Pod Insights Hamish & Andy 328 - From One Dad to Another... I Want My Drums Back! About this episode Hamish wants his drum kit back from Jack and has found a very roundabout way of requesting its return. Tagline Sleuth returns with two big hitters as we attempt to settle who got in first! Chit Chat Champions is also back, and the boys check in with a naturopath, their friend Belle, to get a professional opinion on just how healthy their bowel movements are.
1. Hamish Wants His Drum Kit Back
2. Tag-Line Sleuth
3. Mitch Calls Back
4. Chit Chat Champions
5. Naturopath Belle
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0:23 Speaker 02 Ahoy to me bleak.
0:25 Speaker 03 Hamish.
0:27 Speaker 02 I can be bleak sometimes, but I could also be exciting. Ahoy to me stop. I can stop mid-sentence sometimes. And I'm an eel.
0:38 Speaker 03 Bleak, stop and eel.
0:40 Speaker 02 This is the kind of one Magic Mike would have loved to give to us in Quizmas.
0:44 Speaker 03 In Quizmas. So they're all linked. Are they linked somehow?
0:47 Speaker 02 Well...
0:48 Speaker 03 I mean, they always...
0:51 Speaker 03 But I mean, usually it's like, these are the three swords that a ninja uses.
0:54 Speaker 02 Actually, they're not actually... It's not really a three love link things. It's a famous three and it changed up about them. Something changed about them. Something changed about? You're bleak and you're uniquely bleak.
1:10 Speaker 03 That's rude, I don't think it's meant to.
1:12 Speaker 02 Yep. You're uniquely stop and I'm uniquely eel. E-e-l.
1:20 Speaker 03 I mean, no, I mean, you're vibing.
1:23 Speaker 02 I've got it. I reckon I've got it. They're anagrams of our names, surnames. He's got it.
1:32 Speaker 02 Well done. Yeah. Well done. Anagrams of Blake Lee and Post today, sent in from Rosie at hamishandandy.com. Well done.
1:40 Speaker 03 Kind of thing went back in the day when Podcast Mike used to complain about spending 20 hours a week working on the group of three. That was one where I would have gone, all right, you have put some effort in before finding out that it was sent in and he didn't do anything.
1:54 Speaker 02 Lys, he's now outsourcing the mail a lot. We appreciate them coming in. Hamishandandy.com.
1:58 Speaker 03 The only piece of work that needs to be done for this show. We have a team of seven and it is kicked around like an absolute hot potato. No one wants it.
2:10 Speaker 02 Beth also went to Hamish.
2:12 Speaker 03 I'd be interested to know if when Lys came to the show as Mike's replacement, she's done an amazing job.
2:16 Speaker 02 Yep.
2:17 Speaker 03 If there was a moment where Kelly was like, look, there is one thing I should tell you.
2:22 Speaker 03 It's a lot of fun, but you've unfortunately landed in the position that does have the job. Like there is one job a week, but you can outsource it. You can outsource it. Is it cleaning the toilets? What is this? Sounds terrible. No, it's thinking of three things that are related. It can take up to 20 hours, but please outsource it out. No one will check up. Go to the internet. Beth, we also went to hamishandy.com to use the very simple, straightforward system of uploading audio.
2:51 Speaker 04 Oh, hi, Hamishandy and the little boy. Hey, just wanted to pass on a message from my mum who didn't want to call in because she knows the ordeal that you guys go through with the mandated break. But she was telling me that she cleans a shower once a week to your podcast. And as you can imagine, over the break, shower cleaning schedule is completely thrown off. And when she finally remembers to clean it, she has to do so in complete silence. Anyway, good to have you back on air, boys. Showers never look cleaner.
3:17 Speaker 03 Thank you. And that's the kind of stuff we're saying to the government all the time. We're like, you don't understand the flow-on effects of this ban. It's one's a waste of a lot. And they just say, and they just say to us, they go, listen, we must stress to you guys, you have to take a break. We don't want to. We don't want to. Like I just, you know, quick 12 weeks and then the showers can be cleaned off. Then we go, all right.
3:42 Speaker 03 You know, that's, that's, that's, that's the thing. Hey, um, I've asked for the start of the show today because, I mean, permission to get to a little bit earnest, a little bit emotional. If I could. A little bit Blake. Not Blake, not Blake, just that classic Blake. So a little bit of heart. Um, but you know, it's a, it's a topic that's close to you and my hearts here, Jack. Okay. Because we are both beard boys, but we're also boy dads. Yeah. And also dads of boys. And something happened to me during the week and I just thought, you know what?
4:18 Speaker 03 I don't talk about fatherhood that much on the show, but I wanted to make something for you, Jack. I was struck by this and I was like, I want to make something for you, Jack, because we both, you know, our sons are, I mean, Sonny's quite a bit older than Gordo, but we're in the same boat. You're, you know, I see you as doing such a great job of being a dad trailing behind me. So with your permission, Jack. What is this like kind of passing on some kind of wisdom? I guess it is. Like a, like a fatherly mentor. A little grayer in the beard. Yeah. Who wants to pass something back on to another one of these beard boys doing a great job. All right.
4:58 Speaker 03 Jack, we're both dads to incredible boys. I'm just a bit further down the track than you, but I felt compelled this week to make this for you. I know you think Gordy's little now, and it's true he is, but he's growing like the sun rising and setting. You can't stop it. You just have to marvel at its beauty. Take it from me, mate, cherish every day while he's little. It goes by in an instant. For example, my little guy, I still remember bringing Sonny to the radio show one day years ago, and we had my electronic drum kit set up outside. He couldn't even get on the drum stool. And now, just this week, I sat in the audience at his school and I watched him play solo in front of assembly
5:40 Speaker 03 and crush War Pigs by Black Sabbath on drums. My little guy. It was sick. Couldn't believe how good he was, just how grown up it all seemed. And afterwards, with teary eyes, I mentioned this grappling I was having with how incredible he was. I mentioned it to his drum teacher, Nick, who agreed that he's come so far. And then Nick actually said something that really, really stuck with me. Nick said, "He needs a good electronic drum kit to practise with at home." And I want my drum kit back, Jack. I want it back. It's time. I let you lease it from me six years ago, and now gotta pay the piper. You are leasing it at $1 a week. I'll waive it for a year. After that, we go to a weekly.
6:25 Speaker 03 Yeah, no money changes hands ever. I'll bring it back when you need it. That's interesting. Well, but you've got to give me the $4 bond, which will be refundable when you return it. I'll pick it up and drop it off when you need it. At my discretion. Cool. Um, four times a year, max. No, no, no. That's interesting. Deal. That's a good atmosphere. Yep, that's a good deal, good deal. The time is now, my friend. Find them. Find that kit. Have it to me by the weekend. Woo, the kit is coming home.
6:57 Speaker 03 So crazy.
6:59 Speaker 05 The quickest ever explanation if we can. Cause I think it's half a decade ago. But you bought another electronic drum kit. I think it was the third in your life.
7:08 Speaker 03 It was. This was a very good one. We used it for Cool Boys and the Frontman, our band, used it for a couple of gigs.
7:14 Speaker 05 Zoe said she didn't want it in the house, which is the normal thing that happens with the stuff that you buy. Jack wanted it. You took it to your house on a lease.
7:21 Speaker 03 Yes.
7:22 Speaker 05 And then you said.
7:23 Speaker 03 I leased it to you for $1 a week, but the fee was waived.
7:27 Speaker 05 Yes. Cause I think I was doing you a favor as well. You didn't, you couldn't have it at your house. So.
7:31 Speaker 03 Jack, shop around. You're not going to beat that price for a state of the art electronic drum kit. $1 a week was a steal.
7:37 Speaker 05 So for a while.
7:38 Speaker 03 It was waived for a year, by the way, which means it's been about four years of lease payments you're overdue.
7:43 Speaker 05 Compounding. I had, I did have it at my house for a bit and then the same thing happened. It wasn't being used as a drum kit anymore. It was being used as things to throw clothes on. Bianca didn't want it at the house. So then I leased it to somebody.
7:58 Speaker 03 Let it.
7:59 Speaker 05 For free. And I think his name was Mitch. It's definitely started with M.
8:04 Speaker 03 Okay, great. I'll let narrow it down.
8:06 Speaker 05 And he said to me, yeah, when you need it back, I'll, I'll bring it back. And he was 18 at the time. He would be 24 now.
8:15 Speaker 03 Maybe we could do a cats in the cradle thing for him, for his parents to go, wow, your 18 year old has grown up into a 24 year old. It's amazing how fast it goes.
8:23 Speaker 05 Do you have any contact? I'll be, I'll find like somewhere in DMs. I mean, it's six years ago now. So it'll be a while to find him, but he should.
8:31 Speaker 03 Didn't you get his details?
8:32 Speaker 05 Yeah, I think so, hey. Let me look up like words like drum.
8:39 Speaker 03 You have a responsibility. You, I mean.
8:42 Speaker 05 Oh, oh Mitch, Mitch, Mitch, electronic drums.
8:46 Speaker 03 He's in your contacts?
8:47 Speaker 05 I've got his phone number in my contacts.
8:49 Speaker 03 Should we call him now?
8:50 Speaker 05 This is crazy.
8:51 Speaker 03 Should we call him?
8:52 Speaker 05 Should we call him?
8:52 Speaker 03 Call him now because Jack, when you took that drum kit, I mean, so he was like five. He was like, just, you know.
8:59 Speaker 05 He wasn't drumming. Yeah.
9:00 Speaker 03 He wasn't drumming. Never did I think the day, I couldn't believe it when Nick, saying his drum teacher was like, look, you know, he's at the stage where he needs like a proper kit to practice on.
9:09 Speaker 05 Incredible.
9:09 Speaker 03 Cause he's great. And I was like, I have one. Somewhere.
9:13 Speaker 02 It's been sublet.
9:15 Speaker 03 It's been leased in sublet. Kevin Bacon might have it. That's how many degrees of separation we are from this. But I, I will get it back off Kevin Bacon.
9:24 Speaker 05 Hmm. Well, let's see if Mitch has got it, or if he's leased it to somebody and we can get it off them.
9:28 Speaker 03 Yeah.
9:28 Speaker 05 All right, here we go.
9:31 Speaker 05 Well done, Jack. I thought that was gonna be.
9:32 Speaker 06 Hi, if you record your name and reason for calling, I'll see if this person is available.
9:39 Speaker 05 Jack. Drums.
9:43 Speaker 03 I think you were allowed to be longer than that.
9:45 Speaker 05 Chat champion.
9:49 Speaker 05 All right, we'll try and track down Mitch. Mitch is now here.
9:51 Speaker 06 Thanks, Jack. Please stay on the line.
9:54 Speaker 03 Okay, because I think this is that thing, this automatic thing that phones do now.
9:58 Speaker 05 Oh, I didn't, I've never known that.
10:00 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
10:00 Speaker 05 So I think it's asking him now to listen to that message, to see if he wants to take the call or not.
10:06 Speaker 06 I'm sorry, this person is not available. If you would like to leave an additional message, please reply after the tone.
10:12 Speaker 03 To do another one.
10:13 Speaker 05 No, and, and, okay, what, do another message? I already.
10:17 Speaker 03 Yeah, like an additional message to go, no, okay, sorry, we were spooked by the system, but.
10:21 Speaker 05 Text him, Jack. Okay, text him. But we'll leave it in your capable hands to see if we can get. Hey, it shouldn't be a problem. I can't imagine why it would be.
10:30 Speaker 03 You did say Jack, because you came over. I remember you drove, this is back when you were building your house. So you had a ute. You drove the ute over, put the drums in the back. You were so excited. And then you were like, anytime you want them, I'll drive them back in the ute. I do live in Sydney now and you live in Melbourne, but I would like you to honour that.
10:46 Speaker 05 Well, I don't have the ute anymore, so no way to transport them, sadly.
10:50 Speaker 02 Why ute? You can't hire a ute.
10:52 Speaker 03 Absolutely hire a ute.
10:53 Speaker 05 Sorry, I'm trying to talk to my friends.
10:57 Speaker 03 I could hire you a commercial van if you want.
11:04 Speaker 02 Guys, you've both got a pen?
11:05 Speaker 03 Oh, yes, I do.
11:08 Speaker 02 Yep.
11:09 Speaker 03 I mean, but did you, I felt quite proud of us for, you know.
11:14 Speaker 03 I was like, oh my God, I rarely bring the required materials. Yes, I have a pen.
11:18 Speaker 05 And I don't, I don't like getting caught with that one because Andy's always the one who lends me one. You would have given me 50 pens over the last three years and I say.
11:26 Speaker 03 And they never go back.
11:27 Speaker 05 No, they never go back.
11:27 Speaker 03 They never go back. Lovely Christmas present idea.
11:30 Speaker 02 Guys, when I say you've done it again, write down the company that you associate that tagline with.
11:40 Speaker 03 Well done.
11:40 Speaker 05 You've done it again.
11:43 Speaker 03 I, I, there's two.
11:45 Speaker 05 Got it, got it.
11:45 Speaker 03 There's two I've, I've, I've often, I've got, um.
11:49 Speaker 05 So Hame's got two.
11:50 Speaker 03 Okay, so if you're just thinking one, which one are you thinking, Jack?
11:52 Speaker 05 I'm thinking McCain's.
11:54 Speaker 03 Yeah, and Hame? McCain is a popular one. JB Hi-Fi also come in and they say, JB, you've done it again. JB, you've done it again. Yep. Ah, McCain, you've done it again. I hope you've investigated this, Andy, because it is a bit of a spectacular, original situation. Who came first?
12:13 Speaker 05 Yes.
12:13 Speaker 03 With the, you've done it again.
12:15 Speaker 05 Sometimes your hopes and dreams come true.
12:17 Speaker 03 Yes.
12:19 Speaker 07 This sounds like, this sounds like, this sounds like this. If this sounds like that, I'm your man.
12:27 Speaker 02 Andy Lee, tagline sleuth.
12:30 Speaker 03 Yes, which one came first, Ham? It, gosh, this was a deep dive, so I'm very. You've done it again is a powerful positioner and well done because it's, it's actually a power move. Just to say you've done it again is just such an easy way to go.
12:45 Speaker 05 Imploys all your good work.
12:47 Speaker 03 You are, he is known for this.
12:49 Speaker 05 He keeps doing it.
12:50 Speaker 03 It keeps, we can't stop him from doing, doing great stuff.
12:53 Speaker 05 It suits McCain's better because of the rhyme. Ah, McCain, you've done it again.
12:58 Speaker 03 I disagree. I think it suits JB better because their whole thing is going, we're lowest prices. So to go, you've done it again is like, well, you've, you've, you've achieved your purpose of getting lowest prices again. Yep. Which is a good thing. Just saying McCain, you've done it again. Done what? Put vegetables in a bag?
13:17 Speaker 05 But it rolls off the tongue better because of the rhyme. Ah, McCain's, you've done it again.
13:21 Speaker 03 You're putting too much weight on the rhyme, but you could literally. More regularly at JB. It's a tough one.
13:26 Speaker 05 McCain's is also doing their frozen pizza. They're doing chippies. You can do it again.
13:30 Speaker 03 Just what they do. That's like going, Clark's shoes, you've done it again. What? We made shoes again. The reason it works for JB Hi-Fi the best is because they actually link it to another thing they do. They're smashing prices. They're throwing a brick through that yellow plate glass.
13:45 Speaker 05 Yeah, and implies they actually have to actively work to always keep prices low. Hence, we've done it again.
13:52 Speaker 03 I think it works best if you tie it to another thing. You can't just go, Sprite, you've done it again. You made lemonade. Okay. Well, in my research.
14:05 Speaker 02 I think you're all right, Ham.
14:06 Speaker 03 Thank you.
14:07 Speaker 02 But both are true because McCain are innovating more than I thought they were. First of all, here's the current McCain slogan and tagline.
14:18 Speaker 02 And here's the current JB Hi-Fi.
14:23 Speaker 03 Yes, okay. Well, obviously, one company had two seconds to play within another one had point, point three.
14:30 Speaker 02 So that's, that's where they both sit in 2020. So I started going, okay, let's go through the system here.
14:40 Speaker 03 He rubbed his eyes like, say it all night doing this.
14:46 Speaker 03 This was, they've been working on this case for six weeks.
14:51 Speaker 02 Marsh, he's also feeling it. First up in the background, JB Hi-Fi started in East Kielow in Victoria, 1974 by John Baburdo. He's the JB.
15:03 Speaker 02 McCain, Canadian company, came to Australia in 1968. Started local production in Ballarat making chippies back in the day.
15:11 Speaker 03 Well done.
15:13 Speaker 02 So 1999 was the first one off. Sounds like, okay, we remember the corn raining ad from McCain's.
15:20 Speaker 03 We sure do.
15:32 Speaker 02 And they had just done the super juicy corn cobwebs.
15:36 Speaker 03 Was that the first time they used, you've done it again?
15:38 Speaker 02 No, no. Well, I thought of the earliest bit of, guess what?
15:41 Speaker 03 You have to find the ad where they go, ah McCain, you've done it for the first time.
15:47 Speaker 03 And then it would be the ad after that where they've done it again.
15:50 Speaker 02 Exactly. So the bid was at 1999 for McCain. Then we found this ad from 1996 for JB Hi-Fi.
15:58 Speaker 08 Sony 50 watt castorios and insane $149 plus thousands of CDs for $0.99. JB, you've done it again.
16:05 Speaker 02 The 50 watt stereo.
16:07 Speaker 03 That is, that is insane to pay that for a 50 watt stereo.
16:11 Speaker 02 Yes, so um CD's at 99 cents, incredible. I just love hearing the products that JB come back with.
16:16 Speaker 03 Best.
16:17 Speaker 02 That was 96, then, then we found this from 95, so we were like, oh, maybe it is McCain.
16:26 Speaker 02 I'm McCain, you've done it again.
16:31 Speaker 02 The pizza pockets, you're probably too young to remember those, Jack.
16:34 Speaker 03 I don't think I've ever had a pizza pocket. You can imagine what they are. I can imagine it. The flavour of a pizza with the convenience of a. Pocket. Pocket. Yeah, yeah, but they were, it wasn't really a pocket because that, from memory, they were fully closed off, weren't they? Were they a roll or were they more of a? They were more like a barbecue. Enchilada. Oh, they are full spherical roll. Full spherical roll that you'd bite in and create a pocket because there was a pocket within them, but not a traditional pocket like you would to put a wallet in. Yes. Yeah. They weren't used to store your keys.
17:08 Speaker 02 No, no, that was 95, 93, JB Hi-Fi, and they are discussing the leading mobile phone brands that they have at the time.
17:20 Speaker 08 JB Hi-Fi are smashing prices on mobile telephones, all the top brands like Motorola, NEC, Ericsson, Boxon, Nokia, Omni and Goldstar. JB, you've done it again.
17:31 Speaker 03 Goldstar. Also Nokia is, all these words were so new to our lexicon, we didn't know how to pronounce the names. Even saying mobile telephone means sanction.
17:44 Speaker 03 But that's the thing, they're smashing, so they're known for smashing prices, that's the thing, so that's, they're clever that they tie them together.
17:49 Speaker 02 Then 1990, we found this ad from McCain, which swung it back in their direction.
17:55 Speaker 08 The oven hot deep dish pizza without the home delivery hangups.
18:01 Speaker 02 Sound like a bit of a mixed word.
18:07 Speaker 03 So the guy at the ad agency was talking on a 1900 number and said, yeah, great, thanks for that. Hey, before I let you go, would you ever do any, be doing any voiceover work? In years to come, we'll get quite a slow talking grandfatherly type, but I think for now, with like a nearly orgasmic, with like a breathy, a breathy woman. Can we listen to her again, Jacko? Your own time, ADO. Done it again. I mean, we're not hearing things there. There is a deep breath.
18:36 Speaker 02 There's an exhale.
18:38 Speaker 03 You're pant.
18:38 Speaker 02 You didn't need the pant.
18:39 Speaker 03 You didn't need the pant.
18:41 Speaker 02 Um, anyway, that was 1990.
18:43 Speaker 03 But again, do you know what I'm saying? Back to the advertising side of things. Done what again? Made food?
18:49 Speaker 02 Well, a new type.
18:50 Speaker 03 A new type. They've changed pizza twice now.
18:52 Speaker 02 They've gone, hang on.
18:53 Speaker 03 They didn't invent deep dish pizza made.
18:55 Speaker 02 The first one's frozen. That's what they're claiming at the time.
18:58 Speaker 03 The first frozen pizzas.
18:59 Speaker 02 Deep dish.
19:00 Speaker 03 Oh, come on. I, I just, I just maintain that they're saying their product and then saying you've done it again. Done what? Done what?
19:10 Speaker 02 Well, they're going to argue they've revolutionized with pizza pockets, the corn cobwebs, and then the deep dish that they're there.
19:16 Speaker 03 What was the revolutionizing part of that corn cobwebs? They made it juicy. They made it juicy. You think they invented fluid in corn?
19:22 Speaker 02 They made it juicier.
19:26 Speaker 02 They decided to put it in a frozen bag. We head to 1985 where JB goes, we're not done yet. We were as early as 1985.
19:34 Speaker 03 Wow.
19:41 Speaker 03 Well done. Semi-automatic turntables.
19:43 Speaker 02 I think you had, you had an exercise buck put alongside it. You had your wheel for a while and it moving, but wow.
19:51 Speaker 03 A fully, well, obviously it can't completely turn itself. We haven't got the technology. But yeah, every now, every now and again, you have to wind it a little bit yourself.
20:00 Speaker 02 Good price. JB, you've done it again. I thought that was the victory until Marsha rang me this morning where she found one from 1984 from McCain.
20:21 Speaker 02 Now again, he doesn't say you've done it the first time.
20:24 Speaker 03 So it would have been before that. See, that's, that's more of their traditional. They just had to go real left turn in the 1990, didn't they? With the panting woman, because that voiceover is the same as the 2025.
20:36 Speaker 02 Exactly.
20:36 Speaker 03 Very deep, slow, kind of honey dripping voice.
20:40 Speaker 02 So currently, I think we have to give the victory to McCain, 1984. The deepest I can find, but I'll put it out there to JB Hi-Fi. If anyone works there or you're head of marketing.
20:52 Speaker 03 Yeah, get in your archives, guys.
20:54 Speaker 02 There's a 30, 30 day appeal process. And if McCain or JB Hi-Fi want to propose that they were first, please submit all evidence. Um, within, we're trying to say 30 days, within seven days. So 14 days, 14 days.
21:10 Speaker 03 Just go 30, no, 30 is fine. 30 is fine. I just think a winner will be crowned by the end of the year. And if, if no winner steps forward, McCain has got it. Yep.
21:26 Speaker 02 This is incredible. Hey, Jack has just received a text message from Mitch. What does it say?
21:31 Speaker 05 No, he's tried to call me. He hasn't answered the text message, but he has tried to call me. And I'll give him a ballot back now, if you can.
21:39 Speaker 02 This should be a Jack conversation though. Should we pretend we're not here or we all?
21:42 Speaker 03 Yeah, Jack, could you just businesslike, just let him know that you'd like to end the lease?
21:47 Speaker 05 Yep.
21:47 Speaker 03 And have the drums returned?
21:48 Speaker 05 I'm sure it won't be a problem. I can't imagine why it would be.
21:55 Speaker 09 Hello?
21:56 Speaker 05 Mitch, it's Jack.
21:58 Speaker 09 Hey, Jack, how you going?
21:59 Speaker 05 Yeah, good, man. How you going?
22:01 Speaker 09 Good. I'm so sorry for the missed call and, uh, the call screening.
22:06 Speaker 05 No, that's all right. Hey, how are the drums going?
22:10 Speaker 09 I am not going to lie, my friend. They have been in storage for about a year.
22:16 Speaker 05 That's, but you got a good five years out of them maybe then.
22:19 Speaker 09 So yes, very much so. No, I, um, am working at a creative art studio. So getting some use through there, but, um, they have unfortunately been retired for the time being.
22:30 Speaker 05 Mitch, I've got great news.
22:32 Speaker 09 You're looking to get them back. Are you wanting to renew the rent?
22:35 Speaker 05 Let's free up that space in the storage shed and get them back to Hamish. How about that?
22:41 Speaker 09 I think that is a lovely plan.
22:43 Speaker 05 Yes.
22:43 Speaker 09 Are you guys getting the band back together?
22:46 Speaker 05 Oh, no, they're for his son.
22:48 Speaker 09 Yeah, your son wants to learn drums at school. Oh, awesome. That'd be fantastic.
22:54 Speaker 07 Yeah, not as cool, is it?
22:57 Speaker 09 No, that's sick, guys.
22:58 Speaker 03 Mitch, sorry.
22:59 Speaker 09 Andy, I was so excited. I was like, oh my God, are we gonna, is the band game back together?
23:04 Speaker 03 Do you know what, Mitch? Do you know what? Now that the drums will be back in my house and my son's bedroom is just a short walk away. He's not home all the time. I'm home when he's not. He doesn't know what I'm doing in there.
23:16 Speaker 09 They are readily available. That's it.
23:18 Speaker 03 I would say this is a huge, could be a huge factor in Cool Boys and the Frontman reforming.
23:26 Speaker 09 Wow. I think it's something to consider. I was surprised it hasn't been considered.
23:31 Speaker 07 That's a huge scoop.
23:32 Speaker 03 We throw it around like Jack Steele from like four years ago said to us, I've got the song.
23:38 Speaker 09 Yeah, I've got a, I have a great song.
23:39 Speaker 07 Have you ever told him?
23:40 Speaker 03 And every song I hear from, there's two things that happen in my life that I, that I pay way more attention to than I should. I, I always hear songs and go, I wonder if this was Jack's idea for the Cool Boys song. And then I get frustrated at Jack because they usually don't fit. Or there's like not enough drums in it. And I go, this was classic Jack. Of course he'd pick this one. I go, I don't get to do anything with this song. The other thing I think about all the time is, sorry, this is well off topic, but we did this thing at the radio station. Again, like 10 years ago on radio where we went in, there's a lift in the building and we went into the control room that could see the security camera that was in the lift.
24:21 Speaker 03 And we spied on people to see what they did in the lift by themselves. Like if they picked their nose, adjusted their hair, whatever. And then we went and publicly shamed people for doing what they did. Every time I'm in a lift, I don't do anything because I'm, I'm worried that Andy, Andy could, this could be the day when they're doing the prank again. Super well behaved. Anyway.
24:45 Speaker 02 Mitch, this is such good news. Um, first question is, how are they, what condition are they in? I mean, if it has been some time, are they working?
24:55 Speaker 09 To my knowledge, yeah. I mean, there is a bit of an accumulation of dust, but I mean, I think all is up to scratch. Yeah.
25:05 Speaker 03 Right. They had, I mean, they had dust when I gave them to Jack. So I'm not, I mean, seven years later, it's gonna have a bit. This is first of all, first of all, Mitch, good on you for being such a great bloke.
25:15 Speaker 09 I thought.
25:15 Speaker 03 No. Never seeing these drums again.
25:17 Speaker 09 No. I mean, I'm more than happy to hang on to them and make a quick buck if that's the, you know, suggestion, but no, I'm also happy.
25:25 Speaker 02 You hadn't sold them. Like, when was the last time Jack contacted you about them?
25:30 Speaker 09 I think it was about two or three years ago.
25:32 Speaker 02 Yeah.
25:33 Speaker 09 When it was going, it was going, hey, I think I've lost Mitch's contact. And I was like, I was like, oh, that's me. And I just reached out going, hey, man, this is my number.
25:44 Speaker 03 Yeah.
25:44 Speaker 09 And I didn't hear anything back.
25:45 Speaker 02 Didn't you?
25:48 Speaker 02 So that wasn't really contact between, that's not in my message history. I'm sorry, Mitch. No, I think you thought about doing that, but you didn't.
25:56 Speaker 03 Sounds like the man I trusted my drums to. Um, so Jack, I'll figure out the lease, cause obviously you did get that first year for free. But you have been, you have been, it has been being charged at a dollar a week since then. So.
26:10 Speaker 02 A dollar a week? I thought it was.
26:11 Speaker 09 A dollar a week.
26:12 Speaker 03 I think it was a dollar a week.
26:13 Speaker 09 No, that was the original terms of agreement.
26:15 Speaker 03 Dollar a week and I waived it for a year.
26:17 Speaker 02 Yeah.
26:19 Speaker 03 Jack, what else can you, fifty dollars a year is not that much for a very high end drum kit.
26:24 Speaker 02 What did you?
26:24 Speaker 09 It is a very good drum kit.
26:25 Speaker 02 What did you sublet it to Mitch for? Is this for free to have?
26:27 Speaker 09 It's just to get it out of my.
26:28 Speaker 02 Okay. So all the financial burden.
26:30 Speaker 09 I don't know. I don't remember. I, I wouldn't.
26:33 Speaker 03 We literally just heard, we literally just heard the audio of.
26:36 Speaker 09 No, but didn't we say something like, I'm not, didn't I say, I'm not gonna pay or something like that?
26:40 Speaker 03 Yeah. I said I'd waive it for the first year.
26:42 Speaker 02 Yeah.
26:42 Speaker 03 And I think you thought, oh, by then I was just getting back to you.
26:45 Speaker 09 Hmm.
26:46 Speaker 03 That's, I knew I get you.
26:49 Speaker 03 So I think I'm looking at at least 200 bucks, but.
26:50 Speaker 09 I think it's about 300 euro, Jack.
26:52 Speaker 03 Something like that. Jack, looking forward to getting, do you think you can get them to you by the weekend?
26:57 Speaker 05 Mitch, I don't know how you've dogged me like this. I've given you a free drum kit and now you're doing the calculations and throwing me out of the bus.
27:04 Speaker 09 That isn't my strong suit, but that's pretty.
27:07 Speaker 03 Well phoned, Mitch.
27:08 Speaker 09 Yes, yes, sorry.
27:09 Speaker 05 Okay, you got a free drum kit for all this time. I think the least you can do is transport them to Sydney for Hame.
27:16 Speaker 09 Sydney?
27:16 Speaker 05 Yes, and you'll get to meet one of your favourite podcasters.
27:19 Speaker 02 Mitch, you have no obligation. You have no obligation there.
27:23 Speaker 03 Yeah, knowing that you're gonna get Jack to come over, he has to come and pick them up. So you're gonna get to meet Jack again.
27:29 Speaker 09 I mean, the honour's all mine, to be fair. It was a lovely time. It was a lovely place. Jack was super nice. I'd do it again. I mean, I'm happy to drop them off. It saves you a trip.
27:39 Speaker 05 In Sydney.
27:43 Speaker 05 That's why I'm confused. He's having to drop it at your place.
27:46 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's a thousand kilometre trip is not a drop off.
27:50 Speaker 05 Okay, just get them to me. Get them to me.
27:54 Speaker 03 Jack, you're gonna, this is a Tesla job for sure.
27:56 Speaker 02 Would they fit in a Tesla?
27:57 Speaker 09 I don't know.
27:58 Speaker 02 Anyway.
27:59 Speaker 05 Broken down in the past.
28:00 Speaker 09 Thank you very much. All sort of logistics. Thanks, guys. Take care of yourselves.
28:04 Speaker 03 I'm excited for cool boys. Huge announcement.
28:13 Speaker 02 Hame, can't believe it's taken this far into the year for us to play this game.
28:18 Speaker 07 Chit me with your best chat. Night or away. Chit chat champion.
28:26 Speaker 03 The part of the show that everyone believes they can do until you're on the big stage. We've had some heroes, absolute heroes stand up in this segment, and then we have also had some full body freeze ups.
28:40 Speaker 02 If you're new to the pod.
28:41 Speaker 03 Which is also fun.
28:42 Speaker 02 We're creating an arena to see how good you are at just everyday chit chat. Are you the best plus one at a function? So you can join any conversation. Mark is one of our competitors today. Ahoy to you, Mark. Ahoy. How are we going? Very good. Nice gusto.
28:57 Speaker 03 Straight into it. No, no questions allowed once we get to competition time, but we will allow that question. Are we a good?
29:02 Speaker 09 Yeah, no, I'm out of question time, so.
29:04 Speaker 03 What do you do in your day to day life that leads you to believe you'd be a good chit chatter?
29:10 Speaker 10 So my day job, I'm a music therapist and I work in nursing homes predominantly. I'm actually sitting in the car outside an aged care home at the moment.
29:18 Speaker 03 What's a music therapist?
29:19 Speaker 02 So you play music to people as a kind of therapy?
29:23 Speaker 10 Yes, exactly. So we use music as a way to help people achieve their goals. And especially it's really powerful with dementia to help people with their memory and things like that.
29:33 Speaker 02 No drums in there, mate. You don't want him near you. That's not very therapeutic. He's got to bash those things around.
29:40 Speaker 03 Well, jazz drummers deserve therapy as well. I know, and take the brushes in there, but the softer jazz drum.
29:45 Speaker 05 You've never used a brush.
29:48 Speaker 10 It's not about, it's not about the end product, it's about the journey.
29:51 Speaker 02 Hmm.
29:52 Speaker 03 Exactly.
29:53 Speaker 02 Okay, so they're playing music. You're not just playing music to them, they're actually participating in music.
29:57 Speaker 10 Yes, so we make music together.
29:59 Speaker 02 Yeah, that's fine.
30:00 Speaker 10 Yeah, absolutely. Feel free to come in anytime.
30:02 Speaker 03 Absolutely. Yep, I'll grab the kit.
30:07 Speaker 02 Your competitor today, your opposition, your opponent is Peter. Peter, ahoy to you.
30:14 Speaker 11 Ahoy.
30:15 Speaker 02 Peter, what line of work are you in?
30:17 Speaker 11 I also work in healthcare. I am a manager, so I talk for a living to avoid answering questions.
30:23 Speaker 02 Oh, of course. You'd be getting really questions that you're trying to avoid, I'd imagine.
30:28 Speaker 11 Yeah, lots of like, hey, can I have annual leave next week? Nah, not a good vibe.
30:32 Speaker 03 Well, gotcha. Okay, well, that wasn't avoiding the question, that was direct. But maybe the directness, maybe the directness will pay off today. I feel like you guys know the rules, we'll go over them anyway. It is all about, you will not be instructed when you need to start talking. It's all about you picking the correct time in the conversation to jump in and see if you could progress the conversation further. You will be judged on that category. You can't ask a question and you obviously won't hear each other's attempts. But you will have exactly the same feed-ins. Good luck, everyone.
31:05 Speaker 02 Yes, we'll put Peter on hold. Mark, you're up first. You ready to go?
31:08 Speaker 10 Yeah, I think I'm ready.
31:10 Speaker 02 Good luck.
31:13 Speaker 03 G'day, Andy.
31:14 Speaker 02 G'day, Ham.
31:15 Speaker 03 Hey, what were you telling me yesterday about the air conditioning at your new house?
31:19 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah, it just pushes the air through quicker but through smaller pipes.
31:24 Speaker 10 It's, air conditioning is one of those things, I feel like you never quite get the temperature right that you want. Every, every house I've ever been in, it's either been too hot or too cold. Then I go to work, it's exactly the same. Doesn't matter whether it's small pipes or big pipes, just it's never quite right.
31:46 Speaker 03 I felt like it was a plane, plane that struggled a bit to get off the runway, but then we just watched it for ages climb into the sky.
31:55 Speaker 02 And still worrying if it was safe as it climbed?
31:58 Speaker 03 I think it's okay, I think it's gonna take off. I don't think it's gonna land again, that's for sure, it's out of here.
32:03 Speaker 02 Well done, Mark. There was also an exasperation to your-
32:08 Speaker 03 Yeah, did you almost fail?
32:10 Speaker 02 Did you almost give up?
32:12 Speaker 10 A little bit.
32:15 Speaker 10 I was like, when you started mentioning air conditioning, I was like, oh no.
32:18 Speaker 03 Yeah.
32:18 Speaker 10 Oh no.
32:19 Speaker 03 Yeah, well done, you dug deep in the heater battle, you found your feet.
32:24 Speaker 02 Mark, we'll put you on hold, thank you, well played. Peter, are you there?
32:29 Speaker 11 I am here, yes.
32:30 Speaker 02 Mark has registered his performance. Are you ready to go?
32:34 Speaker 11 Yeah, let's do it.
32:36 Speaker 02 Okay, good luck.
32:38 Speaker 03 G'day, Andy.
32:39 Speaker 02 G'day, Ham.
32:40 Speaker 03 Hey, what were you telling me yesterday about the air con at your new house?
32:45 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah, it just pushes the air through quicker but through smaller pipes.
32:50 Speaker 11 That's really interesting, because I heard your mum kind of does the same.
32:55 Speaker 11 Sorry, that was a bit harsh, wasn't it?
32:58 Speaker 02 I don't think it also makes sense, but I'm not sure if you're making friends at the party.
33:04 Speaker 03 It is a great attempt at a burn, but as Andy mentioned, one of the key elements you need for a burn is for it to be cohesive, for it to be related to what you were talking about. Was your plan always to come in with a "your mama" joke there?
33:23 Speaker 11 Not even remotely, I don't even know where that came from.
33:27 Speaker 03 For it to not be premeditated is wild.
33:31 Speaker 02 I'm trying to think, what's mum pushing air?
33:34 Speaker 03 I guess she's pushing more, if she's, if it was well known that Andy's mum is talking more these days, but has asthma, so therefore has a constricted airway.
33:46 Speaker 11 That makes much more sense.
33:48 Speaker 03 Yes, we're always on the show talking about how Andy's mum's air pipes are getting, they are getting smaller, but she's pushing more air through. That would have been the perfect addition.
33:58 Speaker 11 Wow, wow.
34:00 Speaker 02 I'm gonna say it's an easy victory to mark.
34:06 Speaker 11 I wasn't expecting air conditioners. Like, I don't even, I don't know what I was expecting, to be honest.
34:10 Speaker 03 Look, that's the fun of the game. We put you in a corner and you lashed out. And that is a totally understandable defence mechanism.
34:19 Speaker 03 I wouldn't suggest taking it to a cocktail party environment.
34:23 Speaker 11 No, I don't think I'm gonna get many invites after this, after this attempt.
34:27 Speaker 02 Peter, well done though. Thank you for participating. As we said, you can do erratic things in the arena once you're there. Well done, Mark. A token of no value is going to you. Obviously, you can attribute any value to it, but certainly Hamish and I won't.
34:40 Speaker 03 Oh, well, thank you so much. Thank you for letting me be on here.
34:43 Speaker 02 Cheers, mate.
34:44 Speaker 03 No worries.
34:46 Speaker 03 That's what Andy's mum said. That even actually makes more sense, because she would appreciate being on the show.
34:54 Speaker 02 Hey, last week on the show, you brought up very tactfully, actually, and respectfully,
35:01 Speaker 02 different bowel movement schedules.
35:03 Speaker 03 Yes, timing, timing of evacuation.
35:06 Speaker 02 Are you still at night?
35:08 Speaker 03 I've got, no, I'm bringing her back. I'm bringing her back.
35:11 Speaker 02 You'd switched from a morning one to a night one and your wife was not having it. She did not want anything to do with it. You're waking her up.
35:18 Speaker 03 Again, I would say this is TMI, but it's not really. It's J E I.
35:23 Speaker 02 What's that?
35:23 Speaker 03 Just enough info, because we're, this is what we're talking about. I, to great fanfare, internally, privately, this morning, we are back on track.
35:34 Speaker 02 Back on track. For the morning, which doesn't disrupt anyone in the household, and you can do it.
35:38 Speaker 03 Suits my schedule better, too.
35:39 Speaker 02 Yep. I was a morning and a night, and you guys were flabbergasted. I contemplated trying to hold.
35:47 Speaker 02 And try and just get to one a day, but nah.
35:50 Speaker 03 But it just fascinates me what's there in the morning after.
35:53 Speaker 02 Dinner.
35:54 Speaker 03 Dinner's there.
35:55 Speaker 02 Coming, coming through the pipe.
35:57 Speaker 03 There's not enough. I just thought.
35:58 Speaker 02 Really?
35:59 Speaker 03 Three meals is about enough to create.
36:02 Speaker 02 Okay.
36:02 Speaker 03 What you need to create.
36:03 Speaker 02 Well, we said we'd come back with a naturopath to find out what is healthy and what's not. And so, uh.
36:09 Speaker 03 Not Jack's dentists.
36:10 Speaker 02 What? He's holistic dentist. This is one of our friends, Belle, who's a wonderful naturopath. Belle, welcome to the show. A show ahoy to you.
36:17 Speaker 00 Hello, ahoy.
36:19 Speaker 03 Ahoy Belle.
36:19 Speaker 02 Sorry you got pulled into this, but obviously I imagine people do talk to this, to you about this when they come and visit you.
36:26 Speaker 03 Critical part.
36:27 Speaker 00 Yeah, I actually, I feel like I say to people a lot that it's not a visit to a naturopath without talking about your poo, how often you're going, what it looks like, what it smells like.
36:37 Speaker 03 Hmm.
36:38 Speaker 00 And we, there's no such thing as TMI in our world.
36:41 Speaker 03 Right.
36:42 Speaker 02 There we go, J E I.
36:43 Speaker 03 Just enough info. Have you ever used that?
36:45 Speaker 00 Too much, yeah.
36:47 Speaker 03 Is, is, I mean, does it ever smell any different?
36:53 Speaker 00 No.
36:53 Speaker 03 Cause I, mine smells like absolute shit.
36:57 Speaker 00 Yeah, that's pretty good. That's what you want. It's more like if you're noticing that it uh, like there's a change, like it smells different to what you would normally.
37:07 Speaker 02 Right.
37:08 Speaker 00 Ex- experience.
37:09 Speaker 03 Normal scent. Yeah, that's good. That's good to know. That's good. What, what, what kind of, I mean, I don't want to put thoughts in people's heads, but like, what does it smell like? Like pencil shavings or like, is it, is there a thing?
37:19 Speaker 02 I think it's just a diff, I think what she's saying, it still smells like shit.
37:23 Speaker 00 Yeah, it's just like a different kind of shit to what you're normally used to.
37:28 Speaker 03 Yeah, right. I don't know if I investigated that deeply though. I, I think there's a, it's just, I always just go, yep, that's shit.
37:35 Speaker 00 Yeah, I feel like it's, it's kind of, you know, when it's different. So if it's feeling like it's pretty normal, that's a good sign that things are, yeah, smooth.
37:47 Speaker 03 Okay, you'll know, you'll know.
37:49 Speaker 02 We've all, we've already gone.
37:50 Speaker 03 So it's like trying to explain to our kids, like, you know, how did you know mum and dad, like, how did you know that you were gonna get married? Like, you just know.
37:56 Speaker 02 You just know.
37:56 Speaker 03 You just know. You can tell they don't get what you mean.
37:59 Speaker 00 You know it, yeah. You know it when you smell it. You're like, oh, that is different.
38:04 Speaker 02 Well, the big question was, these guys were flabbergasted that I was a two a day man, which made me worried. Two every day seems like a lot. That I was going too often. They said that it should be just be one. Is there an amount that's that's more normal than others?
38:21 Speaker 00 No, in fact, it's like, it's a very boring answer. But again, like, if that's your normal, then that is perfect. For some people going three times a day is their normal and they feel great.
38:32 Speaker 02 Wow.
38:33 Speaker 00 Perfect. If they're just going once a day, great. If they're going every couple of days but feel well, that's also fine. If it's stretching out to like, you're not going for four or five days, that's when you're a little bit more concerned.
38:47 Speaker 02 Yep.
38:48 Speaker 00 And the same like, if it's, you know.
38:50 Speaker 02 Too regular.
38:51 Speaker 00 You are stressed leaving the house because you're like, oh, I don't know where I'm gonna be able to go to a bathroom. That's also not great.
39:00 Speaker 02 So what would be the amount, the amount four or five? Is that, was that like? Loss. Yeah, you'd be worried. Is that when you start to worry?
39:08 Speaker 00 Yeah, it's kind of like, it's a dumb sitting on the fence answer. But if someone for their entire life has gone four times a day, it never feels urgent, it's not a bother for them, and everything else is pretty well, then you kind of go, okay, maybe you just have got a fast little conveyor belt.
39:28 Speaker 02 Absolute Teflon bow.
39:32 Speaker 02 They are flying over there. Yeah, I'm imagining like the bobsled at the Winter Olympics or something. That's, that's how fast it's going through, just holding on for dear life. Without the bit where they like, put the brakes on.
39:44 Speaker 02 There's already someone on the track at the other end. So a friend of ours, you know him, Bill, a friend of ours is a nine, but.
39:51 Speaker 00 A nine?
39:52 Speaker 02 Nine a day. Nine a day. Nine a day. That's not true.
39:55 Speaker 00 How do you find the time?
39:57 Speaker 02 Yeah, that's not true. That's a full time job. Yes. That's way, that's not. But I've told him that that's, that he should get that looked at. And he said, it's just, it's just what I'm used to.
40:06 Speaker 00 Yeah, nine, nine's probably pushing it for, um.
40:11 Speaker 02 Doesn't seem like he has. He must be pushing it. He's really pushing it. I feel like he's absolutely pushing it before they're ready. That's like nine unrisen soufflés. Stop trying, so just let them bake. Every event we ever go to, he has to have an aisle seat. Okay, so it is bothering him. Yeah.
40:32 Speaker 00 Yeah, yeah.
40:33 Speaker 02 That's okay.
40:34 Speaker 00 That when it's affecting your life and you're like, I have to strategize where I can sit.
40:38 Speaker 02 Yeah.
40:38 Speaker 00 That's not ideal.
40:40 Speaker 03 Does he know that's too many? Sure he didn't accidentally get it mixed up with like when people tell you to drink nine glasses of water a day.
40:48 Speaker 02 No, he knows it's too many. He doesn't want to do anything about it.
40:52 Speaker 00 Five kilos of All Bran a day or something.
40:55 Speaker 03 Yeah, he's nothing but All Bran and coffee.
40:59 Speaker 02 Um, Belle, thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Nice. I think that's given everybody a level of comfort, particularly myself. I was worried that I was the outlier.
41:07 Speaker 03 Not when you've got a mate that's going nine a day. You must feel like two's an absolute drag.
41:11 Speaker 02 But do you feel like, cause you are someone who loves efficiency, Andy, would you like to be only going one a day? Nah. But two, then you save half the time. But I don't think I sit there as long as you two do. You don't know how long we sit.
41:25 Speaker 03 Well, I've got a fair idea of how long Hamish is.
41:28 Speaker 02 Well, he once sat, he once sat in the bathroom here at the station, which has auto lights that turn off and it went pitch black. Uh, so.
41:39 Speaker 03 I must have been in there for more than 10 minutes.
41:41 Speaker 02 I think it might be a 20 minute timer, I reckon on that.
41:44 Speaker 03 And you can't do much. You can't reactivate it because you have to go over near the main entrance door.
41:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, the sensors at the door.
41:51 Speaker 03 They're not expecting anyone to be in the dark in the cubicle. So I had to, had to like a miner go about my business by the light of my phone.
42:01 Speaker 02 Belle, thank you so much. We'll chat to you soon.
42:03 Speaker 00 Pleasure. Pleasure, pleasure. Bye, guys.
42:10 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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