335 - Core Blake Family Moment Unlocked

An early morning incident involving Hamish leaves the entire household wide awake! Andy's brother Cam discovers that a catastrophe at his new house was also caused by Hamish! 'Salacious Headlines' makes a return after a comment Andy made to a passing journalist got him into trouble with Bec. Plus, some 'Power Moves' to elevate your status in the workplace, and Hamish sparks an investigation into the disappearance of the game Bat Tennis after reminiscing about playing it in primary school. 1. Hamish Woke the House Up 2. Salacious Headlines 3. The Liquid Sandwich 4. Power Moves 5. NSW vs. VIC - An Ongoing Investigation

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

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  Sorry, it's still buffering. One.

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  Ahoy to me foil, Hamish.

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  Mmm, okay.

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  Are we parts of a yoss?

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  No.

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  Damn.

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  Ahoy to me epe, Jack.

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  I know.

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  Oh, we're swords.

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  Body swords.

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  Yes. Fencing swords.

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  Fencing swords.

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  We are fencing swords.

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  The reason, Jack, you're probably the same, the reason you know an epe is it's always in crossword.

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  Huge crossword word.

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  Huge crossword word, yeah, it's obviously one of those, because it's like three vowels.

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  Yeah.

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  It's just, it's like, you know, always.

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  It's probably like helpful to wedge into, a small word that wedges in well.

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  And also another word that pops up a lot is the plural of lots of like, you know, eggs as in like mammals' eggs is over. Like V A instead of like ovum, that's like, that's a, that's a huge one. But I wouldn't have known epe if it wasn't for the New York Times crossword. It's always a good word to have, obviously.

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  I am a saber.

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  Saber, yeah.

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  In this one, the foil, obviously the light flexible weapon, torso only if we're in battle for that during a fencing competition. Epe, a heavier, stiffer weapon, target area, entire body.

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  Yep.

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  Hit where you will.

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  Yep.

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  And then the saber is a light with a design for faster action.

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  Is it?

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  Um, everything above the waist is allowed and scores a point if you're using a saber during a fencing match, including arms and head.

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  So is there any, God, fencing's fascinating, isn't it? I mean, I know we only care, look, there's 80% of Olympic sports you only care about when it comes around, but none more so than fencing. I mean, no one, you can't say you're following fencing too much.

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  Well, a foil, if you're, if we were in the foil discipline, Ham, you would focus on precision.

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  It's the poker.

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  Strategy and timing.

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  Yep.

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  Which I don't necessarily think it's you.

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  What's the one where you could win it all with one good hit?

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  I think Saber. I think speed aggression and quick reactions. I think that's you.

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  One Hail Mary. That would be the event for me.

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  FA is patience and accuracy, which was Jack. I don't think that's Jack or you. And carefully crafted attacks.

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  Yep.

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  Now, I think you're both Saber guys.

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  Anytime I've watched it, it all feels like the same one. I can't distinctly remember there being different swords. Do they all go for like five seconds?

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  It always looks like a tie.

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  Yeah, you can never tell who wins.

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  It's like one second and they both look like they got each other.

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  Am I right in saying in the Olympics though, it's only the foils? They don't have the different disciplines?

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  All I know is like, because they're connected to a like, it feels a bit like the board game operation. Which if you touch the sides, a buzzer would go off. And that's, I think, the same technology they use where they, when they touch each other.

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  Yep.

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  It's who whose buzzer went off first.

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  Yep.

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  Which again, it shouldn't be sword fighting because they, it seems like they both get each other.

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  On the most part, they both get each other.

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  I know 95% of my sword fighting understanding comes from either Game of Thrones or Star Wars.

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  Yes.

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  And in those sports, whether it's lightsabers or broadswords, it's not really a big win if you both get each other at the same time. You know, it is a lose-lose. Really the goal is to get the, chop the other guy's head off whilst keeping yours on.

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  On, yes.

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  A double chop off, it's not as good, it's not as good as a win.

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  But in fencing, it's all about did you get in first?

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  Did you get in first? And then it's like, then you're invincible.

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  You're invincible after that.

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  Nikki, go to hamishnady.com to tell us what she's been up to.

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  How are you boys? Nikki from Tasmania here. I was listening to your three things from last week's episode and I thought I nailed it right away because simple, complex and compound are actually also types of fractures. I'm a paramedic and I thought I would agree with you for you as fractures. Ando, I would make a compound fracture, also called an open fracture, because the bone breaks through the skin, creating an open wound. Ando is the only one I know with a history of an open wound, because he suffers from what we in the medical world call an IA, inferior asshole. Jack could be a complex fracture, but I would actually change him to another type of fracture, a green stick fracture, Yep. which is where the bone bends but doesn't break all the way through.

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  This only happens in children who have softer and more flexible bones. This is appropriate for Jack because he's just a little boy. Haim can be a simple fracture, Oh. which is one straight line with two bone segments. This works for Haim because he's an easy, busy, fast and loose guy. See ya and make us happy with you.

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  And also to you, and thank you for your work.

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  Good, great assessment. Didn't have to bring up my bottom problems, but.

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  I mean, you, that's on you, mate. You brought it up so openly when it was happening.

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  Yeah.

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  Graphically, some would argue.

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  Yeah, yeah.

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  She fiercely graphically.

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  Uh, Haim, you wanted to start the show.

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  Well, something happened the other day in our household, which I, am I proud of this? I'm probably not proud of this, but I have made history. I've made family history, you know?

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  Like, growing up, you never know when a classic family moment is gonna happen.

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  Yes.

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  And I think once happened that I've got a bad, a bad hunch will be part of the family folklore for a long time.

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  Excellent. I didn't wonder this because there are certain moments.

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  You didn't know. You don't know what, that's the day.

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  The whole family remembers.

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  Yep.

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  One for me was I did a fluff or a fart on, on our family trip, because I'd been a little unwell, which is known in my family as the choker.

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  Yep.

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  To the point where mum was dry reaching.

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  Yeah, wow.

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  And dad had to pull over the camper van and everyone had to get out and we had to open all the doors.

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  Funny you mention farts because mine is fart.

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  I suppose when a fart, I suppose when a fart moment happens, everyone's like antenna goes on a bit to go, oh, this is fun to remember these ones.

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  But with that, you've had poor farts, but this one, yeah, is when your, when mum's wanting to vomit and dad has to pull over on the highway.

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  I did something that I think would rival the choker.

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  In terms of, in terms of earning its spot in the fart hall of fame.

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  I did a fart that woke the house up.

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  Big house too. That is amazing.

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  It's not a small property.

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  I mean, and for your upcoming house, if someone did a fart that woke the house up, that would have to be herosh in the levels. And even then you're probably insulated. But so the layout of our house is master bedroom upstairs.

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  Yes.

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  Downstairs, two kids rooms and a spare bedroom. A lot of the time I'm in the spare bedroom, you know, for Rue, for the kids, there's just, I'm not uncommon. If you've got it, you use it just for a bit of sleep sanctuary.

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  And, and so is a light sleeper. So she's gone early.

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  A lot of reasons why I could often be downstairs. In this case, it was because Rue was a little bit sick and I'm like, all right, I'll go down and I'll be in the spare bedroom with Rue. So between the spare bedroom and Rue's bedroom is the, that levels bathroom.

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  Were you in, sorry, were you staying with her or staying in the spare bedroom?

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  I'm in the spare bedroom. I'm in the spare bedroom. Rue was in my bed.

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  But there's a room in between yours and hers.

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  Yep. So often in, we joke, if I'm spending a lot of time down there, my joke is like upstairs is the management level, but I'm not, that I'm allowed to visit, but I'm down with the employer. I'm down on the staff level. So I'm down on the employee's floor and just, you know, one of the gang downstairs. It's about 5:30 AM. So wake up time for the house, depending on the, what school day it is, is between 6:30 and 7 o'clock.

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  Okay.

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  So we're well before.

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  Yeah.

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  Movement. Anyway, I wake, I get up, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go next door. Rue's still asleep. I get fixed door to do a quick wee. And of course things are moving and as I'm doing the wee.

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  Yeah.

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  I feel the feeling, we all know.

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  Yes.

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  And I guess trying to remember, I'm just wearing underpants at the moment, which I think is pertinent. Cause it's like, if you're in, not that I would be in jeans at that time, like it would have been a bit more muffled, but you're pretty close.

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  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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  Your ass to the environment is just a thin layer of cotton, stopping the monstrosity that was about to come. We know on you, but there was, this was the calm before the storm, the week. And I guess I cocked a leg a little bit or something. I was quite uncomfortable, I remember at the time. But then what happened next, you know, your farts really.

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  Yeah.

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  They mostly lie within the normal distribution curve.

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  Yes.

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  So when one happens, that's way.

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  Unbelievable.

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  Five standard deviations to the right. Like, oh my God, what's going on? And so I knew it was a bit of an unusual one and it came out sharp and hard and loud.

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  Wow.

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  Now that.

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  Long?

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  Yes. And now that bathroom is tiled.

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  Yes.

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  So acoustically.

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  Yeah.

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  Acoustically, I was like, oh my God. Who knows what the sound waves were doing? Obviously you've got an open toilet bowl in there. And if you get an unlucky sound bounce, maybe it hits the toilet bowl, gets amplified like a radar dish. And now it's booming around the room.

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  Yeah.

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  That room, that bathroom is obviously right underneath the manager's bedroom.

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  Yes.

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  Like management level, right underneath CEO's office. So anyway, I, I'm like, oh my God, I come out of the bathroom. Still thinking, okay, Sunny's door opens and goes, what was that?

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  I know.

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  And so I'm like, is that a fart? I'm like, you know, go back to bed.

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  You're dreaming, you're dreaming.

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  Already beginning to go this, this bad PR about this fart. Go into it. And I'm like, oh, if he's awake, as you said, Zoe, very light.

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  Yeah.

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  Rue pops her head out of the fire room, she goes, dad, that was disgusting. And I'm like, it's okay. Everything's fine. It's over.

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  What's amazing.

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  Probably about six on the Richter scale.

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  Enough to wake someone, but it's gone long enough for them to register also what it was.

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  Come fully out of unconsciousness, into consciousness, still going. They know what's going on. So Rue's like, oh my God. I'm like, it's, you know, it's over guys. It's good. Let's get another hour's sleep. Then I hear footsteps on the stairs. I'm like, oh. Something's going on from the management level. Maybe it's, I hope it's not related to this. But then comes, he goes, was that a fart? Like, then Rue's eyes light, she goes, it was, it was dad. He's done a fart so big, he's woken everyone up.

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  Sorry.

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  Was there laughter then from everybody?

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  Rue, this is the greatest thing that's ever happened. Cause she kinda loves me getting in trouble. It's one of her favorite things. So she's like, he's done, he's woken us up. I'm like, we can still go to bed. We've still got an hour, but the adrenaline's now pumping. Get, you know, get me the newspapers on the line. I've got the front page. She runs up to the kitchen. At night, we slide the kitchen doors closed for the cats. Right? You know, now she's on like a rampage trying to go. Yeah, trying to work out. Dad, dad's the worst, dad's the worst. Opens the doors, right? Opens the doors to the kitchen, goes, the cats are awake. I go, mate, they're always awake. They, they wake up. Yeah. When you open the doors, she goes, no, it looks like they just woke up.

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  He's like, it's from the fart. Anyway, it's been about 10 days. Yeah. It's not going away.

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  It's not going away forever.

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  No, it's not going away.

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  It's not going away forever.

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  Cause now anytime anyone wants to just have a laugh. They'll go, hey, remember when dad did the fart? They woke the whole house up. Yeah, well, I've learned no more, can't go in that room. Not only am I not welcome on the management level. Yes. I now have to have designated farting areas. On the employee level because unfortunately the noise travels.

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  The reverberation.

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  Incredible.

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  Got in trouble from Beck.

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  Unfair.

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  But I feel, I feel like.

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  Straight on your side there.

• 12:27Speaker 03

  Thank you, appreciate that.

• 12:28Speaker 02

  You would never have done anything to warrant that.

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  It's to do with the wedding and it was something I said in a passing to a, to, I didn't even realise I was being interviewed. But to a passing media journalist.

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  When, how?

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  Yeah, I mean, this shows how much people read the paper, I reckon as well. But two weeks ago.

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  It was a newspaper thing.

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  Newspaper article.

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  They, they were asking about, I think the comment was from her, you know, are you excited about the wedding? I say, yes, you know, like if you've found you forever. And I was like, oh, look, if Beck found someone better than me along the journey, I'd never want to have to have her lock into me, you know, she's welcome to upgrade at any time.

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  Yep.

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  Yada, yada, yada. Headline, Andy Lee reveals he won't say forever in wedding vows.

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  Have they played the game before? And you didn't even know it was an interview?

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  No, so that it's just, it was just a, oh, wow. Good, good, good.

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  What paper?

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  Uh, the usual one.

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  You know, the one. Small one or the big one?

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  The big one.

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  No, the big one.

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  The big one. Yeah.

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  And what's the small one?

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  The small, sorry.

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  Cause the big one is owned by Channel Nine, not that you can expect any favors, but you could certainly hope for.

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  But, you know, it happened and it made us think, hey, we should play the salacious headlines a game again.

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  Our favorite.

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  People have been calling for it at homeyshady.com. So let's jump into it.

• 13:51Speaker 02

  Oh, that's lovely. Nothing wrong with that. That's perfect.

• 13:54Speaker 03

  No, it's not.

• 13:54Speaker 02

  Wait a second, there is something wrong with that salacious headline. We love this game. So Andy sends the homework around and goes, hey, we're going to do a salacious headline game. And we have to think of something in our life.

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  Some good news.

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  Some good news that, or just something that could not possibly be cast in a negative way. But then it's our job, the other two's job as journalists to find the clickbait in it.

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  Yes. Yep. Uh, who do you want to start with first?

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  Do it to me.

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  Yep.

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  Let's start with you, Ham. I can't stress this enough. I mean, it sounds made up, but this is a genuine thing that happened to me yesterday, literally yesterday. I helped an old lady across the street. That's it. It was Bondi Road in Sydney. Did she require help? She was going so slow. No, I saw her from the other side. She was crossing and it's a very, it's one of those, you know, sometimes you get those roads that if you're not crossing at the lights, you go, oh my God, will there ever be a break in traffic? Like the lights don't sync up, so both ways are clear. Sometimes I've spent like Yes. Full, full minutes, five, six minutes going.

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  I might just live here. I might never be able to get back to my car. So it was there and I could see her coming from the other side of the road. She actually put her hand on my car and so I was gonna yell like, get your hands off my car.

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  Hang on, she got out of the car?

• 15:11Speaker 02

  No, no, I was crossing back to my car.

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  All right.

• 15:13Speaker 02

  And she, I didn't yell at her for touching my car, that's fine. She used it to help herself down and was peeking out into the traffic. And she was going so slow and I thought, this, this, this is gonna, this is gonna be bad. I said, stay there, I'm gonna help you across. And I, and then when there was a brake, I ran over, used a valuable brake in the traffic to then help her back, leaving me now back on the original side.

• 15:35Speaker 03

  Yes.

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  Again, grabbed her arm.

• 15:36Speaker 03

  Did you do link arms like in the cartoons?

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  And then more cars came along, but by that stage they saw what was happening. So they were slow, like waiting for ducklings to cross. And we got across and I said to her, well, you've cost me a big time here because now I have to wait for another break.

• 15:53Speaker 02

  But anyway, that's, that's the headline is genuinely helped an old lady.

• 15:56Speaker 03

  That's not my headline.

• 15:59Speaker 03

  Jacko, do you, I think we're both probably gonna go a similar path. Do you wanna go first? Okay, here we go. Okay, good luck.

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  What can you do with this?

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  Salacious headline, salacious headline in three, two, one.

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  Hamish Blake involved in crime with elderly lady.

• 16:18Speaker 02

  Oh, because we're jaywalking.

• 16:19Speaker 03

  Jaywalking. In the article, it will say jaywalking.

• 16:26Speaker 02

  Well, that's good.

• 16:26Speaker 03

  Not bad. I went down a.

• 16:28Speaker 02

  She made me.

• 16:28Speaker 03

  I went down a different path.

• 16:32Speaker 00

  Salacious headline, salacious headline in three, two, one.

• 16:39Speaker 03

  What will Zoe think? Question mark. Media personality Hamish Blake caught in public holding hands with older woman.

• 16:46Speaker 02

  Oh, good, good. Zoe is an older woman actually to me. It could be another older woman.

• 16:54Speaker 03

  Just to stick the boot in a little bit more in the headline. I would click on that if you were caught in.

• 16:58Speaker 02

  I'd click on it too. And I, and I was there.

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  All right, I've got, I've got some good news for you, the, the two of you.

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  Go ahead.

• 17:07Speaker 03

  Old Mate's Pub.

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  Yep.

• 17:09Speaker 03

  Hamish and Ryan others pub in New York City.

• 17:12Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 17:12Speaker 03

  We've just bought the lot next door, leased a lot next door to build a beer garden. So suddenly we're going to have a bigger beer garden. It should be opening this week or the next. So a chance for people to drink in the sun.

• 17:24Speaker 02

  Even though I am a, a partner in Old Mate's, I'm just going to pretend I'm not for this.

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  Going to pretend it's all you.

• 17:31Speaker 03

  That is actually true. Cause contractually you're not allowed to besmirch Old Mate's, but we'll give you a leave part.

• 17:37Speaker 02

  I'm out.

• 17:37Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 17:38Speaker 02

  I'm out.

• 17:38Speaker 03

  Is that really in the, in a contract you all sign?

• 17:40Speaker 02

  Is it?

• 17:40Speaker 03

  You can't besmirch. Yeah, that's generally a rule from.

• 17:43Speaker 02

  Not that I want to besmirch it, it's a great pub.

• 17:45Speaker 03

  It's just a funny thing to put in the contract. Well, I think it's pretty standard in most contracts when you invest in.

• 17:50Speaker 02

  Can't bring it in to disrepute.

• 17:52Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. Uh, anyway.

• 17:54Speaker 02

  I'd be so surprised if anyone said I'm out because I was hoping to besmirch quite hard.

• 17:59Speaker 03

  Okay. I'm just going to start home first.

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  Okay.

• 18:01Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 18:02Speaker 02

  Good luck.

• 18:03Speaker 00

  Salacious headline, salacious headline in three, two, one.

• 18:10Speaker 03

  The world is not enough. After building house that encompasses most of Melbourne, Lee begins takeover of Manhattan.

• 18:17Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm clicking that.

• 18:23Speaker 02

  Yes. And I like it. Framed you as a Bond villain.

• 18:28Speaker 03

  Jack, have you got one in, in the, in the barrel?

• 18:30Speaker 02

  Here we go.

• 18:39Speaker 03

  Hamish and Andy perpetuate stereotype of Australians as beer guzzling oafs with expansion of Australian pub in New York.

• 18:50Speaker 03

  I like that one.

• 18:50Speaker 02

  We do though. We are giving more space to guzzle. The guzzle garden.

• 18:56Speaker 03

  Uh, very good. Jack, what's yours?

• 18:59Speaker 04

  My good news is the other day I was shaking out a guitar pick from the center of my acoustic guitar.

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  I know when that happens, you, yeah, it's.

• 19:08Speaker 04

  You lose one in there and then it rattles around.

• 19:10Speaker 03

  And you're like, oh, it's, it's, doesn't come out as quickly as you'd hope.

• 19:13Speaker 04

  There's a knack to it. And as my pick came out, so did $250 in cash of the hole, out of the hole of my guitar.

• 19:21Speaker 03

  50s, 20?

• 19:22Speaker 04

  50s. I'm still.

• 19:24Speaker 03

  What was it doing in there?

• 19:25Speaker 04

  I still don't know. My best guess is either last year I did live shows with Nikki Glaser when she toured Australia.

• 19:34Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:35Speaker 04

  Maybe they put like, as an American gesture, they like tipped me and put the money in.

• 19:40Speaker 03

  Instead of handing it to you, they hid it.

• 19:42Speaker 04

  They put it in the guitar.

• 19:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:44Speaker 04

  I don't know, because I had my guitar, like I was doing songs. That's the last time like I would have used it in public. So maybe, or maybe an audience member tipped me anonymously, or Gordy maybe stole money from us as a four year old and has gone around the house.

• 20:00Speaker 03

  Hidden it somewhere.

• 20:01Speaker 04

  And put it in the hole, because it's just fun to put stuff in the hole.

• 20:04Speaker 02

  He's asking me if he found any Bitcoin passwords.

• 20:09Speaker 03

  Okay. So Gordy would, what, out of your wallet or something?

• 20:13Speaker 04

  Possibly.

• 20:13Speaker 03

  $250. Okay.

• 20:15Speaker 04

  Yeah. A couple of years ago, when we sold our family car, the guy goes to me, I'll take a thousand dollars off and I'll pay in cash. And somewhere in my head, I was like, oh, you want cash? Cash is king. So I said, yes. And then I had $14,000 worth of cash. And I actually don't know if it benefited me in any way. Cause when I had the cash, I was like, well, this is just a nuisance. Cause now we gotta like hide it in the house.

• 20:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:39Speaker 04

  He could have pulled it out of the.

• 20:41Speaker 03

  Okay. I like the fact that he doesn't know where the money's from.

• 20:43Speaker 02

  Yeah. And that Jack has got 14 grand in cash.

• 20:47Speaker 04

  So that is, I promise you it's gone. I'm not just saying that so you don't rob me, but it is gone.

• 20:54Speaker 03

  I'll go first.

• 20:55Speaker 02

  Here we go.

• 21:04Speaker 03

  I'm going with another quote at the top. It was my son.

• 21:09Speaker 03

  Podcast star and social media influencer Jack Post denies any connection to potential drug money stashed in Qatar.

• 21:18Speaker 02

  That's what you think of when you see cash these days.

• 21:20Speaker 03

  And you don't know where it's from.

• 21:21Speaker 04

  Like, don't know where it's from, I'd be very surprised if he's involved in anything nefarious at his age.

• 21:27Speaker 02

  Very surprised, but not impossible. Okay.

• 21:30Speaker 03

  Here we go.

• 21:31Speaker 02

  Uh, yeah, I think I got it.

• 21:39Speaker 02

  So just before I do mine, do you remember the debacle, the $250 caught my eye, just in relation to a recent drum kit?

• 21:47Speaker 03

  Oh, yes.

• 21:48Speaker 02

  Removal.

• 21:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 21:50Speaker 02

  Fuel bill. No fuel money lie exposed. King Weasel caught after exact amount owed to H Blake found in Qatar. $250 rained freely from its hiding spot, highlighting Jack's lie that he was quote unquote, "too poor to pay."

• 22:10Speaker 03

  We got the whole article.

• 22:10Speaker 04

  Too long for a headline, disqualified.

• 22:13Speaker 02

  King Weasel, exact amount, the exact amount you owe me in fuel. Jack, because you said I've got store credit at your house, could I please exchange my store credit for that $250?

• 22:21Speaker 03

  I don't think you can exchange store credit for cash, can you, Andy?

• 22:25Speaker 02

  It's one of the items at your house. That's how store credit works. You're allowed to go around and pick the thing you want to the value of $250.

• 22:40Speaker 03

  Played golf yesterday.

• 22:42Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 22:42Speaker 03

  And, um, Jacko was best on ground.

• 22:45Speaker 02

  We did play, yes, we, we all had a great day out and Jack was, I mean, if keeping score is the thing you do when you just go out for a nice day with your friends, then well done, Jack.

• 22:55Speaker 03

  Oh, it seemed to be important to you halfway through the round and then less so towards the end.

• 23:01Speaker 02

  Playing with any second pair of clubs, which you know full well were completely alien in my hands.

• 23:07Speaker 03

  We've got a nice system. Ham will come down, go out and play golf. You borrow my brother's clubs, my old set.

• 23:14Speaker 02

  Is that why they feel so weird?

• 23:16Speaker 03

  And that's been a nice little thing that we do.

• 23:18Speaker 02

  That's been nice.

• 23:19Speaker 03

  They seem to be the nice specs. You've enjoyed borrowing the clubs?

• 23:23Speaker 02

  Well, I can't say they've, I've tried my hardest with them, but I can't say they've exactly held up the end of the bargain.

• 23:31Speaker 03

  Yep. So the last time we did this was December.

• 23:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 23:35Speaker 03

  And then I had to go back around and grab the clubs from Cammy.

• 23:38Speaker 02

  Yeah, right. I thought these were just a spare set you had at your house.

• 23:42Speaker 03

  No, no.

• 23:43Speaker 02

  I didn't know these are Cam's clubs.

• 23:44Speaker 03

  These are Cam's clubs.

• 23:45Speaker 02

  Yeah, right.

• 23:46Speaker 03

  And it was when Cam was grabbing the clubs for me and he didn't get to play as much as we do.

• 23:50Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 23:51Speaker 03

  In fact, hadn't played since you last used them.

• 23:53Speaker 02

  Maybe I should just.

• 23:54Speaker 03

  Yeah. And that's when Cam discovered a sandwich from November in the bag.

• 24:01Speaker 02

  A sandwich? Sorry, I thought you said a sand wedge.

• 24:06Speaker 03

  No.

• 24:07Speaker 02

  Very confused. This is a very golf specific confusion because that, a sand wedge is a golf club that isn't in that set.

• 24:14Speaker 03

  No.

• 24:15Speaker 02

  It's a 60 degree wedge, which I had to borrow yours on there yesterday. Jack, I was like, there was a sandwich in the bag?

• 24:20Speaker 03

  No, a sandwich, a chicken and avocado wrap.

• 24:25Speaker 02

  He found my present.

• 24:26Speaker 03

  He joins us now. Cam, oh, how do you, mate?

• 24:30Speaker 06

  Oh, good, eh?

• 24:31Speaker 02

  Oh, yes. Good match.

• 24:33Speaker 03

  Talk us through, because it ended a riddle for you and the family, didn't it? You guys have been trying to discover a smell and work it out in a new house you've bought for some time. Talk us through how that's been at the house.

• 24:48Speaker 06

  So, you know, we've moved to our house about six months ago and then I've just been setting up our office and getting rid of some chairs and stuff. And then I bought a new desk chair, which is sort of leathery or plethery sort of thing. And, yeah, there was a bit of a smell that sort of started to stink in the room and I thought it was maybe the chair. And so we aired that for a little bit. And then the smell sort of kept on wafting and then, yeah, I thought there might have been a dead possum in the wall underneath the house.

• 25:20Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:20Speaker 06

  Which was, we're about to get some, um, some people to have a look at. And these been rolling with the air conditioning, all the windows open and the, and the heating on to try and air the place out.

• 25:30Speaker 02

  Quite the climate impact.

• 25:32Speaker 06

  Get to the bottom of it.

• 25:36Speaker 03

  So when I sent picking up the bag, Cam said, I yelled, I said, just check that there's some balls in there. And that's when you discovered a chicken and avocado wrap.

• 25:46Speaker 02

  Now, from memory, half a wrap?

• 25:49Speaker 06

  Yes, half a, yeah.

• 25:53Speaker 06

  It had actually turned to liquid by the time I pulled it out of the bag.

• 25:56Speaker 02

  They'll do that. They will do that with a few months in the summer heat.

• 26:01Speaker 02

  I vaguely remember, yeah, when we played in December, being going through that wrap and.

• 26:07Speaker 03

  They're quite big.

• 26:08Speaker 02

  They're big and it was a bit heavy on the mayo and it was sort of squirting everywhere. And I thought, this isn't helping, it's a bit slippery. I have enough, hard enough time with your clubs as it is. I don't want slippery hands. So yes, I do have a vague memory of saving, of shelving that.

• 26:21Speaker 03

  Yes. Hmm. So it's been a bit of a catastrophe for Cammy and his family. Yep. And I was chatting to Cam about saying, thanks, thanks for cleaning out the bag. Thanks for bringing it over. It seemed to me only fair that Cam should get 20 minutes to hide a sandwich in your house as a chance to kind of make good.

• 26:43Speaker 06

  Or a redemption.

• 26:45Speaker 02

  But I know it's in there. Do I get to know when it's in there?

• 26:47Speaker 03

  Yes, we will, Cam and I will fly up to Sydney.

• 26:49Speaker 02

  Yeah, bearing in mind, I, I, I live with two people and hint, Zoe's not one of them, who do play this game with me a lot, even not knowing about the crimes I've committed to Si Cam. And they like to play it with apples that have had two bites out of them. Or a cup of mango pieces.

• 27:08Speaker 02

  And I play, I, I play this game a lot with a half drunk up and go. But often is hidden between the couch cushions.

• 27:16Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 27:16Speaker 02

  Yeah. People like it as a complete breakfast, but it can go off if left, left unattended.

• 27:22Speaker 03

  We were just asking. That, do you think that'd be?

• 27:24Speaker 02

  That is fair, but Cam, bearing in mind too, that you've got to look, I think what I was thinking, you know how in some, there are in different religions and I don't want to get this incorrect here, but you know, you often see like a shrine and there'll be offerings, sort of like fruit and flowers and stuff. I think it was an offering to the golf gods to go, hey, you're obviously angry at me. I've obviously done something to displease you. What if I fed you half a wrap?

• 27:50Speaker 02

  I left it in here and would that please the gods? And then would they smile more fondly upon me? Stop three putting.

• 27:57Speaker 03

  How about this then? Cam, when Cam next goes and plays?

• 28:00Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 28:00Speaker 03

  If he has a good round, the offering has worked and he doesn't get to fly to your house to put a sandwich in there. Uh, if he has a poor round, the offering hasn't worked and then we can organise travel.

• 28:12Speaker 02

  I, I like this, but I'm going to go one, I'm going to go and offer one fairer.

• 28:17Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 28:17Speaker 02

  Don't tell me when the sandwich is there. I think that has to be the fairest.

• 28:22Speaker 03

  Well, it's already an advantage to you, Ham, because Cam didn't know what he was dealing with. Whereas soon as you smell the smell, you can go, that's a sandwich.

• 28:29Speaker 06

  Well, something's there. Yeah.

• 28:31Speaker 03

  Okay. So if I get in touch with, well, Zoe's not going to want a sandwich in the house. I'll work out how to do it.

• 28:37Speaker 02

  This is my, this is my offering to you. Run it past her and if she's cool with it.

• 28:42Speaker 02

  Yeah, no worries guys. Yeah. Come and, come and leave a raw, just come and leave a fish somewhere in the house. If Zoe's cool with it.

• 28:50Speaker 02

  No, let's see, let's see. Sorry, Cammer. Sorry. Thank you for the clubs. Thank you for the clubs. Something wrong, something's a bit wrong with your driver.

• 29:02Speaker 03

  They keep flooding in and so we continue our commitment, Ham, to be a source of moves that are powerful, that give you a heightened advantage in social situations. Let's jump into them.

• 29:17Speaker 03

  I'll kick it off with Harry.

• 29:18Speaker 02

  Can I actually, before we hit off, I thought of one the other night.

• 29:21Speaker 03

  Oh, have you tried it yet?

• 29:23Speaker 02

  Well, no, because it would have meant not marriage problems, but certainly less of a warm reception than I would hope for at the end of a long day. Zoe and I were at a, or like a charity night. And there's a lot of seeing people who you might have met once a long time.

• 29:41Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 29:41Speaker 02

  You know, name stuff.

• 29:43Speaker 03

  Who then go, we should catch up.

• 29:44Speaker 02

  Yeah. And so you know, the, but you know, the move, like, let's say I'm talking to you, Jack, Andy comes over and I know I've met Andy before, but I can't remember his name. So I'll go, oh, sorry, this is Jack. Have you met Jack?

• 29:57Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 29:58Speaker 02

  And I'll just hope in that gap that you two introduce.

• 30:01Speaker 03

  And I go, Andy.

• 30:02Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:02Speaker 03

  And then you go, and you try and say Andy just out as quick as you can.

• 30:06Speaker 02

  And you go, yeah, Andy, sorry, I thought you met Jack. And you just, usually we all sort of know what's going on. We just pretend that the introducer has forgotten that this is a two names. No, you know, we go, have you met my wife? Have you met Zoe before? Like, oh, you know, I'm Carolyn. Oh, yeah, great. It's like, and yes, well, I can't remember. Do we do two names here or one?

• 30:27Speaker 02

  You never pull it off, but it's always worth a try. Zoe did that to me. She's like, oh, and do you know my husband, Hamish? And, you know, we did it and exchanged names. But I said to her later, I was like, what would you have done if I went, sorry, I think my wife's forgotten your name. I'm Hamish.

• 30:45Speaker 03

  That would have worked. Otherwise, I don't think so, but honey, but what's his name?

• 30:51Speaker 02

  I was like, next time that happens, Andy. And you're like, have you met Hamish? I think Andy's forgotten your name. I'm Hamish. Good to meet you. And I then must remember that person's name because you will get me back on them.

• 31:03Speaker 03

  Well, he's got a much better chance of getting you than the other way around.

• 31:07Speaker 03

  Jumping into Harry's, hit us at hamishandy.com if you have any power moves. I'm, he says, I am in a job where I'm required to send PDF scans of completed checklist to our main office. I know the company doesn't have the full Adobe Acrobat suite with the rotation function. So when I scan the checklist, I ensure they're upside down. So when they receive them, they're going to have to turn their heads upside down or the device they're looking at upside down to read the checklist.

• 31:38Speaker 02

  I mean, love, lovers.

• 31:42Speaker 02

  I wasn't aware that rotate would be such an expensive feature for Adobe.

• 31:47Speaker 03

  I didn't think, yeah, I mean.

• 31:49Speaker 02

  What is that?

• 31:50Speaker 03

  You'd assume that.

• 31:51Speaker 02

  Your phone does it for free.

• 31:52Speaker 03

  Most entry level things would be.

• 31:54Speaker 02

  Good on him for knowing that that's a feature. All mine today, I've got a bit of a theme, but they all tickled my fancy. They're all kind of meeting related, work meeting. Comes from Matt. Howie boys, quick corporate power move. When you need to float a new idea in a meeting, caveat it with now I've spoken to many of you privately.

• 32:15Speaker 02

  And consensus is this is a good idea.

• 32:22Speaker 02

  Too far power leaves everyone feeling like they weren't important enough to be consulted. And that going against the idea would be controversial. Really good.

• 32:31Speaker 03

  Really good. I had one during the week where Jane, who's Darcy's wife.

• 32:36Speaker 02

  Of course, provides us with the Darcy under the microscope fodder.

• 32:38Speaker 03

  Yes, I'm sure at a meeting and I asked her a direct question and then realised immediately she didn't know the answer. And she, she did this, she goes, well, you know what? I don't want to step on Tom's toes on this one. So Tom, can you answer this? And then Tom's looking at me going, I have no idea what she's talking about, but it was a sweet power move.

• 32:57Speaker 02

  Not stepped on.

• 32:59Speaker 03

  This one came from Ben. Power move. Simple one. For those who know someone or have a friend that rides a motorbike. Went around others, call it a motor bicycle.

• 33:16Speaker 03

  Technically correct, but way less cool. Still riding that motor bicycle?

• 33:21Speaker 02

  It makes it sound like the before e-bikes. You'd occasionally have one person in the neighbourhood and put like a lawnmower engine on their bicycle. This comes from James. Power move in the workplace. When wrapping up a Zoom call, pick someone at random and ask them to quote, give the final words.

• 33:43Speaker 02

  I get bonus points if their participation in the discussion was low.

• 33:47Speaker 03

  Pierre writes this, ahoy. I think you cotton on where Pierre's going with this, but I think it's a great one. Simple power move here when you're walking with another person up multiple flights of stairs or hiking a steep hill.

• 34:04Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 34:05Speaker 03

  Just before you start the climb, ask the target an open ended question about their life or work. Then continue to ask small questions while they do all the talking.

• 34:18Speaker 03

  While they have to answer, make sure you try and breathe as smooth as possible.

• 34:27Speaker 02

  Giving the impression they are unfit. Jamie.

• 34:31Speaker 06

  Yep.

• 34:32Speaker 02

  Um, ahoy boys, mucho gusto, mucho gusto to you, Jamie.

• 34:34Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 34:35Speaker 02

  Power move, a move, a power move for you in a corporate environment. The higher the position in the company, the better. When attending an important meeting, offer to print out any required copies for the rest of the attendees.

• 34:49Speaker 02

  Pick your target who you want to power move. Print one copy out in A3 and wait for the meeting to start before handing that copy to the target. When it comes time to reference the printout, everyone in the room has normal A4 sized copy. But the target is left holding a giant copy as no opportunity to carry on.

• 35:08Speaker 03

  I quite like that.

• 35:10Speaker 02

  It's good.

• 35:10Speaker 03

  Because I'd be sitting there going, um, he must have bad eyesight. He has requested a bigger print.

• 35:15Speaker 02

  Why doesn't he have the big one? Because yeah, big, big print is for kids.

• 35:20Speaker 03

  Yes, or.

• 35:21Speaker 02

  Kindergarteners.

• 35:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, or people that have vision impaired.

• 35:25Speaker 02

  I mean, you shouldn't laugh, but then it's probably coming for all of us. But when you see someone with the big font on their phone.

• 35:30Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 35:30Speaker 02

  It's not a power move to have it.

• 35:34Speaker 02

  You.

• 35:40Speaker 02

  Gentlemen, wanna update you on an investigation by which I mean, inform you I'm launching it.

• 35:47Speaker 03

  You have done no work yet.

• 35:49Speaker 02

  Andy, I don't like your tone. May I start by saying that?

• 35:53Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 35:54Speaker 02

  But you're correct.

• 35:55Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 35:55Speaker 02

  I have done, well, I have done precursory work, but then I thought I'm gonna bring this to you guys because I.

• 36:02Speaker 03

  For a joint investigation.

• 36:03Speaker 02

  A three-way investigation.

• 36:05Speaker 03

  Right.

• 36:05Speaker 02

  Because it refers to something that I remember from primary school. We all went to primary school in Victoria. So, and it's only since living in Sydney for the last couple of years, and I raised this a couple of days ago, but it occurs to me that like I haven't found anyone in New South Wales that had this experience, right? And, and there are New South Wales, Victoria differences. Like, we would have played tiggy growing up. That's just like.

• 36:32Speaker 03

  I don't play tiggy.

• 36:33Speaker 02

  Tip.

• 36:34Speaker 03

  Tip.

• 36:34Speaker 02

  Yuck. Is the, yeah, wrong.

• 36:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 36:37Speaker 02

  Wrong.

• 36:38Speaker 03

  No, that's not right. Game of tip.

• 36:41Speaker 02

  Yeah. Here's my question to you. Do you guys remember playing bat tennis at primary school?

• 36:49Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 36:50Speaker 02

  What's your, my recollection of bat tennis? Cause the other day I was talking to someone that's like into paddle, which is big now, and there's pickleball and.

• 36:57Speaker 03

  It's just very small version of paddle is bat tennis.

• 37:00Speaker 02

  Well, pickleball is huge. Like it's sweep in America, it's sweep in the world. It's a fun sport. But I go, hang on, I think we played this at primary school.

• 37:09Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 37:09Speaker 02

  And why did it die out? We had bat tennis, which was with a tennis ball, which is not the same as pickleball, but with a tennis ball and the bat that you would use for totem tennis, which is the tennis ball on a stick.

• 37:23Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 37:23Speaker 02

  That swings around.

• 37:25Speaker 03

  Ours were even less advanced than that, our bats.

• 37:27Speaker 04

  Ours were just wooden planks.

• 37:29Speaker 02

  No, yeah. See, we used these bats at school and they had them at school. Like, so it looked like a small plastic tennis racket with strings.

• 37:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, I know that.

• 37:37Speaker 02

  Plastic strings.

• 37:38Speaker 03

  I know that one.

• 37:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, it was like a mould.

• 37:40Speaker 03

  Some power out of that.

• 37:40Speaker 02

  You get some power out of it.

• 37:42Speaker 03

  Ours was a plastic, like, there was no crosses in it, so there was no, there was no bend in it. Literally a paddle. It was rectangular, kind of thing that you would put a pizza on.

• 37:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:54Speaker 03

  Um, and to take, yeah, to take out, to serve to people.

• 37:57Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:57Speaker 04

  Yeah, ours was like that, except it would. Ours was like a chopping board.

• 38:01Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 38:01Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 38:02Speaker 02

  All right.

• 38:02Speaker 04

  Thin chopping board.

• 38:03Speaker 02

  No, it sounds like a bit of a must be nice at my primary school, but I mean, it was a public school. The courts were on a slope.

• 38:09Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 38:10Speaker 02

  Um, like all courts at public schools. I kind of think sometimes that's the public, private school divide. So you're certainly a primary school.

• 38:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:17Speaker 02

  It's like flat ground because it obviously costs so much to level a court.

• 38:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:21Speaker 02

  All our basketball court was on a huge hill.

• 38:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:24Speaker 02

  At primary school. And I can't remember if the goals went in perpendicular to the ground. So the goals were also leaning back or if they went sort of straight up and down.

• 38:33Speaker 03

  No, mine was straight down.

• 38:34Speaker 02

  As the crow flies. So at one end, it was way higher to the ring and at the other end going downhill on the court. It was like lower to the ring.

• 38:40Speaker 03

  We had the same, the footy field.

• 38:42Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 38:42Speaker 03

  Um, and it's natural to have some kind of.

• 38:45Speaker 02

  Contour.

• 38:46Speaker 03

  Contour, but this was so drastic that you would say at, you know, the end of the half, great, we're going downhill next.

• 38:55Speaker 02

  We don't have to do uphill sprints into the goal.

• 38:58Speaker 03

  Which, which was definitely an advantage because any, any ball that spilled would just immediately end up going towards your goal.

• 39:05Speaker 02

  Same with basketball at our primary school. Like if a ball was loose.

• 39:08Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 39:09Speaker 02

  The chase was on. Obviously roll. By the time it got to the other goal, it was going at like 50 Ks. And there was still like heaps of playground left that sometimes someone would be gone for minutes, like chasing the ball in the basketball court. So I remember the bat tennis courts, they were next to the basketball courts. There was a bit of an up and downhill, but they look like mini tennis courts. They, we had them painted on the Ashfeld.

• 39:32Speaker 03

  They're slightly smaller though than a paddle tennis court.

• 39:37Speaker 02

  Oh yeah, much smaller. So I would say even probably smaller than what pickleball courts are now. So, but the interior was four square. And then it just kind of had another two rectangles on the end, like down to the service line.

• 39:49Speaker 03

  Yep, like, like a tennis court.

• 39:50Speaker 02

  And we would play over a plank of wood, which looked specially made. They were kept, the planks of wood were kept in the gym.

• 39:56Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 39:56Speaker 02

  And when it was bat tennis time of the year.

• 39:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 39:59Speaker 02

  We would bring the planks out and they would have special holders.

• 40:02Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 40:02Speaker 02

  And so the, the net was like knee height.

• 40:05Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 40:05Speaker 02

  And it essentially was pickleball.

• 40:08Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 40:09Speaker 02

  And I'm like, pickleball is now a global phenomenon. Like there are leagues and stuff in America and

• 40:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:15Speaker 02

  everyone's going nuts for it. And I was just like, we had this. We were on like, I feel like in the eighties, in the eighties, certainly Melbourne based, it seems, primary schools had the chance.

• 40:27Speaker 04

  So they didn't have it across the country, bat tennis.

• 40:29Speaker 02

  And then no one knows I'm talking about in New South Wales.

• 40:31Speaker 04

  Wow, I thought it was universal for Australian kids.

• 40:34Speaker 02

  Making the point, we were talking about pickleball and paddle and stuff. And I'm like, isn't it crazy that bat tennis kind of was this in the eighties? And we didn't, no one in Australia thought to monetize it.

• 40:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:44Speaker 02

  And it was like, what are you talking about? And every time I try and explain bat tennis, they think I mean totem tennis. I'm like, no, no.

• 40:50Speaker 04

  Not a singular pole?

• 40:51Speaker 02

  It was a real.

• 40:52Speaker 04

  It was a real sport.

• 40:54Speaker 02

  We had bat tennis tournaments at my primary school. It was a huge thing. Peter Tran, if I'm remembering correctly, apologies if I've got this wrong. I think he was a two time champ.

• 41:02Speaker 03

  Well, you, if you were good in class, you would get to pick your piece of sporting equipment first.

• 41:08Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 41:08Speaker 03

  Bat tennis, the bats and the access to the court were often picked first for recess or lunchtime.

• 41:14Speaker 02

  And we had on those rackets we had, it was, if you had your own, was a pretty big deal.

• 41:20Speaker 03

  Wow. No, we wouldn't even dream of that.

• 41:22Speaker 02

  That's how seriously our school took bat tennis.

• 41:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:24Speaker 02

  Um, people would get them for Christmas and birthdays.

• 41:26Speaker 03

  So what's the investigation?

• 41:28Speaker 02

  I guess, I, I just felt like I was going crazy because people were like, we don't, I don't know this sport. Did anywhere else in the country, even when you Google it now, like the internet isn't quite, doesn't seem to know what you mean by bat tennis.

• 41:44Speaker 04

  True. I've never like been walking through a rebel sport and seen the bat tennis section.

• 41:48Speaker 02

  It died out as a sport, died out as a sport sometime be after 1992.

• 41:54Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 41:54Speaker 02

  It just died.

• 41:55Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:55Speaker 02

  So I guess my question is to the listeners, did you play bat tennis? This sport makes sense to you. Did Australia essentially miss a giant chance to monetize this sport? Could have been our biggest export.

• 42:07Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 42:08Speaker 02

  And we just let it slip and now pickleball is huge. And you know, probably America is claiming that. Did it exist anywhere outside of Melbourne or was it a weird Melbourne only sport? I mean, I'd love to get Mr. Bryant on. He was.

• 42:25Speaker 04

  He was very passionate about bat tennis.

• 42:27Speaker 02

  Cause I'm like.

• 42:28Speaker 04

  Well, you, that's part of your investigation.

• 42:29Speaker 02

  In my head, literally, I'm like, we'd be about the same age now, but he would have also aged.

• 42:36Speaker 04

  Get your emails in. I'm interested.

• 42:39Speaker 02

  Don't know his first name, but Mr. Bryant, you would be my big fish because he seemed the most passionate about it. He ran the tournament.

• 42:48Speaker 01

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