Hamish & Andy - 2025 Ep 318 - The Great Trivia Heist

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

Andy compares the number of contacts he and the boys have in their phones, leading them to dive into their Uber stats. A sneaky loophole in the mandated break is uncovered, prompting the announcement of Hamish & Andy Plus+ and the very festive Quizmas Time, coming this December. Magic Mike absolves himself of a trivia scam before his debut as Trivia Master. Hamish revisits peak free-to-air TV in the ’90s and early 2000s. Plus, the final Gusto Check of the year! 1. Optometrist gusto check  2. Uber stats 3. Quizmas Time with Magic Mike 4. 90’s TV 

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Oh, we are smeller chisers We are smelly cheeses. Who's Jack? Cabrales, is how I said? Cabrales? It's a Spanish one. And then I was a Gorgonzola. Is it a smelly cheese official category?

Well, here's the distinction. Blue cheese aged in natural caves. Okay. Really? Yeah. Yeah. So that gives it a waft. That gives, yeah.

So natural limestone for the rock of four, for yours, Cabralis, often sheep's milk as well as the other point they make because that gives it the extra stinkiness. Extra tag. But yours, your case are in northern Spain here, Jacko, and I was the world's oldest blues cheese, the Gorgonzola, northern Italy, your...

For all say. It seems so safe. Northern Italy, yeah, sorry, Hey, you're obviously family. I was French. I was going to say your family would have... Oh, sorry, that's why I didn't understand what you're saying, because I'm one of a Sicilian from the south.

Okay. We would have, of course, been at war back in the Great Italian Cheese Wars. We would have been mortal enemies, the Gorgonzola clan. What cheese would you have been running in it? What was it, cheese specific to Sicily since you're so in tune? Cheese specific to Sicily. We are more, we like milk. We just don't let it turn into cheese.

We're milk fans. We were greedy pigs. We'd sometimes do a cream, but we'd never let it get to cheese state. Too hot. Ahoy also to Ellie. He went to haemish nandy.com to let us know what she's been up to. Hello, boys, Ellie here. I would like to use this message to give a shout out to my high school music teacher, Mr. Drew.

Because before every music class, he would read us one power move from the Hamish and Andy PowerMove's book. Now, a few years on from high school, I can't say I've retained too much music theory knowledge, but I carry the art of the power move into every interaction in my life. So I want to say thank you, Mr. Drew, for giving me the greatest gift in. educator can give. And I also want to say that I hope that I live to see the day when power moves are taught throughout all schools in Australia. Thank you. What a voice of the future. Wasn't it great? What a brilliant young woman.

What a presentation of assembly is. I mean, and full marks, full colours. Full colours for her. And also to the, I mean, you know, what a teacher. Doing the world's most important job, teaching the world's most important stuff. Win, win. I think there are some Power Moose books still available at howmish.com. Yes, if you are abutting Mr. Drew. And you too would like to have that level of respect from your students. Rums is a madman edition. I think it's still about it.

Haim, we want to start today with this. Gusto, gusto check. We're going to do a gusto check. True. We sure are. We sure are. Interesting case today. Yeah.

Today's comes from Mila. She joins us now. Ahoy to you, Mila. Ahoy, boys. Happy about there, Andy. Don't actually celebrate them. But thank you for going to haemishdandy.com and alerting us to the situation you're in. Haim, do you want to surmise?

So, Milo, as far as I can tell from your case here, you were working for your dad at his optomets tree. Is it a shop? Is it a clinic? Do they sell glasses? Yeah, he does a bit of both. He's got optometrists there. They sell glasses. I was working for him before I went overseas.

for a couple of months. And then I thought I was coming back to a job, but I looked on his website before I left, and he had made a little blog post saying, we'll see her later. She's no longer working with us. We may see her around. We need a helping hand over the summer.

And I said, Dad, I thought I was coming back to a job, but apparently not. And you've been replaced. Who have they replaced you with? Do you know the person they've replaced you with? Yeah, I do. A family friend, so can't be too salty with her. but just a little bit.

What's her name? Laura. Laura. Gotcha. So we've got to just essentially ring and assess whether she has more gusto than you and whether the replacement has been a good one for your father. If when we do this customer service check, if she comes back with a good rating, will you just go, okay, the business is in safe hands?

Or does she need to, like, shoot the lights out here? I prefer her to be amazing. but I'll forgive if it's okay. Okay, okay, okay. All right, well, we obviously always judge someone on their greeting, how they greet you on the phone. Then, Hame, you'll have to ask a question. It's how helpful they are.

What type of question do you want to ask whether they do the actual test? Yeah, or do you guys, like, you know, should I come in and get a test or? Yeah, that's nice. Yeah. What's your best frame? Yeah, that's a good one. What's your most popular frame?

Is that a good one? What else would someone ask you, Emil, like, I like, would you, should I come in and get a test here? Or like, yeah. Why should I come to Simon? Because he's the only one there. Yeah. Great.

And what about I have a roundhead? What kind of frame would suit me? Yeah, that's nice. What kind of thing she would handle? She should know that. Yeah, great. You do have a round head. Not two round, but I'm happy to play along.

And then the goodbye. Okay, Jack, you and I and Hame will be all going through our, scores straight after the call. Mila, we're going to put you on hold, but you'll be out of here. Hey, have you got everything you need? We're going with, How Are You? Do you do eye test there because my vision's finding it hard to read small print? Yeah, why should I come in to see Simon?

Then why should I come and see Simon? And then I have a round head, what's the best kind of frame for me? Yeah. And then, okay, think about coming in this afternoon. Great. Okay, here we go. Time o'clock optometrist, Laura speaking. Oh, good afternoon.

My name's Tono. How are you going? Yeah, thank you. What can I do for you? Um, on having a bit of trouble reading small print, and I was wondering if I should come and get my eyes checked. Yeah, for sure. Um, so at the moment, our optometrist is currently away on holidays.

He won't be back until next Wednesday. Mm-hmm. Okay. So we'd have to book you in for after that. That's fine. Just weighing up the difference between a few optometrists, why should I come and see Simon? It's a very, like, connected practice

because it is a private practice, so he really knows everybody individually. And he puts a lot of effort into everyone individually because he's only seeing, like, he's seeing everyone. It's only him here. We're a very small team, so it's very, like, connected. Yeah, and it's a very good environment. and he's very, like, suggested by a lot of doctors and things to come for people to come and see him.

We get a lot of referrals here. Well, I like the sounds of that. I have quite a roundhead. What frame would you suggest for a rounder head? Oh, it really depends on what you like. Like, we've got lots of different ones. A lot of time, people go with more square a frame. I noticed to the kind of like is the opposite, I guess.

Yeah, round head square frame. Yeah. Yeah, really just depends what feels good on you, but we've got so many options. So there's no stress there, yeah. Well, you've been very helpful. How long have you worked there? I only about a couple months since June, I think.

Enjoying your time? Yeah, yeah, it is really good. Oh, great. Okay, well, I'll have a think about it. I might call you back and make a booking for next week. Yeah, no stress. We'll see you then. Good on you.

Bye. Well done, Hame. Pretty good. Well done. Gee, it's interesting, isn't it? It's interesting as we go through the scores because you don't want too much gust over an optometrist. No, it could verge on, you know, something's up.

You've got to come in. You've just got to come in. We've got to fix those eyes of yours. We could put you on the back foot. Let's start with greeting. What score did you give for greeting, Jack? gave a six out of ten. I felt she warmed up after that. Yeah, Mila, how do you feel

about her greeting? We, Jack and I've both given to six. Hey, were you in that kind of realm? Yeah, it's tough to. I mean, I was in, I was too busy on court returning the server, I wasn't thinking about what was going on too much. But yeah, I'd remember at the start, feeling like we had to work a bit harder to get a bit of a rapport going.

Mila, were you happy with the greeting? I was worried at the start, but I think she did improve. Would you say you greet better? Like, if we were going through certain quarters of the call the first quarter you would have Laura covered? Oh, definitely. Yeah, I think so.

Then, Hame, it was the why should I come in and see Simon. I gave a nine. Yeah, I gave an eight out of a ten, but could have given a nine. She really improved that. The detail was huge. The only points off I'd have felt like we, you know, almost went over the same ground, but she sold it well. What did you think, Nila?

Yeah, I think she was okay. Hit all the Bob. It's okay. So what would you give it out? Replace Hame's column here with yours. What would you? Give her out of 10 then for the Y come and see Simon, your dad? She can get an eight, maybe.

Okay, yep. I like the part where she said he's highly respected by a lot of doctors. That sounds like a high gusto optometrist. Yeah. Oh, totally. He's got a lot of gusto himself as well. Too bad he's not there for you to check in. Okay.

He's on holidays too. He might get replaced via boardpost. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. Roundhead discussion. Jack, what did you go with? I gave her 7 out of 10. Really?

I thought it was a 9. I felt she was polite. I don't think she really shed too much information on your specific case. It's a pretty tough question for someone to go, I'm a roundhead, what frame would I get? I mean, wild if she said, I know exactly the frame for you and I won't take no front answer. I was surprised she went specific and said,

I think I'd put you in a bit more of a square. That makes sense, because my brother has a roundhead and he has work wasn't. I wouldn't have known how to answer that question, so I think she did great. Yeah. What are you saying, nine, eight, seven? Yeah, probably eight or nine.

Okay. Now, I put the bid at the end in sort of for you, Miller, and I was, you know, the do you like working there? How long has it been? Hoping that she didn't like it. I thought she might have said, you know, I was like, is it too obvious if I go, I came in a few months ago and I saw a different girl there

and she seemed lovely, who was that? Like, I didn't want to go too far down there, but did you feel like it sounded like she was enjoying her job? I think she sounded quite at peace, but she's stolen my job, yeah. Jack, what did you give her for the goodbye? I gave her an 8 out of 10 for the goodbye. Seven for me.

It wasn't, it didn't flow perfectly. Yeah, and I thought it could have been to look forward to seeing you then, a little bit more like, yeah, we can't wait. Well, he hadn't booked. I know, but you can still. Well, that's it. When you dial up to 10, if someone's saying, I'll think about calling back,

you say, well, we really look forward to talking to him. Because I think you're going to be very happy with Simon Clark. Is that what you would have done, Miller? Miller? Oh, yeah, I would have really tried to entice them back, for sure. What would you like to give Laura out of 10 of that then? I think she can get a 6 at the end. Yeah, yeah, that's interesting.

That's really interesting. Okay, Ando, you've got the spreadsheet. I've got the scores. She's got a 30, I averaged all our scores across the back. So she's got a 30 out of a possible 40. So 75. That's big. Yeah.

I think that's pretty good. That is possible. That's not blowing the roof off, but that is, I think we'd have to say, that is good gusto. I won't come steal her job back. I think she deserves it. Are you happy to accept the ruling, Milan? Yeah, that's what I feel in my heart. Thank you.

Thank you very much. taking it well, and just as a sign off, imagine you were, if it's okay, if this is not true traumatic, but imagine you were back at the shop, can you take us out by how you would tell a customer that's maybe going to make a booking, how you'd sign off to them? I think. Well, we're so excited to hear from you. Just give us a call when you can. See you.

Ten out of ten. Yeah. That's a tune. I mean, you're going to be an asset to wherever you go next. I'll tell you that. Thanks, Milo. See you guys. Sitting around with my mates at the pub,

and the question came up, how many contacts do you have in your phone? So I just, if you go to your phones, guys, I just want to see. Tons. I'm good at clearing out, really? Not exist. Yeah, things I don't use. Really?

I've got so many. Like, I could just randomly go to any letter. I've got thousands. I mean, I've just got, but I've, I'll just have things like, what does it say? Yeah, go to the very bottom of your contacts list. Or if you just go back to lists within contacts, we'll tell you all, 1,1002.

1,1002. No, there's so many more. I just saw, I just saw a guy who we hired as a person, who's the personal trainer that helped me when I was trying to lose weight after we stole a suit from Channel 7 in 2007. So I could fit into the, suit. So, sorry. I am not that. I mean, 1,687. Okay. I've got 2,866. Yep. You're always picking up details, though. My mate Ross, when we're going around, he's a bit of a no-fuss guy.

I reckon he'd have like 300. 168. Wow. That's minimal. And then we were like, well, everyone was in the thousand, like between 1,000 and 3,000. Obviously, some people are real estate agents. stuff and they've got a heaps more. That doesn't surprise me for Ross. Monk-like. Yeah. Like, that's kind of the, that's a modern-day monk where it's sort of like, back in the days, a monk might only speak to one person.

I think the modern-day equivalent is less than 200. So we're in shock. We're going, Pezza, that's incredible. He goes, I could get it down to 30 before the end of the night. He could. He could. So it sent us into Uber. Yeah.

And we wanted to establish how many trips and how many Uber eats we've got. I was sending you guys the instructions to go into Uber. There's a way you can get into your privacy settings and get a summary. I've never seen this before, but you can get your data as an Uber user to see. I won't give you any of those. I won't give you the stats yet, but I've been with Uber for 4,647 days. 4,651 days. You probably told me about it.

I was like, I don't think this is going to last. Oh, is that, do we have that in Australia? No, use it. I used it the other night. It would probably flame out. Jacko, how long have you been with it? 4,175 days. So you guys are keeping that in your back pocket.

Lay and adopt up. No, because it costs money and you're like, I'll Uber with you guys. Okay, what's your rating? What's your ride rating? I mean, and okay, who do you think's got the highest out of the threat? I think you've got the highest, Andy. Yep, because you instigated the game.

No. 4.86 for me. Jacko? 4.71. 4.83, Hamish gets the win. What are you doing to get... I'm a delight. I'm just a delight. Are you massaging the guys? He drives you? I'm just interested. Interested in their life.

Yep. But if they want no conversation, I respect that. That's not their choice. That's usually the writer's choice. So, Jack, what do you think you're doing so wrong? I think I cancel a bit to get, like, a better time. Right. Which is... You can always frowned upon. I don't think you get rated on it.

I don't think they can find you to rate you after that. It's only on the trips. So you're doing something during the trip. They're not loving, mate. But only by 0.1 of a difference. It's a big difference. That's a lot. I mean, 4.7 is close to being banned.

You get kicked off at 4.5. Do you really? Yeah. So you're over halfway. Wow. So I'm closer definitely to being kicked off than staying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's weird.

The Uber rating system is not like, say, comedy festival shows. No. Like, it's not like where you're out of the festival. or if you get less than four and a half thousand. Okay, let's move down to how many trips you've taken him? I have taken 615 trips. I'd say low to medium amount. Not crazy.

211. 1,042. Wow. Yeah. So, I mean, maybe a bigger sample size for you, Jack, will help out your rating. Yeah. Yeah, the more I ride, the more flight I'll get. But if you just focus this summer on taking 100 perfect trips, you can get that rating up.

How many Uber Eats orders? This is where I think, Hey, if you were to guess, Jacko, you'd say, Hame will win this one, I would think so. I don't know, because you've got to remember half the time Zoe would be ordering it. Oh, okay, yeah, okay. Interesting. So I'm only 198. Wow.

Okay. 273. 142. And even that shocks me, that feels high. 1.98 feels low for me, but I reckon Zoe kind of leaked, because it's always on her phone, because I don't care. Yes, she's good. And also, she needs to see it on the screen. Like if I was like, I'm getting overreets, and if she's throwing words at me and I go, yep, got it. She doesn't trust it. She's like, no, need to see it.

Like, okay, we just do it on your phone. Because when I say to you, I'll have a burrito, I trust that you've written that thing. But she doesn't, you just not trust that I've written my name. I reckon hers would be in the four or five hundreds. So as we went around the room, we got to Ross, we got to Pezza, who, as I remind you, had 161 contacts. Once. He's ordered to Uberie.

Once. Ando, as former Uber Eids ambassadors, guys that did the ad, I hope you found out why he had such a bad experience. I mean, that is a guy that was like, I'm not doing this again. I think he did it once to support us, him during the campaign just to show a bump

Hamish Andy and Layton Hewitt that is a powerful ad and it's convinced me what did he get? Did you remember? How could you possibly have an experience with delivery food and go, no, I prefer to drive to the shops. I don't know how you could not enjoy. And I'm not, this is not, this would go for all delivery services.

I'm not saying Uber Eats is special here, but how could you go, I prefer the old system of calling up the fish and chips, going down and waiting for it. Scroll down a bit and you can also click on that ratings and I can see the breakdown of five stars, four stars, three stars. So I've had 186 five star reviews but I've had six one star reviews.

I would love to know it should put an option so you know what you did wrong. Follow up this driver. It should charge you a fee because they don't want to talk to you again, Jack. You're their worst customer they've ever had. No, but I want to hear their feedback. What did I do wrong? No, but you should have to pay a fee like a $10. fee, you know what I mean, for them to go, okay, I'll talk to him.

What about... How are you going, Ando, for the one stars? Nine. Nine. I'm seven. Yeah. What fascinates me is two two star reviews for me. I have four two stars, I'm not sure.

But a two-star review is so interesting because you just think they should be ones and five, maybe four in there. But to go two, so he was a jerk, but there was one redeeming moment. One redeeming moment to bump me up to it too. But I've met bigger jerks. He's a jack guy from the other week. What it should be divided into is time of day for the ride. Because I just wonder whether your one stars are coming post midnight.

Like you're, so you're sloppy. Because, no, I also think there should be, you should be in the drivers, sorry, in the passenger's favour, it should go, how long has the driver been driving. If the driver's been driving for more than 10 hours that day, a one-star review shouldn't count. Because then I think, bear, they're the cranky one. Now you're dragging me down because you're having a bad day. Hey, an exciting announcement for us. Huge loophole we've managed to find in the government mandated break is that we are allowed to release another podcast as long as it's not weekly

and it's fully pre-recorded. And it's not on the main channel. That's the big one. The government mandated break, really, we assume when we were flipping, you know, there's thousands of code, pages of like text in the government's ruling,

but we're sort of deep into this ruling, we're like, wait a second, what's this main channel? So you're telling us, if we started up a side channel of Hamish and Andy, we could get away with publishing a limited amount of stuff

over the mandated break. And our lawyers tell us, yes, we can. There's just a lot of, nodding before some whooping and ex-arbon. So we've started Hamish and Andy plus-plus. Why plus-plus? Just because it seemed like, you know,

they've got Disney Plus, Apple Plus, and we're like, everyone's doing Plus. Could we be one plus better? So it turns out we can. But to make it even more exciting, the way it's written is Hamish and Andy then PLUS, then the symbol. So it's both.

So it's both. We've got all bases covered. Absolutely. Mary Plus Plus is launching. Anything that's not the main Hamish Nandy podcast, we'll put up there over the ride. The remembering project will be there, but this new show we're doing called Quismus with Hamish Nandy is going to be coming out on December 11th, Thursday after we finish the main pod and the government mandated break kicks in.

Hey, we're excited about Quismus because you and I are going to play together. We're going to be on the same team. And people can listen along to our quiz and see if they can beat us in their cars, whether on road trips or in the summer sun. Quisers are exploding in the moment. Anno and I privately do a lot. We spend a lot of time doing quizzes and sending each other scores and whatnot. So do we bring this into the main arena?

Well, not the main arena? Plus Plus. Do we bring this into plus plus? And invent something. Yeah, as Andrew says, you can play along with us. So it's part quiz, but part, see if you can beat Hamish and Andy. It all will be explained once you start listening to episodes of Quizmas. But since we're on the same team and Jack is flat out, he can't be part of it, too busy.

we needed a quiz master. And I was like, you know what? There's someone in our life that not only does a lot of pub trivia and is the trivierest person we know, but has what I think is one of the great shows a history of trivia, not just trivia, but shows a history of a trivia loophole. But I wanted, I wanted to get them up to describe today. It's featured on the show in various forms over the year,

be it not receiving a jumper or many other ways. Magic Mike, not a stripper. How are you, Mike? He joins us now. Gusto to you. Gusto to you, boys, ready to quiz. Yes. Hame tells me, though, there was something you wanted to absolve yourself on. I was like, you're the perfect choice for this, mate, because I remember you telling me this story.

What year did your trivia scam take place? This dates back to 2012. You had a trivia scam? Were you a magician then or pre-magician? I was, yeah, I was magicianing. I was probably in the early stages of like, not really doing it for a job. Magic, curious.

Yeah, yeah. And so was it at a pub, was it at a pub trivia? You scared? No, it was radio trivia. So I feel like I'm telling you guys the radio secrets here of how I was 13 years ago, I say, Mike's never talked about this, but I go, mate, there's statute of limitations, you're not going to get in trouble. It was the, it was like the Canberra radio, what was the station?

106.3. It was their breakfast quiz. And it was that thing where a lot of breakfast shows do this. They go like 10 questions in a minute. Yeah. So I'll tell you how it went down. I'm driving. I'm driving.

And I park, I get to the doctor's office like 10 minutes early, which is very rare for me. And I hear it turn on the radio and he goes, 13, 10, 60, some number. Call now, it should be your chance to win. I take a second. I go, why not?

I call it, and I get on. And I ask you 10 questions within a minimum. minutes. You can pass if you want, and you get $10 per correct answer. But if you get all 10,000, so that's the huge big win. So I got four. I didn't do that well. And then there was a double-and-nothing question, which I think I luckily got. So I went with 80 bucks. I go home, housemates got five other guys I'm living with. Guys, let's go on the radio this morning. Wasn't that hard. I reckon we could try to do this as a team, loudspeaker. Let's see if we can get all 10. The next, so that was a Friday. On Monday, same thing. I call up and I get on again. And they go,

the producer says, have you played this month? And I went, oh, yeah, I think I might have. And they checked the database. Oh, you played on Friday. That's right. Yeah, it was Friday. And they go, you're not meant to play more than once a month, but we'll allow it. They probably saw that I got four questions, right, and was no threat. But at this point, loudspeaker, and we do it as a team of five guys and we get about seven or eight right. We get a bit better. But the whole time my phone was vibrating because my brother was listening and he was texting through all the answers. So then the next time we go, right, let's have my brother in one ear, louds big with all my housemates and see if we can do it. And we got nine out of ten. kept getting nine, got to work. And it got so

common that that my boss and my work would say, how'd you go this morning on the trivia? I went, nah, I got nine again. How are you getting through every time? Are you putting? Did he using different names? They would have had your phone number. So we had to go get SIM cards and have our, like, I had these plastic sleeves, like, look like a drug dealer in the house with separate SIM cards and a piece of paper with that phone number on it.

But if finally happened, I've gone to my office. Boss is like, how did you go this morning? I got 9 out of 10 again. Some question about the Russian royal family in the 1920s. Like, what city were they murdered? Who knows that? Half an hour later, I get back from lunch. on my desk is a magazine highlighted trivia magazine highlighted question 12 what city was a

Russian family murdered my oh my God that's exactly it I look through all of them all these questions are all the really hard ones they must get easy ones from wherever but then all the really hard ones are from this magazine what's the magazine the Qantas in-flight magazine and that was monthly back then, and who I realized that on the 31st of August, you could go on to cornice.com and log in, and you could get the next

month magazine online. So then we had access to all the answers, all the questions that they were probably going to use for like the really hard ones. So we ended up then getting on and they were just firing all these ridiculous ones at us, and we were nailing them. Like, one time

they actually said the question wrong, but I knew the answer. Like, I knew what they meant, to say, and I thought that's the answer, right? So how many times did you win the thousand? Several times. And this is when we're a uni student. So $1,000 then, like a 22-year-old. Oh, yeah, huge.

And then the funny thing is the two radio hosts, during that time I, like, knew them. Like, I never told them that I was doing it, but then we actually happened to, by chance, work together. I was doing magic at this event, and they were there, and I ended up becoming friends. And one of them ended up being my celebrants in my wedding a few months ago. Our calculations was that the Rod and Bigsy show that you started doing this on?

That's exactly right, yeah. Yeah, right. And did you ever tell either of them? No. So Bigsy doesn't know. Bigsy doesn't know. Rod doesn't know. No, none of them.

Hey, mate. Well, we thought it was about time to... Oh. Well, I mean, if you're going to be the host, we've got to get this clear the air. Surely you've lived with the burden of this secret for too long. I mean, it's probably one of the great radio heists in history. Yes. But I think all, Jack, what's the statute of limitations for gaining money by deception?

You would have looked into it thoroughly. It's about eight years or something, is it? Yeah, I mean, if it's 12 years, what is it, 13 years, I think you should be fine. I'm joining us now, Magic Mike, is Bigsy. Bigsy, you're there? That's so good. I am here. Hello, how are you boys?

Bigsy, really good, mate. Did you know that this was happening? Do you remember this amazing golden streak of people winning the quiz? I do remember the quiz. Of course, it's the bread and butter of any, you know, radio show. The deception runs deep and it cuts real bad. I also just think credit where credits due. The fact that I had no idea is amazing.

But obviously, and like you've gamed the game, which is incredible magic mic, because it's luck to be able to get through to be the right caller. I don't know about the Qantas magazine, though. I think that might be a bit of a coincidence. But, like, also. 100%, I can tell you. Well, okay, well, I'm not going to take responsibility for that

because that's a producer, so I'll throw them under the bus. Yeah, we all know. I mean, yeah, everyone in here, the Wixon Radio is like, if I was a producer, first thing I'd do is be like, oh, man, I was looking at the Qantas max. They're pretty hard to. 100%. I'm furious because I wasn't in on it.

Clearing out our promotional budget. I probably lost my job over that. So it's your fault, right? We budgeted for it to go off once in a year. It's a well-thought-out-out-out scam. I mean, yeah. Anyone wanting to emulate it, you wish him luck. You wish him luck.

That is the game. And I mean, thanks, Bigsy. Does it feel good to have it off your chest, Mike? I feel great. My shoulders are back. I didn't know this was happening on this call. That's so funny. It's good to hear your voice.

I feel like I'm hearing Bigsy's voice and ready to Google something. He's about to yell out Luxembourg. Thanks, Biggie. Thanks, Mike. We needed you to air that. We can't have a corrupt quiz master. But don't you think? Exactly the kind of trickery, and that's the kind of evil mind we want running our quiz. Absolutely. And he'll be alive to our tricks. Hamish Sandy Plus Plus and Quizmas is launching on the 11th of December the week after we finish.

So, yeah, look out for it. Thanks, Mikey. Cheers. I don't know about you guys, but do you ever, I mean, As children of the 90s, we grew up in the 90s, we were born in the 80s, but you know, you peak TV years were the 90s. Yeah, absolutely. And as TV was at its, like, absolute heyday, late 90s, early thousands,

free to our TV, just dominating. Do you ever look back at the shows that were like pivotal in our childhood and just go, what? Like, you can go from me in the biggest star, and then you just never hear of them again. Yeah. Like some of these people, a big one for us at the moment, a big one that I've been thinking about is on our TV,

when you switch it on, one of the channels on the TV before you, like, connect to the H-DMI or whatever, one of the channels is just 24 hours a day, The Nanny. Right, with Friends. The Nanny over and over and over again. And the kids have come to love the Nanny.

I loved the Nanny. Mate, it holds up. I'll see it. The writing's great. Friends, unbelievable. Yeah. Here's a few things you come back to as someone now that's like,

in their 40s watching something they watched a lot when they were like 13, 14 or 15 number one, we thought C, maybe you thought Cici, who was Mr. Sheffield, yeah, you know, the people that don't know the show, I know we're going into the weeds here a bit, but we thought

that she was this old, annoying, like, oh, she's so old, she's a witch. She's just like a young, like, she's a babe. She's a young baby. But to a 13-year-old, you're like, oh, God, Cici, get out of here. Yeah, exactly, because the kids in the show, we're often getting annoyed with CC and we're related to the kids. That's it.

I guess so. Zoe loves watching the nanny because, unbeknownst to me, like, all her outfits were like unbelievable. Right. Are the nanny or C-Cs? No, the nanny. C-C just had power suits and stuff on and was, she, the wardrobe department didn't do her any favours.

But because I've been watching a ton of the nanny over the last few weeks, it really has swept. Like, to the point where, like, you know, the kids get half an hour of screen time, my daughter will usually choose the nanny. Wow. And it's in 4-3 on the TV. Like, it's not even... My dream of showing McKin's Seinfeld has stutter started

because I was like, guys, maybe you're old enough. Maybe you guys are old enough to watch Seinfra. I would have been that age watching Seinfeld. Another big show at the time, like, you know, my son's 11. It's not going to hold the same impact as the Nanny this day. Well, I unfortunately, I was like, we can't start season one because you have to be a fan. Yeah, I went straight to season three. And I went to the episode where Jerry and George have to have dinner with Elaine's dad

and he has the suede jacket. He has to turn inside out. That is, I love that episode because it's like candy stripes on the inside. And then the dad's like, you're not wearing that in the rain with me. And he ruins his suede jacket. Now, it's a slow burn of an episode. And I will forgive the children for this, but they uttered the words to me, this is boring.

Okay, well, I'm obviously not grounding you for that. I can't kick you out of the house with that. But you've done a bad thing. But I hear you. And they're like, can we watch the nanny? Okay. And look, the nanny's faster pace. I get it.

It's faster pace. Also, there's more adult themes than Sinefield. He's trying to pick up chicks and do all those type of things. The nanny does a lot of a size, man. It wasn't like a manny was kid-friendly, essentially. I think a nanny played more closer to full house than Sinefeld was. Take it from someone that's watched 50 episodes recently. There was some risque stuff from Fran in there.

But it was, we probably just didn't pick up on it at the time. I'm not going to say all of it held up. Like I think it would be problematic these days to have someone in Mr. Sheffield's position making the kind of comments he's making. Yes. But by and large, look, it holds. But the interesting thing is, I'm seeing there watching it.

And you're like, at the time this was a global hit, right? Like late 90s. I'm like, what has Mr. Sheffield done after that? He went from being Mr. Sheffield on the nanny, like killing it. And then he disappeared. And so I did a bit of research, and I did ask Chat GPD. I said, listen, who's the act of the play, Mr. Sheffield? What did he do after the nanny?

And is he okay financially? Like, is it because, again, I just have this thing where I worry, you burn so bright. And then did life get tough? Yeah. And you faded away or something bad happened to him. Here's what we know. Chachabidi couldn't give me an answer.

for his actual financials, but he did 145 episodes of the nanny. He's fine. Yeah, well, I mean, Andy, that's, I know, but maybe he's going to spend a vast life at that time. Yeah, and don't you get kickbacks from, like, syndication?

Yeah. Fortunately, he did a hundred, because Fran Drescher invented the nanny, so she's fine, she's a creator. She's looked after. If I'm watching it, like, if someone in Australia is watching 50 episodes, like that's happening all over the world, she's probably getting 20 cents every time we watch an episode.

So our house is, easily keeping the lights on at Frans' house. But it's rumoured or it's understood that he did get residuals. He does get, he got a cut. So he gets a worldwide cut of the syndicated stuff. So, because he's only had a few little

roles after some stage, a little bit of voice acting. I think I saw him a law and order SVU. Yeah. Wait, as a criminal? Victim. He might have been the lawyer. Yeah.

Impossible. He was on. He was on days of our lives before the nanny. He wasn't a victim. So he was an honourable role. He wouldn't have signed up to be a dirtbag because that's bad for his image. He could have been.

I mean, he might have been trying to change it after the nanny. He might have been trying to... The type of people you see on Lauren Ornese for you is hilarious. Like, Will Arnett is got like a child internet ring that he shouldn't be... Really? He's the banker. He's the bad guy. Like, before he's Will Arnette.

Like, you go through and there's all his... these amazing famous actors that go on to do stuff and they're doing... Who played roles as like the worst kind of villains. The worst type of... Yeah. And I guess you can't like go back

and say, I would take that episode down now. Please take the episode where I'm a child predator. I didn't know I would then become involved in the Lego movie. That's what I... That's the kind of stuff I do. I guess this raises the question like, Andy, I've got the nanny covered. You've got Law & Order SVU covers.

So we're both like heavily got the late 90s, early thousands like we've got drama and comedy covered what are you watching jack we need you to get onto a show yeah so you can keep tabs on the 90s sadly i've tried to show bianca both the simpsons and signfeld because she didn't grow up watching either of them she didn't get into the simpsons no and and it just didn't land how i thought it would what episode did you because when we started simpson sunday which we also do in our house which still holds after four five years we started with monorail i started with i started with lemon tree a episode, which is a strong episode.

That's a strong episode. But it's not, when you watch The Simpsons back, it's not like laugh out loud, funny. And I was kind of turned towards her waiting for her reaction. Yeah, one of those things where you put a show on, but then you face the person, not the TV. I think I put too much pressure on. Wait, the second time you pause and rewind to go,

so please stop asking me questions because you aren't this. Don't check your phone. Don't check your phone. He says dough a lot, but if you don't watch, you're not going to hear him say dough. Thanks for listening. The Hamish and Andy podcast will return next week. Catch up or contribute at hamish and Andy.com.