Floating Wind Turbine

Summary

China tests a floating wind turbine that harnesses air power, Brazil opens the world’s largest mosquito factory, and a lost train is discovered buried on a beach—plus Halloween mischief and a marathon podcast farewell.

Show Transcript

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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 553 of the Chris and 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. And this is not a mass produced AI podcast. Apparently that is a thing that is happening these days, 100% and no, it’s getting worse and worse, I guess. Apparently the people are feeding stuff into AI, like text documents. I think the AI is writing the text document, creating the podcast, doing the voice, and then they distribute it because.

Chris [00:00:54]:
Have you seen Nolm’s version of that? I think I’ve showed you that. A. And you can get anything that’s in there as a summary. You can just put a website address and it’ll turn it into a podcast. Two people explaining what was on there.

Sam [00:01:07]:
Yes, I remember that.

Chris [00:01:10]:
So it’s gone further from that now. And now you can. I had thought about this. We can get clones of our faces and do AI videos of us doing this. Just putting our actual audio there.

Sam [00:01:21]:
And, well, Inception Point AI as a company, they’re releasing 3,000 podcasts weekly. I don’t even think it’s episodes. I think that’s podcasts. $1 per episode. They’re doing it with a small team and the threshold for Profitability is about 20 listens to break even, which is nuts. I guess they’re just going for a sheer giant. What do you call it? Just tons of work going out and apparently. No, apparently there’s very little drop off by listeners.

Sam [00:01:53]:
This is probably from the company saying this. And it’s going to be a challenge for small independent podcasters to stand out above this. But don’t worry, here we are. Nobody is going to make AI of what we do.

Chris [00:02:06]:
Nobody’s running us out of town.

Sam [00:02:09]:
Anyway, how’s your week been?

Chris [00:02:10]:
Been flat out busy.

Sam [00:02:11]:
Excellent.

Chris [00:02:12]:
I will say that we had our penultimate. What do you call it?

Sam [00:02:17]:
Improv.

Chris [00:02:17]:
Improv Combat last year. Last week. That was really good. I had a few of people that I invited come along.

Sam [00:02:24]:
Yep.

Chris [00:02:24]:
Which was cool. So, because I was actually gonna go, I might sit this one out. But it’s like, oh, no, they’ve bought tickets. Right. Okay.

Sam [00:02:30]:
You can’t sit it out. You have to commit.

Chris [00:02:32]:
Yeah. So, yeah. No, it’s good. Good fun. Yeah. My cast members love me because they embarrass me every freaking week.

Sam [00:02:40]:
So I find that hard to believe.

Chris [00:02:43]:
There’s one more next week if you want to Come along, get a ticket now. It’ll be the last for the year. It will be fun. It will be hilarious.

Sam [00:02:53]:
Excellent. Now, I do need to ask. You’ve got a toothbrush on the desk here while we’re recording. What’s the deal?

Chris [00:02:58]:
I. My old mechanical toothbrush.

Sam [00:03:03]:
Electric toothbrush.

Chris [00:03:04]:
Yeah, yeah.

Sam [00:03:05]:
Mechanical is probably something else.

Chris [00:03:06]:
Well, okay, I’ll call it mechanical because this is sonic. Oh, so they’re both electric, but that one’s mechanical. This one’s sonic. So I, I’ve been thinking I must just. Using a normal brush after using an electric brush for years, it’s like, oh, this is crap. Anyway, so I, I went online and bought this thing from AliExpress and it’s a sonic one. I’m gonna turn it on now for you.

Sam [00:03:33]:
Oh, that’s a.

Chris [00:03:34]:
Okay. That’s very annoying sound, isn’t it?

Sam [00:03:36]:
That’s enough of that.

Chris [00:03:38]:
It’s probably buzzy a little bit because the cap’s still on it, but it’s really cool.

Sam [00:03:43]:
Is the difference quite noticeable?

Chris [00:03:45]:
It’s. It’s. It’s really different, put it that way. So the. There’s no movement of the head except for the vibration, whereas the other one sort of spins or whatever it does. And this is actually much better. Feels much better. And you can’t push too hard on it because it’ll just stop.

Sam [00:04:05]:
Okay. So this doesn’t have the round head that oscillates. This just has a normal toothbrush looking head that sonically vibrates, I guess.

Chris [00:04:14]:
Yeah. Okay, so I’m impressed.

Sam [00:04:16]:
Actually, if someone wants to buy one of these.

Chris [00:04:18]:
30 bucks. Okay, 35 something.

Sam [00:04:20]:
So I guess the real test is just life expectancy.

Chris [00:04:24]:
Yeah, we’ll see.

Sam [00:04:25]:
Because the last one, apparently it’s got mode.

Chris [00:04:27]:
So you press it and it goes from clean to sensitive to massage to white polish.

Sam [00:04:33]:
Okay.

Chris [00:04:34]:
I think you’ll only ever use one mode. And I have scrolled through them and they all seem to do exactly the same thing. I don’t know if there’s any difference in reality. So. Yeah, but it looks good. It’s a very sleek looking design. So yeah.

Sam [00:04:48]:
Oh, that’s good. Talking about sleek looking design, China has just tested and apparently conducted a maiden flight of the S1 500. It’s exciting, isn’t it? What says it’s a floating wind turbine? Oh, I don’t know if you’ve seen this.

Chris [00:05:08]:
No, no.

Sam [00:05:09]:
So basically it’s a megawatt level flying airship and it harnesses the air so it’s like.

Chris [00:05:15]:
Oh, when you say floating, you Mean in the air, not on the sea.

Sam [00:05:18]:
Yes.

Chris [00:05:18]:
Oh, right. When you said floating, I thought it was like a ship.

Sam [00:05:22]:
No. So it’s like a tethered inflatable giant thing.

Chris [00:05:28]:
So it’s like a zeppelin with a turbine around it type thing.

Sam [00:05:32]:
It’s got. Yeah, it’s got a. Well the blades that turn to produce the power inside that pit around it. And it sounds like.

Chris [00:05:41]:
So it’d be filled with lighter than air gas in the main.

Sam [00:05:45]:
Yeah. So It’s. Yeah, yeah. 60 meters long, 40 meters tall. That’s how big the thing is.

Chris [00:05:52]:
You don’t realise that looking at the image.

Sam [00:05:55]:
No, no deep foundation required. No tower required. 40% reduction in material use and 30% cut in electricity costs. Advanced Aerodynamics has got 12 turbine generator sets on it and.

Chris [00:06:12]:
And it’s effectively, what would you call it, portable because you could move it from one place to another.

Sam [00:06:18]:
Exactly. They can disassemble it and move it within hours. And it’s ideal for challenging locations like deserts, islands and mining sites. They can just set it up if you’re doing a temporary thing, I guess.

Chris [00:06:29]:
Yeah, yeah. Because you don’t have much land. I guess there’s an anchor point but that’s the only land thing you need.

Sam [00:06:35]:
So they had to come overcome some challenges. The stability of it. Ultralight generators because you don’t want that weighing it down and kilometer scale. High voltage tethers because tethered, the power’s got to come in somewhere.

Chris [00:06:49]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sam [00:06:50]:
They, they built upon something they did in 2024 and they reckon it’s an untapped resource at certain altitudes.

Chris [00:06:59]:
Yeah, you got the slipstream thing but yeah, I would have thought that’d be a bit too high, but yeah, it’s. So for those listening it does look. Remind me of the old World War II anti airplane balloons.

Sam [00:07:14]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:07:15]:
The little zeppelin looking things that are just tethered to the ground. It looks like that but with a. With a tail fan thing on it.

Sam [00:07:23]:
It’s interesting. Just thinking about a different way of doing a thing you’re already doing.

Chris [00:07:26]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:07:27]:
Like why is it connected to a tower? Why can’t it be up here?

Chris [00:07:30]:
Yeah, it makes so much more sense and yeah it would. You’d think it’d be way safer. The only problem I would imagine is with aircraft.

Sam [00:07:41]:
Oh yeah, yeah. You have to be mindful of what you’re doing and where you put it.

Chris [00:07:45]:
Yeah. You want to have decent lights on it.

Sam [00:07:48]:
How do you feel about just talking about technology in general? Brazil has just opened its largest mosquito factory What?

Chris [00:08:00]:
So imagine these are airplanes. No mosquitoes.

Sam [00:08:04]:
No actual mosquitoes. So you imagine a really big building, like multiple stories, looks massive, and they’re going to be basically producing 100 million mosquitoes a week. Are you on board?

Chris [00:08:17]:
Why?

Sam [00:08:18]:
Why not? What do you mean, why? No, the real reason is dengue fever is really, really bad and it kills a lot of people. So they. Yeah. So they’re breeding hundreds of millions of mosquitoes, dengue resistant. Well, they’re going to put this thing called Wolbachiabacteria introduced to that mosquitoes, and then. So there’s about seven or just over 6,000 people a year die from the fever anyway. So they’re going to put the bacteria introduced to the mosquitoes that they’re growing, and then they release those infected mosquitoes out into the wild and they’re going to breed and it prevents the mosquitoes from transmitting it. Now, when they do this, they’re going to be protecting about 7 million people in Brazil every six months.

Chris [00:09:08]:
Oh, wow.

Sam [00:09:10]:
How do you deliver the mosquitoes that you’re breeding, that you’re taking out to wherever? What do you reckon?

Chris [00:09:16]:
Put them in a Tupperware container, go out and just open it and let them go?

Sam [00:09:21]:
It says they have a car that just drives over to the. Wherever they need it to go. I like to think it’s like a cloud of mosquitoes in the back and the guy jumps out and opens the door and off they go. But it’s a really big facility. Anyway, we found out about that this week.

Chris [00:09:39]:
I’m an Uber driver. I’ve got a pickup for Mozzie.

Sam [00:09:45]:
And this is like their large factory, the world’s largest factory for breeding mosquitoes. I mean, I don’t know who had that record before.

Chris [00:09:56]:
Well, we did talk about one where the belt that they dropped mosquitoes from a plane across the Panama Peninsula.

Sam [00:10:04]:
That’s right, yeah.

Chris [00:10:05]:
Yeah. A while back we talked about that.

Sam [00:10:07]:
It’s exciting times in the world of science this week.

Chris [00:10:11]:
Yes. Because I heard that there’s now more robots in China than in the rest of the world put together. Together.

Sam [00:10:19]:
Oh, yeah, I’d believe that. Those little creepy ones.

Chris [00:10:21]:
Yeah, yeah.

Sam [00:10:22]:
The child siiz humanoid ones that you.

Chris [00:10:24]:
Just want to kick.

Sam [00:10:25]:
But they do have weird videos that they’re all. They all seem to be running around with them and doing stuff.

Chris [00:10:31]:
Yeah. And you showed me the. The guy. I’ve forgotten the guy’s name. The one that did the. Pulled apart the.

Sam [00:10:35]:
Oh, yeah. WHISTLING diesel whistling on YouTube. He had one put knife in his hand and gave It a gun.

Chris [00:10:42]:
The dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.

Sam [00:10:44]:
It was good.

Chris [00:10:45]:
It was good. It was good to watch. Talking about good to watch, actually.

Sam [00:10:49]:
Okay.

Chris [00:10:49]:
I’ve started watching Tulsa King. Have you seen that?

Sam [00:10:52]:
Don’t even know what it is.

Chris [00:10:53]:
It’s a TV series on TVNZ plus.

Sam [00:10:58]:
Okay.

Chris [00:10:58]:
Free to watch. I think it’s three seasons, so I’ve just started season two. Okay. Starring Sylvester Stallone.

Sam [00:11:07]:
Oh, really?

Chris [00:11:08]:
As a, as a mobster who’s, you know, the, the beginning of movie. He’s getting out of prison. He’s been in there for 25 years. Goes back to see the family.

Sam [00:11:17]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:11:17]:
And they’re basically like, well, things have moved on and in New York here, rah, rah, rah. We’ve got a job for you. You can run Oklahoma.

Sam [00:11:26]:
Okay.

Chris [00:11:27]:
So that’s the premise of the movie basically. Right. So he’s out in Oklahoma trying to, as, as a, as a made mob man. Out in Oklahoma where all the cowboys are.

Sam [00:11:35]:
Okay.

Chris [00:11:35]:
It’s pretty good. He’s great. I think I like it because he’s 75 years old and he’s still pulling some good looking younger women, girls that are 20, 30 years younger than him. And it gives me hope. I know that scripted and everything, but it still gives me hope. But there are a couple of people in it. There’s also Herc from the Wire.

Sam [00:11:58]:
Okay.

Chris [00:11:58]:
Is in there.

Sam [00:11:59]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:11:59]:
And Guilfoyle from Silicon Valley.

Sam [00:12:03]:
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, I know who you mean.

Chris [00:12:05]:
Yeah. And I really liked his character. And late in the first ep, first season. So I think it’s nine episodes in the season. So around episode seven or eight, I think.

Sam [00:12:14]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:12:15]:
He’s hacking into something. I go, where did you learn to hack like that? He goes, I spent five years working at a startup in Silicon Valley.

Sam [00:12:22]:
Oh my gosh. Okay.

Chris [00:12:24]:
I was like, yes, Gil Foil.

Sam [00:12:27]:
Little call back there.

Chris [00:12:28]:
Yeah, I love that. But yeah, no, it’s really good. It’s, it’s really good. So the first season was really good anyway. And I haven’t seen it the of rest.

Sam [00:12:35]:
I have just watched all of the studio, which is an Apple TV series. It just won all the awards at the Oscars. Seth Rogen stars in it, co directs it, co produces it, co wrote it, and he basically becomes the head of a movie studio called Continental Studios. It’s just a bit batshit. But it’s interesting because like Apple obviously, or streamers, I guess in general, some of them let the people creating shows just make them however long they want.

Chris [00:13:06]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:13:06]:
So this show ranges from 45 minute long episodes to 22. Like just whatever.

Chris [00:13:13]:
Oh, that’s weird.

Sam [00:13:14]:
It’s pretty funny. If you watch it, you will enjoy old school Hollywood Buffet.

Chris [00:13:21]:
Cool. I have seen a couple of shorts about it or something online. Plus, speaking of odd times, I watched the John Campbell two seasons from this year of. I don’t know how it’s two seasons in one year, but whatever it is. Of under his command, the John Campbell looking into Destiny Church.

Sam [00:13:44]:
Oh, interesting.

Chris [00:13:46]:
And they’re only 15 minutes an episode. All right, so there’s two lots of four or five episodes.

Sam [00:13:51]:
It was pretty good with. Yeah, with the studio. I like it that a lot of the episodes, they have really long one takes. All right, but one of the episodes is all about a one take that he wants in a movie. He goes, we’ve got to do the one. Got to do the oner. But the whole episode is a oner. While they’re on a film set.

Sam [00:14:09]:
While they’re filming, like both sets. And I was like, oh my gosh. Logistical nightmare.

Chris [00:14:13]:
Gives me a nightmare just thinking about it.

Sam [00:14:16]:
Do you know what doesn’t give you a nightmare?

Chris [00:14:18]:
What?

Sam [00:14:19]:
You’ve got back pain and you’re like, I need that home remedy. So I’m gonna eat eight live frogs. And then you get really sick and you end up in hospital and you have a. Yeah, you have sharp abdominal pain and you end up in hospital. They ruled out a tumor and then realized that it was a type of parasitic worm found in amphibians. So this 82 year old woman from China decided to just bang on with her home remedy of eating some frogs. Live frogs. You don’t want to cook them.

Sam [00:14:57]:
Okay.

Chris [00:14:58]:
Yeah, I think that’s one of the problems right there. The raw thing. Speaking of random eating random things. So the EU has recently voted to reserve meat terms for animal products. What this means.

Sam [00:15:13]:
Yeah, give me some meat terms is.

Chris [00:15:15]:
There are no more veggie burgers because burgers are meat. You can’t have a veggie sausage, so.

Sam [00:15:22]:
What can you have? Veggie patty. What do they call it? Do we know?

Chris [00:15:26]:
I don’t know. Hang on. What does it say here? It just says you can’t use veggie burger and veggie sausage. You’re not allowed to use meat only. The proposed meat only list also includes things like hamburger, egg yolk and egg white. So you can’t have an egg white. That is an egg. The EU has already defined dairy items such as milk, butter, cream, yogurt and cheese as products secreted by Mammary glands.

Chris [00:15:53]:
I mean, we all want milk. It’s oat drink.

Sam [00:15:57]:
Good. I mean, I don’t care.

Chris [00:16:00]:
Nobody cares. And that’s what sort of why I wanted to mention it, because I’m like, if they made that a rule here, you gonna tell me when they go, I want a coffee with oat milk. I’m gonna say with oat milk. A coffee with oat milk. I don’t care. Oh no, we can’t say oat milk. It’s.

Sam [00:16:19]:
Has there been drink. Okay, whatever. Yeah, cool. I was just wondering if, like I just.

Chris [00:16:24]:
It’s the dumbest shit ever.

Sam [00:16:26]:
I was just wondering if it’s caused actual problems or if it’s just a bit more clarity.

Chris [00:16:31]:
No, it’s all about the EU marketing and they want people that are marketing beef and dairy and stuff like that to go. Well, you can’t call it this. It’s the same thing as the champagne from France. Just moving it on to freaking. Okay. They keep talking about people being woke and veggie people being woke, but it’s the non veggies that are like the wokest of the. You can’t call that meat.

Sam [00:16:57]:
Yeah, well, talking about cons, I may have found the longest con. A man in Italy has been accused of faking blindness for 50 plus years. He’s 70 years old, so at some point in his 20s, he’s like, I’ll just pretend I’m blind and is he begging or something? He’s collected more than $1.16 million in disability payments.

Chris [00:17:25]:
It pays off then.

Sam [00:17:26]:
Wow, 53 year long con. They found out during cross checks and then they surveilled him and over two month period he was recorded. And he was doing gardening work with dangerous tools. He was a kid. He was carefully inspecting produce at the market before purchasing. He moved effortlessly throughout the city. He did his own shopping and he paid with cash without any assistance whatsoever. So they’ve charged him with fraud against the Italian state.

Sam [00:17:56]:
They’ve suspended all his stuff and.

Chris [00:18:00]:
Yeah, and they put his eyes out because that would be fun. Like, that would be like fair fun. Well, I don’t know.

Sam [00:18:07]:
Hang on, I’ve got to get the hot poker ready. What?

Chris [00:18:10]:
Nothing, we’re just, we’re just severing your nerves of your eyes. So then you earn the money that we’ve given you. So.

Sam [00:18:15]:
So I mentioned this at work and somebody said, was he Stevie wondering it? Because I’m 100% convinced that Stevie Wonder can see. And that is like a thing online.

Chris [00:18:28]:
Oh yeah, because he is Pretty nimble.

Sam [00:18:31]:
Didn’t he do something real random like. He did do something once.

Chris [00:18:35]:
Anyway, he’s done a few things, I think.

Sam [00:18:37]:
Yeah. Talking about people that have done a few things. Mark Marin, he has recorded 1686 podcasts and decided to hand it in. He stopped.

Chris [00:18:46]:
Yeah. That’s 16 years he’s been doing it. So.

Sam [00:18:49]:
Yes. Almost 16, I think.

Chris [00:18:50]:
Almost 16.

Sam [00:18:51]:
And he decided to have his very last interview with Barack Obama.

Chris [00:18:55]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:18:55]:
Again.

Chris [00:18:56]:
Yeah. Because he did the one with his. With Barack. It was the first president to appear on a podcast, I think.

Sam [00:19:03]:
Yeah. Must have been. Yeah.

Chris [00:19:04]:
At that time.

Sam [00:19:05]:
So we’ve almost been going as long as him. Maybe if you listen to every episode of his, like non stop. I think it said it would take four and a half years.

Chris [00:19:16]:
Holy.

Sam [00:19:16]:
Or is that one episode a day maybe? Yeah, yeah, one episode a day.

Chris [00:19:19]:
One. One episode.

Sam [00:19:20]:
So. But it’s only two people. It’s him and the producer guy. Yeah, that’s it. And there’s, you know, just. It’s crazy. So I don’t know what he’s up to now. I think he just needs a break.

Sam [00:19:31]:
He’s. They just said like, we’ve just done so much.

Chris [00:19:34]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sam [00:19:36]:
And it was like basically burnout. He was experiencing burnout. Finally. They’re proud of it. He’s been through a lot. Like his partner died at one point. He’s moved house. So he went from one garage to another garage.

Sam [00:19:48]:
It literally is the garage.

Chris [00:19:51]:
That’s good. Nah, good on him. I. And. And I think that’s a good thing. You know, you get to that point and you go. Right, that’s it. So when that.

Chris [00:20:00]:
We’ve been going 10 years, haven’t we?

Sam [00:20:01]:
Eleven. Eleven, yeah, 11.

Chris [00:20:04]:
So we’ve got another five maybe.

Sam [00:20:05]:
Okay, excellent. How do you feel about Halloween decorations in general or Halloween?

Chris [00:20:12]:
I really like it. So. You know, I love a zombie. I love zombie.

Sam [00:20:15]:
Yeah, that’s right. Any excuse actually talking about that. I think the zombie walk got cancelled this year. They were gonna do one.

Chris [00:20:23]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:20:23]:
They’ve said we’ve stopped it here in Hamilton and we’re excited to partner with someone next year. So I think they’ve already canned it. Somehow I was following.

Chris [00:20:34]:
I couldn’t make it anyway. No. Because we had other things on. Otherwise I’d be so into it. So I hired Cassie Morrison from Northland to come down. This is back when I was at telecom and making loads of cash. I hired her to come down to Hamilton and make me and my friends up for a zombie walk.

Sam [00:20:56]:
Yes.

Chris [00:20:56]:
And she Did a fantastic.

Sam [00:20:58]:
Hang on. How did you. How do you know this person?

Chris [00:21:00]:
Don’t know how I found her. I found her online or something, I think.

Sam [00:21:03]:
Okay.

Chris [00:21:04]:
And I paid her a couple hundred dollars petrol money to get down here.

Sam [00:21:08]:
Okay.

Chris [00:21:08]:
Paid her some money. And she was great. She did a great job. And I. So I still follow her on Facebook and she’s just one body effects clown makeup. So they’re doing a different genre every week or something.

Sam [00:21:21]:
Oh, cool.

Chris [00:21:22]:
So they did clowns one week and she won the clown. It’s freaking great. I’ll show you photos after. Maybe we’ll put it in the thing. And then she was putting together a zombie one. Oh, that’s for this week. So I haven’t seen it yet. Okay.

Chris [00:21:35]:
Yeah, yeah. Anyway, that random.

Sam [00:21:37]:
That’s cool. So you like Halloween?

Chris [00:21:39]:
Yeah, I love Halloween.

Sam [00:21:40]:
How do you feel that stuff?

Chris [00:21:42]:
Okay.

Sam [00:21:43]:
How do you feel like in America? They go all out. There’s some crazy animatronic things you can buy. There’s so much cool stuff. There’s haunted houses, there’s attractions, there’s big shows where the people that buy stuff for these can go see them. Yeah, I see some. My Instagram has got some crazy stuff. Anyway, there’s a couple. They’re facing some scrutiny where they live in the US because they’ve decided again to make their house, which looks like a two story house, but it’s one of those big houses with like 10 windows at the front.

Sam [00:22:20]:
It looks like it’s on fire all the time. There’s smoke coming out, the windows are lit up. They’ve got lights and special effects. It draws people to it that people keep ringing up saying that the house is on fire. They even caused a car accident last year and they’ve put signs up and they have to keep saying the fire is not real. Please do not call the fire department. Do you think at some point maybe if people can consistently ring the fire department, they’re getting pissed off at you? I don’t know if they’re finding you. The local fire chief says he does have a protocol in place and they are aware of the decorations.

Sam [00:23:06]:
Do you think you should stop doing it?

Chris [00:23:08]:
No, I don’t think so. I think. I think it’s good as long as everybody’s you. You do your best to make sure everybody knows about it.

Sam [00:23:15]:
The chief does say that and he said it does not resemble a real fire. So that’s okay. But yes, please let people know.

Chris [00:23:24]:
Yeah, because there was that one. I. This is a couple of years old, but somebody Made an animatronic guy. Oh, okay. Looks pretty real where he’s hanging off the second floor and his legs are kicking around and that ladder’s fallen off.

Sam [00:23:41]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:23:41]:
And they called the fire brigade for that to. Oh, there’s a guy. Ha. Hanging off a building. His ladder’s fallen down. It’s like it’s a robot. So. Yeah, And I thought that was great.

Sam [00:23:52]:
I think we did talk about that. Probably.

Chris [00:23:55]:
We talked about. Did we talk about the. I love the. The ones where they have the lasers onto the thing so it looks like things are crawling out of the windows and all that sort of thing. That’s awesome.

Sam [00:24:08]:
That laser stuff’s pretty cool. Oh, I came across the story and it’s 11 years old, but I thought it was interesting. So this.

Chris [00:24:17]:
You. You’re becoming me, man. You must be getting old.

Sam [00:24:21]:
No, I understand this is an old story. You would just tell me, like, it happened last week, but this is pretty interesting. So in the uk, a media team went to a young offenders institution and while they were there, they filmed the keys that the guards use on the locks.

Chris [00:24:44]:
Oh, okay, right.

Sam [00:24:46]:
And they were like, you have to rekey the whole place. 11. This is like 11 years ago, they re keyed 11,000 locks and replaced 3,200 keys at a cost of a quarter of a million pounds because they broadcast the image of a key that somebody could use to get in. That’s crazy as a. And like, it was 11 years ago, so I would have never thought of that.

Chris [00:25:15]:
That. Yeah, that is crazy, but bit closer.

Sam [00:25:18]:
Than 11 years ago. But the item I’m talking about is 150 years old. They found an old train recently in Wanganui on the beach. And the train was named Skunk and it’s been missing for about 75 years, this train.

Chris [00:25:38]:
So trains generally, as I understand them now, correct me if I’m wrong, they’re pretty hard to lose because they’re generally on the tracks.

Sam [00:25:47]:
That’s right. That’s right. So in 1876, it was the first train to operate a scheduled service between Palmerston north and Foxton.

Chris [00:25:57]:
Well, back when we had trains.

Sam [00:25:58]:
Yeah, yeah, when we had good trains. And they left it at the port in 1918 and then. Yeah, it must have just fallen off. They just said thing, but these guys are there doing some work and it sounds like the train enthusiasts always knew it was somewhere, but they weren’t sure where. And these.

Chris [00:26:18]:
So it was like in a shed somewhere?

Sam [00:26:21]:
No, it doesn’t. It just doesn’t actually say.

Chris [00:26:26]:
It was under the Hedge? No, no, no.

Sam [00:26:28]:
It was buried in the sand.

Chris [00:26:29]:
Like, buried in the sand?

Sam [00:26:31]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chris [00:26:31]:
Oh.

Sam [00:26:32]:
So these guys are doing some. They’re working on the south mole of the harbor’s beachfront. Cool.

Chris [00:26:40]:
Whatever that is.

Sam [00:26:42]:
That’s exactly what they said anyway. But they hit it basically and they’re like, oh. And they figured out what it was and it took a little bit of working out how to pull it out. They pulled it out and if you can imagine how crappy a train looks, that’s 150 years old. Been buried in the sand for at least 75 at a beach which.

Chris [00:27:01]:
Yeah, rusty as hell. Yeah.

Sam [00:27:03]:
So they’re thinking if they. They’re gonna see if they can support the restoration costs, the local train guys, or they’re gonna have it as a static exhibit that just sort of stands around.

Chris [00:27:14]:
Cause you think, oh, even if it went to motet, is motet still a thing? It must be.

Sam [00:27:20]:
Motet is still a thing. But this will be. This will be kept local, I think, because they will get upset.

Chris [00:27:24]:
Oh, yeah. That is really a big pile of rusted piece of crap.

Sam [00:27:28]:
Exactly, exactly. But to a train enthusiast.

Chris [00:27:32]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:27:32]:
Great.

Chris [00:27:33]:
But even just keeping it like that isn’t too bad.

Sam [00:27:36]:
What? We’re coming to the end of the podcast.

Chris [00:27:38]:
Yep.

Sam [00:27:39]:
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Chris [00:27:49]:
I’ve just learned kids suitable because there’s none of my swearing in it. Because Sam’s been deleting all my swearing without telling me for years now.

Sam [00:27:59]:
I know.

Chris [00:28:01]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:28:04]:
Okay. We have got a little get together on Sunday to run through some Misty flick stuff. In the lead up to that, check out mistyflix.co.nz. i think that’s about it. I can’t think of anything else I’ve got going, so.

Chris [00:28:18]:
Tickets to Improv Combat for next. Next Sunday. The final Sunday. So get into that.

Sam [00:28:24]:
The meteor at the Meteor. Okay. Until next time. I’m Sam.

Chris [00:28:28]:
I’m Chris.

Sam [00:28:28]:
See ya.

Chris [00:28:29]:
Bye.

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