Hamish & Andy - 2024 Ep 274 - ConCon admin goes off course

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Hame decides to kick off the show by upsetting Andy, then all 3 of the boys display some weaselling behaviour over a meat thermometer! The beautiful Extreme Empaths continue to delight the team, plus a behind the scenes peek at how the ConCon admin is going (spoiler: they get sidetracked!) 1. Upset Andy 2. Hamish lost his meat thermometer 3. Extreme empaths 4. ConCon voice notes 5. Empty suitcases & Smarty the puppet 

A listener production. Activate your internet. Because the Heymish and Andy podcast starts in 3...2... Sorry, still buffering. One! Ahoy to me hunting, Hamish. If Jack's will and you're good, then Mike has checked out for this one. No, ahoy to my returning Jack.

Ahoy. Hunting and returning. Are we just tribe members? Well, tribe member would use one of these particularly. Oh, they're types of boomerangs. He's got a... Oh, well done. Types of boomerangs.

Not all boomerangs return. No. The hunting ones can deliver extreme blows at a range of at least 80 meters. Yeah, that's for snapping necks. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, well you've got to eat. Star-shaped was the third of the boomerang shapes. A little bit of a cross.

Does star-shaped come back or not? Yeah, I think that one can come back. And then, are they the ones, because nowadays you get, they're made of high quality plastic and nylon and fluoro colors and you take them to the park. And I don't know if other people have had the same experience when you go to the park

with a young kid to show them the boomerang, but the cell is often a lot more exciting than the reality. It takes a bit of skill to get it going. It's so hard to catch a returning boomerang. They don't come back. I mean, very rarely are they coming back to your hand. No. You have about five shots and then you go, you know, well, the idea is you get it going and it does come back.

You can see it start to arc. Did we all see that before it just died out on the 40 oval? Yeah. Well, you know, you get better at it and it does that. Ahoy also to Damon in South Sydney, who used the very easy to use system. Hamishnary.com tells what he's been up to. Ahoy, boys. It's Damon from south of Sydney.

Just driving home through one of my local towns, and I notice that there's a new store open with a queue miles long. As I'm driving past I go, is that? No, surely not. And a Cy-Bowl franchise has opened up and it is going crazy. The Oracle number six strikes again. How to look on their website, they're looking for franchises. Maybe we do the People's a Cy-Bowl, hey? Anyway, let's have a good one. Cheers. People's Shop's not a bad idea. It does feel like a Peter Ad immediately, but yeah, let's do the People's A Sci-Bowl shop. Starving napkins, berries. Oh, I love it. And then just getting everyone registered. So suddenly we've got 500,000

people that want to part share in a sidebar franchise and we have to send out their.006. Fastest speed around we've ever had. But Jack, on that, you did select the trend and I know that that's what we asked of you to do, didn't we? And it was up to us to figure out how to invest in it. And we never really got how to invest in Asai's.

Because buying a franchise isn't investing in it. That's just making someone further up the chain richer. We made it in at the top somehow and we just couldn't get it happening. Yeah, and it seemed like huge conglomerates already owned a lot of that Asai stuff. We'll peed around. Will it fade away though?

Like it's a cyborg. Or does this keep peeking forever? I forgot to tell you guys I got an email from somebody and he said I know a lot about a sigh like hit me up if you need to know more and I just let it linger. Sorry about that. This is why we do a podcast and we don't run Avenger Capital Fund. Damn it. I actually got an email from this guy called Elon and he was like, I'm going to do this electric car coming.

It was ages ago. And he, damn it, I should have replied to him. I'll fish that up for next week. No, you won't. Hey, if you want to top the show. And I'd love to, I'd love to kick things. We haven't done this for a while. And I was like, why don't we just do it at the top of the show?

Let's, we usually upset you later in the show. But if we upset you early, I thought that's, well, get it out of the way. Yeah, take your medicine. No, but that's not the way it works. Normally if you're with your partner and you're on holidays, you're like, gosh, I won't tell them now because we've got windsoaping to do. Let's do the fight on day one. Do it at the airport. Well, we weren't having fun anyway. Okay. Everything is neat and practical, because that's the way he likes it.

But what if it wasn't? Upset Andy. I've actually got a couple of personal ones to kick off with, Ando. Okay. For our wedding, which is now some years ago, 11, 12 years ago, ones to kick off with Ando. For our wedding, which is now some years ago, 11, 12 years ago, we actually received three of the same or similar kind of cutlery sets. OK, we've never wanted for cutlery again for the rest of our lives. It's it was it's like a quite fancy handled. And did you pull them all out at once or? Yeah, you would have kept them.

But I just went, you know what? Why would we what are we saving it for? There's about 20 of each knife and fork. Let's just eat, let's just use them for our life. Because like what, if you go and get Ikea color, it's like, we'll never ever pull the good color. Yeah. So let's just get them in the drawer.

The thing is the knife is essentially a steak knife. And it occurred to me every morning, I sort of have peanut butter toast, usually have peanut butter toast. Does buttering peanut butter toast with a steak knife? Yeah, that actually doesn't annoy me. I've got my cookbook. But why? It's a blade. It delivers the peanut butter. Anything with a little serration or a little ridge, I don't use for the butter. Because I just don't even like seeing the scrape, the corrugated eye and butter. So this is actually a good one, Ham. I've got a specific butter knife down the beach house that I go to, I go to, I'm like,

oh, great, we're buttering some bread, here I'm going for this knife. So you don't like even any indent. Most butter knives at least have a tiny few teeth. Yes, some butter knives you'll have like tiny little serrations on them. Not a true one. Okay. So you just want a flat plank of metal. A smooth, with a curve to it. With a curve to it, and I'd like it to obviously be beveled into a sharper edge at one side.

Think about this, when I dig it into the peanut butter, because it's crunchy and it's like quite stiff peanut butter, it's coming up in all kind of weird shapes. I'm cutting the peanut butter out, jagging it on. That would be it. That doesn't suit me. That's a real man's taste. So here's the other one. Although like, so, you know, I'm fast and loose and you're a bit of a systems guy, right? It's becoming apparent to me as my son grows up, he's also a bit of a systems guy. So we've got this funny world where I'm raising, Fast and Lucy is raising a systems guy, like a wolf raising a human baby in the jungle. And the human baby does have to do a few wolf things, he has to get a bit better at wolf culture, but also the wolf learns a bit from the human.

And so I see the world through his eyes. He pointed out one the other day that I was like, I wouldn't see this in a million years, Sonny. In the back of buses, I'm sure everywhere, but in New South Wales, it's got the 40 sign. So it's like, go slow around the bus. Then on one side of the 40 sign, it goes, um, it says when lights and then on other sides, on the other side says flashing. Yep.

Yep. Right. Now there's obviously different amounts of letters in the phrase, when lights and flashing and flashing shorter than when lights. Yep. So it's uneven. Okay. So something goes, why did they do that?

Why did they make it uneven on both sides of the sign? And I go, well, I guess if they cut it exactly in half, it'd be like when Ligge's flashing, you know, wouldn't, people wouldn't be able to read it. He goes, no, but you put it above, you put it above and make it evenly spaced. And then you just have the 40 on the neck. I went, you got it. This human, he sees things that the wolves don't. And that's... I'm proud of you. Yeah. I mean, I might, I'm probably, as he grows up, I might have to come to you to go, you know, suddenly he was mumbling something about why can't we just have a flat knife

in the house? Do you know what that would be about? But we do have a lot of other fast and loose people to upset Andy. In another move that brings me great joy, I couldn't be bothered getting my screen working on Mars. I can't even see who we've got, which already upsets Andy. Jess, ahoy to you. Here we go. Thanks.

Ahoy Jess. Hey guys. So I have one that might simultaneously please and upset Andy. Ooh, feels weird. Like Andy, I love efficiency. And you know, when you go to the petrol pump, it always takes a while for it to actually start coming out. Yep.

Yeah. But as soon as I reached the pump, I just start squeezing. Wow. I take off the cap with my other hand. Oh, so you're already, it's already active. Yeah. By the time it's open, the petrol will be flowing. Sometimes the petrol will go all over my car, but it'll get washed off.

You know, I reckon, I'm with you here. I love the idea of that time saver because you're a fast and loose boy. You've got no time to wait for the pump to start flowing. Have I ever talked to you about the thing that I do with the toilet? Where I will be weeing in the toilet and I will start the flush early, hoping to tie. Why? Why? I know.

Cause you don't have to hang around for the flight. I feel like it's a time saver. I don't know if anyone else does this, but I'm like, if I start the flush early, then I can finish and focus on, I think it's cause I'm like once I'm packing up and I'm done, I don't then have to like go over to move my hand over to the top of the toilet. So I kind of get two things done at once. I'm pressing the button whilst I'm still going. You can do that towards the end.

Yeah, but it's while it's still going that that's the time saving bit. I don't split it into two different jobs. Yes, I quite like yours. I'm going to try it. I think I'll be conservative because again the idea of having petrol on the ground doesn't excite me. And we shouldn't probably encourage that either to anyone to be having petrol fights like Zoolander. I always thought it was you're waiting for inside to press the button. I don't think it's always them turning it on. I think it's just a lag in the system.

In the system. It must be a lag. They'd get so over that. Thanks. Yes. Callum. Oh, boy, boys. Top of the gusto.

Oh, top of the gusto. Top of the gusto. Me to you, Callum. What have you got to upset Andy? Yeah, it's pretty spicy. Top of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the gust of the one. You know, the snack ones are sort of different flavors. Yep. It's got like that gooey fondant in it. So yeah, he'd bite into that. So you know, get a little bit of caramel, little bit of strawberry.

Just bursting out everywhere. Yeah. Nah, that's, yeah, that's, that's, that's Red's Red Hot for me. That's, that's a good one. And he gets like the mozzarella string in so it's, you know, going all over his hand and his chin and yeah. Yeah, mate. That is just such a full on way to eat chocolate though.

To eat it like it's a burger. Like it's chocolate is it, we can all acknowledge, like, you know, even if you're scared of chocolate, like some of us and the edges, it's still, it's a nibbling medium. Yeah. Or at least it's a considered bite. Particularly the ones that have fueled. Like if you feel for the good, yeah, it's a considered bite. Uh, thanks considered bite. Yeah, it's a considered bite.

Yeah, it's a considered bite. Thanks, Cal. Larry, ahoy to you. Ahoy, Hamish and Andrew. Oh, thank you for using my formal name. Larry, that's something you don't understand me. Good wrong foot, though. What have you got, Larry?

My upset Andy is I never close the sunglasses compartment in my class, but I've always got easy access. I hate that. Yeah. That's awesome. That's such a good one. I would. Because why, why close it? You're just going to open it again.

You're just creating more work for yourself down the track. Yeah. I fully agree, Larry. I mean, I've never used it either. I must admit. You don't use the sunglasses compartment. No, that must upset you. Well, you've got a specific compartment you're not using.

Yeah, I, I, I do. That doesn't back in the case and it doesn't fit in the compartment. It would. It would. Yeah, absolutely. And he would have that little, uh, wipe that you used to do the lenses as well. And do you, do you keep the wipe? Yes, of course.

Unbelievable. You don't just use a jumper. Not wearing a micro cloth jumper, am I? Do you fold the wipe? Yeah. Zero killer. Yeah. The only time you ever use the wipe is day one of getting the sunglasses. Day one and they're not dirty enough.

Why I use the wipe regularly. You never keep the wipe. Bec used the wipe because the sunglasses are in my glove compartment. So she'll get them when she when she gets them out for me off. I'm driving. She often then goes, I'll give them a little wipe. Oh, my God. Jake, yes, that counts, Larry. Jacob, wrap this up all the way from New Zealand.

Ahoy to you. So, you know, the light above the two front seats in the car. Yeah. Yeah. So I would turn it on and then I get out of the car and I forget to switch it off. Yep. So it would drain the battery and come out flat battery in the morning. So instead of just making sure that I've turned it off, I just got the back end of a screwdriver and smashed the light.

Blamosol. Brilliant. What do you do, Jacob, when you need light? Nothing really, just sit in darkness. But also when, let's be honest, what model car is this, Jacob? It's not like a car like Jack's, it's a Mazda 2. Oh yeah, not everyone can have that. The light being distributed by that thing is the weakest light of all time. Like, if it's even the thinnest sliver of moon outside,

you don't need that light. So I think great move. Rather than sit through the annoyance of the flat battery, teach it a lesson. And it will be a lesson that we'll never forget. Well, yeah, not my approach, Jacob, but I appreciate it. Thanks, mate. Instead of using the little cloth, I just smashed the glass out. And I just want to bring up something that's literally immediately just come to hand, because we sit in here with our laptops and stuff and mucking around. I just looked at an email and it is to both of us and it contains information that will

possibly slightly incriminate me. I thought I'll get ahead of this and heck, since we're in here doing it, might as well just do it on the podcast. Who's it from? It's from someone at a company called Meta. Yes. The digital who make meat thermometers. Yes. That you gave to me as a Christmas present last year like this is going to be great. They go inside like if you're cooking steaks or lamb or whatever links to an app and I have really I've enjoyed it. Jacko I mean and you're not going to get one for this, but I just say, have fricked right up in his eyes have lit up.

No, I've got an old school me. It doesn't go to wifi, but it does the job. No, this is like amazing. And it's my go-to gift. Cause you know, when you find something like no one has this. So yeah, a couple of things to check off here. Right. So I will now admit because it's contained in the email, so you're going to find it anyway.

I lost it. Right. But I was like, no big deal. Yeah. I've missed it. I actually do have one of the old, maybe for the most part I've been trying for a while and I just cracked it yesterday and I was like, you know what? Are these, I'm just guessing here.

Like I got to go back to my digital ways. Jack, just to give you a perspective again, this is going to sound like an information where I don't have to mention the product by name again, but you say, you say you're in charge of the Barbie ride and you put like, say you put it in a big thing of steak, you put the thermometer in, it links to your phone and your watch. You can go for a wander. It just goes, it just goes, take it out now and let it cook in its own juices for a while.

It goes take it out now, rest, then it counts down. It also tells you how long you've got to go. It measures that. And so Beck will go, when am I putting on the cell? I'm like 12 minutes. You know, it's. Yeah. Okay.

So I go, and to be honest, and again, like, we're not trying to do an ad here and this is maybe where it doesn't sound like an ad. Cause I was like, I was like, I'll just get another one. I was like, you know what? You know, they can't be in my mind. I was like, I actually got Andy a really good Christmas present and I was like, it's usefulness has been terrific. So I was like that in my mind scrubs out the money and difference, the money difference. A really good Christmas.

I was like, the money difference. I was like, that's fine. Actually, it's something I've used all the time. You know, I go to the website, not as cheap as I thought, because I thought it was going to be like 40 bucks or something. And it's some, some, some hundreds. So I was like, wow, okay. Regret losing it now more than I previously did, but they are pretty small. And it's the kind of thing you'd keep track of, but in my kitchen, my kitchen's

like, you know, there's like colored pencils in with rolling pins. Yeah. Anyway, so I put my order in yesterday. I bought another one. I don't know. Obviously you're a good customer. First of all, did you buy mine?

Yeah. Okay, great. Cause I was like, maybe Andy's been sent these for free. Cause now the person from the marketing department of the thermometer company, he said you and me in email, he goes, hi guys, sorry for the random email. Just noticed Hamish placed an order yesterday. Thanks for that. And I was like, oh no, she's dobbing on me to Andy.

Cause I don't, I didn't want you to know that I was replacing your present, especially after I found out it wasn't as cheap as I thought it was. So anyway, you found out that I'm buying, I've had to buy a new one cause I lost it. But then she's gone, I've got you covered. As in a bit of like, Hey, don't worry about it. And she's going to send you one too. Does that mean you get a refund? I guess it does.

Very nice. Well, we'll wait. Well weaseled. Yes. What do you think? I'm jealous. Appreciate the honesty. Yes. What do you think? I'm jealous. Appreciate the honesty. Jack.

Anything you would like to say? I mean. When the window is open. I would. You did say you were fine with the old school way. Yeah, it is, but like I do like Andy's little hypothetical of walking around the backyard and like it buzzes you watch to tell you, you go back there. So I would be open to getting one as well.

But we're all weaseling now. So what can you really do? Actually wait, just calculating this, there's probably one more in the system that we need if Andy's already got one and she's sending you an Andy one. Yeah. There's, there seems to be one floating. Uh oh. Wrinkle masters here. Jack Van There seems to be one floating one. Uh oh, wrinkle masters here.

Jack Van Winkle. Jack Van Winkle. We can't throw stones because we're all benefiting. I think that Andy and I have both acted with honor. Like he bought one, I bought one, and then have come and said- It's hard to buy one, I didn't even know it existed. Yeah.

But I think you have to show intent to buy. Yeah, and I would buy now that I've heard about it. I'm very interested in it. I will go and buy it before I do though, if there is one floating around. How about this? How about this for an interesting... Buy Andes. No, that's interesting.

How about this is interesting. Haim, you clearly just went and bought one. I did. And they discovered it. Yeah. And then they gave you the refund. That's true. And this won't go out for a few days.

Will Jack just go and buy one? Yeah, buy one. Too risky. Why? You just said you were happy to pay. Lesser known name, lesser known name. So there's less chance they'll pick it up and do, they send the email saying, I'm looking after you. Lesser known.

But you said you were happy to buy. Yeah. But if there's a, there's, there seems to be one more in the system. You're really, yeah, you're helping out with inventory. So where did we get to though? So where did we get to though? And the list, this list continues to grow. Just when you think, okay, I think we've covered everything in the extreme empath world. I personally feel like on my side of the fence, I continue to be shocked and heart warmed

by the level that people are willing to go to, to care and feel deeply about things that are, I was going to say, you know, essentially inanimate, but absolutely inanimate. Like absolutely not alive. Have you found that with, that people are so grateful that they've found a place to come out and say these things. Totally. It's a lot of care. It's a lot of care to carry around.

Like a huge amount of care and worry, really. A lot of it's due to worry. Like they're worried that, you know, socks are sad or whatever. So it's a place to share with other people. Okay, this is a worry that I've been carrying around and it is a safe space, but it's time to do another batch of Extreme Empaths. And the opener that we have, if you've not heard it before, is usually actually a little funny song. We thought, oh, what if all the other songs feel sad because they didn't get picked to be in the opener? So now here is a small sample of every song in the world played at

once. Very smooth. Mitch Hawkins. Okay, go, go. Picks it off. Extreme Empath here. When my girlfriend, 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.

no one in the show or movie is talking before I pause. 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 apologizing to them. Like it's the theatre. Okay, great. We feel you. This is from Joe. to them. Like it's the theater. Okay, great. This is from Joe. His wife Mel is an extreme empath.

He says she's got a few habits, but he's in 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 mime, baby. And must be, must be placed with a responsible adult spoon. This means sometimes larger clean spoons go back in just for the purpose

of caretaking the baby spoons. I also love, but it's like, you don't leave a teaspoon with a fork. No, the fork? No, exactly. It's a stranger. Stranger danger. 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. Ben Hearham, he says, I've been listening to a recent pod regarding circumstances of empathy for objects and needs to report his girlfriend's empathy for a certain grape. A certain grape? She recently told me she accidentally dropped a grape under the fridge. Having subsequently realized it'd be likely to be under the fridge until the fridge is replaced and not moved for many, many years, she kicked a second grape under there just to ensure it wouldn't be gone.

Oh, it's, whoa. So it's like if only one Beaconsfield miner was trapped. That's true, isn't it? We, um, I don't think we can get you out, but we're going to send Brant down, Todd, so you guys have got some company. Not a strategy you see very often for people that are trapped. 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. Why have we invented a one way valve for Brent to go through to hang out with Tom? Yeah, he's got an email he goes from Brett. He doesn't want to go. Yeah. Decision's been made. Oh my God. Okay.

This comes from Fraser. Fraser. Hey boys. Number six. 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. No, she never gets anything more than 91. Very common man of ease. That was a big treat. Haim, this is just growing and growing in excitement. It's a shame there was only limited tickets, but we should jump into this. There's a cool new conference, no matter your biz. Come on, come on. The conference so nice you can deduct it once at a maximum. Can't stress it enough.

We've made that very clear. The ATO has signed off on that new tagline, so that's good. We are learning as we go. We've always said Correspondence with Them has had a jovial feel. It has a chummy feel, doesn't it? Chummy and jovial are had a jovial feel. It has a chummy feel, doesn't it? Chummy, chummy, chummy. It's nice. Chummy and jovial are interchangeable, I feel.

But it's good to be putting on an event, a business development event. In fact, it's got to the stage, Ando, where now that we're all suedo burrito with the ATO, it's got to the stage where I go, do we invite Jim Chalmers as a guest of honor? His local electric is in Queensland. Well, do we invite the head of the ATO to go, you know what, come. Nothing to hide. It's wall to wall business development and education at the conference we're putting on.

Come on in. Have a look. Have a bit. It's just so full. They're not going to come. Yes. Yes. Yes we shall. This is like in Breaking Bad, chicken man going, come to the laundry, snoop around. Obviously don't look under that, but apart from that, as you can see, it's just a laundry. No, well I do maintain, I say, hey, come and have a look, have a biscuit.

It's on us. Yes, in that analogy, it was just a laundry and not a drug den. Because we're not doing it. We're actually not doing anything, baby. You're acting like we do have something under one of the dry machines, but we have nothing. We have nothing except business development and education and biscuits. While we're on biscuits.

You got an update? Because I actually have we're on biscuits. You got an update? Because I actually have an update for biscuit related. Still in negotiations with a leading brand to provide the ones that you wanted. Yeah, I see. We're not even naming them now because we're dangling the carrot of future naming, right?

Yes, exactly. That's exactly what I've just done. And look, it's been a little frustrating. It's a bit protracted. I thought it'd be simple just to get, just send us a truckload of biscuits. Would I be correct in saying we're hoping for the opposite of their name

in relation to them sponsoring it? We're hoping they are so sponsoring us. Yes, yes, yes. So there'll be a countdown to where they should, they can, actually that's nice. We should have them a countdown for where they can actually, that's nice. We should have them a countdown for where they come up and they're going to go, they're going to not going to participate or they are so going to participate. So let's, that's two weeks.

I'll give them two weeks. While you're dilly-dallying with backing and forthing, backroom tactics, whatever you're doing on the negotiating side of things, I'm a man of action and I've gone and locked in something on the biscuit front. I've green- lit our biscuit band. I green lit yesterday with Carly, I green lit Kingston Crumb, the band, the cover band, who are named after the after the biscuit. Yes.

So they are going to play what I've requested to be soft, if not acoustic, biscuit jams. Okay, good, good, good. During the hour of biscuits. We don't want to be overpowering. Because remember, the one hour of biscuits is before, is with tea and coffee. So people are coming in post registration. Are we flying them in? Where were they from?

I thought they were local and that's why we like them. At this stage, I've said covering costs. There may be, and this I guess is contingent on how you go with your negotiations, there may be some biscuit payment for them. Like, servlet biscuit payment for them, but certainly no money's changing hands, but we are looking at giving them, I don't know, maybe they get half an hour biscuit access before anyone else's sort of platinum level business biscuit access. And I imagine all their costs would be deductible for them as a band.

You would imagine so. Always see. Go talk to your local account. Talk to the village CPA. But the thing I love about that is it now brings such an excitement, such an atmosphere to the biscuit hour. Doesn't it? Yes. Which means... Isn't this amazing? So if you've already bought a ticket to Con Con, you're like, oh, hang on a sec, value add,

value add, value add. I didn't know Kingston Cromer playing. It's like when you add a cool band to the festival list and you already have your ticket. Except that's entertainment. That's not what we're providing. That's not what we're charging for. No, no, we're not charging for that. But festivals charge for entertainment and we don't.

We throw it in for free. Yes. We charge for the business development. On that, very important for us three to make sure that these people that come will learn something about their business. Of course, that's what makes it a tax deductible. We are very clear on that. I obviously have been running a bit of the admin during the week. I wanted to lock you guys down, explain how many industries we've got.

That's the thing, because if everyone coming, they've listed their industry. That is the initial promise. That's what we're following through on. You come, you will hear relevant information to your industry. And this is, it started with a voice. I've started WhatsApp. It started with a voice note, which started WhatsApp, it started with a voice note which I'm normally against to you guys, just to kind of kick start the chat and the organisation

for the guest speakers of ConCon. Hey fellas, Andy here. I'm just going to be taking my speaker's hat off and putting on my administrator's hat on and I'll send you another message. Hi Mr Blake and Mr Post. It's Andy here. I'm running the administration for the upcoming ConCon where I believe you're both booked as speakers. I just want to confirm that you're still available for those dates. We're very excited. First up, there is 191 industries at the moment. So

I'll send through 64 to each speaker and I think it's best to try and group them down to 25 each. That gives 75 minutes of speaking and allows time for some biscuit eating and conrad's soul. Yes, they'll come through. But at today's start, your groupings, if there's anything for your writers for your dressing rooms, please let us know. Thanks Andy. I'm very excited to start putting the work in

for these con con presentations. I noticed you said though that there were 191 registered industries that doesn't really divide equally into three by my count would be 64 for one person, 64 for another and 63. I am happy to put my hand up for 63. I only ever did two other jobs before getting into radio and podcasting, so I'm happy to take those two industries if you like. That would be cinema workers and boundary umpires for junior football. Oh, hi, Andy.

Thanks so much for getting in contact with me. I'm really excited to come and enhance the educational and business development content at ConCon. I think it'll be wonderful for all participants and for the country as a whole. I'd like to commend you on your use of WhatsApp technology. I think you'll find it's very, very easy to send audio messages amongst a large group and the transfers instantaneous. I haven't listened to any of my co-speaker Jack's feedback, but one thought I did have was if he's talking about being a cinema worker and there is any sort of cash register

situation at the conference near biscuits, or whether it's near merch or extra merch, I would just be wary of placing Jack in a cash handling position. Can't wait to be there. Oh, hi Hamish. I'm happy to hear that you'll be speaking at ConCon as well. I look forward to seeing you there. Just in regards to comments you made about me not being trusted around the handling of cash.

I'm not sure what you've heard about my time as a cinema worker, but I was simply pocketing tips that customers would give me when they thought the service was exceptional or above and beyond. So no more should be said about it and I'll see you guys soon. Thank you both for getting back to me. It's really great that you cleared that up Jack. We can obviously put you in charge now of all cash tills. One final thing was it your understanding that you're getting your own way there to the Gold Coast or is that gonna be a company expense on our end.

Great to hear from everyone. Really excited as the day approaches. Just wondering if you could help me out with something, Jack. I rang Hoyt's and asked them about their tipping policy and they said they never had one and it's actually against the law for any Hoyts employee to accept tips. Would you be able to tell me who the specific manager was at Hoyts who approved the tipping policy? Only because cinema workers, tipping etiquette, theft prevention, cash management,

loss management are all topics I'll be covering at ConCon. So I'd love to get some clarity on that. Really appreciate your help. Thanks, man. Sorry, Haim. I must have received your last message. I think it never went through and don't bother sending it again because my memory's full on my phone

and it won't come through. Oh, I guess WhatsApp not. Lots of work done. Wow, I guess WhatsApp not... Lots of work done. Really staying on topic there as the weekend progressed and we kept sending voicemails back and forth. Really staying on topic. But yeah, no, I guess WhatsApp is not as good as we thought it was because it seems to be

clogged up and Jack's not able to hear them all. Yeah, so best is to stick with our system, Hamingteam.com of uploading your audio. I did love, Jack, your use of the phrase, I think we should move on. I felt like you disrespected that in a way by not moving on, which was the request of the group. Next week, let's come together and decide on the format, how long we'll speak for, but also the groupings.

I mean, I've got mine. We've all got ours, like the 64s, the 63s. It's just far, far, far too many. If you look at those two sessions, obviously 45 minutes break, 45 minutes at ConCon, that's 90 minutes. You're not going to fit 191 topics in. We do, as you said, Andrew, we need to collapse it down. Do we put them into the third session? Could go into the third session, which at this stage looks positive.

Looks like it will happen. Do need to flag. It might on the day change at this stage. I can't say that happening, but if unstructured networking happens for the third session, we need to get all the, I think we do all the topics in the first two and then do a best of in the third session. Next week, we'll jump into those. Next week we'll have our clumps.

When you guys travel, I choose to travel and set. Sorry, I thought we were at the end of an old game show. Sorry, I know you're about to say something. I was actually just talking about that the other day. Remember the end of Wheel of Fortune and like prices right and stuff? You know, when we travel, we choose to stay at, you know, Holiday Inn. That was just back in the day. Now you look at stuff on social media where people have to go, hey, this is an ad sponsored

collab, you know, just in case there's any cloudiness, I am being gifted something here. Back in the day, that we choose to fly was just a lie. We are saying that because they give it to us for free. We chose to fly based on the exchange of free flight. That's how we chose it. That's how we came about making the choice. And we took some money as well as free flight. It was a full-time job for voiceover people. Like that's what I think is.

It was also, you also got, like Tony was dressed by. Yeah. You go, Bob? Yes. Yes. That ended years ago in TV. Isn't that like, people talk about the devastating things that happens to television, it's dying, et cetera.

But I feel like just having a guy in the booth telling you things. Well, even credits. Yes. Remember the, like, we haven't had credits for decades. Guys, let me tell you this. When Andy and me were growing up and making our first TV shows, we had credits. Yeah. You knew the assistant boom operator was.

And then you knew what we were wearing. You knew Hugo Boss reluctantly agreed to give 30% off suits to these unknown guys. True. No, it's what I'm asking is when you're traveling. Yes. How much room in your bags is for you? Oh, man, I. Because I have a situation with Beck where no matter how many bags she's taking,

she will look at me and go, and what am I putting in your bag? I'm like, no, I've got my bags. They're my bags. They're denoted by the fact that they're not overly expensive luggage, that I shouldn't spend money on buying, and also the fact that they're mine and my things are in it. But no. This is my space.

Yeah, I mean, it's funny when you have kids, that gets exciting because sometimes they usually take a kid's suitcase and that's both of their clothes. But I sneak shoes into the kids. Right. And I sneak them in first. Because sneakers are the bulkiest item. Yeah. So I'll often go, if you get your shoes, like if you get your shoes right, you go. I've often fantasized about taking just an entire duffel bag of shoes and then the luxury you'd have in the rest of the case. Because it'd just be chucking things around and it'd be glorious. Anyway, I sneak shoes in the

kids bag because Zo packs early. I don't. Zo packs like two or three days, well a week before an international holiday for the kids just to make sure everything's sorted. And I'll go and like sneak, okay there's a pair of shoes, like sneak them under Rudy's stuff. But then Zoe will find them invariably. It'd be like, why are the Birkenstocks in here? Oh, right. Yeah, I just thought I'd get ahead of time. Kids could grow into them. Make things a little easier on my side of the fence. Because I know I can always get it in my bag. It's just whether I can be bothered doing it or not. But then, but Zoe takes two bags. Zoe takes two suitcases and I'm just got one. Bec on the recent trip took three bags and then said, what can I put in your bag?

Full size? No, two full size, one like bigger carry on. Spill over. And then takes, well she takes two carry on. Like I said- Two carry ons. Yeah. It's crazy. And then she says, when we're over there, she's like, she always goes shopping. So I'm saying, I said, can you just take, please just leave some space because it's going to spill into my stuff.

Do what we all do and buy the world's cheapest suitcase in Thailand to put all the stuff you bought from the markets in, send it home, the bag will split, it will last one. And you'll never wear any of the stuff you bought from the market. You don't need eight pairs of fake Eversu jeans, but it's fun. It's fun. What I did this most recent trip, I took an empty carry-on. Just to avoid the fight. Good on you.

I just took a full empty bag on a plane. Gee, it was luxury on the way. That would have been great. I got in, we went overseas a couple of weeks ago and we got back a few weeks ago. I get in trouble because we have a family puppet called Smarty who Zo does not like because Smarty's character is a bit, he's a bit risque. He's a bit risque to Zo behind the kids back, like never in front of the kids, but he's not. He'd be cancelled.

He'd get cancelled. He'd get cancelled these days. He's from an era of entertainment. Where voiceovers were riled. No place. His late night show would have had credits for sure. So Smarty, he's not for everyone. He's certainly not for Zoe. She doesn't know. She doesn't appreciate the era. He's going to do not for everyone. He's certainly not for Zoey. She doesn't know.

She doesn't appreciate the... He's a character to the kids though. He's a fun loving guy. He's a little blue puppet. He's like a Jim Henson puppet we've had for like 10 years. So Smarty... I've seen Smarty being nice to the kids, but I've also seen Smarty's other character. So he sneaks away on trips and that's the most trouble. So this like most recent trip, so then if I'm just with the kids for like half a day or something, Smarty will be in the backpack. We're taking him around. He's at the Acropolis, like Smarty's in a taxi, Smarty's eating chips, like having a great time.

Then we show Zo at the end of the holiday. Uh oh, Woku came on holidays. Her first reaction is always like, I can't believe you would sacrifice suitcase space for Smarty, which, and then he, you know, he'll, he'll say some things back to us. Which we can't, which we can't say. Which we can't say for your days.