Hamish & Andy - 2024 Ep 280 - Goodbye to 2024, Podcast Mike and Team Loyalty

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

In the final ep of 2024, the boys say goodbye to Podcast Mike, (attempt to) tie-up lots of loose ends, celebrate their most empathetic listeners, and Jack has an enormous decision to make....!!  1. Extreme empaths 2. Loose ends 3. A celebrity endorsement for digital bird collecting 4. New season of Remembering Project 5. Podcast Mike’s farewell 6. The decision 

A listener production. Activate your Internet, because the Hamish and Andy podcast starts in three, two. Sorry, still buffering. One. Ahoy to me countdown Hamish. Okay yes countdown is are we doing what Woolworths is called in other countries? Of course in New Zealand Woolworths is called countdown.

But I don't know I'm interested to see where this goes. Why does it shock you when you get to New Zealand and you see the exact same logo and font and then it doesn't say Woolworths? Which is strange because the logo is a W. Yes. And so there is an argument to go, it definitely works better for Woolworths. There is a W in countdown.

It's just not prominent. True, true. Maybe around the world they do a name with all the different, any word has to have a W. Ahoy to my frontier, Jack. It is. We all know in Sweden Woolworths is called Frontier. Frontier and Countdown.

And I'm Destination. Frontier, Countdown and Destination. Are these names of spacecraft? No. We're all finals for the final show of the year. Countdown and Destination. Are these names of spacecraft? No, we're all finals for the final show of the year. The final countdown, the final frontier, the final destination. Jack and Haymitch are both looking at it, Mike. I reckon he's actually got this because many people have noticed that on the New York Times,

there's a game called Connections and that's essentially just what Mike is doing. They manage to get one up every day. Yeah, I feel like this has maybe lifted straight from Connections, but maybe not. Well, he's fist-pumping. I feel like it broke our rule, which is like, we've never really gone titles or something. We've never gone missing word.

Yeah, yeah, like it's normally three of a certain sector. Well, it is actually Mike's last show. So would you like to fire him? Mike, I can't have you doing this anymore. Mike, we might. Unfortunately, Mike, it might seem like a pretty minor misstep, but it's the straw that's broken the camel's back and you're fired. No, we want you to stick around to the end, Mike.

You're hired, you're rehired for the rest of the show. But yes, bombshell, Hamish has just dropped. It is Mike's last show. We might get to that later. We might touch on that later. But it is a good idea, look, full credit, he has gone out well. Yeah, ahoy to Arthur as well, who went to hamishnandy.com to upload what he's been up to. I should point out, I have heard this one.

Arthur brings up sea monkeys. Remember we were talking about that? Yes, there was quite a bit of backlash on sea monkeys. Was that this year? Was this year? Pretty sure it was this year. And then I think they must call them sea dragons in the UK. And that's why I just wanted to preface this little bit of audio with that. But this is Arthur. Gotcha. Hi Hamish and Andy. Okay, and that's why I just wanted to preface this little bit of audio with that. But this is Arthur.

Gotcha. Hi, Hamish and Andy. I know you had the Sea Dragons and they died. I had them and they died for free. And I think it's completely a big waste of money it's because I hate the Sea Dragons. Good on you. Good on you. Getting involved in big issues early. He went on to really take down a store

where you could get the from and Legals thought it was too close to Slam. But I'll play it to you guys later But I'll play it to you guys later. You know what? Alright, I know what this is. I'll play it to you guys later. But the hearing of a four year old takes down a big company was a treat. But honestly, we're on the cusp of the mandated break, right? Yeah.

So it's not the show to start new things. No. But if 2025 involves a legal stoush or a class action with the sea monkeys people, sea dragon people and they are forced in a court of law to back up the claims they make on their pack about these animals being... Oh my god, no way. Yeah, we'd be very confident about it. We'd be happily, we'd go into that, wouldn't we Jack?

Yeah, definitely, because if they say that it's defamation, is that what they would be saying? Yeah we would argue truth we go okay we show it prove to us that this is actually a living kingdom yeah prove to us they're not shit. Onus is on you. Make me smile with some of the tricks they do. It is the last show before the government mandated right boy does it sneak up on you doesn't it? And obviously we have lobbied and we, you put a call in, didn't you, Ham, to the government, what executive branch did you try? I actually just got the front desk.

Oh. So they're gonna call back. Yeah, and just asking whether we could continue podcasting, but of course, no. I just wanted to check, I thought there might be a department where you could just double check your mandates, see if they're still relevant.

And you would think by now they would be losing them, but it does seem to be like the bastards are tightening it, unfortunately. That's not what we want. So, to cover off, we've got to cover off a lot of things in this final episode. Of course, Con Con was a winner last week. Let's start, because they've been flooding in with extreme empaths. Let's do our last batch of extreme empaths. Including the opener, Jack, which of course is every song ever written,

all played at once, we don't leave anyone out. First one's from Georgia, Ham. Extreme Empaths, Uni Edition, she writes. Cool. Writing in, because as soon as I heard your recent segment on Extreme Empaths, I knew I'd found my people. I'm currently studying psychology at Uni, and I often find myself feeling bad for the people who get thrown in the et al part of the citation.

Yep. Why should the person at the front get the credit all the time? Because of this, I often risk getting marked down with thrown accuracies in my reference list because I will shuffle the names around and let other researchers have a turn at being the most important. Furthermore, if I'm using the same reference multiple assignments, I'll give each researcher a go at the front of the et al. That is very intricate.

That is a good one. Jack, do you know what that's referencing? I don't know. I'm assuming it's like, et cetera, et cetera, is it? So Joe blogs and et cetera, et cetera. If there's like five, cause what did you do at uni? No, I went to TAFE. Very successful.

I only hung in there for two years. I didn't know. I thought it was you trying to pull the rug out from under me. No, happily TAFE educated. We do have our guards up. Yeah, we do. Jack punched me. No, I'm just saying I hung in there for a couple of years at uni.

You do have to do this in uni assignments where it might be like, post Lee and Blake did this paper. And then when you cite them, when you put them in the reference, you just have to go post et al. And the other guys get swept in. That's a bit pointless then, isn't it? Well it just allows you to save time. Yeah. But then like why put any names on there?

You're meant to cite your references, although it's a good question, Jack. For any of the things that me and Andy wrote at uni, irrelevant to put the names on, they were often made up references anyway. I immediately looked at that system and went, no, why are you there checking this? Just put any one down. McFarlane. McFarlane. He's done it again. Sorry, Amy.

Okay. I mean, this is a great extreme empath. Comes in from Emily. She recently learned that only female mozzies bite, right? And so she writes, and I learned that they do so only to get nutrients for their children. So sometimes if I catch a mozzie mid bite, I won't smash it or brush it away. I think, oh, well, you're already there. It's going to witch anyway.

Might as well let you have a good drink while you're at it. Love it. This is from Holly, extreme air path. My friend will not fully fill her petrol tanker. She worries the cow will feel bloated. Really good. This is from Jess. I caught my friend Lexi quietly crying the other day.

When I asked what's wrong, she held up one of those mini paper clips that's half the size of a regular clip and said, he's too young to be working. A common trap you see with extreme empaths is thinking that the small version of something is the baby. Like teaspoons of the babies of the spoon drawer. From Ali, extreme empath. Whenever I'm using the office shredder and I put too many pages in there, so I hear it slow down and struggle, I apologize.

And I make sure I only put a single page in for the next couple of turns to give it a chance to catch its breath and recover. Gotcha. Active rest. This is from Bigaz. The thing is, around once every week, my wife will remove all the magnets from the fridge for a full day to give them, quote, a little break. Give the magnets a break?

Yeah, give the magnets a break. Okay. I think she must think they're just hanging on so tight, you know, like, don't want to fall off the cliff. Like, free solo. Yep. During summer, she'll do this every few days instead of weekly, insisting they must be getting exhausted in the cliff. During summer she'll do this every few days instead of weekly, insisting they must be getting exhausted in the heat. Luke, Luke in the UK, extreme empath. Ahoy! Here in the London Underground, you occasionally

hear the computer announcer say, the upcoming station has a short platform. I always feel sorry for the station with the IP inferior platform. This is great. This is from Julia. Last one for me. Julia, she's from New Zealand. I'm not sure if this puts me in the same category as extreme empaths, but I think it does. I find myself doing this every week when I clean out my guinea pig hutch.

I make sure I always put newspapers showcasing a happy story or even a Sudoku at the top of the bedding pile just in case they want to give it a read. Gusto to all. Keep them coming in over the break, everybody. Hey, last show means we've got to tie up loose ends. And look, some are Peter outs and you don't have to even acknowledge a Peter out, but others, you know, they caught our interest. People might be still hanging on to them. Jack, I mean, we missed a chance to wrap up a loose end.

I just want to remind, can I just rewind back to Konkon? Magician Mike was there, Magic Mike was there. We knew he was going to be there, didn't we? We knew he was going to be there doing his magic. Not entertaining magic, but just if people happen to be entertained by it, like that's on the house. He was mingling at the drinks and you know, we knew he was going to be there. He was shocked that he didn't bring the jumper because you knew he was going to be there

and you had a chance to bring his golf jumper. I've made my thoughts clear. You know my position on that. He got a replacement golf jumper from the company. He has the same amount of golf jumpers in the exact color size make that he had at the start of the year. So he doesn't need the old one. But why do you have more then?

I, I, I do happen to have it, but my position is he doesn't need it. I might decide to give it to him one day, but he is not missing out on a jumper. Why do you get to decide that? No, but he's not like, I'm true. I might not be the one who gets to decide or not decide, but he- It sounds like you've decided you are the one that gets to decide that. But he can't complain about it. He was wondering-

He has the same amount of golf jumpers that he had at the start of the year. We've been through this Jack, we've been through this a week, seen the fundamental misunderstanding about ownership. That jumper that you have, that you borrowed from him, that specific item, who paid for that? Okay. Well, he didn't pay for that because the company gave that one to him for free as well as the refreshment one.

Okay. Okay. Can I throw this hypothetically at you? Okay. If you've got a car, right, and you win another car, am I entitled to go and take your first car? You are then deciding that you have the same amount of cars. I was the one who got him the replacement jumper by contacting the company.

So that would be like, I have a car, You buy me the exact same car, give it to me, then you are entitled to have my original. Okay. Anyway, well, it was a missed opportunity. He went home cold. He said he went up to several times at the Morgan drinks and said, and rubbed his arms and said, I'm cold. And you again missed the cue. I hate when you say golf balls.

So they're sold out. And we did not make nearly enough. We did a boo boo, didn't we? Well, yeah, I wasn't going to talk about the boo boo. Okay. No, we didn't do one. Don't worry about that. What was the boo boo. Okay. No, we didn't, we didn't do one.

Don't worry about that. What was the boo boo? Well, we put, we put them up on the website and we put the amount that we, we had, but we forgot to click the button that said, don't sell. Any more than these. Any more than these. All orders have been fulfilled. There was just some great chasing behind the scenes. Yes.

And we thank TaylorMade. Yep. So some of them have the printed logo on and some have a handwritten one on. Some it's in crayon. No, they're all very, they're all- The dispatch will be there in the next few weeks. Um, one last loose end. I've got my side of the fence.

Search for a dollar coin. Yeah, that's fine. Our crews say to get- That's all going well. coin. Yeah, that's 100. Our crews say to get- That's all going well. Yeah, yeah. Well, we knew it was two years and we're getting close to the first year of a two year thing. But people had commented at ConCon that we hadn't mentioned it for six months, which we said we wouldn't do.

We thought we were doing everyone a favour. I thought we were mentioning it too much. But it did make me- We weren't. We're mentioning it a lot without really moving the ball down the field. Yes. Year went quick though, didn't it? Tell me about it.

It felt like when you said we had two years, it felt like eternity. And now we're somewhere halfway. My immediate instinct was to take six months off immediately. So I did say to Carly, where are we at? Like, have the Treasury come back to us? You know, are the Royal Australian Mint, they interested in it. It seems like we're getting a heavy nose from them, which is a real shame.

Then I was walking the dog during the week and it was as if it was serendipitous before this show, this final show. I saw a dog take a poo. Wasn't mine, my dog or my poo. Yeah, yeah. And then- Glad a dog didn't take your poo. A female owner went across and I saw her do that thing where she goes to open her bag little pouch and doesn't have any plastic bags in it, which is a terrible thing for a dog owner. And you're like, oh God, I can't pick it up. She turns around and she sees

another dog owner, which is just euphoric. You go, great, they might have one, they can lend. She comes across to me and says, hey, do you mind if I borrow a bag? I said, no problem. She goes, oh my God. Yeah, don't borrow it. I don't want a bag. She goes, oh my God, we've been talking about you guys this week. And I said, who and in what context?

Because you and Hamish are in the show. I said, why? And she said, we're working on the dollar coin. And I said, do you work at the Mint? She said, no. She told me where she works, but I'm not allowed to say where she works for fear of because it was very, she said it's very confidential. And she's for fear of that getting out and not ruining our chances.

Is it government? It's not government. But who else makes the money? Who else is working on coins? I'm going to outsource it. All I'm saying is, is even though we've gone silent, playing hard to get has worked because people are thinking about it. Wow.

I mean. Where is she from? Is it her job to like do the design of the coin? She works for a design firm. I mean, if you work for a coin design firm and you don't have the mint as a client, I just can't see you getting heaps of jobs. Yeah. All I'm saying is this isn't an invented story like Hamish does at the end of every year.

To be fair to Hamish, it feels a bit like one. No details, we didn't track down the details. Yeah, all the details are now allegedly secret. I will tell you guys in the break. Oh great, well I didn't know we could do secret updates. I've got heaps of loose ends I can- I don't want to rock this one. You don't want to rock the chances. Because we don't have, as you know, we don't have too many leads.

No, yeah. But she's working on the coin as if it's already been greenlit by somebody. Hasn't been greenlit. Okay. So she's working on a pitch to get it greenlit. Already been pitched. Okay, but what is... Whatever we say.

I said too much. Okay. Hang on. Okay. I'm going to do something about crumpets next year. There's a big case I've been working on, but no time to talk about it now. All right, we're wrapping up Blue Sins, and this is Biggie that's out there, but I think we can land the plane on this one.

People might remember listener Michael, who came to the show a few weeks ago as a fan of a new hobby he had taken up, but he was scared to tell his friends, digital bird collecting. So it's an app that he downloaded where you take photos of birds in the wild and it like categorizes them and then you get that bird in your digital collection. And he said, look, I'm scared to bring it up to my friends because I like this, but we've never, there's no interest in bird watching the group. I've never bird watched. All we talk about is by his estimation, 90% of the chat is about sports. Yes. And I don't know what to do to make this acceptable in the group. We wanted to help him come out about bird watching, but at first we wanted to establish

you sure your mates won't be accepting. So he called a bunch of his friends. This is very clever. As if he was working for his partner's uncle, taking market research on a new app involving birds. Hey mate. Hey man. Hello mate. Bit of a random phone call.

I'm doing my market research stuff. So first question, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being extremely interested, how interesting does this app sound to you? Do you want me to, am I supposed to pretend to be someone that's interested in birds? Like a 3? A 3? For me personally it's a 3. 2.

2, okay. So if this app was made do you think you would download it? No, no. No? No, probably not. No. What the f***? If one of your mates had this app and was snapping birds and adding them to their own digital collection do you think you'd be more likely to download the app yourself? No, not particularly. Okay. No, I'm still not going to get it. Oh my god. S**t.

I would bully them for it. Okay, so a pretty... To damn me last sentence is that I'd bully them for it. That's Mike. So he's calling me, that's a selection of his mates, like four or five of his mates. I would say unanimously they're like, okay, this isn't, that's not moving the needle for us. We're not interested in that kind of an app. But he joins us on the line now, Mike, to reveal phase two.

Michael, well done first of all. Ahoy, well done. Great gusto on the market research. How did it make you feel? Ahoy, boys. How are we? Yeah, great. Very good, mate. Yeah, so, yeah, I guess next year, next emotions, obviously, you just want to hear nothing but good news and support. But, you know, I've got some honest friends. Okay. So after that point, you'd be thinking, right, I've got this passion. I love collecting

digital birds. And did you reveal to them, Michael, then, actually I am using the app? Yeah, so it was a bit of a mic drop moment towards the end of the call. I said it's a real app and I have it. And how did they respond to that? Honestly, mixed feedback. Some were supportive, others, yeah, you heard that quote just there. One said, I'd probably bully you for it. Yeah.

So well, good on you for having the courage to come out to your friends and be who you are. And just go, look, this is me guys. I love collecting digital birds. I've got eight so far and I want to get more. Then, then phase two of the operation came in. Now you mentioned you threw out who a popular cricketer in your group would be Mitchell Stark, Australian fast bowler. Andy was able to get Mitchell Stark to record a video pretending that he was also on the birdwatching app. I guess there's some sort of like community feature where he had then sent you a message as a fellow birdwatcher. What did you think of the video first of all? Well, he loved the video. What access to context and it has.

It was amazing. That's impressive. But, um, well, it's more for the listeners. People will drop everything for the listeners. And this is a person in need. So I'm sure Mitch was happy to do it. But Michael, you then were charged with, well we'll play the video now. Yeah, it's meant to be under the guise that he is DM'd you on this app. So Mitch Stark, Australian fast bowler, is also out enthusiastically trying to search for birds. Hi Michael, I've actually seen you on the Birdwatchers app. I'm a big fan as well. I don't actually like playing golf, but I'm coming out to hunt some birds.

I'm looking for a new Holland honey eater. So hopefully I can find one before the round's done. But I look forward to sharing our passion. Lovely. Love it. When you saw that Michael, even though you know it's fake, did you feel? Are we sure it's fake? Are we sure he doesn't have an interest in birds? We're not sure. Yeah, well, I mean, Andy filmed it and took, I think it took Mitch a few goes to understand

what it was. He was using, so I think we can at this stage say it is, it was performed with your best interest in mind, but did your heart skip a beat to be like, oh, there's a guy that I idolise and he's doing the thing that I love. Yeah, it was very exciting. Very, very glad to get some support from the start. So you then put that in the group WhatsApp. What has the response been since then? So it's a busy work day, but I have had a couple of good replies. And what did you write exactly? Oh my God, the chat's blowing up Are you looking at now? Are you what have we got here? One of them's one of them said

Wow, I suddenly love this app and birdwatching. Oh, yeah one of them said if he invited me to go birdwatching I would definitely go We've done it we've've turned this ship around. I mean, Mitch did it, but you know, we had the idea of getting it done. I mean, that's huge. Michael, how do you feel now? I mean, what a great, I mean, end of the year too for us to put a real lid on this. Yeah. Boys, I'm elated. Like, it's every digital bird collector's dream just to have support of their mates and, um,

and in famous cricketers. So collecting a rare bird, I'd say. I mean, well, this is beautiful. We've tied it up with a ribbon and I hope you go into the government mandate and break with full permission and new friends to go and hunt birds with. Just a quick update too, cause it's been a couple of weeks. What's the bird count at now? Because it was at eight.

What are we at now? 22, boys. 22! And what's your best? Because last time it was a very common cockatoo. Well, it actually came into contention when my mate asked what my favorite bird was that I collected. And I told him the emu.

And that was called into question because he was like emus they're not in the wild and yet I said yeah those weren't dream world and so it's been called into question and I've debated over it my moral compass and I've since decided to delete all birds in captivity. I've got a very honest 22 birds in my digital collection. Nice Michael. And also amazing that a friend of yours is engaged enough to want to challenge the type of collections you're getting. I mean, can we still find out that, okay, of the free birds that you've seen, of the roaming birds, who's number one? I like the Laughing Kookaburra. It's just a cool bird. You know, it sounds, sounds nice.

That's just a kookaburra. There's no special species that laughs. No, no, no. But it is a cool bird. It is a cool bird. I think that's why it features so much across Australian paraphernalia. Michael, thanks so much. Really happy to wrap that one up. Thanks boys. Have a good man day to break. Yeah, we'll try mate. We'll obviously be banding against it. Watch hard. Hey, the Government Mandated Break is upon us, and this is our last, we're getting towards the end of our last show for the year. If you do have a thirst though, for us chatting at you, the remembering project also drops today.

It will be released. It's really fun doing the remembering project. Wherever you get your podcasts, it's available everywhere. Us looking back at, well, 20,000 talk breaks or whatever it might be. Yeah, back in the radio days, for people that are not familiar with the show,

we pick a random day of the year, and then we look if we had ever done a radio show ever on that day of the year, and we pick one thing we talked about from whatever year we pick and see if we remember it. Most of the time, we don't. We don't. That's going to be dropping every Thursday over the government mandated break. We have already recorded it, hence the gutter green light from the government. But boy, do we have a fair bit of back and forth with them on that one.

Yeah. No, there isn't. It's, but it checks out. The thing that I wanted to bring up, Jack and Hamish, I wanted to present to you on this show, something we talked about, because it's going to be an ongoing concern for our show now. I think it's going to leap. now. I think it's going to leap from remembering project, just kind of like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul sometimes had this crossover or Law

and Order SVU. And, you know, no one is watching Law and Order to the extent that you are. I mean, I know less people watching Better Call Saul. I personally think it's fantastic, but I mean, no one's watching there as much Law and Order as you're doing. But I think Jack will remember this too, because he was there. He was he was around for the inception of this. But yes, jumping back from the yesteryear, I think it will come up will certainly be on our slate for 2025. Yeah, this is what we talked about on the remembering project. In 2012, in this patch of July, we were in the run-up to Operation Share the Flame.

Oh, that was great fun. That's when we were broadcasting from London from your lair during the London Olympics, or in the run-up to the London Olympics. We were over there doing Gap Year and we had an idea to not steal, and that really is the critical point here. We weren't stealing. Not stealing. Because stealing would mean they wouldn't have any left.

Yeah, but to share the Olympic flame. Yes. Because one of the great things about the Olympic flame is fire can be shared. It can be multiplied. And if I have some fire and I light your fire, I do not have less fire. No. It's beautiful. It's actually a beautiful analogy.

It's like love. It multiplies. And I think that's a beautiful thing to put out in the world. So we wanted to share the flame. We wanted to have our own piece of the Olympic flame that we could keep at your apartment burning for the duration of the games. So we'll map in the run. You were going to wear a fake wooden arm, doused in kerosene.

That's right. And then radio mic as it was brought up on our website and worth a look, worth a look, because we did do the rehearsal. Yes. So I was going to wear a fake hand, Dowsing Kerosene, waving to the torch as they come past. Yes, then you would then- Dip my hand into the torch, which would ignite the hand on fire.

I then run to you waiting nearby. I put it in a lantern, get in a getaway car. I would be sprayed with the fire extinguisher and I would be arrested. But meanwhile, the flame would be safely shared. Or were we trying to cook like... It looks like there's a barbecue. That's true.

Actually, we were going to cook Olympic sausages. But again, once a flame has been shared, it could do anything. Yes. I still don't hate the idea. I was actually when we were watching... Crispin? Yeah. Yeah.

Pencil it in. We would absolutely be able to get in mole, an inside person. We'll know plenty of people that will be running with the flame. Yeah, I agree. And we do it on a back road. Like we're obviously not doing it at the stadium. Pat Cummins would probably be asked by then. And he'd probably retired by then.

Yep. Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins. Yeah. Played golf with him yesterday. Yeah. We didn't mention it to him. No,, he probably retired by then. Yep. Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins. Played golf with him yesterday. Yeah. We didn't mention it to him. No, but he seems a bit... But it was a good...

I think... But he's a rascal. He's up for fun. Yeah. And he would feign shock. Like, we wouldn't want this pinned on him. No. But he'd be like, oh yeah, I'll pretend.

I don't know what's going on. But we'd be like, all we need you to do is act like, oh, oh, oh. Confused, but dip the torch down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Be confused and have the torch and easy access. Anyway, yeah, great. We've got eight years to think of it. 2032.

2032. It's not over. No. Operation Shepard, like 20 years in the making. And I've been reinvigorated by that. I'm invigorated. It pumps you up, doesn't it? We've only got seven years to organise this, Jack. Are you back in?

So why did you say we'll be on our slate next year? Well, just planning begins. I think we should definitely set an alarm for 2031, say, so it reminds us, but there's not too much we can do next year. I just would hate to get caught with our pants down. And wish. Set the alarm then next year, which is something we can tick off next year. There you go.

Please tune in next year to hear the setting of the alarm. And then when is it, in 2032, is it mid-year? Would be for summer reasons, I guess. That's winter. That's the northern hemisphere. Yeah, it'd probably be like, I don't know. Good, great question. August, September, October?

Again, if it's early, we wouldn't want to set it in 2031. We'd want the alarm. You know what, guys, this feels like a show one next year problem of when we can set the alarm. It is in an Australian winter, July to August, 2032. Instead of put it North, makes sense. Anyway, we'll just... Again, don't do too much this year because we are ahead of schedule. Sorry.

Next year. Next year. Have a good one. Hang, you dropped a bombshell on everyone at the very top of the show today, but I'm glad you did because I think it's given us all a chance to kind of ease into what is a big announcement, but a sad announcement. Crazy news. Crazy news.

We're podcast Mike. Come on, in fact, come in podcast boy. Come in Mikey. He's on his way in. He hasn't stormed out after the... first up, how did you feel that last one was going to go down of the three things? I thought it was a creative spin on the style we've been doing in the past. So I thought that you guys would appreciate that I've been, I've been, I'm branching

out. I'm trying to, yeah, that sounds like an answer that was prepared by your lawyer. Um, you're not, you haven't been sacked for that, Mike. You are actually, you, you're going off to bigger and wider, grander creative projects and we would never dare hold you back. Um, we looked into it legally and we can't, we're not allowed to. But Mike, we've loved you being part of the show. Obviously the listeners have loved you being part of the show. Obviously, the list of love you being

part of the show. How long has it been, Mike? Two years? Seven. No, just fucking classing power move. Always good to end on a power move. Seven years. Seven of the best. Seven years. Seven of the best, Mikey.

Full time. Were you working under an alias at all? But Mike, we thought it was best for us to mention a few things in a pre-recorded manner. It's with certainess we announce that on the other side of the mandated break this year, a valued team member won't be returning. Unable to make it through the harsh winter of the break, podcast Mike is spreading his wings and soaring onto bigger and better things.

Well, who knows if they'll be bigger and better? It's very possible they'll be smaller and worse, but that doesn't mean we can't look back fondly at all the great times he's given us. Hello, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure. It's a pleasure. It's a pleasure, it's also your job. Uh...

LAUGHTER Like not being able to boil water. Hey man, how's that water going? So good. LAUGHTER Yeah, we'll be down really soon. We're going well up here, we're swimming. Great.

That's not great, that tells me it's not boiling. Too much water. You said it's... The last message we got was, it's taking half an hour to boil water. Why? Are you on a camp stove? So basically the only stove top in this building is like an inductive heat stove, like an electric heater. And you didn't have an inductive pan. And the only pot in this building is like this massive aluminium pot. So you're out on the rooftop with mirrors trying to use this a concave mirror to

boil a pot of water. And everyone's saying like oh just use a kettle or like boiling water and like I did that guys I'm not an idiot. Because down here it was feeling for a bit like you were an idiot. He was down here and he was feeling for a bit like he were an idiot. Well that was my fear. When we heard half an hour into the boiling the water saga you still had cold water. We just envisaged you up there rubbing the sides of a pot, hoping the friction. Ferociously microwaving mugs of water and tipping them into a pot. And his struggle with saying dates on the remembering project. It's the 6th of September

Can't get on that one. You just have the lock. I'm sorry. Okay It's the 6th of September It's a tough one cuz it's I don't think you're saying 6. Yeah, you say September 6, but I've done all the other ones Yeah, I can't just just blow anyone's mind other ones this way. Who cares? Just remember. Who wants to blow anyone's mind when you still know the date? I'll do fine.

You're forgetting that there's a teenage. Yeah. It's the sixth... Sorry, no, sorry. You got this. It's the sixth of... No, I can't say it. It's the sixth of September.

Yes, you're just saying six. Six. Six. It's the sixth of September. It's the sixth. We need a... Do you want to record a th separately? No, no, I'll do it. It's the sixth of September.

Is it too pronounced? It is, but it's good. It's the sixth of September. That was good. That was great. More than anything, we'll always remember the crushing 20-hour-a-week workload of organising three things and none more so than when he got the definition of a neutron wrong and had to apologise through the show's official apology language. Song. So here's my apology about subatomic particles and Andy Lee I'm not my boy Jimmy Neutron, I'm just me

Here's the chorus now, one, two, three Now yes, that was a job for me On Andy's pod with Hamish B And it's caused a little controversy So this is my apology I said, yes, that was a job for me I take all responsibility And please take this as my decree

No more mistakes, cos I'm sorry. At the time Mike lost in organising Three Things, he was able to make up by insane typing speed. There was one moment before I worked on this show where I worked at a liquor store and a guy came up to me and said, do you sell this product? I typed it into the system and he looked at me and said,

wow, you type so fast, I want you to come and work for me. That's a true story. Now, obviously, the job never came to fruition, but this did happen. That is a true story. Just to tie the things up. Where did the guy work from? I think he worked in an architecture firm. Yeah, he just won't be a type copy for it.

He's just the kind of guy that he's like, look, I have an absolute bullet train of thought. So you better try and keep up because one day I might be interested in buying Jim Beam and the next day I could be in a bread shop and I might be looking for a poppy seed loaf. And whatever I'm thinking of, I want you to time it up. He's asked for a six-pack of BB. You've ended up working for CIA. But mostly I'll miss his Pokemon knowledge that It helped me be a better informed dad.

Who does the kick? Mudbray. Mudbray. Mudbray is a ground type donkey Pokemon. I thought you knew every. Kidding. Mudbray is a ground type donkey Pokemon. And it evolves into Mudsdale at level 30.

It's not really a donkey, more like a horse. And it evolves into Mudsdale at level 30. That's not how Pokemon work. Yes it is. Yes it is. It is not. They don't have levels. They do have levels. You're listening to facts about them. What?

You're listening to facts about them. You're listening to facts about Pokemon. You're listening to facts about Pokemon. Oh Yip you are. Has cover been blown? I really aren't. I can't hear anything. Don't take it out of your pocket. No, don't take the plug out. Oh no, don't eat that back.

I need that back. That helps me think. I know. What's going on baby? Ah. I knew you were hearing purple facts. How did you know that? I could barely hear them.

Could you hear them? A little bit, yes. Good luck, Mike. Rest easy in your new role. We know the workload here has been inhumane. Can I say, and you know, probably agree, these are the hardest parts about making these shows. No it's not. The hardest part. The hardest thing about the Hamish and Abbey vodgas. I'm Skiz, I'm a toboggan, you're a snowboard, what are we?

Things people use in the snow. Alright guys, go home. That's the hard bit over. No, but now to, 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, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Powerful stuff, Mike. All the best, buddy. Thank you so much, guys. And thanks for everything you have created. It's meant the world to me. So thank you so much. I love you guys. Cheers, mate. Even though it sounded like I was crying there because I was eating some McFlurry. I am emotional to see you go, Mike. You are irreplaceable. It's on behalf of Listen to See that you've given so many laughs to, mate, we love you.

Go well. Thanks. It's nearly the end of the show, but there is one more loose end. I thought we'd tied everything up, sir. No, there is one more thing. Only a few weeks ago Jack Post after holding on to something for a couple of years raised it again with the group that he wanted to play his weasel card. We all agreed that once only on the pod we can name a company and hope that they send us something for free.

Blatantly name check them and through no smoke or mirrors simply get on our knees and beg. And there was a rule that came up at the time which was if everyone gets it, it's fine. The other two won't stand in the way if they too can wet their whiskers. This is what Jack asked for. No, I want a golf cart. A motorised golf cart.

A motorised golf cart. Not like the one that you drive, the one that you're a moat. The one that you drive. A motorised golf buggy. motorised golf cart? Not like the one that you drive, the one that you remote. The one that you drive. A motorised golf buggy. No, the one that you drive. The one that you drive. Jack, they're like 15 grand aren't they? They've got to be expensive.

I didn't want to waste it on just anything. Well the system works Jack. Oh my god. You're kidding me. I won't ask you what your preferred one was because I think you've named a different brand to the one that's come from. I am not picky.

Have you really got a golf cart? Well, you were picky. I'll say it because we said that there were two main brands, Yamaha and Club Car. Yep. And you opted for Yamaha. I play their guitars, I thought the guitars might be as good as their cars. So I would happily drive a Yamaha golf cart, but Club Car is probably my preferred golf

cart. It is ours as well. It is ours as well. The Weasel, always known for his excellent sense of smell. And when he senses the winds changing, the weasel can smell which way to go. The weasel is chosen wisely by moving in the direction of Club Car. Also a famous golf cart brand. Now Club Car reached out to us, Jack.

You're kidding if this is real. And they are happy to be the heroes here. And again, they've always been my preferred. I've independently always found them the best value in experience. Well, they actually don't distribute straight to the consumer. There's an intermediate, which is in golf and utility, who have always been my favourite intermediate. In terms of Golf Cart middlemen, I wouldn't go anywhere else. So Club Car, brought to you by InGolf and Utility, have raised their hand and said, we will participate. This is the voicemail message though, left by Andrew from Clubcar on my phone yesterday. Hey Andy, it's Andrew from Clubcar here.

Sorry we keep missing each other. We'd love to help out with the golf cart. We'd only be able to provide one no due to expense, but hopefully you can understand that. Buzz me back to chat about it. Cheers. Okay. This.

That does throw a cat amongst the pigeons. Oh. Okay. This. That does throw a cat amongst the pigeons. Yes. A ball in the bunker because one is not the deal. Well, Jack was the one that brought up the fact that it had to be for all of us or it was none. I mean, I thought I meant like it could be for all of us. Like when Andy, you asked for the vacuum cleaner,

they were nice enough. We didn't ask for three, but they were nice enough to send three and I'll even give my vacuum cleaner back. If you want. Thanks mate. From two years ago. That will cover the golf cart.

Let's ask Club Car. Okay, we know you're only sending one golf cart. What if we gave you two used vacuum cleaners? Do you think you could shake loose another two cards? It was clear on the day. I was like, I'm not going to give you a vacuum cleaner. I'm going to give you a vacuum cleaner.

I'm going to give you a vacuum cleaner. I'm going to give you a vacuum cleaner. I'm going to give you a vacuum cleaner. I'm going to give you a vacuum cleaner. I'm going to give you a vacuum cleaner. What if we gave you two used vacuum cleaners? Do you think you could shake loose another two cards? It was clear on the day that Grab was there. You were keen to enjoy this new system where it was one for all or none for all, Jack. We end this year's pod with a decision. But before you jump in now, I want you to think about it really carefully. Okay. We'll give you some time to think. Well I think it's fair to say

that the entire world is eagerly awaiting the outcome of this monumental decision. This is something that we did two years ago on the show it's been in the back of my head ever since waiting for the right time. This is absolutely extraordinary. Well everybody is on pins and needles across the country, and today is the right time to bring it up. Oh, what a golf cart. This is absolutely extraordinary, and it is stunning. While the stakes are clear to us all,

it's amazing to think just how we've arrived here. We're allowed one weasel each for three pigs. One's each, but we all get the thing. This is epic. This is monumental. And let's not forget exactly what was said. Um, it's on the record. It's been widely reported. You're gonna send three of each. It's like when you bring a cake to school

and the teacher says, you got enough for everybody? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, thanks. Because we can't dispute that fact. So that's quite correct. We can't dispute that point. We all get the thing. Oh, what a golf cart.

Not like the one that you drive, the one that you remote. The one that you drive. I'm not a golf buggy. No, the one that you drive. Jack, they're like 15 grand, aren't they? I didn't want to waste it on just anything. Hey Andy, it's Andrew from Club Car here. Sorry we keep missing each other.

We'd love to help out with the golf cart. We'd only be able to provide one no due to expense, but hopefully you can understand that. Now we gather here because the time has come. This is a huge decision, huge impact. I've never seen this before, a decision like this be made by one individual. Imagine the pressure on this man.

Big deal. It's a huge decision. You got enough for everybody? We all get the fee. We'd only be able to provide one note. I want a golf cup. The time has come where actions speak louder than words. We've had everybody else biting their nails, so I guess it's time for them to stop chewing.

The answer to the question everybody wants to know. What's your decision? So you're asking me to make a decision on behalf of the team. If I would be happy to accept just one or not, is that what you're asking me? I would be happy to accept one golf cart and for you guys to not get one. Yes. Zero hesitation. I didn't have a clock running on that, but that was never as a man spoke truer from his heart. I'd love to say that was all a joke, but it's not.

You've got yourself a card. You're kidding me. No, you're kidding. Thanks to Club Card for you. You paid the weasel card. We've been stiffed out of our cards. So obviously you are happy to pay the weasel card with conditions. Guys, unlimited rides for both of you.

Unlimited rides. Oh wow. Thanks Jack. But Club Card for you by engulfing utility, I should say that. unlimited rides. Oh wow. What a thrill. Thanks Jack. No, no, no, you've done all the work. You've done all the work. I should say that. Do you want to say it again clearer? Club Car brought to you by InGolf and Utility.

Thank you Club Car, thank you InGolf and Utility. I won't let you down. You guys are going to have as many rides as you want. And I'll even take some listeners for a ride. He's so drunk on the excitement. What else will you do for the listeners, Jack? Don't ask it. It'll be a pain in the ass. What a bombshell.

Jack, will you take one listener to the Gold Coast to Movie World? No, no, no. But I'll do many things with the golf cart for them. If they want to ride in it, if they can go in it. Let's just make this clearer. Let's just actually. How many rides are you giving away? 50?

Can I put down? It will pick three. People submit how they'd like to you to. I want to hear Jack over promise. Okay. Three is probably a reasonable amount. I reckon we could have had him promise 50. He was high and excited.

Can I just ask you this? Because I know the great people from club car. And in golf and utility. In golf and utility. We'll be listening. Where will you store the cart during the week? Well, I'll have to like, maybe get like a shed or something out the back that I can put it in of my house.

So you're going to buy a shed? Yeah. Well, cause I don't want it outside in the rain. No, but currently if it, if it gets delivered like this weekend, where's it going? I'm so excited. Well, we'll go to my house. Yeah, I know. But where, like, where do you, what are you going to keep it under in case it rains?

Well, I can't. There's the, I don't have any, I've got no carport, no garage. I guess I could bring it inside. The back doors are wide enough. Maybe the back doors are wide enough. How big is your back door? No, it's got like a double, double opening. So you build a ramp up to the back to rock you golf cart into the lounge room. And then it'll sit behind the couch. And we could even watch movies from it, maybe.

This is God. I can't wait. An amazing way to end the pod. I don't want to show full excitement until I know it's 100% real. But it's no trick, last minute trick. His club car adventures will be a feature next year's pub. Thanks for being with us this year. Unfortunately, the government are coming down hard on us. We've got to go out of here.

But enjoy your government mandate at a break if you can, everybody. And we'll catch you. You won't regret this. You won't regret this. Thanks for listening. The Haymish and Andy podcast will be back again next year. In the meantime, new episodes of Haymish and Andy's remembering project will drop every week across summer.