Possum Flinging

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Hey everyone! The latest episode of The Chris and Sam Podcast is now live! Join us as we delve into the world of spicy food, possum flinging, and so much more! 😄🌶️

In this episode, we explore our love-hate relationship with spicy cuisine. From building up our tolerance to sweating profusely while eating, we’ve got some fiery tales to share! Plus, we’ll take you on a wild ride discussing an interesting encounter with a possum…🌳

But wait, there’s more! We dive into the fascinating history of the first computer, a mysterious invention built by a kiwi engineer in 1913. We uncover the truth behind this technological marvel, its role in tallying local election votes, and how the horse racing industry got in on the action! 🐎💻

But that’s just a taste of what’s to come. We’re also exploring the intriguing world of scrolls, the breakthroughs in analyzing ancient texts using AI, and a sneak peek into our upcoming improv combat event! 💥🎭

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Sam [00:00:22]:

Hello, and welcome to episode 447 of the Chris and Sam podcast.

Chris [00:00:26]:

I’m Chris.

Sam [00:00:27]:

And I’m Sam welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology and life in dealing with the things that life throws at you.

Chris [00:00:35]:

Such as having to rerecord a podcast episode.

Sam [00:00:40]:

No. We’re gonna we’re gonna do this so fresh. You won’t be able to tell.

Chris [00:00:44]:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So, I’m gonna kick us off with, I I my own personal take on a huge tragedy because, you know, that’s that’s how I do think.

Sam [00:00:56]:

That is what everybody wants to hear. We can’t wait. What is it, Chris?

Chris [00:01:00]:

So Morocco, Morocco, the Moroccan, earthquake. It’s it’s it’s appalling. It’s it’s really bad. So I believe it was 6.8, on the rich scale. So that’s pretty big. I’m sure we have bigger ones here, but whatever. And, but it’s the biggest they’ve had in a 100 years there. Right?

Sam [00:01:19]:

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Chris [00:01:21]:

And it’s it was centered around Marakesh. Now I visited Marakesh once, early nineties, but I stayed in I lived in 10 years for a month or so. Staying with family there. And and the reason I’m I’m even bringing this up, because if you see the images, it’s just absolute devastation. It’s just it looks like a tip like this. The, the drone’s going over a tip or something. It’s it’s it’s absolutely devastating. And the reason for it is when I when I was living there, after the work day’s done, everybody had their food, you’d you’d go for a walk or whatever, we’d we’d go to a cafe

Sam [00:02:01]:

—

Chris [00:02:01]:

Yeah. — because you don’t have alcohol much in the Muslim country. And, and there would be mum, dad, and the kids up on the roof of their building because they’re flat, break buildings. The kids would be mixing cement, and mum would be hauling the bricks over and dad would be slapping the bricks together and building another floor on the house. Usually because mom’s pregnant. And — You

Sam [00:02:29]:

gotta add those bedrooms.

Chris [00:02:31]:

Yeah. And and but there was That was it. Like, there’s no built construction rules or anything. It was just you just throw bricks on top of each other and, build build more property.

Sam [00:02:44]:

So it doesn’t help them, does it, when something like that happens?

Chris [00:02:47]:

No. No. I think, you know, it did there’s definitely very little structure and very little, control. There’s no regulation that I I know of anyway.

Sam [00:02:57]:

So I have looked up the 2 crushing earth quakes. The first one was 7.1, and then the one that did all the damage was, 6.3.

Chris [00:03:06]:

Oh, okay. So — It’s

Sam [00:03:07]:

the depth. So there’s I don’t know what the depth of this Moroccan one was. It could have been super shallow.

Chris [00:03:12]:

Yeah. Good question. And — I

Sam [00:03:13]:

didn’t think about that. Not that we’ve spoken about this previously or anything. Hey, yesterday, a very well dressed bearded man rushed at me on electric scooter. But it was Quentin coming to say hi. I was in town dropping off coloring in competitions to the Hamilton City Council that finishes tomorrow. And, yeah, he comes said hi and, scooted along next to us as we walk to our car. That was good to see him.

Chris [00:03:43]:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because he’s he’s right in there. So his his office is right there on the corner there. Yeah.

Sam [00:03:48]:

Yeah. Yeah. I was in a bit of a rush, would have been great to catch up a bit more with him. So we might have to sort that out, but, yeah, it was good.

Chris [00:03:57]:

Cool. Cool. Alright. Well, shout out to Quentin because he he listens to all of these.

Sam [00:04:01]:

He’s a die hard listener fan, die hard fan.

Chris [00:04:04]:

Yep. Yep. Absolutely. Cool. Cool. Cool. I I’ve got, an interesting one I wanted to talk about. Have you heard of who Hoculanium scrolls or the Hooculanium scrolls?

Sam [00:04:18]:

No. It sounds really weird.

Chris [00:04:20]:

It does. I and and I think it’s I don’t know if it’s a named after a place. I I assume it is, but it’s, yeah, it’s in the Mediterranean type thing. And, what these scrolls were, they they were buried under, an ash flow thing. So there was, an eruption.

Sam [00:04:41]:

Yeah.

Chris [00:04:42]:

You know, the whole village or whatever it was was buried, and they found all these scrolls. I think, like, a 1000 of them or whatever. So 20 years ago, this guy goes, I reckon we can work out how to read some of these damaged scrolls.

Sam [00:04:55]:

How would you even start, like, 20 years ago, you’re like, hang on. You know what?

Chris [00:04:59]:

I know. Well, they had X rays, and I think that was what he was looking at. So he started And and there’s a video. I’ll we’ll share the link to the video. There’s that’s why this is sort of I’ve watched it before, but it’s hard. I didn’t take notes, so we’ll go through it. But He started off with these, scrolls, like the Dead Sea scrolls. They weren’t exactly the Dead Sea scrolls. It does say in the video, but I can’t remember

Sam [00:05:23]:

Okay.

Chris [00:05:24]:

They were on animal, skins. Yep. And they were the the ink they used had quite a lot of metal in it. I don’t know. It didn’t say what sort of metal, but metallic ink. Yeah. And, so they x rated and they could see it. And basically, what he did was create a a a program, a software, that would take the X-ray and unfill the scroll so you could read it.

Sam [00:05:53]:

Yeah. It makes sense. Like, yeah.

Chris [00:05:55]:

It works. And it’s like, cool. This is really good. So then he started on these herculaneum scrolls. Well, the herculaneum scrolls, they are carbonized. They were virus scrolls, and they were written on with pretty much charcoal, I think, or something similar. And so it’s charcoal on charcoal now because they got, you know, buried in this, volcanic eruption, press down with weight, and they look if you look at the video, they look like, long brackets. They just

Sam [00:06:25]:

— Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. If you said what’s this, I’d be like, I don’t know.

Chris [00:06:32]:

Yeah. And but they know that scrolls. And so, anyway, he’s he’s worked today. And it there’s finally, he getting some of these things written. So they started. It was a lot harder than the other one, mainly because it’s everything’s carbon based. There’s no metallic ink or whatever, no animal skin. It’s really carbon based. But they did managed to fine tune it and work out what the ink was and all the rest of it, and they could un scroll it. But what happened that really had a breakthrough was, I think, 2019, AI just allowed them to, you know, like, figure out what the tech what was text and what wasn’t and do that a lot quicker. So, yeah, so they they started doing that. I just thought it was really fascinating. Oh, that’s really cool.

Sam [00:07:16]:

But we don’t know if they’ve got anything interesting from these scrolls. Like, they could just be

Chris [00:07:20]:

the that video was all about the, engineering problem they solved to actually get the stuff. They didn’t say a word about what was on the scrubs. So

Sam [00:07:30]:

— It could just be junk, but who knows?

Chris [00:07:33]:

Who knows? But, yeah, we we we I I I didn’t think it was interesting because, they said at one point that it sort of flips the, the perception around because they’ve would have said, ah, if they had looked after these, properly, we’d be able to see the scrolls, but the reality is if they were trying to keep them, you know, dry and all the rest of it — Yeah.

Sam [00:07:58]:

—

Chris [00:07:58]:

at this age, they would just fall apart. The only reason we’ve still got them is because they’re carbonized. Which was originally not thought that you’d ever get anything out of them, but now you can. And, Carl mentioned it because it was Lana that brought this whole, showed us this video. We’re having a bit of a discussion of work. And, yeah, then Cal says, yeah, it’s like, we think of the, you know, digital record we’re leaving. This podcast, for example

Sam [00:08:27]:

— That’s right. —

Chris [00:08:28]:

is forever. Of course. But it’s maybe not as robust as a lumpy charcoal. So analog in some ways, will last longer.

Sam [00:08:39]:

Okay. Maybe analog’s the key for the podcast, and we should be,

Chris [00:08:43]:

Do you want the next issue in vinyl people? Let us know.

Sam [00:08:47]:

That’s right. Let’s make a comeback. Hey, I saw this thing, and, it says how a kiwi inventor built the first computer. And I think it’s a clickbait headline because there’s comments saying no, Babbage did it way before this guy. Right? But this guy, I never heard of this before, and I thought it was amazing. This guy, it was built by a Kiwi engineer in 1913, and he graduated from the University of Canterbury, and he made this giant room full of cogs and pulleys and rope and stuff. And it was to telling oh. Okay. The very first one was to help telly votes in a local election.

Chris [00:09:40]:

Right. Hang on. It it’s a mechanical adding machine.

Sam [00:09:46]:

Yes. So okay. So he built it. Western Australia didn’t want to trust democracy to this mere machine. But the actual early adopter was the horse racing industry and Aliceley race course. And, the building that housed this giant machine is still there. You can see it from the southern motorway, apparently. And this thing, tracked all the bets, and it was tracking 30 horses at a time. And it had on the front, it had all these dials that were turning. And it could deal with as many people pushing and pulling the levers, you know, as it as fast as it could, which is pretty cool. You

Chris [00:10:29]:

know, that’s that’s impressive particularly for that time. That must have been amazing.

Sam [00:10:34]:

Yeah. And the and the really interesting thing here was I didn’t realize but it was called the Toyota La Zeta machine. And, it opened up race horse racing from super rich people to pretty much everyday Kiwis could do it. Like, because they could work it out.

Chris [00:10:51]:

Data. Sounds familiar.

Sam [00:10:53]:

And, yeah, because the Totalizator agency board then became the TAB. And I always wondered what TAB stood for. It sounds like a quiz question.

Chris [00:11:05]:

Yeah. They absolutely does. It does. It does. Yeah. No. Cause I knew it was totalized. I thought it was totalizer, but, yeah, it might be totalized data because, yeah, I did some training, obviously, on that when I went to the the pub, we had a TAB. And I’m sure the manual had that on on the front of it.

Sam [00:11:23]:

Yeah. So in 1924, Auckland Star reported that the labor government tried to introduce a bill to ban this. They wanted to ban the totalizator, but by then, it had taken hold. And they said, it just made things a lot better because it made things fairer. Like, people weren’t ripping things off because the machine was doing all the calculator.

Chris [00:11:45]:

Yeah. So how many spaces, was it in in New Zealand or whatever?

Sam [00:11:51]:

It sounds like it was only in the 1 Aliceley race course. Because when you when you see it, it’s like a giant warehouse, like a huge building just to hold some dials and stuff.

Chris [00:12:05]:

Yeah. But

Sam [00:12:06]:

And then we but then he left and went to Australia, and then I don’t know what happened to this guy. Like, this story doesn’t talk about what else he did. He must have done other things. It did say he, I I will say he did install it across 29 other countries. So in New Zealand, I think we had the 1.

Chris [00:12:23]:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it’s that’s impressive. They’re they’re making a lot of money.

Sam [00:12:27]:

Like, the plans for it. Like, must have been pretty intricate because —

Chris [00:12:32]:

Holy crap. Yeah. Yeah. I I I it just made me think that, you know, engineering compared to, like, software engineering today. Yeah. A software engineer had been looking at a line of code. He’d been looking at the shapel or gearing of a cog. Oh, we need to change that cog slightly because it’s going a little bit too fast. And if we, you know, put one more tooth, I don’t know how cogs work. One more tooth in there. It’ll work properly or whatever. You know?

Sam [00:13:00]:

Yeah. No. It’ll be yeah. It’s it’s I don’t know. I thought it was pretty amazing. I am. I’ve come across it before. So, yeah. The other the other thing I saw this week, have you seen the orangutan getting rid of a possum out of its enclosure.

Chris [00:13:18]:

I have now.

Sam [00:13:20]:

That’s right. So in Perth, the Sarangutan climbs a pole,

Speaker C [00:13:24]:

and it’s got a basket that it wants to sleep in, which is its bed, and there’s a possum there. So it puts

Sam [00:13:30]:

it with a stick for a while, And then these people are videoing that, and then you sort of see it disappear, but then you just see a possum fly across the screen and land outside of the enclosure. It’s great. I love it. I’ve watched it multiple times. It freaks me joy.

Chris [00:13:50]:

Yeah. That that possum flew, man.

Sam [00:13:53]:

And apparently, the possum scurried away after it landed. Or that’s what they’re telling us. And in reality, it just died. I don’t know. Who knows? I actually, I was thinking about that I used to work in forestry, like, years ago. And, when I was training to do some other stuff, we went out, and they had a mechanical harvester. And now a mechanical harvester is like a giant excavator, but on the end of the arm, is a big claw with a chainsaw, and it grabs the tree and it cuts the tree, it’ll lay it down, and then it pulls the tree through it and delims it all in one go. And these machines can clear huge amounts of land. And, yeah, the guy was there once, and he’s like, sometimes you just see a possum in the tree. And they grab it and they just shake the tree and then the possum goes flying. Just reminded me.

Chris [00:14:47]:

Oh, okay. Well, it’s better than putting it through the machine, I guess.

Sam [00:14:51]:

Oh, yeah. No. No. That jump off before then.

Chris [00:14:54]:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So did you hear I I sound like I’m laughing at something tragic, which isn’t like me at all, but did you hear about UK’s Chapel Mass murder?

Sam [00:15:08]:

No. What happened there? A Chapel mass murder?

Chris [00:15:12]:

Yeah. No. It did nothing happened, really. Oh, hang on. My computer’s so slow. I click on something and I’m just gonna wait for it to open now.

Sam [00:15:22]:

Maybe causing some of the problems we had earlier today.

Chris [00:15:25]:

Absolutely. Alright. So this this cracked me out because it’s it was in a it was a yoga thing. Yeah. I’ll I’ll go to the quote where this woman says, the twenty two year old teacher said she was teaching 7 students at the Seascape Cafe, which is inside a building, but it’s got it’s, like, got big glass windows. Yeah.

Sam [00:15:45]:

Yeah. Okay.

Chris [00:15:45]:

These glass and steel type building. She did notice 2 dog walkers peering closely through the glass, during the Shivasana or relaxation stage of the class. So this is, quote, they are the students, They’re lying down with blankets over them. Their eyes are closed. It’s very dark

Sam [00:16:04]:

in there. They’ve got blankets on them.

Chris [00:16:06]:

Yeah. I just had candles and little tea lights lit the whole room,

Sam [00:16:10]:

and I

Chris [00:16:10]:

was looking around playing my drum. I had a nice floaty top on with some large bell sleeves, thick kippy. Yeah. And a couple with some dogs just came up to the window. I had a look in, but they walked off really quickly. I didn’t think anything of it. I don’t I didn’t know until after we left that these people phoned in saying that there was a mass murderer that were wearing a robe, and they were walking all over the the people. And it looked like some kind of ritual that the people on the floor were actually dead.

Sam [00:16:39]:

I mean, okay.

Chris [00:16:40]:

Then she says, I guess from the outside view, it could look like that because they’re all really still a very nice and relaxed.

Sam [00:16:47]:

If they had blankets on them, though, wouldn’t I? I’d be like, oh, I wonder why they’re sleeping in there. I don’t think I’d go to mass murder. Yeah. But I guess it’s good that they contacted the police. They could check it out. Who knows? Stranger thing has happened, I guess.

Chris [00:17:02]:

Yeah. Yeah. So, they would say here, thank you to the Lincoln Sharp. At least for their prompt response. I I can’t imagine for one moment what it would have been like going through their minds on the way. But can you imagine if if they actually got there really quick? And you’re in your yoga, and you’re all quiet. And these guys run-in the, you know, they have to feed the squad. Basically, run it, Majika. It’s like, what the hell?

Sam [00:17:29]:

Yeah. It must be pretty full on. I’m guessing. I’m not sure. That’s hard to say. I don’t know how they’d react to that one.

Chris [00:17:35]:

Good. The police confirmed that that was, the court was made with good intentions. And

Sam [00:17:42]:

— Yeah. That’s that’s good.

Chris [00:17:43]:

And that yeah. Yeah. No. It’s all good. It’s all good, but, yeah, I wouldn’t have, but I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s hard to say what I’d think. Speaking of random stuff again, and and we’ve talked about this guy before, I think. The Florida man strikes me.

Sam [00:18:00]:

We we think we have. There’s a yes.

Chris [00:18:03]:

Yeah. So this is the this guy’s, trying to cross the Atlantic in a hamster wheel. And I do vaguely remember you saying something about a hamster wheel or whatever. This is a good photo of it because I don’t think I’ve seen this photo before. But I’m just like, does this guy not have any clue how big the freaking Atlantic ocean is?

Sam [00:18:29]:

So, yeah, I don’t know. There’s a documentary about him.

Chris [00:18:34]:

Alright.

Sam [00:18:35]:

That advice did. It’s on YouTube. We’ll link to it in the show notes. It’s very interesting. And I think the more you watch it and the more you think about it, I think he has some sort of mental issue.

Chris [00:18:44]:

Oh, he’s pretty sure.

Sam [00:18:46]:

Because I I think the coast guard said we’re not gonna save you another time. And if you do it, we will send you to jail because this is his I don’t know, 4th or 5th attempt, and they take his they take his thing, the hamster wheel thing. They take it off him. So he has to build this from scratch every time, I think.

Chris [00:19:05]:

Yeah. Yeah. Because it does say he’s he’s facing federal criminal charges. And if my Internet would work, or my computer would work. Maybe my computer’s just dying. He said, oh, I caught filing, said that Baluchi was earned with 2 knives and threatened to use a bomb to blow himself up. Later he told them there was no bomb. So

Sam [00:19:27]:

— Yeah. I mean, that’s —

Chris [00:19:28]:

He’s These nuts.

Sam [00:19:32]:

He’s nuts. That’s flur

Chris [00:19:33]:

flurora demand. Flurora demand. You know, who else is nuts?

Sam [00:19:37]:

Oh,

Chris [00:19:38]:

people who wouldn’t wouldn’t be willing to change their name for for a lifetime supply of Subway because we’ve decided that would be a good idea. Now I’m sure we talked about this before when it first happened, which is only a few weeks ago, but

Sam [00:19:53]:

— I think we had a little mention of it Yeah. So — I don’t think it’s that it’s not that it’s easy. Change your name.

Chris [00:20:01]:

Yeah. Legally legally change your name.

Sam [00:20:03]:

You don’t you could still call yourself your name. You don’t introduce yourself as Hey, I’m Subway Meatball. You could go, hey, I’m Sam, but if you had to fill out a form, you write Subway Meatball.

Chris [00:20:13]:

Like Yeah. Yeah.

Sam [00:20:13]:

And you get free subway. I think it I I I mean, I’m sure they’ve got publicity from it because we are talking about it.

Chris [00:20:20]:

But, yeah, so within 96 hours, they had 10 oh, I think it’s one of the better, publicity stunts either because it costs them what? Nothing. All they’re doing is paying for your legal expense of changing your name. That’s they’re gonna cover those legal costs. What’s that $25? I don’t know.

Sam [00:20:40]:

Plus plus you know who’s gonna, like, be annoyed with it is the franchisee owner that lives near the dude or people, whoever’s doing it, because that’s why head office did it. Her head office doesn’t care.

Chris [00:20:52]:

Oh, yeah.

Sam [00:20:54]:

But that would probably be fine.

Chris [00:20:55]:

I bet I bet you, the he can, that back from a head office.

Sam [00:20:58]:

Yeah. There’ll be some rules, though. It’ll be, like, once or so many times per week.

Chris [00:21:02]:

Yeah. Because there’s only one guy. Right? They’re only picking one winner. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So got it. So so such a cheap promo. Such a cheap promo. And

Sam [00:21:13]:

what do you think about it? It’s just, yeah, it’s crazy.

Chris [00:21:17]:

Oh, you use that word. You use that word crazy.

Sam [00:21:22]:

Yep.

Chris [00:21:23]:

So He’s the craziest guy to do about this week. Like, if you live in the states, you wanna be able to take your gun with you wherever you go. Right? Yeah. Of course. Why wouldn’t you? No. It’s my 4th Amendment 5th Amendment? Some Amendment. Right?

Sam [00:21:38]:

It’s one of them.

Chris [00:21:40]:

Yeah. Which by the way, Americans amendment means a change. So it wasn’t the original constitution. It was a change, but anyway, So, anyway, this woman, in the, went to the white sox game — Okay.

Sam [00:21:54]:

—

Chris [00:21:54]:

and reportedly snuck a weapon in a gun, by hiding it in her fat folds.

Sam [00:22:01]:

What? Okay. Because, you

Chris [00:22:06]:

know, I’m going to a stadium. There might be trouble. I’d better be armed. I makes that alone. That alone makes no sense, but But what happened was, and she was lucky. I think everybody was lucky. It looks like she’d be over to pick up something or or or sitting in a chair at the time because there’s video of it, and the gun goes off. Still holds a fat.

Sam [00:22:32]:

Oh, no.

Chris [00:22:33]:

And I don’t think anybody was hurt. People were like, was it a gunshot? Was that a gunshot? What’s going on? And, she’s bleeding because it came out of his stomach. Like, it

Sam [00:22:46]:

— Oh my gosh. — it — Nice to.

Chris [00:22:49]:

Yeah. It it’s just it’s just the dumbest thing ever. But, yeah, it’s funny, though, because maybe it’s a really small gun.

Sam [00:22:59]:

Oh, maybe a year. Okay.

Chris [00:23:00]:

On the video, it you know, there’s these people suddenly looking around going, looking at what was happening, and then they all turn around and start start looking, you know, helping this woman. But, yeah, I couldn’t even fig figure out which woman it was, like, because the the videos are a bit far away, but It’s like, oh, it’s a random thing.

Sam [00:23:22]:

— Talking about, a mirror. —

Chris [00:23:25]:

and and she went through, a metal detector with this thing.

Sam [00:23:32]:

Yeah. But I think I I was thinking about that. If she goes through a metal detector and she’s got, they’re like, take all her bags and stuff, we’ll search all that. And she goes, I’ve got nothing else on, and she could just go, oh, it’s the wire from my bra.

Chris [00:23:45]:

Yeah. Yeah.

Sam [00:23:46]:

Because that’s what happens at the airport, and then that’s when they chuck you in the full body rotating scan anything. And they’re not gonna do that at a sports game. They’ll just have a generic, you know, walk through 1,

Chris [00:23:58]:

I think. Yeah. Wanda, whatever.

Sam [00:23:59]:

Yeah.

Chris [00:24:00]:

Maybe. I still like the the my suggestion is that she goes, it’s my belly button range. You wanna see it? And they’re like, no. No. You can go through.

Sam [00:24:10]:

Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. So stick sticking with America, a spicy chipped challenge has had to be halted. Some company, which I can’t pronounce the name of, p a q u y, Paki, Pakwawi. I don’t know. Anyway, they made a chip. Somebody there made a spicy chip, and it’s one chip. It looks like a corn chip, and it comes in a little box in the shape of a coffin And it’s, one chip challenge. It’ll cost you $10. That’s the best thing I’ve ever heard of in my life. $10 to buy one chip. And the challenge is you eat the spicy chip, and you see how long you can last without having any liquid or any more food. Because this thing’s so spicy is the gist of it. And some of these people have said, yep, it’s pretty spicy. And they basically had cramps and diarrhea the whole next day. And, but his twelve year old brought 1, he threw it away. His parents found it said, get rid of it, throw it away. And then I think his sister found it, and then took it to school. He ate it, and he was a keen basketballer sports fan, just photos and play basketball stuff. Anyway, he died. Bam. So —

Chris [00:25:34]:

Yeah. My ex wife and I went through a phase, and it took us about a year, I think. We just started building up the spot.

Sam [00:25:42]:

Do you discuss this, or do you just are you doing it as you go?

Chris [00:25:46]:

We were we were both training all the time. We were quite competitive

Sam [00:25:50]:

Yeah. Okay.

Chris [00:25:51]:

So I think that had a

Sam [00:25:53]:

— I I

Chris [00:25:54]:

just — — a big part of our whole relationship.

Sam [00:25:58]:

I just had a thought. I’m looking forward to hearing her podcast.

Chris [00:26:03]:

Yeah. It wouldn’t be flattering about me. I’m sure. So

Sam [00:26:07]:

So you’re doing all the spicy food, were there?

Chris [00:26:09]:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and we it it just got because, the spicy food releases an endorphin. Mhmm.

Sam [00:26:17]:

So I’ve heard that.

Chris [00:26:18]:

Yeah. So you need a higher spice to release the endorphins. It’s like any addiction.

Sam [00:26:25]:

Yes. Because you build up a tolerance.

Chris [00:26:27]:

Yeah. Because exactly build up a tolerance. So we got hotter and hotter and hotter because it’s not really doing it for us anymore, and we’d we’d bump it up. And I think over the course of, I don’t know, maybe a year, we’d have somebody around it, and they could not eat the food that we put in front of them. I mean, we could barely hear it, to be fair. We were sweating copiously as we’re eating it. So, we ended up knocking it, make it we had a discussion. We knocked it on the head and and went cold turkey for a bit, and then we went slowly up a bit and just left it there and didn’t, get competitive about it after that. But, yeah.

Sam [00:27:03]:

Yeah. That’s crazy.

Chris [00:27:05]:

Yeah. Yeah. It’s weird. Have you heard about these? Because I just wanna mention this because it’s just weird. I well, I don’t know. I think it’s weird. The Beyonce tickets. So she’s been selling tickets to some of the latest tour

Sam [00:27:23]:

— Okay. —

Chris [00:27:24]:

that are listen only tickets. And looking at the tweaks and stuff, These listen only tickets go from anywhere from around $50 to up to, like, $250. Yeah. But tickets where the views obstructed, and it’s probably quite badly obstructed. Like, they can’t see a screen. They can’t see the stage by the So they might be behind a big speaker stack or

Sam [00:27:50]:

I don’t know how I feel about it.

Chris [00:27:52]:

I don’t know. I

Sam [00:27:53]:

mean because on, yeah, on one hand, you save a bunch of money, and you’re still in the atmosphere, and you still have a live performance, but you’re not seeing it. Is there are these sets for blind people?

Chris [00:28:05]:

I was gonna say that would be the perfect thing. Right? If you’re blind or or visually impaired

Sam [00:28:09]:

—

Chris [00:28:10]:

Yep. Yeah. I’ll be buying those tickets. Because I wouldn’t know the difference.

Sam [00:28:15]:

But it’s up to, like, like, it’s down to the venue, isn’t it? Because the venue place their seating. And I know this happens in Spark Arena. There’s some with obstructed view. I don’t think it’s super bad, but they’re right on the edge. Next to concrete pillars.

Chris [00:28:30]:

Yeah.

Sam [00:28:30]:

Yeah. But they’d still put seats there, like, because they wanna try and sell these seats. I don’t know.

Chris [00:28:36]:

There’s a there’s a story here saying people people been moaning about it. Hey. I’m gonna I’m gonna finish with this one thing. K. So I the it’s an AI image upgrade. So this this story is it’s the bite, we’ll we’ll link to it, but and there’s not a lot to it, but she she put it a, a a headshot and said, can you improve it for, like, you know, lengthen or whatever?

Sam [00:29:00]:

Yep.

Chris [00:29:01]:

And it and it made her white with blue eyes.

Sam [00:29:04]:

She said — Wow.

Chris [00:29:07]:

It’s it’s the two photos next to each other. It’s like Okay.

Sam [00:29:11]:

Oh, woah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That’s right. It went viral. Okay.

Chris [00:29:23]:

Yeah. I

Sam [00:29:24]:

Yeah. But that’s I yeah. Okay. It’s crazy how it’s in there.

Chris [00:29:30]:

It’s just gonna happen though, right? Because that’s what it’s been trained on. There’s been in in Silicon Valley. Right? So it’s been trained on

Sam [00:29:38]:

— But there’s been a bit of a talk about how the AI or Chet GP, especially is sort of the users of coming down to whatever they think the actual users are going to be now. So a lot more people aren’t using it. And a lot of the results now are getting worse, apparently. Yeah.

Chris [00:30:00]:

Yeah.

Sam [00:30:01]:

So, and it’s because it’s just got so much more data coming in. And there’s a really, I’ll tell you what, my first million, the latest episode, he talks to, the founder or ex founder because he’s just left of Twitch, who used to be his boss.

Chris [00:30:20]:

Oh, yeah. Michael something?

Sam [00:30:23]:

Not at all. Not at all. That’s the boss of Bibo. No.

Chris [00:30:27]:

Yeah. That’s the wrong thing. I’m sorry.

Sam [00:30:28]:

No. No. His boss, the guy from Twitch has got an interesting name. Anyway, he has his take on ai and how potentially ai could take over the world and be a lot worse than nuclear weapons. And he explains it really well. And it’s not like fear mongering or anything. He’s just saying, like, you know, It’ll be pretty good because he goes the way you gotta think about it. AI potentially is just gonna be

Chris [00:30:55]:

a new

Sam [00:30:55]:

species. And hopefully they look after us. Anyway, I’m not doing that podcast justice. You should check it out. He’s got a very interesting way to look at the world.

Chris [00:31:06]:

Yeah. Because the last time you said, oh, in the latest, my first million is something. I’ve forgotten what it was now, and I’ll watch the latest one. It wasn’t on that at all. I must have been the one before it or something, and I haven’t got to it. So, you might have to put the link in the show notes for for that.

Sam [00:31:22]:

Yes. I’ll do that. So, that rounds out episode, whatever, at, version 2. If this doesn’t come through, I’m gonna lose my mind.

Chris [00:31:32]:

You too.

Sam [00:31:33]:

We won’t be doing it. We’ll just do a we’ll just do a social media post. Yeah. So, I am getting ready for pumpkin season next month, but I’ve got some seeds started now to test. I picked up some mushroom compost today from a place I can’t tell you about. And I got some product that’s made from mushed up insects, insect Frass is what it’s called freeze dried crickets and soldier fly, black soldier fly larvae, I think it is. Anyway, I’ve already put that into the pumpkin patch. I’ve been doing that in between podcast recordings. And, yeah, we’ll see how it goes.

Chris [00:32:09]:

Oh, cool. So I have got, on the Sunday that this comes out, at the media, I’m back on, combat, improv combat. Impro combat.

Sam [00:32:21]:

Yeah. Impro combat.

Chris [00:32:22]:

Sorry. Going blank. Plus my, computer glitching. So, hopefully, this works. Anyway, improv combat. So, yeah, come along. We won our last, bout, which was 2 weeks ago. And so we wanna see if we can keep that winning streak, we’ve had to messages flying through this this morning about what sort of game we might be playing and stuff. So, yeah, come along. It’s only fifteen bucks. It’s a good laugh. And, yeah, good entertainment for an hour or 2. So, yeah, come along.

Sam [00:32:56]:

Yeah. Sounds great. So until next time, I’m Sam.

Chris [00:33:00]:

I’m Chris.

Sam [00:33:00]:

See you.

Chris [00:33:01]:

Bye.

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