Summary
A busy week for us as we give a very brief overview of our 500th episode recording which will be out in a couple of weeks.
Chris has an update on how TEDx is going. Sam gets a movie review and we talk about if we would eat at a place that has had car crash through it’s window.
We talk about a counterfeiter and how they got caught. We also talk about the guy that is pleading self defense after blending up part of his wife.
Who are the princess and the Sharman? Find out what powers they have.
JP Morgan has decided to cap the hours a junior banker can work now to a respectable 80 hours.
Attorney general of Texas not happy about a ban on guns at the state fair.
Links
The Princess and the Sharman
Counterfeiter makes a mistake
Would you Eat There?
Texas AG suing State Fair
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 498 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 in life as we head towards episode 500.
Chris [00:00:34]:
Yes. But, spoiler, we already recorded episode 500
Sam [00:00:38]:
2 days ago.
Chris [00:00:38]:
2 days ago. So yeah. Yeah. So that will be coming out in 2 weeks’ time, but we did the, the live show, this week. So
Sam [00:00:47]:
Thank you to everybody that came out.
Chris [00:00:50]:
I really enjoyed it. I thought I I had a great time. I had a couple of beers. So, obviously, you
Sam [00:00:53]:
can’t tell. You could
Chris [00:00:55]:
tell. Sam’s gotta edit all that crap now.
Sam [00:01:00]:
Yeah. That’s fine. No.
Chris [00:01:02]:
I I had a high a
Sam [00:01:04]:
a thing. I was just thinking. I’ll mention it now, but it doesn’t matter. That quiz we did should have been multi choice. Now that I think about it, we should have had just 4 random because nobody knew anything.
Chris [00:01:16]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he had a quiz, which you’ll you’ll hear when you, you listen to the, episode. Yeah.
Sam [00:01:23]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:01:24]:
And, yeah, we just have great people for people to write things in and yeah. No.
Sam [00:01:28]:
And, yeah. We got
Chris [00:01:30]:
one person got 2 things right, which is amazing out of 10. 2 people got 1 out of 10, and nobody else got any.
Sam [00:01:38]:
They had fun. Everyone had fun, I think. Yeah.
Chris [00:01:41]:
Anyway, it was just something to do. It was fun.
Sam [00:01:43]:
So that’s coming up real soon. It’s going to be a bumper sized episode because we’ve got interviews. We’ve got the 500 live, in front of live studio audience. And,
Chris [00:01:55]:
And some of their q and a and bits and pieces like that. So yeah.
Sam [00:01:58]:
Yeah. That’s my car beeping. It likes doing that randomly. It doesn’t like home today.
Chris [00:02:03]:
Oh, did it?
Sam [00:02:03]:
Yeah. I noticed it. Okay. So it must do it, but I don’t know why. I’m gonna have to ask the guy because it’s not supposed to do that. He’s probably telling me that the thing’s broken. Hey. I’ll tell you what.
Sam [00:02:15]:
I know you probably haven’t been across it because you don’t have a car. The new Peacocks Road Bridge. Right? Yep. Yep. You know where that is? Vaguely. Okay. Next right next to Hamilton Gardens. So you can go straight through.
Sam [00:02:27]:
It took me 10 minutes to get here at 5 o’clock at night.
Chris [00:02:31]:
Alright. So they’ve been working on that for, like, 2 years or something. Yeah.
Sam [00:02:35]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They’ve just opened that piece. So I the biggest problem for me is leaving the road and trying to turn right with all that traffic. Then once I do that, I go through all these suburbs. I end up out past the Glenview Club and Peacocks. And then on the bridge straight here, there’s no traffic using it.
Sam [00:02:54]:
It’s great. 10 minutes during rush hour traffic.
Chris [00:02:58]:
A new road, where nobody knows the new road’s open.
Sam [00:03:01]:
I don’t know. I don’t know.
Chris [00:03:03]:
It while you can.
Sam [00:03:04]:
Well, I think the main the main thing of it
Chris [00:03:07]:
I just got image of you going, this road’s great. I’m glad we can use it. I just wish they’d stop putting road codes everywhere.
Sam [00:03:15]:
No. What are you talking about? It doesn’t reference anything. No. It’s all to do with the huge subdivision that’s being built out near my place.
Chris [00:03:24]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:03:25]:
So I think in total, there’s gonna be another 40,000 people out there. So it’s gonna have its own everything. So, you know, eventually, be its own huge suburb. Yeah. Anyway, really happy because it was 10 minutes. I think that trip at this time may have taken me normally 20 plus. Yeah. Getting through traffic.
Chris [00:03:43]:
Cool. Cool. So I’ve had a big week, basically. So we’ve
Sam [00:03:47]:
Bay what does basically basically, I’ve had a big week.
Chris [00:03:51]:
Oh, yeah. I don’t know why I said basically.
Sam [00:03:54]:
500th podcast recording. That took it out of you.
Chris [00:03:57]:
That was a big that was a big one. But today, we had our, TEDx, practice. So the final practice for our TEDx speakers. Is it happening tomorrow? No. No. It’s the, EVO EVO 3 is what I mean. Yes. Okay.
Chris [00:04:12]:
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Sam [00:04:13]:
So not a dress rehearsal, but the
Chris [00:04:15]:
No. The dress rehearsal’s on the day.
Sam [00:04:17]:
Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. Okay.
Chris [00:04:18]:
Because we’re doing Okay.
Sam [00:04:19]:
How how’s it how’s everyone doing? Now you’re doing this at the beauty.
Chris [00:04:22]:
Turned up. We’re great.
Sam [00:04:24]:
Hey. That’s always the way. That’s always the way.
Chris [00:04:26]:
Yeah. No. No. Really happy with those. There’s 2 people out out of the country and 2 people out of town. Okay. So they You
Sam [00:04:33]:
can’t you can’t do too much about that,
Chris [00:04:34]:
I guess. Too much about that. 2 of the people that are out of town, I’m comfortable with. I know where they’re at. And 2 people out of the country
Sam [00:04:42]:
You’ve never spoken to?
Chris [00:04:43]:
I’m not sure. I’ve spoken to them once or twice, but I haven’t heard anything about their talk yet. Oh,
Sam [00:04:48]:
no. They’re gonna wing it. Yeah. And they’ll be I don’t know. It’s tough. It’s tough. And and that this scenario is slightly different to how you’ve normally done them in the past.
Chris [00:04:57]:
Yeah. Yo. I had a bit of a debrief with Gary, and he goes I said, we need to do a a debrief properly, but we’ll have a quick chat now. If we do this again, he goes, I already know what I’m gonna change. I’m like, yeah. Okay. What’s that? We gotta get volunteers next time. I’m like, yes.
Chris [00:05:14]:
Thank you. That was my number one thing on my list.
Sam [00:05:16]:
Hey. So to to what? Run things? What does he mean by that?
Chris [00:05:20]:
No. He’s gonna get speakers to volunteer instead of being a volunteer.
Sam [00:05:23]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:05:24]:
You were speaking at the TEDx.
Sam [00:05:26]:
But it was just to get up and running, basically.
Chris [00:05:28]:
Isn’t it? Yeah. It’s it’s because of the particular audience they’ve got as well Yes. Because it’s a an event for the university.
Sam [00:05:38]:
So are they marketing it to the university crowd? Because it’s only a 100 people.
Chris [00:05:44]:
Yeah. No. It’s all dignitaries. All CEOs, mayors, all that sort of
Sam [00:05:50]:
Oh, this is when Chris’s time to shine.
Chris [00:05:53]:
Yeah. Pamela will be there.
Sam [00:05:54]:
You’re good. I’ve got a story about Pamela in a second. It’s it’s your time to shine when you do the networking. Don’t drink too much.
Chris [00:06:01]:
Absolutely. I really do need to You
Sam [00:06:03]:
have you got cards? Have you got business cards?
Chris [00:06:05]:
Yes. I have.
Sam [00:06:06]:
Because you need to really yeah. Okay. We’ll talk about that off I’ll let you know. We’ll talk about that later. But, yeah, very cool.
Chris [00:06:13]:
Anyway, so that that was that was busy, and then I’ve got this now. And then straight after this, I’ve got a, got a production meeting because we’ve got filming starting this weekend on Matwa, which is, Sasha’s film. And we got some last minute dramas with that. So tonight’s gonna be a good little call, and then this weekend’s gonna be good fun.
Sam [00:06:36]:
Okay. So for you, I’m doing other stuff. I’m I’m actually I’m still at Misty Flix stuff. But talking about films, talking about Pamela, boom, get a message to down LinkedIn, and it’s and it pops up on my watch on my phone. It goes, you’ve got a LinkedIn message from Pamela.
Chris [00:06:52]:
Pamela story?
Sam [00:06:53]:
Yes. Yeah. And I’m like, oh, cool. I have no idea what this is gonna be about. I don’t know. So he goes, hey, Sam. I saw you on the big screen when I went to see Home Kills last Friday. Your portrayal of a drug addled rural party goer was riveting.
Chris [00:07:14]:
That’s so funny because I didn’t even spot you in the film. Oh. And I watched it.
Sam [00:07:19]:
You can tell it’s me. But, I
Chris [00:07:21]:
didn’t recognize it.
Sam [00:07:22]:
I said, hi, Pamela. It would be it it could be my greatest work. Hope you like the film. So because Home Kills is out. It’s had, some different sound and a slight edit. Apparently. Yeah. Apparently.
Sam [00:07:37]:
So we saw it, which is almost a prescreening thing.
Chris [00:07:41]:
Yeah. It was.
Sam [00:07:41]:
And it was really good. I didn’t know they were gonna do any more
Chris [00:07:44]:
work to it. Know they were gonna do any more work to it, but they’ve really apparently done a lot to the sound.
Sam [00:07:49]:
I honestly would not notice because I can’t remember that. If I watch it side by side, yeah, easy spot it, but I wouldn’t
Chris [00:07:56]:
probably know. And and, apparently, there’s some other edits in there, like, footage that they put in and took out, but I don’t know what.
Sam [00:08:03]:
So if you’re listening to this and you see a film being advertised called Home Kills, and I think the way Matt, how do you describe it? Something like, if you wanna see some x Home and Away stars slash Shortland Street actors in a rural setting doing dodgy stuff, watch this film. Something like that.
Chris [00:08:21]:
Alright. Okay. I didn’t know there was, yeah, Home and Away stars.
Sam [00:08:24]:
Yes. You don’t the the the main bag well, the one of the dudes is from Neighbors. You recognize him? No. Okay. He was in Neighbors for, like, 30 years or something. Yeah. Anyway
Chris [00:08:36]:
So that’s Home Kells. Yes. Definitely go and see that if it’s coming out near you or whatever. And I I was almost gonna see it again at the Lido, but I didn’t make it. I wanna talk about this. I just think this is funny because it’s like, my question for you before I tell you well, when I tell you the story is, would you eat there? Alright? And this will make more sense. Okay. So the manager
Sam [00:09:02]:
I might not because I’ve seen some stuff recently.
Chris [00:09:05]:
Yeah. It’s not that sort of story, though. Okay. Manager of restaurant that’s been crashed into for a third time. Oh, whereabouts? I think it’s UK, actually. Yeah. There’s a real risk someone will be seriously hurt or killed. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:19]:
Sancy said it felt like a bomb had gone off when the vehicle plowed into the Royal Phoenix Chinese, restaurant in Oswald Twistle.
Sam [00:09:31]:
It’s a real place.
Chris [00:09:32]:
Oswald Twistle.
Sam [00:09:33]:
Where do you live, Oswald Twistle?
Chris [00:09:35]:
That’s just about as English as you could get. She she added that, oh, oh, is a female. She added that she’d repeatedly asked the council to install a speed camera outside the restaurant and hope it would encourage people to slow down. Oh. Lancashire County Council, okay, said to install temporary signage and look at at adding a speed indicator device later, you know, one of those ones that sees how fast you
Sam [00:10:00]:
can. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:10:01]:
But, yeah, speak of the moment, the car collided with the restaurant. It was a massive collision. I rushed over from my home when it happened, so she obviously, lives nearby. It really did shake the building as if there was an earthquake or a bomb. So, yeah, it sounds like it’s a a it it’s a three way intersection Okay. And it’s the opposite from 1 of from the main junction
Sam [00:10:26]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:10:27]:
On a mini roundabout. And people are just going straight through the mini roundabout and into the restaurant. And I’m just like, would you take the chance of eating? Yeah.
Sam [00:10:35]:
I would. Yeah. Because the you have to think about how many hours the restaurant’s open, the amount of cars have gone past, the percentage is so freakishly low.
Chris [00:10:45]:
Yeah. Because the first time first time I have in 2011 was during open hours, and it was only luck. There wasn’t a staff member standing there when it went through the window.
Sam [00:10:54]:
I might not sit next to the window, though. So I’ll go there and
Chris [00:10:58]:
sit out the back. Fair.
Sam [00:11:00]:
Fair. See? There’s the difference.
Chris [00:11:02]:
Or or you won’t if you’re sitting at the window, you won’t have your back to it. You’d be facing the window ready to jump aside at any moment.
Sam [00:11:11]:
So Yeah. That’s right.
Chris [00:11:13]:
I mean,
Sam [00:11:14]:
so there’s a story I put in here, that I wrote down a couple of weeks ago. This 27 year old got sentenced to prison in Nelson District Court, for possessing counterfeiting equipment, burglary, shoplifting, and theft. He went and spent a bunch of these $100 notes he’s been forging, and he’s been forging $50 notes. Do you know how he got caught? This is what you should not do if you’re a counterfeiter.
Chris [00:11:40]:
I was gonna say I I I watched something, and this guy got caught because he he’d been counterfeiting, and he was buying drugs with the counterfeiting money. This drug dealer walked away, and it started raining, and the Frank started running on him.
Sam [00:11:55]:
Oh, okay. No.
Chris [00:11:55]:
And the guy came back, and he’s like, I’m dead. And the guy goes, these are really good. How long have you been giving me counterfeits? He goes, the whole time. Like, he wasn’t using all of it. It was, like, 10% of the money was counterfeit. Yeah. And then the the drug dealer just started buying counterfeit off him.
Sam [00:12:10]:
Oh, no. Sorry.
Chris [00:12:12]:
But how did how did this
Sam [00:12:13]:
Well, this dude spends his $400 note in Motueca, and then 2 days later he checks into Tahananui Motel Land, and he’s unloading a guillotine, a printer, and a bunch of laptop bags. Right? And then the next 2 nights, he’s in this hotel counterfeiting banknotes, and I’m assuming he’s on some drugs. I’m not sure. Let’s just assume he is. But anyway, a cleaner comes into the room to service it. So this dude has forgotten to put the thing on that says, don’t worry about my room, and she comes in and she’s looking around and says all this screwed up paper, and she’s like, oh. So she picks it up, and it’s printed $20 notes on the paper, and she’s like and then there was shredded paper and some purple residue that matches the color of $50 notes, So she alerted the police, and then they went to his house and found out a bunch of found other stuff, which was another printer and a bank note sizing template and some $50 fake notes. That’s how he got charged.
Sam [00:13:15]:
So I don’t know how long he would have gone without being caught if he never went to this motel for some reason.
Chris [00:13:22]:
Yeah. It’s funny because the one I was this was an American one. I watched the video thing on it. He did a lot of his stuff in the motel, and I think he got caught at a hotel, but not by the hotel. Okay. They were already waiting for him. Yeah.
Sam [00:13:36]:
But if he I don’t know. They’d said he had his own place, and they went to his place.
Chris [00:13:40]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This guy had his own place. They just always did the forging in hotels.
Sam [00:13:45]:
Yeah. I think if they said, oh, he was in a, like, a random garage or a storage unit. I don’t know.
Chris [00:13:52]:
Yeah. But because the one guy said that It’s just the only problem with the hotel was that use some really harsh smelling chemicals.
Sam [00:14:00]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:14:01]:
And so it was you know, you had to go, oh, my my wife has just, spilled some nail polish.
Sam [00:14:08]:
No. Acetone or something.
Chris [00:14:09]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:09]:
But, yeah, that’s the thing. Like, people would be like, oh, you’re making meth in there. And they’re like, no. No. No. No. I’ve just got this industrial printer. Like, I’m just imagining and bringing in this giant, you know it doesn’t have 3 ink tanks.
Sam [00:14:20]:
It’s got, like, 7. Like, what are you doing? Nothing? I just gotta have this in the motel room with me. Yeah. I don’t know.
Chris [00:14:27]:
It is a bit weird.
Sam [00:14:28]:
A little bit. Not as weird as the guy do you hear about the guy that pleaded self defense in, Switzerland?
Chris [00:14:35]:
Nope.
Sam [00:14:36]:
Okay. So this dude strangled a former finalist for miss Switzerland, chopped her up with a jigsaw Oh, gee. And garden shears. No. No. It gets better. Then pureed her up into a blender. Right? This is the husband.
Chris [00:14:51]:
Oh, the husband?
Sam [00:14:52]:
Yeah. Yeah. He’s blending her up. I hope it’s one of those bloody good blenders. You don’t want it to be, like, burning out the motor.
Chris [00:14:58]:
Blend? Yeah. Yeah. Will it blend? Miss Norway, will it blend? Oh, no. That’s terrible.
Sam [00:15:03]:
It’s totally terrible, but we went there. Yeah. But, you know, hang on. The terrible bit is us saying it. The worst bit is you laughing so much. Okay. Wait.
Chris [00:15:17]:
Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
Sam [00:15:18]:
Wait. So, anyway, they found out she was dead, and there was, I guess, bits of her still left over because he hadn’t completed everything. And, he appealed for release, and they rejected it. He did admit to killing his wife, but
Chris [00:15:32]:
he’d just me and bit her
Sam [00:15:33]:
in the laundry room with all the stuff. There were several body parts all over the place, and then he got a chemical and was trying to dissolve her as well. And, she tried attacking me with a kitchen knife, and it was self defense.
Chris [00:15:48]:
Yeah. That doesn’t sound, reasonable at all.
Sam [00:15:52]:
Not at all. There’s no one in their right mind. If she was just on the floor dead with a stab wound, Okay.
Chris [00:16:00]:
And a knife next to it.
Sam [00:16:01]:
You go let’s let’s work this out. Potentially.
Chris [00:16:04]:
He’s in the back bloody he couldn’t Will it be?
Sam [00:16:09]:
He couldn’t afford a garden shredder thing out the out the back, so he’s just got I got a blender.
Chris [00:16:15]:
Oh, no. So sorry. What country was that?
Sam [00:16:19]:
Well, she was Swiss. I think it’s Switzerland. Yeah. Yeah. Switzerland. Yeah. Yep.
Chris [00:16:23]:
Right. Which I I I don’t Norway because I was Norway’s the the next thing I was gonna talk about.
Sam [00:16:28]:
Well, I don’t think does Switzerland have a high murder? I can’t imagine them having a high murder count, but I don’t know. Don’t quote me
Chris [00:16:35]:
on this. Yeah. I don’t know. It’s fairly big. It’s 40,000,000 and
Sam [00:16:38]:
Oh, okay. So population wise, probably, but as a people, I think they’re pretty good.
Chris [00:16:44]:
Known for it. No.
Sam [00:16:45]:
Not that I know. Not that we know of.
Chris [00:16:46]:
Not that we know of. Anyway Although one of the big serial killers was Swiss, wasn’t he?
Sam [00:16:54]:
That That went on the island.
Chris [00:16:55]:
Or was it Swiss that had the guy that ate people? Cannibal dude. Oh, I can’t remember. I knew someone.
Sam [00:17:02]:
There’s too many to someone will tell us.
Chris [00:17:04]:
Anyway, so it’s Norway’s princess, and she’s weird. And she
Sam [00:17:13]:
Is she how old is this princess?
Chris [00:17:16]:
I didn’t write it down, but I’m I get the feeling she’s in her thirties, late twenties, early thirties. Okay. She just got married to American.
Sam [00:17:26]:
Oh, I think it’s a really expensive wedding, wasn’t it? No. Anyway,
Chris [00:17:29]:
whatever. I don’t know. But it was a shaman. Okay. Alright. So this is this is what’s what’s amusing or weird about it. She’s a little bit out there, and a lot of people love her because she’s out there, and a lot of people hate her because she’s out there. And what do I mean, Chris, by the way? Yeah.
Chris [00:17:46]:
What She’s out there.
Sam [00:17:47]:
Okay. What’s she done?
Chris [00:17:48]:
She talks to angels.
Sam [00:17:50]:
So she’s just walking around and then stops and goes, hey.
Chris [00:17:54]:
Yeah. And she started a school to help teach other people how to talk to angels.
Sam [00:17:59]:
Yep. Good. And then And then bringing in the money.
Chris [00:18:03]:
And then, she she found this dude. He, he’s he’s, you know, perfectly normal. He sells medallions to cure cancer.
Sam [00:18:15]:
Oh, that you they’re the best type.
Chris [00:18:17]:
And is known for his I yeah. Okay. If you have kids in the car, you need to hit pause now, probably. The hard do you get It’s it’s it’s
Sam [00:18:26]:
not bad.
Chris [00:18:26]:
Okay. He he is known for his ability to remove imprints from a woman’s vagina of people she had previously had sex with?
Sam [00:18:39]:
No comment.
Chris [00:18:40]:
Like, that is the most mental thing ever. Oh, no. Did you go out with that guy? He’s probably left an imprint. You need that imprint removed. Like, what? What are you doing? And he charges for that and makes a lot of money.
Sam [00:18:55]:
No. I no.
Chris [00:18:57]:
I don’t even think about how he does that. Good grief.
Sam [00:19:01]:
He does nothing. He just says, look. He just, done it. We did it. Oh, here’s a crystal. Oh, I’ve done it. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:06]:
Have a drink of this. Yeah. It’s done. Yep. Alright. Anyway, so yeah. Weird. So the princess and the shaman, that is the weirdest thing I’ve heard about for a while.
Chris [00:19:17]:
Good luck to them.
Sam [00:19:18]:
Good luck to them. I was gonna say I wonder what that guy’s backstory is to get to where he is. But,
Chris [00:19:24]:
you just think it’d make a great Netflix show, probably, The Princess and the Shaman. I mean, yeah, The yeah. I’m sure there’d be something there.
Sam [00:19:35]:
I saw the story. This is on the fortune, fortune.com website. So JP Morgan is a big banking company in America, and, they’ve now decided to cap their junior bankers’ hours at only 80 hours a week now.
Chris [00:19:54]:
Jeez. What were they doing? Like, a 120 or something?
Sam [00:19:57]:
But there’s not there’s yeah. There’s I don’t know. So they they’re they’re famous infamous, I guess, for always having an always on culture. Like, Wolf of Wall Street is sort of like the Matthew McConaughey type thing, I think. And this is only junior bankers. Major I don’t know if the senior bankers are doing more or if they get the junior ones to do more.
Chris [00:20:18]:
I think they get the the senior it’s almost like hazing. They get all the juniors to do all the work. I noticed it’s like that with the law as well in in the states. The law
Sam [00:20:30]:
so so a sample 80 hour week for one of these young people they said is probably like 8:30 AM in the morning till 10 PM at night,
Chris [00:20:41]:
6 days a week, something like that. And you have a
Sam [00:20:44]:
short break for meals, or you do 11 hours a day for a 7 straight days, like 77, I guess. As men’s way, I just they just
Chris [00:20:55]:
As I I struggle to get through, you know, if I’ve got to do 6,000 a day, I’m like, no. I’m old.
Sam [00:21:01]:
So so it says here, earlier this year, this dude who was a Green Beret at one point in his life turned Bank of America investment banker died of a blood clot because he was doing more than a 100 hours a week on a $2,000,000,000 deal
Chris [00:21:18]:
at Bank of America. Jeez.
Sam [00:21:21]:
But at some point, your efficiency is not there. Oh, no. Your body’s there.
Chris [00:21:28]:
No. Yeah. You
Sam [00:21:29]:
At our I don’t know. Whatever.
Chris [00:21:33]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You’re physically present, mentally gone.
Sam [00:21:37]:
Your brain you’re just like, oh, let’s do some stuff. I assume that, you know, this is it could be doing drugs.
Chris [00:21:44]:
Yeah. To keep you going. That’s yeah. You’d almost have to, to be honest. I got this one from Texas. Oh, yep. An attorney general for Texas is, threatening a lawsuit over the state fair because they have these state fairs. Right?
Sam [00:22:03]:
Massive. Yeah. They’re absolutely massive.
Chris [00:22:04]:
So Okay. What he asking the state fair to do?
Sam [00:22:09]:
I don’t know. Something dumb.
Chris [00:22:10]:
They’re banning guns from being brought into the state fair, and he’s going, nope. We’re gonna sue you. People should be allowed to bring their guns to the state fair.
Sam [00:22:19]:
Especially in Texas. I
Chris [00:22:20]:
think it’s just that’s just so basically, it said no guns allowed, and he’s like, nope. Can’t do that.
Sam [00:22:30]:
Hey. How are they gonna walk around with an, an AR
Chris [00:22:34]:
AR 15.
Sam [00:22:34]:
AR 15 strapped to them for protection? It’s their
Chris [00:22:37]:
Will they just buy a JR 15, aye? Maybe.
Sam [00:22:40]:
It’s their emotional support gun, and they need it. Okay? Yeah. If they do not have that strapped to them with multiple magazines and maybe a pistol 1 or 2, 3, I don’t know, whatever, how are they going to enjoy that state fair? Because when when when the stuff happens, they’re gonna have to be there to respond. Well, there’s no story. I there’s very few stories of somebody that’s not law enforcement off duty or ex military actually doing anything. Is there? I don’t hear it.
Chris [00:23:11]:
No. I think you’re right. I’m gonna read this this bit out. The fear, which reopens in September
Sam [00:23:16]:
last for
Chris [00:23:17]:
the other month
Sam [00:23:17]:
Hang on. I’m glad you’re reading it out on an audio podcast. I was worried you were gonna do charades. Carry on.
Chris [00:23:25]:
I’ll I’ll do this interpretive dance. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fair, which reopens in September and lasts for nearly a month, dates back to 18/86. Oh, wow. In addition to a maze of midway games, I don’t know what that means, car shows and the Texas Star Ferris wheel, which is the one of the tallest in the US. So it’s
Sam [00:23:44]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:45]:
Yeah. Like the fit star, whatever. Okay. The fairgrounds are also the home to the annual college football rivalry between University of Texas and University of Oklahoma. Yep. No big deal. And after big ticks, the towering cowboy that greets fairgoers, went up in flames in 2012 due to electrical short. Oh.
Chris [00:24:05]:
The fair massacre was met with a great fanfare upon its return. Okay. But a shooting near the rows of food booths last year dampened the revelry.
Sam [00:24:16]:
Just a little bit?
Chris [00:24:17]:
Yeah. I just love that. Dampened the revelry. Yeehaw.
Sam [00:24:21]:
Well, it’s so massive. You’d you’d be on the other side. You probably don’t know.
Chris [00:24:25]:
Investigators said one man opened fire on another, injuring 3 people
Sam [00:24:30]:
Okay.
Chris [00:24:30]:
And resulting in police clearing the fairgrounds.
Sam [00:24:33]:
Oh, wow. That’s a
Chris [00:24:34]:
Videos posted on social media showed groups of people running along the sidewalks and climbing barriers as they fled, which is what you do. Because a lot of And so because of the shooting, they went, oh, well, maybe we won’t let people have guns there, which seems totally normal to me.
Sam [00:24:53]:
1st off, in those situations, I think a lot of injuries comes from trampling because people run and Yeah. But, you know, by
Chris [00:25:01]:
the way that was written Oh, no. No. 3 people were injured.
Sam [00:25:03]:
Yeah. No. Totally. Totally. But but it’ll be 3 p winkered by a gun, and you got 20 people over here all got trampled.
Chris [00:25:09]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:25:10]:
Whatever. But it must have been a I don’t know how it’s set up, but I assume that was a really big call whoever did that or the committee. Because they must know. They’re in it. They’re like, mhmm.
Chris [00:25:23]:
But the people you think that would come at you for doing that is not the attorney general of this. No. No. No. I don’t think it’s true. Look. I have to stay there. Also That’s what I got, man.
Sam [00:25:34]:
Also, I’m surprised they didn’t come out and say, hey. I was like, I don’t know. Because it’s it’s open carry there, I think. So you think you’d start smaller and go, you can only have concealed carry.
Chris [00:25:46]:
Because I told you what when I went to, the rehab.
Sam [00:25:51]:
The film festival?
Chris [00:25:52]:
No. The big, the gold mine. It’s like a it’s like a theme park in Johannesburg, the gold mine there.
Sam [00:25:58]:
I don’t know. You keep telling me the stories I’ve never heard from in 10 years. Okay.
Chris [00:26:03]:
We went to a gold mine, and and it was like, put your guns here because it just looks like a western. And I was like, uh-huh. And,
Sam [00:26:10]:
All these people were like Yeah.
Chris [00:26:11]:
And Pete’s like, no. You gotta put your gun in there.
Sam [00:26:15]:
But you didn’t have one.
Chris [00:26:16]:
I didn’t have one. I’m like, he he his was locked in the car, so he’s alright. I was like, oh, everybody’s got a gun. Yeah.
Sam [00:26:24]:
Yeah. It’s
Chris [00:26:25]:
great. Yeah. We went to a bar one night, a real dodgy bar, actually, but they had apparently good music. Okay. Because Doug was a bit of a dodgy guy that I was with, and, I’ve known him for years in in in London and stuff. And so me, Doug, and Pete went went in, and I cracked up laughing because at the bottom of the stairs, it says, please don’t check your action. We’ll check your action for you.
Sam [00:26:48]:
Yeah. Yeah. That’d be
Chris [00:26:49]:
And I I cracked up laughing because I’m gonna go, they’re gonna check out the girls for me? Awesome. Like and he goes and and and Pete, not a small guy, elbows me really hard in the ribs and goes, shut up. Don’t laugh. Yeah. Yeah. Because the the bouncer’s there. I’m like, what? And he goes, somebody that sign’s brand new. Somebody last week came in, went to check their action Shot it? And shot it off and blew the head off the old pa the bouncer.
Sam [00:27:16]:
Far away.
Chris [00:27:16]:
So the guy just died, like, 4 days before, and I’m like, oh, okay. I’ll I’ll be quiet.
Sam [00:27:22]:
Oh, no. It’s just different world, mate. Different stuff.
Chris [00:27:25]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway.
Sam [00:27:27]:
That’s crazy. That brings us to the end of the podcast, pretty much.
Chris [00:27:30]:
Yeah. So there’s a couple of stories I tell at the 5 100th episode.
Sam [00:27:35]:
There is. And you will
Chris [00:27:35]:
determine whether these are good stories or not. I have to listen to them because I can’t remember how eloquent or not I was. Oh, you did good. Yeah. Anyway, so that’s cool.
Sam [00:27:46]:
So we’ve got that, and, we’ve got some interviews with the people that couldn’t make it.
Chris [00:27:51]:
Yeah. And we’ve got some current style stories just like we’ve done today. And we’ve got, even a couple of Kickstarter dropkicks. Yes. So it’s
Sam [00:28:01]:
all very good. Coming up this week, I am sorting out some Misty Flix stuff. We got some volunteers I’m talking to on the weekend. They sound pretty promising from the CV that the guy sent me. Nice. Randomly.
Chris [00:28:14]:
I’ve got some work to do for Misty Flix, which I still haven’t done.
Sam [00:28:18]:
No. Not at all.
Chris [00:28:22]:
I will get some of that done this weekend.
Sam [00:28:25]:
In yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:28:26]:
In between everything else.
Sam [00:28:27]:
But if you’re new to this and you’re wondering what’s going on, don’t worry. We’ve got a whole back catalog, 496 more plus extras because we do more stuff as well. We go to field days, Armageddon, and, I upset a, Indian scammer once. It’s on our front page. Just go to the Chris and Sam podcast.com. If you don’t wanna download an app, I
Chris [00:28:49]:
don’t listen to them there, or you can get it on Spotify or
Sam [00:28:53]:
You can find it on radio or anything, really. So some if you’re listening to this somehow, there are other options is what I’ll say. So I don’t know. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, until next time. I’m Sam. I’m Chris.
Sam [00:29:05]:
See you.
Chris [00:29:05]:
Bye.
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