Hamish & Andy - 329 - The Pub's Been Robbed!

Episode Date: April 29, 2026

The King Bee reveals the progress he’s made on his organic, single-origin NZ alpine honey venture, and the guys have another classic interaction with beloved pizza shop owner Zio Pino. They also set some ground rules for the upcoming Golden Day, where Hamish gets to impulse-buy his way out of his online shopping habit, and chat to the manager of their pub, Old Mates in New York, about an iconic Australian artefact stolen by a very unlikely pair! 1. Hame’s Hives Ring-Around 2. Pizza Lotto 3. Golden Day Announcement 4. Old Mates Robbery 

A listener production. Activate your internet. Because the Hamish and Andy podcast starts in three, two. Sorry, still buffering. Ahoie to me compound. Hamish. Hello. I hope.

I hope this is to do with ground. Oh, could this be bows? Could this be bows? Could this be types of bow and arrow? No. No, it's not proven. Ahoy to me simple. Jack.

Rude. Ahoy. No, I'd say pretty accurate. I'm compounded. You get a lot of great results sort of squashed into one. Simple. What you see is what you get with Jack. Yeah, not simple-minded, but just like,

he's not too complicated. There's no way to really dress it up nicely. And what are you, Ando? Deluxe. Complex. My way, we go. I mean, is it something like verbs or? Is it grammary?

Yeah. Compound. Is it verbs? No, no, you're getting close. It's not... Nouns, verbs, adverbs. No. Subjugations.

But it is grammally. No? Boring. It is the three... It is the three main structural sentence types. Oh. There's only three sentence types. Yeah.

Simple was one complete idea. So, Jack plays soccer. Compound. Two or more complete ideas. is joined together. Jack plays soccer and also saunas. Yep. Complex, one complete idea plus an incomplete idea. Jack plays soccer because he enjoys it. God, so it's like getting, this is ordering like value meals. So you can have one complete idea, burger fries and a Coke, lost another one. Nuggets. Small amount of nuggets is a snack. Yes. So what did you do? What do you

Three or more ideas. Yeah, Jack plays soccer. He enjoys it because he feels good after he's sawn it. By the way, he's also been doing some birdwatching. Complex sentence. Very complex. Huge meal. That's feed the family for under $30.

That's four meals. The question I have more than any of this is, we don't need types of sentences. When I hear, when I hear it going like, oh, put it to me in a simple sentence. The only thing. I've prided myself. So far, my little boys in year six,

so far through his whole primary school career, I'm trying to brag, but I found the homework very easy. Except when it gets to the structures of the English language. Yeah. I'll tell you one thing you want to be so grateful for is we do not have to learn English from scratch again. The rules and then labels,

I don't know what this stuff is. It's impossible. It is, it's how I just go, look, I don't know what's under the hood, mate. It just works. You don't have to know all this stuff about sentence structure and labels like, it just seems to work. Let's leave it at that.

You'll pick it up as you go along. I think that's fair. Aoy also to Will. I went to Hamish and Andy.com to upload what he's been doing. Poor guy. Gidey, Hamish, Andy and the little boy. I currently find myself in London preparing for the London Marathon. And I've come to Harrodes, as all good tourists should.

And I've stumbled across what appears to be a two-hot 150 gram jar of Australian rare honey for 600 pounds. Here we go. So, 1200 Australian dollars. Here we go. And it got me thinking that Haynes Hives really is a gold mine. And maybe, just maybe, it ought to be reconsidered by the boys. Love your work, guys. Cheers.

Smart man and would have run a really fast Mara because he's a smart dude. Well, isn't that an interesting little. tidbit. I'll tell you one thing I can categorically say, though, is I don't care how much you reconsider it. The investment window has slammed shut so you will not be able to know. Doesn't it worry you a little bit?

No, I'm not like you, Jack. I'm not like you. But you always hear those stories of like, my grandpa could have bought into Apple on day one and he didn't. Well, what would you like to buy into Hayme's house for now? Like, Hame, they're pretty an offer then. I'm fine, but what would you

put into Hame? I want to give you, like, I want to put just enough in that I don't feel stupid if one in a million chance. That is what investing is. You've got to either put your money where your mouth is, Jack, and invest in Hames Hives now will not regret it. Oh, how much is a stock? I see you do a lot of venture capital, sir. Well, a share. I suppose it depends how many shares are on offer, but I could conceivably look at

giving you 1% of the business for, I guess, 10 grand. Oh, get lost. What the hell? 10,000. Wait, so that means it's worth, it's valued at a million dollars. At the moment, it feels like a bit of a million dollars. Well, that's valuations. And that could be cheap.

So what you should say, Jack, is like, what are you basing that evaluation? Yeah. Let's see the numbers. No. How many sales is you? That's not how they do it in Shark Tank. They have to prove something. I'm not selling. I'm not selling. You're begging.

That's why I've got the power. How's how in time going, by the way? Booming, thanks, mate. Yeah, right. Have you got any product yet? No, we're not going to get product for a long time. Okay. Well, I mean, I could just go and.

He hasn't even going to be yet. Have you got to be, you? I'll tell you, well, Jack, when the day comes, I'm going to be buying. 10 plus bees. So he'll be splurging with the day goes, I don't have a bee under my control. I don't have one that I would, that I could legally call my own bee.

Yeah. I have visited bees, and I've spent, I actually just got back from New Zealand, we're there for a bit of a family holiday. And I thought, look, I'll take the opportunity here,

run a few costs through Hames Hives, and start putting some feelers out, as it were, in the bee community. Yeah. People that have gone to hameshives.com would have already received the first. So you actually have set up hameshaves.com.

Hems.com is a landing page, lets you know what's going on. Okay. We've had over 3,000 people register their interest for Hames Hive and 75% of those checked the box that said theoretically, not asking for any money now, would you sponsor a B for $5? And so there's already a huge appetite

from the early movers, Jack, you could get on, you could do that. You could become one. One bee, doesn't one bee make a thimble of honey in its whole life? Probably less. You're not, you don't own the bee. You're not getting the bees. It doesn't mean that bee only produces honey for you. It's a fun way for you to buy into the hives

and become part of an exclusive community that gets access to early drops and exclusive offers. You spot on, Jack. It's just a fun, fraudulent way to store money out of people. I will send you a picture of your bee. I don't want a bee. So the plan is still to make a premium high altitude and alpine single origin honey. I'm buying 100 hives.

That's why I'm currently on the look at, as I tried to explain to you guys last time, for a hot, exciting, I mean, hot as in like there's heat on them, not. Yeah, that's a level of attractiveness is not a problem for you. Either way. I'm not going to hold myself to the certain level of hotness as the founder. and you can look like however you want to look. Yeah. But we need there to be some heat and excitement about you in the beekeeping world, someone that's ready to disrupt things and shake shit up a bit

because that's going to be the kind of operation we are. So we're doing a lot of bee people. Over 3,000 people. They've got the first mail-out's gone out. And that explained, and I won't go through it all now, but that explained the business model in that first newsletter that we've sent out. Okay. There's many, many stages to starting a honey operation.

Yes. Conceptual stage, we're kind of through that. Okay. fact-finding stage we're in now. Fact-finding stage blends into the mentor stage, and I've got a few good honey mentor opportunities that are in the game that are talking to me about the bees. Then we get into signing on the beekeeper,

then we get into buying the hives, then we get into buying the bees, and after that, nature is almost unstoppable at that stage in terms of what... Okay, so how are you going, finding your mentor? Yeah, look, like I said, filtering through, God, the response has been huge and thank you to everyone that's written in. Come on. I get the same email since inside then.

It hasn't been a lot. There has been a lot, and there's a lot of excitement in the hunting community. I have actually put my order in for my first hive that I'm going to have not in New Zealand. This is a test hive at home that me and the kids are going to run. I don't want to overload you with business ideas here, but one of the things we're going to do at Hame's Hives is have. celebrity and bee-sitters. So people that if they're interested, celebs, I'll put a hive at their home.

Like Ray Martin might go, I've got a farm. Who's going to do that? I'll teach him how to use the hive. And then we take that honey. You don't know how to use the hive. Once I've lived. Then we take that honey and we go,

guess what? This is Ray Martin's farms. Honey mixed with some of our other honey. So they're special blends. Jack, you could be a celebrity and be sedative. I don't want to do the bees because people have told me how hard it is to actually keep hives. These hives are easy. Easy, bezy.

I didn't want to bore you guys by going through all the exact ins and outs of what I've been doing, dealing with all the bee people. So I have put together a little package here because I spent this morning talking to a lot of my bee contacts, talking to a lot of the honey contacts and people that reached out to me through the show. And because I knew if I just said to you, things are going great, you'd go, oh, I bet you're making it up. I recorded the calls and I put together in a bit of a snazzy montage to show you just how serious Hames Hives is. We are a buzz. There's a lot going on.

Okay. Let's listen. Honey, honey, honey, honey. Honey. Honey. Honey. First up we had Kenny. Kenny is based in Singapore, but his brother-in-law in Australia had bees.

Sadly, they were a bit too much work for him. But rather than getting rid of the bees, his brother-in-law took them to someone who Kenny remembers as a South African who also races pigeons, but is a good beekeeper. It's a hot lead. Yeah, that's exactly it. Do you have that guy's details? I can get them off Tim for you. Sweet.

I'll shoot you an email, and I think I'd love to meet this South African bee guru. Mate, he's an absolute weapon. Great. I know you're in Singapore too, but once we start pumping the honey, no drama shipping internationally. Excellent. Yeah, exactly. There's no import issues here, that's for sure. Sick.

But let me bees, let me bees, let me bees. Let me bees, let me bees. Bees is a verb for having bees. Let me bees. Next up, Anthony. Anthony's family runs what seems to be a very, very well-established bee operation, and he could definitely have details of someone that could be my future beekeeper. Oh, Anthony.

Anthony, it's Hamish here from Haynes Hives. Oh, no way. The operation. How are you? Good. Mate, I'm actually, this is funny. I'm actually at work, and I double as a doctor in my spare time. So I've actually got a bit on.

Could I maybe get me... No, promise. I mean, you didn't even hear what it was about, so I don't know how you know it's more important what you're doing than the bees. Okay, I've got two minutes you to... No, well, I'm just going to say, you seem to have a lot of bee experience.

You operate 6,000 hives? Yeah, I mean, we're probably... You probably would have seen that the varolmites come in last three years. It's been tough, bloody tough. So, anecdotally, one third of bees are lost. So probably around that's four thousand months now. Well, could I put you down as someone that I could then, once you finish your doctoring stuff,

I'll catch up with you later in the week and we can shortlist a few beekeeper names. Of course, yeah, yeah. That'd be terrific. Sick. We specialize in breeding bees. Great. Okay, you could be a good man. I'll talk to you later in the week.

Yeah, no worries. I'll be free or all the rest of the week. Thank you, mate. Go save a lot. Thanks, same. Take care, bye. Bye-bye. If you want it, you got it.

You've just got to get bees. Get bees for yourself. Yeah. Finally, Claire. Claire seems to head not only one of Australia's biggest bee operations, but is deeply involved with the regulatory bodies that have a bunch of acronyms. She sent me a lovely email, and I had Claire right at the top of my list of people to chase up

to then further follow up with at a later date. Yeah, so we're beekeepers between Bassett and Orange, and we run about 10,000 beehives. We sure to know what's going on. You sure do. Thank you for the invite to the New South Wales State beekeeping conference. I sadly can't make it. That's okay.

I bloody would have loved to. Hopefully I'll be there next year with some product to show off. Sounds good. But could I catch up with you later in the week just to pick your brains about getting a bit of a shortlist for an exciting young beekeeper? Yeah, that's fine, no dramas at all. Nice.

Do you know anyone in the New Zealand bee game? Yes, we do. Great. Yeah. But anyway, I'll give you a buzz later in the week. Cheers. Thanks, mate. Bye. Bye.

Because baby, get those hires to work. Sell that honey for what it's worth. Get those profits high, high, high, high. And watch those bees fly, fly, fly. They get back to purkin honey. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. There is a lot going on at in the hive.

So far what we can garner from that, Jack, is four people are going to call him back at some point. Yeah, or I'll call him because when it's more convenient. I think there was only three. I just felt like four because there's a lot of fluff. He put as much effort into tracking down the pieces he did to his songs. The problem is, I wouldn't go into his sense.

Should have got, I actually should have got Jack to sign on the Donald line before I played that. Look, we are in the larval stage at the moment. Yes. You're away. I'm afraid of you. We're away. Gaut, annoyingly have to chase us up. Someone, some mongrel got in on Instagram and has grabbed a few of the.

That was an oversight by me when I sent out the newsletter. Someone's had a quickly, if you are the owner of Hames Hives or, any of the Instagram accounts that have popped up. You obviously don't have a blue tick because you're not, you're not, you're not, you're not Hames' lives. Yeah.

But feel free to reach out and lawfully handed over. I would appreciate that. You can hear us up at hamish nanny.com for any questions you might have. 50% of the emails go to your side of the fence ham, and 50% go to mine so we can surprise each other. So if you're trying to do it severe takedown on ham, you've got a 50-50% chance of it reach. me or him deleting it.

No, no need to do those. But if you do want to get Ando, send a few through to make sure it lands on my side of the fence. Scott wrote in and he highlighted a game that he wanted to play that we haven't played this year yet, hence we're doing it now. God, it's been a while. When you're having a try to guess the pizza pie, that's a lotto.

Pizza lotto. To the point where I'd forgotten that you'd done the falsetto thing, it has been a while. It's been a long time. I hope Zio Pino's is still open. Yes. For people who are new to the podcast, welcome. We're going to call our favourite pizza shop.

It was one we called randomly for this game. Originally, when we played this game, we thought we'd call a different pizza shop every time. But Zio Pino, Zio, who runs Zer Pino's Pizza Shop. Oh, Pino, Pino. Pino. Uncle Pino. Sorry, you're not to know.

You don't not speak Italian. Oh, Zio, uncle? Yeah, and Zia, Auntie. Ah. Zio, so Uncle Pino's. pizza shop. He was so enthusiastic game one, so he's become the only pizza shop we call. And Scott

joins us now. Ahoi to you, Scott. Ohoy, boy, it's gusto to you. Gosto to you. And how to you, sir? Thank you. Big entrance, Scott, and I wish you the best of luck here. You obviously are keen, you are keen to charge in. I'd love to

see you get a win on the board. The prizes are you get a black and white. You've already won at least a black and white printed hat. That's for participating. I should point out, I didn't get to the end. The game is, Scott has to ring this pizza short. Tell us what pizza he thinks is next coming out of the oven.

We ring a pizza shop, we don't know, and Pino will tell us which is coming out. Pino will tell us. Don't tell us the pizza you're going to guess here, Scott. Save it for the excitement of the game. I'm not saying the game doesn't have enough excitement with its boundaries, but we need to artificially hold stuff to pump it up. But do you already know the pizza? Or are you just going to let it come to you?

I'm going to try to get a read on Pino himself and play it from there. Oh, wow. Okay, it's interesting. Love it. Like I said, you do already have a guaranteed Pizzolotto participant hat for being part of this. Oh, wow. Which you could win the full-color winner. We solely are over-indexed on the hats because we thought we were going to play this game a lot more.

I think we've got 100 hats. We've given away about three. So. You and I took him a few years ago and we did our end of year podcast, you know, Christmas Party Day. Everyone got, I think everyone got a participant and a winner's hand. Everyone got lots of hats given out. You still got yours, Jack?

I don't have that one. I'm grateful. I'm grateful. Scott, we're going to put the call in. You ready to play? I'm ready. Good luck. Here we go.

Pino. Oh, it's Pino. It's Hamish and Andy. Hey, how are you? We are great. Great to speak. Thank you, Pino. Hey, hello, hello.

Good to hear you, my friend. Yeah, it's been a long time. When do you think he last played the game? Yeah, I know, a long time. You would do all just today come one guy, you know, he follow you, and he play pizza a lot. Well, really? Well, we'd like to play it right now.

We like that people still do the pilgrimage to Zio Pinos in Sydney to, you know, play it in real life, but, all right, Pino, we've got someone on the line. right now. Scott, are you there? Oh, very good. Yes, bonjourno, Pio. Comestai. Hey, bene, bene.

All right. See, see, see. Now, is there a pizza in the oven, Pino? Yeah, we got a few pizza in the oven. Oh, okay. Come on, come on. Okay. God, I got a good feeling that is, Scott.

Yeah. What pizza do you think is coming out of the oven next? I'm going to go for a supreme. Pino What pizza is neck You got it That's the It's beautiful

You got it He's got it He's got it He's got it He's got it Abandoned the anticipation Of a game show He's saying

In a very nonchalant manner Very low key You got it So Pino That is definitely the next pizza out Yeah Yeah yeah Yeah

Is it the most popular pizza there Yeah the most So popular Yeah The Supreme The Super Supreme and a vegetarian night meat. Oh, vegetarian.

Night meat. Night meat. Night meat? Night meat. Night meat. Night meat. Night meat. What else is the night meat?

Possums. Vegetarian night meat. Oh, I get it. A vegetarian nightmare. Yeah. It's all meat. It's an all meat pizza. It's nightmare.

But could have a bat and a possum on it. It's all meats. It's nightmare. Great. Thank you, Pino. Well, Scott. When do you come in? Soon, soon, soon.

Please. Okay. We miss you, Pino. We love you. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.

And Scott, congratulations. A hat. Two hats going your way. Participant. Oh, you did participate. Yeah, have two. I'm two. Tell you what, two participant hats.

One for your best friend or partner. Do you have someone in your life you'd give the other hat too? Yeah, I'm sure I can find one, mate. It's a few heads in my friend group. Yeah. Lots of people have had. You got one of those. You got one of those friend groups, too.

I got one for me, yeah. Yeah, great, great, great. Okay, well, well done. Scott, thank you. Well done, Matt. Yeah, as chaotic as you too. Thanks, boys. Appreciate it.

Cheers, buddy. Bye. Yeah. Hey, ma'am, a lot of buzz for our game show coming up where the prizes on the game show will be everything you impulse by in one glorious day. Golden Day. Golden Day.

Where we try to wash out. and get rid of this impulse buying addiction you've got. Yep. Aversion therapy, I think it's called. Yeah. You know, you love chocolate. Eat way too much for it, you feel sick, and then you'll never do it again.

I don't love its chances, to be honest. Because even just thinking of golden days getting me really tingly. It's because we had a Bitcoin we lost. We bought them way back in the day, and it's been rediscovered. So suddenly there's $100,000 for the people to spend on them. I'm just thinking, yeah. And this, sorry, Andrew, yeah, this is what we're going to do.

We're going to have a game show. Recreate, make our very own game show, live studio audience. Yeah. Kind of Price is right type vibes, as we're thinking. Just legally, we'll just flirt the edges. Price is correct. Yeah, price is correct. We're just going to flirt the edges of legality there because we really want all the money to go to the prize pool.

We want the money to go to the prize pool, not, you know, fighting off a lawsuit from Larry Emmer. Oh, man. It wasn't him. It wouldn't be him suing us. No. In fact, you'd hope if the lawsuit did come, Laz would put in a good word for us. Yeah, he'd absolutely do a character reference for us.

Yeah. He's got my initials on him, tattooed on him. What do you mean? That's right. He got the initials of all the... Gold Logie nominees against you. He said if he wins, he'll get the initials of all the other nominees. And he followed through.

Yeah. So that's a character reference. Anyway, about that, about the budget. It can't be a hard. hundred thousand dollars. I know I committed to that a couple of weeks ago. You did? But our accountants have since said,

what are you doing about the capital gains tax that you'll have to declare? To which I said, boring. And he said that doesn't get you out of it. I think it'll be 25% pretty much. And that's final offer. I wish you could negotiate with it. As the tax office is final offer?

Because that sounds like an opening offer. Yes. Yeah, capital gains. I mean, they say that they can tell. If you don't declare it. Well, Bitcoin feels like it's a global money, doesn't it? Just floating around outside of in international waters. I mean, check with your local accountant.

I wish Andy hadn't checked with our local accountant. We are definitely going to pay this one. It's high profile, as it was ported out to me by the accountant. So it's high profile. We will. So it's now down to 75%. So 0.75 of a Bitcoin Blitz. All right.

It doesn't have the same ring to it. No. Probably price is correct. Is it a punchier title now, isn't it? It's not a full Bitcoin. But I would like to see, I'd like you to see since you're running the budget on this thing and trying to get the studio and figure out those expenses.

Yep. $50,000 for the studio. That is an amazing price. It's not coming out of the Bitcoin. I was just saying, do you want to go down to 25 grand for the prizes? No. There's nothing left. There's nothing.

Jesus. Here we are trying to be Mr. Beast. And in the end, we're barely a... Mr. Least. You're Mr. Least, Andy Least. We're turning to a high school fair. If that, in terms of the cash prizes available. I mean, last time you were like, you just yelled at me,

get a sponsor. Get a sponsor. Figure this out. And while you're getting a sponsor, see if you can find a little bit of extra money for the prize pool. No, no. $25,000 is a big hit for me to take out of that prize pool. Yeah, well.

Jack agrees. Get a sponsor to pay the tax. Get two sponsors. Could we get the ATO to sponsor this? And they don't have to pay anything. They just have to. $25,000 by H&R Block. But the show is, I mean the ATO.

The ATO sponsor it, and they just, give us some freebies, much I mean freebies, I'm just going, if someone wants to sponsor the amount that we have to pay to the tax officer, it could be the ATO. If we fight, if someone's, it's not going to be the ATO. We did a whole event that was encouraging people to scan the ATO. No, it was not a scam. That was not that. We did an whole event that highlighted one of the glorious and generous tax concessions

they have provided, and thank you for continuing to make conferences tax deductible. And to improve. and to improve their professional ability to do their jobs. It was for the nation. Jack, remember at ConCon, people came, skilled up, went back to their workplaces, charged more, got raises. What do you think happens to that extra money that's flowing to them? Taxed straight to the Australian public.

I'm not a big picture person, but you're right. Ten, untowld, hundreds of thousands of dollars in future tax is now because of Concon. So we're the ATO Golden Boys. Yeah, yeah. We cause a lot of money to run into those. coffers. You don't see the ATO sponsor a lot of stuff they're like. You don't see. No, but it's open to them. If it does come in, then you can go back up to 100, but it sits at 75 now. I would like this one today. Heavily consider subsidising that.

Because I think the whole point of this day is to be wildly generous and you shower everyone with cash and prizes, mostly prizes. So that was just for the studio hiring cameras. Are you, do you still want to revolving? He was, yelling at me saying, I need a revolving kind of platform. Platform. So the prizes all kind of come around and suddenly you see. We just need to revisit the phrasing here. I think when inspiration hits someone and they say something excitedly,

that's not them yelling at you, Andy. That's them having a wonderful brainwave that's going to be great for the audience. But I didn't even think they had that on prices right. No, I think they opened a door and then all the prizes were in there. I don't think they revolved. Maybe that it could. At least a curtain. If we're trying to have cost savings here, maybe a revolving stage.

Yep. That seems like it's... Best case revolving. I'll see how I go. Talk to the studio. Prices. Yep. A lot of people in the street.

You're going to take that away from me? No, no. And on email, I'm worried that you're just going to buy... It's all useless junk on, like, Tima or something. No, no, no. I'm very good at buying expensive stuff. I've had that same worry, too. They're like, is it going to be like, yeah,

when you go to Timo and you spin the wheel and you have to pick, like, 10 extra things to get money. free shipping, not that stuff. It's not like when you go to Secret Santa in a workplace and you can go home with junk. Let me put it to you this way. There's something I, even though I'm going to wait till golden day to just sort of see where my mind takes me, there's something I keep getting fed in my algorithm. I won't say what it is, but it's over $15,000.

Really? Perhaps even over 20. Would Jack want it? Yeah, everyone would it benefit anybody's life? Anybody's life. God, it looks cool and fun. You must have one. Really?

So there will be big ticket items or showy. I mean, I hope it works. No, but like, you know, as a function. It's going to improve your life by giving you something. Or is just fun. So, JXKs are functional unless you deliver mail off crosswater or something. But like, it's a fun item.

I think Jet Ski's a very, their function is to have a bloody good time out on the harbor. But like a vacuum cleaner is more fun. has more function in the house. It's like, is it a luxury fun item or a luxury functional? I would say a jet ski does its job, which is to rip around. But it's got more utility then? Does it have more utility than a jet ski? Well, I mean, yeah, this isn't a $20,000 vacuum cleaner.

Okay. I mean, I know I talked about the laser rust cleaning machine. It's not a piece of industrial equipment, but it has a very clear function. Okay. And so what if that function is to have a bloody good time? I'm just saying that's one thing, but there's a lot of things I'd say in that $5 to $100 to $100 to $1,000 category, that's the kind of quality that I'm usually drawn to. Great, great, great.

You know, there'll be some little bits and bits, but I think everyone will walk away with something. You think you get the job done in three hours? For Golden Day? Yes, one hour. One hour. Okay, as I said, just a couple of coffees, and I'll burn through that money. I'll get you, I'm going to get you a separate company card. You can't have the our company card just because I know the amount of websites

you're going to put this card in. Absolutely. Air guppet. Air guppet, air guppet, air gap. We'll really get to quarantine that. That thing will be heavily frauded. After golden day. It will actually be a race between me and the dark web.

Once I get going, Bell, like, they'll just go, okay, this card is out there. Seems to have an infinite limit. Like, it'll be on. It'll be on. That's why I'll be racing through as fast. as I can go. Do you want somebody to be checking out for you? So you just go, yep, I want one of those.

And then they spend the five minutes to check out. Or do you want to build that into your time? I always imagine Carly would be there with me because there'll be shipping stuff too to kind of like be like, how do we get that imported? Yeah, okay, great. You happy with that, Carl's. Can't wait what a dream come true. Kelz's two thumbs up, but also a bottom lip out and a kind of a head tilt.

So it did mix messages. Golden Day, Ham, do you want to announce when it is? We're going to do it in a few weeks, aren't we? Yep. Because I feel like we don't know when the game show is going to be, but we kind of have to get the ball rolling on the prizes. Oh, everything's got to come as well. Everything's got to get shipped here before the game show.

I mean, yeah, in my experience, there are sometimes some very mysterious and long waits. Brilliant. On things. So I think you want to give it a good four to six weeks for stuff to arrive. So Golden Day will be in a couple of weeks time. We're thinking May 9. and the excitement is such that Marshie made a jingle just for Golden Day.

Oh, God, please. One brave man with the company car. Spending a whole Bitcoin shouldn't be... Sounds a bit like a kid show, but I'm into it. It's really good. I mean, yeah, it feels like one of the filler songs out of a musical, but it's very... It's good.

It's coming. Golden Day's coming. We couldn't use it on the day. Yes. Hame, scandal this week at Oldmates, our pub in New York City where there was a theft. For people who have visited Oldmates in New York City, it does take the H&A loyalty card, so you will get 10% off.

You'll have to give 5% straight back as a goodwill gesture. But within the pub, there's a lot of nostalgic paintings. I wouldn't say memorabilia as much because it's not really kind of sporty. It's more just nods to Australia. Important things, important Australian artefacts, like a hard rock cafe, but for Australia. And things that haven't been in movies, yes, and more easily accessible things. One of the key bits of Australian memorabilia that's in the pub was the Woman's Weekly Birthday Cake Cookbook.

Now, this is a sacred to many adults now, but when you're a child of the 90s and early 2000s, speaking from personally experience, this was the best book in the house. And you would spend 360 days a year perusing the book, thinking about what cake you would make, mum make, and then five days a year watching, four days of you watching a get ingredients. And then one glorious day a year eating the number eight racetrack cake and life was good. Hoping you made the right decision. Maybe should I have gone to cricket pitch? because that does have TV snacks standing up around the outside,

and that is a more bountiful. Or the duck. Chocco's there, two crinkle cuts, sandboy chips for its beak, which would also be delicious. And mum would have to have a lot of leftover chips. She'd have to go, what am I going to do with this? What am I going to do with these chips? Mum, it is my birthday.

You would say if you're a young Andy, I think I should have them. We had the cover of one of those original, I think it would have been from the 80s, Australian Women's Weekly Birthday Cake cookbooks on the wall and old mate. Someone thought that that was a great idea

to thieve it, Jack. Yeah, yeah. It was taken. I haven't seen the movie National Treasure with Nicholas Cage, but I think it's the same plot with the Declaration of Independence. I think from remembering the trailer,

someone steals, just sees it on the wall and goes, oh my God. That'd be nice to that at home. And it's about the same level of importance to both countries. I think the Declaration of Independence is very important to America.

and Australian Women's Weekly. Very important to Australia. Was the book framed? It was framed. Someone with better authority than us to talk about it is Eddie, who runs the pub over there. He joins us now from New York City. Ahoi to you, Ed.

Good to tell us. Go ahead to chat. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for taking the time on what's been a busy time at the pub, but also a sad time with the crime wave. Now, Ed, you guys did the right thing. you posted about it, but we did have vision of this person, Jack, and their face.

You chose not to shame. You chose to blur that person's face while posting the vision of them stealing it. How big a decision was that? I want to know the background of that. And was there a situation room where you discussed naming and shaming? Well, we did have footage of them taking it off the wall. So we had a, it wasn't a great hammer angle. We did have a pretty clear shot of them taking it.

One of the assailants, and it was a man and a woman. and one of your assailants then popped it under their shirt. But as they're leaving, we got a pretty clear shot off the face. We didn't know them, though. It was late Saturday night, about quarter past one Saturday night. So we didn't know the people in question. And we thought, we're a good shot to get this back as we've got the people. But we didn't necessarily want to put them on blast.

We've all, I'm not, I wasn't too upset with them, you know, the ethics of it. We've all pinch something from the pub and we've had a skinful. It's not a captain. criminal crime. The truth of item really upset us. It hit deep. And look, you're talking to three guys that have pulled off a heist themselves. So we understand.

We understand. As Berg boys. Yeah. Did it seem premeditated to you or was it a crime of passion and convenience? It was unquestionably a crime of passion. It was, it was, you know, five or six scoeners in. Look at the wall. There's the book.

they share the affection. It was targeted, but I think it was impromptu. Again, not having seen National Treasure with Nicholas Cage, it was similar to that bit in the film. There is one where he's had a few beers and he looks up and goes, holy shit, isn't that the declaration of independence?

I can get that on the my shirt. I can get that on the most shirt. We should definitely get it. Ed, so then we didn't put their faces up, but we did ask for it to come back. Do we know whether they were Australian? I get asked that a lot in the street at the moment. They have to have been.

We didn't at the time. We thought we could put them on blast, but we're better off catching bees with honey, and we'd try and incentivise them. I didn't want to buy them a drink. I didn't want to reward the criminals, but I thought we'd get like a collective pressure going on it. So in the event that it was returned,

we're knocking the price off beers for the whole month of May for everybody else. So it was like, you've done the wrong thing. Now do the right thing for everybody else. So we're off with pitching $8 schooners of Cooper's Australian Lager and Bolter XPA at the pub for all of May. We're the only shop outside of Australia that pours those beers. And I've got good news. Can I reveal it?

Can I reveal the good news now? We haven't actually announced it at the pub. Yeah, great. Sunday morning, the day after Anzac Day, we had a Montseranzac Day here on Saturday. and Sunday morning before we opened, our general manager, Amanda, was in venue, and a party of three came to the front door, two adults and a kid, and they had with them the magazine, still in the book, still in the frame, return.

So we got the book back Sunday morning, so we're doing cheap years all month of May. Why'd they have a child mule with them? Yeah, that feels like a shield. Here it lies the twist. Here it lies the twist. I'm not a bit of a twist. It's just something that I'm quite glad for it, and I think it's a real cherry on the cake,

pardon the pun, for this. It was a mother and son. It was a family affair. But the kid was a lot of the original theft? So there was an adult woman, her adult son, and then a younger kid. I wasn't there.

Avent, Aventer field of it. Oh. So they're trying to say, we were... Intergeneration of theft. We were going to... Like, are they trying to say, like, we were going to make one of the cakes for this little kid? We simply borrowed the book.

We made one case. We made a stolen manuscript. It wasn't said in as pure words, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Look on them kindly. I think it was a family affair. Mum saw it, said, I should really be making something. Maybe they had a birthday coming up and the week was missing. Maybe there was a birthday in between.

But so when it was a mother and son who did the pinching, I looked on them a bit more kindly. The other slight concern here is, though, if the greater pub community realizes that if there's a theft and a return, beers become cheaper, have we accidentally become New York City's number one hotspot for low-level crimes that then get rewarded? Did you talk about any? I do want to stress. This is a one-time only thing. A pair of budgie smugglers. We had some framed-brudgy smugglers. our signature buggy smuggles on the wall.

They weren't missing as well during the week. So can we just put out an appeal to all our punters? Just please take the coasters. Take a coast. Most of our listeners would be Aussies or Kiwis, maybe heading to New York one day to go to the pub. So, yes, thieve away with the coasts. Please come.

Just go nuts on the coasters. Or buy some merch, even better. Get some merch, even better. Yeah, get some merch. And it is a steal at those prices. But it feels like you shouldn't have to have this sign on a pub wall because it is a given, but please don't steal from us. Is, I mean, or does that encourage more exciting?

Well, I wanted to ask, Ed, did you think about going the other way? Did you think about going, we will increase the price of the beer? Yeah. The longer it doesn't get returned. That's the next one. If someone will just happens again, I can't stress enough. If you think, like if people are listening, I think it'd be hilarious to come in and steal more things. It's not hilarious.

please don't. They're all highly sentimental. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they take a long time to a fix. Yeah. So let's not do copycats. Nobody likes a coffee cat. Not funny the second time.

Are any copycat tests? Yeah. We'll, um, yeah, not put it in the second time. That's all right. Any copycat thefts will, uh, those prices will go back. How about that? Yeah. That's great.

Now me and Andy will go in steal stuff so we can make more money through this. I'm going to stress that to Nick Fending and Ash party. Sorry, somehow someone came and took 25 bar stools last night. If you see Hugh Jackman lurking. Jackman just wheeling out the billion table. Sorry, until we get that back, prices are up 300 bucks a year. Any thanks, mate. I'll be seeing you in a week's time for Mates Day.

Can't wait. Looking forward to it. We celebrate May 8. Yep, Mates Day. I'll just announce it. I'll be there. We do a tini crack. The sun sets at 8 p.m. in New York City on Mates Day, May 8.

We do you hand out a tin to everyone in the pub, 600 people, and do a countdown to 8pm, and then everyone's quiet and opens the beer at the same time. So look forward to seeing you, bud. Best day, be a lot of fun. Shane, we didn't get a spinoff of Law & Order and his favourite show that was to deal with low-level pub pubs. But thanks, Ed. Keep up the good work over there. Thanks, James.

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