Summary
Chris battles neighborly woodchippers and errant wasps, while Sam takes us inside a creative doco screening (and a memorable car-art project). We learn about wild Olympic helmet controversies, an AI safety exodus, and the Kickstarter craze for “tree”-flavored pocket sodas.
Links
Creative Waikato Doco – Creativity in Community
Ukrainian athlete banned
Kickstart or Dropkick – Pocket Soda
Kickstart or Dropkick – COiN
Running out of Condoms
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:16]:
Hello and welcome to episode 568 of the Chris and Sam Podcast. I’m Chris and I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness, technology, and life.
Chris [00:00:24]:
568 and we’re marching along to 600.
Sam [00:00:30]:
We hope 600 is going to be better than whatever Chris was just, uh, his jingle.
Chris [00:00:34]:
I’m going to— I’m working on my singing performance for 600.
Sam [00:00:39]:
Uh, no, no.
Chris [00:00:40]:
Hey, um, I’m going to tell you a couple of things that I’ve done today because today has been a little bit interesting. Okay, so the first thing I did was, uh, I had an interview with a, um, hypnotherapist in, um, North America.
Sam [00:00:56]:
Good.
Chris [00:00:56]:
Scott Rust. Cool dude.
Sam [00:00:58]:
Okay.
Chris [00:00:58]:
Young guy. Cool dude. So on the, uh, this is from our community for the people that concerned with their confidence and I’m not the best confidence coach, right? Cause I tell them to harden up
Sam [00:01:10]:
and that’s— You just yell at people.
Chris [00:01:11]:
It works.
Sam [00:01:12]:
You just talk really loudly.
Chris [00:01:13]:
It works for some people, but not everybody. So anyway, that was cool. And I was really pleased to do that. And he’s given us a, um, a couple of hypnotherapy tracks he custom made for us.
Sam [00:01:23]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:01:24]:
For people, which is great. But partway through this interview, did you f— yeah, next door neighbors decided they needed to chop down a tree and put it in a wood chipper.
Sam [00:01:35]:
Oh no.
Chris [00:01:38]:
And slide the wood down.
Sam [00:01:38]:
Oh no. Yeah. Yeah, of course. Of course.
Chris [00:01:40]:
And I was like, and I could hardly hear him. Like, so it’s, I’m, I’ve got the microphone in front of me. It’s just coming out of the speakers and I can barely even hear him.
Sam [00:01:48]:
And I’m like, can he hear this?
Chris [00:01:52]:
And so I was like, oh geez, I’ll just, I’ll assume it’s working fine and he can’t hear it. And I just carried on as normal to the end. And when we finished the interview, the wood chipper’s still going, brap, brap, brap, brap, brap, brap. And I said, dude, can you hear anything in the background? And he goes, and he, he’s leaning forward. He’s got his headphone on though anyway. And he goes, no, I can’t hear anything. I was like, yes, this is the benefit of having a good mic.
Sam [00:02:17]:
This is good to know.
Chris [00:02:18]:
I knew, I knew that, um, I would. DaVinci, because I got the Pro DaVinci now. Oh yeah, you could— noise reduction’s amazing, just incredible. So I was pretty confident I could have sorted it out. I haven’t listened to it yet, but anyway, I recorded that. So that was, that was the first thing this morning.
Sam [00:02:33]:
I thought you were going to say you felt like you were being hypnotized.
Chris [00:02:37]:
No, no, um, although I did. He goes, did I send through the track yesterday? Did you get a chance to listen to it? I was like, sort of. I started listening to it last night, but I fell asleep. He goes, yes, it works.
Sam [00:02:49]:
I, I— that, that’s not an indication of his work, that’s an indication of how old and tired you are.
Chris [00:02:55]:
Yeah, pretty much. And the other thing is I, I had to send a couple of photos through to Louise. I haven’t heard back actually for, um, the landlord’s, uh, person working there. I have some, uh, guests in my, um, letterbox.
Sam [00:03:09]:
Okay, wasps.
Chris [00:03:10]:
Wasps.
Sam [00:03:11]:
Oh, lucky guess, lucky guess.
Chris [00:03:12]:
Little disc of, uh, a hive sitting in the bottom of the letterbox there. I’m like, I’m not going near them.
Sam [00:03:19]:
Why?
Chris [00:03:21]:
So if anybody doesn’t know, there is a, um, a story that is, uh, somewhere in the, the podcast, um, uh, files, the archives of, uh, my bee sting story, uh, where I got stung by— I assume it was a bee. I didn’t even see it, to be honest. I got stung by something.
Sam [00:03:40]:
Episode 23, back in 2015, and we called it the best bee sting story ever. Go check that out. Sorry if the audio quality is not as good as it should be, but, um, I’m sure it’s fine. You will, uh, it’s the best story. So, okay, that’s fair enough. You sent some photos, some help.
Chris [00:03:58]:
Yeah, I sent some photos and went, I’m not going near this. Can you organize to get rid of this little wasp nest in, in my letterbox?
Sam [00:04:05]:
Okay.
Chris [00:04:05]:
So yeah. Anyway, I thought you’d find it amusing just because last time I got stung by a wasp, uh, stung by whatever it was, I ended up in hospital and they were going to amputate my arm at the shoulder.
Sam [00:04:17]:
Yeah, now that’s no fun. Uh, this week there was a special screening for, uh, Creative Waikato at the BNZ Theatre. I went there again. I seem to be there all the time. Yeah, I saw Paige, saw Paige, bumped into a bunch of other people I knew. Um, and the— there is a, um, full-length documentary called Awaha: Creativity in the Neighbourhood, and this is Dan Inglis, another one of his.
Chris [00:04:44]:
Yes.
Sam [00:04:45]:
And this is sort of along the same veins as his previous one, Weaving people. Uh, this time though, they had some artists go into community centers, work with the kids, and they created art and did a music video, um, with Miriam and that, which is cool. And it was an hour and 46 minutes long in total.
Chris [00:05:06]:
That’s long.
Sam [00:05:09]:
It— yeah, it, it was good. Very good. Very interesting. And yeah, and it was interesting because Sarah a lot of the— she knew a bunch of the kids. Some of the kids go to her school, or previously did. There was a story they told about, uh, something, and she goes, I know who that is. And, uh, there was even people watching it that she knew as well. So, uh, it was pretty cool.
Sam [00:05:30]:
So good work. So WellNG Trust gave the money to them to do this, and it was like a 6-month, I think it was. So my question was, like, how do they carry this on? Because eventually the artists don’t keep going there, and it’s up to the community. And, um, one of the people Sarah knows, her sister was involved in it, and she was saying same thing. They’re trying to figure out how they keep going with this. Um, but it was very beneficial. And the cool thing was, uh, one of the artists goes— she had a Honda and she sort of crashed it a little bit and dented the door. Have you seen this?
Chris [00:06:01]:
No, no.
Sam [00:06:02]:
Oh, um, and she goes— the only— it’s a black Honda SUV and it had a white door. And she goes, oh, I thought that’s
Chris [00:06:09]:
only— so they had to get a demo door and they put a demo door with a different color on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:06:15]:
But she said, uh, whatever, I’ll get the kids to color it in, like paint it, draw on it with like paint pens. So they came out and then she goes, ah, just whatever. So the whole car is covered and it’s really cool. And they had an exhibition at the, um, museum as well for the art that they did and all sorts. There’s a whole thing. And Jeremy was behind all of it.
Chris [00:06:34]:
Of course he was.
Sam [00:06:35]:
Um, and Scott Granville was there, he said hi. Yeah, very cool.
Chris [00:06:39]:
Cool. It’s, it’s good to be, uh, in and amongst those creative people. Um, Sam and I actually know a lot of them from doing film work and bits and pieces. So yeah, no, it’s cool.
Sam [00:06:49]:
Yeah, it’s always weird having that little crossover.
Chris [00:06:51]:
Hey, now this isn’t like new, new information, but this is a— this has been going around, around for a while. But I was going to ask you what you thought of it. What, what are your thoughts on that dude, the Ukrainian, um, slider, the, the— from the Winter Olympics that got told he couldn’t race if he put the helmet on that had photos of his dead, um, fallen athletes on it? Do you know what I’m talking about?
Sam [00:07:17]:
No idea.
Chris [00:07:17]:
Catching up.
Sam [00:07:18]:
No, you’ve covered it. Okay, cool.
Chris [00:07:20]:
Yeah, so this Ukrainian guy And he’s got, there’s all these athletes that were supposed to be competing in the Olympics, but they’ve died in the, in the war in Ukraine. And so he had their faces on his helmet.
Sam [00:07:31]:
And they said no.
Chris [00:07:32]:
And they said, no, you can’t wear that. Or you, you know, we will disqualify you. And he goes, I’m, I’m, they couldn’t make it themselves. I’m bringing them with me on my helmet.
Sam [00:07:41]:
Okay. Makes sense.
Chris [00:07:43]:
They could have— no, they disqualified him. Um, so he didn’t, he didn’t, uh, race.
Sam [00:07:48]:
Oh, crazy.
Chris [00:07:49]:
Yeah, what are your thoughts on that?
Sam [00:07:51]:
They were just normal photos of the people.
Chris [00:07:53]:
Just photos of people on the mountain.
Sam [00:07:54]:
No, they could have actually spun that even better. I guess, I guess, I guess their problem is if they let one guy do it, everyone can do it, whatever, I guess. But honestly, it’s not a biggie.
Chris [00:08:05]:
I think you could have gone— I
Sam [00:08:06]:
mean, if anything, they’re worried about the wangs and the ski jump people and the fabric there. This is the least of their worries.
Chris [00:08:13]:
You know what, there was, there was a, um,, a— who was it? An Israeli athlete who came down the bobsled, the single bobsled, different, different competition. And I heard the Swedish, Norwegian, whatever it was, um, commentator with the subtitles. And the whole way down, all they were talking about was how he supported, uh, how he fought against, um, Gaza. Oh my gosh, Palestinians. And because they’re not supposed to be allowed in the Olympics if they’ve taken part in that sort of stuff. Yeah, no, okay, okay. But so this guy, I let him compete. Oh no, but he looked good though.
Chris [00:08:53]:
Commentator just talked all the way through about, like, the whole— his whole run was nothing about the run. It was all about what a piece
Sam [00:09:00]:
of crap he was, basically.
Chris [00:09:02]:
Oh, which I was like, yes, nice.
Sam [00:09:04]:
Another problem the Olympics has faced, and I feel like they face this every Olympics, so I don’t know who’s in charge of this, they ran out of condoms again. They depleted them within 3 days.
Chris [00:09:15]:
Well, it is the Winter Olympics and they want to be inside a lot, you know.
Sam [00:09:20]:
Exactly, get more!
Chris [00:09:21]:
Well, no, because last time we talked about, I’m pretty sure it was the Summer Olympics, which, you know, to be fair, they’re not wearing a lot, so it’s quite invigorating, I’m sure. But, um, Winter Olympics, you gotta snuggle, man.
Sam [00:09:35]:
10,000 free condoms gone in 3 days. So I don’t know if these are like commemorative ones or what is going on. They promised us— an anonymous athlete stated, they promised us more will arrive, but who knows when? Sounds like he’s holding out for it. And, uh, the incident reinforces longstanding stereotypes about the Olympic Village. And I’m sure— I don’t know if we’ve discussed this in the past or not, but I read somewhere once, someone explained it and they said, these are elite athletes and they get to meet other elite athletes and they don’t normally get to meet so many different people all at once.
Chris [00:10:09]:
And plus, their normal social life is non-existent, ’cause they’re up before dawn, they run, they don’t go out for a drink, they, you know, like— Yeah. Their whole life is aimed towards this.
Sam [00:10:21]:
And the last 3 Olympics, they had cardboard beds that were supposedly the anti-sex beds to try and get rid of it. They actually scrapped that, and they do have wooden bed frames. So I’m glad.
Chris [00:10:33]:
I, I don’t know. Well, you know, the, the, um, Birth control is a good thing. And, um, I thought they were all about, you know, we want more population, not less these days.
Sam [00:10:44]:
But anyway, who knows?
Chris [00:10:45]:
I’m going to read this out. This is a tweet. So I think it’s off X. So how accurate it is, I’m not sure, but it sounds good. So I’m just going to read it. Okay. In the past week alone, the head of Anthropic safety research quit and said the world is in peril. Moved to the UK to become invisible and— quote unquote— become invisible and write poetry.
Chris [00:11:13]:
Half of xAI’s co-founders have now left. The latest said recursive self-improvement loops go live in the next 12 months. Anthropic’s own safety report confirms Claude can tell when it’s being tested and adjusts its behavior accordingly. ByteDance dropped Seedance 2.0. A filmmaker with 7 years of, uh, experience said 90% of his skills can already be replaced by this tool.
Sam [00:11:40]:
I know, it’s crazy.
Chris [00:11:42]:
Yeshua Bengio, literal godfather of AI, uh, in the International, uh, AI Safety Report says, quote, we’re seeing AI whose behavior when they are tested is different from when they’re being used, and confirmed it is not a coincidence. And to top it all off, the US government declined to back the 2026 International AI Safety Report for the first time.
Sam [00:12:06]:
Excellent. We’re going to get that AI into Elon’s Tesla bot things, and then we’re all going to have a war against them. Good times. I’m looking forward to it.
Chris [00:12:16]:
Well, actually, just, I hadn’t written this down, but did you see the, um, the robot thing that was showcased in China this week?
Sam [00:12:24]:
No. What were they doing? Were they falling over?
Chris [00:12:26]:
Oh, it’s actually quite technically impressive. So it was a big show. It was a big TV extravaganza.
Sam [00:12:33]:
For this one thing?
Chris [00:12:35]:
Uh, no, I, I don’t even know why it was on, but it had all these Shaolin monks. Okay. And all these robots fighting together and
Sam [00:12:44]:
doing, uh, this isn’t AI.
Chris [00:12:46]:
No, it’s not AI. It literally was done. But I, I mean, cuz there’s a lot of comments about it and, and I was like, I am way more impressed with the martial arts, the kids, cuz they’re kids too. Um, cuz the robots are actually quite short, you know, little robots. Yeah. They’re robots. Um, the same size as the kids because the, the robots will do the same thing every time, but the kids have to make sure that they do the right thing and they’re interacting with these robots, which would be pretty hard to hit or, you know, like it’s, it’s very dance-like. It’s, it’s just like a 10-minute show, but it was a 5-minute show.
Chris [00:13:22]:
It was very impressive. So I have, have a look, but I’m more impressed with the kids than I was with the robots, to be fair.
Sam [00:13:29]:
Okay. Very good. We’ll have a link in our show notes, tcasp.com, tcasp.com for everything we’ve ever done. Yes. Um, Kickstart or Dropkick, I’ve got two already for you. All right. One is, one is called Coin and they’ve spelt it capital C, capital O, little i, capital N. I think it’s just a style choice.
Sam [00:13:51]:
I don’t know. It’s a, it’s a cutter. So it’s a little tiny knife. That’s as small as a quarter. So like a 20-cent piece, roughly. Yeah. And it unfolds. And with this little tiny knife, you can cut things.
Sam [00:14:06]:
Like, that’s it. There’s not much to it.
Chris [00:14:08]:
Can you hijack a plane with it?
Sam [00:14:10]:
I don’t know. It’s so tiny and little, but it’s part of that everyday carry and knife thing. And you know, people love that stuff.
Chris [00:14:18]:
I, I was definitely one of those people.
Sam [00:14:20]:
I am one of those
Sam [00:14:23]:
people.
Sam [00:14:23]:
Um, So that’s cool.
Chris [00:14:24]:
After I got one of my best knives taken off me because I flew down to my grandmother’s funeral, um, oh no, because I forgot it was in the bag. Yeah, yeah. And they took it. I said, oh, can you— no, it’s too late. You can either not get on the
Sam [00:14:38]:
plane or we can— and you’re like, I really need to get on that plane. So yeah, gutted. One of these, I’m going to talk in New Zealand dollars, you can buy one for $55 right now. Early bird, you’ve still got 33 days to go at the time of our recording. So they only needed to make $6,777 NZD. Oh, okay. That’s all they want to make this a viable product, apparently.
Chris [00:15:06]:
Right.
Sam [00:15:06]:
How much is that per unit again? Uh, $55 NZD.
Chris [00:15:10]:
It’s a bit, bit steep for a knife.
Sam [00:15:13]:
It’s a little— it’s, um, I think there’s a titanium version as well, which costs a little bit more. I’m— look, it looks like, uh, people,
Chris [00:15:20]:
people that are into this are into this. So
Sam [00:15:24]:
yeah, I, it, it, it. So literally this is right now, this has literally been alive for a couple of days.
Chris [00:15:29]:
Couple of days. Okay. I would say they’re over this $6,000. I’d say $10,000.
Sam [00:15:33]:
Did you say $800,000?
Chris [00:15:36]:
Freaking kidding me. No, you know, we need to make something, bro.
Sam [00:15:40]:
This is ridiculous.
Sam [00:15:43]:
$800,000. So you need, well, I’ve got something else for you and this is Oh my God, this is, this is in the realm of— 2 days, 800,000. Yeah, okay, I’ve got another one.
Chris [00:15:52]:
These guys must be partying up hard right now.
Sam [00:15:57]:
Like, wouldn’t you be?
Chris [00:15:58]:
Wouldn’t you be? You know, oh God. Okay, sorry, carry on.
Sam [00:16:02]:
This is another, this is another one from California. This has only got 2 days to go, so by the time you hear this, it may be too late. I’m sure they’re going to try and sell it. There’s a couple of things. One is It makes me a little bit twitchy. Not as, not as bad as, uh, two mags and a piece of tape or that stupid can tab thing, but we’re in that realm for long time listeners. And this thing’s called Pocket Soda.
Chris [00:16:27]:
Oh my God.
Sam [00:16:28]:
And it’s little pouches of flavor. So it’s to save you from having cans and you get 5 flavors when you buy this thing, when you, when you back it.
Chris [00:16:39]:
Right.
Sam [00:16:39]:
Okay. So the flavors are cola, clear cola, ginger cola, cherry vanilla cola, and tree. Tree?
Sam [00:16:50]:
Which is just green.
Chris [00:16:52]:
Tree.
Sam [00:16:53]:
Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:16:55]:
So tree is green. So yeah. That’s so
Sam [00:17:01]:
stupid. You know what flavor I like when I drink?
Sam [00:17:03]:
I like tree. Oh, that’s ridiculous.
Sam [00:17:08]:
It gets, gets better. Anyway, you, you squirt it into a glass of soda water and you have a drink.
Chris [00:17:15]:
Okay. So it looks like one of those, um, unfrozen ice blocks.
Sam [00:17:19]:
I was going to try and explain that to you, but I wasn’t sure if you would understand the concept.
Chris [00:17:23]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:17:23]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:17:24]:
Yeah. Yeah. We had those when I was a kid.
Sam [00:17:25]:
Okay, good. I wasn’t sure.
Chris [00:17:27]:
So for those listening, when you’re a kid and you used to get those ice sucky lolly things that are in a bag and you put them in the freezer and then you cut the end off and you squeeze it up and you just suck on that. It looks like that.
Sam [00:17:39]:
Okay. So they won’t ship this to New Zealand. So I just had to change the shipping thing. You get 5 sodas. That’s it. Just 5. So one of each flavor.
Chris [00:17:48]:
But they don’t— it doesn’t have bubbles. You have to create the bubbles.
Sam [00:17:52]:
Yeah. You need a bottle of soda water.
Chris [00:17:55]:
Soda stream thing. Yeah.
Sam [00:17:57]:
Yeah. Now to get 5 single flavors. So you get one of each, including churri— churri.
Sam [00:18:11]:
Favourite— Sam is totally losing it here. They could have just called it green. Same thing.
Sam [00:18:18]:
They want $20 US for 5 of them. So it’s $34 NZD, right? Jeez.
Chris [00:18:25]:
Right.
Sam [00:18:25]:
For 5 on-the-go random flavors. Okay.
Chris [00:18:29]:
So then in one, one sachet’s only give, give you one drink, right?
Sam [00:18:33]:
Yeah. Mix one soda tube by squirting into, um, plain soda water. Now it’s easy to have soda on the go, but you need the soda anyway. Don’t worry about
Sam [00:18:43]:
that. This is so dumb.
Sam [00:18:47]:
Hey, it gets
Chris [00:18:50]:
better.
Sam [00:18:51]:
So there’s only 2 days to go. So you may not be able to back this.
Chris [00:18:55]:
Um, sorry about that.
Sam [00:18:56]:
I don’t think it ships to New Zealand. So you’re out of luck.
Sam [00:19:00]:
Anyway, to make this a reality, how
Sam [00:19:02]:
much money do you think they needed?
Sam [00:19:04]:
500 bucks. 33. 33.
Sam [00:19:09]:
Sorry, it’s New Zealand.
Sam [00:19:11]:
33 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:19:12]:
So they only had to sell one. Yeah. So mum bought it.
Sam [00:19:17]:
No matter how much she— the phrase. What? How much she’s in the phrase?
Sam [00:19:25]:
None.
Sam [00:19:26]:
Uh, more.
Chris [00:19:26]:
So they’ve actually got some backers.
Sam [00:19:29]:
Okay. All right. This, this is going to make you want to do a Kickstarter because wait for it.
Sam [00:19:34]:
$500.
Sam [00:19:36]:
$77,000.
Sam [00:19:37]:
What
Chris [00:19:41]:
the— I just want to swear so bad.
Sam [00:19:44]:
That’s the stupidest crap I’ve ever heard.
Sam [00:19:47]:
I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what the background is this. I don’t know if these are— I’m
Chris [00:19:51]:
sure they’ve sold that to somebody. They’ve sold it to somebody who said, just go in and back it. Just go in and back it.
Sam [00:19:56]:
I don’t know, but I’ll tell you what.
Chris [00:19:58]:
Have you ever had bolero?
Sam [00:20:00]:
Do you know what that is? No.
Chris [00:20:02]:
Uh, no. So I used to get it a little bit when we’re back in Radnor Street. Uh, and I got it from some order place and it was just effectively flavoring for water.
Sam [00:20:12]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:12]:
Yeah. But it just made me drink more water, which was really good. And that costs way less than that. I mean, I suppose I could have had bubbles in my water, but I don’t really like bubbles in my water, but yeah.
Sam [00:20:23]:
This is the text in the campaign about go-to production timeline. Everything is basically done. All we need to do is finalize our recipes and cook the bulk batches. We have already purchased— you alright?
Sam [00:20:36]:
I’m just like, how do you finalize tree?
Sam [00:20:42]:
Sorry, carry on, carry on, carry on. We have already purchased a machine that will package the syrup for $1,500. I think we got ripped off. And to recoup the cost, we need your support. We need you to support our project, right? So they’ve got a picture of this machine and it’s an AI image, I think, because on the ground is 100 mousetraps.
Sam [00:21:05]:
What the hell?
Chris [00:21:07]:
So I don’t know— this whole thing’s a, a joke.
Sam [00:21:11]:
I don’t know if the people behind it have a crowd and it’s a joke. Maybe it is a joke. Maybe the funny thing is that it’s tree and all the flavors are cola. I don’t know. I’ll look into it. I’ll get back to you next week. That’s my two cents. So would you— you don’t want to back that for 30-something bucks?
Chris [00:21:27]:
Okay. Mind you, I suppose if, if there’s some level of humor that we’re just not aware of here, um, you know, like there’s an in-joke and then a whole bunch— maybe a community of people who are into this in-joke. 30 bucks.— is, is, is funny to, to toss away $30 for a joke. You know what I mean?
Sam [00:21:47]:
To be part of it.
Chris [00:21:49]:
Maybe.
Sam [00:21:49]:
Now, now I’m wondering— view profile. William Osman 2 is the person. Uh, it just says— Osman the Second. It says, please consume. Oh, and he’s got hundreds of Kickstarter.coms listed. Is this just a bot or something? He’s backed two projects and he’s created one. And I don’t want to show you the photo of him.
Chris [00:22:15]:
He looks like a, an AI bot.
Sam [00:22:20]:
AI. So his, um, his, his little thing is 232,285% funded. Is this— why have you got a glass out? Is this— have you got thirsty about it?
Chris [00:22:30]:
I’ve got, I’ve got something I want to finish with. Oh, okay. It’s a visual gag, so it’ll work
Sam [00:22:33]:
well in the podcast. An audio podcast. Well done. He’s just re— I thought he was getting thirsty and got excited about tree and And he’s got a, got a drinking glass. All right.
Chris [00:22:42]:
So, okay.
Sam [00:22:43]:
This is something that— have you been watching reels or TikToks or something?
Chris [00:22:46]:
No, the cow did this at the pub the other week. Oh, okay. And I remembered that afterwards and I went, oh, I should have mentioned it.
Sam [00:22:54]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:54]:
So, um, so we were drinking out of a handle and it was a tall— at the, um, uh, George Bar, whatever it is in town, in front of the casino there, local Tap house or something.
Sam [00:23:08]:
Uh, yeah.
Chris [00:23:09]:
Tap house. Yeah. Anyway, so it’s a tall handle, quite sk— long and skinny. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And he says, tell me what’s the long, greater distance, the height of the glass or the circumference of the top? Oh, okay. So I’ve got a glass in front of Stan.
Sam [00:23:26]:
I’m assuming I, I’m, the way you’ve worded it and set it up, I’m assuming everyone says the height.
Chris [00:23:31]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:23:32]:
But in reality it’s that? Yeah. But does it look like that? Is that for every glass? Or you don’t know?
Chris [00:23:38]:
Well, cause, um, Carl said it to me with this, with this pint and I went, it’s gotta be the height. Cause it’s so tall.
Sam [00:23:46]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:46]:
Like it’s so narrow. And he goes, well, and he goes, actually, I’m not 100% sure. Cause it totally looks like the height is right. Okay. So then I got a menu. And wrapped it around the top of
Sam [00:24:00]:
the circumference of the glass. Okay, Chris is wrapping a piece of paper around it because we don’t have—
Chris [00:24:05]:
and it is significantly— it’s almost double. Yeah, exactly. And it apparently works with every glass. It’s a great little way to win a bit of money with your friends. Just— okay, I’m gonna— what, it works? Round is on you if you get this question wrong.
Sam [00:24:21]:
Okay, I need a real glass.
Chris [00:24:24]:
The height or the circumference of the top?
Sam [00:24:26]:
That’s a real, um, that screws with
Chris [00:24:27]:
your mind a bit. It does.
Sam [00:24:29]:
It does. Okay. That’s interesting. That’s a cool little trick, but I’m sure math people are like, of course it is. It’s double the bloody blah, blah, blah.
Chris [00:24:38]:
Yeah. Well, we’re just— I mean, there must be a tall enough glass. There’s a point at which that doesn’t work, but this pint glass that I had was really notably tall and skinny. And, uh, It was like, he was, he was like, I know it should be the circumference, but I’m not 100% sure. And, and it was bias significant.
Sam [00:24:57]:
And if you’re a math geek and you know what this is and stuff, don’t come at us. We’re just podcasters. We’re just lowly podcasters. We’ve been doing this for a long time, 12 years or something. I told someone that today, potential new work colleague, and my boss just blurted out, Sam does a podcast. Oh, what’s it about? Where can I find it? Oh, I’ve downloaded it.
Chris [00:25:20]:
So hello.
Sam [00:25:20]:
Uh, if you’re listening to this, I don’t know if you’ve got the job yet or not, but maybe you’re listening to me. I don’t have anything to do with that.
Chris [00:25:28]:
Uh, yes. Okay.
Sam [00:25:31]:
That’s hilarious. Uh, so yeah, that pretty much wraps us up unless you’ve got a real short thing.
Chris [00:25:35]:
I got a real short thing. I’ll write the— read this out because I came across this and it just made me laugh. The grass is not always greener on the other side is the motto, I think. The next time you dislike your life, remember it’s all about perspective. I have a friend who reads 2 to 3 books a week. Works out twice a day, has no financial worries, has people who want to have sex with him all the time, and yet he constantly complains about how much he hates prison.
Sam [00:26:06]:
Ah, and on that note, we’ll catch you next time. Um, my name’s Sam. I’m Chris.
Chris [00:26:12]:
See ya.
Sam [00:26:13]:
Bye.
Excerpt
A tree-chopping neighbor disrupts a hypnotherapy interview, new creative documentaries hit the theatre, and the team tries to understand why “tree” is a soda flavor—plus, Olympic condom shortages and the mystery of glass circumference.
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