Hamish & Andy - 2025 Ep 292 - The North Man Prophecy

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

It struck a nerve (an erogenous one, no less) when we showed a lack of gusto in breaking the World’s Tallest Hat record — but your influx of great ideas has kept the dream alive. The wash-up from the Special Skills Conclave saw a groundswell of support for the “North Man” as the true Chosen One, and Hamish may have found a piece of evidence supporting this prophecy. Meanwhile, a long-forgotten promise from Hamish has somehow resurfaced on Andy’s weekend AM radio show, “The Mid Morning Cuppa”. Plus, it’s Andy’s Birthday Week — so Hamish has decided to “Pleasure Andy” with your calls!  1. Tallest hat suggestions 2. Hamish’s ancient discovery 3. Pleasure Andy 4. Mid Morning Cuppa 

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Character names. Positions, character names. I'm Starbuck. These are My Little Ponies? No. Thunderbirds. The three senior officers aboard the whaling ship in the very famous novel Moby Dick.

Really? I have not, I don't think I've read it. I know the opening lines call me Ishmael, but I only know it for its opening line because it was often referenced in Snoopy comics. Oh my god. Stubham is the second mate. So in my head I've... Jovial, easy going, humorous character.

Thank you. Flask, rather aggressive and combative personality over there Jack. And Steve's the third mate in Starbuck, just so happens it's the first mate. So is Ishmael not actually a character? I think he's the captain. Isn't he? Hunting Moby Dick? Uh oh, we're out of our depth. I'm out of our depth. Alert, alert, alert.

We've got trivia nerds rushing to give us feedback, as always when we just go off on the hunches and strong vibes based on things we read in Snoopy. I've got Captain Ahab. I think Ahab is the captain. There we go. So now we've got about five people. Yeah.

Yeah, well it's a big boat. Yeah. And then you've got Moby. Moby's not in the boat. He's under the boat. Big though. Hey, also ahoy to Dave. Dave Nolan who went to hamishnady.com, uploaded what he's under the boat. Big though. Hey, also a hoi to Dave. Dave Nolan, who went to hamishnitty.com,

uploaded what he's been doing to keep us abreast of his actions. Hi boys, happy birthday Andy. Just doing a bit of a trip. I'm in this little southeast Queensland town called Inglewood. We've a one horse town and even the horse has left, I think. The local motel's advertising has colour TV,

so she's a bit behind the times. But interestingly what they do have is the Australian Tobacco Museum so I thought I'll go have a look at that. So I went in there and you wouldn't believe it or maybe you would, just pictures of Andy Lee everywhere smoking cigarettes like you wouldn't believe. Beck would be shocked. Anyway boys keep up the good work. I can't believe. Beck would be shocked. Anyway, boys, keep up the good work. Cepia, cepia photos of people that look like Andy passing out sample, sample gaspers at

the gold rush and things like that. Not true. Haim. Smoke a lucky stick while you pan, sir. What's the worst that could come of it? The good stuff. And he's just trying to get you back on track by saying the one word that's on the run sheet. Hats.

Say hats. Get into hats. No, tallest hats. We have talked about the world's tallest hat for a while. Quick refresher. I think we just brought it up as a joke. I think I was saying I was looking at my kids are quite into the Guinness Book of Records. It's a fun book to read when you're a kid.

And the tallest hat is about five meters. And obviously when you're going for tallest hat, it's kind of pointless. Like you are just going for the tallest hat. There's no function to the height of a hat. There's a function to the width of the brim. But even I feel like we've pushed those boundaries pretty far on our increasing brim prank last year.

Yeah, I've seen it. There's a lot of things in Guinness World Records that aren't practical. In fact, they all aren't practical, you're right. Oh, yeah. Well, this one could be. I mean, if you add, obviously some parents put like a flag on their kids when they're in crowd situations. I like to identify things.

So Andy's got the tall hat so you can pick him out. If you're the parent that wants to identify the child the most, make sure you get the tallest hat, five metre hat. If everyone starts doing it now, if all kids are wearing two metre hats, how will you know where you're kidding? So many emails. We said, and I have to rewind exactly for this, but I think our vibe was like, look, we're not doing that.

We don't want to do this. We've actually never passed this on a way to somewhere else. Yeah. Yes. We accidentally passed this and, and we've been in radio for, you know, let's say 20 plus years. Everyone's had a crack at a Guinness world record. Every single radio show in the world.

And we've kind of always viewed it as with all due respect to our brothers and sisters in radio, kind of easy, low hanging fruit. Yeah. Like you, you ever, if you go, low hanging fruit. Yeah. Like you, everyone in chiefs can. Hack jobs. If you can be, if you, like, hack content. With all due respect, hack content. But if you got, if you can be bothered, you could also have the most

grapes in a bathtub, if you can be bothered or whatever. Has your radio show gone for one? No, but we used to have Shane Crawford coming in as our footy correspondent once a week. He did one once a week, didn't he? He was at the point on the footy show where he was doing one a week. And that's when you know that they're not that special. If you can break a record per week. Yeah, because now if it's like, oh, okay, well, I'll put the most amount of roller skates

in a drying machine. But with custard on my head. Yeah. Oh, okay. They become so specific, don't they? Anyway, so that's why we were like, no, no, no, we're not doing the roller skate. We might be. It struck a nerve.

Everyone's been, so many people put on board. It always struck a nerve, could be a bad thing. It struck an erogenous zone. More accurate. struck an erogenous zone. So it's hit one of them. People feel good about it. Keep it right there boys. Keep that. Give the tool head stuff right there because just keep going exactly like

that. Don't change it. Don't change it. That's the thing. And we want to stop. But we can't. We're tired. A little bit note, but we also put your pleasure ahead of our joke or whatever it is. So here we go. All right, we're in that. We're doing that. We're doing it. We might be doing that because of the... We're just going to do it. And like, let's start.

Let's start with a few things that have come in. First of all, when you read out the rules originally, which we'll have to go back and study more closely because we just remember you fleetingly telling us. But something that people are really gravity gravitating to and jumping on is the fact that you measure from the base. I think the word base was used, base of the hat. Now, Adam Spencer, who's a big fan of the show.

Hello, Spence. Spence, he wrote in saying, why don't you do a very long Legionnaires hat? Clever. We have a few. Yeah. I imagine it's measured up into the sky. I got another email from a guy here, Josh Munn, same idea.

Yeah, he's just like, look, because that's the base. So you could have it go right down to your feet. And you're going to add, for us, Ando, we're over 1.9 meters. So you're adding, let's say, 1.8 meters of free height, by adding the flap on the back. If it goes all the way down to your ankles. I worry that that is an obvious loophole. I think they might go, no, it's from where?

The hat attaches to your head. Yeah, I would argue that is the base. Yes. And it goes upwards and downwards from there. Some people were suggesting corks hats, like is the base of a cork hat. I don't think the base of a corked hat is where the corks dangle. I think the base is the part that goes around your head. I've got an email here from a guy called Blake.

I'm just going to bang through a few ideas here. Blake, you guys think I've found an inexpensive and easy way to construct it, which is not really our goal. I'm happy to chuck a lot of money at this. The mains are bored, but thank you though for looking. Because what about telescopic fishing pole? I found a 6.2 meter version for 47 bucks online. I'm sure a superior pole exists, an SP if you will, but a fishing rod would also conveniently

fit into the centre hole on top of a skateboarding helmet. Once you have that, you can make the rest of the hat with some AC posters taped into a tube shape, secured to the pole. That's not what I do, A-Tube cardboard being far too thick, but I understand he's saying you've got 6.2 metres of stability there and then something on the outside. We need to check the rules on that. Whether there's a spire where you have to you're allowed to have an internal spire. You can't going to be hollow.

I don't know. That's something I think that's why we need to go through this. The other part that I want to lock down is can you have a chin strap? Because you say put it to like that's like a helmet. It does feel like cheating in a way. Oh, you look at all the kids like all the wide brim hats you play with around at school, you do have a chin strap. You've got to, you get a, you'll add a little rope strap.

There are lots of hats in the world that have a chin strap. It's just where the house is allowed to have one. Baggy greens don't have a chin strap. There are some that don't and would look silly with it. That's true. Can I throw this at your hand? Just for these people's offering their assistance. Grace, 21.

I am fourth year aerospace engineer. Hired. At USYD, the world's tortoise hat has piqued my interest. And I believe I can design a 10 meter tall hat that meets all requirements. As to not take the record from you, I would merely like to do the design and build the hat for you and you take all the glory, which is something that does appeal to us. That's generally our preferred terms.

Yeah. Great. She's shortlisted for staff. That's exactly the kind of brain power we need on this. Adam is having a think. He goes, think I've got the perfect solution. My pitch is simple. Tall chef's hat, but made out of the same material the wavy tube men at the front of car dealerships are made of. Needs to be tightly fitted around the head. So maybe some sort of elastic band or drawstring. Then we just pump her full of helium. It'll be both lightweight and structurally strong. Happy for you guys to take the credit.

Just a gracious nod my way. Whilst completing the required walk would be appreciated. Helium's not a bad idea. Helium's a good idea and I think we absolutely employ it. Whatever the final structure is, I think we make it airtight to the head and pump it full of helium. Yes. Dave Hodges from the US also wrote in saying, let's use helium. I think pumping up the whole thing for he just had a series of balloons inside a giant top hat, which I think

you really wouldn't need the chin strap. Wouldn't you? Then it could create the hilarious mishap where it's too many and he floats away. I've got a scary email here from anonymous world record holder. Hello fellas. I thought I'd send you a quick email. I'm the current world record holder for the largest hat. I heard what you said about not wanting to team up and I'm glad you said no, because I think we said it sometimes. Do we do it with him or do we beat him? He was Australian, that's right.

Yeah, I think he's from Melbourne. Got no chance of beating my hat. Really, this is just a gloating email to say, I have the record, you're never going to get it. All the best, your enemy. It's nice to have a nemesis for something like this. Do you think he really wrote that though, or just any old stranger wrote that? He might have dictated it. He might be so powerful he has henchmen. Have you written that yourself to try and enthuse, to try and make us?

Everyone's talking. No, no, we hit a nerve on him. That wasn't an erogenous zone. Depends what you're into. The sometimes they can be very close to each other or at the same time. I'm Casey. Roy boys in relation to the tallest hat. Also an aerospace engineer, but I own a 3D printer and happy to help out with a 3D scan of a head even if we want to make sure the aerodynamic tall hat can fit perfectly on a head. That's a generous offer, but we do have a head. Why don't we just use our heads? Getting the shape of a head is not our main material problem. But that's a great, I mean, keep all, anyone in the science field, we keep them close.

Look, I think we start chasing this and we start assembling a bit of a crack team to engineer the hat with these ideas. I think helium is great. We'll look at, we can do the central structure. Flaps, good loophole, probably out the Legionnaire cheat. This comes from Nat and does flag, I think a good thing for us to flag sort of as we enter the R&D stage. Hello boys, just listening to you deliberate

who would wear the World's Tores hat, I had immediate concerns about little boy Jack and his extremely weak neck. I must remind you that while you were bringing peace to the north in Darwin, you traveled on a slightly bumpy road. This resulted in Jack kinking his neck and ruling him out for the day. I think it's best of you, Hamish or Andy, to carry the load. Good luck. I mean, you guys can attest to how bumpy that road was and you can't really even... My neck was fine.

No, no, but you were in the front of the car and the back of the car is where we were getting the most shock. The shockwave. What about this? Okay, well if you do want to wear the hat, Jack, we'll need to run you through a series of speed bump tests to make sure it can handle it. I've been pondering that as well. I wonder whether, because we have to walk how far with the hat on?

I wasn't very far. Five, 10 metres, 10 steps, something like that. Should we have in the lead up, have some kind of situation, training method or competition between the three of us, who can walk the furthest with, I don't know, with books on their head, whatever we decide just to pick the right person? Or do we get to, would we bring someone from outside like Daniel Ricciardo, because they have to have, Formula One drivers have to have really strong necks for G-force. That would be funny.

We need the person with the superior posture to be able to handle that. And that could be, yeah, and it was, yeah, Ricciardo, he's not doing any F1 stuff, is he? Cause he's just, everywhere you look, he's promoting something or he's got a whine out. His calendar is freer. I feel like of all the years of his career

to test drive the world's tallest hat, this is the one. Yeah, but I think he regards himself as being pretty cool. So we gotta hate you. What are you saying, mate? What are you saying? We haven't even built the hat, mate. You can't already think a 10-meter hat's gonna be cool. Yeah, good.

Oh, good. So yeah, as far as Dan's concerned, I think he's like busily trying to catapult out of F1 and try and rebrand. It's a rebrand. Yeah. Try and brand it. And so for just picture him in the paddock, like he still goes to F1 events. Yeah.

He's not wearing it there. No, but I'm just saying like this strap is sitting down in the box in front of someone. Sorry, mate, could you take your hat off? People upstairs want you to take it off too. An Oscar and that. Like, what are you going to do? Miss F1? Nah.

You guys are just winning championships. I'm actually breaking actual records. Yeah. Everyone's won a race. You got to break the record. I'm just not sure if it's going to be... Well, we are. We are just winning championships. I'm actually breaking actual records. Yeah. Everyone's won a race. Yeah. We've got to break the record. I'm just not sure if it's going to be... Well, we are.

We are. We are. We are. We are Scandi. Guys, of course, the huge news from the week as people grapple to get their head around it is, um, Andy, again, congratulations, but your win in the knee, the knee run as Larry, the chosen one, um, from the conclave, unfortunately, sorry, it's getting a bit

emotional. It has nothing to do with the food you were just eating before. Yep. Had a peanut butter shake, but also a little bit emotional. Unfortunately, Larry, um, was not able to beat you in the knee running race. Therefore, seems to be an incorrectly chosen one, chosen chosen one, or just one of those rare chosen ones that doesn't get the job done. Now the wash up has been fascinating.

Yep. As people have digested it, a lot of passion. Like people have been looking at the video, watching the race, thinking about the job done. Now the wash up has been fascinating. Yep. As, um, as people have suggested a lot of passion, like people have been looking at the video, watching the race, thinking about the conclave. One of the key things that's come out of it. Um, I would say from the post-conclave into Larry's run is a group of people that feel that the Northman. A lot of. Yeah, I've seen the grants well for that. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, across every social pipe. If you just give you the pod right now, we encourage you to go back and start from the start. But welcome. Everyone's welcome. We, a special skill last week, the Northman was a guy that said that, what was his name again, Jay? His name was Charlie. And his special skill was he could stand anywhere.

You could put him anywhere, spin him around, blindfold him, put him inside, outside, and he would know where North is. Yep. Now, he wasn't chosen from the conclave. No. The whole point of the conclave was to let the true chosen one emerge. The absolutely voracious appetite from people who kind of feel like a

travesty took place, Jack, where the only time the votes weren't locked, one all, in the conclave, was one of the rounds where Charlie got two votes. Yes. Now people have gone a step further and looked into how the actual Pope conclave works The magic number is two-thirds You can't vote for yourself. Yeah, that's true Actually watched the movie because I knew I was conducted the conclave yet still failed to do what they don't make that clear in the movie I knew I was conducting the Conclave yet still failed to do what they did. They don't make that clear in the movie. No, I didn't think so either. I've watched the movie a 12 years.

I've heard this on a bunch of other stuff. He actually fulfilled the Conclave rules. So a lot of people pointed that to be like, he was the chosen one, but he was overridden by Jack just choosing Larry, the knee running. That's why I think you see a lot of comments on Instagram and stuff going Northman, Northman, we want Northman, King of the North, the King of the North, the North shall rise. And those types of things. You see a lot of that.

You see a lot of, and a lot of people point to Larry's failure as evidence that yes, of course he failed. He wasn't the chosen one. This all makes perfect sense in that lens. Now, last week on the show, we had a Royal Commission, we looked at everything that happened and we went, look, blame was divvied up percentage wise. And I think when we left it, we just said, look, maybe if, maybe if the speed undresser comes for it, they might be the true chosen one. He's the only one who can knock it.

So I was kind of happy to put it to bed. There's always going to be a little bit of controversy about stuff on the show. That's what we love about it. Everyone's got their opinion. Everyone has a different perspective. Until I was in here a little earlier today before we began the show, and I'm poking around and a panel falls away from the wall. And behind the panel is a stone

on the other side of this soundproofing here in the studio. I gently press on the stone. To my surprise, it moves. There was a strange symbol on the stone, but I can come back to that on another show. The panel moves. I take out from behind it what seems to be an ancient parchment that I hold now in my hand. Looks like a full paper.

In your handwriting. No, it's stained. As you can see, and torn. It's torn. Now I knew you'd say this. I knew you'd be like, oh, did you just make that yourself? So as soon as I realized what was going on, okay, I've uncovered some kind of tomb here. Who knows what this is. I quickly turned on the recording stuff

so I could record me finding it. That's the biggest shock that you knew how to turn on the recording. Well, have a listen. What the heck is this so there we go actuality Wow okay I did I can even hear the paper rustling if you listen carefully carefully. What the heck is this? Like I said, I did doubt you, but now I don't. So read out what's this. It's a scroll.

It's a scroll? Well, yeah. It looks to be some kind of, I don't know, written by the ancient podcasters, I suppose. Ones that have come millennia before us. Should I just read it for you? Yeah, please. We can stop and analyze as it goes, because I'm just a poor little, I've read ahead, but there's a few bits here where we might need to kind of piece a few clues together.

But I think we'll get it. To podcaster of future, read, beware. One will emerge from conclave through vote unfair. That's a rhyme. Well, yes, it's sort of a cryptic rhyming. Riddles. Through vote unfair, I suppose they're saying there'll be a conclave, but the vote will be unfair. That checks out.

The vote was overruled by the marshal of the conclave. To save a segment, one will stand small. He must be talking about the knee running. Of course. Yeah. But though big of heart, short of line, he will fall. Must be talking about him not winning the finish line. I think that must be the segment dead no more will come forth.

Must be talking about how special skills is dead and now no more skills are coming forth. Must be. But the curse will be lifted by the true king of the knot. It cuts out. Well, it's true King of the Knot. It cuts out. Well, it's... I don't know what the last bit says. Yeah, it's ripped off.

The curse will be lifted by the true King of the Knot. Could it be North? And is it could it be Mac? Isn't it capital N? Yep. And what was the symbol on the stone that you talked about? We can come back to that in another episode. Okay.

But it looked a little like what a rudimentary compass. Pointing north? There was a larger indent at the top of the compass where north traditionally is. Now I'm not, because I'm just putting facts out there. I'm not trying to lead the witness. I'm not saying some sort of ancient sect for saw this and Charlie, the true king of the North is the chosen one. And we have to get him and do some sort of midnight ritual in the forest. We're all in robes and there's a bonfire and stuff.

And we make him point north. I'm not saying that. But isn't that an interesting thought? saying that, but isn't that an interesting thought? What are your valid beliefs? I'm just saying. There's been a lot of groundswell to try and get the King of the North back in to do it. Charlie, the fact that you've managed to find this parchment, it further puts...

Yeah, if it was just the comments, then we could let it go. But the parchment is so real. Powerful, isn't it? Yeah. So real. Convincing. You can't hold something that's not real in your hands. And we have it here. Okay, well.

The curse will be lifted by the true king of the knot. I'll take this to the lab and I will do a little bit more digging around on this and have a think about what it means. But I feel like, you know, since it's an ancient parchment, maybe I have a dig around for some more parchment and it will have more details on what the ritual should look like. Should we choose to do... If you have time. If I have time. Should we choose to do North Fest or have some sort of North ritual? Yep. In the forest? In robes. Before we go on, just like to say ahoy boys and happy birthday, Andy.

He's made us very aware, very aware, getting lots of gift suggestion emails from Andy. Oh, it's your real birthday time for Andy. Yeah. Oh, happy real birthday. It's his birthday year. No. It's his birthday year, but we're now coming into the birthday week where he makes an extra

big deal of it. And you might get a couple of links to fun places. It might be cool to surprise him, as an email I got during the week said, here's a place that could be fun to have a surprise party for me. That's not true. Anyway, yes. So to help Ando make a big deal, a few people might remember a couple of years ago, to celebrate Andy's birthday week, we did Pleasure Fest. You had the opposite of Upset Andy.

Yeah, I liked it. Pleasure Andy. And, and I thought we get a lot of submissions. We get a lot more for Upset Andy, but we do get a few coming in for Pleasure Andy. We collect them, we bank them, and once a year as a special birthday treat, we turn the tables, now it's time to Pleasure Andy. Now it's time to pleasure Andy. We've come a long, long way together Through the fast times and the loose

I've got to celebrate you Andy I have to please you like I should Please Andy Please Andy It's deliberately flat and off time to annoy him It doesn't please me It's meant to please him Just hearing back to that I was like, oh that's right, I think it was a bit of a rush that day to do that

and I meant to come back to that to clean it up. Should we ever do it again? However, fast and loose, who's got time to go back and re-record? Openers, Ando, so many people to please you. Just flick something to your computer there. This is the first one from Mitch. This is a visual one. Look at this. This is a run on Strava. He has run 6Ks. On the nose though. Pace, 6.00 kilometres. Pace, 5.00 minutes per kilometre. Time, 30 minutes, zero seconds. Everything cold. You love that? Everything. Everything nice and neat.

Yep. How much would you love that? I'm going out for a half an hour run, get home, I've bloody done it. Exactly the split. That's tough to do. Mate, I know. They were just the distance for me. So I'm getting the split. Mitch, thank you for that.

That has pleased me on my so-called birthday week in inverted commas. Well, it's not on the so-called. It is your birthday week. Okay. Happy birthday. So-called by you two. Well, it's not so cold. It is your birthday week. Okay. Happy birthday. So called by you too. Oh, mate. Don't.

I love this double act that you play. Come on air. Get on with it. Who's this guy? I'd love to have him around the office rather than sliding the innovations magazine from the airplane across to us with a few things circled. Wouldn't mind those tall shoes. Wouldn't mind a hollowed out encyclopedia Britannica or two to hide things in.

Okay, Daniel, do you have something to please Andy? Oh boys, happy birthday Andy. Oh, it's a boy and thank you. The spirit. In my kitchen, in the top cupboard, I keep all my wine glasses and some champagne glasses there as well. And the champagne glass fits perfectly between the bottom of the shelf and the top. There's probably about a millimeter gap at the top. Not even enough for dust to get in. Yeah, right. Ah, it's more of a dust. Oh, I love it, Daniel.

Really pleasing. Is it too close? Does it make it difficult to take it out? That's like a Tetris slot in. Yeah. You have to go very slow, otherwise you will have a break in a broken glass. Oh no, that is much better. That's the price you pay for it almost.

Sealed in glass. And I imagine, can you just answer me this, Daniel? Do you have the right amount of glasses? So, you know, say if it's three deep, three deep, three deep or four deep, four deep. So it's, you know, you've got at least full lines. It's perfectly three by two. Yeah, nice, man. Thank you. Andy doesn't want to load.

Clap him. That's super pleasing, Daniel. Would you do in that scenario? And if you broke one? I'd get another one. Or I try to work out a different formation. I have before. Five flat somewhere.

I have before put away spares in a different spare cupboard. So they're still equal. So they can become equal. So they're allowed to be unequal in that cupboard. Yeah, often still boxed. OK. My God. How do you get anything done? Very, very efficiently.

Just with all this cataloging and organising. Every time I need a battery at home, I always think Andy would know exactly where his batteries were in this scenario. And that's the only time I feel that I should do what you do. But all the other days of the year, I just like it. I needed a button battery, Jack, for like, like first thing on my bike. And of course I couldn't find one. I'm like, I assume there's one floating around somewhere. I went, okay, well fair play.

Andy would know if he had a button battery or not, because they're all different sizes and codes. So I went, you know what? This will never happen to me again. And I bought five button batteries at the supermarket and dispersed them around the house. That's not the same as Andy's sister. ever happened to me again and I bought five button batteries at the supermarket and dispersed them around the house. That's not the same as Andy's system. No, no, no. This is my system. One in the pantry, one in the garage, one's in my bedside drawer. And it's been a year

now. This battery you don't need to replace that much. So I'm finding batteries all the time going. I'm like, damn Andy for making me adopt this many battery strategy. What was the disbursement strategy? Because he doesn't know where to look for a battery. I don't know where they are. I don't know where they are. So now he's got many spots. I've got so many I can't help but come across them. Because the way my brain works is where would I store battery? I don't have a spot. I have to way my brain works is where would I store battery? I don't have a spot. I have to hypnotize myself foremost and try and remember where would I hide batteries

if I was Hamish? And I am him. And now he's giving himself five times the chances of finding it next time. That's exactly right, Jack. I'll give you 10,866 tickets in a lottery. Lara, ahoy to you Lara. Ahoy boys and happy birthday Andy. Good on you Lara. What have ahoy to you, Lara. Ahoy, boys, and happy birthday, Andy. Good on you, Lara. What have you got to please or pleasure Andy?

So for a few weeks, my grandpa was driving his car more than normal and we couldn't work out why. And then he went to take it for its service and he very proudly showed us that his odometer was 123456 as we drove into the mechanics. Really like it. Yeah, that's really special. So he was driving to get the miles up.

Yeah, just because. Yeah, to pull in on that last kilometre. Like he had to time it to the K. Yep. Yep. I'd get a tow. If I stuffed it up, I'd get a tow truck that's that last little bit. Someone's reversing from two kilometres away to try and get into the mechanics.

Lara, thank you. I appreciate him. Amraj, ahoy to you. Ahoy. Congrats on the SP Hamish and congrats on the BD Andy birthday. I thought BD was big. And I was like, well, you can't congrats us both. One has to be superior.

I know, beautifully done, Amraj. Thank you, sir. What have you got to please Andy on this BDW? Yes. So I'm the very proud owner of a garden tap, a hose and a gun style, not gun, pressure trigger to order my garden. Yeah, I've got the same. Have you got a twist nodule at the end of it so you can go through different sprays,

mists, jets? Yes, of course, of course. Yeah, yeah. Must be nice. It is. And then sometimes I get my common man on and I water my own garden and my lawn and that. And whenever I'm done, of course, I let go of the trigger to stop the water flow and

then turn the tap off at the wall. But here's the key step. I always squeeze the trigger that little bit more just to release the pressure. Oh yes. So turn the tap off at the wall, but you, you know there's pressure in the hose still. That could still. Yeah. What could be putting stress on the system or the spring?

And that's where and here. I'm Rage. I love it for you. I wouldn't do it myself. And I'd be happy to leave it. Happy to leave it loaded. Yeah. One in the chamber. Yeah. Sometimes I know this is it goes against things, but sometimes I don't even turn off the tap. No, I didn't know you had to turn off the tap. I have never turned my tab off at the tap and quite often I will be walking out the door and see it's exploded through the door because I have it on full ball all the time. Yeah and I'll see that the pistol's shot off because it should have been replaced many times ago and I've just squashed

it back on. Yeah yeah so that's your issue. I'm confident that I've got a well-kept pistol at the end so I'm not going to do that. That must be very nice. Amaraj, thank you. Even just this small chat about mists and jet propulsion has pleased me. What's your favourite setting? Okay, guys, say there Amaraj, just because I think you guys are pretty similar, the people that like the pistol attachment. Have a think about this, because on the count of three,

what are we doing? I'm going to say to you what your favorite setting is. Yeah, but what are we doing? What are you doing? What's the task? What's the task with the hose? Yeah, but what are we doing? Okay, mate, relax.

You're watering roses. Oh, spray. No, mate, just play for the game. You can change what you do. All have, alright, you're watering, you're at the edge of your garden. You're watering some natives that are three meters away. Okay. Yep. On the count of three.

One, two, three. Spray. Sprinkle shower. Sprinkle shower is the same thing. Yeah, three. Spray. Sprinkle shower. Sprinkle shower, same thing. Yeah, okay. It's like a really underwhelming version of Family Feud or something, isn't it? Where it actually adds in different and you go to Denya, same thing. Same thing.

I'm not sitting down for that. You reckon the shower will go three meters? I thought you'd need the jet to get that distance. Nah, the jet would be way too powerful for that. The spray would be fine. You miss, you're not going to get anywhere near it. You need that even distribution. Yeah.

Sometimes I, I mean, again, this is a fast and loose thing, but I always have it on jet. Idiot. And because I can't be bothered looking down and doing all the changing. Sometimes I, I mean, again, this is a fast and loose thing, but I always have it on jet. Idiot. And because I can't be bothered looking down and doing all the changing. So I just, I'll just wiggle it in the air as fast as I can. Take some of the heat off it. Take the power out.

Thank you, Amaraj. Emma, bring this home for us. You've got to please Andy Dee. Emma, ahoy to you. Ahoy boys and happy birthday, Andy. Thank you. So I ahoy, boys, and happy birthday, Andy. Thank you. So I'm a pretty organised person. So for the clothes I wear to work,

I have a list of around 17 different outfits that include the top, the pants, the shoes, and the jumpers. And then each day I pick what's next on the list, and it makes my morning super efficient. Oh, wow. I reckon Andy's torn here because he loves that efficiency. Yeah. No, I mean,'s torn here because he loves that efficiency. Yeah. I don't think he does that, but I would love to be at Andy's house and find that list.

That would make my day to just see jeans, white shirt, dimmies and tinny tats. Like, oh boy, he's planning it. He's planning it. I, again, I don't want to play genderenders here, but I think that would be more helpful for females. It seems like there's far more combos going on for Bec when I see her go about her. You don't want to trickle shower on her parade. Yeah, but because I obviously wear the same jeans for two weeks or short if it's hotter, and then a white tee hat. You don't need too much planning. But boy, Emma, I would love Beck to do this. That would have a list of winter and summer.

Nothing would please me more than if Beck. You should do it for her. Do it for the next year. Present her with a spreadsheet, maybe even including the wedding day. Oh, I will. Plan the dress. I'll do that and record it.

And you can see. I know you've got so much on your mind and I haven't set a date, but I thought I'd just get a jump on the wedding and I've got your dress. Now I've told you guys both before that I do mid mornings on Naiem station on Sunday. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Exactly. Congrats. Making the leap. Not that early. No.

It's kind of on schedule. Yeah. A mid morning cuppa with Andy Lee on the Sunday. And look, it's a slightly different vibe to the way we run the podcast. But weirdly, occasionally on the mid morning cuppa, our two worlds collide. And obviously there's an open line for the show that people would follow on a Sunday morning. Some people do call in and want to talk about the podcast. Oh, that'd be confusing for your audience.

And it's a little bit confusing, sometimes I go with it. Anyway, something came up on last Sunday's episode where I was like, okay, well, we have to raise this with you guys, and anyway, if you'll indulge me, I'll play a little bit of the mid-morning cuppa. I'll obviously like to keep them separate. What station? Good question.

No. It's one of those national ones. Yeah. Good. No, don't get out there. The mid-morning cuppa with Andy Lee. Thanks to Pacman's Funeral Insurance. One last gift for those you're leaving behind.

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I hope you're having a nice time, whether you may be, whether it's walking the dog, a bit of gardening, or perhaps you got yourself a cuppa and you're tucking yourself into a crossword. Anyway, I'm here to give you company as usual and the open line is where we want to hear your thoughts on any topic whatsoever. Ashley is called in. Ashley, the open line is yours. Are you there, Ashley?

I am. Hello. Hello. What's on your mind today? I was just thinking I've been doing a bit of a re-listen of the podcast and I was listening back and I've heard Hamish a couple of times fail to deliver on his big guest and I know episode two is coming up soon and I'm kind of nervous he's going to fail to deliver again.

Yes, so wind this back for me, Ashley. I know Hamish has obviously made big promises before and continues to let everybody down. But yeah, so he promised a big guest in episode 100. Yes. And then again, that got delayed to episode 200, didn't it? It did. It did. And then what was, you've obviously just refreshed yourself. What did he say around episode 200? And then what was, you've obviously just refreshed yourself.

What did he say around episode 200? So just after episode 200, because he obviously forgot, he said he would deliver it on episode 300, which would be halfway through 2025. So it's coming up very soon. But obviously he's failed to deliver a couple of times before. So we're all nervous waiting to see what's going to happen. My producer here at The Mid-Morning Cup has just done some great work and has got the grab for us. This is show 201 where he's reminded that he should have produced a big guest in episode 200.

Here we are at ep 201. Who was the guest then? The special guest. Yes. Well I don't want to bother because he could come on for episode 300. Yeah, he could send me a text now. He's just going to kick that can down the road. Send me a text going, yeah, could do 300.

So it's like halfway through 2025. We look forward to that. Another Hundo Epps. How did it make you feel, Ashley, when he doesn't come through with these type of promises? You know, it's really upsetting because we all love the show, we love Hamish, and we want to see him deliver. Yeah, yeah, everyone wants him to succeed, but the feeling is that he doesn't care for the listeners. And would you say it's disrespectful? I don't want to put that in your mouth.

No, I think that's fair to say. Yeah, same. Alex, thanks, Ashley. Alex has also joined us on the open line. He wants to share something on this topic as well. Alex, are you there? Yeah, how are you, mate? Yeah, very well.

And welcome to the Mid-Morning Copper. Yeah, thanks. So you heard Ashley speaking of this incident with Hamish and his episode 300 approaches. Are you also nervous about what might happen? Yeah, I mean, it's been a pretty long emotional rollercoaster when you think about it. And they kind of is a recurring theme here of just being let down. You know, like, I'm stressed, I can't eat.

Like, you think you know someone. Mm-hmm. And then I kind of wonder, like, do you realize it makes me feel like I'm dumb? Yeah. For trusting him? Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's a lot of us

that have continuing trust issues. Can we expect anything different when we get closer to episode 300? I don't think so, mate. I don't even know if I want a special guest anymore. No, no, I can understand that. If Hamish was listening right now, would you have anything to say to him?

Just... He knows what he's doing. He asked to. Just thought of the outhang. Like, what are you doing? Thanks, Alex. Really appreciate it. Keep your open line calls coming in. Um... What do we do with our pets on the weekend? That's the topic I've got coming up just after this short break.

Tight, tight stuff. Oh no, no, play the pet stuff. I wasn't ready to come back to live. So, still a few episodes out, Ham. You've obviously, there's been... Hang on, let's just rewind for a sec. Sorry, did that last guy say he doesn't want one? I knew you were gonna- I think that's what he said.

He basically just said, it's got to the stage where I don't want one now. He said he's not sure, but actually before that- Well, unfortunately I'm sitting here with the laptop open and I've fired off an email to cancel. He said, I don't want one now. So you've canceled. He's like, hey, well, I can try and undo that. Well, I will have you. I just know.

Well, I worry that now that I've canceled. Will you have a guess? That that's going to add time. Because this big guest, he was a he. I've said he. What field? Entertainment. Yeah. And I encourage you to think very broadly when I say the word entertainment.

Because think about the kind of things you might find entertaining. Yeah. So it might. And I just because I don't want to spoil the surprise before I do it. In this definition, a very, very, very famous surgeon could be entertaining. Cause we're entertained by his stories of the operating theater. Just make it very clear for everyone now. I'm not going to.

Can we expect a guest in episode 300? With the recent canceling email? That's going to be, that's going to present problems. I am going to make best endeavors. You wanna kick it to episode 400? What's the last episode of this year? It'd be 320. Could be tight.

I think kicking it to 400 makes a bit of a mockery of it. Yeah. So I think 350. 350. 350. I think 350 is about right. Yeah. And it's only been five years. 350 is about right. At first I didn't know what you were talking about.

Then I thought, oh yeah, no, I think he's still locked in for 300. Then I sent the email. Now I have time to do that. I think 350. If I can, yes. And again, it's not kicking a can. It's simply getting to where you thought the can was and realizing there's a better spot for the can and it's not here. It's further down the road. It's like going to the bank and they go, what would you like to do today? Pay off the mortgage or remortgage?

I'm going to go remortgage again. Right. We thought you were going to pay it off. No, that's your fault for assuming. I've decided to re-mortgage. No, 350. Let me get to the email. Dear X. Excuse the previous email.