500th Episode

Summary

Our 500th episode is here and it’s a bumper episode.

Recorded in front of a live audience we cover all your favourites. Randomness, technology and life the way we know how.

From new stories, to old stories. Kickstart and dropkick makes an appearance and we talk to a bunch of our fans.

Over 2 hours of Chris and Sam goodness.

Have a listen and tell a friend. A huge thank you to everyone that has listened, interacted with or supported the podcast over the last 10 years.

Links

Evil Disney
Woman stole 1.5 million dollars worth of chicken wings
Ugly Laws
Not dead Ted
Space Mirror
Where not to put a snake
Kickstart or Dropkick – Momo Modular Mower
Kickstart or Dropkick – Modular Pillow

Show Transcript

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Chris [00:00:00]:
Hi. It’s Chris and Sam here.

Sam [00:00:01]:
From the Chris and Sam Podcast.

Chris [00:00:03]:
Right. So before you listen to this episode, we just wanna set the scene. Yep. We are in a live in a theater with, bunch of fans here.

Sam [00:00:13]:
At least a dozen.

Chris [00:00:14]:
At least at least a dozen. And they are going to be yelling out a few things. You’ll hear from from time to time. We’re editing this out. You’re not going to hear everything that we’ve had in that, live show.

Sam [00:00:27]:
Plus, we’ve recorded a couple and more like 4, I think, interviews with people that couldn’t make it on the night. So we’re gonna sit those into the podcast.

Chris [00:00:35]:
Yeah. So it’s a longer than normal podcast, but, it’s it’s a special occasion. It’s the 5 100th episode. So please enjoy.

Sam [00:00:51]:
Welcome to the Chris and Sam podcast. Pull up a bar story and join us for a random conversation Hello, and welcome to episode 500 of the Chris and Sam podcast. Yay. Yay. I’m Chris. And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology and life, and this time recording in front of a live studio audience.

Chris [00:01:18]:
Yeah. Yo. Most of them are live.

Sam [00:01:21]:
Yeah. Yeah. Well, no one’s here waking up burning people, although it would have filled up more space. But it’s okay. Thank you. We do want some

Chris [00:01:29]:
cardboard cutouts.

Sam [00:01:30]:
No. No. That’ll cost money. We’ll say we aren’t in a studio. We’re actually at the Regent Theatre in Te Awamudu. Thanks to Paige and Lyndon for sorting us out.

Chris [00:01:37]:
So Absolutely.

Sam [00:01:38]:
Appreciate that.

Chris [00:01:39]:
Alright. So I’ve got a bit of an agenda here. Agenda for today, we’re gonna talk a little bit about what the podcast is all about for a couple of people that aren’t here. Amazing crowd. Average age, really hit. Probably about 22, I’m guessing is the average. Yeah. Brought down by the children.

Chris [00:01:56]:
Anyway, so, we got some current stories that we’d normally sort of go through, that sort of thing. We’re going to get, the audience here to pick a couple of my old stories. You get to choose from a few there and then we’ve got a 10 question quiz. So we’re going to ask that, then we’re going to end up with an audience q and a. So let’s get into it. So what are we all about? We’re all about, randomness, technology, and life. And so we have, hit a lot of very different things over the last 500 episodes.

Sam [00:02:29]:
Yep. 10 years.

Chris [00:02:30]:
I wanna talk about evil Disney. You haven’t heard this yet.

Sam [00:02:34]:
No. No. I don’t know what you’re going to say. I’m I’m worried because we’ve got people here. Normally, what happens is, it doesn’t matter what he says because I can just edit it after the fact. And he may not even know some of the stuff I’ve cut out, over the years, but, here we go.

Chris [00:02:50]:
Alright. So, yeah, this I want you to judge whether you think Disney is evil on this this score. Right?

Sam [00:02:57]:
We’re talking about the corporation and not Walt Disney.

Chris [00:03:00]:
No. Yeah. The corporation. Oh, yeah. That’s the

Sam [00:03:02]:
company. Just the

Chris [00:03:02]:
company. The company. So what happened was, the originate so the this guy sued Disney Yeah. For wrongful death. So his wife and he went to a Disney park. I forget which one. Like, it was one of the Disneys. She she’s got a lot of her allergies.

Chris [00:03:18]:
They went to a restaurant. They said, you know, is this allergy free? Is this allergy free? And the waiter said, no. No. It’s all good. It’s all good. It’s all good.

Sam [00:03:28]:
Okay.

Chris [00:03:29]:
And they brought it out, and a couple of the dishes didn’t have the allergy flags. That’s what it says in the newspaper. I don’t know what an allergy flag is, but, apparently, it’s a thing. And they’re like, this hasn’t got any White is like, no. It’s all good. It’s all good. And then she goes shopping into the shopping precinct to Yeah. Disneyland and has an allergic reaction, uses the EpiPen, dies.

Sam [00:03:51]:
Do you know what she was allergic to?

Chris [00:03:54]:
They found elevated, quantities of nuts and dairy. So I think it was nuts and dairy she was

Sam [00:04:00]:
Excellent.

Chris [00:04:02]:
Allergic to. Right. So this guy is suing Disney for wrongful death.

Sam [00:04:07]:
Yep. Okay. Sounds like a big

Chris [00:04:09]:
$1,000. Oh,

Sam [00:04:10]:
not much. That’s just chunky. Exactly.

Chris [00:04:12]:
That’s what I like I mean, it’s not gonna pay for his wife. You know what I mean? Like

Sam [00:04:17]:
I don’t know what will. She’s dead.

Chris [00:04:18]:
No. But you know what I mean. It’s it’s paying for all they said was emotional distress and the cost of funeral and stuff like that.

Sam [00:04:25]:
Yeah. So I

Chris [00:04:25]:
mean, reasonable. Sounds like a reasonable amount because you know what it’s like in the States. Usually, you’re talking 1,000,000. Right?

Sam [00:04:31]:
Okay. Okay. I’m assuming Disney said no.

Chris [00:04:34]:
Disney was like, now they’ve had it moved to be thrown out of court Okay. Because this is where She

Sam [00:04:42]:
shouldn’t have eaten the food at Disneyland.

Chris [00:04:44]:
No. Because he signed up for Disney Plus 3 or 5 years earlier.

Sam [00:04:50]:
What? Is there a clause

Chris [00:04:51]:
in there? Terms and conditions. No. Let me see. We hold Disney, unable to be, sued or anything.

Sam [00:04:59]:
For just anything Disney forever? Suing Disney parks at

Chris [00:05:03]:
it was I’ve wrote it down. It was Disney Park and Resorts.

Sam [00:05:05]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:05:06]:
And Disney plus is the channel, and they’re like, nope. Disney’s Disney. We we’re not giving you that 50,000 thrown out of court.

Sam [00:05:14]:
It has been thrown out

John [00:05:15]:
of court

Chris [00:05:16]:
or not? Yeah. At the time that I took this, so, admittedly, that was a few weeks ago, it it it was pending judgment.

Sam [00:05:24]:
But So anything could have happened in the last 2 weeks. Yeah. It’s a cliffhanger.

Chris [00:05:28]:
Yeah. Pretty much. Okay. But but is that evil or what? Like, honestly, in the scheme of things, $50?

Sam [00:05:35]:
It seems like that they could have just given 50 k, and it would have gone away and not been publicized Yeah. As much.

Chris [00:05:42]:
I reckon I reckon that’s nuts. I think Disney’s just either I don’t know if they’re evil or just stupid.

Sam [00:05:49]:
Is it gonna cause anyone to cancel the Disney plus?

Chris [00:05:52]:
No. I don’t think so.

Audience Member [00:05:54]:
The most recent thing that is they’ve they’ve changed check. They’re not gonna pursue that line anymore. Yeah. They they were keeping that going for a couple of weeks, and then they decided to didn’t

Sam [00:06:03]:
didn’t Okay.

Chris [00:06:03]:
So they so they let that off. So Adam is the audiences

Audience Member [00:06:07]:
still gonna challenge him, but they’re they’re not gonna use the Disney plus.

Sam [00:06:11]:
Oh, I mean, that’s alright then. That that makes them go from evil to normal. Yeah. I I still

Chris [00:06:15]:
I I still think it’s, like, cost of doing business. I mean, I don’t wanna be callous, but you just, like, pay it pay it out and shut them up.

Sam [00:06:24]:
But, anyway, okay. That’s my

Chris [00:06:25]:
that’s my evil business story. Here we go.

Sam [00:06:27]:
Business story. Okay. So this woman in Illinois got jailed for 9 years for stealing $1,500,000 worth of what? Does anyone know?

Chris [00:06:39]:
How how big a thing was it like? Was it a a small thing?

Sam [00:06:44]:
I’m going to say it’s like what’s in that image that AI made for me.

Chris [00:06:48]:
Lots of box.

Sam [00:06:49]:
Lots of boxes. Any guesses? 9 years. Started at, when COVID hit. Just got caught recently, if that Oh,

Chris [00:06:57]:
so just kept stealing over a period of time. Oh,

Jamie [00:07:02]:
good guess.

Audience Member [00:07:03]:
Guessing. Yeah.

Sam [00:07:04]:
No. So she stole $1,500,000 worth of chicken wings. So yeah. So she was the food service director for the Chicago School District, and, she blew the budget by $300,000 and they audited it and worked out that she’d been taking all this chicken wings, 11,000 cases in total.

Chris [00:07:26]:
11,000. So she was selling it?

Sam [00:07:28]:
The food was supposed to be taken, she’s supposed to get it give it to the home meals for all the kids that were learning remotely, but chicken wings were never served to students because of the bones in them. So nobody picked up on that, and she was well known to the supplier due to the large quantities she was always purchasing, but they don’t really know what she did with them.

Chris [00:07:53]:
She must have been supplying some restaurants, I reckon.

Sam [00:07:55]:
I reckon it was all cash, and there’s no paper trail, but she got 9 years 11,000 boxes later. I don’t know how many she was giving at a time, but, it’s next level.

Chris [00:08:06]:
Damn.

Sam [00:08:07]:
There’s another story that’s similar a couple of years ago. There’s a guy that got done for steak. Same setup, same school sort of thing, and he was sick one day, and the delivery driver turned up. And they said, what are you doing? We never order this. And the guy goes, I’ve been delivering this for years. And that’s how that guy got, busted.

Chris [00:08:25]:
Oh, that’s hilarious. Never be sick if you’re a crook.

Sam [00:08:29]:
I think yeah. There you go.

Chris [00:08:31]:
We Words of wisdom from Chris.

Sam [00:08:33]:
Word words of wisdom indeed. So here we have a a quick interview with our mate, John, all the way from Dubai. Hello. Welcome to, another interview with an amazing person that can’t make it to our 500th episode.

Chris [00:08:46]:
If they’ve got a good enough excuse, and this person, John, absolutely has got a good enough excuse because there’s a long way to come, and it would be, I suspect, fairly expensive to get to, Teowomutu from, Dubai.

Sam [00:09:02]:
If it was just Hamilton, not a problem. It’s that Hamilton to Teowomutu leg. That’s the real problem.

John [00:09:09]:
Yeah. I’ve heard that.

Sam [00:09:10]:
He’s taken, time out of his day to have a meeting with us. I heard it’s an important meeting. So that’s good. Yeah. Thank you so much for joining us.

Chris [00:09:19]:
And being a, a a long term listener. So how long have you been listening to Chris and Sam Podcast?

John [00:09:25]:
I would I was I was trying to remember when it was. It must be about 3 or 4 years. I can remember it was pre COVID. So we must be talking, like, 19 2019, 2020. I can remember doing so you’re hearing the COVID shows, working from home, and listening to it. And I think one of your one of your live performances for your

Sam [00:09:44]:
300th was the I mean, would you like 300? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, like, and, like, every good listener and including ourselves, it all just merges into 1, and we have no idea how long this has actually been going for.

Chris [00:09:58]:
Yeah. Yeah.

John [00:09:59]:
Yeah. Space time continuum is gone. Have you? I I was trying to look now. We’ve got

Sam [00:10:03]:
no We’re not expecting anybody to actually have a solid answer for that one. Yeah. Yeah. I’d be worried if they did because they might be a stalker.

Chris [00:10:10]:
Yeah. But we do we have been asking people, how did you go to hear about us or whatever? Because that’s always interesting.

John [00:10:17]:
Yeah. I I I think I shared this last time. It’s that I was my I’m obviously British. My wife’s a Kiwi. She’s from Christchurch, so I consider myself half Kiwi. So I was just googling and I listened to that again. It’s the podcast thing. I was, oh, you know, top podcasts from New Zealand.

John [00:10:31]:
Some of them don’t sound interest, some don’t sound interesting. Yours did, you know, life, technology, randomness, you know, and stuff. I was like, hey. Give it a go. And, it’s it’s you it’s like you’re in the room. It’s just like you’re gonna get out in the pub. You wanna chat and you hear just general chit chat information. Some of it’s really interesting.

John [00:10:49]:
Some of it’s even like, oh, didn’t even know that. So that’s how we got into it, fell into it.

Sam [00:10:53]:
I like how he said that in his life.

Chris [00:10:54]:
Oh, that’s crap. Some of it’s interesting. No. He’s a Shows my words. Consummate professional. He’s a diplomat. That’s Oh, is he what?

Sam [00:11:05]:
I I’m surprised he’s not a guest on multiple podcasts. Maybe he is, and we just don’t know.

Chris [00:11:10]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

John [00:11:11]:
The only ones I generally listen to now is Smartlist, which I recommended to you, which is, again, I stumbled across that, and that’s very funny because then it’s like, yeah, 3,000,000 stars all through celebrities chatting and that’s fun because it’s it’s just through when when they bring their guests and it’s like you you 2 exactly the same. You just 2 guys chewing the fat, talking rubbish and good look, rubbish, Germanist term.

Chris [00:11:30]:
Yeah. Yeah.

John [00:11:31]:
And it’s good fun. It’s it breaks up my day.

Chris [00:11:33]:
Yeah. Because I I started listening to that as well. And and the thing is, those guys are, you know, famous guys, but they’re still just guys. Like, they’re just yeah. They’re normal as. So yeah. Normal.

Sam [00:11:44]:
Yeah. Yeah. And and they talk about their random days, whatever they’ve been up to, which is good.

John [00:11:49]:
And then when they say, oh, yeah. I was I was, like, around the corner, and I bumped into George, and, obviously, George met George. And it’s it’s crazy when you listen to it, and it is just like their day to day life where you just bump into, you know, any someone from the street, and it’s, yeah, it’s a it’s a different level, but it’s it’s quite fun.

Chris [00:12:04]:
So, what I wanted to ask, John, was, what are there any particular stories that you like? And the reason I’m asking because at the the live show, we’re going to be doing it revisiting a few of the old stories, and and we’ve already had one phone call with somebody sort of recommended one one story that I told back in the day that I’m going to retell. But do you have any any stories you you like from either Sam or myself?

John [00:12:33]:
I don’t know. I think a lot of your what you you refer to, I’ve never gone back and listened to the bee story. You’ve told it again subsequent times, which that’s it’s obviously funny, but I things that jump back is like your your purchase of your canoe, and I don’t know how many times you actually used it.

Sam [00:12:48]:
It’s going strong, isn’t it, Chris? Where is it?

Chris [00:12:50]:
It’s still in the shed. So I’ve still only used

Sam [00:12:53]:
it 3 times.

John [00:12:54]:
Oh, it’s out of the wrapper. Okay. You actually

John [00:12:56]:
said that.

Chris [00:12:57]:
Out of the wrapper. But, yeah, I am actually I’m waiting for it to fine up so I can sell it, honestly. Okay.

John [00:13:05]:
It’s like a gym membership.

Sam [00:13:06]:
You buy

John [00:13:06]:
it and then you do it once, then it’s forget about it and it sits in the corner. But it’s not a small thing that you can’t light. A small item in the corner’s fine, Burke. Bloody canoe. It should just take us a minute.

Sam [00:13:15]:
Well, I

John [00:13:16]:
what I do enjoy is you you pick, like, the randomness stuff that you somehow find, and it’s quite interesting, obviously, living where I live is you some of the stuff you you bring up before we’ve heard of it here, but other stuff, we hear about it and then I always joke with my wife. It’s like 2 or 3 years later, it’s it’s New Zealand.

Sam [00:13:32]:
Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. 3 years later.

Chris [00:13:34]:
It’s like, Sam will go, that’s Chris doing Chris research, and he’ll go, yes. Yes. I know that breakthrough happened, but it happened 2 years ago.

John [00:13:46]:
Yes. And I saw it’s good because, obviously, it reminds me always something that I haven’t seen. I mean, your research division must be obviously extensive. The people there, they’re scouring the Internet for that space.

Sam [00:13:56]:
No. They’re they’re very good. Well, you don’t pay them very much.

John [00:14:00]:
That’s what you maybe you should obviously have, like, a a hotline for people to fire in information. Because, obviously, this is Dubai. We have funny stories here, or we we pick, like, stuff that comes through on our WhatsApp groups that we have. It’s something maybe send me something through because you could you could do your incentive search. You can have, like, a dial not a dial in, like a not a hotline. It just sends you a link, and then you can talk about it and have a look at it because, obviously, you guys are busy. So it’s like, you know, crap there is out there.

Chris [00:14:25]:
Absolutely. If if you or anybody listening have a story that you think is interesting, just message us on the, on the Facebook, yeah, or LinkedIn.

Sam [00:14:38]:
Are you alright? You like, you’re struggling to remember what

Chris [00:14:41]:
technology is called? Facebook page. Our Facebook page.

Jamie [00:14:44]:
Okay.

Chris [00:14:44]:
The Chris and Sam I was wondering

Sam [00:14:45]:
what was going on there.

Chris [00:14:47]:
Chris and Sam podcast Facebook page.

John [00:14:49]:
If you you wanna call us you wanna call a plumber in New Zealand, a a a plumber’s gonna come around and fix your problem, and it’s fine. You know, you’re gonna get a you call a plumber here, you’ll have 10 guys come around, one of which might look at it, 9 guys will just stand there watching, and that’s generally how it goes with a lot of things that you’re doing because of the, the the qualified plumber. If you I mean, as and they’re all familiar, like, Indians have continent, that type of thing, which they they do the job, but it’s like the overkill on that side of the road. You have 1 guy sweeping the road, 5 guys watching it. So that’s just how it is in Dubai and you get used to it. But one of the things is whenever you one of the, I guess, one of the, I say, annoying things is, you walk into a shop and it’s probably the same in a lot of other countries where as soon as you walk in, they pounce on you to, try and sell you something. Yeah. Yeah.

John [00:15:31]:
But the thing you have here is some of the nationalities that they don’t have a word for sir. It’s ma’am sir, ma’am sir. So everyone’s ma’am sir. So it’s like you’re not a ma’am, you’re not a sir, you’re a what are you? It’s like another derivative of the, you know, my how how I relate how I what’s the what’s the word? How I, my, my my pseudonym, your, sexual con sexual your your sexuality Pro noun. You’re pro noun.

Liam [00:15:51]:
There we go, friends.

John [00:15:52]:
So I’m a ma’am, sir. But, it’s not. It’s like, no. I’m a ma’am I’m a sir, and that’s a man. So it’s just that that’s annoying. But, yeah. I’ll think of some stories that are are clean and and fair, and I’ll send them through so you can look at them and discuss.

Sam [00:16:04]:
Nice. Nice. We’re looking forward to it.

John [00:16:05]:
One of the interesting one of the interesting ones, you were talking about the Neon project, a few weeks ago, I think. And, obviously, yeah, that’s a big thing here because obviously, what you have is UAE and Saudi and Saudi is trying to obviously UAE is good because, obviously, it’s a tourist destination. It’s very more open now than it used to be. And, obviously, Saudi Arabia is trying to get that way. Obviously, they’ve got some, like, history they’ve gotta try and clear up, but they’re building these massive, not even giga projects, and even mega projects. And, obviously, the the line was this thing that was gonna be a 100 kilometers long, and it was like almost everyone here was like, that’s a bit crazy. And now it’s gonna be, like, 1.6 kilometers long or something silly.

Chris [00:16:41]:
Yeah. Yeah.

John [00:16:41]:
So that is

Chris [00:16:41]:
a bit

John [00:16:41]:
of a so it’s like yeah. But it’s that’s what sometimes really happens is they’ll launch a massive project, and everyone’s like, wow. I don’t know. 2 or 3 years later, it’s sort of did anything ever happen or they they relaunch under a different name? But, yes, I’ve got some friends that worked on the neon thing. It will be amazing when it’s done. They’re gonna have snow in the mountains in Saudi Arabia, which they generally do get now in the sort of when they have a storm, but to go theoretically to go to Saudi and ski outdoors is a bit crazy.

Chris [00:17:08]:
Looking at it from afar, so I’ve never been to Dubai. I’ve never been anywhere in the Middle East at all, but it’s looks like or it sounds like it’s a really wealthy country, like, there’s just money everywhere. But when I lived in, Gibraltar was a bit like that. Some places were were very flash, but there was still a lot of

Liam [00:17:29]:
squalor

Chris [00:17:30]:
might be a a good word. So have you still I

John [00:17:32]:
don’t I don’t think you have the squalor. What you have got is there’s a lot of people here, they’re here for working and they’re, you know, they they earn a good wage and obviously they they when you go out, everything’s very new, everything’s very clean, everything’s well done, but obviously you still have a a high proportion of the people that live here that work and maybe they’re they’re lower income. It’s not squalor, but they’ll live in a well, like, a labor camp, which is just like it’s a a building that sleeps 3 or 4 in a room, but these guys are working from there from the Asian subcontinent, Philippines, these areas or where and they’re coming here to work and they’re doing construction. So you haven’t got like the squalor of what you’d have like a shanty that that’s never seen. You won’t have that. Everyone’s living in a building, but you’ve got the guys in like a $1,000,000,000, mansion or a villa versus the guys that live in shared accommodation. So there is a there is a big gulf between the 2, but it’s yeah. You haven’t got, like, a shanty town.

John [00:18:23]:
You haven’t got people living on the streets. You don’t see any beggers. It’s a very clean safe. I mean, it’s we were just in Europe for the summer and, luckily, we went to tour a bit around Italy, and you can see the difference obviously in Dubai, it seems a lot safer because, our kids feel safer. You can literally when you go out to a restaurant, if you wanna reserve a table, you put your mobile phone down, and you can walk away and go and order your food and come back and your mobile phone’s still there because that’s where you reserved your table. I remember when I was back in New Zealand about 3 years ago, I I had the mobile phone on next to me on my table, and my, sister-in-law is like, don’t don’t do that. Someone will steal it. I’m like, well, it’s like next to me.

John [00:18:57]:
And they’re like, yeah, but they’ll still walk past now. And it’s the same as in London. Like, you’ve got the guy, you know, the scooter crimes that hit the only good thing about one of the main things about Dubai is how safe it is and how it’s a it’s a good place to live and a good place to bring out your kids because of that because of them. There is a lot of people to to work here, you’ve gotta have a visa. You don’t get so you haven’t got the people just rocking up and trying to, you know, steal and do whatever. So that’s that’s a very a very good thing.

Chris [00:19:19]:
Like my, illegal, immigrant status in Spain that we talked about last week or the week before.

Sam [00:19:26]:
That’s right. That’s right.

John [00:19:27]:
I might be going to Spain next summer, and I’ll see if they’ve got any pictures up of you still in the bars. I haven’t seen it now.

Sam [00:19:32]:
Don’t mention the same out loud.

John [00:19:34]:
That won’t. I was focused on my photos. Is it the interpuddle going after you. Yeah. I remember that one.

Chris [00:19:41]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Last question, I guess, is what so we used to have segments like the, kick start drop kick and

Sam [00:19:51]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris [00:19:53]:
Yeah. So is there anything that you like that we either kick we’re doing or we should be doing or we stop

Sam [00:20:01]:
doing To bring back I

John [00:20:02]:
think the Kickstarter thing is quite good because it’s like, again, it’s everyone’s gone a fame. I mean, nowadays with social media, you see so many things coming through where you actually, like, oh, that sounds like a good day or it doesn’t, and then friends share stuff and it’s that that’s good because it’s it it just increases the things that you don’t know and then what you’re what you’ve seen there that someone else might not see. That was fun. But I think, yeah, like, if open up to people to give you some stories that maybe you won’t find from, you know Yep. Fringe tapes there in the middle of nowhere that just interesting yeah. You can just ignore it. It’s like the wonderful thing about emails, you can either read it or ignore it. So you can you you might be inundated by all of your, listeners or you might, you know, only pick out what you wanna choose.

John [00:20:38]:
But it must it’s also hard, obviously, you only got your 30 minutes to try and fit everything in, and your general chitchat and your life updates and things. It’s, it’s it’s cool.

Sam [00:20:47]:
Sometimes it’s a struggle to fill this 30 minutes, but we we get there. We we for our fans, and we know, like, 5

Chris [00:20:55]:
of them We we we fill that to you.

John [00:20:59]:
But but I do I do I still do think, Sam, is when we met, whenever it was 2 years ago is when we were trying to quiz and work out how many, of your your listener base. I still I still do chuckle back on that story. And the fact that 500 episodes in, you’re still going strong is that’s it’s impressive stuff.

Sam [00:21:15]:
Yeah. It’s it’s it’s mind blowing. The 500 the the number 500 is the thing that’s, messing with my head a little bit. Everything every other number was fine. It just made sense, but I think it’s just because some of the podcasts we listen to from the start, they’ve all celebrated 10 years this year, and so are we and so are we. Like, the Tim Ferris podcast, the dollop, and, there’s another big one. They’ve been going for 10 years. Thanks so much.

Sam [00:21:40]:
We better wrap this up. We better let you get back to, real real real real. So you better tell people just how important this meeting was and how beneficial it was that you took

John [00:21:50]:
it. 100%. And I will I’m actually gonna share your link. I’ve I’ve managed to do that as, like, a New Zealand, Facebook group, New Zealand in Dubai, and I will share the your link to try and increase the listenerage from, if I still were, in Dubai. Who knows?

Chris [00:22:04]:
Sounds awesome. That’d be great.

Sam [00:22:06]:
Sounds great.

Chris [00:22:06]:
Share it there. Yep.

Sam [00:22:07]:
Awesome. Thanks so much, John. Thanks so much. Have a great day. Yes, sir. We will see you later. Yeah.

John [00:22:13]:
Nice to chat.

Chris [00:22:14]:
Okay. So ugly laws. Alright. So in the USA, for almost a century, ugly laws banned people with visible disabilities, diseases, or disfigurements from public view. Okay. Public spaces. And it was basically, it was a crime for any person, maimed, disease, mutilated, or disfigured or deformed to be exposed to public view. Because people were like, well, it’s not fair for me to walk down the street and have to look at these people.

Sam [00:22:53]:
But, also, like, this is the time when they had the freak shows, wouldn’t they? Like, as well?

Chris [00:22:57]:
When do you think the last person was jailed for being ugly in in public in the US?

Sam [00:23:05]:
I’m the way you just said that, I’m gonna say real current. So 2,001.

Chris [00:23:10]:
Oh, no. Not that current. 1982? 1974. Oh, okay. It’s still pretty so this was an 1800 originally. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris [00:23:20]:
The the last time it it sort of came was 1974. Although you can argue, and this is the point I was going to make with this whole thing, is that that’s sort of what we’re doing with the homeless. What homeless?

John [00:23:33]:
I don’t see them.

Sam [00:23:34]:
They were headed away from me at all times.

Chris [00:23:36]:
Yeah. But but not so much I’m talking about in New Zealand, but definitely in in the States. Although, I think it’s the same here where you are criminalizing a thing that they have no option with. Like, oh, I’m poor. How do I not do that? I’m ugly. How do I not be ugly?

Sam [00:23:57]:
I see. I see the parallels you’re making here.

Chris [00:23:59]:
Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully.

Sam [00:24:00]:
I thought it was ugly homeless people for a second.

Chris [00:24:03]:
But but that’s the thing. They there was a lot of, people who were blind that sold newspapers. Okay. Yeah. And it was like, no. You you’re blind. We can’t look at you because What? You’d you know, it’s it makes me feel queasy. And so a lot of people couldn’t make a living.

Chris [00:24:21]:
And then, but there were some good stories as well. I think it was in Chicago. This guy tried to, arrest a an an amputee. He had one leg.

John [00:24:31]:
Okay.

Chris [00:24:32]:
Kicked this cop, Chicago cop, kicked this other leg out to drop him on the ground because, Yeah. You know, cops are nice like that. And, this all these bystanders came in and helped the cop back and helped this guy escape. A 100 people helped the guy escape. Oh, wow. This white guy with one leg.

John [00:24:49]:
I thought you were

Sam [00:24:49]:
gonna say he had chicken wings or something.

Chris [00:24:53]:
But yeah. So, yeah. I don’t know. I just thought it was interesting, and I just wonder if we are still going down that track because we think we’re better than that, but I suspect we’re not.

Sam [00:25:03]:
In this segment, we’re talking to our number 1 Aussie truck driver who is a Kiwi export, Jamie Oxley.

Chris [00:25:10]:
Yes. So, how are you anyway? How’s since been?

Jamie [00:25:13]:
Oh, it’s been I I had got today and tomorrow off work, so we’ve been mucking around with the camping trailer that’s been in storage for nearly 5 years, I reckon. Haven’t even seen it.

Sam [00:25:25]:
I thought you were gonna say you were mucking around getting that go kart to go faster.

Jamie [00:25:29]:
Oh, he’s already done that. He’s like, oh, he rang me the other day. He’s like, oh, I turned it up, man. It hooks now, but there’s a food food market over at the park, so I better not get it out till tomorrow. So

Chris [00:25:44]:
Yeah. Yeah. They get upset about that.

Jamie [00:25:46]:
Yeah. Yeah. We we we already get cops around here all the time.

Sam [00:25:50]:
Just for you, probably.

Jamie [00:25:52]:
Oh, yeah. The just, like, all the because our house is the one everyone comes to to get their illegal bikes fixed. Like because they all all all these mates have bought bolted on, like, push bike motors onto push bikes. He bought them off eBay.

Sam [00:26:06]:
Oh, yeah.

Jamie [00:26:06]:
Like a Okay. $100. Yeah. He’s the one that fixes them, and they’ll get stopped by the cops and they’ll drive passes.

Sam [00:26:12]:
That’s awesome.

Jamie [00:26:13]:
There’s worse things they could be doing, so I don’t really care. You know?

Chris [00:26:16]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Sam [00:26:17]:
But we’re here with Jamie Oxley, and he is a long time listener of the podcast.

Chris [00:26:22]:
Number one Australian fan. There we go. You can go with that.

Jamie [00:26:24]:
I like that. Thank you.

Sam [00:26:26]:
No worry. No worries. We appreciate you, because you ask us questions and then send voice mails, of things that you’ve heard on the podcast while you’re driving all over the place in your truck.

Jamie [00:26:37]:
Yeah. Yeah. It’s funny because I’m I better send that now or else I’ll forget, and I’ll be, like, halfway through the podcast. So I’ll just stop it and send you a voice message. Hopefully, they they come through. Alright? Half the time.

Sam [00:26:49]:
No. No. You’re good. Yeah.

Chris [00:26:51]:
They do. I I’ll be to be perfectly honest, and this is for everybody, Sam usually listens to all of that. Sam does the Facebook thing. You know, that book face thing that I don’t do.

Sam [00:27:06]:
I think most people realize that because I’m the person replying.

Chris [00:27:09]:
Yeah. Occasionally, I’ll I’ll get in there, but I’m not yeah. I’m not I’m not usually on that phone that much, to be fair. But, but it’s great that you’re interacting. And, of course, Jamie and I did catch up. How long ago was it, Jamie?

Jamie [00:27:23]:
It was before COVID, so it must be 5 5 years now,

Sam [00:27:28]:
I guess.

Chris [00:27:28]:
20 2017, 2018. We had a, we had a film, I had a film that was running in some festivals, and we went to, god. I’ve forgotten where it was now.

Jamie [00:27:41]:
Noosa.

Chris [00:27:41]:
Noosa. Yeah. Noosa Film Fest.

Sam [00:27:43]:
Least someone knows. Chris doesn’t know where he was last week. No. No. No. No. No. No.

Chris [00:27:48]:
Noosa International Film Festival is really funny because we we’re in the film festival, and and and I’d said I was going out there, and Jamie said, oh, we’ll we’ll catch up. So I, I said to Adam as so I was the producer of the film that we’re we’re showing, and Adam was the, writer director, so he was traveling with me. So I said, hey. I’ve gotta go out. I’ve gotta meet, a fan from the podcast. So, I went across the road of the pub and and caught up with you, and we had a 2 or 3 beers, maybe. Oh,

Jamie [00:28:20]:
man. Oh, yeah. They were dangerous. I just remember them. I walked in there, and I was like, oh, what’s on tap? Because I don’t normally drink beer, and it was some home brewed beer

Sam [00:28:31]:
that the pub was making at the time. And I was

Jamie [00:28:34]:
like, oh, give me that. That sounds good. And I had a few before you arrived, Chris, and then I was really quite drunk. Hey. I remember stuffing sausage rolls on the way home and yeah. Oh, it was a good time. Probably one of the few times I’ve been super drunk in Australia. Yeah.

Jamie [00:28:50]:
So it was pretty funny.

Chris [00:28:51]:
Because I I had a few with you, and it it was it wasn’t a long period of time, and I’d left Adam at the thing. And so I go back because, you know, it’s a film festival, so we’re playing different short films and bits and pieces. And I go back, and, he had to keep elbowing me because

Sam [00:29:09]:
I was dosing off through the other films because I had too much booze on. Oh, that’s yeah. No. It was a lot.

Chris [00:29:19]:
It was great it was great to catch up with you, you You and Tanya at the time. Yeah.

Jamie [00:29:23]:
Yeah. That was a lot of fun. Yeah. It was, you know, those beers, I was yeah. Those beers were quite lethal, weren’t they? They were nice. I don’t know what they were. They were strange, but they were good.

Sam [00:29:33]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Excellent.

Chris [00:29:36]:
Anyway, moving on. So because you’ve been listening for quite a while. It was pretty early on in the in the episode count that you sort of

Sam [00:29:45]:
Came across us.

Jamie [00:29:46]:
How did

Chris [00:29:47]:
you how did you come across us? Do you remember?

Jamie [00:29:49]:
Yeah. I was, yeah, I was just thinking about it. I, I got I googled Kiwi podcast because it would have been not long after we moved here because I’ve been here 12 years now. And then I’ve come across the guy in Harley.

Chris [00:30:03]:
That’s right.

Jamie [00:30:03]:
Looking for that. And then I think they said, you know, they had some party you went to or something, and then I was like, oh, listen to that. And then so, yeah, I started to listen to to you guys. And I think it was maybe 50. You’d done Well

Chris [00:30:19]:
well, the party that we had with with Guy and Harley was our 100th episode.

Jamie [00:30:24]:
Oh, yeah. So yeah. Must have been before that then. Yeah. But, yeah, somewhere along the lines, I come across just anyway from them from finding them.

Sam [00:30:33]:
And you’re still listening. That’s amazing. Still listening.

Jamie [00:30:36]:
Yeah. I even tried to listen to the back catalog a few years ago. I reckon this is I’ve got about 5 days in of just lifting tears.

Sam [00:30:45]:
Well, that’s too much for anybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was what? Guantanamo

Chris [00:30:51]:
Bay Guantanamo Bay uses us to to to to, you know, torture, inmates. So, you know, well done you.

Sam [00:31:00]:
Yeah. I I reckon I got

Jamie [00:31:02]:
3 days of 12 hours driving, and I was like, oh,

Chris [00:31:05]:
I’ll look at the I’ve christened Sam out. That’s enough Yeah. Never tapping out.

Jamie [00:31:10]:
Didn’t quite get back to it.

Sam [00:31:11]:
Especially the early ones if I’m sounding sad and depressed for some reason.

Jamie [00:31:16]:
I can’t remember.

Sam [00:31:17]:
We were just talking about that earlier. For some reason, I was real, low energy.

Chris [00:31:21]:
Yeah. I I somebody brought it up. Was it John that brought it up?

Liam [00:31:25]:
Somebody brought it.

Jamie [00:31:25]:
Some of

Sam [00:31:26]:
John or Jeremy?

Chris [00:31:27]:
Yeah. Yeah. So yes. Early days of Sam, he was he was very serious.

Sam [00:31:32]:
He’s very Yeah. Very quiet.

Chris [00:31:34]:
He was very and people are like, are you okay? Because he’s not like that in real life. Now in real life, he’s much more like he is now. So there you go. Yeah.

Jamie [00:31:42]:
I think that’s the trick. I just feel yourself, I guess.

Sam [00:31:45]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. True. That’s right.

Chris [00:31:47]:
And and that’s all I ever do. I’m just being myself. Whether I’m being myself here or being myself scaring people, being a creepy dude at the haunted house, it’s all me. It’s all

Sam [00:31:59]:
me, baby. Yeah. Yeah. No.

Jamie [00:32:01]:
That’s, I think that’s what makes it good, though. I is put your your, your life on the line and, you know, not afraid to

Sam [00:32:10]:
Someone’s listening. To hear. I don’t know who.

Chris [00:32:12]:
There must be a bunch of stuff that you come across in your day on days on the road. I reckon you could do a podcast on, you know, Australian driving because you like, you you’re a truck driver. Is it, like, interstate? Are you all over the place, or is it a bit Yeah.

Jamie [00:32:29]:
More Yeah. Interstate. Yes. So I was in a week before with Adelaide, and 1 week, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, and back to Brisbane. Oh, wow.

Sam [00:32:41]:
That’s a

Jamie [00:32:41]:
good week. And then the week before that, I was in Melbourne, and then probably go to Sydney as well because yeah. But

Chris [00:32:49]:
yeah. Well, it’s funny because I I grew up really religious and would not swear to the degree that I got beat up at school because I wouldn’t swear, and I’d say rats or crumbs. That’s what I’d say.

Sam [00:33:03]:
Crumbs is

Chris [00:33:03]:
bad or whatever. Oh my god. What a dick.

Sam [00:33:06]:
I wish there was a home is there home movies of you as a child?

Chris [00:33:10]:
No. There was that wasn’t invented

Liam [00:33:12]:
yet. Okay.

Chris [00:33:12]:
Anyway, but then I worked at the Tarapa Tavern

Liam [00:33:16]:
for a

Chris [00:33:16]:
year, and that totally changed my mouth because everybody swore there. And yeah. I mean, I I I swore a little bit overseas because I worked at a a punk and gothic nightclub in in London where you had to abuse the customers as they came out.

Sam [00:33:33]:
I’ve never heard of this. Every every every time we do a podcast, I never know what it’s gonna say. This is the first time I’ve ever heard of this job.

Chris [00:33:44]:
No. Seriously. Yeah. Okay. I worked at the catacombs for about a year, and it’s a punk and gothic nightclub. They used to body search people and take knives off them at Oh, yeah. At the door, and give them a coat check to give the knives back as they leave. Scariest looking people you could see, but the nicest people.

Chris [00:34:03]:
There’s barely ever any trouble there. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And then, but when we were working behind the bars, not all of the time, but some nights, we just started music because it it was packed. It’s a small bar. Think like a the old cinema, you know, small little bar thing. Yeah.

Chris [00:34:20]:
Small little counter. And there’s 3 of us behind it, and there’s these people just packed 4 deep in front of us. And we just go, you’re ugly. What do you want? And and at at the time, it was much more flowy. Like, you’d just be abusing people all the time. Did you pay for that tattoo? Or was that or did they fall asleep while they were doing it? Like, all this that was really quick.

Sam [00:34:45]:
Okay.

Chris [00:34:45]:
And it was fun. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. So yeah.

Sam [00:34:49]:
The first time I’ve ever heard this mentioned. Ever. We’re we’re almost at 500 episodes, and he’s still got random ass stories. Okay. Anything you want to know, Jamie? I’m sure we What what’s your favorite,

Chris [00:35:05]:
maybe, stories or or even your favorite segments or anything that we you like it when we cover those sorts of things?

Sam [00:35:13]:
Look. Yeah. I used to I used

Jamie [00:35:15]:
to really like the podcast. I wanted somebody to mention another podcast. Was that when you would review another podcast, I guess you could say?

Sam [00:35:24]:
Yep. Yep. Yep. Give you recommendations.

Jamie [00:35:27]:
Yeah. But there’s that many podcasts now. It’s crazy, isn’t it?

Sam [00:35:30]:
Oh, it’s it’s so crazy.

Chris [00:35:32]:
There is that. And and plus, because I work from home and I don’t commute anymore, and I don’t do a a dumb job where I, are putting random things together while I’m listening to when I listen to other things. I don’t listen to podcasts as much as I used to. Yeah. I used to listen to heaps when I was at Gilmore.

Sam [00:35:50]:
I, I hardly listen to anything now because I’m in this office job. Yeah. That’s right. Oh, yeah. It would be hard.

Jamie [00:35:57]:
Yeah. I like the, Gilmore stories. It was, yeah, that that always, made me think of home. I don’t know. I just yeah. It’s just nice hearing about home, I guess.

Chris [00:36:08]:
Because Yeah.

Sam [00:36:09]:
I’ve been home, and

Chris [00:36:10]:
I I have to get out more so I get more stories now because I just I’m I’m a hermit.

Sam [00:36:16]:
I live at I live

Chris [00:36:17]:
in living, work from home, and, yeah, don’t go out much.

Jamie [00:36:20]:
Yeah. Your your old work stories, Sam, I reckon you need to share more of them. A lot a lot.

John [00:36:26]:
I like

Sam [00:36:26]:
those. I I can’t really think of too much else, along those lines, really.

Chris [00:36:31]:
Well, I think now that you’ve left your last job, you can start telling some stories about that job.

Sam [00:36:36]:
Oh, no. I have.

Liam [00:36:37]:
But we

Sam [00:36:38]:
talked about it, but I I don’t know what else there is to talk about.

Jamie [00:36:41]:
I don’t have a question for you.

Sam [00:36:43]:
Here we go.

Jamie [00:36:44]:
What’s the fastest ticket you’ve ever given?

Sam [00:36:47]:
Oh, no.

Jamie [00:36:47]:
Can I get to Yeah? You guess. I was gonna say 245.

Sam [00:36:53]:
Nah. Nah. Nowhere near that. 17 178. No?

Jamie [00:36:57]:
Oh, is that it? Oh, because I was working out. Japanese car does 180. I’ve had plenty of shit boxes that I’ve had up to 180.

Liam [00:37:04]:
Yep.

Jamie [00:37:05]:
So I was like, so a fast car would be in the like, to go over about 2:20. I reckon it gets hot. Like, you know, you’re pushing more air and stuff. So I thought, surely, over 2:20 would be

Sam [00:37:16]:
I think

Chris [00:37:16]:
I think the fastest I’ve ever gone, lands my personal land speed, record Okay. On the back of a motorcycle, was around 270.

Sam [00:37:30]:
Was this on the way to a hospital for some reason?

Chris [00:37:33]:
No. We were going down the airport straight by, Wellington Airport.

Sam [00:37:36]:
Oh, yeah.

Chris [00:37:37]:
So we’re going around the bays. And Simon had just bought this brand new back then. This is the eighties. GSX1100 r, and he’s a big unit. He’s this big dude. Right? And I’m on the back. And we’re going around the bays, and we’re stopping and starting and stopping and start you know, on full on brakes, full on acceleration, full on brakes as we’re going around. By the time I got off, my helmet was on sideways because I’ve been smacking my head into the back

Sam [00:38:04]:
Wow. Of

Chris [00:38:04]:
this thing. But we went down this, airport straight at Wellington Airport, so it’s it’s it’s on the bay, and whizzed it up. And this is where he told me we hit, I think, 270. I I forget now. It was something like that. And as we came around the hairpin at the end, we’re we’re we’re still on our side of the road. This car comes round on the wrong side of the road. Yeah.

Sam [00:38:28]:
Scary.

Chris [00:38:28]:
I’m coming the other way. And Simon’s bloody good rider. Just managed to slow it down, turn around, you know, you know, pretty much it had amazing brakes this bike. Stop it and kick kick the crap out of the side of the car. It was going past. Because I knew him from karate. We’re the guys back in the day.

Jamie [00:38:48]:
Yep. That’s moving a 100270. That’s good going. I like that.

Sam [00:38:54]:
Jamie’s all about the speed.

Chris [00:38:55]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Jamie [00:38:56]:
Yeah. Yeah. It’s funny because the truck can’t do over over a 100 because they’re governed to a 100 here. And if I go over a 112 down the hill, I get a phone call Yep. And I’ll get checks from my mate. I’ll hear the same. He goes to me. When you get your Kenworth off the clock, which is at a 120, it goes back to 0.

Jamie [00:39:13]:
And I was like, I’ve never done that. He’s asked because he works for a different company. Yep. He has asked, send you some Snapchats. So yeah. Now I get every night I get Snapchats of them rolling this thing off the hill at over a 120. But, man, I’ve done it once, and I reckon that, I was scared because I couldn’t pull the thing up. So he’s got more balls than I have.

Chris [00:39:32]:
Right. Okay. Well, it’s been great chatting to you. Jamie, good to catch up again. We will have to organize to catch up in person for a beer again at some point or or maybe something other than a beer.

Sam [00:39:44]:
Thanks thanks for listening and reaching out. It was great. Yeah.

Chris [00:39:46]:
And and thanks for being one of the most engaged people, that listen to us because, yeah, we hear from you all the time and really appreciate that.

Sam [00:39:55]:
Awesome. Well, take care. Hope everything’s going well, and, I look forward to seeing your random little stories with more, cars and go karts and things.

Chris [00:40:05]:
Yeah. And say hello to Tanya for me too.

Jamie [00:40:07]:
Yeah. Will do. Yeah. Cool.

Sam [00:40:10]:
So this Nikki Knight, she’s from North Yorkshire. She went on holiday in Turkey, and her neighbors get hold of her and say, hey. You know how we’re looking after your cat, Ted? He’s drowned in the pond. Oh, what? Yeah. I don’t know what cat drowns in a pond. But, anyway, so this woman in Turkey, she tells her family, her husband, and 4 children, they’re all upset. She goes, don’t worry. Gonna organize a funeral while we’re away, and then this crowd will come round, and they’re gonna pick up the cat.

Sam [00:40:37]:
They’ll cremate it. So that’s what they did. So she’s like sweet, all good, carry on with the holiday as you do. They got over it, they’re in the pool. She gets a phone call 4 days later from the cat sitter again going, Ted’s just walked in the cat flap. The woman goes, I need you to FaceTime me now to show this cat. So she’s like, yes. That is Ted.

Sam [00:41:01]:
So that was Did you cremate? Nobody knows. No. Just some someone’s dead cat. Anyway, she gets back from the holiday. She goes back to the she goes to the cremating place, has to pay them a £130, and realizes that she’s got somebody else’s cat, and, they put a label on it that said not dead Ted. And that’s the story about a cat that has 9 lives, I guess.

Chris [00:41:25]:
Yeah. If you ever want a job as a catsitter, I don’t know. Take a photo of the cat on day 1 or or the dog

Sam [00:41:33]:
Top top.

Chris [00:41:34]:
Just so that later on you go, oh, that dead one’s not the same or it is the same. Five stories there. You get to pick one of them that I can talk about. So we’ve got, my visit to an IRA bar in London, my visit to Saint Slaves, Club Rooms in Wellington. These are all a long time ago. That time that I nearly destroyed, the population of Dunedin’s enjoyment of the beautiful south concert in Dublin, the way overrated b story.

Sam [00:42:09]:
B story is the best.

Chris [00:42:11]:
The most embarrassing rugby game ever.

Sam [00:42:13]:
You get to pick.

Chris [00:42:14]:
What do you want? Yell it out because, we’ll go with whatever.

Sam [00:42:21]:
Oh, really? So the b story Chris told way back in episode, I don’t know, 16, 17, something like that. Okay. And, it’s I don’t know. Always reference it.

Chris [00:42:32]:
Yeah. I I think it’s overrated. But, anyway so It’s not because it’s it’s a crazy harder. It’s too harder, effectively. So what happened was when I was, I wanna say 19

Sam [00:42:44]:
49 years ago.

Chris [00:42:45]:
Yeah. Yeah. 1920, something like that. I, I’ve been running on the beach, because I I was doing the karate thing all the time. Back then, it was tournament fighting, all that sort of thing. So I’d run along the beach, and I think I got stung. I assumed it was just a sandfly or whatever. And then the next day, I either went for a run-in the morning before work, or I’m thinking it’s more likely it was night before.

Chris [00:43:10]:
I was at work, and I worked with tools. I was doing a mechanical, industrial mechanic. And, one of my knuckles started swelling up. And I’m like, that sort of stuff happened all the time because you hit hit things with spanners and all that sort of stuff. And I’m like And you’re

Sam [00:43:25]:
and you’re punching people

Chris [00:43:26]:
for cardio? Punching people, but but not at work.

Sam [00:43:30]:
Good to know.

Chris [00:43:30]:
Yeah. Not usually. And then, so I’m like, oh, don’t remember hitting that. And then kept working away, and it was like, okay. That’s really swelling up now. And then I went to the doc, the the boss and said, I actually start to feel a bit dizzy here. My hand’s swelling up. It’s getting to, like, this size.

Chris [00:43:48]:
So he takes me to, the GP or local doctor type thing. The guy goes, oh, what’s happened to you? I’m like, I have no idea. I’m just at work. And I then I went, oh, I did get stung when I was at the beach. I don’t know if that’s got anything to do with it. That’s the best guess. He goes, oh, we’re gonna have to give you an antihistamine because it’s actually swelling as we’re talking. So, he he jabs me with some antihistamine.

Chris [00:44:14]:
I walk out with Brian, my boss, to the car, and I collapse in the street next to the car.

Sam [00:44:22]:
So Which is not a good thing.

Chris [00:44:24]:
No. No. I don’t really recall it, but I was like, brr, and I claps in gutter. So he bundles me into the car, and for god knows why, he takes me to my mother’s place. Drops me off at mom’s place.

Sam [00:44:35]:
Number one mistake, I think, in the story. Yeah. Hang on. How far? Are they left the GP, not the hospital?

Chris [00:44:41]:
We left the GP and then went to mom’s place.

Sam [00:44:44]:
Okay.

Chris [00:44:45]:
I must have told him where mom lived, I guess. So because, I mean, I I live by myself by that stage. Yeah. So, anyway, so he drops me off at mom’s place, and and I’ve told this story for years. So, basically, the story I keep telling was, you know, I get to mom’s place. I’m totally zonked. She calls an ambulance. I go to hospital.

Chris [00:45:05]:
I get to hospital. My elbow’s swollen up the size of a football, and my hands, you can’t see through the fingers, and it’s like this.

Sam [00:45:15]:
I forgot this part of the story.

Chris [00:45:17]:
And they’re saying, we need to amputate your arm now, my right arm. And I’m like, no. You don’t. You don’t. It’s just swollen. It’ll get down. And, like, no. No.

Chris [00:45:28]:
No. If this red line, which is about here by the stage by my elbow, if that hits your heart, you you’re dead. I’m like, so they jabbed me with with all this stuff, and, and it slows and it stops and it stops swelling. And so for the next I spent 3 more weeks in the hospital. You spent 3 weeks in hospital? Absolutely fine, except I had to keep my hand raised. It it had swollen so much I couldn’t straighten it, and I remember doing press ups just to straighten my fingers out. And all I did, my job at hospital, because they I I was

Sam [00:46:04]:
They give you jobs back in the old days.

Chris [00:46:05]:
He gave me a job. They they took took me around to all the people that had really screwed up. Okay. And To do them jokes and keep them in high spirits. Gosh. Yeah. So I was telling stories back then.

Sam [00:46:16]:
And those people are still traumatized in hospital.

Chris [00:46:18]:
Yeah. Oh, there’s there’s some good stories. There was one girl. She’s she’s got she’d come off a motorbike or something. She had both legs in, Traction. Traction in in the in the thing. And she goes, oh, I really need to pee. Can you go get the nurse or grab a bedpan or whatever? So grab a nurse bedpan, and I’m like, I’ll I’ll I’ll just wait over there, you know, pull the curtain out.

Chris [00:46:44]:
And next thing, this is against the, curtain because she’s in traction. It’s not like that. Anyway, hilarious. So

Sam [00:46:52]:
It’s hilarious on an audio podcast.

Jamie [00:46:54]:
Thank you.

Sam [00:46:55]:
Painting a picture.

Chris [00:46:56]:
Painting a picture with my words. Okay.

Sam [00:46:58]:
Anyway Back to the bee sting story.

Chris [00:46:59]:
So the bee sting story. So then, yeah, I managed to they let me out for 1 night for my friend’s 21st, and I went back. And, yeah, it was that was the story.

Sam [00:47:09]:
Hang on. So they let you out for 1 night, and then they’re, like, come back, but keep your arm up Yeah. At the 21st? Yeah. Because So you’re, like, at this 21st like this the whole time?

Chris [00:47:17]:
I don’t even know why

Sam [00:47:18]:
I’m here, but, yeah, I I

Chris [00:47:19]:
think I had a a cross I had it in a sling by then. Oh, okay. But yeah. Anyway, it was weird. They let me out for for a day. They’re probably

Sam [00:47:26]:
sick of your jokes.

Chris [00:47:29]:
They didn’t want me to leave. Although, I did Are you sure? I was in the shower one day early on with my arm up, and, you know, they’ve got these wheel wheelchair in showers, like big showers. And I’m standing there in the shower having a shower, and this nurse walks into the shower, not not into the room, into the shower and says,

Sam [00:47:49]:
how are you going?

Chris [00:47:50]:
You doing alright? I’m like,

Liam [00:47:53]:
yeah. Fine.

Sam [00:47:54]:
Because your only job is to keep your hand above your head.

Chris [00:47:57]:
And she go she just give me a slow look.

Liam [00:48:00]:
I went, good to know.

Chris [00:48:01]:
I never saw her again. Anyway,

Liam [00:48:05]:
so

Chris [00:48:06]:
she was a nurse. So, actually no. Yeah. No. She was she was. So, actually, that’s all good. I, 20 years later, I’m telling the story at some family event. And mom goes, oh, that’s not quite right.

Chris [00:48:23]:
I’m like, what? Why are you in there? What are you talking about? And she goes, no. No. We we didn’t call an ambulance for you. And I was like, Brian dropped me off at your place, and then I went to the hospital. You don’t have a car. How’d you get there? Oh, with Glenn. Glenn’s only got a motorbike. She goes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chris [00:48:44]:
He has a spare helmet, though.

Liam [00:48:46]:
I was like, I was unconscious.

Chris [00:48:48]:
She goes, yeah. We used a rope and we tied you to Glenn, and he took you to the hospital on the back of the motorbike.

Sam [00:48:55]:
Weekend at Bernie’s you.

Chris [00:48:56]:
And and I’m like, you just know those 2 were stoned. I know those 2 were stoned. So the story just got worse and worse. So, anyway, that’s the bee sting story.

Sam [00:49:06]:
That’s the bee sting story. And it’s not normal, and it cracks me up,

Chris [00:49:13]:
And I like it. I think it’s overrated. But anyway okay. Okay. I’m going to be talking we’re both we’re gonna be talking to, my nephew and a a big fan from, Wellington, Liam.

Sam [00:49:24]:
Welcome along to Liam. Liam is a long time listener of the podcast and also related to Chris. Yes.

Chris [00:49:32]:
So, some of my family do listen to the podcast, and Liam is the only one that talks about it. The only one that will admit it. So how are you? How how’s Rachel and Daisy? How’s everything going, man?

Liam [00:49:45]:
Yeah. All good. Just cruising along, getting getting used to the per parent life. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty fun.

Sam [00:49:53]:
Good luck with that.

Chris [00:49:54]:
Yeah. Well, Sam’s a parent. I’m obviously not. So, Yeah. You you yeah. The long haul ahead. But how how old is Daisy now?

Liam [00:50:05]:
About a year and a half.

Chris [00:50:06]:
Year and a half.

Liam [00:50:07]:
2. So she’s running around and doing all the sun stuff, climbing on everything. And

Sam [00:50:12]:
Yeah. I I reckon that’s the best age. Yeah. So, normally, we ask people when’s the earliest, memory of listening to this podcast, but I’m gonna ask you. What’s your earliest memory of Chris?

Liam [00:50:25]:
Oh, man. A few.

Sam [00:50:28]:
This is he’s shaking his head, and I’m just like, this is gold.

Liam [00:50:34]:
I remember. So we moved up to Hamilton and lived in Hamilton for a bit. And, so there are a few times, like, I remember going to the markets, and I was playing up. And uncle Chris wasn’t having any any of it, so I got in trouble. And then he ended up carrying me around on his shoulder. Yep. And I got a sore on CSA. It’s it’s probably one of my one of my, early memories

Sam [00:51:01]:
of childhood trauma. Yeah. I’m sorry for bringing up this, these bad memories, but I can see it still affects you. So

Chris [00:51:09]:
Yeah. I yeah. I I’ve I’ve I’ve, loosened in my in my ways a lot. I used to be a right bastard, to be honest.

Sam [00:51:19]:
I could believe that. So I’m guessing that you must have heard about the podcast because Chris posted it somewhere on Facebook, maybe?

Liam [00:51:30]:
Yeah. Probably in spin Facebook. And then, I used to track it on when I was, on the on the computer playing playing video games or something, just checking on the background and then then do a couple episodes. And

Sam [00:51:43]:
Yeah. Yeah. We are a good background podcast, apparently.

Chris [00:51:46]:
Yeah. No. It’s it’s quite good because it’s short and what have you, which is cool.

Sam [00:51:50]:
Yes. And whatever we talk about doesn’t make isn’t important.

Chris [00:51:54]:
Yeah. It’s not like, oh my god. I missed an episode. I need to find out what’s going on. Because no. There’s no there’s no sequel thing going on here. You can miss as many episodes as you want. Not that we want you to, but you could.

Liam [00:52:10]:
I think, one of the one of the cool things was, like, all the show notes. Like, I remember when I first started listening, and there’s, like, the, stuff like the dropkick

Chris [00:52:20]:
and Kickstart dropkick?

Liam [00:52:22]:
Dropkick. Yeah. That one. Just stuff like that in the field days, and it’s like, you know, stuff you can actually go on to the show notes, go on to it, and then have a look at whatever whatever that story is, have a little bit more, and it’s sort of look into it, which is pretty cool.

Chris [00:52:38]:
That’s a really good point. And and I’ve gotta say big ups to Sam for this because he does, like, all the work, I should say. He does all the work. And and and Liam’s not surprised by me saying Sam does all the work, I’m sure. But, but the thing because one of my favorite pod podcasts is Behind the Bastards.

Liam [00:52:57]:
Yep.

Chris [00:52:58]:
And they are absolute crap with their show notes. And they actually stopped. Their website’s gone. And so there’s show notes that have missing. And yeah.

Sam [00:53:09]:
They’ve just started doing it on YouTube.

Chris [00:53:12]:
Oh, really?

Sam [00:53:12]:
And you can see, him and her and whoever the guest is. And it’s very unsettling because she does not look like anything my imagination painted.

Chris [00:53:22]:
Mhmm. Because one of the best things about that podcast was her laugh. I used to love her laugh. And so, yeah, I have a picture in my head of what she looks like.

Sam [00:53:31]:
It won’t it won’t I don’t I don’t think it’ll be what it is in reality.

Chris [00:53:37]:
It can’t be as different as Space Ice was. Now, Liam, have you watched Space Ice on YouTube? No. I haven’t. Okay. So we’ve mentioned Space Ice, I think, a few times on the podcast. And he does these video, rip offs of, mostly, what’s his name?

Liam [00:53:54]:
Steven Seagal.

Sam [00:53:55]:
He hates him with a passion.

Chris [00:53:56]:
Hates him worst movie ever. And every, Steven Seagal movie is worst movie ever. And they’re hilarious. They’re so good. And then there’s, he does best movie ever, which is usually Jean Claude Van Damme. Yeah. But there’s a few others, I think, with Russell and stuff. And and it’s just over the top.

Chris [00:54:13]:
Really good to watch on on, YouTube. And then Sam gets hold of me one day, and he goes, dude, have you seen that Space Ice is doing a livestream? And I’m like, oh, yeah. Do can you imagine what he looks like? And I’m thinking, who’s the fat guy in, in, the Simpsons that has a t shirt and lives on in the basement? I’m thinking that. And he goes, no. You’re not gonna guess. And it’s this guy looks like freaking, a eighties with a mullet freaking wrestler dude.

Sam [00:54:45]:
Yeah. He’s no. He he looks like he looks like a bigger version of Joe Dirt.

Chris [00:54:50]:
I don’t know who that is.

Sam [00:54:52]:
Okay. Anyway, for people that know who Joe Dirt is, he looks like that.

Chris [00:54:56]:
Yeah. But, yeah. No. Check out Space House. Anyway, I’m getting off the track.

Sam [00:55:01]:
What other podcast do you listen to? So we sort of know because we’ve spoken to like, this is the first time we’ve spoken to you, I think. We’ve spoken to some of the other guys previously at the 300th or in between, and we sort of know what they listen to. What else is on your rotation for podcasts?

Liam [00:55:17]:
I don’t listen to too many to be fair. Like,

Sam [00:55:20]:
That’s what we like to hear.

Liam [00:55:22]:
I listen to a few, like, dead chicken

Liam [00:55:25]:
Oh, yep.

Liam [00:55:26]:
And, what are they called? And David’s Darrier and stuff like that?

Sam [00:55:31]:
Armchair expert and

Liam [00:55:33]:
Armchair expert. Yeah.

Sam [00:55:34]:
And flightless Kiwi.

Liam [00:55:35]:
Yeah. That those are pretty good. I’m pretty hopeless with remembering

Sam [00:55:39]:
No. That’s alright.

Liam [00:55:40]:
Names of things. But,

Chris [00:55:41]:
That’s a genetic thing. Yeah.

Sam [00:55:46]:
Try don’t try not to get depressed when you see Chris next time. You you don’t have you you you don’t won’t

Chris [00:55:52]:
has to end up like me is what he’s saying.

Sam [00:55:55]:
If you were gonna do a podcast story about randomness, technology, or life, Liam, have you got a go to story that you would tell in, like, a party situation? Is there something Go

Liam [00:56:06]:
to story.

Sam [00:56:07]:
Random that’s happened in your past that you’ll be like, hey. You’ll never guess or anything like that?

Chris [00:56:12]:
Or or even just work stories.

Liam [00:56:14]:
Have I ever told you have I ever told you when I got, when I cut myself in my league with a grinder at work?

Chris [00:56:20]:
No. Tell us that.

Sam [00:56:22]:
How big was the grinder? So

Liam [00:56:25]:
like, a normal grinder. Like, a proper sized grinder. Like, not a big grinder. Just like an a range. A 100 yeah. Angle grinder, a 100 and 25,

Sam [00:56:32]:
a 100. 25. That’s what I wanted to know.

Liam [00:56:36]:
So back when I first started doing gas stuff, I was working on a regulator station, decommissioning it and stuff like that.

Sam [00:56:44]:
Okay.

Liam [00:56:44]:
And the guy that was supervising me had to go and do something else, and he’s like, you you’ll be you’ll be alright. I was like, yes. See this. And then I was cutting this pipe, and it just kicked in because it didn’t have the automatic shuttle. Yep.

Liam [00:56:58]:
Yep.

Liam [00:56:59]:
It just went straight into my leg.

Sam [00:57:01]:
Oh, man.

Liam [00:57:01]:
And lucky lucky it was hard, like, quarterized it, so it wasn’t bleeding. And, yeah, I got the whole company brand new, pedal switch, grinders. Nice. Running the company.

Sam [00:57:12]:
Nice. Not nothing. Yep. Good.

Chris [00:57:16]:
Wait. Wait a sec. Your leg for for the company, bro. Yeah.

Sam [00:57:20]:
How how many stitches did you get for that?

Liam [00:57:22]:
Like, it was 5 stitches. Okay. You know, space apart. So I was like, wasn’t too bad. But then I was talking to a guy at my work, and he said his dad had something similar at them. And it was lucky that his, mother-in-law was a nurse because it had the had the main artery that’s right there.

Sam [00:57:41]:
Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, shit.

Liam [00:57:43]:
Yeah. So I didn’t realize there’s an artery there, so it could’ve been a it could’ve been a major.

Sam [00:57:47]:
Yep. No. That’s scary.

Chris [00:57:49]:
Yeah. Because you did you hear we were talking about that the other day with the the guy that is chainsawing the back fence in my place? And he comes in. He’s got no eye protection. And I’m like, dude, I’ve used angle grinders, and I’ve got eye protection. I’m pretty sure it’s the same, particularly with a fence because these nail random nails in there and crap. Right? Yeah. In a fence. And you’re like, dude, eye protection, minimum.

Chris [00:58:13]:
Minimum. Anyway yeah.

Liam [00:58:15]:
Oh, I I I’ve got another story as well. So when I was training to do, like, fault response Yep. A guy was cutting a fence fence post in in the ground, and, he actually cut the gas pipe and caught it on fire caught it on fire, caught his brand new work truck on fire. But we got the we got the call out as, it was, like, coded wrong. So, normally, the the job that we’d go to would be like, oh, the retailer shut it off or or smell the gas. Like, there’s just something like a leak. You leave it off for them. Whatever it is, turn out there, and there’s like there’s like all these slides are up.

Liam [00:58:58]:
Turn out. Police, ambulances, and, yes, planes. And then, the wife got taken away in the ambulance because she had, like, a heart attack.

John [00:59:10]:
Oh my gosh. And

Liam [00:59:13]:
and, yeah, it was

Chris [00:59:15]:
And you thought you were rolling up to the smell of gas or something?

Liam [00:59:19]:
It was just it was just something that was we thought was probably just an outlet leak. So it’s just shut them off, kinda get a gas soda, and, and then go home sort of thing. Yeah. And then end up being a bit of a major. So

Chris [00:59:32]:
Yeah. Damn. Yeah.

Sam [00:59:35]:
Crazy ass. It’s these crazy work stories, that you just don’t think about.

Chris [00:59:39]:
Do you get a lot of that people cutting into gas lines and stuff? Is that a common occurrence? Or

Liam [00:59:45]:
so we know it’s with the new work company almost every day.

Sam [00:59:49]:
They’re always cutting bloody

Liam [00:59:50]:
Pretty much. Yeah.

Sam [00:59:51]:
They’re always cutting power lines all the time as well, underground. They’re always hitting that. I mean, the power stuff is a bit different. They won’t cut right through it. Usually, they just skim the outer, and that that has, a shield thing around it. And they’ll hit that, and that triggers like, shuts it off. But Yeah.

Liam [01:00:06]:
Yeah. We just had people, like, go straight through things. They had, like, waratahs.

Sam [01:00:12]:
Yeah.

Liam [01:00:12]:
You couldn’t get it any closer, like, straight through the the the middle of a of a pipe. Like, it was a 60 mille pipe. Yeah. And then the y shape was directly in the middle of it.

Sam [01:00:22]:
Woah. Man, it’s crazy. These these people all just living so, like, on the edge of life and death, potentially.

Liam [01:00:30]:
Pretty much. Well, that that that one was run with power. So back in the day, they used to run the power and gas

John [01:00:38]:
Oh, yeah.

Liam [01:00:38]:
In this one re in the one region that used to be done with the same company. Yep. And so it was pretty much they’re they’re putting more cars outside the boundary as I’ve get site things, and, they’re pretty close to getting the power and gas, like, the whole way through.

Chris [01:00:56]:
Woah.

Liam [01:00:56]:
And that that happens all the time.

Sam [01:00:58]:
Man, it’s crazy as.

Chris [01:00:59]:
Oh, man. How is how is work now? So what do you do because you you’ve you’re, you’ve done your apprenticeship and you’re, what what’s your role now?

Liam [01:01:09]:
I’m I’m on another apprenticeship now. So I’ve done my, guest ticket for the distribution, so, like, up to the gas meters.

Sam [01:01:18]:
Yep.

Liam [01:01:19]:
And, so now I’m doing my plumbing gas within drain lane apprenticeship through EquiHeat. So

Sam [01:01:24]:
Oh, cool.

Liam [01:01:24]:
Doing gas smart gas smart meter installations.

Chris [01:01:27]:
Nice.

Liam [01:01:29]:
So just coming to the end of the Genesys contract, and that was, like, 28,000 gas meters that we changed. So I’ve changed about 33,200.

Sam [01:01:39]:
Nice.

Chris [01:01:41]:
Wow. So Cool. And you’re still and still enjoying it?

Liam [01:01:45]:
Yeah. It’s it’s pretty good. A lot more crazy than doing it. I don’t have to do, like, fault response anymore, so no 24 hour.

Chris [01:01:51]:
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that’s All

Liam [01:01:53]:
length and all that sort of stuff. So

Sam [01:01:55]:
That sucks. I used that’s I used to be on call for stores at the power company. So, like, if someone hits a power pole in the middle of the night, they’ll ring you up and you keep like, had to get all the gear for their guys. Because you couldn’t

Jamie [01:02:07]:
Oh, really?

Sam [01:02:07]:
Because you couldn’t trust them. Yeah.

Liam [01:02:10]:
Oh, really?

Sam [01:02:10]:
Yeah. Like They

Chris [01:02:11]:
go out and go, oh, we

Sam [01:02:12]:
put the we put the telephone pole up, but we got the wrong size, and it’s 6 foot 6 foot too short. Oh, it it it’s more about they could they’d probably wanna take spares for the yeah. They want spares for their trucks and stuff, and it would throw our stock levels out.

Liam [01:02:27]:
Yeah. Yeah. We see that issue all the time.

Sam [01:02:30]:
Yeah.

Liam [01:02:30]:
Every stock taker was like, we need to find all this stuff.

Sam [01:02:34]:
Yeah. Yeah.

Chris [01:02:34]:
And they just, like, add

Sam [01:02:35]:
it to a random big job and hope no one notices or, yeah, move stuff around. Yeah.

Liam [01:02:39]:
Pretty much.

Chris [01:02:41]:
Alright, dude. Well, thanks for, for for coming in, and thanks for engaging as you do on social media. We appreciate that because it’s always good to to hear back from people that listen.

Sam [01:02:51]:
And, you know, here’s to another 500 episodes.

Liam [01:02:55]:
How how long do you reckon you guys would, keep keep going for? I think he’s pretty happy in just going and doing it.

Sam [01:03:01]:
Well, the podcast is we usually catch up anyway. And some of the stuff is up in the podcast and some doesn’t, depends what it is.

Liam [01:03:09]:
Yeah.

Sam [01:03:10]:
And there’s never been a plan for because we yeah. Because we’re not niched down. I was reading this guy someone asked on Reddit, what’s your top tips for a podcast? And somebody goes, oh, you’d be lucky if you made it past 6 episodes. Right? And then there this other guy was talking about the people that have, like, 3 or 4 people sitting around just talking about random stuff every week never make it anywhere because they’re not famous enough to draw people in. You need a niche topic to bring those people in. And I was like, okay. Cool. A little bit on the fence with that one.

Sam [01:03:44]:
Yeah. There’s no end in sight, really.

Chris [01:03:47]:
Yeah. Because we’re because we’re just having fun doing this. It’s not like we have to make money, which is just as well, because we’re not making money out of this. It’s yeah. But if if you got that pressure, like, oh, I can only do this if I’m making money, we still wouldn’t be doing it. You know? We wouldn’t still be doing it now. But we’re doing it for fun, and it’s still fun. So yeah.

Chris [01:04:07]:
No no no no expectations of finishing up at this

Sam [01:04:11]:
point. Yeah. We’ve got the time to do it. So I think, if we record for 30 minutes, it takes me about an hour to sort it all out. So I’ll do a edit, sort out all the notes, create a random image, and publish it. It takes me an hour. So I guess every week, it’s an hour and a half. Yeah.

Liam [01:04:32]:
Did they used to take you longer when you first started? Like, does it shorter now with, like I’ve seen a few AI looking images.

Chris [01:04:39]:
Editing’s definitely shorter now.

Sam [01:04:42]:
Yeah. You you work out your best processes, and technologies come along a little way. So for, the transcripts, that’s all being done by an AI website that spits it out for us in, like, 10 seconds. The images, no. I know. Most of the images are AI unless there’s a really good image out there. That helps because it took a while to find a suitable image previously. And editing’s just sped up just because I’ve got, like, things mapped to a keyboard.

Sam [01:05:10]:
So I’m just like it looks mad because I’m just mashing a keyboard, but I’m pausing and chopping stuff out.

Chris [01:05:17]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Farmer. Yeah. He’s really good with that, and I’m not. So, so if he ever goes, I’m not doing the editing anymore, that’s probably when we’re finishing the podcast.

Sam [01:05:29]:
If we had You

John [01:05:30]:
can you can try it.

Liam [01:05:31]:
You can try your hand at it, Chris.

Chris [01:05:33]:
I I I edit some stuff every now and again, but I I I’ve edited some stuff, and I’ve gone, oh my god. How does Sam do this all the time?

Sam [01:05:41]:
If it was video, it would do my head on, I think. Yeah. That’s about it. I don’t know if there’s anything else you’d wanna talk about or say, Liam.

Liam [01:05:48]:
Oh, no. We’re all good for now.

Chris [01:05:49]:
Yeah. No.

Liam [01:05:50]:
I could keep yawning, but, no. All good.

Chris [01:05:52]:
Yeah. Well, say hello to Rachel and and Daisy, not this year.

Liam [01:05:55]:
Will do.

Sam [01:05:56]:
They’re listening, Chris. They’re all listening. We can just do it right now. Hi, everyone.

Chris [01:06:01]:
Well, no. You’re not gonna put this whole conversation in there.

Sam [01:06:04]:
No. You just play this bit to them. Okay. Alright. Small children don’t have large attention spans, Chris. They can’t listen to a full episode.

Chris [01:06:17]:
Actually Just just just send her a recording of my laugh. There you go. That’s all you need.

Sam [01:06:21]:
Alright. Okay. We’re gonna let

Chris [01:06:23]:
you go, Liam. Thanks for chatting

Liam [01:06:24]:
with us. We’ll we’ll get to it.

Chris [01:06:26]:
And I’ll, yeah. I’ll I’ll

Liam [01:06:28]:
be hearing from you.

Sam [01:06:29]:
Thanks. All

Chris [01:06:29]:
good. Cheers, buddy. Cheers.

Sam [01:06:31]:
Cheers. So this dude who is an ex engineer from, SpaceX has gone out, and he’s made this video, and his idea is that he’s gonna have a startup and he’s gonna sell sunlight during nighttime. What? So in this video, it’s pitch black, and he’s playing on this phone. And in theory, he is directing the satellite to turn the giant mirror, and this huge spotlight just goes on him. And it follows him around a little bit. I don’t know why you need this, but this is what the guy wants to do. I I’ve lost my hearing. It’s under the

Chris [01:07:11]:
it’s in the street somewhere. Quickly turn the sun on. Yeah. It What the hell?

Sam [01:07:17]:
It seems, like, if yeah. It seems like the, Jim Carrey movie there. Anyway, what’s it called? Thank you. What? Truman Show. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I that just slipped my mind.

Sam [01:07:29]:
But, anyway, he’s doing that. There’s no further details on how the video was shot or if it was a simulation or anything.

Chris [01:07:37]:
Obviously, it’s a simulation. He’s got a huge satellite up there with mirrors.

Sam [01:07:42]:
No. He said that eventually, but, initially, he was saying they had one up. Anyway, the they’re gonna deliver gonna do delivery of sunspots is gonna occur in the latter part of 2025, apparently. What? There’s no costs. They don’t know how much it’ll cost to launch the satellite with a mirror, which I’m sure would could go wrong and just burn people like a giant magnifying glass. I don’t know. Or how much

Chris [01:08:08]:
No. No. No. No. It couldn’t. Because it’s a mirror. So the the the distance the sun travels, it will just

Sam [01:08:16]:
It’ll be still be creepy if

Chris [01:08:18]:
you had that.

Sam [01:08:19]:
Oh, it’d

Chris [01:08:20]:
be creepy. Yeah. But it I don’t see the I can’t think of the use case. Unless it’s like, we don’t need stadium lights anymore for for tennis games at night. We just get the sunlight

Sam [01:08:31]:
in. I don’t know. It makes no sense. I think this guy was just trying to get on the news. But Russia has tried this in the past and not had any success.

Chris [01:08:40]:
And don’t forget the Jewish Space Lasers. They did that too.

Jamie [01:08:44]:
Oh, did they?

Chris [01:08:45]:
No. I don’t know.

Sam [01:08:47]:
Anyway, that’s my space mirror story for you.

Chris [01:08:50]:
I don’t know about that one. I don’t know.

Sam [01:08:53]:
What’s next?

Chris [01:08:53]:
Alright. Yep. On. Nikocado, avocado. Alright. Now there are some people that know about the story more than I do, so so I may, be corrected. So hands up. Who knows Nikocado, avocado? I

Sam [01:09:10]:
wanna know. Vaguely.

Chris [01:09:12]:
Alright. Really? Okay. Alright. So I I knew nothing. Anyway, so this dude, started, I wanna say, 7 years ago, and he started a YouTube channel, which basically is him eating

Jamie [01:09:25]:
food

Chris [01:09:25]:
in front of people.

Sam [01:09:26]:
I think he did something before that, though, hey? He was Yeah. There we go.

Chris [01:09:31]:
He was a vegan, dude. So I was just gonna say he he he he was vegan. He was always healthy, but then he started eating I I think it started off with, eating meat for the first time was his first video.

John [01:09:44]:
Right?

Chris [01:09:45]:
And then he started eating a lot of food. Yeah. And over probably 4 or 5 years, he got to a morbidly obese stage. So as I said, this was 7 years ago, he started. And so in the last and he made money from this. He has 4,200,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. People watching him eat a $100 of KFC with a few eggs on

Sam [01:10:15]:
Chicken wings. And eating chicken wings. That’s where that woman was just giving him chicken.

Chris [01:10:20]:
So, so do that. Lots of noodles, loads of noodles, and all that sort of stuff. And girlfriends and sort of drama going on, I don’t wanna know about it. I didn’t really care. But this week, I think it was either early Sunday or Saturday, our time. They it had built up and he he was just morbidly over overweight. He kept talking about, you know, having health problems and his his, attitudes were going up and down, and he was, like, a different person. He was just, like, going mental.

Chris [01:10:53]:
And then, on Saturday, a brand new, video came out, and that’s him on the right. And he’s like, 2 steps ahead. I’m the villain. And, basically, for the last 2 years, he’d saved up all these videos and he was drip feeding them through his social media and telling making up the stories and creating all this while he lost weight. And then for everybody else overnight, he is that size and away he goes. And people lost their minds. So when I was looking at it, the video 2 steps ahead had dropped 2 days prior and had 29,000,000 views. I checked it before we came out today.

Chris [01:11:44]:
It’s at 36,000,000 views after 4 days. I don’t know if this is sad or genius. Like

Sam [01:11:52]:
Could be both at the same time? I don’t know.

Chris [01:11:54]:
It is. Because I I know. The whole thing about because he made a lot of money, in his channel. He, talked about buying his $2,300,000, rooftop apartment penthouse apartment thing, several years ago. So

Sam [01:12:11]:
I guess the real question is if his fans will turn on him or not.

Chris [01:12:14]:
Yeah. But it’s it’s insane. And this is one of the biggest stories out on the Internet at the moment.

Sam [01:12:22]:
Never heard of it. Yeah. Who else has heard of this story?

Chris [01:12:29]:
Yeah. So so not quite half of the audience. Okay.

Sam [01:12:33]:
Very good. Alright. That’s that’s dedication on 2 parts. 1, to lose lose the weight or whatever he was doing there, but to keep up the

Chris [01:12:40]:
To keep up the the thing. Because he he said this is a social experiment. And he’s been playing with the trolls who a lot of people would like, you need to lose weight. You’d you know, blah blah blah, all that sort of thing. And in the reality, he has lost the weight, but he’s not leading on, and he’s, yeah, he’s playing the game.

Sam [01:12:56]:
Andre had to be hidden away a lot of the time because people would recognize him.

Chris [01:13:00]:
He’s probably Yeah. Sitting in that, apartment Yeah. Probably. Blown near as hell.

Sam [01:13:04]:
Oh, yeah. So this is a story that came out this week. People do dumb stuff. People do dumb stuff with animals. This 20 year old guy in India decided to put a cobra in his mouth to go viral on the Internet. I guess he did, but he also died. So the Cobra didn’t like that, and this 20 year old went out with his dad, who’s a snake rescuer, and went to a house, and the snake was obviously a bit angry, didn’t wanna be there, and he received some basic training from the dad on the day, whatever that means. Now some of the news stories say that the dad was the one that came up with the idea of doing the viral video and said, jam the snake in your mouth.

Sam [01:13:47]:
It’s 2 meters long. They started off with some selfies and holding it next to them, and then, eventually was, like, jamming it in his mouth, which, is not a good idea, and, the snake bit him and then filled him with venom, and he died. But it’s recorded, I think. Haven’t seen it, but,

Chris [01:14:09]:
I don’t think he’s allowed to, keep those videos.

Sam [01:14:12]:
No. Probably not. Yeah. So that’s what you, don’t do.

Chris [01:14:16]:
Yeah. Don’t stick a, a snake in your mouth.

Sam [01:14:18]:
A snake in your mouth.

Chris [01:14:20]:
Kickstart or dropkick? Is this a winner or is this a failure you disarm?

Sam [01:14:25]:
That was a bit too, I was gonna say enthusiastic, but I think that’s the wrong word. So this is called the Momo modular mower. So this guy has put together this kickstarter and of as they’re quite small, you can get 21 of them on a trailer. Right?

Chris [01:14:42]:
And So so for those listening, think of a Rumba with big wheels. Yeah.

Sam [01:14:49]:
So they can join together, and they can mow an area as large as mini mowers as you’ve got. This is what this guy is talking about.

Chris [01:14:58]:
But what’s the point? Is it like instead of going up and down and up and down, you can create a whole line of them and do it once.

Sam [01:15:06]:
Yeah. It’s a whole line, but you have heaps of them.

Chris [01:15:09]:
Adam’s got the biggest yard of anyone here, I would say. Would you use a modular mower? I bet you like riding on yours. Right?

Sam [01:15:18]:
So this so this dude, his name’s called Topher. He’s 50 yeah. 15 years of landscaping experience and 40 years of robotics experience, and he’s decided to create this Kickstarter.

Chris [01:15:31]:
Hang on. Hang on. He was a roboticist, and he became a landscaper.

Sam [01:15:36]:
He could be doing both at the same time. I don’t know.

Chris [01:15:38]:
Yes. Yeah.

Sam [01:15:39]:
I can. He looks old. The I’ve got 22 things that maybe red flags for you. One, at no point does this image look like it can mow any grass.

Chris [01:15:49]:
Yeah. There’s nothing there that has a blade.

Sam [01:15:53]:
Yeah. He has taken a course from Chris on how to use MS Paint or something similar, and he’s made that.

Chris [01:16:00]:
Yeah. Blender.

Sam [01:16:01]:
Then he has a section which is under the heading risks and challenges,

Chris [01:16:06]:
and he starts it with,

Sam [01:16:08]:
I have limited finances and have struggled to develop this. That does not fill me with confidence.

Chris [01:16:15]:
So hang on. It’s got 4 wheels, isn’t it? Because you don’t see a sign on view with it.

Sam [01:16:20]:
I think it has 4 wheels. Yes. Anyway, the guess is this is what we do for kicks on dropkick. Well, 3 questions, actually. First off, how much do you think this guy wants to finish building his questionable robot, mowing machines? In New Zealand dollars, 1 army. I think it’s for 1, or it’s to get the prototype made, to be honest, for the 1. That’s what he’s actually doing here. He had very little information on this Kickstarter page.

Chris [01:16:54]:
I’m gonna say he he wants $20. I’m gonna throw that out there. I have no idea.

Sam [01:16:59]:
Else? He wants, about 60,000 New Zealand dollars, and he’s currently got $65. Okay? Don’t wanna There’s no way to go. Hang on. There’s still 21 days. Now what you wanna do when you look at kickstarter dropkicks is you wanna look at what you get for the pledges. Right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Sam [01:17:23]:
Yeah. What do you because they normally give you something. And this guy, obviously, it’s quite a lot of money, and he doesn’t give you one of these. You can just pay him $20 just to for the joy of it. Or for $40, you get a mug that says Terra Tech Robotics.

Chris [01:17:41]:
Okay.

Sam [01:17:42]:
Do you want to back this?

Chris [01:17:43]:
For $40 mug? No.

Sam [01:17:47]:
So he said that once he gets the money, he’s also completed a business incubator program, and he’s made some important connections, a local supplier who can help him with components and engineering experience, and he’s opened a brand new facility where he can secure manufacturing and research and development equipment. Not keen? Woo hoo.

Chris [01:18:10]:
No. That’s a that’s a hard dropkick. What do you say? Kickstart or dropkick? Drop kick? Okay. Okay. Alright. That’s a drop kick. Alright. Let’s try another one.

Sam [01:18:21]:
This is the modular pillow. It looks like a little boat, but it’s a bunch of pillows that are all Velcroed together.

Chris [01:18:30]:
And because he sent me that photo first, and I was like, I don’t understand where it was. It wasn’t till I saw a photo of the person using it. I’m like, oh, it’s not just under your head. It’s like a whole body pillow with an arm wrap around thing.

Sam [01:18:48]:
Yeah. So this doctor guy, back doctor or something, this is his 4th Kickstarter he’s created, and he’s really

Chris [01:18:54]:
And the other ones were successful?

Sam [01:18:56]:
I mean, they got funded, and he shipped some stuff. Okay. One person paid a dollar for this one just to tell him how crap the previous product was.

Chris [01:19:06]:
And then it and then That’s always a good

Sam [01:19:08]:
sign. Disappeared. I’m sorry. Yeah. You’re like okay. Alright, Carol. Big thing is you should be sleeping on a 45 degree angle. Like, he is there.

Sam [01:19:21]:
That’s the actual guy, his own photo. So one of these well,

Chris [01:19:26]:
Cox Right. So you shouldn’t sleep on your side. You should sleep almost on your side.

Sam [01:19:31]:
Almost on your side.

Chris [01:19:33]:
Yep. Between on your side and on your on a butt cheek is basically the rule.

Sam [01:19:38]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris [01:19:38]:
One butt cheek sleeping.

Sam [01:19:39]:
Think he used that rule.

Chris [01:19:41]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But putting it in human terms, one butt cheek sleeping is what he’s talking about.

Sam [01:19:46]:
Yeah. Yeah. So to buy one of those, is 249 US dollars, and he’s got a shipping thing where he tells you exactly how much it would cost to ship that to New Zealand.

Chris [01:20:00]:
When I looked at that, I thought it was inflatable. No. Right. It’s so what is it?

Sam [01:20:07]:
To ship it or what’s that?

Chris [01:20:08]:
No. No. What what what’s it made of? What what

Sam [01:20:10]:
It’s like a giant pillow made of pillow sections, and you can custom you can customize it to however you want it. Memory foam thing? Yeah. It looks like memory foam.

John [01:20:18]:
That’s a good one.

Sam [01:20:19]:
Yeah. Right. So it’s a 110, US dollars to ship one of those to New Zealand if you were to buy one.

Chris [01:20:24]:
So so here

Sam [01:20:25]:
350 in total, I think.

Chris [01:20:26]:
Okay. Right.

Sam [01:20:27]:
Only if it’s an early bird, though, because it’s Kickstarter. And he’s got something like his, he wanted to raise only, like, $5,000, and I think it’s at, a 125,000. It’s it’s a lot. Lots of people want this.

Chris [01:20:45]:
Well, I I gotta say, though, I and and I can laugh because I am one of the world’s greatest sleepers. I can sleep anywhere, anytime. No problem. I’ve slept on movie sets. I’ve slept on pub floors. I’ve slept everywhere. So but I believe that if you have trouble sleeping

Sam [01:21:05]:
Yeah.

Chris [01:21:05]:
You will spend any amount of money you need to spend to be able to sleep.

Sam [01:21:10]:
Yeah. I’d say so. Yeah. So would you kick start this or drop kick it? Anyone? Most people I think most people are semi keen on it. I mean, it’s way better than a robot.

Chris [01:21:21]:
A good idea. I don’t think I don’t think that price is realistic, but I could see if they started making those in in decent unit size volume Yeah. The price dropped down. If people would pay a $100 for that. I’m sure they would.

Sam [01:21:35]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris [01:21:39]:
Yeah. It’s it’s it’s a whole sleeping like, honestly, you could take that

Audience Member [01:21:42]:
It’s a sleeping solution.

Sam [01:21:44]:
Yeah. Quinta Quinta, you’re already writing that copy. Kickstarter. Buy buy now. That’s good. Good.

Chris [01:21:52]:
But you could go camping with that.

Sam [01:21:54]:
I will say there’s about 3 or 4 other projects similar to this on Kickstarter. This is the most popular one. There’s a whole bunch of people that are making pillows at the moment.

John [01:22:04]:
And

Chris [01:22:04]:
Get to choose another story. So Oh. Anybody else? IRA bar. Okay. Actually, it’s not one I’ve told on the podcast.

Sam [01:22:14]:
No. I know. There was yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Chris [01:22:18]:
Oh. Possibly. I’m I was telling somebody the other day the story, and I was like,

Sam [01:22:23]:
oh, yeah. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned on podcast when I we were doing this, so I

Chris [01:22:27]:
added in there. Alright. So it’s, I was about

Sam [01:22:32]:
22 57 years ago.

Chris [01:22:35]:
Yeah. Something like that, in London. And, I worked at the Manor House Pub Irish Bar and all these Irish people I work with. And the Irish people are always winding you up. Like, you never know if what they’re telling because they’re they’re very good at winding you up. You never know if what they’re saying is true or they’re making stuff up.

Sam [01:22:57]:
Is it fair to say when you were younger, you may have been more gullible?

Chris [01:23:01]:
No. I I honestly, I yeah. I was. But, honestly, these guys were really good at

Sam [01:23:06]:
winning. Okay.

Chris [01:23:07]:
The the the Irish and the Welsh particularly were good at winding people up.

Sam [01:23:11]:
So, anyway,

Chris [01:23:13]:
we finished so, it was around Christmas time. I remember this clearly because of this snow in London. It was snowy on the ground. It was pretty mushy and stuff. But, it was a lot of snow. And on a Sunday, these these weird liquor laws in in in England and some pubs our pub on a Sunday open for 2 hours, in the morning, then we had to have 4 hours off and then 2 hours in the afternoon or evening or maybe more than 2 hours, whatever it was. But there’s this huge part of the middle of the day that you just weren’t allowed to be open.

Sam [01:23:48]:
Okay.

Chris [01:23:48]:
And then other pubs had a license throughout the day.

Sam [01:23:51]:
Oh. So Okay.

Chris [01:23:52]:
As barman in our pub, we would get to closing time, and we’d go to another pub because And drink. We’re obviously gonna

Sam [01:24:00]:
Mhmm. And drink.

Chris [01:24:01]:
And drink. Yeah. So, they go, oh, we’ll go to, this blah blah blah pub. It’s it’s dodgy as it’s not IRA bar. And I’m like, I don’t know I don’t know if I can trust you guys. Like, I never like, whatever. Okay. So, but anyway, that’s what they was right.

Chris [01:24:22]:
I was I was really known for people in the IRA hanging out. So this was in the very early nineties. It might have been 1990 or 1991. So I oh, yeah. Whatever. So we go out. There was, me and John. John’s an Irish guy who got me in a lot of trouble over the years.

Chris [01:24:41]:
So yeah. Good good guy. And then 2 barmaids, Jasmine and Anne, and I think Mark from Mark from Limerick. My whole goal in life was to make Mark smile because he walked around with a with a sort of a grumpy face all the time.

Sam [01:25:00]:
Him jokes from when you’re in the hospital?

Chris [01:25:01]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Jamie [01:25:02]:
Okay. I

Chris [01:25:03]:
I had a He

Sam [01:25:03]:
didn’t smile, did

Chris [01:25:05]:
he? Not often. Okay. Oh, no. It was it was pretty good when he cracks a smile because it was impressive. So and and you couldn’t understand him. Limerick, the accent from limerick. What? Yeah. Whatever.

Chris [01:25:20]:
Anyway, so we go to this this this IRA bar, and we walk in. I’m wearing, you know, jeans, Doc Martens, leather jacket, probably an ACDC T shirt. Like, that’s probably what I was wearing, something like that. Okay. And, yeah, they’re they’re casual. It’s cold, so that’s the leather jacket and all that sort of thing, Doc Martens. And we go into the spa. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I wasn’t expecting it.

Chris [01:25:49]:
It’s just like a a shell of a a hall, and the furniture is all school desks and stuff. So little? Little. Disks literally lift up desks and stuff like that. It it and there was a open fire, and there was a bar at one end. And I’m like, this is this is janky as. Yeah. So, anyway, the the 4 of us, 5 of us, whatever it was, round the fire, and there was this, somebody moved all these tables together, and there were these 8 or 9, younger, I assume, Irish guys playing dice. I think it was dice.

Chris [01:26:29]:
It wasn’t cards. I think they’re rolling dice.

Sam [01:26:32]:
You

Chris [01:26:32]:
know? About 8 or 9 of them around, they they pushed all these desks together. So John goes off and talks to them, because John just could tell stories for hours. John looked like a a a typical farmer, rosy cheeks, big guy, quite solid. Well, your size. Pretty much. Solid solid guy.

Sam [01:26:50]:
Okay. Okay. Take that, I think.

Chris [01:26:52]:
No. It was, yeah, a couple of inches taller than me. Something like that. Yeah. So very similar to you. And I was really I was a lot skinnier back then, but I was still pretty fit. I’d got my black belt a few years a couple of years before. I’d I’d lost a little fitness work at the bar in London for whatever it was, 6 months at this stage, but, yeah, I was still pretty fit and stuff.

Chris [01:27:15]:
So John goes over, and he’s he’s guessing away with these guys, and he’s playing dice and all this sort of stuff. And I’m talking chatting to the girls and just hanging out. And John comes over, and as he comes up to me, as he walks towards me, he sort of sees under his breath. So the guys behind him can’t see him move. Says, whatever I say, just say no. And I’m like, oh, whatever. And he goes, can you give me that 200 pound? And I’m like, not 200 pound. The 200 pound.

Chris [01:27:48]:
Yeah. And I’m like, that’s rent, man. I’ve gotta pay the rent with that. So we live in a pub. We don’t pay rent, but I was just making shit up. It’s rent, man. I can’t but I I’ve just lost money, and I need to pay these guys. And I’m like, well, you’re out of luck because you that’s rent money.

Chris [01:28:07]:
You’re not getting it. Now I’m making this really loud to these other guys here. And he he’s looking at them, and they’re all glaring at him. And he and he and he waddles back over to them, sort of goes back over to them, and he’s and they all sort of huddle over this table. And one looks up at me, and then another one looks up at me, then they all look up at me, and then they all move back a bit and sit down. And John comes back. I was like, so what’s going on? He said, we’ve worked it out. Oh, cool.

Chris [01:28:43]:
Cool. What’s happening? He said, oh, I told them you’d fight them for the money. You’re like, And I was like, oh, really? That’s what you told them? He goes, yep. And I look up, and all these 8 or 9 guys are, like, staring at me. I’m like, oh, so I just put my feet up on the desk, crossed my arms, dog Martin’s went. Sort of gave them an odd and said, come at it. And,

Chris [01:29:11]:
one of them got up, and another one got up. And I’m like, oh my god. This is gonna be fixed.

Sam [01:29:17]:
Did they do the old school one at a time, or they all transform you?

Chris [01:29:21]:
No. They they got up and left. Oh. Or walked out in a line. And I’m like, I’m back. Yeah. What because at this point, I’ve been I’ve been to tournament fighting for a few years, and I’ve been my black belt grading was pretty brutal. Yeah.

Chris [01:29:38]:
So I’m used to getting beat up. I’m very good at getting beat up at this stage. So I’m like, I can take a beating. So, but they left, and we left a half hour later. And as we’re going out, I’m like AGS. We’re going around every corner, like, looking around for somebody to come out with a bat. But, yeah, that was the IRA bar story.

Sam [01:30:01]:
Sounds like you’re very lucky.

Chris [01:30:03]:
Yeah. John was good. I really should’ve told the beautiful south story. Yeah. John’s in there, but, anyway.

Sam [01:30:08]:
That’s okay. And now you made a podcast that’s done 500 episodes. Yeah. So you’re pretty much winning

Chris [01:30:13]:
at life now. And in this one, we’re going to be talking to our number one fan from New Zealand, the one that’s done all the artwork, which if you don’t know, well, those that know know. And that’s Jeremy. How are you, Jeremy?

Jeremy [01:30:28]:
I’m well. How are you guys doing? Not too bad. Yeah. We’re going Congratulations on 500 episodes. It’s a bit crazy.

Chris [01:30:35]:
It it’s nuts. You were,

Sam [01:30:37]:
like, really early on listening to us somehow. Yeah. I couldn’t I couldn’t work out. I was trying to work out today looking through the that catalog. I was like, what would my first one have been? And I have no idea, but it must have it must have been,

Jeremy [01:30:49]:
I imagine, about 50 or something because I I’d have to have been listening for about a year to have traveled up to Auckland to come and

Sam [01:30:55]:
Hang it up. Yeah.

Jeremy [01:30:57]:
For the 100.

Sam [01:30:59]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So how did you find us? Do you know? Yeah. I think I found it because I was listening to, Neil before Paul Yep. Yep.

Jeremy [01:31:10]:
With Will and Yeah.

Sam [01:31:11]:
Sash and Ben. That that’s what I think I heard yeah. That that that’s what I thought. I did a post on LinkedIn the other day, and Will commented on it. And he said back in the day, there was, only you had to pay for your data, like, it was real expensive, whatever. And he said there was only, like, 4 podcasts, I think, that he listened to that he would download if he was away from home, and ours was one of them.

Jeremy [01:31:36]:
Oh, no. Yep.

Sam [01:31:37]:
So, yeah, it’s a bit crazy.

Chris [01:31:40]:
Yeah. No. I think it

Sam [01:31:41]:
was it was that, and they they had one of their episodes. He finished it with, like,

Jeremy [01:31:45]:
a solid minute of Chris laughing.

Sam [01:31:47]:
Oh, that’s a yes.

Jeremy [01:31:48]:
What the hell is

Sam [01:31:49]:
this? What? Yeah. Yeah. I I didn’t know. That?

Jeremy [01:31:52]:
Did I know that?

Sam [01:31:53]:
Rob, it’s hard to keep track. We’ve got a solid minute of you laughing on our website. Oh, no. I I think it it it must be like a weird thing because people must hear it and go, why is this man laughing so much? This must be good. And then they’re severely disappointed.

Chris [01:32:15]:
Oh, I’m gonna get self conscious about the freaking laughing again now. Goddamn it.

Sam [01:32:20]:
That’s a good thing. No. I I’ve told my

Jeremy [01:32:22]:
kid one of my kids has a really loud, boisterous laugh, and I’m like, it’s the best thing. But

Sam [01:32:26]:
Oh, it’s it’s cool. Everyone wants to be friends with someone with

Jeremy [01:32:29]:
a big laugh because you say something vaguely

Sam [01:32:31]:
funny, and they’re like, ah. Okay. It’s a great thing. Great thing to have an affair. You have to own it. Yeah.

Chris [01:32:36]:
You have to own it. Yeah.

Sam [01:32:37]:
And and it’s it’s it’s a good, like, mechanism to track someone somewhere. Like, if if you lose Chris somewhere, he’s gotta wait for him to laugh at some point.

Chris [01:32:47]:
I don’t know if I’ve told the story before. So, I, I went out with this girl when I was, I don’t know, about 18, 19, and she had a really strong laugh as as well. So the 2 of us

Sam [01:33:00]:
Yeah.

Chris [01:33:00]:
Had really loud laughs. And we went to a movie, War of the Roses with Michael Douglas, if you remember that one.

Sam [01:33:08]:
Not at all because I would have been 12.

Chris [01:33:11]:
Anyway, we went in, and it’s sort of funny, but, Janine and I would end up we’re in the corner of the cinema, and we started laughing. But when she laughed, it made me laugh more. And we’d laugh at things that weren’t the funniest parts of the movie.

Jeremy [01:33:26]:
Oh,

Sam [01:33:26]:
no. That’s the best part.

Chris [01:33:27]:
Yeah. Every you know, we’d start laughing, then everybody else would laugh. And then we’d laugh, and then everybody else would laugh. And it was really funny. And then the lights came on, and nobody moved. They all just turned and stared at the corner to see

Sam [01:33:44]:
who the people in that corner they were laughing. No. I felt really And all those people around me, I’ll I’ll own podcast, and I can tell you a story.

Chris [01:33:56]:
Yeah. Well, this was well before podcasts.

Sam [01:33:59]:
So I was gonna ask you, Jeremy, way back in the day, how did you randomly get started listening to podcasts in general? I drive a lot for work, and

Jeremy [01:34:08]:
so I think it was probably just I kinda got sick.

Sam [01:34:11]:
I think I went from listening to music. I started listening to TalkBack for a bit,

Jeremy [01:34:15]:
and it’s alright when people when I’m like, oh, no. No. No. Yeah. I don’t like this. So I think I I just kinda went to podcast because you could actually I found a

Sam [01:34:23]:
lot of the time I’ll be listening to something and just kinda hate listening to it.

Jeremy [01:34:26]:
Yep. Yeah. And so I was like, no.

Sam [01:34:28]:
I’ve gotta listen to something that

Jeremy [01:34:29]:
I can actually choose the people that I’m listening to and

Chris [01:34:32]:
Yeah. And the fact you can fast forward if if it’s it’s not that great, you can go next.

Sam [01:34:36]:
That’s right. I think Yeah. But I have found myself falling into trap with some podcasts after a while. I start listening to

Jeremy [01:34:42]:
them, and then I’m like, oh, hang on. I don’t have to be doing this. Yes. And not be a completeist. I can just unfollow it.

Sam [01:34:48]:
Yep. And I think with some of the real long form ones as well, I find it’s like, oh, I don’t have to listen to every single episode they bring out. It’s good if I just pick and choose if they’ve got an interesting looking guest.

Chris [01:34:59]:
Yeah. For sure. Absolutely.

Sam [01:35:01]:
I was gonna ask you, have you, what changes have you seen on podcasts over the years? As a podcast listener and one of the OG number one fans here at the Chris and Sam Podcast, have you seen anything change over the years? Yeah. I don’t know. A a lot of my podcasts

Jeremy [01:35:18]:
I listened to have had stopped over the time,

Sam [01:35:21]:
which has got been a shame when it does happen, but then

Jeremy [01:35:23]:
it’s kinda everything. Everything kinda has to change. I’ve seen it in your guide. Like, I listened to a couple of the old back catalog today. Yep. And I went from, like, episode 10 or something.

Jeremy [01:35:35]:
Oh, yeah.

Jeremy [01:35:36]:
I listened to it with the kids in the car, which is something I like because you guys had generally good language. So I can listen to it with the kids.

Sam [01:35:41]:
Yep. And then I went to the the latest one, and the kids were like, I I can’t believe this

Jeremy [01:35:46]:
is the same people.

Sam [01:35:47]:
I was half asleep for the first 100 episodes. I sounded really disconnected, and I don’t Yeah. It did sound a bit like that. Like, I don’t know why. Because I’ve been doing the same job for the last 10 years. Not much had changed really. No. And I’m always that tired level.

Sam [01:36:06]:
I don’t know. I was just I don’t know what was going on. But when I hear it, I’m just, oh, this is terrible.

Chris [01:36:10]:
Yeah. You do sound like you’re on drugs, like Xanax or something. Yeah. So that was pretty good.

Sam [01:36:18]:
No. We’re all about energy right now. So you

Chris [01:36:20]:
use you use air AirPods now. Yep. Has that changed the way you you you listen to podcasts?

Jeremy [01:36:27]:
Most of the time, I listen to it through the car radio, really. Right.

Sam [01:36:30]:
I I I do sometimes.

Jeremy [01:36:32]:
Like, if I’m at home doing, like, cleaning the kitchen or something, I’ll pop them in and and listen to them. But, yeah, most of the time, I’ll be listening while I’m driving or through the car radio.

Chris [01:36:42]:
I only mentioned that because Adam, who listens as well, he, he’s just discovered the AirPod phenomenon, and it’s changed his life.

Jeremy [01:36:51]:
Yep. He

Chris [01:36:51]:
says, it’s changed my life.

Sam [01:36:53]:
I thought he would have been an early adopter for some reason of those. After you’ve been doing the podcast for so long, you we get better at it. We’re getting real we’re real comfortable talking to random people at field days. Yeah. That’s cool. Has it made you think

Jeremy [01:37:07]:
at all about bringing on Geese more regularly? Or because I don’t know that you have to. It’s all I like the format, but I was listening to one of

Jeremy [01:37:14]:
the previous

Jeremy [01:37:14]:
episodes, and you were saying, I

Sam [01:37:16]:
think we’re gonna bring on bring on people more often. And Well, we’ve had a couple of people on real early, Carl a few times, and I think Sash and Ben maybe. And it just never really fitted with what we were doing because we were so random technology in life as opposed to a niche topic. But we did talk about this the other day. We sometimes don’t tell people we have a podcast, especially online or in the marketing world, because all these people want to be guests on a podcast. Oh, yeah.

Chris [01:37:47]:
Yeah. I I’ve had I’ve had I’ve mentioned it in a in a group forum, on Zoom. And they’re like like, oh, can you can you, I’d love to be a guest. I’m like, we don’t have guests? And it, like, blows their mind. They’re like, I thought you said you had a podcast. Yes. A podcast with no guests. They’re like, can you do that? Yeah.

Chris [01:38:09]:
We can. We do.

Sam [01:38:11]:
Because you can have a podcast with 1 person that’s just talking the same whatever they’re talking about.

Chris [01:38:15]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway, that that’s pretty cool. So what would you like to see us do more of, Jeremy? Is there anything you’d like us to, do more of?

Jeremy [01:38:25]:
What about, trolling trolling the Internet and finding some art prizes to, rent against?

Sam [01:38:32]:
No. We talked about this the other day. I was at an art gallery yesterday, and, there was some questionable stuff there. I’m not anti yet, but the barrier to entry sometimes is very low. I saw some photos a guy took of a hose yesterday and a step. But in a trailer? No. No. Not not at that level.

Sam [01:38:57]:
It was just photos. But, oh, that that woman that did that, she had 3 of them scattered around Christchurch, and I swear it was just so she could get free trailers. Yeah. I never saw that. I never came across that. Because it was one of those, to do with the earthquakes or something, and there was stuff scattered all around the city. And, I think only one of the trailers had a little plaque saying what it was. And then if you saw the other trailers first, it looked like just someone had parked a trailer with pipe in it.

Sam [01:39:28]:
K. So as you can imagine, I was very happy about that.

Jeremy [01:39:32]:
Yeah.

Chris [01:39:33]:
Yeah. Yeah. No. That that was that was awesome. We, we definitely need to hear more of, the other losing a plot on on the art stuff.

Sam [01:39:42]:
I just thought of the other art thing that makes me mad. That New Zealand one, which was, like, a art prize for paper or something, can they gave it to those people that had a pile of old carpet in the corner?

Jeremy [01:39:54]:
That’s right.

Chris [01:39:57]:
Bunch of dicks.

Sam [01:40:01]:
So much money given away for no reason.

Jeremy [01:40:04]:
Yeah. Oh, you really need to be, sending something away to them next time.

Sam [01:40:09]:
Yeah. I think, well, the trick is trying to figure out what these art things are and what the deadlines are because, even at field days, they have an art competition, and we were thinking potentially doing something with that. But, every time I think about it, they’ve already, like, drawn it, like, a month ahead.

Chris [01:40:27]:
Yeah. Yeah.

Sam [01:40:28]:
Because you’re not in those circles. You just never hear of when it’s happening. No. No. That’s a shame.

Chris [01:40:33]:
Cool. Is there anything, you’d like us to put into the 500th since we’re still working on what we’re putting in there?

Jeremy [01:40:39]:
Well, I’ve actually done a little bit of research today. Yeah. Very little research, but research all the same. I was just listening to

Sam [01:40:47]:
So let probably Chrisley more than me. He’s done Chrisley research.

Jeremy [01:40:52]:
So Okay. I

Sam [01:40:53]:
listened to episode 5, which is from November 2014. And, Chris didn’t know that Sky Rockets had been banned, and I thought, oh, that

Jeremy [01:41:04]:
was banned a lot of time ago.

Chris [01:41:06]:
Yeah. That would be, like, 20 years ago.

Sam [01:41:09]:
Well, so I looked it up. That was in 2014.

Chris [01:41:12]:
I see, that that that makes sense now.

Sam [01:41:14]:
They were back.

Chris [01:41:15]:
I must have forgotten that because I I we had to do this thing for work, and I said skyrocket we did a we we’re creating a little puzzle theme thing. And I put skyrockets in a word search, and this chick was asking me, what’s a skyrocket? I’m like, what do you mean what’s a skyrocket?

Sam [01:41:33]:
Is this current? Like, recently? This was last week. Oh, okay.

Chris [01:41:38]:
And I I must have forgotten they were banned again. Hang on.

Sam [01:41:41]:
So when were they actually banned? They were banned in 1994.

Jeremy [01:41:47]:
Yeah. I was shitting them.

Chris [01:41:48]:
I was 12.

Sam [01:41:49]:
Yeah. But the funny thing is that later on in that episode so that was that was 20 years before that episode. But, I mean, later on in that episode, Chris said that he was married on Guy Fawkes 20 years ago. It would have been his 20th anniversary because I thought, oh, maybe he was just out of the country when they

Jeremy [01:42:06]:
got banned, so he never knew. But they got banned on the year he got married on Guy Fawkes.

Chris [01:42:10]:
Oh, he he he wasn’t paying attention.

Sam [01:42:15]:
But hang on. Just just go and stick him with the fireworks thing. If my memory serves me correctly, when we moved out of the last house, you had a sack of fireworks in your room,

Chris [01:42:25]:
I’ve still got a whole a pile of double happies and a couple of, a couple of m eighty, fireworks that are accidentally brought back from the state. That’s right. Because we were filming in in Nevada desert, and we were, using these firecrackers and the the meaty, like, double happy type firecrackers, but bigger. And we would put it in the dirt, light it, and get out of the way to do the, like, shots hitting the ground, puffs of of dirt and stuff. Wow. And and I had a few in my pocket. And when I got changed, I must have just chucked them in the briefcase the suitcase, the backpack, whatever. And then I came back home, and when I went to put everything in the washing, I’m like, holy crap.

Chris [01:43:11]:
I’ve got a pile of these fireworks. Nobody picked up the explosives on the, on the flight back. So that was cool.

Sam [01:43:18]:
That’s crazy. So firecrackers firecrackers

Jeremy [01:43:20]:
were actually banned in 1994 along with Sky Rockets as well. So your double happy is a 30 years old.

Chris [01:43:25]:
Yeah. Yeah. They are. I I knew they were banned. I just didn’t realize the Sky Rockets were. Oh, okay.

Sam [01:43:32]:
Just learning stuff all the time here at Chris and Sam Podcast. Relearning it. That’s crazy.

Chris [01:43:41]:
Oh, that’s cool. That’s cool. Was that the only thing you researched?

Sam [01:43:44]:
That was the only thing you

Chris [01:43:45]:
came up?

Sam [01:43:45]:
I I listened to a few episodes, but that

Jeremy [01:43:47]:
was the the thing that stood out. I thought I thought I did find some some very interesting titles of the, your old podcast, the ones I’m probably gonna have to go back and listen to. But yeah.

Sam [01:43:58]:
Oh, yeah. I mean, there’s only so much you can listen to altogether, or you’ll end up with some sort of brain problem, probably.

Chris [01:44:04]:
So Yeah. Alright. We’ll let you go then, Jizzer. But thanks for, thanks for calling in. That’s awesome.

Sam [01:44:11]:
Really appreciate it. Great to hear from you.

Chris [01:44:12]:
And have fun in Thailand, man.

Jeremy [01:44:14]:
I will. Thank you very

Sam [01:44:15]:
much. Remember, remember, even if they may look like a woman, they could be a boy girl.

Chris [01:44:21]:
A lady boy.

Sam [01:44:22]:
Lady boy. That’s it. K?

Jeremy [01:44:24]:
Okay. I’ll

Sam [01:44:24]:
remember that. You check. Make sure you check.

Jeremy [01:44:27]:
Okay. I think I’ve rolled 1 day. That’s fine.

Sam [01:44:32]:
Very good. Alright. Okay. See you later, mate. See you. Now

Chris [01:44:36]:
It’s q and a.

Sam [01:44:36]:
Q and a.

Chris [01:44:37]:
It’s time for you guys to come up. So what we need you to do is come over to the microphone there and ask a question.

Sam [01:44:44]:
If you’ve got one.

Chris [01:44:44]:
Sam’s gonna throw the headphones on to make sure we’re hearing them right.

Sam [01:44:48]:
If not, my sister has sent a bunch of questions.

Chris [01:44:50]:
Oh, well, let’s start off with those. You guys think about a question.

Sam [01:44:53]:
A lot of them revolve around you. Me? Because she listens to the quest podcast a lot, and, she said

Chris [01:44:59]:
And she knows everything about you already.

Sam [01:45:01]:
Yeah. Pretty much. So she said, here’s some random stuff I think of when the podcast is mentioned. Chris’s dad made a cat cage out of a supermarket trolley. She finds that very hilarious.

Chris [01:45:11]:
Oh, that was awesome. So, for those that missed that story, I’ll just quickly reiterate. My my grandma, dad’s mother, had a cat called Cleo, and I think it was a rescue or something. Fluffy ball of fur. Nice enough cat. Pretty moody. You know what cats are like. So we go on a holiday.

Chris [01:45:29]:
Grandma died. We were living in her house or something. Dad and I was at that time. And we went on holiday, and we put her cat in a cardboard box. I don’t know if you still get those. It’s like

Sam [01:45:43]:
a cardboard box I know what you’re talking about.

Chris [01:45:46]:
And it and it folds to the Yeah. Door and you can carry it around. We headed the cat in that, and we’re driving to Paikokariki from, Wellington. So it’s out Kapiti Coast or somewhere like that was where the cattery was, and the cat floored its way through the side of this box and raced around like, the Tasmanian devil through the car, clawing out of daddy’s driving and all of us who like doing this. And she just literally leaped around the car clawing everybody. So when we got back, we got it to the category, all the rest of it. When we got back, Ted nicked a supermarket trolley, got his welder out, and chopped it up and made the epic cat cage out of the supermarket trolley. It was it worked for years.

Chris [01:46:36]:
It’s brilliant. Excellent. That’s what it’s doing.

Sam [01:46:38]:
My sister also thinks of the time I had my own personal escape room and got locked in the toilet. My brother-in-law is a locksmith, so this probably went down well. She also thinks about I don’t remember this, but Chris didn’t know the difference between fertilizer and compost. I don’t know. This is a still don’t

Chris [01:46:58]:
know the difference between fertilizer and compost. There’s a difference?

Sam [01:47:03]:
Yes. I said on episode 493, the offender goes home to get his stabbing weapon, which is a knife. And then she wrote she said, what could be some other stabbing weapons, question mark? Scissors? Yeah. Yeah. Did you ever find out the difference between a kayak and a canoe? You’ve sold that,

Chris [01:47:28]:
I hope so. Okay. Yeah. I need to get some money for rent next week. So I hope so. Yeah. No. A kayak canoe is something you sit in, and a kayak is something you sit on.

Chris [01:47:39]:
That’s not quite right.

Sam [01:47:40]:
Other way around.

Chris [01:47:41]:
No. The canoes, got the sides on it. Okay. I’m sure that’s it.

Sam [01:47:48]:
Oh, so I don’t know. I we’ll go with that. In episode 493, she was wondering if you were okay because you hadn’t mentioned Trump. And she thought, holy crap. Is there going to be an episode with no mention at all of Trump? Then bang, at 24 minutes 31 seconds, he slides into Trump and then talks about him.

Chris [01:48:06]:
So has anybody seen the, Kamala Harris Trump debate today? Because I did. I watched it live. Okay. Kamala Kamala nailed him, in the in in the debate. And, one I I I won’t go on about it. But but, he, he said, what did he say? The the moderator came up with a question on, the border, which is a big problem for her, and she just baited Trump with something about crowd size. So he spent one and a half minutes of his 2 minutes talking about crowd size. Forgot the border off.

Chris [01:48:44]:
So, like, he was he was useless, and she was awesome. So, anyway oh, yeah. So have you heard that story?

Sam [01:48:52]:
She’s gonna tell you.

Chris [01:48:53]:
Yeah. I’ll I’ll tell you. So, in in Facebook, some person had done the story about one of my neighbors lost their pet, and we found this guy, got arrested. The person had cooked their pet up and ate it. Right?

Sam [01:49:13]:
Only if he found

Chris [01:49:14]:
it dead in the wild. No. But, but it was an American born American citizen, which is pertinent because somebody picked this story up and then switched it and said some Haitian immigrants or refugees or whatever they are from Haiti Haiti, Haiti have been, you know, did this thing. And then it got spread like wildfire. And that’s what they’re talking about. The story that’s not true at all. And it was was it Pittsburgh? I think it was Pittsburgh. And then they talked to the city manager of Pittsburgh, and he went, you know, national news saying, we’ve had no reports, no police reports of any animals, pets being going missing and people eating them, but all the, right wing media is just hitting that hard.

Sam [01:49:59]:
So So my sister said, is there an episode without Trump question mark? Not For example, in episode 474, it took 38 seconds for you to mention it, which is probably just our thing. She also liked 493 where I said, do you want the Olympic update? You said, I still haven’t watched it. And I said, the turkey pistol shooter. And then you went, oh, I’ve seen that. And then you said, like

Chris [01:50:21]:
I just saw it on Facebook. Photo.

Sam [01:50:23]:
And then 2 minutes later, you said, have you seen the pole vault?

Chris [01:50:27]:
And then Okay. So social media. Actually, that’s a good thing. The turkey pistol shooter. Everybody knows who I mean. Right? Yeah. Right? Do you know he didn’t win silver alone? He was, like, 17th. He won silver in the pit.

Sam [01:50:44]:
Oh, I didn’t know there was a dude

Chris [01:50:45]:
And up here. The other one was a girl, 26 year old

Chris [01:50:50]:
With the same setup

Sam [01:50:52]:
But though

Chris [01:50:53]:
and shot with a hand in a pocket. Yeah. But nobody talks about her. They just talk about him who didn’t get in the top 2. She, on her individual, ranked higher than him as well. So sexism.

Sam [01:51:06]:
And then in the same episode, you then bust out the only time I’ve been pistol shooting is with a Turkish guy. Yeah. And she said, is there more to this story?

Chris [01:51:15]:
Or is that it? I yeah. Possibly. I I was I can’t remember that well. Okay. Let let okay.

Sam [01:51:22]:
Is there any other questions from our audience?

Audience Member [01:51:25]:
How how do you guys I don’t know what, your audience is, but, like, are you guys, like

Sam [01:51:31]:
You’re all here.

Audience Member [01:51:33]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna ask about that. Like, do do other people that do podcasts, do they have, like, tips to boost your audience or get

Sam [01:51:42]:
There’s 2 things, I think. 1 is we aren’t niched down to one topic, so we’re very broad. Yeah. And the other thing is we don’t do the YouTube thing. I think if you publish on YouTube

Sam [01:51:54]:
But it’s just more workflow, more extra steps. Especially, this late in the game for us.

Chris [01:51:59]:
Yeah. We we do this for fun and,

Sam [01:52:02]:
so there’s 75, I think, episode the first 75 episodes are on YouTube, but it’s just a static image that moves with our logo and hardly any downloads because it’s not niche. It’s not a specific topic. Like, if we were talking about one thing so we Chris did do the New Zealand Filmmakers podcast for 5 episodes, and that still gets downloads now. Yeah. Because it’s super specific, and people wanna download the 48 hour episode Yeah. A lot.

Chris [01:52:31]:
So, yeah. And and that’s a good point. Like, the the pod fade is 5 episodes. Is it 5?

Sam [01:52:38]:
I think it’s 3 now. 3.

Chris [01:52:39]:
So most podcasts die after 3 episodes. So 500 is pretty good. But yeah. No. We do it because we enjoy doing it. And

Audience Member [01:52:48]:
Well, I’m sorry. I think you guys have got quite an accessible podcast. Like, I think an average person will come in knowing nothing and

Sam [01:52:56]:
Yeah. I mean, you can drop in and out on any podcast, and you haven’t missed anything.

Chris [01:53:00]:
Yeah. Yeah. It’s not a serial type thing. Absolutely. Yeah. No. And we do get a lot of downloads from random countries, which

Sam [01:53:10]:
we’ll cover in a second.

Chris [01:53:12]:
We will. Okay. So are there any other questions, or we should we move on? No burning desire to know anything about that.

Sam [01:53:21]:
They already they they either know us in person or they’ve listened to an episode.

Chris [01:53:24]:
Cool. Okay.

Sam [01:53:25]:
Very good. Okay. Alright.

Chris [01:53:27]:
So we’re gonna go through this. So this is so the

Sam [01:53:29]:
question was was how many live guests have we had on the Chris and Sam podcast? And the answer was 6. Carl,

Chris [01:53:37]:
Sasha, and Ben were in 1 episode, but there are 2 people.

Sam [01:53:39]:
In a car.

Chris [01:53:40]:
In a car. Will, who was in a pub. John, who was in a pub. Chloe, who was at our place. So yeah.

Sam [01:53:48]:
So we’ve had a lot of people, like, walk past and, like, and may have said something

Chris [01:53:53]:
while doing something? Jeff Penny might have, been heard on 1, but we think like he sat down

Sam [01:53:59]:
on 1 I think Diego was heard in the background, but he never what’s that?

Chris [01:54:04]:
Yeah. I can’t count count the cat. She didn’t say anything.

Sam [01:54:07]:
Anyway, 6 is the answer. If you’re able to take yeah. Anyone got that?

Chris [01:54:11]:
Alright. Okay. How many places Chris and Sam were Chris worked, sorry, in the time this has been going? 8. TSL hired, Health 2 1000, BGT Talent, Moorgate Labs. That’s vegetarian hell for those of you that remember. Butte Utes, Gilmore’s, Spookers, and Epic Learning. Anyone get close?

Sam [01:54:32]:
Who’s got the closest number? 9.

Chris [01:54:35]:
Oh. Oh, 7 and a 9.

Sam [01:54:37]:
We I think I think we’re gonna have to mark them if they’re real close. Yeah. Because we’re not gonna have anyone that gets

Chris [01:54:43]:
Yeah. There’s a there’s a lot of these. We’ll we’ll get okay. Alright. How many museum reports have we had from Sam? 18. No. I think that’s a pretty solid number.

Sam [01:54:53]:
That’s pretty yep.

Chris [01:54:55]:
Okay. How many weeks has Chris and Sam missed over the last 500?

Sam [01:54:59]:
13, give or take.

Chris [01:55:01]:
Okay. What country has the 3rd this one blew my mind when I found this out because I had no idea.

Sam [01:55:07]:
What have we got on the sheets?

Chris [01:55:13]:
Oh, okay. Nobody got France? I wouldn’t have thought to pick France, but those are the stats of our top five there. USA, 50%, New Zealand, 27%, France, 4%, India, 2.47, and Belgium, 2.3. Belgium. Yeah. What the hell?

Sam [01:55:31]:
I don’t know what these people are doing or if it’s I don’t know what it is. We don’t know if it’s AI machine learning people. I don’t know. Yeah. Podcast downloading’s weird. I think it’s counting if the phone downloads it even if no one listens.

Chris [01:55:45]:
But, yeah, 50% USA. So that’s where next time we do the 1,000th episode, we’re doing it in California.

Sam [01:55:53]:
Okay. I don’t think we’ve heard from I don’t think we’ve heard from anyone in the USA as well.

Chris [01:55:58]:
Like I think one person Maybe? Messaged us on Facebook once. But

Chris [01:56:04]:
Alright. How many kick start or drop kick segments have we done? This is a high number.

Sam [01:56:10]:
Around 36 of them. How many times has Sam lost his shit about Yeah. Like, this is all we could remember. 3 times there’s these trailers that some woman did in christchurch that is art she had 3 of them was it 3 there was 3 spread around the city had a little plaque talking about the reconstruction of christchurch and it was just this pipe thrown into a trailer, and I think it was her weird way of somehow getting trailers for free. Anyway, I still don’t like it. Hanging carpet was some people found some old carpet, hung it up, and entered it into a competition. Was it pencils? It was for, paper. It was like a competition for paper, and they won it with carpet, and there was a field days one, which I think I didn’t like, and it was just 3 bits of wire in the shape of a capital h laid on the ground.

Sam [01:57:02]:
They won it. It was, like, $6,000 there for winning that.

Chris [01:57:05]:
Every time Sam sees these competitions, he’s like,

Sam [01:57:14]:
Oh.

Chris [01:57:14]:
And he’s right because that art

Sam [01:57:17]:
okay. Alright. Anyway, how many times have Chris and Sam’s

Chris [01:57:22]:
has been featured?

Jamie [01:57:24]:
What do you get?

Chris [01:57:25]:
And the answer is 6. So Sam’s, and does that’s sideswiped, rear ended once.

Sam [01:57:32]:
Broken into

Chris [01:57:32]:
car broken into twice. My car the Honda got stolen. So I don’t know if you recall that story, but, I was staying with Liam, who we interviewed. He’s my nephew Yeah. Who listens to podcast all the time, and he

Sam [01:57:48]:
he says that to us.

Chris [01:57:49]:
But, I was staying with him and parked the car outside, and it got stolen. I got a phone call at 2 AM or some stupid thing like that from the police, and they go, do you own this car? Yeah. Where is it? Outside the house? Are you sure? Well, no. I went to bed at 9 o’clock.

Sam [01:58:09]:
That’s how they start the conversations when it’s stolen.

Chris [01:58:11]:
Do you

Sam [01:58:11]:
know where your car is? I don’t know. It’s 6 in the morning. Sounds like you know where it is.

Chris [01:58:15]:
Morning. Yeah. So he goes, no. It’s just been run up on this this thing. So, anyway, the guy comes up. The cop comes to see me the next day. He goes, so this is what happened and da da da da da. I’m like, yeah.

Chris [01:58:29]:
Parked because, it’s Wellington. So there’s hills, and it’s parked down the street a little bit. And these guys broke into an old Honda, called 1996, and they took it for a joyride. And then the cops like, oh, well, you’ll be happy to know? I think that’s how he said it. That the guy tried to run, but the dog, got him and took him to the ground. And I think he’s still in surgery. Looks like he lost the car his his arm. He’s lost his arm.

Chris [01:59:01]:
And I was like, wow. So he’ll only be stealing automatics in future? So, anyway, that was that one. And the random joke quiz card that Chris found amusing a lot. Anybody got this? The German marine spoon.

Sam [01:59:26]:
Someone gave us his pack that’s right. Someone gave us his pack of cards, and I think it may have been a Secret Santa gift. I found the card.

Chris [01:59:34]:
Oh, you found

Sam [01:59:37]:
it. This, like Brings up so much joy. God. Look at him. That we that we this man on

Chris [01:59:44]:
the desk that we did the podcast for, like, months when we were living at in Red Mill Street. And I’d pick it up, and I just look at German marine sperm at every time. I don’t know why. It just I think it’s the most hilarious thing ever. Anyway, moving on. How many TV shows has Chris been on? 11. Shortland Street, Dirty Laundry, Broken Wood Mysteries, Pike River, American Playboy, The Hueyphony Story, Sweet Tooth, Robent Empire, Making of Mob, Power Rangers, Jonah and Ben, Ash and the U Versus the Evil Dead. Those are the only ones I can remember.

Sam [02:00:26]:
We had a discussion because none of us could remember Power Rangers.

Chris [02:00:30]:
Yeah. I I he was there, and he

Sam [02:00:31]:
remembers something with a cow, but not with the Power Rangers.

Chris [02:00:34]:
There’s no Power Rangers in that.

Sam [02:00:36]:
Pike River, you broke the set, aye?

Chris [02:00:38]:
Yeah. Pike River, I, accidentally smashed the wardrobe, and it collapsed.

Sam [02:00:43]:
And and then you’ve got a honorable mention

Chris [02:00:46]:
Oh, yes.

Sam [02:00:47]:
Which never actually

Chris [02:00:48]:
So, I was also slated to be in Cowboy Bebop, as a glitched prostitute, which means

Sam [02:00:58]:
I But you went for a fitting. You went for the wardrobe fitting?

Chris [02:01:00]:
I went for a wardrobe fitting. And I I said, I’ve got a beard. At that time, I had a beard. And they went, yeah. That’s perfect. And I’m like, what? And so I turn up, and I end up, it was so funny. In the changing rooms, they they had 2 changing rooms. They had one changing room for transvestites, effectively, is what that was for.

Chris [02:01:21]:
And they had one changing room for a Skye’s. And the Skye was getting changed as I was. We were all doing wardrobe fittings. He was a model. He was the most amazing looking guy you’ve ever seen. And I’m in a beer. He’s he’s wearing they put a cowboy hat on him, and they’re like, we we don’t wanna cover up your torso. Like, this guy was ripped.

Chris [02:01:46]:
And I’m like, what’s going on here? I’m in a bed. They put me in fishnet stockings, and, some lingerie type things, which was bad enough. And I’m like, okay. Alright. Okay. Yeah. That looks good. Alright.

Chris [02:02:02]:
Sweet. I think I had some sort of toppy thing on as well. And then they go, oh, are you okay to go and get photographed? Because we need photos for the thing. I’m like, yeah. Sure. Do you need a robe? Nah. I’m alright. I’ll just walk down it.

Chris [02:02:19]:
Oh, no. It’s down the street. Three buildings further down the road. Give me the freaking I I’m walking down the street, with a robe and fishnet stockings and high heels. I’ve never walked in you may be surprised. I’ve never walked in high heels before. Speed bumps and high heels don’t match well. But yeah.

Chris [02:02:41]:
So I went through that, got the photo, did everything else. Fortunately, they didn’t do the makeup that time. And, the day I had to go and film was the day the lead actor broke his leg, like, literally half an hour before I got there. And so they delayed it for 6 months, and then they went, oh, we don’t need the glitch prostitute. So that’s the honorable mention. I never got in with that one. Anyway, cool. I remember watching,

Sam [02:03:10]:
Roman Empire, the rated by Sean Bean. Yep. And it’s the 10th with Marcus Aurelius as he walks into the tent in the German forest. And, like, hey. Don’t wait. Back, back, back. That’s Chris. Just standing there?

Chris [02:03:27]:
Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Alright. That’s, my and I almost forgot. Ash versus the evil dead, which because that was the closest I ever got to Lucy Lourdes.

Sam [02:03:37]:
Well, I mean, Chris Chris Ives would have been active.

Chris [02:03:39]:
Oh, totally. She tried to avoid me badly. But yeah. Because I, I got asked when I was doing karate, I was running a dojo, and I was in a mod, a TV modeling agency, Real Kiwis in Wellington at the time. I got a phone call asking if I wanted to be in Hercules, this new thing that was coming up soon, and with Kevin Sorbo. And I was like, I just had a really bad day. I was selling insurance at the time. I had a really bad day.

Chris [02:04:08]:
I’m like, I don’t know. And he goes, yeah. No. It’s actually gonna be a big production, but the only thing is you have to have an American accent when you’re acting. I went, nah. And if I’d said yes, the world would have changed. And maybe I would have met Lucy Lawless way earlier. Anyway, that’s my thing.

Chris [02:04:29]:
And then we just

Sam [02:04:30]:
thought we’d throw I threw this in yesterday because,

Chris [02:04:32]:
we just found I have found out, like, yesterday. I don’t know when that happened. James Earl Jones died, who forever for me will be remembered as Thol Sadoom from Conan the Barbarian. Has anyone not seen Conan the Barbarian? Like well, obviously, younger people probably don’t need to see it that young. But that is a classic movie. And the opening of that movie, the soundtrack to the opening and the battle scene, I I recorded off my v VHS back in the, late eighties. And, that was what I listened to every fight before I went into tournaments, to get me hyped up.

Sam [02:05:18]:
Okay. Not that anyone cares.

Chris [02:05:20]:
So that’s our show for today, and, thank everybody for listening to the podcast, tuning in. Really appreciate it when people jump on Facebook and say a few things to us so we know we’re not just talking into the void or in my cast case, just laughing into the void. Yeah. That could be it. Hope you enjoy the show.