Pod Insights Hamish & Andy 325 - Definitive Answer On Who Is The Sexiest Dancer About this episode The Hottest Dance Contest results are in! But whose moves reign supreme - Hamish, Andy, or Jack? The women of New York City give the final verdict. Extreme Empath makes its long-awaited return for the year, and Andy walks us through the best (and possibly most questionable) ads he spotted over summer. Plus, the latest on Liam Hemsworth and the skill challenge invite - and, of course, Hamish's bee operation!
1. Who's The Sexiest Dancer?
2. Extreme Empaths
3. Best Ads Of The Summer
4. Hemsworth... The Chosen One?
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0:23 Speaker 02 Ahoy to me hypertrophic Hamish.
0:27 Speaker 03 Ah, yes.
0:28 Speaker 02 I think you'll find that Jack is subtrophic.
0:31 Speaker 03 No, Jack is keloid.
0:34 Speaker 02 Keloid. Is it something to do with muscles? Because hypertrophy is growing muscles.
0:40 Speaker 03 I'm atrophic. You're just a regular trophic.
0:45 Speaker 02 No, I think it's like the opposite of trophic.
0:47 Speaker 03 Oh, atrophic, no.
0:48 Speaker 02 Not trophic.
0:49 Speaker 03 Yeah. You're in the realm, Ham. I actually knew this one because I had it. I had it when I was young and we had to try and treat it.
1:00 Speaker 02 You had keloid or trophic?
1:01 Speaker 03 Keloid.
1:02 Speaker 02 High ass cracker.
1:04 Speaker 03 It was on my bum.
1:06 Speaker 02 Okay.
1:08 Speaker 03 Cheek shapes. Thought you might remember it, Ham.
1:11 Speaker 02 From being on your bum? Is it a scar? Is it a scar?
1:15 Speaker 03 We are the three most common types of scars.
1:19 Speaker 02 Oh.
1:20 Speaker 03 Keloid is firm and thick and raised. So that's Jack.
1:25 Speaker 02 That is Jack.
1:29 Speaker 03 Um, and a hypertrophic is thick and raised scars, but that stay contained within the original boundaries of the scar.
1:36 Speaker 02 Of course.
1:36 Speaker 03 Keloid grows out a bit and atrophic is a depressed or sunken scar.
1:42 Speaker 02 Sunken scar. Okay. All right.
1:43 Speaker 03 It didn't sound like Hamish was looking at my bum a lot when I said it.
1:47 Speaker 02 If I remember correctly though, no, this story came up a lot on radio. You weren't you trying to slide down a hill or something and you just slid over like an exposed jag of metal?
1:56 Speaker 03 Yeah. When I was in grade four.
1:58 Speaker 02 You still got the scar?
2:00 Speaker 03 Still got the scars to prove it, Jack. I won't impress it upon you, but if you ask politely after the show. Ahoy also to Rachel who went to TamishNate.com and used the very, very easy to use system, much better than WhatsApp, to upload the audio there and tell us what she's up to.
2:18 Speaker 04 Ahoy, boys. I have a pleasure, Andy, for you. I was vacuuming and found a small piece of pink Lego. And instead of vacuuming over it or throwing it in the bin, I walked past a bin into another room. I opened a cupboard. I pulled out a basket that was in front of the Lego container, pulled out the Lego container, found its corresponding color-coded bag.
2:42 Speaker 03 Great.
2:42 Speaker 04 Put it inside, container back, basket back. It felt pleasurable.
2:47 Speaker 02 I cannot imagine what it's like to live like that.
2:51 Speaker 02 I, I am a bit of a chucker at it, but I can't throw out Lego. I think after working on, yeah, I can't throw out Lego, even though you, you find a tiny bit and you're like, we have so many of these, this will be of no consequence. I just morally can't throw out Lego. Like, you know, I'm still.
3:06 Speaker 03 It's also, it's part of a set.
3:07 Speaker 02 Yeah. Well, no, not even that. None of ours are part of a set. Like, it all just goes in the giant box. I didn't, until I worked on Lego Masters and I saw you going to the brick pen, it's all separated by color. And then I said to Brickman, who's on the show, I was like, do people separate by color? He's like, yeah, how do you build anything? Like, just dump it all on the floor. It never occurred to me that people would actually put all the colors together. So, but I can't, yeah, I can't do that to Lego because it's got a use.
3:35 Speaker 03 Hey, last week on the show, we, you set the challenge to.
3:41 Speaker 02 Yeah, I mean, this is a science-based challenge.
3:43 Speaker 03 Three of us. It was a dance contest, essentially. Remind us of the scientific experiment.
3:48 Speaker 02 So I came across something on Instagram. So you know, it's definitely scientifically, scientifically backed, but it was scientists in the UK, I believe it was, had come up with like a 3D rendering of a human shape that, assuming they'd done tests on a whole bunch of, you know, willing subjects who'd watched samples of men dancing.
4:10 Speaker 03 Yes.
4:10 Speaker 02 And this was what women scientifically find the most attractive dance moves. I guess they'd like amalgamated it all.
4:17 Speaker 03 Yep.
4:18 Speaker 02 And they'd come up with. Essentially, you know, one dance to rule them all. Yeah. This is will be the, this is just like the skeleton key that unlocks all desire in women. And it was this kind of like 15 second clip to um the hit song, What Is Love? Uh, of this humanoid. Now I'd seen this met rendering. So we're like, let's test if this is actually true. Straight after the pod last week, we were like, go into the other room. And we all have to lay down what we think is the sexiest dance. Now, cause I'd seen this one, I was like, I will have to do my best to do that exact dance. Which he did a very good job of. But actually replicated it very well. I think the whole experiment relied on that. Mm hmm. But then you guys had to, this is a bigger ask.
5:03 Speaker 02 You had to freestyle what you thought was the sexiest dance. Knowing that then to get it judged, we'd lined up our buddy Vaughn, who lives in New York. I just kind of mentally thought, other side of the world. Yes. That that feels like it's the most random. We're going to send the videos off to him and he had lined up three women he knew, who have no other conception of us to just blank, like cold, look at the dance, judge the dancer on their sexiness. To make it even more scientific, we thought we're going to take looks out of the equation here. We all wore a paper bag on our head. Paper bag on our head. Paper bag on the head. We also can't have any unconscious fashion cues, giving someone an edge or a disadvantage. Cause Jack and I were a bit nervous, we were in shorts and like it wasn't the.
5:47 Speaker 02 It's just the modest, not dancing. Sexy, yeah, dancing gear. So we all, but you were in jeans and a white t-shirt, Andy, so we all decided to wear Andy's clothes. That left me without clothes, sitting in my undies while you guys danced. Um, not my place to say, cause I'm not part of the audience, part of the experiment. But I did find that there's you sitting there sort of sad and slumped over in your undies. I found that unsexy.
6:10 Speaker 02 I think that's. So I'm glad we didn't show him part of that. Oh, so what did you, so dancer A, here's some behind the scene footage. What do you think of him now?
6:20 Speaker 03 Well, we do work in a communal environment, so I was in the dark. I was sitting in a studio just in my undies. And then, then the studio producer came back in, switched the lights on and went, ooh, ooh.
6:34 Speaker 02 So don't mind me just having a think about this.
6:37 Speaker 03 I'm not sure what kind of room is that, my start. This is how our dancers went.
6:44 Speaker 05 Dancer A, Andy Lee.
6:46 Speaker 03 Bag is on my head. Um, I can't hear anything through the AirPods. What do you say, well, I've got five seconds to get into it, do I? And then do my moves. Is it, is it a singular dance move or is it the whole thing?
6:59 Speaker 06 The whole thing, there can be multiple moves.
7:00 Speaker 03 Okay, there can be multiple moves. It's not like you can do in 20 seconds. Okay, am I gonna hit anything? All right, hit me with it.
7:08 Speaker 05 Starts with finger pointing to the sky. Into shoulder shimmy. Then backwards falling, one arm to the floor behind him. Walking on the spot into hip, shoot, shoot.
7:24 Speaker 02 All right, you've done yours.
7:25 Speaker 03 Yeah, I think definitely the pressure of just
7:28 Speaker 02 Knowing that it's gonna be.
7:29 Speaker 03 Starting it and being dead cold sober.
7:33 Speaker 06 I don't think I've ever tried to dance sober, that's a great point.
7:35 Speaker 03 That is, as soon as it started, there was a few things. Sober, bag on your head.
7:42 Speaker 03 That was the other thing that stuck out to me.
7:44 Speaker 02 Doing it for a camera, like.
7:45 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, it also felt a little bit like a peep show. It's of, cause like, yeah, I've set up the camera now, now dance for me. You're like, okay.
7:53 Speaker 02 It feels like you're fulfilling a weird Craigslist request.
7:57 Speaker 03 Yeah, so all of that definitely goes through your head. Can't tell you what, 30 is longer than you think. Like, I'm like, I thought I'd done plenty.
8:07 Speaker 02 Keep going, please, sir. We haven't got enough. It's like breathalyzer, isn't it?
8:11 Speaker 03 Yeah.
8:11 Speaker 02 Keep, blow, blow, blow.
8:12 Speaker 03 Yeah, so I guess I'll get into my undies.
8:15 Speaker 02 Yeah, we need your clothes. Jack, how are you feeling?
8:17 Speaker 06 Yeah, I'm hating it. I'm hating it. Cause I'm trying to like, I'm scrambling around my brain. It's like, okay, think of a good dance move, think of a good dance move and.
8:24 Speaker 02 Jack just goes to me for, he goes, every time I go to a wedding, he goes, I just say to myself, I must learn one move.
8:30 Speaker 06 Cause you, you realize you get there and you're like, gotta have just something.
8:34 Speaker 03 I've seen you with some good moves.
8:35 Speaker 06 Thanks, man.
8:36 Speaker 03 I have.
8:36 Speaker 06 Which one?
8:37 Speaker 03 At your wedding, which one?
8:38 Speaker 02 Just grow it to me.
8:40 Speaker 03 At your wedding.
8:41 Speaker 02 Show me those dancing.
8:42 Speaker 03 Yeah. So. It's in there.
8:45 Speaker 06 Yeah.
8:45 Speaker 03 Just so you know, it's in there.
8:47 Speaker 06 Yeah.
8:47 Speaker 03 Yeah.
8:48 Speaker 06 Yeah, you're right. I'll just feel it.
8:49 Speaker 03 Let it out.
8:49 Speaker 06 I'll just feel it.
8:50 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
8:50 Speaker 06 Yes.
8:51 Speaker 03 Okay, great. I'm getting my clothes off.
8:52 Speaker 06 Good luck, Jack.
8:58 Speaker 02 All right, this slightly goes against the spirit of the game, but Andy, we can see Jack through a one-way glass.
9:04 Speaker 06 He's limbering, not? Got it. Oh, gosh, yeah.
9:09 Speaker 02 I think he started a couple of claps to get into it.
9:11 Speaker 06 Oh, that's right. He's dangerous, though. He's walking a bit.
9:15 Speaker 02 He's going for a spin. He's going for it. He's going for it, Andy. He's going for it.
9:20 Speaker 06 Yeah.
9:20 Speaker 02 Arms out.
9:21 Speaker 03 He's done, he's wanted me. I think he's, I think, whether it's better, you know what I mean? Like, I don't know whether it's more attractive than I was doing.
9:29 Speaker 02 He's doing a lot of arms out, like with his hands going, give it to me, to the crowd.
9:32 Speaker 06 Yeah, exactly.
9:36 Speaker 02 That's just a star jump.
9:40 Speaker 02 I think he knows it, too. He actually was on a great run and he finished with a star jump.
9:44 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's longer than you think.
9:49 Speaker 06 Thirty seconds is way longer than you think. You get to fifteen seconds and you're like, what else? What else? What else can you do with your body?
9:56 Speaker 02 You went for a star jump.
9:58 Speaker 06 Could you guys see me? Nah, nah.
10:00 Speaker 02 We accidentally, we accidentally could see. We're gonna see it anyway.
10:03 Speaker 06 Yeah. I went for a star, did it look like half a star jump? Because halfway through the star jump, I'm like, that's not a dance move. That's an exercise.
10:10 Speaker 02 I hope for your sake it's not included in the stream. That will have to be rigorous if it is in the selection.
10:15 Speaker 06 Edit out.
10:15 Speaker 02 No, we can't, Jack. You might have cost yourself a win by putting the star jump in. It was like watching some of the Winter Olympics get to the end of the ice skating.
10:23 Speaker 06 Yeah.
10:23 Speaker 02 And the track still has ten seconds left on it and then just doing under the little teapot or whatever.
10:29 Speaker 06 Yeah, I regretted the star jump mid-jump.
10:32 Speaker 03 Did you think you found it? Because I felt like you started a little tentative and then, then you went, then you did like Lewis Capaldi. I'm not gonna do this, go in my armpits.
10:44 Speaker 02 Let me get some star jumps for Andy.
10:47 Speaker 03 But then you did that like kind of, crowd are you with me?
10:49 Speaker 06 Yeah, I did a great, oh, you saw that? Yeah, I did like, let's like hear the crowd go.
10:53 Speaker 02 You were spinning around with your arms out, like, like honestly, like you were playing a stadium going, this is what I've waited for.
11:00 Speaker 03 So to me, to me it was.
11:01 Speaker 02 Which is a huge move on a first date, but it could be a cool move on a dance floor.
11:06 Speaker 03 It was, yeah, you've had a bit of, I'm the DJ getting 10,000 people up and about versus, I'm seducing a single person.
11:13 Speaker 02 I mean, you had to freestyle it, you had to go full energy, you did what you had to do.
11:17 Speaker 03 And you're about to do the actual sexy dance?
11:19 Speaker 02 I've got a slightly different challenge now because I actually have to, for this experiment to work, I technically should destroy you guys by doing the scientifically most sexy dance. But it's on me if I can recreate the sample that I have.
11:36 Speaker 05 Dancer C, Hamish Blake, doing the scientifically calculated sexiest dance moves on earth.
11:44 Speaker 05 Side to side Carlton shuffle.
11:50 Speaker 05 Then into rotating clap circles.
11:56 Speaker 05 A mini sprinkler in transition.
12:00 Speaker 05 Some big Chris Martin windmills.
12:06 Speaker 05 Finishing with the thumbs up side jiggle.
12:08 Speaker 02 Good, mate. Think we got it.
12:15 Speaker 03 And surprisingly, Ham did get it. Like, I think that was a very close replica of what the 3D rendering of that sexiest dance was. So I'm glad that the scientific test that we're trying to send off all these different dances is going to be accurate.
12:28 Speaker 02 Well, I mean, I'm sure this will, we'll, we'll put this up on, you know, on social pipes and YouTube and whatnot, but it's slightly different experience for me because you, you guys just had to listen to your heart and let the music move you. I had to, you know, land within the constraints of, of someone else's idea of what sexy was.
12:49 Speaker 03 But it's still the best I've ever seen him dance.
12:51 Speaker 02 Yeah. If you're trying to say you were handicapped and that we had it easier than you, that's not true.
12:56 Speaker 03 Absolutely had a great advantage.
12:58 Speaker 02 I couldn't listen to my heart and I think I do dance best when I can listen to my heart. However, let's just, let's see though, what the, the women of New York City thought. We haven't heard this audio. I'm not even, I don't know what the women's names are, but I believe the instructions I gave to Vorm when I sent off the dancers was like, look, we just want, almost like the brown low metal vote. We just want like, you know.
13:19 Speaker 03 Three, two, one.
13:19 Speaker 02 Yep.
13:20 Speaker 03 Rank us three, two, one.
13:21 Speaker 02 Highest, you know, three being the best, one being the worst for each of the dancers.
13:25 Speaker 03 And some small explanations as to why. A few of them, I've been told, Ham, were actually, actually kind of commentated it as they watched it. So we can get a sense of that, that's happening.
13:35 Speaker 02 Be tough not to.
13:36 Speaker 03 But this is how the results came in.
13:40 Speaker 07 I am Amy Bailey and I'm actually from Florida and live in Florida, but I'm in New York City for a photo shoot.
13:45 Speaker 05 Dancer A, Andy Lee.
13:51 Speaker 07 I'm going to wait to see all of them. He's giving me one. That definitely gives me one. The backwards. Oh my God. Yeah.
13:59 Speaker 02 Okay.
13:59 Speaker 07 Oh my gosh.
14:03 Speaker 05 Dancer B, Jack Post.
14:05 Speaker 07 Wait, is it a different person?
14:08 Speaker 02 Got it with the clothes.
14:09 Speaker 07 Oh boy. This giving me dad vibes. Butt out. Look at the butt out and doing jumping jacks.
14:16 Speaker 02 No.
14:16 Speaker 07 Like a jumping jack is the dances. Oh God, you guys are making it really hard.
14:21 Speaker 05 Dancer C, Hamish Blake.
14:23 Speaker 07 This is the worst. Who's better? This guy? Okay. He's trying to do like the lawnmower a little bit and then
14:34 Speaker 07 I don't, oh, okay. Off the top of my head, I will say the order from sexiest to least sexiest. B, A, C.
14:49 Speaker 08 So B gets three, A gets two, C gets one.
14:52 Speaker 07 Sure. Let's say that. Yeah. Let's just do that.
14:55 Speaker 05 After judge one, Jack leads. Andy in second and Hamish last.
15:01 Speaker 09 Hi, I'm Nicole. I'm in New York and I'm going to see who's the hottest out of these three dancers.
15:07 Speaker 05 Dancer A, Andy Lee.
15:10 Speaker 09 Love the vent. He's going in. Ooh, we love the full effort. Oh, got a little hands. Hands, little shoulders.
15:19 Speaker 05 Dancer B, Jack Post.
15:22 Speaker 09 Ooh, you like a point? Little walking man. Ooh, to the brow. Pointing. Ooh, he's good. Oh, getting low. Oh, jumping jacks. It's gym class. Okay.
15:36 Speaker 05 Dancer C, Hamish Blake.
15:39 Speaker 09 Ooh, wind up. Very good. Ooh, we love a clap. Ooh, wow. Wow.
15:47 Speaker 08 Wow.
15:48 Speaker 09 Yes. Wow.
15:52 Speaker 08 Okay, so Nicole, out of A, B, and C, three is the highest, two second, and one is the least. How do you rank these three?
16:00 Speaker 09 A is three, C is two, and B is one. It was all about the effort. It was about the different vibes, the different steps. It was about the overall feeling of it. All amazing. All amazing.
16:16 Speaker 08 Andy, looks like you're sexiest.
16:18 Speaker 09 Congrats, Andy.
16:23 Speaker 05 After two judges, Andy takes the lead on five. Jack slips to second with four votes, and Hamish still lasts with three.
16:30 Speaker 10 Okay, my name is Rae. I'm a model in New York City. I'm gonna give three votes to Mr. A.
16:38 Speaker 05 Andy Lee.
16:38 Speaker 10 I really liked that he gave all of himself for this dance, and I liked the little shimmy at some point. And I just find that he really let himself go on that one. I'm gonna give two votes to guy C.
16:51 Speaker 05 Hamish Blake.
16:52 Speaker 10 Because I was pleasantly surprised by how original his dance moves were. I do think he could have used a bit more of his body, because it was very much arms and upper body, but I would have liked to see more leg action. And I'm gonna give one vote to guy B.
17:08 Speaker 05 Jack Post.
17:09 Speaker 10 It did feel a bit elderly. You know, it reminded me of an uncle at a wedding type of dance, but I did enjoy it nonetheless.
17:19 Speaker 05 And final scores. Jack and Hamish tie for second with five points. Andy storms home with the win on eight points.
17:28 Speaker 06 Maybe I had the advantage of being comfortable in my own clothes.
17:33 Speaker 02 Yes.
17:33 Speaker 06 But that would only be a one point swing, so.
17:36 Speaker 02 Elderly has to sting, Jack.
17:38 Speaker 06 Yeah, well, I think he was wearing an older person's clothes. I felt older in Andy's elderly clothes.
17:46 Speaker 06 There's no really good way to twist that. That's, that's bad feedback. Yeah.
17:50 Speaker 03 It's, I mean.
17:51 Speaker 06 The sexiest people on the planet in the hottest city in the world, Jack, you know, what do they know about fashion?
17:56 Speaker 02 I feel like we. Jack, am I right in saying here, there's no way Andy won that? Like, I just think I was bracing myself for a Jack win. I thought science could prevail and we could see a home win. But I do not think that was an eight, five runaway.
18:09 Speaker 06 I got the vibe definitely that they were just picking the best of a bad bunch. At no point were they like, well, that's a clear winner and that was great dancing.
18:20 Speaker 02 That's true. That's true. No one, no one made a sound to indicate that they were attracted or aroused by any of this. Most of it was, there was a few wows, but I think shock really.
18:32 Speaker 06 There was more oohs, like.
18:33 Speaker 02 Yeah, oohs. Oh, God. And this guy, and he knows that you've submitted this video. He's happy for, even though he's got a bag on his head, but his friends and family will know it's him. Oh, boy. Oh, no. Oh, God. I can only hope that in other areas of life.
18:48 Speaker 03 Chad and Tatum guys that can actually dance in there, I think, uh, it would be very different, but.
18:53 Speaker 02 Well, I don't.
18:54 Speaker 03 I'm gonna take the win.
18:55 Speaker 02 No one saw that coming.
18:58 Speaker 02 Certainly not back.
19:04 Speaker 03 Hey, we are the show for people who feel deeply, so deeply that they're empathetic about everyday items or objects. Hence you come here and you list your extreme empath experiences. It's got its opener, which is every single song in the world all at once. So one song doesn't feel left out.
19:24 Speaker 03 You ready to go? Do you want me to kick it up?
19:25 Speaker 02 Go for it.
19:26 Speaker 03 From Alex, I would normally consider myself an extreme empath, but I find myself getting very offended on behalf of those trees on the side of the road that get trimmed in weird ways so the branches avoid power.
19:42 Speaker 03 It feels like if someone gives them a terrible haircut every month and they have to sit in front of everybody publicly.
19:48 Speaker 02 Yeah, pretty fair.
19:49 Speaker 03 Pretty fair.
19:51 Speaker 02 As far as that's, that's, that is a bad lottery ticket to draw if you're a tree.
19:55 Speaker 03 Yeah.
19:56 Speaker 02 To be near a power line. Most other trees just get to do what they want.
19:58 Speaker 03 And most, in those situations, often there's treats that are tree lined. And so the bad haircuts would be staring across at those that just don't have a haircut at all.
20:08 Speaker 02 That's true if it's just on one side.
20:10 Speaker 03 Yeah.
20:10 Speaker 02 You're like, I've got the Kim Jong-un haircut and you just get to do whatever you want with it. Yeah, that's not fair. Um, okay, this comes in from Matthew. So the other day at work, I noticed someone left three seconds on the microwave timer. Not a big deal. I didn't think anything of it at the time. But after coming back in after my weekend off work, I noticed the three seconds was still on there at, in the kitchen, in the break room. I was surprised to feel a sudden sadness that that poor microwave just went two days, knowing it was three seconds away from finishing, but couldn't.
20:45 Speaker 03 Talia, I'm an extreme empath. And the worst thing is when I see someone fogging up their glasses to clean them. I feel so bad for the glasses because they have to have someone blow hot, stinky air breath on their face before they get cleaned.
20:59 Speaker 02 But they're getting cleaned. And isn't it, aren't they getting cleaned?
21:03 Speaker 03 Yeah, I suppose if it was getting cleaned with a soap or a water or something. If I came up to Jack and went, hey mate, your face, your face needs a bit of a clean. Yeah, I wouldn't like that.
21:13 Speaker 02 Well, speaking of cleaning, Eileen writes in and she said, um, she goes, like, you know, normally I wouldn't think I'm an empath, but I found myself guilty today. She said brown specks in her clean whitewashing and realized the washing machine must be dirty. Chat GPT suggested that I clean the machine with vinegar and bicarb soda. So you guys, I turned it on to a super hot wash. And as I watched it tirelessly spin, I started to wipe down the outside of the machine as well, saying, you poor thing, you're always cleaning everything, but no one ever cleans you.
21:48 Speaker 03 One more. I've got Tom here.
21:52 Speaker 03 When I walk towards my car with my keys in my pocket, it does that thing where the headlights flash on and the mirrors fold out, like its ears are pricking up going.
22:00 Speaker 02 Yes, yes, we're going for a walk.
22:04 Speaker 03 Sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I'm just walking past it to take the bins out. And that happens, it does get a little exciting. I can't just ignore it anymore. I stop. I make sure it knows that I really appreciate the enthusiasm, but explained that I just can't drive it.
22:20 Speaker 02 Not right now, pal.
22:25 Speaker 03 I let it know the next drive, when the next drive will roughly be, but that I am going back inside. Sit here for a little bit longer.
22:37 Speaker 02 Quick one, quick one from Josh. He says, it's his mum and she said she doesn't want it. She wants to be submitted anonymously. He has also made pains to tell me that her name is Rachel. So she says, he says, thanks to her good fibre intake, she does several poos throughout the day. And she likes to spread them across each toilet in the house. She's concerned it would be mean to use one toilet multiple times in one day. Said, but is also concerned that the others might get jealous if she only used one toilet throughout the day. So I don't know, in her world, do they, do they want it? Are they hungry? Or do they fear it?
23:20 Speaker 02 Is it, is it, is it something they'd rather not have to do? She can't figure it out. Anyway, they all, they get spread across so no one's feelings get hurt. I've always felt like they want it, which is sick, but they.
23:31 Speaker 03 It's what they were made for.
23:33 Speaker 02 It always reminds me of the, the, the, the robot toilets that automatically lift. And that's so eager. Yes. That's where I've got it in my head that they want it.
23:41 Speaker 03 So I think she's being charitable by sharing with everybody.
23:45 Speaker 02 Like, like, you know, dolphin trainers at SeaWorld or whatever, like, come on, you've got a fish for everyone. You've had yours.
24:02 Speaker 03 I was going through my notes section of my phone and discovered that I'd done some research over the summer break that I've forgotten to show you guys.
24:09 Speaker 02 Oh no. We love effort on this show. We can't stop. A lot of shows just talk about stuff, but we're the show that backs it up with the numbers, baby.
24:16 Speaker 03 As a big cricket fan, I did a lot of listening to the cricket over the break, particularly the Ashes.
24:22 Speaker 02 Yep.
24:23 Speaker 03 And we all know the phenomenon of every brand that is placing an advertisement with in a sport.
24:30 Speaker 02 Yep.
24:30 Speaker 03 Cricket it is this time, tries to find a link between their company and the sport of cricket. Some are much easier, you know, like a beer company.
24:40 Speaker 02 Absolutely, yep.
24:40 Speaker 03 They're going, hey, you're watching the cricket this night? Have a frothy. Fine. That's a good link.
24:45 Speaker 02 That's fine. Cricket's always been my favourite ground for this though, because pretty much everyone, and I don't know if this is where you're going with this or not, but everyone comes back to the phrase, hit something for six. Like hit streaky windshields for six with new turbocharged wiper blades or whatever.
25:01 Speaker 03 Exactly.
25:02 Speaker 02 And it's always something you can't actually hit for six.
25:05 Speaker 03 So I've collated my favourites.
25:06 Speaker 02 Fatigue or...
25:07 Speaker 03 Okay, great, great. So I've collated my favourites. First one, and I'm sure you'll pick up on what I'm picking up on, sometimes they've gone a long bow, other times it just didn't really make sense. First culprit for me was Beaumont tiles.
25:21 Speaker 02 Yep.
25:25 Speaker 11 Just like test cricket, Beaumont tiles is an Aussie original.
25:30 Speaker 03 Test cricket originated in England.
25:32 Speaker 02 Pretty short.
25:36 Speaker 02 What a strange feature of the sport to pick.
25:40 Speaker 03 Yeah. It went on to just tell you the latest deals at Beaumont tiles. There's no follow-up as to why it's made the link, but for me, that one was a miss.
25:51 Speaker 02 I mean, you could just go Aussie favourite, you know.
25:53 Speaker 03 Aussie favourite.
25:54 Speaker 02 That's fine, yeah.
25:56 Speaker 03 You don't need to say invention. Yeah, there was no need to put the word original in there, but that is a miss for them. Next up, Uwe Insurance.
26:18 Speaker 02 Am I right in saying, I think that says the reverse here?
26:22 Speaker 03 I don't know what the Summer Showdown is.
26:26 Speaker 02 Yeah, I'm assuming that's like a, then some, like a marketing name of some match.
26:30 Speaker 03 Yes, but I don't know it.
26:34 Speaker 06 I think they've gone for broad language around, we're not going to say which cricket game you've watched, but just any cricket game, a summer showdown.
26:41 Speaker 02 Yeah. Oh yeah, I mean, I haven't heard, I just assume maybe that's what, you know, they call a certain match between like two big bash teams or something is the summer showdown. Never heard of it. Jack, if you came to, we were all having a beer and you came to the table and you went, "Cher, I've been loving the cricket this summer." Have you loved the summer showdown?
26:59 Speaker 03 What?
27:00 Speaker 02 I haven't, I'm not a summer showdown. Oh, how can you say you love cricket, mate? If you haven't joined the summer showdown, that's, that's like saying you've shopped around for insurance, but you haven't talked to you.
27:12 Speaker 03 The reverse doesn't work, does it?
27:14 Speaker 02 This one, I'm not going to tell you the brand because in its lead up, as this ad went out, I was like, what brand is this? You know, it's almost, and then it gets revealed.
27:37 Speaker 03 It's a shed company.
27:38 Speaker 02 It's a shed company. I thought it was going to be Schweppes for a second because for children of our, or for, you know, adults of our age, but back when you were children in the late eighties, early nineties, Schweppes, one of the great bits of marketing, they owned Classic Catches.
27:52 Speaker 03 They did, Schweppes Classic Catch. So then they go on.
27:55 Speaker 02 So they're saying, so you've had all these fond cricket memories.
27:58 Speaker 03 In the shade.
27:59 Speaker 02 In the shadows, we're the ones that gave you the, you know how you didn't get sunburnt having those memories? That's because of us.
28:05 Speaker 03 And then they go on to try and squeeze bits from best sheds and then they go and try and squeeze in a few other cricket terms, which I like.
28:23 Speaker 02 You just have a selection. You have a list. You have a list of sheds and a cricket team has a list of batsmen, but you don't have a batting lineup. I'd love to, who's opening the batting for your sheds? Okay. Well, we've got the, we've got the twin wide and and we've got the deluxe. Okay. Who's at first drop? Who's at first drop? First drop's a great shed. That's actually, that's just your basic lawnmower, lawnmower plus accessories. I like that. Who's your wicket keeper for your sheds?
28:54 Speaker 03 So I enjoyed that one. This last one though was my favourite. I mean, Bec found it weird when I'd be listening to the cricket and it'd hit the air break and she'd normally go, this is why I could have a chat to you. And I was going the opposite in summer going, oh, hang on Bec, I wanted to see what.
29:12 Speaker 02 I'm researching.
29:13 Speaker 03 Researching. This is my favourite.
29:17 Speaker 11 Big call today skipper. You declared early. Yeah, had to. Saw the thinning up top and knew I had to act. How did you fix it? The team at Grow implanted my own hair into the thinning areas in one session and now it grows naturally.
29:30 Speaker 03 So, so in this scenario, he declared his team from batting because he realised his hair was thinning.
29:38 Speaker 02 Oh, it's not even an analogy. He's saying, why did you stop the game?
29:44 Speaker 03 Let's listen to that one again.
29:45 Speaker 02 Sorry. They're not, that, yeah, it's not an analogy. It's meant to be a real story. I called the game off because I realised I was balding.
29:57 Speaker 11 Big call today skipper. You declared early. Yeah, had to. Saw the thinning up top and knew I had to act. How did you fix it? The team at Grow implanted my own hair into the thinning areas in one session and now it grows naturally.
30:09 Speaker 02 Now, I said to the other team, can we resume play tomorrow? And they said, oh, you did declare yesterday. I said, but have a look at this. I went, gee, that's a good head of hair. I'd do anything that that guy says. We will resume match.
30:19 Speaker 03 The anger from the rest of your team. If you have declared your innings because you're thinning up top, which they would have been bagging you about the entire season anyway, because that's the kind of thing that you do just go.
30:33 Speaker 02 We're only four runs ahead. What are you declaring for? Guys, come on, look at me. Have it.
30:39 Speaker 03 Put the hat back on.
30:40 Speaker 02 It's a game base. Everyone wears a hat in the game. Everyone, bowling, batting, everyone, umpires. It's probably the most heavily hat in sport of any sport. And if you declare the innings and you're out there, you can't notice you're thinning. It's the one place there's no reflective surfaces. So how did you know?
31:00 Speaker 03 Yeah.
31:00 Speaker 02 How did you notice? What was it that caused the trigger?
31:03 Speaker 03 They brought it home with trying to link a bit more cricket into this ad.
31:06 Speaker 11 I gotta say, strong comeback for the hairline. No need for a third umpire on this one. With over 40 million hairs transplanted in the last decade, Grow helps you declare on thinning hair before it's too late.
31:18 Speaker 03 So I get that's confusing. You can't declare on thinning hair, but also no need for the third umpire.
31:24 Speaker 02 Yep.
31:25 Speaker 03 You can't use the third umpire for anything.
31:28 Speaker 02 Yeah, you're not allowed to use the third umpire for things that aren't related to cricket. Third umpire being the video referee.
31:33 Speaker 03 Yes.
31:34 Speaker 02 You know, be like going. I do like the idea that if there is a group of people who are debating whether Shaun does have a thinning hairline, the only way to settle it is to go and make Shaun lie down on a cricket pitch and use the third umpire technology to scan his head. Unfortunately, Shaun.
31:51 Speaker 03 Yeah.
31:52 Speaker 02 It's comeback, mate. You're thinning.
31:59 Speaker 03 Quick update on whether we've organised Liam Hemsworth to try and hit a tennis ball out of Rod Laver Arena.
32:06 Speaker 02 Well, that sounds like something that could be answered yes or no. Have we organised Liam Hemsworth to hit a tennis ball out of Rod Laver Arena?
32:12 Speaker 03 Pending.
32:14 Speaker 02 Okay.
32:15 Speaker 03 We, I don't have Liam Hemsworth's details, but a friend of mine does.
32:19 Speaker 02 Yeah.
32:19 Speaker 03 She texted him. He wrote back immediately. Oh, I could 150%.
32:27 Speaker 02 He's sticking with the number.
32:29 Speaker 03 Hit a tennis ball out of Rod Laver Arena.
32:30 Speaker 02 Okay.
32:31 Speaker 03 So did she invite him to prove it or she just said, did you say this? She said, well, she said, hey, did you say this? He said, yes, and I 150% can.
32:41 Speaker 02 Great confirmation.
32:42 Speaker 03 She then said, okay, well, would you like the guys to organise it so you can come in and give it a go?
32:47 Speaker 06 He hasn't returned.
32:49 Speaker 02 Okay, so he was online.
32:51 Speaker 06 So he was online. It was, and it wasn't unseen. He doesn't have the red messages, but yeah.
32:57 Speaker 02 Just to be clear too, we're not saying that he has to hit it 150% out. He doesn't have to clear the distance and then another half.
33:04 Speaker 06 No.
33:04 Speaker 02 Which like, that's his level of confidence. Even if it dribbles out.
33:08 Speaker 06 Yeah.
33:08 Speaker 02 He's done it.
33:08 Speaker 06 Hmm.
33:09 Speaker 02 We just need to see one ball delivered to the outskirts of the arena. Care of his racket, no other involvement.
33:15 Speaker 03 I'm starting to think he might be able to do it.
33:18 Speaker 02 Yeah, but only because you're hearing that 150% over and over and over. That's what's building the myth.
33:23 Speaker 03 No, but I looked up a lot of photos.
33:26 Speaker 06 Of Hemsworth?
33:27 Speaker 03 No, no, of Rod Laver Arena. And from all angles, it feels like.
33:33 Speaker 02 Feels gettable.
33:34 Speaker 03 Well, it feels like if you took the court, right?
33:37 Speaker 06 Yeah.
33:38 Speaker 03 And tipped it upright.
33:40 Speaker 02 Yep.
33:41 Speaker 03 It would get close to the roof. Do you know if that makes sense?
33:45 Speaker 06 Yeah, and in that.
33:45 Speaker 03 And we hit a ball way further than the whole court.
33:48 Speaker 02 Hmm. Gravity, gravity is the one thing you're not tipping though in that equation.
33:52 Speaker 03 Yes.
33:52 Speaker 02 Gravity will always.
33:54 Speaker 03 Fight again.
33:54 Speaker 02 Have its preferred direction.
33:56 Speaker 03 Hmm.
33:56 Speaker 02 Which is from up to down.
33:58 Speaker 03 Yes.
33:59 Speaker 02 But that's the tough bit.
34:00 Speaker 03 But just general length, I feel like he hit a ball.
34:02 Speaker 06 Should we, should we go down to Rod Laver Arena without him? Get 10 regular guys to hit a ball. And if all 10 of them can do it, just don't bother inviting them.
34:11 Speaker 02 I feel like, I feel like we're putting more in this than there is. I mean, he either does it or he doesn't do it. We can't, not the listeners want us to invest several shows of us pacing it out, mapping it out, talking to tennis ball experts. Get the guy and hit a bat out of the sky.
34:25 Speaker 06 Yeah, you're right. He just has to come down and do it.
34:27 Speaker 02 Do it or don't. I mean, from Jason Skeenerton, emailer Jason, just found the email in front of me here. Raises a really interesting point.
34:34 Speaker 06 Hmm.
34:35 Speaker 02 He's following the saga as everyone is. We all, I think I speak for all of us and say, we want to see Hemsworth to step up and go, yeah, here's the, here's the date. Here's the time. Um, get me this specific racket and you won't be disappointed. And I don't want to put more pressure on, on Hemsworth because I, I, like all of us, would love to see him do it. Jason says, hey guys, I'm just thinking, for years now, the people have been crying out.
35:01 Speaker 02 For the chosen one to appear and for special skills to be returned to its rightful place in the show. Special skills was retired because we somehow, although I think our method was airtight, we somehow selected the wrong chosen one to save the segment. The segment died. What if the chosen one was right in front of us the whole time? Brackets, if you count being on the front cover of magazines as being right in front of us. Liam Hemsworth, there's a tennis ball piercing the roof of Rod Laver Arena and rising like a glorious yellow sun. Not represent the new dawn of special skills?
35:36 Speaker 03 Wow.
35:36 Speaker 02 It's time. Do we have the Northman in the stands?
35:42 Speaker 03 Tell him which way.
35:42 Speaker 02 Spin the Northman round as soon as we hit, as soon as Hemsworth hits the ball out, we put, we looked, we go, stop spinning the Northman. The Northman raises his arm and points true north and we will know that special skills is reborn.
35:56 Speaker 03 Well, just a quick recap for people who may have just been listening to the podcast for the very first time. Welcome by all means. We had a segment called special skills. People would.
36:03 Speaker 02 Oh my God, yeah.
36:04 Speaker 03 Would basically say.
36:04 Speaker 02 This won't be quick.
36:05 Speaker 03 They've got a special skill that isn't recognised by bodies.
36:08 Speaker 02 Yeah, we had a conclave. We accidentally picked the wrong chosen one.
36:12 Speaker 03 I wasn't going to go to that part. I was going to say, I don't think we need this guy that can, no matter which, where he is, spin him around inside a room. He can tell us north. I think we're conflating two things.
36:22 Speaker 02 No, no, but there's a huge underground movement. You, you, I think you miss underestimate or miss underestimate. You just, you're wrong.
36:32 Speaker 02 You're wrong on knowing the level of passion that the underground movement who believed the Northman to be the true chosen one.
36:39 Speaker 03 Yes, yes, yes.
36:40 Speaker 06 Yeah, that's because you spend two weeks drumming him up and making all these rituals about him. We're going to meet at midnight in the trees.
36:47 Speaker 02 I found a goddamn scroll in the studio.
36:48 Speaker 06 Yeah, and then we never did anything.
36:50 Speaker 02 And I might find another one. I might find another one. You never know when I will. The Northman's there. His skill's not going away.
36:55 Speaker 03 Well, if you find a.
36:55 Speaker 02 People like Jason, people like Jason are waiting for the second coming.
36:59 Speaker 03 Yeah.
37:00 Speaker 02 And Hemsworth's got a shot to be, you know, at least one of the chosen two. I'm just saying if we could pull the Northman together with Hemsworth, that could be enough power to see special skills return to the show as.
37:12 Speaker 03 I like the idea.
37:12 Speaker 02 People want and as it is prophesized to happen.
37:15 Speaker 03 Chosen two doesn't have the same ring to it as chosen one.
37:17 Speaker 02 You're the one that couldn't figure out the conclave, mate.
37:21 Speaker 02 Andy, we were doing our job outside.
37:23 Speaker 03 I had difficult participants in there.
37:25 Speaker 02 It was an absolute mess in there.
37:29 Speaker 03 Okay, so let's just say it's an open invitation for Liam to set the date and we'll make it work.
37:37 Speaker 02 Do we tell him about the chosen one stuff? Or does that put extra pressure on him?
37:41 Speaker 03 I don't, well, I can say that we think you might be the chosen one.
37:45 Speaker 02 Yeah, no, that does put extra pressure on him. If I got invited to come to an event, it was like, hi, you know, we're at me and you, um, bike store. Love you to come along. Um, you said you could do a wheelie. I'd love to see you do a wheelie. P S, I think you might be the chosen one. Don't worry. Don't worry about that. Just come on down to the opening.
38:02 Speaker 03 Yeah.
38:03 Speaker 02 Cause you'll be like, what was the stuff about the chosen one? I don't want to come if you, this feels like I'm the chosen one.
38:08 Speaker 03 Yeah.
38:09 Speaker 02 I just want to be a guy turning up. Yeah.
38:11 Speaker 03 So are we just going to open invitation? We're going to put a date on it? Are we going to like, I mean, we never put a date on Peter out.
38:16 Speaker 02 We're just going to, to be like, if he hasn't replied.
38:19 Speaker 03 By June 30.
38:20 Speaker 02 By then. Yeah, June 30, the end of the financial year.
38:26 Speaker 02 All right. This might, you know, if you're getting to the end of the financial year and it would work for you tax wise, you hit a ball out of Rod Laver Arena. Um, you know, not sure how it would, but let us know if you could write off the, the tennis ball itself or where the wear and tear on your racket. If you're getting to the end of the financial year and you need to depreciate your racket.
38:44 Speaker 03 Maybe, maybe, maybe there should be a cutoff where we write off all ideas that we're not following up. Like, it doesn't have to be the end of the financial year, but, you know.
38:55 Speaker 02 Well, okay. So you're saying, interesting. Cause I've got, I've got a side idea. That I'm, I mean, it's not, I'm just going to put it out here to let you guys know. I'm not asking for permission. I'm just letting you know that this is happening. I think I will push forward with my B operation.
39:13 Speaker 03 No, you won't. No, don't. I had, I had someone, a mutual friend of ours.
39:19 Speaker 02 I'm not, I'm just saying, I'm not, you're not going to hear about it here, but I have decided to push forward with this exciting honey operation.
39:28 Speaker 03 Is it called Must Be Nice?
39:30 Speaker 02 No, it's called Hamish Hives. And if you go to hameshives.com, I've actually built a website, a landing page. You can register your interest. There's a small questionnaire there if you're a honey fan.
39:39 Speaker 03 What are you, what are you, what's your interest?
39:41 Speaker 02 I'm just interested in the, in the business. No, if you'd like to be on the Hamish Hives mailing list, so we can let you know when we get the hives up and running and as honey production flows.
39:52 Speaker 03 I had someone text us this week and said, he watched an ABC documentary about bees and went out and bought 12 hives. He said it was the worst decisions he's, he's ever made in his life.
40:01 Speaker 02 Sure, there's some pushback. There is some, there is some pushback. I've had some people actively go, you're not cut out for an agricultural operation. Yeah. Try to explain to them, I'm not actually going to be the beekeeper. I'm going to hire one of the most exciting up and coming beekeepers on the scene. I don't know who that's going to be yet, but they will be ready to disrupt the whole industry. Hameshives.com if you're interested. That's all I'll say about it on the show.
40:26 Speaker 03 All I'm saying is you.
40:27 Speaker 02 Do you think this will peter out by June 30?
40:30 Speaker 03 No, because you've, you're stubborn, but the, the, if someone just ends up rebadging their own farm.
40:38 Speaker 02 Yep.
40:39 Speaker 06 Yeah, there's going to be some asterisk to it.
40:41 Speaker 03 Don't worry, I'm going to be sifting through this. It's like when you say you're baking cakes and you're just assembling them because all the cake gets delivered. The.
40:51 Speaker 06 He does a good job of the cake.
40:52 Speaker 02 Yeah, thank you, Jack. And as I, as I will with the, as I will with the New Zealand Alpine, single origin, raw, organic honey. It'll be an amazing honey experience for those interested.
41:04 Speaker 03 Okay.
41:04 Speaker 02 For those interested, there'll be, there'll be different streams. If you'd like to stay abreast of the operation. Yep, by June 30. I'll have my next update by June 30 for you guys. From now on, it becomes an underground honey operation till obviously we launch and then it's very much above ground.
41:17 Speaker 03 Oh, we should make it really clear. We're not using any of the show's money or the people's money on your operation.
41:23 Speaker 02 You made it clear where you stood when we took the vote.
41:24 Speaker 03 Yeah.
41:25 Speaker 02 And I've unfortunately, due to my deep belief that this is a good idea, I've had to, I'll have to forge forward like a solo bee, which is very, very hard. They are a hive animal. I will forge forward like a drone, a solo drone.
41:42 Speaker 03 Well, we're barracking for you.
41:44 Speaker 06 I am, actually.
41:45 Speaker 02 Oh, well, now you love the honey.
41:47 Speaker 03 I didn't want anything to do. I didn't want to do the work, but I wish you luck. I don't want to see you fail.
41:54 Speaker 02 It would be a bit funny to see that.
41:58 Speaker 01 Thanks for listening. The Hamish and Andy podcast will return next week. Catch up or contribute at hamishandandy.com.
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