2024 Ep 264 - The Moonwalkers Return

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Ahoy to me, Athos.

Or Athos.

Maybe.

Hey, Mish.

Okay.

I'll answer to either.

I know it's a difficult name.

I'm so annoyed at my parents for giving it to me.

But yes, you're not the first person to get it wrong.

Ahoy to me, Portos.

You have pronounced that correctly.

Well done.

Do you know what we are?

I do not.

All I know is what my passport says and how to pronounce my name.

And I'm Aramis.

Feels like gods.

Oh, yeah, I was going to say Lord of the Rings somethings.

No, well, you're in the realm.

There's only three of us.

I reckon we're the most famous trio there ever is.

Oh, we're the the three wise men.

Oh, no, that probably is the most famous one, to be honest.

Yes, in retrospect.

Not to take anything away from the top three Beatles.

Are we the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?

No, no, no.

The worst is the famous one.

That is famous.

Oh, amigos.

The three.

The three amigos.

Mate, learn your threes, because we've actually named the top three threesomes.

What about Musketeer?

Oh, yeah.

They're not.

Okay, that's fine.

But that's not the most famous threesome of all time.

That's just.

the three Musketeers,

the three wise men.

Yeah, three wise men would absolutely beat the three most famous.

Three wise men are in the bloody Bible.

Yeah, I agree.

I misspoke.

Three wise men, but I reckon gotta be second, don't you reckon, as far as when you say.

Past the hundred.

We've got the wrong show.

Top threesomes of all time.

No, not like that.

Yes, exactly.

All right.

Ahoy also to Casey in Australia, who used the very easy new system at HaymishNew.com to upload what he's been up to.

Ahoy gentlemen.

I have just left my local Richie's supermarket buying a few items on the way home from work.

Got myself a roast chicken for dinner.

A few episodes back I think we were talking about being overly empathetic in unusual situations and

as I was walking back towards the car past the stripper shops here.

I walked past the local charcoal chicken and the lady was coming over to the window to look in my direction and I felt the need to hide the roast chicken because I didn't want her getting upset that I'd bought a roast chicken from somewhere else.

I don't know what's wrong with me guys.

Anyway, keep up the good work.

Again, no worries about the chicken involved.

Who's been

cooked?

At least that there is a human element to that.

I don't know if that was a problem.

That's just regular empathy.

That's just actually probably small business empathy.

Yeah.

You know, as I mean,

I know it's been a few years since we did Chicken Fest, but we are a show that has a great affinity

to chicken shops.

And, you know, we ran a nationwide contest to find Australia's best small chicken shop.

So we know how you feel if you've got someone that's there that's dedicated their life to the sacred art of smoking a chook.

Or rotating it.

Rotating it, charcoaling it.

You go to a big boy and you've bought a pre-packaged chicken.

Yeah, I'd have done that too.

You should feel bad.

And why were you buying a roast chip from the supermarket if you have access to a good

chicken shop?

Oh, they're pretty good from the supermarket.

They're not bad.

I'm not having you go at the supermarket chug if you need a red roll, if you need a butter.

You're just saying if you have access to a chicken shop chicken.

Would you do two trips if you're already in the supermarket?

Yes, if there's a specialty store next door, yes.

Sounds like it was on the way to the car.

And then while you're in there, a little box of chips, drive home, and it actually turns it into quite a nice day.

That's true.

He's missed the opportunity for chips and chicken soap.

Guys, speaking of missed opportunities, this is a great segue.

Speaking of things that we thought had perhaps receded into the distance.

And

on the show, I feel like we bring up a lot of exciting things and some inevitably are going to peter out.

Others we try and keep alive.

But, you know, like trying to light a kid's birthday cake on a windy day in a poorly shielded gazebo.

Sometimes you just can't get the flame working.

But we pride ourselves on a 75 to 80% P-to-route ratio.

Like we don't care.

We do.

We don't care.

Swings, big swings.

A lot of misses.

This makes the ones that don't.

Home runs.

That's why you take big swings.

That's the excitement of it.

Well, I don't know what the baseball analogy for this is.

We've got another shot at this pitch.

Oh, wow.

Something that we bought up that we, I think we loved.

And we just thought, okay, maybe this is not going to to happen.

I get this email during the week

from Angie.

You're going to lose your shit, guys.

I do like knowing where that is.

Yeah, well, lock it down.

Drop it in a drink.

Yeah.

Put to him.

I'm the partner of the guy.

that can get undressed in under two and a half.

I never thought he'd go back.

Wow.

This is

great.

I heard you guys think it went cold because he can't do it.

Very much so.

Very much, though.

Very much so.

We ran a few tests, if people remember that episode.

And, you know, side note, I did stop the clock exactly on 2.50.

But at the same time, we were like, okay, this is just such a quick amount of time.

Because

we don't have time to map out again how much two and a half seconds is now.

We're kind of a bit pressed for time today.

But if certainly in your own time, go and start a stopwatch and just appreciate how fast 2.5 is.

That would be to take away your clothes and and we had reached out to them or him and colleague radio silence so that's why we thought oh he's reassessed it and we went you know what he probably meant to write 25 yeah yeah and and we've read his 2.5 and it gave us all a huge laugh and we've just enjoyed imagining that and if that's what we got out of it that's what we got out of it not true so angie writes He absolutely can do it.

Wow.

So good.

And she goes, for the first time in his life, he just got nervous about getting naked in front of people.

I've been gently pressuring him, and we'd love gentle pressure on the show.

I've been gently pressuring encouraging

since we heard from you guys, but he won't do it in the studio.

It's an unbelievable skill, she writes.

Open to ideas on getting him there.

So it's a

get a hotel room close by.

I was thinking of one of those, just even a curtain, like a dressing room that we could build in the studio.

All right.

So I suppose we need to get an understanding of, does he need a home?

Does he need a home ground advantage to pull it off?

Like, do we need to go to their house?

What do we need?

And I'd be fine with Undies.

Like, I wasn't expecting him to get completely naked.

No, no, we don't have to.

He's Willie.

I think.

In my imagining of the skill, it was he remains underpanted.

Yes, yes, yes.

But maybe in the speed of taking all the clothes off, he doesn't have a choice whether the underpants.

He burns up.

Well, it could be

wearing tight, speedo-like bathers underneath, boxer shorts.

And so in the struggles at all if we get him and we see him in his speedos we're like great he's done it we know what we would normally see but for the purposes of this well you get those laser cut ones that the girls have so it's extremely smooth there's no chance his fingers could even grab a seam yeah that's a good idea yeah anyway well as fate would have it we have angie maybe to answer these questions because she knows him the best well yes angie are you there Yes, I'm here.

Angie, this is exciting.

So many questions we have.

The first big one, I suppose, is, have you seen him do do it?

Like, all the time.

He does it almost daily.

Right.

Does he wear speedos underneath or do you get to see the whole hog?

Oh, that's, that's.

No.

And I have suggested that he wears like a, I don't think the willy part is

the issue.

That's not the skill we're after.

Yeah.

We're really after, again, again.

Like the thing that we want to see is the speed of clothes going from man to floor.

We don't need to verify how the whole hog, as Andy put it.

We don't need to know about the hog.

We're sure it's great.

But are you talking about it's not even just genitals, it's more just whole body situation that you might be nervous about?

Yeah.

So he's initially when I nominated him for the special skill, he was all for it, so happy to do it.

Then Mike reached out, he started practicing, and then once it became crunch time, he was like, I don't want to get naked in front of a studio of people.

Yeah, that makes sense.

okay so if it's a body confidence issue we can understand that we can appreciate that i mean it's it's funny because on one hand you've got this incredible skill that you should be so proud of that involves you getting fast undressed fast but then at the same time you end up in a state that you don't want to be in so what a conundrum what a power to have if we i mean it's only an audio medium so we're fine there for other public eyes but if could we would like if there was a curtain up and it was just me and andy and jack behind the curtain yeah and we're just describing it.

I mean, I think we need we need to human eyes on him to some degree to verify that he's got unconscious.

There's a rather large loophole if he goes behind the curtain by himself.

I did it.

Okay, guys, I'm in a full three-piece suit.

Now I'm nude.

Now I'm back in the suit.

Wow.

But I guess you could do it.

Like, there is a way to do it without any eyes on him if you went behind a privacy screen.

and then he drew a magic trick

he threw his clothes out within two and a half because that's when david copperfield went to the great wall of china it was all it was all

what do you need the screen for copperfield let's see you walk face first into the contract

that's right that's we're leaving ourselves well up to a loophole screens shriek of magic

Why are you putting the watch in the bag to make it disappear?

Make it disappear in front of my eyes.

So Andy, I suppose, what do you think?

Sorry, we've just gone on a bit of a tandem around Copperfield, but what would your suggestion be?

Well, he said that he will do it when he loses five kilos.

We're currently on a challenge, so I think that that will be pretty quickly.

That's what I feel.

Could we, as a show, offer a personal trainer for a set period of time?

Yeah.

And then if he doesn't make it, so you say if we say

we get Sam Wood involved.

So right.

You've got a free 28 by Sam Wood membership.

28 days.

We give him a

runway, and then we've done all we can.

And at the end of the 12 weeks, no matter what shape he is, we can't sit around waiting for five killers.

But is there some other side of the fence here where we can just assure him we love him no matter what size he is?

You know, like, can we work on the other side of the...

Like, you don't need to lose five killers to be comfortable in front of us.

No.

I think that that would work.

He could nominate the person he trusts the most out of us three if he want and only one of us go we only need one to verify it that's true does he feel the most confident in front of

i i think that that's a great idea okay well why don't you run these suggestions including the personal trainer etc etc back to him and we'll just yeah sorry can i just before we let you go and we've been a bit sidetracked here in um vital you know important issues about body confidence i'm still fascinated we're talking to the one woman on earth that's seen a man get undressed in 2.5 seconds

and including shoes from memory was including shoes yeah how does he do it How does he do it?

Can you explain?

I reckon that's like, don't say that, Angie, because that is exactly like asking Copperfield.

Okay.

What's his trick?

Describe what you see before your eyes then.

Take us through, let's say, we'll give you a second and a half beforehand and a second afterwards, a full five seconds.

What do you see happening?

Okay, so he'll just take off.

So he takes off, as he's taking off his shirt, he takes off his shoes at the same time, like one foot on the other foot, takes them off.

After the shirts off, he hits the ground.

He just grabs his pants and his undies, pulls it off, and his socks at the same time.

Wow,

that's an amazing way to sip it all.

It's still two and a half seconds, doesn't it?

Unbelievable in two and a half seconds.

We had like a hallway in our bedroom, and I would be a meter and a half behind him.

He'd be fully clothed as I got around, he'd be in front of me, as I got around the corner, naked.

But that is David Copperfield again.

You don't actually see it.

it.

I see it.

But don't move.

It can't be graceful.

Well, no, no, it can't be graceful.

But what is it?

I would love the skill if I had a sense at all that Beck wanted me naked.

And if she just looked at her phone for like to scroll for one moment and could turn back, and I was naked, that would be an amazing trick.

I'm in the mood, but I must warn you, I might not be in four seconds.

Yeah.

All right, Angie, go back and chat to your partner about that.

We will circle back.

And if we can arrange something, that'd be incredible.

Whether it's building up his self-confidence by going through this body transformation or simply by telling him we love him as he is, we're interested in the most direct method.

Yes, yes.

Whatever you think is a fair thing.

We want to see this man hit the floor.

What is his name, by the way?

I mean, I'm sorry.

Liam.

Liam.

Liam.

We want to see Liam hit the floor, wriggle around.

I mean, he does it all tiny, by the sensor.

No, it sounds like he hits the floor for the second bit.

No, No, no.

I think he's going to be.

He doesn't hit the floor.

He would lay on the bed.

Yeah.

Doesn't hit the floor.

No.

So he needs the bed.

He needs to roll backwards to get the pants on.

No, no, no.

He doesn't need the bed.

He just gets naked and lays on the bed.

Right.

I don't think he needs to.

You let us know if you need a bed, though.

I thought, Ander, he was taking his top off, kicking off his shoes, then falling backwards onto something.

Was he falling back?

Exactly himself.

No, I think he just rips them all off in one go.

Or does he need it?

Is there a point where he needs any other object or structure?

No, no, there you go.

No, oh my god, that's awesome.

Okay, well, we hope to eventually see this, Angie, in whatever way it comes about.

Again, we don't want to pressure anyone.

This is encouragement, as we've said before, and we'll chat with encouragement.

Okay, awesome.

Thanks, Angie.

We'll let you go.

All right.

Thanks, guys.

Even, I'm going to practice, we'll go, but I'm going to practice taking my shoes off into another

Guys,

something was said to me this week that blew my mind.

And you both may go, oh, everyone knew that.

But I'm still unsure whether it's true.

I mentioned the other day that with toasters, the early settings on a toaster, there's no need.

You should just have the later settings.

And someone said to me, you realize like it's one, two, three, four, five, six, because that's how many minutes it goes down.

Yeah,

I have heard that.

But that's a recent thing I'd heard.

That was a recent mom show.

There's certainly, if we were playing

Tell Me a Fact I Haven't Heard in a While, I have only heard that fact in the last two years, I reckon.

Yeah, I would say about that.

And I remember being shocked by it as well.

Well, I want to verify it today and bring it.

It was Mike on one of those memes where it was like, I was today years old when I found out that, you know, it seemed like maybe some kind of TikTok trend that I've missed, that people have been hearing this thing.

I don't know if it's a trend.

I think it's just, I mean, it's a very fast fact.

Yeah, a very fast fact.

No one's doing the six-minute challenge.

I mean, it's sort of the opposite of what Tick talks about.

I want to pull out a segment from yesteryear, Ham, where we actually use the show to test these things.

It's time for another one of these.

Experimental as anything.

Engage science.

Experimental as anything.

Experimental as anything.

Tick,

Experimental as anything.

Got a toaster here.

Toaster.

Brand new?

Brand new.

Well, it's an office one, so it's been the last, I think, 18 months.

But I see some crumbs, so it has been used.

Has been used.

This goes up to nine.

Are you ever putting your toes down for nine minutes?

Are you putting a crumpet in that's at zero degrees Kelvin?

Exactly.

That is a cold thing to toast.

So I'm already suspicious of this, but i'll set it to three i think obviously we're just not going to wait here for three minutes here's the thing though is and i can't see that side of the it's an analog dial yeah obviously so that are you'd sort of because you know like it's a pretty small delineation on the arc like anything from like you could be you could be bang on three but it could be anywhere from 250 to like 310 you know what i mean okay so we'll give it a little bit of leeway you've got to give it a bit of fact because it's a pretty small dial did just click onto three like it's it seems specific there's about it's a cent for a post plane there's about a centimeter

between each number yeah but that's what i mean i mean that's tough yeah it's got it's got a little like uh you feel it it's tactile it's like a little a little ridge so you like dot three yeah

haptic and haptic and haptic feedback this is a very good toaster yeah so now if i turned it off number three i'll just roll it back yeah so now it feels like it's locked into three but we could give it a bit of leeway

in the meantime while we wait for the toaster to go i thought i'd type a few loose ends so if anyone's else got any loose ends yeah yeah we're in the loose ends um we can do that but i do you have to have a piece of bread in there will that change like can a toaster break if you're toasting nothing i don't think so to protect the other side of the elements from the heat going

no it's true

it seems reckless to toast it seems like in this day and age it's a waste of energy um to just be heating up the atmosphere for no reason it's not reckless i don't think Would you say, like, this isn't going to explode?

It's true, though, Jake.

It feels like it's in the same category as, like, you know, pressing the accelerator when you're flooding the engine when the car's not on, or like dry-firing a gun.

Um, are we ready?

Have you started it?

No.

Oh, do you want me to start a timer?

Um, I've got it here as well, but we could do the timer.

No, no, no, you do them together then.

Okay.

All right.

On your marks, get set.

Go.

Okay.

Goodbye.

Loose ends.

Can we just put to bed we are very aware that scary movie 3 had the big hat.

Oh yeah.

Honestly.

It did have an increasing hat.

Had a scene where our hat got bigger.

I don't think it was a prank at the time.

No, I think it was just a funny scene.

And it was curious because obviously scary movie paranormal things were happening, but we are aware.

of that.

And maybe that's where the

author of KZone probably got inspired by that.

Could have.

Could have.

And we in turn got inspired by that author.

But it was a great, again, we stand by it.

King of the pranks.

Yeah.

Looking forward.

Looking forward to it.

I was like, haven't you had a cafe again this morning?

Well, you really?

They're still laughing.

Still laughing.

Still,

the ripple effect, you know.

It will ricochet forever.

It's sort of become, it's become like, yeah, the seat from when Harry met Sally.

It's like, oh, okay, that's where that scene was.

This is where that hat prank was.

I did see a small bus pulling up, actually, with tourists.

Hat fans.

I haven't seen too many.

We obviously, you know, I'm sure it's out there, user-generated stuff, people doing their own five-hat prank.

I haven't seen any come in, but I'm sure people are.

But I do know how hard it is to make the hats.

And I took a month, so

they'll start rolling in soon.

And Webb Begiza Jazz is

still wearing hat number two, I believe you gifted him.

Hat number one.

Hat number one.

Okay.

Which I really put.

That was the one that I put a lot of time into.

That's why I stopped.

Then after that, I started stapling them together.

Can I just say?

Stop.

A minute 30.

Really?

I was today years old when I stopped believing memes.

Wow.

The internet has lied to us.

Yeah.

That's why you do explain.

Honestly, honestly.

I didn't even get through my two other loose ends.

Wow.

This feels like in my household where I go, Zoe, just because you've got to stop putting so much faith in TikTok and memes.

Because she was like, oh, guys, we were like away recently with the kids and and there was like chopper chops there.

He goes, you know, we've been opening chopper chops all wrong.

I was like,

what's, you know, because we all know the normal way to open a chopper chop, it's annoying.

You have to pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick.

Finally get a little bit, like rip it.

You rip the top off.

The bottom's not going.

Like, they're probably one of the most annoying confectioneries to open.

But isn't there like a best you can do?

Well, Zoe goes, no, you twist it.

You hold, yeah, you hold the top and you twist in the opposite direction and they just fall off.

And shows me a guy like on TikTok doing it.

Tried it.

It doesn't work.

It doesn't work.

You just twist it, nothing happens can i wrap up my last two loose ends only because the toaster went real short that is a bombshell though so so it was first a bombshell that we learned that it was minutes and now bombshell that that wasn't true i think what's the age old rule the age old rule is like any tool you just have to learn your toaster you learn it and you go look guys what are you toasting what are you toasting bread more information please is it sourdough is it kids sliced sandwich bread is it frozen is it frozen oh it's a kids wholemeal slice okay that's a two yeah how do you how do you like it yeah do you like the chip should be a little there should be a little

graph, like laminated graph that comes with it.

And you follow it down.

I've got a mate that has one of those for his Nespresso.

Is that right?

No.

Marco.

And he goes,

what do you want?

Do you want TCAF?

Do you want Stronger?

Do you want Arabic?

Like, you know, it has all the different Nespresso, and it's a laminated chart.

You and him don't spend nearly enough time together, and you're almost exactly the same person.

Yeah, I draw the line.

But only because you don't drink coffee.

Only because you don't drink coffee.

I was like, this is very handy to be so proud of the Nespresso machine.

It's like the full flavor chart.

Quick loose ends then.

Jason Alexander using the bell.

You know, he couldn't work out while in Jason Alexander, his podcast, Really, oh, really, he was using a bell.

Turns out whenever he says really, he rings a bell.

So if you're like, you were doing this show for 19 years, and he's like, really?

Ding.

Because it's.

I mean, who knows?

I don't know if our audience finds the bell annoying.

I think people enjoy the bell.

But ours has a purpose.

Like, you know, we're moving on.

And the other part,

I know he said really, because I heard it.

Yeah, like, why do we need a bell for really?

What a reminder.

Anyway, that's what I was told.

Final one.

This came in from Will in the UK.

He said, since hearing the nickname guy on special skills a while back,

who was giving all of us nicknames, he couldn't.

Yeah, like Web Geezer, the spider, because he lives in the web.

Yeah,

that's right.

He said, Darcy's nickname was grossly misattributed.

Obviously, Darcy, who does the audio here, he said, I've got a far more applicable nickname for the pod's notorious audio trimmer, the Dar Snip.

And I quite like it.

It took a second, but I liked it.

Yeah, yeah.

Plain words of par snip.

Obviously, dar snip.

He snipped out audio.

That's where he got to.

So I felt like that is a much better name.

Didn't get the huge reaction here.

Yeah, it's one of those ones where you're like, oh, I see what you've done.

Yeah.

So we'll...

And it doesn't roll off the title.

Like, I'm not looking forward to saying dash snip.

Okay.

That's very much what I'm saying.

I didn't know if I was looking forward to it, but after I heard you say it, now I'm not looking forward to it.

Because it seemed like it took a while.

Really?

Sorry, automatic figure.

Gentlemen, it's been a few weeks since the

euphoria.

Hysteria is the wrong word, but I think it was euphoria swept the studio after i what are you talking about was able to show you and demonstrate to the class to the team the moonwalkers the robotic shoes that i bought i had forgotten all about

hang on no no no and i do remember saying that

things are red hot things are red hot go ahead no no

it's remains hysteria i think we need to wind that right back to like the sugar hit yeah it was that's a perfect way to say it endo because i remember after i saw the video i was excited for in that moment was so excited guys might i remind you of some of the quotes that were flying around those are amazing i actually do kind of want a pair that was jack that's right yeah what is it and then quickly the sugar hit

like what hammel

got a little loose for a second and now we've heightened our brains of timing right back up and realizing

what we want.

It's out of my above button.

Sorry, yes.

How are they going?

No, no, guys, back it up for a second because you loved them.

You do love them.

Have you, Hugh?

I've still got them.

So we remember the joy of seeing me walk around the food court downstairs.

My God, look at that guy.

He's walking at the speed of a run.

Now, that was my, I mean, then I sent you guys the video of me.

Like, I went down to the car park, ran into a trading someone like fixing up the building down here he was filming me going yeah they're good where can i get a pair so people see him and the excitement spreads

and

you know everyone that sees them wants a little taste as you guys

look we all remember what you were yelling let's all get a pair was actually one of the phrases you said that let's all get them now wild that i said that so it's like me looking back at a fucking thing that's 20 years old don't think

yeah it's like i wanted as a teenager, I wanted an eyebrow ring.

And now I look back at that and go, I'm so glad I didn't get an eyebrow ring.

You said it, you meant it.

So

in that moment, you true desire.

It was beautiful.

I thought it was actually a beautiful moment that the real you could come out and you can talk about what you really want as human beings.

Yes.

Well, we did band together for a small amount of time.

And it's not, you stop saying it was just them.

It's how you feel.

Stop putting a tense on it.

Stop trying to pigeonhole it and make it a time capsule.

It's current and it will remain into the future.

So that's how your feelings are.

I just wanted to let you know, I took the shoes home,

took them into the house.

My little boy was there.

He was like, what are those?

I said, hmmm.

Check this out.

Now,

the thing about the moonwalkers is when you put them on over your sneakers.

Are they okay inside?

I'd imagine you'd need more.

We have tiling on sides.

inside so that's fine we have the same tiles that kind of actually run outside okay but the thing is you got to start walking normally right You just, you don't have to adjust your gait or anything.

You just start walking normally, heel to toe, heel to toe.

And the AI in there detects you're moving and it starts its motors up.

Look,

this is just a, this is not a limitation of the product.

It's just a limitation of science.

It needs several steps to get into the vibe, okay, to get into the rhythm.

Our patio is very, very short.

So I'm walking for Sonny and the kids going, look, look at this.

And they're like, yes.

And I'm like, you know,

and I could feel it just starting to take off as I got to the opposite wall.

And I'd like half a half a step and zoom into the wall and stop and go, okay, watch this.

And then my daughter went, I don't get it.

And then I went, yeah, no, I didn't understand that.

Sonny, come with me.

Let's go to the park.

There's a car park there.

And I'll show you.

We'll do them over there.

This is going to, when Sonny eventually has his podcast in his late 20s, he's like, you know what, dad used to make me do used to make me go and watch him watch him now that's because he didn't want to have a go he was just happy to watch me

sunny's gonna go hey you know how we don't wear these robot shoes around well

back in 2024 we weren't positive that we weren't going to use them it was still up in the air anyway now i showed sunny and i think

he wanted to go home

he did ask if we were done and And then it's a walk back up the hill.

Actually, we have this thing where it's like bus stop to bus stop.

We walk back up the hill towards our house.

And he just loves to sprint bus stop to bus stop.

And I time him.

Like, always been a thing.

So he goes, well, let's see if they can, let's see if, because if these shoes go as fast as a run,

can you beat?

It should be a race.

29-year-old?

10.

And I went, in my head, I was like.

They struggle uphill.

I mean, they don't conk out, but they do struggle uphill.

What a hard time.

And exactly.

We had an old man come in when you first bought kangaroo boots to see whether you could jump higher than a grandpa, and it failed.

And now with robotic running shoes, you're going to try and find out whether you could run faster than a 10-year-old.

Uphill.

It wouldn't have made sense for the pipe to work best on uphill because that's where we need the most help walking.

No, Jack.

It's just, look, there's a lot of, there's a, you're fighting against gravity here.

And even robots struggle with that.

Let's not forget we couldn't get out of the atmosphere about the 60s.

So

ignore gravity at your peril, my friend.

She's a worthy adversary.

Yeah, that's fair.

That is fair.

So, and I know now, also, obviously, my son is also versus gravity.

It is a, it's an even playing field in that sense.

Anyway, I was a little bit nervous because, yeah, it hadn't captured his imagination the way I would have hoped.

Because I'm and we're clunking over sticks and gum nuts and things.

There's a couple of trips and falls, and it just hadn't wowed him.

So

I go on the road.

It's a bit of a smoother road and it's low traffic area.

He takes off and from the get-go, I'm like,

seven steps for the AI to kick in.

Yeah, I'm clonking up the road.

One car passed and I would love to know what they thought I was doing.

So I was just clonking along in these shoes.

Eventually they kicked in and I'm taking big, powerful strides.

It's kind of about

the feeling you get when you're in a travelator at the airport.

You walk past people.

So I'm taking big, powerful strides, but Sonny absolutely thrashed me.

No way on a travelator are you beating somebody running alongside.

But the other thing I'd argue is these are walk as fast as a run.

I don't think they make you run faster than a run.

You're not allowed to run in them.

No, they're fast.

No, no, no.

Specifically say not to run on them.

Do not run in them.

Walk your normal gait and you will walk as fast as a run.

To be honest, I'm a man with longer legs as you, as you both are.

Yeah.

I was already happy with my walking speed.

Like, if needs be,

if needs.

If you're not having to wait.

yes if needs be especially with a smaller wife that means those significantly less tall than i am yes if i decide to put top speed on that's i get yeah yeah i'm i yeah i get in a huge trouble so

that's all stuff that was you know that's all interesting data to learn about once you've bought the shoes um

now look i know i know here i'm not framing them in the best light but i i actually just want to rewind back to where we're all saying we love them

for a second if we can remind ourselves

Did you say rewind or remind?

Rewind and remind.

And think about how much we love them.

And you saw the video and you were saying stuff like, I actually want a pair.

Do I have an offer for you?

I thought this was really going.

No.

Boy, oh boy.

I don't want to buy them.

Yeah, well, you said you wanted them.

And I don't want to have to say Chan for lying.

Do I have an offer for you?

I know you're coming over to my house in a couple of weeks.

Yeah.

Boy, oh boy.

I thought instead of us all all buying a pair, maybe we all just pay a third and we could have some sort of rotating sharesies system.

Because there is an existing pair.

Yeah, well,

I don't think we all three of us need to buy a pair.

$1,500.

No, $1,500.

Jack, that's for two shoes.

You've got to remember.

That's for the pair of...

So $750 a piece, nothing $50 because I've gone over the gum nut.

$500, Jack, and you can have it for two weeks.

No.

No, I can tell.

I can already tell it's a one-go.

Get the most,

you get the most out of it from one go.

Okay, how much do you want to pay for one go then when you get there?

10 bucks.

We'll take it.

Yeah, I will take it.

I will take it.

Hey, the support for ConCon has really risen in just two weeks.

Conference conference, we should point out to you.

And a few people ask last week going,

what does it stand for?

Conference.

Reiterate, conference conference.

It's a conference full of mini conferences.

Yes.

A Bushka conference.

And it's, I think you, did you say a conference for all, Ando?

Conference for all.

It's the premier tax deductible conference.

Is that part of the slogan?

Could be Australia's premier tax deductible conference.

It's just the plenty of networking.

With an abundance of networking opportunities, you won't be left wanting at ConCon.

Here's something that I've been told during the week from someone who actually does run conferences.

Normally a conference, say if it's in the tech space,

they would have naming rights sponsors.

So like a bigger tech brand,

like the PhysioCrem presents.

Yeah, exactly.

We are getting a lot of people wanting to be the naming rights sponsor of ConCon.

I'm I'm not going to mention them because then they're getting a freebie.

Yeah, but we'd be interested.

But are we interested in that?

Sorry, sorry, no.

Mine is.

I wanted to pose mine as a question as well.

Would we be interested?

Come out too enthusiastic.

What I meant was, would we like all that sweet, sweet loot?

I would.

I see some benefits.

How would you envisage it happening, Jacko?

Companies would submit to be the naming rights sponsor and whether or not they...

I guess you just get one big exclusive one.

Well, they normally have primary and secondary.

And what they normally do is

they'll dress that there.

They dress that up in different ways.

If primary and secondary feels a bit bad for secondary, they do platinum and gold.

Yeah.

Jack, if a, let's say a drinks company comes to be the...

platinum presenting partner of ConCon and they say, here's our pitch.

Let's say it's your favorite beer company okay right and they say here's our pitch and we'd subsidize half the cost of the hotel rooms and the venue hire and we'd take care of that and that would be that would be our that's our offer

would you then go sort of so it's more of a running cost and not a money in our pocket situation

um then that's up to you guys because that's kind of falls on your side of admin

would the weasel care to wet his whiskers

so for a beverage partner for the yeah would you go yeah sure can have as many as as you want.

Sorry, if that's the question.

Would you be expecting, you know, a few cases of beer?

Oh, no.

Yeah, I guess like there would be, like, you would assume that all the product wasn't.

Yeah, exactly.

Like, they would send a bunch around.

Yeah, we'd pick and choose.

I want to get an idea of what you're hoping for as we take on a corporate partner, if we took on a corporate partner.

All I can say then we might be interested in a corporate partner.

Yeah.

So that'll thaw on to admin side, yes.

Well, it would mean that it would cost less to go.

Like that's why we'd do it because people still have to fly themselves there.

That's what I meant.

That is what I meant.

Forget about the pick and choose of the free beer.

That's where my head was.

That's right.

So because we're asking people to fly there, we're asking people to, you know, pay for a ticket.

All we're doing is offering, if we can offer a lower con, although

the cheaper the tickets are, the less of a tax deduction it is.

But I suppose the, you know, the flights and everything.

It's going to add up.

It's going to add up.

It's going to add up.

And that's good news for you.

More of a tax deduction.

Yes.

That's the genius of it.

That's the benefit of this.

The more expensive it is, the greater the benefit it is.

It's the conference for tax man.

Conference, you're on tax return management.

Okay, well, that's good.

We've also had lots of, let me, let me, again, that's probably on my side for admin, wasn't it?

You're on merch, Ham.

I'm merch.

We've also had a lot of suggestions as to where to go with some hot leads.

Some good ideas coming in.

This one's from Peter.

he he suggests the scottish highlands oh wow now that is quite a fair way away but he goes listen and more expensive but a bigger bit of

whiskey distilleries golf courses we do then he goes also rainy enough to throw off the atio if they get suspicious

i don't what does that mean i don't know if i'm not sure what he means by that as if So because, you know, like a Fijian conference might be a red flag.

Oh, yeah.

Or like, you know, I went to a conference in Hawaii.

Douglas.

That's a holiday.

It's like, oh, hang on a sec.

That's a holiday destination.

I think that's what he means.

Because, in my mind, it did conjure up the picture of the ATO chasing us through the highlands and us slipping away from

getting away from them in the rain.

And they give up the pursuit as they slide down and come out through this mud.

We make it through to the other side of the highlands and we have the conference.

Either I'll take.

Well, that's interesting because I thought, i mean that i i thought someone suggested cape town um they live there

in south africa and they um happy to help organize the conference they've got conference these are hotel employees got conference experience but again i felt that's just too

long way to go long hop you'd love to you'd love to be able to offer this business offering to

fellow business people, I would say in a Friday to Sunday turnaround.

Yeah.

I think you've got people going, obviously I'm away Friday at a conference.

Zero questions asked.

But I'll be back Monday refreshed from my conference.

And maybe even have a good conference.

Yes.

Angle for a couple of days in lieu because you worked on the weekend.

That's a good point.

Jack will be doing a side workshop on how to get more out of the conference.

Can we offer that, Jack, in a side room?

Well, can we agree then?

So we've had...

People from Hamilton Island reach out and say that this could be a good place for ConCon.

then heyman island i just noticed there's another email i was like oh the islands are playing of each other battle of the islands tourism fiji have reached out that's another option

tourism fiji reached out yes

so again that's on my side of the admin

tourism though sounds like we're tourists that is a red flag no no but business tourism is big jack like you know half of vegas's money is conferences you know they need conferences in town being in that business can't stress that word enough business tax production

business into the Fijian realm.

Fiji would be a real hotspot for networking and conferences.

Should I just say that tropical is where we're thinking?

As much as I loved the rains,

the defensive advantage of being in the rain.

I think, yeah, I think if we're talking about

a situation where we're going to have projectors and we're going to have,

you know, equipment, they do work, they work well in a human environment.

Yep.

Okay.

Well, that's, that's fun We'll gather more info.

I guess that's we've got to do quick turnaround on that info don't we as in destination and location because then people can assess and book I think we want to give people about a month notice don't we?

That seems about only a month.

Why is that too little for a conference?

Yeah, let's try and give as much as possible.

But yeah, a month will be a minimum month.

A minimum of a month.

I was also thinking too, just to start driving excitement,

it would be fun to have like a song like a jingle for

ConCon.

Now, can't stress enough that this is a placeholder.

We can obviously

tweak this.

You might have noticed me in here like five minutes before you guys came to the studio.

This is a, you talk about fast turnarounds.

This is a five-minute turnaround audio-wise, but just tell me if you like the flavor of this.

Okay.

There's a cool new conference, no matter your beers.

Venue TBC, we can't tell you where it is, but we know the venue is nice and warm.

We'll have gold!

First, tea time is at dawn.

It's a professional production.

Concom.

And a tax deduction.

Concom tells what you do.

Then we present it back to you.

The comfort's so nice you can deduct it twice.

No, no, no, no, no, inducting everything except the last bit, I think.

Look, you can't.

As I've said before,

from the angle I'm sitting at, I can't see the harm in deducting it twice.

One would be a future deduction for next year, which I think you can do.

No, Jim don't know all.

Hang on.

I'm not going to say no.

I'm going to say check with your local account.

Even if they're not your account.

Applause from outside.

From the producers outside.

Thank you.

Thank you.

For some other

phrase as well.

Check with your local account.

Local account.

I mean, it makes it sound like you live in a village.

It's not even your account.

It's just the local account.

Check with the local.

I think you're confusing it with inform the local authorities if you're going hiking.

I absolutely am.

I absolutely am.

Yeah, but it's just letting you know.

Hello, who are you?

I live in the area.

Sorry to budge in, but I'm in your postcode.

Yeah, I'm going to duck something twice because I might do it next year.

Sorry, man.

I don't know.

Yeah, just checking with my local account.

See you later.

All right.

I think we progressed things.

Yep.

No, do.

And again, yeah, when it comes time to the write-offs and the TDs, those sweet deductions, do, yeah.

Give us

the wise old village elder.

Give us two weeks.

Let's just come back.

Give us two weeks of just some more admin sorting.

I think we're going to need at least 10 business days from now

to come back with some more solid info about the direction we're going because

there is there will be a fair bit of organizing but um not from my side of things

good to go jack if i'm doing and if you're doing admin i'm on merch what do you see yourself doing jacko well if i've got the side hustle room then that's plenty of work i don't understand what that room is

suggested that i do like a side conference on how you can get maximize your um deductions and days in lieu of that sort of little weasel conference i didn't did i miss that that?

Sorry about that.

Little weasel pen.

But I mean, you could, yeah, you could run the weasel pen, which would be interesting.

But if you weren't doing that, like from an organizational perspective, because we'll all be presenting.

I could run like the group chat, I guess, of everyone coming.

Oh, that's pretty fun.

That's great fun.

Like a giant WhatsApp.

Yeah.

Love it.

Just make sure everyone's like doing the right thing in there and knows what time to get to the conference, that sort of thing.

Brilliant.

That's above and beyond.

Yeah, Dach.

That's a huge amount of work you've put your hand up for.

I mean, it seems easy.

What's hard about it?

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