Summary
Sam visits the Waikato Food Show and almost pays $210 for a food truck meal, while Chris recalls restaurant mishaps.
We hear about permanent jewelry, a suspiciously glaring “Angry Mexican,” and a Swiss startup putting solar panels between train tracks. There’s also a right-angle bridge in India, chemtrail bans in the US, AI-generated bands fooling Spotify, and how penguin poo might just save the planet.
All this and much more in this week’s episode!
Links
Swiss government has forbidden donkeys against wolf attacks
Sunways startup putting solar panels on railways tracks
Engineers in India Suspended over Bridge design
Breakthrough in Thorium Fuel
New Zealander Wins Blue Marlin World Cup
8 US States are seeking to outlaw chemtrails
Festival Goers setting off Smart Watches
The Velvet Sundown Band
Penguin poo helping keep things cool
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 539 of the Chris the Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness, technology and life. Yes.
Chris [00:00:31]:
Where we. We talk about things that are in Hamilton and things that are not in Hamilton.
Sam [00:00:40]:
It’s amazing talking about Hamilton. Last weekend I went to the Waikato Food Show.
Chris [00:00:44]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:00:45]:
I went to pay for something and it was $21 at this food truck and. Which was cool. I was happy with that. And then I looked down at EFTPOS machine and it goes $210. They accidentally press an extra zero. And I said, hey, I love what you’re doing here. I love the food that you’re making. I just don’t think it’s worth $210.
Sam [00:01:07]:
She goes, what? And she cracked up. She said, that’s right. No worries.
Chris [00:01:11]:
I told you I did that. When I was managing a restaurant once. I was doing the Sahara tent and a family came in and they did. You know, I think it was family. It was a few people anyway.
Sam [00:01:21]:
A bunch of people.
Chris [00:01:22]:
Yeah. Four people, probably. Yeah. And they had. They had a meal and they paid and they left.
Sam [00:01:29]:
Oh.
Chris [00:01:29]:
And I checked and went, oh, oh, no. I chased after them because I put a zero on the end.
Sam [00:01:35]:
So excellent.
Chris [00:01:35]:
Instead of 150, it was 1500.
Sam [00:01:38]:
So it’s easy to do.
Chris [00:01:40]:
Yeah, it is easy to do. And so, yeah, I’m just going to do a recharge on your thing, what.
Sam [00:01:46]:
You don’t want to do. I’m assuming as a top tip, there’s a. There’s a Mexican food truck. And I don’t know what the name of it was because I was trying not to look at it too much because there was no.
Chris [00:01:59]:
No side eyeing the Mexican food truck.
Sam [00:02:06]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:02:07]:
Not sus. At all. No, carry on, carry on.
Sam [00:02:09]:
There was no Mexican people involved whatsoever, which is fine. But there was a man who was pretty close to your age, okay. Caucasian, white, just standing there, just glaring out the window, out the back door. Wherever you looked, he seemed to be glaring at you. And he was glaring at everyone all at the same time. It was a special talent. And I was like, well, was you.
Chris [00:02:31]:
Waiting for a customer?
Sam [00:02:32]:
I don’t know. But he was just glaring so much. I was like, who wants to go to you?
Chris [00:02:38]:
I think the food truck was called the Angry Mexican. Or was it?
Sam [00:02:43]:
That would have made more sense at the Same time they had a Christmas market on, which was outside, and you had to have the special market.
Chris [00:02:52]:
Hang on, a Christmas market? It’s July. What?
Sam [00:02:55]:
I don’t know. Midwinter Christmas, I think they called it Christmas, but whatever.
Chris [00:02:59]:
Okay.
Sam [00:02:59]:
People are organized for Christmas more than you are.
Chris [00:03:03]:
It’s July. Jesus.
Sam [00:03:05]:
People are more organised than you for Christmas. Anyway, there’s lots of people selling all sorts of stuff. Apparently, permanent jewelry is a thing and. Exactly.
Chris [00:03:17]:
Okay, what’s permanent jewelry?
Sam [00:03:19]:
So you know how you get.
Chris [00:03:20]:
As opposed to the stuff that dissolves when it rains?
Sam [00:03:22]:
No. So no. So normally you can take a bracelet off, right? Permanent jewelry. You can’t. They’ve welded it on your hand.
Chris [00:03:31]:
Yeah, yeah. They used to call them irons. Clapping them in irons.
Sam [00:03:34]:
Wow. That is jewelry. Anyway, I didn’t realize it was a thing. But there was three people there. And you had your options of nice marketing. Female looks like she knows what she’s doing with the machine and some jewelry. The other option is nice marketing jewelry machine. Female looks like she does jewelry.
Sam [00:03:55]:
Two Indian guys in the corner with a machine and a handwritten sign.
Chris [00:04:01]:
Bit cheaper, though.
Sam [00:04:02]:
I don’t know about that. But what I will tell you is there was two giant sheds out the back of Claudlens. And when I went into the second one to look at all these stalls with all the stuff. And as we’ve spoken about in the past, there’s some people that are just given up on selling whatever they’re selling. They’re just there glaring at you. They may have been related to the Mexican guy. I don’t know.
Chris [00:04:22]:
There’s a lot of glaring going on where you are like, it’s not me, it’s not me. No.
Sam [00:04:28]:
These people have put everything, all their life savings into selling, like, knitted covers for something. And it’s not going well. Anyway, the shed smelt funny and then I started to feel funny. So I don’t know what that was about. It was like, I think this had chemicals in it or something. Something was really affecting me. Anyway, after that, I was okay when I left.
Chris [00:04:52]:
Huh. Maybe it was affecting everyone. You got to upset stomach. Everybody else got really angry.
Sam [00:04:58]:
No, they were just angry. Anyway.
Chris [00:05:01]:
I put this story in here just because I found it was interesting and I knew this. It’s not explained in the story, but I knew this. And I don’t remember how I knew this, so I’m going to mention it. So, you know, because this is a Swiss government has forbidden the use of donkeys as protection against wolf attacks. Right.
Sam [00:05:23]:
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We’ve talked about it on the podcast.
Chris [00:05:26]:
Have we? Okay.
Sam [00:05:27]:
We talked about animals or something protecting sheep from wolves. And I’m sure. I’m sure it was the donkeys, but I can’t remember where exactly. So somewhere in the back catalog. I’m sure we were talking about it potentially, because I do vaguely remember.
Chris [00:05:41]:
Yes.
Sam [00:05:42]:
So.
Chris [00:05:42]:
So donkeys, if you have a flock of sheep and you put a donkey amongst them.
Sam [00:05:49]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:50]:
It will attach to the sheep and protect them. It’ll feel like it’s one of the herd and it will fight a wolf or whatever. If you have two donkeys, they stick together. Screw the sheep. They don’t give a shit about the sheep because there’s two donkeys.
Sam [00:06:06]:
Okay, okay.
Chris [00:06:08]:
So the problem that the Swiss government has is, well, that’s not fair, keeping donkeys isolated like that.
Sam [00:06:15]:
Okay.
Chris [00:06:16]:
And so that’s illegal. You can’t have isolated donkeys.
Sam [00:06:20]:
But you don’t want to because they’re not going to do the job.
Chris [00:06:22]:
They’re not going to do the job. So it ruins the whole point of it. And I’m like, but are they isolated if they’ve got the. All their sheep buddies?
Sam [00:06:32]:
Well, we had a donkey next door to us when we grew up at the neighbors, and it was by itself, and they basically get depressed, and then it was ripping the sheep’s ears off and it had to go to a donkey farm to be with the other donkeys.
Chris [00:06:45]:
Ah.
Sam [00:06:45]:
So I don’t know.
Chris [00:06:46]:
Maybe there is something.
Sam [00:06:47]:
I don’t know how common that is.
Chris [00:06:49]:
Yeah. Psycho donkey. You’re very angry. All your stories are angry today. My angry donkey next door, when I.
Sam [00:06:57]:
Was a kid, A, that is what happened. B, I didn’t know you were going to talk about that. And see, I’ve got no control over the thing.
Chris [00:07:10]:
Okay.
Sam [00:07:10]:
No, I’m talking about the Swiss. There’s a Swiss startup called Sunways.
Chris [00:07:15]:
Sunways.
Sam [00:07:16]:
Sunways. They’re putting removable solar panels between train tracks because there’s so much land available that’s just only being utilized part of the time with trains. They’re going to put these solar panels in between the tracks. Now, the funny thing.
Chris [00:07:34]:
So between the rails, between the sleepers will be a thing. So the train drives over them. Yeah, yeah, Right. Gotcha, gotcha.
Sam [00:07:40]:
Now, other countries have experimented with doing this. They’re not the first ones.
Chris [00:07:45]:
Yeah, I was gonna say, I thought I’d seen this before. Yeah.
Sam [00:07:47]:
But they are the first people to have some brains and go, you know what? They probably need to be removable. When we do work on the tracks. So that’s their point of difference. So the pilot project is going to cost US$700,000.
Chris [00:08:05]:
Sorry. You’d think that they could create a little railway car that when you drive along, it just lays them out. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And then when you drive back, you can pick them up.
Sam [00:08:17]:
Oh, they may do. They may do.
Chris [00:08:19]:
Because it’s on railway tracks.
Sam [00:08:21]:
Yeah, so. No, that’s right. But they do have a cylindrical brush that they’re attaching to the train and it’s going to keep them clean. That’s pretty cool.
Chris [00:08:29]:
Yeah. Dusting.
Sam [00:08:30]:
They’re doing 48 solar panels as a start. 16,000 kilowatts of electricity annually, they think. And in Swiss, Switzerland, they’ve got about five thou, just over 5,000 kilometers worth of tracks. I don’t know what the tech, what, like how hard it is to get the wiring done. Like, I don’t know if there’s got to be something nearby or how all that works. It doesn’t really talk about it. They’re just talking about the solar panels on the tracks. It’s one of those stories where it’s like global interest.
Sam [00:09:03]:
They’re getting investors.
Chris [00:09:04]:
Yeah, no, it’s a good idea. I think it’s a good idea. It’s funny. If they, if the train cleans it as it goes past, you couldn’t really use it in New Zealand because you just don’t have enough trains going past to clean it.
Sam [00:09:18]:
Well, I don’t know but like we have a lot of train corridors, I think, that are surrounded by trees. Like it’s not wide open land. I don’t know, it sounds like a pain in the ass in my brain for the wiring aspect.
Chris [00:09:31]:
Actually. You’ve just reminded me of something. I haven’t got it written down, but I really love this. So there’s a YouTuber, a scientist chick I follow called Hannah somebody or other. Excellent, excellent. She’s red headed, middle aged English woman. She.
Sam [00:09:47]:
I’m glad that you’ve now described the host of this YouTube channel you don’t know about. That’s really helping get on with the story.
Chris [00:09:53]:
Okay, so she did this little thing on London Underground.
Sam [00:09:58]:
Okay.
Chris [00:09:58]:
So London Underground has been heating up over a century and a half or two centuries, I think.
Sam [00:10:04]:
Okay, so it’s getting warmer down there.
Chris [00:10:06]:
Yeah. Because the clay has worked like a heat sink. Cause it’s all dug in clay and they can’t. You can’t air condition it. No, like, because all it, it’s that it has been the accumulation year on year by very small degrees. But has been 200 years now. And it’s got to a point.
Sam [00:10:30]:
How hot is it?
Chris [00:10:32]:
It’s like averaging on a Sunny Day. It’s 40 degrees down there.
Sam [00:10:36]:
Okay.
Chris [00:10:37]:
Yeah. So people.
Sam [00:10:38]:
And before it was what? Nothing.
Chris [00:10:40]:
When it was built in Victorian times, it was 16 to 18 degrees down there. Good. That’s crazy.
Sam [00:10:46]:
Anyway, talking about building things, a bunch of people in India have been dismissed and a couple of companies have been blacklisted because they’re dumbasses. And they’ve built a Bridge, a 1.6 million pound bridge. That’s the cost.
Chris [00:11:03]:
See? They’re not going to win an award. No.
Sam [00:11:07]:
They put a 90 degree turn in the middle of the bridge.
Chris [00:11:10]:
What the.
Sam [00:11:10]:
It just goes. And they built it.
Chris [00:11:14]:
Why?
Sam [00:11:15]:
Because they’re dumbasses.
Chris [00:11:17]:
Is there a reason for that?
Sam [00:11:18]:
It was going to alleviate traffic congestion for approximately 300,000 people. And it just seems like that it was a whole bunch of public pressure around safety concerns and this right turn on a bridge and they were like just gross negligence in planning and execution. Seven engineers got suspended, two chief engineers, a construction company that’s been blacklisted and a committee’s been formed to implement necessary improvements on the bridge.
Chris [00:11:48]:
Why would you make a bent bridge?
Sam [00:11:50]:
There’s a photo of it.
Chris [00:11:51]:
It makes no sense.
Sam [00:11:52]:
It’s just a right angle. I don’t know. I can’t believe it got. I guess it’s just money. They don’t care. They just like, let’s build this bridge. So anyway, they’re going to try and put a slight curving it now. Who knows? You’ll be very excited.
Sam [00:12:09]:
We talked about this the other week. There’s a breakthrough in the thorium uranium nuclear fuel.
Chris [00:12:15]:
Cool. Because I went down that rabbit hole a couple of years ago. I’m really into it.
Sam [00:12:19]:
You mentioned it. So they’ve done a test at the Idaho National Laboratory and it’s low riched uranium with the acronym in capitals H, A L E U. And they’ve got real promising results from it. It’s called, it’s an anneal fuel, blah blah blah. It’s enriched with a bunch of stuff. And yeah, it’s significant because it’s ease of implementation and resistance to proliferation. Anyway, they’re all chubbed up about it somewhere in the world. Excited?
Chris [00:12:53]:
Yeah, no, I think it’s good. I think nuclear is definitely something we’re gonna be going towards because. Yeah, we just need a lot more energy.
Sam [00:13:02]:
This is going to push the, hopefully the American stuff further forward. And then help with some private nuclear.
Chris [00:13:08]:
Plus, you know, I think Trump’s put some more subsidies to. To promote coal, so that’ll help too.
Sam [00:13:15]:
Probably.
Chris [00:13:16]:
Speaking of the states.
Sam [00:13:17]:
Yeah, yeah, go.
Chris [00:13:19]:
This cracked me up because eight US states are now seeking to outlaw chemtrails.
Sam [00:13:27]:
Okay, good.
Chris [00:13:27]:
Even though they’re not real.
Sam [00:13:29]:
Good. No. How do you know, though? You can see them with your eye. So they’re real.
Chris [00:13:36]:
Yeah. Political leaders love an empty statement of proclamation, but Louisiana’s state House of Representatives moved against chemtrails last week. They were literally seeking to combat something that does not exist. So. Yeah. So believers in chemtrails hold the aircraft vapors. Trails that crisscross the skies across the globe every day are deliberately laden with toxins that are using commercial aircraft to spray them on people below, perhaps to enslave them to big pharma or to exert mind control or sterilize people or even control the weather for nefarious motives.
Sam [00:14:13]:
So. Makes sense when you think about it.
Chris [00:14:15]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:14:15]:
We’ve met somebody that believed that a.
Chris [00:14:17]:
Yes.
Sam [00:14:18]:
And he was American, too. And I was like.
Chris [00:14:20]:
I just could not. He just about broke my brain, that conversation. Yeah. Because he’s so totally believed. I’m like, airlines struggle just to get your bag somewhere. They haven’t got the mind ability to fricking get all this other stuff done.
Sam [00:14:40]:
As well, I think. I can’t remember if we’ve spoken about this, but I read somewhere they were like, it’s a very inefficient way of trying to affect people with some sort of chemical. Put it on toilet paper. That’s way more efficient.
Chris [00:14:53]:
Yeah, I hadn’t thought of that. I was gonna say put it in the water, but yeah. Yeah. Toilet paper makes a lot of sense.
Sam [00:14:58]:
Yeah, you could do that easier. Have you heard of the World cup blue marlin championships?
Chris [00:15:05]:
No.
Sam [00:15:05]:
Okay. A kiwi won it for the third Kiwi ever to win it.
Chris [00:15:10]:
Whereabouts is it?
Sam [00:15:11]:
Well, I’ll tell you, Tom Francis and his team has a whole bunch of Kiwis and some Tahitian locals. And they’re in Tahiti and they caught a 312.6 kilo blue Marlin. Right. So he’s entered a bunch of times. Funny enough, the boat that they’re in was built in the 1990s by this guy, Fred Lewis, who’s 84 and he’s on the boat fishing with them now. This is pretty cool. The cool thing is there’s a. They beat out 165, I think it was, other entrance.
Sam [00:15:45]:
And he Said like normally they’re tagging and releasing blue marlin and they’re doing some environmental work that’s sort of, I guess his day job, which is cool. And yeah, because I was gonna say.
Chris [00:15:57]:
If, if you just killed 165 blue marlin that weekend to do a competition, that’s a bit of a bump, a depression in the population in one hit, isn’t it?
Sam [00:16:09]:
I don’t know. I don’t think so, to be honest. But it started in 1985, this competition, it’s held on July 4th every year.
Chris [00:16:18]:
Okay.
Sam [00:16:19]:
And it’s all around the world for that one day only. 24 hour period in your time zone.
Chris [00:16:26]:
Oh.
Sam [00:16:27]:
So the kiwi teams are one of the last teams to take part in Tahiti because of the time zones. So they were like, we got this fish or marlin and they’re like, yeah, sweet. We have to confirm it. But then they have to wait to find out if they’ve got the heaviest one. Right. So I thought that was pretty cool. Little tweak to it, I guess. They’ve donated it to local families.
Sam [00:16:52]:
A church distributed this fish, right?
Chris [00:16:54]:
Yep.
Sam [00:16:55]:
Prize money, what do you think? I don’t know if you know much about fishing competitions, but there’s usually good prizes.
Chris [00:17:01]:
I was gonna say a million dollar type thing. $2 million, that’s pretty impressive.
Sam [00:17:06]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:17:06]:
And it must cost a bit though, like it costs you a fortune to go on.
Sam [00:17:10]:
Oh yeah, totally.
Chris [00:17:11]:
The whole trip. But yeah, but for one day.
Sam [00:17:14]:
Yeah, you’ll cover it because I think some of the other comps are going multi weeks. They’re like, we’re going out for a day.
Chris [00:17:19]:
Yeah, but you got to get to Tahiti and all that.
Sam [00:17:21]:
Yeah, he lives there.
Chris [00:17:21]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:17:22]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, but interesting because I thought they were going to go, oh, he’s got the blue marlin. You know when they catch those huge tuna and then they sell that to Asia for multi million dollars. I thought that’s what was going to happen, but I was like, no price, missed too much. I don’t know what the buy in was though.
Chris [00:17:38]:
Yeah, true, actually. And the sponsorship thing would cover that. Like 2 million is not. Because it’s a worldwide.
Sam [00:17:45]:
Yeah, exactly.
Chris [00:17:46]:
So. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that’s cool, that’s cool. Hey, have you come. You might have come across this. You’re going to go, Chris, you’re just old, you know.
Sam [00:17:55]:
I say it all the time.
Chris [00:17:56]:
Everybody knows about this. Yeah, that’s true. But I’d never thought about this before, but festival rockers have been told to Take off their smartwatches. So they’ve been going to. This is a thing in the UK. Police received. Oh no, it must be the US actually, it’s a UK newspaper. Police received nearly 700 false collision 999 calls.
Chris [00:18:19]:
Oh. From Leicestershire. So it is in the UK at a heavy mental metal event.
Sam [00:18:24]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:18:24]:
Because they were in the mosh pit banging around and their things, their smartwatches thought they were in accidents and automatically dialed emergency services. And like that just cracked me up. Now this is a while ago. This was in 2023, this a couple of years ago. I just come across that and I’m like, oh man, that. Where else would that be a thing? There’ll be a whole bunch of stuff like some of those universal. The. The rides.
Chris [00:18:54]:
The theme park rides where you get thrown around.
Sam [00:18:59]:
Maybe, but I think that’s a bit more smoother. It’s weird because my phone will do that if I fall over or if I’m in a car crash. But if I drop my phone, it doesn’t. So it knows that.
Chris [00:19:11]:
Yeah, yeah. It’s fascinating. I never really thought about it.
Sam [00:19:14]:
I think you can turn it off, but yeah. Or take off the watch. But yeah. Interesting. Then that would. Cause they’d all go off and you wouldn’t pay attention to it because it gives you like three in a concert.
Chris [00:19:22]:
A heavy metal concert. You probably wouldn’t even hear it.
Sam [00:19:25]:
Talking about music. Cause you are a fan of music. Now. We have recorded an episode with Sam and Chris, the podcast. And Chris demonstrates his music ability.
Chris [00:19:36]:
Shit.
Sam [00:19:37]:
That’s the funniest thing that’s happened this year. It’s so funny.
Chris [00:19:40]:
It’s not. I’m editing at the moment. That bit may not be edited left in the thing.
Sam [00:19:46]:
What are you editing?
Chris [00:19:48]:
I’ve got to edit the thing. The. Oh, the zoom. Cool, good.
Sam [00:19:53]:
I’ve got all the audio. You know that, eh? Oh no, I didn’t know I recorded my side. I’ve got it all.
Chris [00:19:58]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:19:59]:
But you can edit it. It saves me a job. You can do it.
Chris [00:20:02]:
No, I was doing the video. I was gonna.
Sam [00:20:03]:
Oh yeah, the video. Oh, okay. Good luck with that now, obviously. Yeah, you look forward to hearing that story. If it makes it. Now, the Velvet Sundown.
Chris [00:20:15]:
Velvet Sundown.
Sam [00:20:16]:
Is it one of your favorite bands? I know you never heard of it. Yeah, exactly. I know you don’t use Spotify, so probably won’t. The Velvet Sundown is a four piece psych rock band. It’s had over a million monthly listeners on Spotify and it’s Already released two albums in under two months. And it’s gotten real, like, popular. Reddit got a bit suspect on it and was like, mmm, due to the generic sound, lack of background information, and suspiciously polished social media presence. They were sort of saying, hey, your bio is a bit weird too.
Sam [00:20:55]:
Is this being generated with AI? And they’re like, nope, the Velvet, whatever they call themselves the Velvet Sundown are like, nope, no, it’s real music. They denied it, denied it, denied it. We’re making it for real. Real minds, real soul, we’re the best.
Chris [00:21:12]:
And then you’re just saying what Grok told you to say.
Sam [00:21:17]:
Yeah. And then music streaming competitor Deezer, we all love using Deezer, flagged the Velvet Sundowns album as 100% generated by AI and refused to host it because it was 100% created by AI. And they seem to think that around 20 to 30% of uploads to their platform are AI generated. Anyway, the Valve at Sundown have finally admitted, yes, we are fully AI generated. And I think it upset some of their fans. But if you like the music, who cares? It depends though. Like, is it. It’s the whole robot thing.
Sam [00:21:53]:
When you’ve got one of those robots in your house and it’s doing stuff for you, how much are you putting into this robot to make it feel like a human?
Chris [00:22:03]:
See, I’ve never been a huge fan of the musicians. Like, I like the music and I don’t. Yeah, we go not culty type. Like, I just, I just like the musicians. So for this, the only time I’ve ever done that, specifically with actors too. Actors are the same. I like, I never remember who’s who. Like, I don’t remember the actual actors.
Sam [00:22:24]:
No, you’re terrible.
Chris [00:22:25]:
I remember the characters because I like the characters.
Sam [00:22:27]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:28]:
And it’s only been things like Graham Norton show where you actually hear them talk out of character that I go, oh, the people as well. I mean, you know, I knew that, but, you know.
Sam [00:22:38]:
Okay, so AI music’s probably a good thing for you. Yeah. And maybe not for some others, but that’s fine. Talking about those little robots, you know, how I don’t like the child sized ones that creep me up. There’s a video, Dwarf Robots. My God, that is weird. There’s a video of a little one wandering around and the people that make it, like, beating it with sticks and trying to kick it over, but it can’t fall over. And it’s just like, I don’t know.
Chris [00:23:02]:
That video’s not gonna age well when the robot Overlords are searching the archives.
Sam [00:23:08]:
No, they have to try and find us first.
Chris [00:23:13]:
Oh, dear. Okay, so this one I probably should have researched more for this. Here we go.
Sam [00:23:21]:
No.
Chris [00:23:22]:
All right, so NPR has put this thing out last month. Actually. Penguins in Antarctica should be. Could be actually helping cool the climate with penguin poo. Okay, so tens of thousands of penguins clustered together on the Antarctic Peninsula can produce some potent stenches. Now it’s found that all that waste could be powerful enough to cool the climate. The gases from penguin poo help fuel cloud formations.
Sam [00:24:00]:
Ah, okay.
Chris [00:24:01]:
From down there. And clouds act like giant reflectors blocking the sunlight. So all we need is more penguins in this, in the Antarctica and more poo.
Sam [00:24:13]:
How many do you need?
Chris [00:24:15]:
I don’t know.
Sam [00:24:15]:
Oh, here we go.
Chris [00:24:17]:
Scientists said they observed this at a colony of 60,000 Adelie penguins.
Sam [00:24:24]:
Okay.
Chris [00:24:25]:
Yeah. So 60,000 in a colony. I don’t know. There’s a lot.
Sam [00:24:30]:
But they need more research. It says to understand the overall effect of the climate because while the clouds reflect heat, they can also trap it under certain conditions. Okay.
Chris [00:24:41]:
Yeah, I think it’s just a clickbait story.
Sam [00:24:43]:
It’s a clickbait.
Chris [00:24:44]:
Penguin poo.
Sam [00:24:45]:
It’s a clickbait.
Chris [00:24:45]:
Saves the climate.
Sam [00:24:47]:
Yeah, they need it to pay for their research. They want to be put up in accommodation. They want flights and food and all this stuff.
Chris [00:24:57]:
They want that big Bluebird sponsorship.
Sam [00:25:00]:
No, I don’t know how to break this to you, but Bluebird chips who have a penguin as a mascot. I don’t think they’re involved in scientific studies in Antarctica.
Chris [00:25:11]:
What?
Sam [00:25:12]:
I may be wrong.
Chris [00:25:13]:
They’re missing a trick there, buddy.
Sam [00:25:15]:
They barely. No, they’re all about shrinkflation and changing flavours and packaging of things. That’s what they’re about.
Chris [00:25:23]:
Okay, that is the heater coming back on.
Sam [00:25:25]:
Oh, good God. I mean.
Chris [00:25:29]:
Sam, look. Really where he dipped.
Sam [00:25:31]:
I thought it was outside and I didn’t know what was going on.
Chris [00:25:33]:
Now I have a heater that’s on a timer and this is the time it goes dark and gets cold. And I didn’t change that timer for that.
Sam [00:25:40]:
I don’t know if you can hear in the background if you can. We are lucky. Lucky because we’re right near the end. But yeah, I thought something was happening outside with like crappy sounding motorbike or a chainsaw or something.
Chris [00:25:52]:
That’s Chris’s state of the art heater.
Sam [00:25:55]:
How? Hang on, look, look, hang on, hang on. I’m going to guess, I’m going to guess. I know where this heater’s from. Is this a wedding present from 400 years ago when you were.
Chris [00:26:05]:
No, no, no, I bought it.
Sam [00:26:07]:
Oh, okay. You brought it when you were 12.
Chris [00:26:10]:
I bought it when we were in 2A Radnall Street.
Sam [00:26:13]:
Okay. Okay, good. I wasn’t sure. Just. I can’t remember. The way you were looking, it looked like it was gonna be a classic Chris story of. I somehow got this. Somehow a long time ago.
Sam [00:26:26]:
Did you want to mention this recording that we said it before, but we didn’t say anything real briefly to end off this podcast.
Chris [00:26:32]:
So.
Sam [00:26:32]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:32]:
Yeah. So we caught up with Sam and Chris of the. Sam and Chris the podcast. Yes, is what they’re called. So Sam and Chris are in Bahrain Bay. Bahrain. And they are Filipino and they serve the Filipino community in the whole region. And yeah, they’re pretty cool guys.
Chris [00:26:52]:
The older than I expected.
Sam [00:26:54]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:55]:
I thought we were old. No, no, we are older than them, but still. And yeah, we had a good chat. I. I don’t know how. How entertaining people will find it or not. It’ll be interesting, but yeah, check it out. And I should say hello to all our new Filipino listeners.
Sam [00:27:14]:
Welcome, welcome. Are they coming up to two years of the podcast?
Chris [00:27:18]:
Yeah. So we’ve got to do a little bit of a video for them.
Sam [00:27:22]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:27:22]:
Hello. For their two years.
Sam [00:27:24]:
Anyway, that brings us to the end of the podcast. Make sure to check out tcaf.com for all your show notes, other things, and the field days interviews. They’re almost all out now. My hand is getting worse.
Chris [00:27:37]:
Oh, he’s got a brace on it. I didn’t even know.
Sam [00:27:40]:
Yeah, don’t worry. I’m going to the doctor on Tuesday.
Chris [00:27:43]:
Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:27:43]:
It’s the only time I could get an appointment.
Chris [00:27:45]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:27:46]:
And then I’m getting. I’m getting a sick note, so I get a standing desk at work. It’s the only way they’ll get me one. Yeah, but I need one.
Chris [00:27:54]:
Oh, dude. Yeah, because.
Sam [00:27:57]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:27:57]:
Anyway, standing desk.
Sam [00:27:59]:
So until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:28:00]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:28:01]:
See ya.
Chris [00:28:01]:
Bye.
Sam [00:28:02]:
Bye.
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