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S4: Oh, I hope you two albums or songs?
S3: Ahoy to me 360.
S4: Jack. Oh, are we tricks? No, I'm well, hang on,
S4: we're x-boxes. We're Xboxes. Hey. Yes, cause I did feel
S4: like a yes. What? What one are you into?
S3: I'm series X.
S4: Is that the new one? The latest iteration? Of course.
S4: Just how the cards fell this time around. That's the
S4: way the cookie crumbles. I do think when it was
S4: a competition between the one and the 360 unlikely to
S4: be skateboard tricks. 360, of course. Very impressive trick. A
S4: one hard to detect one.
S3: Yeah, one degree movement.
S4: One. One degree movement is, uh, it's not a showstopper.
S4: At the X games, one might have even been a two.
S3: A low point scorer on Tony Hawks.
S4: Love it. Love you to Just Keep Going. The other
S4: 359 degrees if you think you can get him.
S3: Uh, ahoy! Also to Freya and Jose in Bosnia who
S3: are telling us what they've been up to it. Hamish
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S3: Well done guys.
S4: Thank you guys. Endurance athletes.
S1: Ahoy! Hamish and Andy and the number six. Freya and
S1: Josie here. Just on our very own Euro gap here
S1: at the moment we're in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, currently
S1: watching the Red bull Cliff Diving Championships, which we were
S1: watching you guys up there competing, you'd be a shoo in. Cheers.
S1: Cheers guys.
S4: A bit of context for people. We have jumped. We
S4: have been to that town. There's a very there's a bridge,
S4: an old stone bridge. It's about 25m off the above
S4: the river. Yeah. That we did jump from that bridge. Yes. Wow.
S4: Never do it again. Couldn't actually think of a more
S4: accurate analogy between a 360 and a one. Like what
S4: the what the Red bull guys are doing is the
S4: equivalent of a 361, and 19 is a one. Those
S4: guys are diving off fearless, like doing flips and stuff.
S4: We stepped off into the abyss. I was convinced I
S4: was going to die. Yeah, we both got.
S3: Whiplash, couldn't move our necks for a day and a half, and, uh.
S3: And hame uh, half your quite thick wetsuit ended up
S3: your bum.
S4: Up my bum with half the river.
S3: With half the river.
S4: The river was about 25m from. Yeah, the bridge. And
S4: after a lot of it went up, my bum was
S4: about 30m from the bridge, like it dropped. Dropped the
S4: volume of the river quite significantly. You could see some fish,
S4: some old wrecks from 1600s like really drained the like
S4: it got.
S3: Us pretty.
S4: Bad. Got us good. Yeah. Good.
S3: Bruised every vertebrae in my back. Do not recommend. I
S3: saw footage of the Red bull, uh, jumpers, though, and
S3: they get something that you didn't where they break the
S3: water with. They spray the water underneath the jump. Oh.
S4: Yeah, that's true, that's true.
S3: I think what you did was pray for.
S4: I think you.
S3: Jack, make it less painful than hitting a wall at
S3: 80 KS an hour.
S4: We need. There needs to be like because Red bull
S4: owned the extreme sports. There needs to be like another
S4: drink brand, like I'm thinking Bonox, which is the beef drink,
S4: which is like what you take on camping in like U9.
S4: And you make this the warm, soothing mug of Bonox.
S4: There needs to be like the unskilled extreme athletes at
S4: that end. Like we could be in the bonox scared
S4: man cliff falling competition or like, you know, here's here's a,
S4: here's a 45 year old dad and he's never been
S4: hasn't been on a mountain bike since he was 12.
S4: He's going to have a go at going down this trail.
S4: So creaky, squeaking brakes, shitting himself, white knuckles.
S3: I'd watch that.
S4: Terrified middle aged people.
S3: People. Olympics. Um. Ehm. I thought I'd had a special
S3: guest start off today's show.
S4: Oh, no.
S3: Unfortunately, I don't fallen through.
S4: That's all right. We try our best on this show.
S4: We move on.
S3: Um. Back story a couple of weeks back. My house,
S3: my apartment, I just. Bec and I just moved house
S3: into an apartment. It got completely flooded.
S4: The, uh. Yeah.
S3: Yeah, I put it a brutal flooding saw.
S4: It was violent flooding. Yeah. It's like a very small
S4: version of, um, Splash Mountain at Disneyland.
S3: I, um, was in Sydney while, um, it was happening
S3: in Melbourne, so it was a good day for me.
S3: Got wind of it.
S4: Saw the saw the initial wet patches on the plaster
S4: and went. Might get out of here.
S3: So what had happened was the fire safety guys came
S3: round to do what they calls a pressure test. And
S3: there's hydrants or pipes at every single level. And if
S3: they were to have to run a water up from
S3: ground level to one of their pipes, they need to
S3: make sure that they've got the right amount of pressure. Yep.
S4: To get right. Not where they say to you, you
S4: now have to make a croquembouche in one hour.
S3: No, a.
S4: Different kind of pressure test.
S3: Yes.
S4: Also hard.
S3: Yes. It appears they didn't check whether the pipes were
S3: capped at our level.
S5: Ah.
S4: And you need a cap for pressure.
S3: 1000l a second into our apartment.
S4: Thousand liters a second.
S3: That's what the guy said at the bottom. Now, whether
S3: that's possible, I don't know whether you.
S4: Thousand liters of sets a bath a second.
S3: That's what.
S4: I. That's more than like how how much would you
S4: say a bath is? About 1000l. It can't be.
S3: Even that would.
S4: It can't be even that. It's two baths a second.
S3: That's what the fellow said at the bottom. Wow. Now,
S3: whether he's right or not, it's a lot of water.
S3: It's a lot of water.
S6: So there are.
S3: Firefighters.
S6: On the top floor, say waiting for the pressure to come.
S6: And then it's just getting out at your floor.
S3: There's no one waiting. They fire it up and they realize, yep,
S3: it's hold that pressure and they stop. Yeah.
S4: So I think from memory from like year 12 science
S4: of pressure. Pressure at one ends, pressure at the other. Like,
S4: you know because of if it's the same diameter of pipe.
S4: But if it's capped you need a cap, you need
S4: something for the water to push against to create the pressure.
S4: Because the pressure in that pipe was, was, was nothing
S4: was getting out. So couldn't they.
S6: Tell straight away though? They turned the machine on and then.
S3: Well, the test normally takes yeah a few seconds because
S3: it goes flying up there really quickly.
S4: And you would assume the needle would like zoom straight
S4: into the red if it was capped and they'd be like, yep,
S4: that's good pressure. But the needle needle stayed low.
S3: So they're going.
S4: And then if it was you and I there, we'd
S4: be like just gutted a bit more. Because we can't
S4: leave till we see the needle go up. Just keep
S4: rubbing it there.
S3: See at the bottom going, what could possibly happen? Are
S3: we sending enough? Water up. Guys, give it a bit.
S3: Give it.
S4: Like. Really give it some. We want to see this
S4: needle fly. Really?
S3: Give it a bit. Bex in the house. Right.
S4: Oh, man.
S3: So sees reportedly 1000l of second coming under the doors. Right.
S3: Flying in. The dog doesn't know what's happening.
S4: Well, no, this is the new apartment now, guys. Yes,
S4: this will happen every day.
S3: Beck then starts trying to barricade it with towels, which
S3: is difficult because it's it's got quite a pressure. Not
S3: that the guys downstairs know that there's pressure there They're still.
S6: Going to send the needle to the top.
S3: The guys downstairs apparently reportedly see water coming out the
S3: side of the building in an area vent. That shouldn't happen.
S3: And they went, oh.
S4: I wonder if that's anything to do with us. Yes.
S3: So they shut it off. But the damage had been done. Yeah, it.
S4: You don't need too many seconds at that volume, do
S4: you know?
S3: So Beck's confused. Runs to the left. We're on the
S3: 12th floor. Lifts shorted out. Not not not working. Everything's
S3: full of water. She then gets on the group WhatsApp,
S3: which she's which she's on for all the other tenants
S3: and said, hey guys, I think we're flooding. I think
S3: we're flooding. They're like, oh, we can't see anything because
S3: it hadn't quite reached their level yet because it was
S3: getting redirected from our level because of Beck's barricade. It
S3: then starts going through every single apartment.
S4: That's true. The barricade does protect your house, but does
S4: kick the kick the problem somewhere else? Yes.
S3: So Beck's getting alerts almost in, like, reverse numerical order.
S6: 11.
S3: Oh, yeah, I'm seeing it now. Oh, yeah, I'm seeing it.
S4: Beautiful day down here on the first love and ground floor. Exactly.
S4: You sure you got the right building?
S3: Yeah. And if I was kind of a primary school
S3: and used to do stick racing, it would have been
S3: exciting to see.
S4: Oh, yeah, that's for sure.
S3: Um, but, yes, every single apartment has been affected. Um,
S3: SES came, taped it off, said not safe to be inside.
S3: And that was Bex Thursday while I was in zone.
S4: What were you doing in Sydney?
S3: Sunny Sydney at that time, I think having a burger
S3: and fries. Great. Hmm.
S4: That's a nice day. So can I ask who's the
S4: special guest then? Who are you going to get on?
S4: The guy. The pressure tester? Yeah. You were? Yeah. You
S4: wanted to hunt. You wanted.
S6: No wonder you didn't want to. Come on.
S4: I can't imagine, I can't imagine what the upside would
S4: have been for coming on the show. Tell us about
S4: some of the buildings that you haven't flooded. Well, things
S4: looked good. Things looked. He was happy to come on.
S3: Because he because Beck went downstairs. When she she got out,
S3: she had to go down the stairs to get out.
S3: And there's there was two guys a bit younger, quite
S3: sheepishly at the bottom, having realised what had happened. Oh, God.
S3: And they're like, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. And
S3: Beck's like, hey, it's not your fault. Like, because that's
S3: the kind of thing Beck says, yeah, yeah. And the
S3: guy quick, quick as you like goes, can you tell
S3: my manager that?
S4: Yeah. Why would you manager say he's in the opposite?
S4: Because I'm known as the cap guy. I'm meant to
S4: put the cap on usually when there's a big flooding situation.
S4: Have you had this yet? Because we've had this happen
S4: to our house, to the. It seems to be like
S4: not only is it like the, you know, the disaster
S4: of everything getting flooded, but someone always likes to talk
S4: about how cheap the part was that could have stopped
S4: it all. Like someone, as someone said to you, like,
S4: and you know what? Those caps are $0.50 like, because
S4: we had, you know, the little silver flexible what it's
S4: like woven steel, flexible pipe. It's sometimes the toilet behind
S4: the toilet. Yeah. We had one of those. It was
S4: just a too much of an angle like two kinked.
S4: And then in the, in the corner, like it just
S4: was too much pressure and it started squirting out because
S4: you can't see it. It was just going like for
S4: a while, for weeks and filled up the wall, like
S4: filled up the wall cavity, just like slowly over days, days, days,
S4: weeks like fills it all up with water until something
S4: gives way. And then there's like kaboom. Like water goes
S4: through the house. Every plumber, like every person wanted to
S4: tell you, mate, you know how much these are. Yes,
S4: I know, I understand. It's very, very cheap part because
S4: crazy Crazy thing. And then the next guy be there
S4: like some insurance person. Like crazy thing about this part.
S4: Guess how much this costs. Yep. No I know $0.80,
S4: $0.80 retail I get it.
S3: So it seemed like, um, the young apprentice was keen
S3: to come on and talk about what had happened. It
S3: was just upper management at this particular company, which I
S3: won't name. In fairness, um, has since gone on to
S3: us and said we don't find it funny. Um, we're
S3: not prepared to laugh about it, and we apologise for
S3: all the damage done to each department and all their belongings.
S4: It seems like a safe stance. Seems like a safe bet.
S3: When you said what you know. What are the reasons
S3: this person would love to. Come on. I feel our
S3: show embraces mistakes. I mean, it's the reason why, Jack,
S3: if we.
S4: And if you. And if you and I were those apprentices,
S4: I mean, yeah, there would have been a heap of
S4: finger pointing at the other guy, guys, but I can
S4: absolutely see that being our how we would have been
S4: on day one. Yeah. Oh yeah. And we would have
S4: given him a hat token of no value. Like, let's
S4: not forget the prize package for coming on the show
S4: that you could have got to.
S3: So if this if that person is listening, I would
S3: in future, not next year. We'll be over it by then,
S3: but the next few weeks. If you do want to
S3: come on and give us the insight of what was
S3: going through your brain when the needle wasn't hitting the
S3: red line and you were deciding just to give it
S3: a bit more, I'd love to hear that from the
S3: horse's mouth.
S4: Open invite.
S3: And people riding in and wanting to play. Tell us
S3: something we haven't thought of for a while. It's hard because.
S4: This end of the year is very hard because the
S4: rules clearly say yes and we can't change the rules.
S4: We just inherited them from the teller someone foundation. Uh,
S4: it has to be somebody that Andy and I haven't
S4: thought of this year. Yeah. We must produced honest evidence
S4: to show how, when and why we thought of that person.
S4: That famous person, this year. Often people are very unlucky
S4: with the wild scenarios in which Andy thinks of strange, uh,
S4: and some you would think forgotten celebrities. Just fair. Um,
S4: but rules are rules. And and I'll stand by Andy. Absolutely.
S4: To the to to my last breath. So if you
S4: thought of if he says it, I believe it. Yeah. Jacko,
S4: you've got someone you say for the song we need we.
S4: This is something we fail at quite often is remembering
S4: all you have to say one during the example. So
S4: you got one, Jacko.
S3: Well, before you do that, Jack, let me just quickly
S3: go through the hats there on my side here at
S3: the moment.
S4: Yeah. Great. What do you got? What do we got?
S4: What do you got?
S3: Hey, this is exciting. It's a Sydney water hat signed
S3: by Shane Jacobson. Wow. So, um, righting a wrong.
S4: Righting a wrong. We did for a little bit. Put, um,
S4: Shane and Sydney water under the microscope for the ads
S4: they were running. But nice to see that all. We're
S4: all having a laugh about it, and they've provided us
S4: with some merch. Yeah, they.
S3: Said that they'd they've sent in some quality hats, uh,
S3: signed by, uh, turn it off. Bob himself. I couldn't
S3: remember his, um, his actual character name, uh, Shane's name, but, um,
S3: I wouldn't say quality. I think they've overstretched their, uh.
S3: It's certainly not the lowest form. There's no Velcro. Of course,
S3: they put that in brackets, but it's just a plain,
S3: very plain blue hat, white piping on the brim.
S4: I don't like that. I know promotional hat companies give
S4: you the option of changing the brim piping, but any
S4: time you see a different piping on the brim of
S4: a cap, you know it's promotional or a sports team.
S4: And I just don't think that's what people want to
S4: wear day to day.
S3: Still buckle, clasp at the back.
S4: Uh, well, we use the buckle on the must be
S4: nice hats, so you certainly won't find two men more
S4: proud of a buckle than us.
S3: Second one came in from a company called Dect. They're
S3: like a cool, funky USA company. Um. Hey, guys, that's
S3: a good.
S4: That's a five piece.
S3: We thought we'd send you a hat so you could
S3: use it for chit chat. Champions. Now, we don't actually.
S4: Freeze their Australian PR because they got so close.
S3: They're good. So close. Good hat.
S4: I like that hat. That's good.
S3: It's kind of a yeah a taupe military kind of green.
S3: It's got the same kind of style with a bit
S3: of paneling. Uh, and then just a snap back at
S3: the back, probably the premier hat, I would say, with
S3: all due respect. Is that a.
S4: Quick, dry material?
S3: Yes. Uh, and, you know, with all due respect to
S3: Shane Jacobson, just a better hat if he'd signed this one, um,
S3: you know, that would be the best of both worlds.
S3: Finally hammered down, uh, Nosferatu.
S4: Nosferatu. Jim. Jim. There is some deep cuts on today's hats. Nosferatu. Gene.
S4: Of course. Named after my dog.
S3: Go back and listen. We can't find.
S4: That episode of the pod, but, uh, yes, certainly a
S4: spot in my heart, because Nazi, uh, absolutely loves it.
S4: Can can hear me opening the Nosferatu gin bottle from
S4: rooms away. And she'll often run in, pop her head
S4: on my lap, look at me the way only Narcy can.
S4: And I'll go. I'll go on. Then I'll dip my
S4: pinky in the gin and let her have a little lick.
S3: Um, I think the best one or. Yeah, yeah. Another
S3: great quality hat. It's the kind of that Karpaty thing.
S3: Karpaty felty type material. That's good. It's really nice.
S6: But maybe because of how it's been posted, it's almost
S6: got an inverted brim. Yeah. It's cup, it's cupping upwards.
S3: Yeah, I'm not.
S4: Very flat hasn't it. It's unlucky for them.
S3: So they're the three.
S4: Hats you'd wear that. Yeah. You don't often see the
S4: carpet material. No promotional.
S3: Hat. So there you go Sydney Water, Nosferatu or the decked. Uh,
S3: Hime Joe kicks us off today, but Jack obviously will
S3: do before that. Will come in with the opener and, uh,
S3: throw in someone that he hasn't thought of for a while.
S7: It's been a while since I've thought about Yahoo.
S6: Serious? Oh, yeah.
S3: And it's been a while, Andy.
S6: It really feels like you're a kid trying to kick
S6: against Dustin Martin, and he just smothers you straight away.
S6: Why is that so easy?
S3: He's a movie out about him. Is there Zac Efron.
S4: About Yahoo series?
S3: I know, that's why it's so. I couldn't believe it.
S3: There's a moon. The Australian.
S4: Actor.
S3: Oh, sorry. No, I've gone with Weird Al Yankovic. I
S3: was like the guy.
S4: The Australian actor from the early 90s hit Young Einstein.
S4: Zac Efron playing Yahoo! Serious? No. Oh, yeah. Weird Al,
S4: we think of Weird Al non-stop.
S3: Sorry. No. Unfair to smother 50 metre penalty. Uh, you
S3: haven't thought of Yahoo series for ages, right?
S4: That's. Yeah, because I was like, wow, the way Andy's
S4: acting here is. Yeah, I get.
S6: I get weird mixes in with Yahoo too differently crazy.
S3: People. And with both both.
S4: Definitely not appearing on the birth certificate. Both first names.
S3: And long crazy hair was a wacky Guys yes yeah crossover.
S3: But no no the well known jack that would that
S3: would pass. Uh, Joe.
S4: I mean, I'm sorry, I'm just still processing the fact
S4: that in my head, Zac Efron was.
S3: Starring.
S4: In all the scripts that he could choose. He decided
S4: that he wanted to lend his voice to the Yahoo!
S4: Serious story.
S3: To be honest, I was as surprised that he wanted
S3: to do the Weird Al. Like, it's not too big.
S3: It's not, oh, Mike, I've got this wrong. What is it?
S3: Come in. Mike.
S4: Mike absolutely explodes outside when there's a fact wrong.
S8: It's Daniel Radcliffe. That's who it.
S3: Is. It's not. It's not Zac Efron, it's Daniel Radcliffe. Yeah. Still,
S3: I thought.
S6: Mike was coming in to say Daniel Radcliffe is the
S6: person that Zac Efron is playing in the movie, and
S6: that is a weird person to mix up with. No.
S3: Daniel Radcliffe, sorry, is playing Weird Al Yankovic.
S4: That is so strange that I'm intrigued. Yeah, they have
S4: Harry Potter playing Weird Al. Yes. That's multigenerational.
S3: Weird al had similar glasses. Maybe that's how they cast him.
S3: I read Harry Potter.
S4: Out of respect to Daniel, I reckon he's got more
S4: to bring to the role.
S6: Than Zac Efron.
S3: No? Then just weird glasses and wear glasses. Jeez.
S4: What a mess.
S3: All right, that.
S6: Is a mess. Sorry.
S4: That is several people we have heard of. Let's see
S4: if we can find someone that we haven't heard of.
S3: This year all over the shop. Ahoy to you, mate.
S4: Ahoy, captains.
S9: And cabin boy. Jack.
S6: Hello, Joe.
S3: Nice. Uh, tell us something.
S9: We have a long intro. That was.
S3: It was? Yeah.
S4: You're telling us, I mean, so sorry and good. Good
S4: that you represent the listeners there because everyone's thinking it,
S4: and you got to voice it.
S9: Yes, yes, yes, I was laughing, but, uh, there was
S9: a lot of stuff that I knew already. And you
S9: didn't really have an idea anyway. I think it would
S9: have been more accurate. I'm taking a risk because I'm
S9: going to name a comedy duo. So that's two people
S9: that that, uh, Andy might have run across in his
S9: celebrity shenanigans on the hundred. Um, but I'm going to
S9: say scared, weird little guys.
S4: Scaries. Oh, I've thought of the Umbilical Brothers this year,
S4: but I haven't thought of the Sadies.
S3: I think I've thought of tripod.
S4: It's sort of tripod. Okay. What about bipod? Just the
S4: two of them.
S9: I think I was nearly gonna. I was nearly gonna
S9: say specifically John Fleming, the tall one from Scary little Guys. Yeah.
S3: No, he's got it. No, that.
S4: Wouldn't have counted because we wouldn't have. I don't know
S4: if I know their names, but. Well done.
S3: Yeah, you got it. Well done.
S4: It's clear for me. Well done.
S3: And a comedy song duo from, uh, what? Late late 90s.
S4: Late, I mean, early 2000 are still going really mid 90s.
S3: Mid 90s.
S4: Mid mid 90s to mid 2000. I said Andy, when
S4: Andy and I started doing radio, we liked to try
S4: and do some funny songs and we had one of
S4: our early bosses say, guys, drop the funny songs unless
S4: you're as good as the scared weird little guys, no
S4: one wants to hear it. So it became we thought
S4: about them a lot back in the day, because every
S4: time we thought of a funny song, we'd go, is
S4: it as good as the scared, weird little guys? Because
S4: that's the.
S9: Way they won an aria for the best comedy release
S9: as well, which, I mean, you don't have to be
S9: anyone to do that. So I thought.
S3: Yeah, I think that was before it was, um, very
S3: coveted and hard aria to win.
S4: After that, it became quite a prestigious award. Yeah.
S3: Picked Um. Uh. Joe. Which hat? Nosferatu. Uh, decked. Or
S3: a Sydney water sign by Shane Jacobson.
S9: Um, just going to take the Sydney water. Wow.
S3: Sydney water. Wow. Okay. That is a surprise. But, Joe.
S3: Well done. Thank you, my friend. Uh, from Joe to Jim. Ahoy, Jim.
S10: Ahoy, boys.
S3: How are we?
S10: Yeah. Good.
S3: Tell us someone we haven't thought of for a while.
S11: Uh. I'm hoping jumping Jai taurima.
S9: Oh.
S6: Good one.
S4: I have, I'm afraid. Really? Um. Yeah, I was, uh,
S4: Steve Hooker came up in a conversation the other day,
S4: and he jumping. Jai was named in because he was
S4: in that same. Was it the same Olympics or are
S4: they just both jumping men that represented.
S3: Similar period of jumping?
S4: Similar period?
S6: I reckon Steve came after Jai. Jai was 2000, wasn't he?
S9: Yeah, Jai was.
S4: 2000, but more of a more of an example of like,
S4: here's a, here's a track or field event that you
S4: don't follow week to week. But certainly when the Olympics
S4: come around you're all about it. So I have to
S4: say in full faith that Jumping Jai had been mentioned
S4: in those.
S3: Sorry, Jim. Nice one to throw in the mix. Very unlucky. Uh, Clinton,
S3: Ahoy to you!
S12: Ahoy, Hamish! Andy. Number six. Boy.
S4: Clinton. Who have we not thought of this year?
S12: Uh, Vulcan from the hit show Gladiators. Bad luck? Yep.
S4: No, I haven't. What do you mean? Where did you
S4: think of him?
S3: They're bringing gladiators back.
S4: But did you think of Vulcan, or did you think
S4: of Gladiator?
S3: I think of when you think of like. And they
S3: they did a where are they now? Just recently he's
S3: got announced what, probably like eight weeks ago that they
S3: are actually returning with gladiators.
S6: Same gladiators.
S3: Not the same gladiators. They'd be a bit old for him.
S4: Not. Not as hard to get around these days.
S3: For people who don't know the show we're talking about,
S3: it was essentially you had to combat everyday. People would
S3: combat just very, very muscly people.
S4: So combat with padded blocks, stuff like. Yeah, on on
S4: like gym equipment. Yeah. On like, you know, lots of padded.
S4: There's lots of kind.
S6: Of like Wipeout, but you had to get past somebody as.
S3: Well. That's it.
S4: That's true. The the obstacles were human.
S3: Clinton, will you watch the Return of Gladiators?
S12: Oh, of course, just to see if they bring back
S12: Condor or Blaze or.
S4: See? He knows.
S3: Oh, yeah.
S4: We wish you'd said Condor.
S3: Yeah, that would have been a tough one for us.
S3: Thank you very much. Uh, Joe. Ahoy to you.
S13: Hoy, lads.
S3: Um, Joe, tell us something we haven't thought of for
S3: a while.
S13: Uh, former Lord mayor and all round good guy John. So. Oh.
S4: From Melbourne. That. That's got to count, though, because I
S4: haven't thought of John, so. Oh, and we do know him.
S4: I mean, there'd be a lot of people listening that
S4: don't didn't know the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, but as
S4: Melbourne boys.
S3: Yeah, we didn't know him personally.
S4: We didn't know him personally, but he had a knack
S4: of getting himself in the papers quite a lot for
S4: the Lord mayor. Absolutely, John. So is my bro I
S4: think was the campaign bottle.
S3: Uh, Joe, you've got yourself a cat.
S4: I think he's got it. Nosferatu.
S3: Well done. Nosferatu. Uh, or the decked cap. Which one
S3: would you prefer?
S13: Um. I'll go the decked cap? Yeah.
S4: That's a pretty smart choice.
S3: I mean, they're both great. They're both great caps, so
S3: you couldn't have gone wrong. Mate, thanks so much for playing.
S3: Appreciate it.
S13: Cheers, guys. Cheers.
S3: Cheers.
S4: Good work.
S3: John. So. Yeah.
S4: Jack, you're a bored gamer, aren't you? You're a B
S4: gamer and, ah, you're a bit of a B gamer.
S3: Yeah, like a board game. Which one's your favorite at
S3: the moment.
S6: Uh, we love Everdell.
S3: Everdell I've never heard of that.
S4: Jackson board gamer like that goes to board game shops.
S4: He's not a Milton Bradley.
S3: No, no, no, Jack's.
S4: Not playing connect four and and monopoly. He's like, this.
S6: Is a crowd that actually turns their nose up quite
S6: heavily at monopoly.
S4: Yeah, yeah. And Jack's playing Settlers of Catan and stuff
S4: like that. Yeah.
S6: Even that is a bit rudimentary. Oh two.
S4: Commercial.
S6: What is? No, no, we are like, I like guitar,
S6: but I haven't played in years. Now what? Everdale everdale. Um,
S6: you're it's a world building and resource building so similar
S6: to Catan, but you're, um, woodland creatures. Okay? And you might,
S6: you know, build the post office in your city, build
S6: the courthouse in your city, that sort of thing. Really?
S3: Yeah. What are you and what's guitar?
S4: Are you like a mr. Tumnus Woodland creature. Jack.
S6: Like you collect, actually, all your as many woodland creatures
S6: as you can to your city. So you might have
S6: the shop. So you're trying.
S4: To build the best city. Yes.
S3: So this is like when they just rebrand another game,
S3: but it's woodland creatures instead of humans. No names like.
S4: Mr. Andy.
S3: I. Did you play this with Bianca?
S6: Yes. Yeah. Less now that we've had a had a son,
S6: but it's still our favorite when we get some time
S6: to ourselves.
S3: How many hours back before the kid? How many hours
S3: a week were you? Were you collecting woodland creatures?
S6: Pretty much. To like, if there's anything that we couldn't
S6: decide what someone would do, like the dishes or the laundry. Well,
S6: all right, let's play Everdell to see who does the.
S4: Ten hour game.
S3: Should settle it. Hang on. How long does it game take?
S6: 45 minutes to an hour.
S3: Yeah, like a laundry would sit there and then. Yes.
S6: Yeah. You would try.
S3: So hard and you'd. You'd be trying so hard to
S3: get out of those chores.
S4: For Jack, that's a fine time trade off. Yeah, I
S4: would say I'm the most board game. I'm the most
S4: pro board game.
S3: To interrupt one more time. Remember when Jack's like, oh,
S3: you know, I don't have a lot of time on
S3: my hands for the pod to come to the meeting? No, but.
S4: The thing is, we know he's got a lot of
S4: time for board games because people on chess.com keep writing
S4: him out, that he's spending, like, 24 hours a week.
S3: On chess.
S4: He's just moved his habit to the dark web. Yeah,
S4: he's still playing a board game. Okay. We all need
S4: a board game.
S6: We all need leisure time in our life.
S4: We absolutely do. No one's no one is more of
S4: a proponent for that than us. So no arguments here.
S4: I look, I'm I'm pro board game. I'm into board games,
S4: but not probably not to the jack level, but I'm
S4: always but then I've got like I've had a few
S4: experiences where you start to play like Avalon. For people
S4: that know it is basically the TV show traders is
S4: based off like that's like kind of like Mafia or Avalon,
S4: isn't it? Jack and secret.
S3: I played I would.
S6: Love to play.
S3: Secret.
S4: The same sort of thing. Avalon. Same sort of thing.
S4: There's like, good guys and bad guys. You got to
S4: figure it out. Yeah, but you know, for some reason
S4: it's King Arthur themed, but it has no reason to
S4: be right. You could just be a good guy or
S4: a bad guy. Yeah. So I'm trying to. I'm trying
S4: to get the the family, um, excited about board games,
S4: but I've got to bring it in at like a
S4: 6 to 9 year old level. And also Zo has
S4: a very low tolerance for learning new things. Right. Like I,
S4: I'm I'm trying I can't bring in an advance one
S4: like woodland 2000 or whatever creature.
S6: Yeah. No, it is steep learning curves. But then you
S6: get rewarded once you know the game play.
S4: That's that's not interested in the delayed rewards. She's like,
S4: teach me now or I'm not interested. Yeah. How's this though.
S4: So the other day I. So magic Mike good friend
S4: of the show. The show's favorite magician. He is also
S4: a fan of board games. And I was we were
S4: talking about board games and he was like, oh, there's
S4: a good one called Herd Mentality. Very easy for the kids.
S4: All you got to do is basically everyone gets like
S4: a pad and you have to write down. So it
S4: might be like, name a famous robot, and then you
S4: have to write down what you think. The most common
S4: answer would be. Okay, so it's kind of like you're
S4: sort of I mean, it's Family Feud basically. You're basically
S4: trying to get this, I think, wasn't that pointless. So
S4: you're trying to write down the most common answer. And if,
S4: if you're part of the group that said the most
S4: common answer, you get a point. Okay. So I'm like,
S4: we can handle that. Like that's a good extended family
S4: board game. Now this is an ad, I suppose in
S4: some ways for her mentality. But this is where it
S4: becomes not an ad.
S3: Okay for it.
S4: Jack, what is the most anando. What is the most
S4: important and coveted thing in any board game?
S3: The rules.
S4: The pad.
S3: Ah, yes.
S4: The pad that it comes with, like Scattergories is a
S4: big one where it's like, don't waste the pad. Oh
S4: of course. Yeah.
S6: Don't waste the amount of sheets.
S4: Do not waste the pad. Because, you know, if you
S4: waste a pad, if you run out of the Scattergories pad,
S4: you're never playing Scattergories again. No one's reordering the pad
S4: like you know how they go in the back. Hey,
S4: you run out of the pad, go to the website,
S4: log on. You're like, no one's doing that. You are
S4: only playing the game for as long as the pad lasts. Okay?
S4: Like the the scraps that you end up playing on. Like,
S4: you know, everyone's like double side the pad, double side,
S4: the pad. Don't use a fresh page.
S3: My dad will rule lines and I do the same.
S3: Now down the middle to split You don't.
S4: Need all that.
S3: Space. Don't waste the frigging pad.
S4: And the arrogance. Like when you're playing with someone. It's
S4: not from the household where they just tear off a
S4: new page of the pad like whoa whoa whoa whoa.
S4: It's like someone tearing off your grandma's plastic covering on
S4: the sofa. Just go. I'll just sit on the cushions
S4: like you don't do that. I opened up her mentality
S4: after hyping the game up. No pad.
S6: Huh? What do you.
S4: Mean?
S6: Like provide your own?
S4: No, no, they're just. The box had been packed without one.
S4: That just made a mistake at the factory because I'd
S4: played it with Mike. And there's a there's an official pad. Yeah. Oh,
S4: and there was no pad. And I just was like, oh,
S4: my God, this. You can't do this. You can't like,
S4: I can't, you can't. I can't explain the letdown to
S4: the people. And then I'm rushing around trying to get
S4: post-it notes and everyone's. I was like, why isn't there
S4: a pad? There is a I'm sorry, there is a pad.
S4: It just doesn't appear somehow to have been included in
S4: this sealed box. This was a sealed copy of the game. Oh, no,
S4: I can't vouch. This game is really good fun. Let's
S4: get into it. So it's like post-it notes. Well, what
S4: do we mean to do with, like, I was like, oh, no,
S4: I know this was meant to be so easy. I
S4: had an idea off the back of this. Right? Would
S4: we do would we ever release the Hamish and Andy
S4: board game?
S6: Oh my God.
S4: Okay, idea. Now it can go one of two ways.
S4: We either hand it over to Jack for him to start,
S4: like crafting how it works.
S3: No. God, no. But, I mean, here's.
S4: The other thing. Whatever it is, whatever it is, and
S4: it might it could even just be this, right?
S3: We go though, with the hand it over to Jack
S3: Thing is, suddenly you're collecting and doing all these weird things.
S3: It's just could be too late.
S4: Yeah, well, that's what I mean. He pitches it back
S4: to us. We can, like, dumb it down a bit
S4: for the average player, you know, because it could be
S4: stuff like, you know, an SP competition or whatever, like
S4: as the chance, like the community chest or. Right. What
S4: if we release Hamish and Andy the board game and
S4: you open it up and it's just a selection of
S4: multi-use pads for other games. So there is almost no game,
S4: but it's an excuse to get a box of backup
S4: pads in your house. Yes, that would fit most games
S4: that require a writing down an answer. So by buying
S4: someone the Hamish or just.
S6: Yeah, because he said you said it's almost not a game,
S6: but it's not a game.
S3: It's not a game.
S4: Certainly not Or we include a very, very small token game.
S3: Coin flipping game.
S4: But most. Yeah. Yeah, it's there's like a two small
S4: cups and a ball and it's like see if you
S4: can see if you can move the ball from cup
S4: to cup. Congratulations. You've finished the game. Now please enjoy
S4: the pads.
S3: My worry is that we're saying no one will replace
S3: the pad, which you can just do off the back
S3: of a board game.
S4: But you wouldn't do that. You wouldn't do that for
S4: one pair. But you might buy. Can you imagine someone's
S4: delight if you got given for Christmas? You open up
S4: a box, you're like, oh my God, it's back up pads. Yeah, but.
S6: He's got to match your games.
S4: But we make them like generic enough pads. So there's
S4: big ones. Small ones rule.
S6: But every game has its own like scoring column.
S4: We pick the eight most popular formats and we do
S4: we do a selection of pads. So you get in
S4: a box full of backup pads.
S3: I feel like it's a stationary replenishment is what is
S3: what we're offering. We are it's not disguised.
S4: As a board.
S3: Game. Exciting. Stationary. Repeat replenishment. All right. What about this
S3: board game?
S4: Fine, fine, fine. I did, like, go back to the
S4: original idea, and we make Hamish and Ed the board game,
S4: but where if there's pads involved, it's huge. I'm not
S4: doing this unless you get more pads in our game
S4: than any other board game on the market.
S3: I know there'll be a pad surplus, like a.
S4: Wafer thin board and the whole thing's pads. It's like
S4: thousands of pads. That's our competitive advantage. Whatever the gameplay is, Jack,
S4: you're in charge of coming up with some ideas to
S4: make it good. I would love.
S3: That. Yeah, but.
S4: What I bring to the table is we promise you
S4: will never have the feeling of running out of the paper. Done.
S4: That's our. That's our edge.
S3: I aim to close out today. We talked about last week,
S3: and we've probably been avoiding talking about it again because
S3: we're at a loss, aren't we? Oh yeah.
S4: A loss. And no one expected this this spanner in
S4: the works to be thrown. No one expected this fake
S4: chicken to be thrown amongst the crocodiles. Confusing. If you're
S4: a crocodile and a fake chicken gets thrown in. What
S4: is this? Isn't that what we're used to for the
S4: croc tours? For the croc Wars? They're happening in the
S4: North that were happening in Darwin. We've been following all year.
S4: Original croc jumping tours, spectacular croc jumping tours. As you
S4: probably heard on last week's show, to the vast majority
S4: of people that are listening in order out of nowhere
S4: and unrelated to us, um, for their own reasons. the
S4: original Croc jumping tours has decided to close down after
S4: 38 years of operation. They're shutting on October the 31st.
S4: Why is this relevant to us? Well, as you also
S4: might have heard, we booked flights to Darwin and we'd
S4: taken the whole team up. And again, this isn't top priority,
S4: but it is a factor. We've booked a sunset jetski cruise.
S4: We're interested in booking one and just a bunch of
S4: other fun stuff in Darwin we're excited to do. Anyway,
S4: it's not the priority just mentioning it just because it's
S4: a fun thing to think about. Anyway, we were off
S4: on a peace mission to bring these two warring companies together. Um,
S4: enough of the silliness. That was the main focus. Enough
S4: of the silliness. Come on guys, um, it's been decades
S4: of hijinks, but now let's all, you know, wouldn't this
S4: be fun? And the peace process was looking good. They're
S4: going to sit down and put the feuding aside, look
S4: at working together in the future, and hopefully exchange one
S4: compliment per side that now. Well, you know, life doesn't
S4: work out the way you plan. No one was expecting
S4: Tony to shut down original croc jumping tours entirely because
S4: of a dispute he's having with the government and some
S4: some demands they haven't met. So it looks like that's happening.
S3: Looks after the situation and we've had to think about it.
S3: And we're still going to go up. Yay! Jack walks
S3: the tour.
S4: Jack wants the jet skis.
S3: And what we'll do up there we don't know will
S3: we will we will we be out of crowbar some
S3: kind of peace talks in and claim a triumph? Probably.
S4: It's not a crowbar, though. And let me ask you this, okay?
S4: If we go, like, just just answer yes or no
S4: to this. Sure. Hamish and Andy and Jack went to Darwin,
S4: where for decades there has been a rivalry between two
S4: small businesses. There was high jinks. There was some tricks
S4: played on each other. Yes. And just a general air
S4: of rivalry. Yes. So much so that one wouldn't go
S4: one side of the bridge. One wouldn't go the other
S4: side of the bridge. Yes. When Hamish, Andy and Jack
S4: came home, that was all over.
S3: Yeah, there.
S6: Was never a shenanigan or trick played ever again.
S4: There was peace.
S3: That's great. That's that'll be the headline.
S4: And that that begins the spin. Because I also think
S4: the timing of this couldn't be worse. When are we
S4: scheduled to go? Like the weekend of the fourth or something. Yeah. Yeah,
S4: yeah the fourth. So we're scheduled to go that weekend
S4: to Darwin. Tony's come out and gone. I'm closing the
S4: business 31st. Again, nothing to do with us, but boy, oh, boy,
S4: the timing is. Couldn't be worse.
S3: Inconvenient.
S4: Tony, if we had been there a week earlier, like
S4: we can't go because we've got stuff on with families
S4: and stuff. If we'd have gone a week earlier, yes,
S4: we could have got the peace.
S3: Deal done and then he could close.
S4: Absolute buzzer beater. Yes. Just to be like, do you
S4: agree to peace between the businesses? He'd be like, yeah mate,
S4: I'm closing on Sundays, I don't care. I'd be like, yeah,
S4: but for the next. do you agree? Within the next
S4: four days or whatever. Yeah. Peace. Yeah. Sure. Have. Yeah.
S4: Four days of peace. No worries.
S3: Let's still try and meet Tony. Okay, so.
S4: Here's what I'm proposing. Who? Like, what's four in the
S4: grand scheme of 38 years? What's four days? Yeah. I mean,
S4: I still think we get a plaque made up. Fact.
S3: It's not a bad idea.
S6: Yeah, that's a good idea. And then you know what?
S6: You know what it's sort of like.
S3: Checks in with I like this.
S6: It's like when a great player retires after a grand final,
S6: so we can say that we brokered peace. We won.
S6: And then Tony retired that same day. Yes.
S4: So you reckon we backdated the 31st? Yes.
S6: We just get it written on the plaque like it's
S6: all in. It's you know, it's in bronze.
S4: Put a few years water under the bridge. No one's
S4: gonna totally up. And once it's plaqued.
S3: Why don't we timestamp our chats with him as well?
S3: Just like. Okay. Nice to meet you. Tony here on
S3: the third time is so we.
S4: So we fly up, we meet even though we're meeting
S4: on the 4th of November. Yes. We, um, essentially reenact
S4: because just due to scheduling, we couldn't be there a
S4: week early, but we basically go, look, had we been
S4: here a week earlier, we'd have been have this conversation.
S4: Same conversation. Yes. Do you agree? If it was a
S4: week earlier, you would have peace?
S5: Yeah.
S4: Hopefully. He's like, yeah, absolutely. This was one week ago.
S4: Our attitudes would be the same. And you both have
S4: two open businesses that could make peace. Yep. Complement.
S3: Complement. Photograph photograph a crocodile wearing my tooth necklace. Sunset
S3: jet ski. Yeah.
S4: Flying. Great. Flying to Darwin to re-enact the backdated peace
S4: accord whilst the two businesses were still open. Now do
S4: we put it on the. Do we put it? How
S4: do we put it on the plaque? Do we go
S4: on this day the 31st of October or do we.
S4: Why don't we backdate it exactly a week from. Let's
S4: look when we're there. So we go on this day,
S4: 29th of October 2023. Mm. Peace.
S3: What about. How about this? How about.
S4: Achievable?
S3: How about. Well, that's.
S4: True. Why don't we do a not lying? Well, we
S4: don't go. Peace was achieved. We just go peace. You know,
S4: the concept of peace was.
S5: That sucks. Okay, I've got.
S3: I think I've.
S4: Got it. It's a brainstorm. I'm trying to just avoid
S4: getting tangled up in a giant lies.
S3: Why don't we get a text message to Tony and
S3: a text message to Wes saying, yep, for peace? Yep.
S3: On the 31st. If they both write back, yes, we
S3: can say on the 31st it was agreed that peace, peace.
S4: In fact, we just go on this and we make
S4: the plot. Why don't we do that a week before
S4: we go? We make the plaque that day. Yes. So
S4: we're obviously making the plaque in Melbourne. Yes. But you
S4: don't say that on the plaque.
S5: No.
S4: You just go. On this day, the 28th of October. Yes.
S4: It was agreed by the two parties that peace would
S4: reign between the two businesses for however long the businesses
S4: may go.
S5: Mhm.
S4: Yeah, right. Then we take the plaque that's made and
S4: you plunk it in the, you plunk it in the
S4: spot up there. Yeah. And everything's true. You just weren't
S4: actually there on the day. You don't need to write
S4: on the plaque. You know due to scheduling conflicts, we
S4: couldn't actually be there on time.
S5: No.
S4: No one needs that detail on a plaque.
S3: Yeah, great.
S4: Just do the headline. Yeah. So we actually forged the
S4: plaque on the weekend before. Yes. And we. Yeah. Have
S4: them on the line and then just go and re-enact
S4: the day.
S3: What we would have said at the time, what.
S4: We would have said at the time. And I think
S4: that's very, very on a very honest, I was gonna
S4: say I think that's very honest. But I think, I
S4: think that's not as not as dishonest as is possible. Yeah.
S4: That's still a peace deal.
S3: Absolutely.
S4: That's and that's not a Peter out which is the
S4: most important thing for us.
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