2025 Ep 288 - The shocking item found concealed in Andy’s house

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Ahoy to my Mencori.

Hamish.

Go on.

Ahoydamai.

Carfrey.

Oh, okay.

Carfrey.

Caffrey.

Carfrey?

Carfrey.

We're knee rehab exercises.

Minkori and Carfrey.

And then I am Kofu.

Jeez, it's always tough when you've got...

Well, we criticized last week with the friends.

Yeah, way too easy.

Way too easy.

So it's gone extra.

So Eliza's come back with a great one, I think.

That's okay.

How about witches from 10,000 years ago?

she's a great one which is a clue a great one are they okay big lakes uh no Jack would be scared to eat them

it's got to be something sharp the great pyramids oh pyramids

they have names the three great pyramids

anything they built and they

sorry biggie big middle or small which one which one are we doing the decorations

looked into this there's over a hundred there right pyramids yeah so that's why they're the greatest region.

And then they've got the great ones, which are the three biggies.

Mancori, the southernmost and smallest ham of the three pyramids.

That's you.

Carfrey, the middle pyramid was built for Carfrey, the fourth king of the fourth dynasty.

And I just so happened to be the largest pyramid.

Tofu just fell in my lap that time around, but that's for the second king of the fourth dynasty.

Ahoy also to Abby from Amsterdam, who went to HamishNanny.com, avoiding WhatsApp because obviously that can be tricky and use a very security-based program we have at HamishNed.com.

Ahoy, Hamish Ando and the Weasel.

Abby here calling in from Amsterdam.

I'm hoping you can settle a healthy debate that quickly escalated into quite the uproar of disagreement at last week's book club.

To paint your picture, our friend and book club member Ollie has facial hair on his chin, on the space between his mouth and nose, and also sideburns.

Like it's all connected.

I said, oh, yeah, Ollie has facial hair.

He has a beard and a moustache.

Everyone else absolutely lost it and said, Ollie does not have a moustache.

He only has a beard.

They think a moustache is when you strictly only have hair on your upper lip and no other beard hair.

They call everything else a beard.

Please, could you settle this?

Oh, interesting.

I think everyone's got an interesting point there.

Because I've never said to anyone that you have a moustache or a beard and and a moustache however if you're getting your beard cut or grew or trimmed they'll say do you want me to do the moustache really but before i even said that i was going to say everyone here is just screaming two words as they're listening to this pod on the train and whatever abraham lincoln i mean there's a man that had a beard and no moustache so they have to be separate entities don't they well they're two things that obviously can join together oh they're a great duo they go well really well

solo projects

Yeah, that's exactly right.

And when they're playing together, they're so good.

It's kind of like it is Simon and Garfunkel.

They're playing so well that you probably give a lot of the credit to Paul Simon.

You mustn't forget that Garfunkel, the moustache, is there.

I think Abby's right.

Well, you've proven the point.

They have to be separate entities because

if I said, oh, yeah, Hayman's got a beard.

And someone said, does he have a moustache?

Yes, he also has one of those.

That's part.

I mean, you could argue that it's part of the beard.

When a moustache and a beard are put together, they just become a bigger beard, I suppose.

But you can say Hamish has a beard without giving more information.

You know, if I go, my friend Hamish has a beard, I'm not expecting the person to picture Abraham Lincoln because I haven't said, and a moustache yet.

Yeah, it is assumed.

Do you know what it is?

I've got it.

It is assumed.

Right.

This is the perfect analogy.

If I said to you, he's got a car,

you'd assume a roof.

Yes.

Okay.

But convertibles don't have roofs.

Okay.

So you go, you wouldn't go, with a roof.

You'd just go,

he's got a car.

How if you turn up in a convertible, you go, oh, it's one of those.

Yeah, yeah.

That's still a car.

That's exactly it.

So if you turn up with a chin-strap beard, if I said, oh, my friend Andy's coming along.

By the way, he's got a beard.

Yeah, great.

He'd come along.

And if you had a chin-strap beard,

you would go, and no moustache.

You would go, oh, one of those.

Like you feel when you see a convertible.

Oh, it's one of those.

It's still a car.

Yes.

But you assume a roof.

Now.

Yes, I don't know.

Now, if the roof was out by itself, you'd just call that the roof of a car.

Yes.

So we've got a rare situation for Abby where they're both right.

Yep.

Like, but we would say her friends are more right.

Yeah, you, you, you, you,

they shouldn't be laughing at her.

They're wrong.

I think Abby's right.

Yeah.

Because she was saying a moustache exists within the beard as well.

Like you could clean the roof of your car.

You wouldn't have to go, oh, I've got a car and a roof.

You were allowed to just say, I've got a car.

I'm glad that they thought of that.

They can turn up.

Yes, the moustache is the convertible top of the car.

Ignoring the fact that sometimes people...

obviously just have moustaches

that is where it breaks down you don't see people walking along the freeway just with the roof of a car balanced on their head

hey you wanted the top now we you know we started the show a little bit silly but if i could bring it back to some seriousness for a moment of course last week on the show we touched on the idea of having the special skills conclave getting looking for the chosen one for special skills before we talked about that we brought up the world's tallest hat we laughed it off at the time yes we laughed off we were like look we're not here to focus on the world's tallest hat and we're not world's tallest hat being 4.8 meters for those that need a quick refresher from last week and we just were like look that's something we could revisit down the track because we all thought about 10 meters should be the world's tallest hat yeah yeah um i remember we thought it was gettable to be

we thought it was gettable anyway we moved on we went off and we went about our weeks i didn't wow

i dug a little deeper into how we do this hat thing great Now I'm not saying we do it now.

I know we've got a lot of stuff going on.

Yeah.

But I think we had some questions at the time that I don't think I'm alone in wondering what the specifics of it are.

Well, yeah, we were speculating.

Does he have to, how far do you have to walk with the hat on?

Does it have to be the brim?

And it was 10 meters.

The wearer must walk 10 meters while wearing the hat.

Okay.

But this proves that the hat is not just a sculpture, or these are the official rules.

This proves the hat is not just a sculpture or prop, but a wearable item.

Bear right, there's a real distinction here between wearable and practical because I think by the time you even go over one metre,

now you've got a joke hat.

It is wearable, but it's not a practical item.

That's true.

With the

walk, do you just get one go at the walk?

That is a great question.

I think you can have a few goes.

Well, let's say you're trying to smash the most watermelons with your head.

If you do, you know, 48 and the records 51, you can have another go later that day.

Well, sometimes.

Eventually, no, the guy from Guinness World Records is going to go home.

Well, I'm just going to come after you.

18th try when you're only going to do seven watermelons.

He's going to go, okay.

Yes.

I reckon we call it for today.

My bus, the last bus is about to go.

You've done over 300 watermelons, but you haven't run them in succession.

No one wants to see any more of this.

You nearly got it on the first one, and we've just been going down from there.

True, but sometimes they like...

But with a hat, you'd be able to have a few guys.

Great.

But sometimes I've seen, particularly with television, televised ones, they're like, okay, he's got triumphs.

And it seems like a one-go thing, but that's great.

I mean, I hope you can have it.

Look, the stakes are even higher if you only get one shot.

I think the big thing we were wondering about was handles or can you hold on to the brim?

Right.

No, I assumed no.

You're not, no.

Yeah, well, that makes sense because I don't see you walking around holding your cap all the time.

It doesn't seem to be.

Well, you could pretend you're a gentleman getting ready to tip to doff the cap.

But you can't have any hand cut out.

But chin strap was the big one for me.

You can't have a strap under the hat that makes sense a bonnet has a strap i would argue

um but a hat does not and a lot of kids in the playground have a hat on their wide brim they don't have a that's a string string

a drawstring is actually you would have an adult drawstring as well

i suppose i mean we could talk to the record people

Think about the weight of a 10-meter tall hat.

The drawstring is not going to do much, but maybe cut your neck.

If that thing starts to go, it's probably a bit of a safety issue.

You had us think about

because I've had a bit of a think about what we make it out of.

Yeah, I mean, it's obviously lightweight, lightweight, lightweight has got to be the name of the game.

Yeah.

Here's the problem.

The actual record holder is Australian.

He's from Melbourne.

Oh.

So I worry that he's listening to this.

And it's a bit sad to take one out of our own backyard.

I kind of felt like we were going to steal from the Dutch or something.

Yeah, when I saw the picture,

it seemed like a silly kind of Euro thing to do.

But in fact, it's a silly Melbourne thing to do.

However, i'm still happy

can we be outside do we have to be can we be inside for the 10 meter walk yeah sure i mean yeah if we went to like a aircraft hangar or something yeah well you need something with the high i just don't want the wind that was the what i was wind would be the problem yeah and i think what from what i'm thinking like you need a super lightweight material

My gut would be that it begins to taper.

I don't think we need to keep it the same width the whole way up.

Agreed.

It's almost a conical hat.

Like an elf would wear.

Yes, a giant dunce's hat.

That's what I was thinking.

Yeah.

An ironic dunce's hat because if you pull it off, you're certainly not the dunce.

Oh, you're the best.

You're the best.

Yeah, yeah.

Certainly if you're going above five meters.

And then you mold like some sort of head mold specific to one of our heads

is the base of that tone.

And so it's got the most chance of sticking to your head that way.

The current world record holder, what hat did he have?

It just looked like a very, very long kind of top hat.

You know how with buildings, to get the biggest building, sometimes they just put a big antenna on the top.

I wondered about that too.

too yeah

is there a rule is there a rule of how thin we can get at the top not according to this okay

because there's those type of helmets that have a spike on the top yeah yeah

the hat must be wearable and worn it must be fun a functioning hat

it's not it's not

and this is the hat you wear around yep yeah yeah just to the beach

good good sun protection people don't love it when i wear it to the movies but yeah Worn on the head without external support, like wires or poles.

Oh yeah, no wires.

Which would have been a funny one.

Just to have you guys with guy ropes walking next to me.

Though

limited internal support is allowed.

I wonder why that's limited.

I would have thought.

Well, that's what I'm wondering because

a helmet as its base, that's probably too much internal support.

I don't know.

Maybe.

And that'd be how you stick it to the helmet.

And then remember, no chin strap.

The measurement includes the full vertical height from the bottom of the hat, where it sits on the head, to the highest point of the structure.

So now they're calling it a structure.

Who do you think is best placed to wear it for the walk?

Maybe we should do some kind of finishing school to see who can walk the straightest.

And then, you know, we all put a book on our head or something.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it doesn't have to be made by any stretcher.

Materials and construction must be safe.

Guinness does not allow dangerous or hazardous items in record attempts.

Okay.

And of course, you know, they're independent witnesses and videos.

What did the, does it list what the guy made his out of?

No, I don't think that's like the American Cup where both teams kind of keep the materials for themselves and you are a risk of a rival hat maker getting the edge on design and materials.

Here's a controversial suggestion.

The guy's in Australia, why don't we team up with him and together we build the world's tallest hat because he has experience.

He can answer all of these questions for us.

It does feel good.

having a nemesis

what and like he walks up what we're just gonna no no watch another guy give him give him a our

jack have you watched any documentaries on the cold war there's no point if we're both yeah successfully have you know you've got 5 000 nukes i've got 5 000 nukes we could all both have 10 000 it could be a big win for australia though so if any other countries are circling going we got to do that hat prank we got to do the tall hat

remember this isn't a prank this is about prestige you're thinking of the five hat prank

do you think

do you think we are that ill-equipped that we need another guy that can walk well we don't know anything and we keep i feel sorry for hand because we keep asking him about the original hat and he knows nothing about it

he knows nothing about it

i said i'd had a little bit of research

i think go and interview everyone that's been involved in the previous hat i don't want to know about his hat either do i because i want to do my own hat because my own hat the problem the problem is jack is that if we go off his he only gets to 4.8 meters like we want to smash that he yeah we want to go

yeah

we build like we literally build on his his hat no no no but that's the thing you only you know he probably has some limits he's put on himself there i want completely unlimited yeah you know blue sky thinking here yeah i also think jack if we went to him and said listen we've heard whispers that you're trying to break 4.8 so are we do we team up he would be within his rights to go why would i team up with you

no we've got experience what's your experience we read about it Yeah, yours.

Have you built any other hats before?

Actually, we get in there.

Yeah, I built five of us.

All right.

I went for widest hats.

And they were mostly stapled together.

All right.

Watch this, Faith.

Hey, they keep coming in.

And so we need to keep delivering them to people to know that they're not alone with extreme empathy.

It's time to jump into this.

Of course, that's every song ever written, played all at once, so no song feels left out for extreme empaths.

Do you want me to kick it off?

Let's do it.

This is Michael D from New Zealand.

He goes on the extreme empaths.

I'm changing my fitness watch from an Apple Watch to a Garmin.

Oh, okay.

The day I picked up my new watch, I took my Apple Watch for one last walk in the park to all the places we go, followed by a run, then a swim.

Wow.

It enjoyed the size.

It enjoyed the activities like we always did together for one last time

yeah

i mean i'm actually in the same boat again this is not um for no weasel purposes at all here receipts available on request but i'm a garman really because the battery lasts for 31 days and i just couldn't you're not a charger fuss and loose you can't you can't be expecting me every 24 hours to get that thing back on the charge like that is just not going to happen but the apple watch sits there dead looking at me

every time I open the drawer.

Really?

And it sees the Garmin.

And the Garmin

winks, I feel.

And goes, maybe if you had a bit more juice.

Both great products.

Ando, this is from Emma.

Always keep weasel hatches open for any time in the future.

Both have their merits.

I made a decision based on my personal circumstances.

Yes, of course.

This is from Emma

about our opener for Extreme Empaths.

She says, I think it's lovely that you guys have included every song ever written for the theme tune.

But what about all the songs that have come out since you made the theme song?

I feel really sad knowing that they're listing going, I didn't get included in the theme song.

I think that's okay.

I mean, when you've got fun memories, like...

When I talk about something fun that happened that my nephew wasn't alive for, I don't think he goes, oh, gosh.

But these songs, had we made the theme song today, they'd be in.

Yeah.

And they're not.

This is from Locky.

My partner Annabelle and I are doctors.

He writes, I'm currently on days while she's on nights, meaning the bed is almost occupied 24 hours a day.

Annabelle has started delaying going to bed to make sure the bed has a little bit of a break.

Yeah, no one, no bed can withstand that thrashing.

Fabian writes in, I'm an extreme empath because all tin cans are now essentially ring pools.

I still like to open one every now and again with my can opener because I feel sorry it doesn't get any use these days.

Like all those people getting their jobs taken by AI.

Yeah, when ring pools came along, that

it would have been furious.

From William, vending machine empath.

Goes, I bought a bottle of water from vending machine the other day.

I'm not an empath, but my wife is.

And she got upset and felt sorry for the bottle falling from a height and hurting itself at top to the bottom of the machine.

She felt that I should have selected a water lower.

According to that logic, she would have really been upset when I ripped its head off and drank its bodily fluids.

And this is from Alastair.

He says, whenever I'm typing and editing a document or email, I sometimes realize I've typed the same word twice.

I always make sure that I delete the most recent version of the word, not the original, because I can't stand the thought of ending a word's life because some new upstart version of it just came along and took its place straight away afterwards.

Molly,

I'm an extreme empath.

I just found out that there is a bone in the body called the hyoid,

responsible for our ability to talk and swallow, etc.

It's the only bone in our body that isn't connected to another bone.

He's all alone, floating around like the last kid picked in the schoolyard.

Nothing more than feeling the sky.

Sure, you could have a surgery to connect it to a rib or something.

What's he could be weird?

It would impede things, I imagine.

All seems to work.

And this is from Hannah.

She's a flight attendant.

Said, uh, she's from New Zealand, flies destination back there and back in a day, e.g., Auckland, Fiji, Auckland.

I did this last week, and as I closed the aircraft door in Fiji, I noticed a fly had snuck in the aircraft.

I was unable to reopen the door and let him out.

And I felt immediately sad.

This fly would soon be arriving in Auckland, never to return to his family and would have to start a new life 1300 miles away.

Nothing more than feeling.

A lot of people do migrate to New Zealand though.

It's a lovely place.

It's a nice place.

It's a thing to fly and enjoy a crack at the big city.

And what's to say if he doesn't just cruise around the airport?

I mean, it's not hard.

Fly into the airport, look at the board, see when the plane's going back and just

get back to your flight home.

Guys.

Yeah.

At the house build, we found something.

Another tunnel no no it's not it's not a neighbor has tunneled in it's not hoping to even there was a tunnel party hoping to access some of your subterranean treasures no it was your golf sim not

yeah my next door neighbor i good mates with one of my neighbors already guy called blakey built a tunnel to his house um he's got the same surname as you maybe related to him maybe that's why i like him yeah just like the psychology of it but um i'm sure you're not playing favourites with your neighbors are you i'm sure you're friends with all of them no no i've got my favs um

And I think Blake, he would like a little tunnels the golf seems into his golf.

And I can just do it a bit of a walkie-talkie to him like we're kids and see you down there.

I mean, tunnels are very expensive.

He could also just wander over.

Yeah, that's probably a better idea.

I think if you're looking at the cost, costings, the walkie-talkie is definitely the cheaper option.

Yeah.

Come on over.

I'll let you in.

As a friend.

The front gate.

We found...

What'd you find?

We found a bunch of of things.

When you were digging the tunnel.

Yep.

Yep.

We have dug down to a...

I've seen the hole.

I mean, approximately the Cretaceous period.

So it was a massive hole.

It's big.

So I wouldn't be...

I'm not surprised by what you found.

A bit of the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs.

What did you found?

We found something when dismantling one of the walls in the house.

Oh, I guess this is on the surface.

This is on the surface.

But that's a, it's a very old.

Well, it's from 1876, the house.

We found a coin from 1896.

Wow.

And then,

and this where it gets a bit eerie.

So they wait, they built the house, then 20 years later, they put a coin in the wall.

Well, I mean, they didn't.

I mean, I know there wasn't much to do back in those days, but it might have just fallen in there accidentally.

I don't think they said, come around, we're putting a coin in the wall.

That's right.

Sounds like the kind of thing they did do in the 1800s.

Like whenever we have to explain the olden days to the kids, is they always go, why?

Like I was explaining dancing around the maypole to my daughter, which is where, you know, you dance around you have the ribbons that kind of wrap up in a pattern.

She's like, why did they do that?

Because

they

had no internet.

No internet.

Like you just had to

think of something to do.

So it could have very possible come around with putting a coin in the wall.

Well, Beck wants to put something

in the wall.

for us like so for in 200 years when someone else I like that yeah yeah so we we don't know what that is yet.

Well, if you get the Hamish and Andy dollar coin, put another coin in the wall.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Keep the tradition going.

That'd be nice.

Well, it's another reason why we need this coin.

Anyway, we found a flask.

Oh, a flask.

What is that?

Yeah, look at this.

Which one looks with a white

powder inside it?

Oh, there we go.

The cork has eroded at the top.

What do you mean here?

Oh, it just

sounds like something that, you know,

something from Mad Monday, 1896

and and no no your honor the the cork eroded and it fell onto me i i wasn't trying to take it the cork eroded no but it looks so old and daisy well i mean i did ham's right it does look a little bit like cocaine doesn't brought cocaine to the show jack how do you feel about that

and

trying to blame erosion as to why it would be falling out i looked up cocaine arrived in australia in the late 1800s 1800s.

Really?

God.

So it was probably legal, but it was probably like a medicine or something.

It was.

It was like...

Yeah, for headaches.

Headaches.

Inability to talk about crypto.

If you couldn't, I'm like, oh, I'll have some of this.

So I don't know what is in here.

I don't know what it is, but I wondered.

Is this great?

I mean, we were joking about it, but Andy might accidentally take a class A prohibited drug on the show.

what are the rules there I mean now that I've got it but I think like inside isn't there a bit of gray area because it's scientific

so it works for me so footy players wear lab coats at their end of season two

yeah just yeah okay a lot of lab coats and logos

do you is it just well I mean who knows do you get it analyzed i mean great idea i think

but that doesn't that sounds a bit boring wouldn't it be more fun to just have a little bit and see what knows the solution i'm getting

huge head head shakes from outside so what about if if i mean obviously we've got amazing great listeners here if anyone works or knows someone that works in the kind of laboratory that could

test it because you know whenever there's what the powder is whenever there's a scandal it's like oh you know such and such a scene with a white powder on the table yeah and that because you have to say that because it's you know

what it is you can't actually say it this is the one time where white powder is actually the correct term yeah and it looks could just be nothing could just be old sand or something and it looks like the bottle i mean it look feels very old because the bottle has been handmade like it hasn't come out of a factory or anything yeah

it's

it's it's it's old and the cork does look like it's lived 150 years yeah so

And how much was the coin for?

How much was the coin for?

Like, what was the coin?

What denomination?

It was just a commemorative coin.

They were doing commemorative coins back in the 1800s.

Yeah.

What was it commemorating?

Oh, I should know.

1700s.

Maybe the centennial.

You've got to remember, back in the 1896, they thought they were in the future from the 1850s.

Okay, so this goes off to the lab.

We'll get the results coming back.

Can you imagine?

I mean, you are just serving it up on a platter for the Daily Mail here if that is a drug.

I mean, this is great.

Eddie League finds drugs and cash stashed in house.

Truth, not mine.

The Corker Rodin.

It's for scientific reasons.

This is.

This is fascinating.

Okay, we'll come to us.

Probably.

I reckon that if you look at the pie chart, I actually think drugs is probably very, very slim.

What would that be?

Like all like narcotics is probably very slim.

Poison could be.

I thought poison as well.

Poison kills a lot more 1896.

Because it was the 1800s, mate.

There's a lot of poisoning in the olden older model a lot of poisoning really mate read shakespeare poison here poison there

there was people employed for like kings and stuff to eat food before the king ate it because it might be poison you're right yeah yeah taste testers okay well stay tuned everybody we're on this adventure

team we've continued on with this

be on the lookout for three people testing small business security

bird boys, Berg boys, whatcha gonna do?

Whatcha gonna do when we steal from you?

Hey, we met.

We met off-site at our, like, our den.

We're not gonna disclose where we're putting together the plans.

I covered my mouth while we're talking in case anyone was filming it and lip reading.

Yes.

But then I realized no biggie because we were also recording it.

Yeah.

So I stopped doing that.

But we needed.

We, we, I'll just say it right now.

We've picked the job.

Yep.

So this is our plan to test small business security somewhere.

We needed the boss of the business essentially to register and go, yep, come try and steal something from our car yard or whatever.

We've assessed them.

We met off.

We brought our most, our favorite potential targets to this meeting.

I'm just going to say now we have picked one.

And you don't think you're going to hear the job in this little bit of audio we play because obviously we have to, there's security around it now.

We've got to beep that out.

This is how we got to that point when when we all met up to pick the job.

At some point, don't have to do it right now, but we need code names or nicknames just so when we're talking about it and or for instance, if we've got comms during the heist

and someone's listening in, they don't know it's us.

Sorry, codenames for us or codenames for the heist?

Both.

I'd like to be Godzilla.

No, no,

it's got to be more subtle than that.

Code name Godzilla.

Yeah, because that draws a distance.

Well, Jeff.

Yeah.

Well, just call me Amish.

Isn't the fun of a code name that you

name it?

Yeah, I know, but I think, like, say, if people are...

I think Osama bin Laden was even allowed to be Geronimo.

Geronimo.

Yeah, but I thought if anyone's listening into our comms and they hear us refer to Godzilla, they'll say, that's suspicious.

Yeah.

So I have to have just a regular, I have to be Kev.

Yep.

Or Dale.

Like, is that what you're saying

somewhere between dale and godzilla yeah so and it's right it's just yeah you've gone the extremes i think we should go somewhere

well that's my brother's name that could get confusing i mean okay well let's obviously this is too hard to decide we'll do code names later let's talk the actual target i've narrowed mine down to two i reckon

this comes in from locky we would be burging a

martial arts center

oh dangerous Which is why I love it, Jack.

I mean, that's, do we want to, do we want to do something that requires some balls here or not?

No.

So we discussed that last week.

He's saying they have one of those practice dummies that they do kicking and punching on, you know, like the rubber torso in the head.

It's called Greg.

He's like, could you steal Greg?

That's a challenge.

How do you get in and out with Greg without being detected?

Now, just as a problem to solve, I don't mind it.

My immediate thought is we need to put Greg in something.

Yes, I thought we'd come in as vending machine repairmen or something like that.

So we're wheeling a big box and we're air conditioning, air conditioner guys.

Or a hollow vending machine.

That's what I was thinking.

So you have a huge...

Well, that's why I said it.

Sorry, it sounds like a vendor machine.

So you've got something big that you're bringing in.

That's what I mean.

And then you make a fake one of that, put Greg in there and take him out.

Yeah.

Possibility.

The fun about that.

is the reconnaissance is fun.

One of the, we'd have to send in one of the four friends where Greg is take the course yeah to go

in there check it out then you're right actually yeah and potentially wear google glass or those glasses that record where you're walking yeah i've got two pairs of ray-band metas okay so i'm very happy to donate one

i said there was an ordering mishap as i was impulse buying them here's another one from jemima then

I nominate my husband's small business.

He's a builder.

Go in and steal his excavator.

Shit, that's cool.

Wow.

Could you.

Small one, big one?

I don't know.

That's what you have to do.

We have to get licensed to drive.

I mean, my mate Trini drives an excavator.

Trinity could give us a crush course.

The excitement of that is we have to find out what size it is.

Obviously, it's getting onto a trailer.

We're not going to have the, we don't have a slow speed chase of him chasing down an excavator.

Yeah, he can catch us.

But

we'd have to work out some idea as to why we had to pick it up.

Maybe a repair.

yeah.

Excavator extraction-that's tricky.

It's tricky, but it's an expensive bit of equipment that you wouldn't want to lose the builder.

Mate, absolutely, not the whole thing.

I mean, if it's a big digger, that's that's the whole business.

Don't you think, though, like that idea of pretending to be repairman, it's his excavator, so he's going to remember if he booked a repairman or not.

We can't not if we show him the clipboard with his name on it, mate.

It's right here.

But is that where you go in it beforehand?

Oh, right, wreck it, so it needs a repair.

We deliberately remove something.

He's on a

cool.

Yeah, that's cool.

We could come around and go, we're from work safe, like dig safe or whatever.

We just need to inspect your excavator.

Oh, mate, your tube here has come out.

We're going to have to take her.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Put it.

Anyway, we're just spitballing.

We're spitballing.

No one has the plan straight away.

This is why.

This is why when you do a heist, they usually go and like live in an abandoned warehouse for like six weeks.

You got to figure out the plan.

You never pick up the phone and go, we're doing it tomorrow.

And they go, yeah, great.

Sounds easy.

You have to work out the plan.

What about this?

From

I'd like you guys to security test my.

So straight away like, oh, what's this?

Files and stuff?

No.

He says, I think if you can steal a painting off the staircase, it'd be amazing.

Especially given only one person can fit in the staircase at one time.

That's fine.

Then he says, if it's too difficult, try this, but I actually think we we should do both.

He goes, if not,

steal the company's.

That'd be hilarious seeing you guys try and find the keys and try to steal the car from the staff parking area.

This is from

because everyone expects you to do security tests in the big cities, but come to a regional town where we won't expect it.

And driving away in a car with the painting is an amazing finale.

I like that.

Grand Theft Auto and an art heist.

An art heist and a

heist.

I like that.

There's so much we need to know.

We need to know what the paintings are.

Are they alarmed?

How do you get into the stairwell?

How do you get out of the stairwell?

Why are you here?

Where are the keys to the?

Here's the own.

I don't want to yuck your yum here, but the only thing for me is that it's a long way for us to go for the reconnaissance part of it.

The recon would be like the night before, we stay one night in a motel, then rob the place.

Well, I don't like that because it gives you 12 values.

It gives you 12 hours just when you had

we're going no matter what.

You didn't see George Clooney and Brad Pitt go, we're doing it tomorrow.

And they're like, well, that doesn't give us time to plan.

It's like, well, it's expensive.

We'd love everybody here.

We'd love to be done by the weekend.

I think we can make contact with someone in m ⁇ and we even in the first instance, get someone to walk in there with the video glasses on.

scope it out.

We can then look at the footage.

We can then start to get a bit of information, build up a list of questions we need answered.

Where are the keys?

What's the art situation like?

What does the building look like?

What's the schematics of the building?

Would it be?

Let's get blueprints.

Yeah, we'll definitely get a blueprint.

All right.

Is that the one we're going for?

Is it an art heist from a

where we still come?

I think it's it, isn't it?

It's it.

Okay, great.

So, with that in mind,

hmm.

I mean, just commence operation.

That's what we say.

I know, but then you go off and do nothing.

You go off and play golf.

But you're not the one that you're bought the job.

I bought the job to the crew.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right.

I'll get on.

No, no.

Make some contact

and write this down.

Make some contact.

I reckon I'll talk to

bloody me doing everything.

He knows.

Yeah, but we don't.

I was under the impression we're not going to go and

we're doing it.

Well, then we've got an inside person.

Yeah, yeah, we don't tell him.

But we need him to go we need him to give us the amnesty letter to go hey oh that's true as well like because he just says i would like you to security test my what if he's made a mistake and he he's the receptionist yeah okay no but you know what i mean and we go no no senders they're like he hasn't worked for five years

i think we actually need to get

on a polygraph to swear that he's not gonna spill the beans he needs to be okay with us doing this because remember unlike him knowing that because he can go either way in the movie this is based off okay, sneakers, Robert Redfin film from the 90s.

The board of the bank agrees to hire the guys.

Okay, so when they get caught, no one's in trouble.

That's true.

We do need to have blessing from above.

He can't say anything, but we're not asking him for all the details.

We're just saying.

He has to promise two things, that he won't.

spill the beans or that he won't himself try to increase security like he starts wandering around there at night or decrease security i don't want him helping or hindering or he actually is the boss

Like, we actually need to know he's the boss.

Yeah,

he's also got to promise that he doesn't increase security or decrease it.

He's got to just remain.

Yeah, it's got to be a valid test.

Like, it could be any given night.

All right.

So I've just gone on the website.

The great thing is

he's a director.

So there's three directors and he's one of them.

So we do have blessings from up on high.

Great.

The next steps are we get the layout.

What is the painting?

What does the office look like?

And then we've got enough to come back and start.

We have a real proper meeting where we formulate the plan.

Love it.

Okay.

Last three weekends in a row, we have done the Back to the Future trilogy.

Oh,

one a weekend, I'm assuming you didn't do all three, all three weeks.

Sent the first two weekends hyping up the kids.

We all did

nine hours in a row.

No, yeah, one a weekend.

How did they feel once they got to three?

Yeah, loved it.

I love three.

Three's good.

It gets a bad rap, but it's a good one.

It gets a slightly bad rap.

This is in the Wild West for those that haven't seen it.

Zoe

foolishly, or just really, just, I mean,

questionably, sat out the middle weekend.

She had something to do.

So it's just me and the kids watching Back to the Future 2.

And she goes, I thought that was the bad one.

I was like, oh, don't you that?

It's the good one.

It's the hoverboard one.

It's the bad one.

Yeah.

Of course it is.

Anyway, went down a a treat.

So, you know, anyone with seven to 10-year-olds, that zone just worked brilliantly.

And like, and explaining, it's funny because you really go, like, the kids have got some great questions about time travel.

And it's like, how does this work?

But if you go back to the...

What year do they get to?

When he's in the future, what is it?

Yeah, well, the funny thing about that is that's 2015.

He goes forward to.

So in the movies, he goes from 1985 to 2015, where it's like flying cars and hoverboards and stuff.

Yeah.

Which, you know, we all, we all were promised things in the future and we all know that it just the wheels of progress move a little slower but there's also some well i mean we're obviously not finding oh no i guess the internet so you know we got the internet and the screens i remember seeing all the screens and going oh my gosh there'll be a lot of screens in the future and that's true there's lots of screens yeah well i mean they were so they did the best they could and they caught us

but that's why i mean this is not the point here but remember our friend ryan ryan shelton from the imperfects podcast you know great mate of all of ours he's a huge Back to the Future fan.

And he actually, he, we watched Back to the Future one with us.

And

he doesn't have kids of his own, but he was like teary because he was like, this is, I've always dreamed of watching Back to the Future with kids and

explaining it to them.

And I guess since I don't have any yet, this just seems like a quick way to get that high.

But remember in 2015, so on the actual date in the movie that they go forward to,

there was like a huge fan festival in LA.

He went there.

Yeah, he went.

I went.

And it was 10 days long.

Wow.

Yeah, and it costs so much.

He went by himself.

He went by himself and it costs so much.

And I remember when he got back, he didn't really want to talk about it.

I think he knew he'd overstepped.

I think he knew.

It was like, it's great to be a fan of a movie.

Yeah.

But, and it's even awesome to go to an event that's based on the movie you're a huge fan of.

Like if you're into manga and stuff, go to Comic-Con, sure.

But after day one,

you love, yeah, day two, day three, you're going, okay.

But if they were driving out to like car parks and stuff going on, this is the scene, you know, this is the shopping center where the time machine takes off.

But in the movie, it's awesome because it's a movie.

But in real life, it is a car park and a shopping center.

And you would be, you'd

be sitting there going,

I'd live 10,000 kilometers away from here.

And this is day six.

And we haven't even done.

$10,000.

We haven't done the Enchantment under the sea dance yet.

That's the big finale.

I think, yeah, he opted out of a few days.

He just sort of stopped going.

But it hasn't dampened his spirits because he was a good participant.

Here's the thing, though, to get the Back to the Future movies these days.

And I was explaining to the kids, like, you know, I used to work at a video store.

You know, oh, dad, is that the photos of you when you ate all the Magnum egos?

Yeah, yeah.

We don't recognize you.

Yeah, well, no, I've learned my lesson.

But I was explaining to them, like, you know, this was like, this was a hot, this was a a hot item still in the video world.

But now you,

the only way that the only way you can get them is they're on Apple TV.

Like, you have to rent them.

So you can't stream them.

No streamer has it.

No streamer's got it.

There's a few of those.

There's a few.

Facebooks is another one you cannot get.

There's a few, I reckon, shows.

I don't be so passionate.

I'm really in a future.

Facebooks isn't really back to the future.

Oh, it's pretty essential.

But there's a few movies and TV shows that have gone, that have shirked the streamers and think they can make more money from the pay.

And I know this, and you guys will laugh, but I'll say it anyway.

I know this because that's what they did.

Don't not Mary Poppins.

No, Law and Orders, SUV.

You're paying episode per episode.

You can't.

You can't get them.

They're unlimited episodes.

They've got to be the only one.

Post-season 25, they are only, you can only buy them.

You're part of the problem, not the solution.

It's because of people like you, they're like, guys, why would we make these available to stream for free?

We know, look at the data coming out of this patch of Melbourne.

This alone is enough for us to stay.

They can't get enough of this household.

Now, what we need is 100,000 of these people.

We're on Easy Street for the rest of our lives.

Saying it's Back to the Future.

There's plenty of people.

You should have an SVU convention where you go across to New York and look at where different blood splatters happened and stuff.

Would you go?

Would you walk to the courthouse?

Yeah, Beck and I did walk to the courthouse to have a look at the stairs.

Yeah.

Anyway, the thing about renting the movies, Back to the Future movies, from Apple TV.

48 hours.

48 hours?

Here's my question.

As someone who's not going to be able to do it.

Wait, I didn't even know that.

So you rent it and they.

Of course you don't know it, mate.

If you're paying for it.

This is the guy that still has never paid for an app

or a golf ball.

Yeah, he's never paid.

In his entire life.

If you rent

a movie, which is like six bucks.

Normally.

I think it's $4.99.

Yeah.

They they bounced around.

There's ones that are back at their new release.

It's funny.

It's like new releases back in Blockbuster days.

They're going to be cost more.

But if you've got 48 hours, but the other thing is they have gone for weeklies.

The lower the grade film, Ham, you do.

You get longer.

You get longer.

We have to sometimes split it across a Saturday and a Sunday night if we start too late on Saturday.

But you get, here's the thing, like you get the alert on your phone going, oh, you've only got like five hours left to finish watching watching Back to the Future 2.

And look, we're friends with Apple.

I think everyone, you know, everyone's got to appreciate what Apple has done.

We've all had interactions with their product, but they are a trillion dollar company.

Yeah, give us 24 hours.

Like, why are you riding me?

You should go, you've got for five hours and 21 minutes to watch this movie.

Otherwise, we take it back.

It's not a real movie.

It's not like the video store.

There's not another family that will miss out on seeing it.

It's data.

Like, why are you such cheap skates for four bucks?

You're making $3,000 a phone.

Hey, just go, look, it has expired.

We don't care.

It's data.

It doesn't mean anything to us if you missed out on watching the last hour.

Well, that's what's so funny about the rent or buy.

I mean, you don't go back to, because you can rent them or buy them, Jay.

So buying it costs as much as a DVD would have cost 25 bucks.

Yeah.

And then all you rent for the six bucks.

So do you buy law and order or do you rent?

Buy.

You buy.

You can't rent them.

You can't rent law and order.

It only has a buy.

And you can buy the season or buy per episode.

And it doesn't buy no season.

You buy the season for a cost benefit, for the cost analysis of that.

Lucky boy.

Yeah.

I mean, just so you could, you could now rent those.

Can you rent those out now?

I should on rent them

for 72 hours.

That's generous.

It's very, it's very generous.

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