Pod Insights Hamish & Andy Hamish & Andy Reministmas 2024 About this episode Everyone knows that exactly one week before Christmas, Reministmas is celebrated which involves looking back at the year and reminiscing. To help get into the spirit of Reministmas this year, the Hamish and Andy Podcast team have compiled a bunch of moments from the 2024 year podcasts for us all to look back at fondly… or angrily if you really didn’t like that specific bit.
Transcript 0:07 Speaker 00 'Tis a week before Christmas, so everyone knows. It's the day set aside to look back at the shows. For on the 18th of December, with a rather large cheer, Reministmas is celebrated, where we retrace the year. At the start of it all, a story popped up about a car and a girl who just cared way too much.
0:36 Speaker 01 Guys, I've mentioned on this pod before and to you that Bec has way too much empathy. We went to the Grand Prix and they had a V8 supercar race after the qualifying day. And something had happened to the Castrol car, like 400 metres behind the rest of the whole race.
0:55 Speaker 02 And it'd be a pretty tight, it's a pretty tight crowd, like pretty tight pack on that day because there's not that many laps.
0:59 Speaker 01 So there's like, and then there was a 20 second wait.
1:08 Speaker 01 And then it would come past. Bec turns to me with this shocked look on her face and says, "What happened? What's happened?" And I said, "Well, it might have had a little accident or it's a shit car or she's a shit driver."
1:20 Speaker 02 You know, sometimes it's motorsports.
1:22 Speaker 01 Oh. And then the next lap.
1:27 Speaker 02 I was still hanging in there.
1:28 Speaker 01 30 seconds in.
1:32 Speaker 01 Bec looked at me and she was just getting more and more distressed for the little Castrol car that could.
1:37 Speaker 02 Oh no, don't tell me you've had to adopt a V8.
1:42 Speaker 01 Before, before like the third last lap, she yelled out to me, "They should let it catch up."
1:54 Speaker 01 Which is not the rules of competitive racing.
1:57 Speaker 02 Not even at under eight athletics do they do that.
2:02 Speaker 02 And they won't rub its nose in at the end, but there's no let it catch up.
2:07 Speaker 01 So I was laughing. She got distracted.
2:12 Speaker 01 Then we kind of got a bit disinterested in the race. It finished and Beck goes, yes, yes, it's caught up as it went round again, not realising that the race had finished. And they were just doing that slow laugh.
2:26 Speaker 02 They're warming down.
2:30 Speaker 01 I'd never had to break it to her that, no, no, it came dead last by 30 seconds.
2:36 Speaker 00 We all laughed at the empathy. That was on show, but it became quite clear Beck wasn't alone.
2:43 Speaker 02 And it's the can of, it's not a can of worms, it's a can of feelings. It's a can of feelings we've opened on this show with extreme empaths. And, you know, we'll, we'll start reading them out when they stop rolling in.
2:55 Speaker 01 I've got to open it for it, in fact.
2:56 Speaker 02 Let's do it with all the music in the world.
3:01 Speaker 01 Not leaving any song out.
3:02 Speaker 02 Not leaving any song out. No song can feel sad. This is from Jacob because my mum has got a robotic vacuum cleaner that goes around the house on its own. Mum feels bad for it, that it has to do all its work by itself. So she follows it round and turns the lights on for it. It goes into new rooms so it doesn't get lonely and scared.
3:24 Speaker 02 So I think it is like, sure, clean the house, but doing it in a dark room, that, no one should have to work through that.
3:33 Speaker 01 I love that. Jessica, she said, whenever I go to the ice cream shop, I order the flavour of ice cream that has been least selected.
3:43 Speaker 02 Now, I'm all for being empathetic, but you don't mess with an ice cream.
3:47 Speaker 01 That's the one you avoid because you're like, well, obviously it's unpopular.
3:51 Speaker 02 It's natural selection at work.
3:54 Speaker 01 I mean, sometimes they do replace a tub, you know, like.
3:57 Speaker 02 True, it could be getting the most popular.
3:58 Speaker 01 If you ever see a full chocolate, it hasn't been left behind, is what I'd say to Jessica.
4:03 Speaker 02 That's a replaced tub.
4:04 Speaker 01 Yeah, but if she's there in some kind of weird pistachio land or whatever it might be.
4:09 Speaker 02 How's this? Ando, this is from Mia. I saw a coca bar the other day and I was admiring it. So far, so good. As I got closer, I realised it was actually a crow, but I felt so bad for being disappointed that I tried really hard to keep admiring it.
4:30 Speaker 01 That is fair because there's a distinct difference between.
4:34 Speaker 02 The crow, the crow be going, hello, hello, what are we here finally? A little bit of attention? You're like, uh-oh, I think she's confused me with a coca bar.
4:41 Speaker 01 This is not what was advertised to me.
4:44 Speaker 02 You've confused me with a coca bar, haven't you? Not at all. I think you're a gorgeous, black, shiny bird.
4:51 Speaker 01 Love it. This one's from Holly. When I copy and paste something on my computer, I always have to paste it straight away as I worry it's tiring to hold on to whatever I'm copying.
5:04 Speaker 01 Thanks, Holly. That definitely counts, yes.
5:07 Speaker 02 This is from Nina. Since owning a car, I've always felt bad for the spare tyre for being left out because I don't even know how to change a tyre, so I can't rotate it in. Sometimes I will lift up the lid in the boot and just give it a little pat so it doesn't feel left alone.
5:24 Speaker 01 Mitch Hawkins. Okay, go. He's the extreme empath. When my girlfriend and I are watching TV, I will always wait until no one in the show or movie is talking before I pause.
5:41 Speaker 02 I don't want to be rude or cut anyone off. My girlfriend, however, will get up and leave the room while a person, character, is still talking and sometimes I catch myself apologising to them.
5:54 Speaker 02 Like it's the theatre. Uh, this is from Samaria. She writes, I've always felt sorry for flies that get stuck in the car and then you let them out and they're completely lost. Millions.
6:07 Speaker 02 Millions of fly kilometres away from their home and friends and family. That's fair.
6:15 Speaker 02 This is from Kat. As a kid, I used to park my bike at school next to the one that was the same model so we could hang out together and find things in common while I did the school.
6:27 Speaker 02 This is from Joe. His wife Mel is an extreme empath. He says she's got a few habits, but his favorite is when she stacks the dishwasher. When she puts in the cutlery into the bucket thing, she'll arrange them so they all have at least one partner. So, you know, spoons with spoons, forks with forks. Furthermore, this is my favorite bit, the teaspoons are, in her mind, babies and must be, must be placed with a responsible adult spoon.
6:56 Speaker 02 This means sometimes larger clean spoons go back in just for the purpose of caretaking the baby spoons.
7:05 Speaker 02 I also love, but it's like, you don't leave a teaspoon with a fork. He doesn't know the fork. No, exactly. Stranger. Stranger danger.
7:14 Speaker 02 It's like it's a kid with this strange adult. No, no, chuck a couple of spoons in there to make sure that it's not freaked out in the dishwasher. Ben Hareham, uh, he says needs to report his girlfriend's empathy for a certain grape. Certain grape? She recently told me she accidentally dropped a grape under the fridge. Having subsequently realized be likely to be under the fridge, um, until the fridge is replaced and not moved for many, many years. She kicked a second grape under there just to make sure it wouldn't be.
7:46 Speaker 02 Oh, it's, whoa. So it's like if only one Beaconsfield miner was trapped.
7:53 Speaker 02 True, isn't it? I don't think we can get you out, but we're gonna send Brant downtown so you guys have got some company.
8:03 Speaker 02 Not a strategy you see very often for people that are trapped.
8:09 Speaker 02 Oh, I'll tell you what, though, if you're running the cable down, why don't I, I could just grab onto the cable and be released. No, we're not confident with that.
8:15 Speaker 01 Why have we invented a one-way valve from Brent to go hang out with Tom?
8:21 Speaker 02 Yeah, he's got an email he goes from Brent, he doesn't wanna go down. Yeah, decision's been made. Uh, this is from Big Az. He goes, around once every week, my wife will remove all the magnets from the fridge for a full day to give them, quote, "a little break."
8:38 Speaker 01 Give the magnets a break?
8:39 Speaker 02 Yeah, give the magnets a break.
8:40 Speaker 01 Okay.
8:41 Speaker 02 I think she must think they're just hanging on so tight, you know, like, don't want to fall off the cliff.
8:46 Speaker 01 Like free solo.
8:47 Speaker 02 Yep. During summer, she'll do this every few days instead of weekly, insisting they must be getting exhausted in the heat.
8:56 Speaker 01 Hey, this is from Rob. My wife and I ordered a new couch. She was eight and a half months pregnant when it arrived. My heart honestly broke that the old couch wasn't gonna get to meet the newborn baby.
9:11 Speaker 02 This is great. This is from Julia. She's from New Zealand. I find myself doing this every week when I clean out my guinea pig hutch. I make sure I always put newspapers showcasing a happy story, or even a Sudoku, at the top of the bedding pile, just in case they wanna give it a read.
9:31 Speaker 01 It's from Lucky. Is it just me, or does anyone else feel upset, whenever you think about February and how it's the shorter of the other month? Yeah, yeah, yep. I really look forward to leap years because February gets an extra day closer to its brothers and sisters. I think the Gregorian calendar should be updated so each year a different month gets stuck with the 28 days. How confusing would that be?
9:59 Speaker 02 This is from Amberly. She said, look, when I'm hanging my washing on the line, I'm very conscious of how much time my clothes spend together in my closet. I like to hang items of clothing next to an item that they might not have had the opportunity to interact with.
10:14 Speaker 02 Due to the proximity and the geography of my wardrobe. And in case they're sick of being with the same clothes all the time. So, you know, leggings and leggings, you'd be like, why don't you go and meet the hoodies? However, I always make sure to hang a familiar friend close by. Just in case they don't like the new match up.
10:33 Speaker 02 Layers on layers on layers.
10:35 Speaker 01 That's amazing.
10:36 Speaker 02 Actually, I do prefer.
10:38 Speaker 01 Everyone has to dance with everybody.
10:40 Speaker 02 But at the end of the day.
10:42 Speaker 01 Yeah, come back to your.
10:42 Speaker 02 Sometimes it's nice to be close to another leggings. They understand what you're going through.
10:46 Speaker 01 This is from Holly. Extreme empath. My friend will not fully fill her petrol tank as she worries the car will fill bloated.
10:57 Speaker 02 Really good. Okay, this comes from Fraser. I'm not normally that empathetic. However, recently I was driving my Subaru and it has an auto brake detection feature. I was at a set of traffic lights. The car in front of me slammed on the brakes. I missed it, but the car picked it up and saved me from rear ending the car in front. As a reward, I fueled the car up with 98 octane.
11:26 Speaker 02 No, she never gets anything more than 91. Very common man of me. So it was a big treat.
11:35 Speaker 00 So empathy had become what the show was more about, but not in every situation, as Hamish pointed out.
11:43 Speaker 02 I just want to say this off the top. We don't laugh at names. We don't laugh at names anymore. We don't laugh at names. Gone are the days. I mean, we have laughed at names. We've all, I mean, many decades ago, Bart Simpson created a career out of laughing at names. His huge ass there, you know? Hey guys, I'm looking for a huge ass. And we all laughed. We all laughed in the 90s. Then we weren't, you know, laugh at names.
12:07 Speaker 01 Yeah.
12:07 Speaker 02 Hugh didn't ask for that name. If there is a Hugh Jass out there, he didn't ask for that name.
12:12 Speaker 01 Well, we did do a whole series of pranks where we'd ring like a regional sports team or like.
12:19 Speaker 02 Uh. That's true. Yes. And we'd go like, you know, yeah, Chips McGivens.
12:22 Speaker 01 Yeah. And the whole point was.
12:24 Speaker 02 Simpson.
12:25 Speaker 01 The whole point was I would, you or I would have held up.
12:29 Speaker 02 Yes.
12:30 Speaker 01 Uh, a silly name.
12:32 Speaker 02 But that was actually about not laughing at names.
12:34 Speaker 01 Well.
12:35 Speaker 02 We had to, we had to get through it without laughing.
12:37 Speaker 01 Yeah.
12:37 Speaker 02 So I'd say that was still under the rules of we don't laugh at names. Now, so that's, I understand that rule.
12:43 Speaker 01 Hmm.
12:43 Speaker 02 So imagine my surprise when against all odds and against my best wishes, I did laugh at a name the other day. And I wasn't expecting to laugh at a name and I didn't laugh loud, but it, we did get this. It got a, got a.
12:59 Speaker 01 I know the topic. I know the topic.
13:00 Speaker 02 And I looked at Zoe to see if she'd heard and she hadn't heard and I was like, this is one of the ones, we were at the airport. So I was like, she's busy and.
13:06 Speaker 01 Yep.
13:06 Speaker 02 I was like, do I share this?
13:08 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
13:09 Speaker 02 She is busy. Uh, my brain always thinks comedy will like.
13:13 Speaker 01 Yeah.
13:13 Speaker 02 Will rule. If, no matter how busy Zoe is, there's a voice in my head that goes, no.
13:17 Speaker 01 She'll find this funny.
13:18 Speaker 02 Stop her. Tell her, tell her your funny thing and it's never right. So we're checking in, we're checking in and there's a very professional man there who actually has a, like a normal sounding, like a, well, not normal. Yeah. A, an, un- unusual, a common.
13:37 Speaker 01 Unremarkable.
13:37 Speaker 02 Unremarkable surname.
13:38 Speaker 01 Yep.
13:39 Speaker 02 No such thing as normal. We love all names, but just not a name that you would look twice at. However, in this setting, you'll see why it gets the laugh. He's like, he's like 50 years old. Like I'd say, I don't know, finance, like looks like he's important.
13:55 Speaker 01 Uh huh.
13:55 Speaker 02 And it's like at the, the check in to desk, the corner thing.
14:00 Speaker 01 Hmm. Must probably, probably business class check in.
14:02 Speaker 02 Uh, not for me. No check in with kids. So you have to line up and it must be very nice for you guys. Just dumping bags and straight to the business lounge. But I unfortunately, I'm in the queue, coming manning it, but.
14:11 Speaker 01 I doubt that.
14:13 Speaker 02 No, we had a valet and they were doing. I was sitting on my, I was sitting on the back of the tractor waiting to be driven to the gates.
14:21 Speaker 02 Does all the check in and hand the thing back and they go, there you go, Mr. Bean.
14:26 Speaker 01 Enjoy.
14:31 Speaker 02 It's good. Enjoy the flight.
14:37 Speaker 01 Now, did he not speak? Did he go?
14:42 Speaker 02 Did have a little teddy bear. But I was like, so this guy, this guy's Mr. Bean. He's got, he's put up, he's all up and I thought, because I was like, he sees me laugh, he knows what I'm laughing about.
14:53 Speaker 01 Yeah, exactly.
14:54 Speaker 02 It's like when tall people get told they're tall. It's like, yes, I'm aware, I'm tall. He knows he's Mr. Bean.
15:00 Speaker 01 He's Mr. Bean. That's tough for him.
15:02 Speaker 02 He's, he's gonna, he's gonna deal with that and he didn't, didn't look like.
15:06 Speaker 01 Did his luggage have three wheels? No, that wasn't Mr. Bean's car, was it?
15:10 Speaker 02 Yeah, that was his nemesis. Gotta watch, gotta watch out for that guy. But it did, I was like, am I laughing because I'm laughing because I'm, or am I thinking of Rowan Atkinson? And, and he is funny. Mr. Bean is funny. And that's why I'm laughing. I'm just laughing because this guy is Mr. Bean.
15:26 Speaker 01 So did he register you go the?
15:31 Speaker 02 I think I got away with it. I think I got away with it. But then again, to, to my point, then I was like, hey Zo. You know, and she's like, can't bags. I was like, this guy, I don't know what his first name is. His last name's Bean. Like, yes. So when the, when the person had the ticket, like, Mr. Bean, just crickets.
15:53 Speaker 01 And she not saying Mr. Bean?
15:54 Speaker 02 I don't think so, Jack. I think, I think, yeah, she must have missed it because it was very funny.
16:01 Speaker 00 So Mr. Bean didn't resonate with Hamish's wife. And when it came to the boys' partners, things were changing in Andy's life.
16:12 Speaker 01 Guys, I'm sure, I'm sure this happens in every relationship. But it's, it's glaringly, obviously now, Beck and I nearly 10 years in, that somehow, without discussion, there's jobs that have just filtered straight to me.
16:28 Speaker 02 Yep.
16:28 Speaker 01 That I'm now solely in charge of, where when we first started going out, it was definitely split 50 50.
16:35 Speaker 02 Yep.
16:36 Speaker 01 Or it might have even been something more to do with her world. So she exclusively took care of those things.
16:42 Speaker 02 Yep, understand.
16:43 Speaker 01 Uh, but now, because we co-inhabit and we're intertwined with love, it's my problem.
16:49 Speaker 02 Wow.
16:51 Speaker 02 Wow, eh? Must be nice.
16:55 Speaker 01 It's my problem, or seemingly my problem. And without discussion, it's like, well, you're doing that now. Or, hey, can you quickly grab that for me? Or have you done this yet? And I was like, hang on. When we looked at the job descriptions early in our relationship, there seemed to be a lot less of my-
17:13 Speaker 02 You thought it was more of a 50 50?
17:15 Speaker 01 A lot less of my plate.
17:16 Speaker 02 Yep.
17:16 Speaker 01 And then there's obviously specific jobs that just become, I think, I'm gonna stereotype, husband jobs, boyfriend jobs, man jobs.
17:25 Speaker 02 After 10 years of marriage, we don't, well, I know the discussion stops, but Zoe will leave indicators that it's time for me to do one. Like, the classic one, our bin is in a drawer. The classic one is the drawer's out, the bag is up.
17:39 Speaker 01 Yep, yep.
17:40 Speaker 02 And that means, need I say more? Time for this guy to go out. And sometimes I go to a, do you ever wonder what happens after you pull the thing up? Because there's all, then the bin, the rubbish is gone and a fresh bag is in there.
17:54 Speaker 01 Yes.
17:55 Speaker 02 I'm actually doing that.
17:56 Speaker 01 Yeah.
17:57 Speaker 02 Actually the guy that does that. The other classic one is like the air fryer sometimes lives on the bench, but people with air fryers know they're a bit of a space hog. And there's a, there's a, there's a cupboard it can go to. If the air fryer is unplugged and the cord is wrapped around it and the plug is looped through the handle, that's a, all of these signs are basically non-verbal.
18:18 Speaker 01 Yeah, put it away, just peering your throat.
18:20 Speaker 02 Does it, I never get told to put the air fryer away. Just know that if the cord's wrapped around it, up she goes.
18:25 Speaker 01 I feel that that's happened a lot. I feel like it's cra- and it's just sunk in. And I've realised I've let this go way too long and now they are just Andy jobs.
18:34 Speaker 02 Yeah, but I mean, if it, that's after, after doing them three or four times, then it's solidified.
18:38 Speaker 01 So suddenly I've got a lot of Andy jobs in my life and I just need your help, guys, to list them all, to get them off my chest.
18:53 Speaker 01 Yeah, I know. I'm getting it.
18:57 Speaker 01 If the bins need taking out.
18:58 Speaker 03 That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job.
19:02 Speaker 01 I can't work the sonos out.
19:03 Speaker 03 That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job. That is an Andy job.
19:07 Speaker 01 If the dog needs a bath, yeah.
19:09 Speaker 03 That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job.
19:12 Speaker 01 I couldn't find my keys, so I've taken your car. Let me know if you need them, because I haven't gone far. There's a mozzie in the bedroom.
19:19 Speaker 03 That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job. And that's an Andy job.
19:23 Speaker 01 I don't have a phone charger.
19:24 Speaker 03 That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job. That is an Andy job.
19:28 Speaker 01 Can you ask the waiter for some salt?
19:30 Speaker 03 That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job.
19:33 Speaker 01 I had my nails done. Can you open this can? I can't reach my back and it needs some fake tan. The dishwasher will be done soon.
19:40 Speaker 03 That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job.
19:43 Speaker 01 The dog's pooed in the living room.
19:45 Speaker 03 That's an Andy job. These are all Andy jobs.
19:49 Speaker 01 My car's making a funny noise.
19:51 Speaker 03 That is an Andy job.
19:54 Speaker 01 There's a spider in that room, so I'm not going in until you return with proof you've got him. I don't like the hotel room.
20:01 Speaker 03 That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job.
20:04 Speaker 01 I can't find my hat.
20:06 Speaker 03 That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job. That's an Andy job.
20:10 Speaker 01 Any dead animal?
20:11 Speaker 03 The common theme here is these are all jobs for Andy.
20:15 Speaker 01 My bags are too heavy. Can you put them in the car? And I'm running really late, so grab me a marcha.
20:23 Speaker 01 I really hope she's not listening to this.
20:26 Speaker 02 Yeah. Yeah, good. That's quite a list. Quite a task.
20:29 Speaker 01 Yeah, had to narrow it down.
20:32 Speaker 02 Don't do what I did and buy an invoicing app on your phone.
20:40 Speaker 00 Well, Andy must have done those jobs with such aplomb. Because midway through the year, he dropped this bomb.
20:50 Speaker 01 Won hockey last night, 5-0. Just thought that.
20:52 Speaker 02 Well done. Did you bap any?
20:54 Speaker 01 Uh, yes, just the one. Just the one goal for me. I think that's it. Oh, no. I, um, asked Beck to marry me on Sunday.
21:01 Speaker 04 Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Are you kidding me? Mate, congratulations. Oh, my God.
21:09 Speaker 04 Wow, man.
21:12 Speaker 02 Okay, well, Jack's, just to paint a picture here, Jack's tried to claim best friend status by getting out of his chair first and hugging Andy. I must admit, I did already know this was one day.
21:24 Speaker 01 You did sound like someone who already knew. Yes, you didn't do real, you didn't do a hundred percent surprise.
21:29 Speaker 02 I didn't want to jump in with already knew.
21:32 Speaker 01 Already knew?
21:32 Speaker 02 Because.
21:33 Speaker 01 Close to friends?
21:33 Speaker 02 Of course.
21:36 Speaker 02 Of course, it is, the moment belongs to the happy couple. How great.
21:40 Speaker 04 And my fiancee joins us now, Jacko Beck.
21:44 Speaker 01 Beck, congratulations.
21:46 Speaker 05 Hey, Jacko, hey, hey, thank you.
21:48 Speaker 04 Now, Beck, rude, a rude.
21:51 Speaker 02 Is it a bit quick? That's all I would ask. Is it a bit sudden?
21:55 Speaker 05 Yeah, you know what, it really should have given another couple of years.
21:59 Speaker 02 Are you sure? Because, Ando, often, you know, you meet someone, you're caught up in that early 12 years.
22:07 Speaker 02 Like, you can get, it's all, you know, that's not going to look like the whole relationship's going to be like, it's always going to be that honeymoon 12 years. Reality will kick in, so if you are comfortable, Ando, then of course we support it.
22:19 Speaker 01 Okay, no, no, feel good about it.
22:22 Speaker 02 Apple thought, no, it's, what amazing news. And me and Zoe, we were crying, we were sorry, we were sorry.
22:29 Speaker 04 That's such good news. What, can you tell us the story of the proposal?
22:32 Speaker 01 Um, yes, it started because I got back to the old, our new old house, under the guise that we had to do, had to do a couple of videos for Instagram because we're about to start the build and I thought, we want to capture it. She went, what do you mean we're doing that? And I said, well, we said we'd do this at 12. And she's like, no, you, can you please just put it in my calendar? Can you please put these things in my calendar? I'm like, it is in your calendar.
22:55 Speaker 02 It's there under surprise engagement.
22:59 Speaker 04 Yeah, I'd never challenge Andy on a calendar input.
23:01 Speaker 02 Yes.
23:02 Speaker 05 Yeah, a big mistake, it was there.
23:04 Speaker 01 Yeah, and then, um, she said, well, I've booked Henrietta in for a, probably one of the mud baths.
23:10 Speaker 04 Japanese mud bath.
23:11 Speaker 02 Don't tell me that Henrietta's being sprinkled with unicorn horns at 12, so.
23:16 Speaker 01 Um. I said, okay, well, do you want to postpone Henry's things? We have to get this done. She goes, no. So I said, okay, we'll push back.
23:23 Speaker 02 A reschedule.
23:24 Speaker 01 Reschedule.
23:25 Speaker 02 I like from Beck because it gets the marriage stage now of your relationship off to the a great start.
23:31 Speaker 01 She's on a good footing.
23:32 Speaker 02 She's on a good footing. She's calling the shots.
23:33 Speaker 01 And then I was pretending that we'd um that we'd uh filmed something in front of this fireplace, at this old marble fireplace in the house. And uh and that's when I went, I think there's something in inside the fireplace. And uh while I was down there, I stayed on one knee and I gave her another napkin. Cause I I when I first met her at the cafe, I I wrote on a napkin my details.
23:57 Speaker 02 I love that.
23:57 Speaker 01 And um I gave her another napkin.
23:59 Speaker 02 How much did you spend on the napkin? Two months' salary?
24:05 Speaker 01 What a napkin.
24:07 Speaker 02 You should see this napkin. Gold lace napkin.
24:12 Speaker 00 Well, good things will come to those that can wait. So Reminiscentus continues after this short ad break.
24:23 Speaker 00 Welcome back. Enough of the happy feels. That's not truly this show. It's more about arguments, as everyone knows. When such moments arise, the armour goes on, like when Hamish brought a new game and things went terribly wrong.
24:45 Speaker 01 Gents, this morning at short notice, I said, hey, because I just I heard something this morning and I was like, God, I've got to I've got to tell the guys about this. Um. And then I thought, would it be fun to? It's a fact, right? Just a good fact. It's one of those. It's not like quite one of those, but sort of in the region of like, you know, I was today years old when I found out, blah, blah, blah. But it's this thing. I was like, oh, yeah, fair enough. That's an interesting fact. I don't think I knew that. And I was like, would everyone would be interested in bringing one fact to the show today?
25:14 Speaker 02 And we have a fact shootout, like a duel, like a Wild West duel.
25:19 Speaker 01 There are very specific rules you sent through to Hamish and so to Jack and I, Ham, you said.
25:23 Speaker 02 No Googling.
25:24 Speaker 01 Bring a fact, can't Google.
25:25 Speaker 04 Can't Google your fact.
25:26 Speaker 02 You can't seek a fact out, it kind of has to come to you.
25:29 Speaker 01 Yeah.
25:29 Speaker 02 You can't say, hey, has anyone got any good facts? Because it just has to be.
25:34 Speaker 01 In there.
25:34 Speaker 02 Because I think that just makes it too easy.
25:36 Speaker 01 Yeah, your go to, did one come to mind straight away for you, Jack?
25:39 Speaker 04 I've got one that I hope I'm not misremembering, but I remember the gist of it is good. And you'll go, oh, that's a good fact.
25:46 Speaker 01 Is it, is it a fact?
25:48 Speaker 04 Well, I mean, there's some things around, like the, the minor details might, I might be remembering wrong.
25:54 Speaker 01 Can we end this to the game then, Ham, that straight after our fact, my, Radio Mike out there Googles it just to fact check it.
26:03 Speaker 04 That's, that's.
26:04 Speaker 01 And then gives it's, it's a fair play because obviously.
26:07 Speaker 02 I'm worried mine, I'm pretty sure mine's true. I'm pretty sure mine's true.
26:14 Speaker 04 The whole point of being wowed by a fact is in fact the fact that is a fact.
26:18 Speaker 02 Yes, you're right, you're right.
26:19 Speaker 04 Well, I think, I think the thumbs up from Mike should be true enough.
26:23 Speaker 01 Okay.
26:23 Speaker 02 Well, we'll get him to come in, we'll get him to come in and kind of give us the report. What we can do, what about this, we each do the fact.
26:28 Speaker 01 Hmm.
26:29 Speaker 02 Well, okay, I made, we're adding a few too many layers on here too, but I, I also wanted to do a thing. Cause in the Wild West, when there was a duel, a shootout, it was a one on one situation. It was quite clear who the winner was. Now in a three way, we've each got one bullet, but there's always going to be three shots fired. But only, you know, two people might shoot the same guy. So there could be one man left standing.
26:52 Speaker 01 Okay.
26:53 Speaker 04 And are we shooting, we shooting a fact we don't like?
26:55 Speaker 02 Yeah, well, basically the last man standing is the winner. Um, so we're gonna have.
26:59 Speaker 01 Are we shooting the winner or are we shooting the fact we don't like?
27:02 Speaker 02 Obviously shooting a fact we don't like, but if you don't get shot, you will be the winner.
27:06 Speaker 01 Okay, so we could have two winners.
27:08 Speaker 02 Yeah, that is true.
27:11 Speaker 02 Let's just assume that, that the two worst facts are getting shot and that the winner remains standing in this, this triangular shootout. So the simple, only because the sound effect I built is three gunshots, two bodies hitting the floor.
27:24 Speaker 01 Okay.
27:25 Speaker 02 And I think at the end of it, we got, we hear the facts.
27:29 Speaker 01 Yep.
27:29 Speaker 02 And then we say who we think the best fact is.
27:32 Speaker 01 All right, let's get into this.
27:33 Speaker 02 Okay.
27:35 Speaker 01 Who wants to go first?
27:38 Speaker 02 I'll go first since I've started this thing.
27:42 Speaker 02 Be honest with me, did you guys know that a t-shirt is called a t-shirt? Because of the shape of that?
27:50 Speaker 04 Yes, yes, 100% yes.
27:57 Speaker 02 Did you really know that?
27:58 Speaker 04 Yeah.
28:01 Speaker 02 I feel like you just say that. I think you heard Jack be so confident and Andy, you were like, "I could absolutely jump on board this because I know that means Hame's getting shot."
28:13 Speaker 04 I don't even ever remember being told it as a fact as much as it's just like, "Somehow you know."
28:18 Speaker 02 There's such a thing as a gracious winner again. You don't have to do this dance. I didn't know. We don't have to rub it in. I thought that was fascinating. I'd never thought about that.
28:29 Speaker 01 I can't believe this whole thing derived from that fact.
28:36 Speaker 02 I think there'll be a lot of people out there who are now playing your game, Andy, of pretending they knew that, but secretly they're wowed. Secretly they're wowed.
28:45 Speaker 01 I...
28:46 Speaker 02 I can't wait to pretend I knew this.
28:49 Speaker 01 Mine's insect-based.
28:51 Speaker 02 Knew it.
28:54 Speaker 02 I never even considered a time in my life where I didn't know it.
28:59 Speaker 01 The sound a mosquito makes is its wings flapping.
29:05 Speaker 04 I assumed that. Yeah, I would say. Sorry, I would have assumed that.
29:09 Speaker 01 And they flap 800 times a second.
29:13 Speaker 02 I didn't know the stat, but I would assume that that's the noise because they only make the noise when they're moving. I didn't think it was them screaming.
29:21 Speaker 01 Playing a little lobo.
29:23 Speaker 02 They didn't know they could fly.
29:27 Speaker 04 Yeah, we definitely assumed part one of the fact and part two of the fact feels Googled.
29:33 Speaker 02 No, no, no.
29:37 Speaker 04 I even Googled it.
29:41 Speaker 02 Oh, you remembered 800. No way you remembered 800.
29:48 Speaker 02 Where'd you hear it?
29:52 Speaker 02 You Googled the shit out of that.
29:57 Speaker 04 I heard it from Katie Westcott.
30:02 Speaker 04 Who was a writer on the animation.
30:05 Speaker 02 You heard it where?
30:06 Speaker 04 Katie Westcott, who's a writer on the animation.
30:08 Speaker 02 Yeah.
30:10 Speaker 04 She's the one that told me.
30:10 Speaker 02 She told you 800 times in conversation.
30:13 Speaker 04 Yes, in conversation.
30:16 Speaker 04 Jack? I don't know. When do we shoot?
30:20 Speaker 02 When do we shoot? Can I buy extra bullets?
30:25 Speaker 04 Gosh, I really thought mine was gonna be good. I think mine is good. Oh, you're no chance.
30:32 Speaker 02 Would you like to get a fresh audience in here because we are heavily incentivized to hate or at least be disinterested in this fact?
30:42 Speaker 04 Okay. Woolworths in Australia got its name because Woolworths already existed as a chainsaw in the US and the UK. And a guy from England came over to start. To start.
30:58 Speaker 04 To start.
30:59 Speaker 02 Oh my god, when is this fact?
31:02 Speaker 04 My gosh. He came to Australia.
31:04 Speaker 02 At least mine was quick and it was a fun visual.
31:07 Speaker 04 I'll try and watch the movie.
31:11 Speaker 02 I'll just copy off Andy's.
31:14 Speaker 04 The guy came from England. He wanted to build a supermarket in Australia and he said, I'm just gonna call it Woolworths. But he had nothing to do with the existing Woolworths. He just named it that because it was named that in England and he thought, oh, who's gonna know?
31:28 Speaker 02 What?
31:32 Speaker 04 It's true, Mike, saying, but also who? Isn't that interesting?
31:37 Speaker 02 No, he just stole the name.
31:39 Speaker 01 He stole the name?
31:40 Speaker 04 Yeah, but now it's the Woolworths we know so well.
31:43 Speaker 02 But he stole it.
31:44 Speaker 04 And he stole the name. From a Woolworths, so even now.
31:48 Speaker 01 Why didn't you say that, by the way?
31:50 Speaker 04 Woolworth's name was stolen from the guy, like, that's how.
31:53 Speaker 02 But it was stolen from this shop that already existed and did a similar thing.
31:56 Speaker 04 Called Woolworths, so now if you, if you went.
32:00 Speaker 02 You can't steal a name from a shop that has a different name than you stole, so yes, we know he stole Woolworths from a shop called Woolworths. Can't go, I stole Woolworths from a shop called McRobinson's. Why didn't you steal McRobinson's?
32:11 Speaker 04 If you went to the UK or the US and you saw a Woolworths, you would, probably wrongly, but think. You would think.
32:19 Speaker 02 The music's run out, the music's run out, that's how long Jack's fact was.
32:23 Speaker 04 Oh, that must be where it originated and that's where we got our Woolworths.
32:26 Speaker 01 Okay, so we're shooting one person?
32:28 Speaker 04 Oh, no. Bad to go live.
32:31 Speaker 02 Might I recommend we all get shot here?
32:35 Speaker 04 Yeah, well.
32:41 Speaker 02 Yeah, two fell at the same time. I mean, if you had to pick a good fact.
32:46 Speaker 02 I think, Ando, I think it's okay for you to say that you didn't know about mine and you just wish you did.
32:53 Speaker 01 It just can't be Jack's and it can't be yours.
32:56 Speaker 02 Can't be yours.
32:57 Speaker 01 Oh, it has to be mine.
32:59 Speaker 04 I think, I think it's mine, my fact delivered better, delivered better than what I did. Cause I was trying to pull it from memory.
33:06 Speaker 02 Mike, do you have a winner?
33:09 Speaker 04 Andy!
33:10 Speaker 01 Yeah, smart, Mike, thank you.
33:14 Speaker 02 Jack, get another bullet for Mike.
33:17 Speaker 00 The bell rang again to move us all on. And throughout 2024, there was one man that shone. In the show title, his name doesn't appear. But boy, did Jack give us some amazing moments this year.
33:35 Speaker 04 The thing I do almost daily that never gets a laugh from Bianca, but I still do it, is when she asks me to do some sort of chore around the house, like, can you take the bin out or can you do the dishes?
33:45 Speaker 01 Just do it, by the, by the way, just do it for once without being asked.
33:49 Speaker 02 That would be hilarious.
33:53 Speaker 04 If she asks me to do a household chore, I'll say, but I'm just a little boy.
34:02 Speaker 04 And now, now I just wish I hadn't told you.
34:09 Speaker 04 Now I wish I actually hadn't told you.
34:10 Speaker 02 I wish. Has it, has it ever worked?
34:16 Speaker 00 And a moment happened live that could have been quite upsetting. Yes, Jack found out he wasn't invited to Darcy's wedding.
34:27 Speaker 02 I know we don't talk about Mr. R, Jack, but when, I know Bianca's family comes and visits Australia.
34:30 Speaker 04 People can still pledge to not talk about it.
34:32 Speaker 02 Yep, T-shirt's still available to take the pledge. Well, we don't talk about it. We don't really bring them up. But since it seems we might be slightly talking about it here. One thing I would kill to see was Bianca's mum's performance to Mr. R. Cause I assume they're like hanging out and just she's sort of like, you know, adjusts the cutlery. She's like, oh, actually.
34:54 Speaker 04 Would she ever record it?
34:57 Speaker 04 No, no, no, no, no. That's getting, well, that's distancing with danger that we don't need to.
35:01 Speaker 02 Cause what I wanna do is dress up as an old man when she's in Australia next. And we, we see like a dress rehearsal.
35:08 Speaker 04 That'd be great.
35:09 Speaker 02 Just for us all to see how she does it.
35:11 Speaker 04 Yeah. Would she do that? She is here over the mandated break, but we can't, we can't work.
35:18 Speaker 02 Is she coming to Darcy's wedding?
35:20 Speaker 04 She's not, who's Darcy's wedding?
35:23 Speaker 02 At Darcy from the show.
35:24 Speaker 04 Did you guys get invited to Darcy's wedding?
35:26 Speaker 01 We did not talk about Mr. D.
35:29 Speaker 04 Did you guys get invited?
35:31 Speaker 02 No, I'm just saying, is she coming for that?
35:33 Speaker 04 Wow, usually, usually when you're doing guest list, you do like everyone at work or no one. I thought he was doing a no one.
35:41 Speaker 02 No, he's not doing any.
35:44 Speaker 04 What, what day's the wedding?
35:45 Speaker 01 I'm doing a no comment.
35:47 Speaker 02 I think it's been.
35:51 Speaker 04 When's the wedding? I don't need to go. I don't need to.
35:58 Speaker 02 I think he cancelled it yesterday. That's what I meant. If you're coming for that, don't wanna go home, it's cancelled.
36:04 Speaker 04 I'm not disappointed by that. I know it is hard.
36:07 Speaker 02 Nothing's happening, so it doesn't matter.
36:09 Speaker 04 I know it's hard to make a guest list. It is hard. You have to make hard decisions.
36:14 Speaker 04 Is she coming out for my wedding?
36:16 Speaker 01 Well, you haven't got an invite to that either.
36:17 Speaker 04 Sure not, you. I'm coming to your wedding.
36:21 Speaker 02 If she's, if she's, if she's coming out for Andy's wedding. Hope her health is good because there's been no movement at the station unfortunately in terms of wedding plans despite me.
36:32 Speaker 04 When, when, when, when's it on the calendar for? Ballpark.
36:37 Speaker 01 The calendar hasn't come out.
36:39 Speaker 04 The calendar of which it could be.
36:41 Speaker 02 The calendar company that makes the calendars hasn't even been incorporated yet. The CEO of the calendar company is still in year eight.
36:48 Speaker 01 No, no, still have anything to do with it.
36:50 Speaker 02 How do you think about it, eh? Well, get it wriggled on, mate, because there's a bunch of us that are pretty keen on the Bucks party.
36:55 Speaker 04 Don't try and deflect from the fact that you dropped the Darcy wedding since you watched it on chat.
37:01 Speaker 02 How was I meant to know?
37:03 Speaker 04 Who is he? Is Mike going?
37:05 Speaker 01 Nah, I hope not.
37:06 Speaker 04 But Mike, you are.
37:08 Speaker 01 Mike was invited but not going. So it frees up a spot.
37:13 Speaker 04 I don't want a charity spot. I don't want someone else to see.
37:16 Speaker 02 I do. I, well, the thing is I might be in town for it, but so can't make it so.
37:21 Speaker 04 I don't want to come. I don't want to come. I don't want to come. I don't need to come.
37:36 Speaker 02 Jack.
37:40 Speaker 02 We all remember the quarter zip golf jumper debacle.
37:45 Speaker 04 Okay, yes.
37:45 Speaker 02 Where Magic Mike lent his jumper to you.
37:48 Speaker 04 No, he, he just left it behind. I played golf with him. He left it behind.
37:52 Speaker 02 He started, you started wearing it. You liked it.
37:54 Speaker 04 I liked it.
37:55 Speaker 02 He asked for it back. Some six weeks went by. You didn't return it because you liked it. You found out he got it for free from this golf brand. You emailed them and said, here's, we've got a problem. I really like it. He wants it back. Why don't you send him a new jumper? I keep this one. In fact, can I actually have a size bigger?
38:11 Speaker 04 That's all correct. Then you got sent the size bigger, but still kept mics.
38:16 Speaker 02 You still had mics.
38:17 Speaker 04 Yes, but he, but also he got a new one plus more.
38:22 Speaker 02 Yeah, okay. What do you mean plus more?
38:24 Speaker 04 Well, they sent him more, like, so they sent him the same jumper and then they sent him, I think, pants and the shirt.
38:29 Speaker 02 Oh, right. So I didn't know this bit. So out of jealousy, you were like, well, you don't need your old jumper then. If you've now got access to pants, I'm not giving you your old jumper back. As we discussed. For some reason, after all the dust settled, due to, I believe the term was a wrinkle in the system, you decided that ownership of the initial jumper just stayed with you.
38:52 Speaker 04 Yeah, okay.
38:53 Speaker 02 First question, has that jumper been returned?
38:57 Speaker 04 No, it hasn't.
38:57 Speaker 02 Okay, I know it hasn't because Mike went down to Melbourne. He's Sydney based, goes down to Melbourne, played golf with you about a week ago.
39:05 Speaker 04 Perfect opportunity to hit it back.
39:07 Speaker 02 He goes to me, I'm not gonna say anything about the jumper.
39:10 Speaker 04 That's what, but that was gonna be my number one argument. He didn't say anything about it.
39:13 Speaker 02 It's his jumper.
39:14 Speaker 04 Yeah, but he didn't say, he didn't say a hoot about it.
39:18 Speaker 02 Okay, Mike goes to me, I'm not gonna say anything about the jumper. I'll see if Jack brings it to the course. Okay, Mike also, you may have noticed, deliberately went in a t-shirt.
39:29 Speaker 04 I didn't notice that. How am I, how am I to know that that is a signal?
39:34 Speaker 02 So I'm texting him going, I'm texting him going, how's it going? He goes, hasn't, he hasn't bought it. Yeah, and, and Mike goes, I'm genuinely chilly. And then Mike's texting me going, occasionally I'll rub my arms.
39:46 Speaker 04 I didn't notice any of this.
39:51 Speaker 02 I know you didn't notice any of this. You had a jumper on, you were nice and snug.
39:54 Speaker 04 Yeah.
39:55 Speaker 02 But fair's fair, he didn't mention it and so you, you know, you would have only been giving it back if you bought it to the course, right?
40:01 Speaker 04 Yes.
40:02 Speaker 02 You obviously didn't bring it to the course. So I'll give you a pass on that one. What did you do after golf?
40:07 Speaker 04 Uh, then he came back to my house for a little bit.
40:12 Speaker 04 Yes, good point. Yeah, good point. Good point.
40:16 Speaker 02 You can see the moment Jack realises, and that's where the jumper is.
40:23 Speaker 04 But again, like he's never, he was not saying he's cold, he's not saying he wants it back.
40:27 Speaker 02 He was rubbing his arms going, I'm chilly.
40:29 Speaker 04 I never saw that. I never saw him being cold. And.
40:35 Speaker 02 It was like 17 degrees. Bit chilly. Yes, I've been there before myself. It's not a nice feeling. I myself have many jumpers. So I don't have to face that problem anymore.
40:46 Speaker 04 He can have the jumper back. He just didn't mention it. He didn't mention anything. I thought, I thought if he wanted back, then he would have said it. And also I happen to know that he got a jumper replacement, exactly the same plus more. So his life hasn't changed.
41:01 Speaker 02 This plus more. He doesn't deserve his own stuff.
41:04 Speaker 04 No, he does if he wants it, but like.
41:07 Speaker 02 So we happened to be in Sydney today. Yeah. Did you bring it?
41:11 Speaker 04 I didn't. I didn't bring it, but same reason why I wouldn't. I thought he'd forgotten about it. I thought everybody had forgotten about it.
41:17 Speaker 02 So if he was, if you had instructions, bring Mike's jumper, you would have bought it.
41:23 Speaker 04 Then I would just have to get it back from a friend of mine and then I would give it to Mike.
41:30 Speaker 01 He's given it to a friend.
41:32 Speaker 04 Yes, but I didn't say for keeps. I just let Tristan.
41:39 Speaker 02 Why did you give it to a friend?
41:41 Speaker 04 Um, cause I got my new one. They, they gave me an extra large. I had the large and then I played golf with Tristan. And he was honestly, he was a bit cold.
41:52 Speaker 02 So you have to be a certain rank of friend to give you a jumper, but not if you own it.
42:00 Speaker 01 It also proves that you can recognise people that are cold. You saw him shaking his arms and going, brrrr. That's amazing.
42:07 Speaker 02 Okay.
42:08 Speaker 04 Well, so I'll get it back off Tristan.
42:11 Speaker 02 Oh.
42:11 Speaker 04 I'll get, I'll get it to Mike next time he's in town or next time I'm in Sydney.
42:14 Speaker 02 But what's this rule? What's this rule about? You have to be told or like you have to be reminded?
42:19 Speaker 04 I just, if he was cold or if he wanted it back, all he had to do was say, just communicate.
42:25 Speaker 02 Okay. So just to be clear, if the instruction is given, hey, give the jumper to Mike, you will then do it.
42:31 Speaker 04 Yes.
42:32 Speaker 02 That's interesting because Mike obviously knows the guys from Fellas Golf. That's the brand of gym we're talking about here, Fellas Golf. And he said, so he's telling them this story. Yeah, didn't get it, but Jack didn't give it back. And I was saying I'm cold and I was rubbing my. Then one of the guys from Fellas Golf texts Mike, and I've got the screenshot here of the text. So it goes, that's really interesting. To make things even better, we sent Jack two extra zip tops, telling him to pass these on to homeish and end.
43:02 Speaker 04 I have been meaning to.
43:08 Speaker 02 So you have four. Four. Three del años. One, Mike's, one with instructions to pass my dance and you just said yourself, if I had instructions to pass our jumpers, I would.
43:24 Speaker 02 I've been waiting too.
43:26 Speaker 00 So that completes Reministmas this year. Where a week out from Christmas, we look back at the year. We hope the holidays are chock full of fun. And we'll see you in 2025, when the blasted government mandated break is done.
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