It's the daily Talk Show. Episode 891. Happy Fat Friday, Gronks. Let's tell you what's going on.
This is a throwback for me. I used to get Italian hot chocolates all of the time from Max Brenner, which is in South Melbourne, just underneath the radio station when I worked there. Rip. Yes.
And so I found this is a Belgian hot chocolate from Coco Black. Very good. It's moosh in a cup, sun, my lips will look brown. That's how chocolatey it is mine.
And glazey because, you know, just put a nice little paw paw on. But we've almost gone. Actually. You're in Belgium.
I'm. I think I'm in Italy. I've got belcione. Italy.
Italy, 1953. It's. There's bulimia. I live in a large Italian community.
Great. You know what that brings is lemon trees, quiet streets and you know, Italians are importers of sweets. And so there is a store. I embarrassed myself.
I went in there and I was like, I found. So I'll show you what it is. They're these little, if you've been to Italy, they do the version of like Nutella, like Bueno type things, but not bueno kind of. It is like, it looks like a Tim Tam shape but it's in the texture of a cake.
So they're very soft. In the middle there's some gooey chocolate waffle. No, not waffle, not waffle. Like soft think fake cake.
That's what you get right in with like, you know, a long black or a little, maybe not even like macchiato or a, you know, little short shot, whatever you call it, just to mix things up. I also got some shots. I got the marbles. Milk, cocoa.
Yes. And so they do look. I mean this isn't like a Malteser. You're not going to smash.
Smash them at the speed. Hey, hey, hey. Don't talk about it. You know you would, you know you would.
Yeah, I'm trying to talk, I'm trying to talk myself out of it. Don't smash them. So I walked into the shop, first time shopper, long time walker, pastor looking and I. Intimidating.
Yeah, quite narrow, you know, sort of young, hipster looking guy working in there, man bun kind of, you know when someone's kind of looking at you see their eyes just with dart towards you but they don't want to sort of engage. Weird for a person that works in the shop. But anyway, I said, oh, where do I pay for this? Because it was Like a deli.
And then there was this kind of like side bit and the guy just around there, you press the bell. It's just there, like making that like a bit of a fuckhead. I was like, oh, you're a bit of a. Absolutely.
I didn't see the bell there and it's not my go to ring a bell, but I said, great to know, I'd love to ring that next time. And even I was like, ok. First time being here? Oh, yeah, great.
So I got, you know, put my transaction through. I nearly walked into the fucking glass window. No, you're definitely not in. There's an exit.
Exit sign. She's like, love green button. I was like, well, now. Now.
Again. Now, next time. So it was off to a horrible start. It was like the type of place that you would get a ticket, like you'd get a number.
Did they have any of those? No, no. This is. It's just.
It's little, it's fluffy and it smells like this. You know, like Italian treats have, like something that could be some sort of like alcohol within it. I mean, trust me. Sniffing out the alcohol.
Yeah, sure. If this is Bailey's ice cream. This is soft. Oh, so soft.
Oh, my God. I have one. I'm really happy too. The salty caramel stuff bursts in your mouth.
They're ridiculous. Describe yours. It is soft, textured, sort of fluffiness of the inside with a chocolatey, but like the Italian style chocolatey running through the middle. If you've had panettone with chocolate inside, it's a similar stuff.
And on the outside is a, you know, beautiful sort of chocolate coating. It's. You love it. Don't answer it.
It's really nice. I left the house for a walk this morning. 6:00am Just a quickie. I've worked out that I have to do morning and night, otherwise I'm very hard.
Well, it was either. It was more leaving to the last thing and so I'm at fucking 8:30pm Walking for hours. For an hour. Absolutely not.
I realized I got up and, you know, I'm trying to be quiet, so getting my stuff together. I'm hoping Bodie doesn't wake up. I see these doors open and I close it very gently. I turn on the, you know, the ducted heating.
Make sure it's nice. Ramos when she wakes up. It's nice heating now in instead of. I know, it's bizarre.
It's getting colder as well. The weekend's no good. I don't think. That's not good.
I Mean, we're pushing it, getting the use out of the heater before it. I literally went from ducted heating in the morning to split system aircon during the day. Yeah. Do you have, do you have your windows open in the evenings?
No, there's only fly screens. We've got to get that sorted. But anyway, I got up and I left and so my aunt I was clenched as I'm leaving as always, just trying to not wake up the family. And I got sort of probably five or six minutes into the walk and I realized I didn't have headphones in.
And I know you've sort of not come to work because your headphones are charging. You can't do the walk without it. My point being is I had so much noise in my head going on that I, it had completely gone out of my mind. But like my head felt like I had headphones on you.
It was like just yout talk showing your head. Well, you think about just nothing, nothing much. But just, you know, some mornings are noisier in your mind than others. Some mornings you wake up, it's not much happening.
Yeah, I was thinking about the day that I had. Like that's what I'm doing and But I was just amazed at how noisy the mind can be. Yeah, it's. It is full on.
I mean, the conversation with Harps on Wednesday, which, you know, the back end sort of as Harps is, went deep and we're talking about consciousness and self awareness and. Did you feel anxious? No, no, I actually, I actually it was, that wasn't the first thought. It was just like music festival going on, you know, just like, you know, just happening.
It was just a bustling, bustling mind, which is, it's just a weird Isn't the human experience weird? Yeah, I mean, I feel like the information we consume, we're going to become more and more conscious around that stuff because at the moment we're just delivered whatever social media throws at us. But it's like I see that the me watching CNN and all of the Fox News, all the different news outlets watching, you know, the different sides of politics. It is very, very, very noisy.
And it's so easy just to be consumed by it. So you can wake up in the morning and you can be consumed by something Trump's done. You could spend an hour before I start work thinking about Trump. Isn't that crazy?
It's too much. I was thinking about him, but I was also thinking about. I had a moment where I was like, is anyone thinking about me right now? That's not me.
Like, not in a way of like, I want people to think about me. It's like I relate. The following thought was like, think about how many people are thinking about the human Trump Donald. Like, it's phenomenal.
It's phenomenal. And so I guess there's probably a lot of ego about that when you're wanting. Like, if you thought about anyone that's listening to this is thinking about you. Now, does that make you feel good?
No. No. Like you want it to be just unprompted. You want it to be just middle of the.
If you thought. If you've had a dream about Tommy or myself or Ms. 97, if you've got some chocolate in. If you've had a dream about us, send us an email.
Hype the dailytalkshow.com the best dream. We'll get some stickers. Yeah. And what about outside of just during the day?
Have you thought like it's nothing to do with the show? Like, have we come into your mind? Just let us know. But no, in terms of making you feel good, I don't think it has made me feeling.
I may want to get the dream stories, but it's, you know, there's people that come into my mind that from my past, just bizarre. Just pop in. Pop into my mind. This drink is just reminding me of throwing back to a different time.
Is it correct? Like I was thinking about how we're really good friends with people we work with. When you're working with people and then you're intentionally in the bed. By the way, did you want to disconnect and connect?
I'll jump back in. Yeah, keep talking. I was the very. Have you already gone out and in.
He's trying to find a good point. No, just think about friends. Friends that you work with, people that you're close with. Work environments are this thing where you spend so much time together and then you move on to another job and it's completely.
You won't chat to people. I just have been noticing that lately. Like I think about like I'm caught up with Jack a bunch. Jack Post and we used to do a silly lunch.
Do you know what a silly lunch is? Is it like that Friday? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we'd just do it anytime.
Like it wasn't specific to any day. We would just have brownies. Dangerous. The brownie.
Hot chocolate. Just middle of the day. Like lunch ice, like waffles. Just silly, silly things.
But yeah, like do you find. Have you become really good friends with people that you've worked with, and then you finish working and you just don't really talk. Yeah. Yeah.
It is totally about proximity. If you're around people doing the same things, you get the same bubble, same, you know, same shit that you're trying to work on together. Makes a lot of sense as to why you become close. So, I mean, I was literally thinking about that the other day, and I don't know if it's a bad thing, like falling out of touch of people, like, with people.
Is it? How much responsibility do you put into that? Because think about people that I just haven't spoken to in ages. There's no falling out, but you just sort of.
You go from at one point, you're messaging all the time and talking, and then just slowly you drift apart. It's not bad. I wonder. I wonder, though, what the story is on the other side.
Not for every. Yeah, I can imagine there's a bunch of people like, yeah, we don't work together anymore. We don't see each other. I love him, but I just.
That's the habit. Because I would craft that story, which is like. Yeah, but then maybe some people could resent. Oh, yeah.
Because the thing is, it's like, oh, well, they haven't tried either. So it's this whole thing I haven't tried. I just haven't tried just because I've been busy or doing other stuff. Yeah.
You don't want guilt about it. And so I guess, I mean, what we're talking about is what Harps is talking about. The. The.
What's the experience of you? And so maybe it's like, that's what I think. How would. How would that other person be thinking what could have been the situation?
But then it's. Here's the other bit, which doesn't solve any problem, but it gets too deep and you can't contact and you're like, it's too far gone. It's done. What is your.
What is eat. When you were employed at a normal company, were you a guy who brought food or did you go down to the. To the local shops? What were you doing?
I know, in Shepparton. Probably my only real job. What about when you're at Kiss in Melbourne? What were you doing then?
That was a breakfast. Yeah, Sushi. Sushi. There was a sushi joint, got fair bit of sushi, but Shepparton had a great routine.
Smoothie in the morning, you know, tuna salad. After. I was like, I had a Dali. Lame.
So what was the. Do you ever remember having a budget Like I remember it being a big thing where Brad's like, try and keep it under 10 bucks. Yeah, it was like an Indian place in the food court that would do like a $10 special and that becomes your thing. Yeah, yeah.
No, it was all white. I mean, if you're doing the sushi game, you're under 10 bucks for three rolls, I reckon. Three rolls. And so, yeah, I mean 10 bucks is great, but can you.
Is 10 bucks viable? I mean, if you're going anywhere, you don't get a drink. Yeah. So the things you would need is you could probably get what, like a sandwich maybe.
What does a bakery sandwich cost? Six bucks? Seven bucks? I reckon eight.
Yeah, eight. Yeah, yeah. But then what kind of bakery is it? Because then if it's a higher end, it's gonna be a 13.50, 1350 little spender.
And then there's a coffee thing. Just imagine the amount of people that when you're in an office block, you will get coffee together. That was like a big, like, I know when we don't do that that much because I hate fucking Victoria street and dealing with everything that goes on. So I just like once I'm at the office, I like that I'm at the office.
But that was. I remember being a big thing where you'd rock up at 8 o', clock, everyone's at the desk, you'd be like, I just want to get coffee. So just go out and get it. I guess that'd be something.
Yeah. Your best friends that you don't really talk to once you finish. Yeah. I've got an update.
Earlier in the week I was filling you in on what I thought, you know, could have been just one sided. I worked out that when I opened bodies nappy, when I removed the sort of Velcro esque tag. Yeah. It illuminated and sent out a color.
And it only happened during the middle of the night, not in the daytime. Had a few people wombat. He, he sent through a message saying, read the nappy spark, check out. And he's put this word tribo lum miness essence, tribalum.
In essence, it's a big word and it's got a whole Wikipedia page to it. What does it mean? Well, I went there. That's a good point.
What does it mean? I mean, maybe it just means it's an optical phenomenon which is light being generated when a material is mechanically pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed or rubbed. The phenomenon is not fully understood but appears to be caused by the separation and reunification of static electrical charges. And then I saw the color.
Dude, there's a photo of it. It is what I'm saying. And then Glenn from over in Florida, he's messaged and sent me a link to easterbaytimes.com not sure what that is. It's a location, obviously.
And then it's Ask Mr. Dad. And the question is, what were those green sparks? The question is, I was up changing my baby's diaper last night and saw green sparks shooting out of it.
I called my wife in to show her, but it didn't happen again. She thinks I'm nuts. I'm quite sure I saw something. Could I have.
And then the answer is, you're not crazy at all. When you saw. Oh, my God, that word's there again. I can't say it.
What you saw was tribo luminous. A instance which is relatively ordinary and completely harmless in your case. Oh, here we go. Trio comes from the Greek to rub and luminescence.
Maybe luminescence. Luminescence has to do with light. May have been a buildup of energy caused by friction of your baby's bottom rubbing against the inside of the diaper. So this is different.
These things are different. Or from pulling on the tape. So I'm seeing it pulling on the tape because there'll be a lot of static electricity that's built up from that. But the weird bit is it's just the dad singing in the middle of the night and, you know, Mum's thinking we're crazy, but we're seeing light.
Bizarre, dude. It's. I'm glad I worked it out, though. Like, it's so funny how you see someone who's just got the exact same thing going on.
It's like we're also basic with the same. Google is very handy, isn't it? You can find basically anything. Well, see, the thing is, I.
I didn't even know what to type in. I'm glad that we have the Gronk squad that could actually work out this. Did a science degree and so he knew about it. Yeah.
I wonder what other things. Like, I'm guessing a rock, like rocks, you can create sparks. Is that different? I reckon that's different because it's.
That's like an impact of banging. Friction. Yeah. But this isn't.
It's not. It's. You could spark off a rock to create a fire, whereas. I wonder what the difference is between an actual spark and the triboluminescence.
I think that's how you say it. Yeah. Like, I was obsessed. We had A flint rock.
As a kid it was like a rock, but it was a. Almost looked like the handle of a knife. Yeah. But rather than sort of like being handled on the top line was this line of flint.
Like it's for lighting things. Yeah. It's like. Is it soaked in something?
Well, no, flint. The flint itself is this. It's a rock. So it's form of rock.
Flint is a sedimentary crypto crystal alien form of a mineral, quartz, but in a lighter. So when you roll the lighter, there's a. There's a little. Almost looks like the head of a grey lead pen.
Like what's inside of a pencil and it's being rubbed. When you roll the ball, it rolls on top of the flint and shoots the flint towards the gas. It's crazy to think how these products are made. Like the amount that goes into all of these different things.
Like if I actually thought about all of the. Like you pick up anything and you're like, oh, that's taken a bunch of work. You see, like Apple do their own face masks for their employees. Really?
Apple manufactures their own. Wow. Yeah, they're just like a better design, which is a bit Apple of them. On the flint rock I've just seen, it's.
Flint is a hard, tough chemical that breaks with. When it's fractured, is a form of quartz. It's like, who the hell worked out if we got this and then, you know, broke it down, like got it into this specific type like it's used like they say flint is hard, tough chemical or biochemical sedimentary rock that breaks with a fracture and so who the fudge other than sort of cavemen banging shit together. But you're right, everything, like everyone's stuff, everything.
Yeah, it goes deeper. Have you. Have you thought about your 25 kilometre radius? A week ago I saw that Grace went for a walk.
She can make it to South Melbourne, the water there. So she got her beach fix. Even if it is a slightly average beach. Well, yeah.
So you can drive and then walk, that's all. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. I actually thought about it last night.
I was like, what if I just drove to the city and went walking around the city? That's allowed. I can make it there. Yeah.
Is that where you want to go? Nah, I'd rather go towards the water down near my parents place. Yeah. Chill them.
So you craving anything? Craving any holiday. Like, if you think about your ideal holiday, what would it be overseas? Oh, we're talking a lot about on hump day because you're the travel Guy and I leave and you know, double down on the travel conversation.
As I said. What did I say? I haven't listened to Humpty yet. I'll give you a good montage of you mentioning the places you've been to Krakow, you know, all that shit.
Just actually messages that. Can't believe you loves Krakow. She wasn't a fan of Poland? Don't know.
She mentioned it on hump day. Well, you know, Amy mentioned that she loves the end of croissants to her sister and her sister said, you like. That's the favourite bit of croissants. You want everyone to have different taste.
So does that mean. Can I guess, is Amy a crust girl then? Pizza crust? I wouldn't call it one, really.
No, I think croissants because you can, you know, it's a different ballgame. It's a crunch. I'm trying to think of what an end of a croissant is. The difference is it's all a buttery sort of down.
That end is crunchy, but it's pastry. It's sweet and a bit sweeter crust is. I own the crust monster in this house. I'll eat the crusts.
Bodies, crusts. I love crusts. What pizza place are you going to nowadays? There's one in my straight f ing phenomenal.
It is ridiculous. Is it easy to. Because I remember my dad refused. He said that Margarita isn't a real pizza.
We won't allow margarita pizzas. That it was a waste. Have you heard of anything like that? Is there any way of.
I just want to know what his pizza is. Then if that's not. He was always like a Supremo or an Aussie or a Hinata or a meat lovers or whatever. It's just a Mexicana.
But it's just like I remember when. Because it wasn't like I feel growing up three boys, you know, dad and Mum. It's like it was a pretty, you know, easy bet that we would get the one with lots of toppings. But when I started dating Brie, she would go the margarita and you could see that was just Dad's tears.
Like she was just so upset about the idea that we're wasting one of our family pizzas on a margarita. Is it like a scarcity mindset? Is it like if we need to fucking get value and lots of calories so that if something bad happens, well, you think that that's like based on the supreme or you think that's the case because that fucking thing's got everything what's it called? It's a thing that, like.
It's a fish. It's like a fish. It's got like a tail. I was complaining to him.
Oh, Jesus. No. You're having a salad. Prawns.
Prawns, like just everything. They just fucking throw everything at a Supremo. The smoky bacon, butter mushrooms, black olives, red onion, diced capsicum, pepperoni, mozzarella cheese on a tomato base. But Supremo doesn't even have prawns.
I reckon I've seen one with. Maybe it's the Aussie. Think about shrimp on the barbie. Yeah.
I just miss not having the scummy. Like we. A laser pig that's in Collingwood. Just moved really close to our place.
They just moved on Smith Street. Yeah, they're on Smith Street. Yeah, they're just across from Easy street, actually. Yeah, very close.
But they. Yeah, their pizza is obviously delicious. It's so different than the pizza that you grow up on. The small shitty ham.
That's an experience. Well, where I go four doors down is an older style, like what I grew up on. That's sort of like you got a margarita and you look at it, you couldn't tell if it was burnt or it had like this glaze of oil and cheese that was just bubbling and underneath, you know, plastic. I remember like a big deal.
They started doing the plastic separates, which I didn't even understand. What's that doing? It's stopping it from crushing potentially. Like, shows that the slices have been cut properly because nothing would piss that off more than them not cutting the slices.
That is so true. But I've never still understood it. If anything, it is the thing. Plastic pizza separators.
You don't see them anymore. They just realised that they were unnecessary. What is that thing? Plastic pizza separator.
And separator. Here we go. Kitchen tools. White plastic pizza tables.
No, that's not it. Yeah. No. Pizza saver.
But what was it doing? Referred to as a pizza queue. When you look at close to that again. Yeah.
You're downloading too much pizza stuff. Say that again. It's so it's pizza table, Pizza stool. Package saver is all the names.
Pizza nipple or pizza ottoman is an object used to prevent the top of food container, so such as a pizza box or cake box, from collapsing in the centre and touching the food inside. So you're right. The pizza saver is not reused and is typically discarded by the patron. Although some people have found secondary uses for them, such as an egg holder when turned upside down.
Love that. Surely we decided that that was a thing anymore. Anything, mate. No landfill.
They're gone. They're absolutely gone. I just remember, I remember when Domino's, Hampton Hills. It was a big deal.
Five dollar pizzas, that is cheap. But God, will you not eat a margarita in my household? Was your parents picking like that at all? Any rules?
It was like don't be a. Don't be a gronk and get maccas all the time. It was the anti. Don't have it.
Yeah. What? You know like don't. Dad was upset because the KFC at Endeavour Hills stopped doing bacon in their Zinger burgers because the, the franchisee or whatever was Muslim.
But for whatever reason dad just couldn't fucking handle it. It was just too much for Richard Jansen from Denver Hills. So it's just like I want to speak to the manager. This is, this is ridiculous.
But dad, I'll just make you bacon at home. Do you really care that much? Business is funny. Like it's just a.
I mean interesting thought is though which I, which I've thought on seeing some. It's like franchisees gone rogue. And so there's a few around here who won't name names. But you see them and it's like they've got some sort of ghetto sign that they've printed out on an A4 bit of paper.
It's like establishment. What are they doing? What are they? Restaurant.
Restaurant. And it literally said call and had the number like call blah blah for pickup. And it's definitely because of COVID But they're a franchise and I just know that that wouldn't be like there is rules, right? So when someone makes a call they need to remember five.
Right. I always find franchises interesting, right? You spend a lot of money. There's a great.
If you look up a franchises Subway on YouTube, there's a great short documentary on Subway was one of the cheapest franchises to buy into. It was something like 150 or $200,000 to buy into it compared to McDonald's which at the time was around a million dollars. And the problem was that they didn't have any non compete area. And so in New York on like one block they would have four Subways.
So it was a real problem where it's like people who had bought into the franchise couldn't make any money because there was just too many. Guess how many Subways there are in the world. Oh, I reckon like I'm going to guess 12,052. Okay, let's have a look.
How many did you say you broke up? A little bit. 12,492. 44,000.
It's a lot. Holy shit. Yeah, a lot of footlongs. It is a lot.
Anyway, there you go. There's an interesting doc on it if you wanted to check that out. I'm starting to fall asleep after reading the Family blocked in a hot chocolate. Enjoy your Friday, everyone.
See you very much weekend banter. Have a good one. See you guys.