Summary
We’ve got tales of cockroaches in rowing machines and a bizarre car insurance scam update.
We hear about a woman weaponizing bees during an eviction, the world’s biggest dinosaur costume gathering, and a deep dive into AI gone wrong with lost customer data.
Plus, there’s talk of rising condom prices, ridiculous Kickstarter gadgets, and the man who laughed himself into a lifesaving diagnosis.
Links
Crazy St John’s Youth Event
Kickstart or Dropkick – Turnula
Kickstart or Dropkick – Razor Rinser 2.0
Dinosaur World Record
Ah AI You’ve Done it Again
Bear Insurance Scam Update
Weaponised Bees
Waymo Anti Bikers
Laughing Saved Mans Life
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 578 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randoms, technology and life.
Chris [00:00:30]:
And what a life it is.
Sam [00:00:31]:
What a life it is. I, I was going to say the same thing I normally say and I was like, no, let’s not do that.
Chris [00:00:37]:
No, let’s not go there. Hey, I know you’re not a big fan of talking about the, the, the, the Mandarin Mussolini, but I gotta, gotta say something. So.
Sam [00:00:47]:
Not, Not. Well, not normally write the first thing in a podcast, but carry on.
Chris [00:00:50]:
No, I. Yeah. Okay. So what did you think about this assassination attempt in the weekend?
Sam [00:00:58]:
Oh, they. I don’t know. Who knows? They. I mean, it was hard for them to get him out because he’s a senile old man.
Chris [00:01:06]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:01:07]:
And apparently there wasn’t much security really. And then that dude just ran in or whatever he did.
Chris [00:01:14]:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So my initial reaction is, ah, this is a load of crap. It’s fake, you know. Yeah. And I think that’s the reaction for a lot of people. And the reason we have that reaction is that so much stuff he does is such bullshit that you just go, ah, it’s just another bullshit thing.
Chris [00:01:33]:
Like, like, and, and we shouldn’t have that reaction. I do think it was all legit. It’s a huge, huge hotel.
Sam [00:01:40]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:01:40]:
It’s got many thousands of rooms. Like, oh, okay. It’s ridiculously huge. And so when you’ve got that many rooms and entries and all the rest of it, you can only secure a portion of it. So they secured the ballroom. The ballroom was secure. The guy never got in the ballroom. He got into other layers, but they would never get any further.
Chris [00:02:03]:
And one of the reasons they didn’t evacuate people was because the ballroom was the safest place. It had been already checked for explosives before it started. It was already, you know, like, it was secure and it was secure. So they didn’t evacuate people. They moved. That was what a lot of people were talking about, J.D. vance moving before Trump. But it was exactly what you said.
Chris [00:02:27]:
He’s mobile, he’s young, he can run.
Sam [00:02:30]:
Yeah, yeah. And I think.
Chris [00:02:31]:
And they have different teams and they could hear it. And the team went, we’re going. And one of the things, one of the security experts I saw interviewed says, you know, the teams have to work together, so they don’t want to have three Teams all go to the same exit, one site.
Sam [00:02:46]:
Okay, that makes sense.
Chris [00:02:48]:
Vance’s team says we’re moving, we’re going because you’ve got them up running. Go. So the others stop and then. Yeah, they do it bit by bit. Anyway, that’s. But what was more concerning to me is something that’s come up reported. He thinks he is one of the greatest people of all time.
Sam [00:03:12]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:13]:
Trump now.
Sam [00:03:14]:
Okay.
Chris [00:03:15]:
I mean, I, I guess that’s not news, but it sort of is because he’s, he’s comparing himself to Julius Caesar. Alexandra the Great.
Sam [00:03:24]:
That makes sense.
Chris [00:03:24]:
Yeah. And, and Genghis Khan, which. The, the only worrying thing about all that is they’re all conquerors. But he, he really, really believes he is in the.
Sam [00:03:35]:
I mean, dementia’s.
Chris [00:03:40]:
And Napoleon.
Sam [00:03:41]:
I really wonder what he’d be doing if he wasn’t president. Like if we’d hear that much from him or if he’d just be sort of still just doing real estate or business.
Chris [00:03:49]:
He. I, I think, I don’t know. He would be the king in his
Sam [00:03:52]:
own little bubble, which is what he should be. He should be the king in his own lunchbox.
Chris [00:03:57]:
That’s exactly what he was king of. His own little business, which is only a little family business that didn’t really make much money.
Sam [00:04:04]:
No.
Chris [00:04:04]:
To be honest.
Sam [00:04:05]:
No.
Chris [00:04:06]:
And now he’s king of a bigger bubble and he’s loving it. Anyway, that’s me trumped out. Thank you very much.
Sam [00:04:12]:
I don’t think that was worth it. Listeners, all three of you, come chime in. Hey, I jumped on the rowing machine yesterday because I thought that was a good idea at home.
Chris [00:04:24]:
Oh, that’s right. Yeah. I keep forgetting you’ve got that.
Sam [00:04:26]:
Yeah, yeah. So what I do now is I do like 30 minutes of work downstairs and then I jump on this rowing machine and I bust out 500 meters at a time.
Chris [00:04:32]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:33]:
So I got two minutes, this one. And the second round I was like, oh, it’s making a weird sound. And then it would stop and then in the fan thing and I was like, that shouldn’t be doing that. What? It’s a high quality engineered piece of machinery. Anyway, pulled it to bits, took the COVID off and there’s a bloody cockroach in there falling down onto the fan blade and going. And the entire. Clicky for life. Pain in the ass.
Sam [00:05:02]:
And I told that story here. I know. Better than falling on your face in your sleep, I guess.
Chris [00:05:08]:
Yeah. But I have told you that story.
Sam [00:05:10]:
Oh, I’ll tell you told that story at work. About the rowing machine. And they’re like, yeah. Do you think it just spurted out eggs as it was getting hit? I was like, oh, damn it.
Chris [00:05:21]:
Because I think I told you this story before. Rachel Hart came to visit me in Spain when she. I worked with her in a bar in London for a year. We were pretty good friends. She had a boyfriend and stuff. But she came out to Spain and stayed with me for a week. And we did have big cockroaches, the same size cockroaches we had here. But I’d never seen them in Wellington before.
Chris [00:05:44]:
Like, I’d never seen them before.
Sam [00:05:45]:
I think Sarah’s the same. She goes, we don’t have this in Christchurch. Not like you have here.
Chris [00:05:49]:
Yeah, exactly. So it freaked me out when I first saw them in. In Spain, mainly because the first time I saw one was. It was running across my hand like that. Yeah, like. But you’d go into a room and there’d be this big cockroach on the ceiling. So I’m telling Rachel, oh, yeah, just watch out. When you go into a room, always look up.
Sam [00:06:09]:
Yeah. Why?
Chris [00:06:10]:
Oh, this is cockroaches. They’re big. She goes, oh, how big? And I’m like. And I’ve got my hands a foot apart, you know, like big. And she’s like, you’re shitting me. And I’m like. And then we saw a fairly big one. I was like, oh, there’s a baby there.
Chris [00:06:25]:
And she’s like, that’s a baby. So much. And then the next morning, because she stayed in my room, I slept on the couch. Next morning, I threw a gentle on her bed. Oh, it was hilarious. I just want to see what she slept in.
Sam [00:06:39]:
No, no. You went from mildly hilarious to Chris eyes activated creepy.
Chris [00:06:47]:
Yeah, well, I. I was only 2022 at the time. It was not as creepy. It’s not as creepy.
Sam [00:06:55]:
I. Yeah, but you’re bringing it up now 50 years later, so I don’t know.
Chris [00:06:59]:
Yeah, okay, that’s true.
Sam [00:07:01]:
Anyway, that was your cockroach story from Spain. Hey, in episode 507, 17th of November 2024, we talked about those guys that did that weird car insurance scam where they dressed up as a bear and then slashed the car.
Chris [00:07:17]:
Oh, right.
Sam [00:07:18]:
And they got. And they got caught on camera and the guy’s like, wearing like a beer skin or a beer costume and he’s in there smashing up this car and they didn’t get away with it. That’s what we talked about back then. They have. Finally, three of the four individuals have Pleaded no contest to felony insurance fraud and they finally got sentenced. Now they got two years.
Chris [00:07:41]:
Good. Okay.
Sam [00:07:42]:
180 days is what they got, which is to be served through a weekend jail program.
Chris [00:07:49]:
So pathetic.
Sam [00:07:50]:
I just thought you’d like that Update from the archives of the podcast. Tell you what, it’s been a while since we talked about a bloody world record.
Chris [00:07:59]:
Yep.
Sam [00:08:00]:
You know how much we like them. This one is for people dressed up in dinosaur costumes. And most of them are in those inflatable ones where people run around in them. And apparently this is a record that quite a few people have been going after. So the University of Calgary got it this time around, and they got 682 people dressed up in these dinosaur costumes, and they’ve got the record. And they beat the previous record of 468, which was set last year. Right. So that’s all good.
Sam [00:08:32]:
But the. Another Canadian community, the town of Drumheller. I guess it’s. Say it in 2024, they tried to beat it and it got canceled due to a technicality. What do you think the technicality was?
Chris [00:08:49]:
One of them wasn’t a dinosaur. It was something else or something like that.
Sam [00:08:54]:
No, they had 3,000 people turn up and the crowd was so large and didn’t stay put, they couldn’t count them.
Chris [00:09:00]:
3,000? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to think ahead. You’ve got to have a ticketing system.
Sam [00:09:06]:
They couldn’t get an official tally, so anyway, I’m sure they can probably redo it again. I don’t know. We’re good on them.
Chris [00:09:14]:
That’s pretty bad. This cracked me up a little bit. So the hormones straight. I don’t know if you heard of it. It’s. It’s closed. And it. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:25]:
Surprise, surprise. And so there’s a lot of price rises going on. Right? Yeah. So I bet you didn’t expect a baby boom out of the horsmo street.
Sam [00:09:39]:
Oh, no.
Chris [00:09:41]:
So Carex, which makes a fifth of the world’s condoms, is now raising prices by 30%, increasing the cost of safer sex and probably leading to unwanted pregnancies. And it just makes you wonder. Or maybe just me. Does that increase the price of dildos, too? Because they’d be petrochemicals, I’m sure.
Sam [00:10:02]:
I guess so. I don’t know.
Chris [00:10:05]:
I only just thought of that. But yeah, I could.
Sam [00:10:07]:
I’m glad you’re bringing up random stuff that I may have to cut out. It’s good. Keep me busy. That’s what you want to do.
Chris [00:10:18]:
Good. Okay.
Sam [00:10:20]:
No, no, you’re Good. Hey, have you ever thought about weaponizing bees?
Chris [00:10:26]:
You know, I am. If bees would be my. What do you. Suicide freaking weapon, like, they. They would kill me.
Sam [00:10:36]:
Well, maybe. We don’t know. A Massachusetts woman deployed a swarm of honeybees as a weapon against deputies. Right. There was an eviction happening, like, last week, and she just got found guilty on four counts of simple assault and battery and two counts of reckless assault tied to the incident. So these deputies are out a house carrying out an eviction, and she pulls up in her SUV pulling a trailer stacked with beehives, and she starts getting in an altercation with the deputies at the back of the trailer before opening a hive. And then she smash. Cause she smashes the lid with her hand, flips one of the hives off the flatbed, releasing the bees.
Sam [00:11:16]:
They’re all angry, and they started stinging everyone. She was told that some of the deputies may have allergies. So she starts yelling out, I’m guessing, oh, you’re allergic.
Chris [00:11:25]:
Good.
Sam [00:11:27]:
And then she starts putting on her bee suit. Bee suit? Yeah. And then they tackle her to the ground and take her into custody. But the cool thing is, she didn’t even know the people in the house that were getting evicted.
Chris [00:11:41]:
Oh, it wasn’t her getting evicted.
Sam [00:11:43]:
No. She’s just driving along with her trailer full of bees. She’s been known to protest other evictions in the area. Yeah, she just likes protesting. But she’s got her trailer full of bees.
Chris [00:11:54]:
Oh, my God. That’s a deadly weapon there. Actually, I have a related. Well, not an unrelated bee story. It’s related by bees. I just thought this was interesting because. So this is more a science thing. It was in Eco news, they.
Chris [00:12:11]:
They’ve been trying to slow down the advance of Sahara that. So the desert. Desertification of the Sahara. Right. And so they’ve tried a few different things. They tried planting trees, and that didn’t quite work. All the saplings died. What’s happened is the.
Chris [00:12:28]:
The ground has got so dry, if it does rain, it runs off.
Sam [00:12:31]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:12:32]:
Yeah. And it doesn’t.
Sam [00:12:32]:
Yeah, that makes sense.
Chris [00:12:33]:
Right? So they decided. Somebody decided to try millions of bees to pollinate things. I guess. So I imagine that along with the plant.
Sam [00:12:45]:
Is that the gist of it?
Chris [00:12:46]:
Yeah, but. But they melted at 70 degrees C.
Sam [00:12:50]:
They’re just like, oh, no, they’re all dead. Where’s the woman? In Massachusetts?
Chris [00:12:55]:
Bring her over? Well, pretty much, because it says here they melted at over 70 degrees. I’m like, what? And reading through it, it’s like, no, the, the hives melted.
Sam [00:13:04]:
Oh, it makes sense.
Chris [00:13:05]:
I was hoping the bees. Yeah. But the bees didn’t last very long.
Sam [00:13:09]:
How do you say a million?
Chris [00:13:10]:
Millions. Millions of bees.
Sam [00:13:13]:
I just, I physically want to see how many that is because I’ve got no reference.
Chris [00:13:17]:
I don’t know either. But what they have started, they. I think the bees. It doesn’t say in this article if they’re bringing the bees back for this, but it sort of sounds to be working is they’re making half moon shaped ground.
Sam [00:13:32]:
I’ve seen that.
Chris [00:13:33]:
Yeah. And, and they. It does enough to capture the rainfall or, or if they water it or whatever that it allows pockets of grass to grow and then it’s in those pockets. The temperatures dropped like a significant amount. It’s somewhere in the article and I can’t be asked looking for it now, but there’s significant amount. I was pretty impressive and so there’s a few photos in there and it looks, looks impressive. So yeah, there is hope.
Sam [00:14:02]:
Do you know what’s not impressive?
Chris [00:14:03]:
Oh, sorry. There is a picture of millions of
Sam [00:14:06]:
bees that looks like AI.
Chris [00:14:08]:
It does look like AI.
Sam [00:14:09]:
I’m not believing that. Talking about AI. I’ve not abled this. Ah, AI. You’ve done it again. So these dumb people who should know better, but they’re idiots. Pocket os. This will appear in our show notes.
Sam [00:14:24]:
So if someone’s googling this. Hello. They are a business for car rentals and they are a small team that offer their platform to other small businesses that rent cars.
Chris [00:14:37]:
So it’s. Is that like a ride sharing or ren.
Sam [00:14:41]:
That. No, they provide the software. Yeah, that’s pretty much it. And they were using Cursor and Claude Opus 4.6, which is supposedly the most capable model in the industry at coding tasks. And they said to it, hey, before you do anything major, don’t touch anything and don’t delete it. Make sure. Yeah, never run destructive or irreversible commands and ask us before you do anything major. And it was going along, writing code, doing whatever.
Sam [00:15:16]:
So these guys have already been in business. They’ve definitely got three months of customer data because in nine seconds they lost that and all their backups. AI goes no, get rid of that.
Chris [00:15:27]:
Actually I saw a meme because somebody posted the thing with Silicon Valley Son of Anton and he’s like Son of Anton. And somebody posted that clip and went this is all being predicted by Silicon Valley. And it is so tricky because basically he’s like, it’s deleted all that stuff. And he goes well obviously Son of Anton decided that the best way to fix all the bugs was to delete all the software. Delete all the software? You’ve deleted all the bugs.
Sam [00:16:00]:
Exactly. It’s logical.
Chris [00:16:02]:
It’s logic.
Sam [00:16:04]:
So two days later they managed to get all the data back. Anthropic helped them out and they have not responded to comment to the Independent. So it’s just people relying on it too much.
Chris [00:16:17]:
Yeah, no, you absolutely need to have a hard. What do they call it? Hard separated backup. Yeah, you know, one that’s not wired in at all that it can’t get to.
Sam [00:16:29]:
The other thing you need to do when you’re doing things is just have a little bit of forethought before you plan anything.
Chris [00:16:36]:
Ah, no, that doesn’t. That flies in the face of, you know, grow fast and break things or whatever it was.
Sam [00:16:43]:
Oh, no, this is something else. So a couple of weeks ago I didn’t talk about it, but I don’t know if you’ve ever been there, but Willow Bank Wildlife Place Park. Willow Bank Wildlife park in Christchurch.
Chris [00:16:54]:
No, I don’t. I might have when I. If it’s been around a long time, it might have been.
Sam [00:16:58]:
You can feed the eels. That’s the best bit there. There’s a pool of eels. They give you a little tub of meat and you give it to them and they all come out of the water and it’s creepy as and cool all at the same time. And Willow bank has. It’s just a loop. Like you start here and you walk all the way around, you see all the animals and you can’t go anywhere else. It’s a loop.
Chris [00:17:17]:
Yeah. One path.
Sam [00:17:18]:
Yeah. St. John’s had a youth festival and they had a graphic simulated medical emergency which they decided to hold at the park. This festival for youth runs for 48 hours. It’s got competitions staged to closely mimic real life emergency scenarios.
Chris [00:17:35]:
Now why would they do it at. Okay, sorry, carry on.
Sam [00:17:38]:
No, because it makes sense when you think about it.
Chris [00:17:41]:
Makes no sense.
Sam [00:17:42]:
I’m not putting it out there, but there is a subsection of ambulance people that are complete weirdos.
Chris [00:17:48]:
I. No.
Sam [00:17:50]:
Yes. So anyway, so someone would have got real enthusiastic about this and come up with it. One parent that came across it said that their child is now traumatised by what they had seen. And there was fake blood exposed on entrails and a woman repeatedly screaming, he’s dying in a public park. Like they didn’t have to have it there.
Chris [00:18:12]:
It didn’t matter. I remember we did that. I think we had a school Fair or something when I was a kid, and I must have been about six or seven, something like that. And I was there and they were doing these fake wounds and stuff.
Sam [00:18:26]:
Okay.
Chris [00:18:27]:
And I was like, cool. And so they put a big hunk of glass in my arm, like, it looks like. Go to bed. I’m like, can I go home with this now? Because Mum wasn’t there. I was just by myself. Because back in the 80s. 70s free range. Yeah, 70s.
Chris [00:18:42]:
It would have been. Yeah, it is six. Six is good. Go. Go off to a school fair by yourself. That’s fine. So anyway, I. I came home and.
Chris [00:18:50]:
And did my. This is my early acting career.
Sam [00:18:53]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:18:53]:
And I’m like, oh, Mum, Mum, Mum, I’ve had a problem. I’ve got a bit of a mistake. And she comes in and screams and I just start giggling and laughing and it’s awesome.
Sam [00:19:03]:
Excellent.
Chris [00:19:03]:
It was a boring story.
Sam [00:19:04]:
Okay, so need a bit more planning there. I think they had a little sign, but people didn’t understand just how. Because these guys are enthusiastic as well. The kids are enthusiastic, the young people are enthusiastic. So, you know, they’ve gone like full splatter with this, probably.
Chris [00:19:22]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I know exactly the type that do it because it’s the same type of people that you find at Spookers. And some of the crap they do in this makeup is just. Oh, my God. Yeah.
Sam [00:19:35]:
Actually, that’s a good crossover.
Chris [00:19:37]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:19:37]:
I’ve got a Kickstarter drop kick for you, but I have. Oh, no.
Chris [00:19:42]:
Okay, well, while you were looking at that, I’ll just quickly mention this because this cracked me up and there’s not much more to share. But the headline. But it’s just that, you know what Waymo is? Eh? It’s the driverless taxis.
Sam [00:19:53]:
Yeah. They’re the ones that get trapped in a car jam. Of all them. All the other cars. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:58]:
But they’re. They’re the most. They’ve got the most traveled miles. Yeah. They’ve got way beyond. Yeah.
Sam [00:20:03]:
They’ve got all the cameras on them. They’ve got the lidar, and they’re not relying.
Chris [00:20:06]:
It’s like $300,000 per car because they’ve got all that gear on.
Sam [00:20:10]:
Not like a scummy Tesla with three cameras.
Chris [00:20:13]:
Yeah. But they’ve done. And they’ve done millions and millions of things. But I’ll read the headline, Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes is too high a bar because customers dropped off in them. And that’s what the autonomous vehicle firm Waymo has told Cyclist. Well, too Bad. If there’s a cycle lane, we’re going to stop on it and.
Sam [00:20:37]:
Okay.
Chris [00:20:38]:
Exit our passengers. To be fair, I think a taxi driver would do that. Like, you know, like an Uber will do that. I don’t think.
Sam [00:20:48]:
No, that’s nothing unique.
Chris [00:20:49]:
There’s nothing unique about that. But I’d be more worried if they just randomly decide to merge into a bike lane. Just keep going at 40k an hour or whatever. Yeah, you know, but yeah, I. Yeah. Anyway, that was my little thing.
Sam [00:21:06]:
Okay. I’ve got Kickstarter Dropkick for you this week and both of them are actually useful. I haven’t gone with absolute crap. So the first one is called, I’m going to say this Turnula. T U R N U L A so it’s like a spatula, but they call it a tunular and it’s finally here.
Chris [00:21:27]:
That’s a terrible name.
Sam [00:21:28]:
I know.
Chris [00:21:28]:
Okay, carry on.
Sam [00:21:29]:
It’s the holy grail of spatulas. It’s here, meet ternular. Okay. So basically I didn’t know this because you know how.
Chris [00:21:37]:
What? Your eyes can’t get past turnula. I’m losing out. Turnula. No, carry on, carry on.
Sam [00:21:45]:
So anyway, the gist of it is normal spatulas are apparently really hard to use if you’re left handed. And anyway, Turnula fixes that. And they’ve made like a spatula that is either angled to the right or the left. So you can buy a left hand one or a right handed one and if you put it into like a pan or a bowl, you can scoop right around the edge.
Chris [00:22:10]:
Oh.
Sam [00:22:10]:
So this is sounding a little bit stupid. It probably is. But apparently it solves a problem that someone has.
Chris [00:22:16]:
So it looks just one guy.
Sam [00:22:18]:
Yeah, maybe, Maybe. So it sort of looks like that.
Chris [00:22:22]:
So it looks like a flattened golf club is what I’m looking at.
Sam [00:22:26]:
It does. Well, so it has stainless steel in the middle and then it’s covered in the plastic so it’s really solid.
Chris [00:22:35]:
Okay.
Sam [00:22:35]:
All right. So I’m like, okay, that’s pretty cool. So these guys have done this. Now they only want to raise 5,000 New Zealand dollars to meet production.
Chris [00:22:44]:
Fair enough.
Sam [00:22:45]:
An early bird price. New Zealand dollars. 52. So it’s getting up there, but it’s not crazy.
Chris [00:22:51]:
Ridiculous.
Sam [00:22:52]:
And they’ve got multi packs. You can buy a couple or four or one of each or you know.
Chris [00:22:56]:
Yeah, okay.
Sam [00:22:57]:
So that’s what’s happening.
Chris [00:22:59]:
So how far are we through?
Sam [00:23:01]:
Oh, 28 days to go.
Chris [00:23:03]:
So more than halfway probably.
Sam [00:23:05]:
Yeah, just five grand.
Chris [00:23:07]:
For me it’s a drop kick. But for five grand I would imagine they’d get to five grand. I. Yeah, no, I think it’s, it’s weird because kitchen people cooking people can be really, really passionate about their cooking. Like, you know what I mean? Like so maybe. But I’m gonna say I reckon it’ll go past the five grand but not much.
Sam [00:23:30]:
Well, so what do you reckon is at the moment? That’s the question.
Chris [00:23:33]:
Okay, six grand.
Sam [00:23:35]:
90. $90,000.
Chris [00:23:38]:
Okay.
Sam [00:23:39]:
So that’s the first one and then the other one. You might actually be interested in this. I’m not sure. It’s called the Razer Rinser 2.0. So this is the second version of this doohickey thing. I better not show you that screen or you’ll see the price of it. It looks like a soap dish with a raised thing in the middle. Yeah, there we go.
Sam [00:23:58]:
I’ll show it to you.
Chris [00:23:59]:
Oh yeah.
Sam [00:24:00]:
And you push your razor down on it and that’s all the water that you need to shave with. And it squirts the water from the bottom back up into the razor blade and cleans it. So that’s the gist of it.
Chris [00:24:16]:
And what do they expect people to use? So these safety razors, like I’ve got that hen safety razor type thing or
Sam [00:24:25]:
I think you can use any.
Chris [00:24:27]:
Oh yeah. So they’re using disposables on this.
Sam [00:24:29]:
Yeah. More. Yeah. Actually probably size wise that would be disposable but you don’t use much water. It keeps things clean and it cleans that. That’s the gist of it. And this is version 2.0.
Chris [00:24:39]:
So the power comes from the push down the pump.
Sam [00:24:41]:
Exactly.
Chris [00:24:42]:
Right.
Sam [00:24:42]:
Apparently they’ve already sold over 10,000 of version one. I don’t know what makes this better but this is round two.
Chris [00:24:49]:
I can. Yeah. If, if I was, if I was using a. I. Yeah. It wouldn’t work for my razor I don’t think.
Sam [00:24:55]:
But okay.
Chris [00:24:55]:
I was using a disposal of all I think about it. What sort of price are we talking about?
Sam [00:25:00]:
They want to sell it for 50 New Zealand dollars. So you can get this or a left handed spatula if you got 50 bucks.
Chris [00:25:06]:
If I had to choose I’d probably get the spatula over that. Well, yeah, mainly for me but yeah, I.
Sam [00:25:14]:
So they want to raise $13,600 and there’s only like 20, 21 hours to go.
Chris [00:25:25]:
Oh. So yeah, just about finished.
Sam [00:25:27]:
By the time you listen to this it’s finished. But I’m sure they’ll sell it somewhere you can check out. The razer rents are 2.0, so they want $13,000. How much have they made? 140, $255,000.
Chris [00:25:39]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:25:39]:
You’re getting closer.
Chris [00:25:40]:
Well, no, it’s because they already sold 10,000 of the first unit.
Sam [00:25:44]:
Oh, I see.
Chris [00:25:45]:
That made. That makes all the difference. It was like, oh yeah, 10,000.
Sam [00:25:48]:
But I wonder like, if the first one works, you wouldn’t upgrade to 2.0, would you? No, you’d have to get new customers.
Chris [00:25:55]:
There would be word of mouth.
Sam [00:25:57]:
Word of mouth? Yeah. I mean, this is what we’re doing, word of mouth here at the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:26:02]:
Lots of words, big mouth.
Sam [00:26:05]:
That’s why we’re an audio only podcast.
Chris [00:26:09]:
Cool. I. I came across this random. I don’t know, maybe I’m just feeling old and me and Trump have got that in common. We’re feeling old and, and mortal these days. But this cracked me up. So this guy, Mark Toothacher. What a name.
Chris [00:26:27]:
Toothacher. He’s. He’s lying in bed.
Sam [00:26:31]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:31]:
With his misses.
Sam [00:26:33]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:33]:
Watching the Giants play American football.
Sam [00:26:38]:
Yeah. Cool.
Chris [00:26:39]:
Giant, New York Giants playing the New England Patriots. And apparently, and I have not looked up the footage of this, but this kicker, Jung Hu.
Sam [00:26:51]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:51]:
I’m assuming. Well, I don’t know, whiffed on a field goal attempt. And when I say whiffed, I think he missed the ball altogether and ended up flat on his back.
Sam [00:27:01]:
Yeah, that’s what I. That’s what I assumed that was. Yeah.
Chris [00:27:04]:
And it caused Toothacher to laugh so hard. He just laughed so hard. He had a seizure.
Sam [00:27:12]:
Oh, no.
Chris [00:27:13]:
And he says, I’ve never felt anything like this in my life. It felt like I was being electrocuted.
Sam [00:27:21]:
Wow.
Chris [00:27:22]:
So his partner Mallory happens to be a nurse at a rehabilitation hospital. I love this line. After initially thinking her husband was joking.
Sam [00:27:32]:
Oh, no.
Chris [00:27:33]:
Because you could just stop it, stop it. And he’s like, whatever he’s doing.
Sam [00:27:39]:
Oh, man.
Chris [00:27:40]:
She called 911 and paramedics arrived to take him to hospital. Anyway, a CT scan revealed a tennis ball sized tumor on the left side of his brain.
Sam [00:27:50]:
Oh, my gosh.
Chris [00:27:51]:
Which they removed it. It’s benign, but it had basically pushed his whole brain. Like, I think it says somewhere 6cm to the right or whatever.
Sam [00:28:00]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:28:01]:
And he’s like. Because he travels for work and he drives everywhere and all this sort of thing, he goes, if I’d had that seizure when I was driving. Not good.
Sam [00:28:09]:
No.
Chris [00:28:10]:
I think young Hong Ku saved my life by his ridiculous kicking attempt.
Sam [00:28:21]:
It’s a good way to look at life, I guess.
Chris [00:28:23]:
See, not all heroes wear capes
Sam [00:28:28]:
and apparently can kick a ball. That brings us to the end of the podcast. But don’t you worry, we’ve got lots of episodes just sitting there in the archive. Tcasp.com yeah, go and check it out.
Chris [00:28:41]:
And yeah, we will keep you apprised of our March towards episode 600.
Sam [00:28:47]:
I’ve got a plan. I’m going to tell Chris about it after we press start. It’s exciting. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:28:54]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:28:54]:
See ya.
Chris [00:28:55]:
Bye.
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