True Story with Hamish & Andy

This week on True Story with Hamish & Andy, tree lopper Murray remembers an experience at the beginning of his career.

Guests this week are John Waters, Mitchell Brotz, Dan Wyllie, Denise Scott and a rare TV appearance by Bruce Spence.

In the mid 1980's Murray was in his twenties, working as a gardener but looking for a new challenge. After chopping down some trees for a neighbour and being tipped $50, he'd found his calling – tree lopping. He placed an ad in the local paper, but it wasn't an easy business to crack and the other local tree loppers made it known that there was no room for him on the scene. Unperturbed, Murray stuck with it, and before he knew it he got a call from the local hospital asking for a quote on a huge job. What follows takes Murray deep into the secretive world of tree loppers where he discovers an expert axeman addicted to salt sachets, known as The Oracle, and a hospital where quoting the right price turns out to be the least of his worries.

This week on True Story with Hamish & Andy, Jeremy recalls being a good student at high school, but he wasn't very popular amongst his peers.

The guest cast includes Michala Banas, Toby Truslove, Santo Cilauro, Nicholas Bell, Kate McCartney, Finn Scicluna-O'Prey and Dilruk Jayasinha.

When Jeremy was in Year 8 in the early 1990's, his single mother started dating a new man named Andy who worked at the Nerds candy factory. Jeremy was elated. Andy would bring home dozens and dozens of packets for Jeremy. But then Jeremy realised he didn't like sour lollies. Luckily, he did like enterprise. Over the coming months Jeremy would take his surplus of Nerds and build a syndicated network of sales agents at his local high school. Jeremy went from nerd to kingpin, rolling in cash. But when a drug bust goes down at school, all eyes turn to Jeremy and his network of candy dealers. Can he convince the authorities his wealth is solely thanks to the cash crop that was Nerds? Or will he take the wrap for a far greater crime?

In "Paul's Jockey's Story", the final episode of True Story with Hamish & Andy, a bolshie bloke from Dunedoo recalls how he once tried to make his lifelong dream come true.

The cast includes Andy Ryan, Luke McGregor, Mandy McElhinney, Anthony "Lehmo" Lehmann and a cameo from Dave Hughes.

Paul grew up in the small country town of Dunedoo, where from a young age he developed a lifelong love of horse racing. With his best mate Malcolm, a nine-year-old Paul would even stage their own Melbourne Cup with a couple of Shetland ponies on the farm. While both of them dreamed of one day becoming jockeys in the Melbourne Cup, Malcolm was the real jockey of the two and he went on to ride successfully in Sydney. Paul never forgot their dream though, and when Malcolm's hopes of riding in the Cup were dashed by injury, Paul decided to take things into his own hands to turn that dream into a reality. What followed would create Melbourne Cup history and make Paul's mother either very proud or entirely ashamed.