Summary
Chris is back at work—sort of—and Sam uncovers the curious tale of a grave robbing hobbyist in Pennsylvania.
We hear about Facebook fan pages gone astray, the challenges of modern computer upgrades, and monkeys causing chaos (real or AI-generated) in St. Louis.
There’s also a Cybertruck deer incident, and a Kiwi mountain biker pulling a 24-hour McDonald’s drive-thru ride.
All this and plenty of randomness in this week’s episode!
Links
Sushi Shop FB Page
Grave robber gets caught
Cyber Truck Safety
Monkeys on the loose
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 563 of the Christmas Ann Podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I. I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness, technology and life and. Hello.
Chris [00:00:33]:
Yeah, I feel. I feel a little bit like that. Pause. Hello. Because I’m being back at work for the first week. I’ve slogged so much. I must have done at least 20 hours this week.
Sam [00:00:47]:
Hang on, aren’t you supposed to be doing more?
Chris [00:00:49]:
Yeah, this is my full time. I’m easing in. I’m easing in.
Sam [00:00:54]:
That’s not a real amount of hours. I think I do.
Chris [00:00:58]:
It feels like I’ve done a lot. No, I have to tell you, although I have been doing some editing and it’s looking. I’m so pleased. I invested in DaVinci Resolve Studio just over Christmas and it’s working well. It is. Oh, they recorded these Football ferns, an interview in a motel or whatever, and they’re just asking them these questions and the girl’s holding one of those little mini road mics.
Sam [00:01:28]:
Road mics?
Chris [00:01:29]:
Yeah. And I didn’t notice it when I first listened through, but when you start editing and that road traffic noise in the background. Motorbike at one point. Ah. You go in there and you just select the audio thing and go, AI noise suppression. And it’s like magic. It’s so good. It’s like, holy crap, this is amazing.
Chris [00:01:51]:
And yeah. So money’s worth already.
Sam [00:01:54]:
Excellent. I was going to ask you what you’re editing, but you’ve answered that, so that’s good.
Chris [00:01:58]:
Yeah, yeah. So interviews for Football Ferns with Football ferns for under 17 selection and obviously.
Sam [00:02:05]:
That goes into some sort of learning.
Chris [00:02:07]:
Yeah, Learning platform for. Yeah. Selecting female footballers from. I think 13 or 14 is when they select them to get into the under 17s and then into the football fans. Yeah. So that’s cool. So that’s what I’ve been working on. Plus I have to go up and work again with.
Chris [00:02:24]:
With Guy and possibly Will in Auckland for the Auckland Council, because we’ll be doing it hopefully at Campfire Studios. Shout out to the boys at Campfire.
Sam [00:02:36]:
Very good. Have you thought about setting up a Facebook page for a company to show your appreciation to them and them never responding?
Chris [00:02:48]:
No, I’m still sane.
Sam [00:02:50]:
Yeah. That is the gist of it.
Chris [00:02:55]:
Sorry. I don’t know if I even understood what that was supposed to be.
Sam [00:02:59]:
No, no, you understood it perfectly. That’s the funny thing, there’s a place. I guess I can mention it. It doesn’t matter. They’ve closed down.
Chris [00:03:11]:
They can’t sue us now. They’re close to us.
Sam [00:03:13]:
Well, I’m beginning to wonder if they had to run away from the person on this Facebook page who seemed a bit creepy the more and more you read. So Sushi Town in Norton was a place that sold sushi? Yeah, I’ll read this. Hi everyone. This page. This is in October last year. This page was originally created many years ago as a fan site for the store to be gifted to Mihi, the owner of Sushi Town, on her birthday. However, soon after creating the page, I moved across town. The promised confirmation of when her birthday actually is never arrived.
Sam [00:03:46]:
Today I found out Mihi has moved back to Korea to be with family, but her son remains local and studying as well. Perhaps another restaurant will open to carry on a family tradition, but only time will tell. I’m not local anymore, so can’t say whether it exists or not. Don’t know. Meanwhile, since there’s little point in continuing this page, I’ll be looking to shut it down soon with lots of appreciation for all the friendship, blah, blah, blah. We wish Mihi and her family all the best and hopefully the future is kind to them. So that’s okay. But as you go backwards in the 13 posts on this random page, it’s just very strange.
Chris [00:04:22]:
What’s worse is that I’m going, oh yeah, I did that once too. So I’ll tell that story after this.
Sam [00:04:28]:
Well, at one point. Bad news, it’s gonna be closed from tomorrow. This is like this is in 2014 when we started the pod, when we started the podcast. This is the gap between posts. Okay, I’m going to read this because it doesn’t matter. The bad news for Sushi Town will be closed from tomorrow, Saturday, the 15th of February until next Tuesday, which I assume will be the 25th rather than the 18th. Feel free to post an update if that’s not right. Our condolences to Mihi, her husband and his family for their loss.
Sam [00:05:01]:
Now the good news. New menu at Sushi Town. Today we tried the shallow fried shrimp with our falfa California roll, cream cheese and avocado and chicken salad that mmm gee, such amazing flavors. Despite the boring name, the chicken salad tastes amazing. Try it. Some of you may have not realized, but this is a fan based page. The plan was to gift this page to Mihi, Sushi Town’s owner at some stage so she can see how well loved she and her store are. So please keep sharing this page and I encourage you and encourage your friends to like it.
Sam [00:05:30]:
Thanks. There’s one like on it. And no comments on any of the stuff.
Chris [00:05:33]:
Oh, my God. I.
Sam [00:05:36]:
Here we go. When was this?
Chris [00:05:38]:
I was at telecom. I’m going to have to say maybe 2005.
Sam [00:05:47]:
Okay.
Chris [00:05:48]:
So Facebook pages. Pretty new.
Sam [00:05:51]:
Pretty new, Yep.
Chris [00:05:52]:
At that time.
Sam [00:05:52]:
Before Facebook turned to crap.
Chris [00:05:54]:
Yeah, yeah, it was. And just went to the local barber. It was around the corner. Dens Barber.
Sam [00:06:00]:
Okay.
Chris [00:06:00]:
And I said, oh, I don’t know. You talked to the barber? He was a nice guy. And I said to him, oh, you should have a Facebook page. He goes, I don’t know how to do any of that. And I said, I. I work for telecom. I sit up my ass at the desk and do nothing all day. I could do that.
Sam [00:06:14]:
Should you be telling people that at the time?
Chris [00:06:17]:
I didn’t say that at the time. I’m saying that now because that was 20 years.
Sam [00:06:21]:
No, I know that, but. Oh, okay.
Chris [00:06:23]:
Okay.
Sam [00:06:23]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:23]:
So, no, I didn’t say that at the time. Said I can help you with that properly. So I think. I don’t know if I did it when I was at work or when I was at home. Saw the Blur, but yeah.
Sam [00:06:32]:
So you still run this page?
Chris [00:06:35]:
No. Well, no, I gave it to him and I created it and gave him admin access and then promptly forgot about it.
Sam [00:06:43]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:44]:
And then he sold the business. The business. I didn’t go there anymore, obviously. Like, he left. I think he went to Australia or something.
Sam [00:06:54]:
Okay.
Chris [00:06:55]:
But I ended up getting messages like, can you close the page? And I’m like, who’s this guy? What is this one? What’s going on? Oh, okay. Yeah, sure. I assume I closed the page. I can’t remember now, but, yeah. So that sort of thing I could see happening. But that fan base thing does definitely sound creepy.
Sam [00:07:15]:
It does.
Chris [00:07:15]:
It sounds very creepy. I tell you. I want to tell you how old I feel this week. So apart from lurching around, shout out to Andy Pride. I had coffee with him. First time since 2019. We worked out. He says, hello, so.
Chris [00:07:32]:
But this week I bought some more memory for my computer.
Sam [00:07:37]:
Oh, yeah, you said you were going. We talked about this off air, I think, and you said you were going to do it. And there was a question about if you could upgrade it yourself or not. And they showed you a video.
Chris [00:07:46]:
Yeah. So they sent some videos through. So sweet. All right. I said, which one do you recommend? That one. Sweet. Ordered it. They queried it out to me.
Chris [00:07:54]:
Honestly, though, you take off the thing on the computer and. And I am that Donald Trump meme. I’m just looking at this thing and going. It’s all computer because it’s so different.
Sam [00:08:08]:
So I have no reference. So I’m just going with what you’re.
Chris [00:08:11]:
Saying because I’ve been in the guts of.
Sam [00:08:14]:
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, I get that. So what’s different, though? Because the motherboard still in it.
Chris [00:08:19]:
There’s a motherboard and you can’t see anything else. So there’s all these heatsinks screwed to it with artwork across them.
Sam [00:08:27]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:08:28]:
So it. You look at it and go, but where does anything fit?
Sam [00:08:32]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:08:33]:
There’s no slides anywhere. So that was part of the thing. So you have to unscrew it. So I unscrewed it. I think I put it in the wrong place to begin with. Like it was the right connection, but it didn’t quite fit. And I wasn’t quite.
Sam [00:08:45]:
Oh, I was like.
Chris [00:08:46]:
And I put it on and it didn’t quite work. Well, didn’t recognize it or anything. So I took off a longer heatsink.
Sam [00:08:52]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:53]:
I was like, maybe it’s under there. And sure enough, there’s a short thing and a longer one, and it fit in the short one perfectly. So I put. Screwed it back in and I went, cool. And then it didn’t show up. There was any memory.
Sam [00:09:05]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:09:05]:
So I’m like, good God, old guy. Yeah, good God. What’s going on here? So I go to the website for the memory sticks, you know, and they go, and at this point, it’ll show up. If not, there’s all these ridiculously complex things that could be wrong.
Sam [00:09:21]:
I’m like, it could be any of them.
Chris [00:09:24]:
Yeah. It’s like, no. So I ended up emailing Stuart. Shout out to Stuart from pbtech. I think he’s up in Manu Cow. But he’s.
Sam [00:09:34]:
You’re like, hey, remember me?
Chris [00:09:35]:
He’s been holding my hand all the way through, figuratively. And he says, did you initialize it? I’m like, I don’t know what that means. Like, donut the couch. Did you have to open up the. I don’t know what that means. And he goes, pretty sure I mentioned it in the first email.
Sam [00:09:54]:
Yep.
Chris [00:09:55]:
I don’t think you did. I don’t remember what that means.
Sam [00:09:57]:
You probably never saw that email.
Chris [00:09:59]:
Maybe I did. Maybe I skimmed past that. I don’t know. I watched the videos anyway. Yeah. So I’ve got it going. It’s going Now, I will show you this computer after we’ve finished and you will have a look and you’ll see what I mean by. It’s just space age.
Chris [00:10:12]:
But that 2 terabyte thing, it used to be a big lump of stuff that you bolted in.
Sam [00:10:20]:
Yeah, bolted in.
Chris [00:10:21]:
And now it’s the size of my thumb. It’s flat and it just clips in. It’s just crazy. It’s just.
Sam [00:10:27]:
And the price a. Because before it felt like, yeah, I’ve got this hard drive. I can hear a spin. It’s solid and heavy. I’m sure it’s.
Chris [00:10:34]:
And it costs a couple of hundred bucks. This cost me 400. And it’s tiny piece of little top plastic.
Sam [00:10:40]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:10:40]:
But it works now, so that’s cool.
Sam [00:10:43]:
Excellent. You know who else has been working on things recently? A grave robber. Don’t hear much about them, but it’s good on them. Police in Pennsylvania, they found 100 human skulls in this dude’s house and quite a few body parts. So he’s been going and frequenting Mount Moriah, I think it’s called Cemetery. And it’s one of the oldest cemeteries in the U.S. i think it said.
Chris [00:11:08]:
So he’s after old bones type thing.
Sam [00:11:11]:
I think it’s because it’s not really looked after. It’s the largest abandoned building. Burial ground. Yeah. So they’ve got some volunteers that come in, I think. But it was established in 1855, so.
Chris [00:11:26]:
Nobody who’s living now knows anybody buried there. So it’s not visited. It sort of sounds like.
Sam [00:11:32]:
It sounds like you’re trying to justify grave robbing.
Chris [00:11:37]:
I’m just trying to justify why somebody chose it for grave robbing. But anyway, yeah, carry on.
Sam [00:11:42]:
So they. They found some bones and skulls in the backseat of a car near an abandoned. Near the abandoned cemetery. And they checked it out and they realized that during periods of burglaries, the car had been spotted a lot. So I think he may have been to some other stuff. He’s walking back to the car with a crowbar and a burlap sack. And he had the mummified remains of two small children, three skulls and some other bones.
Chris [00:12:08]:
And then the cop was asked, do we have enough evidence? And he said, remains to be seen, but.
Sam [00:12:18]:
I don’t think he’s that clever.
Chris [00:12:21]:
Remains to be seen, but he even.
Sam [00:12:23]:
Had a storage unit. So they found that body parts in the storage unit and his house. He’d been targeting underground vaults and stuff at the cemetery. They were the quote. The quote from the attorney. They were in Various states. Some of them were hanging as it were. Some of them were pieced together, some were just skulls on a shelf.
Chris [00:12:45]:
Yeah, it’s disturbing.
Sam [00:12:47]:
It had estimated 150,000 grave sites in that place.
Chris [00:12:52]:
Well, you know, everybody needs a hobby.
Sam [00:12:57]:
He’s getting charged 100 counts each of abuse of a corpse and receiving stolen property along with other related charges. His bond has been set at a million dollars. Because you haven’t seen Monster, the Ed Green story or whatever it is, eh, because he does a bit of that. So that’s interesting.
Chris [00:13:16]:
I like this story I just came across just before in fuelarc.com so obviously fuelarc.com is a great source.
Sam [00:13:27]:
What are you saying? What’s fuel arc?
Chris [00:13:29]:
I don’t know. What is auto news? The headline is.
Sam [00:13:33]:
Hang on, what’s the tagline for the.
Chris [00:13:36]:
We have some news with a sense of humor. Fuel arc Auto News reviews and hot takes.
Sam [00:13:41]:
Okay, carry on.
Chris [00:13:42]:
And this one’s written by Kay Leadfoot if you want the byline.
Sam [00:13:47]:
Good. This is some AI chunk. Carry on.
Chris [00:13:51]:
It probably is actually updated. Cybertruck slices deer in half. Elon claims that it’s safer for pedestrians.
Sam [00:14:01]:
I can’t tell if this is a real story or not.
Chris [00:14:03]:
I don’t know because before I did the in depth analysis of the headline, I didn’t realize it could be fake. What makes the collision and unique is the pickup truck in question. A 2024 Tesla Cybertruck. The Cyberbeast edition.
Sam [00:14:18]:
Okay.
Chris [00:14:19]:
Basically the poor buck was struck at 75 mph and cut in half. It says here. I was tempted to write cut clean in half, but apparently it was a total mess. And the driver will not share the dash cam footage for that very reason.
Sam [00:14:34]:
Oh come on.
Chris [00:14:36]:
But the question is because where the hood meets the A pillar is the sharpest part of the truck. Yeah, people are concerned now what if it hits a pedestrian? But if you are a protester in Minneapolis right now, probably best be behind the cyber truck. Because when, you know, the cops shoot you in the head for no apparent reason then.
Sam [00:15:01]:
I mean the guy proof gas. Yeah, they say that. Remember when they announced it and the guy threw the rock and it broke it?
Chris [00:15:07]:
Yeah, yeah, well true. She might have survived it.
Sam [00:15:11]:
I don’t know. They were pretty determined.
Chris [00:15:13]:
Well, apart from the she had a side window down and he shot her twice through the open window.
Sam [00:15:18]:
But he’s got internal. He’s got internal bleeding now. Injuries.
Chris [00:15:22]:
Oh yeah. Got a hangnail.
Sam [00:15:25]:
No, seriously, that’s what they come out with.
Chris [00:15:26]:
Oh really? That was appalling to be honest with you. I’ve actually started looking up what it would take for a. And this cannot happen, by the way. So I’ve done the research for it. What it would take for like, the New Zealand government or another government to designate ICE as a terrorist organization. Now, there’s some real reasoning why I would want to do that is that I don’t want those guys on holiday over here because I don’t want the ISIS guys on holiday coming to New Zealand either. But they won’t be allowed to. No, but we shouldn’t allow the ICE people in here either.
Chris [00:16:01]:
So I am going to consider how we can do something about that. And I’ll keep you posted.
Sam [00:16:10]:
Okay. In other news, there’s some monkeys on the loose in St. Louis again.
Chris [00:16:17]:
They’ve always got monkeys on the loose in the States.
Sam [00:16:20]:
Oh, yeah, they do.
Chris [00:16:21]:
It seems like all the time.
Sam [00:16:23]:
The largest reported sighting is 4. They don’t really know where they’ve come from. Animal control and primate experts are on the hunt. They were first spotted on Thursday. On Monday, they’re still at large. They were near a park at one point. They don’t know who owns them. And if you’re wondering, they are the vervet monkeys on top of that.
Sam [00:16:50]:
The problem is, though, people are sharing AI generated images of them as describing them just having fun. And it’s very hard sometimes for them to verify if it’s a legitimate sighting or not.
Chris [00:17:04]:
Oh, my God.
Sam [00:17:05]:
People are just having fun. I don’t think anyone means any harm by it. But it’s very.
Chris [00:17:11]:
Are they sure they’re real monkeys and they’re not just AI?
Sam [00:17:14]:
It sounds like the expert. Some people have seen the actual monkeys that started the reports, but now they’re working with specialist people to try and find it. Yeah. It’s funny, though, because there’s a subreddit, which I follow now, called Is it AI? And people share some stuff like their friends or family share, and they ask the Group, is this AI? It’s probably about one out of 10 where I get caught out.
Chris [00:17:38]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:17:38]:
And it’s very obviously a short clip is the dead giveaway. They can’t go past 10 seconds without it causing problems. Yeah, but there’s somewhere there’s some that look AI but aren’t either. They’re like, no, this is the original footage. This is the animal actually doing this weird thing. I think it was like a rhino playing with a dog. I think it was. And they’re like, no, that’s real.
Sam [00:18:02]:
And then they had a dog, another animal that was sort of jumping into some snow and moving around and then they’re like, oh no, that’s not real. Very, very interesting. But we’re at that edge of.
Chris [00:18:13]:
Yeah, yeah, it’s not, it’s not going to be long at all and you just will not be able to tell the difference. And I’ve seen a few things recently where people have used, you know, AI’d themselves to do little things. There’s one, there’s a, I’m sure there’s a bunch of channels, but one of these channels I was watching was explaining the Venezuela invasion thing. Like the next day I was doing my workout, watching this thing on my phone. This thing came up so I watched it. Yeah, and it’s a guy, old guy, looks very credible, normal, talking with a background and you just know he doesn’t stop to breathe.
Sam [00:18:53]:
That’s not important.
Chris [00:18:56]:
The use of language and particularly AI, the biggest giveaway is acronyms. Right? They don’t like acronyms. They either try and say the word as if it’s a word, but it’s an acronym. Yeah, they just don’t get it. Or I think he said USD and I was like, nobody would say that. Everybody say use dollars. Like yeah, anyway. But you know what he said, you know, the content was actually pretty interesting.
Chris [00:19:21]:
But then you like. But I don’t know if I can trust it because if the face is fake.
Sam [00:19:27]:
Yeah, that’s true.
Chris [00:19:28]:
How much of the information’s fake? So yeah, anyway, well, you know what’s.
Sam [00:19:32]:
Not fake is when you have an idea and it gnaws at you for 12 months and you realize there’s only.
Chris [00:19:36]:
One day of the year you can.
Sam [00:19:37]:
Do it and you go for it. So you ride around a McDonald’s, drive through for 24 hours nonstop. That happened to you?
Chris [00:19:45]:
When’s McDonald’s open 24 hours?
Sam [00:19:49]:
No, closed 24 hours.
Chris [00:19:51]:
Oh, it’s close for 24 hours.
Sam [00:19:52]:
Yeah, sorry. Christmas Day.
Chris [00:19:54]:
Oh, right.
Sam [00:19:54]:
So this 21 year old mountain biker doesn’t even say where.
Chris [00:19:59]:
I was going to say where.
Sam [00:20:00]:
New Zealand. That’s all you need to know. The funny. I’ll tell you what the funny thing is with this story. The New Zealand websites have all gotten blocked and they only tell you a little bit. And even if you see a full story, it just says he rode around. But the sun in the UK has this massive article about him, but doesn’t exactly say where. But I think it was, I think it was Queenstown maybe, I don’t know, somewhere.
Sam [00:20:24]:
But he realized that he just wanted to do it. He did 2,650 laps. He goes. It was just a pointless challenge. And he stopped and had breaks, I think. And I don’t even know if he had a support crew, but he was just going around and around and he didn’t have a distance goal. He just wanted to go for 24 hours. And he worked out that he probably could go up to 30 with the timing of everything.
Sam [00:20:48]:
But he said early on someone pulled up in a car and just stared at him for a while and then they left. I don’t know. I’m surprised.
Chris [00:20:55]:
Well, like I said with the grave guy, you gotta have a hobby.
Sam [00:20:59]:
Yeah, that’s right. At least he’s less creepy.
Chris [00:21:02]:
Yeah, it’s way less creepy. Way less creepy. I was going to say. Oh, did want to yell out congrats to Paige on a new job. So she was running the Regent Cinema and now she’s at the regional theater as an assistant manager, I think. Assistant manager.
Sam [00:21:16]:
No, you’re just making stuff up.
Chris [00:21:18]:
I did read it, but I can’t.
Sam [00:21:19]:
I think she’s the manager of front.
Chris [00:21:22]:
Of house staff, something like that. Yeah.
Sam [00:21:25]:
And I think she got a job job. They employed her for something else and then they offered her that job straight away.
Chris [00:21:32]:
Oh, really? No, I didn’t know because her. I only saw the LinkedIn posts.
Sam [00:21:36]:
Oh, yeah, yeah, I know. So basically the. Her boss doesn’t have much hospital experience, but was like, hey, do you want to do this? She’s like, yes. So, yeah, should be good. And obviously a change working just like in town.
Chris [00:21:51]:
In town. So, yeah. So Beck will be happy.
Sam [00:21:54]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:55]:
Cool.
Sam [00:21:56]:
Right.
Chris [00:21:57]:
Anything else we got? We got anything coming up? Do we have any exciting stuff coming up? I’ve got another week of work and I’m gonna have to do more than 20 hours next week because contractually I’m obliged to actually do more work.
Sam [00:22:08]:
Good. You better do some actual work.
Chris [00:22:10]:
Oh, God. Nobody was. Nobody was at work this week, actually. Nat and Rebecca and pitching business and Brisbane or Melbourne or something all week, next week. So they won’t be around.
Sam [00:22:25]:
So they. To do that. They’ve somehow made contact with these places.
Chris [00:22:28]:
And said, hey, these people have apparently contacted us. So they came over. Oh, Rockhampton. It’s in Rockhampton of all random places.
Sam [00:22:38]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:39]:
Yeah, it’s like a search and rescue type business, I think, or organization or whatever.
Sam [00:22:46]:
That’s pretty cool.
Chris [00:22:47]:
Yeah, I was.
Sam [00:22:48]:
It’s. I love it when you pop up in searches and stuff. So I was telling the story about the Shine the Light guy from last Week.
Chris [00:22:53]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:22:54]:
At work. And one of the guys at work started googling, trying to find out what the term was. And he goes, all I can find is your podcast. And that was like on the Monday after it published.
Chris [00:23:05]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:23:05]:
And I was like, yeah, that’s right, that’s right. What happens if the guy says, I don’t care, Maybe he’ll let us know what his YouTube channel is. Cause I still can’t find it.
Chris [00:23:14]:
Yeah, that pops up for me. I like that, too. That was good. So tempted to talk about all of Trump’s foibles. I’ve been engrossed in these things. Did you see the note thing? Did you see the note thing? No. He’s in a cabinet table. He’s got the Exxon and the Chevron and the.
Sam [00:23:34]:
Hang on. So he’s got all the oil people that are chubbed up to go in Venezuela.
Chris [00:23:37]:
Well, they’re not. That’s the whole problem. He’s chubbed up. Cause they think they will. They. In the meantime, do they understand that.
Sam [00:23:45]:
It’S probably quite problematic just going in there?
Chris [00:23:47]:
Well, the business people, they know the costs.
Sam [00:23:49]:
Right. So.
Chris [00:23:49]:
Okay, let me run. Give you a quick rundown on this. Right. Venezuela is a sour heavy oil, which takes a lot of American industrial processing were set for that, but now they do fraction. What do they call it? Frac. I don’t know.
Sam [00:24:07]:
Fracking.
Chris [00:24:07]:
Fracking. Now that they do the fracking, that’s light sweet oil. So it used a different process. So they do want some of this heavy sour, because they’ve got the potential to do that. But there’s a whole lot of extra costs that come with it. It corrodes metal, so everything has to be in stainless steel that it puts it through the pipes have to be stainless steel. So it’s an expensive undertaking. Right.
Sam [00:24:29]:
Okay.
Chris [00:24:30]:
Plus the value of oil has just dropped. Right. It’s down to. It was 55 a barrel when I last looked at it earlier in the week. Right. So it’s really low. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, the market’s not there.
Chris [00:24:42]:
Put it this way, if you’ve got a billion dollars to invest, which is the min. Oh, it’s more like 100 billion is what they’re going to have to invest. Right. If you’ve got 100 billion to invest, you can invest in Venezuela, where Exxon has already had everything taken off them and had it nationalized twice in their history.
Sam [00:24:58]:
Oh, wow. Okay.
Chris [00:25:00]:
And they’re still under the old regime and all the rest of it. So basically gamble it. Yeah. Or They’ve got a lot of really good rights and all that in Guyana, which is stable and is pumping a hell of a lot easier. And it’s a better. It’s a lighter oil and it’s more marketable. Where are you going to put your money? You’re going to put it in the safe place, not the dodgy place.
Sam [00:25:27]:
So Trump’s just doing dumb stuff.
Chris [00:25:29]:
So anyways, that’s going on, and then Marco Rubio is sitting next to him. You know who Marco secretly is, straight. And he writes this note and he passes it along the table in front of all the tv, and Trump picks it up. But actually, I think. Was it Jon Stewart, one of the comedians sort of did this bit about it, which was so funny because it’s just like. It’s like he has an inner monologue, but it just comes out. He goes, and Rubio’s just passed me a note. He literally said.
Chris [00:26:00]:
And he goes, go back to Chevron. And apparently there’s one camera angle where Marco Rubio’s going, like, looking up.
Sam [00:26:12]:
No.
Chris [00:26:13]:
And he reads this out. He goes, should I do that? Okay, I think I’ll do that. And he just does this all out loud. He reads out the note and he says all this. And then I think it was in the same meeting. He goes, and then there’s a ballroom. And he gets up, turns around and walks to the. They’ve got a patio door there.
Chris [00:26:33]:
Yeah, he’s just looking at it. Looks great, doesn’t it? And these people are looking around the table. He’s. He’s lost his.
Sam [00:26:41]:
Yeah, he’s got. He’s got dementia.
Chris [00:26:43]:
He’s totally lost the.
Sam [00:26:44]:
Why would you give the guy a note in front of everybody? You must know that there’s a strong chance. I liked.
Chris [00:26:51]:
I don’t think he’d be doing it again for that guy.
Sam [00:26:54]:
I like when Seth Meyers was like, so when you’re doing the operation for invading Venezuela, like, this is what Obama. This is their war room, and this is the other one. And then his one was at Mar a Lago with some pretty black tarps around him.
Chris [00:27:09]:
Yeah. They curtain up in the bathroom. Well, if it’s secure enough for documents. I mean, so stupid. It’s so bad that we’re living in this timeline, honestly, like, what the hell? The good thing is that south park came out of it, so.
Sam [00:27:27]:
Oh, I was gonna say the good thing. We’re in this timeline and we’re still here. That brings us to the end of this podcast. Hopefully next week we will have a Kickstarter drop kick for you. Maybe some more interesting stories. I don’t know if anything’s random’s gonna happen to me in the next week, but you never know.
Chris [00:27:43]:
You never know.
Sam [00:27:44]:
So until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:27:46]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:27:46]:
See ya.
Chris [00:27:47]:
Bye.
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