Hamish & Andy - 335 - Core Blake Family Moment Unlocked

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

A late-night incident involving Hamish leaves the entire household wide awake! Andy's brother Cam discovers that a catastrophe at his new house was actually caused by Hamish. 'Salacious Headlines' makes a return after a comment Andy made to a passing journalist got him into trouble with Bec. Plus, some 'Power Moves' to elevate your status in the workplace, and Hamish sparks an investigation into the disappearance of the game Bat Tennis after reminiscing about playing it in primary school. 1. Hamish Woke the House Up2. Salacious Headlines3. The Liquid Sandwich4. Power Moves5. NSW vs. VIC - An Ongoing Investigation

A listener production. Activate your internet. Because the Hamish and Andy podcast starts in three, two. Sorry, still buffering. Ahoi to me foil. Hamish. Hmm, okay. Are we parts of a yacht?

No. Bam. Ahoy to me epa. Jack. I know. We're swords. What he's swords. Yes.

Fencing swords. We are fencing swords. The reason, Jack, you're fencing swords. The reason, Jack, you're probably the same. The reason you know an EPA is it's always in crosswords. Huge crossword word. Huge crossword word. Yeah, it's obviously one of those, because it's like three vowels.

Yeah. It's just, it's like, you know, always. It's probably, like, helpful to wedge into the small word that wedges in. Yep. And also another word that possible is the plural of, like, you know, eggs as in, like, mammals eggs is over. Like, the VA instead of, like, over them. That's like, that's a huge one.

Yeah. But I wouldn't have known epa. if it wasn't for the New York Times crossword. It's always a good word to have up your sleeve. I am a Sabre. A Sabre. Yeah. The foil, obviously, the light flexible weapon. Torso only, if we're in battle for that during a fencing composition.

F.A. a heaviest, stiffer weapon. Target error, entire body. Yep. Hit where you will. Yep. And then the Sabre is a light weapon designed for faster action. Is it? Everything above the waist is allowed and scores a point

if you're using a saber during a fencing match, including arms and hands. head. So is there any... God, fencing's fascinating, isn't it? I mean, I know we only care... There's 80% of Olympic sports you only care about when it comes around,

but none more so than fencing. I mean, no one... You can't see you're following fencing too much. Well, a foil, if we were in the foil discipline, ham, you would focus on precision... It's the poker. Strategy and tiving. Yep.

Which I don't necessarily think it's you. What's the one where you could win it all with one good hits? I think Saber. I think speed, aggression and quick reactions. I think that's you. One Hail Mary.

That would be the event for me. FAA is patience and accuracy, which was Jack. I don't think that's Jack or you. And carefully crafted attacks. Now, I think you're both Sabre guys. Anytime I've watched it, it all feels like the same one.

I can't distinctly remember there being different swords. They all go for like five seconds? It always looks like a tie. You can never tell who wins. It's like one second. and they both look like they got each other. Am I right and saying in the Olympics, though,

it's only the foils. They don't have the different disciplines. Well, I know, it's like, because they're connected to it. It feels a bit like the board game operation. Which, if you touch the size, a buzzer would go off. And that's, I think, the same technology they use

when they touch each other. Yep. It's whose buzzer went off first. Yep. Which, again, shouldn't be sword-fighting because it seems like they both get each other. On the most part, they both get each other. I know 95% of my sword fighting understanding comes from either Game of Thrones or Star Wars.

And in those sports, whether it's lightsabers or broadswords, it's not really a big win. No, it's lose, loose. You both get each other at the same time. You know, it is a lose-lose. You really the goal is to get the, chop the other guy's heads off whilst keeping yours on. A double chop off. It's not as good as a good as a win. But in fencing, it's all about did you get in first?

You get in first and then it's like, then you're invincible. You're invincible after that. Nikki, we went to hamishnody.com to tell us what she's been up to. Oh, hey, boys, Nikki from Tasmania here. I was listening to your three things from last week's episode, and I thought I nailed it right away because simple, complex and compound are actually also types of fractures. I'm a paramedic, and I thought I would redo them for you as fractures.

Ando, I would make a compound fracture, also called an open fracture because the bone breaks through the skin creating an open wound. Ando is the only one I know with a history of an open wound because he suffers from what we in the medical world call an IA. Inferior asshole.

Jack could be a complex fracture, but I would actually change him to another type of fracture, a green stick fracture, which is where the bone bends but doesn't break all the way through. This only happens in children who have softer and more flexible bones. This is appropriate for Jack because he's just a little boy.

Haim can be a simple fracture, which is one straight line with two bone segments. This works for Haim because he's an easy, be easy, fast and loose guy. See ya and make us to be with you. And also to you and thank you for your work. Good, great assessment. Didn't have to bring up my bottom problems, but... I mean, that's on you, mate. You brought it up so openly when it was happening.

But graphically, some would argue. Yeah. She fiercely graphically. Hey, you wanted to start the show. Well, something happened the other day in our household, which I, am I proud of this? I'm probably not proud of this, but I have made history. I've made family history. You know, like growing up, you never know when a classic family moment is going to happen.

Yes. And I think one's happened that. I've got a bad hunch will be part of the family folklore for a long time. Excellent. I didn't wonder this because there are certain moments. You didn't even know. You don't know that's the day. The whole family remembers. Yeah. One for me was I did a fluff or a fart on our family trip because I'd been a little unwell,

which is known in my family as the choker. Yep. To the point where mum was dry reaching. Yeah, wow. And dad had to pull over the camper van and everyone had to get out and we had to open all the doors. Funny you mentioned farts because mine is part related. I suppose when a fart, I suppose when a fart moment happens, everyone's like antenna goes on a bit to go,

this is fun to remember these ones. But with that you've had poor farts, but this one, yeah, when mum's wanting to vomit and dad has to pull over on the highway. I did something that I think would rival the choker. In terms of earning its spot in the fart hall of fame, I did a fart that woke the house up. Big house too. That is amazing.

Two floors. It's not a small property. So let me explain the layout. I mean, and for your upcoming house, if someone did a fart that woke the house up, that would have to be a horatima levels. And even then, you probably insulated. So the layout of our house is master bedroom upstairs.

Yes. downstairs, two kids' rooms and a spare bedroom. A lot of the time I'm in the spare bedroom, you know, for Rue, for the kids, there's just not uncommon. If you've got it, you use it just for a bit of sleep sanctuary. And those are light sleepers. She's gone early. A lot of reasons why I could often be downstairs.

In this case, it was because Rue was a little bit sick. And I'm like, all right, I'll go down, so I'll be in the spare bedroom with Rue. So between the spare bedroom and Rue's bedroom is that level's bathroom. Were you in, sorry, were you staying with it? I was staying in the spare bedroom. I'm in the spare bedroom. I'm in the spare bedroom. Rue was in my bed.

But there's a room in between yours and hers. Yep. So often in we joke, if I'm spending a lot of time down there, my joke is like upstairs as management level, but I'm not, that I'm allowed to visit. But I'm down with the employees. I'm down on the staff level. So I'm down on the employees floor and just, you know,

one of the gang downstairs. It's about 5.30 a.m. So wake up time for the house, depending on what school day it is, is between 630 and 7 o'clock. Okay. So we're well before movement. Anyway, I get up. I'm going to go next door. Roo's still asleep.

I get a big store to do a quick wee. And of course, things are moving. And as I'm doing the wee, I feel the feeling we all know. Yes. And I guess trying to remember. I'm just wearing underpants at the moment, which I think is pertinent. because it's like if you're in, not that I would be in jeans at that totally, like it would have been a bit more muffled, but you're pretty close.

You're asked to the environment as though there's just a thin layer of cotton, stopping the monstrosity that was about to come. No one knew, but this was the calm before the storm the way. And I guess I cocked a leg a little bit or something. I was quite uncomfortable I remember at the time. But then what happened next, you know your farts, really. They mostly lie within the normal distribution curve. So when one happens, that's way five standard deviations to the right,

like, oh my God, what's going on? And so I knew it was a bit of an unusual one. And it came out sharp and hard and loud. Wow. Long? Yes. And now that bathroom is tiled. So acoustically, acoustically, I was like, oh, my God,

who knows what the sound waves were doing? Obviously, you've got an open toilet bowl in there. And if you get an unlucky sound bounce, maybe it hits the toilet bowl, gets amplified, like a radar dish. And now it's booming around the road. room. That room, that bathroom is obviously right underneath the manager's bedroom, like management level, right underneath CEO's office.

So anyway, I'm like, oh my God, I come out of the bathroom. I'm still thinking everyone's thinking, okay, Sunny's door opens and he goes, what was that? It's like, oh no. Oh, no. And since I'm going to go, is that a fart? I'm like, you know, you go back to bed. You're dreaming. You're dreaming.

You're dreaming. Shish. I was like already beginning to go, this, there's bad PR about this fight. And I'm like, oh, if he's awake, as you said, Zoe, very light. Yeah. Rube pops their head out of the fire room.

And she goes, Dad, that was disgusting. I'm like, it's okay. Everything's fine. It's over. What's amazing. It was probably about six on the bricked scale. Enough to wake someone,

but it's gone long enough for them to register also what it is. come fully out of unconsciousness, into consciousness, still going. They know what's going on. So, Rue's like, oh my God. I'm like, you know, it's over, guys, it's good. We got us get another hour asleep. Then I hear footsteps on the stairs. I'm like, uh-oh, something's going on from the management level.

Maybe it's, I hope it's not related to this. But so he comes down, he goes, was that a fire? Like, oh, then Rue's eyes like, she goes, it was, it was dad. He's done a fart so big. He's woken everyone up. I'm like, sorry. Was there laughter then from everybody? This is the greatest thing that's ever happened

because she kind of loves me getting in trouble. It's one of her favorite things. So she's like, Hey, son, are you going to sleep? We can still go to bed. We're still at an hour. But the adrenaline's now humming. She's like, look, get me the newspapers on the line.

I've got the front page. She runs up to the kitchen. At night, we slide the kitchen doors closed for the cats, right? You know, now she's on like around. page trying to go. Yeah, trying to work out. Dad's the worst. Dad's the worst. Opens the doors, right?

Opens the doors to the kitchen. She goes, the cats are awake. They're always awake. They wake up. When you open the doors, she goes, nope, it looks like they just woke up. It's like, it's from the fart. Anyway, it's been about 10 days. It's not going away.

It's not going away forever. No, it's not going to away. They're going away forever. Because now anytime anyone wants to just have a life, they'll go, hey, remember when dad's in the fire? They'll open the whole house up. You're like, yeah, well, I've learned no more, can't go in that room. Not only am I not welcome on the management level.

Yes. I now have to have designated farting areas on the employee level because, unfortunately, the noise travels. The reverberation. Incredible. Got in trouble from Beck. Unfair. But I feel, I feel like it.

Straight on your side there. Thank you. Appreciate it. that? You would never have done anything to warrant that. It's to do with the wedding, and it was something I said in a passing, to an, to, I didn't even realize I was being interviewed, but to a passing media journalist. When, how?

Yeah, I mean, this shows how much people read the paper, I reckon as well, but two weeks ago. It was a newspaper thing. Newspaper article. They, they were asking about, I think the comment was from her, you know, are you excited about the wedding and say, yes, you know, like, if you've found you forever and I was like, oh, look, if Beck found someone. better than me along the journey, I'd never want to have to have her lock into me. You know, she's welcome to upgrade at any time.

Yep. Yada, yada, yada, yada. Headline, Andy Lee reveals he won't say forever in wedding vows. They've played the game before. And you didn't even know it was an interview. So it's just, it was just a, oh, wow. Good, good, good, good. What paper?

The usual one. You know, the one. A small one or the big one? The big one. No, the big one. They're the big one. What's the small one? Sorry.

I was like, because the big one is owned by Channel 9. Then you can expect any favour. No, but you could certainly. I hope for. But, you know, it happened and it made us think, hey, we should play the Salation's headlines a game again.

People have been calling it for it at hamishdh.com. So let's jump into it. Oh, that's lovely. Nothing wrong with that. That's perfect. No, it's not. Wait a second. There is something wrong with that.

Salacious headlines. We love this game. So Andy sends the homework around and goes, hey, we're going to do this salacious headline game, and we have to think of something in our life. Some good news. Some good news, or just something that could not possibly be cast in a negative way, but then it's our job.

The other two's job as journalists to find the clickbait in it. Yes. Yep. Who do we want to start with first? Do you me? Yep. I can't stress this enough. I mean, it sounds made up,

but this is a genuine thing that has. happened to me yesterday, literally yesterday, I helped an old lady across the street. That's it. It was Bondi Road in Sydney. Did she require help? Did she think she was going so slow. No, I saw her from the other side. She was crossing and it's a very, you know, sometimes you get those roads that if you're

not crossing at the lights, you go, oh my God, will there ever be a break in traffic? Like the lights don't sink up so both ways are clear. Sometimes I've spent like full, full minutes. five, six minutes going, I might just live here. I might never be able to get back to my car. So it was there, and I could see her coming from the other side of the road.

She actually put her hand on my car, and so I was going to yell like, yeah, yeah, it's off my car. Hey, you got out of the car. No, no, I was crossing back to my car. All right. And she, I didn't yell at her for touching my car. That's fine.

She used it to help herself down and was peeking out into the traffic, and she was going so slow. And I thought, this is going to be bad. I said, stay there, and I'll help you across. And then when there was a break, I ran over, used a valuable break in the traffic to then help her back, leaving me now back on the original side.

Again, grabbed her arm. Did you do link arms like in the cartoons? And then more cars came along, but by that stage they saw it was happening so they were slow, like waiting for ducklings to cross. And we got across and I said to her, well, you've cost me a big time here because now have to wait for another break. But anyway, that's the headline is he genuinely helped you not waiting across the next. My headline.

Jacko, do you, I think we're both probably going to go to a path. You want to go first. Okay, here we go. Okay, good luck. What can you do with this? Salacious headline. Salacious headline in three, two, one. Hamish Blake involved in crime with elderly lady.

Because we're jaywalking. In the article, it will say jay walking. That's good. Not bad. She made me. I went down a different path. Salacious headline. Salacious headline in three.

Two, one. What will Zoe think? Question mark. Media personality, Hamish Blake, caught in public holding hands with older woman. Good. Good. Zoe is an older woman actually to me.

It could be another older woman. Just to stick the boot in a little bit more in the headline. I would click on that if you were caught in head. I'd click on it too. And I was there. All right. I've got some good news for the two of you. Go ahead.

Old Mates Pub. Yep. Hamish and mine and others pub in New York City. We've just bought the lot next door, or at least the lot next door, to build a beer garden. So suddenly we're going to have a bigger beer garden. It should be opening this week or the next.

So a chance for people to drink in the sun. Even though I am a partner in. old mates, I'm just going to pretend I'm not for this. I'm going to pretend that's all you. That's actually true because contractually you're not allowed to besmirch old mates, but we'll give you a leave part. I'm out. Okay. I'm out. Is that really in a contract you're also? Is it? You can't smirch. Yeah, that's generally

a rule from... Not that I want to besmirch it, it's a great pub. It's just a funny thing to put in the contract. Well, I think it's pretty standard in most contracts when you invest in it. Can't bring it into disrepute. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway... I'm so surprised if anyone said I'm out. because I was hoping to besmage quite hard. Okay.

I'll go first or Hame first? Okay. Good luck. Salacious headline. Salacious headline in three, two, one. The world is not enough. After building house that encompasses most of Melbourne, Lee begins takeover of Manhattan.

Yeah, I would click on that. Yes. But I like it frames you as a Bond villain. Jack, have you got one in the barrel? Here we go. Salacious headline. Salacious headline in three, two, one. Hamish and Andy perpetuates stereotype of Australians as beer-guzzling oaths

with expansion of Australian pub in New York. I like that one. We do, though. Yeah, we are giving more space to guzzle. The guzzle garden. Uh, very good. Jack, what's yours? My good news is, the other day I was shaking out a guitar pick from the center of my acoustic guitar.

I know when that happens, you, yeah, it's... You lose one in there and then it rattles around. And you're like, oh, it doesn't come out as quickly as you'd hope. There's a knack to it. And as my pick came out, so did $250 in cash of the whole out of the whole of my guitar. 50s? 20, what was it? What was it doing in there? I still don't know.

best guess is either last year I did live shows with Nikki Glazer when she toured Australia. Maybe they put like, as an American gesture, they like tipped me and put the money in... Instead of handing you, they hit it. They put it in the guitar. Yeah. I don't know, because I had my guitar like I was doing songs. That's the last time like I would have used it in public. So maybe, or maybe an audience member tipped me anonymously.

or Gordy maybe stole money from us as a four-year-old and has gone around the house and put it in the hole because it's just fun to put stuff in the hole. She's asking me if you found any Bitcoin passwords. Okay, so Gordy would, what, out of your wallet or something? Possibly. 250, okay. Yeah, a couple of years ago when we sold our family car,

the guy goes to me, I'll take $1,000 off and I'll pay in cash. And somewhere in my head, I was like, oh, yeah, you want cash, cash is king. So I said yes. And then I had $14,000 worth of cash. I actually don't know if it benefited me in any way. Because when I had the cash, I was like, well, this is just a nuisance because now we've got to, like, hide it in the house. Yes.

So he could have pulled it out of the... Okay. I like the fact that he doesn't know where the money's from. Yeah. And that Jack has got $14, $14,000 in cash in the house. No, that is that. I promise you, it's gone. I'm not just saying that so you don't rob me, but he's gone.

I'll go first. Here we go. Salacious headline. Salacious headline in three, two, one. I'm going with another quote at the top. It was my son. Podcast star and social media influencer Jack Post denies any connection to potential drug money stashed in guitar.

That's what you think of when you see cash these days. And you don't know where it's from. I don't know where it's wrong. I'd be very surprised if he's involved in anything nefarious at his age. Very surprised, but not impossible. Okay. Here we go. Yeah, I think of it.

Salacious headline. Salacious headline in three, two, one. Sorry, just before I do mine, do you remember the debacle? The $250 caught my eye just in relation to a recent drum kit. Oh, yes. Removal. Yeah. Fuel bill.

No fuel money lie exposed. King Weasel caught after exact amount owed to H Blake found in guitar. $250 reigned freely from its hiding spot, highlighting Jack's lie that he was, quote, unquote, too poor to pay. We got the whole article. Too long for headline. No, King Weas, exact amount. The exact amount you owe me in fuel.

Jack, because you said I've got store credit at your house, Could I please exchange my store credit for that $250? I don't think you can exchange store credit for cash, can you, Andy? It's one of the items in your house. That's how store credit works. You're allowed to go around and pick the thing you want to the value of $250. Played golf yesterday. Yep.

And Jacko was best on ground. We did play, yes, we all had a great day out. And Jack was, I mean, if keeping score is the thing you do when you just go out for a nice day with your friends, then well done, Jackie. Oh, it seemed to be important to you halfway through the round and then less so towards the end. Playing with any second pair of clubs, which you know full well,

were completely alien in my hands. We've got a nice system. Hame will come down, go out and play golf. You borrow my brother's clubs, my old set. Is that why that feel so weird? And that's been a nice little thing that we do. That's been nice.

They seem to be the nice specs. You've enjoyed borrowing the clubs? Well, I can't say they've I've tried my hardest with this but I can't say they've exactly held up the end of the bargain. Yeah. So the last time we did this was December.

Yeah. And then I had to go back around and grab the clubs from Cammy. Yeah, right. I thought these were just a spare set you had at your house. No, no. I don't know. These are Cam's clubs.

Yeah, right. And it was when Cam was grabbing the clubs for me and he didn't get to play as much as we do. Yeah. In fact, hadn't played since you last. use them. Maybe I should just. Yeah.

And that's when Cam discovered a sandwich from November in the bag. A sandwich? Sorry, I thought you said a sand wedge. No. Very confused. This is a very golf-specific confusion because that a sand wedge is a golf club that isn't in that sand. No.

It's a 60-degree wedge, which I had to borrow yours or do you as edge. I kind of was like, there was a sandwich in the bag? No, a sandwich, a chicken and avocado wrap. He found my present. He joins us now. Cam, ahoy to you, mate. Oh, good, aye. Oh, yes, good, mate.

Talk us through, because it ended a riddle for you and the family, didn't it? You guys have been trying to discover a smell and work it out a new house you've bought for some time. Talk us through how that's been at the house. So, yeah, no, we've, you know, we've, you know, we've done our house that six months ago, and then I've just been setting up our office and getting rid of some chairs and stuff, and then I bought a new desk chair, which is sort of leathery or plethoray sort of thing. And, yeah, there was a bit of a smell that sort of started to stink in the room. And I thought it was maybe the chair, so we aired that for a little bit.

Yep. And then the smell sort of kept on wafting, and then, yeah, I thought there might have been a dead posth. some in the wall or underneath the house. Yeah, it's a bum. We're about to get some people to have a look at. And B's been rolling with the air conditioning all the windows open and the heating on to try and air the place out, which we just haven't been able to... Quite the climate impact.

It gets the bottom of it. So when I said, picking up the bag, Kevin said, I said, just check that there's some balls in there. And that's when you discovered a chicken and avocado wrap. From memory, half a wrap. up? Yes, half it.

It had actually turned to liquid by the time I pulled it out of the back. They'll do that down. They would do that with a few months in the summer heat. I vaguely remember, yeah, when we played in December, going through that rap and it was big. They're big.

And it was a bit heavy on the mayo and it was sort of squirting everyone. I thought, this isn't helping. It's a bit slippery. I have hard enough time with your clubs as it is. I don't want slippery hands. So yes, I do have a very big.

vague memory of saving of shelving that. So it's been a bit of a catastrophe for Hey, Cammy and his family. Yep. And I was trying to Cam about saying, thanks, thanks for cleaning out the bag. Thanks, bring it over. It seemed to me only fair that Cam should get 20 minutes to hide a sandwich in your house as a chance to kind of make good. But I know it's in there.

Do I get to know when it's in there? Yes. Cam and I will fly up to Sydney. Bearing in mind, I live with two people and hint, Zoe's not one of them, who do play this game with me a lot, even not knowing about the crimes I've committed to Sikam. And they like to play it with apples that have had two bites out of them.

Or a cup of mango pieces. And I play this game a lot with a half-brunk up and go. But often is hidden between the couch cushions. Oh, yeah. Yeah. People like it as a complete breakfast, but it can go off if left unattended. We're just asking whether that, do you think that would be fair? That is fair.

But, Cam, bearing in mind, too, that you've got to look at, I think what I was thinking, you know how in some, there are different religions and I don't want to get this incorrect here, but, you know, you often see like a shrine and there'll be offerings, like fruit and flowers and stuff. I think it was an offering to the golf gods to go, hey, you're obviously angry at me. I've obviously done something to displease you. What if I fed you half a wrap? And I left it in here.

And would that place the dots? And then would they smile more fondly upon me to stop three putting? How about this then? When Cam Next goes and plays, if he has a good round, the offering has worked and he doesn't get to fly to your house to put a sandwich in there. If he has a poor round, the offering hasn't worked. And then we can organise travel. I like this.

But I'm going to go one. I'm going to make you an offer one fairer. Okay. Don't tell me when the sandwich is there. I think that has to be the faire as free. It's already an advantage to you, Hayne, because Cam didn't know what he was dealing with, where as soon as you smell the smell,

you can go, that's a sandwich. Okay. So if I get in touch with, well, Zoe's not going to want a sandwich in house. I'll work at that again. This is my offering to you. Run it past zone if she's cool with it. Sure.

Yeah. No worries, guys. Yeah. Come and leave. a raw, just going to leave a fish somewhere in the house. If Zos can't with it. No, let's see. Let's see. Sorry, Cammer. Sorry. Thank you for the clubs.

Thank you for the clubs. Something is a bit wrong with your driver. They keep flooding in. And so we continue our commitment, Ham, to be a source of moves that are powerful that give you a heightened advantage in social situations. Let's jump into them. I'll kick it up with Harry. Can I actually before we hear?

get off. I thought of one the other night. Oh, have you tried it yet? Well, no, because it would have meant not marriage problems, but certainly less of a warm reception than I would hope for at the end of a long day. Zoe and I were at a ball, like a charity night, and there's a lot of seeing people who you might have met once a long time. You know, name stuff. Who did they go, we should catch up.

Yeah, and so you know the, but you know the move, like let's say I'm talking to you, Jack, Andy comes over and I know I've met Andy before but I can't remember his name so I'll go oh sorry this is Jack have you met Jack yes and I'll just hope in that gap that you two introduce and I go and then you go and you try and say Andy just as quick as you know yeah Andy sorry I thought you met Jack and you just

usually we all sort of know what's going on we just pretend that the introducer has forgotten that this is a two names now you know we go have you met my wife have you met Zoe before like oh you know I'm Carolyn oh yeah great It was like, yes, I can't remember. Do we do two names here? You never pull it off, but it's always worth of try. Zoe did that to me.

She's like, oh, and do you know my husband, Hamish? And, you know, we did it and exchanged names. But I said to her later, I was like, what would you have done if I went, sorry, I think my wife's forgotten your name. I'm Hamish. That would have worked. Otherwise, I don't think so, honey, but. What's his name?

I was like, next time that happens, Andy, and you're like, have you met Hamish? I think Andy's forgotten your name. I'm Hamish. Good to meet you. But I then must remember that person's name because you will get me back on me. He's got a much better chance of getting you than the other way around. Jump me into Harry's. Hit us at Hamishanti.com, if you have any power moves.

He says, I am in a job where I'm required to send PDF scans of completed checklists to our main office. I know the company doesn't have the full Adobe Acrobat suite with the rotation function. So when I scan the checklist, I ensure they're upside down. So when they receive them, they're going to have to turn their heads upside down or the device they're looking at upside down

to read the checklist. I mean, love it. I wasn't aware that rotate would be such an expensive feature for Adobe. I didn't think. Yeah, I mean, What is that? You'd assume that most entry-level things would be... Good on him for knowing that that's a feature.

All mine today, I've got a bit of a theme, but they all tick with my fancy. They're all kind of meeting-related, work meeting. Comes from Matt. Hoyboys, quick corporate power move. When you need to float a new idea in a meeting, caveat it with... Now, I've spoken to many of you privately. And consensus is this is a good idea. Too far power.

Leaves everyone feeling like they weren't important enough to be consultant and that going against the idea would be controversial. Really good. Really good. I had one during the week where Jane, who's Darcy's wife. Of course, provides us with the Darcy under the microscope fodder. Yes. I'm sure at a meeting.

And I asked her a direct question and then realized immediately she didn't know the answer. And she did this. She goes, well, you know what? I don't want to step on Tom. toes on this one. So Tom, can you answer this? And then Tom's looking at me, I have no idea what she's talking about.

But it was a sweet power. Happy toes, though, Tom. Not stepped on. This one came from Ben. Power move. Simple one. For those who know someone or have a friend that rides a motorbike,

when around others, call it a motor bicycle. Technically correct, but way less cool. Still riding that. Motor bicycle. It makes it sound like the before e-bikes. You'd occasionally have one person in the neighbourhood who put like a lawnmower engine on their bicycle.

This comes from James. Power Move in the Workplace. When wrapping up a Zoom call, pick someone at random and ask them to, quote, give the final words. Bonus points if their participation in the discussion was low. Pierre writes this, Ahoy, I think you'll cotton on where Pierre's going with this, but I think it's a great one.

Simple power move here when you're walking with another person up multiple flights of stairs or hiking a steep hill. Just before you start the climb, ask the target an open-ended question about their life or work. Then continue to ask small questions while they do all the talking. Well, they have to answer, make sure you try and breathe as smooth as possible. Giving the impression they are unfit. Jamie. Yep.

Oh, boy, much augusto. Much augusto to you, Jamie. Yes. Power meuv. Mew. For you in a corporate environment, the higher the position in the company, the better. When attending an important meeting, offer to print out any required copy.

for the rest of the attendees. Pick your target who you want a power move. Print one copy out in A3 and wait for the meeting to start before handing that copy to the target. And it comes time to reference the printout. Everyone in the room has normal A4-size copy to the target. He's left holding a giant copy.

He has no option to carry on. I quite like that. It's good. Because I'd be sitting there going, he must have bad eyesight. He has requested a bigger print. Why doesn't have a big one? Because, yeah, big print is for kids.

Yes, or kindergartners. Yeah, or people that have vision impaired. I mean, you shouldn't laugh, but it's probably coming for all of us, but when you see someone with the big font on their phone, it's not a power move to have it. Gentlemen, I want to update you on an investigation, by which I mean inform you I'm launching it. You have done no work yet.

Andy, I don't like your tone. May I start by saying that? Yes. But you're correct. Yes. I have done, well, I have done precursory work, but then I thought I'm going to bring this to you guys because I, it's a joint investigation.

Three-way investigation. Right. Because it refers to something that I remember from primary school. We all went to primary school in Victoria. So, and it's only since living in Sydney for the last couple of years, and I raised this a couple of days ago, but it occurs to me that, like, I haven't found anyone in New South Wales

that had this experience, right? And there are New South Wales, Victoria, differences. Like, we would have played TIGY growing up. That's just, like, they don't play TIGY up here? Tip. Tip. Yuck.

Is the city, yeah, wrong. Yeah. Wrong. No, that's not right. Game of tip. Yeah. Hmm. Here's my question to you.

Do you guys remember playing bat tennis? at primary school. Yes. What's your, my recollection of battenance, because the other day I was talking to someone that's like into paddle, which is big now,

and there's pickleball. It's just very small version of paddle is battenance. Well, pickleball is huge. Like it's sweep in America, it's sweep in the world. It's a fun sport. But I go, hang on,

I think we played this at primary school. And why did it die out? We had bat tennis, which was with a tennis ball, which is not the same as pickleball, but with a tennis ball, with a tennis ball and the bat that you would use for totem tennis, which is the tennis ball on a stick.

Yep. That swings around. Ours were even less advanced than that, our bats. Ours were just wooden planks. No, yeah. See, we used these bats at school and they had them at school. So it looked like a small plastic tennis racket with strings. Yeah, I know the plastic strings.

I know that one. It was like a mold. You get some power out of that. You get some power out of it. Ours was a plastic, like, there was no cross-est. in it so there was no bend in it. Literally a paddle. It was rectangular,

the kind of thing that you would put a pizza on. Yeah. And to take out to serve to people. Yeah. Ours was like that, except it would. Ours was like a chopping board. Yeah.

Thin, thin chopping board. No, it sounds like a bit of a must be nice at my primary school, but I mean it was a public school. The courts were on a slope. Like all courts at public schools, I kind of think sometimes that's the public

private school divide. So you're certainly from private. school. It's like flat ground because it obviously costs so much to level a court. Yeah, I agree. Our basketball court was on a huge hill at primary school. And I can't remember if the goals went in perpendicular to the ground. So the goals were also leaning back or if they went sort of straight up and down.

No, mine was straight up and down. As the crow flies. So at one end it was way higher to the ring and at the other end going downhill on the court. It was like lower to the ring. We had the same of the footy field. Yep. And it's natural to have some kind of contour. contour, but this was so drastic that you would say at the end of the half,

great, we're going downhill next. We don't have to do uphill sprints into the goal. Which was definitely an advantage because any ball that spilled would just immediately end up going towards your goal. Same with basketball at the primary school. Like if a ball was loose, the chase was on. It would obviously roll. By the time it got to the other goal, it was going at like 50. case it out.

There was still like heaps of playground left that sometimes someone would be gone for minutes, like chasing the ball and the basketball court. So I remember the bat tennis courts, they were next to the basketball courts. There was a bit of an up and downhill, but they look like many tennis courts. We had them painted on the asphalt. They're slightly smaller though than a paddle tennis court. Oh yeah, much smaller. So I would say even probably small than what pickleball courts are now.

But the interior was four square. and then it just kind of had another two rectangles on the end, like back down to the surface line. Like a tennis rook. And we would play over a plank of wood, which looked specially made. The planks of wood were kept in the gym. And when it was bat tennis time of the year,

we would bring the planks out and they would have special holders. And so the net was like knee height. Yep. And it essentially was pickleball. Yes. And I'm like, Pickleball is now a global phenomenon.

Like there are leagues and stuff in America and everyone's going nuts. for it and I was just like, we had this. Like, we were on, like, I feel like in the 80s, in the 80s, certainly Melbourne-based, it seems, primary schools had the chance. So they didn't have it across the country, bat tennis. And then no one knows I'm talking about in New South Wales. Wow.

I thought it was universal for Australian kids. I was sort of making the point. We were talking about pickleball and paddle and stuff. And I'm like, isn't it crazy that bat tennis kind of was this in the 80s? And we didn't, no one in Australia thought to monetize it. Yeah. And it was like, what are you talking? about. And every time I try and explain bat tennis, they think I mean totem tennis.

I'm like, no. No. Not a singular pole. It was a real. It was a real sport. We had bat tennis tournaments at my primary school. It was a huge thing. Peter Tran, if I'm remembering correctly, apologies if I've got this wrong. I think he was a two-time champ. Well, if you were good in class, you would get to pick your piece of sporting equipment first. Yeah.

The bats and the access to the court were often picked first for recess or lunchtime. And we had on those rackets we had, it was if you had your own, it was a pretty big deal. Wow, no, we wouldn't even dream. That's how seriously our school took bat tennis. People would get them for Christmas and birthdays. So what's the investigation? I guess, I just felt like I was going crazy because people were like, I don't know this sport. Did anywhere else in the country, even when you Google it now, like the internet isn't quite, doesn't seem to know what you mean by bat tennis.

Tennis. True, I've never, like, been walking through a rebel sport and seen the bat tennis section. It died out as a sport. Died out as a sport sometime after 1992. Yes. It just died. Yeah. So I guess my question is to the listeners, did you play bat tennis?

This sport makes sense to you. Did Australia essentially miss a giant chance to monetize this sport? Could have been our biggest export. Yep. And we just let it slip. And now pickleball's huge. And, you know, probably America is claiming that. did it exist anywhere outside of Melbourne

or is it a weird Melbourne-only sport? I mean, I'd love to get Mr Bryant on. He was very passionate about that, Dennis. Because I'm like, in my head, literally I'm like, we'd be about the same age now. But he would have also aged. Get your e-mouse in. I'm interested.

Don't know his first name, but Mr. Bryant, you would be my big fish, because he seemed the most passionate about it. He ran the tournament. Thanks for listening. The Hamish and Andy podcast will return next week. Catch up or contribute at hamish and Andy.com.