We chat about Josh's rage call to the mechanics, enjoying chores, Tommy's "blonde" moment according to Ben Fordham, and Aunty Donna's Netflix show!
Show Notes
We chat about Josh's rage call to the mechanics, enjoying chores, Tommy's "blonde" moment according to Ben Fordham, and Aunty Donna's Netflix show!
On today's episode of The Daily Talk Show, we discuss:
At a glance
From this episode’s transcript.
- –Josh made a 'rage call' to a mechanic after being asked multiple times by his partner Bree to book a car service, undermining his sense of being a 'hero' for finally doing it
- –The group discusses strategies for remembering nagging household tasks, including using a 'second brain' (to-do lists/apps like Asana) and writing things down immediately when asked
- –Tommy references a Sam Harris podcast discussing how giving full attention to mundane tasks (like doing dishes) can create a sense of presence and joy, versus doing them while mentally elsewhere
- –Dave Chappelle publicly revealed he was never paid for Chappelle's Show streaming rights and is urging a boycott until he's compensated; Netflix removed the show after he raised the issue with them directly
- –Aunty Donna, a Melbourne comedy group George has followed for years, landed a big Netflix deal and is 'blowing up,' prompting discussion of underground acts going mainstream
Questions this episode answers
Why was Josh late to episode 927?
Josh made a 'rage call' to a mechanic to book a car service after his partner Bree asked him multiple times to do it, and he felt he lost credit for doing it because he did it out of frustration rather than proactively.
What did Dave Chappelle say about Chappelle's Show and Netflix?
According to Tommy, Chappelle said he was never paid for his work on Chappelle's Show due to his original contract, and that streaming services including Netflix were airing it without compensating him. After he raised this directly with Netflix, they removed the show, and he has publicly called for a boycott of the show until he's paid.
What task-management tip does Mason (Sevs) suggest for remembering chores and requests?
Mason suggests immediately writing down tasks or requests when they come up in conversation (e.g., in a notes app or to-do list, referred to as a 'second brain'), rather than relying on memory, to avoid the frustration of being asked multiple times.
Episode TranscriptShow
Tommy: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 927. Weekend banter. What is happening? What's going on, Gronks? We got Georgie Boy here, Mr. 97. How are we?
George: How are we?
Josh: Uh, sorry, sorry, uh, a little bit, a little bit late. The, uh, I don't know if anyone else has done this, but it's a— I would call it a rage a rage call. And it's, uh, it's when your partner asks you to do something a bunch of times, you haven't done it, and then they say, hey, um, I'm just going to give them a call now. And then you're like, I was going to do it, and then you call. And, um, but then you're no longer a hero because you raged in the moment, you're pissed off when you did it. I'm a bad guy, but I've called the mechanic. Like, how does that work? Like, I'm organising a service, guys.
George: So, did Bri say—
Josh: So, Bri said— Bri had said, "Oh, we need to get the car into—" You did the last— Like, you put the car in last time for the service. We need to do a service. This is probably— How long ago? How long did it go since the last service? Yeah. Usually, they write on your window. Yeah. We're well and truly over. Okay. But the thing is that, yeah, I'm never thinking about it. Like, I've never actively said, "Oh, we need to take the car in for a service." Like, it's never crossed my mind.. And so Bri had asked, had said about 3 times in the last 3 weeks, oh, we should take the car in for the service, you did it last time type of thing. And then I've just come back from a walk and she said, oh, did you put it under my name or your name last time? Because I'm just going to give them a call. And then that was enough to be like, I'm like, do you really think that I know whose name? I have no idea. I don't even know where it was. I don't know anything about this. Really? So at the time I did a, yeah, I just did a rage call and called, um, I, I remembered the sort of the location and zoomed in on Google Maps and clicked it and called and said, hey, I left a voice.
Tommy: Get the right place, you get the right place.
Josh: Yeah, yeah, it's just on, um, on Hoddle Street. We used to take it to Hyundai or whatever, Hyundai, however you say it. Yeah, but then, um, it's actually a lot cheaper to, to go to another place like an independent.
Tommy: If, if you buy a car out, uh, new The problem is if you take it to a place that's not a Hyundai dealership, you then don't get your fixed price service servicing.
Josh: Which I never understood anyway, because you've got the fixed price servicing, but you end up paying more.
Tommy: Like, no, you know exactly how much you're going to pay. It's— they even if I don't have the—
Josh: but don't they say like, okay, uh, you, uh, it's fixed price, but there's also this additional thing that we need to fix, or that's not the case?
Tommy: If the car's fucked. If there's something wrong.
Josh: I mean, the problem is not really fixed price though, is it, at that point?
Tommy: Or it is fixed price if you, if, if you are— I haven't, we haven't paid over based for a while based on— they recommended last time, look, there's something a little wrong with your battery, it's not holding charge. I was like, yeah, mate, whatever. 6 months later, my battery's dead. But that's not included in the fixed price. No, no, no, that's not—
Mason: that's just like oil changes and all that sort of stuff, right? Just real Like the basic sort of service, like checking your brake pads and your brake lights and all that sort of stuff.
Tommy: Look, there is the thought that it is the same scam as the warranties, extended warranties. You know, you get your extended warranty, you're paying through the nose. That's how Harvey Norman make half their money.
Josh: And can I just say, I might be pissed off today, but I won't have you, Sev, lecture me on how a car service is. Okay. Well, you know what? You're not even old enough. You're not even old enough to fill up a car. What are you talking—
Mason: I feel one up. But I reckon what you should do, actually, you just got to use your second brain. You wanted to get back into it, put it in the calendar as a recurring event every— I don't know, however—
Tommy: that's a good idea.
Mason: You need to service your car, but just put it in like a haircut.
Tommy: If you're not a guy that thinks about it— I think about it, I look at the— I look at the amount that's going, like the— I look at our dash, what it is, but then that's like just trigger— I don't think about it any other time other than being when I jump in my seat and I look to the top and I'm thinking about these things.
Josh: But it's not like using the car. I think that that's like, I'm not like a really like a car guy.
George: I was gonna ask, I don't think I've ever seen you drive before in my life. I'm a very good driver, very good driver.
Josh: But I think that the thing that upsets me is that what comes, walks away, like what we walk away thinking is, ah, Josh, you know, snapped a brake because he was like, oh yeah, I'm gonna do it. Is it the truth?
George: Yeah, no, well, because brake—
Josh: after I called, she's like, "You didn't have to be so rude." To the man on the phone? No, no, to her. She said that? No, to her, because I was like, "I was going to do it. Like, get off my back about it." And so, but the thing is—
George: When were you gonna do it?
Josh: George.
Mason: You weren't gonna do it.
Josh: Yeah, well, so the thing is, I wasn't going to do it, but surely there's gotta be, there's something about being caught off guard with a piece of admin. It's just like, I've just come from a walk.
Tommy: I'm just, I'm literally walking through the door, like, other stuff, getting the show done. Realistically, was there ever a good time to talk to you about this? Yeah, I think that it would be nice to book in a Sunday sesh.
Josh: We've been through this where it's a bit of a sit down.
George: It's like, chuck it in an email.
Josh: Yeah, chuck it. An email would be annoying. I just, I think that there's, there's a version. I mean, that's all. Does Hannah ever get you to do— there's certain tasks that you're responsible for, and do you have to be reminded?
George: Yeah, well, it— this happened the other week when I fixed the fridge.
Josh: It's one of those things where like, you haven't stopped talking. I'm proud of myself. Really?
George: Let's talk about on the show or just in private?
Tommy: I don't know.
George: I think I mentioned it on the show. Okay, well, I fixed the fridge. Did you? Yeah, yeah, the fridge was, um, the freezer was real frosty and there was some pastry stuck in the evaporator fan. Oh, so defrosted the whole thing. And, um, it took hours.
Josh: And I mean, you're making out like it took hours, like you were there the whole time. You literally left the door open and let it do its thing.
George: Exactly. But it was, um, we've been putting it off for weeks and weeks, and then all of a sudden it's like, are we gonna do it or what?
Josh: Who said that? So, so Hannah said, are we gonna do it? Yeah.
George: And then, and then we did it, and I felt great about it. I felt like a hero. But, um, yeah, no, definitely there's always things that are just you have to do, and then there's never a good time to do it. You just want to keep putting it off, and then— but now you've done it.
Josh: So, well, the thing is, I feel like I need to do the final bit, which is actually drive it and pick it up and do all that sort of thing, and then it's fully done, um, and then it will feel good. But I feel like at that point, I think the conversation I need to have with Bree is like, okay, reset. Sorry for being rude, but can we celebrate that I called them? Do you think I'm gonna be able to get a celebration now?
George: Absolutely. This is classic. This is, I mean, not to bring it back to Screenplay Sunday a few weeks ago, but when, you know, you had to do something and then all of a sudden when you've done it, it's like, all right everyone, come on, bit of claps.
Josh: I need a little bit. I mean, Sevs, what are you, are there any things that Grace is on your back about or stuff that, and then it just gets to a point where you get grumpy and you do it?
Mason: What it is, it's the thing of just like writing it down or actually take like taking it in when it is dropped in conversation or whatever. So like there's the little things of just like, oh, we should take the car in for a service, or we should like, you know, can I get this off you, or can I have this address or whatever? Like writing those things down somewhere so you have them. And it's just like—
Josh: It's the second brain, isn't it?
Mason: Yeah, you need it. Like I've— yeah, literally you need Asana.
George: Do you have a personal Asana?
Mason: No, I just, I just use a to-do list in the note-taking app.
Tommy: But like, oh no, you can use the, um, the home, just your what's on, what's it called? It's like a reminders or whatever. Yeah, the inbox. Just, yeah, you just create.
Mason: Anyway, yeah, it's just maybe, yeah, I mean, I think, I think, I think every, I think everyone probably, probably does that. But it is just you getting good at the writing down and then just having a time when you're just smashing through them.
Josh: Definitely. But is there not— Sevs, has there been a moment where you've had to be asked multiple times to do something by Grace? Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
Mason: What is it? Name two. Um, well, I needed to give, um, I needed to get, get like an address and, and give it to Grace, and that took probably like 3 weeks of asking. And it's just like, it's just It's, yeah, I mean, if I just wrote it down in the first place, then, you know, because that's what's angry.
Josh: Like, I think where the rage comes in is because I'm like, it's a real quick and easy thing. But this is always the frustration, isn't it? It's like, yeah, and that's the response. And that's where I feel like I'm not being heard. And so what else, Seb? So there was the address. There was the suit, but you can't bring that up because that was 6 months ago.
Mason: Yeah, the suit. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the suit's not—
Tommy: What about like booking a restaurant? That's a— that's a— that's one that can be left to last minute and then it's fucked because it's booked out.
Mason: Yeah, yeah, that's not good. Um, I mean, the, the washing as well, like, just— it's, it's not, it's not a lot, like, it's not a lot, like, it's not weeks of asking because we, we're pretty good on the washing, but, you know, it might be like a day or two. Yeah, of just like putting out the washing or whatever.
Josh: And so is there not a better way? So is that— so what we're discovering, TJ, do you have times where Amy asks? I feel like you're quite good at the, these random things.
Tommy: Definitely. But I've started— the, the result of her asking things has made me pick up my game more. Like, and I'm just— it's, it's different when, if there's a kid in the house. So it's not just because he doesn't know what he, he needs to do. So it's literally like—
George: What's on his list? He's got a sauna.
Tommy: He does. He's— that kid has never thought about how he has clean underwear every day. Let's be honest. And so when it— it puts it in perspective when you have to do it for someone who's pretty useless at everything at this point in their life. Could you— you know, so you end up doing— really get into washing?
Mason: If we don't have fucking clothes, it's a big problem.
Josh: This is the thing I would love. Like, the, the thing that upsets me is I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love chores. And no, but I actually do! He does say that? No, this isn't me doing shtick. This isn't me doing stick. I actually enjoy— I feel so good. George, you know how you felt when you did The Freezer?
Tommy: Like now I want to become a tradie. I love boating. I love fishing and boating. I haven't done in years. And so, when do you stop talking about it?
Tommy: But the thing with you, Josh, is if you love something, you talk about it all the time. I haven't heard a peep about chores for months.
Tommy: Yeah. No, you're right.
Josh: It's just, I think that it's, yeah, this is what I'm trying to—
Mason: Yeah, the chore guy's really a recovery.
Tommy: How have you convinced yourself this? And when was the last time you packed the dishwasher?
Josh: No, I always pack the dish— We do it as we go.
Tommy: Is that the only thing you do?
Josh: That's, I mean, that's the— It's very— I'm not as good as with the unpacking. Because the problem with the packing is very easy. You see the dirty dish, you put it in the dishwasher. The unpacking bit, it's sort of sort of the dishes are hidden, so you have to make an active effort. That's why in offices they have 'I'm clean' or 'I'm dirty.' It's like that— there needs to be an external signal to know whether—
Mason: so you need a smart dishwasher to send you a notification?
Josh: Yes, I need a little photo, like a time lapse.
Tommy: I think no one really enjoys doing these things. There's a difference— they're choosing to enjoy them, but there is something always better to be done than the fucking dishes. Walking outside, doing something fun like watching TV. There's always another option.
Josh: But I love procrastinating. So like, if I love procrastinating, surely this is the best. Like, I've got so many things I need to do, surely I can rather— that I can look at my list and say, you know what, there's a heap of things I don't want to do.
Tommy: Nah, I'm going to do the washing. You're thinking you're doing the washing but thinking about the other stuff, so then it's painful. This literally— there's a— literally, um, in the meditation app with Sam Harris. He's talking about this recently. He's talking about doing the dishes, and it's about the transitional tasks in life. So it's getting up from your desk to go to the, to the other room is a moment to focus your attention on the task or whatever you're doing. And so doing the dishes— he had this really interesting chat on his podcast about with the, with this man who's lost his wife to cervical cancer, and they were talking about just being present with the individual, you know, being with your partner, how to live with them. But they were talking also about moments and how to find joy. And so finding joy in a moment where someone's dying sounds horrible, sounds like, well, there's no joy in that. But when you're bringing your attention to something— I really am referencing death to doing the dishes, it is quite relevant— but the point being is a medial task like unpacking the dishwasher can have as much joy as any other moment if you give it the attention. Yeah. And so, and so the problem being is the practise of giving your wholehearted attention to the task is the way that you can— the problem is when you are doing that task thinking about everything else, like that's when I don't want to do it, when I'm in my head annoyed that I'm like, I fucking need to be doing something else right now. And so you're not in the moment.
Josh: What about music? What about if I was to— I'm sure I could create a playlist which is like a chores playlist, and the— I could have it loud throughout the whole house.
Tommy: You won't get around to creating the playlist, let's be honest. No, I will.
Josh: I will do the play. I'll probably spend more time on the playlist.
Tommy: It's going straight to it. It's just getting straight to it. It's, um, it is, it's so annoying. I've literally this week battled in my own head about doing this stuff. I've just been pulling some more weight around the house, not to brag, but, uh, just getting, you know, getting the food done, cooking, cleaning.
Josh: Sounds like you are.
Tommy: Just, uh, yeah, let me, I'll get another couple of minutes of this. And, um, what else? I did some sweeping, unpacked the dishwasher this morning. Sweeping?
Josh: Yeah, I've done it all. Sweeping? Yeah, mate.
Tommy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mason: Can you, TJ, can you get Can you get Bodhi fired up about doing chores? Like, can you just get him pumped to put the washing on?
Josh: Like, because I feel like grabbing all the washing and grabbing all the washing around the house and throwing it in. Sweeping is just the guy that wants to deal with it later. Like, he's moving shit from one place to another. Surely, surely.
Tommy: Yeah, dude, dude, if you're doing a proficient job, you'd sweep and then vacuum. Because there's stuff that the vacuum cleaner won't necessarily get everything, especially the, the, you know, like your one, it won't get everything. It will just pick up some dust, but there's some times you just need to use— it's a Cyclonic, not a Cyclonic. Well, no, it is a Cyclonic, and I've got a Cyclonic, and I still go for a sweep over a vacuum sometimes, but then I do both. If I'm being proficient, I do both.
Josh: Um, and so how much are you picking up, do you think, from the, the sweep that you've actually be getting?
Tommy: Uh, uh, I'm sorry, um, I think in, in, in a quick moment it could be 10% more just based on where I'm getting to, um, some of the little bits.
Josh: How often do you vacuum?
Tommy: Oh, I probably am sweeping a bit more if I had— like, dude, I hate my mid— 60% of the house is covered in floorboards. Or like flooring versus carpet.
Josh: Answer the question, how often are you vacuuming?
Tommy: Every couple of weeks. Every couple of weeks.
Josh: Okay, sure. Yeah. Because it's the bedroom of this apartment, we do like, we do a daily vacuum.
Tommy: Do you? Who does a daily vacuum?
Josh: Well, Bree loves to vacuum.
Tommy: That's very— That's her choice.
Josh: That's impressive. Yeah, that's a— It's a meditation.
Tommy: It's excessive as well. Yeah. It's excessive. It doesn't need to be done every day.
Josh: So, Does she listen to podcasts or anything? Even when Grace and Sevs was looking after our place, they vacuumed. Oh, good.
Tommy: Yeah, but I've stayed in people's houses who are anal retentive, and then you're just like, you have to fucking leave it tidier than you went in. It makes your asshole clench when you're walking out the door thinking, have I done everything I need to? Well, they replace the toothpaste too.
Josh: Thank you for that. They use the toothpaste.
Tommy: I mean, that's needed if they're using your toothpaste.
Josh: Oh, they have a whole new toothpaste. They use—
George: that's very generous.
Tommy: No, that's nice. Look, it is— sometimes I go through that, Josh, where I get, you know, in a front. I'm a bit sad about the, you know, these tasks, and then you just fucking stop being a bitch. Like, there is a version of just do it. I literally say that to myself. I'm like, you're just being a fucking whinge. Just do it. Just fucking do the— do it. Yeah. And that gets me past— I don't know what you does. Maybe the playlist is for you, but the bitch thing might be—
Josh: I think the thing, like, it's a— there's a, uh, I think that there is—
Tommy: you know what I've actually thought? What would Ben Fordham say? I've thought that.
Josh: I literally have thought about it.
Tommy: He texted me last night complaining about something else. See your guru.
Josh: Yeah, what's Fordham saying?
Tommy: He's, he's the—
Josh: oh yeah, what did Fordham say?
Tommy: Oh, it was just something I said on the show. He was calling me out for it, then calling me out, calling you out for saying it. It's, it's too much context. It's off topic. It's not that, it's not that good. Um, it's not, it's not that good to bring to the show.
Josh: No, come on, give us a little hint. Give us a little—
Tommy: No, but listen, on this, the Fordham stuff is he cracked it at you last time, remember, for the—
Josh: Yeah, I remember, but what did he— I want to know what he cracked it at you about.
Tommy: Oh, It was a couple of days ago, it was about that fucking riddle that we read out. I st— to be honest, Fordo, I don't understand your text. I don't understand.
George: It was the—
Mason: this is the bacon, Kevin Bacon.
Tommy: He wrote, bacon, you fucking gronk. And I said, Kevin, question mark. Or— and then I said, or are the vegans coming for our bacon, question mark. Kevin, I can't believe Josh let you off the hook on that. You're the biggest— your biggest blonde moment, and he just turned the other way. At this point, my hair is completely blonde because I've got no idea what he's actually meaning. And I said, lucky I have a co-host who has no grasp on pop culture. That's why it went over your head.
Josh: No, no, I got the— I understood the, um, the Bacon reference. I understand why you haven't brought it up. Don't deflect, mate.
Tommy: Listen back to it. I would have hammered you. I still don't get it at this point, Fordo.
Josh: So the thing is, I do.
Tommy: So I said, I said, I said to him, I said that I was— it was referring to Kevin Bacon, didn't I? Question mark. No, no, no. He said, yeah, mate, let's put it behind us. So loving the podcast. So it was really nice. But I feel like you maybe did—
Josh: he was playing a bit of banter, which— mate, can't believe you did it.
Tommy: You're like, what? No, I couldn't understand what he's meaning because I thought I was saying Kevin Bacon and you were saying that it was about bacon being taken. Yeah, it is.
Josh: So the thing is that the whole— the Steve Jobs, all that sort of thing, what they're referring to is the last name being like, there's no jobs, no hope, no— all of that sort of thing.
Tommy: No, I got— I get that, I get that. But I don't understand why there's no bacon, because I live in a world where I have 3 pieces of bacon a day.
Josh: But that's the joke. The joke is hopefully they don't take away our bacon. It didn't have anything to do with 6 fucking degrees of separation. No, no, no, no. Didn't have anything to do with Kevin, the guy. I got that then too.
Tommy: I just wasn't understanding the reference of taking away our bacon. Who's fucking doing that? Yeah, and so that's where—
George: because there is, you know what I mean?
Tommy: I'm trying to understand. But there is pop culture. Jobs are gone. Jobs are gone. Like, this is the year for COVID. Like, there's a bunch of stuff. I don't know the reference to a food group that could be taken.
Josh: Well, I want to see you at a comedy night.
Tommy: I don't get it. Um, no, I think there's too many jokes out there that people just laugh along. But if you get into them— could you get into them?
Josh: I think we should have a session where TJ watches Auntie Donna's Netflix thing. It's just like, this is absurd. I don't get it. Why are they doing that?
George: Yeah, I know. I mean, that's been my life recommending Aunty Donna. I can't— I had dragged my friends along to one of their shows a couple of years ago, and I just had to tell them, like, guys, how long have they had a Netflix show for?
Josh: Only 3 weeks.
George: Yeah, that's— is that huge? Now they're blowing up.
Josh: Yeah, this is massive. It's not like Australia Netflix, like, this is Like, this was 100 and something countries.
Tommy: Because I saw you, um, I've heard you talk about them heaps, JB, and then I, and then I saw the Netflix thing. I'm like, holy shit, if that's like— they're the Melbourne dudes, right?
George: In Melbourne, yeah, this is big. Like, and the fact that guys, you know, they're so absurd and they're so, you know, just, they just do like kind of dumb humor, like kind of childish humor, and it's just all just to be funny. There's no political undertones or anything like that. And then Netflix have like signed this, you know, $8 million deal with them for 7 episodes or whatever. Oh, great. And they've just let them do whatever they want. So there's like bloody Car City Ringwood is referenced in the show. Like Grant Denyer, like all these Four and Twenty Pies. There's all these little Australian references when it would have been so easy for the producers to be like, can you, you know, can we make this a bit more international? Can you, like, we don't get it. But they just let them go. Yeah, that's fine.
Tommy: And, um, Car City Ring, when it sold out, are they— yeah, do they do services as well?
George: Yeah, so, um, so I think they're great. But yeah, I, I did have to, like, a couple years ago when they were doing a show, I was like, guys, I've bought 5 tickets, so you're all coming with me. Like, I'm not going to make you pay for it because you probably won't like it, but just I want to go so you guys can come and keep me company. And yeah, people loved it. Like, they're just, they're just so different to whatever, to what else is going on in comedy at the moment.
Tommy: Like, do you feel like you've, um, you've been on to them? Do you feel like you have some kind of level of ownership of the— I'd like to say early adopters.
George: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, you know, but I'm glad. I'm so glad. Like, the good thing that they got so much support from the comedy community about this Netflix show. Like, everyone's just been like, congratulations. Like, it's huge.
Tommy: And there's not me because I'll fucking dissect their jokes and find what's not funny.
Josh: Yeah, yeah. This is your like, tones and eye. Like, I saw them, saw Byron, you know, performing. This is that sort of—
Tommy: as a peasant on the street. Yeah, yeah. Oh mate, I saw when he was a peasant on the street.
George: Pre-Netflix. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So now I hate Auntie Donna, is that what you're saying?
Josh: Yeah, they've become mainstream. Yeah, yucky.
Tommy: George, just quickly, are you abreast of the—
Josh: are you a breast guy or an ass guy?
Tommy: Are you abreast of the Chappelle situation? Boycott Chappelle. Corby? No, um, Dave Chappelle.
George: No, I'm not.
Tommy: So the Chappelle Show, were you a fan of that? I never watched it. Yeah, I think— I mean, it was so, so long ago, but yeah, it was. I think, I mean, it was pretty wacky. 2006. It's pretty out there. I can't remember the date. I just remember being young and I didn't watch it. Watching that, um, yeah, because we didn't have it. It was all like— it was on— I don't know how you're downloading shit. Oh, it's Comedy Central. Comedy Central. So he signed a deal years ago with Comedy Central, and basically, uh, he left. He quit, like famously quit that, and then disappeared for 20— oh yeah, I saw that on Letterman.
Josh: 10 years, really?
Tommy: It was a long time, dude. He left for a long time, and everyone's like, where's Dave? And he's moved to— he moved to like this small town where he grew up. Anyway, he, um, has come out and started talking about what happened. He said, people think I made a lot of money from Chappelle's Show. When I left that show, I never got paid. They didn't have to pay me because I signed a contract. But is this right? I found out that these people were streaming my work and they never had to ask me, or they never had to tell me. He's, you know, he's the guy that sort of probably poured his heart and soul into it. It was his masterpiece, and he owns zero of it now. But get this, Netflix started streaming it. And did they buy it?
Josh: Did they from Comedy Central or what was—
Tommy: I don't know what— how they would have licensed— something happened. They would have paid the money. Either way, Dave didn't get any. And Dave is on Netflix and has been paid a lot of money by them, and he likes them. He said, I like them because they weren't around when all that shit went down. The business wasn't around in existence. Anyway, um, he went to Netflix and said it doesn't make me feel good that you guys are streaming it, because, you know, told them the situation. They took it, they took it off, they took it off. Yeah, right. And he said, that's why I fuck with Netflix. But there's a, there's a huge— there's a, uh, 10-minute piece, monologue on his Instagram.
Josh: I think it's 18 minutes. It's great. 18 minutes.
Tommy: Fuck. He just talks about the contract, the industry. It's, it's so fascinating.
George: If you're— but what— so why is it boycott Chappelle though?
Tommy: Because he thinks that if anyone watches that, it's stealing from him. He's telling people to boycott.
Josh: Yeah. He's telling people to boycott. He's the guy who's like, "Until I get paid, don't watch the show." Yeah.
George: Oh, wow. That's very interesting.
Mason: Surely he's not seeking cash from that.
Josh: I mean, I think that that's what he's probably asking for now. He wants to see his payday. But this reminds me a little bit of, I mean, Taylor Swift, she's doing all right, but all the stuff around her. Masters or whatever. I didn't completely understand the way music, the music industry works, but I remember Scooter Braun had the, um, all the rights and then he, uh, sold them on to, um, bloody, uh, some other company.
Tommy: And you know what, I regret my statement to Ben Porter that my co-host has no grasp on pop culture.
Josh: No, no, that's fucking on the pulse.
Tommy: Yeah, that is on the pulse, baby.
Josh: And they bought them off Scooter Braun Born, uh, it was an investment company, um, that was—
George: her dad was in on it, wasn't he?
Josh: And so anyway, she wrote a letter to them saying, guys, uh, only fuck with Netflix. Yeah, no, give me back my music. And, um, give it back. But then this is the interesting thing, so she's re-recording all of her music or whatever from a rights perspective. Like, I guess like if you record it, then you have— I don't understand it. Anyway, we've got to go. It's the end.
Tommy: We're gonna go. Just one last thing. He was thinking about doing another Chappelle show, George. He can't do it. Chappelle, the name is— the rights are with that show, so he literally can't use his own fucking name. It'd feel like you're trapped.
George: Anyway, and Dave's Shed Show is owned by, uh, Dave Lawson, so you can't have that one.
Josh: That's a good reference, Jimmy. All right, uh, it's a daily talk show. If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Share on Instagram too, let people know that you're listening. Otherwise, we'll see tomorrow, guys. Have a good one.
Tommy: See you guys.
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