Hamish & Andy Reministmas 2024

A listener production.

Tis a week before Christmas, so everyone knows.

It's the day set aside to look back at the shows.

For on the 18th of December, with a rather large cheer, Reminiscmus is celebrated where we retrace the year.

At the start of it all, a story popped up about a car and a girl who just cared way too much.

Guys, I've mentioned on this pod before unto you that Beck has way too much empathy.

We went to the Grand Prix and they had a V8 supercar race after the qualifying day.

And something had happened to the castrol car, like 400 meters behind the rest of the whole race.

And it'd be a pretty tight, it's a pretty tight crowd, like pretty tight pack on that day because there's not that many laps.

So there's like,

and then there was a 20-second wait.

Yes.

And then it would come past.

Beck turns to me with this shocked look on her face and says, what happened?

What's happened?

And I said, well, it's, it might have had a little accent or it's a shit car or it's a she's a shit driver.

You know, sometimes it's motorsports.

Oh.

And then the next lap,

I was still hanging in there.

30 seconds in.

Beck looked at me and she was just getting more and more distressed for the little castro car that could.

Oh, no, don't tell me you've had to adopt a V8.

Before like the third last lap, she yelled out to me, they should let it catch up.

Which is not the rule.

Not even at underrate athletics do they do that.

So they won't rub its nose at it at the end, but there's no let it catch up.

So I was laughing, she got distracted.

Then

we kind of got bit disinterested in the race.

It finished.

And Beck goes, yes, yes, it's caught up as it went round again, not realizing that the race had finished.

And they were just doing that slowly.

They're warming.

They're warming up.

And I didn't have the heart to break it to her that nah, no, it came dead laugh by 30 seconds.

We all laughed at the empathy that was on show.

But it became quite clear, Beck wasn't alone.

And

it's the can of, it's not a can of worms, it's a can of feelings.

It's a can of feelings we've opened on the show with extreme empaths.

And, you know,

we'll stop reading them out when they stop rolling in.

We've got to open it for it, in fact.

Let's do it with all the music in the world.

Not leaving any song out.

Not leaving any song out.

No song can feel sad.

This is from Jacob because my mum has got a robotic vacuum cleaner that goes around the house on its own.

Mum feels bad for it, that it has to do all its work by itself.

So she follows it around and turns the lights on for it.

It goes into the zoom room where it goes into new rooms so it doesn't get lonely and scared.

So I think it is like, sure, clean the house, but doing it in a dark room,

no one should have to work through that.

I love that.

Jessica, she said, whenever I go to the ice cream shop, I order the flavor of ice cream that has been least selected.

Now I'm all for being empathetic, but you don't mess with an ice cream.

There's a reason why you're not afraid of it.

Because it's like, well, obviously it's unpopular.

It's natural selection at work.

I mean, sometimes they do replace a tub.

You know, like

you could be getting the most people.

If you ever see a full chocolate, it hasn't been left behind,

it's a replace tub.

Yeah, but if you squeeze there in some kind of weird pistachio land or whatever it might be, how's this?

Ando, this is from Mia.

I saw a kookaburra the other day and I was admiring it.

So far, so good.

As I got closer, I realized it was actually a crow, but I felt so bad for being disappointed that I tried really hard to keep admiring it.

That is fair.

Because there's a distinct difference between,

hello, hello, what are we here?

Finally, a little bit of attention?

You're like, oh, I think she's a good person.

This is not what you advertise for me.

Confused me with a kookabarra, haven't you?

Not at all.

I think you're a gorgeous, black, shiny bird.

Love it.

This one's from Holly.

When I copy and paste something on my computer, I always have to paste it straight away as I worry.

It's tiring to hold on to whatever I'm copying.

Thanks, Holly.

And accounts, yes.

This is from Nina.

Since owning a car, I've always felt bad for the spare tire for being left out because I don't even know how to change the tire, so I can't rotate it in.

Sometimes I will lift up the lid in the boot and just give it a little pat so it doesn't feel left alone.

Mitch Hawker,

he's the extreme empath.

When my girlfriend and I are watching TV, I will always wait until no one in the show or movie is talking before I pause.

I don't want to be rude or cut anyone off.

My girlfriend, however, will get up and leave the room while a person, character, is still talking.

And sometimes I catch myselves apologizing to them.

Like it's the theater.

This is from Samaria.

She writes, I've always felt sorry for flies that get stuck in the car and then you let them out and they're completely lost.

Millions,

millions of fly kilometers away from their home and friends and family.

That's fair.

This is from Kat.

As a kid, I used to park my bike at school next to the one that was the same model so it could hang out together and find things in common while I did the school.

This is from Joe.

His wife, Mel, is an extreme empath.

He says, she's got a few habits, but his favorite is when she sacks the dishwasher, when she puts in the cutlery into the bucket thing, she'll arrange them so they all have at least one partner.

So, you know, spoons with spoons, forks with forks.

Furthermore, this is my favorite bit.

The teaspoons are, in her mind, babies and

must be placed with a responsible adult spoon.

This means sometimes larger, clean spoons go back in just for the purpose of caretaking the baby spoons.

I also love that it's like, don't leave a teaspoon with a fork.

Cause you know the fork.

No, exactly.

Stranger.

Stranger danger.

It's like it's a kid with this strange adult.

No, no.

Chug a couple of spoons in there to make sure that it's not freaked out in the dishwasher.

Ben Hearham,

he says, needs to report.

his girlfriend's empathy for a certain grape.

Certain grape?

She recently told me she accidentally dropped a grape under the fridge.

Having subsequently realised it'd be likely to be under the fridge

until the fridge is replaced and not moved for many, many years, she kicked a second grape under there just to ensure.

Oh, it's whoa.

So it's like if only one Beaconsfield miner was trapped.

That's true, isn't it?

I don't think we can get you out, but we're going to send Brandt downtown.

So you guys have got some company.

Not a strategy you see very often for people that are trapped.

Oh, tell you what, though, if you're running the cable down, why don't I could just grab onto the cable and be released?

No, we're not confident with that.

Why have we invented a one-way valve for Brandt to go through and hang out with Tom?

Yeah, he's got an email he goes from Brant, he doesn't want to go there.

Yeah,

decision's been made.

Uh, this is from Big As

Around once every week, my wife will remove all the magnets from the fridge for a full day to give them, quote, a little break.

Give the magnets a break?

Yeah, give the magnets a break.

I think she must think they're just hanging on so tight.

You know, like you don't want to fall off the cliff.

Like

solo.

Yep.

During summer, she'll do this every few days instead of weekly, insisting they must be getting exhausted in the heat.

Hey, this is from Rob.

My wife and I ordered a new couch.

She was eight and a half months pregnant when it arrived.

My heart honestly broke that the old couch wasn't going to get to meet the newborn baby.

This is great.

This is from Julia.

She's from New Zealand.

I find myself doing this every week when I clean out my guinea pig hutch.

I make sure I always put newspapers showcasing a happy story or even a Sudoku at the top of the bedding pile just in case they want to give it a read.

It's from Locky.

Is it just me or does anyone else feel upset whenever you think about February and how it's the shorter of the other months?

Yeah, yeah, yep.

I really look forward to leap years because February gets an extra day closer to its brothers and sisters.

I think the Gregorian calendar should be updated so each year a different month gets stuck with the 28 days.

How confusing would that be?

This is from Amberly.

She said, look, when I'm hanging my washing on the line, I'm very conscious of how much time my clothes spend together in my closet.

I like to hang items of clothing next to an item that they might not have had the opportunity to interact with

due to the proximity and the geography of my wardrobe.

And in case they're sick of being in the same clothes all the time, so you know, leggings and leggings, you'd be like, well, why don't you go and meet the hoodies?

However, I always make sure to hang a familiar friend close by

just in case they don't like the new matchup.

Layers on layers on layers.

That's amazing.

Actually, I do different classes.

Everyone has to dance with everybody.

And at the end of the day,

come back to you.

Sometimes it's nice to be close to another leggings.

They understand what you're going through.

This is from Holly, extreme empath.

My friend will not fully fill her petrol tank as she worries the car will feel bloated.

Really good.

Okay, this comes from Fraser.

I'm not normally that empathetic.

However, recently I was driving my Subaru and it has an auto brake detection feature.

I was at a set of traffic lights.

The car in front of me slammed on the brakes.

I missed it, but the car picked it up and saved me from rear-ending the car in front.

As a reward, I fueled the car up with 98 octanes.

No, she never gets anything more than 91.

Very common man of me.

So it was a big treat.

So empathy had become what the show was more about.

But not in every situation, as Hamish pointed out.

I just want to say this off the top.

We don't laugh at names.

We don't laugh at names anymore.

We don't laugh at names.

Gone are the days.

I mean, we have laughed at names.

We've all, I mean, many decades ago, Bart Simpson created a career out of laughing at names.

His huge ass there.

you know, hey guys, I'm looking for a huge ass.

And we all laughed.

Yeah.

We all laughed in the 90s.

And then we learned you don't laugh at names.

Hugh didn't ask for that name.

If there is a huge ass out there, he didn't ask for that name.

Well, we did do a whole series of pranks where we'd ring like a regional sports team or like

that's true, yes.

And we'd go like, you know, yeah, Chips McGibbons.

Yeah.

And the whole point was.

The whole point was

you or I would hold up

a silly name.

But that was actually about not laughing at names.

Well,

we had to get through it without laughing.

So I'd say that was still under the rules of we don't laugh at names.

Now, so that's, I understand that rule.

So imagine my surprise when against all odds and against my best wishes, I did laugh at a name the other day.

And I wasn't expecting to laugh at a name.

And I didn't laugh loud, but it did get this.

It got a, it got a.

I know the type of, of i know the top and i looked at zo to see if she'd heard it she hadn't heard and i was like is this one of the ones we're at the airport so i was like she's busy and yeah i was like do i share this

she is busy i my brain always thinks comedy will like will rule if no matter how busy zoe is there's a voice in my head that goes no she'll find this funny stop her tell her tell her your funny thing and it's never right

So we're checking in.

We're checking in.

And there's a very professional man there who actually has a like a normal sounding, like, well, not normal,

a unusual, a common surname.

Unremarkable, unremarkable surname.

No such thing as normal.

We love all names, but just not a name that you would look twice at.

However, in this setting, you'll see where it gets the laugh.

He's like, he's like 50 years old.

Like, I'd say, I don't know, finance, like looks like he's important.

And it's like at the check-in desk, the corners thing.

Probably, probably business class check-in.

Not for me, no, checking with kids.

So you have to line up.

And it must be very nice for you guys, just dumping bags and straight to the business lounge.

But I unfortunately, I'm in the queue, common manning up.

But I doubt that.

No, we had a valet and that would do it.

I was sitting on the back of the tractor waiting to be driven to the gates.

Does all the check-in and hand the thing back?

And they go, There you go, Mr.

Bean.

Enjoy the business.

It's good.

Enjoy the fly.

Now, did he not speak?

Did he go?

He did have a little teddy bear.

But I was like, see, this guy, this guy's Mr.

Bean.

He's put up with that.

He's all laughing.

And I felt bad because I was like, if he sees me laugh, he knows what I'm laughing.

Yeah, exactly.

It's like when tall people get told they're tall.

It's like, yes, I'm aware.

I'm tall.

He knows he's Mr.

Bean.

he's mr bean

that's tough for him he's he's gonna he's gotta deal with that and he didn't didn't look like did his luggage have three wheels no that was that wasn't mr bean's car was it that was his nemesis

he's gotta watch gotta watch out for that guy but it did i was like am i laughing because of miss i'm laughing because i'm or am i thinking of rowan atkinson and and he is funny and mr bean is funny and that's why i'm laughing or i'm just laughing because this guy is mr bean so did he register you go there

I think I got away with it.

I think I got away with it.

But then again, to my point, then I was like, hey, Zoe, you know, she's like, got kids' bags.

I was like,

I don't know who his first name is.

His last name's Bean.

Like, yes.

So

when the person had the ticket,

Mr.

Bean,

just crickets.

Had she not seen Mr.

Bean?

I don't think so, Jack.

I think, yeah, she must have missed it because it was very funny.

So Mr.

Bean didn't resonate with Hamish's wife.

And when it came to the boys' partners, things were changing in Andy's life.

Guys, I'm sure, I'm sure this happens in every relationship,

but it's glaringly obviously now, Beck and I'm nearly 10 years in, that somehow without discussion,

There's jobs that have just filtered straight to me

that I'm now solely in charge of, where when we first started going out, it was definitely split 50-50.

Yep.

Or it might have even been something more to do with her world.

So she exclusively took care of those things.

Yep, understand.

But now, because we co-inhabit and we're intertwined with love, it's my problem.

Wow.

Wowie.

She must be nice.

It's my problem.

Or it's seemingly my problem.

And without discussion, it's like, well, you're doing that now.

Or, hey, can you quickly grab that for me?

Or

have you done this yet?

And I was like, hang on.

When we looked at the job descriptions early in our relationship, there seemed to be a lot less.

A lot of the 50-50.

A lot less of my plate.

And then there's obviously specific jobs

that just become, I think I'm going to stereotype.

husband jobs, boyfriend jobs, man jobs.

After 10 years of marriage, we don't, you, well, I know is the discussion stops, but Zoe will leave indicators that it's time for me to do one like the classic one.

Our bin is in a drawer.

The classic one is the drawer's out, the bag is up.

Yep, yep.

And that means,

need I say more?

Time for this guy to go out.

And sometimes I go to a, do you ever wonder what happens after you pull the thing up?

Because

there's all then the bin, the rubbish is gone and a fresh bag is in there.

Yeah.

I'm actually doing that.

Yeah.

Actually, the guy that does that.

The other classic one is like the the air fryer sometimes lives on the bench, but people with air fries know they're a bit of a space hog.

And

there's a cupboard it can go to.

If the air fryer is unplugged and the cord is wrapped around it and the plug is looped through the handle, that's a...

All of these signs are basically non-verbal.

Yeah, put it away.

Just clearing your throat.

I never get told to put the air fryer away.

I just know that if the cord's wrapped around it, up she goes.

I feel that that's happened a lot.

I feel like it's created and it's just sunk in and I've realized I've let this go way too long and now they are just anti-jobs.

Yeah, but I mean if it that's after after doing them three or four times, then it's solidified.

So suddenly I've got a lot of anti-jobs in my life and I just need your help guys to list them all to get them off my chest.

The dogs poo!

Yeah, I know.

I'm getting it.

If the bins need taking out, that's an anti-job.

I can't work the sonos out.

If the dog needs a bath, yeah.

I couldn't find my keys, so I've taken your car.

Let me know if you need them, cause I haven't gone far.

There's a Mozzie in the bedroom.

That's an anti-job, that's an anti-job, and that's an anti-job.

I don't have a phone charger.

That's an handy job.

That's an handy job.

That is an handy job.

Can you ask the waiter for some salt?

That's an anti-job, that's an handy job, that's an anti-job.

I have my nails done, can you open this can?

I can't reach my back and it needs some fake tan.

The dishwasher will be done soon.

The dogs pooed in the living room.

These are all handy jobs.

My car's making a funny noise.

That is an anti-job.

There's a spider in that room, so I'm not going in until you return with proof you've got him.

I don't don't like the hotel room.

That's an Andy job.

That's an Andy job.

That's an Andy job.

I can't find my hat.

That's an Andy job.

That's an Andy job.

That's an Andy job.

Any dead animal.

The common theme here is: these are all jobs for Andy.

My bags are too heavy, can you put them in the car?

And I'm running really late, so grab me a marcher.

I really hope she's not letting you do it.

Yeah, yeah, good.

That's quite a list.

Yeah, quite a task.

Yeah, How did you have to narrow it down?

Don't do what I did and buy an invoicing app on your phone.

Well, Andy must have done those jobs with such a plom.

Because midway through the year, he dropped this bomb.

One hockey last night, 5-0.

Just thought I'd throw that in hockey,

did you map any?

Yes, just the one.

Just the one goal for me.

I think that's it.

On no, I asked back to marry me on sunday oh my god oh my god

are you kidding me

congratulations oh my god

wow man

okay well jax just to pay the digit here jax tried to claim best friends down of there by getting out of his chair first and hugging andy

i must admit i did already know this

you did sound like someone who already knew yeah because he didn't do real he didn't do 100 surprise anyone jump in in with or are you

or you because closer friends of course uh

of course it is the moment belongs to the happy couple how great and my fiancé joins us now uh jacko beck

congratulations hey jacko hey hey thank you now beck

rude a rude is it a bit quick that's all i would ask is it a bit sudden

you really should have given another couple of years

Are you sure?

Because, Ando, often, you know, you meet someone, you're caught up in that early 12 years.

That's not going to look at the whole relationship is going to be like.

It's always going to be that honeymoon 12 years.

Reality will kick in.

So, if you are comfortable, Ando, then of course we support it.

Okay, no, no, feel good about it.

Give it an ample thought.

No, it's what amazing news.

Me and Zoe were

crying.

We were so

that's such good news.

Can you tell us the story of the proposal?

Yes, it started because I got back to

our new old house under the guise that we had to

do a couple of videos for Instagram because we're about to start the build.

And I said, we want to capture it.

She went, what do you mean we're doing that?

And I said, well, we say we do this at 12.

And she's like, no,

can you please just put it in my calendar?

Can you please put these things in my calendar?

I'm like, it is in your calendar.

It's there under surprise engagement.

Yeah, I'd never challenge Andy on a calendar input.

Yeah, a big mistake.

It was there.

And then she said, well, I've booked Henrietta in through probably one of the mud baths, Japanese mud baths.

Don't tell me that Henriet Henriken is being sprinkled with unicorn horns at 12.

I said, okay, well, do you want to postpone Henry's thing because we have to get this done?

She goes, no.

So I said, okay, we'll push back.

A reschedule.

Reschedule.

I don't like from back because it gets the marriage stage now of your relationship off to the a great start she's on a good footing

she's calling the shots and then I was pretending that we'd um that we'd uh film something in front of this fireplace at this old marble fireplace in the house and uh and that's when I went oh I think there's something in inside the fireplace and uh while I was down there I stayed on one knee and I gave her another napkin because I

when I first met her at the cafe, I wrote on a napkin my details.

I love that.

And I gave her another napkin.

How much did you spend on the napkin?

Two months' salary?

What a napkin.

You should see this napkin.

Gold lace napkin.

Well, good things will come to those that can wait.

So, Reminiscence continues after this short ad break.

Welcome back.

Enough of the happy feels.

That's not truly this show.

It's more about arguments, as everyone knows.

When such moments arise, the armor goes on.

Like when Hamish brought a new game and things went terribly wrong.

Gents, this morning at short notice, I said, hey, because I just, I heard something this morning and I was like, go, I got to tell the guys about this.

And I thought, would it be fun to,

it's a fact, right?

Just a good fact.

It's one of those, it's not like quite one of those, but it's sort of in the region of like, you know, I was today years old when I found out, blah, blah, blah.

But it's this thing.

I was like, oh, yeah, fair enough.

That's an interesting fact.

I don't think I knew that.

And I was like, would everyone would be interested in bringing one fact to the show today?

And we have a fact shootout, like a duel, like a Wild West duel.

The very specific rules you sent through to Hamish and so to Jack and I have you said no, Google has to just

you can't seek a fact out, it kind of has to come to you.

Yeah, you can't say, hey, has anyone got any good facts?

Because it just has to be in the because I think that just makes it a go-to.

Yeah, your go-to.

Did one come to mind straight away for you, Jay?

I've got one that I hope I'm not misremembering, but I remember the gist of it is good.

And you'll go, oh, that's a good fact.

Is it a fact?

I mean, there's some things around, like the minor details I might be remembering wrong.

Can we end this to the game then, Haim, that straight after our fact,

my radio mic out there googles it just to fact check it that's good and then gives it it's it's a fair play because obviously you know morris mine i'm pretty sure mine's true

i'm just otherwise

the whole point of being wowed by a fact is in fact the fact it is a fact yes you're right well i think i think the thumbs up from mike should be true enough okay well we'll get him to come in we'll get him to come in and kind of give us the report what we can do what about this we each do the fact

well okay, we're adding a few too many layers on here too, but I also wanted to do a thing because in the Wild West, when there was a duel, a shootout, it was a one-on-one situation.

It was quite clear who the winner was.

Now, in a three-way, we've each got one bullet, but there's always going to be three shots fired,

but only,

you know, two people might shoot the same guy.

So there could be one man left standing.

And are we shooting?

Are we shooting a fact we don't like?

Yeah, well, basically, the last man standing is the winner.

So we're going to...

Are we shooting the winner?

Are we shooting the fact we don't like?

Obviously, shooting a fact we don't like, but if you don't get shot, you will be the winner.

Okay, so we could have two winners.

Yeah,

that is true.

Let's just assume that the two worst facts are getting shot and that the winner remains standing in this triangular shootout.

So,

only because the sound effect I've built is three gunshots, two bodies hitting the floor.

Okay, and then at the end of it,

we hear the facts and then we say who we think the best fact is.

All right, let's get into this.

Okay.

Who wants to go first?

I'll go first since I've started this thing.

Be honest with me.

Did you guys know that a t-shirt is called a t-shirt

because of the shape of it?

Yeah, that's right, 100%, yes.

Did you really know that?

I feel like you just say that.

I think you heard Jack be so confident.

Then, Andy, you were like, I can absolutely jump on board this because I know that means Hames getting shot.

I don't even ever remember being told as a fact as much as it's just like so.

There's such a thing as a gracious win-win game.

You don't have to do this dance.

I didn't know.

We don't have to rub it in.

I thought that was fascinating.

I'd never thought about that.

I can't believe this whole thing can derive from that fact.

I think there'll be a lot of people out there who are now playing your game, Andy, of pretending they knew that, but secretly they're wild.

Secretly they're wild.

I can't wait to pretend I knew this.

Mine's insect-based.

I knew it.

I never even considered a time in my life where I didn't know it.

The sound a mosquito makes

is its wings flapping.

I assumed that.

Yeah, I would say

I would have assumed that I would have assumed that.

And they flap 800 times a second.

I didn't know the stat, but I would assume that that's the noise because they only make the noise when they're moving.

They didn't think it was them screaming.

It was playing a little oboe.

They didn't know they could fly.

Yeah, we definitely assumed part one of the fact, and part two of the fact feels googled.

No, no, no.

Wait, did you Google us?

No, you remembered 800.

No way you remembered 800.

Where'd you hear it?

You googled the shit out of me.

I heard it.

Dude, hey, you Westcott,

who is a writer on the animation.

You heard of where?

Katie Westcott is a writer on the animation.

Yeah.

She's the one that told me.

She told you 800 times before.

In conversation.

Yes, in conversation.

Jack.

I don't know.

When do we shoot?

When do we shoot?

Can I buy extra bullets?

God, I really thought mine was going to be good.

I think mine is good.

Oh, you're a no-chance.

Would you like to get a fresh audience in here?

Because we are heavily incentivized to hate or at least be disinterested in this fact.

Okay.

Woolworths in Australia

got its name

because Woolworths already existed as a chain straw in the US and the UK.

And a guy from England came over to start.

Oh my god, when does this fact end?

Oh my gosh.

He came from Australia.

At least one was quickly.

It was a fun visual.

I'll try and watch the movie.

I'll just copy off Andy's answers.

The guy came from England, he wanted to build a supermarket in Australia and he said, I'm just going to call it Woolworths, but he had nothing to do with the existing Woolworths.

He just named that because it was named that in England.

And he thought, oh, who's going to know?

What?

It's true, Mike, saying, but also, who cares?

Isn't that interesting?

No, he just stole the name.

He stole the name.

Yeah, and but now it's the Woolworths we know so well.

But he stole them.

And he stole the name.

From a Woolworths.

So even now.

Woolworth's name was stolen for the guy like that tap.

But it was stolen from this shop that already existed and did a similar thing.

Called Woolworths.

So now if you

and you can't steal a name from a shop that has a different name than you stole.

So yes, we know he stole Woolworths from a shop called Woolworths.

Can't go, I stole Woolworths from a shop called McRobertson's.

Why do you wanna steal McRobertson's?

If you went to the UK or the US and you saw a Woolworths, you would

probably wrongly, but think.

The music's run out.

The music's run out.

That's how long Jack.

That's fact was.

Oh, that must be where it originated, and that's where we got our Woolworths.

Okay, so are we?

I'm shooting one person.

Oh, no.

I might not.

I'd

recommend we all get shot here.

Yeah.

Well.

Yeah, two fell at the same time.

I mean, if you had to pick a good fact,

I think, Ando, I think it's okay for you to say that you didn't know about mine and you just wish you did.

You just wish you did.

It just can't be Jack's.

And it can't be yours.

Can't be yours.

It has to be mine.

I think it's mine.

My fact delivered better.

Delivered better than what I did.

Because I was trying to pull it from memory.

Mike, do you have a winner?

Andy!

Oh, my God.

Oh,

Jack, get another bullet for Mike.

The bell rang again to move us all on.

And throughout 2024, there was one man that shone.

In the show title, his name doesn't appear.

But boy, did Jack give us some amazing moments this year.

The thing I do almost daily that never gets a laugh from Bianca, but I still do it is when she asks me to do some sort of chore around the house, like, can you take the bin out or can you do the dishes?

Just do it by the way, just do it for once without being asked.

That would be hilarious.

If she asked me to do a household chore, I'll say, but I'm just a little boy.

And now,

now I wish I actually.

Has it ever worked?

And a moment happened live that could have been quite upsetting.

Yes, Jack found out he wasn't invited to Darcy's wedding.

I know we don't talk about Mr.

R Jack, but when I know Bianca's family come to visit

to not talk about it.

Yeah, t-shirts still available to take the pledge.

Well, we don't talk about it.

We don't really bring them up.

But since it seems we might be slightly talking about it here, one thing I would kill to see

would be Bianca's mum's performance to Mr.

R.

Because I assume they're like hanging out and just she's sort of like, you know, adjusts the cutlery.

Oh, actually,

would she ever record it?

No, no, no, no, no.

That's getting, well, that's what that's dicing with danger that we don't need to

what i want to do is dress up as an old man when she's in australia next and we we see like a dress rehearsal that'd be great just for us all to see how she does it yeah would she she is here over the mandated break oh but

we we can't dare we can't work is she coming to darcy's wedding

she's not who's darcy's wedding darcy from the show did you guys get invited to darcy's wedding

we did not talk about mr pig

did you guys get invited?

No, I'm just saying, is she coming for that?

Wow,

usually, when you're doing guest lists, you do like everyone at work or no one.

I thought he was doing a no-one.

No, he's not doing anything.

I'm doing a no-conference.

I think it's been.

When's the wedding?

I don't need to go.

I think he cancelled it.

I think he cancelled it yesterday.

That's what I meant.

If you're coming for that, tell her to go home.

It's cancelled.

I'm not disappointed by that.

I know it is hard.

I think it's happening, so it doesn't matter.

I know it's hard to make a guest list.

It is hard.

You have to make hard decisions.

Is she coming out for my wedding?

Well, you haven't got invited anything or not.

I'm coming to your wedding.

If she's coming out for Andy's wedding,

I hope her health is good because there's been no movement at the station, unfortunately, in terms of wedding plans, despite me.

When's it on the calendar for?

Ballpark.

The calendar hasn't come out.

The calendar of which it could be planned.

The calendar company that makes the calendars hasn't even been incorporated yet.

The CEO of the calendar company is still in year eight.

No, no, still have you think about it.

How do you think about it, eh?

Well, get a wriggle on, mate, because there's a bunch of us that are pretty keen on the Bucks party.

Don't try and deflect from the fact that you dropped the Darcy wedding situation on Jack.

What was I meant to know?

Is Mike going?

No.

I hope not.

Mike,

you are.

I was invited, but not going.

It frees up the spot.

I don't want a charity spot.

I don't want someone else's seat.

I do.

Well, the thing is, I might be in town for it, but so can't make it time.

I don't want to come.

I don't want to come.

I don't want to come.

I don't need to come.

If you are feeling sorry for Jack, just check those feelings at the door because he does get up to some very questionable behavior jack

we all remember the quarter zip golf jumper devacle okay yes where magic mic land that's right this jumper to you no he he just left it behind

i played golf with him that's right he left it behind he started you started wearing it you liked it i liked it he asked for it back some six weeks went past you didn't return it because you liked it You found out he got it for free from this golf brand.

You emailed them and said, here's, we've got a problem.

I really like it.

He wants it back.

Why don't you send him a new jumper?

I keep this one.

In fact, can I actually have a size bigger?

That's all correct.

Then you got sent the size bigger, but still kept marks.

You still had mics.

Yes, but he, but also he got

a new one plus more.

Yeah, okay.

What do you mean plus more?

Well, they sent him more, like, so they sent him the same jumper and then they sent him, I think, pants and shirts.

oh right so i didn't know this bit so out of jealousy you were like well you don't need your old jumper then

if you've now got access to pants i'm not giving you your old jumper back as we discussed for some reason after all the dust settled due to i believe the term was a wrinkle in the system you decided that ownership of the initial jumper just stayed with you so yeah okay first question

Has that jumper been returned?

No, it hasn't.

Okay.

I know it hasn't because Mike went down to Melbourne.

He's Sydney-based, goes down to Melbourne, played golf with you about a week ago.

Perfect opportunity to have it.

He goes to me, I'm not going to say anything about the jumper.

But that was going to be my number one argument.

He didn't say anything about it.

It's his jumper.

Yeah, but

he didn't say a hoot about it.

Okay.

Mike goes to me.

I'm not going to say anything about the jumper.

I'll see if Jack brings it to the course.

Yes.

Okay.

Mike also, you may have noticed, deliberately went in a t-shirt.

I didn't notice that how am i how am i to know that that is a signal so i'm texting him going i'm texting him going how's it going goes hasn't he hasn't

yeah and and mike goes i'm genuinely chilly and then mike's texting me going occasionally i'll rub my arms

i know you didn't notice any of this you had a jumper on you were nice and snug yeah but fair is fair he didn't mention it and so you you know you would have only been giving it it back if you bought it to the course, right?

Yes.

And you obviously didn't bring it to the course.

So I'll give you a pass on that one.

What did you do after golf?

Then he came back to my house for a little bit.

Oh, yes.

Good point.

Yeah, good point.

Good point.

Where's his change?

You can see the moment Jack realises.

And that's where the jumper is.

But again, like he's never, he was not saying he's cold.

He's not saying he wants to cold.

He was rubbing his arms and going brunching.

I never saw that, so I never saw him being cold.

And it was like 17 degrees.

He was like,

a bit chilly.

He's like, well, yes, I've been there before myself.

It's not a nice feeling.

I myself have many jumpers, so I don't have to face that problem anymore.

He can have the jumper back.

He just didn't mention it.

He didn't mention anything.

I thought if he wanted back, then he would have said it.

And also, I happen to know that he got a jumper replacement exactly the same plus more.

So his life hasn't changed.

Plus more.

Oh my god.

He doesn't deserve his old stuff.

No, he does if he wants it.

So we happen to be in Sydney today.

Yeah.

Did you bring it?

I didn't.

I didn't bring it, but it's the same reason why.

I thought he'd forgotten about it.

I thought everybody had forgotten about it.

So

if you had instructions, bring Mike's jumper, you would have bought it.

Then I would just have to get it back from a friend of mine, and then I would give it to Mike.

He's giving it to a friend.

Yes, but I didn't say for keeps.

I just let go.

Tristan.

Why did you give it to a friend?

Because I got my new one.

They gave me an extra lunch.

I had the lunch.

And then I played golf with Tristan.

And he was honestly, he was a bit cold.

You can go.

So you have to be a certain rank of friend to give it a jumper, but not if you own it.

It also proves that you can recognise people that are cold.

You saw him shaking his arms and going, brrr.

That's amazing.

Okay.

Well, so I'll get it back off, Tristan.

I'll get it to Mike next time he's in town or next time I'm in Sydney.

But what's this rule

about here?

You have to be told or like you have to be reminded.

If he was cold or if he wanted it back, all he had to do was say, just communicate.

Okay.

So just to be clear, if the instruction is given, hey, give the jumper to to Mike, you will then do it.

Yes, that's interesting because

Mike obviously knows the guys from Fellas Golf.

That's the brand of jumping over here, Fellas Golf.

And he said, so he's telling them this story.

Yeah, didn't get it, but Jack didn't give it back.

And I was saying I'm cold and I was rubbing my.

Then one of the guys from Fellas Golf texts Mike, and I've got the screenshot here of the text and goes, that's really interesting.

To make things even better, we sent Jack two extra zip tops telling him to pass these on diamond

he has been meaning to

one's mics one with instructions to pass on to

and you just said yourself if i had instructions to pass on jumpers i would

I've been meaning to.

So that completes reminiscence this year.

We're a week out from Christmas, we look back at the year.

We hope the holidays are chock full of fun, and we'll see you in 2025 when the blasted government-mandated break is done.