We chat about Josh cleaning the BBQ, Tommy's coldsore, indoor swimming pools and the new social media app Clubhouse!
Show Notes
At a glance
From this episode’s transcript.
- –Clubhouse is an invite-only, iOS-only, audio-only social network with live 'rooms', moderators, speakers and audiences, and it had gone viral by January 2021 with users like MrBeast, Logan Paul and Tony Robbins.
- –Famvir (3 tablets) can stop a cold sore if taken quickly at the first sign of it, according to Tommy's experience.
- –Dave Portnoy's Barstool Fund used celebrity-matched donations (around $25 million at the time) to directly pay monthly support to small US businesses struggling during COVID, functioning similarly to Australia's JobKeeper.
- –Josh argues that quitting or reducing social media use only works long-term if it's replaced with another concrete habit, not just willpower.
- –A simple travel security tip from a listener: physical locks on luggage don't stop zip-jamming with a pen, so zip-tie seals are better for detecting tampering than preventing it.
Questions this episode answers
What is Clubhouse and how does it work?
According to Josh, Clubhouse is an invite-only, iOS-only audio social network where users join 'rooms' with moderators and speakers; listeders can raise their hand to be invited to speak, and you can follow people/clubs to get notified when rooms open, similar to a virtual conference panel.
What is the Barstool Fund and who started it?
Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, started the Barstool Fund, raising matched donations from wealthy individuals (reportedly around $25 million) to make monthly payments directly to small US businesses struggling during COVID, similar to Australia's JobKeeper scheme.
How do you stop a cold sore from forming?
Tommy says taking three Famvir tablets as soon as you feel a cold sore coming on can 'nip it in the bud' before it fully develops.
Episode TranscriptShow
Tommy: It's a very low barrier to get into the Gronk Squad.
Josh: That's crazy! We've committed to do The Daily Talk Show for 10 years.
Tommy: Say hi, guys. Hi, guys.
Josh: Put it in the calendar. I'd just like to cheque the temperature in the room. I told you my squeegee story.
Tommy: It is outrageous.
Josh: Come on, let's go. It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 939.
Tommy: What is happening? What is going on, Gronks? Josh, who's watched more— who's watched our intro more, you or Bodie, who is obsessed with hearing himself say, hi guys?
Josh: I did watch it a lot. Yeah, yeah. And it's— I think it's a catchy tune.
Tommy: It is, it's catchy. It's new, it's fresh, it's leading us towards the 1,000s. Yeah, fuck, that's soon, that's soon. Weekend, a couple of small wins. Any small wins for you?
Josh: Cleaned the barbecue. Yeah. Took 3 hours.
Tommy: Yeah. I mean, you messaged me about it, so you know that.
Josh: I'm proud. You wouldn't have.
Tommy: You only do it to tell people. That's why we've got the small wins segment. It's not even a segment, but no, it's a segment. Well, it's because you bring it into the office. So the barbecue now is going to make its way onto our balcony, which is great. We've needed one. We're talking about it. And you're happy to hand over yours as a rental.
Josh: Yeah. Hoping that it gets broken, we have to replace it with a brand new one. Well, so, it's a Weber family Q. It's perfect. And so, what— No, it sounds like you said, "Webber." "Webber." Like it's meant to be "Rebber" or something.
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: So, it's a Weber. And I was thinking we could do breakfasts, like bacon and eggs, things like that.
Tommy: Well, I got in this morning to the office and George sort of said, "Oh, Josh is going to be cooking." breakfast. And immediately I'm thinking, oh, we're not starting work till 11 AM. Every, like, and George said that you said 3 days a week. You're like, let's start sort of small, 3 days a week.
Josh: Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Well, my point was that when I was growing up, there was a whole thing at school where if you got to school early, you got breakfast because there was a whole thing about kids not eating breakfast.
Tommy: Yeah. I mean, or it was the kids' parents who, you know, worked 90-hour weeks and had to drop their kid off at 7 AM and then kids are like, I need breakfast. Like, I mean, I feel a bit like that when I drop Bodhi off early. I'm like, I'm that guy, aren't I? But I mean, this is what you're paying for, right? You want to get— It's like staying at a hotel with a buffet. You fucking get down there early. You want to make use of the buffet. Daycare. I want to make use of their services.
Josh: Do they give you, like, do they give Bodhi a certain meal when he gets there?
Tommy: Well, I mean, if— Yes, you can. You can ask and they'll give him Weet-Bix or toast or something. But I like to feed him before he goes. Small win for me, mate. Had a cold sore coming on. Fucking took a few Famvir. Okay, yeah, which is 3 tablets that nip it in the butt and didn't get it. I mean, it's kind of there, but it's in the bud, in the bud, in the lip. Nip it in the lip.
Josh: So it was going to be in the lip, the bottom middle?
Tommy: Yeah, bottom middle. It was coming on, and, um, I mean, I literally didn't have them for 8 years. I was counting over the weekend with Amy. I was like, she She— not before, like before her. And then, and then, um, what do you think it is? Oh, I have started going to the gym at like 5 AM, and last week maybe I had a big night out probably 2 weeks ago, and then we started back at work last week, and then I was still getting up like a bit tired, but just like that shift of going, pushing your body. So you can get them from just being run down, but mate Got to the chemist as it opened on Saturday morning, got it, took the 3 tablets, fucking nipped it in the lip.
Josh: Well, the, um, the 5 AM gym thing, it feels like it's 2021, the start of the year. I feel like it's so easy to fall into the trap of setting up things that you're going to do because you're like, I've, I've actually got more capacity now, I can do stuff. But you forget that you're not at work, you don't have a normal life.
Tommy: You've got less on, so you, you feel like you can— you're taking on more personal shit, and then you're like— and then it all sort of comes to a head. No, I have to, I have to get out. The problem is, so if I get to the gym at 5:15, so 5:10, I get up at 5, and then I'm there, and I get home around 6, and then I've got another hour to get prepped. Bodhi's food, my food, Amy, you know, all of that, get dressed. It just, it, yeah, meditate. It's like there's this extra hour, but I can't do it every morning. I think I'd be too exhausted. Yeah. And so anyway, that's, um, that's a small win. But we went to the, we went to the pool over the weekend. Like, I got in the shower this morning, went, yes, went to the pool on Sunday.
Josh: Indoor or outdoor?
Tommy: Indoor. Never been there before. No, dude. $17.80 for 2 people. And if—
Josh: Is that normal? So, I just, I feel like back in the day it was like a gold coin.
Tommy: I remember, I remember $4 to get into the Caulfield pool as a kid. That was sick. And then you'd spend more on hot chips. But yeah, so $8 at the other place where we go. And so, this is a bit more. This is like, yeah, $8 something.
Josh: Okay. And how long— So, if you're going there, Can you become a member of their gym or something and get cheaper access?
Tommy: But I don't, I don't want to go there, it's too far. And, um, but I see, like, I stunk like chlorine today even though I'd washed after the pool. It's just the thing about going to the pool with a kid. I mean, when was the last time you actually went to a pool? I mean, I can't even remember the last time I went to a pool just for the sake of it by myself. Living in Shepparton, there was an aquatic centre that was attached to the gym, like it was a part of it. And so, I'd use the spa. But other than that.
Josh: Yeah. Do they have like play areas? Like I remember Oasis Pools in Dandenong and they had these big blue mats that you could sort of lie on and it would always give me the craziest rash on my chest. Why would it?
Tommy: Why?
Josh: I think like the material, like it must have been some sort of synthetic, like rubbery thing. It would just like, You knew that you'd had a good day at the pools because your tits are on fire, you know, little man boobs on fire.
Tommy: Was it just friction rash? Because when you say rash, it's like an allergic reaction to that.
Josh: I have sensitive skin. I'm a sensitive guy. I do have sensitive skin. So, even I've tried, I've had like a face oil, like face oils and stuff like that. Some of it gives me a little tingle. On the face.
Tommy: Maybe it was the chlorine. Maybe. I mean, that's what you're going to be—
Josh: Well, talking like talking chemicals and skin and stuff. When I was doing the oven, sorry, the barbecue, I was using oven cleaner.
Tommy: What is it? What's oven cleaner made of?
Josh: It's— I don't know. But you read the back of it and it's like, do not get on the skin, wear like big gloves. And so it's so like, I understand from Bree's perspective that it seems like the barrier is so high. Because I'm like, okay, I need gloves. Like, have we got gloves? Have we got— And you can create the storey of like, I know why I don't do any of this because it's like we don't have the gear. And so Bree went to the shops and got like big gloves and like a metal sort of scoury sort of thing.
Tommy: Comes back with welding gloves.
Josh: Yeah, well, I wanted that. But the thing was that I, I'd built up such a storey that I was going to end up in hospital from using this chemical. That I had Bri basically on standby the whole 3 hours of me doing the barbecue for any time. Like, I was wearing my Crocs. Absolute nightmare because I'm spraying the spray. I've got mask on, I've got gloves. I could feel it going onto my feet. And so I was thinking like, I'm going to forget about it. 3 hours later, I'm going to have fucking holes in my feet.
Tommy: Have you seen the photo of a guy who's obviously been out in the sun in his Crocs? Yeah, I don't know if it's real.
Josh: I mean, that's like old school, isn't it?
Tommy: Yeah, it was when Crocs first came out. It was like hot, like spots of sunburn.
Josh: And so, when did you get to the pool?
Tommy: Yeah, yesterday, Sunday, probably around 10 AM. And the thing about going to a pool where there's— you just know it's like you're going there because you've got a kid and there's hundreds of other kids there. I mean, there wasn't— this pool wasn't that busy, but you've just resigned to the fact that you're swimming in children's piss. Like, you see Bodhi and you see him, he's just like playing, and then like you see him stop. I say, are you pissing? And he just smiles at me.
Josh: And so what would you— would you want him to get out, or you just— I could imagine you are the parent who, like, you want to know if he's pissing just out of curiosity, but you're not going to stop him.
Tommy: No. So if you think about it a lot, you could gross yourself out. But when you realise how much chemical— like, I put money on the chlorine winning over, you know, the fight between the bacteria, bacteria in the pool versus the chlorine.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Like, it is a cesspool.
Josh: Do you reckon that's why you've got your lip issue? Seriously?
Tommy: No, you don't.
Josh: Pink eye?
Tommy: I don't have pink eye. I don't have pink eye. I saw a kid at the other swimming pool we went to. Just stand. So there's like a picture, like a, a park with the equipment, but it's all wet. And so there's like the slide is a water slide, and so it's like an adventure playground area, like sort of an inflated one. Not inflated, it's actually hard. And so, but there's cannons of water. Some kid just pants down, pissing on the ground.
Josh: Yeah, not good.
Tommy: And at that moment, the mum's looking at me, so I'm there up on the top, spray with the cannon. When he, when he left, I'm like, just sort that out, use the cannon to spray, and I hose down his piss.
Josh: And so how long were you at the pool for?
Tommy: Um, oh, we go for like an hour, probably in the water.
Josh: So it's $8 for an hour. Okay.
Tommy: It's—
Josh: do you feel like you need a good stay? It's like when you get a good car park during sort of Christmas at the shopping center, you're like, I've actually got to stay here just because I've got the rockstar park.
Tommy: I know, I know, it's I want to get my use out of it. But we— so get this, what would you do? We went in, there's a kids area that was full of kids, and I was like, oh no. And then there's the adult pool that has an area to be able to have your kid, but it's like the pool that goes shallow to deep, whereas the kids pools stay the same.
Josh: Diving board?
Tommy: No diving board. But they closed the kids pool. And at that moment, the kids pool is the warm one, which is probably just from the piss. The adults pool is the cooler one.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Like body temperature, and they closed off the kids one. I'm thinking immediately, like, it's, it's probably how you feel if you ever get a dud Uber Eats order. Uh, mate, I want my money back.
Josh: Oh, definitely.
Tommy: They've closed the kids pool, I want my money back.
Josh: Yeah, that's fair.
Tommy: And I, and I thought about it, and I had this same last week with an Uber Eats order. I was like, didn't get one thing, I was like, I want my money back. Such a problem. I think it's such a problem in myself. I won't talk for anyone else. Like, I— that it can ruin my experience of whatever I was wanting to do, the food, the pool, if I start just like thinking about it too much. I go to—
Josh: because instantly gratitude is the thing that helps. Whatever that state is, is the opposite of gratitude, right? It's like, you've fucked my experience. And it's like, hang on. This is actually way worse than what I think it is. This is, this has ruined Bodhi's day. It's ruined my day. You know what? I don't want just money back. I want fucking money for the petrol.
Tommy: You know, literally, I want to fucking, I want to 10 free passes. But it is, I caught myself in that moment where I'm like, I had to drop it, which I guess is like half the, if you can use those moments as the trigger point of like Whenever that happens, it's like, well, you know, they're a small business doing it hard. Pool's all closed. Let's just support them.
Josh: A pool, a small business. What do you reckon it would cost to start a pool?
Tommy: Fuck, it'd be—
Josh: I mean, imagine the insurance.
Tommy: This one we go to, Watermark, the joint would be worth fucking $10 million. But then I was just thinking about the cost to run that joint. It's got— it's like you just hear it. It's just noise. Think about all the electricity and the power. It's a lot of money. But there's smaller pools like the one we went. Maybe they're council run.
Josh: That's what I thought. I would assume that they're sort of supported because you need to, or they'll be getting a lot of cash from schools for like the swimming programmes and stuff, you'd think as well.
Tommy: Oh, 100%. The, I tell you what, speaking of small business, I didn't think Dave Portnoy, do you know Dave? From— owns Barstool Sports, or did.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: I mean, he's founder, presidente. Yeah.
Josh: El presidente.
Tommy: I didn't think he could make me cry, but he did.
Josh: Really? Yeah. He was giving—
Tommy: Did you say that?
Josh: I just— I saw the headline. There's something— it is nice, you know, when people are doing good things, but the filming of it, I even struggle any sort of— it's very popular in radio. It's like, okay, we're going to give back to the community and it is a feel-good. Maybe there's something wrong with me, but I can't. Listen to whatever's happening when it's people being nice.
Tommy: So, Australia, we've had JobKeeper, a bunch of government support during COVID America have not. Like the businesses, the restaurants. I think about New York has shut down 3 or 4 times. You know, crazy. Dave is worth $100 million and he came forward and said, oh, look, I'm going to put forward this. You know, $2-3 million or whatever it was. Um, who wants to match me? You know, it's like rich people do this. It's like, who's going to match me? Half of it is them flexing. It's like, I'll put forward this, you match this. And so celebrities just have a, you know, a circle jerk of who's putting more money in. But it is a good thing, right? And so he started something called, um, Barstool Fund or something. Anyway, it's a 20— it's currently got $25 million and they're doing what basically JobKeeper did. They're paying monthly to these businesses that put forward and, you know, lay out their case. We're a small, you know, margarita shop that's fucking doing really hard.
Josh: Pizza margaritas or like Mexican?
Tommy: No, no, no, like a Mexican. Some one place was called something margaritas. It'd been around for, you know, 50 years and this family owned it and they were struggling. And so Anyway, he was doing FaceTime calls with these people and just like telling them. He's crying, they're crying. I'm fucking just, I don't know, small business owner. I'm just like, oh man, these people would absolutely love this. You know, it was beautiful.
Josh: Do you see Ryan Holiday who writes all the books on stoicism and stuff?
Tommy: Ego Is the Enemy.
Josh: Yeah. The Obstacle Is the Way, The Daily Stoic, all of that stuff. He heard of a storey of a guy who was paying people's electricity bills. And so, you can actually contact the electricity company and say, hey, I want to give some money towards people's bills for people who are about to lose their power. But isn't that crazy? Like, it's a pretty fucked up situation where it's requiring individuals to do that.
Tommy: Well, that's the problem.
Josh: That's like, It's relying so much on—
Tommy: We look at a $600 government, you know, cheque that's being sent to Americans. They haven't got what Australia has. It's— The population's so huge. And so, I don't know. I mean, there's plenty of rich people.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: So, it's, you know, it's worth it.
Josh: Social media, you've been sort of taking a break?
Tommy: Well, I took off from the From the, what do you call it? January 1st. That's it.
Josh: First day of the year.
Tommy: Took off January 1st to probably the 8th and I didn't open the app.
Josh: Have you heard of Clubhouse? Oh, fuck.
Tommy: You texted me. Well, you didn't personally.
Josh: Yeah, it came from me.
Tommy: Well, did it come from the platform or you? Oh, I think it did come from you.
Josh: It came from me.
Tommy: Yeah. I didn't get back to it. Sorry about that. So, Clubhouse, it says, hey, Tommy, is this you? Is this you writing this? Hey, Tommy, I have an invite to Clubhouse and want you to join. Fuck, you're a computer. I added you using blah blah blah, your number, to make sure that you use that number when you register. It's actually a kind of message you'd write.
Josh: You would actually write instructions. Yeah. Like, and so if you— if I fucked that up, yeah, I'll be pissed off. Yeah, definitely. Uh, have you, um, have you heard of Clubhouse?
Tommy: Never heard of Clubhouse, and I forgot to click on it. Yeah, but I will click on it. I think I just will say on the social media thing, I think I need to— if I actually I'm going to do any posting, it has to be during the week because then you see how like on the weekend it's just like I could be in the middle of something, then get pulled one way.
Josh: I mean, this is what's good about not doing weekend banter now is not having that publishing schedule.
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: On the weekend. But so Clubhouse is—
Tommy: Downloading.
Josh: Perfect. I don't think you're going to be able to get in now because George took your invite. What? Yeah. So the— So Clubhouse is How do you describe it? So, it's an audio-only social network.
Tommy: Okay.
Josh: There's rooms, but don't think about it like chat, like ICQ chat room sort of things. They're like, they've got a little bit more structure to them. So, when you go into the app, it's iOS only, it's invite only. So, it's an exclusive. We like exclusives here on the show. And you have moderators and people speaking. So, it's like people are talking, they unmute themselves and talk. And then you have like an audience. The audience can raise their hand, ask questions. It's almost like a webinar solution, but it's consumer sort of, it's a consumer app. Okay. Anyway, what's cool about it is it means you could do podcasts live. You can have the Gronks listening in and you can follow, you can get notified when a room starts. But then you can, if the people you follow, you can see what rooms they're in. So, I could go into the app and I follow a bunch of people and it will say, oh, this person is in this room and it can show whether they're speaking or just watching. And so, there's all different rooms like podcasting, like, or how to have a successful YouTube channel, all of these different things. And you go on there. And you can watch people speak.
Tommy: Do live content. Yes. Is it all live?
Josh: Yeah. Okay. What do you think?
Tommy: I mean, I mean, it needs the, needs the users on it.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: I mean, it's got like trying to create any app. It's like users having—
Josh: This has gone zeitgeisty now. Like this is super popular. Like it's become a massive thing. Is that my picture?
Tommy: No, it says you were Josh's friend.
Josh: Yeah. It's true.
Tommy: So you can— let's set up your profile, import from Twitter, all that stuff.
Josh: And so, and so what's cool about it is it reminds me a little bit of, um, so it sort of reminds me of what you would think South by Southwest would be if it was fully virtual. Yeah. So it's got that conference vibe because people are talking about their expertise. And so if you're interested in, um, cryptocurrency. There'll be cryptocurrency experts talking and you can— It's really good. Really good.
Tommy: And so, do people make money on it? How is it?
Josh: Well, so yeah, monetisation isn't really a thing yet.
Tommy: But so, people, creators are on there just putting out content like in a regular social media.
Josh: And it started at the start of 2020, but it's taken sort of a year to take off. But now it's really like become popular, and they had a function so you could record. Apparently, they got rid of that, but they're going to bring that back. So, potentially—
Tommy: You can record your own messages?
Josh: No, no, no. So, like, you can record the session and then put it out as a podcast.
Tommy: Oh, yeah. And so, who of note? How did you hear about this?
Josh: Who did I? So, my mate Lucy Green from the Homebody Club, she was the one that gave me, like, so I signed up and then you basically can get the username now, but you can't access it. And then Lucy saw, gets a notification saying, Josh Janson's in the waiting, like in the line. And so she could bring me in early. And so she let me in. To the app? Yes. To completely use it. But like a bunch of YouTubers, MrBeast is on there. Is he? Logan Paul's on there.
Tommy: Yeah. Do you think, I mean, how many apps have we had to go at?
Josh: So, this is interesting. So, it doesn't have a brand. You don't have like brand accounts. They're all individuals. And so, what I think will be interesting is you would have a club so you can follow all these different clubs. So, I'm like following travel clubs and video production clubs. And when they go live or when their rooms open, I get notified. And then if my friends are in different rooms, I get notified. Tony Robbins is on there.
Tommy: Oh, yeah.
Josh: Big man. Yeah. Maud Garrett, the radio presenter who moved to LA, she's on there. She does all like geek content.
Tommy: It's great. So, can you chat with other people in the club or you're watching someone present and then—
Josh: So, it's not like presenting, it's there's multiple speakers at one time, but a moderator sets it. And so, it's got that vibe of like a Reminds me of a panel at a conference, which can be awkward. There can be a little bit of silence.
Tommy: At least you don't have to be at the conference.
Josh: And you can minimise it so you don't have to be in the app the whole time. So, it's great from an audio perspective. Apparently, Lucy told me one thing she doesn't like is they can— a speaker or like moderator could select you out of the crowd and say, hey, what do you think? And unmute you.
Tommy: It's like going to the circus and getting picked.
Josh: Yes.
Tommy: Asking from the audience. Come down, let an elephant jump you. Yeah, no thank you.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: And so what do you want to do? What do you want to do?
Josh: I know, I just, I think it's a, um, fun thing to explore. I can, uh, Eric Weinstein's on there. Like, there's a bunch of those like thought, thought-leadery types.
Tommy: If I don't get my username, I'm not getting in.
Josh: Got it. Yeah, you're in.
Tommy: I'm, I'm in.
Josh: Free to welcome Tommy Jacket. They signed up for Clubhouse.
Tommy: Oh, you've been—
Josh: would love for you to walk them in.
Tommy: Oh, does this say let's— Oh, so you can see who out of your friends have it. George Martin's got it.
Josh: Yeah. And so that was the thing. I wasted it on George because I set him up. I sent him an invite yesterday.
Tommy: Candy Hurts has it.
Josh: Yep.
Tommy: Jack DeLosa. You see, like, there's a lot of movers and shakers on here, you know.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Is it a movers and shakers platform?
Josh: It is now. Now that you're on it. No, but no, it's got the vibe of any of these early social networks. But I think the interesting thing about it is that it's, um, even when you're a passive consumer of the content, yeah, you're actually playing a really active role because you're in these rooms and people are seeing. And so, yeah, just by moving around. So, for instance, think about Twitter. Apparently it has similarities to Twitter Spaces. I don't know about Twitter, I haven't looked into Twitter Spaces, but apparently that's some new thing. But, um, when you move around the different rooms, it's like leaving a trail or it's saying, oh, Josh is in this room or that room. You can think about other social networks. If you're on Facebook, every time you go to a Facebook page, it doesn't say anything. And so, I think that there is that—
Tommy: It doesn't leave a trail.
Josh: It doesn't leave a trail. And so, I think there's a stickiness to this where when I'm on the app, I started getting people following, like just a couple of people followed me who were consuming the same content. So, for instance, if you're interested in building a YouTube audience and you're listening to some, um, a room that's all about YouTube growth, you can see everyone that's consuming that content. So then you can click through like, oh, these are all like-minded people, and you can click through and go, oh, I know this person, I'll follow them. So it is all sort of fun.
Tommy: Yeah, just rabbit hole. I mean, you see how they create these things so that you do just stay in there for hours. How many hours have you spent on this?
Josh: Yeah, it's easy to do a lot of hours because you just— it can replace things like podcasts or audiobooks or those types of things.
Tommy: And so, I mean, this— like, you took— you've taken a back seat from social media over the break as well. And what's your thoughts, or are you trying not to think about it too much? In terms of using it?
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: I mean, we talked about it a lot last year on on the show and we were chatting about what we're going to do this year.
Josh: It's only relevant. So, getting off social media is only relevant if you replace it with some other good habit.
Tommy: And so, there's a million good habits that—
Josh: Yeah. But I haven't had one necessarily stick yet. And so, for me, the smaller changes is it's like if I'm going to listen to something, on my phone, I should never really just be lying down listening to something. I should always be there either walking or— Because it goes really quickly. Like I was— Like I can listen to a podcast whilst being on my exercise bike and the time goes like that.
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: And so, yeah. So, I mean, coming back from the break, from the podcast perspective, I definitely went hard even on YouTube. I was just responding back to every— like, we, you know, we had 17 comments or whatever on our YouTube video. I'm just writing back and hearting, and I'm like, oh yeah, I'm a community manager, this is great. But you can see how, um, it's a certain vibe right now because we're back and it's exciting. But then, um, you've, you've— I think that I want to keep doing it, but just say, okay, I'm going to do it for half an hour at this time of the day, go in see what people are saying.
Tommy: I guess that's just what you have to do. If that's actually what you're saying you're going to do, that is the challenge you need to set to actually do that.
Josh: Yep.
Tommy: Because you see how hard it is.
Josh: I'll do a shout out to some of the gronks. Wayne Peters was on the comments from episode 938, which was yesterday. He said, discovered recently that locking your bags when travelling is really a waste of time because it is so easy to jam. A pointy object like a pen through the zip and separate the teeth to get access to the bag.
Tommy: That's true.
Josh: So, the thing is, I don't see the locks necessarily as a way of keeping people out. I have the, like, the zip ties to see whether it's been opened.
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: So, you can see on the other end, it's like, okay, someone's— So, if they fuck with the teeth of the zip, they're not getting that back.
Tommy: It's a break and enter. It's they've smashed the window to get into your house.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Versus used a key and got through the front door and then closed it behind them.
Josh: But I've had a bunch of times, like TSA in the US, go through my bag and they just leave a note.
Tommy: They cut the lock sometimes and they leave a little thing. Small locks, they can.
Josh: No, with the locks, they're all like TSA approved. So, they just have a master lock.
Tommy: That's right. They actually tell you to do that so that you lock it.
Josh: If you get any travel lock.
Tommy: Because they can cut your lock.
Josh: Yeah. Yeah, we got a bunch of, um, of comments. Uh, thank you, uh, Dean for your comment, Nathan, Yas, Joe, Lozzy, uh, Show Baker, Vicky, Scooter, Derek. There's a bunch.
Tommy: I got a bunch of lovely messages, uh, about the baby, which was nice. Which was nice.
Josh: On Instagram?
Tommy: Instagram, yeah, personally, text message. You know, it was great. Now I'm on Clubhouse, so you could probably get me there. No, I don't even know how it works.
Josh: I will cheque that out.
Tommy: But no, thank you for the lovely messages. It's good to be back. It's good to be back. 5 days a week, Monday to Friday.
Josh: We'll see you on Clubhouse. We're just our usernames. I'm Josh Janson and Tommy Jackett is just Tommy Jackett. Do you remember when we started doing that? We were introducing ourselves. It's a daily talk show, episode 939. I'm Josh Janson.
Tommy: Yeah, yeah. And you'd say, and I'm another one of the other wankers on the show.
Josh: Enjoy the rest of your day, guys. See you tomorrow. See you guys.
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