Summary
Chris is back from a trip to Wellington where he masters the art of heat pump repair, while Sam gears up for a work conference and navigates the mysteries of barber chairs.
We hear about a toddler found in a bus luggage compartment, a LEGO show packed with impressive displays, and a cat named Leonardo da Pinchy with a taste for stealing underwear. Plus, a fish starts a forest fire in Canada and radioactive wasp nests make the news.
All this and much more in this week’s episode!
Links
Cat Fest
Leonardo De Pinchi
Forest fire started by a fish
Radioactive wasp nests
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 543 of the Chris and Sam podcast on I’m Chris. And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness. Technology in life. What have you been up to?
Chris [00:00:31]:
It has been. It has been a week. It has been a week. So last week I mentioned that I was heading down to Wellington.
Sam [00:00:39]:
You sure did.
Chris [00:00:39]:
So a couple of bus trips and caught up with the old man. He’s all right, he’s not doing too bad. So that’s really good. I fixed his heat pump. So in the space of one week I went from do these things have filters and how do you clean them? To I’m the heat pump maestro. I fix that heat pump. Your mate would be happy to tell about that, you know. You want to know how I did it?
Sam [00:01:07]:
How?
Chris [00:01:07]:
Change the batteries in the runo. It’s freaking amazing. It’s technology, it’s awesome.
Sam [00:01:13]:
Old people, eh?
Chris [00:01:14]:
Yeah, actually he did change the batteries and I just couldn’t get it to work. The batteries out of the packet were duds and we put other batteries in them phone.
Sam [00:01:23]:
So yeah, it’s always those super simple things really, isn’t it?
Chris [00:01:27]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was cool. So the, the bus trip down, I did the overnight both ways bus trip down. I left at 9 here, got there at 6 in the morning.
Sam [00:01:36]:
Okay. And it just goes non stop somewhere.
Chris [00:01:40]:
Stops a few places and they’ve got two half hour breaks for the driver. So you get out, you know, there’s a couple of places where they stop and they’ll say, we’re not going to stop for toilet or anything. We’re just picking people up. And then he’ll say, oh yeah, this was a, you know, 30 minute break at a gas station or whatever and you can go and buy something.
Sam [00:02:00]:
Was there any small children in the luggage?
Chris [00:02:03]:
No, but I found out about that when we got down there. There was the same day that, that, that story came out that I, I’d done that. So, so that was all right. And for those listening from overseas going, what is Sam’s talking about? Somebody got done because they put a toddler, a 2 year old in the luggage, like in, in the luggage compartment of the bus. So not just in the luggage compartment but in a bag and zipped it up.
Sam [00:02:31]:
Yeah. As you do.
Chris [00:02:32]:
And the bus driver went down to unload somebody’s bag at the stop and this bag starts moving. He’s like, what the hell? And opens it up and there’s a 2 year old in there.
Sam [00:02:41]:
Yeah, that’s the gist of it.
Chris [00:02:43]:
Unbelievable. Anyway, so I wanted to mention that in so much detail because the trip back was not like the trip down.
Sam [00:02:52]:
I get the feeling that every time I hear about somebody traveling by bus, this always seems to be the case. One of the one way’s really good, the other way is not so good.
Chris [00:03:04]:
Yeah. So on the way back, it was an earlier 7. 77 25. I was supposed to get on the bus. I actually, I got there just after seven. So they say get there 15 minutes early.
Sam [00:03:16]:
Yeah, makes sense.
Chris [00:03:17]:
On the way down, I got there plenty early. I did miss a phone call. I was watching, you know, YouTube on my phone and then I’m trying to answer it and it, whatever. It didn’t, it didn’t answer.
Sam [00:03:27]:
Cheap ass phone. Won’t work.
Chris [00:03:29]:
Didn’t recognize that and all the rest of it. And then the guy arrived and he goes, oh, thank God. I, I tried ringing you but I got missed call. I’m like, oh, yeah, I didn’t know what was going on. He goes, oh, I just want to make sure you were there, but you’re here, so it’s all good. We went on. Right. So on the way out again, I got there really early and the bus came really early, so I jumped on.
Chris [00:03:50]:
There was a couple other people jumping on poiru and that’s cool. So we’re running early and he’s ringing people as he’s going up.
Sam [00:03:57]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:03:58]:
Saying, you know, we’re running early. Yeah, yeah, running early. Nah, nah. We got to Palmerston north and these people. Somebody finally turned up, but not all of them. So we just sat there.
Sam [00:04:11]:
How early are you though? Can. Like, I don’t think we’ve.
Chris [00:04:15]:
I think we’re like 10, 15 minutes early.
Sam [00:04:17]:
You’d expect the bir. Okay.
Chris [00:04:19]:
And we. Or, or maybe a little bit more than 15 minutes early. But we end up waiting half an hour, just sitting there too long. It was, it was beyond time that we should have moved on. But he’s still waiting for this last person. This was the last person turned up and she was very apologetic about, you know, oh, my phone battery died and it’s like, I don’t care. You should be, you know, locked in the, in the baggage compartment in a bag, you person. Anyway, so we left there.
Sam [00:04:49]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:50]:
Then we. At a little lunch break ish thing, you know, probably midnight or a little bit after midnight. This guy who’d seemed pretty normal he was downstairs with me because. Double decker. I was downstairs, he passed out outside. What? Diabetic.
Sam [00:05:08]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:05:09]:
Freak out. And it’s because he had a Powerade, he says. But it’s also, I think, because your routine’s all screwed up because you’re traveling at midnight, like.
Sam [00:05:17]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:17]:
You know what I mean? So that’s okay. So then I, you know, that didn’t take a lot longer than it should have. It was just a toilet break. But then he had to stop and go to the toilet somewhere else. We had in total four unscheduled. I need to go to the toilets.
Sam [00:05:35]:
What is wrong with these people in their bladder.
Chris [00:05:37]:
I know, I know, right? I was just like, ah, here’s a bottle. So that it took nine hours to go down.
Sam [00:05:43]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:44]:
Took 11 hours to get.
Sam [00:05:45]:
No. Unacceptable.
Chris [00:05:48]:
Unacceptable.
Sam [00:05:49]:
Unacceptable. This week I’ve been a little bit sick, but I’m okay. Just a stomach bug thing. Been working on this presentation because I’m going to Wellington on Monday for a three day conference for work.
Chris [00:06:03]:
And I’ve got to say, Sam’s just got a haircut. He’s looking very professional for this, this conference thing this week.
Sam [00:06:11]:
Yeah. So. Yeah, so we’ve done a run through of the conference. That’s okay. That’s happening Monday, Sunday, tomorrow. I have to pack a bunch of stuff. Just got the haircut now. Haircuts, I’m sure I’ve mentioned.
Sam [00:06:24]:
I know I’ve mentioned this before. I think I’ve done it on the podcast. You just never know what you’re gonna get or who you’re gonna do or whatever. This is probably this haircut was 30 bucks and that’s pretty good. Yes. I. Yeah, that’s cheap now because I’ve got a funny feeling that because we’ve got a hairdressing school here and a barber school, we’re pumping out so many people that they keep opening up these barber shops because there’s a lot in Hamilton now and they all seem. The price just keeps going up and up.
Sam [00:06:54]:
Like I’ve seen places are doing for 50 and it’s. Anyway, so I’ve.
Chris [00:06:58]:
I’ve had a buzz cut for 25.
Sam [00:07:00]:
Yes, exactly.
Chris [00:07:01]:
So 30 for that is good.
Sam [00:07:03]:
So the $30 I paid just before I came here was probably the most value I’ve ever got. The guy was doing stuff that I’ve never had done to my hair before. Like the hair dryer was out at one point and he was rolling my hair and brushing it and doing all sorts of random stuff. But one thing he did, which I thought was just different when they go around the back of you to cut your hair on the side. This guy wouldn’t move. He just spun me. So half the time I was facing behind me, looking at other customers, and then I was just spun around the other way, where he just stood completely still.
Chris [00:07:40]:
That’s not common. That’s weird ass.
Sam [00:07:46]:
It is. And especially when you don’t know what’s going to happen.
Chris [00:07:50]:
I’m trying to think. Do all the barber’s chairs swivel? I don’t think they do. I think most of them, the big.
Sam [00:07:59]:
Old ones, sort of. Yeah. They sort of stay put. But this one swivels and nobody else was doing. There was two other barbers cutting other people’s hair. They take two steps to the left or right. This guy was like, no.
Chris [00:08:11]:
And I’m not moving. I’m not getting paid enough for this.
Sam [00:08:13]:
It’s spinning me around. I faced the other direction like three times. I was like, okay, I’m going this way now, am I?
Chris [00:08:21]:
Ah, that’s hilarious.
Sam [00:08:24]:
So, yeah, so that happened earlier today. I went to the Hamilton LEGO show, which is at Gordon’s.
Chris [00:08:29]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:08:30]:
Pretty good.
Chris [00:08:30]:
Cause you’ve been to quite a few of these LEGO shows around the place by now.
Sam [00:08:34]:
I’ve done a really massive one that was at Christchurch. That’s sort of next level. And I did one a Hamilton one years and years and years ago. And it was in a weird little room at wintech.
Chris [00:08:44]:
All right.
Sam [00:08:46]:
And I think that’s it. But I’m not sure. Very cool. I do like the people because it’s a. I don’t know. I suppose every hobby’s like this, but this one, it’s very easy to figure out how much someone has spent on this hobby, on what they’re displaying.
Chris [00:09:03]:
Right.
Sam [00:09:04]:
And some people.
Chris [00:09:05]:
Oh, so it’s like club members are, I guess, displaying their thing. Right, Right.
Sam [00:09:11]:
So people buy LEGO kits and there’s some really cool ones. And some people just have them sitting there. They’ve built a LEGO kit and just sitting there.
Chris [00:09:19]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:20]:
And they might have multiple versions of whatever the thing is. So some people like Star wars, some people like these Formula one cars that are looking pretty cool. And then other people with a bit more money and time, I guess, build a giant diorama at the. I don’t know what you want to call it. There was a huge farm set up. It was very cool. And there was this other one that I was. Lots of little things happening.
Sam [00:09:41]:
It was very cool. And bumped into friend of the podcast, Jamie, who Is part of the Hamilton LEGO group.
Chris [00:09:48]:
Okay, didn’t know that.
Sam [00:09:49]:
No, I didn’t know that either. I said to him, I guess people ask LEGO people what they’re into. Cause he was just wandering around and he goes, yeah. I said, so what are you into? He goes, oh, Star Wars. Really? Into the Star wars stuff.
Chris [00:10:02]:
Okay, that doesn’t surprise me. Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:10:04]:
So anyway, did that. And then today, I don’t know if you knew this was happening. There was an e waste collection happening today.
Chris [00:10:13]:
Oh no, that’d be good. I’ve got a big bucket full of batteries.
Sam [00:10:17]:
Oh, I should have told you because it was basically across the road from your house at the university car park. Oh, I didn’t think of it. It’s on Facebook. So went there to get rid of a TV and our ice machine that broke and I didn’t realize, I mean I should have. But the. Basically it’s being run by the resource recovery people at the council, so there’s a whole bunch of people there I knew, thought, hey, throwing this TV out. But oh man, it’s like I’m a part time semi hoarder. Not, not, not, not up to your level.
Sam [00:10:49]:
But there was just so much laptops. It was everything.
Chris [00:10:53]:
Yeah, I’ve got a laptop in my bedroom. I’m like, shit, I should get rid of that. But I guess if I, I can just play movies and put it there. So I’ve got a TV in my bedroom.
Sam [00:11:03]:
I mean, I don’t know what was wrong with these laptops, but some of them looked real nice and fancy and I’m just like, look at that, heaps of TVs. So many TVs. They had a skip bin there. And then I overheard someone saying, got another two skip bins coming now. And that was just for TVs. And then the whole rest of the car park was full up of like small electronics and kitchen stuff and all sorts.
Chris [00:11:26]:
Oh, damn. Oh yeah.
Sam [00:11:28]:
So I don’t know how often they do that. We’ll keep an eye out for that.
Chris [00:11:32]:
Let us know next time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I, I used Uber a bit. So I used Uber to get to the.
Sam [00:11:41]:
Is this in Wellington?
Chris [00:11:42]:
I did it from here to the bus.
Sam [00:11:44]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:11:45]:
Then I did it from. Oh, then I got Sarah to pick me up down there. That was cool. That was so funny because she picks me up and it’s early, which, you know, just after six or whatever.
Sam [00:11:56]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:11:57]:
I’m like, I need a coffee, I need something to eat. So we went to McDonald’s, had hotcakes. And whatever. Okay, coffee. And then she goes, oh, we’ll drive you around to your dad’s place. And the lights are not on. And like last time I rang about 8 o’ clock I was getting them out of bed. So I’m like, I don’t want to go and wake him up because you know, you know, older people are like, you wake them up, they’re all screwed for the whole day.
Chris [00:12:19]:
So I’m like, I don’t want to wake him up.
Sam [00:12:20]:
Yeah, fair enough.
Chris [00:12:20]:
And she goes, oh, I’m packing my gear. I don’t want you around my place because I’ve just, I’m moving this week. She moved on Thursday. She says everything’s packed up. And then she goes, oh, oh, I could take you to the boat shed. You could hang out at the boat shed.
Sam [00:12:34]:
It’s an actual boat shed.
Chris [00:12:36]:
It’s an actual boat shed. So there’s on Tatahi Bay, there’s this beach sandy beach thing and there’s these boat sheds. They’re all, it’s like one long building, but they’re all separate. And her new place, she’s renting a tiny home. Okay, that is not far away from this bay and it comes with a boat shed. The boat shed’s part of the rental and she’s paying 350 a week, which is. So she’s doing pretty well.
Sam [00:13:02]:
So you’ve got this tiny home.
Chris [00:13:04]:
She’s got a tiny home and she’s got a boat shed.
Sam [00:13:07]:
And is the boat shed being used for storage? What’s the point of the boat shed?
Chris [00:13:11]:
That was my thought because when somebody says to me boat shed, I’m thinking a shed with tools and maybe a boat in it.
Sam [00:13:18]:
I have no. Yeah, I have no idea.
Chris [00:13:20]:
No. Well, I don’t know what any of the others were like because obviously they’re all locked up. But it’s just like this is a little place you can hang out at the beach. She’s got a bed there. She’s got a big Trump poster.
Sam [00:13:31]:
Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:13:33]:
There’s a big full sized flag with.
Sam [00:13:35]:
A Trump thing on it holding an AK47.
Chris [00:13:38]:
He’s standing on a tank. That’s Trump on it. He’s holding an AK47. There’s money spilling everywhere. There’s an eagle with a Gatling gun screaming and shooting. There’s so many little details I had to look at on that thing. It’s pretty.
Sam [00:13:52]:
Did you ask her about this?
Chris [00:13:53]:
I said, what’s with the Trump poster? She goes, oh, the landlord put it there. I think it’s a joke. And I’m like, I hope it’s a joke.
Sam [00:14:02]:
It’s not hers then.
Chris [00:14:03]:
It’s not hers. So anyway. But yeah, it was really good. So they got power in there. It’s run by the council, this whole thing. And she’s, she goes, I can’t wait for summer. Because you basically would hang out there, so you got power so you can put fans on and, and all that sort of thing. I sat there with my laptop and she went off and did some other stuff and I stayed there for couple of hours just typing on my laptop.
Chris [00:14:26]:
It’s really good. It was so cool. Anyway, I started talking about Uber. So on the, the last night, Uber’s been hassling me to, oh, you got to get UberEats. Get some Uber Eats. Get some Uber Eats. I’m like, I don’t want to get Uber Eats.
Sam [00:14:41]:
I don’t know, get some UberEats.
Chris [00:14:42]:
I’d never done it. So anyway, last night at Dad’s place, seven o’, clock, I gotta go to the bus, whatever. So I’m like, I tell you what, I can’t because I’m driving him. I don’t trust him in the car. He’s got this little. What is it called? The Yaris, like the vits.
Sam [00:15:01]:
Yeah, Yaris is the New Zealand name.
Chris [00:15:03]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Yaris. And so I was. It’s pretty peppy, actually. It was pretty good. So I was driving him around because he didn’t like the idea of driving and so that’s cool. I’m like, I don’t want to do this. I’ll get Uber Eats. So looked it up.
Chris [00:15:17]:
What do you want? There’s some Thai thing, there’s a curry thing. Oh, there’s a nice curry place down there called Curry House or something like that. Okay.
Sam [00:15:24]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:15:25]:
I was like, oh, yeah, they’re here. Oh, yeah, yeah. So tikka masala, mild. Okay, we’ll get you that. Or butter chicken, rather mild.
Sam [00:15:33]:
Okay, okay.
Chris [00:15:34]:
And I, I got what I got. And I’m reading this menu, I’m like, doesn’t say it comes with rice. And then you, you order it and it’s got sides and it’s got rice.
Sam [00:15:44]:
Yeah. And I’m like, did you get extra rice?
Chris [00:15:47]:
I took the extra rice on both.
Sam [00:15:49]:
Of them.
Chris [00:15:52]:
And you know, a garlic naan. So it was cool. So anyway, comes four, four pots of rice. Of course, of course, of course.
Sam [00:15:59]:
And you’re like, damn it.
Chris [00:16:00]:
The only good thing about that was I got a 30 voucher with it. So. Yeah.
Sam [00:16:04]:
Oh, because yeah, because.
Chris [00:16:06]:
Yeah, yeah. So dinner for two, effectively 70 bucks less than 30.
Sam [00:16:10]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:16:10]:
So I’m pretty. I was, I was okay with that. Oh, no, you got too much rice. I’m like, don’t worry about it. Uber paid for it. I don’t care about the Russ. So that’s cool. So now I’m no doubt gonna be hassled by Uber even more because now I’ve jumped on the Uber eats, the other one.
Sam [00:16:27]:
We’re talking about all of that. Sign up to Milk Run. Milk Run, it’s like a delivery thing, but they bring you food from Countdown Woolworths.
Chris [00:16:35]:
Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:16:35]:
And it’s just that that’s all they do. Right. But what you do is you sign up for that one and you get like, you get these crazy deals. Like on your first three orders it’s like free delivery. And then I think it’s like 50% off if you order more than 30. I’ve only used these three deals once and I’ve never touched it again. So that’s a good one. And Doordash does the food delivery as well.
Chris [00:16:57]:
We do Doordash in New Zealand.
Sam [00:16:59]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:16:59]:
I’d never. Yeah.
Sam [00:17:01]:
Sign up for that.
Chris [00:17:01]:
Somebody was asking me about it and they go, we’ve got Doordash here. I forget where they’re from. I think it might have been Auckland. And I was like, oh no, it must have been Sarah. And Wellington. I was like, no, we don’t have that in Hamilton.
Sam [00:17:11]:
I wouldn’t trust anything that Chris says because he doesn’t know.
Chris [00:17:15]:
Fair.
Sam [00:17:15]:
No. But Doordash gives you some sweet deals for the first two or three orders as well because we ended up getting like 50% off. I don’t know. It works out really well if you can play it right and then you just ignore it and then you just get random messages like, hey. And Doordash is always like, wants you to try something new but it always picks something really dumb. It’s like, hey, wanna try something new? How are some food from bp?
Chris [00:17:39]:
Nah, nah, nah. If you wanna do that, go on a bus trip to Wellington, do that.
Sam [00:17:47]:
You’ve got here about this cat fest. Someone I know at work went to it because I mentioned it. Did your people that you knew knew about it go, did they mention it?
Chris [00:17:57]:
Oh, I didn’t ask, I didn’t ask. Although I’ve been sort of, like I said, busy being for a bit.
Sam [00:18:02]:
I got told basically that it wasn’t curated all and it was just non stop random videos, which is exactly what they advertised.
Chris [00:18:09]:
Yeah, yeah. So I’m going to read this out as it’s written.
Sam [00:18:13]:
Okay.
Chris [00:18:13]:
This is from the AP and I think this is an American thing. So anyway, the best of the Internet’s cat videos are coming to a big screen this weekend. Cat Videos Fest is a 73 minute G rated selection of all things feline, silly, cuddly, sentimental and comedic that’s playing in more than 500 independent independent theaters in the USA and Canada. Portion of ticket proceeds benefit cat focused charities, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The videos are created, curated or created curated by Will Braden, the Seattle based creator of the comedic existential shorts Honey le Chat Moi Cool Business Cards Raid. His business cards read, I watch cat videos. That’s not a joke or an exaggeration. Braden watches thousands of hours of Internet videos to make his annual compilation.
Chris [00:19:12]:
I want to show how broad the idea of a cat video can be. So there’s animated things, music videos, little documentaries. Braden said it isn’t all just what I call America’s funniest home cat videos. It’s not all cats falling into a bathtub. That would be exhausting.
Sam [00:19:30]:
Yeah, yeah. So you know, that would be exhausting.
Chris [00:19:33]:
But it’s now in its eighth year.
Sam [00:19:35]:
Oh, that’s crazy.
Chris [00:19:37]:
And it’s bigger than ever, so. Yeah, no, exactly. Good on him. With a global presence, it’s already extended to uk, Denmark and first time to France, Spain, Japan, Brazil. They didn’t mention New Zealand. Why would they? Last year the screenings made over a million dollars at the box office. So there you go.
Sam [00:19:54]:
Hang on. So let’s just think about that for a second. He’s getting public videos. Does he tell the people I have.
Chris [00:20:06]:
I don’t know any of the details.
Sam [00:20:08]:
Because a million dollars for some curated videos that he found on the Internet for eight years sounds like a pretty sweet gig. Like even if he only got a portion of that money, he. Okay, good, good.
Chris [00:20:23]:
Actually, while we’re on the cats, have you heard of Leonardo da Pinchy?
Sam [00:20:27]:
No, what’s that? Is it a cat or a person?
Chris [00:20:30]:
It’s a cat. It’s cat called Leonardo da Pinchy.
Sam [00:20:34]:
Okay, He’s.
Chris [00:20:37]:
This is. Where is this? This story is from overseas, but it’s about New Zealand cat named Leonardo Joe Da Pinchy terrorises New Zealand towns stealing underwear. So it’s. I think it’s Auckland. A cat named Leonardo da Pinchy has become well known thief in New Zealand after gaining a reputation for stealing underwear and socks from homes around his local neighbourhood. Pinchy’s relentless laundry raids from clotheslines and bedrooms have Made him a local celebrity in the quiet beachside town of my Rangi Bay. 15 month old cat has a surprisingly expensive taste for a feline thief. Regularly swiping silk boxer shorts, the thick men’s work socks, often with clothes pegs still attached, and in one particularly embarrassing moment for his owners, a brand new $300 cashmere sweater.
Chris [00:21:30]:
What? Yeah, my daughter was homesick and she rang me at work saying it’s bad, it’s bad. This is the worst thing he’s brought in. It’s really bad. And so they’ve been going to a WhatsApp group to return the stolen clothes to their rifles, full owners and her usual messages. Are these your undies? Anyway, in one record setting day, Leo brought home nine items, enough to assemble a full outfit. If you didn’t mind a mix of baby clothes and menswear. Yeah, I just like the name Leonardo da Pinch. I thought it was pretty cool.
Sam [00:22:08]:
It’s a tough one. Like I don’t know what you do to control it unless you lock it in your house.
Chris [00:22:14]:
Yeah. And so there’s a couple of photos in the story, but it’s just a cat with loads and loads of socks and just loves. Thanks. I don’t know. Yeah, so anyway, that’s. That’s Leonardo da Pinci story.
Sam [00:22:28]:
Excellent. What else you got? Because I’m not done anything.
Chris [00:22:32]:
I did like this thing. Oh, I thought this was weird. So there’s been a forest fire started in Canada.
Sam [00:22:41]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:43]:
Which is not unusual because this happens. Right.
Sam [00:22:45]:
Is that where the. There’s a bunch of kiwis overseas doing something with firefighting. Maybe they’re there.
Chris [00:22:51]:
Yeah. But what happened with this one was the way it got started.
Sam [00:22:55]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:56]:
So it’s a little unusual. This one was started by a fish.
Sam [00:23:00]:
How? Trying to think.
Chris [00:23:04]:
Yep. No, that’s pretty.
Sam [00:23:05]:
Fish carcass bouncing and its eyeballs set off the fire.
Chris [00:23:09]:
Yeah, I think it was pretty dead when it got got. It started the fire. So it’s believed an osprey had captured this fish, caught this fish, it was flying along, it got tired and let go. It hit a transformer and sparked and set off the blaze. And they found this fish at the center of the blaze and like, hang.
Sam [00:23:30]:
On, where’d that come from? I reckon that’s. I reckon if you’re about to commit a crime or something, just take a fish and throw it. Just like throw, you know, arsonists all.
Chris [00:23:44]:
Over the world and dropping fish.
Sam [00:23:46]:
No, just whatever. Just like. Yeah, any crime, just throw a fish. Might as well confuse them.
Chris [00:23:56]:
That’s Cool. And you heard about this? I, I, I think it’s been talked about a bit. I, I, when I first threw it up here, I hadn’t heard of it anywhere except the Guardian. But now I’ve heard, I think half of the late night hosts have talked about the radioactive wasps nest.
Sam [00:24:12]:
Yeah. So what’s the deal?
Chris [00:24:14]:
They’ve so they. The U.S. department of Energy was checking one of its facilities in South Carolina.
Sam [00:24:22]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:24:22]:
And that facility was once involved in the production of parts for nuclear weapons. According to the 22 July department report, the contaminated nest was discovered at the facility, the Savannah river site, on 3rd of July. Ned tanks used to store liquid nuclear waste. Now just on that, storing liquid nuclear waste already just sounds horrible to me.
Sam [00:24:49]:
But anyway, no, it’d be fine. What could go wrong?
Chris [00:24:53]:
So they find this wasps nest and it’s, you know, click, click, click. I’m trying to do a Geiger counter noise.
Sam [00:24:59]:
That was amazing.
Chris [00:25:02]:
It said the nest was sprayed and disposed of as radiological waste. And the testing confirmed its radiation levels greater than 10 times the total contamination values that federation regulations allow. The contaminated wasp nest was the result of on site legacy radioactive contamination and not related to a loss of contamination control. So basically they’re saying it wasn’t a leak, it was just, you know, bit like that. So I trust them 100% on that.
Sam [00:25:31]:
Oh totally, totally.
Chris [00:25:32]:
The ground and surrounded area did not have any contamination and more importantly the wasps. While no wasps were found on the nest, it says the individual insects would have significantly lower levels of contamination. So they didn’t go off chasing them wasps.
Sam [00:25:49]:
I know, it’s just a quick radio.
Chris [00:25:50]:
So those glow in the dark wasps that you’d be finding in Savannah there by the Savannah River. Don’t worry about them at all. If one of them stings you, it won’t matter if all of them sting you, you will become wasp a man.
Sam [00:26:03]:
Well, it’s just a clickbaity headline really, isn’t it?
Chris [00:26:06]:
Yeah, but it is interesting and it’s just like how many of just makes you wonder. So this was the F area tank farm contains 22 underground carbon steel tanks which each tank reportedly capable of holding 750,000 to 1.3 million gallons.
Sam [00:26:28]:
Nice.
Chris [00:26:28]:
About 5 million liters of radioactive waste and you just go, hang on. How much of this crap has the US got lying around? And a lot. And can, can’t Trump just fall into one of them somewhere?
Sam [00:26:43]:
I just imagine if he, imagine if he fell off the White House roof the other day.
Chris [00:26:47]:
Oh God.
Sam [00:26:48]:
That would have been Anyway, it pretty much brings us to the end of the podcast this week. I’m heading to Wellington first thing Monday morning and going straight from the Wellington airport into this conference.
Chris [00:27:00]:
Oh, cool.
Sam [00:27:01]:
So that’s fun.
Chris [00:27:02]:
No, it should be fun.
Sam [00:27:03]:
And back on Wednesday night.
Chris [00:27:06]:
So I am going to be performing at the Meteor Theater in September and October. We’ll put some dates out. I’ll put some dates out. There’s four shows. Can’t guarantee I’m going to be in all of them, but good possibility I will be. Yeah. So I’m looking forward to that.
Sam [00:27:25]:
Another one of your improv buddies was actually at the Lego as well. Luke.
Chris [00:27:29]:
Oh, Luke.
Sam [00:27:30]:
Yeah, yeah, he was there building something because he’s part of the LEGO group thing now.
Chris [00:27:34]:
That doesn’t surprise me at all. He’s about the size of a large child anyway, so.
Sam [00:27:38]:
That’s right. So cool.
Chris [00:27:43]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:27:43]:
So we’re More details about that. Close to the time.
Chris [00:27:46]:
Yeah, yeah. Because I don’t know what time it is. It’s probably 7:30. It’s on a Sunday. It’s every two weeks over that period, fortnightly. And yeah, we don’t know what the prices are gonna be. They’re usually pretty cheap.
Sam [00:27:58]:
Very lacking detail right now, but it’s okay.
Chris [00:28:02]:
Well, I’m just prepared. I’m just seeding the ground. Seeding the ground.
Sam [00:28:07]:
That’s a terrible term. I don’t like it. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:28:11]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:28:12]:
See ya.
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