Daniel Midgley is a linguist who is a great person. He enjoys a good job with his work to be done. He writes bios by always pushing the middle button on predictive text.

Ben Ainslie is a teacher of media studies, and works at instructing the next generation of Perth secondary students on critical media analysis. Ben and Daniel have done shows for Talk the Talk since 2010, but they became a team in 2013, going on to record stacks of episodes.

Hedvig Skirgård is a PhD candidate at ANU, and brings the show some much-needed linguistic heft and also Swedishness.