323 - Hame & Jack Join Andy’s Wedding Planning Team

Hamish and Jack set some tricky challenges for Andy to weave into his wedding planning. You try to stump the boys with the first batch of Tell Us Someone entries for the year. With golf an unpopular topic on the podcast and at home, Hamish has come up with an interesting way to conceal it. Plus, the boys catch up on some important loose ends! 1. Tell Us Someone We Haven’t Thought Of In A While 2. Hamish Paints The Mona Lisa 3. The Wedding Challenge Ideas 4. Jack’s H&A Boardgame

• 0:02Speaker 00

  A Listener Production.

• 0:07Speaker 01

  Activate your internet because the Hamish and Andy podcast starts in three, two.

• 0:17Speaker 01

  Sorry, it's still buffering. One.

• 0:23Speaker 02

  Ahoy to the end, Hamish. The end? Yeah, sounded pretty ominous then, didn't it? Hmm.

• 0:29Speaker 03

  I mean, if Jack's the beginning and you're the middle.

• 0:31Speaker 02

  It means we're brony, huh?

• 0:32Speaker 03

  It means we're, yeah, this could be the end of this game.

• 0:36Speaker 02

  Ahoy to the overworld, Jack. Oh, okay. That sounds like it exists in some kind of fantasy land. I was gonna say new trilogy. Yeah. And I'm the Never. Yeah. Something. Like Narnia or. Like Stranger Things or something. Hmm. Kind of in the wrong. I thought you would be the best chance to get this, Ham, uh, not for just general intelligence, just because I'm smart, I mean, Jack, like. Just a quick, yeah, of course I'm gonna hear that. Because your kids may be at the level. Oh, Fortnite or Minecraft? Oh, it's Minecraft. Minecraft. Mighty Minecraft. The three primary Minecraft dimensions. Yep, the Never. The Never, overworld, and ahoy also to Kim Wilson, who went to hamishandandy.com,

• 1:21Speaker 02

  and she uploaded what she's been doing lately, very easy to use system.

• 1:25Speaker 00

  Ahoy, Hamish and Andy, this is Kim from Queensland. I'm currently climbing up, um, Mount Fox Glacier hike in the South Island of New Zealand. And.

• 1:36Speaker 02

  Look out for bees.

• 1:37Speaker 00

  It just struck me, this piece of information I've been sitting on, that, um, I'd better share with Hamish and the people. Hamish, next time you're on one of your must be nice, uh, holiday adventures and you get a little bit of backdoor difficulties, try vitamin C.

• 1:53Speaker 02

  Really?

• 1:53Speaker 00

  It's, uh, nature's own natural laxative.

• 1:56Speaker 02

  Interesting.

• 1:56Speaker 00

  So I'm not sure if it's as potent, uh, enough to squeeze a couch through a cat flap, but hey, if you don't have one of those little glycerine capsules handy, it's worth a shot. Uh, let me know how you go. Bye, guys.

• 2:11Speaker 02

  Powerful analogy is obviously stuck. Yeah, that was a quote from her quoting you.

• 2:17Speaker 03

  Quoting me back in the keep it or delete it last year. Is it just me or a lot of our listener send-ins? First of all, well done on your hike, him. But.

• 2:27Speaker 02

  Heavy breathing.

• 2:28Speaker 03

  Everyone's out of breath, but it's on a walk. It's, I think it's because it must take so long to sort of upload this thing. People associate it with an arduous event.

• 2:36Speaker 02

  They feel exhausted.

• 2:37Speaker 03

  I'm, well, I'm on a difficult, you know, one to, I'm doing the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. What's the second hardest thing? Oh, uploading something to the Amazon any website.

• 2:47Speaker 02

  I like that people are in these moments.

• 2:49Speaker 03

  They're out and about, they're thinking of, I was gonna say, I'm all for it. I love the adventure feel that we've got with these listener messages. In fact, I'm almost, I can't make it a rule.

• 3:00Speaker 02

  No, you don't have to be puffed.

• 3:02Speaker 03

  We'd like to know why you're puffed and, you know, let's get some variety in there.

• 3:07Speaker 02

  Hey, I'm starting the pod today with tell us someone we haven't thought of for a while. The best time for anyone to participate in this game because we can't have thought of them this year, obviously being March. Have we thought about them in the first two and a half months? Your chance of winning a hat sent in have greatly increased when you play it at this time of year. Ham, what are the hats today?

• 3:28Speaker 03

  Three hats in front of a Sando. The first is sort of a trucker style, country, country trucker style. If you're familiar, that has kind of like the band around the mesh. Navy blue, fluoro green embroidery, appreciate that, not printed. On the front, smaller hat, not quite the quality, not the highest quality truck you've ever seen. But the business, there is a lot going on with the business. It's in futuristic print. You know, well, the futuristic print from the nineties, where it's almost like the digital clock reader. Dubbo Mobile Locksmiths in fluoro green. Okay, this is the company. Then it shows you a padlock next to that with a whole bunch of kind of like.

• 4:11Speaker 03

  Gridlines or it almost looks like a train map system. Tentacles. Well, it's almost like things labelling the lock. There's nothing written, but it's how you it's sort of like, almost like it's analysing the lock and it will crack this padlock. Yep. So it's trying to give off this sort of, I guess, like, high-end AI feel to mobile locksmiths in Dubbo, but you know, it's probably just Dale turning up with the regular tools, which I respect because it's a skill I don't have. But you do, you'd have to admit from the people at D N L that your hat is giving off severe AI vibes in an industry that I don't think so far would be utilising too much AI. Try and make it appear a bit more sophisticated than these. I would say the hat has, there's been investment in it.

• 4:55Speaker 03

  I think there's been poor style choice. Yeah, I mean, but some people might like that futuristic feel. Middle hat is, yeah, it's not the best. This is easily the worst hat. Plain black Velcro back, at least favourite of the fastenings, actually even cheap Velcro when I felt it there. Least favourite of the fastening systems. Real simple, it is embroidered, so it points there for a slight price increase, cost per unit, but not by much. What's the brand? Auradon, protects style drive, no idea what they do. Difficult to discern what that business is from the three words they've used to advertise it. The next hat is a fascinating hat. It is, they've gone all out.

• 5:37Speaker 03

  Okay, this is a, people familiar with the brand, this is an actual country trucker cap, C T C, which is a higher quality hat. Yep. It's not mesh, it's a full fabric backing, it's a deep hat. It's got a mobile number on this. Mate, the company's advanced droning, right? And I assume they mean drones, like, you know, flying drones. Giving you the advantage is the, is the tagline, again, seems a little bit spying. Yeah. Like, advanced droning. Remember we had the segment years and years ago, it was like, what have you spied on with your drone? Yes. So it's a bit of that. On the side, yeah, it's someone's mobile number, just on the side of the hat they've gone. I feel like this might be a one man operation and that's his number or her number. On the brim of the hat.

• 6:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, you never see this. They've gone extra embroidery for, I was gonna say the company tagline, but that company tagline for advanced droning is giving you the advantage. It just says, let's hook in. Yeah. Yeah. So what does, what does that have to do with drone? That's a fishing. I don't know. Are they fishing, are they fishing with drones?

• 6:41Speaker 02

  Is this a drone fishing company? Not to our knowledge.

• 6:43Speaker 03

  A bit of a shake of the head from outside. It would have been huge if it was. They've gone for embroidery pretty much on every panel and I think they've run out of things to say. Every possible embroidery. Then they put the logo back above the snapback. Yeah. As well. Like that is, this is the most expensive hat by far.

• 6:57Speaker 02

  Yep. Oh, okay. That'd be my pick today, although not, none of them are that great.

• 7:01Speaker 03

  I'm fast. I really want to call this number and go, what does let's hook in mean? And does it just mean like, let's do business?

• 7:07Speaker 02

  Well, let's do that after we've played this.

• 7:09Speaker 03

  I think we should.

• 7:15Speaker 02

  About Gabriella Chilney.

• 7:17Speaker 03

  Well done.

• 7:24Speaker 03

  In any given year, I think you could win in December with Chilney.

• 7:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, in a while. Joining us now, James, ahoy to you.

• 7:32Speaker 04

  Ahoy boys. Gusto be with you.

• 7:33Speaker 02

  And Gusto to you, sir. James, tell us someone we haven't thought of for a while.

• 7:39Speaker 04

  Thinking the nineties Ironman superstar, Trevor Hendy.

• 7:43Speaker 03

  Oh, bad luck.

• 7:44Speaker 04

  Oh, you're joking.

• 7:45Speaker 03

  I have been thinking about Ironman.

• 7:50Speaker 03

  Not specifically Ironman, but I wouldn't have thought of Trevor Hendy. But I was actually chatting with a mate the other day because we were kind of like, this is a common refrain for parents. How you're like, guys, you know, you're telling your kids, we had nothing on the weekend. We didn't have screen time because there's nothing on, like there's nothing on. Like when you grew up in the eighties and then on, remember on Sunday mornings, Surf Life Saving? If you're, if you're born kind of after 1985, you'd remember in the nineties, you can't get up. Superstars. You get up to watch, wow, they must have had a mate at Channel 10 or something. Grant Kenny. It was filmed like it was our national sport. Yeah. And it's just guys on kneeboards surfing and then running up the beach. But we watched it because we had no choice.

• 8:29Speaker 02

  James, unfortunately at Old Mate's pub in New York, we were bringing out Speedos, Old Mate's Speedos. And we're talking about, could we track down one of the old lifesaving champions? That, that was a conversation.

• 8:42Speaker 04

  Guy Leach or Trevor Hendy.

• 8:44Speaker 02

  Guy Leach was the other one. I think that's three. Give us another one behind Grant Kenny, Guy Leach and Trevor Hendy.

• 8:50Speaker 04

  They're the, they're the top three, aren't they?

• 8:53Speaker 03

  Yeah. Name, you know, name the fifth tenor.

• 8:55Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:58Speaker 02

  Thank you, James, but I'm sorry about that.

• 8:59Speaker 03

  Bad luck, James.

• 9:00Speaker 02

  Harry, howdy you. Harry?

• 9:02Speaker 03

  Gusto, boys. How are we? Gusto to you, Harry. Give us someone we haven't thought of this year. This is a bit tough after the recent Olympics, but have you thought of 2000 Olympic legend, Eric the Eel? Hmm. I don't think I could say I've specifically... Oh, mate, I might have mentioned him. I don't think he did.

• 9:30Speaker 03

  No, because I want you to, I want you to get a hand, James, but I know in my heart I did because I was explaining to someone.

• 9:37Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:38Speaker 03

  When we were watching the curling about how you and I endo.

• 9:41Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 9:41Speaker 03

  For one hot afternoon on radio, we thought we'd be an Australian curling team. We thought we could just, no one had thought of it. And we're like, let's, let's start curling for Australia.

• 9:51Speaker 02

  Cool runnings, but just.

• 9:52Speaker 03

  And I explained to someone, I was like, we thought we could Eric the Eel it, where no one from that country had entered into swimming. So anyone that entered goes to the Olympics.

• 10:00Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 10:00Speaker 03

  We thought this was our magic idea. We were going to go to the Winter Olympics. It would be so funny. Then we found out Australia does have a curling team. They're actually very, very good. They're just outside Olympic qualification.

• 10:08Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 10:09Speaker 03

  People have thought of curling in Australia.

• 10:11Speaker 02

  And the other thing about it was you don't necessarily get in as your team. They pick the four best curlers.

• 10:17Speaker 03

  Yes. So on the off chance, one of us actually was amazing at curling, like, and made the national team. Because we were like, you know, you, me, Jack, Hawkes, let's all go to the Olympics. And yeah, it's a dream shattered, but Eric the Eel was kind of our inspiration. I think I have mentioned him.

• 10:32Speaker 02

  Sorry, Harry, uh, but commiserations.

• 10:34Speaker 03

  Sorry, Harry.

• 10:35Speaker 02

  From Harry to Leon. Leon, ahoy to you.

• 10:40Speaker 05

  Ahoy, boys. May the gust to be with you.

• 10:42Speaker 03

  And also to you.

• 10:43Speaker 05

  Okay. Do you recall the famous singer from, I think it was the nineties, Meryl Banebridge?

• 10:50Speaker 02

  I do recall her, but I haven't recalled her this long.

• 10:53Speaker 03

  Not have. This would be the, you'd be watching the freshest recall I've had for some years.

• 10:57Speaker 02

  What does Meryl sing?

• 10:59Speaker 03

  Um.

• 11:00Speaker 02

  I've got, I'd be close. Didn't she sing, "I'm a bitch, I'm a lover"? Was that a Banebridge? No?

• 11:06Speaker 03

  That's your thing of your ringtone.

• 11:09Speaker 03

  But she doesn't sing that.

• 11:11Speaker 02

  It was kind of like that mouth. She sings.

• 11:14Speaker 03

  That's right, yeah.

• 11:15Speaker 02

  Kiss me on the mouth, on the teeth. That one.

• 11:18Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 11:18Speaker 02

  Uh, Leon.

• 11:20Speaker 03

  You've got it, mate.

• 11:20Speaker 02

  You've got yourself a hat. Well done.

• 11:22Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 11:23Speaker 02

  Which one would you like to go with?

• 11:25Speaker 03

  Well, they all sound pretty terrible, to be honest.

• 11:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, it wasn't great.

• 11:29Speaker 03

  You'd have to be between Dubbo Mobile locksmith if you've got a smaller head or advanced droning if you've got a deeper head. Uh, I think a deeper head, so let's lock that one in. Let's hook in. Let's hook in. Well done, mate. It's coming your way.

• 11:46Speaker 02

  James, wrap this up for us. Tell us someone we haven't thought of in a while, James.

• 11:51Speaker 05

  Uh, so this is someone who was very big in the 2010s, but I haven't really heard from them much since, but Ronda Rousey.

• 11:59Speaker 03

  Oh. Oh, I do think I've mentioned her.

• 12:03Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 12:04Speaker 03

  And I'm sorry about this, but I think I have. We had a chat the other day about, uh, I was chatting to a mate of mine about she's, she's a WWE fighter now. Like she's in the wrestling. She's gone to, yeah, she's gone to wrestling because someone, you know, almost as if they knew this conversation would happen. We're like, whatever happened to her? And I was like, I saw her as a wrestler.

• 12:21Speaker 02

  What a strange change up.

• 12:23Speaker 03

  Well, she's got the athleticism. She's an entertainer.

• 12:25Speaker 05

  Pipeline though. It's a real pipeline.

• 12:27Speaker 03

  It's a pipeline, yeah. James knows. I mean, you've got, you've got the ring experience. You know how to entertain. You can give press conferences. You don't actually have to get hurt anymore. That's a huge bonus.

• 12:37Speaker 02

  And then it is a gateway to a Hollywood film of some description.

• 12:41Speaker 03

  She just, I think she was in one, yeah. She just took, she just saw the opportunity. I mean, no, no harm to her at all. Hey.

• 12:47Speaker 05

  Don't go for it.

• 12:48Speaker 02

  Oh, congratulations, Ronda. Bad luck though, James.

• 12:52Speaker 05

  No, I'll take it.

• 12:53Speaker 03

  James, we had Ronda Rousey on our radio show. She was in Australia for a huge UFC fight.

• 12:59Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 12:59Speaker 05

  She was massive. She was everywhere and then just went.

• 13:03Speaker 03

  We all, I always think of this story when we think of her because we wanted to do this thing where we made a realistic cake of Andy's head.

• 13:11Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 13:11Speaker 03

  And we wanted her to punch it so we could just see the force of her fist going into Andy's face and her handler. Wouldn't let her punch it because they're like, she injured her hand before the fight. It was like a $50 million fight or something. So like. And when like it's cake. Yeah. Not even a fruitcake, not a hard cake. It was actually quite a soft mud cake and I punched her and I survived. So I think I'm tougher than.

• 13:34Speaker 02

  What happened was in this happened in radio all the time. You had an idea. You put all this effort into it. She says no. So she just watched Hamish punch a cake. And that was the segment, not quite to someone who's getting.

• 13:46Speaker 03

  Checking her what's going. I wonder if I've contractually fulfilled my promotional obligation.

• 13:53Speaker 02

  See you, mate. Thanks, guys.

• 13:54Speaker 03

  Thanks, guys. See ya.

• 14:00Speaker 03

  And yeah, gentlemen, I find myself, well, I find this is a conundrum because I need to tell you a golf story. But I know it's not popular content. No. On the podcast, but it's not popular content at home. I've got nowhere to talk about it.

• 14:16Speaker 03

  Because boy, oh, boy, is golf not popular at home at my house. I heard you copying it from the, of all ages, Zoe and Rudy. My daughter Rudy just has it in her head. Like the, the, you know, I think I've mentioned before on the podcast, like even if I'm in the pool with her. And we're just swimming and playing and I might be maybe underwater, just thinking about like the golf swing, the rotation, you sort of, you know, when you, when you get into golf, you're sort of practicing a little bit all the time. It's a real middle aged. I'll say man, middle aged man thing to do. You see him at the airport all the time, just guys just practicing their golf swing. Anyway, underwater, like Rudy will pop up, you're like, I know you're doing golf under there. And you're like, oh my God.

• 15:01Speaker 03

  I wasn't. And she's like, I know you're doing golf. I feel like I'm so sorry. I've got a club, like an old golf club in the bedroom, behind the curtain. It's hidden. And it's just for, if I'm ever alone, having a bit of dad time, just to practice. The field. That's why I just like have it just to, because I've come to golf later in life. So you're trying to learn this skill. You're trying to learn, it's like trying to learn violin when you're 50. It's like, okay, you're not just immediately going to be good at violin. Go to kind of practice the, whatever you have to do for violin. It's a motor. I was just gonna, you know, you gotta practice like fingers and frets and stick. Yeah, you know, you gotta practice.

• 15:40Speaker 02

  So hide them around the house. Find the amount of violinists that have hiding bows.

• 15:47Speaker 03

  Just under the couch cushion. Are you doing violin in there? I wasn't.

• 15:54Speaker 03

  Put that coat hanger down. It's not a violin. It's just practising the movement. Anyway, there's, there's an old club behind the curtain. Rue's in the bedroom the other day. We're having a chat while she's rolling around on the bed. Kind of rolls off the bed, lands sort of near, on the floor, near the curtain. And it peels back a bit. She sees the bottom of the curtain, she's like, she goes, oh my God. Like goes, pulls it out, she's like, really?

• 16:22Speaker 03

  Like it's a bong.

• 16:24Speaker 03

  And I promised I'd stop ripping bongs in the bedroom.

• 16:30Speaker 03

  Really? I was like, Rue, it's just for when I'm alone.

• 16:36Speaker 03

  It's like, no. Right, so golf is not welcome. And I have to hide it. Golf's my dirty secret. Obviously I don't play on weekends, but I, if I've got a chance and can squeeze in some, just manage to in my very, very busy week, sometimes might find a Wednesday or Thursday, whatever to play. Or both. Or both, ideally both.

• 17:00Speaker 03

  So it's always during school hours, right? So you guys know a bit of this story, but I haven't told you the full scope. But I know it's a golf story, so I'm going to change the analogy. I'm going to pretend it's about something else, but just so it keeps people vaguely interested. Yeah, good idea. But I played in the club competition, like last week. Okay, when does the analogy change? Okay, so imagine you are part of an art club. Okay. And every week, all the people in the art club get together for a couple of days on the week and you, you go in the art club comp. Yep. And it's just for the members of the art club who like to see how they're going with their painting compared to the other members. Okay.

• 17:43Speaker 03

  If you win the art competition for that week, you feel great. You're the best artist of that day at the art club. How the handicapped work in this art analogy. A number of brushes you could use. More colours. You've got better paints. So I, I'd gone to Zoe, hey, I'm, I'm happy to, she's like, can you pick up kids, you know, you pick up, would you be able to do school pickup? No worries. That's at three thirty. Art Club started at eleven thirty. Now, usually it takes about five hours to do a painting.

• 18:22Speaker 03

  So you're looking at that mass, you're like, that's gonna be tough. I think we're gonna finish painting at about four thirty. So I go, I'm just gonna paint half the picture, nine holes of the picture, if you will.

• 18:35Speaker 03

  So, and I'm with my friend, I'm with my friend Barry, and I was like Baz, you know, and he's like, great, I've only got time for nine holes. So I was like, great. So we go and we're, we're, we're painting away and we get to the halfway mark. Now, it turns out, imagine if you were just painting for fun and you're like, I'm gonna paint the Mona Lisa today. And you get halfway through the Mona Lisa and you're like, oh my God, I'm actually painting really well.

• 19:01Speaker 03

  This could be better than the original. I mean, I, I've done most of the mouth. I haven't done the eyes yet, but everything's, if I just do the eyes, this could be the best Mona Lisa I've ever painted. But I'm meant to be going, I'm meant to be going home. But if you're on a roll creatively with the paint. So I, I messaged though, cause now it's sort of like, whatever it is, like one thirty, two o'clock. And I go, yep, still need me to do big. I was like, actually, my days change around. I can, I'll, I'll grab the kids. But if you could be home at four, remembering the painting might not be finished till four thirty. Plus travel time. Yeah. If you could be home at four, that'd be great. Cause I'll be a bit cooked. Like, yep, might be a sniff after four.

• 19:49Speaker 03

  My response.

• 19:52Speaker 03

  You know, I don't tell her I'm halfway through painting the Mona Lisa. I just go, I'm going about my day, you're going about yours. Might be a sniff after four. She goes, okay, well, you know, can you take them out as soon as you get home? Yep. Proceed to just then knuckle down and just like, just work, focus one, one paint stroke at a time. Just can I keep making this masterpiece? I happened to win the art competition. Wow. So you paint the whole thing? You finish the whole Mona Lisa. Finish the painting. I've won the art competition. Great. Congratulations. In this art world, there is an objective system where there is an art judge who says you've got forty two points for winning that. Oh, that's very good. That painting's worth forty two points. Yep. And the nearest artist had only managed to score thirty nine points that day. So it's

• 20:35Speaker 03

  a decisive win. Usually when you win an art competition, you would love to enjoy.

• 20:42Speaker 03

  With the people that you've been painting with. Fellow artists who understand how hard it is to get the eyes just right. Get that smile, just smirking, usually smiling, it's like. And it's rare to win the art competition. It may not happen again for years. Yeah, yes, yes. And you know, yeah, you wanna win every time, but of course, that's the nature of art. So I couldn't celebrate. I had to, I was like, this is great, but I've run to the car, like run to the car, pack up all my art, rip my smock off, I actually didn't take my smock off. I, but I put all the brushes in the car, kind of get home, we're pushing, you know, four fifty. Traffic wasn't on my, on it. Quite stiff. Open the door, quite a stiff, a deep sniff, past four o'clock.

• 21:26Speaker 03

  I open the door and I hear, um, I was like, sorry, I'm my traffic, I'm here. And I hear this chirpy, you know, there, everyone's in the lounge room, they're like, no worries, that's fine. Great. And so I'm like, okay, good. This isn't as, perhaps as bad as I feared. But then I walked into the lounge room. And you still had your arts smock on? I still had my arts smock on. Oh, no. And that's when the mood soured.

• 21:54Speaker 03

  You can, I hadn't mentioned I was painting that day.

• 22:03Speaker 03

  And I had paint all over me.

• 22:06Speaker 03

  And even though I painted the Mona Lisa. And the best Mona Lisa anyone had ever seen that day at that course. The club. She doesn't wanna see the paint. Didn't matter, didn't matter. Nah. It is, she was like, are you in K B B? Rudy goes ballistic. She's like, oh, my God, he's been painting, painting.

• 22:26Speaker 03

  And we end, actually went out for dinner that night. So I took the kids like, all good, all good, all good. You know, ran into the other room, you know, quickly, that took him out, we even played. We entered for an early family dinner that night to the local Chinese place. And I hadn't, remember, I'm still privately on cloud nine because of the painting I did. But I wasn't allowed to enjoy that with anyone, anyone, not in the family, couldn't enjoy it with the people, my fellow artists. And at dinner, um, I, I wouldn't, I was very rare, um, for me to drink during the week, drink alcohol. But I'd miss the celebratory beers. So like the waiter comes around, it's like, you know, get you guys a drink. Very, very normally I'd be like, no, no, all good, just water's fine. I was like, I, I will.

• 23:11Speaker 02

  I will have a beer.

• 23:12Speaker 03

  Cause I painted the best.

• 23:16Speaker 02

  And I, and I was like, hmm, okay. Like, you know, for a Wednesday night or whatever. And so I had to sit there at dinner while everyone's having the spring rolls and just go, good on you, mate.

• 23:29Speaker 02

  Little party. I should have got two beers. So I had someone to cheers with. I'm just like, heck of a painting today, mate. That's what we're talking about.

• 23:37Speaker 03

  Keep those brush strokes up. Good on you.

• 23:40Speaker 02

  Good on you, Da Vinci.

• 23:49Speaker 02

  Hey, um, and Jack.

• 23:51Speaker 03

  Hello, mate.

• 23:52Speaker 02

  He's still here, Jack.

• 23:55Speaker 03

  Mate, stick around for the whole show if you want.

• 23:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, we talked last week about my wedding is happening later on in the year. And the suggestion was a game, cause I'm in the planning phase at the moment, a game where you both had to come to me with three things to try and weave into the wedding as a suggestion for something we might do in activity.

• 24:14Speaker 03

  Yep. Some element of the wedding.

• 24:16Speaker 02

  Element of the wedding. And I'll try and bring them up and record them during planning with Beck and the wedding planner. It's a game between the two of you. There's going to be three things each, but all of varying difficulty. We have your 1.1, which is something simple that we might be able to put in.

• 24:31Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 24:32Speaker 02

  A two pointer and then a three pointer. I will try and lay all six of them at the table and we'll see who takes out the victory.

• 24:39Speaker 03

  Jack, I don't know how you've gone with this homework assignment, but the mind races with excitement. Now, I think I was split in my incentives. Obviously I want to win this game just due to my competitive nature. I want to score more points than Jack and that means getting more ideas accepted. But then I am also, if I'm being really honest, tempted.

• 24:59Speaker 02

  To go bold.

• 25:00Speaker 03

  Well, tempted to go bold, but also to go.

• 25:03Speaker 02

  To embarrass me.

• 25:03Speaker 03

  No, not embarrass you, but this will be fun to hear Andy have to sell this in. Knowing that it might not be something that Beck approves of, but I'd like to hear Andy have to earnestly sell this in.

• 25:14Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 25:14Speaker 03

  So I think the higher mine go in points value, maybe the more I was thinking the latter.

• 25:22Speaker 03

  Jack, kick it off. What's your one pointer?

• 25:23Speaker 04

  My one pointer I actually think is a great idea that you should execute.

• 25:27Speaker 03

  Great.

• 25:27Speaker 04

  Because you do the Guess Who game during the tennis, I thought get a custom game of Guess Who made with all the wedding guests as characters and you can have them made and everyone takes it home as a gift.

• 25:41Speaker 03

  Oh, right. A lot of cats, a lot of people in there. Maybe just the top thirty, because remember last-

• 25:47Speaker 04

  We are ranking the guests today.

• 25:48Speaker 03

  Talking about, talking about, you know, you've made the top eighty, but how many, you know, lower do you think you would have been on the number? This would, you would find out if you're in the top thirty if you make the Guess Who board. Do you think you're ever gonna sit down and play a game of Guess Who with my mate? Andy's auntie?

• 26:08Speaker 04

  Not invited.

• 26:09Speaker 03

  Oh, sorry.

• 26:11Speaker 04

  No, he's probably something.

• 26:16Speaker 04

  He's-

• 26:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, mom couldn't, we're just-

• 26:23Speaker 04

  It's probably something that you play once, but it's a great, you keep safe for you guys as well.

• 26:27Speaker 03

  One pointer?

• 26:27Speaker 04

  That's my one pointer.

• 26:28Speaker 03

  Oh, gee.

• 26:29Speaker 04

  Because I thought that was realistic that you could do that.

• 26:32Speaker 03

  A lot of effort and a lot of money. And I think Andy's right.

• 26:34Speaker 04

  People for that.

• 26:35Speaker 03

  But I think Andy's right. Like as a guest, you'd be like, I don't know who these people are. Like, not all of them.

• 26:41Speaker 04

  It's a great icebreaker on the night as well to go like, oh, is that something?

• 26:45Speaker 03

  There's eighty, eighty boards floating, floating around. What are we all carrying around with us like to the dance floor and stuff? And the cards?

• 26:52Speaker 04

  So you don't carry it around, but you can chat about it. Like, oh, have you seen the game we all got? Yeah.

• 26:55Speaker 03

  When do we give it to them?

• 26:57Speaker 04

  Give it to them at the start.

• 26:58Speaker 03

  Yep. So everyone carries a board game for the entire wedding?

• 27:01Speaker 04

  Okay, there's a, there's a board game table that you leave it on till then.

• 27:04Speaker 03

  Before or after all the men get given suits, which was a great idea.

• 27:10Speaker 03

  That's just making this like the Oscars. He just wants, he just wants it to rain down gifts on the guests. I'll try my best, but I- I'm an easy one pointer for you, Andy. Easy. Um, let's add a little bit of fun to when Beck has to throw the bouquet for the reception. Let's get a T-shirt cannon. Oh, great. Hmm, that's a good idea. Easy. That's fun. That's how you do a one pointer, Jack. Great, okay.

• 27:33Speaker 02

  But how are you gonna do that?

• 27:35Speaker 03

  Well, you need to be a high roof.

• 27:36Speaker 02

  And but how you get a bunch of flowers to work in a T-shirt cannon? Because doesn't it have to have high pressure built up from the T-shirt rolled up?

• 27:43Speaker 03

  My god, mate, stuff them in a roll of T-shirts. It doesn't matter too. Have a T-shirt, mate. Beck and Andy, you know, married, just married T-shirt. Wrap up the flowers in that, pop it in the cannon.

• 27:52Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 27:53Speaker 03

  Jeez.

• 27:54Speaker 02

  Jack, your two pointer.

• 27:55Speaker 03

  God, this is why you're not a wedding planner. You can't just fall the first hurdle. You solve the problem.

• 28:00Speaker 02

  My two pointer is say to Beck that Jack will play beautiful acoustic guitar as we walk down the aisle.

• 28:06Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 28:07Speaker 04

  That should have been your one pointer. I think she's more likely.

• 28:09Speaker 03

  Okay, this is interesting. This is interesting because I've also got a Jack-related two pointer.

• 28:14Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 28:15Speaker 03

  I would like you to say to Beck that because it came up on the show that Hame's a groomsman and Jack feels left out. I would like you to put forward that he's the flower boy.

• 28:31Speaker 03

  And say it's really mean, it would be really meaningful to him. And it's because Jack's not in the official party, it's affected the on-air mood of the show.

• 28:42Speaker 02

  Have you chosen a flower girl or flower boy?

• 28:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 28:45Speaker 02

  Because you've got nephews and nieces.

• 28:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, that's pretty fun.

• 28:49Speaker 02

  There's no rules.

• 28:50Speaker 03

  You can just have someone special to you and you are a little boy.

• 28:53Speaker 02

  This is, this is, this discerns the order now. I'll have to start with the flower boy and then

• 28:57Speaker 03

  As a compromise.

• 28:59Speaker 02

  Reach back to the guitar.

• 29:00Speaker 03

  That means we're not gonna get Jack as a flower boy, doesn't it realistically?

• 29:03Speaker 02

  Well, you never try.

• 29:04Speaker 03

  You're never going to.

• 29:05Speaker 02

  Please try.

• 29:06Speaker 03

  Yeah. Please try.

• 29:07Speaker 02

  A lot of this depends how well you can sell something in.

• 29:09Speaker 04

  You must try.

• 29:11Speaker 02

  Flower boy one, I'm gonna have to say to Beck, it should be, I think it'd be funny.

• 29:15Speaker 03

  It would mean a lot to him. And his nickname, his nickname on the show, he's just a little boy and people will get it. Yes, people will get it. People get it, but it actually would mean a lot to him.

• 29:26Speaker 02

  Okay, I'll add that bit in, but all I'm saying is she will, if I go earnestly to say, Jack, I think Jack should be the flower boy, she won't believe me.

• 29:33Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 29:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, so, so I'll have to dress them up somehow, but that's fine.

• 29:38Speaker 04

  But me playing acoustic guitar could be earnest.

• 29:40Speaker 02

  I think that could be earnest.

• 29:42Speaker 03

  Okay, what's your three pointer?

• 29:43Speaker 04

  My three pointer is you suggest to Beck that you both sing your wedding vows.

• 29:48Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 29:50Speaker 03

  Hame, your three pointer? I saw something on Instagram.

• 29:54Speaker 02

  Sorry, with the singing, is it to like a um tour song, like a parody song?

• 29:58Speaker 04

  Acapella.

• 29:59Speaker 02

  Acapella.

• 30:01Speaker 03

  Okay, like meaningfully, it has to be.

• 30:02Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:03Speaker 03

  You can't, Andy, you can't do parody wedding vows.

• 30:06Speaker 02

  Why not?

• 30:07Speaker 03

  Uh, fair enough. So, I mean, but usually that is the one bit.

• 30:11Speaker 02

  Can we take this bit seriously?

• 30:12Speaker 03

  Is we have gathered here to like rather than to do, you know. I like big love and I cannot love.

• 30:23Speaker 03

  Save for the reception.

• 30:25Speaker 02

  Great.

• 30:25Speaker 03

  Um, I saw a thing on Instagram where the guy, instead of the ring bearer, had his golf cart, like electric golf buggy bringing the rings.

• 30:32Speaker 02

  Oh, great.

• 30:33Speaker 03

  Now, that's been done, but that was like a bit of a golf touch to the ring moment. Would you get, instead of a box that has the rings in them? A, you make a little golf ball sized box? And Hogs, who's the, who's the groomsman? Chips, chips the rings to you.

• 30:51Speaker 02

  That's a lot, it's like.

• 30:53Speaker 03

  From off the, off the, I was like, does anyone here have the rings? And so you make a custom made golf ball that has the rings in them.

• 30:58Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 30:59Speaker 03

  And he's got a little bit of astroturf, you know, 10 metres off the podium or wherever the, you know, the main stage.

• 31:06Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 31:07Speaker 03

  He's, he's a good golfer. I'd, I'd volunteer, but.

• 31:10Speaker 02

  Nah.

• 31:11Speaker 03

  Too much pressure on the chip.

• 31:14Speaker 03

  And Cammy, who is your brother, who's the best man, it is, he doesn't play golf, so he'd happily, we'd all, we'd all love to see Hogs have a go.

• 31:21Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly. And then I think it would be, I mean, now I want to do this. So, yeah, you and Cam in a slips court and Hogs is going for you.

• 31:29Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 31:29Speaker 02

  But obviously Cam can be a first slip.

• 31:32Speaker 03

  It actually should be going for Cam because it is the best man, hands over the rings.

• 31:35Speaker 02

  Right, okay.

• 31:36Speaker 03

  I will be the backup catcher.

• 31:38Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 31:39Speaker 04

  It's like the archer lighting the flame at the Barcelona Olympics.

• 31:42Speaker 03

  But better. Flaming golf ball wouldn't be hard. I don't know how much it adds, but we could easily just have leather gloves on.

• 31:53Speaker 04

  I love that.

• 31:55Speaker 02

  I kind of want to do that one.

• 31:56Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:57Speaker 02

  So that, that one I'm gonna.

• 31:58Speaker 03

  I have a four pointer.

• 31:59Speaker 04

  Okay. I think, I think we should run that experiment with hogs anyway. Yes or no? Just to see how well it goes.

• 32:10Speaker 03

  Yeah. What do you mean? Like bring him in and get him to just practise it?

• 32:13Speaker 04

  Well, to get you guys line up as if you're at the altar, he chips, chips the ring. We get the ring ball made.

• 32:20Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 32:20Speaker 04

  Chip it in, run it. Maybe we even film it and then you can give it to Becca's to say, this is what we want to do.

• 32:25Speaker 02

  If she says no to it, I'll say.

• 32:27Speaker 03

  Let us show you. And we all get dressed in suits and like run a, run a demo.

• 32:32Speaker 02

  Yeah, great.

• 32:33Speaker 03

  Four pointer. And again, this is just to like, I just want to hear you propose this, but you have to do it straight face. Just be like, look, you know, you've been together a long time. You know, you're getting married. It's wonderful, but as a testament to who you are, the individuals you are now coming together in marriage as a union, as a testament to where you've come from, you create a memory walk as people are coming into the, wherever it is, church function place, a memory walk with all your ex-partners. And so it shows like photos of her exes, photos of your exes. And it's like, ah, these are the, you know, these are relationships that helped Beck and Amy learn along the way. You have to put.

• 33:18Speaker 04

  And they, they, the girls could be black and white, but Beck's in colour at the end.

• 33:23Speaker 03

  That's nice.

• 33:24Speaker 04

  Oh, no, no.

• 33:29Speaker 04

  Couple of listens to, to catch up on. First one, Hemsworth hitting a ball.

• 33:34Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 33:35Speaker 04

  Out of Rod Laverina. Good news, Rod Laverina reached out and said, yeah, we'd love to help.

• 33:41Speaker 03

  Great. One piece of the puzzle.

• 33:44Speaker 04

  They had said no.

• 33:46Speaker 02

  That was gonna be tricky.

• 33:47Speaker 03

  There would be no reason for them to say no. Like, it doesn't degrade, doesn't, no one loses respect for Rod Laver Arena that, oh, can't contain all your balls. Like, you know, it's, your, your, your balls can escape. It's not a ball jail. It does a great job as an arena.

• 34:01Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 34:02Speaker 03

  It's not its job to contain all the balls. It's the, it's real. It's, as I was gonna say, it's the person who's claimed, and I quote, "I'm 150% confident that I can hit a ball out of here." Their, their job to hit one out.

• 34:12Speaker 02

  Um, Jake pointed out to us, he got confused when he was listening to us talk about it. We didn't specify what type of tennis, whether it was table tennis or court tennis.

• 34:20Speaker 03

  Yes, fuzzy, fuzzy ball tennis.

• 34:23Speaker 02

  Yes. So, um, so apologies for that. Yeah, it's definitely court tennis, not totem tennis.

• 34:27Speaker 03

  Or, or small ball tennis.

• 34:30Speaker 02

  Alex wrote in and said, at a recent Australian Open, the Italian, uh, Dardurni, angry, hit a ball out of Margaret Court Arena. Now, I'm not sure.

• 34:42Speaker 03

  Much smaller.

• 34:43Speaker 02

  How much low is the roof?

• 34:45Speaker 03

  Off the top of my head, I couldn't tell you.

• 34:47Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 34:47Speaker 03

  But it does seem smaller, doesn't it?

• 34:49Speaker 02

  Yeah, if you're just vibing off what, how, how it feels in there.

• 34:52Speaker 03

  Also to the way.

• 34:53Speaker 02

  It went, it went easily.

• 34:55Speaker 03

  Easily, yeah. But to achieve escape velocity into that ball, it gets harder and harder. And every meet here actually is exponentially harder than the previous meet to get that ball out of.

• 35:05Speaker 02

  Yeah. I, I could hit a ball out of Margaret Court.

• 35:08Speaker 03

  Oh, boy. Here we go.

• 35:09Speaker 02

  If you, if you don't get a limb.

• 35:11Speaker 03

  Sounds like we have a such, sounds like we have a such at hand. Um, I did get an email. It's not at hand. I'm only just remembering it now. And apologies to the man that sent it in. He'll know who he is, but he told me a tale, and I'll find it if we need this. He said, when I was, he was growing up playing junior tennis with his mate, sometimes we're waiting for their mum and dad to come pick him up from tennis. Um, they would play a game where there was big, big, very, very tall tennis lights. It might even be near, you know.

• 35:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:40Speaker 03

  Margaret Court or whatever. Like, it sounded like they were good, young tennis players. And it'd be nighttime, they're waiting for their lift, and they'll get a ball and hit it, like, hit it up past the lights, like, into the darkness, and then stand there and wait for the ball to come back down and can't play chicken with the balls that got back through the light. And he was saying his friend could hit it, and sometimes it'd be gone for like five or six seconds. He says, like, we'd gone for ages. And it was, became a thing that his friend could hit it so high.

• 36:04Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 36:04Speaker 03

  That you just seemed impossible that it was up there for that long. And one night, and this is their story, and I'm not adding mayo here, this is, that's what stuck with me. The ball came down and then a little bit later, a bat came down.

• 36:20Speaker 02

  It hit a bat?

• 36:21Speaker 03

  Killed a bat.

• 36:21Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 36:22Speaker 03

  Dazed a bat.

• 36:23Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 36:24Speaker 03

  Dazed a bat.

• 36:25Speaker 02

  That's what the Joker needed in the Batman.

• 36:27Speaker 03

  So, yeah, and I think he was saying, if needs be, if we can't get onto Hemsworth, or if you need someone to draw, if we find out this guy looks like Hemsworth, that would be huge. He's got like a bat concussion on his record.

• 36:39Speaker 02

  Well, Hemsworth is in Australia. I have had that confirmed. Hemsworth is aware of the invite.

• 36:46Speaker 03

  Aware of the invite?

• 36:47Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 36:48Speaker 03

  How do you know?

• 36:49Speaker 02

  I just know because the friends of friends have passed it on particularly, and we've gone out to management, but we, people that know him have.

• 36:56Speaker 03

  What have we learnt on this show? There's only one way to get movement on this. We contact his hairdresser.

• 37:03Speaker 03

  Like we did with the treasurer.

• 37:04Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 37:05Speaker 03

  And we, we have a groundswell campaign.

• 37:07Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 37:08Speaker 03

  And I think, I think if you run into Hemsworth, the message should be not in not, we don't want to bully him into.

• 37:13Speaker 02

  No.

• 37:13Speaker 03

  I think we want to support him. We want to see him do it.

• 37:15Speaker 02

  We've had that, we've had that problem in the past where, where someone declared that they could eat a hundred dumplings and then they, they backed out.

• 37:21Speaker 03

  Lawrence Peck.

• 37:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:24Speaker 03

  The name that shall live in his memory.

• 37:25Speaker 02

  Yeah. And so, and that probably was too harsh. We, we probably tried to push him too hard towards the dumplings.

• 37:32Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 37:32Speaker 02

  Where it would have been, hey, there's a hundred over here if you're feeling hungry.

• 37:35Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 37:36Speaker 02

  What do you recommend people say if they see Liam?

• 37:38Speaker 03

  I can't wait to see you do it.

• 37:39Speaker 02

  Yeah. Just positive.

• 37:40Speaker 03

  We're on your side, mate.

• 37:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:41Speaker 03

  We're on your, we know you can do it. We're a hundred and sixty percent.

• 37:44Speaker 02

  Or even just can't wait to see you have a crack at it. So it doesn't even feel like he has to do it.

• 37:48Speaker 03

  You're right. You're right. Good mindset shift. Okay.

• 37:51Speaker 02

  Anything else, Sam? Loose ends?

• 37:52Speaker 03

  Yeah, I got a loose end. I thought I'd leave it a few shows before bringing this up, just to allow fair play. Jack, could we please see the prototype for the board game that you made over the summer?

• 38:04Speaker 02

  Yes, I have made progress on the board game. Well, this is for people who don't know, this is what Jack said last year, last show, I think.

• 38:12Speaker 03

  Jack?

• 38:13Speaker 02

  Yeah?

• 38:13Speaker 03

  How's the board game going?

• 38:20Speaker 03

  The way you said, oh, oh, just about.

• 38:26Speaker 04

  You can't even say you're busy.

• 38:27Speaker 02

  No, I can't, yeah.

• 38:29Speaker 03

  This is your opportunity to say, I'm not doing it.

• 38:31Speaker 04

  Oh, I was about to say I'll do it over summer. I've been seeing his face.

• 38:35Speaker 03

  Appreciate that. So when we come back, when we come back, will we have some progress?

• 38:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, it'll be, it will be, there will be a prototype to play.

• 38:43Speaker 02

  Yes, there will.

• 38:46Speaker 02

  He just went down.

• 38:48Speaker 04

  He was listening to the whole thing going, I can get out of that, I can get out of that.

• 38:51Speaker 03

  If I could, I think if I could demonstrate any progress I've legally won here.

• 38:55Speaker 04

  What a shame because as you brought that up, I was like, yes, you've done work on this.

• 39:00Speaker 03

  Oh, you have?

• 39:00Speaker 04

  Yeah. So I've got, but I don't have a, I'm not at prototype stage.

• 39:03Speaker 03

  Yeah. This is like when you go to international car shows and they come out on stage and they go, now, I know you're all expecting us to unveil the new models. We've done work on it. We have done work on it, but unfortunately this giant sheet is simply covering a cardboard box. Because we would love to have a car here, but I think you're going to, round of applause for the work we've done.

• 39:24Speaker 04

  So I am at that stage. I'm not ready to pull the sheet off, but I could tell you, I can give you the title.

• 39:29Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 39:29Speaker 04

  And the theme of the Hamish and Andy board game.

• 39:31Speaker 03

  All right, this is better than nothing. What do you got?

• 39:33Speaker 02

  Well, this is interesting, Ham. Are we going to say, do we have any say here or?

• 39:38Speaker 03

  I think if we're, I think if the board game's being made with our name.

• 39:41Speaker 04

  Well, maybe it's good that he's saying this without a prototype because we could be like, you guys can definitely knock it back. Because eventually, like if you say, oh, we're not endorsing this or part of this at all. I'm not going to.

• 39:53Speaker 03

  That would be a hard sell.

• 39:54Speaker 04

  There's a chance I won't even keep making it if you say, if you do endorse it.

• 39:57Speaker 03

  Currently, current signs haven't, haven't been strong, but I mean, I wouldn't say it's been runaway progress.

• 40:02Speaker 02

  Nah, we're close to getting to bees.

• 40:05Speaker 04

  Can I?

• 40:06Speaker 03

  Tell me you're warming to the bees.

• 40:08Speaker 04

  I'm not, I'm not. All right. The, the Hamish and Andy board game. Now, th- this is the direction I decided to go down. When I was a kid, we had the Hey Hey It's Saturday board game. That was a bit like this, you know, a spin off of something that was popular.

• 40:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, I hope not like this, because I, I think when you look at it, if you look at it through adult eyes, it was certainly a cash grab.

• 40:30Speaker 04

  It was. And that's what I was gonna say. We never played Hey Hey It's Saturday, the board game. It wasn't good.

• 40:33Speaker 03

  I knew one person that had it, but against other board games, you're not gonna play.

• 40:36Speaker 04

  It wasn't good. So, we could do something tacky like that. I'll put Hamish and Andy up there, roll the dice, collect some Hamish and Andy coins. You know, we sell a few copies, but we're not proud of the board game. I actually happen to be a big board game fan.

• 40:51Speaker 03

  Yes, you might remember, that's why three or four years ago, whenever this started, that's why we gave you the job. You're a board game aficionado.

• 40:56Speaker 04

  Yes. So, I'm, I look past your monopolies and I go for games like Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Evadale.

• 41:04Speaker 03

  Any, any I've heard of?

• 41:06Speaker 04

  No, see, you know.

• 41:08Speaker 03

  Are they strategy games?

• 41:09Speaker 04

  They're just, they're just more, you, you would have heard of Catan, surely. That's where you're trading wheat and resources to build cities.

• 41:16Speaker 03

  No. Yeah, no, I was, I was gonna say, Jack, I would, as your, as your legal counsel, I'd recommend you not pursue this line of encouragement.

• 41:24Speaker 04

  Oh, well, the whole game.

• 41:25Speaker 03

  Well, I, we do have, we have Settlers of Catan at our house, and I have the app on my phone, which is how to easily learn Settlers of Catan.

• 41:33Speaker 04

  Right.

• 41:34Speaker 03

  To teach the kids. The game is still sealed and I've never looked at the map.

• 41:38Speaker 04

  Hmm. Is it like Monopoly? You just buy things?

• 41:40Speaker 03

  No, no, it's, the, the problem with these games is it's a steep learning curve. But once you've learned.

• 41:45Speaker 04

  The payoff's.

• 41:46Speaker 03

  The payoff's huge. The game is really fun to play.

• 41:48Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 41:49Speaker 03

  And all these games. This isn't the ad, by the way. You don't, you don't see that advertise going, okay, look, I know it's a steep learning curve. That is what's stopped us from getting into Catan. But I do hear people say, especially as a family board game, you know, the rewards are there.

• 42:02Speaker 02

  What's wrong with like a Taboo or Scagrees?

• 42:04Speaker 04

  No, no, these, these games are different.

• 42:05Speaker 03

  Unfortunately, I face also a pretty low attention span in our family when, you know, trying to learn games.

• 42:11Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 42:11Speaker 03

  Which I tried to, we tried to learn Backgammon the other week. It was a three-minute YouTube explainer. Forty seconds in, Zoe goes, "This is pointless." "Well, I think we should stick it out." And she goes, "This is unnecessarily complex," right? And it really wasn't. I think she just doesn't, that's not the way she likes to learn. And it said something like, you know, "There are four quadrants of six points." And I was like, "Oh, my God. What's with all the maths?" I was like, "Well, we must give it a chance because it has been around for thousands of years and millions of people do play Backgammon. There could be something in this." Anyway, we still, we haven't learnt Backgammon yet.

• 42:50Speaker 04

  Well, she would hate these type of board games.

• 42:52Speaker 03

  She hasn't listened to the podcast, so I wasn't expecting her to be the number one customer of the Hamish and Andy board game.

• 42:57Speaker 04

  Games like Settlers of Catan, it's not uncommon to have a 10 to 15 minute YouTube video explaining the rules.

• 43:03Speaker 03

  I've got the thing on my phone. There's an app to explain the rules.

• 43:06Speaker 04

  Okay. So, a lot of themes of these games exist in either fantasy or hark back to simpler times. So, that's where I just wanted to give you a bit of a setup for the Hamish and Andy board game called Common Manlandia. Players compete to have the nicest homestead in the ancient land of Common Manlandia, but they mustn't lose touch along the way.

• 43:30Speaker 03

  Oh, it's good, Jack. I'm all for a complex board game here because we want the, I know it's a niche sale.

• 43:36Speaker 04

  It is a niche sale, but we'll be rewarded. What's more important to us? Total sales or people coming to us on the street and saying, "I love, I love Common Manlandia."

• 43:46Speaker 03

  One person. And when we find them, that will be like what we'll tell Jack.

• 43:54Speaker 04

  So, the idea, I haven't worked it all out yet, but the idea is you start with like 10 touch points and you don't want to lose touch. So, if you, as you're building your homestead, the goal is to build the nicest homestead, but as you put in things like a pool or a tennis court, that's going to get you homestead points, but you're going to lose touch points along the way. So, if you finish the game and you've lost all your touch points, you're out.

• 44:18Speaker 03

  I think I'd still have a few left with my house that I'm buying.

• 44:21Speaker 04

  You would be, you would be well, you'd be out before you've even moved in.

• 44:26Speaker 03

  You tried to tell me and Jack yesterday that, literally the sentence was this, "We've just finished putting in the second spiral staircase."

• 44:37Speaker 03

  Like laughing, just, just general shock and awe from us. And then you actually said with a straight face, no, once the furniture's in, it'll actually seem a lot smaller than it is. We're like, this would be like Andy going straight to jail in Monopoly and never getting out.

• 44:52Speaker 04

  You would have huge homestead points at the end of the game.

• 44:55Speaker 03

  There's not enough points in the game.

• 44:57Speaker 04

  But you've lost touch. So you're out. So it goes to the next person.

• 45:00Speaker 03

  Right. Very in touch. Oh gosh.

• 45:05Speaker 04

  So wait, am I continuing or like, he put an pin in it?

• 45:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, see how you go. We'll check in when? Five months?

• 45:11Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 45:18Speaker 01

  Thanks for listening. The Hamish and Andy podcast will return next week. Catch up or contribute at hamishandandy.com.

• 45:27Speaker 03

  Hi everyone. Actually, Hamish returning here, returning with a slight favour to ask if this applies to you. I've got a bit of a side project that I'm working on that's gonna be, we're gonna be doing something with later in the year. Essentially though, I need people that need a job done, a task done, if you will. There is a website that sort of handles this, but for legal reasons, you know, I can't use their website. I need your, your jobs, your tasks that could range from like a couple of hundred bucks or a couple of thousand dollars. Could be, it really could be any field. It could be you, someone you know, family member, community thing.

• 46:07Speaker 03

  Could be DIY, you know, farm work, auto repairs, clothes making, baking, basically anything that you or someone you know would pay a specialist to do. If you can go to hamentasker.com, hamentasker.com, register your interest there. You never know, you might get that job done for a better price and to a very, still a very, very good degree. If you can help us out, that's great. If not, sorry for taking up a little bit extra of your time.