Hamish & Andy - 2025 Ep 295 - Horgs Rates Your Business Ideas

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

After deciding we won’t be investing in any of the million-dollar business ideas you sent in (sorry, Shark Tank this is not), we’ve called in our favourite inventor and potential investor — our mate Horgs — to give some honest feedback on your pitches. Our World’s Tallest Hat quest rolls on, and we’re now on the lookout for a trustworthy panel who can officially verify our record-breaking attempt! We also compare Andy’s whirlwind trip to Old Mate’s pub in New York with Hamish’s… let’s say “unique” weekend. Plus, the fast and loose return to do what they do best — Upset Andy!  1. More million dollar ideas - with Horgs 2. Are you a trustworthy world record judge? 3. Upset Andy 4. Hamish at a cat show 

A listener production. Activate your Internet because the Hamish and Andy podcast starts in three, two. Sorry, still buffering. One. Ahoy to my Ishaqu. Hamish. Okay. Tough one.

We're Japanese. Yeah. You're in the ballpark. But there is a lot of words and things in Japanese culture. I feel like we've been to Japan a few times. Were we Samurais once and sumo wrestlers another time? Yeah, I think we were. When we type of swords one time.

Yeah. Not today. Yeah, I think we were taught when we type of swords one time. Mm, not today. OK, go. This is something, to give you a clue, this is something very dear to the show, you would say. It's got a very strong link to the show. Ahoy to my k-rei, Jack. Ahoy. And I am the sikarei.

Which I hope means superior k-rei, which is one rank above Jax. So it's something in Japanese culture that we also do in the Hamish Nandi podcast culture. And we do it, you and I do it. Oh is it bowing? Is it bowing? Is it types of bow? It's the types of bow. And there are different types. There are different types of bow for the types of greeting. It's the types of bow. And there are different types. There are different types of bow for the types of greeting. That's a great one.

So, the eshaku, 15 degrees, Ham. Is that bow? That's it, even I can get past that. On a normal day, I'm not even getting going on that. That's a casual greeting. Yep. Just that one. The kirei, 30 degrees. Jack? Yep, We're getting somewhere.

A little more formal, using greeting a superior at work. Because with mine when at 15 degree, you wouldn't even be looking at the floor yet. You wouldn't even be able to see the ground. No, but you just nodded your head then. Don't make that mistake. Don't nod. You don't nod. It's from the pelvis, it still is a twist 15 degrees here. I didn't know I was on show. That wasn't a performance. CK Ray 45 degrees, the most formal bow. They don't go lower than that.

They don't go. So we're guaranteed below 90 on our show. I'm at 110, I reckon, 110 degrees from vertical. Yep. So they're not going anything, they're all acute at their angles. Remember I told you about the court bow that I learned about, which is just the head. Yes, so a government house, there's a government house and when you meet the governor general, you are told to do a court bow, which I think there was a few military people there

and they were like, yep, no worries, we know what that is. I was like, guys, help us out, what is that? And it is just a bow of the head. Just a nod. Just a nod. That's a nod, but a bow of the head. Just a nod. Just a nod. But a bow of the head's a nod. Yeah.

It's a perp. It's a meaningful nod. Ahoy also to Conor Donaldson from, I think, New Zealand, but living in Bristol in the UK. He went to HamishNavy.com to tell us what he's been up to. Big ahoy from Bristol, UK. Conor here. I have the day off today thanks to you guys. While I was working yesterday, I was listening to the podcast.

I was sliding a large piece of plywood off of a pallet at about chest height. At the same time you guys were talking about the lady sniffing poo. I started laughing, I let go of the board and the edge fell onto my foot. Right behind the steel cap obviously. It's currently bruised and swollen but luckily not broken. By the time this reaches you I'm sure it'll be healed. Cheers for the day, all fellas." I mean, I think that was in the pre-conclave episode, wasn't it? When we were talking about Jack just 86ing one of those, just not letting that person through

to the conclave. Which was a good move. Not the chosen one. Well the chosen number two, as it would be. Would have been. So that's remarkable speed to be able to upload from that episode. Hey, that felt resplitening quick. That website, it's great. We've sorted out the website. The coming thick and fast. Haimysnanny.com. Haim, we've got a special guest in the studio. It hasn't been for some time. Big Orgs. How are you, Orgs?

Hello, boys. I know you used to do the whistle when you came in. Yeah. Still got it in you? Uh... no. Can you unlearn a whistle? Oh, no. It's like watching Jordan try and dunk. I can't do it anymore.

I'm getting too old for this. Gosh. There you go. There it is. Jordan's like, come back, guys. I can do it. Guys, I just had to warm up. The reason why you're in is because a little while ago on the show, we had a guy called Christian who wrote in with a million dollar idea and he promised to tell us as long as we didn't steal it from him or tell the public.

We broke that promise. I still do feel a bit bad about that, Hawks. Did you hear that episode at all? Hawks? No. Fine. If you didn't, I, I almost think we start with this. Jack and I heard the idea. Then we told Annie and Annie's like, Oh, no worries in stealing that. His million dollar idea was essentially hairdresser at the airport.

Right. And you can get a haircut while you wait for your plane. It was called air cuts. And you just, you know, it's a time saver that there's a barber at the airport. And he'd done some maths and he was like, look, three addresses. I think he had them working around the clock 365 days a year, but the numbers looked good based on that maths. He was like, everyone, everyone wants haircuts. A lot of people wrote in and said, Hey, to two camps, really, they either said I've seen this or, um, or I did this. There were a few people saying, yeah, we tried to do this and it didn't take off.

Which you'd had before and a number of your inventions. That's why I've got you in here, by the way, people new to the podcast welcome by all means, but. Hogg's very famous in our show for having a lot of inventions over the ride. Some of them have been, have gone on to be amazing. And we laughed at it at the time, which was the, what was the one that you think was the biggest? It was needabithahelp.com.au.

Which is just our airtasker now. It's airtasker. You did invent airtasker. You also invented weather bet at one point, when you could bet on the weather. That now occurs. You can actually do that. The gym train we thought was a good one where you could go to the gym on the train during your commute. That one hasn't been invented yet.

I think you invented seated cycling at a desk. Yeah. Yes. That was to power your lamp, the desk lamp though. The work workout we called that. That's right. Yeah. I mean, there's so many of these ideas. You know, you were an absolute ideas machine back then. You probably still are, Hoggs. The skin-colored phone was one of my favorites.

Oh, that's right. So you could be on the phone. This is before hands-free. You could be on the phone in your car and police wouldn't know. Of all the ways to break that law, getting a phone that matched your flesh tone is one of the more interesting. Not even a cord, not even a hands-free cord that blends in to just so you can really have a hand distracted. We just think you have an eye for a great idea. Yeah.

So, Hamish just told you Christian's idea about the air cuts. So a hairdresser at the airport, as far as million dollar ideas go, what would you rank that between one and 10? Well, if you want to call it a million, you need to earn millions, right? Like you've you've just got one person cutting it. Like have you got a whole team there? Yeah, I think that's the idea you could potentially franchise. But I don't love it because you're not going like I need my guy.

Everyone needs your guy unless you travel that much maybe once every six weeks. Doubtful. I don't know. I don't love it. So what are you giving it out of 10? What should we rate it between zero and a million? Where does it land between zero and a million? I think about 450,000. Let's do 4.5. I think about 450,000. Let's do 4.5. No, I like this. I like this. Got to be confused.

So what we're going to do. It's a 450,000 out of a million. So what we're going to do, Hoggs, is since then, people have written in going, that idea was terrible. I've got the million dollar idea. Now Hamish and I discussed it. We're not going to invest anyone's ideas. That's the shark tank. We don't want to be another show. You were welcome to, if you wanted to.

Right. God, this would be an amazing full circle because our old segment was you listing your ideas and then people bringing up saying if they wanted to invest. So, Hogs, if we can marry you as an investor now with some of these ideas, by all means, go for it. But what we thought we'd do as a service is go, we're not, we're probably not going to invest. I mean, we can barely get our act together to make a tall hat.

Though we're not, we're trying to break the record for world's tallest hat hawks, just cause I know you're listening to the show. Yep. Cool. Um, so we're not going to do that, but what we can do is at least give them some critical feedback from our favorite inventor and possible investor. Just quickly, when you say we're not going to do that, but what we can do is at least give them some critical feedback from our favourite inventor and possible investor. Just quickly, when you say we're not going to do that, we are doing the tool hat. We're not going to invest.

We are going to invest. You're right. We're not going to invest. Sorry. So let's start with Heath. Heath, Hoggs is here. He's going to give you a rating. What's your million dollar idea?

Hey guys. My idea is roll on Vegemite. So essentially just like a roll on deodorant, but Vegemite. Hawks is just like there in your mouth, I had that idea. I think didn't you do it? Roll on butter I think. You did roll on butter. Did I? Yeah you did roll on butter for the show back in the day.

Yeah. Do you think a change to Vegemite increases the idea or is better idea or? Well, honey, I think it's a worse What are you giving a ten oh the problem with the million or so the problem that's Vegemite So you're gonna have to sell it to Vegemite. Yes. Yeah, you don't. Is that your million dollar idea to sell it to them? Yeah, definitely. Yep. What are you thinking?

Oh, I think like a 150,000. You're always for using my scale. Andy's trying to get the one to 10 scale going. I'm sticking to the one to a million. Okay. And that is the tough thing because Vegemite. Sounds better for it. Yeah.

Vegemite will own it. And also if you go in and pitch it, even if you've got the tech, they can just go, yeah, we were thinking about that. Yeah. See you later. Heath, what do you feel about that? It's a $150,000 idea. Still good money. It's still good money.

It's selling a bit short there, I reckon. Okay. Well, good luck and let us know how you go. All right. We go from Heath to Jack. Ahoy, Jack. Ahoy Jack. Ahoy boys, how are ya? Yeah, good. Do you have a million dollar idea for hogs? We haven't got to the million yet.

Oh, I do. So the problem is, you know when you are eating dinner, it might be a wrap or a burrito or a soft taco, and you put it down on your plate, and it all just unravels? Yeah. Edible sticky tape. Edible sticky tape. Right. Yeah, it'll solve all the problems. You can wrap it around, have it different flavours. Is it tasty?

Or like can you tell it's in your mouth? No, well you'll have a flavourless one I reckon and then maybe you know for burritos you could have a salsa flav one, I reckon. And then maybe, you know, for burritos, you could have a salsa flavored one. What's it made of? Hmm. I was thinking maybe rice paper, something like that. Or, you know, those Listerine strips, whatever they use for that. Yeah, they do get pretty sticky. Okay, so you haven't checked out the technology yourself.

This is one of those things where if the technology works, you go all day long. The tricky part would be taping something to a burrito and having it stick the way we're hoping for it to stick. That could be the tough bit of the science. Then you're gonna get sticky hands. The concern is that nearly a third of the inventions that I pitched to you guys back in the day, your feedback was to me, Hawks, you can't, that's not an invention, you haven't come up with the technology. Yes, so that's what you're giving him. Yeah, yeah, Jack, I mean it's good tech if that's the leap to make, instead of going boots that can walk on

the roof, you know, okay great, but how? Well you just use science to stick to the roof. Let's say it can work. I still don't see when I have my burrito wanting to spend the time to tape it up. No, but maybe then it becomes part of the burrito, like it comes taped to something. I worry that we're going to get to a stage where a small piece, it's like wrapping a birthday present, a small piece of tape that you might use to wrap a birthday present won't be enough to hold the pressure of the burrito. And you'll have to do a full lap of tape around the burrito.

And I worry in that instance, is that can be too much tape to eat and it kind of gets stuck in your mouth. It doesn't dissolve the way we want it to. Yeah, I was thinking just one full wrap around, I reckon. One wrap. The really tough part about this is you're going up against the geniuses at Old El Paso.

Now, every invention they come up with is to keep a burrito together. We've talked about it before on the show. They've got the bucket burrito, the boat burrito, the pockets. Everything's made to reduce spillage. It's their number one enemy. What about instead of a tape, a corn chip hook. So when you wrap and then- Like a fish hook. Yeah, like a fish hook that clips onto the other side and you have two holes on the other side of your wrap.

Almost, so are you thinking like when you use a bandage, like in your first aid kit, that hook mechanism that keeps the bandage tight. Yeah. That's not bad, one of those. Boils. Boils Made of corn chip and rice paper, made of a completely edible technology, very very sharp when it hits the taco but your mouth can't feel it. Oh exactly. What do you think for Jack Hoggs? I don't like

this at all. I think it's a one. A one dollar? No, one dollar. A hundred. A hundred. Back to my scale. Sorry, Jack. We've got time for one more. Luke, ahoy to you. Luke, do you think you've got a better idea than edible sticky tape? Yes. 100%.

Okay, thanks for joining us. No, far away. Far away. What do we got? Right. You guys have had cans of drink, so, cheeky beer before, yes, I presume? Yeah, I've had one of those. And you've been to the pub, I presume, you know, Old Nights, you've been there. Yeah, and other pubs.

Yes. So, when you order, order say a pot that comes with a handle How nostalgic is that feeling but you can't have it at home with a can, can you? Until now We have Created the can cradle which is an aluminium strip that clips onto the side of your can with ease and Creates that feeling of being at the pub, holding a handle at home. I love it.

So it's a handle for a tinny. Yeah. Would you prefer to use a handle while you have a can? Yes. Maybe. I mean, I don't think, I never am holding a can going, I wish I had a handle on this. I do like a handle of beer, but I think I like the glass element and drinking it like that too.

I don't think... I remember how I had an invention. Well, we tried to bring this up for you, you're the slab of pots. Yeah. And so, Hawks, I think this is, it might not be better than Luke's, but the idea was if you've just moved out of home and you haven't got your glassware yet, go to Carlton Draught or whoever

and grab a slab of pots. And it was pot glasses with caps on it. But yeah, it's a screw top. There was beer in there. And there was beer in it. It was a giant screw top. And then you drink the pot, but then keep all the glasses at home in your share house.

Yeah, I think they were concerned that it was gonna break, like in the slab, but then keep all the glasses at home in your share house. Yeah, I think they were concerned that it was gonna break, like in the slab it could break more, cause obviously the stubby is more of a rounded glass. We went down the track with it and tried to see whether they'd come at it, but no, we didn't get through prototype. The other point is that it's just better drinking

out of a pot glass. So you're having more fun that as well. And later on you get another glass. Yes, but do you go back to Luke's idea. Yes, we've just gone with the hogs. This sounds like an idea that was nixed 10 years ago. What do you think about clipping a handle to a can? I love it.

I think that'd be great. So what are you giving Luke? What are you, 900? What? I feel like Ando did not see that going. I think it's great. I think we're confused though. I mean, Hawkes does love a beer.

So I think that's what I'm feeling. There'll be people there going, hang on a second, I invented edible tape. I was barely getting 100 grand. If nothing else, amazing eventually. Good luck, you're 900 grand. They'll give you heaps of confidence, you'd think, to take it to the world. Yeah, good luck, Luke. That's the, well, you don't win anything today, but you've definitely won the vote

of confidence from the show. Yeah. Yeah, that's all you need. Yeah, perfect. Yeah, there you go. He's happy. Yep, he's walked away a winner. I like to think that we've imagined a future, a perfect future here. I mean, even if, let's say all of these ideas get up and one day we may find ourselves at the airport, had a fresh haircut.

We look across, we see someone eating a fully taped burrito whilst sipping on a beer at the airport out of a handle. I mean, that's a beautiful future that you want to be part of, isn't it? That's lovely. Luke, thank you, bud. Hoggs, thanks for coming in. Thanks, guys. Gee, I'm looking forward to seeing if any of those go. I won't invest in any.

Okay, there we go. That's why, again, this is the Shark Tank feeling where you realise it's great to hear ideas, but gee, investing's a big leap. Hey, it's fair to say, I'm not going to say 50% of correspondence, but I'd say 20% of correspondence to HeyMissionary.com at the moment is hat related inquiries for our quest to get the tallest hat and break the record in the world. What I love about our listeners is it's got this urgency about it that it's sort of like it's the town project. Yeah. And everyone's like, I've got, I need to tell the guys I've got, I've got an ankle here

and I've got just so you know, I have you thought about this? Have you thought about that? And we of course have our, we've got our crack team designing the hats. Yeah. Updates for them to come. I was going to say, let's get an update from those guys happening, because I feel a bit guilty actually being this far out of the process. But the, we're on the other side of the, where are this, like the thing we can take care of is how this is going to run when we actually have a crack at the World's Tallest Hat Record and do that. And we were going to reach out to Guinness and we have made some inquiries.

But look, Jack, there's a fair bit of palaver. And as a show, we try and keep palaver to a bare minimum. Don't we? I hate it. It's all about bureaucracy. Don't the Guinness world records have a duty of like, if you say you're going for a world record, they should really come out and be there to look at it. No, that would be if they're a government body, I suppose. They're not the police where if they hear a crime happening, they have to go.

They're not like the positive police where if they hear something good happening, they must attend. There's a guy getting in a swimming pool with baked beans. Hold the phone. Roo, roo, roo. But deploy two of our agents there because we've got some of the longest nose ring. Do not get in that bath wearing the most amount of women's suspenders until we are next to you and we count the suspenders.

But I thought for their own accuracy, they might want to always be sending people out because they don't want to put in print. It turns out they are a for-profit organisation and they should be. So they should be. And they weren't selling the beer as a charity either. They're making money on the beer. I think they've always been up front ongoing. Hey, this is just the stuff we do. Be involved if you want. I think the trick they've pulled is by being, they've got us in this mindset where you proactively have to ask if you are going to do it. And you have to, there's application forms, there's a cost. You don't have to convince me, I hate all that stuff.

And they operate out of the UK, which is tough for us as well with time differences. Here's the thing, just a final note on the palava. It was because we know a lot of people, obviously in radio, and we've talked about this before, that have gone for Guinness World Records. Then when you talk to the producers behind the scenes, that's when you get the real snapshot of the palava. They're like, oh, it was 10 grand, it was 20 grand, we had to do this. Really? Look at this, mate. It ain't a cheap certificate, but those people have made the call that the content's worth it. Now, when we look at the budget side of things, we go, well, are they the, if a nose ring is inserted in a nose and no one's there to see it, did it still happen?

Yes, it did. And it's one of the great philosophical questions. If a record is broken and someone from the beer company wasn't there to measure it, but others were who were just as trustworthy, did it still happen? I say yes. So do I. And I think- Yeah, I say yes too. And I say they should. Well, that's three yeses. I mean, two more okays and we've got a full house. You can't argue with that. It's almost an unbeatable hand.

So we're just going to now play for the record, but we don't care if it's in the book or not. We don't care about the book is what I'm saying. We could just decide we don't care about the book because we'll know, we'll know the truth. And the reason we'll know is here's one idea I had. We thought, do we get like the people might remember like Tatsalato or Powerball or whatever, where you have government officials.

I think we get people's officials to be there on the day. Trustworthy people, listeners of our show that will authenticate it. And they'll, we'll all know the rules and we'll play by the same guidelines. And I'm more on that in a second that you have for the Guinness World Records. But we get, let's say 10 government officials. Ten is a lot. Five of the people's officials. We've flown in or possibly selected for short drive from the arena.

We have them there and there's a form, we're going to put a form on our website now. Because we're looking for a specific type of person we need to know for a fact. And you have to provide evidence of times that you have paid attention, right? Because we need to pay attention. People distracted. Yeah. Examples of the, of that, you know, distance because the hat, I think one of those was where it has to go for 10 meters.

So are you the kind of person that knows about distance? How do you know about it? Where did you last use that? And when Hattie says the hat has to go for 10 meters, that's walking with a hat on. Yeah. And with a hat over about five and a half meters tall. But they should know about vertical distance as well. Exactly.

Both horizontal and vertical. Great. We can quickly edit the form before it goes live. This is why we wanted to bring it up. So that'll be done and people can register to be the officials. Is that the only two things? And evidence that you're trustworthy.

And trustworthiness. So they don't have to work for the government in any way? No. No. Why would they? No, no. So you just kept saying government officials. Well that was because... Yeah, that's because they give you about $22 million on Powerball. So that's why people feel comfortable having government officials. But I just think we go...

No offence. Trustworthy people. Yeah. I think there's better examples you could give of trustworthiness to be honest. So let's just get that. You're trustworthy. You know about the two of the axes of distance. You know about vertical, horizontal. No requests for depth.

We don't, we won't need depth. You won't be quizzed on depth. You won't be quizzed on depth. It's a 2D test. I suppose you could argue it depends which end of the line you're at. If you decide to stand at the finish line, it will almost all be depth and there'll be no lateral movement. But again, we'll get you side on.

We'll take care of this. Definitely side on. We'll take care of this with the seating. So don't worry about that. We'll take care of the, make sure it's only two dimensions at max. We're asking you to measure and, um, you know, and can you pay attention? Once we've got that, then I think we can pick our representatives of the people. Yep.

I'm getting ahead of myself here, but I just thought of an idea. Once we get this record, right. I love that thinking mentality. Not if, when? We haven't done a t-shirt for ages. Is there merch in it where it's simply a to scale up the side of the t-shirt, a to scale replica of like a stick figure with a five and a half meter, six meter hat on. And it just simply says like on the chest, like, I know because I was there or like, you know, I know because it happened.

Or like, I know because. So it's a t-shirt just for the five people who are coming? No, no, no. For everyone that listens to the show, because you'll have people going, yeah, but it's not in the Guinness world records. And we'll be like, yeah, but we had eyewitnesses. Yes. We had people there and it was to the letter.

On that. I love the fact that we're getting t-shirts made up, we haven't even got the hat done. Haven't even started on the hat. Let's get, see if the hat team can're getting t-shirts made up. We haven't even got the hat cut. We haven't even started on the hat. See if the hat team can also do t-shirts. Since they're in the, since they might be at cloth stage yet. Hey, on that, I got a very interesting email to my side of the fence from a listener in America that claims to, and I don't have any reason to doubt them, wants to stay anonymous, claims to know the current holder.

Well, I might've said lived in Melbourne, but it does turn out with a bit of digging does live in America Yep. What's the they know the rules they said? I know the guy that he took him years of planning for this the most recent guy to get this five and a half meter hat record and like I know the guy that did it and I've been listening with great interest to your show. This person's a fan of the podcast. So this is friendly insider information.

Said, you pretty much spot on with all your guidelines, except I'm pretty sure like this guy that got the record, he thought of and had to cancel plans for any sort of chin strap or structure to hold the hat up. Okay. Because we were thinking of a neck brace cravat, which I still think is actually legal, but for the honor, we won't even use a neck brace covered in a cravat. So no chin straps. It just can't have any, yeah, can't have a fastener to the head.

It just has to be something that like is placed on the head like a hat. And that's the other rule that they said. You can have a tightener like a bike helmet. You know how at the back they have a... Possibly inside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As long as it goes horizontal, not vertical, as far as the way the strap runs around. Yeah, we just have to tighten it as a hat band would tighten around your head. But the other thing is, he said one of the things that cancelled a few of the early designs that this other guy was thinking of, and we've mentioned a bit too about just getting a stick

that comes off a helmet kind of thing. Big spy. Is it the hat design, apparently the word from Guinness was, because I think this guy's was a sander hat, has to be an existing hat. So you can't create a shape that just happens to exist. It can't just be a structure that goes five and a half meters up off your head. It has to be an existing hat because there are no Santa hats. No, but I think it's the exact style of hat.

Style of hat that you would instantly go, that's a Santa hat. That's been elongated to reach the height requirements, which I think is good too, because we want to win honorably. We don't want to try and win through a loophole. Well, I think we were talking about a top hat, weren't we? We've always been talking about a top hat. I think that's complete. Which I think is more honorable than a Santa hat. Santa hat is actually a pretty good idea because you just need like a big stick up

the middle and then it hangs over like a tent. Leave the design to the design team. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have a stepping check. Stick to the T-shirt, mate. Cause I don't think we've nailed that design. Ando, the upset Andy's boy oh boy.

I can't stop him. I try. You hear me. You hear me every week on this show going, stop sending him guys. He's had enough. We occasionally have a pre-show meeting and you go to Carly who runs it for us here. There's heaps of Upset Andys. You've got to get them in. So I don't think that's you trying to stop it at all. I'm hoping that by flushing them out. Yeah, get them out of the system. We'll get to the end. Everything is neat and practical, because that's the way he likes it. But what if it wasn't? Upset Andy. Noah, you've got something to upset our sweet boy here. I do, I do. G'day boys. Gusto to you all.

How do you know? I'm Gusto to you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. So when I save contacts into my phone, get a lot of work, phone calls and the like, I generally just chuck in the first name of the person because I don't always know the last name. And so at the moment, I've got about six different Richards in my phone. And when I need to call one, I just pick one at random and hope for the best. I mean, I appreciate the sport of it. But yeah, that's red hot for me. And you know how much detail is in my contact list. It's first name followed by second name followed by where I met

you or your associated business. Bec doesn't love the fact that she's still in my phone as Rebecca Harding, patch waitress, but that's the cafe I met her in. A cafe she hasn't pulled a shift at for well over a year, some might say 10. Um, and I've got, I realized the other day I've got in my phone, like a mate of mine, AJ, who I call a lot. And then another person I know called AJ, but in, but I've got in my phone, like a mate of mine, AJ, who I call a lot. And then another person I know called AJ, but I've just changed them to AJ, rarely this one.

So I know the other one is the frequent AJ. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a system. It's a great system. No one. You've upset me. It's a nine out of 10. Jack, ahoy to you and gusto to you.

What have you got to upset Ando? Well, our house doesn't have a bath plug, so the bath was out of action for a long time until we found nature's bath plug, which is half a lemon. So you cut half a lemon and just stuff it in the bath hole and then yeah, off you go. Surely it seems slowly. It's I mean, they're not. You get about 40 minutes. OK.

Do you put it flat side down and it suctions it on or do you put it jammed the lump side in? No, no flat side down. So it sucks it in and then yeah. I don't hate it. I mean, I hate it, but I don't hate it because the ingenuity in the choice of plug, I think is a good one.

It's a great, it's a good, it's like a good bit of bush mechanic work. But you, what I love about it, and I'm like you here, Jack, you go, damn, we don't have a plug. Well, there's nothing we can do about that. Like, even if it takes months. No, no, no, no. And you'll often get an Andy in the periphery going, go and buy one. We're not spending half a day just to get a plug.

They cost like a dollar fifty. If we remember it, next time we're at Bunnings we'll do it, but that's unlikely. There's nothing we can do about this. We'll never have a plug again. We must find a one. The best part is we've got a bath plug tree at the back, so you just grab it from the bath plug tree and cut it in half and off you go. When we go to my spare bath plugs box that I have in the laundry.

When life gives you two bath plugs stuck together, it's up to you what you make of it. Thank you, Jack. Angus, ahoy to you. Oh, gusto to all, including the little boy. Beautiful Angus. What have you got? Uh, so for home use, instead of buying a fancy reusable razor, like you've probably got Ando, must be nice. I just get the disposable travel packs. Is there far better value for money?

And you don't have any pressures about maintaining the blade or anything. So after each shave, I just chuck the razor back in my bathroom drawer. So now when I go to shave, I have around 15 to choose from. And if that razor doesn't work, I'll just keep swapping them out until I get the job done. Yeah. And the good thing about that is- There's such a bad shave though.

They're like, they're single, they're often single blade. Yeah. And you'd be surprised how much gusto these shavers have in them. I can at least, at least 10 goes. No mate, I want to see, I guess I want to see you do a big ad and that be the slogan. You would be surprised at how much gusto they have in them. At least 10, yeah, at least 10 goes. But like I even went overseas last month and it's great for that too.

So it's around the same system, at least 10 goes. But like I even went overseas last month and it's great for that too. So I just ran the same system either way for 10 days. And I just grabbed like a stash of 10, put it in my toiletries bag and just away I went. Why would you waste the room in the toiletries bag as well? I mean, Bec's got her, Bec's got her, we know a lot about shavers in my house because Bec's got her shaver brand, Louis. Louis. She would be so upset with your Louis ritual, your ritual so to speak.

The thing about, the thing I love about chucking a blunt one back in is just seeing if it comes back into form. Like, you're not, you're not completely fired, but have a bit of time on the bench and just sharpen, literally sharpen up and I'll put you back in the rotation. I put around, I put around 10 in the sink and I put it under hot water. And then I think that helps. I think it does help as well. Do you think it helps?

I think hot water helps sharpen them up. Not sharpen them up, but just it feels like... Like when you, back in the old days, like in the Prohibition era, when you would get a hot shave, wasn't that because they like... They heat the blade. Well, I think it's something like that, isn't it? I thought it was about heating your face and then something about like the pores are more open. Or maybe that softens the blade.

But yeah, if you attack it with a hot blade. I think we're thinking of hot knives and butter and you just go, should follow. Or when you heat the spoon up for ice cream to get it out of the tub. Like should be the same maths. All right, beautiful. Thanks, Agus. Tess. Tess, ahoy to you, Tess. Ahoy boys and number six. Happy birthday, Ando.

So when I feed my dog, instead of scooping the kibble into a bowl, I simply just scoop it straight across the floor. And the dog licks up the, eats all the food off the floor and he loves it. And it's so efficient because I don't have to wash any bowls and I don't have to mop the floor. It comes up sparkling clean every day. You do have to mop the floor. Like it's dogs. You know what dogs lick when they're out in the wild?

Soap. Soap. Within a park test. They find those trees that you can crush the leaves off and make soap. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. No, but are we doing dry food? Yeah, dry food. Dry food. Yeah, it's kibble. Yeah, it's kib mate. So yeah, exactly. Exactly. But are we doing dry food? Yeah, dry food.

Dry food. Yeah, it's kibble. Yeah, it's kibble. And it's just in one, you know, one section of the house, it's his area, but he licks it all up and it's so, it's the cleanest part of the house, I swear. And you're missing the key bit of information here. He loves it. Okay.

No, I, I can't totally be repulsed at tests because every time we leave the house, Bec feels sorry for Henry. So she scatters kibble on the ground and she runs around and eats it. So Bec doesn't, it can slip out without the dog noticing. Yeah. Oh, so she's distracted. Distracted. So Bec is doing kind of what you're talking about.

And I don't love it. Is that to give Henry a fun game to eat the kibble or is it so she doesn't see the door close? Both. Okay. Okay, I understand. Jess, thank you. Wrap this up for us, Bella. Ahoy to you. Ahoy, boys. Gusto to you, my kings.

And gusto to you, our queen. Yes. Thank you. So a little bit of a precursor is I don't have poor time management. I'm just fast and loose. And I also have one of those really fancy fridges with the automatic water dispensers, obviously. Wow. Yeah, that's a real one. Must be nice. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

So I'm rolling out of bed like 15 minutes before I need to leave for work. So I'm getting ready upstairs, doing my hair and makeup upstairs, trot downstairs. By that time, I'm really parched. So I roll over to my fridge. Don't grab a cup because that would just be wasting too much time when I'm already time poor in the morning. So I tilt the pelvis forward in front of the fridge, do a really, really deep lunge. My chin lines up perfectly with the button for the water dispenser and it just plunks straight into my mouth.

So you don't even have to use your hand. No hands. Can you Bella, can you please send us a video of that? That does not upset me. Going to work with rested hands like that. Yeah, I don't have the energy and it's the energy of, you know, lifting my hand up, opening the door, getting the cup out. Like I don't have time for that in the morning.

Exactly, exactly. But only. What do you do for a job? What do you work as? I'm a social worker. So I need all my heart power, my brain power, my hand power to be rested for the day ahead. But also too, when you're opening doors and things like that, people must come in all the time on your grip strength and how well rested your arms are on your forearms.

It makes or breaks the day. Yep. The only bad thing is because I'm ready for the day upstairs I have my makeup on so there is a permanent foundation of lipstick mark on my fridge but I'm just gonna do it again the next day so it doesn't really matter and the makeup that's already on the fridge kind of replaces the makeup I lose from putting my chin there so it's like a two for one reapplication. Surprisingly that's the only bit that upsets me the mark on the fridge yeah I'd be swinging around to clean that up, but Bella, thanks.

Send us an in. Really good. Ando, you had the great fortune of being in New York last weekend. Yes. Am I correct? A quick dash just to check out. Quick dash, rusted on at the pub. Yeah, exactly.

And you had to go and you were late for your shift. That was just such a bummer. Yeah. But again, you know... Wasn't even rosted on. Someone felt a cold sick. Manager called and said, hey, can you fill in for the shift? No problem.

If it's in under 30 hours, over 30 hours, I will be there, boss. And don't worry. And even though you did get delayed and you didn't get a chance to fill in, the ticket and supporting documentation will be neatly presented to the tax office. Absolutely. So needed to be there for fun. But I must say I looked on with great joy and not even envy. And Oz, you were at the pub that we have a small interest in in New York City over the weekend.

Old mates. Yep. Old mates, yep. Old mates, if you happen to be in town, we do like to do a long, very long shot plug, in case anyone happens to be in town in New York. H&A loyalty card is accepted. It is, it is. And God, we're bloody proud of that. One thing I will say is, I think, and again, I'm not saying that one day when you're a father, you might still travel with such reckless abandon as you do and go to New York for a

small handful of days. But I think, Jack, if you didn't know us and I was to say this was my weekend versus this was Andy's weekend, I think based off the one sentence of going, Andy was in New York City at a pub and hanging out with Hugh Jackman. And I was at a cat show on Sunday morning to see the 1030 kittens judging. I would know which one is a parent. Well, you would go, who has a seven year old daughter? You would know, you would get a feel, you would just get a feel from that. So yeah, I was at the Cat Lovers Association, I think it was called, or Cat Lovers Forever cat show at the Sydney Convention Centre. So what was the cat show? Were they, were people bringing in their own cats to show or they already

pre-vetted cats that with more show experience? Your two cats aren't show cats, are they? Could be. Didn't put them on the bench. If you want a show of pulling on Zoe's pillow. He's got over that now. And that is a unique trick. No, couldn't take out, Potato and Jimothy, I

don't think they'd go well at a cat show just because there's a lot of other cats around. I'm as surprised as you guys are that we were going, Zoe bought the tickets for this because she follows a funny cat shower, this American guy on Instagram, right? I think his name's Steven. He's like known on Instagram for like doing,

like they bring the cat up and they're like, oh yeah, look at this guy. He's, look at that beautiful long body and we're looking this breed, we're looking for like nice strong shoulders and the kids find it funny. I'm so far from this goddamn on my algorithm. I can't stress enough how much it's not golf swings or gadgets. So it's not on my algorithm either.

Kids love it. So Zoe goes a couple of times, she goes, guess what guys, you know, the funny guy we see on Instagram, he's coming to Sydney and I bought us tickets to the cat show. There's one thing to enjoy a 15 second video. I said, why did we, so why did you do that? And she goes, it's funny. I said, yeah, but now we have to do the joke. I have to live the joke. So I'm like, you know what, whatever, let's, let's go and see the cat. And look, there are some great cats there. I was sort of looking around there for other people, because I love our cats, but I don't love all cats.

Zoe was really into it. And this is great. She loves our cats and that's great. How's this for a bombshell though? Like she was really into it. And I was getting a lot of hurry up, hurry up. He's on at 10.30, like, you know, and I said, mate, it's like quarter to 10. We're going to make it.

And then I was like, well, there's parking and if there's a queue, whatever. Great news. When we got there, not a huge queue. Like the convention center, the convention center holds like 10,000 people. And again, it was a great show, well attended, but I would say low 300s was attended. So there was a lot of, well attended, but I would say low 300s was attended. So there was a lot of space for us to all to enjoy the cats and products on the show that morning.

But aren't cats like traditionally hard to herd? Like the whole like- Yeah, you have to hold them. And I think a few of them are on just like a gummy. Just relax a little bit. So, and look again, couple of great cats. So do they do anything like dogs do? Do they walk around in circles and? No, it's just to show off how well that breed meets the criteria for that breed, I suppose. Oh mate, don't scratch your nose. Because that's no different to a dog show.

I could easily see Beck making it go to a dog show. Don't get too... We're not going to. I could easily see Beck making Andy go to a dog show. No worries at all. Besting show is in Andy's future. Singing a duet about tall terriers is a hundred percent in Andy's future. Sadly, you might be right. Well, how's this? So you'll get ready for this when, you know, a few years down the track with Beck. Zo turns to me and not as a joke goes, you know, just letting you know this.

And by the, this is like, we're in our early forties, but this is where you have those bolts where you're like, wow, we're really going to be married forever. And you just realize that, cause I think when people get married, you know, 30, 40, you know, it's forever, but you're also, you just think about the time you're so young and it's just, you just think life will be pretty much like this. But so it goes, just letting you know in the future, I might breed cats. Oh my God.

And I went, oh man, that is, you can't just say that casually. I had a cat show. And then I start looking around and a lot of the displays are husband and wife teams. And I did feel like the husband was the second invite to the part, like the second person into the family. Maybe, and I might be really projecting my fears here, but I was like, I am going to be, I'm going to be a cat caddy. Like I'm going to be just, and, and then I was like, so you, and she's like,

well, that's, I'm just letting you know, that's my future that I could see that happening, it's so cute. Wouldn't it be amazing to have like all these little cats? What'd you say to that? I panicked. I was thinking I was panicking because in my head I was like, you can't just drop this on someone that's a huge life change. That's not what I got into this for.

But then, and you could make the same argument. I thought to be fair to them with golf, like she'd be like, well, I never saw golf coming and now you're into golf. And you have to wait five hours at a time. And yep. But again, that's offsite. That is off. I'm not chipping golf balls around the house and like making the clubs get in bed with us. Yeah. But that's not true.

Cause you sent me a video last week of you using a swing aid and he, he, he, this is golf club. You can use inside half blank and he'd let it go out of his hand and he smashed a family portrait. and he let it go out of his hand and he smashed a family portrait. Can I see this video? No, I'll show it to you, but I just said Jack, because I was going to give Jack the same swing out, and I said, just be really careful of these, they've got slippery handles.

That's true. And if I catch those swinging the cats around in the good room, I'll absolutely be as angry as she was over the portrait. Thanks for listening. The Hamish and Andy podcast will return next week. Catch up or contribute at hamishandandy.com.