Summary
In this weeks episode, Sam is sick and Chris is doing goo with getting healthier and has some exciting TedX news.
We learn The Onion made a purchase recently. Some idiots tried to get away with insurance fraud, dumb drug dealers are still out there doing dumb stuff.
What is up with a Swedish minister and their phobia? We have an update on a couple of Trump’s appointees. Costco recalled a lot of butter why?
We round things out with a Kickstart or Dropkick, all this and much more.
Links
The Onions purchases Infowars Site
Insurance fraud with grizzly bear
More dumb drug dealers
Swedish minister and their fear of bananas
Trumps New head of Military
Costco recalled butter
Kickstart or Dropkick – Catchpad
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 507 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam, and I think my voice broke. But, that’s because I’m sick and not a pubescent, teenager. Welcome along Yeah.
Chris [00:00:35]:
Yeah. Podcast. Yeah. It is a a lot of people have been crook recently. So I I was pretty sick for a week. Like, worst I’ve been in for quite a while.
Sam [00:00:44]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:00:44]:
And, Crispy from work had a week off. And then you and it’s yeah. It’s like,
Sam [00:00:52]:
The common denominator here, and I’m looking at it.
Chris [00:00:55]:
Yeah. I’ve never actually physically met Crispy, so I don’t think I’ve made him sick.
Sam [00:01:00]:
No. It’s definitely you. No. I’m hoping to get better soon. I’ve just got a real sore throat at the moment. We’ll see how that goes.
Chris [00:01:07]:
You might have got that off me then. Because that
Sam [00:01:09]:
Aw.
Chris [00:01:10]:
What happened.
Sam [00:01:10]:
I don’t know. I don’t know. Yeah. Shout out to Gaylene. She listens to the podcast. She’s my new coworker.
Chris [00:01:18]:
Oh, nice. Nice.
Sam [00:01:19]:
She listens to us while she’s going for a walk. I think she’s trying to outrun us. This motivation, I think. I’m not sure. But, anyway away from them. I can’t get away from them. I’m sure it’s a real treat when you hear your name in a podcast. Anyway, what have you been up to this week?
Chris [00:01:39]:
Well, I’m gonna start with a a a couple of celebrations, actually. So one celebration, I’m down, I think, 7 KGs since I since I went to the doctor. So I’ve I’ve managed to lose 7 KGs. So I’m pretty pretty pretty stoked with that. The other celebration, is that 4 of the 6 TED TEDx speakers from TEDx University Waikato have their videos up.
Sam [00:02:12]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:02:13]:
The other 2 have only been held back because they want ted.com wants to profile them. What? Never had anyone that I’ve What? I
Sam [00:02:23]:
wrote that to people. Alright. It was not where I thought that was gonna go, that story. Holy crap. That’s cool.
Chris [00:02:28]:
Yeah. Yeah. No. It’s really good. Yeah. Because I I was like, oh, no. Yeah. Well, no.
Chris [00:02:33]:
I I I knew they were good. So it was Ian, who we’ve both seen before, because Ian spoke at Te Rexu Rokura a few years back. Yep. Marie, who talks about seaweed, she’s very passionate about seaweed. Very, very, very passionate about it. So, yeah. So they’re gonna be featured. I I haven’t heard any more details about that.
Chris [00:02:56]:
And, oh, yeah. And the other thing, of course, to celebration is I finally got paid, so that is cool too.
Sam [00:03:03]:
That’s right. We’re we’re pretty close. They’re gonna have to go around there and sort them out.
Chris [00:03:09]:
Yeah. Yeah. I I was considering it. So, yeah. So that’s me. What’s new with you?
Sam [00:03:14]:
Nothing. Upside. I’m slowly dying here with the I I’m worried it’s gonna turn into man flu.
Chris [00:03:21]:
Mhmm.
Sam [00:03:22]:
But at the moment, it’s touch and go. I don’t know what I’m touching, and I feel like I should go. No. Pretty good. I was in Topol this week for work. It was so hot.
Chris [00:03:33]:
Oh, is it?
Sam [00:03:34]:
Yeah. I was down there all day. So it was good. Little trip. And sorting out Misty flicks. That as well. So
Chris [00:03:43]:
Yeah. I’m sure there’s stuff I’ve gotta get done before is it next weekend? Yep. Oh, shit. Yeah. I’m I’m definitely gonna do something before next weekend.
Sam [00:03:52]:
I think at one point somebody says, oh, maybe Chris could go pick that up. And I was like, no. No.
Chris [00:03:58]:
He
Sam [00:03:58]:
has no car. Yeah. And they’re like, oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No.
Chris [00:04:02]:
That’s cool. So what have we got? I’ve got a couple of things I wanted to
Sam [00:04:08]:
talk about. Good.
Chris [00:04:09]:
I I I’ll we’ll leave the Kickstarter dropkick towards the end. I think that’s that’s a good one
Sam [00:04:14]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:04:15]:
Sort of thing. Did you hear about The Onion’s latest purchase? You know? Yes. So, Infowars, which was Alex Jones’s far right conspiracy centered thing that he made a ridiculous amount of money from. Like, it blew my mind how much money he was making, from that thing back in the day. But he got he got sued by, the oh, Sandy Hook Sandy Hook parents.
Sam [00:04:47]:
Yeah. That’s right.
Chris [00:04:48]:
Because he was going on about, you know, they’re not real kids. They’re all actors. They’re not real parents. They’re all actors. It’s all a big, you know, all this conspiracy theory
Sam [00:04:58]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:04:59]:
Just so he can sell his
Sam [00:05:02]:
Weird supplements.
Chris [00:05:03]:
His weird supplements. Yeah. Anyway, so they won a a thing against them for, you know, half a $1,000,000,000 or some stupid thing, which is great. And so he’s now bankrupt, and the bankruptcy sale, they’re selling his thing, Infowars. So it’s the whole they’re selling the whole thing, I think. I think they were auctioning off, like, the studio, all the gear in it, the website, the as a going concern. Yeah. And he was hoping that some far right billionaire, because there’s them, would buy it and then hire him to be the front man and just he’d just keep going.
Chris [00:05:43]:
But, nope, The Onion. The Onion’s purchased in Infowars. So
Sam [00:05:51]:
I read somewhere that the Infowars thing had more than just Alex Jones. I didn’t know that. But so there was him as his show or whatever. There was some other stuff, and they said, but soon as he goes, the whole thing would just die. So they were sort of like, that’s cool that the onion brought it, but there’s no there’s very little audience now even if they did do something with it.
Chris [00:06:19]:
Yeah. Yeah. So I I read somewhere I hid it somewhere else, but, basically, it said, that they’re just gonna try and make it really funny and stuff.
Sam [00:06:27]:
Yeah. Good.
Chris [00:06:28]:
I I think it was partly just to I I think it’s just advertising money for them, honestly.
Sam [00:06:34]:
Well, I think it’s I think it’s one of those things where they’re like, holy crap. We could buy this.
Chris [00:06:37]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:38]:
I guess I guess it was cheap ish.
Chris [00:06:40]:
It must have been. It doesn’t sort of say anywhere that I’ve seen. Oh, and and he the amount he had to pay, I I said half a 1000000000. It was 1,400,000,000.
Sam [00:06:50]:
Okay. Oh, good. So get that don’t wanna get that wrong.
Chris [00:06:54]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that’d be why he’s bankrupt.
Sam [00:06:59]:
Good.
Chris [00:07:00]:
Yeah. Good. Couldn’t happen to a a better person. But yeah. No. I thought it was funny the onion’s got it. I just don’t know, The Onion Boys conspiracy theory site, Infowars, with plans to make it very funny, very stupid. So cool.
Sam [00:07:17]:
Talking about stupid people. 4 people have been charged with insurance fraud after claiming their cars were vandalized by a grizzly bear. Right? Right. So yeah. So I was like, oh, yep. Cool. So they’ve got video footage of this beer going inside a car and, attacking it a little bit, and and the damage is pretty average, to be honest. I thought it would be more.
Sam [00:07:47]:
But, anyway, they worked out that it was someone in a bear suit. They found the bear suit, and they found, I think they’re for gardening, and they’ve got spikes on them.
Chris [00:07:57]:
Oh, yeah. Like, glovey glove things or yeah. For yeah. I I I know what you mean. Like a a a mini rake.
Sam [00:08:04]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It’s all like so they’ve got this grainy footage. It doesn’t look quite right. Now you’re going through all of this process to get insurance for whatever reason. Would you think it’s a very expensive car or a really cheap car, like, in general?
Chris [00:08:24]:
You you would want to go you would you bother doing it if it was a cheap car is the question. And most people go, well, you’d want it to be a an expensive car to be worthwhile. But then the people that are dumb enough to get a bare suit in there are probably dumb enough to be doing this with a bloody cheap car. Anyway
Sam [00:08:46]:
Yeah. That’s the question that you have to, think about. But, though, they did it to a 2010 Rolls Royce Ghost. Oh. 2015 Mercedes G 63 AMG and a 2022 Mercedes E 350. Yeah. So decent, cars.
Chris [00:09:04]:
Hang on. So the beer, quote unquote, beer attacked all 3 cars?
Sam [00:09:10]:
It seems so, but they’ve only got the video footage of 1 car, I think, is how that worked. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:18]:
Okay. That’s so many questions. So
Sam [00:09:23]:
I know. I know. Exactly. And if you look at the and if you look at the little video in our link, which we have in our show notes, there’s just like this person in a bear suit rummaging around in a car. Yeah. So they hatched a plan over some drinks, I’m assuming. And then they all went, yeah. I’m in.
Chris [00:09:43]:
God.
Sam [00:09:43]:
And somebody made a beer, so I guess. I don’t know.
Chris [00:09:47]:
I I I got another dumb one. While we’re on dumb ones Yeah. Because it it just falls in we’ve talked a few times about bungling drug dealers.
Sam [00:09:57]:
I know. Again, Gayle, Gayleene at work brought this up. She quite liked them, I think.
Chris [00:10:02]:
Yeah. Okay. So, this other one I mean, I I didn’t go further than the the headline, really. And and the photos of them so you have to look at the link because the photos of them, they look gormless as hell anyway. And these guys are in the, UK. There’s Shropshire News or something, I think. Yeah. Shropshire Star.
Chris [00:10:24]:
2 bungling drug dealers jailed for 12 years after leaving a bag of drugs on the train and then reporting it missing.
Sam [00:10:34]:
Oh, no. You dumbasses. This is this seems like the start of a Guy Ritchie film.
Chris [00:10:42]:
I I don’t know. How old do you think these boys are? Oh, I don’t know. 3028.
Sam [00:10:51]:
Wow. They’re idiots.
Chris [00:10:52]:
They are. They just,
Sam [00:10:55]:
So so it was a hefty amount of ketamine.
Chris [00:10:58]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hefty amount of ketamine. So, yeah, the the the pair get running back to the train to claim it. The train already left the station. The bag was found by staff who who found it was full of drugs and reported it to police. And then the that sparked a police hunt for the owner whose apprehension was aided by the fact that one of them actually reported the bag missing to staff at the Newport station. And, of course, they go, oh, yeah.
Chris [00:11:27]:
You’ve lost the bag. What’s your name and address? If we find it, we’ll let you know. Yeah. So it had a small quantity of class a drugs, class c drugs, and nearly 2 grand pounds, £2,000 in cash and drug paraphernalia. And the number of mobile phones.
Sam [00:11:47]:
Yeah. No. But right down, one of them was an Encro device.
Chris [00:11:52]:
What’s that mean?
Sam [00:11:53]:
Exactly. So it’s like a super, super secure, expensive, 1,000 of pounds mobile phone. I’m just looking at the I’m looking at the website. It’s got, like, you can self destruct the phone. It’s got special, encrypted everything, secure boot tamper proofing, everything. Everything got that in these stupid things. They get caught. Yeah.
Sam [00:12:17]:
What the fuck? Oh my god.
Chris [00:12:20]:
So these guys were on and and so the the the small amount of drugs was still, like, almost 40 £1,000 worth
Sam [00:12:28]:
On the street.
Chris [00:12:28]:
Up between £2,040,000 worth on the street. So they’re in the train with 40 grands worth of of drugs. They get off the train forgetting their bag. Like, how dumb are you at that point, let alone everything else?
Sam [00:12:46]:
I don’t know. Like, they’re not the people you should be trusting with your drug running No. They’re operation.
Chris [00:12:52]:
So funny. I’m I now understand why people don’t, hire people that, are drug addicts. It’s not because the morals. It’s because they’re too they can’t do anything right. Yeah.
Sam [00:13:06]:
No. That’s right. Have you heard about the Swedish, minister and their fear of bananas?
Chris [00:13:14]:
No. I’m try I was trying to think of any Swedish minister stories, but I can’t think of any.
Sam [00:13:21]:
I’d be I’d be worried if you knew a Swedish minister story.
Chris [00:13:27]:
Oh.
Sam [00:13:28]:
I I don’t know what the
Chris [00:13:29]:
We we we’ve had some random nobilities in Nordic countries and stuff. But, anyway, carry on.
Sam [00:13:34]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don’t know what she’s the minister of. It doesn’t tell me. Anyway, everywhere they go, they’ve sent out press releases or stuff to locations going, hey. Can you make sure that no bananas are present? She’s severely allergic to them. And they keep following it up, but, like, make sure there’s no bananas there because of the allergy. Alright.
Sam [00:13:57]:
It basically in 2020, she wrote, I’ve got a severe phobia of bananas. Like, it freaks me out. They’ve scrubbed the Internet as much as they can of that, but that’s what the actual thing is.
Chris [00:14:12]:
Because she’s not actually physically allergic. She’s psychologically Yeah. Phobic.
Sam [00:14:17]:
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, those people do you remember that clip? 1 of the talk shows back in the day, and there was those people scared of pickles?
Chris [00:14:25]:
No. And it
Sam [00:14:26]:
you should look it up. They bring out they they bring out a jar of pickles, and these people are, like, screaming and trying to get off the stage.
Chris [00:14:33]:
Oh oh, god. Yeah. I hope she’s not minister of agriculture because that would be bad.
Sam [00:14:40]:
I know.
Chris [00:14:42]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:14:43]:
It said here so they’ve sort of been they’ve been hitting up the people asking about it, ahead of her turning up somewhere. And someone goes, it’s sort of an allergy, you would say. And then they added, it’s something that I get professional help with.
Chris [00:14:58]:
Okay. Alright. Nah. I’m not here.
Sam [00:15:01]:
It’s a tough one, a, because you just never know.
Chris [00:15:04]:
Yeah. Because because that sort of thing could be absolutely debilitating. Now it’s easy to laugh at it, but at the same time, yeah, it’s not really funny, like, if the if they’re really suffering.
Sam [00:15:18]:
I’d hate to,
Chris [00:15:20]:
talk about, but it’s not funny to be there. Yeah.
Sam [00:15:22]:
I’d hate to come across something mundane like that that you never knew about in your forties or fifties, and you’re, like, just freak out. People like, why? And you I don’t know. Yeah. It’s sort of actually
Chris [00:15:34]:
like celery.
Sam [00:15:35]:
No. I don’t like it. It’s shit. I don’t have a phobia of it. I don’t like the taste or smell of it. That’s different. I do have would
Chris [00:15:44]:
like it when I was eating it when we were flatting together. He would be upset if I ate celery at my dinner.
Sam [00:15:51]:
That’s right. I I do I do have a phobia of parking tickets. I got one the other day. I I forgot to pay, so my $6 turned into 70.
Chris [00:16:01]:
Oh, jeez. That’s fun. That sucks. I I have to talk a little bit about this only because Pete Hegseth is just the gift that keeps giving at the moment. So a lot of people be were sort of quite bowled over by Pete Hegseth this week because Trump nominated him as the, defense secretary. So he runs the Department of Defense.
Sam [00:16:30]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:16:30]:
He is a a what do you call it? Fox News host. He’s not even the main host. He’s weekend mornings host. Like Oh, yeah. That’s not even the prime time. That’s like, you know
Sam [00:16:46]:
Is he is he ex military?
Chris [00:16:48]:
Yeah. He is. Yeah. He didn’t do very go very far in it. I don’t know how far that is. Like, maybe a a lieutenant or something like that. But, he, but the the Department of Defense is huge. Basically, you’re the boss of the department.
Chris [00:17:06]:
You’ve gotta run a department, and it’s like a couple of million people.
Sam [00:17:11]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:17:12]:
Like, it’s it’s it’s like bureaucratic bureaucratically huge. So they’re they’re not always people that have been in the military. They’ve had civilians before, but they’ve been the civilians have usually had a lot of experience with the military. Like, they’ve been senate
Sam [00:17:26]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:17:26]:
Those things, or or they have, experience running big organizations. And then the ones that are in the military are usually generals, 4 star generals, 3 star generals, that sort of stuff. So this guy is nowhere near that level.
Sam [00:17:42]:
Oh.
Chris [00:17:42]:
But what what’s been funny is the stories that have been coming up. So there’s been these news clips, because he’s been on TV for god knows how long, like, something. So he’s in these news clips. And one of them, he’s basically talking to 2 other people. This is 5 years 5 years ago. He’s talking to other people. He goes, I just realized the other day, I haven’t washed my hands in, like, 10 years.
Sam [00:18:08]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:18:08]:
And the the woman sitting next to him is, like, starting to shift away going, what? He goes, I think it’s I think I’m I’m inoculating myself. Besides which, germs, I can’t see them, so I don’t believe they exist.
Sam [00:18:25]:
Solid. I see I did see he’s backpedaled on it, though.
Chris [00:18:30]:
Well
Sam [00:18:31]:
He said it was a joke, and he said it on Twitter as well, I think, because it was sort of must have been a meme or something back then.
Chris [00:18:37]:
I don’t know. Yeah. If you watch the clip, it doesn’t look like he’s joking at the time. Right? And then, the other thing that all the late night show hosts have used, the same little clip. He’s in, I don’t know how long ago this was, but he’s at at a in I think it’s, Times Square in New York or something like that. Yeah. It’s some event. I forget what the event was.
Chris [00:19:04]:
Might have been New Year’s or might have been anything, really. But, he he’s having competition. It’s a little bit like a fair sort of style thing going
Sam [00:19:14]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:19:14]:
Going on. And him and his friend oh, him and the other TV, thing, they’re gonna throw axes at this target. It’s a little fence around. You
Sam [00:19:24]:
know? Okay.
Chris [00:19:25]:
But it’s just the the fences you put up, to stop people walking in the road Yeah. To pray. They’re like nothing. And there’s this target, and he gets this big axe, and he, over his head, double handed, let’s go over. Totally misses the target. Yeah. There’s not a backboard. I don’t know whose idea this was.
Sam [00:19:46]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:19:46]:
And this axe goes flying off into the distance, like, out of shot. And then it cuts to another camera because, obviously, these people and there’s these 3 drummers from West Point. Drum.
Sam [00:19:59]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:19:59]:
And the axe hits one of them in the arm.
Sam [00:20:02]:
1.
Chris [00:20:03]:
Yeah. Really bad too. I I don’t know. I don’t think it cut him, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it broke his arm. But yeah. So yeah.
Sam [00:20:12]:
Okay.
Chris [00:20:13]:
That’s the sort of person you want as your secretary of defense if you Talk
Sam [00:20:17]:
talking about appointees, is that legit that Musk is the minister of
Chris [00:20:24]:
He is an adviser.
Sam [00:20:25]:
Oh, adviser. Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:20:26]:
Getting a government thing because he’s got too many government contracts, and it would be a conflict of interest.
Sam [00:20:32]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:20:32]:
So they will give him an advisory role of and he made up the name of it.
Sam [00:20:38]:
For efficiency or something, innit?
Chris [00:20:40]:
Department of Government Efficiency or Doge because he’s the biggest in Dogecoin. Because you know how Musk loves his little in jokes for for gigs.
Sam [00:20:53]:
Isn’t it? Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:20:54]:
So yeah. So he he and Vivek Ramaswami are going to be doing that for 2 years. So
Sam [00:21:03]:
I’m sure that’s gonna work out fine.
Chris [00:21:06]:
Yeah. I I don’t think I don’t think it’s I think there’s a lot of trouble on the horizon with those 2. So, he’s basically camped out at Mar a Lago ever since Trump won. And, he’s been jumping on phone calls with Putin and with
Sam [00:21:23]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:21:24]:
Zelensky and all that stuff with Trump.
Sam [00:21:26]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:27]:
And he and he’s obviously because, you know, he’s he’s a bossy type of person. He’s another narcissist. Right? And so at an event, the other day, Trump was asked some stuff, and he goes he said something something, and he goes, oh, and and then there’s Elon. He’s he came to visit me a week ago, and I can’t get rid of him.
Sam [00:21:50]:
Oh, no.
Chris [00:21:50]:
Laughing, and they were laughing, but laughing like, knowing he means it. So so I can’t see this lasting much longer.
Sam [00:22:01]:
Trump’s gonna get annoyed with him.
Chris [00:22:02]:
Oh, yeah. But and both both are gonna get annoyed at each other.
Sam [00:22:06]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:22:06]:
Because Musk’s done that before. He’s lost this crap at people that were his friends.
Sam [00:22:12]:
Yeah. I think so.
Chris [00:22:13]:
Yeah. So, anyway, that’s hilarious.
Sam [00:22:15]:
Costco in America had to recall £80,000 of butter, they’ve had to recall.
Chris [00:22:21]:
£80,000.
Sam [00:22:23]:
That’s a lot. They forgot to put on the label that it contains dairy.
Chris [00:22:28]:
Oh, god’s sakes.
Sam [00:22:31]:
This is an FDA guideline that they must adhere to. So they said
Chris [00:22:37]:
That’s that’s the sort of thing that Musk’s just gonna organize to get rid of. Efficiency. Cut that. Don’t need to do that.
Sam [00:22:46]:
Yeah. Yeah. So
Chris [00:22:48]:
Actually, just saying that, a lot of people been, making the point that, they had to put 2 guys in charge of the department for efficiency. Would it be efficient to have 1? Anyway
Sam [00:23:00]:
No. Deep Deep Robotics has, shown a video of their creepy Quadro Pied with wheels?
Chris [00:23:09]:
I I saw it. I had it in the background. I saw it. I I didn’t have mute sound on or whatever. I saw it, earlier today, actually. And it looks fast, man.
Sam [00:23:19]:
I know. Just imagine it with a machine gun. So this so this this thing’s got 4 arms and legs. It can either stand upright on its wheels, lay flat, and drive along like normal. Yeah. Yeah. Real that’s real creepy.
Chris [00:23:33]:
Get a seat. It’s got wheels, but it can obviously lock them so it doesn’t roll and walk with those wheel on the wheel, or those wheels can spin. And when it’s they spin, they go really fast. But I was really impressed with how it handled some of that terrain
Sam [00:23:48]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:49]:
Rolling. It was pretty impressive. So if you haven’t seen that video, check it out. We might have a link in the show notes.
Sam [00:23:54]:
You’ll see it soon when our robot overlords are here Yes. In real life. 43 escape research monkeys are on the loose in California. Sorry. South Carolina.
Chris [00:24:04]:
I think they’ve caught some of them now, haven’t they? Probably. Yeah. They caught 20 of them. So it’s still 18. Yeah.
Sam [00:24:12]:
That’s not that’s not good numbers. Yeah. They need more. Anyway
Chris [00:24:17]:
I think they caught 25, and there’s 18 left or something like that. Yeah.
Sam [00:24:20]:
Okay. Isn’t that a plot? I’m sure that’s a plot line in some sort of TV show. Anyway, I’m glad we don’t have that here, or we don’t know about it if we do. But Yeah. It’d be randomness.
Chris [00:24:34]:
Monkey testing?
Sam [00:24:36]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:24:37]:
And and you know what the company is called that that lost them?
Sam [00:24:40]:
Oh, well, I don’t see this.
Chris [00:24:42]:
Alpha Genesis. Doesn’t sound dodgy at all. Alpha Genesis.
Sam [00:24:47]:
It’s not.
Chris [00:24:48]:
It’s not. Generically sci fi bad company name.
Sam [00:24:55]:
Talking about bad names, the UK’s oldest satellite, which is called Skynet, according to this clickbaity headline, it’s been moved, and nobody knows why or when. So this thing was launched in 1969.
Chris [00:25:12]:
Wow.
Sam [00:25:12]:
Yeah. And it basically it’s been junked a lot.
Chris [00:25:17]:
As old as I am, but still, it’s doing doing it.
Sam [00:25:19]:
It it’s getting it’s probably in better condition, to be honest. I think it’s been, like, dead for 50 years, roughly.
Chris [00:25:27]:
Oh, yeah. No. It’s
Sam [00:25:29]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it’s in a weird orbit, so it comes close to other satellites all the time, and it’s not in the junkyard. It’s not high enough out. Yeah. They’re not a 100% sure because they said it was so early that it was one of the ones that wasn’t really tracked as well as it should have. Yeah.
Sam [00:25:49]:
So it’s been interesting. It’s just floating around up there.
Chris [00:25:52]:
Goddamn. Oh, I’ll tell you about this, this kick starter dropkick.
Sam [00:25:58]:
Yeah. Let’s go.
Chris [00:25:59]:
Because it’s got me a little Riled up? No. Okay. I confused might be the word. So it’s alright. So this is this is a tagline and the and the thing for us. Catchpad, the ultimate start smart training platform. And then it’s got, these, like, bullets. Lighting and audio integration, AI powered app.
Chris [00:26:24]:
Agility speed and coordination. Real time performance tracking. Hundreds of workouts. So as I understand it from watching the video on that, you get a a bunch of these pads. And so think of those little round, Simon what do they call them?
Sam [00:26:46]:
Simon Says.
Chris [00:26:47]:
Yeah. It wasn’t Simon Says, was it? It was it was that what they’re called?
Sam [00:26:50]:
Oh, I don’t know.
Chris [00:26:51]:
Yeah. But you know the ones I mean.
Sam [00:26:52]:
You I think it’s just called Simon now. Simon.
Chris [00:26:55]:
Yeah. It might have been just called Simon. And you you it looks a little bit like that. It’s round. It’s got a colored colored lights. You can program the lights to do different colors. You can tap them, but I think there’s a motion sensor in front of it as well. And so you put them around the place.
Chris [00:27:15]:
Yeah. You can program onto the app to do different things with it. And it looks like they’re pretty robust because they had them on a boxing, bag, heavy bag
Sam [00:27:26]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:27:27]:
And, high and low. And they said if it if it’s orange, it’s a kick, and if it’s blue, it’s a punch. And so the guy’s there, and he’s punching or kicking one or the other one as they change in different colors, which is pretty cool. And but they did all sorts of things like, you know, running past these things that are stuck on poles or on the wall, and so it’s tracking you know, it’ll flash when you got the first one will flash when it’s time to go, and the others will track how quickly you get there or something.
Sam [00:27:56]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:27:57]:
And I don’t know. I I can see a market for it for if you were a, a fitness instructor. You know?
Sam [00:28:08]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:28:09]:
That’s the only people I could see buying this. But it would be pretty good for them because it’s something different, something people haven’t done before. If they’re doing that all day long, they could come up with some good programs and do some stuff with it.
Sam [00:28:23]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:28:24]:
So, yeah. So, anyway, what do you reckon what do you reckon they did? They they had a goal of 17,067 New Zealand dollars.
Sam [00:28:37]:
Oh, And
Chris [00:28:40]:
they took 26 days to go.
Sam [00:28:43]:
Oh, they’ve already cracked a1000000.
Chris [00:28:46]:
No. No. No. No.
Sam [00:28:47]:
Oh. But
Chris [00:28:47]:
no. Nothing. Nothing like that.
Sam [00:28:49]:
Oh, I don’t know what? Go tell me.
Chris [00:28:51]:
They’re they’re at 43,000.
Sam [00:28:53]:
So Oh, okay.
Chris [00:28:54]:
Like yeah. O over double. But, yeah, 26 days to go. It’s usually only 30 days, isn’t it? Yep. Yeah. So in 4 days, they’ve more than doubled what
Sam [00:29:06]:
they’ve done. I think a lot of these things do really low pledges now, so they can get that they’ve made it, which helps them.
Chris [00:29:14]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:29:17]:
Check out check out the video.
Chris [00:29:18]:
Oh, so what have you sent me?
Sam [00:29:20]:
This is Blaze Podnos, the link I sent you to that’s similar to this, but not a site tech, it seems. They light up and you punch him or kick him or whatever you do. So Right. Very And this Kickstarter just gives you a bit more, options, I think.
Chris [00:29:34]:
Yeah. I had to turn it I had to close it because it was screwing up my Internet connection because,
Sam [00:29:41]:
Okay. Anyway, I would be, 5050. Oh, no. I I let’s kick start it, but I wouldn’t get it. There we go.
Chris [00:29:50]:
Yeah. I would have been tempted. If I was back in my training days, I I would probably definitely have got something like that because I would have found a use for it in the dojo, when I’m teaching and stuff. But and and if I was if I wasn’t a hobbling old man, I’d probably find a use for it even even, if I didn’t run a dojo. But, being a hobbling old man, no. It’s not gonna be much good for me. I’m not it’s not like I’m coaching anyone else. But if if you were a soccer coach or, you know, whatever, coaching anybody, you could find a use for it.
Chris [00:30:25]:
I I didn’t even check the prices, to be honest.
Sam [00:30:28]:
$99 is early bird, gets you 2. That’s American. 134 gets you 3. And if you want the big pack, you can get 12 of them for 6.75. So the pricing isn’t too crazy, to be honest.
Chris [00:30:46]:
Yeah. I think you you’d want at least 6.
Sam [00:30:50]:
I think so.
Chris [00:30:52]:
I think.
Sam [00:30:56]:
Yeah. So that’s about 564 New Zealand dollars, the website tells me. So less than a $100 a pop. Anyway Alright. That brings us to the end of this episode. I hope to feel better next week. Next week is Misty Flix, so we have to figure out how to do a podcast episode with all of that happening. Come check us out, Misty Flix dotco.nz.
Sam [00:31:20]:
Come say hi, 22nd of 24th in Teomutu at the Regent. We will be there herding people like cats. And,
Chris [00:31:29]:
and I I have a presentation to make on what we’re gonna do with Misty Flix challenge next year. And so between now and then, I will work out what that is. I’m
Sam [00:31:39]:
I like to think the night before is when you’re gonna activate and do it.
Chris [00:31:44]:
Yeah. That morning at breakfast.
Sam [00:31:46]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:31:50]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:31:51]:
See you.
Chris [00:31:52]:
Bye.
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