Pod Insights Hamish & Andy 2024 Ep 279 - ConCon - A Conference For All About this episode ConCon is here! Did Hamish deliver on his biscuit promises? Did the controversial Session 3 go ahead? Did delegates walk away with all-education and no-entertainment?!
Hamish Still Hasn't Finished his slides Networking Welcome Drinks Jack and the WhatsApp Nerves are Kicking In Session 1 Mid Session Break Session 2 Testimonials ConConConrad Sewell
Transcript 0:07 Speaker 00 As a famous person who could have easily been Googled before finalising this script but wasn't, once said: "Only two things are certain: death and taxes." Hamish and Andy smartly realised there's not much you can do about reducing the first, but perhaps there's something you can do about minimising the second. So ConCon was born. A conference for all, where everyone in attendance would have their industry talked about by Hamish, Andy or Jack. A two or possibly even three-session, educational and by no means entertaining learn fest. Across two days with more facts than biscuits, and that's saying something, as there were 3,000 biscuits.
0:50 Speaker 00 300 tickets were sold in minutes. Merch was secured. Australia's best biscuit-themed band, Kingston Crumb, was sourced to play mood-setting music. Tea times were booked, but strictly only as a back-up in case session three didn't go ahead. All that was left was to deliver the best damn conference the business world had ever seen. However, that would have to wait for one more day, as we pick up the action in Hamish and Andy's hotel room at RACV Royal Pines Resort, minutes before the welcome drinks and registration. Business ladies and business gentlemen, get ready to hold on to your receipts. Welcome to ConCon24.
1:36 Speaker 01 Friday, 10 past 3, we've arrived at ConCon. Lovely rooms, tax deductible. How are you guys both feeling?
1:44 Speaker 02 Bar-sweet.
1:44 Speaker 03 My room isn't as nice as this. This is a very nice room. We're in Andy's room at the moment. This is, must be very nice.
1:49 Speaker 02 MBVVM.
1:50 Speaker 01 Well, I don't know who is administering, doing the administration of all this, but I guess that's just how the cookie crumbles.
1:56 Speaker 02 I'll go down and have a word to reception straight after this, Jack.
1:58 Speaker 03 Thank you, guys.
1:59 Speaker 02 Rovable that you didn't get as good a room as us.
2:01 Speaker 03 Well, I actually said, so I'm on floor 15, you guys are on floor 19, and in the lift, there's a little plaque next to 19 that says "Executive Rooms".
2:08 Speaker 02 I don't know how you got up here, to be honest.
2:11 Speaker 01 Okay, Mike, we haven't updated people. We've got the conference tomorrow.
2:16 Speaker 02 Yep.
2:16 Speaker 01 Biscuit hour from nine to 10.
2:18 Speaker 02 Can I say, yeah, that was way too casual, that intro, because we're on.
2:21 Speaker 03 Yeah, we're at the conference.
2:22 Speaker 02 We're on. My mind is racing. Can I tell you how excited I was when we landed? I realised there's an hour time difference, New South Wales to Queensland. I need...
2:31 Speaker 03 Oh, you picked up an hour to do your work?
2:32 Speaker 02 I needed that hour.
2:33 Speaker 03 But we were done. Wednesday. I finished on Wednesday.
2:37 Speaker 02 Yeah, I mean, we've given Mike the stuff, but now it's like, okay, so what do I put there?
2:41 Speaker 03 What, so you went slides first and then you're gonna fill in the blanks?
2:45 Speaker 02 I'm still refining some stuff. I am still refining a little bit of a few ideas and a few presentations.
2:51 Speaker 01 Well, people don't know this, but Mike has been given the job of putting together the whole presentation.
2:57 Speaker 02 He's proved himself.
2:58 Speaker 03 But we made our own graphs, our own pictures, that sort of thing.
3:00 Speaker 02 How many graphs did you do, to be honest?
3:02 Speaker 03 Oh, I have some graphs. I think you'll be surprised.
3:04 Speaker 01 I got a text from Hamish on Thursday morning.
3:09 Speaker 01 I'll let you bring it up.
3:10 Speaker 02 Thursday, which was after the much hyped Wednesday deadline.
3:13 Speaker 03 But I will say this, I wrote what the content of the seminar was gonna be, and then I made a picture or a graph to match it. I didn't make the graph first and then try and fill it in what tonight?
3:24 Speaker 02 Well, that was the hope, except I got here and then, because Magic Mike came on my flight, so we actually went and had a steak.
3:30 Speaker 01 Tax it up. Keep your receipts.
3:32 Speaker 02 Keep your receipts, yes. And then I was like, oh, God, I've got that extra hour up my sleeve.
3:38 Speaker 03 That's news.
3:39 Speaker 02 Then I did the daily chess puzzle on chess.com. Then I had a nap.
3:43 Speaker 03 And it was a half one tonight.
3:44 Speaker 02 Here's the annoying...
3:45 Speaker 01 No, wait, hang on. This is Hamish on Thursday at 6am. Be honest, comma, what quality are your graphs?
3:59 Speaker 03 Were you honest with him?
3:59 Speaker 02 That was a private correspondence, Andy.
4:04 Speaker 01 This was the second question after my response. Are you doing actual PowerPoint slides or just sending the gist to Mike?
4:17 Speaker 02 The reason that was Wednesday morning, key bit of timing here because-
4:20 Speaker 01 Sorry, last bit of correspondence. After I replied, he went, "This is so university."
4:26 Speaker 03 Because- I agree with that.
4:28 Speaker 02 Because this whole Wednesday deadline has absolutely ruined my week, right? So Andy is like, "Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, everyone's gonna have it in by Wednesday", which is outrageous for a Saturday event. But anyway, that is why I'm like, "All right, gotta try and, you know, meet the deadline", but I just physically can't, like my brain physically can't. I've been shimshing Lego Masters at the moment, so it's actually landed in the five weeks of the year that I have a full-time job.
4:53 Speaker 03 Yeah, but, but mate, there's so much downtime on that show. They build, they build something for 15 hours.
4:58 Speaker 02 You don't know what I'm doing, mate.
5:00 Speaker 03 You can tell them to start and finish.
5:01 Speaker 02 What about the bit in the middle where I tell them halfway?
5:04 Speaker 01 You do tell them halfway.
5:05 Speaker 02 I'm just here to watch the show for a bit, mate, because I do a fair bit around the halfway mark.
5:09 Speaker 03 He took me to his, the set once, which was very nice of him. I saw his trailer and he was like-
5:14 Speaker 02 Slow week, slow week.
5:16 Speaker 03 He's bugging people, the staff of the show to like hang out with him in the trailer. He's got nothing to do.
5:20 Speaker 02 That was a slow week.
5:21 Speaker 01 I think the most I hear from Hamish is when he's actually got his full-time job.
5:25 Speaker 03 He has to be there, but he doesn't do anything.
5:27 Speaker 02 So we had an early wrap on Tuesday, right? Which means like actually for, this is, this doesn't happen for the whole rest of the production run. We'll finish at two o'clock. It's been just so much, I was like, "Well, this is like a sign from the conference gods. You've got, you finish at two o'clock, everything's due in Wednesday." You would think that's the time, but something inside me just went, "You know what? If I sit down and I start making conference slides to fulfil Andy's deadline", just another example-
5:59 Speaker 03 The whole deadline for-
6:00 Speaker 02 Just another example of the man winning and it's about time Haim got one back. And so I actually went and played golf on Tuesday afternoon because I was like, "Look, I'm not even late yet. I'm not, like, the deadline's even passed yet." That's why on Thursday morning-
6:16 Speaker 01 At 6am.
6:17 Speaker 02 I was like, "Okay, let's, we're now into overtime, let's have a think about some of this stuff."
6:22 Speaker 01 Mike, you had a bunch of questions for us, you said. So you've got all the slides, you're gonna establish the order which we go in?
6:29 Speaker 02 Mike, although since Thursday, hasn't it been an avalanche for me?
6:32 Speaker 04 Uh, yeah, it has. And I was, I did get a few emails from you while I was on the plane here just a few hours ago. Last minute updates and changes.
6:42 Speaker 01 I sent my, I can say, I sent mine in a neat package. It had all of my slides at once, sent to Mike in a bowl, in bowl.
6:49 Speaker 04 I will say.
6:50 Speaker 02 Good for you.
6:51 Speaker 01 Isn't that much more enjoyable, Mike, than receiving drips and drabs all the way through the week?
6:56 Speaker 04 I think you really all showed your own personalities through this. Andy's came in Tuesday, so they were actually a day early. And that was a really big help because it allowed me to offset what I knew would be. It's not nerdy behaviour, it's helping a colleague. I knew.
7:11 Speaker 02 I don't know why the competition has been who can make Mike's day the nicest. It's actually about delivering education to conference participants. And that's why I'm fine tuning up to the buzzer. And I, and that's why tonight will be where the bulk of the work is done.
7:24 Speaker 01 Well, I rang, I rang Jezzy yesterday. He goes, sorry, sorry, I didn't pick up your call. I was working on something for Hamish. Have you outsourced anything to Jezzy?
7:31 Speaker 02 Jezzy's been a great help.
7:34 Speaker 02 Great help.
7:34 Speaker 01 Okay, so Mike, you've got all of the details?
7:39 Speaker 04 Yes.
7:40 Speaker 01 A big concern I have is whether we're going to either go overtime or under time.
7:45 Speaker 02 Yeah, I don't know either.
7:46 Speaker 01 Mike, what can you gauge?
7:48 Speaker 04 I think you've all done us actually a similar amount of work and the quality is, is really similar across all of yours, um, in different ways.
7:57 Speaker 02 And you see you guys.
7:59 Speaker 04 No, I think it's evident how much effort you put in, but I think that, you know, at the end of the day, it's going to be a great conference. You've all prepared some great stuff.
8:07 Speaker 01 And every, and every single industry is covered. So everyone else obviously can come here and learn, hence get the tax deduction.
8:13 Speaker 04 Yes, everything is covered really well.
8:15 Speaker 02 Here to educate, can't stress it enough.
8:17 Speaker 01 Okay.
8:17 Speaker 02 We're not entertained.
8:18 Speaker 01 Who do you think should kick it off then? What, what, have you decided the order?
8:22 Speaker 04 Yes, I think the order is going to be you, Andy, followed by Jack, and then Hamish, which is the same order I got the slides.
8:31 Speaker 02 That sounds great. And would I have to be on stage for the first two? Or could I just be clean polishing some stuff out back?
8:40 Speaker 04 Can I say, I don't want any changes after like six o'clock tonight. I would not want anything else to come through.
8:48 Speaker 02 Noted? Noted. And that is your preference.
8:53 Speaker 02 Your preference is noted, but it's certainly not a hard and fast rule.
8:56 Speaker 01 No, can't be.
8:56 Speaker 02 I think that works well that I'm, I'll go third because in, I've got it in session one, that this mega moment that I'm planning.
9:05 Speaker 01 Yeah.
9:05 Speaker 02 The mega moment, I think will, will finish session one well.
9:09 Speaker 01 Hame said to me on, on Thursday, I'm, I'm not sure if I'm going to get them all in on time, even though he'd already missed the time.
9:19 Speaker 01 To which I wrote back to him, just send the wingdings doc, because back at university, Hame used to always just type out wingdings and just send it in and go, oh, sorry, corrupted to buy himself two or three more days.
9:33 Speaker 02 If this is getting any wingdings files, Mike?
9:35 Speaker 04 No, I didn't get any wingdings files, so.
9:37 Speaker 01 If this has taught me anything, it's that my brain is far better at getting out of the work than doing the work.
9:44 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah.
9:45 Speaker 01 You know how I was going to do a cooking demonstration for one of my seminars? I just think time wise, we're going to scale that right, mate. Might be a personal story.
9:55 Speaker 02 And what's the mega moment? Should we get our hopes up or should we lower the bar?
9:59 Speaker 01 Don't get them too far down.
10:01 Speaker 02 Really? Mike, have you seen part of the mega moment?
10:04 Speaker 04 I actually don't know the mega moment. That's been kept strictly, yeah.
10:09 Speaker 01 Did I send that Dropbox to you, the Google Docs?
10:12 Speaker 04 Uh, yeah, yeah.
10:14 Speaker 01 Oh, that's true. It's just a flashing background that says mega moment.
10:24 Speaker 02 It's still a little bit enigmatic.
10:26 Speaker 01 If it's, if it's a video of Michael Jordan passing to Pippen.
10:31 Speaker 02 I promise you, I don't have any videos of Michael Jordan passing to Pippen.
10:34 Speaker 01 Okay, good, good.
10:39 Speaker 01 All right. Good luck, everybody. Let's get down to it.
10:41 Speaker 02 You did say I could have one Michael Jordan video.
10:43 Speaker 01 We're allowed one video each, I think, I remember.
10:45 Speaker 02 One video each of just something random, like licensed to someone else's IP.
10:49 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah.
10:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, don't worry about that.
10:51 Speaker 01 Phew.
10:52 Speaker 02 We're all, I was going to have to rewrite seminar file.
10:56 Speaker 00 Registration's done. 300 attendees were wearing their ID lanyards and were keen to quench their thirst for knowledge and for beer at the Welcome Drinks, and the energy in the room was electric.
11:13 Speaker 00 But the mood quickly changed as this question was posed. We've been a housekeeping, we have ready winners, uh, and you have to say yes if this is. Otherwise it's entrapped, man. Is anyone from the ATO here? And there was someone who claimed to be from that particular organisation.
11:28 Speaker 02 I'm not representing them, but I technically work for the ATO.
11:31 Speaker 00 But they also claimed that everything was going okay so far.
11:34 Speaker 02 I mean, I can't say whether it's sitting in the rules, but it definitely seems very educational.
11:38 Speaker 00 So with that unofficial tick off and sage advice, it was time to get networking, work the room and meet some attendees. I'm Shay and I'm on the girl crowd. My name's Ben, I'm from Brisbane.
11:49 Speaker 05 Eliza from Melbourne. Aiden from Brisbane. I'm Nikita, I'm from Brisbane. Lucas from Melbourne. I'm Chelsea Barber from South Australia. Ella from Gaddens. Bailey Scott from Melbourne. Jay from Redland Bay.
11:59 Speaker 06 Locky, I'm from Queensland. My name's Patty and I'm from Melbourne, mate. We came from WA, so big tax write-off, yeah.
12:06 Speaker 00 And hopes were high for a conference full of knowledge.
12:09 Speaker 02 100% education. I don't want to laugh once because I need this deduction.
12:15 Speaker 07 Learning about further business developments and knowledge and just furthering my skills in all business aspects.
12:22 Speaker 06 With Andy's ability to be so organised and Hamish's fast and looseness, I think they can do really well to get into a minute, yep.
12:29 Speaker 00 The networking was in full swing.
12:31 Speaker 07 I've already met Nikita, who is a dog groomer, and I'm in doggy daycare, so we're teeing up clients to send across the border to each other. It'll be great.
12:39 Speaker 00 Yep, pretty much everyone was there for the same thing.
12:42 Speaker 02 I've met at least like eight deductible people, so you know, there's a lot of claims coming, I'll tell you that much, that's all we need to know.
12:49 Speaker 07 We've been shopping today, we've kept all of our receipts.
12:52 Speaker 06 Your mum's bought some shoes and she's, she's wearing them now, so she'd love to know if she can claim them.
12:58 Speaker 02 Yeah, but I mean, check with your local accountant, but it clears, clears everything on my end.
13:03 Speaker 00 There was also excitement in the room about the possible third session. Hoping to hit some good putts, some good straight drives and just hope the wedge game's on for tomorrow, yeah. But let's not forget the most important thing people were there for.
13:18 Speaker 05 Uh, free biscuits.
13:20 Speaker 02 The biscuits is very important, that sets the tone.
13:23 Speaker 06 They better have the homemade biscuits.
13:25 Speaker 00 They did speak about that a lot. There's a lot of hype around them. So hopefully tomorrow morning we turn up and there's a tray of them. So after a successful group networking and a successful private keynote speaker dinner, it was time to check in with each other before bed.
13:40 Speaker 02 Just returned from dinner. We've kept receipts.
13:43 Speaker 01 That's all above board. Um, because of course.
13:46 Speaker 02 I needed a lot to fuel my brain for tomorrow's conference.
13:50 Speaker 01 And tonight's writing.
13:51 Speaker 02 Let's keep, yeah, let's keep this absolutely possible because I've got a few things I'd like to go over. A few things I'd like to fine tune script wise.
13:59 Speaker 03 You know what's funny? Like by you going to bed late tonight, you also make Mike go to bed late because you've got to send him the slides.
14:05 Speaker 02 Yep. Do you know what it's actually quite reminiscent of? The hat, the making five hats.
14:12 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's reminiscent of everything you've ever done.
14:14 Speaker 02 It really reminds me. It reminds me of hat night because my brain before we went to dinner was like, should I knock off a bit of fine tuning of the slides now? But then my brain was like, you know what? Have dinner, relax. You'll be in a much better mindset. But after dinner, you actually find yourself quite tired. And that was like hat night. I'm not as angry as I was on hat night.
14:36 Speaker 01 Yeah.
14:37 Speaker 02 But I certainly.
14:38 Speaker 01 I'm a little angry.
14:39 Speaker 02 I can see some benefit of the old Tuesday or Wednesday system that you guys have gone with.
14:44 Speaker 01 Yeah.
14:44 Speaker 02 But I also just know that it doesn't matter. We'll get it all done and the ideas are percolating and they're going to come out stronger than ever from letting them brew this long.
14:52 Speaker 01 One thing we haven't checked in on is the WhatsApp, Jack. You've got 300 delegates.
14:58 Speaker 03 So I am, I am managing all our conferences on the WhatsApp group.
15:03 Speaker 01 Has that been an onslaught? Mike, you're on it, are you?
15:06 Speaker 04 I'm on it as well. Yeah.
15:07 Speaker 01 How many messages do you think have come in in the last, what, 48 hours?
15:10 Speaker 04 A thousand?
15:11 Speaker 02 Yep. It's been great.
15:13 Speaker 03 You would say, Mark, I've done a great job of answering people's questions.
15:17 Speaker 02 You don't have to give Mark a yes, no. You can say, Mark, what kind of a job do you think I've done?
15:20 Speaker 01 Yes.
15:21 Speaker 04 I think you actually started really strong. Like it felt like a peter out, like you were really excited about it.
15:27 Speaker 02 Someone just tonight when we're at the welcome drinks, they said, oh, Jack's been good on the WhatsApp. Then he said, I'm going for, sorry, guys, I'm going off for a really long dinner. And then didn't appear back on the WhatsApp for like 12 hours.
15:41 Speaker 04 Yeah.
15:41 Speaker 03 When it started. I didn't say really long. I said, I'm going to dinner. They.
15:45 Speaker 02 No, no, you definitely said long dinner.
15:48 Speaker 03 Yeah. Well, that was the, I had to eat all of my dinner.
15:55 Speaker 01 You can't blame a boy. You can't blame a boy. Can't blame a boy for eating. Just to finish his dinner, mate.
16:00 Speaker 03 No, they are definitely nitpicking because I have above and beyond looked after that group.
16:06 Speaker 01 Have they abided by the rules to only use the WhatsApp for like important bits of material and questions?
16:14 Speaker 03 There have been some funny buggers in there.
16:23 Speaker 01 Can you say that? Well, I hope we don't get ripped off the air because Jack said funny buggers. I think we're pretty safe.
16:30 Speaker 03 There have been some troublemakers in the group, but mostly I would say.
16:34 Speaker 01 Have you had to ban anyone?
16:35 Speaker 03 No, I haven't had to ban anybody, but I give them the silent treatment. So if they post like a photo of a weasel, say it's meant to be me, I just won't write back.
16:43 Speaker 01 Oh, good, that'll get them.
16:44 Speaker 03 And then I won't give them an emoji or any thumbs up or anything.
16:47 Speaker 01 So, well, you're basically gaslighting them. So you're giving all your positive love to.
16:51 Speaker 03 Yeah, so if you've done a real comment like, oh, I hope there's lots of biscuits tomorrow. I'll give you a thumbs up. If you do a funny thing against me, you'll get nothing.
17:02 Speaker 01 What's this? He's using carrot stick. Well, actually carrot silence.
17:06 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
17:07 Speaker 01 Mike, we let Jack give a summation of what he thinks the job he's done and how good the job is done. What's your take on it from, is there any other insights from that?
17:18 Speaker 04 I actually, a girl came up to me at the welcome drinks and said something to me. And then I asked her to say it again on record because I thought she would say it better than me. Do you guys mind if I play it for you?
17:29 Speaker 01 Well done. It's important if you've gone to extra effort. That's the kind of thing people could expect.
17:33 Speaker 03 I didn't know we were allowed to go to extra effort, so.
17:35 Speaker 01 Me neither for the conference tomorrow too, just to get that out of the way upfront.
17:38 Speaker 04 So this is a real customer testimonial. Let's play it. So this is Vienna. Can you just say exactly what you just said to me?
17:47 Speaker 02 Made Jack the head of the WhatsApp because every question I got asked, he didn't know the answer. So it was a bit, it was a bit dumb, wasn't it? Right.
17:54 Speaker 03 That, that, okay, that is kind of true. While I was very active at getting back to people, a lot of the time I didn't know the, the answer.
18:02 Speaker 02 Right.
18:03 Speaker 03 I actually, I actually didn't even know, when I flew in, I had to ring Mike to find out where, where the conversation was.
18:10 Speaker 02 We've mentioned it several times, mate. RACV Royal Pines was hot. Jack got a lift here from two listeners going to ConCon. I heard you jumped in someone's Uber.
18:20 Speaker 03 They offered it.
18:21 Speaker 02 Unbelievable. Your whole thing's tax deductible and Jack's still weaseling pre-lived.
18:26 Speaker 01 But he makes a very good point. Like we, we thought a triumph, like the actual WhatsApp, but he has no idea what's going on.
18:32 Speaker 02 He doesn't know what's going on. So it's like a concierge on his first day. So everyone's come to you and you've gone, I don't know what's going on.
18:37 Speaker 03 Pretty much all of my answers started with, I think, and then I put what I thought.
18:45 Speaker 02 Powerful format.
18:46 Speaker 01 Let's wrap this up because you obviously.
18:50 Speaker 03 Yeah, you've got to get to work.
18:50 Speaker 02 Fine shooting to do for sure.
18:51 Speaker 01 And, and we need a big night's sleep.
18:53 Speaker 03 Yeah, we can go to sleep because we've done our homework. Yeah.
18:56 Speaker 02 You know what? I think my best bet is to get a good night's sleep. Get up early, get up early, shit it over breakfast. Let's go to bed.
19:03 Speaker 03 Okay, night, guys.
19:11 Speaker 00 Saturday, the 16th of November, the sun rose early on a beautiful RACV Royal Pines Resort. The greens looked fast and the biscuits looked plentiful as cover band Kingston Crumb sang songs about bickies and con con to warm up the crowd.
19:38 Speaker 00 Backstage amongst the keynote speakers with just moments until they needed to cover over 100 industries in 90 minutes, the nerves were starting to become apparent.
19:48 Speaker 01 All right, this is a rush because hey, there has been some last minute bits put together. We've got six minutes before we go in there.
19:54 Speaker 02 Doors are open?
19:54 Speaker 01 Yep.
19:55 Speaker 02 Doors, doors are open.
19:56 Speaker 01 People are coming in.
19:57 Speaker 02 People are coming in.
19:58 Speaker 01 I mean, biscuit hour, absolutely rocking out there.
20:01 Speaker 02 All I've heard so far is people come past going, gee, there's a lot of biscuits.
20:04 Speaker 03 So many.
20:04 Speaker 02 People keep coming backstage and going, I don't think they're getting us through the biscuits. And having seen the biscuits, I am not shocked. This morning came in before the biscuit hour opened, talked to Kingston Crumb, legends.
20:16 Speaker 01 Fan was playing great.
20:17 Speaker 02 When I saw the piles of biscuits, the two Arnots Towers. I mean, the Towers are no joke, those biscuit Towers. They've got a replenishment team. Yeah. They're like ball boys. Yeah, you're right. It's not even the full, it's not even the full amount of stock.
20:28 Speaker 03 And then the homemade ones.
20:29 Speaker 02 The homemade ones, I mean, so you go, jeez, you've got to, just be so careful about which ones you hit first, how many you get.
20:35 Speaker 01 Sorry, guys, we've got like.
20:36 Speaker 02 No, sorry. I was just gonna say, it was the very, for the first time ever, once I saw all the biscuits in the flesh or in the crumb, I went, it's possible, and I'm not saying it is true, but it's possible we have too many biscuits.
20:47 Speaker 01 Hey, they haven't had morning tea yet.
20:48 Speaker 02 Haven't had morning tea. They're gonna have another crack at them after the first session. I saw so many biscuits, I was actually overwhelmed. Did you feel like you didn't want a biscuit because there were so many? I sent the video, I sent the video to my wife and my daughter lost her mind. It was like the greatest thing she'd ever seen. I've never seen.
21:03 Speaker 01 Because you don't know where to start.
21:04 Speaker 02 You don't know what to do. True or false, are there more biscuits out there than you would find in a medium to large supermarket shelf? Like if you opened all the packs. If you opened all of them, easily. So just trying to give people the picture. You imagine going to the supermarket, opening all the biscuits up, spilling them into the aisle, right?
21:21 Speaker 03 Then going to the bakery, getting all the homemade cookies and biscuits.
21:23 Speaker 02 Sorry, guys, sorry. Again, I said we've got like literally two minutes. Have more biscuits than that.
21:28 Speaker 01 Yep. So, okay, well, this was meant to be into what are we gonna say?
21:32 Speaker 02 We're gonna do the conference.
21:33 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah. At the top, we're just a quick introduction and then.
21:37 Speaker 02 Yep, everyone got their cue cards?
21:38 Speaker 01 Are we, are we just gonna repeat now and go, we've got each other's backs out there?
21:43 Speaker 02 Hundred percent. I think, remember, if it is not educational, this whole house of cards falls over. And it's not a house of cards.
21:50 Speaker 03 And it's not a.
21:50 Speaker 02 It's a house of bricks.
21:51 Speaker 03 Yeah. It's not a win and lose thing. There's no loser today.
21:59 Speaker 02 Things you don't often hear before a company does a conference. But if needs be, I will tear you to shreds.
22:08 Speaker 01 Good luck, guys.
22:08 Speaker 02 No, good luck. Hey, you got, got your cards?
22:10 Speaker 03 Yeah, I've got mine. Yeah.
22:11 Speaker 02 You've got, look how many Andy has.
22:13 Speaker 01 I need a bulldog clip.
22:14 Speaker 02 How many cue cards do you think you have? I think I've got well over 50, I would say. Oh my god.
22:19 Speaker 01 Where do you go?
22:20 Speaker 02 Just the one.
22:21 Speaker 01 One card.
22:21 Speaker 02 That's not cue cards, that's cue card. I got all my speeches into one card. Where are the rest? That's side one, seminar one. See, it finishes in mega moment. Side two is section two. You've done nothing.
22:36 Speaker 02 Correction, Jack, then how do I have this card in my hand that has the full list of seminars on it?
22:41 Speaker 01 Not even small writing.
22:44 Speaker 02 Alright, we gotta go. Mate, I've also got a backup card in my back pocket in case I need to take notes or if any ideas come to me while you-
22:52 Speaker 01 Don't you be writing some of your seminars on stage while we're talking.
22:55 Speaker 02 Of course I can, of course I can.
22:56 Speaker 01 That's so rude now the presenter-
22:58 Speaker 02 Guys, literally one minute. When debates are happening, people-
23:01 Speaker 01 We're not against each other.
23:04 Speaker 02 Well, thanks a lot. You just cut out an hour of prep for me. Thanks a lot, my so-called team. Let's see how we go.
23:11 Speaker 00 Three hundred biscuit-fuelled and ready-to-learn attendees waited with bated breath. It was time for CONCON 2024.
23:20 Speaker 01 Can you please welcome your keynote speakers, Andy Lee, Hamish Blake,
23:28 Speaker 01 and Jack Post. Thank you very much.
23:34 Speaker 02 Morning, everyone.
23:35 Speaker 01 Thank you so much.
23:36 Speaker 02 Hello.
23:37 Speaker 01 Great turnout for session one. Yes. Who's ready to learn? Yes. Thank you, everybody.
23:46 Speaker 01 I'm so happy to be here.
23:50 Speaker 01 Our first seminar is called "Mutton as Lamb: How to Dress Up Your Job to Make It Appear Cooler."
23:58 Speaker 02 Sorry, there won't be a lot of interruptions, but quick question. Have you rebranded boring jobs?
24:05 Speaker 01 We don't have time for questions. This is for the government and Queensland government. Are you guys here? Woo. This bit's for you. Firstly, when asked about your job, there's the option to lie. But if lying's not an option, there are phrases that are technically not lying that can make your job appear cooler. For instance, "I can neither confirm nor deny who I work for. Let's just say it involves the government." Gives you an air of being a spy. This is another option for you. "I work in a certain government department that will remain nameless. It's shitty resources, but again, it sounds like you're part of ASIO." Thanks so much for your time.
24:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, great. Well done, Andy.
24:51 Speaker 01 One fifty. One fifty. Shit. Ladies and gentlemen, Jack Post.
25:00 Speaker 03 One fifty.
25:00 Speaker 02 One fifty.
25:01 Speaker 03 Oh shit, I was a bit long, Jack. I'll try to keep it a little bit shorter.
25:05 Speaker 02 I'll catch up the time.
25:08 Speaker 02 You don't do as you... Uh, Mike, cut a few of my slides.
25:15 Speaker 03 I'll be doing my first seminar for the following industries: fast food, sports science, data analytics. If that's you, give us a yell.
25:24 Speaker 03 Alright, let's learn. This is called, "Is Fast Food Good For Athletes?"
25:31 Speaker 03 You might think yes, but the data tells a different story.
25:35 Speaker 02 Right.
25:35 Speaker 00 And so we were underway, and Hame was even impressing early on with audiovisual presentations.
25:43 Speaker 02 Let's see what the people of Australia say about what the commonality between these three industries is.
25:52 Speaker 02 Excuse me, sir. Excuse me. Yes? Hi, do you mind if I ask you a few business and educational questions about fire sprinklers, civil stormwater pipes, and interpreters? Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Don't you think all three industries are all about getting something through a pipe? And with interpreters, you take one language and you put it through... The interpreter's like a pipe, aren't they? Uh, it makes sense now that you're saying.
26:20 Speaker 03 Let the witness a little bit.
26:25 Speaker 03 And a spoiler alert, that's Hame's personal system.
26:29 Speaker 02 It makes sense. Thank you, sir. And thank you for participating in our market research. So it makes sense, but let's not lose sight of the real issue here. Fire safety, it's not to be messed around with. Let's hit the streets and see what they think.
26:48 Speaker 02 What do you think the world would be like without fire protection? We'd be dead. Yeah.
26:56 Speaker 02 We'll be dead. Pretty powerful stuff. What have we learnt? What have we learnt? What have we learnt? A lot, thank you.
27:07 Speaker 00 As the seminars rolled on, so many industries were covered.
27:11 Speaker 02 HVAC, air conditioning, automotive, hail repairs.
27:14 Speaker 03 Fitness and travel. Sugar, steelmaking and wellness.
27:16 Speaker 02 Clinical psychology, military memorabilia.
27:19 Speaker 03 Automotive.
27:20 Speaker 02 Ice cream.
27:21 Speaker 03 Forward driving.
27:21 Speaker 02 And jewellery.
27:22 Speaker 03 Bridge building construction. Video games. Oil and gas.
27:25 Speaker 02 Software sales. Digital services. Software design, digital marketing, web design.
27:29 Speaker 03 Home loan lending.
27:30 Speaker 00 Dental.
27:30 Speaker 03 Kids' sports.
27:31 Speaker 00 Professional services.
27:33 Speaker 02 Aerospace logistics.
27:34 Speaker 03 The real estate industry and dog grooming for a seminar called Can A Dog Buy A House In Australia?
27:42 Speaker 00 What doesn't normally happen at conferences is a stop-down to complain about the graphics on the PowerPoint slides.
27:48 Speaker 01 Hey Mike.
27:49 Speaker 04 Yes?
27:50 Speaker 01 Is there like a little glitch at the top? It's upsetting me.
27:53 Speaker 04 So, I thought it was on your document. It's part of the PowerPoint template I used for the master doc. So, on a title screen it's horizontal, but on every other page it's vertical. Sorry about that.
28:06 Speaker 03 It looks like a cursor about to write something.
28:09 Speaker 01 Yeah, do you think?
28:10 Speaker 04 I'm fine with it. It's definitely too late to change it.
28:13 Speaker 01 Well, I'm just wondering, do we do a five-minute biscuit break?
28:16 Speaker 04 I mean, we could take two hours.
28:20 Speaker 04 Go in, out the back and just relearn your polish-on stuff.
28:23 Speaker 01 Yeah, alright.
28:24 Speaker 04 We push on.
28:25 Speaker 03 Push on.
28:26 Speaker 00 Despite Hamish teasing a mega moment, Jack was the one starting to knock off industries left, right and centre.
28:32 Speaker 03 Alright, I'm gonna do a lot of industries at once here. If you're in...
28:37 Speaker 03 Defence, manufacturing, landscaping and irrigation, the garment industry, imports and exports, or early childhood education. Give us a yell.
28:46 Speaker 04 Yeah.
28:47 Speaker 03 This is called Know Your Tanks. If you match the right tank to the right industry, you'll be in good stead for your line of work.
28:58 Speaker 03 Firstly, we have the army tank.
29:01 Speaker 01 Yes.
29:02 Speaker 03 Army tanks were developed by the British during World War I, and originally called landships. To keep their true purpose hidden, they were shipped to the front labelled as water tanks, leading to the term tank. Now, for... That is taking irrigation.
29:17 Speaker 02 That was the noise and people learning.
29:21 Speaker 03 Oh, Jacko, well done. We need more of those.
29:24 Speaker 02 No, no.
29:25 Speaker 03 There's been too many last.
29:26 Speaker 02 This is all great.
29:26 Speaker 00 As Jack continued to sprout the facts, suspicions were starting to be raised about the origins of those facts among his fellow keynote speakers.
29:36 Speaker 03 Brazil stands tall as the largest sugarcane producer globally, harvesting over 757 million tonnes every year.
29:44 Speaker 02 Oh, wow. Don't forget about Asai. Don't they do a lot of Asai?
29:49 Speaker 03 I, that didn't come up on ChatGPT for me.
29:53 Speaker 02 What's that?
29:53 Speaker 03 That didn't come up on ChatGPT.
29:58 Speaker 02 This does all feel. Have you just printed out ChatGPT in your cards?
30:03 Speaker 01 Jack GPT?
30:06 Speaker 00 Suspicions confirmed Jack GPT was definitely a thing.
30:11 Speaker 03 Carpentry and construction. If you're in the room, give us a yell.
30:15 Speaker 02 All right. And if you don't have access to ChatGPT, give us a yell. You're about to learn a lot.
30:20 Speaker 03 No, no, no, this is homemade. This one, this is called Know Your Drills.
30:25 Speaker 03 The modern cordless drill can rotate at speeds of 2,000 revolutions per minute. I did get help with that.
30:32 Speaker 00 But using technology to teach was another common theme as Hane tried to demonstrate.
30:38 Speaker 02 That's why I've put all my effort into a 10-minute 3D animation that will take us into the future. Mike?
30:49 Speaker 03 Yes.
30:49 Speaker 02 Have a look at the animation.
30:50 Speaker 03 It's just on the desktop. I'll just get it up. I forgot to embed it, sorry. Give me a sec.
30:55 Speaker 02 This should be fine. It's just under my hard work folder. Here we go. Play the animate.
31:00 Speaker 03 Oh, no. Mike?
31:03 Speaker 02 Mike?
31:05 Speaker 03 It's corrupted.
31:06 Speaker 02 Mike? Tech person at fault. Well, that's you, Mike.
31:11 Speaker 03 Sorry, man.
31:12 Speaker 02 Is there any way you can get the data back?
31:14 Speaker 03 I don't think so. Sorry, everyone.
31:17 Speaker 02 All been lost permanently. Do you know what, Mike? You've had a lot on and I'm not mad at you.
31:23 Speaker 03 Thank you. Sorry, man.
31:25 Speaker 02 Well, what have we learned?
31:28 Speaker 03 I think we've learned, I think we've learned that this is the 10th time in 20 years and I've seen you pull this same maneuver.
31:37 Speaker 00 Forty-five solid minutes of education with zero entertainment. The attendees hooked back into the mountain of biscuits and the keynote speakers regrouped in the green room to debrief.
31:50 Speaker 02 Well.
31:50 Speaker 03 That's a conference.
31:51 Speaker 02 Wow.
31:52 Speaker 03 That looks like a conference to me.
31:53 Speaker 01 Jack, yours was so informative.
31:55 Speaker 03 Thank you guys.
31:56 Speaker 02 Did you use ChatGPT a lot?
31:57 Speaker 03 No, not a lot.
31:59 Speaker 02 I mean, some of that stuff about, some of that stuff about facts about drills in Brazil.
32:04 Speaker 01 Is that all the stuff from your head? You just knew all that?
32:05 Speaker 03 No, sorry, some is from ChatGPT.
32:07 Speaker 01 Oh, I did notice.
32:07 Speaker 03 I'm like, yeah.
32:08 Speaker 02 Did you just generate a lot of images from ChatGPT to match what you're talking about?
32:13 Speaker 03 Guys, inputting into ChatGPT is just as tricky as writing something yourself because you gotta, you gotta ask it, the program to spit out the right thing.
32:22 Speaker 02 It's the horse, but you must learn how to ride the horse.
32:24 Speaker 03 Exactly, and you don't, when someone wins the Melbourne Cup, you don't go, oh, the horse did a lot of work. Well done, jockey.
32:29 Speaker 02 The horse does win.
32:31 Speaker 03 Yeah, but the jockey also gets something.
32:33 Speaker 02 Yeah, but you don't go, oh, that jockey could have won on any horse.
32:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, but you definitely don't go, oh, he could have won running around against the horses.
32:42 Speaker 03 Is that still a run analogy?
32:44 Speaker 02 It gives people a sneak peek into how powerful your analogies were on stage just now. Well done, and Anna, I mean, you're, Anna kicked off with a flow chart.
32:52 Speaker 03 Yeah.
32:53 Speaker 02 Yeah.
32:53 Speaker 03 Yeah, you came out graph heavy and I thought you're, all you slides are gonna do.
32:57 Speaker 02 Yeah, my knees were absolutely knocking at that stage because I knew the first graph.
33:00 Speaker 03 And then they calmed down.
33:01 Speaker 01 That was the first one I did.
33:03 Speaker 03 Yeah, you can tell because it had so much effort in it.
33:05 Speaker 01 Yeah, you can tell, can't you? That makes me nervous about the second set of seminars.
33:09 Speaker 02 I gotta say, I gotta say.
33:10 Speaker 03 Oh no, did you, I loaded all my good ones in seminar one as well. Is that what you've done?
33:15 Speaker 02 I have two in seminar two, I have two in session two that I haven't quite thought through.
33:20 Speaker 01 Really?
33:22 Speaker 03 So why don't we just watch out there? Because it looked like you were making a lot of stuff up on the spot.
33:27 Speaker 01 Do you know what worked for you though, Ham? Like, a trained eye, Jack and I, knew that the pensive walks and nods and the circumspect type appearance on your face looked like you were about to deliver something with gravitas and profound, but we just knew you were searching.
33:43 Speaker 02 Yeah, I was just thinking. Well, you guys are reading your cue cards. I'm not. I leave my cue card in my seat every time. So I'm up there flying very fast to lose going, what would someone at a conference like this say now at a moment like this?
33:58 Speaker 01 That's good, though.
34:00 Speaker 03 It's actually, he sounds the most like an actual TED Talk because he does these long pauses where people can reflect on what he said.
34:06 Speaker 02 And the thing about a TED Talk is it's 90% pause, 10% substance. If you cut the 10% off at the end, you still did the nine. And that's still an A.
34:17 Speaker 03 Yeah, Andy, I noticed a few times your seminars were like, you had one about pools, could we swim in something other than water? And then you showed a whole lot of things and then you said, no, water is the best at the end.
34:29 Speaker 02 Yeah.
34:29 Speaker 03 We didn't actually learn anything from that.
34:31 Speaker 01 Yes, we did.
34:31 Speaker 02 Yeah, we did. It was worth the exploration.
34:33 Speaker 01 So you're saying you can't test any other method unless it's a correct one?
34:38 Speaker 03 No, okay, but I felt like we just came back to the start.
34:41 Speaker 01 Which is a really important thing for them to learn because otherwise they might go out and fill a pool with sparkling water and waste their time and money.
34:49 Speaker 03 Okay, okay.
34:50 Speaker 02 Well, I know, I know we learned, everyone learned something from my seminars because I always end with, what have we learnt?
34:55 Speaker 01 Yeah.
34:56 Speaker 03 Some people, half the time, people yell something out.
34:58 Speaker 02 Yeah, it's up to them. I mean, I can't understand it. They're giving all the answers.
35:02 Speaker 01 I think majority of the time, when you say, what have we learned? People, I see eyes roll up and.
35:08 Speaker 02 Because you want to get the answer right.
35:09 Speaker 01 Them going, yeah, what the have we learned?
35:12 Speaker 02 No, you want to get the answer right. And a lot of the time, they're getting it right.
35:15 Speaker 03 They're shy.
35:15 Speaker 01 Yeah. Were you hoping for more crowd participation on the what do we learn?
35:20 Speaker 02 So? Nah, I'm fine with that. We're getting some great answers out there. People, because it's always interesting for me as an educator to hear what the students are learning too. So I've been doing this for such a long time that I know what the lesson is.
35:31 Speaker 03 And as the other speakers on stage, it's interesting to hear if anybody learnt something from your seminars.
35:36 Speaker 01 Yeah, you've got about a 40% hit rate. So I reckon that's a dead up pass.
35:40 Speaker 02 I got, if you thought the infographics were powerful, wait till you see what I've got for the second session.
35:44 Speaker 01 Really? Thank goodness we've got Conrad still to bring us home, though.
35:56 Speaker 00 Conrad was up soon with the business twist on his new single, Different Kind of Love. But before that, it was time to start session two. And it seemed Andy had learned Hamish's use of the dramatic pause during the break.
36:12 Speaker 02 This next seminar is called Breaking the Glass Ceiling. Can we push through stereotypes when looking for a new career and when changing jobs?
36:24 Speaker 02 This covers off vocational education, recruitment and glass and glazing.
36:30 Speaker 00 As we progressed further down the list of industries, some holes in the speaker's preparation started to show through.
36:37 Speaker 02 This relates to drafting plumbing, signage, landscape supplies and marketing. I'd like to share with you an incredibly personal story if I could.
36:51 Speaker 02 My dad, some of you, if you're in the irrigation game, you might know the name Noel Blake. He was the registered director of small business Blake Irrigation.
37:02 Speaker 01 How many employees?
37:03 Speaker 02 Employee count, one, including Noel. Sometimes two, casual worker, Amish Blake.
37:10 Speaker 01 When he was suspended from school?
37:12 Speaker 02 We don't know when he worked. He was paid cash and files are murky.
37:21 Speaker 01 But dad?
37:24 Speaker 02 Sorry, I'm having a personal moment.
37:26 Speaker 01 Sorry, it looked like you were thinking of something to say, sorry.
37:31 Speaker 01 It's really hard to discern whether you're being emotional or just basically scrambling for things to say, it's hard to play it out.
37:37 Speaker 02 Well, I'm choking up.
37:38 Speaker 01 Okay, choke up.
37:40 Speaker 02 And I think I obviously have something to say because I've pulled all of those things together to talk about my father, who isn't with us.
37:49 Speaker 01 No, he's alive.
37:49 Speaker 02 He's in Melbourne.
37:52 Speaker 00 As we know with this team from their days as the cool boys, when you sniff blood in the water, attack to help deflect any blame or spotlight away from you.
38:02 Speaker 01 Whose job is it to name a street after somebody famous? In Australia, the responsibility-
38:09 Speaker 02 What did ChatGPT say?
38:13 Speaker 01 The responsibility of naming streets after famous individuals-
38:16 Speaker 03 Lies with local government authorities, not town planners. Local councils manage this process guided by state set geographic naming standards. When a proposal is made to honour somebody, councils often consult the community and consider if the individual has made a significant impact on the local area, state or country.
38:39 Speaker 02 I mean, look, I know I got choked up with emotion in my delivery, stop and start it, but it feels like this is the first at maximum second time you've read this.
38:50 Speaker 03 So in short.
38:55 Speaker 03 In short, this information can be found if you type this question into chat.
39:00 Speaker 02 Why don't I just give you my printed out handout and you can pass it around?
39:07 Speaker 00 By this point, all support from the sidelines was pretty much abandoned.
39:11 Speaker 02 Wealth management, private health and furniture restoration. It's all about protecting what matters, whether it's a health fund and the future of that money.
39:27 Speaker 02 Wealth management and the future of that money.
39:29 Speaker 03 Yes.
39:29 Speaker 02 Or furniture, restoring it so in the future it can be worth that money.
39:38 Speaker 02 That's easy to say, but how can we demonstrate?
39:42 Speaker 03 What else will I say?
39:43 Speaker 01 Not easy to remember.
39:45 Speaker 02 That's easy to say, but it's only 15 seconds. But it's only 15 seconds and I'm glad, I'm very glad. I'm very glad.
40:00 Speaker 02 Because I think it'd be more powerful to demonstrate.
40:03 Speaker 03 Yes, that's true.
40:07 Speaker 00 But everyone was still learning, even our keynote speakers.
40:11 Speaker 03 There are many buildings that may seem great architecturally, but are not possible. You've got to talk to an engineer about that.
40:19 Speaker 02 Is this about your house?
40:23 Speaker 03 Feels that way sometimes.
40:25 Speaker 02 If you're going to tax deduct your house because you gave this talk.
40:31 Speaker 02 We'll be right back after this short break.
40:34 Speaker 01 Short check at my local accountant.
40:37 Speaker 00 So, in the words of Hamish Blake, what have we learnt? Well, if you're from a particular taxation organisation listening to this, here's your proof.
40:47 Speaker 06 The biggest takeaway would have been that learning is just all around us and that education and entertainment really, really don't mix. I was learning far too much to ever be entertained. It's very intense. We came ready to learn and it definitely delivered. Didn't take as many notes as I probably should have. I think they did a very good job to not entertain us at all. Just feel like my brain is overflowing with knowledge. Like, I'm ready to get back to work on Monday, I'm prepared and I'm gonna probably be CEO by the end of the week, I reckon.
41:11 Speaker 02 I think for the small investment, I'm gonna see an ROI back at least 10,000%.
41:15 Speaker 06 It's an investment in your future, really.
41:17 Speaker 05 The graphics are great, especially the ones that still had the watermark on them. Save a lot of room for biscuits because they do not disappoint whatsoever. Biscuits, absolutely immaculate, perfect, 10 out of 10. The biscuits were amazing. I had my 10 biscuits that were allocated to me.
41:31 Speaker 01 Love a good Tim Tim. I preferred the premium macadamia white choc chip cookies. They were, for me, best biscuits there. Andy did an amazing job. The research, the attention to detail, the preparation.
41:44 Speaker 02 I think the preparation that Hamish put into his seminars was what really stood out to me. Jack Post really impressed me with his presentation. The way that he was able to demonstrate all of his knowledge just based off his own, his own human thoughts and no AI whatsoever, so I was really impressed with that.
42:01 Speaker 05 Well, I'm in the travel industry and today I learnt that an alternative means of travel from Brisbane to Tasmania is swimming, so it's nice to know that I can now offer that to my clients.
42:13 Speaker 07 Oh, the main thing I took away was that when I breed horses, I should not do cross-species breeding or breed them with a whale. I've been to a few conferences, never has it come up.
42:22 Speaker 02 And it's so relevant. The different types of stems, that was my industry. I had been getting confused with the different types of stems. So it was really good to have mine clarified. I've learnt that using a high pressure hose or a gurney with alcohol is a really good way of rehydrating yourself, responsibly of course. I'm in performing arts and I learnt to make more famous people.
42:40 Speaker 05 With my industry, I did get shown a video of Michael Jordan's best basketball dunk. And that was very metaphorical to me and I did appreciate that. My industry as a sign language interpreter, it was just phenomenal how they were able to really explain that to me and relate it to firefighting. Wow, phenomenal.
43:00 Speaker 06 I haven't actually started using ChatGPT yet. So I think after Jack's, I will definitely start to implement it.
43:06 Speaker 03 Be prepared to learn and that's it. And deduct it once at a maximum.
43:12 Speaker 02 My tax return will be pretty lengthy this year, I reckon. There'll be a few deductions, which must be very nice. So looking forward to those deductions.
43:19 Speaker 03 Look, as an accountant, I've learnt about so many different industries. There was just such research into every topic. I think, yeah, check with your local accountant.
43:29 Speaker 00 So after two days of networking, drinks, golf. I mean, unstructured networking. And solid educational learnings. There was only one way to bring this baby home. And that was with con con Conrad Sewell. His new single Different Kind of Love is out now. But Conrad was there to present a business twist on that single called This Plan Outlined Above.
43:55 Speaker 01 Will you please make him extremely welcome Conrad Sewell, everyone? Business musician.
44:03 Speaker 03 How good were the biscuits, everybody?
44:05 Speaker 01 So good.
44:06 Speaker 03 Now, I am in no way here to entertain.
44:08 Speaker 01 No.
44:09 Speaker 03 I have a message to deliver and it's purely educational.
44:13 Speaker 01 How many of your latest album tracks are like pure business?
44:17 Speaker 03 It's a very business driven album.
44:21 Speaker 07 You know, I just found myself after Covid, really wanting to succeed in other areas of my life. And, you know, I went the business route and I was very inspired. And it's created this album and it's great to be here sharing the message and educating everyone.
44:36 Speaker 02 Well, I mean, it's not common for an artist to release their song with the first draft of lyrics and then later refine the song into the version they meant all along. But you did it in an unorthodox way. You put it on Spotify, people loved it. But now imagine their surprise when they find out the real lyrics you meant to do that were business related.
45:01 Speaker 07 Yeah, it's just, you know, it's been an evolution of growth, you know, and, you know, I'm very proud of it.
45:09 Speaker 02 As you should be.
45:09 Speaker 01 We'll stand over here and point to appropriate slides to again emphasize how business this is.
45:17 Speaker 02 Ladies and gentlemen, what a legend, Kon, Kon, Conrad.
45:23 Speaker 07 Give it to me, John.
45:25 Speaker 02 Okay, final bit of learning. Shake it up.
45:29 Speaker 07 There'll be no clapping, guys. There's just... And no singing along either. Thank you.
45:36 Speaker 07 Bit faster. How did we end up here with our eyes filled with tears? Can we lead like we're young again?
45:51 Speaker 07 Only you know the sheets we've been through. We survived Covid plans, back in black again.
46:03 Speaker 07 You're the missing link in my supply chain. When it drives profits down the drain. I wouldn't go changing management.
46:15 Speaker 07 We can offer more internships And you'll never let me forget I wouldn't have it any other way Come on I know the global market As long as we're together Following this plan outlined above Following this plan outlined above No other to say, yeah Nobody does it better Oh Follow the plan outlined above Following the plan outlined above
46:56 Speaker 07 Oh If you're following the plan outlined above Following the plan outlined above Oh yeah No second verse needed Thank you very much
47:19 Speaker 02 That's educational
47:21 Speaker 01 Amazing, amazing
47:23 Speaker 07 I don't think I've ever done anything Serious with these guys
47:28 Speaker 01 Jack, Mike, come up here
47:29 Speaker 02 Wow, thank you so much, Con Thank you, mate Ladies and gentlemen, Jack, very informative speaker
47:34 Speaker 01 Thank you I can't, I can't wait to follow that plan outlined above It was so, such a detailed plan
47:40 Speaker 02 Technology, Mike
47:41 Speaker 01 Con, jump in the middle
47:42 Speaker 02 Couple of hiccups, but he did great Couple of missed files
47:46 Speaker 01 Thank you very much, everybody
47:49 Speaker 02 That's education, baby
47:52 Speaker 01 And, hey, I've just done the maths Where are we with session three?
47:56 Speaker 02 I think we absolutely crammed so much in Session three is officially Instruction Network, yeah!
48:06 Speaker 01 Enjoy the weekend, everybody Thanks so much for coming
48:09 Speaker 02 That concludes the official end Keep learning Thank you for listening Keep your receipts Have a great time Thanks, everybody
48:28 Speaker 01 Thanks for listening The Hamish and Andy Podcast will return next week Catch up or contribute at hamishandandy.com
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