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Episode 80157:41

Spending Sprees & Carnivals

Gem, Pete and Scooter Derek join us for Weekend Banter to chat about Scooter's recent spending spree, Pete's standing desk, what Gem's been up to in iso, strippers and Vegas, carnivals and circus workers, and pronouncing words.

Show Notes

00:51Scooter's spending spree
04:25Ballet feet
06:07Pete's standing desk
07:34Tanker desks
13:15Gem's favourite iso activity
17:50Strippers and Vegas
20:20Mandatory masks
25:38Social media cull
36:21Carnivals and circus workers
44:48Pronunciation
52:02Recommendations

At a glance

From this episode’s transcript.

  • –Scooter Derek Myers describes the 'percentage danger' of impulse-buying extra gear once a big client purchase is already justified.
  • –Gemma Watts handles online anti-vax/COVID-denial comments by directly challenging commenters rather than blocking them, unless discussion becomes unproductive.
  • –Peter Shepherd uses the News Feed Eradicator Chrome extension (a tip from Jen Waldman) to remove his Facebook news feed and reduce social media friction.
  • –Gemma Watts uses a 'stalling' technique when recording Zoom podcast interviews — pretending to still be setting up equipment — to let guests loosen up before recording starts.
  • –Melbourne circus workers, many of whom are non-citizen travellers, were left without income or government support during COVID lockdowns, surviving on support from their circus company.

Questions this episode answers

How does Gemma Watts deal with anti-vax or COVID-denial comments on social media?

She says she generally doesn't block people over differing opinions to allow room for discussion, but when a commenter claimed coronavirus wasn't real, she challenged him directly, telling him it would be a good time to unfollow her, and compared his argument (never having met anyone with COVID) to not believing Antarctica is real.

What is the News Feed Eradicator tip Peter Shepherd uses on Facebook?

It's a Google Chrome extension that removes the news feed from Facebook entirely, so Peter can still use groups and Messenger without seeing posts people make, a tip he credits to Jen Waldman, which he says has 'dramatically improved the quality of my life.'

What technique does Gemma Watts use to help podcast guests relax before recording on Zoom?

She pretends to still be setting up her equipment and checking levels for longer than necessary, creating time for small talk so guests can loosen up before the interview officially starts, since Zoom interviews don't allow for the natural setup chat she'd have in person.

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Episode TranscriptShow
0:03

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 801.

0:08

Tommy: Welcome, gronks! We've got a full team here for a weekend banter. Uh, Pete Shepherd down to my bottom left, Gemma Watts bottom middle, and, uh, Scooter Derrick bottom right. G'day, guys!

0:23

Josh: Scooter, you look like you're at, um, Dracula's What's the deal with your lighting?

0:30

Derek: Yeah, I know. I've got, I've got, I've got a— I'm in my little engineer pod. This is not meant to be a set, but I just shone an IKEA lamp on the curtains from the side. And then I remembered it had one of those colour adjusters you can do from your phone. And I got carried away. So I made it purple. Sexy purple.

0:51

Josh: I feel like you're on a buying spree at the moment because you like you go to a sound shop and you've got money to spend. How responsible, like how do you know what you're going to buy? Because you said you were going to buy a $5 item at a sound shop and you walked away with $2,000 worth of gear.

1:12

Gemma: Jesus.

1:15

Derek: All right. To be clear, it wasn't my money and it's not gear that I get to keep. Right. Most, mostly. Right. So, so I did go in to get a cable and yeah, got it. Lost my mind a bit.

1:31

Tommy: And it's kind of—

1:31

Derek: the danger is the percent. The danger is the percentage because you take, you go, all right, I've got to go and get 2 G's worth of gear for a client. That's fine. But what you do is you get $1,500 worth of gear for the client, which is fair enough. And then you go, it's only a pittance to go and grab this extra $200, $300 thing.

1:52

Tommy: Yeah, it's real justification of a drug dealer. Like, drug dealers don't see the money they're making as real money. They're like, this could be taken at any time. I don't really— you know, it's dodgy money, I might as well blow it. It's, uh, yeah, I mean, it's gonna happen. How's, um, how's everyone going in, uh, our iso? I mean, everyone's looking amazing, a million bucks. If you, if you've never watched this show, make sure you go and watch this episode on YouTube. 'Cause we're all at our own houses and looking, I mean, I can speak for myself, I'm feeling pretty fucking good.

2:23

Josh: Gem, you're dancing. Are you dancing every single day?

2:28

Gemma: 3 times a week, back to what I did for 18 years. Obviously not the same, but the same quantity, if you will.

2:37

Josh: Now, Scott Morrison calls it "barre." How do you actually say it?

2:40

Gemma: Oh, that's different. That's different to the dancing. Barr.

2:45

Peter: Yeah.

2:45

Gemma: Silent on the E. Barr is like a form of Pilates, but it's like the principles of ballet. So, I'm doing that as well. I'm really enjoying it. It's just nice to be using those like ballet muscles again.

2:58

Josh: And so, with the dancing—

2:59

Gemma: I'm doing everything.

3:00

Josh: With the dancing side of things, like how much room? Because I've thought about it, but I just don't have like, I can barely do a TikTok. How much space Do you actually dance?

3:10

Gemma: Yeah, you could do it because the way— I don't have a tonne of room either, but the way that Gabby teaches is that like there's no travelling steps.

3:19

Josh: Okay.

3:20

Gemma: Which will mean something to some people and nothing to others. But because the bulk of people don't have a tonne of space and if you're like sharing your apartment with other people, you're limited to your bedroom.

3:32

Josh: And, Pete, have you been doing the two-step?

3:36

Gemma: He's always doing a dance step.

3:38

Peter: I think maybe Josh, Josh, maybe you and I should join one of these classes. It sounds kind of funny.

3:44

Josh: Yeah, I just don't want to derail. I just— the concern I have with it is that it would become a bit of a joke and no one would take it seriously. So, yeah, my thought is—

3:53

Gemma: No, but you're on mute and no one can see you because you pin the teacher's video and you're off to the side.

4:00

Josh: Okay, so it's not like a grid. We're not sort of— it's not going to feel like I'm dancing in a group.

4:06

Gemma: No, no, no, no, you just pin the teacher.

4:09

Josh: Okay.

4:10

Tommy: Bunch of highlights this week. Episode 800, obviously, but also launching Too Much Tully, Tully Smyth's podcast. In that, she was talking about ballet feet. She says she has horrendous feet. You said you did ballet for many years, Gem. Are you saying, are your feet horrendous, or is that just sort of like—

4:31

Gemma: Quite nice. I've got very— I'm just looking at them now. I've got very, very high arches though. I went to, what's it called, the athlete's foot to get new runners and did the thing that you guys are obviously very familiar with.

4:43

Josh: One of our most popular videos.

4:46

Gemma: That doesn't surprise me. It would be second only to the bleaching, I can imagine. And he essentially burst out laughing when he saw the height of my arches. I think I—

4:56

Tommy: Oh, okay. So this is the equivalent of like the almost negative comment that you're flat-footed, you can be— well, you can be too arched, is that what you're saying?

5:08

Gemma: Well, it's not even that. It's actually a blessing for ballet because it means you can point. It's going to be very difficult to explain, but if I were to sit on the ground and put my feet out in front of me and then point as hard as I can point, my whole—

5:22

Tommy: you can scratch— so you can, you can scratch your heel with your toe, is that what you're saying?

5:28

Gemma: Not quite, not quite.

5:31

Tommy: And so you've self-critiqued. I was trying to get you to give yourself a bit of criticism. It's hard to come by from Gemma Watts, and that's what I love about you. She just won't even.

5:43

Gemma: I don't like— I don't think anyone's got nice feet. I think that— I sincerely believe the leg should end at the ankle. Um, ugly.

5:51

Tommy: Pretty unhelpful. Very annoying, you know, down there, unless you had a prosthetic.

5:56

Gemma: But we would survive. I think that's the way humans should have been from day one, but—

6:01

Josh: Yeah, especially in ISO, you don't really need them.

6:05

Tommy: Hey, big fella, Big Pete, how's your feet, mate? What do you— What's your take on your feet out of 10?

6:12

Peter: Actually, right now they're a little sore. I got myself a shiny new standing desk and it's been awesome, but what I'm recognising is my feet are just aching all the time because I'm standing all day.

6:23

Josh: How tall is that standing— The standing desk, I couldn't believe. So, what you described to me versus the photo, it is like a— Yeah. So, can you describe what the standing desk is like?

6:38

Peter: Yeah. So, it's made out of wood and it's kind of like, I guess, like a pyramid structure, what looks like a pyramid structure. I'm doing a terrible job at describing this. And then, you sort of insert shelves into these grooves and you can insert the shelves at different heights. So you can put it low if you want to sit, you can put it high if you're a tall freak and you want to stand like me. And yeah, it's like, it's awesome.

7:03

Josh: This is actually made—

7:04

Gemma: furniture?

7:06

Peter: No, this is Fox Wardrobes, they're called. It's an independent guy in Sydney, made to order. And I just, I think I found them through Q Furniture. But anyway, free plug, they're awesome.

7:19

Mason: I actually did, I saw this on Instagram. I did see like Pete's posts on Instagram. It was great. I was looking at them scrolling through their website. I was like, man, I could definitely have one of these.

7:29

Peter: I've had my Arno for a while.

7:31

Tommy: Yeah, love it.

7:33

Derek: I had a standing desk one time.

7:35

Josh: Oh yeah, Scooter? Here we go.

7:38

Peter: Tell me more, Scooter.

7:38

Derek: That storey coming.

7:40

Josh: It was building up.

7:43

Derek: I once bought a— do you know what a Tanker desk is?

7:46

Gemma: No. No.

7:47

Derek: All right, okay, so it's a mid-century solid steel desk. Like, you can't lift it. Like, 4 big blokes struggle to carry one, right? So you see one in, um, if you look up, if you look up the website for Alcatraz, right, and you look at the pictures of Alcatraz, you'll see one in the office there. It's a, it's a really solid metal desk. Anyway, and I thought I need to have a standing desk because I keep sitting down and then losing myself during the birth of social media. And all that sort of stuff. So I thought, right, I need to be able to just go to the desk and cheque an invoice or whatever and then walk away again. So instead of sitting down, so I tell you what, getting this thing, I turned it into a standing desk. I had to build up these huge wooden block things and then try and get like 5 people to lift it up and put it on there.

8:38

Josh: And how long did it last?

8:39

Derek: Within a month, within a month I'd found a stool That was high.

8:45

Tommy: Hey Scooter, when I first came into your, uh, where it was a mechanics workshop, a scooter repair shop, hence the name, you had this huge piece of metal. It was like a sheet of metal that would have been 100 kilos or more. Uh, tell us a storey about where you got that from, and because there is something— I remember you telling me, I was, I was blown away.

9:10

Derek: Well, it was a crime, so it's very difficult to just admit it openly, but here we go. This part's going to be cut out, isn't it?

9:20

Josh: Yeah.

9:21

Derek: No, they put these— and you need to get to the end before you judge, right?

9:26

Josh: But, uh, you know, it's a good story.

9:29

Peter: A lot of disclaimers.

9:29

Derek: They used to put these huge steel plates over if they were digging a big hole in the road. They put a huge steel plate over the road, over the hole, so that cars could drive. It was so heavy and so intense, it's about 20mm thick, that cars, it wouldn't move, so traffic could go over it. So they did, they dug a great big hole out outside here and up the road a bit and left one of these out there. And so we thought that would make a nice bench. So we went and we— it was after they'd filled the hole in, okay? It was just waiting for someone to pick it up. So I, yeah, I thought it was an old one and they, you know, they probably didn't want it anymore. So I've hooked it onto a chain and we drove it down the road behind a ute. And then I had to install a pulley and bolt it in to get it up the ramp into my workshop. And then we put a pulley over the beams and we tipped it up welded legs on it, used it for years as a workbench. But on the Monday after that, this bloke walked into the fluoro and he goes, "G'day," and he was following these huge gouge marks in the road that came all the way down, turned around, went up my driveway and up to this bench. And I said, "Oh, g'day mate, are you here for your slab?" He goes, yeah. And I said, here it is, and gave him a slab and he went away. And that was the end of it.

11:01

Josh: So a slab of beer. You gave him a slab of beer.

11:04

Derek: I gave him a slab of beer and it was just automatic that I don't know that that's what he came to pick up.

11:11

Josh: You, I've got to say, Scooter pays for most things with a slab of beer. Like there's more beer than cash, I reckon, going. Pete, have you ever paid for something with a slab of beer?

11:25

Peter: I think so. Probably like back in the day when we're at uni and someone used to drive, someone was the designated driver. Instead of giving them petrol money, you might just say, ah, we'll just buy you some beers when we get to the party or when we go out next week. And you—

11:39

Josh: That's not a slab of beer. That's not like the— Gem, have you had a driver?

11:44

Gemma: Yeah, definitely. Totally. This family pays in slabs. Slabs all the time. If the party's being thrown here, which hasn't been the case in quite some time, sadly, but if you're like borrowing, um, glasses or like trestle tables or something and people are helping you set up, you just give them a slab.

12:05

Josh: I get it.

12:05

Peter: It's a valid currency. Valid currency.

12:07

Josh: Yeah, I sort of like it.

12:09

Tommy: It's criminals' currency, to be honest. That's when it really sort of shines.

12:13

Peter: It's like you can't trace it. You can't trace it.

12:15

Tommy: That guy chose morally to ignore a crime, and, you know, he put him— he's paid it for. What would the slab cost you, $35, $40 back then, Scoots? I mean, it was a great deal for you, mate. It was a great deal. Great deal.

12:32

Derek: I feel ashamed, and I tried to get— I tried to give it back, but they changed their system. Now they, you— they use, uh, plastic things now, and so They said, uh, no thanks.

12:43

Josh: So do you still have it, Scooter?

12:44

Gemma: I would love a Scooter book.

12:47

Josh: Do you still have it, Scooter? The book or the metal?

12:53

Derek: The, uh, it's been a curse because since we stopped using it, I don't know, 20 years ago, and it's, um, it's just been stuck here because you can't move it.

13:03

Josh: It's just part of the floor.

13:04

Mason: I mean, that's why I didn't want to take it away, really.

13:06

Josh: Yeah, it would have been too hard.

13:07

Derek: That's why they didn't want it. They'd rather use these plastic things that they bolt down now. They don't want the workmen breaking themselves. I love it.

13:15

Josh: Gem, outside of dancing, what's been your favourite iso activity?

13:22

Gemma: Well, I feel like, I feel like at the start of lockdown I had all of these grand plans, all the things I was going to do, and I did them. I like, I'm very good at making pasta from scratch now. I was already good at cocktails, but I'm better at cocktails. I've become very good at painting, which is so fun. That's been fun. But I feel like I haven't done anything productive the last— probably the last 6 weeks because I've just been working, which is fine and certainly nothing to complain about, but I just haven't done any of the fun things.

13:56

Josh: What are you painting? What sort of things?

14:00

Gemma: Just like on canvases. I've just been trying to teach myself how to paint.

14:04

Josh: But like people or what? Like what sort of—

14:08

Gemma: It's a bit like I will just find shit that I think looks cool and then just give it a crack. But it's all sort of abstract. Some of it's like humans, but it's not realistic in the slightest.

14:18

Josh: But it's cool.

14:18

Tommy: Have you ever done a nude painting class where you're painting a subject?

14:25

Gemma: A hens party. Actually, this is— maybe this is a Scooter Dee quality story. It's not really. I regret saying that immediately. It's not a good story. We had a friend's hens night and the bridesmaids had organised a topless waiter, but he was meant to wear an apron with the bum showing. Tommy would be thrilled.

14:50

Josh: What do you mean like meant to wear? Do you actually pick that before the night?

14:54

Gemma: Yes.

14:55

Josh: Okay.

14:56

Gemma: I've never booked a stripper, but I understand that that's part of the process. It's like, I was going to say it's part of the package, but I'm not sure that package is the right word.

15:04

Tommy: Package A, package B, package C, or package—

15:10

Gemma: So the, um, the package that they had booked, he would be, um, have his little tushy out and then there was going to be life drawing afterwards. This guy rocks up and he's having a really weird sort of hush-hush conversation with the bridesmaids who have booked him, and then he comes back out and he's not really doing like waiting on anyone. He's just waiting for someone to be like, oh, could I please have another drink? Like, he's meant to be going around and serving people, and he's wearing jeans and he's got like paint on him. And then I said to one of the bridesmaids, I was like, what's, what's going on? Because they just looked stressed, and they were like, basically, this isn't the guy that we booked. Um, as a lot of, um strippers are also tradies. This guy was just on a work site with the guy that we did book. He was double booked, so he asked one of these other random blokes on the work site, hey, can you go and do this job for me? It's just topless waiting. So this bloke was not comfortable taking his, um, pants off, which is absolutely fine. Um, but then it came to time for the life drawing and he did it in his jocks. Paint and scratches and stuff all over his legs. So for that, I just drew a very realistic drawing of the chair that he was sitting on. And I did not win that competition.

16:39

Josh: It's funny, the idea of booking someone in and then getting something different reminds me of my mate, Naysan, when he got married in Italy. He'd booked a DJ, and when the DJ arrived, what the DJ said was, "Oh, you've paid for the equipment?" 'But if you want me to actually DJ, that's going to be extra.' And so—

17:01

Gemma: The equivalent of you've paid for someone not wearing pants.

17:05

Josh: Exactly.

17:06

Gemma: And instead I will be wearing pants.

17:08

Josh: And so anyway, Naysan, like, I think that the Italian thought that Naysan was going to be like, 'Oh, fuck, I have to pay it.' But instead he just got his iPod and plugged it in, and he was— he DJ'd his own wedding, basically.

17:22

Tommy: Josh, you've been to Vegas because you're well traveled, but who else has been to Vegas? Anyone else? Anyone else? Pete, you've been to Vegas? No. Scooter, Vegas?

17:32

Josh: No.

17:33

Derek: Crow Casino.

17:35

Tommy: Gemma, Gemma been to Vegas?

17:38

Gemma: No, I haven't been to the US.

17:40

Tommy: Oh, you would love Vegas. It's just, you know, it's all show really. Not saying that's, that's not negative, but You know, I love your arches of your feet. They're great. But in Vegas, on the ground, there's cards and people are flicking them. They're walking around saying, here you go, mate, here you go. They're cards that are advertising the strip clubs. They're cards that are advertising prostitutes that can come to your hotel room. I know a guy that found one of these cards and thought, she looks nice, called it, booked her in, came to his hotel room, knock on the door. And he opened it, and sure enough, it was not the person on the card. It was the Z team. And that's coming from the guy that got called the B team as the strippers. Someone said— this journalist once said, oh, you guys must be the B team, where's the A team? Because it was such shit.

18:33

Josh: How are you speaking to journalists as a stripper?

18:37

Tommy: Oh, small town, you know. It's like you working for the fire brigade, Josh. You're a fiery— you'd understand, mate. I get it. But yeah, and so, and then he closed the door and said no thank you, and 2 seconds later a huge security guard came up to the door and he had to pay. So he paid $80 for this guy to not beat him up. Oh, never call Street— never call.

19:06

Josh: It's, you know, It's not ideal. I feel like, yeah, it's interesting. Some people say like when they travel that they would do things that they wouldn't normally do. So for instance, some people that would only go to strip clubs when they're traveling. I just feel like, I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, I'm the guy who rode an elephant in Thailand, which I do regret, but we never did the ping pong shows or whatever, seemed too much. Jem, you've been to Thailand. Have you been to a ping pong show?

19:39

Gemma: No, I haven't. But I do— When we were in Amsterdam, we were walking up and down, like, where the girls are in. The red light. Yeah, the red light district. That's the one. And I just had the best time watching these groups of guys that were on, like, a boys' weekend. And there'd be one in every group that are like, "Oh, do you dare me to go in? Do you dare me to do it?" And the rest of the group would be like, No, and then we don't do it, and he's like, oh, all right, I'll do it.

20:09

Josh: Scooter, how's that cough? Are you okay, Scooter?

20:13

Derek: Yeah, what cough? What are you talking about? Yeah, something just got caught in my throat.

20:20

Josh: So in Melbourne right now, there is the mandatory masks. Pete, what's your mask look like?

20:28

Peter: I've got a few, few options. I've got a smart navy number, that's my go-to. I've got a few of the disposable—

20:35

Josh: When you say smart, it just looks smart? It doesn't like track your steps or something?

20:39

Peter: No, no, it's not like a smart monitor.

20:41

Josh: It just looks nice. Oxygen would be cool.

20:45

Peter: Yeah, it tracks your respiratory rate.

20:47

Josh: No, it has Siri built in.

20:51

Peter: A nice blue number. And then I just got a message from Trace. Apparently her mum has just sonar some more and sent them down. So, I've got a few patent kind of situations, I think, ready. But I'm— Are you having trouble, Josh? Scoot, you could appreciate this. I'm having a lot of trouble with the fogging of the glasses. I have no idea how to solve it.

21:13

Gemma: I just got contacts in currently. You need the masks that are like quite fitted down on the cheek and then the fog doesn't happen.

21:21

Josh: And so, Gem, you—

21:23

Gemma: Bruce in the background.

21:23

Josh: Bruce just loving life, just pacing, just getting his exercise in.

21:28

Gemma: He was talking to the postman.

21:30

Derek: Oh, that's nice.

21:32

Gemma: Any opportunity for social interaction.

21:34

Josh: The, um, your mask, uh, it's got a lot of love online. Um, apparently you don't know where you got it from.

21:44

Gemma: No, because Mum got, um, ours back in March because she's medical admin. So as soon as there were whispers of the need for masks, she just went to town.

21:56

Josh: Not literally to town, but she was— That would be dangerous to stay in your suburb.

22:00

Gemma: It would be very dangerous. And she's bought, she's made masks in like a fun pattern also because she had a bag of cloth. People aren't taking donations at the moment if you're throwing your clothes out because they don't know who's touched it, which makes perfect sense. So, Mum's got all of these dresses in like fun prints that she was getting rid of, so she's just made them into masks.

22:20

Josh: Oh, that's good.

22:23

Tommy: Gemma, there was a comment on that post. I don't know the backstory, you might not want to go into it, but you said you blocked somebody that had been commenting.

22:33

Gemma: Yeah, yeah, I, um, I, I think the comment's gone now. I think that once you block someone, um, you can still see the replies, but they're out of order, and his comment's gone. But basically, I'm— I don't I generally don't block people if they, if there's a difference of opinion, because I just feel like that cuts off any opportunity for intelligent discussion and growth and learning. But it gets to a point with anything where you just, you know, that it's just a waste of your time. You're not getting anywhere. So basically, a man that I don't know, but who was following me commented saying something to the tune of like, what's the point of a mask? 'Coronavirus is bullshit. It's not even real.' So I just replied with like, 'Now would be a good time to unfollow me because I very much disagree.' And then he just kept kind of going and like my little community online are amazing. So they jumped in and they were like, 'Mate, what's wrong with you?' But he just kept kind of going and he was like, 'Do you even know anyone that's had coronavirus? No, because it's not real.' Okay, well, I don't know anyone from fucking Antarctica either, but does that mean that that's not a real place? I mean, I use the dumbest argument I've ever heard.

23:50

Tommy: Yeah, I use that when I talk about people who see ghosts. Like, you always know a friend of a friend, but you've never met them or don't actually know them.

23:59

Josh: So you're saying, TJ, that it's not real?

24:03

Tommy: No, no, I'm saying ghosts are not so much a public health issue. Yeah, I I'm saying it's okay talking about ghosts, uh, tonight. I'm saying that idiot can use that excuse for ghosts, but unfortunately COVID is real, mate. It's a real thing.

24:20

Gemma: Yeah, it just kind of went on and on, and I was like, are you, are you a doctor? Um, are you a scientist? Because if not, um, I genuinely could not give less of a fuck what your opinion is. I just, it, I don't know, it, to me And like, this is probably a leap, but it feels very anti-vax. It feels very much like, hey, I know more than what a doctor does and you do not.

24:47

Josh: Do you think he was following you for your skincare stuff? Why do you think he was following you?

24:52

Gemma: I really don't know. His profile picture was him wearing a pair of upside-down sunglasses and a KFC bucket as a hat.

24:58

Josh: He sure wasn't the tradie from that life drawing.

25:03

Gemma: Very sure. I remember the tradie. This man was about 30 years the tradie's senior.

25:11

Josh: I mean, social media fights, Instagram, you can get more randoms. Facebook, you have people that you actually know. Have you guys done a cull from all the people that you went to school with, or just those? Because TJ was getting a bit upset, or he was getting— buying into the bullshit that he was reading.

25:33

Tommy: Don't speak for me. I definitely wasn't.

25:34

Josh: No, I'm speaking on your behalf. No, you were. You were being a baby about it, but it's fine. Pete, have you culled your Facebook?

25:42

Peter: No, I haven't done a cull, but I don't have the Facebook app on my phone, and I use the News Feed Eradicator on Google Chrome, which means I don't have a news feed on Facebook, which is awesome. So when I log into Facebook—

25:54

Gemma: That's a Jen Waldman tip, isn't it?

25:56

Peter: Yeah, Jen Waldman tip. Shout out Jen Waldman. I just use the— use it for groups and for Messenger, so I don't see anything that anyone posts about anything on my newsfeed in Facebook. And it's dramatically improved the quality of my life, I would say.

26:09

Josh: And groups though as well, Pete, because I feel like, um, the groups— I was on a podcasting group and people were saying something, and then I was like, oh, I was new to the group, people weren't happy with some new pricing on Wooshka or whatever, and I was like, hey, they're trying to make a you know, business model here, and they were just like, they came after me. And so I ended up leaving, I ended up leaving the group.

26:33

Peter: Um, I guess I'm only, I'm only part of groups that I want to be part of. So I have our podcast group, I have your podcast group, I have my gym has a members page, and that's kind of it.

26:44

Josh: So I don't think that they can go off the rails now. Like, it seems like it doesn't matter what it is. Like, I notice that within say even our Discord, I sort of took a step back a little bit because you could see moments where it's like, oh, we have all different types of people with different opinions. And so especially with a Gronkh Squad or whatever, where it's like, it's not like we all, you know, you talk with, um, Seth Godin about, you know, people are like us, do things like this or whatever. Like, there's not that core thinking around what a Gronkh is. And so you have all different diverse opinions, but it freaks me out because you end up with people just throwing, you know, different opinions and then fighting. I can't be fucked.

27:24

Gemma: I don't think that's happened in the Discord.

27:27

Josh: It hasn't happened too much. No, there was only a little bit of it, but it just, it worries me if we start going into those territories where it's like it can turn into arguments.

27:40

Tommy: Is it the trade-off though? Like, that is what's going to happen. Because you think about it, anything that has any ability for someone to share their thought or opinion could rattle someone else's. Like, I even see, like, my mates, like the ones that Josh was mentioning, are like the ones that probably should be called that I don't speak to, see, or, you know, care for. But then I've even got friends that are saying some wacky shit. Not even that wacky, but just like, I'm just like, you actually think that, dude?

28:10

Josh: Wow.

28:10

Gemma: Yeah.

28:11

Josh: Well, I think that also it's not like black and white too. Like I think to the point around the, oh, you know, this person's it. What was that? Why were you, who are you kissing at?

28:20

Tommy: I just, watch this. Come.

28:23

Derek: It's just my wife.

28:24

Josh: I thought you were, I thought Amy's sister was working from home. So it was a bit worrying. Very good.

28:30

Peter: Very good.

28:31

Josh: We got that. We got that clean. So, Gem, what's your—

28:36

Tommy: Dirty Josh, did you get it dirty?

28:38

Josh: Yeah, we got it both. Um, Gem, what's your social media strategy on Facebook?

28:44

Gemma: Oh, it's the whole reason I have not started a, um, a Glow Journal group. And I think it could get particularly murky with beauty, specifically skincare, because a lot of that, um, is science, and my community is big on SPF, and I don't want people jumping in and spreading misinformation. Again, like, if you're not a scientist. So I don't know, the way that I approach social media and with recommending products on my Instagram, very much like, this is what works for me, this is my opinion, here's the science to back it up. But again, everyone's skin is different. And if I opened that up to a Facebook group, everyone would be jumping in with that. And it can just— I don't know, exactly what you guys have said. Obviously beauty is pretty frivolous in the grand scheme of things, but it's the same.

29:29

Josh: It still got— has— it still has that potential. Scooter, we were talking the other day around, um, TJ and I were talking about seat belts, and I was saying, you know, people, uh, you know, there's people who don't wear seat belts. What was it like? I'm guessing you were alive when—

29:44

Tommy: fuck, he's not that old.

29:45

Josh: Jesus Christ, he's not.

29:48

Mason: When Carsworth—

29:49

Josh: when cars were invented. No, Scooter, am I right? I don't know, he's like What was the deal?

29:56

Derek: Yeah, well, I guess when I got my license, an old car, a car that was 20 years old might have been born without a seatbelt.

30:05

Josh: Sure.

30:05

Derek: At the back. They had them in the front. That was, that's real old. That's crazy stuff. But, you know, when we went on school holidays, you'd, you'd have your seatbelt off and you'd be just knocking around in the back of the car.

30:17

Josh: And so what was the pushback? What would people say about seatbelts? And when did it— was there a turning point where people actually started doing it?

30:26

Derek: Just fines. That was it. It was just all about the fines. You get— if you get a fine for it, people start doing it. Like masks, like everything.

30:35

Tommy: I mean, Josh, have you been out since?

30:37

Josh: But it's true. I haven't. I was actually— I was just thinking about that. Like, I got my COVID test results back on Thursday. I had the test on Friday, so it took 6 days.

30:48

Mason: That took ages.

30:49

Josh: It does take ages.

30:50

Gemma: It's a long time.

30:51

Josh: Yeah, it was a long time. But no, I just, um, Confused about his DNA.

30:55

Tommy: They thought he was an alien.

30:56

Josh: Exactly.

30:57

Tommy: Who is this specimen?

30:58

Josh: Somehow a cocker spaniel has been tested. No, but the— no, it did take a long time. And so I haven't left it. But the thing is, you don't need to.

31:12

Tommy: My point being was it's fun. Go for a drive because it's— I'm looking for people without a mask.

31:18

Josh: I can just look out of my bedroom. Like I can do— not to push back on leaving the house. But from my—

31:25

Tommy: to flaunt your bedroom.

31:26

Josh: Yeah, yeah, I can see everything. Um, no, but it is handy being able to look and see that.

31:33

Tommy: But, um, from what I can see, everybody— I literally haven't— the only people have been people standing next to their car smoking or drinking a coffee or out the front of a restaurant, you know, cafe where they've been working. Everyone is doing it. It's fucking good. It's fucking good. I mean, $200 is annoying.

31:50

Gemma: Yeah, yeah, sorry, I just talked over you.

31:52

Tommy: You go for it.

31:54

Gemma: Um, the, the client that I'm shooting with this afternoon, they had to call yesterday just to go through all of the like safety and stuff. So the photographer's gonna wear a mask for the whole time, and I have to wear it pretty much right up until the photographer's like, we're shooting, and then I've just got to have it like in my back pocket so I can put it back on as soon as we're changing anything.

32:14

Josh: It's full-on. Well, uh, Bree is doing, um, makes sense though. Castings at the moment. She's like, you know, looking at models. It's very funny hearing— I've never been in a casting before, uh, but hearing her go on Zoom, she's got like 12 different girls that they're seeing today on Zoom. It's just very funny. Like, I feel like I'm in a movie because Bree's in the bedroom and she's saying, oh, hi, like, are you okay if we record this? Oh, great. Like, it's all right.

32:41

Tommy: What are they doing, JJ? Like, what, what Is it a—

32:44

Josh: Hey Tiger's doing some form of shoot, I think, and so they can't—

32:47

Tommy: Video or visuals?

32:49

Josh: No, so they're photos, photography. So yeah, they're trying to pick the models or whatever.

32:54

Peter: And so what questions is she asking?

32:56

Josh: Yeah, I haven't actually—

32:58

Tommy: I haven't gone far, but that's it. Oh, sorry. Yeah.

33:01

Derek: Pepperoni.

33:01

Josh: Pineapple on pizza.

33:02

Tommy: Pineapple on pizza. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

33:04

Josh: Pepperoni on pizza.

33:06

Tommy: I know. Yes, definitely.

33:07

Peter: Fuck yeah.

33:07

Tommy: Pepperoni on pizza.

33:08

Josh: Yeah.

33:09

Tommy: Otherwise, fuck off.

33:10

Josh: No, I haven't heard the specific questions, but I feel like it would be a weird position to be in. Like, I've started to feel more about, like, as we're doing more podcasts for people, or even like recording this audio news release I was telling you guys about where you record a bit from a company that then gets sent out to all of the radio stations. How when you're filming something or when you're recording, how the other person could be feeling completely different. Like, I've started to actually recognise them, like, oh man, they're actually like super duper panicked. Gem, when you're doing your podcast, do you have any mechanism to try and calm guests down before you start recording?

33:58

Gemma: It's just a chant, and this was why I was so reluctant. How dumb is this? When all of this started, started in March and I said it to you guys, Josh, I think I called you and I was like, "Meh meh meh meh meh." Middle of March, I was like, "It doesn't even matter because I've prerecorded up until the end of April and by May we'll be able to record in person again. So I don't really understand what the big deal is." And not the case, not the case at all. But I was super reluctant to record over Zoom because I feel like with my show, I'm like a travelling circus and I have that time when I'm setting up all of my equipment. To just chat to them and shoot the shit and like I'll pretend it's taking me longer than it needs to so that we have that extra time for them to just get a bit like loosey-goosey. But if you're interviewing someone over Zoom, it's like you jump in and it's showtime. So I just pretend that I'm still setting stuff up on the computer. I just click things around and like, oh, just checking the levels here and just move, just so there's like time for Small talk.

35:06

Josh: And Pete, with you—

35:06

Gemma: Just having a chat.

35:08

Josh: Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. Like, yeah, the having the chat bit and like doing the remote thing, there is the hard bit. Like, we even see it here where it's like you got fucking 6 of us and it's like it's a different mechanism to be like, who's talking? What's the— You all of a sudden notice the people who trail off or the people who— I think it must be a maybe a a young— what is it called? Like a last kid. What is it? What am I called? The, like, the youngest child?

35:39

Mason: Youngest?

35:39

Tommy: Youngest child?

35:40

Josh: Yeah, like the, uh, finishing a sentence, but as you're finishing and rolling on to make sure that no, like, the other people don't fucking jump in, you know? You know what I mean?

35:54

Tommy: Just trying to see if you do what you were saying. Um, sorry, I definitely agree. Um, uh, Gemma, can you show that pen? Yeah, sorry guys, it's, uh, just me.

36:04

Mason: It's actually made so many appearances just in the last couple of episodes.

36:09

Tommy: It's great. Uh, I heard this week, guys, it's not even— I'm just writing notes, mate. I've just— I know, I've just written circus. Gemma said circus. So now let's segue to talking about the circus. So now the circus, guys. Uh, no, legit. Uh, let's take a moment for circus workers. Circus workers. So JJ, out in the Dandenong, just near the foothills of the Dandenongs, um, is the— not the Moscow Circus, not the— I can't remember what it is, but Sebs, you could look it up. There's a circus out there that was meant to open like way back in April or something, and they're still there. They all are making no money. And they're all living in the trailers. And so it's like just gone dormant before, and they, they can't do anything.

36:57

Josh: Could you imagine a reality show on that? That would be so interesting.

37:01

Tommy: That's what I was thinking about. They're all, um, uh, travelers, so they couldn't get on any kind of government benefit because they're not citizens of Australia. So there's like, they're literally being funded by the, the parent company of the circus that's paying for their food and, you know, they're staying in the accommodation that they've been provided. The trailers.

37:22

Gemma: How—

37:22

Tommy: yeah, that's exactly what I thought, JJ. Imagine going out there. We should go and do a show from there.

37:26

Josh: There's a great, um, series on, uh, Disney+ around the making of Disneyland. And when Disneyland, before it was actually done, that was like a big concern. Like, previously those theme parks and stuff had that, like, um, I feel like there's a certain vibe to circus and and, you know, like carnies, things like that. And so Disney was trying to do something different where it's like, he's— it's going to be a bit of a different vibe. Scooter, have you ever worked at a carnival?

38:02

Peter: You old prick.

38:03

Derek: Yeah, of course. All right, no, but I have, I have got— I did have a job once where I had to go and be the guy who was guarding the jumpy castle at corporate Christmas party. All you had to do is stop 15-year-olds from getting on. The rest was just, you know, hope they didn't spew.

38:24

Josh: Was Carni like a, um, I feel like festivals and that type of thing we don't see as much. There's the one, is it Rosebud? Um, I think Mum's told some great storeys of making out with, uh, carnival folk. Down there.

38:39

Gemma: I think it's Rye.

38:40

Josh: Oh, Rye.

38:41

Mason: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

38:42

Josh: Oh yeah, as well.

38:43

Peter: Barwon Heads too.

38:44

Josh: Yeah, yeah. Oh, that, I think, I reckon that's the one. Mum actually won a, uh, I'll try and get a photo. She's got a trophy. I think she came second place in the Barwon Heads beauty pageant.

38:57

Tommy: Oh yes, that's the dream.

38:58

Josh: Under 15s, I think, which is sort of whatever.

39:02

Tommy: Do they even do that shit anymore? Like, you think about it. A beauty pageant.

39:07

Josh: Do they?

39:07

Tommy: Young kids.

39:08

Josh: I mean, like, as in the Bowen Heads. Have you heard of the beauty pageant? The beauty pageant?

39:16

Peter: Okay, no, it's not famous.

39:18

Josh: Okay, all right. Mum sort of— I think she sort of overbaked it a bit. Um, yeah, fair enough.

39:23

Tommy: And so it's like me saying I won the pancake eating competition in 2012. Yeah, uh, the only reason I won— the only reason I won was because the guy who won last year forgot to rock up.

39:34

Josh: And so what about, do you remember, um, Melbourne, the Melbourne show? I used to go fucking crazy for— for me it was just an excuse for a pig out because I didn't give a fuck about the rides. It was the show bags. It was like, it was a show, the Nickelodeon show bags, the like Cadbury ones, the Hubba Bubba, the Bertie Beetle. Yeah, mate, you are so fucking predictable.

40:03

Derek: Last one I bought was mash.

40:04

Josh: Yeah, I feel like I bought a mash one. Scooter, do you eat— I can imagine that you ate those, um, the lollies at, um, Sovereign Hill. They're in a yellow tin. Yeah, do you know, do you know the yellow tin boiled?

40:18

Derek: Are they lemon?

40:19

Josh: Castlemaine Rock. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not lemon, it's just like sugar flavor. Mint or something.

40:25

Derek: It's world famous, Castlemaine Rock. It's a— is it really great exports?

40:30

Josh: And so I made that up. So, Studer, I was thinking about like family entertainment, uh, in the early 2000s or the '90s or whatever. You had like Sovereign Hill was a big thing for me as a kid, like all of these different, different things. Like even Luna Park— I wasn't sort of Metro Melbourne, so I didn't go much, but I could imagine a lot of people did go to Luna Park. There's Moomba, there's all these different things that people go to. What were you like? What were the festivals or the carnivals that were around in Melbourne that have just sort of faded out?

41:04

Tommy: Yeah, back in the old day.

41:05

Derek: Boom bars, I don't think I was really big on because of the, just the intensity of crowds. The Cryo Castle was awesome. It wasn't a festival, but that was amazing.

41:14

Josh: So that's on the way to Parley, right?

41:15

Derek: Back to the way it was, but it was a techno dance party thing and then it was going to be a brothel and the locals said no.

41:23

Peter: What are you talking about?

41:24

Josh: And so it's a medieval— so it's a big, it's a big castle and I actually worked on a shoot.

41:29

Derek: Yeah, it's a real castle.

41:30

Josh: Yeah, that, that was based there. It's some weird units operating it because it's all very, uh, it's just like medieval, like, you know, mediaeval day at school and you'd have them, these people come. Yeah, people come in. They did it every 4 years, part of like, um Sauce. And, uh, yes, yeah.

41:49

Tommy: And so, JJ, you can stay there. We should go and stay there.

41:53

Mason: You can have, you can have weddings there, conferences.

41:55

Josh: That would be nice, wouldn't it? Yeah, but so it's like going to Sovereign Hill, stop at Corral Castle, whatever the fuck it's called.

42:03

Tommy: Functions, you can literally— they've got like, um, a big, you know, the, the chairs in castles, like the weird sort of back setting. How would you describe their own vibes?

42:12

Josh: Yeah, it's like the one Scooters got from the Royals.

42:16

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

42:17

Josh: And so what were you doing in the chamber there? Yeah, what did you do there? Like, so you would pay a fee and you'd go in and then—

42:24

Derek: well, it's like going to Dreamworld. Yeah, yeah. So you go in and they have people—

42:29

Josh: you've been to Dreamworld in the olden days?

42:32

Derek: Of course, many times. Big Brother, mate.

42:34

Gemma: Big Brother.

42:35

Josh: Oh, Dreamworld. Of course. Yeah, I'm thinking of Disney World. Dreamworld. Okay.

42:38

Derek: Yep, yep, yep. So, um, one memorable moment, like my brother was quite shy, quite introverted. He was quite shy, especially when he was a kid. And I remember they were having a hanging. Remember, that's the '70s, right? So for family entertainment, they hanged a dude, right? So they had this kind of fake hanging. I hope it was fake anyway. So they've got him and they're going through the whole processes and obviously had some kind of harness so he didn't didn't die.

43:05

Josh: Do you have like a prosthetic head that like detaches?

43:08

Derek: No, no, that would have been cool.

43:11

Josh: But look, so what did they do?

43:13

Derek: What is it to them? They go, they, they literally pull the lever and goonk, and the guy kind of hanged and then jiggled about, pretended to be dying. And it was kind of, I guess it was comedy, but I don't know, I guess when you, when you're 13 or 12 or whatever I was, the comedy side is not as effective as the Someone getting killed in front of your side of things. Anyway, they lowered him into a wheelbarrow underneath, and then they called for my brother out of the audience, and I knew he just wanted to die and disappear. And they made him help straighten— the guy was doing the comedy thing where you— his legs were stiff like he had rigour mortis, and they said, pull his legs down in the wheelbarrow, and then his torso came up. So they made my brother interact with this dead, freshly dead executed creature. Poor guy. They probably were killings and stuff.

44:07

Josh: The movie world was sick in Queensland, like the car stuff, like the police chases and all that stuff.

44:15

Tommy: Oh, that was so good. What about the old Melbourne jail? And you can go and see where—

44:19

Josh: That's amazing.

44:21

Tommy: You can see where Ned Kelly was.

44:22

Gemma: You can do a ghost tour in the evening.

44:24

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, bullshit. It's bullshit. I would go to that though. I love that shit.

44:29

Gemma: Yeah, be fun. I like to be spooked.

44:32

Tommy: You can see the trapdoor where they hang you, and it used to just fall out and go— that's where Ned Kelly was hung in Melbourne, I'm pretty sure.

44:41

Josh: Yeah, it's fucked up.

44:43

Tommy: Hanged? Was he hanged?

44:44

Mason: Hanged, yeah.

44:45

Tommy: Hanged, yeah, not hung. Yeah, yeah, fuck, he was well hung.

44:48

Josh: I mean, we've been talking about, um, we've been talking about words, um, that we struggle to pronounce. Pronounce? Pronounce?

44:56

Tommy: Oh God, there was one yesterday on a phone call, JJ, that we were on, and I was like, what is it? Oh, give me, um, fuck, it's a good one.

45:06

Josh: Have a think. So there's this— I swallow the L's, so I used to say million, I now say million, and I say Australia, not Australia.

45:15

Derek: Um, yeah.

45:16

Josh: And, uh, but Mase, you have gone like, um, you've doubled down on your speech impediment, but I think that we want to sort it out so we can fix it up.

45:27

Mason: What No, you are. So, I mean, the two main ones are "something" and—

45:34

Josh: Seb, come on. Exactly.

45:37

Tommy: Exactly.

45:38

Mason: Exactly.

45:39

Tommy: Exactly. Yeah, exactly.

45:40

Peter: You're better than that, Seb.

45:41

Gemma: See, Chris gives me shit because I pronounce every syllable in "exactly." Yeah, I think that's perfect.

45:48

Josh: That's good.

45:49

Gemma: Yeah, but he's like, it's too much.

45:51

Josh: No, I think it's perfect. And so, Seb, can you say both? Say the original way that you say it and then now say how I've taught you.

45:58

Mason: Something. Something. Exactly. Exactly.

46:04

Josh: I've done it the other way around.

46:05

Mason: Exactly. Exactly.

46:07

Josh: But no, so you can do it, but you—

46:08

Peter: I've got it.

46:09

Mason: It takes a lot of brain power to do it.

46:14

Josh: But Grace was overhearing a meeting and apparently you were saying exactly, exactly, exactly a lot.

46:21

Derek: Yeah.

46:21

Mason: And that wasn't great.

46:22

Josh: Are there any words—

46:23

Tommy: Exactly.

46:24

Josh: That you can't— that you mispronounce?

46:30

Peter: None that I can think of off the top of my head. I have like misspelling, you know, those words that you struggle to spell or you get them wrong every now and then.

46:39

Josh: What are you struggling to spell?

46:41

Peter: Accommodation is one. I always put the like— I don't know, I always forget where the double M goes. Or like double M, double D, double—

46:49

Tommy: I don't know. Double C?

46:51

Mason: Double C. Exactly.

46:52

Peter: Is it double C, double M? I don't know. That's the one. I mean, every time.

46:55

Josh: If you were dating, if you were on dating apps, if you were single and on dating apps, you would— that would be something I think you could put on there as a quirk. Struggles to play accommodation.

47:07

Tommy: What about, um, definitely, definitely, for some reason I just fucking always say defiantly.

47:12

Josh: Well, what about, uh, so TJ was writing to Jess and I, uh, yesterday and he used the wrong to. And TJ, you were adamant that it autocorrected.

47:25

Tommy: So this is how quick, how quick people, you know, your thought process is. So writing, it's on a, it's, it's, so I'm going to text you right now, Josh, and it, and I bet you it won't do it. So I was in an email client programme on my computer and I wrote, um, blah blah blah, and then at the end it said T Just quickly, Scooter, are you having trouble with the kids?

47:52

Josh: Tom's in the building.

47:54

Tommy: Tommy boy.

47:56

Josh: I could see Scooter. We get— now this, I love seeing Scooter play dad.

48:01

Tommy: Yeah, it's beautiful.

48:02

Derek: It's not a game.

48:06

Tommy: Um, so I wrote— it's meant to be at the end. It was, it was meant to say T-O. For 2, um, and as I hit return, it converted it to T-O-O.

48:20

Josh: Yeah, it converted a 2 to a T-O-O.

48:24

Tommy: And as I, as I sent it, I was like, who gives a fuck? And then sure enough, a second later, Josh writes T-O with the little fucking star thing.

48:35

Peter: That's very aggressive, passive-aggressive.

48:37

Josh: No, I think it's good. I've sort of come around to just being— and I— what I said was, because Jess and I were both on the chat, I felt like me leaving it there makes me sort of implicit in the whole thing. So, I was like, hey, implicit, is that the word? Implicit, yeah.

48:53

Gemma: It is a word. I don't know if that's actually happening.

48:55

Josh: Yeah, I felt implicit.

48:56

Derek: Complicit.

48:57

Josh: Complicit? Is it complicit?

48:59

Peter: Complicit.

49:00

Josh: What's implicit? Is implicit a word, Scoot? And what are the origins?

49:05

Gemma: Implicit means that it's implied. So, if you're saying an implicit Detail.

49:09

Josh: Okay, and so what's complicit?

49:14

Tommy: Complicated. It's complicated. Let's talk about it.

49:17

Josh: Well, is it like assumption and presumption?

49:22

Gemma: We don't know.

49:23

Mason: Presumption, assumption.

49:24

Derek: You were involved in it. It means you were part of the—

49:26

Tommy: Part of that.

49:26

Mason: Yeah, complicit. Involved with others in an activity that's unlawful or morally wrong.

49:32

Josh: And then what's implicit?

49:34

Mason: Uh, it's exactly what Jem was saying.

49:37

Peter: What?

49:37

Josh: Sorry, what? Thank you, Paul.

49:39

Peter: What?

49:39

Tommy: Sorry, what was that?

49:40

Mason: Exactly what Jem was saying. Suggested though, not directly expressed, implied. 16th century.

49:48

Tommy: Um, there's a word that my dad says, uh, beg yours. Beg yours.

49:55

Gemma: I beg your pardon.

49:57

Tommy: Yeah, it is beg your pardon. I'm pretty sure Scooter Derek uses it too.

50:04

Derek: Things that shit me.

50:05

Peter: What?

50:05

Derek: Now I'm glad you asked. Are you ready? Etc. I can't stand it.

50:09

Josh: Etc.

50:09

Derek: History teacher in Form 4. I hate it. I can't, I can't. It's the only one I'll really go.

50:16

Josh: So, so people say, people do the E-E-C-T rather than the E— wait, E-T-C. And so, and so it's spelt— is it actually spelt? I've never spelt etcetera before.

50:33

Gemma: A-T-C is what it starts with. That's right.

50:36

Josh: Perfect. Oh yeah, that's good.

50:38

Tommy: Yeah, so it is right.

50:38

Peter: Yeah, etcetera reminds me of when someone orders an espresso and you're like, oh, that's not just order.

50:49

Tommy: You really are something. Yes.

50:52

Gemma: Oh, you've really tapped into my resources.

50:55

Josh: Well, we do have a bunch of people who listen to the show to learn how to speak. Like, we've had a few people reach out to us about it, like how to like speak English, like second language type of stuff. Yeah.

51:07

Peter: They've come to the right place, have they?

51:09

Tommy: Well, I mean, the thing is, this is what I was thinking.

51:12

Josh: I saw a guy— Zachary. If you type in— No, I've actually— If you type in Australian podcast, You'll see there's a guy who, that's his podcast, he gets fucking 25,000 views and it's just him having a conversation with another Australian. And it's so that they can learn, people can learn the language. I feel like we could rebrand to be an accent.

51:39

Mason: Episode 800 announcement.

51:40

Gemma: Yeah.

51:41

Tommy: What is his, what's his podcast? Let's give him a shout out.

51:45

Derek: I don't know that.

51:46

Josh: What is it, what is it, what is it called?

51:49

Mason: Uh, hang on, let me get a Google Podcast.

51:52

Tommy: Finish with a review. All right, let's do that. Finish with a review. So Josh, this is your— sorry, a recommendation that's yours, and then I just want to go around.

52:00

Derek: Can I give it—

52:00

Josh: can I give a different recommendation?

52:03

Tommy: All right, if that's how you want to play the game.

52:05

Josh: Uh, I would like to recommend the Major League Baseball app. It works really well. It has all of the games. So, I— And it all— It also, it's not— I'm on premium at the moment, which— But if you love baseball, it's worth it. It's $34 a month. But as I said, only for big baseball fans. Only for big baseball fans.

52:31

Mason: KO.

52:32

Josh: And no, because this KO doesn't have all the games, whereas with this I can actually see and it's in my local, um, time timings. So I can see that, uh, July 25th being Saturday, uh, games 9:05 AM, 11:10 AM, 6:10 AM, 8:10. I can click and I can watch them all live, and I can even watch them on my Apple TV. So that's my recommendation if you want to be part of the baseball crew.

53:02

Mason: Who's playing right now?

53:03

Derek: No one.

53:04

Mason: Dodgers versus Giants. That's literally in progress.

53:07

Gemma: I've got to bounce very shortly.

53:10

Josh: Oh yeah, is it?

53:12

Tommy: Yeah, quickly, a recommendation from you, Gem.

53:16

Gemma: Oh, I have nothing. I haven't consumed anything new quite some time.

53:20

Josh: Nothing at all?

53:21

Mason: Little product recommendation?

53:23

Josh: Podcast?

53:24

Gemma: What's my favourite podcast apart from this and the Longest Podcast? So many, uh, um I got nothing. I honestly have nothing.

53:35

Josh: What have you learned about yourself during iso? Anything new?

53:39

Gemma: That what I thought was my capacity is actually— I can work more than that. And work to capacity I have done.

53:47

Josh: Great.

53:48

Gemma: Now I just want to sleep for a very long time.

53:50

Josh: That's good. I love— oops, just started sleeping. I'm loving sleeping at the moment.

53:56

Gemma: I'm not into it.

53:58

Tommy: Big Pete, recommendation quick.

54:01

Peter: Fox Furniture standing desks. You will not regret it.

54:04

Tommy: Good one, good one.

54:05

Josh: He's standing up right now. It does work really well. Like, you just, you look fucking tip-top.

54:11

Tommy: Good. Derek, what's your recommendation?

54:15

Gemma: I changed my mind.

54:16

Derek: Oh, uh, can I recommend something that I— can you do your own thing? You can't, can you?

54:22

Josh: No, you can. Yeah. Yeah.

54:23

Derek: What are you going to plug?

54:24

Josh: What are you going to plug?

54:24

Derek: There's something coming up. You know, we all know because I've got mentionitis. I've been producing this show since earlier. Right. But, but this, there's this bonus episode of You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet coming out on Sunday. And I reckon while editing it, I've probably heard it like 10 times and I still love it. It's because his guest is Ben Lomas and comedian Ben Lomas. And it's just funny. I don't know. I want someone to listen and tell me if it's just me or explain why I so enjoy that conversation.

54:59

Josh: So this is Peter Haller's podcast that you're working on. What's the premise of the podcast?

55:05

Derek: It's called You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. So he gets other people to nominate a film they should have seen, like The Godfather or Titanic or whatever. That they haven't seen. And then they watch it the night before or whatever, a couple of days before, and then they come and just talk about it. It's kind of usually comedians and stuff. So they, you know, just natter on and that the film is the widget, I guess. And it's fun. But this one on Sunday is hilarious. Very funny.

55:33

Josh: Thank you, Scooter. Gem, did you want to update your recommendation?

55:36

Gemma: Oh, I recommend Gabby Mobilia's Zoom dance classes, of course.

55:40

Josh: How can people sign up?

55:41

Gemma: Seems so obvious now. You can shoot me a DM because I don't know her email address off off the top of my head.

55:48

Josh: Okay, perfect. Uh, Sevs?

55:51

Mason: Uh, I mean, like, a bit late to the party, but—

55:54

Josh: pick your friend.

55:58

Mason: That as well. But, uh, Hugh Jackman on Tim Ferriss.

56:01

Josh: Uh, I heard great—

56:02

Mason: yeah, I heard great things about it. Um, and I finally finished it this morning, and, um, it's a great podcast. Yeah.

56:10

Josh: TJ, what are you recommending?

56:12

Tommy: Uh, I've been Consuming the storey of this guy Graham Abo Henry, and he's an underworld figure from Sydney, and he's probably late 60s, probably in his 70s now, and he's done a whole bunch of bad shit, but he's the most entertaining storyteller that I've seen in a very long time. Captivating. Talking about running through Moore Park with a shotgun chasing after somebody, him getting shot. It's It's like Chopper back in the day, that criminal in Australia. He's just fascinating. Anyway, it's a different existence, right?

56:48

Gemma: Yeah, we used to come into Pancake Parlour. That's the story. Another time, did he?

56:53

Josh: What did he order?

56:55

Gemma: I'm not sure, but he was friends with one of the supervisors.

56:58

Tommy: Yeah, drug dealer.

57:00

Derek: Hey, can I have another recommendation?

57:03

Tommy: Yeah, absolutely not.

57:04

Josh: Absolutely. What is it?

57:05

Gemma: And then I have to actually sprint away.

57:07

Tommy: Yeah, Gemma's about to run.

57:08

Josh: Okay, what is it, Scoot?

57:10

Derek: Sorry, Gemma. Uh, there's a show called No Activity. I don't know if you've seen it, but when you go past it, it doesn't look that exciting, but fuck, it's funny. It's local and hilarious. Just about shit cops on stakeout. Don't know, go find it. I don't know anymore. I've got 5 different platforms, so I don't know what I'm watching and wear anymore.

57:33

Josh: No, I get it. All right, it's a daily talk show. Thanks, guys.

57:36

Derek: DM me.

57:36

Josh: Yeah, yeah, uh, it's been Weekend Banter. See you tomorrow. Have a good one. See you guys.

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