Hamish & Andy - 2024 Ep 275 - “The amount of absolute s**t that comes out of our mouths!”

Episode Date: October 23, 2024

Hamish brings a listener gripe about a recent show opening. Andy questions Jack about his willingness to provide a quote for his tunnel, and also digs up an old episode of the show which might prove that Hamish has been doubling up on ideas. Another batch of the most powerful power moves ever, and ConCon preparations continue to chug along!  1. Mike’s Malcom in the Middle opener 2. Jack’s tunnel quote 3. T-shirt fact returns 4. Power moves 5. ConCon - industry allocations 

A listener production. Activate your internet. Because the Hey Mission and the podcast starts in 3...2... Sorry, still buffering. One! Ahoy to me, Catherine. Hamish. Um, maybe hurricanes or, um, towns in the Northern Territory.

No, not towns in the Northern Territory. Oh, is it maybe it's wives of Henry VIII. Ahoy to my Anne. Yes. Oh, that sounds really cool. I think it's wives of Henry VIII. This feels very trivia nighty. You've got it, Ham.

I'd be Jane. They were the three names. So it is a three-based thing. The wives of Henry VIII, this feels very trivia nighty. You've got it, Ham. I'd be Jane. They were the three names. So it is a three based thing. They were the three names of Henry VIII, six wives. Three Catharines, two Ann's, one Jane. I mean, they only had like 20 names back then. That's true.

That's why there was three Catharines. Yeah. You weren't getting many. Like Henry's and William's all over the place. No, not a lot of like, you know, nowadays you go to a playground, it's just Harpers and Albies and spices and apples. Spoons are names.

I haven't run into a spoon myself, but I believe you. There's one out there. There'd be a spoonie for sure. Spoon Man's kidding. Very, very deep reference to a triple M late night radio joke from many years ago. The spoon man. The spoon man. Late night.

He'd say what everyone's thinking. And I hope he's passed that on to young Spoon. We'd be thinking it, he'd say it, we'd think it again. There you go, I seconded on I thought that. I was thinking it, he said it, now I'm thinking it again. That's right. He wouldn't then say it again though. No, then you'd be in a loop,

like mirrors reflecting each other, or a feedback from electric guitar. Think safe, think safe, think safe. Oh no, click, someone hit spoon man, we're in a loop. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ahoy also, ahoy also to Eloise, who used the very easy to use system,

habershady.com, to tell us what she's been up to. Ahoy fellas, I hope you are well. I just wanted to let you know that I travelled from Perth to Sydney last week for work, and I had four hotspots that I had to tick off while I was there. One was the Sydney Opera House, two was the Sydney Harbour Bridge,

three was Pancakes on the Rocks and four was the O.P. Nose. He said to say ahoy to you fellas and he also gave me one dollar off my meal and I didn't even have to give him a bell. See you later. Oh that's that's why he's known as the embassy of the show. He's absolutely the you know because I know a podcast is very ethereal as a digital file, but if we were to ever have a physical embodiment of the show, he's our shop front. He's our Apple store.

And that they are the four things to tick off in Sydney. I think they spend way too much time with postcards of the first two. Oh yeah, a lot of fuss made about the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. Very few snow domes with sea oaks. Sea oaks. Pizza.

In the strip of shops. But again, I mean, we talk about this from time to time. You know, you look at the Brisbane Olympic Committee, the organizing committee, and they'll be right now knuckling down and going, okay, what are our big landmarks we can do? And the fact that Sydney, and I just worry because, in 2000, they'd made good use of the bridge, they made good use of the Opera House. They didn't utilize zeopenos, which was a miss, but I think if you're on the Brisbane community,

you'd be like, God, why does Sydney, Sydney's got zeopenos as well. Yeah, exactly. Just feels unfair, like what can we do? So they'll be hunting around for their zeopeno equivalent. And never the samepino equivalent. And good luck. They've got Pancake Manor in Brisbane,

which is their version of Pancake on the Rocks, like Pancake Parlor. You get the feeling like the Paris opening Olympics, it will be heavily hung around that, like they sort of did with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe and stuff. A lot of pancakes dancing. Yeah, that would be sort of, you know,

that would be the central hub, and then it will spoke out from there, out from the manor. Looking forward to that. Haim, you were at the top of this show. A couple loose ends, we've got to get to. So we're talking about the top three of the show. The game of three that Mike spends 20 hours a week on.

And again, apologies to Mike that we got it in one there, but we didn't really get in one. We had to, we peppered around the answer. A couple of weeks ago, we had the Dewey. Do you remember this? The Dewey was the first clue. We had the game of three. Were we Huey, Dewey and Louie or did we just guess them? We thought Huey, Dewey and Louie. Then we thought maybe Dewey Decimal Systems, famous Decimal Systems.

That's right. Famous Decimal Systems. You can't really think of too many others apart from the Dewey one, but it was actually chronological. So this comes in from Nathan and he goes, look, I was listening to the latest episode, couldn't help but feel a sense of rage at Mike's choice for the trio. My wife had already listened and she pre-warned me, see if you can guess, but after the second one it's obvious, so try and get it in one.

So he heard Dewey, he paused, he turned to her and said, is it Huey, Dewey and Louie? She said, no, I'd listen on. Then I hear Reese and I immediately became aware of what's happening. And I shake my head. My wife asked, what's wrong? To which I said, glumly, well, it's brothers of Malcolm in the middle, but they are not a trio at all. They have an older brother, Francis. And later in the show, they have another brother, Jamie. They are not a trio at all. They are a quintet. Mike has put his own love of Frankie Muniz above the integrity of the segment and I hope he's held accountable. Wow. Where is Mike?

Hiding. That is a shock because it's meant to be big. It's important three things. It's big threes. Now, I suppose like people might say, well, there's probably more icebergs than the three that I read out. That's true. Than the three main icebergs. The three main icebergs.

Categories. Oh no, we're getting him in here and I feel like there's probably other type of guitars or samurai swords that we've read out. That's true. There are three big triangles, but I'm sure there's a few other triangles apart from isosceles and the others. Mike, come in here just quickly. Jump on, jump in, Mike.

Now you've heard the allegation that it's not a three. Nathan, yeah. Nathan has claimed that there were, you know, he's disappointed that the brothers from Malcolm in the Middle were being used as a three when they're in fact a quintet. I'm going gonna be honest, this is actually what I think about this, because we've never actually officially designed like how this game works. Like, I'm gonna be honest, Andy, sometimes they're not threes. Like for example, recently we had Egyptian- What we just did, the wives of Henry the Outlaw, I suppose there were several others we just had.

Well no, there were six, but they're only three names, so it could count as three. We did Egyptian gods. There's more than three, but it was still... no one complained about that. So I'm just wondering where is the line? Because I stress so much about this. I know too much. Twenty hours. Twenty hours, you've got time to do nothing else. You come in, your hair's a mess. You haven't shaved for days. You're wearing rags. Your cat hasn't been fed.

I actually allocate like at least, no, actually don't worry. I'm not saying, doesn't matter. No. How much allocation of time? Like I will sit there for an hour and I'll, these are the questions that will come into my mind now. Like, is someone going to call me out because it's not a three or there's other, like, I actually thought with the Malcolm one, oh, there's other brothers, but these are the three core ones. So I just- When you've done that minute of thinking, what do you do with the other 59? But I feel like, say if I'd come out and gone scary, baby, sporty, I think we'd be left going, but what about the other spy skills? Yeah. I mean, I don't-

The question is, are we naming- I'm gonna see Malcolm in the middle. I think the accusation is, did you- Yeah, but your love of Frankie Meehan is above the integrity of the game. That's what Nathan's disappointed at. No, because to those who have seen the show, Francis, the older brother, does not live with them. He goes to boarding school. So he's never actually really in the same scene as the three core brothers.

What about children that live in the house? Was it a more specific market segment? And then the other one was born like in season six. Yeah, there's another one to baby. So, you know, really to me it feels valid. The answer was Malcolm, children, Malcolm and the Middle-Earth children that live in the house pre-season five. Yes. That's the game.

That was the game. We just forgot the specifying bits. You keep wanting them to be harder. So. Yeah. I feel like, well, I mean, now can we make a rule that no more Frankie Muniz based ones? Yeah, there's only been one Frankie. I know that. I know that. I think that's the worry.

Mike, or do we take people behind, inside the mind of a genius now and go, if you had to make another Frankie Muniz based triplet, like, you know, group of three, what would you do? Right now on the spot? Yeah. Like what's a category that could relate to him where you could give us three things? Okay. I've got one. I'd go Frankie, Amanda, Hillary, and it's child stars of the 2000s. Amanda Vines, Hillary Duff, Frankie Muniz. To echo Jack.

So where's the other 59 minutes? Laughter Yeah, but if I were all that, you guys would be using me. Yeah, we wouldn't have liked that. You did seem to come up with a very... He's windowless office. Get back in the hole of threes and come back to me with a better one. Laughter Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding Hey, Jack. It's actually watered for Jack. Beck and I are building this house at the moment, which we've mentioned before, even on the pod. Yep. You have. Jack was almost going to build it for a second.

Well, that's the part I want to bring up. So I'm on site with the builder and he said, who's Jack? And I said, why? He goes, well, everyone keeps saying that we start this tunnel, starting the tunnel. OK, so the house has a tunnel. The house does have a tunnel. Must be nice. The Instagram account, the build at Ravenswood.

I want to see the bill at Ravenswood. That's the account I'm interested in. Just every week, show us the cost. The itemised cost. The itemised bill. Cause I mean, the stuff that's getting thrown into this house. That's true. That is true.

It is costing a bit, but also- I can't imagine. But as a guy that's saved, you know me, I don't spend anything. This is like, I think I've spent the last 20 years of saving and yes, it's all coming out at once. What do you get the man who has everything? A tunnel. A tunnel. Where does the tunnel go from?

Doesn't the tunnel goes from the dog salon to the dog golf sim? To the dog golf sim. There is an old house from 1876. Timeless. Back then, they didn't, you know, back in the good old days. There is an old house from 1876 that... Timeless, back then they didn't, you know, back in the good old days. Before every house had a tunnel. I mean, it started off, all we lived in was tunnels back in caveman times. We started in tunnels.

We came out, some medieval stuff had tunnels, we lost tunnels, now tunnels are back for those that can't have them. Bringing them back. So the weird thing about our house is it faces the river. It's on the Yarra River in Melbourne. It faces the river, not the street. Okay, yeah, it's backwards. It's mooning because they used to arrive by the river. Because it was from such- Is that true? So long ago that you were more likely to have a visitor turn up on a boat

than a horse from the street. So your house feels like it's turned back to the street. Exactly. It's showing it's back to the street. So it's mooning the street, which is not great. And how does a tunnel fix that? Well, normally in a refashion. Get everyone underground so you don't have to see it. You would build off one side, like normally build off the back.

Yep. And so instead of covering the front, which is the back facade, yep, we wanted to keep it so you actually tunnel down from the old house. And then you're going to come across to a new build that will look back at the old house. Okay. Anyway, you can look at it on a command bunker at audience. Yes. So anyway, the builder's gone to me.

Who's Jack? And I'm like, why? He's like, well, everyone just keeps saying Jack should be building this tunnel and I haven't got a list of a quote from Jack or anything. I don't. I thought we were in charge of the. He's hearing people seriously asking him,, when's Jack start the tunnel? And other subcontractors are coming through and going, when's Jack starting the tunnel to him? And he doesn't obviously listen to the podcast. He doesn't get the joke.

He thinks Jack is going to build the tunnel. I had to explain to him, no, it's a running joke we've got that Jack said that he would build the tunnel. I think at one point on the pod, you said you would. I said I would quote you for the tunnel. Maybe I said I'd give you a cheaper price than what you were getting. Do you want to, here's my point, Jack.

Do you want to put together a quote? I wouldn't know the first thing you're building a tunnel. Hey Jack, Jack, my first hint would be, shh, shh, go. I guess, yeah. I guess I could pump the number up and then get some contractors to bring some shovels and digging equipment. All I'm saying is, Jack, you could air task at this tunnel. If you wanted to, because the builder's asked, I said, if you wanted to, Jack, I can give

you a week. If you wanted to come back with an exclamation of what you'd planned to do and a price, I'm willing to look at it. Okay. And can I ask, the guy who's building the tunnel, is he just digging out the tunnel or does he have to build like rooms where the tunnel is or like? No, just the explanation work. It's just the earthwork. Just earthwork.

Oh, pretty, pretty easy. I mean, no, I mean, I'm obviously not going to do it. I'm going to outsource some of the work, but. Do you think you've got all the information you need here, Jack? You're asking how long the tunnel is. It's like someone coming in to build like CityLink or something under the city going, yeah, one that you've got here in your check out in your basket, one tunnel. Would you like any add-ons?

You want a road in there? Do you want some lighting? Because it is just a unit cost for a tunnel. You're playing this like SimCity in your head. Like just click tunnel. I guess what I'm thinking of is just to work to get on the phone, hire some people to do the digging. And I'm estimating how long that's going to take in my week. Charge for that, Jack.

I mean, you're the project manager of the tunnel. That's what I mean. And then I'll take my bit off the top. How much is a tunnel? I'm saying you can have a that, Jack. I mean, you're the project manager of the tunnel. That's what I mean. And then I'll take my bit off the top. How much is a tunnel? I'm saying you can have a week, you're like... I think how long is the tunnel, Andy? Uh, it's actually not that we, I've actually had to make the tunnel a lot smaller, sadly, due to the...

Cost of tunnel costs. The bill. The bill. Nobody saved. Nobody saved. People having to shorten their classes. The bill. The bill. Nobody's saying. Nobody's saying. People having to shorten their tunnels. Oh boy. Well, I'm sure we can get a GoFundMe started.

And then a lot of sympathy out there for people having to shave tunnel length off their enormous haunted mansion renos. That'd be great. A tunnel has to be as long as it needs to be. How do you make it shorter? Well, that's true. You should just make it narrower. It's the same volume of dirt, but now you have to go through on your stomach. If you want this length, we can only have a three foot wide tunnel. Okay, that's all right. That's okay.

Just a little trolley. We can only have a three foot wide tunnel. Okay. That's all right. That's okay. Little trolleys. Yeah. Yeah. Like the equivalent would be going, okay. If it's say going from one side of the city to the other, we're just going to bring it up earlier, do you know what I mean? Like we don't have to get all the way. But it doesn't have to go house to house.

So now it goes house to what? Well, five meters from the house. It was going to go. So you're popping up and down like a dolphin. Porpoising across the backyard. It used to go, there used to be, in the original design, it went from outside as well, there was an outside way to join the tunnel. And you can't just walk from the back door of one house

into the front door of the other house. What about a quote for a hundred umbrellas? And you can't just walk from the back door of one house into the front door of the other house. What about a quote for a hundred umbrellas? You're never short of an umbrella and you just walk from one house to the other. That's actually a good point. Because there is a way to get there. There is a way to get there. Yeah, just not internally.

Even one house would have done the trick and just stay in one house instead of needing two. Alright, alright. That's a good point, tunnel boss. Hey, Im and Jack. We have a pretty closed door policy to negative feedback. That's something that we've run with for a long time. Open door, very open, wide open double doors for positive feedback.

But I'm going to let one negative bit of feedback be slid underneath the closed door. They found a way in. Is it about you? No, it's not. It's about all of us actually. About all. It's a, it's an attack on all of us. From, I mean, attack on, attack on one is attack on all, like NATO.

Yes. Jake Prendergast, he says, boys, I know you have a closed door policy and negative feedback, but the three-man fact shootout, the original one, Jesus. He writes after that, full stop, Jesus. He goes, Haim, the t-shirt fact was so bad. No. No, it actually wasn't, Jake, because I've had several people come up to me and say, I didn't know that and I've really enjoyed that.

Haim, the t-shirt fact was so bad, I would have struggled to pretend to be interested if my five-year-old had brought it home from school. Andy, no one over four has ever thought the noise insects make was anything but their wings flapping. I do agree with that. It wasn't the noise. It was 800 a second. That was the fact.

It wasn't the noise. Jack's fact was the only remotely interesting one. Thank you. But predictably lacked prep leading toward the end. It was an enormous run up. Yeah. So I just want to go back and review, let's start with Hayme. I want to review the t-shirt fact.

My God, we've been over this. It's a good fact. I mean, like a lot of these facts, if you know it, it seems obvious, but if you don't, it's an absolute world shaker. And the fact that you had discovered it that day. Yeah, I had heard it recently. I mean, the whole segment was built around how can I bring this to the team in an exciting way? Because I think it carries that much weight.

Yes. And Hameed just discovered it, so he was like, it's exciting. So this is what happened. I'll go first since I've started this thing. Be honest with me. Did you guys know that a t-shirt is called a t-shirt because of the shape of it? Yes, yes, 100% yes. Did you really know that?

I feel like you just said that. I think you heard Jack be so confident then Andy, you were like, I can absolutely jump on board this because I know that means Haim's getting shot. I don't even ever remember being told it as a fact as much as it's just like, something I know. I didn't know. We don't have to rub it in. I thought that was fascinating. I'd never thought about that. There's the key phrase at the end. I'd never thought about that.

Because Haim, on the 31st of August 2012, this was what happened in Jazz Chat. Hey, why do you think t-shirts are called t-shirts? They look like a T. When they're laid out flat. Yeah, that's why I think they're called t-shirts. We're the same. I don't know if it's true or not. See? Look at that. I don't know if it's true or not.

See, look at that. I don't know if it's true or not. Did you really know that? Yeah. Cause I just figured it out today, I feel. Really? Nah, I was young teens. Oh really?

Yeah. What? Yeah. I'm sorry, I hadn't thought about it. Ever. And then even with a long sleeve tee, it still works. The tee is just a bit longer. Yep.

I mean, first of all, possible deep fake. Second of all. It did only slightly sounded like you. I agree with that, Jake. That's already an air of mystery over that. Yes. We know that this is the way our brains work on this show though. Things pop in and out, but they don't stick.

They don't stick at all. We cover the same stuff so many times. So that is interesting to hear. Because I mean, I hear that and I just go, well, it sounds, I mean, the guy sounds like me, but I have no recollection of that. Maybe this t-shirt fact, something about it is very interesting to my short-term memory and completely irrelevant to my long-term memory. So on that particular day, whenever that was, it popped into my head and I've

gone, gee, that doesn't make sense. My brain, something about the shape letter correlation between t-shirts really fascinates my brain, but not in a long term sense. So now, how many years have passed now? 15 years or something. And now- Well, 12 years, yeah.

12 years. And now we're back. I've let that piece of information go. Because some stuff's got to be let go to make room for new stuff. What a shame though that my brain is let go of that, going, that's irrelevant, we don't need that. And then when it's come back around, my brain's going, well, we need this. And it's like going home and going, why did I think we needed a whisk when I was at the

supermarket? We have a whisk. Why did I buy a whisk? And we haven't used the whisk. It's not helpful. And we actually threw it out. And now we've bought another whisk. Okay.

Fair enough. Okay. Well, I'll try and file it away in my longer term memory now. No, I think, I think, I mean, we know we're going to do 40 shows for 40 years. It still is a good, I mean, I guess something about it fascinates me. If we go for 40 years, should we do a policy on like less gotcha moments from the past? I feel like people always like squirreling way in the back end of the podcast, like, oh, you said this once upon a time, you said that.

It's got me before as well, hey. The amount of absolute shit that comes out of our mouth, like, and it's just, you're just going with second, one second to the next. And the fact that someone's gone, like they're going to treat it like it's court testimony. I mean, it is just- No, I'm all for it. It is just infinite. You're right, Jack.

I mean, you're just open to infinite gotchas. You can't have an opinion anymore. Well, can we say that? As soon as you say one thing, I promise you. You can't have an opinion on t-shirts. You can't find things interesting. You can't say you were wondering about something. Would we make this rule?

If Haim brings up the t-shirt fact again. OK, for this particular fact, I think. We talked about it enough that you- We all retire immediately. Oh my god. The power. It's powerful, but I'm just saying- So in five years, ten years, some or some e-farms, like, you know what?

I think this show's had a good run. We've had a great time. That's when people will know we're done. Hey, before we go, guys, did you know that t-shirts are called that? Oh no! Oh my god, no! God damn it! No, no!

That's the way I'd like to say it. One more year! Nope, that's why they're called t-shirts! Because of the shape and the letter! Thanks for five decades! Goodnight! Good night! Hey, they keep coming in and it's a reason people listen to the show. One of the many reasons is to ensure that they remain powerful in social situations.

Do you want me to kick it off for you? Mate, I stumbled across one of my own during the week. Tell me if you think this qualifies. It was actually a couple of weeks ago, but I remember it today and I'm like, I think this qualifies. Caught up with our very good mate, Haydo, played a fast nine holes at a public golf course. And, you know, if you, he's got kids, I've got kids, you structure in a quick, quick

game, but then there's time for a bit of a, it was an early morning. It's time for a bit of a coffee afterwards. Well, I hadn't eaten brekkie. There's a cafe next door to this golf course. We walk in there and I go, mate, are you hungry? I'm going to eat. And he's like, no, I'm actually fine. I had breakfast.

It's like, do you want anything? He's like, no. I said, okay, well, I'm going to quickly eat and get a coffee. It was one of those cafes where you scan a bar, the QR code on the table and you just like the menu comes up. I was like, do you want anything at all? No, I'm really good. Now, so this would work in this situation, right? Where you're with a friend, it needs to be one of these, I think it works best if it's one of these QR menus. They could also be eating, doesn't, but perfect scenario, perfect conditions. I look on the coffee menu and I see that there's like a long black, I get that. But there's also a baby chino for $1 and 50 cents extra for soy milk.

And I thought, well, I know it's cost me $1.50, but I think it's worth it for the joke. I'll get him a soy baby chino. And so then when the waiter comes out and he's got two coffees, instead of going, hey, I just go, I'm the long black, right? Yes. So I get the long black and then the guy goes, and a soy baby Chino. You did very well at golf and you deserve a little treat. That's really cute. Yeah. That's really cute. This one came in from Phil in the UK.

When a work colleague puts their holiday in your calendar, simply propose a new time. That's good. Really like that? That's crisp. This is a slightly more involved one from Sue. She goes, every year when I visit my dentist, he's got the TV on the ceiling monitor. Like it's one of those dentists because he plays the chase. I was extremely impressed when he got nearly every question right. The next year when I came back, he put the chase on again and he got nearly everything right again.

I asked him how he was so good at trivia. He says, I'm on a pub trivia team. After the third year, I realized he was playing exactly the same episode of The Chase to everyone and memorizing the answers. I love it. This is from Sam Bloomer. Could be Steve Bloomer's cousin.

You pray he's of the lineage. Bit more involved as well. He said, I got power moved. Last night my car battery carked it but I knew exactly what battery I needed because I'd done my due diligence. So I went to the shop, proceeded to get the exact same battery I needed. When at the counter the bloke said, hey, what's your rego? We can check whether it's the right battery. And I thought, why not? Can't hurt. Oh, but it did hurt. Lo and behold, it was the right battery.

And the guy behind the counter goes, lucky guess. Good. Um, all right. Great power move. One for kids to do. So hopefully kids listening to this can power move their parents and then read the rewards. Comes in from Zach. It's like, if you are playing hide and seek,

get your parents or the grownups you're playing with to hide. Once you finish counting, don't find them. Just go about your day. LAUGHS You essentially leave grownups trapped in the house for an extended period of time. You get a mini break. This one is, I mean this is a glimpse of the future, because this is technology throwing a power move out there.

But Annabelle said, I recently switched from Android to iPhone and discovered the photo library feature and it can identify people. It can. Yeah. I think most phones can do that. Can't they? She said, there's two occasions where I take selfies of myself. I'm in the morning when I'm trying out a new product.

And obviously when I've put on my makeup up on and I'm heading out, it recognized it's split into two different people. That is harsh. You want your phone to know you'd be better than that. We are less than a month out from the most important conference there is for your business and I really feel like the gross domestic product of Australia is just going to rapidly rise after our conference, AmConCon. There's a cool new conference no matter your beers.

ConCon. The conference so nice you can deduct it. Once at a maximum. Can't stress it enough. Guest speakers include Hamish Blake, Jack Post, Andy Lee. If you have registered and paid and are coming, your industry is also registered alongside your ticket and we will guarantee you'll learn something

about your industry. Of course, meaning that it's tax deductible. Check with your local accountant. Check the rules around that, but of course you are coming for business development and education purposes. Check with your local accountant. Check the rules around that, but of course, you are coming for business development and education purposes across two guaranteed sessions on the Saturday morning, plus a very likely third session at this stage that could be changed to unstructured networking, depending

on how the first two go. Here's the thing though, because we've made this promise, and we want to get into the meat of it today, we've made this promise to be able to go, we will cover your industry, and you'll pick up incredible insights and skills that are directly relevant to your business. There's 191 industries. We split them up. I think once a few came out, it turned out to be about 50 each, didn't it? Because there was a few that were actually a couple of double ups. So you'd collapse that down into just under about 50 each. The thing is we've got two sessions, right? Two hard-hitting, fast-paced, highly informative sessions.

That's where you're spending the money on. Yes. Okay. Those sessions are 45 minutes each. Minus a bit of FAF, you go, right, we've got 80 minutes to deliver our promise of business development and educational based conferencing. So do we want to do 80 industries at a minute each? They're probably not going to learn enough.

That's why we came up with the idea of grouping. Yeah, but I'm saying we'd have to group under that anyway. We've got 150 to get into 80. So how do you feel about... I'm trying to group even further down than that. Okay. I'm trying to make it so I get my list down to about, you know, 15 groups. Okay.

Yep. So that's a bunch of industries represented in what might be, let's say we have say 15 groups each. Like for easy maths, we go right, that's 45 groups. Yep. And then let's say we do go 90 minutes, two minutes a group. Okay. I reckon we can pull it back down even further than that. Okay.

Ten maybe. Ten each than that. All right. Will you? Ten maybe. Ten each? Yeah. Ten each. Let's go 12 because some of these groups, I just don't want to shortchange a group, you know. OK, well, if you've got a group, just to kick it off. Hang on. OK, right.

So we're going to get just over two minutes, two minutes and about two minutes and 12 seconds. OK, if we get 12 groups minutes and 12 seconds. Okay. If we get 12 groups, if we have 36 groups. So 132 seconds per seminar. And that's what I reckon we do is we go, right. And, you know, because we're taking in turns, 36 mini seminars. Yep.

I get up and the shot clock comes up behind me. 132 seconds, starts counting down. And I go, okay, everyone. Okay. The next professions we're talking about, like, I'll just look at one from my list here. This is a grouping of only two. I'll add more to this, but automotive hail repair. Yep. Right. And civil storm water.

Okay. Topic of the group is water. It's sort of the enemy. Yeah. Your time starts now. It's sort of the enemy. Your time starts now. That's a good link. Yeah, so you got 132 seconds on what are you going to do about this? You know, how do you deal with bad water?

Some good ideas on how do we see water in a different way? So for that particular segment, then I've got, you know, just over two minutes to come up with some great ideas that are relevant to both civil storm water and, well, you know, we can deal with- Well, I've got a lifeguard and a pool renovation person. I'd like lifeguard. If you can chuck it over. Would that be worth a trade?

Because pool renovations, well, water's not the enemy. But the lifeguard is, the water is kind of the enemy for a lifeguard. That's what I mean. You have to see water in that way. Water's the enemy. So, Peerfus lifeguard. I'll trade you Lifeguard. You can have Lifeguard.

You can have... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Yeah. And we got the list. I just put it into Google randomizer. Are you sure? Yeah. Do you think he gave himself the best ones? On Andy's list, there's fast food, beer, AFL, right? The way the cookie crumbles. He's got some absolute easy hints. Yeah, but then with electrical engineering and logistics, it all comes out in the wash. To put in some plausible deniability. What's your first category, Jack?

Okay, the first one I've done is called, should facial prosthetics be used on dogs? And that will cover two industries in my list. Facial. Can I guess what they are? Facial prosthetics. Yes. That was going to be one of my guesses. And dog grooming. Okay. Yes. That was going to be one of my guesses. And dog grooming. Okay. Yes.

I can, that counts, Jack. So if you've got anything else that will fit into that, that might be a bit niche. Yeah, I don't, I don't think I've got anything for you there. Are we going to allocate the exact amount of time, same amount of time, depending on how many industries covered? So it's still just 132 seconds. I like the idea of the shot clock. Okay.

So I think each seminar is 132 seconds. I like the idea of the shot clock. OK, so I think each seminar is 132 seconds long. Can I just also say there is absolutely nothing wrong with getting lessons, you know, picking up something if you are in civil storm water, but you did find the facial prosthetic stuff interesting. Oh, you can absorb that. Yeah, yeah. Take down some notes. You'll be absolutely buzzing on biscuits.

You might as well do something with all that. Yeah. Take down some notes. You'll be absolutely buzzing on biscuits. You might as well do something with all that. Yeah. Here's one that I bundled it in. Boring jobs. Oh, mate, I can give you 20 of those. Yeah, I've got a snooze fest category as well. One of my categories is snooze fest. Mine is too hard basket.

So here's the category though. Boring jobs or are they? Oh, OK, good. I look into the stigma of working in a perceived boring job and how to deal with that prejudice. Oh, that's really good. Right. Let me know where that sits in the whole schedule because mine was more just going down the snoozefest category of how to make your workplace a bit more interesting.

Right. Just if you, you know, there's a few in there. Well, I could say I could take, what was the one you asked me to take earlier on? Business analytics, that's perfect for a boring job. Business analytics is actually in my snooze fest at the moment. I'll take it for boring jobs and I'll look into the stigma

of working at a perceived boring job. And I get lifeguard? You can have lifeguard. Nice trade. It's the first trade, oh, the bell's rung. First trade. Can I ask, I got a real catchall You can have lifeguard. Nice trade. It's the first trade. Oh, the bell's rung. First trade. Can I ask, I got a real catchall that I'm looking forward to doing called How Buildings

Are Made. And this will cover real estate, commercial real estate, construction, steelmaking. I would love to request from you guys. Andy, I see you have architecture. I would love to have that. Hamish, I would love to have HVAC. Plumbing. We've got a problem.

We've got a problem. I have HVAC in already in a category. What's the category for HVAC? Well it's HVAC then drafting. I mean, I know it might be, it's drafting D-R-A-F-T-I-N-G. I don't know if they mean like you're an architect, like you're a draft person. I thought that was a draft person. Isn't that spelled differently though?

D-R-A-U-G-H-T? No, that's the beer. Okay, so HVAC and drafting, my topic there was is it wind? Because HVAC is about air conditioning, I think. And I was interpreting drafting as gaining a wind advantage hiding behind something. So, you know, so things we can learn from wind was already in there. But I can split that category up and find a new home for drafting. Or do you want both?

I would have to have drafting because I see drafting as as like architecture. The problem I have though, Jack, is I've got architecture already in a category. What's your category for architecture? Businesses starting with A. Oh, come on, that's not a seminar! And what did you learn at the seminar? I learned that we've been spelling our business right. How to use your field of work starting with A to your advantage.

If this is a yellow page. Yellow pages listing up the front. That might be included. I haven't written the whole thing, but there's numerous advantages. So is that not past that one? I do think we're going to have to sit down before the conference because we might have some severe double ops. I would love to take architecture from you and I'm willing to give you any of my boring

jobs for your boring jobs seminar. Is it possible you're building a mega category? Yes. Maybe we get one mega category each. Oh, I'm looking to take down up to eight industries here with how to build a house. Well, I had Jack. I have another one called Big Machines. Which ones might be best for your business?

And construction was a big part of big machines. Jack, I will give you HVAC and drafting. Yep. What can you give me? I can give you some of my most favorite ones. I'm really looking forward to using, but if you want them, you can have them. Public sector, local government.

Just yell out when any of these are resonating with you. Corporate restructuring. That sounds like you. I'll take them in boring jobs. I'll take local government. I can do something with that. Really? Because I've got boring jobs. I've got government and Queensland government in there. So do you want... That seems...

That's our host state. That's our host state. Do you want both of those? I'll tell you what, Jack. I'll give you the two if you take another two. All right. What are you trying to offload? Look, I've got creator and online video content.

They can learn how buildings are made. Oh, I mean a lot of... Jack, are you just going to do one talk? I think I can get mine. People love following renovations and stuff online. Like, Jack, you've built a house. Yes. Some of my seminar will be about how I built my house.

Really? What a treat. What about I'm struggling to position pastoral supervision? Oh, I'll take that. I've got kids ministry. OK. I'm not a religious person myself. Happy to give some tips and tricks though.

Okay. Well I'll flick you pastoral supervision. What would you like to send me back? I think I'd give you clinical psychology. Best of luck. Okay. It doesn't neatly pack into any of my current bundles, including businesses. You can go into your seminar called jobs beginning with C. bundles, including businesses. You're going to go into your seminar called jobs beginning with C. And how do you use that to your advantage?

I give you Zimmer frame manufacturing. Do you have something near the end of your talk that you might be able to put that into? Okay, okay. I'm getting food food, food businesses starting with A. It's going to get better than I thought though. I think we'll be able to group these really well. I'm very excited to hear some of these seminars. Okay.

And I know if I was from another industry, I'd be interested in the crossover learnings that I can get. Why don't we continue to trade throughout the week, but trade period must end by this time next week. Next week, yep. And then we've got final bundlings. And would we by next week have our seminar names? Yep. Yep. Okay. No worries.

Sounds good. A lot of work, isn't it? Oh heaps. Yeah. We're delivering here. Thanks for listening. The Hamish and Andy podcast will return next week. Catch up or contribute at hamishandandy.com.