# Wippa Tries To Buy A Lamborghini

An episode of [Hamish & Andy Plus +](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1616749262), 11 May 2022, 20 min.

Audio: https://enrichment.soundstack.com/4vjqq8/episode.flightcast.com/y297zj5ar850rgoks6pad5u0.mp3

The boys reminisce about celebrities they completely forgot were on the show, like ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic. This causes an argument about his back catalog of Parody Songs. Plus, they look back at the time they set their friend Wippa up to try and test drive a Lamborghini, in a prank that wasn’t thought out well at all. Hamish & Andy's Remembering Project. Season 3, Episode 6.

## 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 6th of March.
[0:37] Okay, that's Andy's go then.
[0:38] Let's kick it off and find out what years Andy will take us back to and we'll see if we remember anything from those years.
[0:47] This is Hamish and Andy's Remembering Project.
[0:53] Hey, nice to be back in the Overloat here, hotel.
[0:56] Very nice.
[0:57] Our place of choice for the year.
[0:59] This is where we come to remember.
[1:00] Sometimes if I've lost my keys, I'll just come here.
[1:03] And they're often at the front desk because you leave them when you check in.
[1:08] Hey, my go this time around.
[1:11] And, gee, March 6th.
[1:13] I wish my name was Robert.
[1:15] Because there's a great my go, Robbie, opportunity for you that I can't provide.
[1:21] No.
[1:22] And I regret that for you.
[1:24] This is quite remarkable.
[1:27] Of the 15 years of broadcasting, we only did shows on March 6th four times.
[1:35] Curse a day.
[1:36] No shows 2005, 2006, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17.
[1:43] Was it a cursed day, do you think, looking at the content we provided that day?
[1:46] Or was it a sacred day?
[1:48] Will it be remembered as like a triumphant day?
[1:51] Why wouldn't we be doing shows?
[1:53] I mean, just sitting weekends, you reckon?
[1:55] Hitting weekends, hitting other stuff.
[1:56] A couple of years we're doing TV stuff near the start of the year.
[1:59] Yeah, a couple of late comebacks.
[2:03] Yeah.
[2:03] We had two or three of those, didn't we?
[2:06] 2007, Weird Al Yankovic was on.
[2:08] I don't remember ever having Weird Al on.
[2:12] It would have been huge for us at the time.
[2:14] That's very early days.
[2:15] We would have been losing this shit.
[2:16] Do you know who Weird Al is, Mike?
[2:17] Love Weird Al.
[2:18] Yeah.
[2:18] Huge fan of Weird Al.
[2:19] I mean, he's still doing great work now.
[2:21] Yeah.
[2:22] But we had him on.
[2:23] When was the last time you saw him, Mike?
[2:25] In person?
[2:26] I've never seen him.
[2:26] Well, I'll take that.
[2:27] But, I mean, I just saw him do something.
[2:30] Oh, he was on a TV show recently.
[2:32] Yeah, he's on something big that I can't quite remember.
[2:36] He's doing stuff.
[2:37] Do you want me to Google it?
[2:38] Yeah.
[2:38] I want to say he was doing something with Larry David.
[2:40] Really?
[2:41] I saw them together in some sort of context.
[2:42] Anyway, yeah, he's done stuff recently.
[2:44] So he would have done a funny song, I imagine, that he was releasing?
[2:48] Yeah.
[2:48] I mean, that was early days for radio.
[2:50] Not that we're anything special, you know, towards the end of our…
[2:53] radio days, but it would have been a lot of us naming things he'd done.
[2:56] Yep.
[2:58] Thinking that's research.
[3:00] Just like, I'm just naming something like, I remember you did fat for bad.
[3:06] And he'll go, yeah, I remember it.
[3:07] And we're like...
[3:08] Yeah, so do we.
[3:09] So that's that.
[3:10] So, but I think he did release another comedy song around that time.
[3:14] I remember he's coming back.
[3:15] Jack Black was in the film clip.
[3:18] Yeah, he did.
[3:18] I had the CD in my car.
[3:20] He did like Avril Lavigne songs and stuff like that.
[3:23] He just did like a whole new batch of early 2000s.
[3:26] His hilarious song for Avril Lavigne was instead of complicated, it was about eating lots of cheese and why'd you have to go and make me so constipated?
[3:35] Constipated.
[3:36] Is that really good?
[3:36] Still gets mine.
[3:38] Still gets mine.
[3:40] I was a big fan of The Saga Begins, which was American Pie, but the story of the first Star Wars movie.
[3:46] That was a good one.
[3:46] Okay, yeah.
[3:47] Yeah.
[3:48] I don't know what that even means.
[3:49] What do you mean?
[3:50] The song American Pie.
[3:51] Oh, bye-bye.
[3:52] Yeah, Dom McLean.
[3:54] Dom McLean, but it was the story of Star Wars Episode I.
[3:57] Classic song.
[3:59] Okay.
[3:59] Well, niche.
[4:01] I mean, Weird Al would have liked the My Go Robbie.
[4:04] That was right up.
[4:05] I mean, so I didn't know we were doing a Weird Al homage episode, but he would have absolutely adored that.
[4:11] Yeah.
[4:11] If he was our audio producer, it would have got a bit more than a patronising honk.
[4:17] Well, the funny thing is that it's like everyone does parodies.
[4:21] Like every radio station does parody songs.
[4:24] Yeah, but not like Weird Al.
[4:25] And Weird Al somehow has captured the imagination as the guy to do it.
[4:30] You're right.
[4:31] I mean, he blew away a generation by changing the lyrics.
[4:34] He must have pretty simply.
[4:36] He must have been.
[4:39] He must have had moments where he was sitting back in the mansion because he was selling millions of albums going crazy
[4:45] Just changing the lyric.
[4:48] And if you think about it, with mates, it's not very hard.
[4:52] You can do it too.
[4:53] Mike, can you look up what the song was with, I think it was a song about being on your screens.
[4:59] It was like the most contemporary weirdo we'd ever –
[5:03] Yeah, and this is boring for everyone.
[5:04] But the film clip was him running around a building.
[5:06] It was all one shot.
[5:07] And he had a lot of different huge celebrities in it.
[5:11] It's called Tacky and I think it was a parody of Happy by Pharrell.
[5:15] That's exactly what it was.
[5:16] Yeah, because I'm tacky.
[5:18] That's a lyrical miss, isn't it?
[5:19] I mean, Weird Al's done some of the best, like, Constipated and Complicated is great.
[5:25] Tacky to Happy is a miss.
[5:27] But his biggest one was Fat from Bad, isn't it?
[5:29] That's still a hit.
[5:31] I know, but Fat and Bad don't rhyme.
[5:33] No, I just mean, like, the funniness of, like, going.
[5:36] I mean, back then, I mean, times have changed.
[5:39] But back then to kids in the 90s and, like, Eat It instead of Beat It, it was like...
[5:45] Maybe he didn't do fat to bad.
[5:47] He did.
[5:48] I think he did.
[5:49] No, I think he did eat it.
[5:51] He did eat it.
[5:52] He did eat it.
[5:53] Instead of beat it.
[5:54] Yeah, I don't think he would have done fat to bad.
[5:57] I think we're thinking of eating to beat it.
[6:01] Can you check that, Mike?
[6:02] I actually think he might have done both.
[6:03] No, he wouldn't have.
[6:05] You wouldn't have gone, okay, Edith was awesome.
[6:07] I'm going to go and do Fat But Bad.
[6:11] I think he peaked with Michael Jackson with Edith.
[6:14] He did both, didn't he?
[6:15] It is a song.
[6:16] Fat by Weird Al is a song.
[6:19] I knew what he was doing.
[6:20] And it was his second parody of a Michael Jackson song, the first being Charlie.
[6:25] He only did weight gain related Michael Jackson parodies.
[6:30] Wow.
[6:31] Anyway.
[6:31] I mean, look, I'm saying times have changed.
[6:34] Of course, if you brought that up these days, people would be like, this is horrible.
[6:37] The culture changes as the culture moves on.
[6:39] But I'm just saying at the time, what that meant.
[6:43] Fat shaming was hilarious.
[6:44] Comedically, kids were just losing their mind over it.
[6:47] Rightly or wrongly,
[6:49] doing a song about being tacky just didn't cut.
[6:52] That's what I'm saying.
[6:53] I'm not talking about the rhyme quality.
[6:54] I'm just talking about the zing quality.
[6:58] That really is funny that he did both.
[7:00] It really screams of a manager walking in and going, yeah, eat it went well, didn't it?
[7:06] Yeah.
[7:07] What else does Michael Jackson have?
[7:09] I mean, he's got Thriller.
[7:11] Are you a milkshake spiller?
[7:12] No.
[7:14] Something we could do with that.
[7:15] You're just a big guy that's angry.
[7:17] He spilled his milkshake because it's working.
[7:21] I'm going to jump around a bit, Ham.
[7:23] 2009, we just survived the storm.
[7:26] Huge hurricane of our tall ship adventure and I married a rat.
[7:29] Yes.
[7:30] But let's not go there because we'll hit that another time.
[7:34] In 2013, we talked to a girl and the topic was road trips.
[7:40] Cool.
[7:41] Right?
[7:42] And we talked to a girl who'd been banned for life from playing I Spy.
[7:50] Do you remember why she was banned?
[7:53] No, not at all.
[7:54] But a banning for life.
[7:58] I thought you were going to say she'd been banned for life from our show.
[8:01] No.
[8:01] Because didn't we have one person we banned for life?
[8:03] Yes.
[8:03] I know.
[8:04] It's a totally different story but maybe that will come up on another remembering project.
[8:07] But we did ban someone for life from the show.
[8:09] Yes.
[8:11] Which is a huge punishment, doubly so that I can't remember why he did it.
[8:15] Yeah, and it was a he and he's not allowed to listen to the show either.
[8:18] That's how, yeah.
[8:19] So it wasn't him.
[8:21] But I mean, I assume this girl had done the same level of crime but for I Spy.
[8:25] Well, I couldn't remember either but let's have a listen.
[8:29] The 6th of March, 2013.
[8:34] So this went on for four hours, this game of I Spy.
[8:37] Yeah, I think we were playing.
[8:39] And what did it begin with?
[8:40] Let's start there.
[8:41] What did you spy beginning with what?
[8:43] The best one ever.
[8:45] Yeah, the best one ever.
[8:46] So I said I spy with my away.
[8:50] Something starting with tea.
[8:52] Tea, tea.
[8:53] And no one could guess it for four hours.
[8:56] Just so you know, Ham.
[8:57] Thought bubbles.
[8:59] I can see it now as well.
[9:01] And I might have been driving along.
[9:02] Right.
[9:05] Top bloke.
[9:07] No, it's not.
[9:08] Totally handsome guy.
[9:10] No superlatives.
[9:10] It's a thing.
[9:13] Just tigers.
[9:15] No, you can't see it, bro.
[9:20] Tip of the tips of things.
[9:24] Tips of noses, tips of fingers.
[9:25] Again.
[9:26] It's not tips of things.
[9:27] It's a thing.
[9:28] Well, I'm out.
[9:29] Yeah.
[9:31] Can you tell us what it was?
[9:32] In fact, a little bit of a drum roll.
[9:33] The best ever, I spy of all time, taken away Georgie.
[9:37] What was it?
[9:39] It was a tongue.
[9:42] Tongues.
[9:43] Tongues.
[9:44] Which have tips.
[9:47] And the clue was right there on the tips of my tongue.
[9:51] So tongues, that's just a pretty good one.
[9:54] That's not a cheat.
[9:55] You were banned for life.
[9:58] Yeah.
[9:59] Yeah.
[9:59] This is BS.
[10:00] I suppose in my little life something beginning with T, it's a travesty.
[10:05] Mate, tongues?
[10:06] Yeah.
[10:07] How did someone not guess tongues?
[10:09] Tongues.
[10:09] I was going to say, I'm just playing along.
[10:10] I mean, I have no recollection of that, but that's what this show is about.
[10:13] Yeah.
[10:13] I was like, teeth, the earth?
[10:16] I thought thoughts would have been like… Yeah, yeah.
[10:18] Yeah, but… But again, that's kind of like mystical.
[10:20] You can't guess what that tongue…
[10:22] But four hours is also… I mean, I would ban the guesses for life.
[10:25] Just be like, we're sitting here looking at each other and you didn't guess tongue.
[10:30] Surely you go through every part of the visible body.
[10:32] Yeah.
[10:32] Well, they didn't.
[10:33] But anyway, George, you banned for life.
[10:35] Was that the happy hour?
[10:36] It would be.
[10:37] That was the happy hour, yeah.
[10:38] Where we had one topic a day.
[10:39] That's what I loved about the happy hour.
[10:40] And we were actually on a road trip at the time.
[10:42] That's why we were in… Where were we?
[10:44] We were just doing the last bit of the show driving home.
[10:47] That's right.
[10:50] Really?
[10:51] So the topic for that day was road trips.
[10:52] Road trips.
[10:53] And we thought we'd leave early.
[10:56] Oh, Mike.
[10:57] You are young and you will have your own show one day and I want you to learn from Uncle Hamish and Andy that this is the kind of shit you don't – if you aren't paying attention in the meeting, you could miss something like that.
[11:10] You could miss a whole 15-minute early leave.
[11:13] Do we really?
[11:14] Yeah, yeah.
[11:15] So that's fun.
[11:17] It's definitely one of the ones where we're like, well, look at us putting in the extra work.
[11:21] Hey, though, the one thing I did want to look at, though, is 2008.
[11:25] And the reason why this struck a chord with me is I don't remember us getting this person to do it.
[11:33] They are quite a big celebrity now and a good friend of ours in Whipper.
[11:37] All right.
[11:38] But in 2008, Whipper was still doing pranks for us on our drive show.
[11:45] I thought he got sacked.
[11:46] So did I.
[11:47] He used to do our Saturday morning show.
[11:49] Yes.
[11:50] And he got thoroughly sacked.
[11:51] Sacked because… Did we bring him?
[11:53] But 2008.
[11:54] Exactly.
[11:55] And then he would have been up against us with Ryan and Katie Diamond.
[12:00] I thought it was that year he was up against us or if not, like one year later.
[12:04] A year later on Nova and Drive Radio on a different station.
[12:08] Maybe he was just between gigs.
[12:10] You know what?
[12:10] Maybe he was over.
[12:12] He was doing Perth.
[12:13] We were on the same.
[12:13] He was doing Perth breakfast, maybe 2008.
[12:16] And maybe it was like we just got him on for the drive show because we're like we need him to do something.
[12:21] So all it says is Whipper tries to buy a Lamborghini.
[12:26] Do you remember that at all?
[12:27] I do remember this.
[12:29] I do.
[12:29] I reckon we got him to do it.
[12:33] He was in Perth.
[12:34] He was living in Perth at the time doing Perth Breakfast Radio.
[12:37] And he knew, I think he knew a guy whose dad had a Lamborghini dealership.
[12:45] I'm going to guess the name here, Troy Barbagello.
[12:50] Mike, Google Barbagello Lamborghini Perth.
[12:55] If I've got this, I mean, I already got fat for Weird Al.
[12:59] Yeah, you're a hater.
[13:00] Barbagello Lamborghini.
[13:03] He's got it.
[13:03] It is a thing.
[13:06] So we wanted to, do we want to see… What has happened to my brain today?
[13:09] I am juiced.
[13:10] Do we want to, did we want to see where the whipper could… How easy it was to buy one?
[13:16] And I think what we were trying to do was to get him to go in, knowing that we could, if things went sideways, we could do a bit of ha, ha, ha.
[13:24] Can I speak to Troy Barbegallo, please?
[13:25] Right.
[13:26] I'm his friend.
[13:26] And so we had whipper on an earpiece or… Mustard, yeah, earpiece or a hidden mark or something.
[13:32] Before that, though, let's take a quick break.
[13:36] Okay, perfect.
[13:37] Let's have a listen back.
[13:40] The 6th of March, 2008.
[13:42] Pam, we just brought this up.
[13:46] Is it possible for an everyday fellow like you or me just to walk in and get a test drive of a Lamborghini?
[13:52] No bloke listening to this or girl for that matter can honestly say they've never driven past a prestige place and gone, look, I know I'll never afford one, but I wonder if they'd just give me a test drive anyway.
[14:02] We're stuck in the studio at the moment.
[14:03] A friend of ours, Whipper, is not.
[14:05] We know he'll be doing nothing.
[14:07] Yeah, fellas, look, I am your classic.
[14:10] Like, you're lucky I've dressed down for the day, got rid of the suit.
[14:12] I'm just in a shirt, jeans that's got a hole in a crutch and a pair of thongs.
[14:16] So in terms of looking like your average bum that wanders in, I'm perfect for the job.
[14:21] Here's the challenge, though.
[14:22] You have to get a test drive by yourself, okay?
[14:26] By myself, so nobody to do with the dealership.
[14:28] Yeah, they're not allowed to come with you.
[14:31] Impossible.
[14:32] Okay, we'll see.
[14:33] We'll find out.
[14:33] Now, Whippa, where are you placed now?
[14:35] Are you outside the dealership?
[14:37] I'm at the front of the dealership, mate, so I'm sort of just, as you can see, in the yard.
[14:41] I can see a couple of Ferraris already, a Maserati just pulled in.
[14:45] I'm certainly in the right spot for it.
[14:46] I mean, have you checked out your back story?
[14:48] Do you know what you're going to be saying?
[14:49] Mate, you know what?
[14:50] I reckon I'll just go with the mining boom.
[14:52] Fortiskew metals is a good one.
[14:54] Quiggy Forest was, I think, the wealthiest man in Australia sometime last year, so maybe that'll work.
[14:59] Yeah, how come you haven't got me shoes?
[15:01] I'm wearing Australian homemade products, mate.
[15:07] He's good.
[15:07] I'm just trying to pretend that I'm sort of kicking a few tires before I go in there.
[15:11] So just having a look at a V8 Maserati.
[15:14] Oh, very good one.
[15:15] My price tag is $230,000.
[15:17] I'm never going to make that much in a lifetime.
[15:20] $230,000.
[15:21] Wow.
[15:21] Yeah, I'm just walking in here now.
[15:24] I guess what I've just found.
[15:27] What?
[15:28] Black.
[15:29] Black Labaghanie.
[15:30] That's your favourite.
[15:31] I'll pretend I'm hanging out.
[15:33] Okay mate, see ya.
[15:34] G'day mate, how are you?
[15:35] Yeah, very well.
[15:36] Good, Bridget.
[15:37] Yeah, how are you doing?
[15:38] Alright?
[15:38] James, how are ya?
[15:39] James, mate, had a bit of a, well, unfortunate, a show with the family.
[15:46] But in that happening, there's a bit of inheritance that's come my way, mate, so I'm...
[15:51] Well, I agree.
[15:52] At the moment I've got the 97 Commodore, which has done 300,000 k's maintenance.
[15:57] Got the engine falling out on every corner.
[16:00] But, walking in and looking at that thing.
[16:03] What are we talking, 0 to 100?
[16:04] Well, the Spyder's 3.7.
[16:06] 3.7?
[16:06] Sorry, 3.9 and the Cybillage is 3.7.
[16:08] Okay.
[16:12] Mate, if we're talking figures, where are we at with them?
[16:15] Just to be straight up, I mean, I know there's negotiating, but give me a ballpark.
[16:18] It's got away on the card behind it, it's 543.
[16:22] 543?
[16:23] Okay.
[16:24] Over half a million bucks.
[16:26] To be open and frank, if I can throw the spreadsheet on the table, the budget's around 600,000, so...
[16:31] It's kind of a go for it, whatever your dream car is, let's push it.
[16:36] Rupees.
[16:37] Is there any chance we can grab the keys and spin it around the block once or twice?
[16:43] You look a bit hesitant, James.
[16:45] We've got a lot of people coming here on the spot here.
[16:48] Yeah, yeah.
[16:48] We need to establish the right car for you.
[16:52] Well, I'll find out after I drive.
[16:53] Do you think we need to clear the way?
[16:55] I suppose I could find out after I've driven it whether it's the right one.
[16:59] You know, James, just to get the feel.
[17:04] Yeah.
[17:04] I mean, I could take it around the block by myself anyway.
[17:07] No, not by myself.
[17:08] No.
[17:09] I would prefer to drive it by myself.
[17:11] I would prefer to take it by myself as possible.
[17:14] The only way you'd buy this car is driving it on your own.
[17:17] We'd need to go to the next level where we write up the contract.
[17:21] Yeah.
[17:21] But I don't know whether I want to buy it yet because I haven't driven it.
[17:24] Yeah, it's just hard to tell whether I do want to actually buy it because I haven't run the thing around the block.
[17:29] And I can understand.
[17:30] It's a tough one.
[17:31] But it's a question that we get asked a lot.
[17:33] Hey, Wepa.
[17:35] Yeah.
[17:37] Would you mind us putting the salesman's onto the phone to us?
[17:40] Yeah, hold on a second.
[17:41] Can you put James on?
[17:42] It's pretty much a no.
[17:43] I don't think you got it.
[17:45] Sorry, James, can I just give you this for two seconds, mate?
[17:50] James.
[17:51] Yes.
[17:52] It's Hamish and Andy here, mate.
[17:53] How are you?
[17:53] Yeah, very well.
[17:55] Hey, James, at any point, would you let a customer like Whipper just take a Lamborghini out?
[18:01] No, mate.
[18:02] No.
[18:04] Well...
[18:05] paperwork drawn up before we let them do that.
[18:07] How much of a cash deposit would you have needed to see from Whipper so he could leave the lot in that car?
[18:15] Cash alone would be quite high, but if we were doing the paperwork, which then makes it legal, something like $50,000 would have done.
[18:23] What about if he left you his Commodore?
[18:26] $49,000?
[18:27] Yeah, it sounds like a fair trade then.
[18:29] $49,000 plus a Commodore.
[18:32] Well James, it's something that Hamish and I have wondered for a while, whether we could just walk in and get itself a test drive and a Lamborghini, it appears that you need to A, have money, or B, the intention to buy it.
[18:43] Is that correct?
[18:43] Yeah, he probably puts the main one there.
[18:46] Obviously we don't like to sort of pigeonhole people just by them walking in, but expressing a little bit more interest and one not coming from a radio station house.
[18:58] I mean, you look back at things like that and you go, what was the point there?
[19:02] Like, what were we trying to do?
[19:04] I mean, I cringe a bit listening back to this stuff where I go, were we trying to go, hey, can he drive it out himself?
[19:09] Yeah, he can.
[19:10] Well, you're an idiot.
[19:10] He could have stolen it.
[19:12] It's just not going to – that's why they have the rules.
[19:15] Like why keep asking and now are people allowed to just steal the car?
[19:19] Yeah, essentially.
[19:20] And are people allowed to take it out without doing any paperwork?
[19:22] No, we have to do it properly.
[19:23] A better experiment would have been can you just go test it even if their person's in like with you.
[19:28] Can you just go and enjoy driving the car?
[19:31] Because that is still interesting.
[19:32] Which you probably could if you, I don't know, wore a suit and showed that you cared.
[19:38] Yeah, but unfortunately we ruined our own experiment by putting this unreasonable... Like so determined to then spin around and go, well, have you ever thought that someone could steal it?
[19:48] Yeah.
[19:49] No, we're a car dealership and that never crossed our mind.
[19:52] We deal with cars all day long and it actually never occurred to us that a guy would swap a Commodore for a Lamborghini.
[19:57] Oh, my God, thank you so much for exposing a loophole.
[19:59] Would you like a complimentary car as a thank you?
[20:01] But where has Whipper come a fair way from the old Commodore?
[20:04] He certainly has his doing fine now.
[20:06] No dramas there.
[20:07] Great remembering.

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