# Nice And Easy Adam Labrizzi And The Not So Easy Eugene Levy

An episode of [Hamish & Andy Plus +](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1616749262), 19 Oct 2020, 19 min.

Audio: https://enrichment.soundstack.com/4vjqq8/episode.flightcast.com/wgqn0c0a0yisfj9wbhojoroq.mp3

The two times Hamish & Andy's rhyming game names backfired, plus they remember back to Dicko hosting My Restaurant Rules, the deal they had with our boss for 3 Hungover shows a year and one of Jack’s worst button pushing efforts ever. Hamish & Andy's Remembering Project. Season 1, Episode 4.

## 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 Wurst here for any technical stuff.
[0:32] Hello.
[0:32] Mike, what date was randomly chosen today?
[0:35] It is the 3rd of May.
[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.
[0:48] This is Hamish and Andy's Remembering Project.
[0:55] The 3rd of May and...
[0:56] Yes.
[0:56] May the 3rd be with you.
[0:58] Super popular.
[0:59] Yeah.
[1:01] A lot of great options.
[1:02] A lot of great options in the 3rd of May.
[1:03] Can I just start with one?
[1:04] I tried to get two pieces of audio for today.
[1:06] Okay.
[1:07] It's the first time I've seen something in an old run sheet and I've gone, I want to get that because I'm positive it will be...
[1:13] Terrible.
[1:15] Oh, no.
[1:15] But not even the worst kind of terrible.
[1:17] Not even like, oh, my God, that was the day where, like, nothing happened and it became a famous bad story.
[1:23] I mean just like run of the mill because I saw it was at 5.55.
[1:27] So I was like, we've just jammed it at the end of the show.
[1:30] Just perfunctory.
[1:31] So, like, boring.
[1:32] Worse than terrible, boring.
[1:33] Like, just… May as well have played another song.
[1:36] Should have.
[1:37] And actually, no, that's getting to be offensive because it did involve someone else.
[1:41] But when you see it, you go... What year?
[1:44] 2007.
[1:45] That's why I can't get it because we only have, again...
[1:48] This little vortex of...
[1:49] It's like we have memory loss from 2007 and we only remember Snatchers.
[1:54] There's a Bermuda Triangle where a lot of the audio went into.
[1:58] The hard drive's been scrambled.
[2:00] Some's been defrayed.
[2:01] We don't have it all.
[2:02] Usually for a lot of those shows in 2007, we only have...
[2:05] the bits that made it into the highlights.
[2:07] Yes.
[2:08] Or, you know, possibly got replayed on a Saturday morning.
[2:11] Because I believe, yeah, that's right.
[2:13] We had a Saturday morning show that we'd pull highlights from the week.
[2:16] And also in 2006, I think we uploaded Singular Breaks as a podcast.
[2:22] It wasn't like a longer...
[2:23] Yes, yes.
[2:24] Podcast.
[2:24] Because it might have been one.
[2:25] We put up like four breaks from the show.
[2:27] We picked our four that we liked and put them up.
[2:29] And I think you even had to go like the station website to play them as like WAV files or something.
[2:36] It was Microsoft Media Player or something.
[2:38] It was a very difficult system.
[2:40] So I, you know, when I was like, okay, great, 3rd of May, 3rd of May, saw this on the Run Show in 2007, emailed Marshy who tries to find this stuff for us.
[2:49] You know, I can say, sorry, mate, it wasn't good enough.
[2:52] obviously at the time.
[2:54] To make the best of it.
[2:55] And I went, yeah.
[2:56] What was it?
[2:57] No doubt because that's sort of, I mean, it's nothing terrible, but it was invite Dicko to the spit roast party.
[3:05] Ian Dicko Dixon.
[3:08] Ian Dicko Dixon from Australian Idol.
[3:10] And this would have been early days of Australian Idol 2.
[3:12] He was huge.
[3:12] Massive, right?
[3:13] Big name at the time again.
[3:16] Yeah.
[3:16] In the Australian television landscape.
[3:18] Because then he jumped from Australian Idol to host My Kitchen Rules.
[3:22] Big money.
[3:22] It was actually called My Restaurant Rules at this point.
[3:25] And it was the precursor to My Kitchen Rules.
[3:28] What unliking.
[3:29] He jumped big money.
[3:30] That was the big news at the time.
[3:32] He jumped to Channel 7 to host My Restaurant Rules.
[3:34] But it was the revamp of My Restaurant Rules because they'd already tried it a few times.
[3:37] Yeah, you and I… We went to the original.
[3:39] The original in 2003 or 2004, I'm going to say, started at four because it was one of the first events Hamish and I got invited to as the Hamish and Andy TV show was about to come out.
[3:52] So we were on Channel 7 with the Hamish and Andy TV show.
[3:54] Got axed after six weeks.
[3:55] It was about to come out.
[3:56] It was like a whack-a-mole.
[3:57] It only came out very briefly.
[3:58] Smashed on the head.
[4:02] disappeared without a trace.
[4:04] Without a trace.
[4:04] But before it was, just when it was getting ready to come out of its burrow, in that moment, Annie, what was Annie's last name?
[4:12] Our publicist.
[4:13] Annie Tunnicliffe.
[4:14] Lovely, lovely lady.
[4:15] And when I say disappeared, Mark, we tried to contact Channel 7 to get the Hamish Nanny show and they said they taped the Commonwealth Games over or something like that.
[4:22] I did.
[4:23] I said, that's what my dad does on VHS days.
[4:25] Yeah, it was like they had one master copy and they were like, no one's going to need this.
[4:31] Wow.
[4:31] So early days, yeah.
[4:33] So back in Channel 7 days.
[4:35] We went to.
[4:36] So it was Annie Tunnicliffe's job to essentially take these two 21, 22-year-olds who no one had heard of, had no presence or canon of work.
[4:45] No.
[4:45] No.
[4:46] you know, it's not like they had a legion of fans anywhere.
[4:49] So basically just take two nobodies, get them up to like nationally recognised status.
[4:54] Yes.
[4:55] Before the show logs.
[4:56] In a couple of weeks.
[4:58] So it's like… So they were trying to get us on the My Restaurant Rules finale just in the crowd as eating.
[5:05] So people go, oh, it's so…
[5:07] Yeah, and like did a similar thing with the tennis.
[5:10] We had to sit through like a whole match.
[5:12] So at the end they go, and there's Hamish and Ian.
[5:14] Just shuffling of papers from the commentators here.
[5:17] Good to see those guys in the crowd, Hamish and Ian.
[5:18] And we went and Ham went to get a beer and I got a call going, where is Hamish?
[5:24] Because they had the allotted time like between the games and we had to be in our seats.
[5:29] It was like 10.30 at night to try and find me.
[5:31] So one of the things they did was we got to go to the Melbourne restaurant for my restaurant rules and...
[5:36] while it was in its like hype stage and we were all able to like pass the queue to get in.
[5:42] And I remember us just going, we were like amazed because we're like this is probably going to be free.
[5:48] This is a free dinner.
[5:49] We're going to have a free dinner.
[5:50] And the owners slash contestants from Melbourne came past and were really nice to us.
[5:57] How's everything going?
[5:58] We're like this is our mom.
[5:59] This is Studio 54, baby.
[6:02] And then we were like, let's have quite a lot to drink.
[6:06] Yeah.
[6:06] Because we were so excited.
[6:07] And then we found out that they didn't have a liquor license.
[6:10] So they were like, because they had to make money.
[6:12] They had to make like a business model and it was all virgin cocktails and stuff.
[6:15] So that kind of wrapped that night up pretty quickly.
[6:17] Yeah.
[6:18] But anyway.
[6:19] Many years later, Channel 7 tried again.
[6:21] Dicko was the host.
[6:23] Yes.
[6:23] And so 2007, that would have – so this break of inviting Dicko to the Spit Rice Party, the only reason I wanted to listen to it because I'm like, you know how it would go, right?
[6:32] Just, hey, would you like to come?
[6:33] Oh, I'll check my diary.
[6:36] Just a fake invite.
[6:37] He's obviously been – he's obviously said yes, he'll come through a publicist.
[6:40] Yeah, Channel 10 publicity is making him go.
[6:42] Yep.
[6:43] And we go through this thing of, you know, inviting him.
[6:45] And then we go, oh, wow, the invite list is getting crazier and crazier.
[6:50] And you go, yeah.
[6:52] Yes, I guess it is.
[6:56] Yeah.
[6:57] It was a funny system, the old have an event but then spend two weeks inviting people on air to it.
[7:02] who had already agreed through back channels that they're obliged to be there to sort of... And a lot of people, I really appreciated doing that.
[7:09] The older I get, the more I realise.
[7:11] Oh, so grateful for them.
[7:12] People with kids, people with like things to do would go and spend the afternoon doing that for us.
[7:18] And we have every year a spit roast party to celebrate the Logies, which was turned into a really fun event for us.
[7:23] It was super fun but like really grateful that people bothered to do it.
[7:26] People can't even bother going to the Logies.
[7:29] Let alone a radio show to promote the Logies.
[7:31] Yeah.
[7:31] Anyway, would have been great.
[7:33] Would have been great to hear us trying to keep the ball in the air there.
[7:38] Fast forward to 2010.
[7:42] The 3rd of May 2010 was the day after the Lokis.
[7:44] Must have been a Monday.
[7:45] Wow.
[7:46] And those shows were always traditionally quite hungover.
[7:48] But I don't remember it being one of our worst.
[7:50] No.
[7:50] I looked at the run, Gene, and I went, ah, looks like we've got it.
[7:53] Got it together.
[7:53] Putting together this show.
[7:54] Because, Mike, we had a deal with our boss that we could have three hungover shows a year.
[8:00] Yeah.
[8:00] And look, to be honest, on the most part, we were pretty professional the whole time.
[8:03] We loved the show and it wasn't that much fun to do hungover.
[8:05] It was just too hard.
[8:06] It's just too hard.
[8:07] You wanted to jam-pack so much fun stuff in.
[8:10] So, but yeah, we'd pick them wisely and I think we invented the bell system post-Logies 1, which is why if you couldn't be bothered speaking anymore, you were allowed to ring a bell.
[8:20] Yeah.
[8:23] Dave came in after that show and said, we won't be having a bell system ever again.
[8:28] By the end of it, just sound like Adelaide on the hour, just bells ringing everywhere.
[8:33] So, yeah.
[8:36] The other great thing for 2007, not good enough to make the highlight reel, was Spider-Man, the new Spider-Man with Tobey Maguire.
[8:42] Oh, yeah.
[8:42] It was coming out that year and that was a big, big film.
[8:45] And we had on the show live Sam Rami, who was the director.
[8:49] Yeah.
[8:51] So we couldn't get Tony.
[8:52] People would have tuned in for you.
[8:54] I remember, we didn't do many directors on the show.
[8:56] No.
[8:57] Unless it was a famous director like a Jon Favreau or someone who was also.
[9:01] M. Night Shyamalan.
[9:02] M. Night Shyamalan.
[9:03] Yeah.
[9:03] And like you.
[9:04] Yeah.
[9:06] Someone that you knew.
[9:08] Sometimes you had to take the director.
[9:10] It was like… That came as a package deal.
[9:12] It's a package deal.
[9:13] He's like, okay, so you want the big start.
[9:15] You have to take the director.
[9:16] The steak knives.
[9:17] And you're like, okay, yeah, throw them in.
[9:19] Not going to use them, but throw them in because I want the bar mix.
[9:23] They didn't make the thing anyway.
[9:24] Here's what I wanted to listen to.
[9:27] It's from Business Brunch, 2013.
[9:29] So Business Brunch was the show we did that year, which was on at an irregular time.
[9:34] This is the first year we really were doing it for podcasting.
[9:37] Yeah.
[9:37] It was broadcast on radio, but really we viewed it as a podcast.
[9:41] A podcast that was broadcast, yeah.
[9:42] Because in different states it was on at like quarter past nine, 9.30, 10 o'clock in Adelaide.
[9:48] And so it was on after the breakfast shows.
[9:50] We would pick one topic per show and the whole hour would just be about that topic very loosely.
[9:55] Yeah.
[9:56] We put the topic out the week before so everyone could… People could write in and nominate stuff.
[9:59] And we'd… I think our goal from memory was we were like, we'll do this until we've talked about every topic in the world.
[10:04] Yeah.
[10:06] I won't tell you what break is.
[10:07] We're going to hear the sponsor stuff first.
[10:08] Okay, of course.
[10:09] But then after this, because I'm going to say one word and you'll immediately know what we're talking about.
[10:14] Yep.
[10:16] Andy, finish this sentence.
[10:19] Nice and easy.
[10:19] Adam Labrese.
[10:21] Yes.
[10:24] To this day, we still say the phrase, nice and easy, Adam Labrese.
[10:29] Because a guy called Adam Labrese wrote into the show a lot on Business Brunch because it was sort of like we would request people write in.
[10:36] We had a different topic every day.
[10:38] And Adam Labrese would always try and get stuff in.
[10:41] So we'd often see his emails coming.
[10:42] It just became a thing we said to each other, nice and easy, Adam Labrese.
[10:45] But did it come, am I right in saying it came from the first Business Brunch episode we ever did?
[10:52] And it came off the back of I think something to do with hijab.
[10:55] I don't know why.
[10:55] Yeah.
[10:56] But Jack didn't record it.
[10:59] That's true.
[11:01] So we would… Oh, yeah.
[11:02] We recorded a whole thing and Jack didn't turn our mics on.
[11:06] He just had his computer mic on.
[11:07] We were in the closet at our TV production offices.
[11:11] Yeah.
[11:11] And so Jack goes, hey, guys, is this still good enough to put out?
[11:16] And it was just off the Mac.
[11:17] It's off the Mac mic and we're sounding like we're eight metres away.
[11:21] Which we kind of were.
[11:22] Yeah.
[11:22] And we said no.
[11:24] But we had so much fun leaning into, I think, this joke with Adam Labrese.
[11:28] Adam Labrese became like ten minutes of that podcast and it never aired.
[11:31] That's right.
[11:32] So I don't know what – all I know is – Classic Jack.
[11:37] Why do you think you're sitting there, Mark?
[11:38] LAUGHTER
[11:41] We don't have days to lose on this thing.
[11:45] This is the first, I think, another time that maybe the very first time that Adam Labrezi made it to air.
[11:51] I can't remember.
[11:51] Maybe we explained it.
[11:52] We might have been explaining to it.
[11:54] I also know, and I don't know if this is what we talk about here, maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
[11:58] I also know his name was actually Adam Labritzi.
[12:02] Remember it was a classic Eugene Levy situation, which we'll explain after this.
[12:10] Let's listen to Labritzi.
[12:13] The 3rd of May, 2013.
[12:17] Hamish Andy's business brunch.
[12:19] We tirelessly wade through every topic in the world, Ham, and today's topic that we're hoping to tick off is Adam and Eve.
[12:26] Look, there's a lot of Adam and Eve info coming in, Ando, but this one comes in from company man Hamish Blake.
[12:33] Wow.
[12:33] And it's more of a suggestion to you guys as a group because whilst I'd love to just tick off another bit of business from one of the people that have contributed to the show... Yeah, I'll go.
[12:42] Sometimes the board of directors have to say a little bit of a word.
[12:44] This is board business.
[12:45] And I also am wary about making this to Adam heavy.
[12:48] And I think it's important to acknowledge Eves, tip of the hat to Eves.
[12:52] Having said that, this is Adam business.
[12:55] I would like to address something that's been going on behind the scenes here for many years.
[13:00] And I reckon it has to do with one of the great listeners of our show.
[13:04] Really?
[13:05] Years and years ago, when we first started up just a podcast and a podcast only, there was a guy that wrote in called Adam Labrese.
[13:13] Yes!
[13:14] And it became a saying amongst us, nice and easy, Adam Labrese.
[13:19] We still say it to this day.
[13:21] Sometimes I go to say it on air before I remember, no one's going to know what we're talking about because that podcast we recorded got deleted by an unnamed Jack host.
[13:32] Until this moment.
[13:33] That was our very first board meeting.
[13:34] And I remember we plugged in all the mics, set up all the equipment in our little, like we actually did it in a storeroom.
[13:40] Yeah.
[13:42] And I recorded it off the, like internal microphone on the computer rather than all the microphones that we plugged in.
[13:48] And it sounded terrible.
[13:50] Sounded like we're about 100 metres away.
[13:51] Well, you were standing next to the computer, so your laughter was pretty much all we got for the entire podcast.
[13:56] But that's where Adam Labrese featured.
[13:58] Now, I don't think we've ever talked to Adam Labrese.
[14:02] He doesn't know that he's such a huge part of our lives.
[14:04] He was about three or four minutes.
[14:06] If I remember correctly, he was talking about entering shops and the beep going off, and then for some reason attached a picture of a Frosby flop, a guy doing a Frosby flop.
[14:15] We loved it.
[14:17] And you could tell that the guy had cleared the high jump bar doing the Frosby Funt.
[14:21] The guy was thinking to himself, nice and easy, Adam Labrese.
[14:24] I've cleared the bar.
[14:25] I might have the story right, but I certainly have the picture right.
[14:28] Can we find his phone number, James?
[14:29] Do we have it in the database somewhere?
[14:31] Can we call Adam Labrese?
[14:32] We've got to have it somewhere in the database.
[14:33] Just let him know that we're a huge fan of his surname.
[14:38] He's become a catchphrase.
[14:39] And I think it's about time, since we're doing a show about Adams and Eves, and anyone called Adam or Eve, it's about time that we contacted the one Adam that constantly gets referenced behind the scenes of this show.
[14:56] Hello?
[14:57] Is that Adam Labrese?
[14:58] Hello?
[14:59] It is.
[15:00] Oh, Adam, it's Hamish and Andy.
[15:02] How are you?
[15:03] Good, mate.
[15:04] How are you going?
[15:04] Yeah, really good, Adam.
[15:06] Adam, this is huge for us.
[15:08] Just apologies if we're a little breathless.
[15:11] But for some three years now, Andy and I have had a saying between ourselves, nice and easy, Adam Labrezi.
[15:20] Are you kidding me?
[15:21] No.
[15:22] We're doing a show on Adam and Eve today, and we just wanted you as probably the most important Adam in our life to know that you are a saying.
[15:29] Second of all, is that how you pronounce your surname?
[15:31] Yeah.
[15:33] For the sake of the saying, I'm going to say yes, but it's technically not.
[15:38] How do you pronounce it?
[15:39] It's Labritzi.
[15:40] That doesn't sound right.
[15:41] Oh, that's what I said, I think.
[15:42] That doesn't sound right.
[15:44] Adam Labritzi.
[15:45] That doesn't sound right.
[15:46] Adam Labritzi.
[15:47] Adam Labritzi.
[15:48] You're giving me the shit, see you, Adam Labritzi.
[15:52] No, no, no.
[15:53] It's nice and easy.
[15:54] That's the saying.
[15:55] We just want to hear you just with the full timbre of the real Adam Labrese's voice, even though it's not your name.
[16:02] Okay, so a great time to use this catchphrase is say, I can't open a jar of pasta sauce.
[16:08] Andy can't open the jar.
[16:10] We hand it to you.
[16:11] You pop it open with ease, and then you say, Nice and easy, Adam Labrese.
[16:16] Oh!
[16:18] We really hope to see it on hats, T-shirts, bumper stickers.
[16:22] I wouldn't mind Obama using it for a campaign.
[16:25] Can I ask where it originated from?
[16:27] No, you can't.
[16:27] Just listen to the podcast of this show, unfortunately, because we've just explained it to everybody else that's listening right now and we can't do it again.
[16:35] All right, good luck with that.
[16:36] HamishJetty.com.
[16:37] I think you know where it is.
[16:37] Thank you very much.
[16:38] See you, guys.
[16:38] Cheers, Adam.
[16:39] Bye-bye.
[16:40] God, that was wonderful.
[16:41] HamishJetty's business, bro.
[16:45] A little rough on him, wasn't it?
[16:46] No.
[16:47] No, you can't.
[16:47] I'm going to get out of here.
[16:49] Stop asking questions, mate.
[16:51] I think we'll drive it.
[16:53] I'd forgotten we did that.
[16:54] I didn't know that that was that break where we rang him to tell him.
[16:57] That's amazing.
[16:58] It's so good.
[16:59] It does remind us of the Eugene Levy.
[17:00] We've got to tell you quickly the Eugene Levy, Eugene Levy story.
[17:03] Very early days again, Mike.
[17:06] Of course, you know, Eugene Levy is a star.
[17:08] American Pie.
[17:09] Unlike Dicko.
[17:10] Yeah, it does.
[17:10] Unlike Dicko who… The dad in American Pie.
[17:13] Has stayed right at the… Best in show.
[17:15] Now Schitt's Creek.
[17:16] So right at the forefront still of entertainment.
[17:18] So…
[17:19] We wanted to play a game with Eugene Levy.
[17:21] He was over the phone.
[17:22] And look, a lovely guy and, you know, one of the great improvisers in the world too.
[17:27] So we were like, this should be no problem.
[17:29] We wanted to play a game called Eugene Takey or Eugene Levy.
[17:33] Yes.
[17:33] And we'd give him scenarios.
[17:34] From what I remember, we gave him scenarios and would he take it or leave it?
[17:38] It was kind of an odd game.
[17:40] So we explained this to him.
[17:41] We go, so you've just got to say Eugene Takey or Eugene Levy.
[17:45] And he's sort of like, all right, down the phone.
[17:49] And we're like, we know it's not great, but it should be pretty straightforward.
[17:53] And he goes, well, I've got to tell you, my name's actually Levy.
[18:00] And we were pre-recorded with him.
[18:01] And so Annie and I just both had the same thought, which is just like, pretend he hasn't said that.
[18:06] Because we basically looked at each other and gave each other the scissors.
[18:10] We just went, cut that out.
[18:12] Well, we're not thinking of like pay the levy.
[18:15] We're not thinking of a new game.
[18:17] So we just pretended he hadn't said that and went, okay.
[18:19] So we give him the scenario.
[18:21] We go, is it Eugene Takey or Eugene Livvy?
[18:24] And he goes, it's levy.
[18:27] He just kept correcting us about his surname the whole game.
[18:31] If we come across that day, we'll certainly grab the bits.
[18:34] Yeah.
[18:34] We may have taken it out, but you know what?
[18:38] Marshy said to our production guy, said, hey, I've got all the original Pro Tools sessions of a lot of shows.
[18:44] Oh, my God.
[18:44] Because if there's something you remember deliberately taking out, I might be able to find it.
[18:49] Maybe that's an assignment for him, but we'll see if that day comes up.
[18:52] That's a deep, deep cut, but geez, that'd be great.
[18:55] Great remembering.

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