Summary
Life update from Chris who is back into lurking around a park at 4:30am every morning.
Sam wonders what Be TV is exactly. We get an update on the Wildberries story from last week, Elon is releasing new things we already have.
A criminal lawyer reacts and rangers have to stop blowing up horses due to the fire risk.
All this and much more.
Links
Wildberries update about what has actually been happening.
Crappy art thrown away as it looked like rubbish
Elon Musk and his new Taxi with Robots
Criminal Lawyer reacts
Blowing up a horse can’t happen due to the fire risk
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 503 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:24]:
Hi. I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:25]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life, where we escape the doldrums of a day to day Existence. Existence. Yeah. It’s not that bad, but here we are record
Chris [00:00:38]:
I’ll tell you about tired. I’ll tell you about my day to day,
Sam [00:00:42]:
yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:00:43]:
Existence. So I’ve started getting back into I’ve I’m the Noom app is up and running again, you know, the food calorie tracking.
Sam [00:00:53]:
Oh, yeah. Did you have to pay them again?
Chris [00:00:54]:
No. I’m not paying them. I’m using the free version. So the free version tracks everything.
Sam [00:00:58]:
I didn’t think there was a free version. I thought it was a free trial. Okay. Carry on.
Chris [00:01:02]:
Well, maybe because I’ve paid it, I’ve it and I’ve stopped paying I’ve got the free version. So I’ve got Okay. Not paying for it. No.
Sam [00:01:09]:
No. Good. But it
Chris [00:01:10]:
doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, but it’s got enough to me.
Sam [00:01:13]:
Don’t you get then?
Chris [00:01:14]:
You don’t get the daily lessons and the daily thing, and you don’t get the help desk thing, which was a thing that I never used.
Sam [00:01:21]:
No. You I
Chris [00:01:22]:
think I used it once
Sam [00:01:23]:
You’re beyond health. Question. You’re beyond health. I asked
Chris [00:01:25]:
I asked a question about cooked and uncooked rice. Anyway
Sam [00:01:29]:
You know that’s Chat GPT now anyway. So just tell chat ask Chat GPT.
Chris [00:01:32]:
Yeah. In a while, it was more like, how does the app deal with it? Anyway anyway, so I’m I’m back into that. I’m I’m I’m I’m going to lose some weight
Sam [00:01:42]:
Okay.
Chris [00:01:42]:
Because, you know, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and I’m a fat bastard.
Sam [00:01:47]:
Did you get results back from this MRI thing?
Chris [00:01:50]:
No. I haven’t yet. Okay. I haven’t seen anything. I That’s probably a good thing. I I should actually I’ll let you have a read of my report from the neurological, doctor. It’s quite hilarious.
Sam [00:02:00]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:01]:
Well written.
Sam [00:02:01]:
And I was gonna ask about yeah.
Chris [00:02:03]:
Then I’ve been doing getting up 4:30 every morning, going across the park
Sam [00:02:07]:
to the
Chris [00:02:08]:
TRX, and doing my, exercises. So, yeah, I did have a nap before you came over.
Sam [00:02:12]:
So I a TRX is a suspension training system, which you can just attach to anything. It’s really good.
Chris [00:02:18]:
Yeah. So there’s some bars over there, like
Sam [00:02:21]:
Yeah. Yeah. No. No. That’s cool. That’s cool. I’m just trying to paint a picture of what is happening in the park at 4:30 in the morning. Does it look weird? Do you do you think you look weird if somebody randomly just saw you out a window?
Chris [00:02:33]:
I I don’t know. The security guard sees me every morning because he opens the gate at 5:30.
Sam [00:02:38]:
Oh, okay. Cool.
Chris [00:02:39]:
You know?
Sam [00:02:39]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:40]:
You know, which is just a little car gate. Yeah. Not, you know
Sam [00:02:43]:
Not not to stop you.
Chris [00:02:44]:
Not to stop me.
Sam [00:02:45]:
You’d scale it like a gazelle.
Chris [00:02:48]:
Yeah. Yeah. I can step over it. It’s, like, knee high. But, yeah, no. There are people running and and doing that. I’ve I’ve been there last time I was doing exercise all the time Yeah. There’s a couple of boxers that oh, I’d boxer that used
Sam [00:03:01]:
to come. Oh, okay. Okay. That’s cool.
Chris [00:03:03]:
So I I get there, do a bit of skipping, then I’ve got the Terex set up, and I have my timer, and I do these exercises. And I’m focusing it doing a little bit of extra on my hip. Yes.
Sam [00:03:14]:
Because you’re an old man that hobbles around now.
Chris [00:03:16]:
Yes. And so and this is partly what got me, motivated to do this. Mhmm. And, so funny. I I’m doing one legged squats or yeah. So it’s like a lunge Yeah. With one leg and the t rex behind me and then a lunge. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:32]:
Yeah. Yeah. And that’s as I’m going out
Sam [00:03:33]:
of shape. Terrible. Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack. Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack.
Chris [00:03:38]:
So come up and down.
Sam [00:03:39]:
Not good.
Chris [00:03:40]:
I’m I think it is good. I think it’s releasing.
Sam [00:03:42]:
As long as you’re feeling okay.
Chris [00:03:44]:
Yeah. I feel feel okay afterwards. And then I go back. The problem is when I sit down for 2 hours on a in a stretch at the desk and then get up and go, now I feel, Yeah.
Sam [00:03:56]:
Some days But
Chris [00:03:56]:
that’s just
Sam [00:03:57]:
Yeah. That’s just sitting around. Sometimes I’m like that at work, and other days, I’m okay sitting for a little extended period of time, but I do have to get up and move around.
Chris [00:04:05]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:05]:
Because we’re doing a step challenge at work. Do I tell you that? No. Oh, so all this month, we’ve got our team versus another team. Oh, he’s just whipped out. That 10,000 steps, pedometer. Does it open?
Chris [00:04:20]:
Yep. You just click down from the top.
Sam [00:04:22]:
Oh, okay. So that when you’re wearing it, you can Yes.
Chris [00:04:24]:
You can,
Sam [00:04:25]:
Oh, yep. Yep. Exactly. Very good.
Chris [00:04:28]:
So because my, my smartphone died, and I’m like, god. Smartwatch? Smartwatch. Yeah. Smartwatch died. And I, I was like, god. I I need a pedometer. So I went through my drawers.
Sam [00:04:40]:
And you’re
Chris [00:04:40]:
like must be 20 years old.
Sam [00:04:42]:
It looks 20 years old.
Chris [00:04:43]:
And then, of course, I had to find a I’ve got plenty of batteries. I have batteries of all sorts. AliExpress gave me batteries of everything. Yeah.
Sam [00:04:50]:
Yeah. You get one of those multi things.
Chris [00:04:52]:
So yeah. Exactly. So I, yeah, put a battery.
Sam [00:04:55]:
No. So, our team is competing against another team. So I think there’s maybe 10 or 12 people in every team, and we’re tallying all our steps every day for the month. We get bonus points if we do some random extra things, and, yeah, not today because I’m too tired, but I think so yesterday? Day before, I did, like, 19,000 steps.
Chris [00:05:20]:
Oh, damn.
Sam [00:05:20]:
So I did, like, you I’ve worked out the perfect loop from my house at 7.8 kilometers, but it takes me an hour and 20 to walk it. But I’m feeling good. Like, I’m not getting puffed or anything from that.
Chris [00:05:30]:
That’s really good.
Sam [00:05:31]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:05:32]:
Because I am hobbling a little bit when I Yeah. Do my laps now because I’m yeah. My hips crap.
Sam [00:05:39]:
I got a question for you because why not? Have you seen now the in Garden Place, there’s a place called BTV, B ETV. No. So in Garden Place now, on the corner, you have Metro Mart. That’s right. And that used to be the office for Hamilton Central, whatever.
Chris [00:06:01]:
Yeah. I think Out of Waikato or something.
Sam [00:06:03]:
I think it was more to do with the yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Or, promoting garden plate or something.
Chris [00:06:08]:
Something like that. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:09]:
And then a couple doors down, there’s, some food shops Yep. And then one of the places just has BTV, and it has an icon that looks like I’ll find it for you because, I just better make sure I describe this correctly. And 9 times out of 10, this place is always empty, and it’s just it’s not a food place. It’s sort of like you’re what you don’t really know what’s going on. And I’ve roughly not roughly. I’ve sort of spoken to the guy in there, but not too much.
Chris [00:06:42]:
How do you mean you’ve sort of spoken? You walked past and sort of mumbled under your breath as you went past like Yeah.
Sam [00:06:47]:
Pretty much. So that’s it there.
Chris [00:06:49]:
Right? Okay.
Sam [00:06:51]:
Yep. And it’s it’s it looks like a oh, BTV is surrounded by an icon that looks like a movie camera.
Chris [00:06:58]:
Right. You think? Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:07:00]:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:07:00]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:07:00]:
Cool. So, one of my colleagues sometimes goes to Victoria Street Mart, I think it is, to get a can of Pepsi. But if we go together, we get bonus points for the step challenge. So that’s all good. So as we’re coming back, there’s, like, some tables in this place that are not dissimilar to this one we’re at right now, and there’s, like, 4 guys in there, and we’re sort of looking and I’ve looked in there in the past, and on the wall are these giant posters, and it says things like, if you if you get 10 people to join, then you get a $100 gym pass US. And it it’s like a list of if you add so many people, so many people, so many people.
Chris [00:07:47]:
So multilingual marketing
Sam [00:07:49]:
Yeah. And same thing. Yep. And there’s all these random things. Like, it’s really bizarre to look at. And, anyway, we sort of stopped
Chris [00:07:56]:
I need to see this now.
Sam [00:07:57]:
You need to. And so we stopped and, we sort of, looked. And the guy 1 the main guy was leaving. And he goes, oh, hey, guys. I’ll be back in 5 minutes, but if you wanna come talk to me, I will talk to you about how we’re helping people make money online via something currency, blah blah, couple other random words that sounded scammy ass, and then he wandered off. I’m like, okay. Cool. Didn’t talk to him ever again.
Sam [00:08:30]:
I lied. I did. And then the couple days later, I was actually next door doing something for work, and when I came out, I took a selfie of me to send to someone on Snapchat, but the dude was in there at the table by himself with multiple phones and things charging, and it’s because it’s just a room, And, he thought I took his photo, and he goes, oh, thanks for taking my photo. And I was like, oh, no. Sorry. I just took a photo of myself to send to someone. He was, sweet ass. No worries.
Sam [00:09:03]:
And he asked what I was doing and what my job was. So I explained that to him while I stood in there, but I didn’t have much time, and I didn’t want to go down this weird rabbit hole. But it’s very bizarre because they must be paying rent
Chris [00:09:19]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:19]:
For a location. And it’s just some posters on the wall talking about getting more people involved in some sort of pyramid scheme or something.
Chris [00:09:30]:
So this is just bringing so much back, because I’ve been in these things before and, deep deep in the hole. I remember doing door to door, dot c c. If you can do we we’ll give you a website, and it’ll be dotcc. Instead of dotco.nz, it’s dot cc.
Sam [00:09:51]:
Is this you selling the dotcc?
Chris [00:09:53]:
Yeah. Door to door to businesses. Going into businesses.
Sam [00:09:57]:
We’ll sell your website. C c?
Chris [00:09:59]:
It’s one of those country top domains.
Sam [00:10:01]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:10:02]:
Of course, nobody knew what that was at the time, including us. Something. Yeah. Probably.
Sam [00:10:06]:
I don’t know. It’s just like Okay. So I’m sure that went down well.
Chris [00:10:10]:
And people were like, yeah. Oh, it was it was a huge scam thing, but we thought we were doing amazing stuff. I don’t know. And yeah. I I I got I got recruited to sell stuff, all sorts of random stuff for people as you can imagine.
Sam [00:10:28]:
I find it hard to believe. Anyway, go check this out when you’re next there. Even if they’re not open, just stare in the window. Oh, I will. They have been there quite a while. I’ve seen them the last couple of months.
Chris [00:10:38]:
Yeah. I haven’t I don’t recall looking seeing that at all, but I haven’t really paid much attention. I haven’t been down that way much. Speaking of Chechnya, actually, you’ve given me the, segue there. Yeah. I wanna give us have you heard the, an update to the wild berries story that I shared a couple of weeks ago? I think it was a couple of weeks.
Sam [00:10:55]:
Refresh my memory on the wild berries. So wild berries sorry. Yes. Sorry.
Chris [00:10:58]:
The yep. Russian Amazon effect.
Sam [00:11:00]:
Yeah. Yeah. And they were having a problem, and the 2 security forces started firing at each other. Yeah. Okay. What’s the update?
Chris [00:11:06]:
So the husband and wife, and they when I talked about it, I thought it was just about this husband and wife. So it’s it’s pretty much international news now. It’s it’s big stuff. Right?
Sam [00:11:16]:
Okay.
Chris [00:11:16]:
So what’s happening now is I’ve learned that, like I said, the the the husband owned 1% of the stock of Wildberries. Yeah. The wife started it, and she owned 99%, I assume. Right? Yeah. And they’re going through a merger now with Russ Group.
Sam [00:11:37]:
Okay.
Chris [00:11:37]:
And Russ Group is like a distributor. So these guys are, all online, totally online. Wildberry’s is online. And this other thing has some stores around and stuff. Oh, okay. Sounds more like a Foursquare type setup. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:11:52]:
That sort of size. And this merger is dodgy as hell. She’s giving up a third of the company to into a new company. So, and then, Russ Group will actually own that 3rd, but Russ Group’s not giving anything up.
Sam [00:12:09]:
Okay.
Chris [00:12:10]:
So it sounds like a a total, like, scam where somebody’s, you know, put her arm up behind the back and going, right. You’re selling me your company now. And so the husband was going in to stop this from happening and maybe get his wife back, but, basically, stop this from happening. And this is what all happened, all this bullets firing. 2 people died Oh,
Sam [00:12:32]:
I see. Good. Good. Good.
Chris [00:12:34]:
Which I didn’t, report before. Anyway, so what’s happened now, that was the dodgy merger, which I wasn’t aware of, what was going on. Yeah. And, Ramzan Kadyrov Kadyrov Kadyrov. Anyway Sunwatos. Does he do you know who that is? He’s the
Sam [00:12:55]:
Not off the top of my head.
Chris [00:12:56]:
He is the head of Chechnya. Okay. So for those that don’t know, Russia is is like more like the US where it’s loads of states. Yep. There are 85 states in Russia.
Sam [00:13:09]:
Oh, really?
Chris [00:13:09]:
Okay. 85 different, but they are very different from the states because, like, a lot of them have their own languages, their own customs, and they don’t understand each other. Whereas, at least in the states, they all speak English
Sam [00:13:21]:
Oh, yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:13:21]:
Pretty much.
Sam [00:13:22]:
You know what
Chris [00:13:22]:
I mean? So, and one of these states is Chechnya. Yeah. And Chechnya’s leader is Ramazov Kadyrov. Okay. Kadyrov. And Kadyrov actually he sounds like a real character. He goes on, you want the Kadyrovites to fight your wars, but the caterervites are mine. He calls the Chechen people caterervites because he’s caterervites.
Sam [00:13:48]:
Yeah. Well, if you’re in charge people. Don’t question that. If if you’re in charge, it’s what you’d call.
Chris [00:13:53]:
Anyway, the quote is this so this came out earlier this week. I officially declare a blood feud against Bikan Brekoviev, Suleiman Kerimov, and Rizvan Khabrinov, he said at this meeting. So he’s he’s basically put a bounty on their heads for them to be killed.
Sam [00:14:15]:
Okay.
Chris [00:14:15]:
The reason being that they apparently he’s found out that they’re trying to assassinate them. Blood feuds is a thing in Chechnya. It’s like a standard legal thing that you do.
Sam [00:14:28]:
This is so like John Wick like.
Chris [00:14:30]:
It really does. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:31]:
He killed my dog.
Chris [00:14:32]:
Yeah. Okay. And so the the the terms of blood feud is you must come to me and prove your innocence or we will have you killed.
Sam [00:14:44]:
Hang on. Oh, cool. Oh, cool. Yeah. How do you prove that and why would you go see him? I’m not a smart man, but that doesn’t seem good.
Chris [00:14:53]:
So Suleiman Keremov is a an oligarch. He’s a billionaire. And I think it by the sounds of it, it was him that was behind the scenes doing this Russ Group merger and acquisitions thing. But what the why this is really interesting or important is that these guys from Dagestan and he’s from Chechnya, which all part of Russia, quote, unquote. But now it looks like they might have a war between Dagestan and Chechnya. If that even comes close to happening, it’s like a civil war within Russia. They’re gonna pull the Chechens out of Ukraine because they gotta fight back for their homeland.
Sam [00:15:35]:
Oh my gosh.
Chris [00:15:36]:
And so it’s not looking good for Putin’s war in Ukraine, which is, probably a good thing. But yeah.
Sam [00:15:42]:
Talking about that, somebody said North Korea has stepped in. What’s happened there? I just got told that, but I don’t know.
Chris [00:15:48]:
Yeah. I haven’t haven’t gone into the detail of that. But, yeah, the, North Korean, mercenaries or or maybe regulars, I should say, are fighting in Ukraine. So the the Russians have got some North Koreans in there. I know they had a bunch of different I know they had some Chinese because I I listened to a podcast or a a interview with somebody who did, who was a Chinaman a Chinese regular
Sam [00:16:17]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:16:18]:
Or a mercenary rather that was, fighting with them, and, yeah, it sounded horrific.
Sam [00:16:23]:
They just Okay.
Chris [00:16:24]:
You don’t wanna be fighting for Russia, honestly.
Sam [00:16:26]:
No. That sounds terrible.
Chris [00:16:27]:
So yeah. Anyway, that’s, that’s an update on wild berries.
Sam [00:16:31]:
Do you wanna do you want a partial art story that might make me angry?
Chris [00:16:37]:
Go. Yes, please.
Sam [00:16:39]:
I’ll show you a photo. Wondering that is.
Chris [00:16:43]:
Somebody’s been drinking bud is it Budweiser?
Sam [00:16:45]:
No. It’s some weird beer brand. I I don’t know. The art exhibit is called all the good times we spent together, and the artist made it look like 2 beer cans on the ground by it looks like using 2 beer cans they’re left on the ground. Right? Well, yeah. Yeah. It it says he made it. It’s a loose term, isn’t it?
Chris [00:17:10]:
Yeah. He he tipped one over and crushed it a little. Yeah. And he’s got one standing up open. So
Sam [00:17:16]:
an unsuspecting mechanic working at the the LAM Museum in the Netherlands, where this was being hung, saw it, picked it up because he thought it was rubbish, and threw it away. The only reason I’m not losing the plot is because there’s no mention of how much this exhibit cost. That’s the only thing.
Chris [00:17:40]:
Yeah. Well, it costs about, I don’t know, $12 maybe to buy a couple of cats a pair.
Sam [00:17:47]:
I’m just seeing if there’s a no.
Chris [00:17:49]:
No. The value of this is $12 because that’s what it costs. You know, we’ve given the whole 6 pack price.
Sam [00:17:56]:
Nobody there’s no mention of how much this cost, so that’s okay. But if it started going up, if it’s insured for something, they they did they did find them later in the rubbish bin bag. Oh. So, like, you know, not all is lost. The artist can sleep at night.
Chris [00:18:15]:
I’m I honestly, if I work there and I knew that was an art piece, I’d be so tempted to grab a couple of other beer can, you know, from home and swap them out to see if anyone fucking noticed. You know what I mean?
Sam [00:18:29]:
Oh, alright. Yeah. Exactly. No. No. A normal person would know. He might. Did you see Elon Musk and his taxi unveiling thing? Okay.
Chris [00:18:40]:
I don’t know anything about this. This is absolute news to me.
Sam [00:18:43]:
Okay. So he’s I’m getting all my news from 1 YouTuber at the moment. I think he’s Australian. His name’s Sam Time. Good name. That’s his channel. Every video he brings out is only 3 or 4 minutes long, and he pretends he works for a tech company. And he’s just standing there.
Sam [00:19:02]:
That’s him there.
Chris [00:19:03]:
Alright.
Sam [00:19:04]:
And he cover he tells you what the news is, but he’s basically taking the piss. So he’s like, oh, hey. Sam here from, Apple whatever. We’ve decided just to charge you $200. That’s our price. $200. $200. But he covers everything, and it’s really timely, like, all up to date.
Sam [00:19:20]:
So Elon Musk had this event at nighttime where he unveiled the, Tesla taxi thing, and it’s a gold slightly modified gold, Tesla wire, I think it is. And they’re autonomous, and they will drive you wherever you want. They then go to their depot. They plug themselves in. They can open the doors by themselves, and then a robot arm comes in and cleans the car and vacuums it from the inside. So that was all good. And then, he had an autonomous vehicle turn up that’s got a stupid ass name, and this guy is like, it’s very similar to what should we call it? A bus? So, anyway, these yeah. He’s real he’s he’s he’s just taking the piss the whole time.
Sam [00:20:06]:
But he’s informative, so I
Chris [00:20:08]:
quite like it. And these people get off, and then Yeah. Because I’ve heard that the next thing in road in ride sharing is where the the ride share goes with multiple people and goes on a set route, and you can be dropped off along that route.
Sam [00:20:24]:
Yeah. I know. That just redefine the bus. But he had a whole bunch of the, humanoid robots there. Alright. His ones, whatever they’re called. And he was like, they asked him a question and he goes, it’s an 80% chance everything could be fine. It was Elon.
Sam [00:20:39]:
And he goes, try not to upset them or something. And they were pouring drinks and talking to people and walking around all like creepy ass. And, but I think from what I’ve seen a couple
Chris [00:20:52]:
of actually robots. They’re not people in suits.
Sam [00:20:55]:
They’re actual robots walking around, but from what I understand, just to make because they’re built for warehouse work, like, to do specific tasks. In this scenario, some people on YouTube that interacted with them said, I’m pretty certain somewhere there was humans in mocap suits that were controlling them. And when they spoke to the robots, I think they were just talking to a human that was coming back.
Chris [00:21:20]:
Oh, that would make sense.
Sam [00:21:22]:
One of the people I work with today, who is very surprisingly up with technology, I have not looked at this at all, apparently, Elon has mentioned the Tesla phone. I didn’t I’m I haven’t looked this up. I don’t know anything about it, but the guy I work with is adamant this is what’s coming. And he said
Chris [00:21:41]:
Didn’t we talk about the Tesla phone at some point?
Sam [00:21:43]:
I don’t know. But yeah. Probably. But this is actual Elon has announced it. It’s coming. It’s gonna have it’s gonna be able to connect to anything Tesla, anything and everything. Starlink, the car, everything. It’s gonna have the best AI, best everything.
Sam [00:21:58]:
Apparently, the specs are gonna be amazing, and he goes, it’s gonna be $250. So we will see.
Chris [00:22:06]:
Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, they they they didn’t think he’d get the electric car out for the price that he got out.
Sam [00:22:13]:
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he’s still back.
Chris [00:22:15]:
Alright. I’m gonna I I’m gonna this has been sitting here for a while, so I wanna talk about it. This is p Diddy, and and I’ve been listening to a a YouTuber who’s probably not as good as Sam Time, but he just cracks me up. And when I say cracks me up, I’m cracking up at them not with him type thing a little bit. It’s sealer Bruce Rivers. Bruce Rivers, criminal lawyer reacts. And he’s he’s Bruce not
Sam [00:22:42]:
a real lawyer, though, is he?
Chris [00:22:43]:
He is. He is. And they they have image of him, you know, with coming off his Learjet. He’s a criminal lawyer of the stars. And he and he, does his thing, and he’s at this he’s quite buttoned up, you know, suit and stuff.
Sam [00:22:58]:
I’m looking at him now.
Chris [00:22:59]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s him. And he’s got a on his desk, he’s got a big gun. It just has a gun sitting on his desk.
Sam [00:23:05]:
And and next to it, there’s a cat that says stop self snitching.
Chris [00:23:09]:
Yeah. Don’t. The biggest rule from Bruce Rivers is don’t self snitch. And
Sam [00:23:15]:
He seems like But the
Chris [00:23:16]:
his son, I think, is the guy that does the, the the filming. And he’s in the corner, and he talks to him all the time. And a camera goes on to him, and he looks hippie
Sam [00:23:27]:
ass. Oh my
Chris [00:23:27]:
god. Yeah. Yeah. That’s his son. Michael Rivers.
Sam [00:23:32]:
Okay. His son lives in a van down by the river.
Chris [00:23:38]:
It’s it’s such it’s so different, those 2.
Sam [00:23:42]:
Anyway And he’s filming on, like, a random ass looking camera too. And, yeah, he looks like he’s had a tough life, the sun. Look at him.
Chris [00:23:50]:
And he and he sounds a little bit not with it as well.
Sam [00:23:54]:
Oh, yeah. He like He doesn’t know where he is.
Chris [00:23:56]:
Yeah. He’s he’s he’s he’s had some edibles before every shoot. I swear. Anyway, so it’s quite a dichotomy between these things.
Sam [00:24:04]:
Hang on. Who hang on. Who who do you think came up with the idea of making the YouTube video? The dad because he wants more clients or whatever, or the son’s like, hey. I’ve reached an instant money.
Chris [00:24:16]:
Son, I reckon there is. But the dad likes the PR idea. But yeah. Anyway, so they’ve been doing a lot of in-depth on, P. Diddy. Just to warn you, if you are thinking listen watching this, which I do find amusing, the guy swears quite a bit, and it’s it’s, yeah. But it’s interesting. But I got a couple of interesting things out of it.
Chris [00:24:38]:
I’ve I’ve watched a few of his videos, but, one of the things was they had, so when oh, so they’ve got a, I’m pretty sure it’s like a class action suit. Somebody’s put a class action suit up against p Diddy.
Sam [00:24:53]:
Okay. Yep. Sounds good.
Chris [00:24:54]:
And so they put a plastered up a oh, wait. 100. Like If if if you’ve been,
Sam [00:25:01]:
at the party or as
Chris [00:25:03]:
they call them, the diddler, then, and so, in the first I think it’s a week. I didn’t write it down here now. They had 3,285 potential victims ring into the hotline to say, yeah.
Sam [00:25:18]:
Yeah. But how would you prove that you were there? Is that the Well, that’s
Chris [00:25:21]:
the thing. Is that the gist? So of those 3,000 this is why I wrote this down because I thought it was interesting. Of the 3,285 potential victims, they’ve accepted a 120.
Sam [00:25:32]:
Okay.
Chris [00:25:32]:
So there’ll be just everybody going, he’s a billionaire. I can get some money out of this. I’ll just talk some crap. So, anyway, they got a 120 at least a 120, and this is, like I said, a couple of weeks old, this thing now. But then I I I thought that was interesting. I thought, oh, I might share that on the podcast. It’s sort of funny. And then, but there was another story here.
Chris [00:25:55]:
P. Diddy has also been sued by the sin Sinaloa Cartel crime boss. What? For for damages to his drug business. I it says rug business in here.
Sam [00:26:06]:
I’ve
Chris [00:26:07]:
Yeah. I believe it. Yeah. The drug business. It literally this this, Sinaloa crime boss has said, oh, P Diddy was doing this stuff, and, yeah, I want $666,000 from P Diddy because, he, ruined my drug drug, business in in New York. Oh, America. Never fails to amuse.
Sam [00:26:33]:
Can I read the top comment on this YouTube video that you’ve linked to? And it sort of explains a little bit what’s going on with the son.
Chris [00:26:41]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:26:42]:
It says, I love how much you believe in, promote, and encourage your son. Not everyone has such a great father, and it’s always wonderful to see him here.
Chris [00:26:48]:
Oh, nice. So it’s
Sam [00:26:49]:
all good. And then if somebody says, his son is on the spectrum and couldn’t pass the bar, he’s doing a great job. So if that’s the case, this is a great way of involving him in the work that you’re doing and possibly the work that he’s interested in but can’t, and it’s combining probably his love for filmmaking or something or YouTube. And yeah. So Yeah.
Chris [00:27:09]:
I’ll And that I believe that he was on the spectrum. That sounds right.
Sam [00:27:12]:
Okay.
Chris [00:27:13]:
And his father isn’t, like, dismissive of him at all.
Sam [00:27:16]:
Okay.
Chris [00:27:16]:
Like, so it is pretty cool. But, yeah, it was just it was just an odd thing when I saw it.
Sam [00:27:22]:
Yeah. Yeah. It’s there’s a bit of a disconnect there, and as I’m watching it with no sound, I don’t know what’s happening, and I’ve just gotta use my eyeballs.
Chris [00:27:30]:
Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. You yeah. You might have to, watch one of them. I I think it’s interesting. The guy’s so over the top, though. Bruce Rivers is so over the top.
Chris [00:27:38]:
It’s just almost ridiculous. I got another story I’m gonna talk about. I I left the heading exactly as the heading is because it’s the heading of the year for me so far, I have to say. Okay. So the heading is Wyoming Rangers stop blowing up dead horses due to wildfire risk.
Sam [00:28:01]:
I mean, if the risk wasn’t there, how else are you gonna get rid of a horse?
Chris [00:28:05]:
So I gotta read literally some of this stuff. I think this is this is in the Guardian.
Sam [00:28:10]:
Okay.
Chris [00:28:11]:
Shoshone National Forest officials pause gruesome policy of exploding carcasses to minimize hazard during dry spell. That’s the subtitle. Ranches in Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest believe they have figured out how to mitigate an elevated risk of wildfires. They are no you longer using explosives to blow up dead horses.
Sam [00:28:34]:
Okay.
Chris [00:28:34]:
So they’ve been blowing up, in less extreme times, the US Forest Service in less extreme times, the US Forest Service routinely blows up carcasses of fallen horses after removing horseshoes to minimize hazards from flying metal debris, to prevent gatherings of ravenous grizzly bears that frequent the Wyoming’s, open
Sam [00:28:56]:
space. Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:28:59]:
Yeah. So
Sam [00:29:00]:
wouldn’t they still go pick up the pieces?
Chris [00:29:03]:
There’s diagrams from the manual on where to put the dynamite. Okay.
Sam [00:29:08]:
I saw the diagram, but had no context of what it was or why there was a diagram of where to put dynamite. Because one of the photos has a lot of dynamite strapped to that horse body.
Chris [00:29:19]:
Know what the what’s going on.
Sam [00:29:21]:
Like, it’s a bit excessive. And yeah.
Chris [00:29:24]:
You you’re atomizing that one. Maybe it’s Yeah.
Sam [00:29:28]:
Maybe that’s the plan.
Chris [00:29:29]:
Anyway, I just yeah. Yeah. So, basically, they use it on any big animals, some mooses or whatever. Yeah. And they, yeah, they they say once that’s blown up, the small remains don’t last long. They they little animals get rid of them
Sam [00:29:47]:
real quick.
Chris [00:29:48]:
But that’s just the most random thing. Yeah. Of course, we use dynamite. We’ve been using dynamite since 1994.
Sam [00:29:55]:
Nice. With that, that comes to brings us to the end of the podcast. If you didn’t learn something from this podcast, I’d be highly suspicious.
Chris [00:30:04]:
Yes. Yes.
Sam [00:30:05]:
Yes. You will. I didn’t say it was good knowledge. But if you learn something, well done. Tune in.
Chris [00:30:12]:
If you knew all of the stuff that we talked about, I’m actually worried about you, and you should seek help.
Sam [00:30:20]:
So until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:21]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:30:22]:
See you.
Chris [00:30:22]:
Bye.
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