Hamish & Andy - 2024 Ep 259 - "Why Do I Do Some of the Things That I Do?"

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

Jack's been caught red handed in one of his worst ever weasel attempts, which he doesn't even attempt to deny. We speak directly with one of Jim Chalmers' hairdressers and also discover that our listeners are extreme empaths just like Bec. Plus, Hamish had an encounter with a very funny name, and listeners join the show to Upset Andy once again!  1. Jack weasels for a new golf shirt 2. Upset Andy 3. Speaking to Jim Chalmers’s hairdresser 4. Extreme Empaths 5. Mr. Bean 

A listener production. Activate your internet because the Hey Mission and the podcast starts in three, two. Sorry, still buffering. Ahoy to me me igneous. Hamish. Rock on baby, I think I know what we are. Ahoi to me sedimentary, Jack. I'm so annoyed that Hamish got it straight away

because I actually overheard Mike at a dinner party on the weekend telling somebody that the next one is gonna be rocks and I put that in my back pocket ready to impress everybody. Mike. Mike! Mike said, hey, Mike's at dinner parties. You can't be saying this, that there's bound sports bet, there's people bet which one's going to be every time.

People play it very hard. Yeah. And so that's... You're like the Wurdle guy the night before going, hey, I'm doing Wurdle for the New York Times. Guess what? It's chips. Also, he doubled down on how hard it was.

Without any irony, I heard him telling somebody that after his girlfriend goes to sleep, he could stay up an hour or two hours after she's asleep, thinking of things that connect with each other. Thinking of connections and categories. Oh my gosh. Mike. My gosh.

I love, were you at a dinner, was anyone at the dinner party, did they have a more, an impressive job? Was Mike trying to talk up his, the difficulty of his job? He just, people who've heard the podcast and heard that Mike complains about that section of it were saying like, but in real life it's not that hard. And Mike says, no, you don't understand,

it's the hardest bit. Oh, he's starting to go fund me. I am of course metamorphic, we are rocks. Thank you. I like that Jack's sedimentary too. Yes. Of course you can always go to homestead.com and upload a bit of audio, very easy to use, better than a WhatsApp, of what you've been up to and Charlie in London did exactly that.

Ahoy boys, this is an Aussie abroad here, currently on a gap year. Just thought I'd let you know that I've tried to adopt Jack's ploy on my own partner. But I'm just a little boy. I can confirm this doesn't work when she wants to go shopping and I want to watch the NBA playoffs in a sports bar. Not sure about that one, number six. I also have a Tig One booked for a Scottish road trip.

Wowee. Couldn't believe car rentals could get their hands in such a scarce, glorious vehicle. Wow. Keep up the good work. Cheers, boys. Oh, I mean, extra points if you get a shot of a Tig One in front of the Loch Ness Monster. Yeah.

You do the Scottish road trip to two of the rarest beasts on earth. I think the only possible explanation is that it's the owner's car that is handed like this. The owner of the car rental place. The owner of the car rental place who is lending it out to make a buck because there's no way. On the form they'll often have, you know, do you want this, Tiguan or Simulac? Now then you click through and it'll go, look, obviously we put that on as a joke. You can't get a deal. You'll get similar. Sorry to get your hopes up but we'd be like the Batmobile or similar. We obviously can't give you that. We'll try our best. Oh boy. Well Jack, how is I'm just a little boy going? I have not said it again since

it's been used on the podcast. Such a brave thing for you to do. No, I always use Reckless. I look back at that for Reckless. It was Reckless for you, certainly. You put it out there. But I look back at that moment and go, what are we to do with this? We were all a bit shocked earlier. I've seen, I saw the video of it the other day. I was like, what are we to do with this?

Wowee. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That was all we had to do. Thank you for a decade of references. Is Bianca aware that you're now no longer using... She'd be right. I'm a little... Yes, and actually what she had to say about the clip that went out was

you didn't even do the full baby boy voice that you do in real life. Really? Is it? Please. Please. I can't. I can't. Come on. I do love you and I love the show, but I shouldn't even have even said that. Why did you? Why did you? There's a red line right there.

You know full well what you're doing. Come on, give us the full baby boy. No, no, I can't, please don't make me. Don't tell me, does that involve a bonnet and a ruffle? No, no, no, no. He's given us enough. I think by the end of the year. Mercy. By the end of the year. Now I'm shocked. Did that involve a bonnet and a ruffle? No, no, no. He's given us enough. Thank you Andy. By the end of the year.

Mercy. By the end of the year. Now I'm shocked. By the end of the year it would be nice to see the full baby. If at the last show, if you can, I don't know, go to some kind of confidence school or something like that. Just listen to some affirmations. Do an Alaska journey or something.

You come back and you're ready to do it. That would be amazing. Hey, I actually had one the other day. I was like, oh, this is one of, I haven't told the fellas, but it is all the time. Just an affirmation. Do an Alaska journey or something. You're ready to do it. That would be amazing. Hey, I actually had one the other day. I was like, oh, this is one of, I haven't told the fellas, but it is all the time for the, while we're still talking about jokes,

you probably just not careful. Anytime Zoe asks Siri something, I'll try and get in first. Like if she goes, you know, hey Siri, how many inches in two minutes? She'll go, hey Siri. And I'll go, yes. And she'll be like, no, no, don't annoy. Like, cause she doesn't want extra voice, but she'll go, Hey, serious. And I'll go, yes. She'll be like, no, no, don't annoy. It's like, cause she doesn't want extra voice, but she'll go, how many inches or

whatever, and I'll just try as fast as I can to be like, you're 48 or roughly 48. She loves it. Hey, while we're on the topic of Jack, uh, Jacko spains me to bring this up, but I feel I must report it to the group. And I wouldn't do so without evidence, but I have the evidence in front of me. It involves, although it wasn't brought to my attention by, preferred magician and good friend of the show, Magic Mike, hashtag not a stripper. Magic Mike, actual magician.

Great magician. He is a friend of all of ours. He visited you recently. Yes. He went from Sydney, where he where he lives and magics to Melbourne. He's, he's able to travel anywhere to do gigs though, by the way, if you're interested in getting magic, Mike. Um, and then yeah, he can, he can, if you're, if you've got a room that can have a smoke bomb go off in it, he can come.

This, this is where we pick up the story though. He obviously played golf with you in Melbourne? Yes. Oh, great. Look at Jack trying not to give anything away in the witness stand. Yes? Correct? I have memory of that sir.

This is like when Greg gets interviewed on succession in front of the Senate committee. Um, he then, he obviously bought with him golf gear. And he bought a Fellas Golf, that's the brand, quarter zip top. Yes. That he left. He accidentally left it in Melbourne. Did you return it to him? Not yet. Do you return it to him? Not yet.

Do you have an intent? If it pleased the court, Andy, I, to answer your question, I say, I put to you that Jack does not have an intention to return it to Mike. Do you like the jacket? I started golf this summer and so I've not yet had a chance to purchase any winter over the top wear. But sir, you did not purchase this. So I have been finding it chilly on the golf course and it's right there in my golf bag where Mike left it and I have been wearing it. Do you intend to return it? When you house sat in my house instead of wearing my clothes. He doesn't mind, he doesn't mind a clothes weasel. Do you intend to return it sir?

In a way, yes. I thought that we could both benefit from- Well, I have here a screenshot of the direct message. Hang on, hang on, hang on. What's happened here? I have here a screenshot of the direct message that Jack sent to the makers of the quarter zip-top. No. Fellers golf. It says, hey guys.

Why do I do some things that I do? Ah, yes, yes. That's what you want to hear on the witness stand. If you're the prosecution and the defence witness does that, you just go, guys, book a big steak dinner for tonight. Because we've got this. Jack sends the DM to the golf company and he goes... Mike had already told me that he got the quarter zip for free.

I think he knows that. I think he's friends with the guys that started this golf brand. You could easily go to Mike, oh, I'm interested in one of these. Can you connect with your friend? But no, you went to the best director. Look at the three man weave that Jack thought of. Hey guys, can you do me a favour? My friend Magic Mike was gifted one of your grey long sleeve golf tops and he left

it in my golf bag when he was in Melbourne last. Now he wants me to post it back to him. Problem is, I've started wearing it and I enjoy it too. Like, as if that means who should own it now? Because we both enjoy it. So, can you send him a replacement so I can keep his original laughing emoji? Love, Jack. No, please!

No prefacing that this is a bit weird. Huge request. Good point. Wow. Problem, problem. No prefacing that this is a bit weird, a huge request. Good point. Wow. Problem, problem. Problem is, I also like it. How do we solve this?

You seem to have a warehouse full of them. Would you like to solve the problem by giving Mike a replacement? So in your head, Jackson, I can imagine you're thinking like, oh, Mike wins out of this because he gets a brand new one. That's right. And then I get to keep the one that he previously had. Did they write back? How did you get that? The guys from...

Fellas? Yeah, the guys from Fellas Golf have written, saying Gusto, do you write with a concern tone? Oh no. They said they would look after it. Jack's weaseling has taken a dark evolution. Instead of the lighthearted cry for free peanut butter he's known for, he's turned to committing crimes and he's leveled up his weaseling.

And then they said, but it's worked as it has, are they sending it out? Jack? That's what they, they told me. They would look after Mike getting a new one. Well, say right here, I'm hoping an intervention, an intervention might save future victims from this happening. So here's a question for me. You've got the outcome you want.

You've got some embarrassment, I hope. Has it been worth it? No. Okay. No. We'll see. Will you do it again? No.

You don't want to, but you might. I don't want to. I put the laughing emoji in there so they know that it's like, aha, just mucking around. And then they said that they would actually do it. Just mucking around. This is a full request. And also I don't hear the bell, but if we have time for it, Mike's one is a bit small for me if they would upgrade to an extra large.

And these continue to roll in and you know, the last thing I want in the world is to upset you. 20 years of evidence. But then sometimes it seems to be what the people want to do. So let's see if some of these upset you. Can I self-report? Yeah, you can. Self-report on one, something that's upsetting me at home. We're in a rental at the moment and the cupboard space in the bathroom is limited and it's quite a short cupboard and Bec realised that she can only get her deodorant in and a few other items if she takes the lid off.

And it just sneaks in. It just gets in. So that's nice. But also just seeing a new deodorant. A lidless deodorant. A lidless deodorant. It shouldn't matter. It shouldn't matter.

Is it a roll-on or a spray? I guess that it's a spray. Then it's fine. Oh yeah, roll-on would matter because you're losing half a sphere of deodorant. Half a sphere of deodorant. Unless you're continuously going in there to move the sphere around to keep it lubed up. Well then it's even worse. Yeah, you wouldn't do that.

You keep losing it, it'd be evaporating. You're evaporating half a sphere of dosage. But a spray should not matter. Shouldn't matter. But you don't like seeing it uncapped. No, there's a cap there for a reason. Only the reason for capped deodorant is just for travel, really. It's true. I mean, it shouldn't matter. It shouldn't matter.

As we find out with all of these. Yola. Yola, ahoy. Ahoy, boys. Ahoy to you. What have you got to upset Andy? So I recently went to IKEA and bought a chest of drawers. It turns out that IKEA only included one of the two backing panels in the box. Oh, a rare miss. Yeah. So instead of going back to IKEA to ask for the missing piece... Who's got time for that? Exactly right.

I eventually just nailed the one panel I did receive in the middle of the drawers so that both sides were 50% covered in the middle and thus felt included. Yes. Although it does mean there is now a 25% gap on both outer sides. But I assume, I assume, oh, I know you don't like it, but here's the way you make it work. When you put, you've obviously got two sides of drawers, when you put things in, do you favour, do you squash them, squash yourself to the middle so it's kind of using the back and less stuff's going to fall out the back?

Well, I just figured that something just needed to be there. So there was some unauthorised screwing of nails in unauthorised places. A gesture. It just needs a gesture of backing. What about hard up against the wall, creating a back might have looked a bit neater. It is up against the wall, but I felt like it needed a secondary wall, if that makes sense. Yeah. All right, the other thing that upsets me, Yola.

Anytime you're nailing something from IKEA that specifically doesn't have nails, you know you've gone rogue and now you're on your own. Thanks, Yola. Jake. Jake. Jake, have you got something to upset Andy? Ahoy. Ahoy, sir.

So recently we found out that one of my mates, when he orders an Uber, instead of typing in the address, he will drop a location, a pin, which I'm fine with, but only when you get the location right. So he, when he goes, this is where we're off to, he'll just guess the pin or he'll just sort of pop the pin loosely where you're going. What? So you scroll down to the bottom and there's an option to set location on the map and we're heading to Perth Stadium once and you can get dropped off at a bridge at East Perth and walk across but instead the Uber took us to an industrial zone

next to the freeway bridge and when we asked him how we got there he said I knew it was near a bridge but I guess I got the wrong bridge. but I guess I got the wrong bridge. I hate that. It also seems longer doesn't it? A rare one that takes longer. A rare obscenity that's actually taking longer to increase complexity. But a good one. No, he wouldn't last long.

I knew it was near a bridge. Yeah. Oh, far out. Six days in the Uber. Sydney Harbour Bridge. That does seem a long way away. Hayley. Hayley, have you got something to upset Andy? Hello. Yes, far out. Six days in the uber. Sydney Harbour Bridge. That does seem a long way away. Hailey, have you got something to upset Andy? Hello, yes I do. So yeah, when my partner Thomas and I, we moved into our first rental

years and years ago and we didn't have any of our own plates. So my parents had a set of old plates in storage. So we thought to save money and we'll grab those. And we found out that the plates were these very large square plates, which didn't quite fit into the microwave. So they do fit if you put them in squarely. But as soon as you turn the microwave on, it will rotate. Yeah. So they just don't spin in the microwave, which means that the food doesn't really heat very evenly.

Does that blast it a bit more, don't you? I don't. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. We just take it out, give it a bit of a stir, put it back in. With enough time, nothing can survive in a microwave. I don't like that either. I have a problem with things that don't rotate the microwave. I know it doesn't really matter that much.

Do you put them on the outside or do you put it on the inside? Do you put a bowl on the outside so it gets more rotation? No. I'm dead middle. Is it better to it on the inside? Do you put a bowl on the outside so it gets more rotation? No, inside. I've seen people do that. I'm dead middle. Is it better to go on the outside? No, I would, because then you're, the outside of the bowl would stay, would get hotter than the inside of the bowl, wouldn't it? Because then the microwaves come from the side. Well, there's this- The microwaves come from the side. I think they come from all sides. Well, I tell you what, I'm yet to master my, here's

what I would like to know about microwaves. It's not what we're talking about, but what, what is the setting that means my bowl is scorching hot and the chili con carne is freezing? Every time I can see the micro, I'm like, I can't hold this bowl, but the food has remained untouched. I think, I mean, obviously I think it's just the, the, the, the, whatever the bowls matter, the ceramics is going to heat more quickly, but it shouldn't. Cause I think microaves actually heat water. That's what they're programmed to do.

They're programmed to agitate water. So you got soggy bowls. That must have high water content. So you can get up to like 1400 watt microwaves these days. Must be nice. And so this is again, it's definitely an obscenity, but Beck will put things in like the rice, like, but she hasn't read the pack and it's actually, they say on 1800 watts, do it for two minutes.

So if you put it in for 1400 watts, two minutes, it comes out just explosive. So you should calm it down, the microwave. Depending on the wattage. Depending on the wattage. No one's got time for that. No one's got time for that. See, I mean, I feel sorry for Haley. And down, the microwave. Depending on the wattage. Depending on the wattage. No one's got time for that. No one's got time for that. I mean, I feel sorry for Hayley. And look, the thing is, I am an upset Hamish as a square plate. Yes.

Just don't try and change the game where it doesn't need to be changed. There are some areas I'm very welcome for game changing. We didn't need to change the plates up. Round works. So I'm gone with you, Matt. Matt, finish us off. One more thing to upset Andy. Hey, boys. How are we?

Very good, mate. Excellent. So this was a couple of months ago and this got me absolutely red hot. So I don't know how you're going to go, Ando. But I was house sitting my brother and his partner's house for a couple of weeks. And in one of their drawers in the kitchen. They've got a bunch of glassware It's more like you're champagne flutes and yep, not you said everyday glasses. Yeah, right secondary glass

Secondary glasses. I don't like a new drawer to begin with just yeah, not a good start Particularly champagne glasses, they've got a glasses, they're too tippy. Yeah. You're adding it. Anyway, we all know. So some of the glasses in there were like Sunday glasses, which is sort of like martini glasses, but like the glass is a little bit thicker and the lip of them is uneven, like, I guess it's like a decorative thing.

Yeah. But what they've done is they've put them in the drawer with the lip of them is uneven like I guess it's like a decorative thing Yeah But what they've done is I put them in the drawer with the lip side down the uneven side down Yes So when you open the drawer, they're all like wobbling around and bashing into each other and making a huge racket Yeah, I just I mean I take them out of the drawer Yep, be like you said if they're meant to be kind of this new fan angle designer lip. You and your new glasses, the new Gen Z and their new glasses. They've got some similar ones recently,

which are like uneven on the top, like by design. Yeah. And like, they're all handcrafted, who cares? Like, and then- Yeah, you wouldn't accept a handcrafted car. Sometimes machines know how to do it better. Don't put them upside down. That's the second. I imagine that there would have been more disasters in the kitchen, Matt, if that's... I feel like you'd just be scratching the surface there. If that's what they're doing

for their secondary glassware. Were they one of these... Were they a family that doesn't separate forks, knives and spoons? No, they did a bit of that, but yeah, there was a bit of shambles going on. But inside the same drawer, they've also got these like, I guess they're like smoothie glasses, the sort of thing you see on like Instagram, like they're just sort of like a glass cylinder with a straw in it. So they were in the same drawer that they were laying on their sides as well. They're rolling, no. well. They were rolling.

No. Yeah, they were rolling. Mayhem. Absolute, absolute chaos. Mayhem. Yeah. Mayhem in that drawer. Yeah.

I do understand though. I mean, not everyone's got time to have a special shelf for glasses and, you know, to put them upside down, but God, it's like, it's like when the Titanic hits the iceberg, you know how like all the chandeliers bash and everything. Like, it should be like that on a daily basis. Thank you, Matt. No worries, boys, thank you. Hey, I know we said we wouldn't talk about this for six months,

but if things pile up, they're off for us to clear it out with regards to our efforts to get the show on a coin. We've got the best listeners, great community. Heymissionandy.com if you ever want to be in touch with us. Robert Peebles did that. He's in Spain at the moment. And he said, I spent the past 18 years running a print production and sourcing business out

of Shanghai. Yep. One of my clients is the Royal Australian Mint. Here we go. He goes, we produce the collectible folders and plastic blisters, he calls them, in which the commemorative one or two coins sit. Interesting. And now I know you surely wouldn't produce any coins offshore.

No country would ever do that. But yeah, display cases, you could put that offshore. Yes. I did work on the Wiggles project. Other projects include the AFL and NRL projects recently. We're well aware of those. We were talking about how you had to get 13 million coins out there or something. 16 was the number I remember being bandied around.

He said way too high. You've been overquoted on that front because he's not putting out that amount of plastic blisters. He would know. He would know the quantity. He said, I have mentioned to the mint of your ambition. This is the bit I like because this is where it starts feeling Game of Thrones-y. And it's like he's mentioned to a king in another realm that we would like to do this. They have a strict coin design policy. That's what we're asking to be relaxed. Well, can't be that strict.

They put a nice vovo with very little design around it. Anyway, he said they couldn't take that design, the design that we'd put forward. Oh, we're not married to the design. No, they said they wouldn't be able to accept that. I don't know why we're going through some shady back there having to chat with someone. Just call us. Call us. We're just saying it could be this. It could be that. Could be anything you want it to be. Just get the show on a coin.

He does say, he does go on to say it takes time. You may want to extend it out to 2028. Now I think that's the- I thought we would be doing a pretty good job giving it two years. Yes. Does he say why we can't, our current design can't go into a real coin? No, but I guess he says to, he said too much. He just, he just-

If it's because my bow is too low, it's not. I could show them, I could go to the mint and show them the bow. If they're worried because they're like, well, that young man looks like he's broken in half. It's actually how I bow. It's actually how I bow. So if it's on anatomical error, I politely reject their finding. We'll check. But anyway, that's enough data on that front. You said you had something for me. Yeah, I got something on the coin front, even though it is meant to be well and truly put to bed.

We're just going to quickly get it out of bed for a second and brush its hair before we put it back to bed. For six months. For six months for a big sleep. We obviously, the other front we're looking at, we're trying to approach the mint from all different directions. Jim Chalmers, Australian treasurer, a federal treasurer. It is the other front.

Sure, at the front and the sides and the back, please. Jim Chalmers has been bandied around as the man that if we could get him firmly onside. Now a few months ago, this popped up and we were like, look, he's busy with the budget because the budget was coming out. That's about the time of the year that everyone's talking about the treasurer. We knew he'd be a little bit busy. Obviously, if you've been following the saga, we spoke to the person that cut his hair. Well, cut his hair. Like regular hairdresser. But there was a hole in the alibi because Andy, you saw him on budget night and he seemed to have a fresh haircut.

Fresh cut. And then the hairdresser we talked to, the Dozzy's hair, said, yeah, I actually hadn't seen him for, what did you say, six weeks? Six weeks, yeah. Before budget, we went, that doesn't make sense. That's way too long. Does he have another hairdresser? Possibly out the back in Canberra, like a bit of a hair and makeup person.

No. This is from Mike. All caps. Message reads, my son cut Jim Charmer's hair. Friend has just reached out to me after I proudly shared a photo of Jim Charmer's hair on budget night on my Facebook feed saying, my son cut his friend's hair. Facebook feed saying, my son cut his hands there. So he has shown the world Jim Chalmers' budget night haircut. Proud parents. Proud parents. Now Mike's not a listener, but a friend of Mike's is. And she reached out and said, hey, Hamish and Andy are looking for the treasurer's barber. I don't know why

so much of this campaign is now about the treasurer's hairdresser. But that's how people are hearing it. So, hey, we should end up looking for the treasurer's barber. Because if we get the barber, we've got them all. Now, so he goes, well, my son, Link, cut Jim Chalmers' hair a week or two before the budget. Now that would have been bang on, that budget cut, because everyone knows you don't get it cut that day. The best time for a haircut is about a week after, let it grow in.

Um, he works on Brisbane Southside. He didn't, like this, his son, Mike's son Lincoln didn't know who Jim Chalmers was, but was of course, a barber's code decrees he must cut any man's hair, be he king or pauper. And so he executed his duty with honor. However, I am not sure what the barber client confidentiality is. Mike's unsure of it, but we've got Link in the end. A man that cuts your child, isn't he?

Yes, yes. Link, ahoy. Ahoy. How are we, lad? Great. We are good. Now, we know this was some time ago now, but how, first of all, were you happy with the cut?

Oh, brilliant, mate. It looked fantastic. You know, I styled it up nice for him, made it look good. Did he come in and say, this is my budget cut? And with a little, little joke being a budget cut, play on words. Well, he came in and, you know, sat down, normal client interaction, I do sit him down, talk to him. And at HMB Barbers, we like offer free drinks and nice services and whatnot with our cuts. Mentioned he was a politician and he's, yeah, you know, something happening in Canberra and whatnot,

being a bit secretive and I was like, oh yeah, you know, whatever, you know, talking about it. And then left the shop, did a bit Google search, I was like, oh, there he is. That's Jim Thomas. And I was like, oh, he looks familiar. And yeah, no, I found out it was the budget cut. So it was the budget cut. Now, Link, our interest in the treasurer is heavily dependent on his ability to yay or nay future commemorative one dollar coin designs that falls under his umbrella. Did he give off any sense when you were cutting the treasure his hair? And that doesn't have to be in words. Many, many weeks ago, did he give off any nonverbal sense?

Or verbal. Or verbal, that he would be interested in relaxing the, up until now, quite stringent rules on how someone gets a commemorative coin. Did you get the... Well, it wasn't bought up, but I'm sure I could find out. No, but did you get the sense? Did you get... Don't laugh maniacally after you say that, Link. No, but that's the thing I'm saying. Did you get the sense that he's the kind of guy that would be up for going,

look, we've done things one way, but there's no way we can't bend it slightly to do them another. Oh, he was pretty relaxed to be honest. That's a good sign. That's a great sign. So it's a good sign for you. It's a good sign. Link, let me put it this way. Did you suggest a different way of approaching the cut? And was he open to that? I did. I actually did.

I suggested something different and he was down for it and I did it. It could be a bit early to pop the champagne but it's feeling like we're on here. So he's the kind of guy that's open to suggestions. Link, what was it different? What was it different, the thing that you suggested? I just want to get a gauge. I suggested a different style of cut so when it grows out it looks nice up on the long run for him.

Better value. You can go longer between haircuts. So he likes value. Okay, good, good. Um, well, that's great. I mean, this is, that's all we needed. That's incredible. That's huge.

That's huge. In terms of psychological insights. Do you think he's coming back? He mentioned about, you know, popping back in this evening. So we'll see what happens. Okay, Link. Would you be happy to be an operative for us?

An operative for us? Look, I can sneak some stuff in there. We'll see what happens. Subtly. Just subtly. So something like, all right, I'm Jim Chalmers. I'm getting my haircut. All right. I want you, Lincoln, to subtly bring up with me the concept of the Hamish and Andy podcast, getting a dollar coin. Okay. So let's pretend you're cutting away. Yeah. And I go, Hey, Link, I love that suggestion you gave me last time about the hair

growing out. That's why I haven't been in for a while. It actually looked really good as it was growing out. Um, any other, any other suggestions or things that you've heard? Bring up the story that my grandfather used to like collect the coins. Oh, remember I'm Jim Chambers., yes, we'll do the role play. So, oh right, your grandpa used to collect coins, did he? Yeah, yeah, well, you know, you weave it in and I'd be, oh yeah.

No, don't tell me what you're doing because I'm Jim Chalmers. You're in the first person now. So, oh, so I'm Jim Chalmers. Oh, your grandpa used to collect coins, did he? Yeah, he did. Oh, you know that, hey, I'm Shan and Andy podcast, I listened to them quite a bit. I've heard they've been looking about getting a coin to be weird as, hey, something like that.

Oh, don't start that. Sorry. Yeah, right. I'll have to watch out and make sure I reject that if you think it'd be weird. Link, I cannot stress enough. We want it to be normal as. We want it to be normal as. We want it to be good as. So try again, Link.

I'll say, go, oh, you used to collect, your grandpa used to collect dollar coins, did he? Yes, he did. And I've been seen on the Hampton Andy podcast, they've been wanting a coin, you know, two great Australian icons, it'd be great on one. Yeah, that's more like it. Okay, there we go. Thank you.

Yes. If it's what the people want. Okay, there we go. Thank you. Yes, if it's what the people want, I'll look into it. Thank you again for the haircut. I'm glad we did the rehearsal link. Mate, thank you for joining us. Really appreciate it and good luck out there. We will- Contact us immediately if he comes back for a cut.

Yeah, we'll go silent now from our end. Back to bed. So it's back to you, no link, to alert us. Very easy, mate. See you, mate. Bye. Bye, new mate. Thank you.

Have a good one. Ando, a couple of weeks ago, you enlightened us, brought us into the world of extreme empaths. Yeah, yeah. Which I don't think I am. I don't think so. No, I've never listed that as one of my gripes against you. Too empathetic. Stop with all the empathy.

No, I wouldn't call you an extreme empath, but your girlfriend Beck is, your fiance Beck, she's one of the premium examples. It came from, obviously she felt sorry for the Castrol car during the Fulham Grand Prix. They had a V8 race as well and something happened at the start which many missed it. He was 400 metres behind. Beck was very upset every time it went past and yelled at it. At one point, can't they just all wait for it to catch up? No.

And if you've seen Disney's cars, you'd know that that Castro car would be sad, but he'd also be trying his best. But then later jerks like Chick Hicks and stuff would be giving him hell out the back, making him really letting him know about the fact that he missed the start. But that is racing. That's racing. And we got so many emails from people going like, this is me, this is me as well. Couldn't believe it.

I think it's worth shunning a lot on people. Just from people going, can't stand anyone stepping on a snail because they're cute and slow and it's not their fault they're so slow. Just generic ones like that. To things like this. From Jade, when I'm clothes shopping, if I carry around an item and then I change my mind, I still have to buy it because I feel like I got its hopes up and it'll be sad if I put it back.

That's great. Look at this. This is another one. I mean, like from Caitlin, when I'm on Instagram or any other social media site, I have to like every single post. Otherwise I feel bad that the other posts have been left out and they feel sad. Sometimes I don't even look at the post. I just like it.

Otherwise I would feel bad that it feels sad. We've got a similar one here from Crystal. I feel bad for boats that are towing something on the back like a wakeboarder. Feels like a real struggle. I also feel bad for trucks when they go up hills. They must get tired hauling all day. We are living in the world of Thomas the Tank Engineer. It's like all these machines have sad faces. Oh, and they all chat to each other at night.

Okay. Yeah. How's this one? Feel you, Crystal. Feeling you. Yeah, no feeling you. Pauline, this is from Pauline. She goes, I have one teaspoon of a slightly different size to the rest.

When I see it in the cutlery drawer, I always use it first. I worry it might feel less worthy than its beers because of its difference in size and shape. And choosing it above the rest assures the spoon of its welcome position in my drawer. Hey, it's beautiful. The runt of the pear. It's beautiful.

It's a beautiful message to send to the other spoon. It's the Rudolph spoon. Yes, yes. Tonight you may lead the pudding. Ooh, may we respect you. I don't think it's gonna grow into a beautiful spoon. Oh. Yes. Tonight, you may lead the pudding. Ooh, now we respect you. I don't think it's going to grow into a beautiful spoon. Oh, a carving knife. If you hold onto that little spoon long enough.

This is from Amy. Fellow empath here with Beck. My husband and I will buy Arnett's cream favourites that have five different biscuits for our cuppers. I can't just pick one one so I always have five. I don't want a variety to feel left out, but I'm always so full. No more biscuits! But this is the length, but this is, I mean, god, these beautiful souls amongst us, we don't know

that this is going on because we're just munching away on a biscuit having a nice time. People are doing so much more emotional care into the world. This one really got me, I was like, I don't even know how this works. This is from Rory. I think I'm an empath because when I'm out for a run and I happen to accidentally land on a crack in the path with one foot, I'll have to go out of my way to run onto another crack with the other foot and landed in the exact same position as the previous foot had experienced it.

Otherwise, they'll feel bad that one foot has stepped on a crack and the other one hasn't. Oh, so it's about his feet? I think he's more OCD. Well, he's trying to make his feet feel, not feel bad about each other. So he's like, it can make running quite frustrating. I imagine it can. Tracking all the cracks in the world and making sure that each foot has had their fair share of cracks.

Is crack an advantage or is it? I don't know. I think it's more just like, I used to think of something, but I guess it's just the foot's had one, they've had a different experience with the other foot. just the foot's had one. They've had a different experience now. The other foot's had to share it with the other foot. Kayla nominates her dad as an empath. And look, it would be fair to say, you know, if you, you know, if we talk about genders, obviously, there's all types, but more females have been written in for this.

We're seeing a few more girls. There's not tons of blokes writing for this. Her dad, he said, he will rotate his socks evenly through the sock drawer. He'll never wear one again until everyone's had a go. Really? Because he doesn't want them to feel- Doesn't want them to feel left out. Just wants them to all know that he cares about them. How could you possibly do that? I reckon I- Never do that. I have hundreds of socks because I go through spurts of worrying that I'll run out of socks.

So I just have sock security is what I care about. Then I have almost like the mantle of the earth. I have like a very deep sock drawer and a layer that I haven't looked under for years. But Maywells have some of my favorite socks in it. But then about the nine pairs I enjoy, they rotate around like topsoil. Yes. But as you dig down into the crust, you will find some of the ones from COVID that I bought. They're still in there.

They're doing a very important job. They're holding up the topsoil, but I'll never dig down that deep. 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. He's Hugh Jass there. You know, hey guys, I'm looking for a Hugh Jass. And we all laughed. We all laughed in the 90s. And we learned you don't laugh at names. Hugh didn't ask for that name. If there is a huge ass out there, he didn't ask for that name.

We did do a whole series of pranks where we'd ring like a regional sports team or like. That's true, yes. And we'd go like, you know, yeah, Chips McGeevans. Yeah. And the whole point was. Pena Simpson. The whole point was you or I would have holed up a silly name. But that was actually about not laughing at names. Well...

Because we had to get through it without laughing. Laughing, yes. 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. 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 we did get this. It got a, got a. I know the type of, I know the type of laugh.

And I looked at Zoe to see if she'd heard it. She hadn't heard it. And I was like, this is one of the ones, we're at the airport. So I was like, she's busy. And I was like, do I share this? She is busy. My brain always thinks comedy will rule, no matter how busy Zoe is, there's a voice in my head that goes, no, she'll find this funny. 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 normal sounding, like a, well, not normal, a unusual, a common surname. Unremarkable. Unremarkable surname. 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 where it gets the laugh.

He's like 50 years old. I'd say, I don't know, finance looks like he's important. And it's like at the check-in desk, the corner thing. Must be pro business class check-in. 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 me, no checking 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 cube common manning it. But now we had a valet. I was sitting on my, I was sitting on the back of the tractor waiting to be driven to the gates. Dozzle the check-in and hand the thing back and they go, there you go, Mr. Bean. Enjoy the flight. Did he not speak? Did he go brrrr?

He did have a little teddy bear. But I was like, so this guy, this guy's Mr. Bean. He's put up with it. He's all over the place. Because I was like, he sees me laugh. He knows what I'm laughing about. Exactly. 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. He's Mr. Bean. That's tough for him. He's got to deal with that. And he didn't look like. Did his luggage have three wheels? No, that wasn't Mr. Bean's car, was it? Yeah, that was his nemesis. He's like, you've got to 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 he is funny, Mr. Bean is funny, and that's why I'm laughing. I'm just laughing because this guy is Mr. Bean. So did he register you go there? I think I got away with it. I think I got away with it. But then again, to my point, then I was like, Hey, Zoe, you know, she's like a kid's bag. His first name is his last name is Bean. his last name's Bean. He's like, yes. So when the person had the ticket, he came Mr. Bean. Just crickets.

Has she not seen Mr. Bean? I don't think so, Jack. I think, yeah, she must have missed it, because it was very funny. Thanks for listening. The Hamish and Andy podcast will return next week. Catch up or contribute at HamishandAndy.com