353 - Andy is Married!

Andy has finally tied the knot with his beloved Bec, and the boys share some special voice notes from the wedding! But before he became a married man, listeners had one final chance to upset the groom. The Price Is Correct featuring The Tip In Point, has attracted a flood of applications, with hopeful audience members revealing how they’ve been spreading the word of the podcast. Hamish has been a busy king bee behind the scenes, with a significant update. Meanwhile, Andy’s AirPods are still holidaying in L. A, with listeners reporting back on the adventures their own AirPods have been on. 1. Andy is married! 2. Upset Andy 3. Ticket giveaway for The Price is Correct 4. Hame’s Hives - a significant update 5. Your AirPods stories

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:02Speaker 00

  A Listener Production.

• 0:07Speaker 01

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

• 0:17Speaker 01

  Sorry, still buffering. One.

• 0:23Speaker 02

  Ahoy to me Gata, Hamish.

• 0:27Hamish Blake?

  Yes, okay. Ahoy. Are you a

• 0:33Hamish Blake?

  just an elastic, elasticated bow tie? Are we like, are we elastic things you can put on your body?

• 0:40Speaker 02

  No, not quite. Ahoy to my confetti, Jack. Ahoy, we're wedding related, surely.

• 0:45Hamish Blake?

  Wedding related.

• 0:46Speaker 02

  Yes. And I would be the bouquet.

• 0:50Hamish Blake?

  If you'd have said ahoy to me custom-built golf ball

• 0:55Hamish Blake?

  with two ring cavities inside, I would have known exactly what you were talking about.

• 1:00Speaker 02

  We are the three main things thrown at a wedding.

• 1:03Hamish Blake?

  Thrown at a wedding.

• 1:04Speaker 02

  Oh, that's a grown one.

• 1:05Hamish Blake?

  Again, the golf ball.

• 1:07Speaker 02

  Technically it's not thrown, it is chipped. Yes. Gata, the catcher, traditionally male, is supposed to be married next. Don't see too much of that happening these days.

• 1:17Hamish Blake?

  I've never been to a wedding with that. I've seen, I've seen one. I've been to one and I didn't know what it was about. I was 18 at the time. And I went, what's going on here? Isn't that the best man? He's reaching up the dress. I'm like, what is, what is going on? What is, is this what we do?

• 1:32Speaker 02

  Takes off the garter, flicks it out. The bouquet, obviously traditionally the catcher is a female, supposedly next to marry. And confetti, traditionally it's a court in the eye by the groom. And his mates have decided to really bundle up the confetti as hard as they can.

• 1:48Hamish Blake?

  And he is next to visit the Sir John's representative in the back room for an eye flush.

• 1:54Speaker 02

  Ahoy also to us in the future.

• 1:58Hamish Blake?

  Ahoy, this is the exciting, why the wedding theme start and over? Because by the time this plays out, is it, yeah, you will have been married.

• 2:07Speaker 02

  I'll be married.

• 2:07Hamish Blake?

  Congratulations, Andy.

• 2:11Hamish Blake?

  Let us be the first to congratulate you before the event, knowing that when this is played, this will make sense. Yeah, we finished this record and they were all hauling off to the wedding.

• 2:22Speaker 02

  When, as this goes out, we should all be at recovery.

• 2:26Speaker 02

  Less than 36 hours ago, I got married. Hopefully it went well. And what we thought we'd do.

• 2:32Hamish Blake?

  Risky, this is a risk.

• 2:33Speaker 02

  This is a risk. But, you know, we're the people's show and we love our audience so much. I wanted you guys to be the first to hear anything from the wedding. So Hamish and I, if we've remembered.

• 2:46Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, must remember, must remember.

• 2:48Speaker 02

  Our recording voice memos as we go through the day. Jack, you're not at the, you won't be with us at the start, but definitely in the middle and we'll grab you for that.

• 2:56Hamish Blake?

  This is the plan. This is fun because this is us now officially saying the plan, which is we're going to like record, yes, snippets, like moments from the day that we're putting now in this thing that is usually a listener message.

• 3:08Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 3:09Hamish Blake?

  But it should be from us and in the future, as we say this, but in the past, as this goes out.

• 3:15Speaker 02

  We'll hopefully be able to locate the bride and see how she feels about us surprising her with chipping the rings, even though she said we weren't allowed to.

• 3:23Hamish Blake?

  No, we're not doing that.

• 3:25Speaker 02

  Ali just gave me some really wide eyes. No, but yes, we're over to us in the future now. Hopefully Beck rocked up and hopefully this is a joyous package, but we guarantee to keep it regardless.

• 3:43Hamish Blake?

  Okay, here we go.

• 3:44Speaker 02

  We've remembered to do it.

• 3:45Hamish Blake?

  I'm sorry, I've remembered to do it. And it was, I said, I'll do, it's your wedding day, mate. I'm going to take care of this. And I, Andy just came into the hotel room here where I was just fidgeting around with some cuff links I'd just bought in Chinatown. And he went, do you want to do one of these voice notes? I'm like, shit, yes. 90 minutes, we've got 90 minutes before the go time.

• 4:02Speaker 02

  Here we go. How are you feeling?

• 4:03Hamish Blake?

  I'm feeling great, yeah.

• 4:04Speaker 02

  You've seen the venue now.

• 4:06Hamish Blake?

  Yep.

• 4:06Speaker 02

  I think we should get Hogs over here. Just to say, we're looking out over New York City. The venue is on a rooftop.

• 4:11Hamish Blake?

  It's awesome.

• 4:12Speaker 02

  I just want to see how he would have felt chipping the ball, the rings.

• 4:16Hamish Blake?

  Oh my God.

• 4:16Speaker 02

  Given the fact that.

• 4:17Hamish Blake?

  Just before we get Hogs over. So where I'm seeing, Hogs and I.

• 4:21Speaker 02

  Yes, how's that going?

• 4:22Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, well, which, I mean, in terms of my preferred double act, there is another man in the room I would prefer to do a double act with. But he's great, he's great. But I think Hogs is a little nervous because like, I've just tried to keep it, like the structure of it. Right, I'm like, we don't have to script this. Just this is like, you know, we'll cover off on this, cover off on this. So Hogs goes, okay, so he goes, so I'll get up, I'll start. And I go, yeah, great. He goes, and I'll just go, so what do you reckon? Like just welcome or hello? It was like, yeah, so they're just filling it out, filling it out, sort of, yeah, starting type words. He goes, and I'll say, I'm Hogs. So I'm Hogs. Yep, he goes, I'm Hogs or, and this is Hamish, or Michael.

• 5:05Speaker 02

  My gosh.

• 5:05Hamish Blake?

  And I was like, mate, I just think we're overthinking this. We've had three meetings now for the hello, I'm Michael.

• 5:13Speaker 02

  Great.

• 5:13Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, he's feeling good.

• 5:14Speaker 02

  Once he gets off, I think he's going to be fine.

• 5:16Hamish Blake?

  He's going to be great, he's going to be great. Well, speaking of the speech, surprise, surprise speech is included.

• 5:21Speaker 02

  It's made it in.

• 5:22Hamish Blake?

  It's made it in. Of all the things Beck kiboshed, I came back and said, hey, just give me a surprise, provocative speech. She still doesn't want it, but it's in your capable. I'll tell you who really doesn't want it, but doesn't know she doesn't want it because she doesn't know about it. Zoe Foster Black.

• 5:37Speaker 02

  Oh yeah, she will.

• 5:37Hamish Blake?

  She will hate this. She'll be glaring at me so hard because the idea is we've got a bingo ball roller.

• 5:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, gold one.

• 5:47Hamish Blake?

  Yep.

• 5:47Speaker 02

  In China, bought it in China.

• 5:48Hamish Blake?

  Amazing.

• 5:50Speaker 02

  Full of balls.

• 5:51Hamish Blake?

  And everyone has a lucky number.

• 5:52Speaker 02

  Everyone has a lucky number. Whatever ball comes out, they have to make a speech. Yep. So it's not this traditional groomsmen.

• 5:58Hamish Blake?

  Do you have this hotel room for tonight?

• 6:00Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 6:00Hamish Blake?

  I might have to crash here if Zoe's number comes out.

• 6:05Speaker 02

  Let's go.

• 6:06Hamish Blake?

  Hey, Horgy. How are you feeling first up?

• 6:10Speaker 04

  Very excited.

• 6:10Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, great, yeah, great. There's magic in here. This is a great feeling.

• 6:14Speaker 02

  Having seen the venue, how confident would you have been chipping the rings considering it's off? Like we're on a balcony essentially that.

• 6:22Speaker 04

  It was quite, we were quite high, weren't we? I don't know if that makes any difference with the air. No, it wouldn't, would it?

• 6:28Hamish Blake?

  Oh, like thinner, thinner air.

• 6:32Hamish Blake?

  Well, remember when you did the practice and you hit it like way over our head?

• 6:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 6:37Hamish Blake?

  If you did that today, they would have sailed over our heads, off the balcony and then 14 stories down into the streets below of Chinatown.

• 6:46Speaker 02

  With very important rings.

• 6:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm, if you're up for it, I'm, is this still on the go?

• 6:57Hamish Blake?

  Because I promise you I won't do what I did.

• 7:01Speaker 02

  It would be a huge late change on Rebecca Harding, who has been pretty anxious and also very direct about the way things should run today, but.

• 7:10Hamish Blake?

  I think that's fair for a bride to want to know the details of her wedding.

• 7:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah. So I think that's, I think we'll start with, well, we're not, we're not going to do it.

• 7:17Speaker 04

  But I would have been fine, I promise you.

• 7:18Hamish Blake?

  Okay. But the history book show would have been fine. I did see the drop and go, okay, we would need someone stationed below with a baseball glove to catch the, catch the rings.

• 7:29Speaker 02

  Final one. I got off the plane and I was on Instagram checking people's stories and so on. Did you see Jax?

• 7:36Hamish Blake?

  No.

• 7:38Speaker 02

  He got a free suit.

• 7:39Hamish Blake?

  Did he?

• 7:40Speaker 02

  He did. He did a whole thing about, I'm off to get my suit for Andy and Beck's wedding.

• 7:45Hamish Blake?

  Oh my God.

• 7:46Speaker 02

  He did a full act.

• 7:49Speaker 02

  It's quite incredible. He's like, I choose this person, I do this, the selections, and now I've got a suit for Andy and Beck's wedding.

• 7:56Hamish Blake?

  The weasel on tour.

• 7:57Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 7:58Hamish Blake?

  Did we get ours for any deal or?

• 8:01Speaker 02

  Oh, we've got, we've got a little bit of a deal for sure.

• 8:03Hamish Blake?

  I don't mind mentioning P Johnson, they're the best.

• 8:09Speaker 02

  Not for Jack.

• 8:09Hamish Blake?

  Not for Jack.

• 8:10Speaker 02

  I'm not mentioning his suit name.

• 8:12Hamish Blake?

  All right, well.

• 8:12Speaker 02

  Groom weaseling o'lies, are they?

• 8:14Hamish Blake?

  So I feel like we've, we've achieved this. If, if everyone hears from us again.

• 8:20Speaker 02

  I know. I'm so glad this is done.

• 8:22Hamish Blake?

  We'll try and get the bride at some point.

• 8:24Speaker 02

  Let's get the bride.

• 8:24Hamish Blake?

  Do we do another one before the wedding?

• 8:27Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:27Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, let's do one in the build up.

• 8:29Speaker 02

  Let's do one from the old top.

• 8:30Hamish Blake?

  Okay, great.

• 8:30Speaker 02

  I'll do a quick one from the old one and then we'll do one as soon as you're married.

• 8:33Hamish Blake?

  Okay, crazy.

• 8:33Speaker 02

  Good luck.

• 8:34Hamish Blake?

  Thank you, bud.

• 8:37Speaker 02

  I've got Andy Lee, the groom, right before he's about to get married. Um, how are you feeling about your free suit?

• 8:45Hamish Blake?

  Uh, how do you know it's free?

• 8:47Speaker 02

  Because I saw you doing it.

• 8:47Hamish Blake?

  If this is why, if this is why you'd come up to do this voice message, shame on you.

• 8:51Speaker 02

  No, it's not. No.

• 8:52Hamish Blake?

  And if you think there's something like, if a weasel asks for a favour on a wedding day, he can't deny it. Like, like The Godfather or something, you are sorely mistaken.

• 9:00Speaker 02

  There is some sort of rule like that.

• 9:02Hamish Blake?

  We'll never mention the brand of that suit.

• 9:04Speaker 02

  Oh, your dad, I can't deny me a favour or something. Isn't it the father of the groom? No, father of the bride.

• 9:10Hamish Blake?

  I think in, in Indian culture, you steal the groom's shoes. And you don't give them back to him unless he pays a handsome price, which is something right up your alley.

• 9:20Hamish Blake?

  I think Andy also does need to be in the mafia for that to work.

• 9:23Speaker 02

  I just, no, honestly, I came to congratulate you. Who paid for suits, it doesn't matter. It's a lovely day. It's a lovely event. Everybody looks great. How are you feeling? And why do you look great? Thanks to?

• 9:34Hamish Blake?

  Thanks to the [BLEEP]. We're definitely cutting that out. We're definitely cutting that out.

• 9:39Speaker 02

  Right, keep that in.

• 9:40Hamish Blake?

  No, no, no.

• 9:41Speaker 02

  Well, who gets to say? We're not even there at the podcast.

• 9:44Hamish Blake?

  This dynamic is very strange because me and Andy were standing here doing a bit of pre-wedding best friend stuff.

• 9:48Speaker 02

  Jack runs down the middle of the aisle.

• 9:50Hamish Blake?

  You're in the middle of the aisle, you sound like a reporter. You're the guy that we do the show with. You've come up like you work for the newspaper.

• 9:57Speaker 02

  I am looking after the audience of the podcast, our favourite people.

• 10:02Hamish Blake?

  Sit that down.

• 10:02Speaker 02

  Okay, yeah. No, good to see you. Honestly, good to see you.

• 10:05Hamish Blake?

  Good to see you.

• 10:06Speaker 02

  I can stay up here if you need me.

• 10:07Hamish Blake?

  No, we'll do it. No, no, we'll do it. The whole place is looking at you going, why do Andy invite a reporter?

• 10:17Speaker 05

  All that remains is to make this official. So that said, it gives me so much joy to pronounce you husband and wife, Rebecca.

• 10:35Speaker 02

  Hey, it's Jack. It's an hour since we spoke to Andy and they've just said I do. Those people are cheering because Andy and Beck are now married. It was a beautiful ceremony.

• 10:49Speaker 02

  Honestly, it was so beautiful. Their vows were beautiful. It didn't even need the tipping of the rings. It was perfect. Congratulations to Beck and Andy.

• 11:01Hamish Blake?

  Just a really quick one. We're at the after-party for Andy's wedding and I mean, he wants to enjoy the night, but let's get him really quickly. He's right here. How are you, Andy?

• 11:11Speaker 02

  Jack, still astounded that you went straight up the middle of the aisle before the bride did, just to be a part of this. But I expect nothing less. You look stunning, by the way. Do you want to list where Bianca's dress is from? Did she get that for free or?

• 11:27Hamish Blake?

  Bianca had to pay for hers. She doesn't have a big social presence. I just wanted to say Andy's vows and Beck's actually were very beautiful.

• 11:35Speaker 02

  You don't have to use the word actually, mate.

• 11:39Speaker 02

  It's quite, it's quite all right.

• 11:43Hamish Blake?

  All right, we've secured the bride for an interview. Couldn't believe it. Mrs. Lee, for the first time, how do you feel?

• 11:49Speaker 02

  Fantastic. Thank you.

• 11:50Hamish Blake?

  You were amazing, Beck. God, that was amazing.

• 11:52Speaker 02

  Thank you so much. Any grumps with me as a husband so far? I'm terrible at picking up the dress. Yeah, knew there was one coming. He was like, just leave it. I was like, it is the streets of New York.

• 12:01Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, resale value is shot. You're not getting rid of that second hand, are you? Guys, we're gonna go and intro you. You've got a, I don't want to spoil the surprise, but we've got a poem from Hogs coming up.

• 12:10Speaker 02

  Oh, yes. How are you feeling?

• 12:13Hamish Blake?

  A little nervous.

• 12:15Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 12:15Hamish Blake?

  This is not my game.

• 12:17Speaker 02

  You're very good at it.

• 12:18Hamish Blake?

  But I'll be all right. You enjoy, boys. See ya.

• 12:21Speaker 02

  Thank you, guys. See you, mate.

• 12:25Hamish Blake?

  Do you love me?

• 12:26Speaker 02

  Yeah. Great. That's recorded, everyone. That's recorded. Love me!

• 12:38Hamish Blake?

  Ryan, do we assume that was all good fun? And that wasn't, you'd have to assume that it was like hijinks and like we're having a great time.

• 12:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, I hope so. I hope so. This would be a huge U-turn if we've come off Beck not rocking up and we've found kissing Jack.

• 12:55Hamish Blake?

  Yeah.

• 12:56Speaker 02

  Interesting if we still play the audio as well there, just because we threw to it, so.

• 13:00Hamish Blake?

  We're making a pledge here that we will, no matter what. So I guess this is a nice sort of time capsule. Back to happier times.

• 13:07Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 13:08Hamish Blake?

  Happier days when things, when the promise of the future was golden.

• 13:13Hamish Blake?

  Even though it is happier times and happier days, unfortunately, Ando, we will upset you one final time before you become a married man as we do this.

• 13:36Hamish Blake?

  All right, Ando, fresh batch coming in. They are goodies. Let's start with David. David, have you got something to upset Andy?

• 13:43Speaker 02

  Ahoy, boys. Gusto to you. Ahoy to you, David. I do have something to upset Andy. It upsets me as well, so I'm on your side here, Andy.

• 13:51Hamish Blake?

  Nice, mate.

• 13:52Speaker 02

  Sorry, home. Yeah.

• 13:55Speaker 02

  At work, part of our uniform, we've got like a light khaki pants. It's almost even cream coloured, it's that light. Each side of the pants has a, like a slit to put pens in.

• 14:08Hamish Blake?

  Cool.

• 14:08Speaker 02

  We use pens quite frequently and one of my colleagues sees so fast and loose that he can't be bothered re-clicking his pens after he's used it. I'm sure you see where this is going.

• 14:18Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, no.

• 14:19Speaker 02

  Every single pair of his pants has black pen lines bleeding all the way down into the pen pocket. No, mate, it's a simple click.

• 14:30Hamish Blake?

  What workplace is it? What industry are we talking?

• 14:34Speaker 02

  We're police officers in the, like, in the middle of Australia.

• 14:39Hamish Blake?

  I dare say he's got more important stuff to do. Now, they obviously, do they make it on both sides? Because it's like, is that like having the old west where they had a gun holster, like a pistol on both hips? But is it just because they're a left, right hand and you can just choose?

• 14:54Speaker 02

  You never know when you need a quick, quick pen release. Yeah, and also left or right-handed people.

• 14:59Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Like, you just have ambidextrous pants. But I just say he's so busy. He's got other stuff to do.

• 15:04Speaker 02

  Thank you for your service.

• 15:05Hamish Blake?

  He's enforcing the law.

• 15:05Speaker 02

  Well, you've got to be presentable.

• 15:08Hamish Blake?

  I'm not saying you should be that sloppy with, you know, the capsicum spray or the gun or whatever. Like, I'm sure he does safe stuff there, but with the pen, you can be a little bit fast and loose on that.

• 15:16Speaker 02

  Thank you, David. Yeah, don't like that one. Charlie, ahoy to you. Ahoy, boys. Happy birthday, Andy.

• 15:21Hamish Blake?

  Ah, don't actually celebrate them. Charlie, tell us, you've got something to upset me?

• 15:26Speaker 02

  Yeah, so back in the day when me and my mate, we were uni students, we used to live together. We'd do a big weekly shop at the end of the week, you know, on a Sunday. And we'd come home and instead of getting everything out of, you know, the shopping baskets, put them away because he's got time for that. We'd just put it all in the fridge. Everything's in there. And then whatever we need, we'd go in the fridge, get it out. What, put the whole basket in the fridge?

• 15:47Hamish Blake?

  Put the bag out, yeah.

• 15:47Speaker 02

  The whole bags, yeah. Two, three bags, there you should chuck them in the fridge.

• 15:51Hamish Blake?

  Very smart.

• 15:52Speaker 02

  No, I don't like that either.

• 15:54Hamish Blake?

  That is pretty smart.

• 15:55Speaker 02

  You're not actually saving much time because then you have to pull out the bag and ferret through it.

• 16:00Hamish Blake?

  That's not how the fast and loose brain works. The fast and loose brain is only interested in saving time now. And at the unpacking stage of the shopping, that saves a ton of time now, even if you might have to pay it back down the line.

• 16:13Speaker 02

  Perry, perry hot for me on that one. It has to be in the fridge in its section and I think that.

• 16:18Hamish Blake?

  I know it does. A plastic bag in the fridge would send you wild. Even if we had like a bowl of pasta and I put a plastic bag over that because I couldn't find Glad Wrap, that would destroy you, wouldn't it?

• 16:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's not for me either. No, it's got to be presentable.

• 16:31Hamish Blake?

  Thanks very much. Charlie to Chloe. Chloe, ahoy to you.

• 16:35Speaker 05

  Ahoy, boys. How are we?

• 16:37Hamish Blake?

  Good. We're very good, Chloe. What have you got to upset Andy?

• 16:40Speaker 05

  So I think it's really practical, but I love my cup of tea in bed, but I can't go to sleep without brushing my teeth. And once I'm in bed, there's no way I'm getting back out of bed to go brush my teeth. So I make my cup of tea, stop past the bathroom as it's on the way, prepare my toothbrush, get into bed all comfy, watch a TV, enjoy my cup of tea. Once my tea's empty, oh, toothbrush is there, brush my teeth. Oh, my cup's empty. Dispose of the leftover toothpaste, roll over, good night, deal with it in the morning.

• 17:11Speaker 02

  But you need, you need some, you need to spit to, but you need water.

• 17:15Hamish Blake?

  You get rid of it.

• 17:17Speaker 05

  You're not meant to brush it, you're not meant to rinse your mouth with water afterwards. It gets rid of all the fluoride.

• 17:21Speaker 02

  I think you're, I think that's wrong. I think that's wrong. I don't think.

• 17:25Hamish Blake?

  I think this is a great, I think this is a great plan.

• 17:27Speaker 02

  But you.

• 17:28Speaker 05

  So do I.

• 17:28Speaker 02

  But also you have, we'd have like the suds, the leftover.

• 17:33Hamish Blake?

  They'll dissolve, sir. Over time, they'll melt away.

• 17:36Speaker 02

  Don't you wake up with it just like a weird pasty drool everywhere?

• 17:41Speaker 05

  The only difference is location. If you brush your teeth and then walk to bed, it's the same. You're not meant to rinse your mouth out.

• 17:46Hamish Blake?

  She's got you.

• 17:47Speaker 05

  What is this, clean?

• 17:48Speaker 02

  Don't they have, they sell mouthwashers for after, after you brush your teeth?

• 17:53Hamish Blake?

  That's a different thing. And I think that's.

• 17:54Speaker 05

  I'd still be doing that from bed, so.

• 17:57Hamish Blake?

  That's just another scam. Big dental runs at you to try and get you to have more steps in the nighttime process.

• 18:03Speaker 02

  Thank you, Chloe. I hate that. I completely hate that.

• 18:07Hamish Blake?

  Emma, Emma, have you got something to upset Andy?

• 18:09Speaker 05

  Yeah, ahoy, boys. Yeah. My eyebrow palette dropped on the ground in the bathroom at the start of the year and it smashed in the corner.

• 18:19Hamish Blake?

  Is that makeup?

• 18:21Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 18:22Speaker 02

  So what, did darken your eyebrows a little?

• 18:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, you need the tiniest bit. So it's just smashing the corner there. So I've just continued to use it on the daily, dipping my little brush into the tiny holes in the corner.

• 18:36Hamish Blake?

  It's hard to pick up, isn't it, makeup?

• 18:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, it is. And it's, it's my favourite one and it's a bit of a waste. So I thought until I get a new one, I'll just continue to use that.

• 18:46Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, that's a nice little spot for it.

• 18:49Speaker 02

  Going on nine months!

• 18:51Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 18:52Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 18:53Speaker 05

  The kicker is every time I start the robot vacuum, I have to make a little barrier there with the washing machine.

• 19:03Speaker 02

  Emma, are you seeing the quality of your brows deteriorate at all as this is exposed to the bathroom floor for nine months?

• 19:11Speaker 05

  Look, it doesn't seem to be, but the gradual dust inclusion may be making a difference. I'm not too sure.

• 19:17Hamish Blake?

  Bingley nail clippings, bathroom detritus.

• 19:20Speaker 02

  Yeah, no, that's not for me. That'd be clean within a second.

• 19:23Hamish Blake?

  Especially like the fourth, fast and loose. Andy, you know where it is. It's got its tone now. I would have thought Andy would love it. Everything in its place. The eyebrow stuff goes in the corner.

• 19:32Speaker 02

  You got time for one more?

• 19:33Hamish Blake?

  Dave, Dave, ahoy to you, sir. Can you upset Andy? Yeah, so a few weeks ago, the sink in my bathroom had a bit of a slow drain. So, you know, the water would take a few minutes to get down there, but it always got down. Yeah. But then, as you know, it kept going and becoming slower and slower, but it was still draining. So if it was full in the evening, by the time I got up in the morning, you know, the water had gone away.

• 20:04Hamish Blake?

  But then as of a couple of days ago, unfortunately, it's completely stopped now and the sink is just full of water. But I'm a busy man, so you know, I don't have time to unclog it. I'm just letting it go and I'm just becoming friends with the water now. It's, it's a little bit murky, but. Permanent trough.

• 20:25Speaker 02

  What are your household arrangements? Is it a share house? Do you have a partner there with you?

• 20:30Hamish Blake?

  It's just me, fortunately, so.

• 20:34Hamish Blake?

  Not a shock, not a shock. But it is, it has become, I think even cows in paddocks do get a slight refresh in the trough.

• 20:45Hamish Blake?

  Would you consider bailing it out to the toilet? That's, I'm not telling you that you don't have to do something as crazy as fix it, but would you consider bailing it out once a week and refreshing? Yeah, yeah, probably. I mean, there's also other things, there's other things in the house, so maybe I'll just switch gear, you know?

• 21:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, migrate.

• 21:02Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, plenty more things in the house, as they say.

• 21:05Speaker 02

  Thank you, babe.

• 21:06Hamish Blake?

  Very, very hot. Finish with the worst one.

• 21:13Speaker 02

  Hey, so many people have applied to be in the audience. Go to hamishandandy.com if you want to be a part of the audience for The Price is Correct, featuring the tip in point. What are we approaching now?

• 21:23Hamish Blake?

  We're approaching 2 million applications.

• 21:26Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 21:26Hamish Blake?

  And as every minute goes past.

• 21:28Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 21:28Hamish Blake?

  We get closer and closer to that crazy 2 million mark. Knowing we're only going to have 130 in the audience.

• 21:34Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 21:34Hamish Blake?

  It's really quite a staggering concept.

• 21:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah. I think we're just around 2,000, but as it goes up.

• 21:42Hamish Blake?

  Well, it's not, it's not moving away from it.

• 21:43Speaker 02

  No, no, it's, we're certainly approaching that big, big whopping number.

• 21:48Hamish Blake?

  Wow, wow. Make a headline out of that.

• 21:49Speaker 02

  We should jump into it.

• 22:00Speaker 02

  A proviso of applying to be in the audience was you had to tell us how you were spreading the word of the podcast. We realised we've spent, well, we'll be over $100,000 on this concept by the end of it. And we, and we should have some marketing bang for buck.

• 22:15Hamish Blake?

  That's the thing, we spent long enough in commercial radio to go, wait a second. I mean, we got into this because we did just want to give away the value of that Bitcoin in prizes to the people. Felt like the right thing to do. We love our listeners and boy, this whole exercise of people kind of writing in, talking about the show, talking about how they're talking about it. It's only made, on a serious note, it's only made us fall even more deeply in love with the people that listen to this show. There's so many amazing stories that come in.

• 22:42Speaker 02

  Well, we need to pick a few people to potentially be in the audience.

• 22:44Hamish Blake?

  But we'd like, let's, we've got to pick people that have got to be in the audience, but we, commercial hat back on. Like feelings on one hand is like, it's lovely to hear the stories of what the show means to people. But to put our business hats back on, the whole reason radio stations give away money, give away, you know, prizes. We're going to pay your bills. It's a trick to try and get more listeners. And like, that's not where we started.

• 23:08Speaker 02

  We'd forgotten about that.

• 23:09Hamish Blake?

  Like, we didn't start, we did start with love in our hearts.

• 23:12Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 23:12Hamish Blake?

  But we're like, but hang on a second, could we have both? Could we have love in our hearts, but also have it as a trick?

• 23:18Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 23:18Hamish Blake?

  To gain more listeners for the podcast? We say yes. So the condition was unstructured, but get out there, you've had, you've got your instructions. Just get us, spread the word, get us more listeners. What are you doing to help us get some bang on buck for this investment we've made of $100,000 in prizes and expenses?

• 23:42Speaker 02

  It's going to be well over that. Ah, yeah, I'll start. Stephanie, she said in her submission, when you all did the jingle joust, Ham did one about Bupa.

• 23:51Hamish Blake?

  Yep.

• 23:52Speaker 02

  She must work there because she said, I shared the link with 2,000 Bupa contact centre employees in a group chat used strictly only for work purposes. It was immediately flagged as not work relevant.

• 24:05Hamish Blake?

  I was, I was worried we'd get in trouble from Bupa because it wasn't that complimentary.

• 24:11Hamish Blake?

  But it wasn't, I mean, but again, in our defence, it was, it was just, it made an interesting observation about the entire private health industry rather than singling out one company.

• 24:21Speaker 02

  She says, it goes on to say, it was then allowed by the top boss because, in quotes, it was funny. So there's 2,000 more people that may not have known about the pod. Is Steph the kind of person we'd like in the audience?

• 24:33Hamish Blake?

  Mate, I mean, that's huge. What an effort.

• 24:36Speaker 02

  And she also writes, P S, I can swim.

• 24:40Speaker 02

  Steph, you're in, you are in.

• 24:46Speaker 02

  Um, just on that, it wasn't all that complimentary about Bupa. Were you confident sharing it to every employee?

• 24:53Speaker 05

  Um, not really. I actually thought about messaging Hamish and explaining how health insurance worked, but I didn't.

• 25:00Speaker 02

  Right.

• 25:00Hamish Blake?

  Appreciate that.

• 25:01Speaker 02

  You, are you, did you have some gripes with the way Ham went about his app?

• 25:05Speaker 05

  Look, like my boss said, it was funny.

• 25:08Hamish Blake?

  That was, it was the, it was the layperson's understanding of how health insurance worked. But I'm sure if I sat down with you and got my policy fully explained, it'd be some great savings I could make.

• 25:20Speaker 05

  We'll do a cover review after the show.

• 25:22Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 25:22Hamish Blake?

  As I'm fishing you out of the pool.

• 25:26Hamish Blake?

  Well, I hope I'm not fishing you out of the pool. I hope I'm loading your arms up with cash and prizes.

• 25:31Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 25:31Hamish Blake?

  Um, because if you get wet.

• 25:32Speaker 05

  Well, I can swim, like I said.

• 25:34Hamish Blake?

  Yep. If you get wet, that's all you get. Okay, well, we'll see you, we'll see you in the studio.

• 25:38Speaker 02

  Thanks, Steph.

• 25:39Speaker 05

  Awesome, thanks, boys.

• 25:40Speaker 02

  Uh, hey, another candidate.

• 25:42Hamish Blake?

  Uh, this was a three person submission, came in from a group of three friends. Now, I know, are we giving people tickets like a plus one for every ticket?

• 25:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think, well, Carly's nodding, so she's.

• 25:53Hamish Blake?

  This could be a plus two because it is a three person submission. So it could be a rare three personer, which will balance out with a lone wolf.

• 26:00Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 26:01Hamish Blake?

  If any, if someone wants to apply as a lone wolf, let's see if we can balance them out. This was huge, Ando. This comes from Molly, Lisa and Tom. They're in Victoria and, I mean, talk about getting the word out for the show. They start off by going, we know you guys are familiar with the pricing of billboards on a golf course. We are, I think that's a very effective form of advertising the public golf course whole sponsorship at Small Ball Golf. But they said, do you know you can use a billboard in Melbourne for very similar rates for the, in the Melbourne CBD? There are digital billboards on the Yarra. This would be close, pretty close to your place, Ando. There's like a, it's near the Nile X signs, like not on the Nile X signs, but it's like a long bat stretch of road there.

• 26:46Hamish Blake?

  They have sent video evidence in of not only did they hire a billboard for us. For the Hamish and Andy podcast, but have evidence of them jumping in a body of water, the Yarra, in front of said billboard.

• 26:59Speaker 02

  That's amazing. That, yes, well, they're in.

• 27:01Hamish Blake?

  They're in. I think we've got Molly, I think we've got Molly on the line that represents the trio. Molly.

• 27:06Speaker 05

  Ahoy, boys, gusto to you.

• 27:08Hamish Blake?

  Gusto to you. Full gusto for your efforts, guys.

• 27:11Speaker 05

  Hey. Thank you very much.

• 27:13Speaker 02

  Molly, the Yarra isn't well known for being at a level of cleanliness to be able to swim in. Was it lips sealed and you guys were all fine at the end of that?

• 27:24Speaker 05

  I'd love to say lips were sealed, but um, I have some regrets. The pink eye is clearing up, so that's good to know.

• 27:32Speaker 05

  If I can survive the Yarra, I should be okay if I do have to tip in.

• 27:36Speaker 02

  Well conditioned.

• 27:37Hamish Blake?

  Let Lisa and Tom know, but we would love to have you there.

• 27:40Speaker 05

  That is amazing news. I will absolutely that know as soon as I can.

• 27:44Speaker 02

  She's in.

• 27:48Hamish Blake?

  Off the top of, off the top of your head, is there a particular prize you would hope to win from the showcase, from those that have been revealed?

• 27:55Speaker 05

  Look, between the three of us, I think we're all competing for different things. So we, we pretty much have a rule where whoever gets a prize that another person wants the most will, will go to them. The, the ping pong table is not something that appeals to me, but it would go to my partner absolutely well. So, so I'm just excited to get what I can get and hopefully not get wet.

• 28:16Speaker 02

  Great. Did she come up with that? I mean, we should pay them, that's nice.

• 28:19Speaker 05

  It's a good line, yeah.

• 28:21Hamish Blake?

  That is, isn't that the tagline of the show?

• 28:23Speaker 02

  Where she added like, you get what you get and you don't get wet.

• 28:26Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, that's, that's true. That is true. The contestants' tagline.

• 28:29Speaker 02

  Our tagline was, once you're wet, that's all you get. Yeah, yeah.

• 28:33Hamish Blake?

  But it works, it works no matter which side of the problem you approach it from.

• 28:37Speaker 02

  Sam Ham is a potential candidate. He says, I bring new listeners to the H and A podcast through dating apps.

• 28:45Hamish Blake?

  How so?

• 28:46Speaker 02

  Whenever I match with someone who has podcast recommendations as one of their prompts, the first thing I say to them is that they need to listen to the Hamish and Andy podcast and that it provides the level of entertainment nothing else can. He said, this method appears to be extremely successful as whenever I do this, I always get an unmatched. So they must immediately going off to listen to the podcast.

• 29:12Speaker 02

  And they have no longer have time for dating.

• 29:14Hamish Blake?

  That's true.

• 29:15Speaker 02

  I am buoyant and I can swim.

• 29:19Hamish Blake?

  Let's get this Sam legend.

• 29:21Speaker 02

  He might be the lone rule wolf.

• 29:23Hamish Blake?

  He could be the lone wolf.

• 29:24Speaker 02

  Doesn't seem like he can get a plus one.

• 29:26Hamish Blake?

  He's the perfect single ticketer.

• 29:32Hamish Blake?

  Let's quickly, got to finish, got to finish with this. This comes in from William, Annie's sister, who sent in a video showing their dedication. I mean, I, from what it looks like, it seems legit, but I think they spray painted their car. They spray painted their car with listen to H and A, download the H and A podcast all over their car. He joins us now. William, did you, have you ruined your car?

• 29:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, that worries me, William.

• 30:00Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, I have ruined it a bit. It was supposed to just be short, like the paint that you put on the road and.

• 30:07Speaker 04

  Wash off and my car's all all white and patchy now, but it's all right.

• 30:13Speaker 02

  It was great. I mean, I I basically, I saw the video in the video, you're just kind of like, you know, peeling out of your house, like burning out of the backyard kind of thing in a bit of a tire spin. How like, how long was your promotional drive for?

• 30:26Speaker 04

  I don't know. It was on the car for about a day or two, then I washed it off.

• 30:29Speaker 02

  Well, attempted to by the sounds of things, you have added a paint that didn't come off as easily as you'd hoped.

• 30:36Hamish Blake?

  Well, I mean, let's hope that, um, Will, you can come along.

• 30:40Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 30:41Hamish Blake?

  And win a one half size electric Porsche at, um, if the prize is correct. And you won't need, you won't need that on the car anymore.

• 30:50Speaker 02

  I will. You're in, mate. You're in.

• 30:52Speaker 04

  Oh, fantastic. Thank you.

• 30:57Speaker 02

  Mate, we look forward to seeing you there.

• 30:58Hamish Blake?

  We'll see you there.

• 30:59Speaker 04

  Um, see you there.

• 31:00Speaker 02

  We'll be reaching out to more people off air, but we'll, we should do another batch of these.

• 31:04Hamish Blake?

  I mean, these, let's keep them coming in. We are approaching 10 million, as we said, so this is, you know, you, but you still stand a good chance to get a ticket.

• 31:18Hamish Blake?

  Gentlemen.

• 31:18Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 31:19Hamish Blake?

  As promised, I believe in the last show, a significant Hames Hives update.

• 31:24Speaker 02

  Do you need an assistant?

• 31:26Hamish Blake?

  I would like to, Jack. Do you still have your Irish guy's number?

• 31:30Speaker 02

  I've got his number, yeah. He's actually a very nice guy. I don't know. Sounds awesome. He sounded, like I say, he sounded like your life guy.

• 31:37Hamish Blake?

  But I realise I too have some weeding that needs to be done. And maybe, maybe my garden's too overgrown and that's why I haven't been able to get this honey business up and running. But I jest, I jest because boy, oh, boy, have I been a busy king bee behind the scenes. Setting up, I mean, bee ranching is no joke. Let me just say that off the top. Starting a honey business, whilst it can sound great to really show your friends who's boss and go, I'll prove to you, this is a great idea. There is quite a lot to do to set up five million head of bee and to set up the ranch and to really, you know,

• 32:20Hamish Blake?

  not just do that, but then bottles, packaging.

• 32:23Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. That's the part that I'm a bit nervous for you.

• 32:26Hamish Blake?

  Zealand into Australia to, you know how customs is always like, oh, don't bring honey in. It was actually on a flight back from New Zealand where they're like, no, no, no, don't you dare bring animal products in here. Then a little voice in my brain went, that's what you're doing.

• 32:44Hamish Blake?

  At a commercial level. And so we're working on that.

• 32:48Speaker 02

  This is the part I'm nervous for you is that at the end of it.

• 32:51Hamish Blake?

  Yeah.

• 32:52Speaker 02

  When you said just before, you know, it can, it can appear like a great thing to do and I told you so to your friends.

• 32:57Hamish Blake?

  Yeah.

• 32:57Speaker 02

  What are you hoping Jack and my reaction is?

• 33:01Hamish Blake?

  No, I mean, look.

• 33:02Speaker 02

  No, he did it.

• 33:03Hamish Blake?

  You were there for good resistance at the start and it's probably what spurred me into action. But now it's actually for a love of of ranching the bees.

• 33:10Speaker 02

  Cause you're gonna need that because this, this spot, like this building a business out of spite is gonna run out of steam. Like even if you do in a year.

• 33:19Hamish Blake?

  Gone. The spot's gone, Jack.

• 33:20Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 33:20Hamish Blake?

  Cause it's faded away, but it did help get me going.

• 33:23Speaker 02

  Okay, good. Yeah. Cause remember when the, the honey's on the shelf, it's not like, okay, we did it. We made a business. Like, wouldn't you have to keep running it year in, year out?

• 33:30Hamish Blake?

  Yes. No, my ads won't be, help me prove to these guys that this is good honey. They, the honey will speak for itself because it will be the world's most premium honey. I mean, it's, it's unbelievable. Here's the significant update.

• 33:44Hamish Blake?

  A couple of days ago on social media, the logo was revealed. Now you guys might follow Hames Hives on Instagram, you might not.

• 33:49Speaker 02

  No.

• 33:50Hamish Blake?

  That's fine. The logo, we're very happy with the branding. I also went to New Zealand to start the actual process of getting the honey boxes out into the mountains, into these spots through the Alps, because it is high altitude alpine honey. Gotta get the boxes up there. I want you to, in a second, I'm going to send you some photos. Now, we don't just have a brand for Hames Hives, but in true, because it's starting to, you know, as a bee farmer, like the fun of, the fun of running all these, um, high country bees is, you know, it's exciting. It's exciting to be a bee rancher. So I thought, why not take the brand

• 34:32Hamish Blake?

  and turn it into an actual brand that you would brand cattle with back in the Western times?

• 34:37Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 34:38Hamish Blake?

  Not to brand the bees, because I certainly don't want to, they're very small and you don't want to hurt them and I love them. But to brand the honey boxes, to brand the hives. So if you have a look here at the video I've sent you, that is the Hames Hives. All the hives are getting hot iron branded.

• 34:57Hamish Blake?

  With my custom made brand. And then I'll just send you a little photo, a little sneak peek.

• 35:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:03Hamish Blake?

  As we took the boxes up into the valley to start placing the hives in their first locations.

• 35:08Speaker 02

  It's very medieval, isn't it, Jack? I'm watching the video now. It's, he's got a, he's got a hot iron branding and it goes to the side of the box.

• 35:16Hamish Blake?

  Yeah. And that's just to just tell other bee ranchers, don't mess with us. Right? That's just, that's why.

• 35:20Speaker 02

  And the logo is just a simple H within an H. And it kind of looks like AFL football goals.

• 35:25Hamish Blake?

  Yeah.

• 35:25Speaker 02

  Like with the reflection. Yeah. It actually, yeah, it looks like footy goals on a lake. Yeah, footy goals on a lake, particularly.

• 35:30Hamish Blake?

  That's what we're going for.

• 35:34Hamish Blake?

  Well, it's actually quite clever because it's Hames Hives honey, right? So you can make three H's out of that, but because we're doing two products, we're doing the honey, which would be beautiful in a, you know, a box that anyone would be delighted to give or be given. Got the honey, but we're also doing Hames Highest Hives, which is the energy gel. And that logo is also three H's. So it kind of works across two, across two product lines.

• 35:58Speaker 02

  Well done.

• 35:59Hamish Blake?

  The other thing that I wanted to inform you about is there was a bit of chat about a month ago about, hey, November 11, it's the launch party. I said, come along, um, it's a cocktail party. We'll have the honey there. I think I said we're going to do a live cross to some of the bees.

• 36:13Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 36:14Hamish Blake?

  Here's the thing about the honey, you, the bees actually make it over summer. They don't really get much ready for the start of summer. Um, the bees, they're busy. Don't get me wrong. They are flat out, actually work themselves to death. They kind of, you know, they don't really take too much of a break. November 11, I have now changed the, the excitement level's the same.

• 36:39Speaker 02

  I didn't actually think that launch party was going ahead, so I'm not shocked. So. Not at all.

• 36:43Hamish Blake?

  Great, great. Cause it's not. But what it is now is as much, I'm still inviting both of you to come, but it's still a much more intimate event. That's actually the launch of the website.

• 36:53Speaker 02

  Oh, no, we don't want to go to that. Yeah, no. You're not sure if we can go to the honey launch.

• 37:02Speaker 02

  Well, there'll be a little ribbon cutting.

• 37:04Hamish Blake?

  Okay. Well, I'm inviting you both.

• 37:06Speaker 02

  We can join all, I can join on FaceTime or something if you want.

• 37:09Hamish Blake?

  I'm inviting you both. See if you can make it. It's November 11. That's the day the website will go up and pre-orders will begin. We'll also have a small unveiling of the box. We'll have the packaging ready.

• 37:21Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 37:21Hamish Blake?

  So see what you can do because honestly, I'd love you guys to be there. The, the guest list will be really quite intimate. So.

• 37:28Speaker 02

  Yeah. If we're not there, will anyone else be there?

• 37:31Hamish Blake?

  It will be noticeable.

• 37:34Hamish Blake?

  See if you can make it. Just give me two maybes.

• 37:37Speaker 02

  Two maybe. It's a maybe. I, hey, if I've got nothing else, then I'll definitely be there.

• 37:42Hamish Blake?

  I appreciate that because it's still very exciting that we're going to be launching the website.

• 37:46Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 37:47Hamish Blake?

  And that's when people can purchase, can start pre-ordering the honey.

• 37:51Speaker 02

  Um, that, that makes me nervous for you.

• 37:54Hamish Blake?

  What do you mean?

• 37:55Speaker 02

  Well, just because when you take people's money, you have to give them something.

• 37:59Hamish Blake?

  Well, don't worry. I mean, I think people will see the site, they'll see the product and be like, all right, this thing's legit. I mean, the hives are going up there now. We just have to wait until about November. That's when you put the bees in. They're all sleeping at the moment. They're just waking up.

• 38:11Speaker 02

  The bees hibernate, do they?

• 38:12Hamish Blake?

  They hibernate. Yeah. That's actually what they make honey for. They hibernate. They make honey to eat during the winter because there's like nothing around.

• 38:20Speaker 02

  And we steal it from them. That's a bit.

• 38:21Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, well, we come to an agreement.

• 38:26Hamish Blake?

  They, they love it.

• 38:32Speaker 02

  Hey, something's been happening to me mainly through direct messages on Instagram, uh, since I told the story about losing my AirPods and tracking them to a pretty unruly suburb in LA.

• 38:47Hamish Blake?

  Do you still watch them move around?

• 38:48Speaker 02

  I still watch them. They're still there. They're still sitting there and I'm going back to the States soon. So I'm tempted to go back out, but.

• 38:53Hamish Blake?

  Why, sorry, just on this, shouldn't we be able to deactivate them remotely? Shouldn't that also be a thing?

• 38:59Speaker 02

  Good idea.

• 39:00Hamish Blake?

  That could be a good thing.

• 39:01Speaker 02

  To punish thieves?

• 39:01Hamish Blake?

  Yes.

• 39:02Speaker 02

  Like if it's your friends registered to your like Apple account, shouldn't you be able to be like, oh, you can make them play high pitched noises whenever you want?

• 39:10Hamish Blake?

  That's a better idea.

• 39:11Speaker 02

  Yeah. Or just an annoying song. Or Pat Yourself Straight In.

• 39:14Hamish Blake?

  Yeah.

• 39:15Speaker 02

  Pat Yourself Straight In. Hey, I know what you've done. That's a better idea.

• 39:20Hamish Blake?

  Come on.

• 39:20Speaker 02

  Well, it was.

• 39:22Hamish Blake?

  They're in an ear right now. Would you like to talk to the thief? Yes. I would.

• 39:27Speaker 02

  Good feedback for Apple. It would take away one thing that's that is fun. Actually, it wouldn't take away. It actually maybe enhanced one thing that has been fun. And this is what people have been doing for me. They've been sending me where their AirPods are holidaying. This one came in from Carl. Hey, guys. I lost my AirPods in Australia, but they're currently in Iraq, having a great time seeing the world.

• 39:48Hamish Blake?

  Wow, that's cool.

• 39:49Speaker 02

  This one from Josh. Hey, guys. I was travelling in Greece when I lost my AirPods. They're now in Norway, and I have the address. Is there any potential Norway listeners out there that might want to go and recover my AirPods for me? So everyone is watching their AirPods holidaying, and it's just a fun little pastime.

• 40:07Hamish Blake?

  I'm calling it now. This is actually a good idea for a reality series. It's called AirPod Vigilante, and it's like Dog the Bounty Hunter.

• 40:16Hamish Blake?

  But it's a group like the A-Team.

• 40:18Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 40:18Hamish Blake?

  And you write in and you tell them I've lost my AirPods.

• 40:21Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 40:21Hamish Blake?

  And then they travel the world kicking down doors to get your AirPods back.

• 40:25Speaker 02

  I like it.

• 40:26Hamish Blake?

  It's a bloody good show.

• 40:26Speaker 02

  It's a very good show. Tiana wrote in as well, and there's been a lot. There was a couple of highlights, but this one I thought was particularly good. So I've got her to join us today.

• 40:37Hamish Blake?

  Right, great.

• 40:38Speaker 02

  She joins us now. Ahoy, Tiana.

• 40:39Speaker 05

  Ahoy, Tiana. Ahoy, boys, and hello, number six. Ahoy.

• 40:43Speaker 02

  Tiana, tell us phase one of this story, because your email came in in two bouts.

• 40:49Speaker 05

  Yes, I kind of preempted the first one, but I just wanted to get in quick. I went to Sydney for a three-day work trip, and my fiance had bought me new AirPod Pro 3s. Must be nice. And on the last day I was in the office, I went downstairs to the lobby to take a phone call, and I left my AirPods case. I realised when I'd gone back up to the 50th floor. And I quickly went downstairs and I was like, where are they? And I did the ping-in thing too, which is impossible when you're in the middle of a busy, busy commercial spot. But couldn't find them, walked around for a good hour, following that little dot, that pesky little dot kept moving.

• 41:28Hamish Blake?

  Yeah.

• 41:28Speaker 05

  And then I saw it cross the Harbour Bridge. Yeah.

• 41:31Hamish Blake?

  Okay.

• 41:31Speaker 05

  And when it crossed the Harbour Bridge, I was like, they're gone forever.

• 41:34Hamish Blake?

  Yeah.

• 41:34Speaker 02

  I take a case. Or do you reckon the thief just...

• 41:36Hamish Blake?

  Were the pods in the case?

• 41:38Speaker 05

  No, I had the pods. They were in my ears.

• 41:40Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, that's the thing. Do you reckon the thief just saw a closed case and went, I'll just quickly swoop those and I'll check them out when I get home? Because you wouldn't assume that it'd be an empty case.

• 41:51Speaker 05

  No, you wouldn't assume that. But also, I was running around, brangaroo, desperately looking, so I'm sure he would have seen me. But I had the case tracked very closely. They went over the Harbour Bridge, and I had to go back to Melbourne sadly. But I took Andy's approach of tracking their every move, day in, day out, where they went to work, when they went home. And then I was like, well, they've got to know they're missing, because I flagged, you can put your phone number in as well.

• 42:20Hamish Blake?

  Yes.

• 42:20Speaker 05

  And flagged them as missing, which I didn't know was a thing. So I was like, oh, they'll call me back. I'm dinging this thing every like five minutes, really, every waking moment. And then I thought, I was talking to my mum, and she said, well, why don't you just write them a letter? Because you've got their address. And I was lucky, it's actually like a block of a house and a block of land, so it was definitely that house.

• 42:40Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, right.

• 42:41Speaker 02

  So Tiana had been mapping this one, going back each night after work to a specific house and settling there for the evening. And then off it went again. So she was very confident that this person had...

• 42:53Hamish Blake?

  That's the dream, really, to, again, no apartment block, just specific address.

• 42:57Speaker 05

  Yeah. And I was also like, well, what's there to lose now? You know, I've lost the case. So I thought a letter won't hurt. And handwritten was a nice touch, I thought.

• 43:06Hamish Blake?

  That's lovely. Yep, that's nice.

• 43:07Speaker 05

  Very lovely, but I also printed a photo of their house, which could come across as threatening.

• 43:13Hamish Blake?

  No, it's pretty good, isn't it? It's just a bit of like, hey, you are not anonymous anymore.

• 43:18Speaker 05

  It's like evidence. It was like, this justifies the letter, you know? And that was on a Monday. I lost the AirPods on a Friday. And then the following Friday, I got a call from the thief's mum. And I thought, shit, I've got a kid in trouble now, because the mum called me and said, like, he'll contact you. And she sent me a message, then he sent me a message. But the funny thing was, his message said I took them, because I was afraid somebody else would take them, which didn't help me.

• 43:45Hamish Blake?

  Yes.

• 43:45Speaker 05

  So he said that. I corresponded with him for a week, asked how his exams are going.

• 43:53Hamish Blake?

  Build a rapport. They do say this in like, you know, these situations, if you can like, humanise yourself to the criminal.

• 44:01Speaker 05

  Don't anger them.

• 44:02Hamish Blake?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 44:03Speaker 05

  And then he messaged me, he's like, I'm on my way to your office, because I said, can you just drop them off there? I didn't want to give him my address.

• 44:11Hamish Blake?

  Hmm, smart.

• 44:11Speaker 05

  And he dropped them off on the Friday, all the way up to reception, and happy days.

• 44:16Speaker 02

  She's got him back. Well done.

• 44:17Hamish Blake?

  Reunited.

• 44:18Speaker 05

  My proceeds of crime have been returned.

• 44:22Speaker 02

  Tiana, what a great story. Again, this is...

• 44:26Hamish Blake?

  Are you still in touch with him? How's he doing?

• 44:29Speaker 05

  Passed his exam, all as well.

• 44:31Hamish Blake?

  Well, it is good to get a success story on the board.

• 44:33Speaker 02

  Yep. So keep them coming in if your AirPods are on holidays. And Hamish and I may look into that TV show.

• 44:40Hamish Blake?

  You heard me here first. This was the genesis, but if you've got any cool casting ideas for who you think would be good to be on the Vigilante team for AirPod Vigilantes? Yeah, let us know. Let us know.

• 44:52Speaker 02

  Thanks, Tiana. Cheers.

• 44:54Speaker 05

  Guys, bye.