Random Wedding and Kickstart or Dropkick

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Sam [00:00:14]:

This is episode number four where we talk about a random trip to a museum and kickstart or drop ship. Hello, Chris.

Chris [00:00:23]:

Hey, Sam. How you doing?

Sam [00:00:24]:

Good, good.

Chris [00:00:25]:

On. Right? So last was it last episode or episode before that? I forget.

Sam [00:00:30]:

Now, I know we’re four episodes deep into this podcast and it’s hard to keep track of what’s going on.

Chris [00:00:36]:

Hard to keep. But yeah, I mentioned Future Text or you talked about Future Text because I told you about it. Yes, but you had told me about Mighty Text, which I still haven’t tried, and I just thought maybe you’d like to share that with me again and the people listening.

Sam [00:00:53]:

Yeah, mighty Text is an app you can get I’m pretty certain it’s only Android again, sorry, iPhone people, we don’t have an iPhone. Yeah, so I can’t talk about anything there. But basically the Mighty, Mighty Text, you have the app on your phone and it doesn’t really do anything, but you go to Mighty mightytext.com. You go to Mighty Text website and then you go forward slash app and it opens up a window and basically it pairs your phone to your computer via your WiFi and you get alerts in that on this web browser. And you can send text messages from your computer and it goes through your phone. It’s really quick.

Chris [00:01:35]:

Yeah. So the reason that I know about this was because we’re texting about something and I would painstakingly text something out on my phone. She’s in two bags, I got a swipe thing and I’ll pause Quick man. And then he would be texting back with this huge long paragraph. And I’m like, how did you type that so quick?

Sam [00:01:58]:

Just banged it out on the keyboard and hit enter. And instantly it’s gone to my phone. Really good. There’s free and paid versions, but the free version gives you almost everything, including photos. The only thing that the paid gives you is archiving of every message you’ve ever made and also the scheduling thing, which is what Future Text does, which is free and I’m not sure of the price.

Chris [00:02:26]:

Yeah, it sounds pretty cool. And the other thing that I liked when you told me about it because you’re like, oh, I’m using this thing called Mighty Text and I’m just typing into my keyboard on my computer at home right now. I was like, oh, that’s cool. And he goes, yeah. And I wasn’t just typing to you because I was also texting to other people. And it’s all on the dashboard here, so I can text back to reply to anybody on the dashboard.

Sam [00:02:47]:

Whatever you do have to be quite careful of making sure you’re texting the right person. So the newest text pops up to the top of your list and yeah, you just got to read the people’s names and just take a few extra seconds of making sure you’re not sending to someone else.

Chris [00:03:06]:

Yeah, I can see how that could be a problem. Right. And the other thing you’ve been talking about before was Telegram.

Sam [00:03:15]:

Yeah.

Chris [00:03:16]:

Tell us about telegram?

Sam [00:03:17]:

Yeah, Telegram is another app that I’ve been using. It’s messaging app, sort of like WhatsApp or can’t think of what the other major one is WhatsApp? And.

Chris [00:03:33]:

Facebook chat thing?

Sam [00:03:34]:

No, not the Facebook Messenger, but there’s something else out there. It’ll come to me in a second. The thing with Telegram is it’s apparently really secure. So if you’re worried about your privacy and people hacking in and stealing your stuff, don’t worry, they can’t check out what you’ve been doing. It bounces around several servers around the world. Couple of people, two brothers are actually paying for it all and doing everything.

Chris [00:03:58]:

That’s a free app.

Sam [00:04:00]:

Yeah, free.

Chris [00:04:01]:

Okay.

Sam [00:04:02]:

The protesters in Hong Kong got onto it and I think in one day or a couple of days, they downloaded about 14 million copies of it because the government can’t check the messages that they’re sending because it’s encrypted. Yeah. So you can do secure chat, which is encrypted phone to phone, but normally it goes through all the servers like normal. And the other cool thing is you can send unlimited amount of photos and videos and documents and all sorts of stuff to each other. It’s pretty cool.

Chris [00:04:31]:

Cool. All right.

Sam [00:04:33]:

Telegram something I haven’t used in it, but I think it’s a cool feature, is broadcast and it’s sort of like group text messaging. Up to 100 people all at once. So you can send it all out and then everyone else sees all the replies. So it’s like a little chat room mobile sort of thing.

Chris [00:04:50]:

Yeah. That’d be good for tests or something. Organizing.

Sam [00:04:54]:

Wow.

Chris [00:04:54]:

Yeah. Bank heist, things like that.

Sam [00:04:57]:

Yeah. So the reason I use it is sometimes I don’t have cell phone coverage with places I go, but there is WiFi, so I needed something that communicated over WiFi. I did try viber. Viber is the other one.

Chris [00:05:14]:

WhatsApp?

Sam [00:05:14]:

And Viber are the two biggest ones in the world, and you may have heard of them. So Viber definitely has a desktop application, so you can go straight from your phone to the desktop and use that. But so does telegram. Telegram has its own desktop?

Chris [00:05:27]:

Oh, yeah. So you can access it from whatever device pretty much you’re on. Yeah. Okay.

Sam [00:05:33]:

And Telegram will show you which devices you’ve used it on. So it’ll say, hey, you’ve been on this computer. But then you can actually kill all connections. If you’re getting paranoid that someone’s logged on or checking out some of your messages and stuff, you can kill all the extra sessions that are running.

Chris [00:05:49]:

Right. It just sounds so paranoid.

Sam [00:05:52]:

It does a little bit, but I like it.

Chris [00:05:55]:

I don’t know why it sounds good, but it sounds like it’s really good for the criminal element. The smarter criminals, not the yeah, it could be.

Sam [00:06:03]:

It’d be interesting to see what no, they’d stay completely away from phones, wouldn’t they? They’d use old school. Let’s write a postcard that makes no sense to anyone. I don’t know.

Chris [00:06:14]:

I don’t know. I think you need that Immediacy. You need that quick. Yeah, that’s true. You can’t even use scrambled handheld walkie talkies anymore.

Sam [00:06:28]:

No, most of them can be listened in on.

Chris [00:06:32]:

Yeah. All right, so there you go. Two pretty cool apps to check out. Mighty Text. If you want to text text message from your device, which is pairing with your phone. Was that by bluetooth.

Sam [00:06:46]:

It was pairing no. Through your WiFi.

Chris [00:06:50]:

Network.

Sam [00:06:51]:

Yeah, it’s quite easy.

Chris [00:06:52]:

And then Telegram if you want to.

Sam [00:06:55]:

Do some encrypted messaging or you’re worried about people listening in or checking out.

Chris [00:07:02]:

Your messages and share photos and videos and documents and all that through Telegram as well. Yeah, that’s pretty cool. All right, well, one of the things I made a note that I wanted to do is I know I’ve been talking about films a lot because that’s what I’m doing a lot of at the moment, so indulge me. But what I’m actually after is if anybody listen is listening and they know anybody, all three of you, we want.

Sam [00:07:27]:

To hear from you.

Chris [00:07:30]:

If anybody is listening and they know anybody that wants to who’s good with photography particularly. So we’re always looking for a DP.

Sam [00:07:41]:

Director of photography.

Chris [00:07:42]:

Yeah, that’s the one. Director of photography for the filming. We’ve got we’ve got a couple of guys that are okay, but that’s not their primary focus. And if we had somebody who’s their primary focus, it’d be great. We’re not offering money. I’m going to put that out there right now.

Sam [00:07:58]:

There’s no money in any of this. I was just having a thought, though. Have you thought about talking to anyone at Wintech?

Chris [00:08:06]:

Yeah, we have. I’ve spoken to Wintech people about a couple of things. A lot of them are on projects and that. And we’ve got paige has been helping us out as well. We’ve been doing the sound studio. We’ve got Foley again. I’ve got Foley again this Thursday. And we got the actors coming and doing some pickup, so they’re going to do some lines and some grunts and some screams and stuff for the movie.

Sam [00:08:30]:

Yeah, it’d be interesting to see.

Chris [00:08:31]:

Yeah.

Sam [00:08:34]:

Screaming and stuff.

Chris [00:08:35]:

Yeah. So that should be quite cool. Anyway, so that was my thing. But also, if anybody is interested in helping out with movie, learning more, doing something, as I say, it’s all voluntary, so we’re always looking for somebody to help out, particularly with sound, lighting, all those sorts of things. And if you don’t have any skills, there’s always something to do if you’re interested. So just leave a comment under the show notes for this podcast or get.

Sam [00:09:02]:

Hold or send through something on the contact page.

Chris [00:09:04]:

Yeah, or something on the contact page. Do we have comments on our I have no idea. Yeah, well, I’ll have to check.

Sam [00:09:12]:

We’ll turn some comments on. I’m always logged in when I look at it, so I’m not sure.

Chris [00:09:17]:

Yeah, exactly. So that’s cool. So anyway, that’s the Chrisandsampodcast.com that we’re talking about. Of course. So you have a bit of a random story or something?

Sam [00:09:29]:

Yeah, well, following on from the last episode where we were talking about me visiting museums oh yeah, we were talking about other museums I’ve visited, turns out I’ve been to quite a few.

Chris [00:09:41]:

Yeah, I never would have picked you as a museum dude. Like seriously.

Sam [00:09:45]:

I just love seeing all this old stuff and anything old and real random. The random the better. So last no start of this year I think it was, my friend who lives in Christchurch invited me down and said, look, I’m going to a wedding, will you be the plus one with me? And I was like, yeah, that’s cool. And all I knew was that it was a work colleague of hers. That’s all I got told.

Chris [00:10:12]:

So you went down to Christchurch for some wedding of people you didn’t know?

Sam [00:10:15]:

Yeah.

Chris [00:10:16]:

Anyone except this one girl.

Sam [00:10:18]:

Yeah, my friend. Yeah, it’s normal, isn’t it? Anyway, I don’t know. So we went out to this place and it’s the Rossburn receptions, which is at Northbrook Museum in Rangua. And the museum is usually only open by appointment. It’s sort of a private sort of shed thing that he’s got going on. But there’s lots and lots of stuff there like amazing stuff. So we turn up and remember I don’t know anyone there.

Chris [00:10:47]:

So the actual wedding receptions at this museum?

Sam [00:10:50]:

Yeah, so it started out as like a house and then he had a whole bunch of sheds which he’s filled with stuff that he’s found from all over the place. Then they’ve built this big reception area and then next to that’s a church. So they’ve sort of just been adding stuff to their property and people have been turning up.

Chris [00:11:08]:

It sounds like the dorms for the cult will be moving. Will be the next thing being erected?

Sam [00:11:13]:

Yeah, it could be. So the ceremony was held outside, so when we got there, there was a whole bunch of people there and a guy came up and welcomed us and shook my hand and hi, how’s it going? I’m can’t even remember the dude’s name. Ross maybe I think it was. And I’m like, okay, that’s cool. And not at any moment in my head did I realize that that was the groom, because he was like in his fifty s and balding and I had no idea who he was. I thought he might have been the father of the groom, actually, to be honest. So my friend, who’s the same age as me, her work colleague is older than her and they’re both onto their second marriage. And just to compound things, the groom is an identical twin. So I never knew if I was talking to the groom or the twin or anything. And the the ceremony is about to start. We’ll just head on over here, everyone. So they pointed us in the right direction. The groom son came up to me. He was sort of same thing. And then he hands me the wedding rings.

Chris [00:12:19]:

And you the wedding?

Sam [00:12:20]:

Yeah. Here you go. This is for the ring warming ceremony.

Chris [00:12:26]:

What?

Sam [00:12:27]:

Exactly. I hadn’t been told much about this beforehand, so I didn’t know what was going on. It turns out they give the rings to everyone that’s at the ceremony, and everyone holds them and rubs them in their and and then passes them on to the next person. And it’s sort of like a good luck charm thing because everyone at the wedding has touched your wedding ring sort of thing. But when it’s happening, at least you.

Chris [00:12:50]:

Don’T spit on it. Pretty rude. Well, yeah. I can imagine culture where everybody spit on it.

Sam [00:12:57]:

Well, that’s right. I’m happy I didn’t lose them. It wouldn’t have gone down very well. So that was all good. So I offloaded them as fast as I could to the next person.

Chris [00:13:09]:

Yeah.

Sam [00:13:10]:

And there had been talk that once the ceremony is over with and the reception is sort of about to kick off, everyone at the wedding gets free entry into this museum. And I was like, when? Well, yeah. And I was like, when is this happening? When are they going to listen? This museum? Like, I had no idea. So I just sort of wandered off and found the door and just let myself in.

Chris [00:13:32]:

Yeah.

Sam [00:13:33]:

So wandered in the bars.

Chris [00:13:35]:

This wait, no, I’m going to the museum.

Sam [00:13:37]:

Yeah. It was some amazing stuff in there. And you’re wandering around, wandering around and like, with any of these old crazy museums, after a while you find some man that’s just standing there doing something. And I’m like, that must be the owner. Yes, it was. So I said to him, look, out of all of this stuff, what is the most valuable thing to you? What’s the most important thing? And he starts the goes he goes probably this. And he goes to this cabinet and he points to this box. And in this box in this cabinet is all this random old stuff, of course. And it was a table tennis set.

Chris [00:14:18]:

And it was a table tennis set.

Sam [00:14:20]:

Yeah. And this guy goes all over the he’d had been all over the world picking up all this random stuff. And he said there was a version in the UK. And it’s called wiffle ball. That’s what it was called before it was table tennis.

Chris [00:14:34]:

Right.

Sam [00:14:34]:

And he, umdenard and, umdenard and, umdenard and he never brought it back with him and that’s his biggest regret, is not bringing back this Wiffle ball set, but he had a slightly newer version, but he said, look at this. And it was just this old box in a cabinet. And actually, I just thought of something, because at the museum I went to on the weekend, they had the fossilized sausages.

Chris [00:14:59]:

I saw the photos. Look like turds to me.

Sam [00:15:02]:

No, definitely sausage. I’m sure someone tested it, but at this museum in Rangyora, in this cabinet is this random rock. And I’ll find you the photo. I’ve got a photo for that. And it’s just got a sign that says, this is a meteorite. And it honestly looks like a rock. Like there’s nothing backing this up, apart from this little sign that someone printed out. I don’t know what that’s about, but it was cool. It was cool.

Chris [00:15:26]:

Meteorite.

Sam [00:15:27]:

It could have been. It was on a cabinet full of other junk, but lots and lots of stuff.

Chris [00:15:37]:

And then you showed me something else.

Sam [00:15:40]:

How were that was the Tarfidi Museum sort of in Howard? Are the yes. That’s pretty amazing.

Chris [00:15:46]:

Website looked pretty cool, actually.

Sam [00:15:48]:

Yeah, the guy made lots and lots of dioramas and miniatures. And there’s a new early settler sort of boat ride you can go on.

Chris [00:15:57]:

With all traders and whalers.

Sam [00:15:59]:

Traders and whalers. Look, someone paid attention. Yeah, so that was cool. And lots and lots of stuff there if you are into machinery and if you’re into tractors. My uncle’s into tractors big time. That’s where you need to go. It’s like over 100 tractors in one shed. Amazing stuff.

Chris [00:16:17]:

Wow.

Sam [00:16:18]:

And the guys actually got a real good sense of humor. So when you see these room set up old style, there’s like a woman serving soup, but she’s tripping, and the soup is pouring out of the bowl, and it comes out of the bowl onto the floor, and it’s all, like, molded. It’s cool.

Chris [00:16:35]:

Oh, wow. That sounds cool. Yeah. So that’s museums, I’m afraid. I haven’t been to a museum for a long time. It was funny because when I was a kid, my grandmother was a custodian at the Wellington Museum. And so oh, cool. I remember getting funny looks from a teacher because they’re like, what did you do over the weekend? I went to the museum to see my grandma. Okay. But that was funny because we used to hang out with her for the rest of her shift or whatever. And then we’d have to lock up, and it would be like she’d be like, oh, you’ve got to go and turn off the lights in the mummy room. I don’t know how old I was then. I think seven or eight or something. It was like, there are skeletons all over the place in the mummy room.

Sam [00:17:25]:

It was like that’s one way to get over your fear.

Chris [00:17:30]:

Yeah, no, it was good. But the cool thing was the museum has all this stuff, but you go downstairs because we had to lock up downstairs, and there’s piles and piles of stuff that nobody ever gets to see. We would walk through one door and they had the skeleton of a blue whale. And you actually walk through the door and you’re walking through its mouth and it’s just pulled up. The ribs go around you and you walk through it because that’s the only way they could fit it in the room. And there’s all these boxes of junk everywhere, but you’re walking through the skeleton of a blue whale. It was amazing. That’s my experience of museums. Really?

Sam [00:18:09]:

That’s very cool.

Chris [00:18:10]:

Yeah. All right. Okay, so what’s coming up? I’ve got a 24 hours movie marathon coming up in a week’s time, so I will report on that after in an upcoming podcast.

Sam [00:18:23]:

How big a stretch do they make? There’s obviously breaks between every movie or.

Chris [00:18:28]:

How do they work? I don’t know what I’m getting into, but it’s like Adam’s been to a few and he’s like, we’re sharing the driving back because we’re driving, obviously, from Hamilton to Auckland. 4 hours sitting in the movie. We’re going to share the driving back. My other mate that’s been to a few up in Auckland.

Sam [00:18:44]:

I hope for your sake that everyone has really good personal hygiene, but I mean, that you won’t there’ll be one stinky person in that whole theater.

Chris [00:18:54]:

What I was told, bring plenty of V and some bora stuff. Don’t eat beans the night before, sort of thing.

Sam [00:19:03]:

No, it’s going to be interesting. So I’m looking forward to hearing how that goes for you.

Chris [00:19:10]:

Yeah. And the have actoroki and one of the actors from our film is going to be in there. I saw the email that sent it out and actoroki you set it up beforehand and you send it and say, yeah, I want to be a part of it. And I sam going to do this scene from this movie. And basically they prefer okay, if it’s not a well known movie because these are all you know, so it’s like it’s got to be does it have.

Sam [00:19:37]:

To be a movie that someone else knows, though?

Chris [00:19:39]:

No, because what they do is the I didn’t realize this till I talked to Adam in the weekend because I read it and went, it sounds sort of interesting. But he said, no, what they do is they have the person on stage and they do the scene and the do their monologue or whatever it was, and then they play the movie behind him that he just did.

Sam [00:19:57]:

Oh, wow.

Chris [00:19:57]:

And they judge it by that. And he said, last year somebody won. It was some flamingo movie or something. And this guy’s talking away and you’re going, what the hell? I don’t know if you know what that is. And then they show the actual clip and they went, oh, my God, the nailed it.

Sam [00:20:12]:

Oh, wow.

Chris [00:20:14]:

It’s pretty cool. So I’m looking forward to seeing that now. So, yeah, our actor of our group sasha Nixon is a very good actor. He’s the guy that won that award at Comic Con in San Diego a couple of years ago for his partner Star Wars fan film.

Sam [00:20:30]:

Very good.

Chris [00:20:30]:

Yeah, good stuff. Anyway. Yeah. So that’s what’s coming up for me. You got anything exciting coming up?

Sam [00:20:37]:

No. Pretty no, not that I know of. But sometimes these things happen. You get told the day before or on the day and things happen.

Chris [00:20:48]:

Absolutely.

Sam [00:20:48]:

But I do have something different. Kickstart or dropkick.

Chris [00:20:51]:

All right. Yeah.

Sam [00:20:52]:

This is a segment I made up.

Chris [00:20:55]:

Yeah. So the idea is these are things that are being crowdfunded and we want to say should we is it a good idea or is it like dumb idea?

Sam [00:21:04]:

Yeah, so check it out and see what you reckon.

Chris [00:21:07]:

Yeah. So kickstarter dropkick. I like it. Cool.

Sam [00:21:10]:

Yeah. So I found this new Kickstart campaign that’s just started up. It’s called spoolie earbud management. So SP. It’s to help you stop getting your earbud cords all tangled up. And we all know how annoying that is.

Chris [00:21:26]:

Yeah, that is. I totally agree.

Sam [00:21:28]:

Or headphones. I mean, they do keep saying earbuds, but I think it would work for Headphones as well because it’s just a cord. And the whole gist of the thing is it’s a neoprene, which is like wetsuit material, like a rubber ring thing that goes over your finger. I’ll bring it up so you can see this.

Chris [00:21:46]:

It’s like a neoprene stick.

Sam [00:21:48]:

Basically, the cord wraps around your finger, around this neoprene sleeve, and you can pull the sleeve off when it’s wrapped up. And then when you want to use it, you put it on your finger and you pull it and it unravels. So your cord is always wrapped around something.

Chris [00:22:02]:

Do you reckon? Because I know with power cords and stuff, if you wrap them around things all the time, it actually is bad for the cord.

Sam [00:22:10]:

It can be, yes. Depends obviously how well the cord is made and stuff. So these guys yeah.

Chris [00:22:18]:

Okay. So is this on Kickstarter or is it on crowdsource?

Sam [00:22:23]:

No, this is on Kickstarter. They want to raise $8,000.

Chris [00:22:27]:

Right.

Sam [00:22:28]:

The early bird special for one of them is $7. So this thing’s not worth a lot of money. When I wrote this 4 hours ago, they’d raised $150 out of the 8000. As I just brought this up on the iPad, they’ve already made $2,300.

Chris [00:22:46]:

Wow.

Sam [00:22:47]:

From 59 backers. I’m just going to show Chris the picture and he can scroll through that and just we’ll get his reaction on that.

Chris [00:22:54]:

Okay. Initial reaction from looking at it was like, yeah, not that amazing.

Sam [00:23:01]:

To be fair, in all their videos, in that they are marketing it towards sports people. So, mountain bikers, you have it round your finger, you unravel it, clip it into your device, and then the spoolie sort of sits at the bottom so you don’t actually lose it. And then when you wrap it back on your finger, it wraps around somehow. You pull that off your finger, store it in your bag and your cords are nice and safe. So I’ll put a link up in the show notes.

Chris [00:23:25]:

Doesn’t look too bad actually. It looks a lot better than the description you gave.

Sam [00:23:29]:

Yeah, it’s a hard one to describe.

Chris [00:23:32]:

Oh yeah.

Sam [00:23:33]:

But I think the price point is good.

Chris [00:23:35]:

They’re going to sell them for $7. Basically.

Sam [00:23:38]:

Early Bird was $7, so I don’t know what they’re normal, maybe $10. But if I said to you that was, would you pay $20? You might say no.

Chris [00:23:45]:

Yeah, well, I don’t know. Does it include the airbuds or is it just the Spoolie?

Sam [00:23:50]:

It’s just the Spoolie thing from what I understand. So check it out. It’s kickstarter.com, obviously. And the project is called Spoolie. I’ll have a link and let us know if you think it should kick.

Chris [00:24:02]:

Start or drop 30 of the limited editions or the Early Birds at $7 left. Yeah, I think it is. Plus $10 US to ship outside of US.

Sam [00:24:15]:

Yes, it’s always a kicker.

Chris [00:24:17]:

What’s the next one?

Sam [00:24:18]:

I think it was $9, wasn’t?

Chris [00:24:20]:

I would call that I think they’re.

Sam [00:24:22]:

Going to get funded.

Chris [00:24:22]:

Yeah, the next one’s $9.

Sam [00:24:24]:

I think they’ll get funded just because I’ve seen that jump by $2,000 in about 4 hours.

Chris [00:24:29]:

Yeah, I agree. I reckon that’ll go and it’s a simple idea. It looks pretty well executed from the.

Sam [00:24:37]:

Little gifts and I think it’s an industrial design has actually come up with it. They’ve still got 36 days to go, so you’ve got plenty of time to check.

Chris [00:24:43]:

Yeah, that’ll be funded and I think it’s a good idea. It’s a classic case of solving a problem is really there because it is a problem.

Sam [00:24:53]:

It’s not a made up problem.

Chris [00:24:56]:

Before we go, we should find another one just to do a Kickstarter drop kick you want to find randomly. We just throw out the script. Just do it. See what catches your eye on Kickstarter. It makes me laugh because I started following Crowdfunding five years ago and there are eight crowdfunding sites that I looked at at that time and then a lot of them died off and it got down to Indiegogo and Kickstarter. I think we’re the only two left of the original eight. And then of course now there’s a Gazillion more being stuff.

Sam [00:25:30]:

But the some of the other ones are quite specialized now.

Chris [00:25:32]:

Yeah, and that’s what our friend Kat says is that it will go specialized. I think I agree. But I think Kickstarter is still the one for tech type stuff. Indiegogo is more the artistic one. If we do go for crowdfunding for our Star Wars outcast, that’ll be going to Kickstarter only because there’s already an established Star Wars community on it.

Sam [00:25:55]:

I think I found something that you might be interested in. I don’t know if I should tell you because you might want to spend money. It won’t let me open it.

Chris [00:26:02]:

Yeah. So Kickstarter, I don’t think, would be my first choice normally, but for our film, because it’s got that community already there, we would use that.

Sam [00:26:13]:

I can’t actually open this, but I can just read the little description. I don’t know why Kickstarter won’t let me view this. Probably because I don’t know. Anyway, it’s got 59 days to go. It’s from a guy in the UK. He’s taken it upon himself as a challenge to become a body piercer. I will show you the steps to become one as I become one.

Chris [00:26:32]:

How much is he after?

Sam [00:26:33]:

I don’t know. I can’t open it. It’s like Kickstarter doesn’t want to show this to me in case I want to give him all my money. Because there’s no better way of learning from someone that’s just doing it as showing you as they go along, because he’ll be like, oh, look amazed my tongue, it hurts.

Chris [00:26:53]:

Yeah. Having said that, I mean, Ryan Connolly with film, right? That’s pretty much what his YouTube channel was. I know something, he knew something about film because he’d gone to film school or whatever, but he said, I’m going to be an independent filmmaker and I don’t know what I’m doing and you can come along on this ride with me. To be fair, he didn’t ask for any money for it. So that’s a huge difference right there. But it’s been a very good podcast for him. Or I don’t suppose you’d call it podcast because it’s a YouTube channel, but he’s had sponsorship, I think it’s domain name.com at the moment, but he’s had sponsorship throughout. So he’s made some money from that and he’s become quite famous. And he’s been on Creative Live recently doing some stuff, which I saw very good.

Sam [00:27:46]:

Okay, here we go. I managed to open it. What happened was I was looking at the new Kickstarter and when I went out and came back in, it rejumbled it up because there was more new stuff. So he wants 650 pounds.

Chris [00:27:58]:

And what’s he going to spend the 650 pounds on? Praytel, apparently.

Sam [00:28:02]:

It’s not a hard industry to get into. And he’s going to do a series of videos, how to Become a Piercer, the course, his first attempt, hopefully in brackets, and then a continuous Vlog of my piercing experience. This is what the pledge will go towards. All of it will go towards the course, as it’s quite a hefty course and all the equipment that will be used. The risks are I might not be any good appear things are good, yeah. But I will progress through that rough patch and become good or die trying. Maybe I just made that last bit up.

Chris [00:28:39]:

He should have put die trying in there.

Sam [00:28:42]:

Okay. It turns out he has a phobia of blood and needles, but he’s hoping to get through that. But all these challenges can be. Overcome with lots of hard work and I’m sure the 650 pounds is going to help. So there’s no backers at the moment. Check out becoming a Piercer, if you want to have a go at that. And that’s a kickstart or drop kick.

Chris [00:29:04]:

That one’s a drop kick.

Sam [00:29:05]:

I’m going to say drop kick. I’m going to say drop kick.

Chris [00:29:07]:

That’s a drop kick. Oh, man. I remember talking to Kat and she gave me some links to some of the drop kicks that were epic, epic drop kicks. Unbelievable that people would ask for money for these things.

Sam [00:29:19]:

That’s crazy.

Chris [00:29:21]:

Yeah, I guess that is a shout out to Katjenkins at multitude.

Sam [00:29:27]:

Cotitude co NZ.

Chris [00:29:28]:

Yes. She’s the crowdfunding coach, only crowdfunding coach, I think, in New Zealand at the moment. And she’s going to be doing some stuff with us, hopefully, with our Star Wars outcast when we get to that point, which is ages away yet. But, yeah, if you are thinking about doing that, rock over to Multitude because they have a little free course, you put your email address in and gives you a whole bunch of emails that sort of give you a lot of pretty good information about doing a Kickstarter or what’s. The New Zealand one. Pledge me. Pledge me.

Sam [00:30:01]:

Pledge me.

Chris [00:30:01]:

Yeah. Or wherever you want to do it, because there’s so many now and choosing the right one is a big deal as well. So that’s just a friendly shout out to Cat.

Sam [00:30:11]:

Shout out.

Chris [00:30:12]:

All right, so that’s us for that.

Sam [00:30:14]:

That is us for episode four of the podcast, the Chris and Sam podcast. And you can find [email protected].

Chris [00:30:22]:

Yay. And if you’re listening to us on itunes or Stitcher, don’t forget or anything else, subscribe. Yeah, or anything else, always use Stitcher.

Sam [00:30:32]:

But there are others, definitely.

Chris [00:30:35]:

Yeah.

Sam [00:30:38]:

We’Ll talk about that another time.

Chris [00:30:39]:

We should.

Sam [00:30:40]:

We should, yeah.

Chris [00:30:41]:

All right, see you all later. Okay.