Summary
Chris battles tech gremlins while Sam revels in April Fools pranks, with AI-generated gags leveling up the mischief this year.
Thieves make off with 12 tons of Kit Kats, black market cigarettes are on the rise, and the world’s only NZ Black Hawk helicopter makes a cameo.
AI gets it wrong in a shocking wrongful arrest case, a goldfish sets a bizarre world record, and Chris recounts birthday party costume confusion.
Links
Crappy Ballroom Redesign
Grandma Misidentified by AI
Kahu – Blackhawk Helicopter Services
Kickstart or Dropkick – NoxTi
Kickstart or Dropkick – Yarbo M
Secret Service Shoots Himself in the Leg
OnlyFarms
Goldfish Gets World Record
Longest Line at Philly Airport
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 574 of the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. This is your weekly fix. Randoms, technology and life. We are 26 episodes away. Half a year until we get to episode 600. We may have a plan for that. We may not. You guess.
Sam [00:00:37]:
Hey, how’s your week been?
Chris [00:00:39]:
Pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah. Except for my Internet connection today, which just threw me for a loop. So I’ve been in a grumpy mood all day.
Sam [00:00:46]:
Don’t worry.
Chris [00:00:47]:
So you got to chimmy up now.
Sam [00:00:48]:
Yeah. Good. April Fools today. We had a couple at work which was pretty good. One was new rules around getting in and out of the lift and that you had to have a full lift. And if you were next to the buttons, you’re in charge of the buttons. And if everyone’s in there, please breathe out to, like, you know, create more space and stuff. And then later on, they sent out one for the fuel crisis.
Sam [00:01:11]:
They said that every vehicle has to have at least four people in it, no matter what. And if the other three people aren’t involved in whatever you’re doing, they just have to sit in the car and work on their laptop. Also, please bring snacks that are non crumbly and non smelly. So that’s pretty good. But what I realized was because I was flicking through social media and I don’t know, you probably didn’t because you had no Internet. But AI has leveled up April Fools for all these businesses. I was thinking about it today. Yeah.
Sam [00:01:40]:
So every business, no matter what, there was like the bike park in Rotorua. They’re like, we’re not doing that anymore. We’re going to have a hydro slide. So AI created that image. Whatever these people thought of as a funny thing to do with their business, they just created an AI image. And some of them are really good Intercity bus friends of the show. They have a. It was.
Sam [00:02:01]:
Everyone was on a bike facing each other all the way down the bus, and they were going to use pedal power to power their buses.
Chris [00:02:07]:
Now, that’s pretty good. I ever told you the best one that I ever saw, which was front page of the newspaper in Gibraltar.
Sam [00:02:17]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:18]:
And so the. The Rock of Gibraltar is this big pyre, this big rock, basically Pig Peak. And it has what they call the Levanta, which is like a cloud. So there’s always a sensation over it.
Sam [00:02:32]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:02:32]:
And so there’s a Lot of Gibraltar is just under a cloud where the rest of Mediterranean is just sunny. Because this bloody Levanta thing.
Sam [00:02:41]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:02:41]:
Because of the Rock of Gibraltar. So they were like, scientists have figured out how to get rid of the Levanta. They’re just going to drill holes through the rock and it’s going to have tunnels that look like Swiss cheese. You’ll be able to see through the rock, but it’ll get rid of the Levanta. And people wrote in droves. It went mental. This was in the early 90s.
Sam [00:03:00]:
Yeah. And the only thing they had was that paper.
Chris [00:03:03]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it was like, no, sorry, that was April Fool’s. No, sorry, that was April Fools. No, sorry. But it was front page. It was pretty good. It was a good one.
Sam [00:03:13]:
Do you like Kit Kats?
Chris [00:03:15]:
Yeah, I do, actually. I like them. I like the gooey caramel ones.
Sam [00:03:18]:
Oh. So every now and then they’ve got, like, different shaped ones. So at Easter, there’s a little rabbit, a Kit Kat thing, I think. And there’s a Formula One car. I don’t know if you’ve seen this. It’s a little one. I actually saw it at the supermarket a while back. It’s in the shape of Formula One car.
Sam [00:03:33]:
It’s Kit Kat. Some thieves in Europe have stolen 12 tons of these chocolate bars, 413,793 of them.
Chris [00:03:43]:
Shaped ones.
Sam [00:03:44]:
Yep.
Chris [00:03:45]:
The.
Sam [00:03:47]:
Apparently, yep. All right.
Chris [00:03:49]:
Okay.
Sam [00:03:49]:
So this truck left a distribution center. And the story I read was that some people that dressed up like police stopped the truck, tied up the truck driver and threw him out on the side of the road and then took the truck. And they’re tricking it. They’re trying to figure out where this goes. They did say that they can easily check the numbers on the packaging to find batches. So they know which ones were on that truck. This is just bizarre to me. I personally think that they thought it was something else in the truck.
Sam [00:04:22]:
But in 2023, a guy went to prison in the UK because he stole 200,000 Cadbury chocolate eggs. And apparently it’s a growing thing where people are stealing huge amounts of confectionary or food. So is this some sort of.
Chris [00:04:40]:
Because it’s a luxury item now because nobody’s got any money.
Sam [00:04:43]:
No. Yeah, I get that. But like I said at work, I said, like, if you’ve got drugs, right, and let’s say we’re talking cocaine or something, you have the big bricks of it and then you split that up and you give it to someone else, and then they sell it onwards and it goes on and on and on and you end up on the street. That makes sense to me. What do you do with Kit Kats? Do you just go around to dairies and go, hey, hey, I’ve got some Kit Kats?
Chris [00:05:07]:
Yeah, it’s the same as that, no. Yeah, I think it’s the same as anything, like selling crayfish or whatever, you know.
Sam [00:05:14]:
I guess it just. I guess it just seems like there’s too much administration and just crap to deal with where you could get in trouble any moment. Also, I don’t know what 12 ton of Kit Kats would be. Is that 12 pallets? I don’t know. Hard to say.
Chris [00:05:31]:
Yeah, that’s a good question. Yeah. 12 pounds. Anyway, that happened, well, just on that black market thing. So there’s a thing on Radio New Zealand the other day about black market cigarettes. Have you seen this?
Sam [00:05:45]:
No.
Chris [00:05:46]:
So black market cigarettes are being brazenly sold at heavily discounted prices in Auckland, undermining one of the biggest barriers to smoking, the cost. So the illicit packets of cigarettes and bags of loose tobacco have none of the scary health warnings. No, you don’t need to carry no information about quitting.
Sam [00:06:03]:
That means they’re good.
Chris [00:06:04]:
And they’re typically sold at prices that fail to include the excise tax, obviously. Which Customs says is about 30 bucks on a pack of 20 cigarettes.
Sam [00:06:14]:
Well, yeah, I believe that. Yep.
Chris [00:06:16]:
So they reckon it’s organized crime involved and dairy owners warn it’s only gonna get worse. So they’ve got. I’m gonna show you. They got these packets and they’ve just got 15 bucks written on them with Sharpie. Yeah. And then bags of tobacco, just like. Looks like the $2 lolly bags, but, you know, like the plastic bags, but it’s tobacco. And those are, I don’t know, 50 bucks or 20.
Chris [00:06:43]:
20 bucks, depending on how big they are. But the. They’re getting most of this from China and they’ve got heavy metals in them. They’re dangerous, good, anything. They’re really bad. But one of the things. What’s his name? Hamashu Hamanshu, the dude that we used to see a little bit here at some of the events. He.
Chris [00:07:08]:
He was talking, he was interviewed and he’s saying the biggest problem is that because people now go to these dairies that are selling dodgy stuff, they’re not going to a normal dairy.
Sam [00:07:19]:
No.
Chris [00:07:19]:
And there’s no margin in them. The average cigarette thing that they sell is $4 profit. That’s how much they get. So there’s like 70 bucks a packet and they make $4 profit and these guys sell them for $15 and they get $8 profit.
Sam [00:07:39]:
Right, okay.
Chris [00:07:41]:
And then. But the main, he said the main issue isn’t that they’re lacking the profit. The main issue is they’re lacking the foot traffic. Cause people go to. To dairies to buy cigarettes.
Sam [00:07:52]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:07:52]:
And they’re all going to these dairies and not those dairies. And so, you know, the ones that are keeping straight and legal, suffering the consequences. They’re not selling as much milk. They’re not selling as much anything.
Sam [00:08:05]:
No.
Chris [00:08:05]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:08:06]:
Just on that Kit Kat thing, really quickly I was scrolling social media and Road did a post on Instagram last night before. I think it was before April Fools. And it just goes road official statement. And I was like, oh. And it says, we would like to share our thoughts following the 12 ton Kit Kat heist. Cause you know when they do these crossover things, it sort of makes sense. This one, I’m just like, what? As an audio company we find this situation difficult to understand. Chocolate doesn’t just disappear quietly, it snaps, it crunches, it makes a variety of mouthwatering sounds.
Sam [00:08:41]:
On a completely unrelated note than rather Road will tomorrow stream a special edition ASMR live from Switzerland with 413,793 KitKat bars recorded using our KitKat Red Wireless Micro. Thank you. And then it says in the text at the bottom they tag KitKat KitKat US and KitKat Australia, New Zealand. We’re so sorry for your loss. Truly heartbreaking. And that’s a lot of crunch to lose. And they got.
Chris [00:09:07]:
It’s great. I think it’s genius.
Sam [00:09:09]:
And they’ve got their wireless micro and they’ve obviously tweaked it so they are the KitKat colors.
Chris [00:09:15]:
Right.
Sam [00:09:15]:
Anyway, I thought that’s pretty clever.
Chris [00:09:17]:
That’s brilliant.
Sam [00:09:18]:
Pretty quick. Whoever’s doing that.
Chris [00:09:19]:
Very good, very good. I like that, I like that.
Sam [00:09:22]:
Do you want some Kickstarters?
Chris [00:09:23]:
Oh, yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:09:24]:
You love it. You love getting these numbers wrong.
Chris [00:09:26]:
And I totally get them wrong.
Sam [00:09:28]:
Okay, so there’s one that’s come out called the Nox Ti.
Chris [00:09:35]:
Nox Ti.
Sam [00:09:37]:
Yeah. No X T I. And the Ti is for titanium. Oh. Because that’s what all the good things are made out of. Apparently. Didn’t save a link. Give me a sec.
Chris [00:09:49]:
Yeah. I’ve seen all sorts of interesting things that like. But this one’s titanium. Yeah.
Sam [00:09:56]:
Titanium is the thing that you can easily upgrade. So this is a tritium keychain and I feel like this has been around forever, but we just didn’t know what the name was. So it’s. No, no, no spell check. It’s not Fox. Do what I tell you. This is the joy I’ve found of Kickstarter. If you’re not on the actual platform, sometimes you can’t even Google the thing.
Sam [00:10:22]:
Yeah, like it’s just terrible. Like, and if it’s got a stupid name, how are you supposed to know?
Chris [00:10:28]:
You gotta do loads of blog posts that Google will pick up and link.
Sam [00:10:33]:
I think this has been removed. It’s not here. Okay. So the gist of it was, oh, I can’t find it anyway. But this is what I called it. It was a little key ring and it was made of titanium and inside it had the tritium glowing stuff. So just like glow in the dark
Chris [00:10:51]:
like they used to have on watch faces.
Sam [00:10:54]:
Exactly the same. And then this thing can last up to 25 years and you recharge it by light and then it glows. So you could attach it to something and after 12 and a half years it was at half life. And after, at the end it was like 4% of whatever, but you could still get some light. And it was this little glowing thing. But the thing that they did was you could take the top of it off and change the little vials of the stuff. So you could go blue or green or whatever. Orange I guess.
Sam [00:11:23]:
Anyway, I can’t remember what the price was for each one. It was pretty reasonable. And you could just put it on things if you needed to find it in the dark, I guess. But they’d raised $300,000.
Chris [00:11:38]:
Damn.
Sam [00:11:39]:
So I thought that was pretty good. I’m not getting Chris to guess that one cause I can’t find the thing. The next one though, you’ll love. It’s the Yarbo Y A R B O M. It’s the universal modular yard robot.
Chris [00:11:53]:
Oh yeah.
Sam [00:11:54]:
Okay, so these guys have done a Kickstarter in the past and they did the Yarbo Y I think was the first version. And this thing I will show. I thought I saw that titanium thing somehow, but it’s not. So this is a robot, it’s on tracks and it looks like a beefed up robo lawnmower. And it pretty.
Chris [00:12:18]:
Oh, when you say tracks, like tank tracks?
Sam [00:12:20]:
Yeah, little tracks. Yeah, yeah. So it’s one robot and it’s like
Chris [00:12:23]:
it’s got train tracks around your lawn. What the hell. Yeah, no, I’m with you.
Sam [00:12:27]:
Yeah, so it’s got add on components, so you’ve Got the body that drives it. And you can put a mower unit on the front. You can put a little snow blade, like a little plough that pushes. You can get a trimmer unit, sort of like a weed eater type attachment. And that’s the thing everyone’s really excited about. And the other one, it was a mulcher or something. This is going terribly wrong. Easy sense.
Chris [00:12:51]:
This is my day, honestly. I told you. My day was really.
Sam [00:12:55]:
It’s feeling like this. These guys have been featured everywhere though. It sounds like it’s a pretty legit company. They do offer great support and things like that. They’ve been all over the place. Ten years it’s taken them to get to this platform. And you can buy different kits. You can buy just the one item or multiples or all four or you
Chris [00:13:13]:
could buy one and then update the modules later on, I guess.
Sam [00:13:16]:
I guess so. So if you got. I will say that, yeah, collector module. So the fourth one is just a mower catcher on the back.
Chris [00:13:25]:
Right.
Sam [00:13:26]:
The first version of this, the other one that they’ve already done a Kickstarter for, they had a snowblower attachment instead of a plough. And they’re not interchangeable. They said no, they’re different platforms. So somehow they’ve decided this is the better way. Anyway, if you want just the mower and nothing else, it’s about 3,836 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:13:51]:
Have you been to buy a mower anytime recently? Like I don’t know what a normal mower costs. Be a couple of grand, wouldn’t it?
Sam [00:14:01]:
Robot type mower? Yes.
Chris [00:14:02]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:14:03]:
If you want all four things. So you get all these attachments, that’s gonna cost you about eight and a half thousand New Zealand dollars. And apparently these things can do 1 1/2, oh 1 1/2 acres by themselves. All terrain. Got lidar can work out where objects are and all this sort of stuff. So you’re wondering how much they need.
Chris [00:14:22]:
Yeah. So how much were they looking for? Going from three grand to eight grand per unit, depending on what they want.
Sam [00:14:30]:
Okay, so they wanted in New Zealand dollars, $174,000.
Chris [00:14:37]:
It’s just pretty low really because it
Sam [00:14:39]:
is a pretty decent piece of machine.
Chris [00:14:41]:
I would have thought they were wanting a million, to be honest with you.
Sam [00:14:44]:
No, but remember, they’ve already built the first one.
Chris [00:14:46]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:14:46]:
So they know how to do this, I guess.
Chris [00:14:48]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. True, true, true.
Sam [00:14:50]:
At the time of recording. So 20 days to go. So if you want one.
Chris [00:14:53]:
So they’re more than halfway through, probably 20 days, maybe two thirds of the way through. Yeah. Okay. I’m going to say they’re at 2 million. $3 million.
Sam [00:15:01]:
4.5.
Chris [00:15:03]:
That was the closest I’ve been in so long.
Sam [00:15:06]:
I know. Well done. So check out the Yarbo M. Don’t worry about the Knox Ti. Oh, maybe there wasn’t a space in the name and that’s why it couldn’t do it. It doesn’t matter. You got the gist of it.
Chris [00:15:18]:
I got the gist of it.
Sam [00:15:18]:
If you want one of them, you know where to go. Hey, did you see the video of that Black Hawk helicopter the other day in Auckland? No. So a week and a half ago, all these people were sharing all this footage of this Black Hawk helicopter. Right. And we’ve seen it. I’m sure you’ve been there, the one at field days. Were you there? No, out the back. And they had it just parked there.
Sam [00:15:37]:
Wasn’t doing anything. Maybe not.
Chris [00:15:39]:
No, I don’t think so. I think I’d remember that.
Sam [00:15:40]:
It’s the only Black Hawk helicopter in New Zealand. It’s the only one that is. Well, the only one in New Zealand that is fully ex military. Not because there’s a commercial version of it. And it’s called Kahu. That’s the company. They’re in Whakatane. They do logging, moving heavy stuff, film work and all of that.
Sam [00:16:01]:
And apparently one of the conditions of them having this helicopter or being able to fly it, they’ve got six pilots that can fly this helicopter. They got a lot of work on the go all the time. They’re not allowed to just carry passengers for fun. That’s one of the rules of them being able to operate and own this black helicopter. But they were in Auckland and they were putting air conditioning unit on the top of the BNZ building in Auckland. The truck drove in and parked up and then the helicopter flew in and picked it up and went up and these people were filming it. But then Kahu, they. They produced their own video of that little thing that they did.
Sam [00:16:37]:
So it’s pretty cool.
Chris [00:16:38]:
That’s interesting because you’re going to talk about your buddy. Yeah. You heard about the Blackhawks in Los Angeles at the no Kings.
Sam [00:16:48]:
Is that what it was? I just saw that military helicopter fly in front of old dipshit. You carry Kid Rock.
Chris [00:16:53]:
Kid Rock?
Sam [00:16:54]:
Yeah, Kid Rock. And he’s like saluting it.
Chris [00:16:55]:
So they sent a couple of Black Hawk helicopters to Kid Rock to. Maybe it was his birthday or something. But really everybody’s like, no, they’re just trying to intimidate all the protesters.
Sam [00:17:08]:
Oh, I didn’t realize that. I just saw the Kid Rock clip and I didn’t know what was going on, and I was like, this is just stupid.
Chris [00:17:14]:
Yeah. Yeah. That’s all I know. I didn’t bother going into it. But I will talk a little bit about one of the Trump things because I don’t know if you’ve seen this.
Sam [00:17:24]:
Which one?
Chris [00:17:24]:
The latest stuff about the Bull Run. It wasn’t supposed to say anything.
Sam [00:17:28]:
No. Oh, no. Isn’t he building like a bunker underneath it?
Chris [00:17:32]:
Yeah. And I told you that he was going to do that. Right. I said, I reckon the reasons he’s knocked down the old one is that it was an old bunker and he wants a bigger bunker so that when he refuses to give up, when he loses the next election, he can live in there comfortably.
Sam [00:17:47]:
Okay.
Chris [00:17:48]:
But anyway, they had some people look at the plans, plans for the new ballroom, and it was like, there’s all these things like, well, that’s unnecessarily big. That’s unnecessarily tall. Oh, right.
Sam [00:18:06]:
Okay.
Chris [00:18:07]:
There’s a grand staircase leading up to the front there.
Sam [00:18:10]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:18:11]:
There’s no entrance, there’s no doors.
Sam [00:18:13]:
So where’s it go to? Just nowhere.
Chris [00:18:14]:
No, just like it’s. It stairs to nowhere because the entrance is around the side, so there’s no. Why are you putting stairs there? And then they’re like, okay, you’ve got all these columns and you haven’t got an entrance there or anything. All you’re doing is ruining the view out of the window. At the end of the hall, there’s this big glass window, but all you can see is the columns. Like, it’s like, dumb ass.
Sam [00:18:41]:
But even if the idea is stupid of redoing it or whatever, wouldn’t you think they’d have a proper designer architect or they just gone cheap?
Chris [00:18:49]:
No, they’ve got Trump’s architect. He’s already. One’s already quit on him. So he’s like, you know how his lawyers keep quitting on him because they, they go, you should do this, sir. And he goes, I’m doing what I want.
Sam [00:19:00]:
So he’s sort of designing it himself via an actual person.
Chris [00:19:04]:
He’s got a, an architect go, I want to make it bigger, add 50% on. And the guy’s like, no. He goes, I’m going to quit. Quit. Okay, you’re the new architect. I want it bigger. Make it 50% bigger. It’s.
Chris [00:19:18]:
It’s. Anyway, so that was the New York time that times that roast Trump roasted Trump’s crappy ballroom.
Sam [00:19:25]:
Do you know who else is going to get roasted?
Chris [00:19:27]:
Who’s that?
Sam [00:19:27]:
The Secret Service officer. That agent that shot himself in the leg at an airport. He was. He’s assigned to protect former first lady Jill Biden. He wasn’t with her. She wasn’t in the area. He accidentally shot himself in the leg due. Due to a negligent discharge of his firearm.
Sam [00:19:50]:
Apparently. That does not fill me with confidence. Of all the people.
Chris [00:19:53]:
See that we talked about this. Eh. That. That podcast where that guy was. Had his hand in his pocket and his gun was in his pocket and he accidentally pulled the trigger and. And shot. And they were recording. It was a live podcast like.
Chris [00:20:05]:
And. And the guy goes. The other guy, two black guys. The guy goes, the hell’s going on? And he goes, I’ve just shot myself.
Sam [00:20:15]:
But this is the Secret Service.
Chris [00:20:17]:
Yeah, that’s true. This guy was a gang. And that was the Secret Service.
Sam [00:20:21]:
They’ve also announced only farms. That’s good. You’ve seen that.
Chris [00:20:26]:
Only farms. What is that?
Sam [00:20:27]:
Like?
Chris [00:20:27]:
Only fans but with pictures.
Sam [00:20:29]:
Trump’s unveiled it. It’s part of the. It’s part of the government website. It’s onlyfarms.gov.org or whatever. It’s part of the new White House website. It’s to mark National Agricultural Day. This is a real thing. You thought I made that up?
Chris [00:20:46]:
I don’t, I don’t. Is that April Fools? Come on. That’s gonna be April Fools. I think you just haven’t caught up.
Sam [00:20:53]:
This happened on March 27th.
Chris [00:20:55]:
True, true.
Sam [00:20:55]:
So anyway, that’s good. Keeping you guessing at all times. What about. We love world records here. This hasn’t got that guy that does all of. A goldfish has set the Guinness World Record for driving a motion sensing vehicle the longest distance. How do you feel about that?
Chris [00:21:12]:
It’s not really driving if it doesn’t know it’s doing it.
Sam [00:21:15]:
It does know it’s doing it. So this guy built this car and on top of it’s a little tank and blub. The fish goes on it and the motion sensing knows when the fish is moving and then the fish just drives along. There we go. It went just over 12 metres. There it goes.
Chris [00:21:31]:
Look at it go. Oh, it really is. Holy crap.
Sam [00:21:35]:
But I do wonder like what the fish is thinking, like what’s going on. But anyway, it’s more of an engineering feat probably. Oh yeah. You know, we might as well just do this for any water borne animal like the Longest distance driven by an eel. Chuck it in there.
Chris [00:21:51]:
Yep.
Sam [00:21:52]:
So that’s cool. And the other thing that I thought was interesting, um, there was a huge long line at the Philadelphia airport, and it was for a Guinness World Record. Do you know what it was? This is on Tuesday. Yeah, Tuesday. No, it was the longest line of cheesesteak sandwiches. They had to beat the previous benchmark of around 500 sandwiches. So Philadelphia is quite known for its cheese. Yeah.
Sam [00:22:23]:
This cheesesteak. What do you think they went? What do you think they beat it by, or what do you think? I reckon they got 712, 91 of them.
Chris [00:22:32]:
Smash that record.
Sam [00:22:33]:
It coincided with National Chief State day, which is March 24th, if you’re wondering. For some reason, it was in the departure hall in the walkway between terminals B and C at the airport.
Chris [00:22:44]:
I guess they’ve got the longest walkways the airport.
Sam [00:22:47]:
I do. I guess that. And I guess they could easily offload it. Yeah, maybe.
Chris [00:22:51]:
Yeah. Plus, because you’d want it indoors, you wouldn’t want it outdoors. In case the rain. Stuff.
Sam [00:22:56]:
Seagulls, bats. Who knows?
Chris [00:22:58]:
Yeah. Who knows? Hey, I got one. That’s not as funny, I must say.
Sam [00:23:03]:
Oh, no.
Chris [00:23:04]:
All right, so this grandmother.
Sam [00:23:05]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:05]:
She’s sitting at home. She. She lived in. Where is it? Tennessee. Yeah. And she’s lived there all her life. And she’s in her home babysitting four young kids, like, I think grandkids and neighbors kids or whatever, right. And bang, bang, bang on the door and she goes, oh, what’s that? And it’s the cops.
Chris [00:23:26]:
And they put handcuffs on her.
Sam [00:23:29]:
Good.
Chris [00:23:29]:
And take her off to jail. And she basically spends 108 days in jail without bail. What, without knowing why.
Sam [00:23:39]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:39]:
Basically awaiting extradition from Tennessee to North Dakota.
Sam [00:23:46]:
Okay.
Chris [00:23:47]:
So they. After 108 days, 108 days, they throw her in an airplane or put her in an airplane. They fly her off to North Dakota. This is her first time she’s ever been on airplane.
Sam [00:23:59]:
Oh, that’s exciting.
Chris [00:24:00]:
And then she’s there. And I’m not sure if this is a further five months or that includes the 108 days, but she’s basically. It’s five months before an police officer interviews her.
Sam [00:24:12]:
What. Why. Why is this going on for so long?
Chris [00:24:15]:
Okay, so what had happened was that she was identified as somebody who was doing these. Cashing in these checks, doing bank fraud.
Sam [00:24:25]:
Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:24:27]:
They were cashing in military id. Using a military ID to cash in checks or something like that In North Dakota, 1200 miles away from where she lives. And she was identified on the camera. AI, of course. AI said, oh, no, it’s this lady in Tennessee.
Sam [00:24:46]:
We don’t need to investigate it. Let’s go.
Chris [00:24:48]:
Yeah, pretty much. And that’s. So five months later, police officer, I think she hired somebody. And he looked at it, a public defender. Sorry, public defender went in and said, oh, I’ll check some things out. Went, oh, do you check your cash in your own Social Security checks? Because, you know she’s retired.
Sam [00:25:07]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:25:08]:
She goes, yes. Do you do it in person? Yes. Like, okay, we’ve got you here on this day. Every day that this crime was taken 1200 miles away. Like, that took five minutes to figure out. And then she smokes or something. They looked at some footage on a gas station camera and said, oh, that’s you buying cigarettes on the day this thing was happening 1200 miles away.
Sam [00:25:31]:
Just going to get more and more of these amazing stories.
Chris [00:25:34]:
And so she, so they, they, they do this thing. She finally gets in front of a judge and he goes, well, throwing this out. There’s nothing here. And so what do they do? They go, you’re free to go. She’s left there in North Dakota.
Sam [00:25:49]:
Come on.
Chris [00:25:50]:
She had no way getting home. She’s already lost her home. She lost a car, she’s lost her dog. So four kids ran away. Some. Yeah, those. Those kids are living wild in the bush. And so some.
Chris [00:26:05]:
I forget who it was because I didn’t write it down, but some, like, charity group, like, helped her out and got a home and stuff. Well, home, like, I don’t know where she’s staying now, but yeah. Didn’t. Never got apology from.
Sam [00:26:17]:
No. Why would. No.
Chris [00:26:18]:
Because they’re Americans.
Sam [00:26:19]:
That’s crazy.
Chris [00:26:20]:
That’s mental, isn’t it? It just so mental. And it’s just. That’s that thing we gotta worry about with the AI and it’s not. It’s that thing where we all fall into a bit of complacency. AI does it well? Does it well? Does it well? Does it well? And you go, I don’t need to check it. And that’s the time it doesn’t do it.
Sam [00:26:37]:
Totally. Yeah. That’s what’s gonna happen. You’ve got about 50 seconds to talk about Jeff’s birthday party. Cause you forgot again.
Chris [00:26:46]:
No, I didn’t forget it again. I just went, oh, I’m not gonna talk about that. Cause I’ve forgotten the name of the character I was playing. I was dressed up as Gargamel. No. Yeah. I will tell you one thing. So I Had mentioned that it was dress as a movie character from the year of your birth.
Sam [00:27:05]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:27:06]:
And I was absolutely gutted. There was so many Star wars characters there. And I’m like, that means I’m so much older than these people.
Sam [00:27:14]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:27:15]:
And they were the old people. They’re not the young people there. So Jeff has. Knows quite a few young people still, because he’s still involved with the Surf Life Saving Club.
Sam [00:27:26]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:27:26]:
And it was at the Surf Life Saving Club, which is where he had its 21st. So he had his 50th there as well. But anyway, it was one young. There was a couple of younger girls there. And it was quite cool because all the time you’re going, oh, who do you reckon that person is? Who do you reckon that person is? Nobody figured who I was, obviously.
Sam [00:27:42]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:27:43]:
And one of them, I went over and I went, are you Happy Gilmore? And he goes, no, I’m older than that. And I’m like. And he had a freaking gopher on the.
Sam [00:27:53]:
On the Bill Murray.
Chris [00:27:55]:
Yeah. On the thing. And I’m like. And he. No, he said Chevy Chase.
Sam [00:27:58]:
And I’m like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:28:00]:
I’m like, I know it. I don’t know. It’s Caddyshack.
Sam [00:28:02]:
Of course.
Chris [00:28:03]:
Somebody. Somebody. Adam would have been screaming at me just then going, caddy shack, you idiot. So, yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But there was two young girls, and one. One was in a mermaid’s costume. So I went, splash. Daryl Hannah, 1984.
Chris [00:28:18]:
And Tom Hanks. And she looks at me and goes, what?
Sam [00:28:22]:
Little Mermaid.
Chris [00:28:23]:
Little Mermaid, yeah. Oh, my God. And then a friend who looked around 20, maybe give or take a few years, so maybe even under 20. And she had this pinstripe waist jacket on and a hat, flat hat with a ribbon around it. And I was like, I don’t know. I give up.
Sam [00:28:44]:
Who are you? Nightmare for Christmas?
Chris [00:28:46]:
No, she. The Godfather.
Sam [00:28:48]:
Oh.
Chris [00:28:48]:
And I just wanted. I didn’t say it, but I wanted to go, man, you don’t look a day over 50. Cause that would have made a 56 or something. I’m like, she didn’t read the invite? Probably.
Sam [00:29:01]:
Probably not. Okay. Well, that brings us to the end of this week’s episode. Check out tcasptcashp.com for all the show notes, links, and other random audio. We’ve got interviews from field days. I’ve got an Indian scammer story on the front of the website.
Chris [00:29:17]:
Oh, and we don’t use AI to work out what we’re going to talk about in the show. Did you see that?
Sam [00:29:22]:
Yes.
Chris [00:29:22]:
Comment?
Sam [00:29:22]:
No, I think you read it wrong.
Chris [00:29:25]:
Oh, right.
Sam [00:29:25]:
I think they were just talking about the story. Seems so crazy itself. Oh, the guy with no limbs who’s a pro cornhole player. I think they were like, was that AI? Like, yeah, they shot someone.
Chris [00:29:38]:
It’s true. That was mental.
Sam [00:29:39]:
So, anyway, until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:29:41]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:29:41]:
See ya. Bye.
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