Summary
Chris has a doctor’s update after finally being put on medication, while Sam talks about freaky movies and getting ready for Round the Bridges in Hamilton.
We hear about robot fails, googly-eyed art scandals, and a box war madness from Australia. There’s bagpipe world records, buses with debatable etiquette, and social experiments around baby formula.
All this and much more in this week’s episode.
Links
Bring her Back Film
Russian Robot Unveiling Fail
Bagpipe World Record
Blue blog gets defaced
Dog shoots man
City council helps reduce fines by accepting food bank donations
Baby formula experiment
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 556 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. This is your weekly fix of randomness, technology and life and brought to you by us is all you need. There’s nothing else.
Chris [00:00:34]:
We are it. We are your media.
Sam [00:00:36]:
Actually, talking about media, I will mention this very quickly. Remember when you’re at field days and there was those shed guys going around going hard and Instagram people, they’re just building a podcast studio.
Chris [00:00:46]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:00:47]:
Yes, we follow them on Instagram. They probably do not even know we exist.
Chris [00:00:51]:
But Sam just went on and on and on and on about these guys.
Sam [00:00:57]:
Not too much. Sounds real bad.
Chris [00:01:00]:
No, no, in a good way.
Sam [00:01:02]:
In a good way. But yeah, they’re building a podcast studio because they want to hear stories from the shed. I think something like that.
Chris [00:01:08]:
Is that the name of the podcast? It sounds. It’s a good name.
Sam [00:01:12]:
Yeah. Don’t quote me if that’s the exact name, but it should be.
Chris [00:01:14]:
Yeah, it should be.
Sam [00:01:15]:
So anyway, be interesting to see what they get up to, but we’ve been here 11 years, just thrown there. Will reckons we’re one of the longest running New Zealand podcasts. Yeah, he was telling me that when we saw him at Missy Flicks and I was like, I don’t know, maybe.
Chris [00:01:32]:
Possibly it makes sense because who lasts this long really?
Sam [00:01:36]:
Nobody else. What’s been happening?
Chris [00:01:39]:
So I did. I went to the doctors this week. So I got a couple of things I wanted to talk about, about that. Really?
Sam [00:01:44]:
First off, you’re old.
Chris [00:01:46]:
Well, basically the prognosis was. So I went in, I paid less money because I saw an assistant, not yet graduated doctor, I guess.
Sam [00:01:56]:
Didn’t know that was a thing. Hang on, when did you.
Chris [00:01:59]:
That’s technically a thing, but anyway, it’s a thing.
Sam [00:02:01]:
Is this a real doctor? Did you know beforehand or did you just turn up and like. Hey.
Chris [00:02:05]:
But they did. They, they called me and booked an appointment and said it’s about time for a checkup and want to get you to do blood test before you come in. And so that’s good. And so the, the doctor, I think her name was Biha. Okay, I’m gonna go with that. Yeah, she. She was good. I’ll tell you about that in a second too.
Chris [00:02:25]:
So basically the verdict is I’m old and fat. Without saying that. That’s pretty much what she said.
Sam [00:02:32]:
Everybody’s fat. That’s their go to, like, that’s, that’s just borderline standard. And then old. Well, you are older, like.
Chris [00:02:43]:
Yeah. And she was probably, I want to say 26. Yeah. And I’m just guessing a number, but yeah. Yeah. So I’m definitely older than that. So I am, I feel, I’m feeling officially old now because I am now on medication for the first time in my life.
Sam [00:02:58]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:59]:
I have pills to take morning and night.
Sam [00:03:02]:
Is this to help with blood pressure?
Chris [00:03:04]:
One’s blood pressure and the other one’s cholesterol?
Sam [00:03:07]:
Yeah, yeah. They like, they dish them out like candy as well. Yeah, they go, oh, I probably need.
Chris [00:03:13]:
Those because they always go, they always say, you know, it’s a little high. Do you want to do some lifestyle change? We’ll check out in six months and maybe you can get away without doing it. They’ve done that to me a couple of times, but this time she goes, okay, let’s have a look at this cholesterol. I think it was the cholesterol levels over this period of years here. And you see how it goes up and it goes down. It goes up and it goes down. It goes up and it goes down. All the down ones are still way above the level we want it to be.
Sam [00:03:44]:
Okay.
Chris [00:03:44]:
So I think you should go on the anti statin now to ask about.
Sam [00:03:50]:
Job, what you do.
Chris [00:03:51]:
I think she did. She did. I mentioned it, but, yeah, I wasn’t a biggie. But I threw the cat amongst the pigeons at the end and it was partly me just being really annoying.
Sam [00:04:03]:
Yep. Okay.
Chris [00:04:04]:
With a suited doctor, I was like, oh, I’m having a bit of trouble with my hip. You know, it’s a real problem. So I’m thinking about going to chiropractor. What do you think?
Sam [00:04:14]:
Which you have been telling, you’ve been telling everyone this physio is usually what.
Chris [00:04:19]:
You say, no, but I wanted to see what she thought because doctors have no idea what a chiropractor does. And she goes, I don’t think they work with hips. I, I, I think they only work with spines. I’m like, no, I’m pretty sure they, they do something with it. I don’t know. I’ll have to look at, I’m just getting all, oh, my gosh, it was really mean of me, but it was great. So anyway, she, she goes, I tell you what, I’ll talk to the doctor, my actual doctor afterwards, so that’s cool. She called me half an hour later, an hour later.
Sam [00:04:52]:
Oh, yeah, okay.
Chris [00:04:52]:
And organized an X ray And I went the next day for an X ray. So I’ve had an X ray of my hip this week.
Sam [00:04:57]:
Okay.
Chris [00:04:58]:
So that was cool.
Sam [00:04:59]:
Do you know what the results of the X ray are yet?
Chris [00:05:02]:
No. Well, actually, they called me yesterday, but I was in a meeting, turned the phone off, and I’ve gotta go back next week anyway. Cause they wanna see how the blood pressure is after a week on these pills.
Sam [00:05:14]:
So, look.
Chris [00:05:14]:
So I find out then.
Sam [00:05:16]:
Look forward to an update next week.
Chris [00:05:17]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the other thing I wanted to talk about. So I got the bus to. To do this.
Sam [00:05:23]:
Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:05:23]:
And the bus service in Hamilton’s pretty good. I’m pretty pleased with it.
Sam [00:05:27]:
I think it is. But I don’t know. It seems to be running fine. There seems to be enough routes.
Chris [00:05:32]:
Yeah, yeah. And I mean, in Wellington, they have a very strong bus culture.
Sam [00:05:38]:
They do.
Chris [00:05:39]:
Hugely strong. And like, if you, you know, please let the bus go first is a mantra there. You know, if a bus is waiting, everybody stops, lets the bus go first. Or it used to be, you know, 20 years ago when I lived.
Sam [00:05:52]:
No, no, I think it’s still.
Chris [00:05:53]:
Yeah. And. But one of the things that got me is the bus pulls up and I’m at a bus stop and my initial reaction is to start walking forward to get onto the bus.
Sam [00:06:03]:
Yeah, but there’s a door open.
Chris [00:06:05]:
Yeah. As soon as the door opens, I walk onto the bus and the driver’s like, you know, puts his hand out. Stop. You know, to let people off. And the reason I didn’t think about it, because it’s so ingrained in Wellington, it was always, you get in the front, you get off the back.
Sam [00:06:24]:
Oh, no, no. Yeah. Here they got. Everyone’s got to get off the front, usually.
Chris [00:06:28]:
I mean, I get it. If you’re on a wheelchair, of course, you have to. Yeah, of course. Wheelchairs weren’t an option when I was a kid because there was five steps to get on the bus, the front and the back. So, you know, but. So I get that. But I’m just like, why does nobody get off the back to go out the back door?
Sam [00:06:47]:
I think the problem is if they open the back door to let people out, people can jump on and the bus driver can’t really see if they’ve tagged on.
Chris [00:06:55]:
Yeah, yeah. Or they could. I see them open the back door and people go straight past the open back door and go out the front. I’m like, why are you doing this? It’s just weird.
Sam [00:07:04]:
Yeah. I think I got told off once because I Tried getting off the back and they’re like, no, no. Okay.
Chris [00:07:11]:
I always get off the back.
Sam [00:07:12]:
I don’t know. It was all. It’s depends on the.
Chris [00:07:14]:
Well, unless I’m sitting right at the front, which I don’t think I’ve done. Or I’m asking the. The driver, where is this thing? Yeah. Anyway, I thought that was interesting. It was just curious about that because. Yeah, it’s just different. The etiquette of doing a bus in different places. Yeah, it’s weird.
Chris [00:07:35]:
Okay, anyway, move on.
Sam [00:07:36]:
I saw a movie this week called Bring Her Back. It’s just come out, I think 2025 sometime this year. It’s an Australian one. A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of the new foster mother. It falls under body horror, psychological horror and supernatural horror. According to IMDb.
Chris [00:07:54]:
Yeah. I’ve already had two people go, you must see this. Which was Adam, of course.
Sam [00:07:58]:
Yes.
Chris [00:07:59]:
And Mo from work. She’s really into body horror. She loves.
Sam [00:08:02]:
This isn’t as body horror as the subst. Yeah, this is slightly different. This has done really, really well. It’s the. What do they call themselves? The Filupo Brothers. And there’s another film that they did a couple of years before this.
Chris [00:08:19]:
Yeah. Which they both talked about and it’s.
Sam [00:08:22]:
In the same universe as what I’ve been told, but I haven’t seen the first one.
Chris [00:08:25]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:08:25]:
Apparently this one might be the better one, but this one, they’ve. It’s interesting because they’ve got a partially sighted girl in it, never acted before in her life. And the mum saw the casting call and they said we want a partially sighted person to play the partially sighted character. She nails it. She’s great. There’s scenes in this where I’m just. We were yelling what the hell? What the hell. And it’s funny because a lot of people rate that weapons movie really highly with the kids.
Sam [00:08:52]:
They’ll run out of the room. They run out of the house at like 2:15 in the morning. The whole class disappears. I. It was fine. It’s okay. This is better. I like this a lot.
Sam [00:09:04]:
Very well done. Couple of scenes where it’s just like, what the hell? Young people in acting. Really well, everyone’s pretty good in it actually. Quite solid. So anyway, check that out. If you’re into like freaky movies. Round the Bridges is on tomorrow. I’m doing that.
Sam [00:09:22]:
Only 6k is though. Walking.
Chris [00:09:23]:
Walking. I was going to say you’re running it. Okay.
Sam [00:09:25]:
Well, I jogged it two years ago.
Chris [00:09:27]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:27]:
No, but then I Didn’t know or didn’t pay attention that there’s a fast walking group now. I don’t think it was there last time we got cheap entry for our work social club. So a couple of people in my office are actually doing it and one of the other people was doing the fast walk. And fast walk is in the crowd just before the normal walking. So I’m thinking if I’m at the front of walking in the back of fast walking, I could just go whenever I want and maybe just go with them because last time I jogged but I was in the walking crowd and I couldn’t work out while these people were so slow.
Chris [00:10:06]:
The fact they’re all walking didn’t sort of.
Sam [00:10:08]:
No, I thought it was just some weird group. I was like, what are they all doing anyway? The DJ at the start and finish line is DJ Hicks.
Chris [00:10:17]:
Oh, nice.
Sam [00:10:17]:
So we’ll see Matt.
Chris [00:10:19]:
Oh, that’d be cool. Yeah. I probably won’t come and support you.
Sam [00:10:22]:
No, that’s right.
Chris [00:10:23]:
Oh, that’s next weekend. Oh, tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. So after this, when this comes out, it’ll be yesterday.
Sam [00:10:30]:
No, when this comes out tomorrow morning.
Chris [00:10:32]:
Oh yeah, true.
Sam [00:10:33]:
It hasn’t happened. It depends on when you listen to podcasts.
Chris [00:10:36]:
Yeah, true, true.
Sam [00:10:37]:
You cannot be too stuck with the date because in 12 years time when someone’s listening to this for try and get to sleep or an A. My robot is trying to figure out how to talk. Yeah. You’ve got here this humanoid robot walking unveiling. Is it the Russian one?
Chris [00:10:57]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:10:58]:
It’s so funny.
Chris [00:10:58]:
It’s so good. And I mean we. We’ll put a link in the show notes because you have to watch the. The video. So we. And the only reason I mentioned it because I wasn’t going to mention it was because we talk. You talked about the Japanese one the other week.
Sam [00:11:13]:
They’re still going on about that.
Chris [00:11:15]:
And now people how good at how nice it walks. But the. The walk of this Russian one compared to the walk of that let let alone forget the falling over bit. Just as it first comes out from behind the curtains, it’s like it looks like a. A dory old man on the zimmer frame without the Zimmer frame. And he’s on freaking sort of why.
Sam [00:11:35]:
It’S like they don’t know there’s other people doing better things. Why would they unveil this piece of junk?
Chris [00:11:41]:
I know. And then when it falls over all these bits fly everywhere.
Sam [00:11:48]:
It doesn’t fill me with confidence.
Chris [00:11:50]:
It’s like the COVID up they get these two guys go running out with a black curtain and they got it tangled up and they can’t even get that right to hide the thing. It’s so stupid. Dumbest thing ever. Sorry. Definitely check out the. The Russian robot walking unveiling because it’s the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while.
Sam [00:12:12]:
I have a work colleague that’s currently having a holiday in Melbourne and they went to the ACDC concert and it’s the first time ACDCs played in a decade, I think in Australia.
Chris [00:12:22]:
Oh really?
Sam [00:12:23]:
Apparently this is what I read on a news article. So it was a big thing. Big concert. Sounds like it went good. Around the same time a bunch of bagpipers got together to beat the world record for their most the largest bagpipe ensemble. And of course what song do they want to do when there’s 374 bagpipers there? They do AC DCs. It’s a long way to the top.
Chris [00:12:52]:
If you want to rock and roll.
Sam [00:12:53]:
So it’s pretty cool. Yeah. And the oldest bagpiper was 98 years old and sounds like they got the record. I don’t know what the previous record was. Oh, sorry. No, I do know. 333 pipers in Bulgaria in 2012.
Chris [00:13:11]:
So you just wonder why there’s that many people that have bagpipes. Although I had an uncle that had uncle. It wasn’t actually a family relation, it was one of family friend thing when I grew up who had bagpipes. Which is just random. It’s just random.
Sam [00:13:24]:
Once they got declared world record holders, what did the pipers play? Were you gonna say Happy birthday and Amazing Grace? You’d be correct.
Chris [00:13:35]:
No, I was not gonna say that.
Sam [00:13:37]:
There’s a bagpipe girl on social media and she tours the world by herself or with a band and she’s next level.
Chris [00:13:47]:
I’ve seen. I think I’ve seen.
Sam [00:13:48]:
But she’s a she.
Chris [00:13:50]:
She takes covers of of all sorts of really cool songs and turns them into bagpipe things like guitar solo becomes a bagpipe. It’s really good. Yeah, she is very good. She looks pretty cool too actually, just on that social media. Have you seen. I saw this the other day. It’s one of those AI things. The cat outside the door playing music.
Chris [00:14:12]:
No, it’s random ass. I’ll find it and I’ll put a link. I’ll give you the link. But there’s this cat outside the door playing it on the. I’m playing a violin.
Sam [00:14:23]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:14:25]:
And this woman comes out, opens the porch door, it’s midnight. Get rid of the violin, you can’t play the fiddle. And grabs the fiddle case and next thing the cat’s playing a keyboard and it just goes on and on. But the AI is getting really good. It’s quite clever. Every time she grabs the instrument, the cat hisses at her and it just gets more and more extreme and more ridiculous. It’s, it’s so stupid.
Sam [00:14:53]:
It’s keeping you entertained.
Chris [00:14:55]:
I only watched it twice. Yeah, no, it’s good. Actually. Speaking of Aussie, have you seen this? The Blue Blob? Have you heard of the Blue Blob?
Sam [00:15:08]:
Vaguely, I think, but I didn’t really know what was going on. It’s some sort of art thing, isn’t it?
Chris [00:15:12]:
Yes. So I’m gonna scroll down to show you the, this is the, the statue of the blue blob. So it’s an anthropomorphic type statue with no real features.
Sam [00:15:25]:
How much do you think this person got paid for cost?
Chris [00:15:28]:
136,000 Australian dollars.
Sam [00:15:32]:
I really think I need to be working in the art space.
Chris [00:15:35]:
But some teenager went in and put googly eyes on it.
Sam [00:15:39]:
Oh, that makes it so much better.
Chris [00:15:41]:
I know, doesn’t it? It looks better the minute you put the googly eyes on.
Sam [00:15:46]:
What happened to the teenager?
Chris [00:15:48]:
They’re going to prison. No, they, well, they’re appearing in court.
Sam [00:15:51]:
Okay, hopefully it’s just a fine.
Chris [00:15:53]:
Hopefully it’s just a fine because when they remove the googly eyes, it chipped the paint on this. That’s poor, obviously. Budget.
Sam [00:16:00]:
That’s poor construction.
Chris [00:16:01]:
Exactly, that’s budget.
Sam [00:16:02]:
If you’re paying 100 and whatever it was, $37,000, you expect paint that’s going to stay on no matter what. That’s terrible.
Chris [00:16:09]:
I mean, you look at that picture and I cannot be mad at that teenager. His 19 year old chicken, Amelia. I am not mad at her. She made that art better by putting the googly eye.
Sam [00:16:21]:
I mean, it sort of looks like a cross between maybe an elephant or an anteater. I don’t know, but it’s a anteater.
Chris [00:16:26]:
Is what it said in the, it’s.
Sam [00:16:28]:
A conversation starter and it looks great. And they, you know who, because your.
Chris [00:16:33]:
Your daughter used to have the googly eye thing and put googly eyes on.
Sam [00:16:38]:
You can buy like a thousand little googly eyes from China.
Chris [00:16:41]:
You should show this and go. If I ever have to bail you out because you put googly eyes on.
Sam [00:16:47]:
Hang on, I, I, this is not going to translate well. For an audio podcast. So you just have to use your imagination. Do you know what? I feel like an old man right now.
Chris [00:16:59]:
Sorry.
Sam [00:17:00]:
To Reddit change. The Reddit app changed where the menus are and I sometimes can’t figure out how to find the thing that I want, which is the safe things. Talking about googly eyes. This is in North America somewhere and it’s a rock crushing attachment.
Chris [00:17:16]:
That’s pretty cool.
Sam [00:17:18]:
And they’ve basically put big ass googly eyes on it. It looks like a dinosaur eating rocks.
Chris [00:17:22]:
It really does. So it’s.
Sam [00:17:24]:
Look how better it looks.
Chris [00:17:26]:
It does. It’s great. It’s great. Put that link in the show notes too, if you can.
Sam [00:17:34]:
So. Yes. No, I don’t. And I want. I wonder if that’s one of those stories with that teenager with the googly eyes where somebody’s just going to come in and hopefully pay the bill for her.
Chris [00:17:45]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:17:45]:
And just go, you know what? It’s just a bit of fun.
Chris [00:17:48]:
Like it’s, it was. It’s, you know, they made the point. This is not just harmless fun.
Sam [00:17:55]:
It’s borderline. But.
Chris [00:17:57]:
Yeah, but it pretty much is harmless fun.
Sam [00:17:59]:
I think it’s the artist.
Chris [00:18:01]:
She should be. She should be. You know, I get it. If you get her to pay for, you know, fixing up the finish on the.
Sam [00:18:08]:
Yeah, no, no. You know, they’re gonna have to repaint the whole thing. It’s not just a little thing. The artist that built that is butt hurt because they did not come up with the idea of putting googly eyes on it. I bet that’s what it is.
Chris [00:18:20]:
I honestly, I don’t think it’s the artist at all. I think it’s just the council. Cause people in councils. You know about people in councils.
Sam [00:18:27]:
Maybe, I’m not sure actually talking about councils. The city officials of Chakasha, Oklahoma are in the news recently. So citizens with traffic violations that are small municipal offences and overdue library books can actually donate food to the food banks. And it’s called Food for Fines. And it will reduce the amount you have to pay or eliminate the overdue library book fines. So it’s sort of good on one hand because you’re helping out the food bank, but then they are sort of reducing the amount of fines. But then if the people are never going to pay the fines, but they’ve got another option. That’s good thoughts.
Chris [00:19:11]:
I don’t think I get it. I don’t know the.
Sam [00:19:13]:
So if you’ve got a small fine from the council, they’re like, hey, if you donate to this food bank, which helps us out, we will reduce your fine a bit. Or if it’s a library fine, we’ll just wipe it.
Chris [00:19:23]:
Oh, yeah, no, no, I like that in the whole.
Sam [00:19:26]:
I think it’s good because it allows citizens to give back and get a break, is what they’ve said. You get to contribute to the community.
Chris [00:19:35]:
Actually, that’s a good point. Because talking about that food thing, have you heard this thing about the baby formula experiment that TikTok chick did?
Sam [00:19:46]:
No.
Chris [00:19:47]:
Okay, this is interesting. So this is a TikTok influencer.
Sam [00:19:51]:
Of course. They all are.
Chris [00:19:52]:
You know, who isn’t? But she’s got a bunch of followers, like a million followers on whatever. So she. This is part of the thing in the States, you know, government shut down. They said we’re not funding snap, which is the Supplemental Nutritional Something Program. Something program. Yeah, snap. So basically, people are starving, are not getting food.
Sam [00:20:15]:
Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:20:16]:
Now one of the things that. That is going to be missing is.
Sam [00:20:20]:
Baby formula, which is quite important for babies.
Chris [00:20:23]:
It is, yes. So anyway, so she did this baby formula experiment. She started ringing up churches. She’s in the States, obviously, and saying, hey, look, she had a recording of a baby crying in the background.
Sam [00:20:35]:
Okay, okay.
Chris [00:20:36]:
She said, you know, I’m a young mum. I ran a baby formula last night. The baby hasn’t had anything for like 12, 14 hours. I’m really keen to get some formula.
Sam [00:20:46]:
Can you help me out?
Chris [00:20:47]:
Can you help me out? Okay, what can you do? She did it for a bunch of churches and a couple of other things which I’ll mention in a second. And it was pretty. And she filmed every single one of them.
Sam [00:20:59]:
Okay. So she’s got all interactions at the.
Chris [00:21:01]:
End of the thing where they said yes or no or whatever. She’d go, okay, I’ll just turn the baby off and clicks that. I goes, this is a social experiment. Would you like to give me some, you know, I like feedback.
Sam [00:21:15]:
Okay, yeah. Okay, cool.
Chris [00:21:17]:
And. And so, you know, so she’s. She’s upfront with that.
Sam [00:21:19]:
Yeah, that’s good.
Chris [00:21:20]:
What I’ve seen. And, you know, do you mind if I. If I publish this on. On some of them that I saw? I don’t know if she asked it with all of them, but, yeah, a load of. Okay. Of the Christian churches.
Sam [00:21:37]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:38]:
27% agreed to help.
Sam [00:21:41]:
Oh, wow. Okay.
Chris [00:21:42]:
Most of them are like, oh, so where are you? Well, if you don’t come to our church, we can’t help you.
Sam [00:21:46]:
Or. Okay. So they’re saying if you Come along to the church. We could help you. But maybe they want to try.
Chris [00:21:52]:
You’re not one of our.
Sam [00:21:53]:
Okay.
Chris [00:21:54]:
Parishioners.
Sam [00:21:54]:
Yeah, okay.
Chris [00:21:55]:
You know.
Sam [00:21:55]:
Okay. Or. But it’s tough a. Because if they got a million phone calls all the time asking for help and you’re just doing it.
Chris [00:22:02]:
Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. But it’s. I would.
Sam [00:22:06]:
I was.
Chris [00:22:08]:
Some of them. Because some of them were mega churches.
Sam [00:22:10]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:22:11]:
They’ve got a lot of money and they’re like, yes, if you give us something in writing, we’ll get back to you in the next two weeks.
Sam [00:22:16]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:22:17]:
Like, yeah.
Sam [00:22:18]:
The baby.
Chris [00:22:19]:
Great.
Sam [00:22:19]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:22:19]:
Great shape.
Sam [00:22:20]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:21]:
You know, so I saw one of. She rang a mosque.
Sam [00:22:26]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:26]:
Which is 10 minutes from her house.
Sam [00:22:29]:
Yeah. And.
Chris [00:22:29]:
Well, at least that’s what she said, but I assume it was. And she. And. And the guy goes, yep. Sure. A couple of questions. Where are you? Oh, I’m from nearby place. All right, cool.
Chris [00:22:42]:
Which. Which formula do you need?
Sam [00:22:44]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:22:45]:
That was. There was his questions and. And then she goes, okay, now this is a social experiment. This one that said yes straight away out of everybody. Yeah. And. Yeah. And do you mind if we publish this? That was where I got that from.
Chris [00:23:00]:
But yeah. So 100% of mosques offered to help.
Sam [00:23:03]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:03]:
And 100% of Church of Satan offered to help. Excellent. 27% of Christian churches.
Sam [00:23:10]:
And I think. I think some of that comes down to the person as well that you get hold of.100. I don’t know if you’ve dealt with church office people.
Chris [00:23:19]:
Some of them are volunteers.
Sam [00:23:20]:
Yeah, they’re volunteers and they’re crazy.
Chris [00:23:22]:
Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:23:23]:
And. Yeah.
Chris [00:23:24]:
And it’s very structured, I think. But a lot of those things are very cult like as well.
Sam [00:23:30]:
Yeah. Yeah. You’ve got to be.
Chris [00:23:31]:
There are rules, and there’s more worried about breaking the rules for your boss than a moral. That might be my own bias against organized religion showing through there a little.
Sam [00:23:45]:
Bit, but it’s okay. It’s okay. If you’ve been with us since the start, you will pick up on that. Once in a blue moon. If you’re new here, welcome. Check out tcasp.com for all the show notes, all the previous podcast episodes, or you can find us on all the great podcasting apps that are out there. Doesn’t matter which one you use, we’re on there.
Chris [00:24:06]:
Yeah, true. And I’m not going to go into this in any depth because there’s stuff to it, but I just think it’s just worth noting the ice, you know, the deporting people.
Sam [00:24:16]:
Okay, what are they up to now?
Chris [00:24:18]:
They tried to deport a Native American. To where? That is the question. Where do you send them? I don’t know.
Sam [00:24:28]:
Did they think they were like Mexican or something? Yeah.
Chris [00:24:31]:
Or.
Sam [00:24:32]:
I mean, I’m guessing they’re just like, you’re the wrong color pretty much. We need to round you up.
Chris [00:24:38]:
We’re going to send you away because you’re the wrong color for here. But Native American, far out. It’s just. That’s just how bad it’s going. I really must catch up with this south park stuff because apparently south park is just caning it with all this Trump stuff at the moment. Anyway.
Sam [00:24:58]:
Yes, Catch up on that. I saw this thing and the website is being rebuilt so I couldn’t really see much about it. Have you heard of Box Wars?
Chris [00:25:09]:
Box Wars? No. Yeah.
Sam [00:25:11]:
So this is another random thing I came across and without much information, but there’s a little clip of it. And this is in Australia. And each year in an Australian park, hundreds of people bring their handmade cardboard creations to life and then have a giant cardboard war which is called Box Wars. It looks like Mad Max going crazy. They’re all just so.
Chris [00:25:34]:
They’re wearing. Oh, holy crap.
Sam [00:25:36]:
There’s like vehicles.
Chris [00:25:37]:
Vehicles and the wearing armor and the cardboard weapons and robot looking people with people inside.
Sam [00:25:45]:
So I never come across this before. There was a couple of comments because the website is down getting rebuilt, but basically somebody said, yeah, we got drunk, we built all this stuff and then it was all over in about two minutes because they just all start beating each other up.
Chris [00:26:01]:
They don’t last very long.
Sam [00:26:02]:
But I think that there is a general theme for every year. So they sort of all build. Like there’s one here where they’re all like dressed in planes. They’re wearing like biplanes and yeah, they’re like dressed as biplanes and seem to be fighting each other in bike, but full cardboard.
Chris [00:26:19]:
That’s so cool.
Sam [00:26:20]:
I don’t know how long it’s been going. I don’t know if it’s still going. I couldn’t really find too much out, but there’s. Yeah.
Chris [00:26:28]:
Yep. The Kristen Sam podcast needs to go along to this. At one stage, some stage, it’s another.
Sam [00:26:34]:
One of those random little things that are happening in the world that just make it a better place to be.
Chris [00:26:39]:
I. I’ve got a. Another American story, but it’s just maybe giggle. So I don’t know the victim.
Sam [00:26:47]:
You can, you can end with this.
Chris [00:26:48]:
I’m going to just read this out okay, as it. As it’s written, the victim told police that before the incident, he was cleaning his firearm, which was identified as a shotgun.
Sam [00:26:58]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:58]:
It’s pretty obvious, but anyway. And placed it on his bed. Officials said he then proceeded to sit down on the bed.
Sam [00:27:05]:
Yep. Yep.
Chris [00:27:05]:
At which time one of his jobs jumped up onto the bed, causing the weapon to fire around into the man’s lower back.
Sam [00:27:13]:
Oh, no.
Chris [00:27:14]:
So, yeah, the guy’s 53 years old. You’d think he would know better than this.
Sam [00:27:22]:
No, they don’t.
Chris [00:27:23]:
Cleaning a shotgun and then loading it makes. I mean, I know nothing about firearms.
Sam [00:27:29]:
You have to have it loaded so when people break into your house, you’re ready.
Chris [00:27:33]:
That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Like, honestly? Well, no, actually, the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard is the first line of this news story.
Sam [00:27:41]:
Okay.
Chris [00:27:42]:
Talk about a rough day. Rough R U F. No. But, yeah. So they. They think it’s a. An accidental shooting, but they’re still investigating because the Sun’s man’s son doesn’t say how old, but probably 20, I guess, maybe. Who knows, Was in the house as well.
Chris [00:28:03]:
So, like, you know, or it could have been one of the dogs. Has a motive. I don’t know. Who’s a bad boy? Who’s a bad boy?
Sam [00:28:15]:
I was gonna say with that mystery, we’re gonna leave you, but more that creepy, creepy piece of audio that I might pull for a social media post. That brings us to the end of the podcast. I’m sorry if it haunts your ears. We’ll try better until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:28:37]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:28:37]:
See ya.
Chris [00:28:38]:
Bye. .
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