2025 Ep 318 - The Great Trivia Heist

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Speaker 1 Ahoy, Timmy Rockefeller. Hey, Mission.

Speaker 1 We are smelly cheesers. We are.

Speaker 1 We are smelly cheeses.

Speaker 1 Who's Jack? Cabralis, is how I say it? Cabralis? It's a Spanish one. And then I was a Gorgonzola.

Speaker 1 Is smelly cheese official category? Well,

Speaker 1 here's the distinction.

Speaker 1 Blue cheese aged in natural caves. Okay.
Really? Yeah. Yeah.
So that gives it a waft. That gives it, yeah, so natural limestone for the Rockefeller, for yours, the Cabralis,

Speaker 1 often sheep's milk as well is the other point they make, because that gives it the extra stinkiness. Extra tang.
But yours, your caves are in northern Spain here, Jacko.

Speaker 1 And ours, the world's oldest blues cheese, the Gorgonzola, northern Italy, your...

Speaker 1 Francais. It seems so unsafe.

Speaker 1 Northern Italy. Sorry.
Hey, you're obviously family. It was French.
I thought I was going to say your family would have.

Speaker 1 Oh, sorry, that's why I didn't understand what you're saying because I'm one of Sicilian from the south. Okay, we would, of course, been at war back in the Great Italian cheese wars.

Speaker 1 We would have been mortal enemies.

Speaker 1 The Gorgonzola clan. What cheese would you have been running in it? What to cheese specific to Sicily since you're so cheese specific to Sicily? We are more, we like milk.

Speaker 1 We just don't let it turn into cheese. We're milk fans.

Speaker 1 We're greedy pigs.

Speaker 1 We'd sometimes do a cream, but we'd never let it get to cheese steak. Too hot.
Too hot. Ahoy also to Ellie, who went to habishnandy.com to let us know what she's been up to.

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Speaker 1 Haim, we want to start today with this.

Speaker 1 Gusto, gusto, check.

Speaker 1 We're going to do a gusto check.

Speaker 1 We sure are.

Speaker 1 We sure are. Interesting taste today.
Yes. Today's comes from Mila.
She joins us now. Ahoy to you, Mila.

Speaker 3 Ahoy, boys. How do you get there, Andy?

Speaker 1 Don't actually celebrate it, but thank you for going to haimishandy.com and alerting us to the situation you're in.

Speaker 1 Ham, do you want to surmise?

Speaker 1 So Mila, as far as I can tell from your case here, you were working for your dad at his optometry. Is it a shop? Is it a clinic? Do they sell glasses?

Speaker 3 Yeah, he does a bit of both. He's the optometrist there.
They sell glasses. I was working for him

Speaker 3 before I went overseas for a couple of months. And then I thought I was coming back to a job.
So I looked on his website before I left and he had made a little blog post saying

Speaker 3 we'll see her later. She's no longer working with us.

Speaker 3 We may see her around. Should we need a helping hand over the summer? And I said, Dad,

Speaker 3 I thought I was coming back to a job, but apparently not.

Speaker 1 And you've been replaced. You've been replaced.
Who have they replaced you with? Do you know the person they're replaced with?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I do. A family friend.
So can't be too salty with her, but just a little bit.

Speaker 1 What's her name?

Speaker 3 Laura.

Speaker 1 Laura. Gotcha.
So we've got to just essentially ring and assess whether she has more gusto than you and whether the replacement has been a good one for your phone. Yeah.

Speaker 1 If when we do this customer service check, if she comes back with a good rating,

Speaker 1 will you just go, okay, it's, you know, the business is in safe hands or does she need to like shoot the lights out here?

Speaker 3 I prefer her to be amazing,

Speaker 3 but I'll forgive if it's okay.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay. Okay.
All right. Well, we obviously always judge someone on their greeting, how they

Speaker 1 greet you on the phone. Then, Haim, you'll have to ask a question.
It's how helpful they are. What type of question do you want to do? Do you want to ask whether they're like what's there?

Speaker 1 Yeah, or do you guys like, you know, should I come in and get a test? Or

Speaker 1 what's your best frame?

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 What's your most popular frame? Is that a good one? What else would someone ask you, Mila? Well, I like, should I come in and get a test here?

Speaker 3 Well, like, yeah, why should I come to Simon? Because he's the only one there.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Great.

Speaker 1 And what about I have a round head? What kind of frame would suit me? Yeah, that's the kind of thing she would handle.

Speaker 3 I think she should know that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, great.

Speaker 1 You do have a round head.

Speaker 1 I'm not too round, but I'm happy to play along.

Speaker 1 And then the goodbye. Okay, Jack, you and I and Haim will be all going through our scores straight after the call.

Speaker 1 Mila, we're going to put you on hold, but you'll be out of here.

Speaker 1 Haem, you've got everything you need. We're going with how are you?

Speaker 1 Do you do eye tests there? Because my vision's finding it hard to read small print. Yeah, why should I come in to see Simon? Then why should I come and see Simon? And then I have a round head.

Speaker 1 What's the best kind of frame for me?

Speaker 1 And then, okay, and think about coming in this afternoon. Great.
Okay, here we go.

Speaker 3 Simon Clark, optometrist, Laura speaking.

Speaker 1 Oh, good afternoon. My name is Tomo.
How are you going?

Speaker 3 Thank you. What can I do for you?

Speaker 1 I'm having a bit of trouble reading small print and I was wondering if I should come and get my eyes checked.

Speaker 3 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 So at the moment, our optometrist is currently away on holidays. He won't be back until next Wednesday.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 So we'd have to book you in for after that.

Speaker 1 That's fine.

Speaker 1 Just weighing up the difference between a few optometrists, why should I come and see Simon?

Speaker 3 It's a very like

Speaker 3 connected practice because it is a private practice.

Speaker 3 So he really knows everybody individually and he puts a lot of effort into everyone individually because he's only seeing, like he's seeing everyone, it's only him here.

Speaker 3 We're a very small team, so it's very like connected. Yeah, and it's a very good environment and he's very

Speaker 3 like suggested by a lot of doctors and things for people to come and see him. We get a lot of referrals here.

Speaker 1 Well, I like the sounds of that.

Speaker 1 I have quite a round head. What frame would you suggest for a rounder head?

Speaker 3 Oh, it really depends on what you like. Like we've got lots of different ones.

Speaker 3 A lot of time people go with more squarer frame,

Speaker 3 I noticed, because it kind of like is the opposite, I guess.

Speaker 1 Yeah, round head, square frame.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it really just depends what feels good on you, but we've got so many options. So appreciate it.
There's no stress there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, well, you've been very helpful. How long have you worked there?

Speaker 3 Only about a couple of months since June, I think.

Speaker 1 Enjoying your time?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I am. It is really good.

Speaker 1 Oh, great. Okay.
Well, I'll have a think about it. I might call you back and make a booking for next week.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no stress. We'll see you then.

Speaker 1 Good on you. Bye.

Speaker 1 Well done, Haim. Pretty good.
Well done. Gee, it's interesting, isn't it? It's interesting as we go through the scores because you don't want too much gust over an octometrist.

Speaker 1 It could verge on, you know, something's up. You've got to come in.
You've just got to come. We've got to fix those eyes of yours.

Speaker 1 We could put you on the back foot. Let's start with greeting.
What score did you give for greeting, Jack? I only gave a six out of 10. I felt she warmed up after that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Mila, how do you feel about her greeting?

Speaker 1 Jack and I have both given a six. Haim, are you in that kind of realm? Six? Yeah, it's tough.
I mean,

Speaker 1 I was too busy on court returning the serve. I wasn't thinking about what was going on too much.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I remember at the start feeling like we had to work a bit harder to get a bit of a rapport going. Mila, were you happy with the greeting?

Speaker 3 I was worried at the start, but I think she did improve.

Speaker 1 Would you say you greet better? Like if we were going through certain quarters of the call, the first quarter you would have Laura covered?

Speaker 3 Oh, I definitely.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 1 Then, Haim, it was the why should I come in and see Simon. I gave a nine.
Yeah, I gave an eight out of a ten, but could have given a nine. She really improved.
The detail was huge.

Speaker 1 The only points I fight have is felt like we, you know, almost went over the same ground, but she sold it well. What did you think, Neela?

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, I think she was okay. Hit all the Bob.

Speaker 1 Just thank you. So what do you think? What would you give it out? Replace Haim's column here with yours.
What would you give her out of 10 then for the why come and see Simon, your dad?

Speaker 3 She can get an eight, maybe.

Speaker 1 Okay, yep.

Speaker 1 I like the part where she said he's highly respected by a lot of doctors.

Speaker 3 that sounds like a high gusto optometrist yep oh totally he's got a lot of gusto himself as well too bad he's not there for you to check in okay

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 holidays too he might get replaced via blog post

Speaker 1 round head discussion

Speaker 1 round head discussion um jack would you go in i gave it seven out of ten really

Speaker 1 I thought it was a nine.

Speaker 1 I felt she was polite. I don't think she really shed too much information on your

Speaker 1 it's a pretty tough question for someone to go i'm a bit i'm a round head what frame would i get it'd be wild if she said i know exactly the frame for you and i won't take no for an answer i was surprised she went specific and said i think i'd put you in a bit more of a square miela that makes sense because my brother has a round head and he has square glasses

Speaker 3 um i wouldn't have known how to answer that question so i think she did great yeah would you what are you saying nine eight seven yeah probably

Speaker 1 eight or nine okay now i put the bid at the end in sort of for you mila and i was you know the do you like working there how long has it been hoping that she didn't like it i would like to get your job back i thought she might have said you know i was like is it too obvious if i go i've i came in a few months ago and i saw a different girl there and she seemed lovely who was that like i didn't want to go too far down there but did you feel like it sounded like she was enjoying her job I think she sounded quite at peace, but she's stolen my job.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Jack, what did you give her for the goodbye? I gave her an eight out of 10 for the goodbye. Seven for me.
Just,

Speaker 1 it didn't flow perfectly.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I thought it could have been a look forward to seeing you there. A little bit more like, yeah, we can't wait to get it.
But

Speaker 1 he hadn't booked. I know, but you can see that.
Well, that's it. When you dial it up to 10, if someone's saying, I'll think about calling back, you say, well, we really look forward to talking.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, okay. Because I think you're going to be very happy with Simon Clark.

Speaker 1 Is that what you would have done, Mila? Mila?

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, I would have really tried to entice them back for sure.

Speaker 1 Or would you like to give Laura out of 10 for that then?

Speaker 3 I think she can get a six at the end.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, that's interesting. That's really interesting.
Okay, Ando, you've got the spreadsheet. I've got the scores.

Speaker 1 She's got a 30.

Speaker 1 I averaged all our scores across the pack, so she's got a 30 out of a possible 40. So 75.
Oh,

Speaker 1 that's big. Yeah.
I think that's pretty good. That is possible.
That's not blown the roof off, but that is, I think we'd have to say that is good, Gusta.

Speaker 3 I won't come and steal her job back. I think she deserves it.

Speaker 1 Are you happy to accept the ruling, Mila?

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's what I feel in my heart.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Thank you very much.
Taking it well. And just as a sign-off, imagine you were, if it's okay if this is not true, traumatic, but imagine you were back at the shop.

Speaker 1 Can you take us out by how you would tell a customer that's maybe going to make a booking, how you'd sign off to them?

Speaker 3 I Dave. Well, we're so excited to hear from you.
Just give us a call when you can. See y'all.

Speaker 1 10 out of 10. Yeah, 10 out of 10.
That's a tune. You're going to be an asset to wherever you go next.

Speaker 1 Thanks, Miela.

Speaker 3 See you, guys.

Speaker 1 Sitting around with my mates at the pub, and the question came up. How many contacts do you have in your phone?

Speaker 1 So just, if you go to your phones, guys, I just want to see.

Speaker 1 I'm good at clearing out really non-existent. Yeah, things I don't use.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 I've got so many. Like, I could just randomly go to any letter.

Speaker 1 I've got thousands. I mean, I've just got, but I've

Speaker 1 just,

Speaker 1 but does it say? Yeah, go to the very bottom of your contacts list. Or if you just go back to lists within contacts, it'll tell you all of them.

Speaker 1 1,102. 1,102.
No.

Speaker 1 So many more.

Speaker 1 I just saw a guy who we hired as a person, who's the personal trainer that helped me when I was trying to lose weight after we stole a suit from Channel 7 in 2007.

Speaker 1 So I could fit into the suit. So, sorry.

Speaker 1 Not that many. 1,687.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I've got 2,866. Yep.
You're always picking up. details though.
My mate Ross, when we're going around, he's a bit of a no-fuss guy. Ross, because he'd have like 300.
168. Wow.
That's minimal.

Speaker 1 And then we were like, whoa, everyone was in the thousands, like between 1,000 and 3,000. Obviously, some people are real estate agents and stuff, and they've got piece more.

Speaker 1 That doesn't surprise me for Ross. Monk-like.

Speaker 1 That's kind of the modern-day monk where it's sort of like back in the days, a monk might only speak to one person. I think the modern day equivalent is less than 200.
So we're in shock.

Speaker 1 We're going, Pezza, that's incredible. He goes, I could get it down to 30 before the end of the night.
night.

Speaker 1 He could, he could. So it sent us into Uber.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And we wanted to establish how many trips and how many Uber eats we've got.
So I sent you guys the instructions to go into Uber. Yep.

Speaker 1 There's a way you can get into your privacy settings and get a summary. I've never seen this before, but you can get your data as an Uber user to see.

Speaker 1 I won't give you any of those. I won't give you the stats yet, but I've been with Uber for 4,647 days 4651 days i must have told you probably told me about it

Speaker 1 i was like i was like i don't think this is going to last oh is that do we have that in australia no use it i used it the other night it'd probably flame out

Speaker 1 jacko how long have you been with 4175 days so you might have to keep that in your back pocket later why didn't you tell me no because it costs money and you'll be like oh i'll uber with you guys

Speaker 1 okay what's your rating?

Speaker 1 What's your ride rating? I mean, Anakay, who do you think's got the highest out of the three? I think you've got the highest, Andy. Yep, because you've instigated the game.
4.86 for me. Jacko? 4.71.

Speaker 1 4.83. Hamish gets the win.

Speaker 1 What are you doing to get someone?

Speaker 1 I'm a delight. I'm just a delight.
And you massage your guys. You drive.
I'm just interested. Interested in their life.

Speaker 1 But if they want no conversation, I respect that.

Speaker 1 That's not their choice. That's usually the brightest choice.
So, Jack, what do you think you're doing so wrong? I think I cancel a bit to get

Speaker 1 a better time. Right.

Speaker 1 Which is, I think I always frowned upon. I don't think you get rated on.
I don't think they can find you to rate you on that. I think it's only on the trips.

Speaker 1 So you're doing something during the trip they're not loving, mate.

Speaker 1 But only by 0.1 of a difference. It's a big difference.

Speaker 1 That is a lot. I mean, 4.7 is close to being banned.
You get kicked off at 4.5. Do you really? Yeah.
So you're over halfway.

Speaker 1 So I'm closer definitely to being kicked off than staying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's weird. The Uber rating system is not like, say, comedy festival shows.
No.

Speaker 1 Like, it's not like, well, you're out of the festival if you get less than four and a half stars.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's move down to how many trips you've taken, Ham.

Speaker 1 I have taken 615 trips. I'd say low to medium amount.
Not crazy. 211.
1,042. Wow.

Speaker 1 So, I mean, maybe a bigger sample size for you, Jack, will help out your rating. Yeah.
Yeah. The more I ride, the more

Speaker 1 if you just focus this summer on taking 100 perfect trips, you can, you can get that rating up.

Speaker 1 How many Uber Eats orders? This is where I think, hey, if you were to guess, Jacko, you'd say, Haim will win this one, do you? I would think so.

Speaker 1 I don't know because you've got to remember half the time Zoe would be ordering it. Oh, okay.
Yeah. Okay.
Interesting. So I'm only 198.
Wow. Okay.
273. 142.

Speaker 1 And even that shocks me. That's hot.
That feels high. 198 feels low for me, but I, but I reckon Zoe kind of leaked because it's always on her phone, because I don't care.
Yes.

Speaker 1 She's and also she needs to see it on the screen. Yep.
Like if I was like, all right, I'm getting a burrito and if she's throwing words at me and I go, yep, got it. She doesn't trust it.

Speaker 1 She's like, nah, need to see it. Like, okay, we'll just do it on your phone.
Because I, when I say to you, I'll have a burrito, I trust that you've written that down.

Speaker 1 But she doesn't, she just not trusts that I've written mine now. I reckon hers would be in the four or five hundreds.

Speaker 1 So as we went around the room, we got to Ross, we got to Pezza, who, as a reminder, had 161

Speaker 1 contacts.

Speaker 1 Once. He's all to do burrito.

Speaker 1 Once. Once.
Ando, as former Uber Eats ambassadors, guys that did the ad, I hope you found out why he had such a bad experience.

Speaker 1 i mean that is a guy that was like i'm not doing this again i think he did it once to support us

Speaker 1 during the campaign just to show a bump of hamish andy and layton hewitt that is a powerful powerful ad and it's convinced me what did he get

Speaker 1 and why did what how could you possibly have an experience with delivery food and go no i prefer to drive to the shops

Speaker 1 I don't know how you could not enjoy, and I'm not, this is not, this is, this would go for all delivery services. And I'm not saying Uber Eats is special here, but how could you go?

Speaker 1 I prefer the old system of calling up the fish and chip shop, going down and waiting for it.

Speaker 1 Scroll down a bit and you can also click on that ratings and I can see the breakdown of five stars, four stars, three stars.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I can see it now. So I've had 186 five-star reviews, but I've had six one-star reviews.

Speaker 1 I would love to know. It should put an option so you know what you did wrong.
Follow up this driver. It should charge you a fee because they don't want to talk to you again, Jack.

Speaker 1 You're their worst customer they've ever had.

Speaker 1 No, no but i want to hear their feedback what did i do wrong no but you should have to pay a fee like a ten dollar fee you know what i mean for them to go okay i'll i'll talk to him what about how are you going ando for the one stars nine nine i'm seven yeah what fascinates me is two two star reviews for me i have four two stars

Speaker 1 but a two-star review is so interesting because you just think they should all be ones and fives maybe a four in there but to go two

Speaker 1 so he was a jerk but there was one redeeming moment one redeeming moment to bump me up to a two but i've met bigger jerks

Speaker 1 from the other week what it should be divided into is time of day for the ride because i just wonder whether your one stars are coming post midnight like you're so you're sloppy yeah or Because no, I reckon, I also think there should be, you should be in the driver's, and sorry, in the passenger's favor,

Speaker 1 it should go, how long has the driver been driving? If the driver's been driving for more than 10 hours that day, a one-star review shouldn't count because then I think they're the cranky one.

Speaker 1 They're the cranky one. And now you're dragging me down because you're having a bad day.

Speaker 1 Hey, man, exciting announcement for us.

Speaker 1 Huge loophole we've managed to find in the government-mandated break is that we are allowed to release another podcast as long as it's not weekly and it's fully pre-recorded.

Speaker 1 And it's not on the main channel. That's the big one.
The government mandated break really,

Speaker 1 when we're flipping, you know, there's thousands of code, pages of like text in the government's ruling, but we're sort of deep into this ruling. We're like, wait a second, what's this? main channel.

Speaker 1 So you're telling us if we started up a side channel of Hamish and Andy, we could get away with publishing a limited amount of stuff over the mandated break. break.

Speaker 1 And our lawyers tell us, yes, we can. There's just a lot of nodding before some whooping and excitement.
So we've started Hamish and Andy Plus Plus why plus plus?

Speaker 1 Just because it seemed like, you know, they've got Disney Plus, Apple Plus, and we're like, everyone's doing plus. Could we be one plus better?

Speaker 1 So it turns out we can.

Speaker 1 But to make it even more exciting, the way it's written is Hamish and Andy, then P-L-U-S,

Speaker 1 then the symbol. Then the symbol.
So it's both. So it's both.
We've got all bases covered. Hamish Nandy ⁇ is launching.

Speaker 1 Anything that's not the main Hamish Nandy podcast, we'll put up there over the ride.

Speaker 1 The Remembering Project will be there, but this new show we're doing called Quizmas with Hamish Sandy is going to be coming out on December 11th, Thursday after we finish the main pod and the government mandated break kicks in.

Speaker 1 Hey, we're excited about Quizmas because you and I are going to play together. We're going to be on the same team

Speaker 1 and people can listen along to our quiz and see if they can beat us in their cars, whether on road trips or in the summer sun. Quizzes are exploding at the moment.
Ando and I privately do a lot.

Speaker 1 We're like, we spend a lot of time doing quizzes and sending each other scores and whatnot. So, do we bring this into the main arena? Well, not the main arena, Plus Plus.

Speaker 1 Do we bring this into Plus Plus? Yes. And invent something.
Yeah, whereas Ando says, you can play along with us. So it's part quiz, but part, see if you can beat Hamish and Andy.

Speaker 1 It all will be explained once you start listening to episodes of Quizmus. But since we're on the same team and Jack is flat out,

Speaker 1 he can't can't be part of it, too busy, we needed a quiz master. And I was like, you know what?

Speaker 1 There's someone, there's someone in our life that not only does a lot of pub trivia and is the triviest person we know, but has what I think is one of the great, shows a history of trivia, not just trivia, but shows a history of a trivia loophole that

Speaker 1 I wanted to get him up to describe today. He's featured on the show in various forms over the year, be it not receiving a jumper or in many other ways.

Speaker 1 magic mike not a stripper how are you mike he joins us now gusto to you gusto to you boys ready to quiz yes um

Speaker 1 haim tells me though there was something you wanted to absolve yourself of i was like you've you're the perfect choice for this mate because i remember you telling me this story having a long time what year did your trivia scam take place this dates back to 2012.

Speaker 4 2012.

Speaker 1 You had a trivia scam?

Speaker 1 Were you a magician then or pre-magician?

Speaker 4 I was. Yeah, I was magicianing.
I was probably in the early stages of like not really doing it for a job.

Speaker 1 Magic Curious.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so was it at a pub? Was it at a pub trivia, your scam?

Speaker 4 No, it was, it was radio trivia. So I feel

Speaker 4 like I'm telling you guys the radio secrets here of how often on.

Speaker 1 13 years ago, I say, Mike's never talked about this, but I go, mate, there's Statute of Limitations. You're not going to get in trouble.

Speaker 1 It was like the Canberra Radio. What was the station?

Speaker 4 106.3.

Speaker 1 106.3. It was their breakfast quiz.
And it was that thing where a lot of breakfast shows do this. They go like 10 questions in a minute.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So I'll tell you how I went down, right? I'm driving.
I'm driving and I park, I get to the doctor's office like 10 minutes early, which is very rare for me.

Speaker 4 And I hear a turn on the radio and it goes, 13, 10, 60, some number, call now. It's your chance to win.
I take a second. I go, why not? I call it and I get on.

Speaker 4 And they ask you 10 questions within a minute. You can pass if you want and you get $10 per correct answer.
But if you get all 10,000.

Speaker 1 So that's the huge big win.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 4 I got four. I didn't do that well.
And then there was a double or nothing question, which I think I luckily got. So I went with 80 bucks.
I go home, housemates got five other guys I'm living with.

Speaker 4 I go, guys, let's go on the radio this morning. It wasn't that hard.
I reckon we could try to do this as a team loudspeaker. Let's see if we can get all 10.
The next, so that was a Friday.

Speaker 4 on Monday same thing I call up

Speaker 4 and I get on again and they go the producer says have you played this month and I went oh yeah I think I might have and they check the database oh you played on Friday that's right yeah it was Friday

Speaker 4 and they go you're not meant to play more than once a month but we'll allow it because they probably saw that I got four questions right and was no threat but at this point loudspeaker and we do it as a team of five guys and we get about seven or eight rights we get a bit better.

Speaker 4 But the whole time my phone was vibrating because my brother was listening and he was texting through all the answers.

Speaker 4 So then the next time we go, all right, let's have my brother in one ear, loudspeak with all my housemates and see if we can do it. And we got nine out of ten, kept getting nine, got to work.

Speaker 4 And it got so common that my boss and my work would say, How'd you go this morning on the trivia? I went, nah, I got nine again.

Speaker 1 How are you getting through every time?

Speaker 1 Did you using different names? They would have had your phone number.

Speaker 4 So we had to go get SIM cards and have

Speaker 4 our, like, I had these plastic sleeves that looked like a drug dealer in the house with separate SIM cards and a piece of paper with that phone number on it.

Speaker 1 But the funny thing happened.

Speaker 4 I'd go into my office. Boss is like, how'd you go this morning? I go, man, I got nine out of 10 again.
Some question about the Russian royal family in the 1920s. Like, what city were they murdered?

Speaker 4 Who knows that? Half an hour later, I get back from lunch. On my desk is a magazine highlighted, trivia magazine, highlighted question 12.
What city with a Russian family murdered?

Speaker 4 I'm like, oh my god, that's exactly it. I look through all of them.
All these questions are all the really hard ones.

Speaker 4 They must get easy ones from wherever, but then all the really hard ones are from this magazine. What's the magazine? The Qantas in Flight magazine.

Speaker 4 And that was monthly back then.

Speaker 4 And I realized that on the 31st of August, you could go on to Qantas.com and log in and you could get the next month's magazine online.

Speaker 4 So then we had access to all the answers, all the questions that they were probably going to use for like the really hard ones.

Speaker 4 So we ended up then getting on and they were just firing all these ridiculous ones at us and we were nailing them. Like one time

Speaker 4 they actually said the question wrong, but I knew the answer. Like I knew what they meant and very much

Speaker 1 the answer, right?

Speaker 1 So how many times did you win the thousand?

Speaker 4 Several times. And this is when we're a uni student.
So a thousand bucks then, like a 22-year-old.

Speaker 1 Huge.

Speaker 4 And then the funny thing is that the two radio hosts, during that time, I like knew them. Like I never, I never told them that I was doing it.

Speaker 4 But then we actually happened to, by chance, work together. I was doing magic at this event and they were there and I ended up becoming friends with them.

Speaker 4 One of them ended up being my celebrant in my wedding a few months ago.

Speaker 1 Our calculations was at the Rod and Bigsy show that you started doing this on.

Speaker 4 That's exactly right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. And did you ever tell either of them?

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 1 So Bigsy doesn't know.

Speaker 4 Bigsy doesn't know. Rod doesn't know.
No, none of them. Hey, mate.

Speaker 1 Well, we thought it was about time to. Oh.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, if you're going to be the host, we've got to get this clear the air. Surely you've lived with the burden of this secret for too long.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's probably one of the great radio heists in history. Yes.
But I think all as Jack, what's the statute of limitations for gaining money by deception?

Speaker 1 You would have looked into it thoroughly, wouldn't you?

Speaker 1 It's about eight years or something, isn't it?

Speaker 1 I mean, if it's 12 years, what is it? 13 years, I think you should be fine.

Speaker 1 Joining us now, Magic Mike, it's Bigsy. Bigsy, you're there.
So good.

Speaker 5 I am here. Hello.
How are you, boys?

Speaker 1 Bigsy, really good, mate.

Speaker 1 Did you know that this was happening? Do you remember this amazing golden streak of people winning the quiz?

Speaker 5 I do remember the quiz. Of course, it's the bread and butter of any, you know, radio show.

Speaker 5 The deception runs deep and it cuts real bad.

Speaker 5 I also just think credit where credit's due, the fact that I had no idea is amazing.

Speaker 5 But obviously, and like you've gained the game, which is incredible, Magic Mike, because it's luck to be able to get through to be the right caller.

Speaker 5 I don't know about the Qantas magazine, though. I think that might be a bit of a coincidence, but like also

Speaker 4 100%, I can tell you.

Speaker 5 Well, okay, well, I'm not going to take responsibility for that because that's a producer, so I'll throw them under the bus.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we all know. I mean, yeah, everyone in here that works in radio is like,

Speaker 1 if I was a producer, the first thing I'd do is be like, oh, man, no one's looking at the corner span.

Speaker 1 They're pretty up to it.

Speaker 1 100%.

Speaker 5 I'm furious because I wasn't in on it. Clearing out our promotional budget.
I probably lost my job over that.

Speaker 1 So it's your fault, Mike.

Speaker 1 We budgeted for it to go off once in a year. It's a well-thought-out scam.
And I was like, I mean, anyone wanting to emulate it, you wish them luck. You wish them luck.

Speaker 4 that's that is the game and we i mean thanks bigsy it's does it feel good to have it off your chest mike i feel great your shoulders are back i i didn't know didn't know this was happening on this call that's so funny good to hear your voice i feel like i'm hearing biggie's voice and ready to google something

Speaker 1 he's about to yell out luxembourg

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 thanks biggie thanks mike we look forward to doing quizzes with you we needed you to air that we can't have a corrupt quiz master so don't you think exactly the kind of trickery and that's the kind of of evil mind we want running our quiz.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. And he'll be alive to our tricks.

Speaker 1 Hamish Andy ⁇

Speaker 1 and Quizmas is launching on the 11th of December, the week after we finish. So yeah, look out for it.
Thanks, Mikey.

Speaker 4 Cheers.

Speaker 1 I don't know about you guys, but do you ever, I mean, as children of the 90s, we grew up in the 90s, we were born in the 80s, but you know, your peak TV years were the 90s. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 And as TV was in its like absolute heyday, late 90s, early thousands, free-to-air TV, just dominating.

Speaker 1 Do you ever look back at the shows that were like pivotal in our childhood and just go, what? Like you can go from being the biggest star and then you just never hear of them again. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like some of these people, a big one for us at the moment, a big one that I've been thinking about is on our TV, when you switch it on, one of the channels on the TV before you like connect to the HDMI or whatever, one of the channels is

Speaker 1 just 24 hours a day the nanny with

Speaker 1 friends plays the nanny over and over and over again and the kids have come to love that i loved the nanny mate it holds up i see the writing's great friends unbelievable yeah here's a few things you come back to as someone now that's like in their 40s watching something they watched a lot when they were like 13 or 14 or 15.

Speaker 1 number one we thought see maybe you thought cece who was Mr.

Speaker 1 Sheffield's, you know, yeah, the people that don't know the show, I know we're going into the weeds here a bit, but we thought she was this old, annoying, like, oh, she's so old, she's a witch.

Speaker 1 She's just like a young, like, she's a babe, she's a young, faithful woman. But to a 13-year-old, you're like, oh, God, Cece, get out of here.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 Because the kids in the show were often getting annoyed with Cece, and we related to the kids. That's it.
I guess so.

Speaker 1 Zoe loves watching the nanny because, unbeknownst to me, like, all her outfits were like unbelievable. Right.

Speaker 1 So the nanny or Cece's? No, the nanny. Cece just had power suits and stuff on and was she, she, the wardrobe department didn't do her any favours.

Speaker 1 But because I've been watching a ton of the nanny over the last few weeks, it really has swept the house. Like to the point where like, you know, the kids get half an hour of screen time.

Speaker 1 My daughter will usually choose the nanny. Wow.
And it's in 4-3 on the TV. Like, it's not even one 2-2.

Speaker 1 My dream of showing the kids Seinfeld has had to has stutter-started because I was like guys maybe you're old enough maybe you guys are old enough to watch Seinfeld

Speaker 1 I would have been that age watching Seinfeld

Speaker 1 at the time like you know my son's 11 and it's not going to hold the same impact as the next well

Speaker 1 I and I unfortunately I was like we can't start season one because it no you have to be a fan yeah I went straight to season three and I went to the episode where Jerry and George have to have dinner with Elaine's dad and he has the suede jacket that has to turn inside out.

Speaker 1 That is it. I love that episode because it's like candy stripes on the inside.
And then the dad's like, you're not wearing that in the rain with me. And he ruins his sway jacket.

Speaker 1 Now, it's a slow burn of an episode. And I will forgive the children for this, but they uttered the words to me, this is boring.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, I'm obviously not grounding you for that. Like, I can't kick you out of the house with that, but you've done a bad thing.

Speaker 1 But I hear you. And they're like, can we watch the nanny?

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 And look, the nanny's faster paced. I get it.

Speaker 1 Faster paced. Also, there's more adult themes in Seinfeld.
He's trying to pick up chicks and do all those type of things.

Speaker 1 The nanny does a lot of us. It looks like the nanny was kid-friendly, essentially.
I think the nanny played more closer to Full House than Seinfeld was.

Speaker 1 Take it from someone that's watched 50 episodes recently.

Speaker 1 There was some risque stuff from Fran in there. But it was, we probably just didn't pick up on it at the time.
I'm not going to say all of it held up.

Speaker 1 Like, I think it would be problematic these days to have someone in Mr. Sheffield's position

Speaker 1 making the kind of comments he's making. Yes.
But by and large, look, it holds.

Speaker 1 But the interesting thing is I'm sitting there watching it. And you're like, at the time, this was a global hit, right? Like late 90s.
I'm like, what has Mr. Sheffield done after that?

Speaker 1 He went from being Mr. Sheffield on the nanny, like killing it.

Speaker 1 And then he disappeared. And so I did a bit of research and I did ask Chat GBD.
I said, listen. Who's the actor that played Mr.
Sheffield? What did he do after the nanny?

Speaker 1 And is he okay financially like is it because again i just have this thing where i worry you you burn so bright and then did life get tough yeah and you faded away or something bad happened to him here's the what we know chat chipd couldn't give me an answer for his actual financials but he did 145 episodes of the nanny he's fine yeah well i mean andy that's like i know but maybe you're having a fast life at that time yeah and don't you get kickbacks from like syndication Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fortunately, he did 100 because Fran Fran Drescher invented the nanny, so she's fine. She's a creator.

Speaker 1 She's looked after. If I'm watching it, like if someone in Australia is watching 50 episodes, like that's happening all over the world, she's probably getting 20 cents every time we watch an episode.

Speaker 1 Our house is easily keeping the lights on at Fran's house. But it's rumored or it's understood that he did get residuals.
He does get, he got a, he got a cut.

Speaker 1 So he gets a worldwide cut of the syndicated stuff. So, because he's only had a few little roles after some stage, a little bit of voiceover.

Speaker 1 Lauren Audrey SVU.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wait,

Speaker 1 as a criminal?

Speaker 1 Victim? He might have been the lawyer. Yeah.
Like a possible order.

Speaker 1 He was on Days of Our Lives.

Speaker 1 He was the nanny. He wasn't a victim.

Speaker 1 Okay, no, he was, so he was an honorable role. He wouldn't have signed up to be a dirtbag because that's bad for his image.
Right, he could have been.

Speaker 1 I mean, he might have been trying to change it after the nanny. He might have been trying to...

Speaker 1 Like, the type of people you see on law and order's view is hilarious like will arnett is is is he's got like a child internet ring that he shouldn't be

Speaker 1 really he's the banker he's the banker like before he's will arnette like you go through and there's all these amazing famous actors that go on to do stuff and they're they're doing played roles as like the worst kind of villains the worst type of yeah

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I guess. I mean, I'll go back and say, I'll take that episode down now.
Please take the episode where I'm a child predator.

Speaker 1 I didn't know i would then become involved in the lego movie i that's what i that's the kind of stuff i do yeah i guess i guess this raises the question like andy i've got the nanny covered you've got law and order svu covered so we're both like heavily got the late 90s early thousands like we've got drama and comedy covered what are you watching jack we need you to get onto a show yeah so you can keep tabs on the 90s sadly i've tried to show bianca both the simpsons and seinfeld because she didn't grow up watching either of them she didn't get into the Simpsons?

Speaker 1 No. And it just didn't land how I thought it would.
What episode did you?

Speaker 1 Because when we started Simpsons Sunday, which we also do in our house, which still holds after four or five years, we started with Monorail.

Speaker 1 I started with the Lemon Tree episode, which is a strong episode. That's a strong episode.
But it's not, when you watch The Simpsons back, it's not like laugh out loud, funny.

Speaker 1 And I was kind of turned towards her waiting for her reaction. You did one of those things where you put a show on, but you face the porcelain, not the porcelain.
I think I put too much pressure on.

Speaker 1 The second time you pause and rewind, I go, yeah, so please stop asking me questions because you are missing.

Speaker 1 You're missing. So you're not going to be able to.

Speaker 1 Don't check your phone.

Speaker 1 He says do a lot, but if you don't watch, you're not going to hear him say do.

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