2025 Ep 315 - Bonjour, You Copied Us!

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Speaker 2 Ahoy to me, Zoe. Hamish.

Speaker 2 I hope we're girlfriends or wives of Hamish. But if I can throw out an early guess, are we members of the band Huntrex from K-pop Demon Hunters? He's got Zimmer.
There's a Zoe in that, yes.

Speaker 2 Well, you might have been going contemporary. There is a Zoe in that.
I got done a hoy to me Mira, Jack. Ahoy to me.
And what would that make me, Ham? Can't remember the other one.

Speaker 2 Rumi, the lead singer. That's it.
That's how it's got to be going to be golden.

Speaker 2 I luckily have researched that film 200 times to know.

Speaker 2 That's why I went with Zoe first rather than Rumi or Mira because I thought maybe

Speaker 2 he might get thrown. We're doing the current partners of the Hay Mission Andy team.

Speaker 2 Probably shouldn't say current. Currently.

Speaker 2 You can say current, but it will never change. It will never change.

Speaker 2 Never. Fast forward to episode 10,000, still doing current partners, same names.

Speaker 2 Obviously, it does present one tiny loophole.

Speaker 2 Should we wish to keep, should you wish to date another Beck or Jack Partner, another Diancha?

Speaker 2 Just, you know,

Speaker 2 I do think in loopholes, but

Speaker 2 I'm not planning that. I'm planning to stay with this

Speaker 2 exact Zoe. Beck of Gidney for Lindo's.
I've got that option. doesn't have to be famous yep there's lots of vecs out there

Speaker 2 but they're the ones

Speaker 2 you're not checkmated into rebecca gibney nor am i checkmated into the animated k-pop demon huntress yes

Speaker 2 for you to date her but in the future yeah maybe that is a viable option if you're talking about this happening in several hundred years now you're right you're right

Speaker 2 there'll be people that date anime is for sure ahoy also to nick uh who used uh the very easy-to-use system at homeyshani.com to tell us what he's been up to in the us

Speaker 3 hey guys nick

Speaker 3 Matt's big into disc golf. He's leading the charge to rename what is normally called golf into ball golf to put it on an even playing field disc golf.

Speaker 3 That said, he doesn't have a huge following, but I thought you might be better positioned to change the language and be the modern Shakespeare's, if you will.

Speaker 3 Also, Australia already took hockey and made it ice hockey to make room for field hockey, so I think there's precedent.

Speaker 3 So shout out to my friend Matt and please consider ball golf going forward thanks

Speaker 2 disc golf also known as frisbee golf down here

Speaker 2 uh he's a push popular variant of ball golf yes where instead of using the sticks that are so known and loved in ball golf yes you use your um skin sticks yeah your arms to fling frisbee to fling the disc yeah just like an airborne version of the ball from ball golf um lovely look we love all listeners uh reach out to us for anything i'm will I'm happy to

Speaker 2 instigate and initiate calling golf ball golf. Me too.

Speaker 2 I think it's one of those things that I reckon you can't fight it. And now that it feels a bit silly, I think we'll start doing it ironically and then we'll become ball golf.

Speaker 2 Again, it does help when I'm out there going, I have played golf for the weekend. It saves us one line of conversation, which was which one, Frisbee or ball golf? Ball golf.
Ball golf.

Speaker 2 We're always asking for a winner. We're always asking.
So, yeah, 100% endorsed is what we wanted to say.

Speaker 2 And it makes Taylor Made our preferred ball golf brand brand, but it leaves us wide open to another

Speaker 2 slash

Speaker 2 other versions of golf. So a huge opening there should companies wish to reach out.

Speaker 2 Guys,

Speaker 2 love it. It was just like...

Speaker 2 Yes,

Speaker 2 John here from Taylor Made ball golf.

Speaker 2 We've had some confusion in the past. This is Tiger Woods.
He's been playing ball golf for some time. He's our ball golf representative.
We don't have a disc golf representative.

Speaker 2 Speaking of crazy coincidences,

Speaker 2 here's another crazy coincidence, Ando. On this show, you sometimes do song sleuth, where you'll examine a popular song and, you know, that might have links to previous songs.
Yes. Even a bit rarer.

Speaker 2 You'll do segment sleuth,

Speaker 2 where we get alerted often by our international listeners.

Speaker 2 Hey, are you aware that there's a, you know, maybe a little bit of a crossover with other podcasts or radio shows from around the world? Can I borrow the segment sleuth opener today?

Speaker 2 Because I've got a segment sleuth. Really? Someone's stolen one of our

Speaker 2 let's not say it yet, but there are similarities.

Speaker 2 Absolutely.

Speaker 2 This sounds like this, sounds like this, sounds like this.

Speaker 2 If this sounds like that, I'm your man.

Speaker 2 Andy Lee, Segment Sleuth. What, what? That's presented by Amish Wait.
Yes. What country? France.
France. La Francais.

Speaker 2 Well, I'm going to play a little bit from our show. From earlier in the year, people may recognize this.
We sometimes get requests to, hey, what's happening with this? But if you didn't,

Speaker 2 if you don't remember, we had an idea earlier in the year to mimic the

Speaker 2 famous movie, which I think was from the 90s, Sneakers, starring Robert Redford. Burg Boys.
Talking about Berg Boys. Here's what we talked about earlier in the year.
Gentlemen, I have an idea for us.

Speaker 2 Inspired by a film, I mean, so heavily inspired by a film, you might almost say it almost is the film.

Speaker 2 The movie Sneakers came on. Robert Redford runs a gang of kind of like hackers who companies hire, like a bank would go to them and go, try and break into our bank.

Speaker 2 What a great job. What I would like to propose is if you run run a small business,

Speaker 2 we will break in.

Speaker 2 Us three, we will rob you.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And people might think that that's Peter out, but you never know. We said we're not going to talk about it until we do it.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 We actually even had an ad,

Speaker 2 we made an opener for the Berg Boys when we were talking about Berg Boys. Let me play our opener first.

Speaker 2 Be on the lookout for three people testing small business security.

Speaker 2 Berg boys, Berg Boys, whatcha whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when we steal from you?

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 a lot of people, a lot of European podcasters said, hey, there's a French podcast that's doing something similar. Have a listen.
This is their opener.

Speaker 2 Let me play their opener first, and then I want to play some of their audio.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's dead. That is very similar.
It just sounds like they've done the same thing in French. Have a listen.
This is from the Henrique at Andre show, I believe it is.

Speaker 2 Have a listen to them talking about a very similar idea to our Berg boys on their podcast. Bonjour, it is a Henrique et Andre super cool podcast with Jax.
Boys, I have a crazy idea.

Speaker 2 You know the movie Sneakers with a Robert Redford?

Speaker 2 Yeah, where they tested business security by stealing things from the business it is a super cool movie super cool man super cool super cool well you know what would be really super cool we should do this we should be burglary boys oh we

Speaker 2 super cool man that's super cool they steal something from a business

Speaker 2 Right, so on the Super Cool podcast, they're talking about being burglaries. And they're all French, are they? Yeah.
They're all French.

Speaker 2 All of them in different parts of France, and they have traveled around a little bit.

Speaker 2 And I think one had a tongue transplant.

Speaker 2 So he finds it hard to make some of the French back.

Speaker 2 However,

Speaker 2 they're quite a famous podcast in France, the Super Cool podcast. So have a listen to again then there are definite similarities there.
That was absolutely listening similarities to ours.

Speaker 2 Listen to again what we were talking about earlier in the year.

Speaker 2 Tell us your business. Tell us your business.
You can't tell the staff. And then we the fun of

Speaker 2 seeing how well we could pull off the heist. Love it.
Just hit us up, Hamisener.com. We'll pick one.
And then this will probably go quiet for a bit because

Speaker 2 we can't give updates because you don't want staff members could listen and we don't want to, you know, that will compromise the mission.

Speaker 2 Now listen to the gentleman from the Super Cool podcast talking about it. Now, we wouldn't say which business until after it's done, right? Correct.
From now with zips the mouth.

Speaker 2 Oh, we will be such sneaky boys. You will never hear us talk about this again.
So, if you are the boss of a business and you would like to have us steal from you, email us.

Speaker 2 We are going to be the burglary boys. This is super cool, crazy.
Super cool.

Speaker 2 They get their branding a lot for the super cool boys. Super cool boys.
Yeah, so the thing is their catchphrase. They love saying it.

Speaker 2 Right. So

Speaker 2 that was their thing. That was them.
Admittedly, this was them a couple of weeks ago. ago.
Then

Speaker 2 people are sending us audio from this week's episode of this French podcast after they had pulled up. Like, we haven't done our burg boys yet.
Who knows when it might happen? They did theirs.

Speaker 2 So, credit to them. They followed through a little bit quicker than us.
But they did their burg boys. This is them

Speaker 2 post the job. Now, we have some crazy news for today's show.
Remember when we were talking about stealing something from a business? We did it. We were burglary boys.
We did it.

Speaker 2 It is a crazy story for sure. But the boss of this business, which is actually a museum called the Louvre, he emailed us and said, man, I love the show, boys.

Speaker 2 Do you think you could steal something from our business, like $100 million worth of jewels? We thought this is so crazy, but okay,

Speaker 2 what a super cool idea. So we did some research and we found out that the Louvre is in Harry.

Speaker 2 I had this idea to get a sherry picker and use power tools to get us into the first floor window. Man, man.
That is such a super cool idea. Super crazy segment, guys.
Super fun. Super cool.

Speaker 2 They were the guys that

Speaker 2 were in the case. That was their segment.
That was a podcast. That was a podcast segment.
So on one hand, I'm like, you absolute mongrels. You didn't just steal a segment.

Speaker 2 You know, you've stolen some jewels.

Speaker 2 But by the same change, he's like, well, we respect, we deeply respect the fact that they followed through. And if anything, I say maybe they've inspired us to

Speaker 2 rethink or just put a flame under it and see if, you know, who knows, it might happen sooner rather than later. Now that, I guess.

Speaker 2 We've seen it can work as a segment. Like that was, no, that got a lot of international attention.

Speaker 2 That went viral for them. Man, it went viral.

Speaker 2 And that is just great publicity for a podcast it's really hard to get through the noise so good on them good on them nothing no charges laid because good on them for swinging people

Speaker 2 fellas i've just returned from a golf trip my yearly golf trip with my mates uh this time we went to china which was which was good fun oh it was and you have come back as you have come back as a deep fan of chinese efficiency

Speaker 2 which we should have seen seen coming. But just to bring listeners in,

Speaker 2 you know, every year you might be in a golf trip in a different place. I think you guys have done New Zealand and Singapore.
America.

Speaker 2 And I was like, oh, China, of course, you know, it's huge. There's a lot of stuff in China.
And then Andy came back going, God, they've really got it sorted out over there.

Speaker 2 Really got it sorted out.

Speaker 2 I've had three or four separate occasions where Andy has just been short of handing me,

Speaker 2 I guess, like citizenship papers and going, you know, really encourage you to think about moving to china for the efficiency you just love the way it's they've got they've done what are they doing what's one thing they're doing that we're not doing here oh look it's everything's very efficient chase it's very respectful

Speaker 2 it's it's one billion people marching to this the beat of like the pleasure andy drum like nothing there'll be no upset andes in the whole of china yeah They just had their systems.

Speaker 2 You should have seen the way they transported the clubs around.

Speaker 2 They put these little cards on your clubs that were scanned, and then they knew which course course you're going to next. You rock up, they're there.

Speaker 2 It was just, they had a few systems in place that impressed me, right?

Speaker 2 So it's not like in Australia where most, you know, if you go to a public club, it's just a bloke going, yeah, mate, you just go off now if you want.

Speaker 2 No, no, not that. A very different ship.
But people may have heard me talk about it. So very different what? Very different ship.
Okay, sorry. What do you think I said?

Speaker 2 He looks different shit than that.

Speaker 2 Andy's come back from China, a fan of efficiency and with a bit of an attitude.

Speaker 2 You would have heard me talk about these golf trips before,

Speaker 2 particularly my mate Hawges. He's been on the show as well.
He's lack of preparation at times. At one time, he rocked up to the

Speaker 2 airport with all his clubs in a box because he had forgotten to buy a bag. One time, you might remember me talking about how he called his wife and said, you've got to follow me to the airport.

Speaker 2 I took this route because I left the boot open. My golf shoes have fallen out of the car.
Find them at some point along the way. I didn't forgot about that one.

Speaker 2 He's left, you know, wallets and planes, passports. It's just generally.
Wallet is fast and loose. Just like me.
I'm interested to see how a fast and loose man went.

Speaker 2 Did the efficiency of the Chinese system help bring his fast and loose? Did it protect a fast and loose person or did they not mesh? We can ask the man himself. He joins us right now.

Speaker 2 Hawges, hello to you.

Speaker 4 Hello, boys.

Speaker 2 Hawges, how are you, mate? Did you find it fast and efficient, Hawgs?

Speaker 4 Yes, it was, they were efficient. They were great.

Speaker 2 Did you walk around? Because I would have, I'm a bit like you, Hoggs, you know, we're fast and loose guys. Were you going, gee, I could not, this isn't the way I run things?

Speaker 2 Or did you enjoy having the efficiency, yeah, like streamlining your chaos?

Speaker 4 Well, I can't, I have, I've got Andy.

Speaker 2 So do I. So do I.
We're the same.

Speaker 2 Exactly why we've been attracted to Andy and he's been attracted to us. Like when you're around Andy, you just, yeah, it goes.

Speaker 4 just basically like being in China.

Speaker 2 He doesn't just have the surname. He lives in the Chinese lifestyle.

Speaker 2 Well, one other thing we've heard out, Jacko, is they don't sound, they don't yell for

Speaker 2 if you have a errant shot. What do they yell? They yell, kung chow.

Speaker 2 And so

Speaker 2 much more exciting. It's more exciting.
And there's four caddies, one each. So, and they all yell it in unison.

Speaker 2 So if Hawges and I were in different groups on the day, because you play in groups of four and there was eight of us, you would, would, you know, I might hear Hawges tee off and you hear the whack of the ball.

Speaker 2 And then when you heard four people go, Kung Chow, you're like, oh, he hasn't hit that very well.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's unfortunately for me, Hawks did play very well and probably heard more kung chows coming from my tea box more than his. But Hawges, just wanted to put some few things to you.

Speaker 2 I think I've done this in the past. You all you have to do is say is guilty or not guilty with respect to

Speaker 2 post-boys tread performance review. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just

Speaker 2 Again, a very efficient thing to do. Andy, as the team's manager, is just sitting down with everyone.
Don't review everyone's work, Harry. How will they get better? Yeah,

Speaker 2 how can they improve their performance on future trips?

Speaker 4 I'm really worried that one thing's going to come up here.

Speaker 2 Okay. Anyway, do you want to self-declare now for half the punishment? No, fucking go.
It doesn't work.

Speaker 2 You might have to cut it out.

Speaker 2 Okay, maybe.

Speaker 2 I do want you to self-declare. Okay, first one.
Did you wear the same golf shirt four rounds in a row?

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 There's not too much wrong with that.

Speaker 4 It's only in China. It may be in Tasmania, it'd be okay, but China's not humid.

Speaker 2 It's humid. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Did you only bring one golf shirt knowing we were going on a golf trip?

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 2 Why? Why hogs?

Speaker 4 Well, normally Andy gets them, provides them.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 4 there was feedback going around. Apparently, Andy said on the WhatsApp that, hey, guys, we haven't got any shirts this year.

Speaker 2 And I didn't read that one. Gotcha.
Mate, gotcha.

Speaker 2 Shades of Caravan of Courage back in the day where

Speaker 2 I just turned up. This is our first caravan trip we did in radio days across Australia.
And I got tons of crap bored on me because you didn't read a sleeping bag or a pillow.

Speaker 2 You just kept saying, I thought they'd be provided. That's me.
I kept saying like

Speaker 2 a hotel. Well, I mean, we didn't, you know, someone else organized the caravan instead of it.
He's like, what are you going to sleep in? I was like

Speaker 2 surely there's bedding in the caravan he's like no mate sleepy bag and a pillow so yeah i slept in a gorilla suit

Speaker 2 until i can find a blanket for warmth um there were a lot of pro shops there um but horgs couldn't find a shirt big enough that is one problem that we had is that uh horgs being six foot five they just couldn't cater for the bigger man in that country i tried on a triple xl

Speaker 4 wasn't big enough, couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 Back to a Yes No Hogs. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Did you wear the same undies four days in a row?

Speaker 4 Oh, God. Yeah.
Well, yes.

Speaker 2 So did you bring one?

Speaker 2 You can't have thought that the undies were going to be provided. No, I did.

Speaker 4 I did pack them. It's just on night one when we were, because we were staying in another hotel.

Speaker 4 When I was doing the repacking, I didn't, I forgot to pack the undies but why would you take all of them out yeah did you put them in a floor

Speaker 4 no i didn't i think they fell out when i was pulling my jeans out to go out that age then the undies came out and then they never went back in right so they're still on a holiday

Speaker 2 yeah

Speaker 2 and you just then had to wear the same undies four days in a row there were other options cannot be comfortable hogs surely was there an undies shop there or same same issue um no we finally sent for that was the the last night.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we went to the mall on the last night.

Speaker 4 So the plane, the plane on the way home was fine.

Speaker 2 That would have been, God, humidity,

Speaker 2 walking, golf.

Speaker 2 That's a disaster scenario for chafing.

Speaker 4 It wasn't great. Yeah, but it's, yeah, I thought it'd be worse.
Whatever you're imagining, divided by three.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 2 One third the crotch rot that I imagined.

Speaker 2 That's it, Orc. Was there one thing that I was meant to declare that we're meant to cut it?

Speaker 2 Just say it, say it in a code that Andy would understand that we wouldn't, but it's still exciting for us to imagine.

Speaker 2 Oh, when I was getting a bit nervous, actually, so you know, no, is it if it's the if it's the joke you're trying to play on the driver?

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, no, we're not talking about that one.

Speaker 2 So interesting. Oh, wow.
That's the review I want to hear.

Speaker 2 See, boys.

Speaker 2 I've got a bit of an update from the parking world.

Speaker 2 As you know, Ando, I play the game. Yeah.
I play the game. I don't pay for parking.
I play it fiercely. And I've actually been getting a bit of a rep for myself.
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 For playing the game. Two incidents have happened in the past week.
One, I

Speaker 2 stopped and gave a bow to a man in the street and he said, hey, my, just want to let you know, we've started playing the game as well.

Speaker 2 And I said, oh, that's good to hear.

Speaker 2 I said, said do you mean the parking game he goes yep of course there is no other game it's just known as the game yeah now he said my son and i you know son's young i think was like eight or nine years old listening to the pod hearing us talk about the cost risk reward ratio of paying never paying for parking but risking a fine versus always paying for parking but maybe never having been seen by an inspector and you've wasted all that money paying for parking you and i have played the game for a long time and to the point where we had a little signal do you remember that between the two of us?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, yeah. When I said, when you come back to your car and you've left it there for not only hours past the recommended length,

Speaker 2 but you never paid in the first place, it's the feeling of arrogance you must get if you can jump up and down on a tightrope on one foot.

Speaker 2 So Hame and I, from the age of 19, would

Speaker 2 walk to our separate cars, maybe 80 meters away, and we'd both bounce on it, jump up and down on one leg, which would be amazing if passersby went oh they must mean it's the kind of confidence you feel being able to have that level of balance above a death defying drop but that's the that that's how it felt to us at the time because back then a parking fine was more than one week's salary yeah so you were risking you're risking it all back then and it felt damn good saved us two pots of a year or something and we're like okay yeah it just felt damn good but one week's salary come on you didn't work in the 1920s or something

Speaker 2 Even on a low payment, 100 bucks.

Speaker 2 But 100 bucks to one week's like spending money back when you were 19, like once you took out expenses for the week. Yeah, yeah, but you said salary.

Speaker 2 Like, I mean, from out of it, sound like you worked all week for $90.

Speaker 2 I remember it well, Jack. When I was at university,

Speaker 2 parking fines were two sacks of flour and 30% of that year's harvest. And that was a lot.
That was a lot for us as serfs and peons.

Speaker 2 Well, it was a big dint. I'm just going to say these days

Speaker 2 can absorb a little easier. It must be nice.
Well, okay, we'll get to your house in time.

Speaker 2 But here's the thing. So speaking to this guy, he's like, my son, his son did a spreadsheet.
That was the most amazing part.

Speaker 2 This nine-year-old did a spreadsheet of like, how often would we have to park? And, you know, when does it start going in our favor? Right. And they'd come to the same conclusion.

Speaker 2 The son was like, dad, let's play the game. I've done the numbers.
I can't see it.

Speaker 2 So I said, I was like, he goes, we're only a weekend. We haven't copped a fine.
And I said, great. You've got to remember, though,

Speaker 2 it's the long run. Like, it is the long run.
You can't let

Speaker 2 you. You can't let a ticket spook you.
And I, and he said, yeah, we heard about your two tickets in one day.

Speaker 2 And I said, yeah, that's a, that's a weird sub-pocket of the game because I do think I've parked. That's the parking near the physio.
And I just think whoever runs that strip knows my car now.

Speaker 2 And it's become a bit personal. So

Speaker 2 that that would park that because i think that's a feud can i can i say say something for for me with the game i won't park like in a loading zone if it's for some like if if it's going to be inconvenient this is just for you just don't pay you just don't pay at the machine yeah yeah i just don't i just don't want to confuse it with no that it used to be arrogant parking across driveways you're not breaking laws and you're you're also not i won't even bend rules like um oh it's rideshare cars yeah you people do need those spots So this is just flat out, one hour.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Pay at the meter.
Mano, oh, mano. That's what you think.

Speaker 2 So neither of you would even be familiar with parking apps. You wouldn't have the parking apps I don't know.
No, don't have the pay stay up.

Speaker 2 I've seen Zoe use it, but I'm not interested. Here's the caveat, though

Speaker 2 I do have to throw down. Because the other day I was driving along the street and I pulled in for a bit of street parking and I passed the ranger.
I passed the parking guy on the street.

Speaker 2 Oh, you can't play the game. And he was walking up.

Speaker 2 If he was walking the other way

Speaker 2 against traffic, I'd play the game. I'd be like, all right, even better.
He's done this side of the street. I don't want to shoot that.

Speaker 2 But he was walking in the direction that the cars were parked and I was parking up ahead of him. So I got in, I got out.

Speaker 2 I go to the meter. I'm like, all right, I'm going to have to pop in.
Like, you know, I'm going to have to pop in an hour here. And

Speaker 2 it was in Bondi. So an hour was like $13 or something.
It's wild. So I pay for it.
As I'm at the computer, a guy comes up and he goes, No,

Speaker 2 what are you doing?

Speaker 2 I go,

Speaker 2 I'm paying for parking. Took me a second to realize.
He goes, I thought you played the game. I said, No, I do play the game.
I said, But look, the guy's down there.

Speaker 2 He goes, You got to play the game, man. He said, Hey,

Speaker 2 not in the face of certain death. Like, that's not the game.
Yeah. And he's like, Oh,

Speaker 2 he was like, That's a bummer. I really thought, like, hey, I'm just so you know, man, I am out there playing the game.
I don't want you to think.

Speaker 2 But not the sheer madness of like, no one wins from me parking in front of the parking inspector and going, what are you going to do about this?

Speaker 2 He'll give me a ticket.

Speaker 2 That is what he'll do about this. I think that's part of the game.
Part of the, yeah, it was unsure. I don't think he was unsophisticated with the way he was.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he just thought the game was like a full protest vote. Like it was, I was like, no, no, the game is nuanced.
The game is, we must win at all costs. We can get away with them.

Speaker 2 So I was just like, maybe I haven't made that clear. Maybe I was advertising myself as more of a renegade than I am.
No, it's worth clearing out. But a tactical deployment,

Speaker 2 that's a win because that was a definite ticket.

Speaker 2 What I should have done, now I'm just thinking in real time about it, is gone to the guy, watch this. Come with me.

Speaker 2 Should have walked down and said to the ranger, hey, mate, see that bike car up there? I've paid for an hour parking. I normally never pay, but I saw you and you can't get me

Speaker 2 gentlemen

Speaker 2 i

Speaker 2 i have a question for you no right or wrong answer but i suppose this is a little bit of market research um with a

Speaker 2 you know respondent group of two yeah here's here's my question

Speaker 2 we all know there are famous people we all know there are well-known people um we've done the test on the show before andy about who you think you're cooler than and that was an interesting that was an interesting ranking system um there was a controversial one that you were you did think you were cooler than

Speaker 2 i think i played it pretty straight i think you were pretty straight he was above carl he was below nick curios yeah yeah you went below nick curios i think you thought i think you were like i you beat robert irwin That was sort of like a line ball.

Speaker 2 In the same thing, I do. Yep.

Speaker 2 It's okay. It's cool.
No, cool, man. You're a cool dude.
Yeah. Well, I'm not a cool dude.
I'm not as cool as Kirios.

Speaker 2 I think Conrad Sewell was the tough one. That was the tough one.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 By reflection, I'm cooler than Conrad Sewell.

Speaker 2 He's getting cooler by the episode.

Speaker 2 Here's a similar, in a similar vein.

Speaker 2 We understand famous and we understand,

Speaker 2 you you know, notorious,

Speaker 2 but who is beloved? Oh, in Australia? Well, yeah, I've got a few names.

Speaker 2 Try and get, because I actually think beloved is a really hard rank.

Speaker 2 Great one. Beloved, yeah.
Everybody loves Pat Rafter.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I'd put Mick Fanning in a similar vein.

Speaker 2 You have to have no chance of

Speaker 2 doing something

Speaker 2 offensive. Because Russell Crowe, not beloved.
Not beloved. As soon as he threw it.

Speaker 2 Mobile phone. If, well, if, if, you know, if something happened and, you know, you, would you ever see him described as beloved Australian actor? No.
Russell Crowe.

Speaker 2 What about people would claim he's a New Zealander.

Speaker 2 Here's one that I think is hands down.

Speaker 2 I think it's easier if you're a character. So like Bluey, beloved.
Beloved. Oh, totally.
Beloved. Yeah.
So much easier if you're a character. I reckon it's hard as a sports person.

Speaker 2 It is pretty hard as a sports person. That's what Pat Grafter has, I think, risen.

Speaker 2 i mean with with someone like i mean i mentioned hugh jackman if you play beloved characters you can be a larican yes well going back to the cool list carl stefanovic is he beloved yeah no no

Speaker 2 it doesn't mean they're bad these people but no no i think it's so hard to get beloved carrie ann kennelly no

Speaker 2 i think it's easier to become beloved as you get older i love carrie-ann but she

Speaker 2 found herself in some hot water with some of her takes. That's why cartoon characters are easier because they're never going to go like Bluey's not getting into hot water.
No,

Speaker 2 Cloma Simpson. Oh

Speaker 2 no, not beloved. Not beloved because he's too much of a jerk.

Speaker 2 Marge?

Speaker 2 Okay, yeah, which of the Simpsons characters would be beloved?

Speaker 2 Any of them? They've all got

Speaker 2 all got some fallibility. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 Dr. Hibbert? No, he makes some mistakes.

Speaker 2 He's

Speaker 2 so jovial, he's laughing all the time. Yeah, he'd be a little bit of a double-blind.
But now you're getting so niche anyway that you can't be beloved. Deve Irwin was beloved.

Speaker 2 I was saving him for my.

Speaker 2 Well, he cracked the code. I think.
I reckon it's quite hard to be beloved under 40.

Speaker 2 And I reckon he was one of the rare, like that is beloved under 40. Yes.
Like, that is a hard combo to now because he can get old and black. Like, Bill Murray is beloved.
Beloved. Like,

Speaker 2 David Attenborough.

Speaker 2 beloved yes but I think he got more beloved as he gets older and older and he's just like well I mean you can't fault the guy he's just the world's grandpa we bloody love David Attenborough yes queen Elizabeth was she beloved

Speaker 2 No, no, it's not feeling right and not to be like anti-monarchy, but it just doesn't feel right. I think it's tough for anyone with ultimate power to be beloved.

Speaker 2 I think you can't have arrogance and be beloved. She wasn't arrogant.

Speaker 2 No, no but i'm just saying there's a few things that knock you out if you've like the highest like a bill gates uh like any of those high like

Speaker 2 if you saw you know beloved entrepreneur elon musk have passed away

Speaker 2 feel like someone from elon's team wrote this

Speaker 2 that's my point is i think anyone with that amount of power you feel has stepped on a few heads on the way out

Speaker 2 i think that's what happens even with lizzie even though she was born into it i still feel a bit of plums in your mouth, silver spoon in your mouth. Well, I suppose it takes away from belovedness.

Speaker 2 Here's the thing. Anyone that has an opposing side, like there are people that are not monarchists.
So it's like beloved, I suppose, means universally loved.

Speaker 2 Because she was loved by her fans, but not Burr loved. Maybe Burr.
The Burr is just the universal bit. Like, there's no one that's against it.

Speaker 2 But like Pat Rafter would have had, I guess, people from other countries who didn't want to see him succeed on on the tennis court. Yeah, there'd be some Spaniards, some Davis Cup people that

Speaker 2 when we say universally, it can't be the world round because people will not think Pat Rafa's beloved in other countries, mainly because they won't know him. But I think from output.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 Just loved. Loved.
Loved. Highly loved by some.
Oh, yeah. Probably dangerously highly loved by some, bit sycophantic.
But there are also people who really dislike Taylor. Okay.

Speaker 2 Andy Lee. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Cool and beloved.

Speaker 2 Guys, I hadn't talked to him for a while, but our favorite human actor in War Horse, Jeremy Irvine, of course. Our favorite actor in that film is the horse.

Speaker 2 Yeah, our favorite human actor. It's such a deep cut.
People should need Jeremy Irvine,

Speaker 2 loved actor.

Speaker 2 Still not beloved, but loved actor. A loved actor

Speaker 2 who, yes, was in the 2010, I'm going to say, or 11 film War Horse,

Speaker 2 which is about a horse that, I think, again, a horse in World War I that was, you know, courageous. We should watch it, guys.
I think we've never seen it.

Speaker 2 I always assumed that you guys had seen it. How much you talk about it.
It's in 11 films. It's two hours, 26 minutes.
I'll just read, you know, it's a lot of horse.

Speaker 2 Well, mate, we've talked about it on the show more than two hours and 26 minutes.

Speaker 2 He is an actor that we saw in that trailer for that movie, Jeremy Irvine. He was also in Mama Mia, I think the musical movie.
Anyway,

Speaker 2 became a huge friend of the show when back in radio days, we released Andy by Hamish, The Fragrance. Yes.
And he...

Speaker 2 We sent him it. We were doing, can you waft it onto someone famous? So he can say that someone famous has used it.
And I think he wafted it up wind of Meryl Streep.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and then Brosnan, he wafted it onto Brosnan. I think he collected the whole cast of

Speaker 2 the whole cast of the city. He was the number one ambassador for Andy by Hamish.
So absolutely became forever more a diamond-level friend of the show for the Hamish Andy podcast.

Speaker 2 We have not heard from Jeremy for a while. Had just suddenly got a voice note WhatsApp to me

Speaker 2 on the weekend. This must be an easy system.

Speaker 2 Well, not really. We haven't heard from him in 10 years.

Speaker 2 Good point, Jack.

Speaker 2 And he had a message. I think for me, but I think for us.
And anyway, this is how we're.

Speaker 5 Hey, bud.

Speaker 5 Hope you and Becca are well.

Speaker 5 I was at the pub last night with a mate and we were talking about bathroom habits.

Speaker 5 And it was,

Speaker 5 it wasn't just an upset, Andy, actually. It was an upset, Jeremy.

Speaker 4 But

Speaker 5 he said obviously when men wipe their bums um he said basically I used the postage stamp rule which is when you look at the paper and there's anything smaller than something the size of a postage stamp he considers that done oh no and then obviously after I'd looked at him in shock for a while he then goes oh yeah and if I know round two's coming I don't really bother because basically you're just wiping the end of a crayon

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 5 yeah,

Speaker 4 I don't know.

Speaker 5 Thought that might make the show.

Speaker 2 It has.

Speaker 2 It has. And it's made the show's jaws drop.
What animal?

Speaker 2 Even dogs have less than a postage stamp when they're finished and they don't have the opportunity to wipe due to lack of paper and thumbs, but they are able to pinch cleanly. Yes.

Speaker 2 Less than a postage stamp. Mate, even on your first wipe, you're not getting more than a postage stamp.

Speaker 2 what is disaster is going on that quick this is great because i was i was interested in playing it obviously i played it to beck and she was shocked i'm like okay that's the reaction i expected from beck and then i was like but maybe just because that's my habit it doesn't mean it's everyone's habit but seeing both of your jaws

Speaker 2 you got to have one clean sheet yeah i actually

Speaker 2 at least jack at least it's i go

Speaker 2 I always remember, Andy, when we visited the troops in Afghanistan, like we flew over 2007, right?

Speaker 2 On the outside of a base, you always have to have a weapon with you at all times, but when you go in and out of the bases in Afghanistan, you have to show that your weapon is like ready to go, but not loaded.

Speaker 2 And you have to dry fire into a barrel of sand, right? Just to go, okay, we're not walking around with a loaded weapon on the base.

Speaker 2 So when they say dry fire, that is just click, click, click, click, click the, but just to show there's no bullet in it in the chamber. That's my policy.

Speaker 2 Two, two blank clicks, two blank fonts, like two

Speaker 2 Two clean

Speaker 2 pieces. And I believe we're not loaded.

Speaker 2 That is now as safe as

Speaker 2 we

Speaker 2 can take about your day. Yeah.
I'm the same, mate. I'm like that guy when the nightclub's closed going down and checking all stalls to make sure that we are completely empty.
Yeah, for the

Speaker 2 cross-check. Check, check, check twice.
You check twice. And so it is an upset.
Hey, what's the what's the if what's the if round two's coming? I don't know.

Speaker 2 That doesn't make any sense to me at all round two like he's going to come back later or he's going to wait there until he he needs to pill guess first of all sometimes you can be on the toilet and there's different there's you know you might think there's going to be another wave of contractions and you stay there in which case you don't need to wipe in between that because there's no interval that's like one minute later yeah if you are going to pass if you're going to have a bow movement again at some point in your life which you will and you're counting that as round two

Speaker 2 that's all all, there's always going to be a round two. There's not sometimes.
Even if you know you're going to do it in the same day, that's not an excuse. That's not round two.

Speaker 2 There's no such thing as round two.

Speaker 2 There's this round and the next round.

Speaker 2 I'm glad we are all in agreeance because

Speaker 2 I'm just here was playing that and seeing one of you nodding like, oh, yeah, good. Yeah, that's how I do the same.
That was,

Speaker 2 I think we have to say to Jeremy, you will always be the number one friend of this show, but your friends are not our friends. This is not, this is a one-degree policy only.

Speaker 2 We can't be friends with that animal.

Speaker 2 He's out.

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