325 - ⁠Definitive Answer On Who Is The Sexiest Dancer

The Hottest Dance Contest results are in! But whose moves reign supreme - Hamish, Andy, or Jack? The women of New York City give the final verdict. Extreme Empath makes its long-awaited return for the year, and Andy walks us through the best (and possibly most questionable) ads he spotted over summer. Plus, the latest on Liam Hemsworth and the skill challenge invite - and, of course, Hamish's bee operation! 1. Who's The Sexiest Dancer? 2. Extreme Empaths 3. Best Ads Of The Summer 4. Hemsworth... The Chosen One?

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  Ahoy to me hypertrophic Hamish.

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  Ah, yes.

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  I think you'll find that Jack is subtrophic.

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  No, Jack is keloid.

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  Keloid. Is it something to do with muscles? Because hypertrophy is growing muscles.

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  I'm atrophic. You're just a regular trophic.

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  No, I think it's like the opposite of trophic.

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  Oh, atrophic, no.

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  Not trophic.

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  Yeah. You're in the realm, Ham. I actually knew this one because I had it. I had it when I was young and we had to try and treat it.

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  You had keloid or trophic?

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  Keloid.

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  High ass cracker.

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  It was on my bum.

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  Okay.

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  Cheek shapes. Thought you might remember it, Ham.

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  From being on your bum? Is it a scar? Is it a scar?

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  We are the three most common types of scars.

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  Oh.

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  Keloid is firm and thick and raised. So that's Jack.

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  That is Jack.

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  Um, and a hypertrophic is thick and raised scars, but that stay contained within the original boundaries of the scar.

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  Of course.

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  Keloid grows out a bit and atrophic is a depressed or sunken scar.

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  Sunken scar. Okay. All right.

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  It didn't sound like Hamish was looking at my bum a lot when I said it.

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  If I remember correctly though, no, this story came up a lot on radio. You weren't you trying to slide down a hill or something and you just slid over like an exposed jag of metal?

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  Yeah. When I was in grade four.

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  You still got the scar?

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  Still got the scars to prove it, Jack. I won't impress it upon you, but if you ask politely after the show. Ahoy also to Rachel who went to TamishNate.com and used the very, very easy to use system, much better than WhatsApp, to upload the audio there and tell us what she's up to.

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  Ahoy, boys. I have a pleasure, Andy, for you. I was vacuuming and found a small piece of pink Lego. And instead of vacuuming over it or throwing it in the bin, I walked past a bin into another room. I opened a cupboard. I pulled out a basket that was in front of the Lego container, pulled out the Lego container, found its corresponding color-coded bag.

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  Great.

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  Put it inside, container back, basket back. It felt pleasurable.

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  I cannot imagine what it's like to live like that.

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  I, I am a bit of a chucker at it, but I can't throw out Lego. I think after working on, yeah, I can't throw out Lego, even though you, you find a tiny bit and you're like, we have so many of these, this will be of no consequence. I just morally can't throw out Lego. Like, you know, I'm still.

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  It's also, it's part of a set.

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  Yeah. Well, no, not even that. None of ours are part of a set. Like, it all just goes in the giant box. I didn't, until I worked on Lego Masters and I saw you going to the brick pen, it's all separated by color. And then I said to Brickman, who's on the show, I was like, do people separate by color? He's like, yeah, how do you build anything? Like, just dump it all on the floor. It never occurred to me that people would actually put all the colors together. So, but I can't, yeah, I can't do that to Lego because it's got a use.

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  Hey, last week on the show, we, you set the challenge to.

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  Yeah, I mean, this is a science-based challenge.

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  Three of us. It was a dance contest, essentially. Remind us of the scientific experiment.

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  So I came across something on Instagram. So you know, it's definitely scientifically, scientifically backed, but it was scientists in the UK, I believe it was, had come up with like a 3D rendering of a human shape that, assuming they'd done tests on a whole bunch of, you know, willing subjects who'd watched samples of men dancing.

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  Yes.

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  And this was what women scientifically find the most attractive dance moves. I guess they'd like amalgamated it all.

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  Yep.

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  And they'd come up with. Essentially, you know, one dance to rule them all. Yeah. This is will be the, this is just like the skeleton key that unlocks all desire in women. And it was this kind of like 15 second clip to um the hit song, What Is Love? Uh, of this humanoid. Now I'd seen this met rendering. So we're like, let's test if this is actually true. Straight after the pod last week, we were like, go into the other room. And we all have to lay down what we think is the sexiest dance. Now, cause I'd seen this one, I was like, I will have to do my best to do that exact dance. Which he did a very good job of. But actually replicated it very well. I think the whole experiment relied on that. Mm hmm. But then you guys had to, this is a bigger ask.

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  You had to freestyle what you thought was the sexiest dance. Knowing that then to get it judged, we'd lined up our buddy Vaughn, who lives in New York. I just kind of mentally thought, other side of the world. Yes. That that feels like it's the most random. We're going to send the videos off to him and he had lined up three women he knew, who have no other conception of us to just blank, like cold, look at the dance, judge the dancer on their sexiness. To make it even more scientific, we thought we're going to take looks out of the equation here. We all wore a paper bag on our head. Paper bag on our head. Paper bag on the head. We also can't have any unconscious fashion cues, giving someone an edge or a disadvantage. Cause Jack and I were a bit nervous, we were in shorts and like it wasn't the.

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  It's just the modest, not dancing. Sexy, yeah, dancing gear. So we all, but you were in jeans and a white t-shirt, Andy, so we all decided to wear Andy's clothes. That left me without clothes, sitting in my undies while you guys danced. Um, not my place to say, cause I'm not part of the audience, part of the experiment. But I did find that there's you sitting there sort of sad and slumped over in your undies. I found that unsexy.

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  I think that's. So I'm glad we didn't show him part of that. Oh, so what did you, so dancer A, here's some behind the scene footage. What do you think of him now?

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  Well, we do work in a communal environment, so I was in the dark. I was sitting in a studio just in my undies. And then, then the studio producer came back in, switched the lights on and went, ooh, ooh.

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  So don't mind me just having a think about this.

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  I'm not sure what kind of room is that, my start. This is how our dancers went.

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  Dancer A, Andy Lee.

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  Bag is on my head. Um, I can't hear anything through the AirPods. What do you say, well, I've got five seconds to get into it, do I? And then do my moves. Is it, is it a singular dance move or is it the whole thing?

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  The whole thing, there can be multiple moves.

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  Okay, there can be multiple moves. It's not like you can do in 20 seconds. Okay, am I gonna hit anything? All right, hit me with it.

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  Starts with finger pointing to the sky. Into shoulder shimmy. Then backwards falling, one arm to the floor behind him. Walking on the spot into hip, shoot, shoot.

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  All right, you've done yours.

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  Yeah, I think definitely the pressure of just

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  Knowing that it's gonna be.

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  Starting it and being dead cold sober.

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  I don't think I've ever tried to dance sober, that's a great point.

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  That is, as soon as it started, there was a few things. Sober, bag on your head.

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  That was the other thing that stuck out to me.

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  Doing it for a camera, like.

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  Yeah, yeah, it also felt a little bit like a peep show. It's of, cause like, yeah, I've set up the camera now, now dance for me. You're like, okay.

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  It feels like you're fulfilling a weird Craigslist request.

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  Yeah, so all of that definitely goes through your head. Can't tell you what, 30 is longer than you think. Like, I'm like, I thought I'd done plenty.

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  Keep going, please, sir. We haven't got enough. It's like breathalyzer, isn't it?

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  Yeah.

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  Keep, blow, blow, blow.

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  Yeah, so I guess I'll get into my undies.

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  Yeah, we need your clothes. Jack, how are you feeling?

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  Yeah, I'm hating it. I'm hating it. Cause I'm trying to like, I'm scrambling around my brain. It's like, okay, think of a good dance move, think of a good dance move and.

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  Jack just goes to me for, he goes, every time I go to a wedding, he goes, I just say to myself, I must learn one move.

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  Cause you, you realize you get there and you're like, gotta have just something.

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  I've seen you with some good moves.

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  Thanks, man.

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  I have.

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  Which one?

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  At your wedding, which one?

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  Just grow it to me.

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  At your wedding.

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  Show me those dancing.

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  Yeah. So. It's in there.

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  Yeah.

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  Just so you know, it's in there.

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  Yeah.

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  Yeah.

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  Yeah, you're right. I'll just feel it.

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  Let it out.

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  I'll just feel it.

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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

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  Yes.

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  Okay, great. I'm getting my clothes off.

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  Good luck, Jack.

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  All right, this slightly goes against the spirit of the game, but Andy, we can see Jack through a one-way glass.

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  He's limbering, not? Got it. Oh, gosh, yeah.

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  I think he started a couple of claps to get into it.

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  Oh, that's right. He's dangerous, though. He's walking a bit.

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  He's going for a spin. He's going for it. He's going for it, Andy. He's going for it.

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  Yeah.

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  Arms out.

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  He's done, he's wanted me. I think he's, I think, whether it's better, you know what I mean? Like, I don't know whether it's more attractive than I was doing.

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  He's doing a lot of arms out, like with his hands going, give it to me, to the crowd.

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  Yeah, exactly.

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  That's just a star jump.

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  I think he knows it, too. He actually was on a great run and he finished with a star jump.

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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's longer than you think.

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  Thirty seconds is way longer than you think. You get to fifteen seconds and you're like, what else? What else? What else can you do with your body?

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  You went for a star jump.

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  Could you guys see me? Nah, nah.

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  We accidentally, we accidentally could see. We're gonna see it anyway.

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  Yeah. I went for a star, did it look like half a star jump? Because halfway through the star jump, I'm like, that's not a dance move. That's an exercise.

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  I hope for your sake it's not included in the stream. That will have to be rigorous if it is in the selection.

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  Edit out.

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  No, we can't, Jack. You might have cost yourself a win by putting the star jump in. It was like watching some of the Winter Olympics get to the end of the ice skating.

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  Yeah.

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  And the track still has ten seconds left on it and then just doing under the little teapot or whatever.

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  Yeah, I regretted the star jump mid-jump.

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  Did you think you found it? Because I felt like you started a little tentative and then, then you went, then you did like Lewis Capaldi. I'm not gonna do this, go in my armpits.

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  Let me get some star jumps for Andy.

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  But then you did that like kind of, crowd are you with me?

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  Yeah, I did a great, oh, you saw that? Yeah, I did like, let's like hear the crowd go.

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  You were spinning around with your arms out, like, like honestly, like you were playing a stadium going, this is what I've waited for.

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  So to me, to me it was.

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  Which is a huge move on a first date, but it could be a cool move on a dance floor.

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  It was, yeah, you've had a bit of, I'm the DJ getting 10,000 people up and about versus, I'm seducing a single person.

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  I mean, you had to freestyle it, you had to go full energy, you did what you had to do.

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  And you're about to do the actual sexy dance?

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  I've got a slightly different challenge now because I actually have to, for this experiment to work, I technically should destroy you guys by doing the scientifically most sexy dance. But it's on me if I can recreate the sample that I have.

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  Dancer C, Hamish Blake, doing the scientifically calculated sexiest dance moves on earth.

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  Side to side Carlton shuffle.

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  Then into rotating clap circles.

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  A mini sprinkler in transition.

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  Some big Chris Martin windmills.

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  Finishing with the thumbs up side jiggle.

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  Good, mate. Think we got it.

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  And surprisingly, Ham did get it. Like, I think that was a very close replica of what the 3D rendering of that sexiest dance was. So I'm glad that the scientific test that we're trying to send off all these different dances is going to be accurate.

• 12:28Speaker 02

  Well, I mean, I'm sure this will, we'll, we'll put this up on, you know, on social pipes and YouTube and whatnot, but it's slightly different experience for me because you, you guys just had to listen to your heart and let the music move you. I had to, you know, land within the constraints of, of someone else's idea of what sexy was.

• 12:49Speaker 03

  But it's still the best I've ever seen him dance.

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  Yeah. If you're trying to say you were handicapped and that we had it easier than you, that's not true.

• 12:56Speaker 03

  Absolutely had a great advantage.

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  I couldn't listen to my heart and I think I do dance best when I can listen to my heart. However, let's just, let's see though, what the, the women of New York City thought. We haven't heard this audio. I'm not even, I don't know what the women's names are, but I believe the instructions I gave to Vorm when I sent off the dancers was like, look, we just want, almost like the brown low metal vote. We just want like, you know.

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  Three, two, one.

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  Yep.

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  Rank us three, two, one.

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  Highest, you know, three being the best, one being the worst for each of the dancers.

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  And some small explanations as to why. A few of them, I've been told, Ham, were actually, actually kind of commentated it as they watched it. So we can get a sense of that, that's happening.

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  Be tough not to.

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  But this is how the results came in.

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  I am Amy Bailey and I'm actually from Florida and live in Florida, but I'm in New York City for a photo shoot.

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  Dancer A, Andy Lee.

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  I'm going to wait to see all of them. He's giving me one. That definitely gives me one. The backwards. Oh my God. Yeah.

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  Okay.

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  Oh my gosh.

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  Dancer B, Jack Post.

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  Wait, is it a different person?

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  Got it with the clothes.

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  Oh boy. This giving me dad vibes. Butt out. Look at the butt out and doing jumping jacks.

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  No.

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  Like a jumping jack is the dances. Oh God, you guys are making it really hard.

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  Dancer C, Hamish Blake.

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  This is the worst. Who's better? This guy? Okay. He's trying to do like the lawnmower a little bit and then

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  I don't, oh, okay. Off the top of my head, I will say the order from sexiest to least sexiest. B, A, C.

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  So B gets three, A gets two, C gets one.

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  Sure. Let's say that. Yeah. Let's just do that.

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  After judge one, Jack leads. Andy in second and Hamish last.

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  Hi, I'm Nicole. I'm in New York and I'm going to see who's the hottest out of these three dancers.

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  Dancer A, Andy Lee.

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  Love the vent. He's going in. Ooh, we love the full effort. Oh, got a little hands. Hands, little shoulders.

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  Dancer B, Jack Post.

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  Ooh, you like a point? Little walking man. Ooh, to the brow. Pointing. Ooh, he's good. Oh, getting low. Oh, jumping jacks. It's gym class. Okay.

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  Dancer C, Hamish Blake.

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  Ooh, wind up. Very good. Ooh, we love a clap. Ooh, wow. Wow.

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  Wow.

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  Yes. Wow.

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  Okay, so Nicole, out of A, B, and C, three is the highest, two second, and one is the least. How do you rank these three?

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  A is three, C is two, and B is one. It was all about the effort. It was about the different vibes, the different steps. It was about the overall feeling of it. All amazing. All amazing.

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  Andy, looks like you're sexiest.

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  Congrats, Andy.

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  After two judges, Andy takes the lead on five. Jack slips to second with four votes, and Hamish still lasts with three.

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  Okay, my name is Rae. I'm a model in New York City. I'm gonna give three votes to Mr. A.

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  Andy Lee.

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  I really liked that he gave all of himself for this dance, and I liked the little shimmy at some point. And I just find that he really let himself go on that one. I'm gonna give two votes to guy C.

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  Hamish Blake.

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  Because I was pleasantly surprised by how original his dance moves were. I do think he could have used a bit more of his body, because it was very much arms and upper body, but I would have liked to see more leg action. And I'm gonna give one vote to guy B.

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  Jack Post.

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  It did feel a bit elderly. You know, it reminded me of an uncle at a wedding type of dance, but I did enjoy it nonetheless.

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  And final scores. Jack and Hamish tie for second with five points. Andy storms home with the win on eight points.

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  Maybe I had the advantage of being comfortable in my own clothes.

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  Yes.

• 17:33Speaker 06

  But that would only be a one point swing, so.

• 17:36Speaker 02

  Elderly has to sting, Jack.

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  Yeah, well, I think he was wearing an older person's clothes. I felt older in Andy's elderly clothes.

• 17:46Speaker 06

  There's no really good way to twist that. That's, that's bad feedback. Yeah.

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  It's, I mean.

• 17:51Speaker 06

  The sexiest people on the planet in the hottest city in the world, Jack, you know, what do they know about fashion?

• 17:56Speaker 02

  I feel like we. Jack, am I right in saying here, there's no way Andy won that? Like, I just think I was bracing myself for a Jack win. I thought science could prevail and we could see a home win. But I do not think that was an eight, five runaway.

• 18:09Speaker 06

  I got the vibe definitely that they were just picking the best of a bad bunch. At no point were they like, well, that's a clear winner and that was great dancing.

• 18:20Speaker 02

  That's true. That's true. No one, no one made a sound to indicate that they were attracted or aroused by any of this. Most of it was, there was a few wows, but I think shock really.

• 18:32Speaker 06

  There was more oohs, like.

• 18:33Speaker 02

  Yeah, oohs. Oh, God. And this guy, and he knows that you've submitted this video. He's happy for, even though he's got a bag on his head, but his friends and family will know it's him. Oh, boy. Oh, no. Oh, God. I can only hope that in other areas of life.

• 18:48Speaker 03

  Chad and Tatum guys that can actually dance in there, I think, uh, it would be very different, but.

• 18:53Speaker 02

  Well, I don't.

• 18:54Speaker 03

  I'm gonna take the win.

• 18:55Speaker 02

  No one saw that coming.

• 18:58Speaker 02

  Certainly not back.

• 19:04Speaker 03

  Hey, we are the show for people who feel deeply, so deeply that they're empathetic about everyday items or objects. Hence you come here and you list your extreme empath experiences. It's got its opener, which is every single song in the world all at once. So one song doesn't feel left out.

• 19:24Speaker 03

  You ready to go? Do you want me to kick it up?

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  Go for it.

• 19:26Speaker 03

  From Alex, I would normally consider myself an extreme empath, but I find myself getting very offended on behalf of those trees on the side of the road that get trimmed in weird ways so the branches avoid power.

• 19:42Speaker 03

  It feels like if someone gives them a terrible haircut every month and they have to sit in front of everybody publicly.

• 19:48Speaker 02

  Yeah, pretty fair.

• 19:49Speaker 03

  Pretty fair.

• 19:51Speaker 02

  As far as that's, that's, that is a bad lottery ticket to draw if you're a tree.

• 19:55Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:56Speaker 02

  To be near a power line. Most other trees just get to do what they want.

• 19:58Speaker 03

  And most, in those situations, often there's treats that are tree lined. And so the bad haircuts would be staring across at those that just don't have a haircut at all.

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  That's true if it's just on one side.

• 20:10Speaker 03

  Yeah.

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  You're like, I've got the Kim Jong-un haircut and you just get to do whatever you want with it. Yeah, that's not fair. Um, okay, this comes in from Matthew. So the other day at work, I noticed someone left three seconds on the microwave timer. Not a big deal. I didn't think anything of it at the time. But after coming back in after my weekend off work, I noticed the three seconds was still on there at, in the kitchen, in the break room. I was surprised to feel a sudden sadness that that poor microwave just went two days, knowing it was three seconds away from finishing, but couldn't.

• 20:45Speaker 03

  Talia, I'm an extreme empath. And the worst thing is when I see someone fogging up their glasses to clean them. I feel so bad for the glasses because they have to have someone blow hot, stinky air breath on their face before they get cleaned.

• 20:59Speaker 02

  But they're getting cleaned. And isn't it, aren't they getting cleaned?

• 21:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, I suppose if it was getting cleaned with a soap or a water or something. If I came up to Jack and went, hey mate, your face, your face needs a bit of a clean. Yeah, I wouldn't like that.

• 21:13Speaker 02

  Well, speaking of cleaning, Eileen writes in and she said, um, she goes, like, you know, normally I wouldn't think I'm an empath, but I found myself guilty today. She said brown specks in her clean whitewashing and realized the washing machine must be dirty. Chat GPT suggested that I clean the machine with vinegar and bicarb soda. So you guys, I turned it on to a super hot wash. And as I watched it tirelessly spin, I started to wipe down the outside of the machine as well, saying, you poor thing, you're always cleaning everything, but no one ever cleans you.

• 21:48Speaker 03

  One more. I've got Tom here.

• 21:52Speaker 03

  When I walk towards my car with my keys in my pocket, it does that thing where the headlights flash on and the mirrors fold out, like its ears are pricking up going.

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  Yes, yes, we're going for a walk.

• 22:04Speaker 03

  Sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I'm just walking past it to take the bins out. And that happens, it does get a little exciting. I can't just ignore it anymore. I stop. I make sure it knows that I really appreciate the enthusiasm, but explained that I just can't drive it.

• 22:20Speaker 02

  Not right now, pal.

• 22:25Speaker 03

  I let it know the next drive, when the next drive will roughly be, but that I am going back inside. Sit here for a little bit longer.

• 22:37Speaker 02

  Quick one, quick one from Josh. He says, it's his mum and she said she doesn't want it. She wants to be submitted anonymously. He has also made pains to tell me that her name is Rachel. So she says, he says, thanks to her good fibre intake, she does several poos throughout the day. And she likes to spread them across each toilet in the house. She's concerned it would be mean to use one toilet multiple times in one day. Said, but is also concerned that the others might get jealous if she only used one toilet throughout the day. So I don't know, in her world, do they, do they want it? Are they hungry? Or do they fear it?

• 23:20Speaker 02

  Is it, is it, is it something they'd rather not have to do? She can't figure it out. Anyway, they all, they get spread across so no one's feelings get hurt. I've always felt like they want it, which is sick, but they.

• 23:31Speaker 03

  It's what they were made for.

• 23:33Speaker 02

  It always reminds me of the, the, the, the robot toilets that automatically lift. And that's so eager. Yes. That's where I've got it in my head that they want it.

• 23:41Speaker 03

  So I think she's being charitable by sharing with everybody.

• 23:45Speaker 02

  Like, like, you know, dolphin trainers at SeaWorld or whatever, like, come on, you've got a fish for everyone. You've had yours.

• 24:02Speaker 03

  I was going through my notes section of my phone and discovered that I'd done some research over the summer break that I've forgotten to show you guys.

• 24:09Speaker 02

  Oh no. We love effort on this show. We can't stop. A lot of shows just talk about stuff, but we're the show that backs it up with the numbers, baby.

• 24:16Speaker 03

  As a big cricket fan, I did a lot of listening to the cricket over the break, particularly the Ashes.

• 24:22Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 24:23Speaker 03

  And we all know the phenomenon of every brand that is placing an advertisement with in a sport.

• 24:30Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 24:30Speaker 03

  Cricket it is this time, tries to find a link between their company and the sport of cricket. Some are much easier, you know, like a beer company.

• 24:40Speaker 02

  Absolutely, yep.

• 24:40Speaker 03

  They're going, hey, you're watching the cricket this night? Have a frothy. Fine. That's a good link.

• 24:45Speaker 02

  That's fine. Cricket's always been my favourite ground for this though, because pretty much everyone, and I don't know if this is where you're going with this or not, but everyone comes back to the phrase, hit something for six. Like hit streaky windshields for six with new turbocharged wiper blades or whatever.

• 25:01Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 25:02Speaker 02

  And it's always something you can't actually hit for six.

• 25:05Speaker 03

  So I've collated my favourites.

• 25:06Speaker 02

  Fatigue or...

• 25:07Speaker 03

  Okay, great, great. So I've collated my favourites. First one, and I'm sure you'll pick up on what I'm picking up on, sometimes they've gone a long bow, other times it just didn't really make sense. First culprit for me was Beaumont tiles.

• 25:21Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 25:25Speaker 11

  Just like test cricket, Beaumont tiles is an Aussie original.

• 25:30Speaker 03

  Test cricket originated in England.

• 25:32Speaker 02

  Pretty short.

• 25:36Speaker 02

  What a strange feature of the sport to pick.

• 25:40Speaker 03

  Yeah. It went on to just tell you the latest deals at Beaumont tiles. There's no follow-up as to why it's made the link, but for me, that one was a miss.

• 25:51Speaker 02

  I mean, you could just go Aussie favourite, you know.

• 25:53Speaker 03

  Aussie favourite.

• 25:54Speaker 02

  That's fine, yeah.

• 25:56Speaker 03

  You don't need to say invention. Yeah, there was no need to put the word original in there, but that is a miss for them. Next up, Uwe Insurance.

• 26:18Speaker 02

  Am I right in saying, I think that says the reverse here?

• 26:22Speaker 03

  I don't know what the Summer Showdown is.

• 26:26Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm assuming that's like a, then some, like a marketing name of some match.

• 26:30Speaker 03

  Yes, but I don't know it.

• 26:34Speaker 06

  I think they've gone for broad language around, we're not going to say which cricket game you've watched, but just any cricket game, a summer showdown.

• 26:41Speaker 02

  Yeah. Oh yeah, I mean, I haven't heard, I just assume maybe that's what, you know, they call a certain match between like two big bash teams or something is the summer showdown. Never heard of it. Jack, if you came to, we were all having a beer and you came to the table and you went, "Cher, I've been loving the cricket this summer." Have you loved the summer showdown?

• 26:59Speaker 03

  What?

• 27:00Speaker 02

  I haven't, I'm not a summer showdown. Oh, how can you say you love cricket, mate? If you haven't joined the summer showdown, that's, that's like saying you've shopped around for insurance, but you haven't talked to you.

• 27:12Speaker 03

  The reverse doesn't work, does it?

• 27:14Speaker 02

  This one, I'm not going to tell you the brand because in its lead up, as this ad went out, I was like, what brand is this? You know, it's almost, and then it gets revealed.

• 27:37Speaker 03

  It's a shed company.

• 27:38Speaker 02

  It's a shed company. I thought it was going to be Schweppes for a second because for children of our, or for, you know, adults of our age, but back when you were children in the late eighties, early nineties, Schweppes, one of the great bits of marketing, they owned Classic Catches.

• 27:52Speaker 03

  They did, Schweppes Classic Catch. So then they go on.

• 27:55Speaker 02

  So they're saying, so you've had all these fond cricket memories.

• 27:58Speaker 03

  In the shade.

• 27:59Speaker 02

  In the shadows, we're the ones that gave you the, you know how you didn't get sunburnt having those memories? That's because of us.

• 28:05Speaker 03

  And then they go on to try and squeeze bits from best sheds and then they go and try and squeeze in a few other cricket terms, which I like.

• 28:23Speaker 02

  You just have a selection. You have a list. You have a list of sheds and a cricket team has a list of batsmen, but you don't have a batting lineup. I'd love to, who's opening the batting for your sheds? Okay. Well, we've got the, we've got the twin wide and and we've got the deluxe. Okay. Who's at first drop? Who's at first drop? First drop's a great shed. That's actually, that's just your basic lawnmower, lawnmower plus accessories. I like that. Who's your wicket keeper for your sheds?

• 28:54Speaker 03

  So I enjoyed that one. This last one though was my favourite. I mean, Bec found it weird when I'd be listening to the cricket and it'd hit the air break and she'd normally go, this is why I could have a chat to you. And I was going the opposite in summer going, oh, hang on Bec, I wanted to see what.

• 29:12Speaker 02

  I'm researching.

• 29:13Speaker 03

  Researching. This is my favourite.

• 29:17Speaker 11

  Big call today skipper. You declared early. Yeah, had to. Saw the thinning up top and knew I had to act. How did you fix it? The team at Grow implanted my own hair into the thinning areas in one session and now it grows naturally.

• 29:30Speaker 03

  So, so in this scenario, he declared his team from batting because he realised his hair was thinning.

• 29:38Speaker 02

  Oh, it's not even an analogy. He's saying, why did you stop the game?

• 29:44Speaker 03

  Let's listen to that one again.

• 29:45Speaker 02

  Sorry. They're not, that, yeah, it's not an analogy. It's meant to be a real story. I called the game off because I realised I was balding.

• 29:57Speaker 11

  Big call today skipper. You declared early. Yeah, had to. Saw the thinning up top and knew I had to act. How did you fix it? The team at Grow implanted my own hair into the thinning areas in one session and now it grows naturally.

• 30:09Speaker 02

  Now, I said to the other team, can we resume play tomorrow? And they said, oh, you did declare yesterday. I said, but have a look at this. I went, gee, that's a good head of hair. I'd do anything that that guy says. We will resume match.

• 30:19Speaker 03

  The anger from the rest of your team. If you have declared your innings because you're thinning up top, which they would have been bagging you about the entire season anyway, because that's the kind of thing that you do just go.

• 30:33Speaker 02

  We're only four runs ahead. What are you declaring for? Guys, come on, look at me. Have it.

• 30:39Speaker 03

  Put the hat back on.

• 30:40Speaker 02

  It's a game base. Everyone wears a hat in the game. Everyone, bowling, batting, everyone, umpires. It's probably the most heavily hat in sport of any sport. And if you declare the innings and you're out there, you can't notice you're thinning. It's the one place there's no reflective surfaces. So how did you know?

• 31:00Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 31:00Speaker 02

  How did you notice? What was it that caused the trigger?

• 31:03Speaker 03

  They brought it home with trying to link a bit more cricket into this ad.

• 31:06Speaker 11

  I gotta say, strong comeback for the hairline. No need for a third umpire on this one. With over 40 million hairs transplanted in the last decade, Grow helps you declare on thinning hair before it's too late.

• 31:18Speaker 03

  So I get that's confusing. You can't declare on thinning hair, but also no need for the third umpire.

• 31:24Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 31:25Speaker 03

  You can't use the third umpire for anything.

• 31:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're not allowed to use the third umpire for things that aren't related to cricket. Third umpire being the video referee.

• 31:33Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 31:34Speaker 02

  You know, be like going. I do like the idea that if there is a group of people who are debating whether Shaun does have a thinning hairline, the only way to settle it is to go and make Shaun lie down on a cricket pitch and use the third umpire technology to scan his head. Unfortunately, Shaun.

• 31:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 31:52Speaker 02

  It's comeback, mate. You're thinning.

• 31:59Speaker 03

  Quick update on whether we've organised Liam Hemsworth to try and hit a tennis ball out of Rod Laver Arena.

• 32:06Speaker 02

  Well, that sounds like something that could be answered yes or no. Have we organised Liam Hemsworth to hit a tennis ball out of Rod Laver Arena?

• 32:12Speaker 03

  Pending.

• 32:14Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 32:15Speaker 03

  We, I don't have Liam Hemsworth's details, but a friend of mine does.

• 32:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 32:19Speaker 03

  She texted him. He wrote back immediately. Oh, I could 150%.

• 32:27Speaker 02

  He's sticking with the number.

• 32:29Speaker 03

  Hit a tennis ball out of Rod Laver Arena.

• 32:30Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 32:31Speaker 03

  So did she invite him to prove it or she just said, did you say this? She said, well, she said, hey, did you say this? He said, yes, and I 150% can.

• 32:41Speaker 02

  Great confirmation.

• 32:42Speaker 03

  She then said, okay, well, would you like the guys to organise it so you can come in and give it a go?

• 32:47Speaker 06

  He hasn't returned.

• 32:49Speaker 02

  Okay, so he was online.

• 32:51Speaker 06

  So he was online. It was, and it wasn't unseen. He doesn't have the red messages, but yeah.

• 32:57Speaker 02

  Just to be clear too, we're not saying that he has to hit it 150% out. He doesn't have to clear the distance and then another half.

• 33:04Speaker 06

  No.

• 33:04Speaker 02

  Which like, that's his level of confidence. Even if it dribbles out.

• 33:08Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 33:08Speaker 02

  He's done it.

• 33:08Speaker 06

  Hmm.

• 33:09Speaker 02

  We just need to see one ball delivered to the outskirts of the arena. Care of his racket, no other involvement.

• 33:15Speaker 03

  I'm starting to think he might be able to do it.

• 33:18Speaker 02

  Yeah, but only because you're hearing that 150% over and over and over. That's what's building the myth.

• 33:23Speaker 03

  No, but I looked up a lot of photos.

• 33:26Speaker 06

  Of Hemsworth?

• 33:27Speaker 03

  No, no, of Rod Laver Arena. And from all angles, it feels like.

• 33:33Speaker 02

  Feels gettable.

• 33:34Speaker 03

  Well, it feels like if you took the court, right?

• 33:37Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 33:38Speaker 03

  And tipped it upright.

• 33:40Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 33:41Speaker 03

  It would get close to the roof. Do you know if that makes sense?

• 33:45Speaker 06

  Yeah, and in that.

• 33:45Speaker 03

  And we hit a ball way further than the whole court.

• 33:48Speaker 02

  Hmm. Gravity, gravity is the one thing you're not tipping though in that equation.

• 33:52Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 33:52Speaker 02

  Gravity will always.

• 33:54Speaker 03

  Fight again.

• 33:54Speaker 02

  Have its preferred direction.

• 33:56Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 33:56Speaker 02

  Which is from up to down.

• 33:58Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 33:59Speaker 02

  But that's the tough bit.

• 34:00Speaker 03

  But just general length, I feel like he hit a ball.

• 34:02Speaker 06

  Should we, should we go down to Rod Laver Arena without him? Get 10 regular guys to hit a ball. And if all 10 of them can do it, just don't bother inviting them.

• 34:11Speaker 02

  I feel like, I feel like we're putting more in this than there is. I mean, he either does it or he doesn't do it. We can't, not the listeners want us to invest several shows of us pacing it out, mapping it out, talking to tennis ball experts. Get the guy and hit a bat out of the sky.

• 34:25Speaker 06

  Yeah, you're right. He just has to come down and do it.

• 34:27Speaker 02

  Do it or don't. I mean, from Jason Skeenerton, emailer Jason, just found the email in front of me here. Raises a really interesting point.

• 34:34Speaker 06

  Hmm.

• 34:35Speaker 02

  He's following the saga as everyone is. We all, I think I speak for all of us and say, we want to see Hemsworth to step up and go, yeah, here's the, here's the date. Here's the time. Um, get me this specific racket and you won't be disappointed. And I don't want to put more pressure on, on Hemsworth because I, I, like all of us, would love to see him do it. Jason says, hey guys, I'm just thinking, for years now, the people have been crying out.

• 35:01Speaker 02

  For the chosen one to appear and for special skills to be returned to its rightful place in the show. Special skills was retired because we somehow, although I think our method was airtight, we somehow selected the wrong chosen one to save the segment. The segment died. What if the chosen one was right in front of us the whole time? Brackets, if you count being on the front cover of magazines as being right in front of us. Liam Hemsworth, there's a tennis ball piercing the roof of Rod Laver Arena and rising like a glorious yellow sun. Not represent the new dawn of special skills?

• 35:36Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 35:36Speaker 02

  It's time. Do we have the Northman in the stands?

• 35:42Speaker 03

  Tell him which way.

• 35:42Speaker 02

  Spin the Northman round as soon as we hit, as soon as Hemsworth hits the ball out, we put, we looked, we go, stop spinning the Northman. The Northman raises his arm and points true north and we will know that special skills is reborn.

• 35:56Speaker 03

  Well, just a quick recap for people who may have just been listening to the podcast for the very first time. Welcome by all means. We had a segment called special skills. People would.

• 36:03Speaker 02

  Oh my God, yeah.

• 36:04Speaker 03

  Would basically say.

• 36:04Speaker 02

  This won't be quick.

• 36:05Speaker 03

  They've got a special skill that isn't recognised by bodies.

• 36:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, we had a conclave. We accidentally picked the wrong chosen one.

• 36:12Speaker 03

  I wasn't going to go to that part. I was going to say, I don't think we need this guy that can, no matter which, where he is, spin him around inside a room. He can tell us north. I think we're conflating two things.

• 36:22Speaker 02

  No, no, but there's a huge underground movement. You, you, I think you miss underestimate or miss underestimate. You just, you're wrong.

• 36:32Speaker 02

  You're wrong on knowing the level of passion that the underground movement who believed the Northman to be the true chosen one.

• 36:39Speaker 03

  Yes, yes, yes.

• 36:40Speaker 06

  Yeah, that's because you spend two weeks drumming him up and making all these rituals about him. We're going to meet at midnight in the trees.

• 36:47Speaker 02

  I found a goddamn scroll in the studio.

• 36:48Speaker 06

  Yeah, and then we never did anything.

• 36:50Speaker 02

  And I might find another one. I might find another one. You never know when I will. The Northman's there. His skill's not going away.

• 36:55Speaker 03

  Well, if you find a.

• 36:55Speaker 02

  People like Jason, people like Jason are waiting for the second coming.

• 36:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 37:00Speaker 02

  And Hemsworth's got a shot to be, you know, at least one of the chosen two. I'm just saying if we could pull the Northman together with Hemsworth, that could be enough power to see special skills return to the show as.

• 37:12Speaker 03

  I like the idea.

• 37:12Speaker 02

  People want and as it is prophesized to happen.

• 37:15Speaker 03

  Chosen two doesn't have the same ring to it as chosen one.

• 37:17Speaker 02

  You're the one that couldn't figure out the conclave, mate.

• 37:21Speaker 02

  Andy, we were doing our job outside.

• 37:23Speaker 03

  I had difficult participants in there.

• 37:25Speaker 02

  It was an absolute mess in there.

• 37:29Speaker 03

  Okay, so let's just say it's an open invitation for Liam to set the date and we'll make it work.

• 37:37Speaker 02

  Do we tell him about the chosen one stuff? Or does that put extra pressure on him?

• 37:41Speaker 03

  I don't, well, I can say that we think you might be the chosen one.

• 37:45Speaker 02

  Yeah, no, that does put extra pressure on him. If I got invited to come to an event, it was like, hi, you know, we're at me and you, um, bike store. Love you to come along. Um, you said you could do a wheelie. I'd love to see you do a wheelie. P S, I think you might be the chosen one. Don't worry. Don't worry about that. Just come on down to the opening.

• 38:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:03Speaker 02

  Cause you'll be like, what was the stuff about the chosen one? I don't want to come if you, this feels like I'm the chosen one.

• 38:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:09Speaker 02

  I just want to be a guy turning up. Yeah.

• 38:11Speaker 03

  So are we just going to open invitation? We're going to put a date on it? Are we going to like, I mean, we never put a date on Peter out.

• 38:16Speaker 02

  We're just going to, to be like, if he hasn't replied.

• 38:19Speaker 03

  By June 30.

• 38:20Speaker 02

  By then. Yeah, June 30, the end of the financial year.

• 38:26Speaker 02

  All right. This might, you know, if you're getting to the end of the financial year and it would work for you tax wise, you hit a ball out of Rod Laver Arena. Um, you know, not sure how it would, but let us know if you could write off the, the tennis ball itself or where the wear and tear on your racket. If you're getting to the end of the financial year and you need to depreciate your racket.

• 38:44Speaker 03

  Maybe, maybe, maybe there should be a cutoff where we write off all ideas that we're not following up. Like, it doesn't have to be the end of the financial year, but, you know.

• 38:55Speaker 02

  Well, okay. So you're saying, interesting. Cause I've got, I've got a side idea. That I'm, I mean, it's not, I'm just going to put it out here to let you guys know. I'm not asking for permission. I'm just letting you know that this is happening. I think I will push forward with my B operation.

• 39:13Speaker 03

  No, you won't. No, don't. I had, I had someone, a mutual friend of ours.

• 39:19Speaker 02

  I'm not, I'm just saying, I'm not, you're not going to hear about it here, but I have decided to push forward with this exciting honey operation.

• 39:28Speaker 03

  Is it called Must Be Nice?

• 39:30Speaker 02

  No, it's called Hamish Hives. And if you go to hameshives.com, I've actually built a website, a landing page. You can register your interest. There's a small questionnaire there if you're a honey fan.

• 39:39Speaker 03

  What are you, what are you, what's your interest?

• 39:41Speaker 02

  I'm just interested in the, in the business. No, if you'd like to be on the Hamish Hives mailing list, so we can let you know when we get the hives up and running and as honey production flows.

• 39:52Speaker 03

  I had someone text us this week and said, he watched an ABC documentary about bees and went out and bought 12 hives. He said it was the worst decisions he's, he's ever made in his life.

• 40:01Speaker 02

  Sure, there's some pushback. There is some, there is some pushback. I've had some people actively go, you're not cut out for an agricultural operation. Yeah. Try to explain to them, I'm not actually going to be the beekeeper. I'm going to hire one of the most exciting up and coming beekeepers on the scene. I don't know who that's going to be yet, but they will be ready to disrupt the whole industry. Hameshives.com if you're interested. That's all I'll say about it on the show.

• 40:26Speaker 03

  All I'm saying is you.

• 40:27Speaker 02

  Do you think this will peter out by June 30?

• 40:30Speaker 03

  No, because you've, you're stubborn, but the, the, if someone just ends up rebadging their own farm.

• 40:38Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 40:39Speaker 06

  Yeah, there's going to be some asterisk to it.

• 40:41Speaker 03

  Don't worry, I'm going to be sifting through this. It's like when you say you're baking cakes and you're just assembling them because all the cake gets delivered. The.

• 40:51Speaker 06

  He does a good job of the cake.

• 40:52Speaker 02

  Yeah, thank you, Jack. And as I, as I will with the, as I will with the New Zealand Alpine, single origin, raw, organic honey. It'll be an amazing honey experience for those interested.

• 41:04Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 41:04Speaker 02

  For those interested, there'll be, there'll be different streams. If you'd like to stay abreast of the operation. Yep, by June 30. I'll have my next update by June 30 for you guys. From now on, it becomes an underground honey operation till obviously we launch and then it's very much above ground.

• 41:17Speaker 03

  Oh, we should make it really clear. We're not using any of the show's money or the people's money on your operation.

• 41:23Speaker 02

  You made it clear where you stood when we took the vote.

• 41:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:25Speaker 02

  And I've unfortunately, due to my deep belief that this is a good idea, I've had to, I'll have to forge forward like a solo bee, which is very, very hard. They are a hive animal. I will forge forward like a drone, a solo drone.

• 41:42Speaker 03

  Well, we're barracking for you.

• 41:44Speaker 06

  I am, actually.

• 41:45Speaker 02

  Oh, well, now you love the honey.

• 41:47Speaker 03

  I didn't want anything to do. I didn't want to do the work, but I wish you luck. I don't want to see you fail.

• 41:54Speaker 02

  It would be a bit funny to see that.

• 41:58Speaker 01

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