Pod Insights Hamish & Andy 2024 Ep 280 - Goodbye to 2024, Podcast Mike and Team Loyalty About this episode In the final ep of 2024, the boys say goodbye to Podcast Mike, (attempt to) tie-up lots of loose ends, celebrate their most empathetic listeners, and Jack has an enormous decision to make....!!
1. Extreme empaths
2. Loose ends
3. A celebrity endorsement for digital bird collecting
4. New season of Remembering Project
5. Podcast Mike’s farewell
6. The decision
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0:23 Speaker 02 Ahoy to me Countdown, Hamish.
0:26 Speaker 03 Okay, yes, Countdown is, are we doing what Woolworths is called in other countries? Because of course in New Zealand.
0:36 Speaker 02 New Zealand Woolworths is called Countdown.
0:38 Speaker 03 But I don't know, I'm interested to see where this goes.
0:41 Speaker 02 Why does it shock you when you get to New Zealand and you see the exact same logo and font? And then it doesn't say Woolworths?
0:48 Speaker 03 Which is strange because the logo is a W.
0:51 Speaker 02 Yes.
0:52 Speaker 03 And so there is an argument to go, it definitely works better for Woolworths.
0:58 Speaker 02 There is a W in Countdown, it's just not prominent.
1:01 Speaker 03 True, true. Maybe around the world they do a name with all the different, any word has to have a W.
1:08 Speaker 02 Ahoy to my Frontier, Jack.
1:10 Speaker 03 It is. We all know in Sweden Woolworths is called Frontier.
1:15 Speaker 04 Frontier and Countdown.
1:16 Speaker 02 And I'm Destination. Frontier, Countdown and Destination. Are these names of spacecraft? No, we're all finals for the final show of the year, the final Countdown, the final Frontier, the final Destination. Jack and Hamish are both looking at it, Mike.
1:36 Speaker 03 I reckon he's actually got this because many people have noticed that on the New York Times, there's a game called Connections and that's essentially just what Mike is doing. They manage to get one up every day. Yeah, I feel like this is maybe lifted straight from Connections, but maybe not.
1:51 Speaker 02 Well, he's fist pumping. I feel like it broke our rule, which is like, we've never really gone like titles or something.
2:00 Speaker 03 We've never gone missing word.
2:01 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, like it's normally three of a certain sector.
2:05 Speaker 03 Well, it is actually, it is actually Mike's last show, so would you like to fire him?
2:12 Speaker 02 Mike, I can't have you doing this anymore.
2:13 Speaker 03 We might. Unfortunately, Mike, it might seem like a pretty minor misstep. But it's the straw that's broken the camel's back and you're fired.
2:23 Speaker 02 We want you to stick around to the end, Mike.
2:25 Speaker 03 You're hired. You're rehired for the rest of the show.
2:28 Speaker 02 But yes, bombshell, Hamish has just dropped. It is Mike's last show. We might get to that later.
2:36 Speaker 03 We might. We might touch on that later. But it is a good idea. Look, full credit, he has gone out well.
2:40 Speaker 02 Yeah. Ahoy to Arthur as well, who went to hamishnaddy.com to upload what he's been up to. I should point out, I have heard this one. Arthur brings up sea monkeys. Remember we were talking about that?
2:51 Speaker 03 Yes, there was quite a bit of backlash on sea monkeys. But was that this year? Was this year?
2:55 Speaker 02 Pretty sure it was this year. And then I think they must call them sea dragons in the UK. And that's why I just wanted to preface this little bit of audio with that. But this is Arthur.
3:04 Speaker 03 Gotcha.
3:05 Speaker 05 Hi, Hamish and Andy. I know you had sea dragons and they died. I had them and they died two weeks for free. Yeah. And I think it's completely a big waste of money. It's because I hate the sea dragons.
3:30 Speaker 03 Good on you. Getting involved in big issues early.
3:33 Speaker 02 He went on to really take down a store where you could get them from. And legals thought it was too close to slant. But I'll play it to you guys later.
3:45 Speaker 03 All right. I know what this is.
3:46 Speaker 02 I'll play it to you guys later. But the hearing of four year olds take down a big company was a treat.
3:52 Speaker 03 But honestly, we're on the cusp of the mandated break, right?
3:57 Speaker 02 Yeah.
3:57 Speaker 03 So it's not the show to start new things.
4:00 Speaker 02 No.
4:01 Speaker 03 But if 2025 involves a legal stoush or a class action with the sea monkeys people, sea dragon people, and they are forced in a court of law to back up the claims they make on their pack about these animals being...
4:15 Speaker 02 Oh my God, no way.
4:16 Speaker 03 Yeah, we'll be very confident. We'd be happily, we'd go into that, wouldn't we, Jack?
4:20 Speaker 02 Yeah, definitely. Because if they say that it's defamation, is that what they would be suing?
4:25 Speaker 03 Yeah, we would argue truth. We'd go, okay, prove to us that this is actually a living kingdom. Yeah, prove to us they're not shit. Onus is on you.
4:34 Speaker 03 Make me smile with some of the tricks they do.
4:38 Speaker 02 It is the last show before the government mandated, right? Boy, does it sneak up on you, doesn't it? And obviously we have lobbied and we, you put a call in, didn't you, Ham? To the government, what executive branch did you?
4:50 Speaker 03 I guess she's got the front desk. So they're gonna call back.
4:55 Speaker 02 Yeah, and just asking whether we could continue podcasting, but of course.
4:59 Speaker 03 I just wanted to check, I thought there might be a time we could just double check your mandates. See if they're still relevant. And you would think by now they would be loosening, but it does seem to be like the bastards are tightening it, unfortunately. That's not what we want.
5:10 Speaker 02 So, um, to cover off, we've got to cover off a lot of things in this final episode. Of course, Concom was a winner last week. Let's start, because they've been flooding in with Extreme Empaths.
5:20 Speaker 03 Let's do it. Let's do our last batch of Extreme Empaths.
5:22 Speaker 02 Including the opener, Jack, which of course is every song ever written, all played at once. We don't leave anyone out.
5:31 Speaker 02 First one's from Georgia Ham. Extreme Empaths uni edition, she writes.
5:36 Speaker 03 Cool.
5:37 Speaker 02 Writing in, because as soon as I heard your recent segment on Extreme Empaths, I knew I'd found my people. I'm currently studying psychology at uni and often find myself feeling bad for the people who get thrown in the et al part of the citation.
5:50 Speaker 03 Yep.
5:51 Speaker 02 Why should the person at the front get the credit all the time? Because of this, I often risk getting marked down with foreign accuracies in my reference list, because I will shuffle the names around and let other researchers have a turn at being the most important. Furthermore, if I'm using the same reference multiple assignments, I'll give each researcher a go at the front of the et al.
6:11 Speaker 03 That is very intricate. That is a good one. Jack, do you know what that's referencing?
6:16 Speaker 04 I don't know. I'm assuming it's like et cetera, et cetera, is it? So Joe Blogs and.
6:21 Speaker 03 If there's like, if there's like five, because what did you do at uni?
6:24 Speaker 04 No, I went to TAFE. Very successful.
6:29 Speaker 03 I only hung in there, it's okay. I only hung in there for two years.
6:32 Speaker 04 I didn't know. I thought it was you trying to pull the rug out from under me. No, happily TAFE educated.
6:38 Speaker 02 We do have our guards up later in the year.
6:41 Speaker 03 Jack punched me.
6:44 Speaker 03 No, I'm just saying, I hung in there for a couple of years at uni. You do have to do this in uni assignments where it might be like, you know, yeah, post Lee and Blake did this paper. And then when you cite them, when you put them in like the reference, you just have to go post et al. And the other guys get swept in.
7:00 Speaker 02 That's a bit pointless then, isn't it?
7:02 Speaker 03 Well, it just allows you to save time.
7:06 Speaker 02 Yeah. But then like, why, why, why put any names on there?
7:11 Speaker 03 You are meant to cite your references, although it's a good question, Jack. For any of the things that me and Andy wrote at uni, irrelevant to put the names on, they were often made up references anyway. I immediately looked at that system and went, no, why are you there checking this? Put anyone down.
7:25 Speaker 02 McFarlane.
7:29 Speaker 03 He's done it again.
7:32 Speaker 03 Sorry, have you got? Okay. I mean, this is a, this is a great, um, extreme empath comes in from Emily. Um, she recently learned that only female mozzies bite, right? And so she, she writes, and I, I learned that they do so only to get nutrients for their children. So sometimes if I catch a mozzie mid bite, I won't smash it or brush it away. I think, oh, well, you're already there. It's gonna witch anyway. Might as well let you have a good drink while you're at it.
8:02 Speaker 02 Love it. Uh, this is from Holly, extreme empath. My friend will not fully fill her petrol tank as she worries the car will feel bloated.
8:14 Speaker 03 Really good. Um, this is from Jess. I caught my friend Lexi quietly crying the other day. And when I asked what's wrong, she held up one of those mini paper clips that's half the size of a regular clip. It said, he's too young to be working.
8:33 Speaker 03 A common trap you see with extreme empaths is thinking that the small version of something is the baby. Baby version. Like teaspoons of the babies of the spoon drawer. Uh, from Ellie, extreme empath. Whenever I'm using the office shredder and I put too many pages in there, so I hear it slow down and struggle. I apologize.
8:52 Speaker 02 And I make sure I only put a single page in for the next couple of turns to give it a chance to catch its breath and recover.
8:58 Speaker 03 Gotcha. Active rest.
9:02 Speaker 03 Uh, this is from Big Az. He goes, around once every week, my wife will remove all the magnets from the fridge for a full day to give them, quote, "a little break."
9:13 Speaker 02 Give the magnets a break?
9:14 Speaker 03 Yeah, give the magnets a break.
9:15 Speaker 02 Okay.
9:15 Speaker 03 I think she must think they're just hanging on sometimes, you know, like, don't want to fall off the cliff.
9:21 Speaker 02 Like during solo.
9:22 Speaker 03 Yep. During summer, she'll do this every few days instead of weekly, insisting they must be getting exhausted in the heat.
9:31 Speaker 02 Luke, Luke in the UK, extreme empath. Ahoy. Here in the London Underground, you occasionally hear the computer announcer say, "The upcoming station has a short platform. I always feel sorry for the station with the IP inferior platform."
9:49 Speaker 03 This is great. This is from Julia. Last one for me. Julia, she's from New Zealand. She goes, "I'm not sure if this puts me in the same category as extreme empaths, but I think it does. I find myself doing this every week. When I clean out my guinea pig hutch, I make sure I always put newspapers showcasing a happy story, or even a Sudoku, at the top of the bedding pile, just in case they want to give it a read."
10:15 Speaker 02 Gusto to all.
10:16 Speaker 03 Gusto.
10:17 Speaker 02 Um, keep them coming in over the break, everybody.
10:25 Speaker 02 Hey, last show means we've got to tie up loose ends. And look, some are peter outs and you don't have to even acknowledge a peter out, but others, you know, they caught our interest. People might be still hanging on to them.
10:35 Speaker 03 Um, Jack, I, I mean, we missed a chance to wrap up a loose end. I just want to, can I just rewind back to ConCon?
10:46 Speaker 02 Hmm.
10:47 Speaker 03 Magician Mike was there. Magic Mike was there. We knew he was going to be there, didn't we?
10:51 Speaker 02 Yes.
10:51 Speaker 03 We knew he was going to be there doing, um, his magic.
10:54 Speaker 02 Yes.
10:55 Speaker 03 Uh, not entertaining magic, but just if people happen to be entertained by it, like that's on the house. He was mingling at the drinks and, you know, we knew he was going to be there. He was shocked that you didn't bring the jumper because you knew he was gonna be there and you had a chance to bring his golf jumper.
11:14 Speaker 04 I've made my thoughts, you know my position on that. He got a replacement golf jumper from the company. He has the same amount of golf jumpers in the exact color, size, make that he had at the start of the year. So he doesn't need the old one.
11:31 Speaker 03 But why do you have more then?
11:34 Speaker 04 I, I, I do happen to have it, but my position is he doesn't need it. I might decide to give it to him one day, but he is not missing out on a jumper.
11:45 Speaker 03 Why do you get to decide that?
11:47 Speaker 04 No, but he's not like, I, true, I might not be the one who gets to decide or not decide, but he.
11:53 Speaker 03 You've decided you are the one that gets to decide that.
11:56 Speaker 04 But he can't complain about it.
11:58 Speaker 03 He was wondering.
11:59 Speaker 04 He has the same amount of golf jumpers that he had at the start of the year.
12:02 Speaker 03 We've been here, we've seen the fundamental misunderstanding about ownership. That jumper that you have, that you borrowed from him, that specific item, who paid for that?
12:13 Speaker 04 Okay, well, he didn't pay for that because the company gave that one to him for free, as well as the refreshment one.
12:19 Speaker 03 Oh, okay.
12:20 Speaker 02 Okay, can I throw this hypothetically at you?
12:21 Speaker 04 Okay.
12:22 Speaker 02 If you've got a car, right? And you win another car, am I entitled to go and take your first car? You are then.
12:32 Speaker 03 We've decided that you have the same amount of cars.
12:35 Speaker 04 Okay, okay, so I, I was the one who got him the replacement jumper by contacting the company. So that would be like, I have a car. You buy me the exact same car, give it to me, then you are entitled to have my original.
12:53 Speaker 03 Okay, okay. Anyway, well, it was a missed opportunity. He went home cold.
13:01 Speaker 03 He said he went up to you several times at the welcome drinks and said, and rubbed his arms and said, I'm cold. And you again missed the cue.
13:12 Speaker 02 Uh, hey, we need any golf balls. Sorry, they're, they're sold out. We, and we did not make nearly enough.
13:18 Speaker 03 We did a boo boo, didn't we?
13:19 Speaker 02 Well, yeah, I wasn't going to talk about the boo boo.
13:21 Speaker 03 Okay. But no, we didn't, we didn't do one.
13:25 Speaker 03 Don't worry about that.
13:26 Speaker 02 What was the boo boo? Well, we put, we put them up on the website and we put the amount that we'd, we were, we had.
13:32 Speaker 03 Yep.
13:33 Speaker 02 But we'd forgot to click the button that said, don't sell.
13:37 Speaker 03 Any more than these.
13:38 Speaker 02 Any more than these.
13:39 Speaker 03 And all orders have been fulfilled. There was just some great chasing behind the scenes.
13:43 Speaker 02 Yeah. Yes. And we thank Taylor Made.
13:46 Speaker 04 Does some of them have the printed logo on and some have a handwritten one on?
13:49 Speaker 03 Some, some it's in crayon. No, they're all very, they're all.
13:54 Speaker 02 Dispatch will be there, uh, in the next few weeks. Um, one last loose end I've got my side of the fence.
14:01 Speaker 02 Search for a dollar coin.
14:02 Speaker 03 Yeah, that's fine.
14:03 Speaker 02 Our crusade to get.
14:04 Speaker 03 That's all going well.
14:05 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah. Well, we knew it was two years and we're, we're getting close to the first year of a two year thing. But people had commented at ConCon that we hadn't mentioned it for six months, which we said we wouldn't do.
14:18 Speaker 03 We thought we're doing everyone a favor. I thought we were mentioning it too much.
14:21 Speaker 02 But it did make.
14:22 Speaker 03 We went, we're mentioning it a lot without really moving the ball down the field.
14:25 Speaker 02 Yes.
14:26 Speaker 04 A year, that year went quick though, didn't it?
14:28 Speaker 03 Tell me about it.
14:28 Speaker 04 It felt like when you said we had two years, that felt like eternity. And now we're all suddenly halfway.
14:33 Speaker 03 My immediate instinct was to take six months off immediately.
14:37 Speaker 02 So I did say to Carly, um, where are we at? Like, have the treasury come back to us? You know, with the, this Royal Australian Mint, they interested in, it seems like we're getting heavy nose from them, which is a real shame. Then I was walking the dog during the week and it was as if it was serendipitous before this,
14:57 Speaker 02 this show, this final show. I saw a dog take a poo, wasn't mine, my dog or my poo.
15:05 Speaker 03 Yeah, I'm glad a dog didn't take your poo.
15:07 Speaker 02 A female owner went across and I saw her do that thing where she goes to open her bag, little pouch and doesn't have any plastic bags in it, which is a terrible thing for a dog owner.
15:18 Speaker 03 Yeah.
15:19 Speaker 02 Oh God, I can't pick it up. She turns around and she sees another dog owner, which is just euphoric. Yeah, great. They might have one they can lend. She comes across to me and says, hey, do you mind if I borrow a bag? I said, no problem. She goes, oh my God.
15:31 Speaker 03 Yeah, don't borrow it. I don't want a bag.
15:34 Speaker 02 She goes, oh my God, we've been talking about you guys this week.
15:39 Speaker 02 And I said, what, in what, who and what, in what context? She goes, you and, you and Hamish in the show. And I said, why? And she said, we're working on the dollar coin.
15:51 Speaker 03 Wow.
15:51 Speaker 02 And I said, do you work at the mint? She said, no. She told me where she works, but I'm not allowed to say where she works for fear of, cause it was very, she said it's very confidential and she's for fear of that getting out and now ruining our chances.
16:07 Speaker 03 Is it government?
16:09 Speaker 02 It's not government.
16:10 Speaker 03 But who else makes? Who else is working on coins?
16:13 Speaker 02 All I'm saying is, is even though we've gone silent, playing hard to get has worked because people are thinking about it.
16:21 Speaker 03 Wow.
16:22 Speaker 02 I mean.
16:22 Speaker 03 Where's she from? Is it her job to like do the design of the coin? She works for a design firm. She. I mean, if you work for a coin design firm and you don't have the mint as a client,
16:33 Speaker 03 I just can't see you getting heaps of jobs.
16:36 Speaker 02 Yeah. All I'm saying is this isn't an invented story like Hamish does at the end of every year.
16:40 Speaker 03 To be fair to Ham, it feels a bit like one.
16:45 Speaker 02 No details.
16:47 Speaker 03 Yeah, all the details are now allegedly secret.
16:51 Speaker 02 I will tell you guys in the break.
16:54 Speaker 03 Oh great. Well, I didn't know we could do secret updates. I've got heaps of loose ends I can.
16:59 Speaker 02 I don't wanna rock, I don't wanna rock this one. Because we don't have, as you know, we don't have too many leads.
17:05 Speaker 03 No, yeah.
17:05 Speaker 02 But um.
17:06 Speaker 03 But she's working on the, working on the coin as if it's already been greenlit by somebody.
17:11 Speaker 02 It hasn't been greenlit.
17:12 Speaker 03 Okay. So she's working on a pitch to get it greenlit.
17:15 Speaker 02 Already been pitched.
17:17 Speaker 03 Okay, mate. Well, what is?
17:21 Speaker 03 Whatever we say.
17:21 Speaker 02 I've said too much.
17:22 Speaker 03 Okay, hang on. Okay, I'm gonna do something about crumpets next year.
17:28 Speaker 03 There's a big case I've been working on, but no time to talk about it now.
17:36 Speaker 03 All right, we're wrapping up Loose Ends and this is a biggie that's out there, but I think we can land the plane on this one. People might remember listener Michael, who came to the show a few weeks ago as a fan of a new hobby he had taken up. He was scared to tell his friends, digital bird collecting. So it's an app that he downloaded where you take photos of birds in the wild and it like categorises them. And then you get that bird in your digital collection. And he said, look, I'm scared to bring it up to my friends because I like this, but we've never, there's no interest in bird watching in the group. I've never bird watched. All we talk about is, by his estimation, 90% of the chat is about sports.
18:13 Speaker 02 Yes.
18:14 Speaker 03 And I don't know what to do to make this acceptable in the group.
18:17 Speaker 02 We wanted to help him come out about bird watching, but at first we wanted to establish, are you sure your mates won't be accepting? So he called a bunch of his friends.
18:27 Speaker 03 This is very clever.
18:28 Speaker 02 As if he was working for his, I think his partner's uncle, taking market research on a new app involving birds.
18:38 Speaker 06 Hey mate.
18:39 Speaker 07 Hey man. Hello mate.
18:40 Speaker 06 Bit of a random phone call. I'm doing like market research stuff. So first question, on a scale of one to 10, 10 being extremely interested, how interesting does this app sound to you?
18:53 Speaker 07 Do you want me to, am I supposed to pretend to be someone that's interested in birds, like a three?
18:58 Speaker 06 A three?
18:59 Speaker 07 For me personally, it's a three. Two.
19:01 Speaker 06 Two, okay. So if this app was made, do you think you would download it?
19:06 Speaker 07 No. No?
19:08 Speaker 06 No.
19:08 Speaker 07 No. Probably not. No. What the?
19:14 Speaker 06 If one of your mates had this app and was snapping birds and adding them to their own digital collection, do you think you'd be more likely to download the app yourself?
19:22 Speaker 07 No, not particularly.
19:25 Speaker 06 Okay.
19:25 Speaker 07 No, I'm still not gonna get it.
19:29 Speaker 07 I would, I would believe them for.
19:33 Speaker 03 Okay, so a pretty.
19:35 Speaker 02 To damn me last sentence, I'd bully them for it.
19:38 Speaker 03 That's Mike. So he's calling there, that's a selection of his mates, like four or five of his mates. I would say unanimously, they're like, okay, this isn't, that's not moving the needle for us. We're not interested in that kind of an app.
19:51 Speaker 03 But he joins us on the line now, Mike, to reveal phase two, Michael. Well done, first of all. Ahoy, well done. Great gusto on the market research. How did it make you feel?
20:02 Speaker 06 Ahoy, boys. How are we?
20:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, great.
20:04 Speaker 03 Very good, mate.
20:06 Speaker 06 Yeah, so, yeah, I guess mixed feelings, mixed emotions. Obviously, you just want to hear nothing but good news and support, but, you know, I've got some honest friends.
20:16 Speaker 03 Okay, so after that point, you'd be thinking, right, I've got this passion. I love collecting digital birds.
20:22 Speaker 02 And did you reveal to them, Michael, then, actually, I am using the app?
20:26 Speaker 06 Yeah, so it was a bit of a, bit of a mic drop moment towards the end of the call. I said, it's a real app. And I have it.
20:35 Speaker 02 And how did that, and how'd they respond to that?
20:37 Speaker 06 Honestly, mixed feedback.
20:39 Speaker 02 Yep.
20:39 Speaker 06 Some, yeah, some were supportive, others, yeah, you heard, you heard that quote just there. One said, I'd probably bully you for it.
20:47 Speaker 03 So, well, good on you for having the courage to come out to your friends and be who you are and just go, look, this is me, guys. I love collecting digital birds. I've got eight so far and I'm, I want to get more. Then, then phase two of the operation came in. Now, you mentioned you threw out who a popular cricketer in your group would be. Mitchell Stark, Australian fast bowler. And he was able to get Mitchell Stark to record a video. Pretending that he was also on the bird watching app. I guess there's some sort of like community feature where he had then sent you a message as a fellow bird watcher. What did you think of the video, first of all?
21:26 Speaker 06 Always love the video. What access to context and it has.
21:31 Speaker 02 It was amazing.
21:32 Speaker 06 That's impressive. But um.
21:34 Speaker 02 Well, it's more for the listeners. People will drop everything for the listeners. This is a person in need. So I'm sure Mitch was happy to do it. But Michael, you then were charged with, well, we'll play the video now. Um, yeah, it's meant to be under the guise that he has DM'd you on this app. So Mitch Stark, Australian fast bowler, is also out enthusiastically trying to search for birds.
21:59 Speaker 07 Hi, Michael. I've actually seen you on the Birdwatchers app. I'm a big fan as well. Don't actually like playing golf, but I'm coming out to hunt some birds, looking for a new Holland honey eater. So hopefully I can find one before the round's done, but I look forward to sharing our passion.
22:14 Speaker 02 Lovely.
22:15 Speaker 06 Love it.
22:16 Speaker 02 When you saw that, Michael, even though you know it's fake, was it, did you feel?
22:22 Speaker 06 Are we sure it's fake? Are we sure he doesn't have an interest in birds?
22:25 Speaker 02 We're not sure.
22:26 Speaker 03 Yeah, well, Andy filmed it and I think it took Mitch a few goes to understand what it was. He was using, so I think we can at this stage say it is, it was performed with your best interests in mind. But did you heart skip a beat to be like, oh, there's a guy that I idolise and he's doing the thing that I love?
22:45 Speaker 06 Yeah, it was very exciting. Very, very glad to get some support from the staff.
22:49 Speaker 02 Um, so you then put that in the group WhatsApp. What has the response been since then?
22:55 Speaker 06 So it's a busy workday, but I have, have had a couple of good replies.
23:00 Speaker 02 And what did you write exactly?
23:01 Speaker 06 Oh my God, the chat's blowing up.
23:04 Speaker 03 Are you looking at it now, are you?
23:06 Speaker 06 What have we got here? One of them, one of them said, uh, wow, I suddenly love this app and bird watching. Um, oh yeah, one of them said, if he invited me to go bird watching, I would definitely go.
23:21 Speaker 03 Look at this. We've done it. We've turned this ship around. I mean, Mitch did it, but you know, we, we had the idea of getting it done. I mean, that's huge. Michael, how do you feel now? I mean, what a, what a great, I mean, end of the year too for us to put a real lid on this.
23:37 Speaker 02 Yeah.
23:38 Speaker 06 Boys, I'm elated. Like, that's every digital bird collector's dream, just to have support of their mates and, um, and infamous cricketers, so.
23:49 Speaker 06 It's connecting to be collecting a rare bird, I'd say.
23:52 Speaker 03 So well put. I mean, well, this is beautiful. We've tied it up with a ribbon and I hope you go into the government mandated break with full permission and new friends to go and hunt birds with. Just a quick update too, because it's been a couple of weeks. What's the bird count at now? Because it was at eight. What are we at now?
24:09 Speaker 06 Twenty-two, boys.
24:10 Speaker 03 Twenty-two.
24:12 Speaker 02 And what's your best? Because last time it was a very common cockatoo.
24:16 Speaker 06 Well, it actually came into contention when my mate asked what my favourite bird was that I collected. And I told him that emu and that was called into question because he was like, emus, they're not in the wild. And yet I said, yeah, there was one in dream world. And so it's been called into question and I've yeah, debated over it, my moral compass. And I've, I've since decided to delete all birds in captivity.
24:43 Speaker 06 And I've got a very honest 22 birds in my digital collection.
24:47 Speaker 02 Nice, Michael. And also amazing that a friend of yours is engaged enough to want to challenge the type of collections you're getting.
24:54 Speaker 03 I mean, can we, can we still find out that, okay, of the free birds that you've seen, of the roaming birds? Who's number one?
25:01 Speaker 06 I like the laughing cockatoo. It's just a cool bird. You know, it sounds, sounds nice.
25:05 Speaker 03 That's just a cockatoo.
25:08 Speaker 03 There's no special species that laughs.
25:10 Speaker 02 No, no, but it is a cool bird. It is a cool bird. I think that's why it features so much across Australian paraphernalia. Michael, thanks so much. Really happy to wrap that one up.
25:21 Speaker 06 Thanks, boys. Have a good mandated break.
25:23 Speaker 03 Yeah, well, mate, we'll obviously be battling against it.
25:34 Speaker 02 Hey, the government mandated break is upon us and this is our last, we're getting towards the end of our last show for the year. If you do have a thirst, though, for us chatting at you.
25:45 Speaker 03 Hmm.
25:46 Speaker 02 The Remembering Project also drops today.
25:48 Speaker 03 It'll be really. It's really fun doing the Remembering Project.
25:52 Speaker 02 Wherever you get your podcasts, it's available everywhere. Us looking back at, well, 20,000 talk breaks or whatever it might be.
26:00 Speaker 03 Yeah, back in the radio days, for people that are not familiar with the show, we pick a random day of the year. And then we look if we had ever done a radio show ever on that day of the year. We pick one thing we talked about from whatever year we pick and see if we remember it. Most of the time, we don't.
26:18 Speaker 02 We don't. That's going to be dropping every Thursday over the government mandated break. We have already recorded it, hence the got a green light from the government. But, boy, do we have a fair bit of back and forth with them on that one.
26:29 Speaker 03 Yeah, no, there is, but it checks out.
26:32 Speaker 02 One thing that I wanted to bring up, Jack, and Hamish, I wanted to present to you on this show, something we talked about, because it's going to be an ongoing concern.
26:42 Speaker 03 Okay.
26:42 Speaker 02 For our show now, I think it's going to leap.
26:45 Speaker 03 Yeah, I think it's coming over.
26:46 Speaker 02 Remembering Project, just kind of like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, sometimes had this crossover or Law and Order SVU and.
26:53 Speaker 03 No, no one is watching Law and Order to the extent that you are. I mean, I know less people are watching Better Call Saul, I personally think it's fantastic. But, I mean, no one's watching there as much Law and Order as you're doing. But I think Jack will remember this too, because he was there. He was, he was around for the inception of this, but yeah, jumping back from the yesteryear. I think it will come, will certainly be on our slate for 2025.
27:16 Speaker 02 Yeah, this is what we talked about on the Remembering Project.
27:20 Speaker 03 In 2012, in this patch of July, we were in the run up to Operation Share the Flame.
27:28 Speaker 02 Oh, that was great fun.
27:29 Speaker 03 It's when we were broadcasting from London, from your lair during the London Olympics or in the run up to the London Olympics. We were over there doing Gap Year. And we had an idea to not steal, and that really is the critical point.
27:41 Speaker 02 We weren't stealing.
27:42 Speaker 03 Not steal.
27:43 Speaker 02 Because stealing would mean they wouldn't have any left.
27:45 Speaker 03 Yeah, but to share the Olympic flame.
27:47 Speaker 02 Yes.
27:47 Speaker 03 Because one of the great things about the Olympic flame is fire can be shared. It can be multiplied. And if I have some fire and I light your fire, I do not have less fire.
27:57 Speaker 02 No.
27:57 Speaker 03 It's beautiful. It's actually a beautiful analogy. It's like love. It multiplies. And I think that's a beautiful thing to put out in the world. So we wanted to share the flame. We wanted to have our own piece of the Olympic flame that we could keep at your apartment burning for the duration of the games.
28:10 Speaker 02 So we'll map in the run, you were gonna wear a fake wooden dust in kerosene.
28:16 Speaker 03 That's. And then. Radio Mike has brought up on our website and worth a look, worth a look because we did do the rehearsal.
28:24 Speaker 02 Yes.
28:25 Speaker 03 So I was gonna wear a fake hand dusting kerosene waving to the torch as they come past.
28:29 Speaker 02 Yes, then you would then.
28:31 Speaker 03 Dip my hand into the torch, which would ignite the hand on fire. I then run to you waiting nearby.
28:36 Speaker 02 I'd put it in a lantern, get it together, wake up.
28:39 Speaker 03 I would be, I would be sprayed with the fire extinguisher and I would be arrested. But meanwhile, the flame would be safely shared.
28:46 Speaker 02 Oh, were we trying to cook like Mike's just showing us.
28:48 Speaker 03 There's a barbecue.
28:49 Speaker 02 Oh, maybe we're trying to.
28:51 Speaker 03 Cook Olympic sausages.
28:54 Speaker 03 But again, once a flame has been shared, it could do anything.
28:57 Speaker 02 Yes.
28:58 Speaker 03 I still don't hate the idea. I was actually, when we were watching.
29:01 Speaker 02 Brisbane?
29:02 Speaker 03 Yeah. Yeah, pencil it in.
29:05 Speaker 02 We would absolutely be able to get in Mole, an inside person. We'll know plenty of people that will be, that will be running with the flame.
29:12 Speaker 03 Yeah, I agree. And we'd do it on a back road. Like, we're obviously not doing it as it comes into the stadium.
29:17 Speaker 02 Pat Cummins would probably be asked.
29:19 Speaker 03 Get it. Yep.
29:20 Speaker 02 To you by then. And he'll probably have retired by then.
29:22 Speaker 03 Yep. Strand cricket captain, Pat Cummins.
29:24 Speaker 02 Yeah.
29:24 Speaker 03 Played golf with him yesterday.
29:25 Speaker 02 Yeah.
29:26 Speaker 03 Didn't, we didn't mention it to him.
29:27 Speaker 02 No, but he's.
29:28 Speaker 03 But it was a good.
29:31 Speaker 03 He's a rascal. He's up for fun.
29:33 Speaker 02 Yeah.
29:33 Speaker 03 And he would feign shock. Like, we wouldn't, we wouldn't want this pinned on him.
29:37 Speaker 02 No.
29:38 Speaker 03 But we, you know, he'd be like, oh yeah, I'll pretend I don't know what's going on. But we're like, all we need you to do is act like, oh, oh, oh. Confused, but dip the torch down.
29:45 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:47 Speaker 03 Be confused and have the torch in easy access. Anyway, yeah, great. We've got eight years to think of it.
29:51 Speaker 02 Twenty thirty two.
29:52 Speaker 03 Twenty thirty two. It's not over.
29:54 Speaker 02 No.
29:56 Speaker 03 Operation Shed, like twenty years in the making.
30:01 Speaker 03 And I've been reinvigorated by that.
30:04 Speaker 02 I'm invigorated.
30:05 Speaker 03 It pumps you up, doesn't it? We've only got seven years to organise this, Jacko. Are you back in?
30:08 Speaker 02 So why'd you say it will be on our slate next year?
30:11 Speaker 03 Well, just planning begins.
30:18 Speaker 02 I think we should definitely set an alarm for 2031, say, so it reminds us. But there's not too much we can do next year.
30:24 Speaker 03 I just would hate to get caught with our pants down.
30:27 Speaker 02 Let's set the alarm then next year, which is something we can tick off next year.
30:31 Speaker 03 Please tune in next year to hear the setting of the alarm.
30:35 Speaker 02 And then, when is it? In 2032, is it mid-year?
30:40 Speaker 03 Would be for summer reasons, I guess. Oh, that's northern hemisphere. Yeah, probably be like, I don't know. Good, great question. August, September, October?
30:49 Speaker 02 Again, if it's early, we wouldn't want it set it in 2031. We'd want it, the alarm.
30:54 Speaker 03 You know what, guys? This feels like a show one next year problem of when we can set the alarm.
31:00 Speaker 02 It is in, it is in an Australian winter, July to August 2032. Instead, put it north. Makes sense.
31:07 Speaker 03 Again, don't do too much this year because we are ahead of schedule.
31:10 Speaker 02 Sorry.
31:11 Speaker 03 Next year, set the alarm.
31:19 Speaker 02 Hey, you dropped a bombshell on everyone at the very top of the air show today. But I'm glad you did because I think it's given us all a chance to kind of ease into what is a big announcement. But a sad announcement.
31:31 Speaker 03 Crazy news.
31:32 Speaker 02 Crazy news, where Podcast Mike, come on, in fact, come in Podcast Mike.
31:37 Speaker 03 Come in, Mikey.
31:38 Speaker 02 He's, uh, he's on his way in. He hasn't stormed out after the, uh, had it. First up, how did you feel that last one was going to go down of the three things?
31:48 Speaker 03 I thought it was a creative spin on the style we've been doing in the past. So I thought that you guys would appreciate.
31:55 Speaker 02 That I've been, I've been, I'm branching out.
31:57 Speaker 03 No, it was great.
31:58 Speaker 02 Yeah.
31:58 Speaker 03 It was great. That sounds like an answer that was prepared by your lawyer.
32:04 Speaker 03 Um, you're not, you haven't been sacked for that, Mike. You are actually, you, you're going off to bigger and wider, grander creative projects. And we would never dare hold you back. Um, we looked into it legally and we can't, we're not allowed to.
32:22 Speaker 02 But Mike, we've loved you being part of the show. Obviously the listeners have loved you being part of the show.
32:26 Speaker 03 How long's it been, Mike? Two years?
32:28 Speaker 02 Uh, seven.
32:31 Speaker 03 No, it's just like a classic power move. Always good to end on a, always good to end on a power move.
32:37 Speaker 02 Seven years.
32:37 Speaker 03 Seven of the best, seven of the best, Mikey.
32:39 Speaker 02 Full time?
32:43 Speaker 03 Do we work under an alias at all?
32:49 Speaker 02 But Mike. Yes. We thought it was best for us to mention a few things. Yep. In a pre-recorded manner.
32:58 Speaker 03 It's with sadness we announce that on the other side of the mandated break this year, a valued team member won't be returning.
33:05 Speaker 02 Unable to make it through the harsh winter of the break, podcast Mike is spreading his wings and soaring onto bigger and better things.
33:13 Speaker 03 Well, who knows if they'll be bigger and better. It's very possible they'll be smaller and worse. But that doesn't mean we can't look back fondly at all the great times he's given us. Hello. Thank you for having me.
33:24 Speaker 02 It's a pleasure.
33:25 Speaker 03 It's a pleasure. It's also your job.
33:28 Speaker 02 Like not being able to boil water.
33:31 Speaker 03 Hey man, how's that water going?
33:32 Speaker 02 So good.
33:35 Speaker 02 Yeah, no, we'll be down really soon. We're going well up here. We're swimming.
33:39 Speaker 03 Great. Oh, don't, that's not great. That tells me it's not boiling too much water.
33:43 Speaker 02 You, you said it's, the last message we got was it's taking half an hour to boil water. Why?
33:48 Speaker 03 Are you on a camp stove?
33:50 Speaker 02 So basically the only.
33:53 Speaker 06 Stove top in this building is a, is like an inductive heat stove, like a electric heater.
34:01 Speaker 02 And you didn't have an inductive pan.
34:03 Speaker 06 And the only pot in this building is like this massive aluminium pot.
34:07 Speaker 03 So you're out on the rooftop with mirrors trying to use a concave mirror to boil a pot of water.
34:13 Speaker 06 And everyone's saying like, oh, just use a kettle or like boiling water. And like, I did that, guys. I'm not an idiot.
34:19 Speaker 02 Cause down here it was feeling for a bit like you were an idiot.
34:24 Speaker 06 Well, that was my fear.
34:25 Speaker 03 When we heard half an hour in, into the boiling the water saga, you still had cold water.
34:31 Speaker 02 We just envisaged you up there rubbing the sides of a pot, hoping to friction.
34:35 Speaker 03 Ferociously microwaving mugs of water and dipping them into a pot.
34:40 Speaker 02 And his struggle with saying dates on the Remembering Project.
34:44 Speaker 03 It's the sixth of September.
34:46 Speaker 02 Go again on that one, you just did the lot.
34:48 Speaker 03 Oh, sorry. Okay.
34:51 Speaker 03 It's the sixth of Sept- oh, please, people, voice on.
34:53 Speaker 04 No, it's a tough one, cause it's.
34:55 Speaker 02 I don't think you're saying sixth.
34:56 Speaker 03 Yeah. Why don't you say September sixth?
34:59 Speaker 04 But I've done all the other ones this way.
35:00 Speaker 03 Who cares? You're gonna blow anyone's mind, we still know the day.
35:06 Speaker 04 Oh, do fight.
35:07 Speaker 02 You're, you're, you're forgetting that there's a T H. Yeah.
35:12 Speaker 04 It's the six- sorry, no, sorry.
35:14 Speaker 02 Yeah, you got this.
35:15 Speaker 04 It's the sixth of, no, I can't say it. It's the sixth of September.
35:20 Speaker 02 Yeah, so you're just saying six, six, it's the sixth of September, it's the sixth.
35:24 Speaker 03 We need a, do you want to do a quarter separate thing?
35:26 Speaker 04 No, no, no, I do it. It's the sixth of September.
35:34 Speaker 04 Is it too pronounced?
35:36 Speaker 03 It is, but it's good.
35:37 Speaker 04 It's the sixth of September.
35:39 Speaker 03 That was good. That was great.
35:41 Speaker 02 More than anything, we'll always remember the crushing twenty hour a week workload of organising three things, and none more so than when he got the definition of a neutron wrong and had to apologise for the show's official apology language. Song.
35:56 Speaker 03 So here's my apology about subatomic particles and Andy Lee. I'm not my boy Jimmy Utron, I'm just me. Here's the chorus now, one, two, three. Now, yes, that was a job for me on Andy's pod with Hamish B. And it's caused a little controversy, so this is my apology. I said, yes, that was a job for me. I take all responsibility. And please take this as my decree. No more mistakes, cause I'm sorry. At the time, Mike lost in organising three things. He was able to make up by insane typing speed. There was one moment before I worked on this show where I worked at a liquor store. And a guy came up to me and said, do you sell this product? I typed it into the system and he looked at me and said, wow, you type so fast. I want you to come and work.
36:41 Speaker 03 That's a true story. Now, obviously, the job never came to fruition. This did happen.
36:49 Speaker 03 That is a true story.
36:53 Speaker 03 Where did the guy work from? I think he worked in an architecture firm. Yeah, he just wanted to be a type copy for it. But he's just the kind of guy that he's like, look, I have an absolute bullet train of thought. So you better try and keep up because one day I might be, I might be interested in buying Jim Bean. The next day I could be in a bread shop and I might be looking for a poppy seed loaf. And whatever I'm thinking of, I want you to type it up. He's asked for a six pack of BB. You've ended up working for CIA.
37:21 Speaker 03 But mostly I'll miss his Pokemon knowledge that helped me be a better informed dad. Who does the kick?
37:28 Speaker 05 Mudbray.
37:29 Speaker 03 Mudbray?
37:29 Speaker 07 Mudbray is a ground type donkey Pokemon.
37:32 Speaker 03 Kidding, Mudbray is a ground type donkey Pokemon.
37:36 Speaker 07 And it evolves into Muddale at level thirty.
37:38 Speaker 05 More like a horse.
37:39 Speaker 03 And it evolves into Mudstey at level thirty.
37:43 Speaker 05 That's not how Pokemons work.
37:44 Speaker 07 Yes, it is.
37:44 Speaker 03 Yeah, it is.
37:45 Speaker 05 It is not, they don't have levels.
37:48 Speaker 07 They do have levels.
37:48 Speaker 03 They do, no.
37:51 Speaker 05 You're listening to facts about them.
37:53 Speaker 03 What?
37:54 Speaker 05 You're listening to facts about them.
37:58 Speaker 03 Listening to facts about Pokemons?
38:00 Speaker 05 Oh, yes you are.
38:02 Speaker 07 Has cover been blown?
38:03 Speaker 03 I really aren't, I can't hear anything.
38:06 Speaker 02 No, don't take the uni, don't take the plug out.
38:10 Speaker 03 Oh no, I need that back. I need, I need that back. That helps me think.
38:16 Speaker 05 I know.
38:18 Speaker 02 What's going on, Amy?
38:24 Speaker 05 I knew you were hearing purple facts.
38:27 Speaker 03 How did you know that?
38:28 Speaker 05 I could barely hear them.
38:30 Speaker 03 Could you hear them?
38:31 Speaker 05 A little bit, yes.
38:35 Speaker 02 Good luck, Mike. Rest easy in your new role. We know the workload here has been inhumane.
38:42 Speaker 03 Can I say, Andy and I probably agree, these are the hardest parts about making these shows. No, it's not. The hardest part. The hardest. The hardest thing about the Hamish and Andy podcast. I'm skis, I'm a toboggan, you're a snowboarder, what are we? Things people use in the snow. Alright guys, go home. That's the hard bit over. No, but now do 20 more of those. Not 20 in the whole day. I have to crank these ads a week.
39:10 Speaker 02 Here's the three things for you. Hilarious, committed, and a voice worthy of a half scholarship. Answer it to you, Mike. Yeah. Yep. And that barely took us 10 hours to think up. 10 hours off.
39:23 Speaker 03 Powerful stuff, Mike.
39:24 Speaker 02 All the best, buddy.
39:25 Speaker 03 Thank you so much, guys. And thanks for everything you, you have created. It's meant the world to me. So thank you so much. I love you guys.
39:33 Speaker 02 Beautiful.
39:34 Speaker 03 Cheers, mate. Even though it sounded like I was crying there because I was eating some McFlurry.
39:41 Speaker 03 I am emotional to see you go, Mike. You, you are irreplaceable. It's on behalf of listeners here that you've given so many laughs to, mate. We love you. Go well. Thanks.
39:57 Speaker 02 It's nearly the end of the show, but there is one more loose end.
40:01 Speaker 03 I thought we'd, I thought we'd tied everything up, sir.
40:04 Speaker 02 No, there is one more thing.
40:06 Speaker 03 That's right.
40:09 Speaker 02 Only a few weeks ago, Jack Post, after holding on to something for a couple of years,
40:17 Speaker 03 Yep.
40:18 Speaker 02 Raised it again with the group
40:21 Speaker 02 that he wanted to play his weasel card. Because we all agreed that um, once, only on the pod, we can name a company and hope that they send us something for free.
40:32 Speaker 03 Blatantly name check them and through no smoke or mirrors, simply get on our knees and beg.
40:41 Speaker 02 And there was a rule that came up at the time, which was,
40:45 Speaker 02 if everyone gets it,
40:47 Speaker 03 Yep.
40:47 Speaker 02 It's fine.
40:48 Speaker 03 Well, Will, the other two won't stand in the way if they too can wet their whiskers.
40:54 Speaker 02 This is what Jack asked for.
40:58 Speaker 04 No, what a golf cart. A motorized golf cart.
41:00 Speaker 03 A motorized golf cart.
41:02 Speaker 04 Not like the one that you drive, the one that you're a moat.
41:05 Speaker 03 The one that you drive.
41:06 Speaker 04 A motorized golf buggy.
41:06 Speaker 03 No.
41:07 Speaker 04 The one that you drive.
41:08 Speaker 03 Jack, they're like 15 grand, aren't they? They've got to be expensive.
41:12 Speaker 04 That is. I didn't want to waste it on just anything.
41:16 Speaker 02 Well, the system works, Jack.
41:19 Speaker 04 Oh my God. You're kidding me.
41:23 Speaker 02 I won't ask you what your preferred one was because I think you've named a different brand to the one that's come from.
41:29 Speaker 04 I'm, I am not picky. Have you really, have you really got a golf cart?
41:32 Speaker 03 Well, you were picky, I'll say it. Because we said that there were two main brands. Yamaha and Club Car.
41:40 Speaker 04 Yep.
41:41 Speaker 03 And you opted for Yamaha.
41:44 Speaker 04 I play their guitars. I thought the guitars might be as good as their cars. So I would happily drive a Yamaha golf cart, but Club Car is probably my preferred. Is probably my preferred golf cart.
41:59 Speaker 02 It is ours as well.
42:01 Speaker 03 It is ours as well. The weasel always known for his excellent sense of smell. And when, when he senses the winds changing, the weasel can smell which way to go. The weasel has chosen wisely by moving in the direction of Club Car. Also a famous golf cart brand.
42:20 Speaker 02 Now, Club Car reached out to us, Jack.
42:23 Speaker 03 You're kidding. If this is real.
42:25 Speaker 02 And they are happy to be the heroes here. And again, they've always been my preferred.
42:30 Speaker 03 One. I've independently always found them the best value in experience.
42:35 Speaker 02 Well, they actually don't distribute straight to the consumer. There's an intermediate, which is In Golf and Utility, who have always been my favourite intermediate.
42:45 Speaker 03 In terms of golf cart middlemen, I wouldn't go anywhere else.
42:50 Speaker 02 So, Club Car.
42:52 Speaker 03 Sells to the.
42:53 Speaker 02 Brought to you by In Golf and Utility have raised their hand and said, we will participate. This is the voicemail message, though, left by Andrew from Club Car on my phone yesterday.
43:07 Speaker 07 Hey, Andy. It's Andrew from Club Car here. Sorry we keep missing each other. We'd love to help out with the golf cart. We'd only be able to provide one, no due to expense, but hopefully you can understand that. Buzz me back to chat about it. Cheers.
43:23 Speaker 03 Okay, that does throw a cat amongst the pigeons.
43:28 Speaker 02 Yes.
43:29 Speaker 03 A ball in the bunker because one is not the deal.
43:33 Speaker 02 Well, Jack was the one that brought up the fact that it had to be for all of us, or it was none.
43:39 Speaker 03 I mean, I thought I meant like it could be for all of us. Like when Andy, you asked for the vacuum cleaner, they were nice enough. We didn't ask for three, but they were nice enough to send three and I'll even give my vacuum cleaner back.
43:53 Speaker 04 Thanks, mate. From two years ago. That will cover the golf cart.
43:58 Speaker 03 Let's ask Club Car. Okay, we know you're only sending one golf cart. What if we gave you two used vacuum cleaners? Do you think you could shake loose another two carts?
44:08 Speaker 02 It was clear on the day that Grab was there. You were keen to enjoy this new system where it was one for all or none for all, Jack. We end this year's pod with a decision, but before you jump in now, I want you to think about it really carefully.
44:26 Speaker 03 Okay.
44:27 Speaker 02 We'll give you some time to think.
44:30 Speaker 02 Well, I think it's fair to say that the entire world is eager.
44:32 Speaker 00 Clearly awaiting the outcome of this monumental decision.
44:36 Speaker 04 This is something that we did two years ago on the show. It's been in the back of my head ever since, waiting for the right time.
44:42 Speaker 02 This is absolutely extraordinary.
44:43 Speaker 04 Well, everybody is on pins and needles across the country. And today is the right time to bring it up. Oh, what a golf cart.
44:51 Speaker 00 This is absolutely extraordinary and it is stunning. While the stakes are clear to us all, it's amazing to think just how we've arrived here.
44:57 Speaker 04 We're allowed one weasel each for three figs.
45:00 Speaker 03 Uh, one's each, but we all get the fig.
45:02 Speaker 00 This is epic. This is monumental. And let's not forget exactly what was said.
45:07 Speaker 03 Um, it's on the record. It's been widely reported. You're gonna send three of it.
45:11 Speaker 04 Yeah. It's like when you bring a cake to school and the teacher says, you got enough for everybody?
45:15 Speaker 03 Yeah.
45:15 Speaker 04 Yes.
45:16 Speaker 03 Okay, guys.
45:16 Speaker 06 Because we can't dispute that fact. So that's quite correct. We can't dispute that point.
45:21 Speaker 03 We all get the fig.
45:23 Speaker 04 Oh, what a golf cart. Not like the one that you drive, the one that you're a moat.
45:27 Speaker 02 The one that you drive.
45:28 Speaker 04 A moat is a golf buggy.
45:29 Speaker 02 No, the one that you drive.
45:30 Speaker 03 Jack, they're like fifteen grand, aren't they?
45:32 Speaker 04 I didn't want to waste it on just anything.
45:35 Speaker 03 Hey, Andy. It's Andrew from Club Car here. Sorry we keep missing each other. We'd love to help out with the golf cart. Uh, we'd only be able to provide one no due to expense, but hopefully you can understand that.
45:46 Speaker 01 Now, we gather here because the time has come.
45:48 Speaker 03 This is a huge decision, huge impact.
45:51 Speaker 06 I've never seen this before, a decision like this be made by one individual.
45:58 Speaker 03 Uh, imagine the pressure on this man, big deal.
46:01 Speaker 00 It's a huge decision.
46:02 Speaker 04 You got enough for everybody?
46:03 Speaker 03 We all get the fig. We'd only be able to provide one no.
46:06 Speaker 04 Oh, what a golf cart.
46:09 Speaker 03 The time has come where actions speak louder than words.
46:14 Speaker 03 We've had everybody else biting their nails, so I guess it's time for them to stop chewing. The answer to the question everybody wants to know.
46:22 Speaker 03 What's your decision?
46:31 Speaker 04 So you're asking me to make a decision on behalf of the team if I would be happy to accept just one or not? Is that what you're asking me?
46:41 Speaker 04 I would be happy to accept one golf cart and for you guys to not get one.
46:52 Speaker 03 Zero hesitation. I didn't have a clock running on that, but that was never, as a man spoke truer from his heart.
47:02 Speaker 04 I'd love to say that was all a joke, but it's not. You've got yourself a cart.
47:06 Speaker 03 You're kidding me. You're kidding. Mate, you played the weasel card. We've been stiffed out of our carts. So you, obviously you are happy to play the weasel card with conditions.
47:17 Speaker 04 Guys, unlimited rides for both of you. Unlimited rides.
47:23 Speaker 03 Thanks, Jack. No, no, no. You've done all the work. You've done all the work, Jack.
47:29 Speaker 04 But.
47:30 Speaker 03 Do you want to say it again clearer?
47:32 Speaker 04 Club cart brought to you by In Golf and Utility.
47:35 Speaker 03 Yep.
47:35 Speaker 04 Thank you, Club Cart. Thank you, In Golf and Utility. I won't let you down. You guys are gonna have as many rides as you want and I'll even take some listeners for a ride.
47:46 Speaker 03 He's so drunk on the excitement. What else will you do for the listeners, Jack?
47:51 Speaker 04 No, don't ask it. It'll be a paper. What a bombshell. I mean.
47:57 Speaker 03 Jack, will you take, will you take one listener to the Gold Coast to Movie World?
48:02 Speaker 04 No, no, no. I'll do, but I'll do many things with the golf cart for them. If they want to ride in it, if they can go in it.
48:10 Speaker 02 Let's, let's.
48:11 Speaker 03 Anyone?
48:11 Speaker 02 Let's just, let's just make this clearer. Let's just actually.
48:14 Speaker 03 How many rides are you giving away? Fifty?
48:16 Speaker 02 Can I put down?
48:19 Speaker 04 It will pick three. People submit how they'd like to you.
48:23 Speaker 03 I want to hear Jack over promise.
48:25 Speaker 04 Okay. No, no, three is probably a reasonable amount.
48:28 Speaker 03 I reckon we could have had him promise 50.
48:31 Speaker 04 I know he was high and excited.
48:33 Speaker 03 Can I just ask you this? Because I know the great people from Club Car.
48:36 Speaker 04 And, and in, in golf and utility, in golf and utility.
48:40 Speaker 03 We'll be listening. Where will you store the car during the week?
48:44 Speaker 04 Well, I'll, I'll have to like, maybe get like a shed or something out the back that I can put it in of my house.
48:51 Speaker 02 So you're gonna buy a shed?
48:53 Speaker 04 Yeah, well, because I don't want it outside in the rain.
48:55 Speaker 03 No. But we're currently, if it, if it gets delivered like this weekend, where's it going?
48:59 Speaker 04 I'm so excited. Well, go to my house.
49:02 Speaker 03 Yeah, I know. But where, like, where do you, what are you gonna keep it under in case it rains?
49:06 Speaker 04 Well, I can't, there's the, I don't have any, I've got no carport, no garage. I guess I could bring it inside. The back doors are wide.
49:16 Speaker 04 Back doors are wide enough. Maybe the back doors are wide enough.
49:19 Speaker 03 How big's your back door?
49:20 Speaker 04 No, it's like a double, double opening.
49:23 Speaker 03 So you'll be able to ramp up to the back, drop your golf cart into the lounge.
49:27 Speaker 04 And then it'll sit behind the couch.
49:31 Speaker 04 And we could even, you can even watch movies from it, maybe.
49:35 Speaker 03 This has got.
49:37 Speaker 04 I can't wait.
49:38 Speaker 02 Amazing way to end the pod.
49:41 Speaker 04 I don't want to show full excitement until I know it's a hundred percent real.
49:44 Speaker 02 But it's no trick, last minute trick. And his, uh, Club Car Adventures will be a feature next year's pod. Thanks for being with us this year. Unfortunately, the government are coming down hard, so we've got to go out of here. But enjoy your government mandated break if you can, everybody.
49:58 Speaker 03 Can't wait for a ride.
49:59 Speaker 04 You won't regret this. You won't regret this.
50:06 Speaker 01 Thanks for listening. The Hamish and Andy Podcast will be back again next year. In the meantime, new episodes of Hamish and Andy's Remembering Project will drop every week across summer.
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