# Remembering Moosie ❤️

An episode of [Hamish & Andy Plus +](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1616749262), 4 Dec 2024, 18 min.

Audio: https://enrichment.soundstack.com/4vjqq8/episode.flightcast.com/fwlub10v63yjbxieeu8i1594.mp3

Hamish and Andy recall how annoying they were around the office in the early years, as well as their favourite faux-pas with a celebrity guest. Hamish gets sentimental as they listen back to voicemails from his late Grandma Moosie, and the boys remember what a pivotal part of the radio show she played for many years. Hamish & Andy's Remembering Project. Season 6, Episode 2.

## Transcript

[0:02] A listener production.
[0:06] Wilhelm, this is our remembering project.
[0:08] Yep, where a random day of the year is selected and we look up the run sheets from all our shows from across the years to find any we did on that day.
[0:17] Over 20 years, that's about 2,500 shows and roughly 26,000 talk breaks.
[0:22] Today, we pick one.
[0:24] One talk break only and try to remember what happened based on what was written down on the run sheet from that day.
[0:29] As always, we've got podcast Mike with us here for any technical stuff.
[0:32] Hello.
[0:32] Mike, what date was randomly chosen today?
[0:35] It's the 22nd of January.
[0:37] Okay, then.
[0:38] It's Hamish Go.
[0:39] Let's kick this off and find out what years Hamish will take us back to and see if we remember anything from those years.
[0:47] This is Hamish and Andy's Remembering Project.
[0:54] And 22nd of Jan. Oh, are we back?
[0:57] Some years we were.
[0:58] Most years we weren't.
[1:00] I would say later in our careers we weren't.
[1:02] Yeah.
[1:03] Because... 22nd of May.
[1:05] Yeah.
[1:05] We used to track every contract negotiation.
[1:09] we would opt for more money and less weeks.
[1:13] You should never have given us the option.
[1:15] Guys, we're always going to opt for the more money option.
[1:18] And less weeks.
[1:18] But we would also...
[1:20] I think we came to the agreement that no one was listening to the radio until Australia Day.
[1:24] Yeah, that was true.
[1:25] Yes.
[1:25] Which I maintain.
[1:27] But also we would do this thing where we can laugh about this now because we'd be like, well, we'd absolutely do this show for free.
[1:33] But every year we'd kind of go through this charade of like being burnt out and how we needed more holidays.
[1:40] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1:41] So 22nd of January, I would have thought there was a lot of times we were there doing the show early in our career, but less later.
[1:49] Yeah, true.
[1:49] A lot of this, yeah, it does peter out.
[1:53] 2005.
[1:54] Yep.
[1:55] Let me just run through some stuff that we won't hear the audio from, but I just have seen from the run sheets.
[2:00] Saturday morning show?
[2:01] It would have been, yes, probably because of what we're about to talk about.
[2:05] Yeah.
[2:06] It says here, all it says is Andy has a sore back from playing corridor cricket.
[2:12] Which is something we used to play a lot of.
[2:14] Yes.
[2:14] And I reckon that does place it as a Saturday morning show.
[2:17] Yep.
[2:18] We'd come in throughout the week and do nothing at the station and we had a little patch of the corridor where we played...
[2:25] Hours of corridor.
[2:26] Hours.
[2:26] We sticky taped stumps against.
[2:28] It was a kind of an interesting hallway.
[2:30] It had kind of a...
[2:31] Interesting is code for like just poorly designed building.
[2:34] The hallway went out of 45 and with a bit of a flat back.
[2:38] So you could put stumps there against the wall.
[2:41] What was strange, I mean, clearly, no partner, no kids, no dependents, no other job and didn't really like uni.
[2:50] So you spent so much time at a radio station for a two-hour show on a Saturday, spent the whole week there.
[2:57] We're 24 years old.
[2:59] We'd either graduated or decided it wasn't for us, depending on which one of us it is, at university.
[3:05] We were earning enough money.
[3:07] We'd been in the entertainment industry.
[3:08] We had a TV show on Channel 7.
[3:10] So it was like, okay, we can pay the rent.
[3:13] Don't desperately have to go and get other jobs.
[3:15] I was living at home.
[3:16] Yeah, we have this Saturday morning show.
[3:19] So what do we do with our days?
[3:21] Because we don't have another job to go to.
[3:23] We've finished school.
[3:26] And we do work at this place.
[3:28] Yes.
[3:28] Even though it's just on Saturday.
[3:29] Should we just go in?
[3:31] Because, like, what are we meant to do with our days?
[3:35] It's like we just missed the train for full-time employment.
[3:39] Yeah.
[3:40] But we were like, well, we're going to do something anyway.
[3:42] And so we'd play a lot of corridor cricket.
[3:43] We would play for hours.
[3:45] Hours.
[3:45] We would be like those kids that you hear at, like...
[3:48] you know, oh, I knew he was going to grow up to be a cricketer because when he was eight, he, like, hit the ball against the wall all day long.
[3:53] But we were doing that as 24-year-old men.
[3:56] And I also remember, like, salespeople coming around the hall, seeing us in the middle of a ball, like, in the middle of a delivery.
[4:04] And they would wait.
[4:05] Like, they would wait.
[4:08] Like, such a nuisance to have at your workplace.
[4:11] It was an open plan back then, so you could just steal a bit of a corridor for yourself for a while.
[4:16] But... Yeah.
[4:17] Yeah, odd.
[4:18] Anyway.
[4:18] Like you think about all the other things we could have been doing.
[4:21] Occasionally you would hear that a big star was coming to talk to someone on the drive show at that time.
[4:28] So we'd do a little bit of hovering in a office that was right alongside a corridor to be able to walk out and go, oh, Vince Vaughn.
[4:38] Fancy seeing you.
[4:40] The bump interview.
[4:40] Yeah, we'd try and bump into people.
[4:42] But other than that.
[4:43] Never paid off.
[4:44] Never paid off.
[4:44] So anyway, you had a sore back from Corridor Cricket.
[4:46] So obviously we were talking about it so much that it made it to the show, that we were talking about Corridor Cricket.
[4:51] 2010, it says we had Lance Armstrong on the show.
[4:54] Really?
[4:54] Would we have had – that's pre – it has to be pre-revelations, doesn't it?
[5:03] Yeah, absolutely.
[5:04] Can you, Mike, can you look that one up first?
[5:05] I could have dug it out.
[5:06] When did Lance Armstrong kind of come out and go, can I just shock you guys, you know how I won seven Tour de France's?
[5:11] Well, there's more to the story.
[5:13] I'm looking up Lance Armstrong's scandal.
[5:15] Yeah.
[5:17] That's going to be quite a few hits.
[5:19] 2012.
[5:19] Yeah, right.
[5:21] So, two years before.
[5:24] The only reason I reckon we...
[5:26] wouldn't have had him on post because we were never going to do anything controversial.
[5:29] So it was like he did Oprah and that was it.
[5:31] We would have had him on praising him.
[5:34] 100%.
[5:34] That's maybe why I don't want to listen back to it because we've just been falling over ourselves too.
[5:38] And I also was not into cycling back then too.
[5:40] So I want to hear just the poor understanding we have of the sport as we're trying to tell him he's the greatest of all time.
[5:47] You also put an electric dog collar on me in 2010.
[5:49] Fred Bassett?
[5:52] Would have to be.
[5:53] Had to be reading to stop you reading a comic.
[5:57] So I've got something disappointing.
[6:00] Very rarely as we go back through the archives does it come up like we just don't have the audio.
[6:06] Very rarely can we not find something.
[6:09] And I really wanted to find this bit and you'll know why.
[6:11] 2006 we had very funny actor Eugene Levy on the show.
[6:19] I know exactly why you're a big...
[6:21] It's not there.
[6:22] It's not there.
[6:24] It's not there.
[6:24] Marshy looked everywhere.
[6:26] Mike pretended to look as well.
[6:30] We just couldn't find it.
[6:32] Because we say this so often.
[6:35] We still say this.
[6:36] We still.
[6:37] I think I've heard you guys.
[6:38] Yeah.
[6:39] It's Levy.
[6:40] It's Levy.
[6:42] Now when I see Eugene Levy, I say it's Levy.
[6:45] Because we might have even discussed it before on the Remembering Project.
[6:49] We have.
[6:49] We have.
[6:50] It was the classic game.
[6:52] Let's tell it again.
[6:52] It was the classic game where we were like, just in this era where we'd make pun-based games out of people's names.
[6:59] And we just last minute came up with this idea for a game.
[7:02] Eugene Takey or Eugene Levy.
[7:04] We present scenarios to Eugene, whether you take it or leave it.
[7:07] You either takey them or levy them.
[7:08] Yes.
[7:09] Because it was a prerecorded interview and it had gone okay.
[7:13] Fine.
[7:14] I remember it just not really, we didn't get much momentum in the interview.
[7:18] Yeah.
[7:19] Gets to the game.
[7:20] We're barely hanging on.
[7:21] We're like, okay, this is going to be, maybe there's something in this edit.
[7:24] And we're like, play this game, takey or levy.
[7:27] And he goes...
[7:28] well, it's actually Levy.
[7:31] My name's pronounced Levy.
[7:32] And we're like, Andy and I just said nothing because we're ignoring that because we need it for the premise of the joke.
[7:40] And we'll edit that out.
[7:41] And so then we give it a thing and we go, Eugene Takey or Eugene Levy.
[7:45] And he'd go, it's Levy.
[7:50] He didn't want to give it to us.
[7:52] We would then pause to make sure that we don't say anything so we could edit that out.
[7:56] And we're like, but if you had to say takey or leavey.
[7:59] And I think he just went, takey, takey.
[8:01] Like he went, I'll take it.
[8:03] I mean, he's one of the greatest improvisers and funny people of all time.
[8:06] He's probably just sitting there rolling his eyes going, what am I doing?
[8:10] This is an absolute disaster.
[8:11] I kind of do.
[8:12] I mean, it's good that we don't hear it back because we would have just heard the edited bit.
[8:15] Yes.
[8:15] Which is just making the game work.
[8:17] But the raw would have been better.
[8:20] I had to cut out all the stuff where he's correcting us to go, your game doesn't work and it's actually not my name.
[8:28] And I think that's a fair thing to say on a show where I've come on as a guest.
[8:31] Could you please say my name properly?
[8:33] We're not going to.
[8:35] It's funnier to say it another way.
[8:38] So here's what we've got to for today.
[8:39] I've got two bits of audio.
[8:41] Before we get to them, though, we're going to take a quick break.
[8:46] Okay.
[8:46] So two bits that come up.
[8:48] They're both kind of short bits that come up from 2009.
[8:51] One caught my eye because it was a blog.
[8:56] Are we reading a blog?
[8:57] This is what it says in the run sheet.
[8:58] Something to do with a blog about the move.
[9:01] Okay.
[9:01] Like quotation marks, the move.
[9:03] As in like a pickup move?
[9:05] Like a pickup move.
[9:05] Someone has gone and tried the move.
[9:07] The move.
[9:09] I don't remember what the move was.
[9:12] Two reasons I was drawn to this.
[9:14] I hope it's from the two-month period where the powers that be were pushing us to run a show blog.
[9:20] Remember we'd sometimes go check out the blog.
[9:22] We've done a blog post.
[9:23] We did three.
[9:24] Three posts.
[9:25] Three posts total where we're like, yep, and you can go hamishnady.com.
[9:28] There's the blog there.
[9:32] Like extra content.
[9:34] Extra content.
[9:34] What would we write there?
[9:37] I remember doing one and going, I'm not doing this every day.
[9:39] I was going to a thousand words.
[9:41] I dropped out of uni to not do this.
[9:44] I don't remember ever doing one, which doesn't sound like me.
[9:47] I probably would.
[9:48] They were pushing for it for a bit.
[9:50] So please, maybe this is a blog post.
[9:52] Maybe it's not.
[9:54] But I think it's a listener.
[9:56] Well, you and I both would have been taken 2009.
[10:00] Yeah.
[10:00] So we've gone, this is the move and it might be the maestro.
[10:04] move where you pretend to play piano?
[10:06] No, it won't be that.
[10:07] That came later, didn't it?
[10:08] I was single for the maestro.
[10:10] Yeah, I gave you the – so that was the move we invented later where it was like you pretend to play piano at a bar and then – On the bar.
[10:17] On the bar, like air piano, and then you kind of have an epiphany and go, oh, no, that's right, and like change that thing, like change the finger pattern or whatever.
[10:25] Yeah.
[10:25] and then write it down in a notebook.
[10:27] Everyone's like, oh, this guy's brilliant at the piano.
[10:30] Composing it in his head.
[10:31] As he waits for a drink.
[10:32] Yeah, it did work, by the way.
[10:35] Which is an absolute testament to its power.
[10:38] But the – so this is another move.
[10:41] So all I know is I think this is a listening going, I tried another move.
[10:44] Let's see if we remember what it was.
[10:46] The 22nd of January, 2009.
[10:50] Bring us to the close of a fascinating Hamish and Andy for today, Ham, a day when you announced the ultimate lady move.
[10:58] I was informed of this move by a girl yesterday.
[11:01] If you missed that part of the show, hamishandandy.com, there is a photographic how-to guide with Andy and I on how to perform the move.
[11:09] It involves taking a hand, placing it on the nape of the subject's head,
[11:15] Hand in the hair, create a fist, which sort of gently pulls the hair on the back of the subject's head.
[11:20] I'll try it tonight.
[11:21] Then you kiss them.
[11:22] Got an email from Alan.
[11:23] He's just gotten home.
[11:24] He said, hey, guys, got home, tried the ultimate lady move on my partner.
[11:30] Capitals.
[11:31] Bingo.
[11:32] Success.
[11:33] She loved it.
[11:34] Yeah.
[11:35] But was disappointed when I told her it was a test.
[11:38] See, silly.
[11:39] Alan.
[11:40] Alan.
[11:40] You had no need to tell her it was a test.
[11:44] Honey, I've bought you flowers.
[11:46] That's so nice.
[11:46] Well, I'm taking them back.
[11:47] I just wanted to see if you would like them.
[11:51] That.
[11:53] It seems aggressive.
[11:54] Okay, so probably needs to.
[11:57] Like with all this stuff because we never listen to these.
[12:00] So 15 years ago.
[12:01] Can't be cancelled, can't be cancelled, can't be cancelled.
[12:04] Say it three times like Beetlejuice and just say.
[12:07] But I think obviously it's more of like you do it with your partner.
[12:11] It's certainly not one to do it as a stranger.
[12:13] Don't do it as a stranger, yes.
[12:14] So it's sort of like if you want to initiate...
[12:17] Sometimes I guess it's like the – I think it's like – So rather than just holding the back of their head, you sort of slightly bunching the hair a little bit.
[12:25] Just applying the slightest amount of hair pull.
[12:28] I'm going to try it.
[12:29] I am going to try it now.
[12:31] All these years later, 15 years later, it's still giving – Yes.
[12:34] It's still giving us – I think I will try it.
[12:37] Yeah, I'll try that.
[12:38] I bet.
[12:39] It's tough.
[12:40] I mean, already I'm thinking about when I will try this, Sonzo.
[12:43] Yeah.
[12:44] Not in the kitchen.
[12:45] I can just sense a huge blow.
[12:48] Get off.
[12:48] What are you doing?
[12:49] We're cooking.
[12:50] We're cooking.
[12:50] Yeah.
[12:51] You've got to pick your moment for that.
[12:52] Yep.
[12:53] Can't be watching TV.
[12:55] No, because you wouldn't turn to her while watching the start of Severance.
[12:59] Watching slow horses.
[13:02] Just winds up.
[13:04] Yeah.
[13:05] Okay.
[13:06] It's not terrible.
[13:06] Yeah.
[13:07] I mean, I don't know if I call it the ultimate lady move these days, but it's, you know, it's something.
[13:14] Here's something else I wanted to play, and this is a little bit of a sentimental one, but it's also from 2009.
[13:19] And my grandma Moose used to be on the show a lot.
[13:22] Sally Moose has passed away now a few years.
[13:24] quite a few years ago, but this was, I think, I think it's a voicemail that she left because it must have been when one of our CDs had come out.
[13:34] So we would release CDs.
[13:37] which is a hilarious thing to say now, but we would judge people money for... People would pay money for a CD of, like, collections of the best bits of the radio show.
[13:48] Sold hundreds of thousands of them.
[13:50] Absolutely wild.
[13:51] Wild.
[13:52] Did CD signings.
[13:53] So is this a coached voicemail from Moose, do you think?
[13:57] No.
[13:57] You reckon it's legit?
[13:58] I think what it is is the CDs come out and I think someone had...
[14:03] I remember someone recognised her from the CD.
[14:05] Like, she was...
[14:06] you know, at a shop or whatever.
[14:08] And I think this was her ringing to tell us,
[14:11] that she'd been recognised because now the CD was out, as you say, 100,000 people heard it.
[14:16] Because Moosey was so big for our show.
[14:18] Yeah, huge part of the show.
[14:20] Obviously a bigger part of your life.
[14:22] Genetically, I thank her as well.
[14:24] But she was so much fun.
[14:26] Like you kind of, you could see kind of where you're, she was a rascal.
[14:30] She was a total rascal and she was just always fun.
[14:33] She was always up for it.
[14:35] Like all my memories of Moosey would just...
[14:37] often of her laughing uncontrollably.
[14:39] Yes.
[14:40] Now I realise too, like, it's pretty rare to have grown-ups that cack themselves.
[14:44] Like, she was often crying with laughter.
[14:47] And unflappable.
[14:48] Like, that's the other thing what I see with my dad now and parents are getting older.
[14:52] It's like, they're not as quick as they used to.
[14:54] Moosey was still quick.
[14:56] Yep.
[14:57] Loved a fast gag.
[14:58] If you tried to pull the wool over her or get one up, yep, yep.
[15:02] Very difficult because you'll snap back.
[15:03] It's pretty awesome.
[15:04] So if, you know, if you'll indulge me, let's just hear about this.
[15:09] The 22nd of January, 2009.
[15:13] Namish and Andy driving you home.
[15:14] Ham.
[15:15] And we have not yet mentioned this year the result of our clash against Britney Spears in the charts.
[15:24] It is with an amazing amount of humility and gratitude that we say thank you to the purchasers of Unessential Listening, LCD.
[15:32] Still available.
[15:33] We did beat Britney in that particular week.
[15:36] And she didn't have one prank call on her album.
[15:39] Lazy, lazy, lazy.
[15:42] Lazy.
[15:43] Look, we do want to sincerely thank everybody that bought the CD and continues to buy it.
[15:48] That is awesome.
[15:49] And, look, one thing we didn't discuss too much last year is we also have managed to raise quite a bit of money for the Starlight Foundation through the sale of the CD.
[15:57] Yep.
[15:58] Now, the Starlight Foundation, I've recently discovered not the only people who the CD's lives has affected.
[16:05] Really?
[16:05] Right.
[16:06] My grandma, Moosey, who features on this show from time to time, did also make the CD.
[16:12] There's a few moments of Moosey on the CD.
[16:15] And I got a voicemail message from her because while she doesn't mention it in the message,
[16:21] the guy that she's talking about had bought the CD and listened to it, right?
[16:25] Hadn't really heard the show.
[16:26] He might have been given the CD.
[16:29] He's listened to the CD.
[16:30] He's aware of who Moosey is, right?
[16:32] Yeah.
[16:32] In this little conversation she's about to relay from my voicemail.
[16:36] Another key phrase to look out for here is her saying, an incredible thing has just happened.
[16:40] Have a listen to this and you tell me if you would rate this as incredible.
[16:44] This is your mercy.
[16:45] And incredible things just happened.
[16:48] I had some photographs of you developed today from Christmas and then I bought a new pair of shoes and I took them to the shoemaker to have it stretched a little bit on the right foot because it was too tight.
[16:58] And he saw the photograph of you and he said, where did you get that photograph of Hamish?
[17:02] And Don laughed and he said, he's our grandson.
[17:05] And the shoemaker looked at me and he said, you must be mercy.
[17:09] Anyway, he was going to charge me $11 to stretch my shoes, which he'd written me out a docket for, and then he said, oh, hell, I can't do that.
[17:16] So he scratched it all out and he said, with my compliments, how could I do that to Moosey?
[17:20] I couldn't charge you.
[17:22] So I'm voting to tell you that you've turned out to be an asset, not a liability.
[17:26] Call me back if you get a chance.
[17:27] Bye now.
[17:29] Not only has the Starlight Foundation better, Fernando, but a free shoe stretch for my grandma.
[17:36] She was so wrapped and I was a bit busy the day she called.
[17:39] I didn't call her back.
[17:40] I got this message at like 7.30 in the morning the next day.
[17:44] Missy and Smoothie, where are you?
[17:46] I'm planning to see if you got my message from last night telling you that I saved 13 bucks on my shoes.
[17:51] What a good thing, eh?
[17:52] Take care.
[17:53] Bye now.
[17:55] Now, she is so thrilled that if the Starlight Foundation wants to use the money to stretch any of the kids' shoes... We can give them the name of a pretty generous cobbler who will do sheer stretching for free.
[18:07] LAUGHTER
[18:10] Oh, mate, better than I could have hoped for.
[18:12] Better than I could have hoped for.
[18:14] What a legend.
[18:16] Yeah, great remembering, Ab.

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