They’ve given us Pants Off Friday, Upset Andy, and Cool Boys and the Front Man – but how did Australia’s favourite bromance begin?
Andy recently told the Game Changers: Radio podcast that he met Hamish way back in the year 2000, when he was studying marketing at uni.
“It was really bizarre,” Andy explained to Craig Bruce, the host of the podcast.
“I hadn’t been to class very often. I wasn’t a great student. I wasn’t really engaged in what I was doing and there was a management class and I knew I was going to need these 10 attendance points to get a pass.”
When Andy finally turned up to a class, the lecturer just assumed he wasn’t there again. However, Andy raised his hand and interrupted him.
“I just left my hand up and I said, ‘I’d love a chance to address the classroom.’ So I went up and I made a speech to the whole class and him about, ‘if I was here, I would be more distracting and for the good of everyone here, I think you’re all going to do better, come this exam, because of my absence.’ And then I said, ‘with that in mind, I think I should probably get 10 [attendance points], but I’ll leave it with you’.”