Andy: Someone from above, Ham.
Hamish: Well, Ando -
Andy: It's a spiritual break.
Hamish: I got a message, I was sent a message.
Andy: Did you get spiritual?
Hamish: I was sent a messenger, I believe, from up above. To tell me "you need to get a bit fitter, sunshine". Obviously, I, like many Australians in particular -
Andy: And Americans, don't discriminate!
Hamish: I apologise. But Ando, I spent the entire weekend going "mmm, it's been three minutes without eating chocolate, that's letting the team down... better eat something else!" So to deal with this massive intake of sugar and fat, yesterday, I went "well, I've eaten about probably fifteen kilograms of chocolate over the weekend, I better go for a run". And like, I don't normally do any exercise, but the guilt had built up in me so much and it reached breaking point and I went "this will solve things".
Andy: Time to run.
Hamish: I'll probably lose about ten kilos from this run.
Andy: Yep.
Hamish: It's a bit like going "hmm, global warming seems bad... ssss, might just take down the brightness on my laptop screen and that better do it! That will solve all of earth's problems!" So, I've got the sneakers on, got out, going for a run, really hurting.
Andy: So, you got those things correct? I mean, well done.
Hamish: I mean, don't get me wrong, I know exactly what I'm doing. I know the technical side of things, it's just the actual doing it, that hasn't happened for a long time.
Andy: Ok.
Hamish: I go on this run, and I start with high hopes and then as soon as I get outside I know there's no way I'm going to make it as far as I thought I was going to make it, so I get about halfway there and I turn around and go "eh, pretty good". I start heading back and then I hear sorta footsteps beside me. So I turn around and there's like this little kid, running beside me. And I was away with my girlfriend's family over the weekend, so down near the beach...
Andy: Yep.
Hamish: And there's this little kid, like, running beside me -
Andy: How old?
Hamish: Well, I found out later, he's nine, right?
Andy: Ok.
Hamish: So I'm like "well this is a bit weird" coz he's pacing and looking at me, like he's in step with me, so I stop and I was kind of looking for a reason to stop anyway -
Andy: Yeah...
Hamish: So this was a good as chance as any, I'll just have a chat to this kid. So I stopped and I went "oh gday mate, how're you going?" and he says "oh good good." Said "what's your name?". "Lachlan". "Right, good to meet you, Lachlan, what are you, just out for a run?". "Nah, just thought I'd chase ya. Thought I'd chase you and I'd catch you." And I went "Oh ok" and he went "yeah, you ran past us and my Dad said 'oh you should go chase after him and say hi'."
Andy: Safe.
Hamish: I don't know where this Dad's coming from, just the school of see something, tell your kid to do it, but yeah, he said "yeah my Dad said I should chase you, but then I said 'oh no' and I kept packing the car and..." and then he got in the car, and then he goes "then I was mucking around with my sister for a bit and then I got out and then I was kicking the footy and then I went 'oh alright, I will go chase him'..."
Andy: I'll have a dip.
Hamish: And I went "oh so that must've happened... when did that happen? A few k's ago?" and he goes "no, we're just over there, like a few hundred metres back". "So you had time to have all those conversations and you decided twice not to chase me and you've still caught me in about four hundred metres?" he goes "yeah yeah yeah yeah", "how old are you mate?". "Yeah, I'm nine, I'm nine". I went "do a lot of running, do you, Lachie?"
Andy: You a regular Moneghetti?
Hamish: And he gives me a bit of "no, I'm the worst runner at my school", so I go "good good, alright Lach, good, yeah great to, bloody good, really good to meet you, mate, you've really inspired me, you've pumped me up" and he goes "yeah, do you want me to, do you want to race to the top of the hill?"
Andy: No, no.
Hamish: "I can't, Lach, I can't. Coach's orders, I've got to walk from now on and there's a couple, there's a couple of Humpty Dumpty eggs at home that need me to be very fit and I can't be out of breath to eat them, mate, so..."
Andy: "I tell you what, let's crack two stubbies and see who skulls it better, my friend."
Hamish: "Alright, alright, Lachie, push up contest, who can lift the other one up?"