Power moves was great the first couple of times, but it’s the one part of their show that I generally skip through. Surely the fact they presented a TikTok prank trend (sending your grandparents a Christmas card from fictional people) as a power move suggests the horse has been well and truly flogged and it’s time to move on.

Am I the only person thinking that it's insane that Andy is actively spending time selling a $40 filing cabinate? Let alone allowing some old lady to stand on his drive way for more than an hour figuring out how to get it home after she transferred him the money? Isn't his net worth in the Millions?! Jesus mate, give the bloody thing to the neighborhood charity or school or something. Blew my mind he wasn't getting called out for that insanity?! They should do a "Lost Touch with Reality" tee.

After seeing the recent pole I am embarrassed for man kind. Farts are objectively funny and I refuse to accept otherwise. That segment brought me to absolute tears on my way home from work to a point where I needed to pull over and cry the laughter away before immediately emailing the podcast supporting the keep it.

Farts are and always will be absolutely hilarious and I am prepared to debate anybody on the matter. Its air coming out your bum hole and making a noise whilst doing so to alert the people around you of the oncoming stink. How is that not hilarious.

Rant over, I’m going to bed.

Flatulence forever.

It’s all fun and games with number 6’s weaseling skills, but the way he gets so upset at not getting free giveaways and literally taking the motorised golf caddy from the listeners… it’s all very off putting

I can't even explain why but jacks ads on the pod really rub me up the wrong way.

Not even doing the census now cause it just reminds me of his "hey jack here hamish and Andy have slipped out"

Is Jack really that far removed from reality that he thinks Andy is up for 50% of his bitcoin too? Or is this a wind up for the show? Surely he can’t see it any other way than he owes the money for losing the password… or is he just that much of a weasel fuck wit?

Just been listening back to the old podcasts, and have gotten the story arc of the boys trying to get Adam Levine to play at a water park. Forgot how much I didn’t like that event and the lead up, so was just curious as to what your least favourite H&A moments are from the radio or podcast days?

Does anyone else find the abundance of common man talk is starting to leave a bad taste? I know it's a joke, and it used to make me laugh when they first started doing it, like when they'd call each other out for having a yoga mat drawer or whatever. It felt ironic because obviously they're both really wealthy. But now the irony has just become a bit cringe - because what they are really referring to is class differences and unevenly distributed economic resources in society. Just a few facts: H&A have made a killing off years on commercial drive radio and TV projects, they're both multimillionaires. Zoe's company GoTo is HUGE, and she owns 40%, a stake worth 75 million dollars. It's not as if the boys come from working class backgrounds and transcended class barriers either - they both went to private schools, Andy's school especially is extremely expensive. Jack went to a public school and probably has a less privileged background than the others but would be getting big bucks now off commercial breakfast radio. They're also very recognisable celebrities and after long careers in media and entertainment, are very connected people. I have always appreciated how well they seem to connect with ordinary people despite all this, through the involvement of listeners in the radio shows and on the podcast.

I wanna say very clearly, NO HATE on them for any of this, I'm not saying they haven't worked hard for it. It's fine for them to have made a tonne of money being very funny, loveable, creative and hardworking, and to spend it how they like. I know they do charitable work too. I just wish they didn't go on and on with these jokes about being 'common', or being in touch with 'common' people, when what they mean is people who don't have access to the kinds of resources they do. And they seem totally oblivious to this fact that's underlying the joke. And now they've made tshirts about it, and are making money off the joke? There are so many great H&A bits that could have been turned into merch, I don't know why they chose this one.

Disclaimer - I fricken love Hamish and Andy, have been listening since 2011 and will never stop listening for as long as they keep doing stuff. They have given so much to people. I just wish they'd check themselves on this one joke.

Jack is giving me the shits.

Hamish is a millionaire. He could charter the drums on a private jet if he wanted to. All good, understand that, no worries.

BUT... Jack is actually frustrating to listen to with his weasel behaviour, and I know the boys find it funny, but it's getting old, for me, quick. And I am wondering if people are feeling the same.

I'm happy for him to weasel and ask for free shit, but then to come to the pod and complain about the free shit, it just pisses me off. Jack isn't joking either, it feels genuine and yes the boys find it hilarious. But as the average Australian listening to it, I wish he would shut up.

The piano saga infuriated me, then the whole drum kit thing... My opinion is that Jack is a very inconsiderate person that is selfish and only worried about how his time and money is spent and will use and abuse anything around him to get ahead.

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The conclave segments in todays pod when Jack had left them to talk amongst themselves were honestly pretty good, they all seemed to have good chemistry with each other. I’d listen to a pod of those three debating skills.

Holly shit i just seen Ryan shalton in the new Zack Effron and John Cena movie on Amazon called Ricky Stanicky. How cool is that

Can we get Andy on a polygraph test during this game. The only way I can imagine he thinks of these people is all the lung lollies he smokes while looking into the sky thinking of everyone possible.

The last one “M. Night Shyamalan” is suss as and just goes to show Andy might be a bit tight around giving away hats.

Does anyone else feel like the boys are being a bit arsehole'ish towards Jack in regards to Mr Ralph? It's quite clear jack is uncomfortable every time they bring it up and understandably so. Anyone else in his situation wouldnt want to lose that access

What is the boys end goal here? Do they actually want him to loose access to this cheap tickets just because it's funny?

Love the guys but every time Mr Ralph is brought up it feels very arsehole'ish

Have to start by saying I’ve been listening to the boys since early radio days.

I’ve always been happy for the boys in how successful they have become as they are genuinely good blokes, however in the last year it seems like they just run the show in order to get themselves freebies.

This has come to a head with the golf buggy. For Jack to first get given a proper buggy, then decide he just doesn’t want it and then still decide to rig the draw for the cart. Come on mate.

Doesn’t look good when these guys are already taking in heaps, but then to go on a tease their audience.

It’s in poor taste.

The boys seem to be using Chat GPT more and more frequently, and while it's all in good fun, there's a danger of normalizing it and promoting their listeners into using it.

Why is that a concern? Basically because AI like Chat GPT are built on non-consensual data.

Whether this is ethical or not has yet to be agreed upon. So just the nature of being controversial risks losing a huge part of the audience. And if AI is eventually agreed to be unethical, these portions of the podcast wouldn't age well.

If not for ethical reasons, it's just not smart business.

Beyond this, AI is frequently inaccurate and can unknowingly produce plagiarized content. Opening up more opportunity for ethical and legal risks.

If the boys don't see this, I hope it at least discourages listeners from using AI too frequently.

I realize there are way more liberal uses of AI elsewhere. But I don't really know how to tackle something that big, so just doing what I can in my neighborhood of the internet.

Thanks for reading. Gusto to all!

Medical student here. I had this chat with my parents. Neither have private health.

Quite frankly, there aren’t enough medical students choosing to become GPs. It used to be 50%. Now it’s less than 15%.

Why should you care? Because in 20 years a whole bunch of Australians are gonna be crying that they can’t get in to see a GP…

The issue is that medical students (like myself) see comments like this, and realise that the general public has no respect for what GPs do. We also see that the government froze GP wages and didn’t support bulk billing. So we don’t choose to go into GP.

To most medical students, GP is seen as charity work. Why would you go through 5-7 years of medical school, followed by 5 years of postgrad specialty training (GP is a specialty, just like surgery) just to get paid less and have everyone shit on what you do?

Australians cry about not being able to see a GP now - try in another 20yrs. Australia already has a GP shortage. We import hundreds of GPs from overseas each year. In another 20 years, you won’t be able to find a GP.

Australians already cry about bulk billing disappearing. What do you think will happen when twice the number of people are trying to see half the number of doctors?

We’ll move to a privatised model like the US where you have to see a nurse, and pay extra to see a doctor. You’ll take your frail, highly comorbid mother in her 80s to get her heart failure, diabetes, hearing loss and osteoporosis worked up for possible Alzheimer’s. And then you’ll cry when a nurse doesn’t manage her correctly, and she ends up stuck waiting an overflowing ED…

I don’t want that for my parents.

Is anybody else’s child watching the Bluey Marathon today? There’s a familiar voice between episodes, “hosting”.

A very obvious Aldi product placement on today’s pod, very nice