Summary
Chris juggles TEDx deadlines, a new acting gig as a fake patient, and some serious calendar stress, while Sam uncovers funeral home horrors and the downside of car subscription services.
We learn about pigeons smuggling mystery notes, a woman racing AI by writing 34 books in 34 weeks, and how New Zealand wool makes its way to the US Open.
There’s also a website filling last-minute salon gaps, and the bizarre tale of a man faking his own death for love.
All this randomness—and so much more—in this week’s episode!
Links
How many decomposing bodies is too many?
NZ Wool used for US open tennis balls
VW Subscription service
Hairdresser makes Got A Gap website
Author attempts to outwrite AI
Pakistani Pigeon Causes Problems
Man tries to fake his own death
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 546 of the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randoms, technology and life. And just want to get it out there as a disclaimer. We are not experts in everything we talk about.
Chris [00:00:37]:
So, yeah, there are one or two things that we don’t know everything about.
Sam [00:00:41]:
Quite a few things we do not know anything about. Got a text from Brett, podcast listener.
Chris [00:00:49]:
Okay. All right, so this is what prompted the disclaimer then.
Sam [00:00:54]:
I think he had a problem being a aviation enthusiast. Pilot of planes. When I said thin tube type plane last episode, he wrote that to me with question marks and then a crying laughy emoji. If you want to find about, find out a bit more about aviation. I’m sure there’s some great podcasts out.
Chris [00:01:16]:
There, but if this is not the.
Sam [00:01:18]:
One you want, if you want random technology in life, you’re in the right spot.
Chris [00:01:22]:
Oh, yeah, yeah. Talking about randomness and technology in life, I finally have got things Moving along with TEDx, University of Waikato.
Sam [00:01:32]:
And what’s your deadline? Your deadline’s like, next week.
Chris [00:01:35]:
I know, I know. Everything is so truncated. And it’s funny because I spoke to Gary. I went to see him on Sunday. We were picking the speakers. I said, oh, hey, Gary, how are you going? He goes, oh, I’m really tired. Just come back from Chile last night. I’m like, oh, okay.
Chris [00:01:51]:
He goes, yeah. And we got to get this done. And then I’ve got to go to Poland on Tuesday. What? And then we’re talking. I’m like, oh. So we started trying to book in these times because the event is on the 4th and 6th of November. There’s, oh, my God, two days. So it’s not a lot of time.
Chris [00:02:09]:
Right.
Sam [00:02:09]:
And you’ve already picked the speakers.
Chris [00:02:11]:
We haven’t told them yet, but we’ve picked them. Like, we got the list done today. Like, literally today as we’re recording this.
Sam [00:02:18]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:18]:
And so. So our first get together is on Monday. And he goes, oh, it’s a bit soon. And I’m like, dude, their next thing is on the 12th. So that gives them two weeks to write the talk. At this point, if you push it to Friday, they’ve got just over a week to write the talk.
Sam [00:02:36]:
So this is why we pay you the big bucks.
Chris [00:02:40]:
Yeah. So anyway, yeah, I’m gonna be. I’m Going to be so hammered. But, yeah, we’re working these dates out. And he says to me, oh, we can’t do it on that way. I’m in the Sorbonne. I’m presenting in the Zorban.
Sam [00:02:52]:
I was like, yeah, thank you. What’s that?
Chris [00:02:54]:
Where’s that? It’s in Paris. And I’m like, what am I doing sitting with this person who’s just flying.
Sam [00:03:01]:
All over the world every week? Spend more time out of New Zealand than in New Zealand.
Chris [00:03:08]:
Yep.
Sam [00:03:08]:
It must be worth it.
Chris [00:03:10]:
Yeah. I don’t know. Anyway, so it’s cool. It’s cool. Anyway, so we’ve picked 12 speakers.
Sam [00:03:17]:
12. Okay.
Chris [00:03:18]:
And six are going. Because the University of Waikato has the campus in Tonga and one in Hamilton. We’re going to have six speakers in each. So it’s going to be two days of. Of event. But technically it’s one event. It’s just over. Over two days.
Sam [00:03:33]:
Okay, I was just going to ask. This is basically a standard TEDx event.
Chris [00:03:37]:
Yes.
Sam [00:03:37]:
And they’re doing it here.
Chris [00:03:39]:
Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:03:40]:
Okay.
Chris [00:03:41]:
In the. In the same places we did the TedX.
Sam [00:03:43]:
So six on one day, six on another.
Chris [00:03:46]:
Six. Six here in Waikato, different. Six in Tauranga two days later.
Sam [00:03:51]:
Oh, and they’re doing the talk over there as well. So you have to get to over there.
Chris [00:03:55]:
Yep.
Sam [00:03:55]:
Probably okay to lurk behind the scenes.
Chris [00:03:57]:
Yeah, yeah. So I’ll have to organize. They’re gonna have to transport me and put me up for the night.
Sam [00:04:04]:
I think they’ve got a minivan that travels over every day.
Chris [00:04:06]:
They do. They have a shuttle van.
Sam [00:04:07]:
Yes, I knew that.
Chris [00:04:08]:
And I think they have got some student accommodation. I can.
Sam [00:04:12]:
Oh, Jesus. That’s not sounding good, you being unleashed with the students.
Chris [00:04:20]:
So anyway. So that’s all pretty cool anyway. Yeah. But I am going to be stressed to the max over the next three months. I’m just warning you now. And there’s so many other things happening in that time, because that’s about the same time as Misty Flux.
Sam [00:04:35]:
Everything happens in the same time. It never stops. And it’s just a grind. And then to throw something else in the mix, you have this thing called a job which pays the bills, just.
Chris [00:04:49]:
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Actually, speaking of a job, I’ve got a new gig. I’ve got a gig in a week or two.
Sam [00:04:54]:
Oh, gosh.
Chris [00:04:55]:
An acting gig, which I’ve never done before.
Sam [00:04:58]:
Oh, acting as opposed to extra work or. No, carry on. Your face is like, weird. I don’t know what’s going on.
Chris [00:05:05]:
I’m going to be acting for examinations, for medical examination. So I’m going to be a patient, acting as a patient and they do these examinations and I’ve got to act as a patient. I’m like. And Mary suggested me, or suggest. Asked me if I was being interested and the pay is good.
Sam [00:05:25]:
And I’m like, oh, so, okay. So this is unrelated to your day job?
Chris [00:05:28]:
Unrelated to my day job. I’m taking a day annual leave.
Sam [00:05:33]:
So there’s a company that makes these videos to show someone.
Chris [00:05:37]:
No, it’s not a video.
Sam [00:05:39]:
Oh, sorry.
Chris [00:05:39]:
It’s a live fan.
Sam [00:05:41]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:05:41]:
And they’ve got the doctors and they examine.
Sam [00:05:44]:
You’re going to be told a bunch of symptoms and yeah, potentially got the PDF. Is it a stuffed hip?
Chris [00:05:52]:
No.
Sam [00:05:53]:
Kill two birds with one stone.
Chris [00:05:55]:
But I do have to be obese or overweight, so I think I’ve got that covered. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:00]:
I mean, yeah, no, I’m just gonna. Anything so base these days. So. Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:06:04]:
Not overly obese, hopefully. But anyway. But yeah, they’ve given me this PDF and I’ve got to learn all the names, how long I’ve been doing this thing. I’ve got a wife, I’ve got a son. The son.
Sam [00:06:15]:
So you’ve got this whole backstory, the whole thing, and you just get to spout that out.
Chris [00:06:18]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:06:19]:
Other people there. Do you have a wife, actress?
Chris [00:06:22]:
No, I think I turn up by myself.
Sam [00:06:24]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:24]:
And so the doctor. And it’s not any physical exam because I was expecting to be poked. It’s all just questions and answers and I’ve got to do the emotional thing and be in this state and all the rest of it.
Sam [00:06:39]:
Okay. And then there’s people watching.
Chris [00:06:42]:
Yeah. There’ll be an examiner watching the interaction.
Sam [00:06:45]:
And how many doctors you have to go through?
Chris [00:06:47]:
No idea. But it’s eight hours on. Oh, wow.
Sam [00:06:49]:
Okay.
Chris [00:06:50]:
So it’s at the Clawlands Showground. So I think it’s like a national event thing with a lot of doctors.
Sam [00:06:56]:
What is going on? This is stranger by the second. I like to think you’re going to be on a stage and they’re all watching and then.
Chris [00:07:02]:
Oh, God, I hadn’t thought of that. I don’t know what’s happening, but the agency that I’m with.
Sam [00:07:07]:
Going to be with.
Chris [00:07:08]:
With. Yeah, I’ve signed up with to do this. I think they, I. I think they’re an acting agency, but they do a lot of this stuff by the looks of it.
Sam [00:07:16]:
Okay.
Chris [00:07:16]:
And I didn’t. I had worked with other when I was doing Extra work. I worked with other people who said, oh, yeah, now I’ve got a doctor’s thing told me about it, but I never got into the details. So, anyway, it’s going to be fun.
Sam [00:07:29]:
When’s that happening?
Chris [00:07:31]:
Wednesday 10th is the day I’m doing excellent. So two weeks away.
Sam [00:07:36]:
Yeah, I’ve got the day off. No, I don’t. I’m working from home that day because I’ve got to take a Karen for a warrant.
Chris [00:07:41]:
All right, well, I will let you know how that goes, but yeah, eight hours at the Cloudland showgrounds.
Sam [00:07:47]:
Eight hours. That’s going to be interesting.
Chris [00:07:51]:
I just assume there are people in and out and in and out.
Sam [00:07:53]:
You need to.
Chris [00:07:54]:
And all the rest of it, you.
Sam [00:07:54]:
Need to network and find out which of these doctors are giving speeches. Like, seriously, I don’t know if you can, but, like, if there’s breaks, just go, hey, you go to medical events around the world or whatever. You want a better speech. Boom.
Chris [00:08:07]:
Yeah. And by the way, what can I do about this hip.
Sam [00:08:12]:
Well, yeah, they’re gonna see it straight away, but maybe you just go. You just drop a thing going, hey, just doing, you know. University of Waikato TEDx so you need to mention. What’s the space’s name anyway? How many decompos. Decomposing bodies behind a funeral home door is too many?
Chris [00:08:33]:
One. One is too many, I’m going to say.
Sam [00:08:38]:
How about two dozen? It was behind a hidden door, though. It’s not a normal door. A hidden door. And it was a Colorado funeral home owned by the local county coroner, so no real conflict of interest.
Chris [00:08:51]:
We’ve talked about county coroners on this before, haven’t we? Because that is a. In a lot of counties in America, that’s an elected position that pays well. And they don’t have to have any license, medical license, medical knowledge, anything. They can just get elected to that post, get paid a lot, and then they do things like stuff all the bodies in the secret room.
Sam [00:09:15]:
Yeah. Yeah. They’re calling for him to resign to avoid a costly recall election.
Chris [00:09:23]:
Oh, yep. So he’s elected. Yep.
Sam [00:09:25]:
Good. He told inspectors that some of the bodies were awaiting cremation for about 15 years.
Chris [00:09:34]:
Oh, 15 years. I thought you were going to tell me. Three weeks. Holy crap.
Sam [00:09:41]:
Also explaining why.
Chris [00:09:44]:
Was he there for the whole 15 years? Or was he like, I inherited this problem?
Sam [00:09:51]:
No, no, he’s there. He. His homes. His funeral home’s license may have been suspended and he may have been given families. Just random ash like that other story from a couple of Years ago. Colorado has for a long time had one of the weakest oversight of funeral homes in the nation because there was another case that’s pending now with the 200 decomposing bodies about 50 kilometers away from this dude. So, you know, probably should get onto that and investigate all these places.
Chris [00:10:22]:
Oh, my gosh. If you were religious, you’d get pretty upset about that. I don’t think I would worry too much about my family.
Sam [00:10:32]:
I think it’s more. I’d get upset because I paid for a service and I haven’t got it.
Chris [00:10:36]:
Yeah, yeah, there’s that.
Sam [00:10:36]:
Like, they’re taking a shortcut. Like, I could have, you know, if I could save money and jam someone behind a door myself.
Chris [00:10:43]:
Yeah, yeah, you could do that yourself. Or, you know, hey, it’s a cremation. I can buy petrol. I’m good.
Sam [00:10:50]:
Exactly.
Chris [00:10:50]:
Like, we can work this out.
Sam [00:10:52]:
There’s a lot of.
Chris [00:10:52]:
We can work this out ourselves.
Sam [00:10:54]:
There’s a lot of mental gymnastics to get through, probably, but you could get there if you needed to.
Chris [00:10:58]:
Old bath, petrol, sort of leg, pretty much.
Sam [00:11:03]:
Anyway, what’s the. Why do you have a bath? Or just contain it?
Chris [00:11:06]:
Just to contain it so the fire doesn’t spread.
Sam [00:11:09]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:11:09]:
Well, yeah, I’m not indoors.
Sam [00:11:12]:
Outdoor. It sounds like that. You know, when he gets the bath in Breaking Bad and it’s plastic and.
Chris [00:11:18]:
The acid melts through it, it goes through this.
Sam [00:11:20]:
I can imagine you with a plastic bath and it’s just melting away toxic fumes in the face. And you’re like, oh, no.
Chris [00:11:28]:
Yeah, I got this thing. You see the photo there? Chat Epity.
Sam [00:11:33]:
Yep.
Chris [00:11:33]:
So.
Sam [00:11:34]:
So spell Epity.
Chris [00:11:36]:
Yippity.
Sam [00:11:36]:
Oh, Yippity. Sorry.
Chris [00:11:37]:
Y, I P I T I.
Sam [00:11:40]:
Good. Good.
Chris [00:11:41]:
Spelling baby in Columbia registers as Chat Yippity. Name inspired by ChatGPT. And so it’s like ChatGPT goes, oh, if you’re having a baby, you need to name it. You should name it Chat Yippity. Anyway, this story is completely fake.
Sam [00:11:58]:
Oh, cool.
Chris [00:11:58]:
Completely. Story that’s going around. But the. The sad thing is that when I told you that you, like, that’s believable.
Sam [00:12:09]:
There’s so much randomness going on.
Chris [00:12:11]:
I know. It’s so much randomness. So. Because obviously when I first looked at. I went, oh, this is real.
Sam [00:12:17]:
And then now does the article state, like, halfway through or something? This is fake or what’s the deal? Why’d they do this?
Chris [00:12:23]:
I have no idea. I think it’s just a. Yeah. What is it? Twitter or whatever it is.
Sam [00:12:28]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:12:28]:
Yeah, I think Twitter just. Twitter bullshit.
Sam [00:12:30]:
They probably picked it up. The story came out yesterday, which I’m assuming is just to, like, talk about how amazing New Zealand is in general, or New Zealand wool, to be honest. New Zealand Wool Service is, have said that TTI is the world’s largest tennis ball felt manufacturer. They just make the felt 80% and they produce 80% of the superior tennis ball felt globally.
Chris [00:12:57]:
Wow.
Sam [00:12:57]:
So that’s a lot. They supply Wilson Head, Penn and Schlesinger. They’re using New Zealand wool in there. The main thing is they’re supplying the US Open. So the US Open is going to use about 100,000 Wilson tennis balls. And it’s a cross blend, I guess, of New Zealand wool. It’s got special fineness of 32 to 36 microns. If you were wondering, I know you were like, if it hits 40, I’m out.
Sam [00:13:23]:
But they blend it with a synthetic thread wrapped around the rubber core. So it’s going to be about 3,000 tonnes of new Zealand wool exported specifically for this. That’s quite a lot.
Chris [00:13:33]:
Yeah, no, it is.
Sam [00:13:34]:
And it’s. New Zealand wool is very white and clean, which means they can dye it and have really good dye coverage. But the New Zealand Wolf Service guy, Nathan Watt, trading manager for them, he did note the lack of country branding on the bulls. That’s the, that’s the, you know, that’s the payoff. I mean, you know, that’s true.
Chris [00:13:53]:
Yeah, yeah. It’s one of those if, you know, you know. Yeah, scenarios, exactly. But I know good, good on them, getting that, that, that message out, because.
Sam [00:14:02]:
I think they have.
Chris [00:14:03]:
All they. What they need to do is just get a, A car park, make a New Zealand map of, of. Of tennis balls, take a photo, put that on your Instagram.
Sam [00:14:12]:
We’re onto it. Done. Yeah. Always so onto it. But I think it’s like we spoke to those guys at Field Days in the past and I think there’s been other news stories. The wool has dropped in price and there’s so much of it, they don’t know what to do with it. So trying to find a use for it.
Chris [00:14:28]:
Yeah, yeah. Because Wool Aid. Was it the Band Aid?
Sam [00:14:31]:
Well, there was Wool Aid and then there was that young inventor guy and they had the boat and God knows what else made of wool fiber. So that’s pretty cool.
Chris [00:14:38]:
Lots of, Lots of stuff. Talking about making money. Have you heard about Volkswagen’s subscription service?
Sam [00:14:48]:
No, but I know BMW was doing something a while back as well, so.
Chris [00:14:52]:
BMW, we talked about that. And there was a subscription service to get the seats heated and the.
Sam [00:14:57]:
Yeah, it was like an add on and it’s a monthly fee.
Chris [00:15:00]:
Yeah. So this. The Volkswagen ID3 Pro and Pro S Excellent are listed on the configuration figurator as producing 201bhp.
Sam [00:15:14]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:15]:
But if you pay a subscription fee you can reach the car’s full potential of 228bhp.
Sam [00:15:22]:
Excellent.
Chris [00:15:23]:
So you’re just paying for the extra horsepower and it’s not currently £16 50 per month?
Sam [00:15:30]:
No, no one wants that. It does not seem like a lot more horsepower for what I’m paying. I want another extra hundred brake horsepower.
Chris [00:15:38]:
Yeah. And I mean like. Or you can spend £165 per year.
Sam [00:15:44]:
Of course you can.
Chris [00:15:44]:
Owners can also choose a select a lifetime subscription for the total of 649 pounds.
Sam [00:15:52]:
The lifetime subscription is buying the car and not something else.
Chris [00:15:56]:
What I want to know is if you buy the lifetime subscription and then I sell the car, does the lifetime subscription go with the car or does it stay with me? And I’ve so.
Sam [00:16:07]:
It’s so stupid.
Chris [00:16:08]:
It’s the dumbest thing ever.
Sam [00:16:10]:
Do I. Kat? No.
Chris [00:16:13]:
So angry.
Sam [00:16:17]:
Can you really tell the difference between whatever the. Whatever that difference was in horsepower?
Chris [00:16:22]:
I don’t know.
Sam [00:16:23]:
I fundamentally don’t agree with paying for extras like that. But the heated seats is just black and white. Do you want heated seats, yes or no? It’s going to cost you this. Can you tell what an extra 20, whatever horsepower is in the car? Good for you because if you can, you’re probably not going to buy that car. Like. But they must have done some research on this.
Chris [00:16:45]:
I. Well, I.
Sam [00:16:46]:
Or they just testing the market and going let’s see what happens.
Chris [00:16:50]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:16:50]:
Imagine if your subscription somehow like ends and it just like turns it off and it’s just the car just like slows right down. Now the difference isn’t that big for me. Like if it said. Yeah, I reckon it. It’s just pointless. Maybe it’s just to make me angry. Maybe they’ve heard about the.
Chris [00:17:08]:
Chris, I do remember our friend Paul Spain when his car. He had to. He had to give me a lift out somewhere or something after I was doing something with him.
Sam [00:17:21]:
This is his Tesla, right?
Chris [00:17:23]:
Yes, Tesla. And he goes, oh, hopefully I can drive you. It was updating before and. And I don’t know if I can drive it yet. I’m like, what the hell this is A few years ago that was very novel idea to me that the car would be updating. And then we drove out. He goes oh my God, it’s got more power now. And I’m like, my head’s was like, oh, okay, it’s updated, the car’s been patched and now it goes faster.
Chris [00:17:51]:
Cool.
Sam [00:17:52]:
Anyway, I reckon there’s placebo effect in there though. I think if it said, hey, you can go faster now on a download like that, you’d be like, yeah, yeah, feels fast.
Chris [00:18:01]:
Yeah, yeah, no, 100%.
Sam [00:18:03]:
This woman in Tauranga, she’s a hairdresser and she was realizing that in hairdressing they have about a 20% cancellation rate or 20% changing of appointments.
Chris [00:18:16]:
Yep.
Sam [00:18:17]:
And she’s just left with a whole bunch of space where she’s not doing anything and basically losing money.
Chris [00:18:21]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:18:23]:
And she said, oh, I started advertising on Instagram to say, hey, I’ve got a spot. If you can come in in the next 10 minutes, it’s gonna be cheaper. Good idea. But she was like, oh, it’s only reaching people that already follow me on Instagram. And I was like, oh, that makes sense. And so she goes, I’m gonna make a website that covers anybody anywhere. And it’s called Got a Gap. It’s a platform that allows businesses to list last minute cancellations at a discount to fill empty spots within a three day window.
Sam [00:18:53]:
In six months, more than 200 businesses have signed up, helping companies recover lost revenue. She said it’s similar to grab one first table or first table. Yeah. So she built it and it seems to be going okay. She’s got a figure here actually. She said, you know, you can get a blowway for 20 bucks instead of 65, or a lash lift, which we all know too well, about $60 instead of a hundred. And because she said like the average hair color is $300 and if you were to fill one of those every week, you’re turning over 15 grand extra a year. But if everyone cancels once a week, you’re losing 15 grand.
Sam [00:19:38]:
So she said even if you’re like doing something for a reduced price, you’re covering some more costs.
Chris [00:19:44]:
Yeah, yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And for those service industries where everything’s calendar booked that day passes and you get no revenue for that hour, you’re. You’re cooked. It really impacts your profit hugely. So, no, it’s a great idea. And what is it called?
Sam [00:20:05]:
Got a Gap.
Chris [00:20:06]:
Got a Gap.
Sam [00:20:07]:
Yeah. I don’t know about that name, but it sort of makes sense.
Chris [00:20:10]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:20:11]:
But we’re talking about it now to spread the word at the Christmas, I’m.
Chris [00:20:14]:
Going To check it out because. Yeah, I think that’s a good idea. And it’s. That sort of thing used to be done in the air travel industry, sort of done all sorts of crap.
Sam [00:20:25]:
So they only talk about hair salons in the story, and I’m assuming that’s their main business focus. But I could see it.
Chris [00:20:32]:
I could see a lot of medical things and all sorts of stuff like that.
Sam [00:20:36]:
Yeah. Yeah. So I don’t know. I haven’t checked out the website, to be honest. Too busy for that. You’re lucky I’ve got a link.
Chris [00:20:42]:
All right, I’ll check it out later. Hey, I. I love this. Alberta author. Alberta, Canada.
Sam [00:20:49]:
Okay.
Chris [00:20:50]:
She’s decided to battle AI.
Sam [00:20:53]:
And.
Chris [00:20:53]:
And so she’s done that by writing 34 books in 34 weeks.
Sam [00:20:58]:
I’m sure they’re all bangers, too.
Chris [00:21:00]:
Yeah, well, I think she’s not bad. She’s already done some sort of. I’m a pretty fast writer. I’ve been honing my speed over the years, so I write about 1500 words an hour, she explained.
Sam [00:21:11]:
But it’s the mental bandwidth to keep up with quality.
Chris [00:21:15]:
Yeah, I know.
Sam [00:21:16]:
There’s a difference there.
Chris [00:21:17]:
So she’s in brightly painted rooms now by photos of kids where she spends five to eight hours every day, seven days a week over the past year, writing 34 books in 34 weeks.
Sam [00:21:28]:
That’s so much keyboard mashing.
Chris [00:21:31]:
I wanted to show that one author could write almost as fast as AI, but hopefully much better. And using no AI at all. Already a prolific writer, she used the project to tackle a list of stories she’d been wanting to tell for years. So she already had them.
Sam [00:21:44]:
Okay.
Chris [00:21:45]:
From science fiction to romance to Westerns.
Sam [00:21:47]:
Probably combining all three at some point.
Chris [00:21:48]:
Yeah. Yeah. When you look at an AI written story, it feels very generic. There’s no wild flights of fancy. Its job is to filter out the massive information we have online to something small. But that doesn’t work with fiction. Fiction is small. It’s about those small moments that make us human.
Chris [00:22:06]:
So, yeah, anyway, I think it’s great. I think it’s a cool. Good on you. And people too often moan about, you know, AI is doing this or AIs doing that and she’s doing something better. Good on her.
Sam [00:22:21]:
Yeah, but we just don’t know, like, if those books are actually published or if anyone wants to read them. But still, it’s a good little story.
Chris [00:22:29]:
Yeah, I thought so. I’ve got some not so great stories as opposed to that. I will talk about the dodgy Pigeon? Because I’m sure we’ve talked about a pigeon similar to this before.
Sam [00:22:41]:
Oh, is this the curry coated one?
Chris [00:22:43]:
No, no, but it is. In the Hindustan Times there’s a pigeon.
Sam [00:22:48]:
Somewhere in the UK I think and somebody thought it was a rare bird and it turns out it was just covered in curry.
Chris [00:22:55]:
A red pigeon?
Sam [00:22:57]:
Yeah, a couple of weeks ago. Sort of orange.
Chris [00:22:59]:
Yeah, yeah. Okay, now this one. The pigeon was believed to be flying in from Pakistan into the Katamaria area along the international border. 9pm on August 18, the police said security forces captured the pigeon.
Sam [00:23:16]:
Okay, okay.
Chris [00:23:17]:
Carrying a note to blow up the Jammu railway station.
Sam [00:23:21]:
The note, hang on. So the note just said, hey, we’re blowing up this. Is it that or do you just like hey, if you see this go down that train station, blow it up.
Chris [00:23:30]:
The pigeon was captured from the border area of. Blah, blah, blah. In following, security was tightened in the region. The pigeon believed to be flying in from Pakistan was caught in the. Along the international border about 9pm Adding that a chit was found to the bird’s claws. Tied to the bird’s claws with a message to blow up the Jamu railway station. This is the first time their pigeon carrying a threat letter has been intercepted, officials said.
Sam [00:24:00]:
What?
Chris [00:24:00]:
Adding that in the past balloons, flags and pigeons with various message have been captured near the international border. The officials said that security agencies were probing whether this was just an act of mischief or a well planned conspiracy.
Sam [00:24:16]:
I think they were wasting your time.
Chris [00:24:18]:
Conspiracy? Using a pigeon. What the hell?
Sam [00:24:21]:
How many pigeons do you think they’re stopping? And they must have to stop everywhere.
Chris [00:24:25]:
It was written in Urdu and English.
Sam [00:24:27]:
Oh good.
Chris [00:24:29]:
And it was talking about using an IED along with phrases including Kashmir freedom and the time has come. Okay, yeah, but I’m sure we talked about sometime a year or two or three ago or seven.
Sam [00:24:47]:
Who knows?
Chris [00:24:47]:
Who knows about a pigeon doing something? Catching another pigeon around this pigeons must be a real message service around Pakistan, India.
Sam [00:24:57]:
I. Yeah, I guess so if. Yep. You train one up, off you go.
Chris [00:25:02]:
All right, I’ll tell you another random story. Well, I don’t know, I just wanted to know what you thought. Okay, this guy faked his death, all right? And end story, he got caught and he’s been jailed for faking his. He was 89 days missing. Dead, dead, whatever. And so they’ve put him in prison for. In jail for 89 days.
Sam [00:25:28]:
Okay, yeah, okay.
Chris [00:25:31]:
And apparently the max was 90 days, three months anyway for that crime and whereabouts. It was record America.
Sam [00:25:41]:
Okay.
Chris [00:25:41]:
And it was. Oh Wisconsin. Yeah. And it was recommended that he go in for 45 days. But I. Okay. The Wisconsin husband and father who authorities said faked his own death at a lake and fled the country.
Sam [00:25:57]:
Okay. There’s a lot.
Chris [00:25:58]:
A lot of Ryan Bogwart. Borgwart.
Sam [00:26:02]:
Old Boggy.
Chris [00:26:03]:
Yeah. 45. Appeared in court on Tuesday to plead no contest to the misdemeanor charge of obstructing an officer and received his sentence. So I deeply regret the reactions that I did that night and all the pain I caused my family and friends. He is here taking responsibility for his actions. Is this defense person said. But he researched and studied how to successfully disappear. Obviously not a very good source.
Sam [00:26:36]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:37]:
And believe that green lakes great depth would mean that a body would not surface because so much water on top of you. I guess. I don’t know. He doesn’t know how floating works.
Sam [00:26:49]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:26:49]:
No.
Sam [00:26:49]:
He’s an idiot.
Chris [00:26:50]:
And he then traveled to the country of Georgia and created a life with a woman he met online.
Sam [00:26:58]:
Oh, there you go. That explains it all.
Chris [00:27:00]:
So. Yeah.
Sam [00:27:01]:
How hard is it to get to Georgia?
Chris [00:27:04]:
I don’t. Because that’s south of Russia, right?
Sam [00:27:07]:
Yeah. It’s. Yeah.
Chris [00:27:08]:
I don’t know. How did they catch. Began on August 11th when he texted his wife that he was turning his kayak around on Great Lake and heading to shore soon. But he never came home. Cruz found his overturned kayak and life jacket and volunteers spent weeks searching the lake for him. In October, investigators discovered his name had been checked by law enforcement in Canada two days after he vanished. So he must have just. Because.
Chris [00:27:36]:
What Wisconsin’s on the border with Canada. So he drove across the border there and they learned he’d been communicating with a woman from Uzbekistan. Of course. So if you get those, you know, you meet these Ukrainian women or Uzbekistan women. Just. Just delete. Just hit delete. That’s what I do.
Sam [00:27:57]:
You know what would have made that story better for me? If the woman never existed and he was somehow fooled by an AI chatbot.
Chris [00:28:05]:
Yeah. It doesn’t otherwise. Yeah. That’s how they found it. Doesn’t really go into details, but his.
Sam [00:28:12]:
Story is lacking near the end.
Chris [00:28:14]:
Yeah. My. My question is why would you do that and how would you want to disappear? I like. I don’t. It. I just.
Sam [00:28:23]:
People are dumb.
Chris [00:28:23]:
Missing it. I’m missing it.
Sam [00:28:25]:
Anyway, that brings us to the end of this podcast. Check out everything we’ve ever [email protected] or on your favorite podcasting app if you want to download over 500 episodes. Listen to them. Non Stop from start to finish and slowly go insane.
Chris [00:28:39]:
Good luck.
Sam [00:28:40]:
We won’t stop you.
Chris [00:28:44]:
Yeah. So what do you got coming up? Anything exciting?
Sam [00:28:47]:
I have got the 48 hours heat screenings. So when this comes out, there’s one happening on that Sunday at 3:30 and then the Monday at 6pm Wednesday, 6pm so there’s.
Chris [00:29:01]:
For those that don’t know, 48 hours is a film competition in New Zealand. Very big deal. And It’s. You’ve got 48 hours to make a film.
Sam [00:29:09]:
Yeah, that’s it. They got the heats and I’m going to be there to say hi to people.
Chris [00:29:15]:
Because Sam’s a celebrity. No, we call him Celebrity Sam.
Sam [00:29:19]:
We do not. No one does. And you’ve got work, I’m assuming, and learning your lines for a medical, which is going to be an epic story.
Chris [00:29:29]:
Whatever happens. Whatever happens.
Sam [00:29:30]:
And I just get the feeling that.
Chris [00:29:33]:
I’m waiting for Adam to hit me up and say he knows what I’m talking about or something.
Sam [00:29:38]:
I don’t want to put it out there, but I think somehow you’re going to put some classic Chris spin on this. Why are you wearing no pants? And you’re like, I thought I’d be better.
Chris [00:29:50]:
I’m supposed to be wearing overalls and gumboots. I’m like, I haven’t got overalls or gumboots. But okay. All right.
Sam [00:29:56]:
You probably should figure that out.
Chris [00:29:57]:
Yeah. Because I own a fish. A fishmongers.
Sam [00:30:00]:
Oh, my gosh. Okay.
Chris [00:30:02]:
I forgot my name already, but I’ve only glanced at it once.
Sam [00:30:05]:
Okay, I look forward to hearing about this in the future. Until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:11]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:30:12]:
See ya.
Chris [00:30:12]:
Bye
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