all part of the video.

Tommy: It's a lot of—

Josh: yeah, I wonder how much of it is for content versus— yeah, he's drinking.

George: I'm worried because it's like, now we've talked, have we ruined it a bit?

Tommy: Or no, no, that's fun.

Josh: We Yeah, okay, I think, yeah, I think that's fine. Hey, um, uh, announcement in regards to the megaphone. This is, this is great. So, uh, I'm gonna do a, a little, uh, bonus megaphone thing playing in to this announcement. This is actually epic, and we probably should have even done it earlier. That's how good it was. But the eggplant stuff— to take a photo of your eggplant too and @thedailytalkshow will share it across on our Insta if you do.

Mason: Wow, whoa, whoa, all your, all your chicken.

Josh: Yeah, if you do a chicken, or if you do the— I didn't really describe how to do the chicken. Yeah, but you're right, you put the lemon, you roast some onions, do it as wedges because it will fit in nicely. Yeah, but don't crush the garlic, keep it in whole, it's nice.

Mason: Is it a clove? You just want a clove of garlic.

Josh: Do you know where people go wrong?

Mason: Where?

Josh: They don't season, they don't season the cavity. Ah, you gotta season the cavity. Yes, of the chook. Jesus Christ.

George: Well, you said you'd scored the eggplant, so I was wondering which one we're talking about here.

Josh: Well, the eggplant doesn't have a cavity, really, does it?

Tommy: Okay, well, you cut it and then the score is created.

Josh: Yeah, okay, no, I get that. Okay, here we go. So here's a little bit on the megaphone, and then we'll play a video from a gronkh.

Tommy: Yeah, great. He needs that on the hip.

Josh: Oh, killyourfriends.co. Killyourfriends.co. Go to that URL right now and buy the award-winning game by Lee. Killyourfriends.co. If you do, tag The Daily Talk Show so we can reshare. Now here is a great video that we received from Gronk Lee last night.

Unknown: Hey Gronks, it's Lee here from Kill Your Friends. I just wanted to send a quick message to say thank you so much for the Megaphone sponsorship and yeah, for choosing me. And thank you so much to Kate from Women of Influence for paying it forward and allowing me to be the next Megaphone sponsor. I was riding into work this morning on my bike and yeah, almost fell off my bike when I heard the news and what you guys have done. And not only that, what you did, it's like how you went about it, that it was a surprise, and then all the amazing kind words you guys said about me and what I've been doing as well was just, yeah, awesome to hear and a really amazing treat. So thank you, thank you so much. Now I loved what Kate did as well by paying it forward, so I'd like to get in on that and do the same thing as well. So I'm willing to pledge $150 $50 for the next megaphone sponsorship that you guys can give to the next Gronkh of your choice that you think's worthy of it. So yeah, thanks again guys, really, really appreciate it. But I do have one more special request and a favour to ask. Now Josh has been having a lot of fun with the megaphone.

Josh: I didn't—

Unknown: I just like it. Rightly so, but I feel like it's time for you to give the other guys a bit of a turn and have— their chance to have a bit of fun with it as well.

Josh: This is fucked.

Unknown: I'm proposing next time you guys get together, um, to have a game of Kill Your Friends, and then the winner of the game, uh, gets ownership and control of the megaphone for one week. Now, 90sevs, um, I've still got my money, so can't wait to see what happens. And yeah, thanks again so much. Thanks again for keeping me entertained with your show. Uh, yeah, later, Gronks.

Tommy: How good is that?

Josh: I mean, I didn't, I didn't watch the end. I really didn't watch the end because it cut off. I said, hey mate, can you email it to us? And I just played it. That's good. I'm fine. Great idea. You're gonna just have to create, um, you're gonna have to get new batteries because I've— and the other thing too is, what do I do at night if something happens in the middle of the night?

Mason: Scream.

Josh: Oh, scream. I did actually think What is that guy doing? That's good.

Tommy: I did think that Josh—

Josh: he's on the meeting call, I'm doing it.

Tommy: When we buy new batteries from Officeworks, we could also buy the mini one, and then the mini one is a different—

Josh: I don't think there is a mini megaphone, is there?

Tommy: Oh, there's no mini ones?

Josh: No, this is the sort of— there's one size. Yeah, yeah, there is a PA system. Could get PA. No, I love it.

Tommy: Lee, classic, mate. Well done. How nice is that? He's now buying a $150 megaphone naming rights sponsor to give away. So we're gonna have to, over the weekend at least, work out who the next sponsor is.

Josh: Yeah, I mean, Dr. K was mentioning about the, like, whether it's safe in a pandemic for you guys to use the megaphone. I feel like I've spat all over it.

Mason: That's all right, we can just—

Tommy: we can sanitise it. Hey, have you noticed this is— I mean, Josh, you probably haven't— driving around though, there is packs of people in high-vis.

Josh: Yeah, walking. I think it's Swan Street, Yarra Council thing, maybe.

Tommy: They're all cleaning poles and literally everything. They've got big buckets of hand— like sanitizer, and they're dipping in Like, I saw them rubbing a fence, like someone's house. Just—

Josh: Why were they— why are they so close to one another though? Because they're in packs of 20. It's like, isn't that defeating the purpose?

Jess: Yeah.

George: I mean, it's weird.

Tommy: Like, they are the— they're sanitizing. So I wonder if they're tested. Like, if the people who are needing to do the thing that's trying to remove any surface— surfaces that are affected need to be tested. Maybe. A lot of them have masks on and stuff. But I did think also So this sort of young girl, you know, she could work in the CBD. I was— my storey in my head was like, that's somebody who's lost their job and they've, you know, the government when this all happened was like, there is jobs for people, the council needs people. I was thinking, look at her, she's working, she's found a job, this is great.

Josh: So I feel about the, um, I don't know how they do it in our council, but the, um, the lollipop people, the school, like the— like, so in Australia, crossing, like in Victoria anyway, they've got like, uh, people holding stop signs. It's like a lot of times, like, it's like retired people or people like all different types.

Mason: Is this for schools, the crossing supervisors?

Josh: Yeah, but they do it for me too, like in the morning. Yeah, I'm crossing.

George: There's that lovely lady on, um, Wellington Street.

Josh: Oh, she's so nice, isn't she? Every single— Yeah, she says hello every single day.

Jess: Yeah.

Tommy: Near the Nando's head office in the back of Abbotsford, there's this guy. He's— we call him Smiley. He's just, every time we see him, just smiling.

Josh: You could get around that joke. Could you imagine me doing— could you imagine the— definitely be on news.com today, like, look at the— look at— it could go either way. It could be like, look at what that guy does with these lollipop, and I'm like flinging around and doing tricks. Or it's me having an altercation with with a driver smashing the bonnet of some car.

Tommy: Just whistle.

Josh: Yeah, it's funny, the megaphone.

Tommy: All right, Sevs, I feel like you need to get on the phone for trying to get your keys back because that is an absolute disaster on your end and it won't go away. Don't bury your head in the sand, it won't go away.

Josh: You've done a good job though with it. I will, um, let's shit sandwich it. You've You did a great job with getting all the merch stuff because I threw it out there. I said, we're doing a merch, the final bit of merch stock, we're getting rid of it. But I didn't do any of the logistics. I didn't even think about it. Didn't even ask you. I just did it and then just saw what happened. And you went and you got it all and you went to AusPost and you got it all sent. That was very good.

Mason: It's all sorted.

George: Well done.

Tommy: I got a message this morning asking for a lift into the office. Poor Sebs. I was already in Collingwood, and so we had to catch the bus. How was your experience? The bus is all right.

Mason: Great. I would say great experience on the buses at the moment if there's no one in them. The one, the one that I went on, there was 2 people in the bus aside from me, and it just smelt of disinfectant. So real clean. The bus driver, real chirpy. He was great. I didn't ask him the highlight of his day, but he was having a ball.

George: How is the bus driver talking to anyone? What do you mean? Do you sit up the front?

Mason: No, no, he just yells out. The whole bus can hear him. He just yells out, have a great day, have a great weekend. He's great.

Tommy: Oh, what a nice guy.

Mason: Lovely, lovely.

Josh: The last time you're on a bus, they stopped the bus because of you.

Mason: To tell me off. Yeah. Well, it just depends on the driver. Like, you'd think now, like, during a pandemic, you'd think there'd be a little bit more unhappy to come to work. But he was— I had a great driver, he was great.

George: I reckon there's—

Tommy: I reckon there is just a reset in a lot of people's attitudes to life, like maybe gratefulness. God, you know, like traffic. It was like last night— here's a weird perspective— it's been amazing having no traffic. Last night got stuck in a bit of traffic and I was almost thankful like stuff's getting back to normal. Like, it was nice that things are changing, which means that we're succeeding as a country.

Josh: I would have been furious.

Tommy: It's annoying, but it's also like, yeah, this is good. Like, shit's happening, people are getting out and about, it is coming back. And so I feel like I only have that approach based on what's happened. Like, it's an appreciation, right? It's just a Another way of looking at it.

George: That reminds me, I nearly got spat on the other day. Oh, gross is that?

Tommy: Oh, Jesus. All right, mate.

Mason: By who?

George: It was so bad. By this girl. Like, I was walking around to get on the tram and I just like sort of walked around and she just spat and I nearly walked into it. And I was like, you can't do that. That's like—

Josh: Was she 1.5 metres away from you?

George: It was a long spit. Yeah, it was a very long spit.

Josh: And so, what did you say? Something to— Did you say, hey, you can't do that?

George: I didn't say anything. I just looked at her. She was— She seemed a bit like down on her luck, so I just sort of just like, oh, whatever. But pretty gross.

Josh: Yeah, I, um—

George: She seemed young.

Josh: There was a businesswoman the other day walking, and, um, she wasn't really keeping distance, so I sort of went off onto like the road to avoid her from the path. And basically, as I passed her, she's like, and it was like really cold. And so like you could see the particles. It was almost like some sort of TAC ad for, um, uh, for COVID. Yeah, it's like, you know, the slow— like TAC, for people who don't know, it's like the Traffic Authority, um, Commission in Australia, I think. Or is it Victoria specific? I don't know, but they do those crazy ads where it's like everything in slow motion. It felt like a bit one of those things, you know, a Victorian.

Mason: Yeah, yeah, they do those ads where you just like, watch out before you open the door, and they just show the bloke just being smashed.

Josh: Oh, what about the, um, the WorkCover ads, like the ones where it's like, ah, I'll grab the bread from the slicer? That's literally what I thought.

Mason: I was so worried. Oh, me too. Oh my God, mate.

Josh: So when Tommy headed to Coles, there was a bread slicer. It's like, oh, you can slice your own bread. I was like, here we go.

George: This is—

Josh: literally, he's lost a hand. Yeah, he's done pretty protective.

Tommy: It's, it's Gronkh-proof. So you choose your own bread, whatever one you want. I went with, you know, nice panna di casa, and then opened it up, whacked it in. You have to pull the—

Josh: Gordon recommends brioche, by the way, if you're doing toast.

Mason: Really, Gordon? I mean, not healthy.

Tommy: Gordon, are you— Gordon wouldn't be fucking having brioche.

Mason: What's wrong with sourdough?

Josh: Oh, he just says brioche is way better. It's buttery. It's, it's, um, yeah, sure.

Tommy: And so, and pancakes are better than bread. You don't have pancakes all the time.

Mason: Have you seen him? He runs like triathlons.

Josh: I can't tell, to be honest. It's that he's in that look type where it's like, I know what you mean, ripped, or he could be You know, not ripped.

Tommy: Anyway, yeah, there's a— the Gronk proof, you pull the— you pull this huge sort of glass lid off.

Josh: She forgets we're doing a show. She's like, are you talking about Gordon Ramsay? Walks in, she goes, oh, you're doing the show? I thought that Sevs and I— that would be a FaceTime conversation that Sevs and I would be having.

Mason: Oh, absolutely.

Josh: But Bree's got an opinion. Yeah, but he's a nice— if, if that is, if that is him being chubby That's the sort of old guy chubby that I could get around, where it's like, because if you're a bit chubby, I believe I've heard somewhere when you're older, actually Dr. Weil, Dr. Andrew Weil, who wrote the book, um, uh, he does like the anti-inflammatory stuff, the 8-something. Seb, can you tell me what it's called? The 8-something diet. It's like, um, Andrew Weil. Dr. Andrew Weil. W-E-I-L.

Mason: Healthy Living.

Josh: Yeah, what's his— yeah, the 8 Rules of Healthy Living or something. But anyway, he talked like he's, he's this healthy guy, or a guy always talking about health, and he's got a bit of weight around him, which is sort of weird.

Tommy: And, and what's he—

Josh: well, he was saying like when you're older you should have a bit of fat, it helps. Is it like a guy that does all like Eastern Is it Eastern medicine and like Western, like all that sort of mix?

Mason: Primrose oil.

Josh: Did you find it?

Mason: It was anti-inflammatory.

George: 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, maybe.

Mason: 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, that is the only one.

Josh: There we go.

Tommy: I mean, you need a bit more than 8 weeks, but is that, is that like a child, you know, when you have a baby, it's like hoping they're a bit fat, you know, a little, little chub on them. Protective layer, the energy there, rather than a skinny child, skinny baby. As you get— I mean, we—

Josh: Casey says, JJ, your body isn't your resume, but it is your showreel. You know, that's what I say. That's a good one. You gotta have your CV and your showreel sorted. Yeah, yeah. No, I get it. I get it. I understand that these topics can be triggering for some.

Tommy: Uh, that's great.

Josh: Come on, guys. All right, uh, so let's work out And let's work out as well what we'll do with the megaphone. If you've got an idea for how we can pay it forward, maybe chat with us in the Discord.

Mason: Discord, yeah, that could be good.

Tommy: You can do private chats too, so you can jump in and join the Discord. How do you join?

Mason: Um, well, I think what I'll do—

Josh: can you send an email?

Mason: I'll send an email out to all VIP Gronks with a URL that you can just click and it'll probably prompt you to download the app if you don't have it already. Um, but you'll, you'll be able to join the Discord.

Tommy: And so you copy and paste the link that you're sending, and then that's the—

Mason: into your browser.

Tommy: Yep, that's the invite. Yeah, so the link will expire though. Can we put some like—

Mason: no, sure, it doesn't expire, does it?

Josh: This— there's a new one, like, um, Whitey created a new one that doesn't expire, mate.

Tommy: Why are you so good, Whitey? He's great, he's on it.

Jess: Yep.

Mason: He ended up picking up his pizza last night. It was a contentious issue in—

Josh: oh really?

Mason: Um, Discord. He wasn't— he was 20 minutes late behind the time he said he'd go pick up his pizza, but it was all good.

Josh: So, and was it hot?

Mason: It was hot. Yeah, it was warm, mate.

Tommy: That's solid.

Josh: That's great. So that's why you need to be on Discord.

Tommy: We need the megaphone.

Unknown: Needs—

Mason: that's what you need.

Josh: Yeah, right. Uh, it's a daily talk show. Enjoy your Friday. And oh yeah, also second Friday of the month in June. June 12th. June, June 12th. Put it in the calendar, uh, Friday night drinks. The second Friday of every month, Friday night drinks. Is that all good with you guys?

Mason: Great.

Tommy: Absolutely love it.

Mason: Perfect.

Tommy: It's like the farmers markets, first Sunday of every month. Yeah, this is second Friday.

Josh: Well, I'll be there.

Mason: Why'd you pick second? What was, what was the reason for that?

Josh: Uh, it's just middle of the month. Grace suggested actually, and I had no pushback on it, and it felt like it's, it's not next week, so it sort of gives it a bit of space, you know.

Jess: No, I love it.

Mason: Yeah, no, I get it.

Josh: Good one. Even the week after, it's in 3 weeks.

Mason: Great.

Josh: So we can really sort of lead up to it.

Jess: Yeah.

Tommy: All right, legends, happy Friday.

Josh: No Friday night drinks tonight, Lara, but, um, People be chatting on Discord.

Mason: There might even be a voice or— people might be in the voice or video channel on Discord.

Josh: Yeah, maybe you can have wines tonight again, TJ, or are you doing one night on, one night off?

Tommy: Oh no, I might have a Prosecco with George in the afternoon as we premiere the video. So get your Proseccos ready because we'll be drinking at 5 PM.

Josh: Great, sounds good. All right, it's the Daily Talk Show. See you tomorrow, guys.

Tommy: See everyone.