Summary
We have shoutouts to loyal listeners and a rundown of the world’s highest-paid podcasters (spoiler: they didn’t make the list).
There’s a TEDx deal in the works, mysterious medical Zoom calls, and some eyebrow-raising news including 30-year-old cats, high-tech (and anti-tech) sunglasses, and marmots with their own OnlyFans account.
We hear about a man who impaled himself on a mountain, unsettling car service stories, and the latest quirky Kickstarter finds.
All this and much more in this week’s episode.
Links
Freak Trekking Accident
Midjourney Body Imaging Tech
Grim Reaper Mischief
Good Guys Should Not Become Cops
Best Kissing Couple in the World
Dodgy Kia Dealer
Only Marms
Bra Boosters Causing Problems
Getting Cats to Live Until they are 30
Kickstart or Dropkick – Whole Japanese White Peach
Kickstart or Dropkick – Smart Belt 2026
DuckDuckGo Glasses
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 592 of the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randoms, technology, and life. Hey, uh, a couple of shoutouts from our listeners.
Chris [00:00:34]:
Oh yeah.
Sam [00:00:34]:
I want to say we appreciate you. We’ve got people that have been listening to us for years. We’ve got people that we’ve met due to this podcast. So, uh, John, he saw a list of the highest paid podcasters in the world for 2026. Uh, and we were not on it.
Chris [00:00:50]:
And he was just going to say, were we there?
Sam [00:00:52]:
No, he was surprised. So I told him that we would have to go to our accountant. And, um, they might have to look at that.
Chris [00:01:00]:
Um, cause I don’t know, like we have an accountant. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:01:05]:
I’m sure we do. Um, yeah, he’s on speed dial. Do you, do you want to know who the top 5 are?
Speaker A [00:01:09]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:01:10]:
Yeah. Rogan’s got to be up there, right?
Sam [00:01:12]:
Yeah. Rogan’s up there. $82 mil. Um, Stephen Bartlett.
Chris [00:01:15]:
Is he number 1 or? Yeah.
Sam [00:01:17]:
Yeah. Yeah. No, this is number 1 to number 5. Uh, Stephen Bartlett with Diary of a CEO.
Chris [00:01:22]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:01:23]:
Ashley Flowers, Crime Junkie, came in at number— oh, sorry. They haven’t bolded the one thing. Okay. Number 2 is OpenAI’s TBPN, $70 million. I don’t know. Anyway.
Chris [00:01:37]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:01:38]:
Yeah. Sorry. And 5 was Smartless with Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes with about $37 million. And Travis Kelce has ended up on the list. Uh, with the highest paid podcasters with his brother for doing, um, a podcast called New Heights. So, huh, look at them go. Anyway, and then there’s a whole bunch of other people you’ve heard of. And of course the Chris and Sam podcast, um, uh, just because we’re independent, I think is the problem, you know?
Chris [00:02:04]:
Yeah. That and the, um, lack of sponsorship.
Sam [00:02:08]:
Oh, the lack of money, the lack of money. I see. So we’ve been going for almost 12 years now, but the money. You know, that’s the thing. Anyway, the other one, Jeremy came in and he said last week’s show was a great show. Sam is right to be worried about what Chris would buy if he had unlimited resources. I’m sure, I’m sure he still wouldn’t check the size before ordering though and end up with a miniature robot.
Chris [00:02:33]:
That’s so true. That’s so true. Oh dear.
Sam [00:02:38]:
How’s your week been though?
Chris [00:02:40]:
I’ve been good. It’s been, uh, really good. Uh, it’s been busy. I’ve had some ups and downs. So I closed a, uh, you know, a deal with, um, uh, the university to, to put on TEDx. So that’s a, a woohoo.
Sam [00:02:54]:
Oh, they got, they got back to you? Yeah.
Chris [00:02:56]:
Yep. Finally got it back to me, sorted it out. We caught up, um, bit of negotiation, changed the, the, the, the amount a little bit. So less than what I had told you, but more than what I got last year.
Sam [00:03:07]:
So that’s pretty good.
Chris [00:03:09]:
And then, um, and then he messaged me a day or two later and like, oh, um, TEDx has, uh, said it’s going to be 8 weeks before they can give us a license and not start planning anything until they get the license sorted.
Sam [00:03:22]:
What does that mean? I thought it was just a perpetual thing until they canceled it.
Chris [00:03:27]:
Yeah, we had to do, I forgot actually, but we used to have to do it every year and we just did it every February, like at the beginning of the year, just because.
Sam [00:03:35]:
Oh, so they didn’t know that.
Chris [00:03:37]:
Yeah. And I’d forgotten that we did that because I didn’t do it myself. And I’m like, oh yeah. And, and so I’m like, but you need to pay me before the 8 weeks. I can’t wait 8 weeks before you pay me. Wow.
Sam [00:03:50]:
You have to do a lot of prep even though you do not know who your speakers are.
Chris [00:03:54]:
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I said, well, first of all, I did get back to him straight away and say, we need to do the nominations now regardless. We can’t put it off 8 weeks before we start.
Speaker A [00:04:03]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:03]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:04]:
It’s just ridiculous.
Sam [00:04:04]:
And the likelihood of them saying no would be super slim, eh?
Chris [00:04:09]:
Low, low likelihood of them saying no. And, um, chances are it’ll be quicker than 8 weeks anyway, but I think that’s like a pro forma email they’re just sending out.
Sam [00:04:19]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:04:19]:
Thanks for your, uh, registration. It can take us up to 8 weeks to do this. Don’t do anything beforehand. And then, ah, and then I did the voice project on Saturday morning. Was it Saturday morning?
Sam [00:04:31]:
Is that the thing where you’re watching the movie? No. What’s that?
Chris [00:04:34]:
No, that is the Nigerian, um, medical students thing. It’s called the Voice Project.
Sam [00:04:41]:
Oh, did you like my, uh, the show image for that episode? Did you see it?
Chris [00:04:45]:
Yeah, I did actually. It was pretty cool.
Sam [00:04:47]:
Okay.
Chris [00:04:48]:
It was, it was interesting. So I get on, so I am 95, maybe 99% sure it’s not a scam. Okay. Just so you know.
Sam [00:04:57]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:58]:
Good.
Sam [00:04:59]:
I was only joking the other week.
Chris [00:05:01]:
Yeah. Yeah. So I turn up, it was interesting though. So it was on Google Meet and nobody had their camera on. Right. So I’m used to going on.
Sam [00:05:10]:
That’s a red flag to begin with.
Chris [00:05:12]:
Well, that’s what I thought, but I think it must be a—
Speaker A [00:05:15]:
Bandwidth.
Chris [00:05:15]:
American thing.
Sam [00:05:15]:
Oh, it’d be the bandwidth.
Chris [00:05:17]:
Exactly. Because even the speakers didn’t put their camera on.
Sam [00:05:21]:
Yeah. Okay. Yep.
Chris [00:05:22]:
So they had a guest speaker before me, uh, Gisela, Gisela, something like that. Giselle, Giselle. And she was really cool. In fact, she seemed so wise, such good stuff. When I actually, I jumped on her LinkedIn and I realized how young she was. It’s like 20 or something, 21 or 22 or something. Oh, okay.
Sam [00:05:44]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:44]:
She was really onto it though. So that was cool. So I took a bunch of notes from her and then when I spoke, I had my camera on because I was having trouble with their accents and I know they would’ve been having trouble with mine. So the camera helps with the lips and I had some, you know, words coming up on the next to be on the camera and stuff. But I will tell you what made me laugh with the names. So I’ve already told you the host, her first name was Marvelous.
Sam [00:06:12]:
Yes.
Chris [00:06:13]:
We had one young man who asked a question. His first name was Thanksgiving.
Sam [00:06:20]:
Okay.
Chris [00:06:21]:
We had at least 3 girls on that call. 2 of them asked questions and their first name was Favor.
Sam [00:06:30]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:30]:
Right? And so I’m looking, I was noting this down because I’m like, I’ve got to tell Sam, this is hilarious. And I was looking down the thing and then there was this black heroine, heroine, heroine, you know, like female hero. And I went, no. And then she asked a question and Marvelous was like, oh, black heroine, I can’t call you that. You need to give me your name. I can’t call you black heroine. And I’m like, As opposed to everybody else’s names. What the hell? Like, I didn’t know if it was a real name or a screen name, but apparently that’s a screen name.
Chris [00:07:07]:
Her actual name was Joy. So, oh, okay.
Sam [00:07:10]:
Well, that’s cool.
Chris [00:07:12]:
Anyway. So yeah, no, it went well. I got some good feedback from it. So yeah. Good times.
Sam [00:07:18]:
Uh, I’m getting over a cold because when you work in an office environment, everybody’s sick all the time. It sucks.
Chris [00:07:25]:
Yeah. Other people in the office have small children, so they are disease vectors.
Sam [00:07:30]:
Yeah, exactly. That’s the problem. Uh, no more to that story. Have you been following the, obviously, if you had money, I believe that you might be the person that would go out and buy some Meta glasses for God knows what reason. Uh, but you, you know, information, information on the go. Videoing stuff.
Chris [00:07:52]:
I could do that. Yep. I could see myself with them.
Sam [00:07:54]:
DuckDuckGo’s come out with some glasses now. Have you seen this?
Chris [00:07:58]:
No.
Sam [00:07:58]:
Uh, they’re called Normal Effing Sunglasses and they’re, uh, non-creepy. They have no tech in them. They have no battery, no camera, anti-surveillance actually. Um, and you can get them for $35. They’re supposed to be pretty good. Um, they’re just normal sunglasses. Because I think, uh, at the moment, Zuck’s pushing the glasses a bit hard at the moment.
Chris [00:08:20]:
Yeah, there was another competitor thing that I looked at actually, and I can’t remember who, what it was called. And it looked like a pretty good set, um, the glasses and stuff. But anyway, I don’t know. Um, you, you, you couldn’t see yourself ever sporting something like that?
Sam [00:08:37]:
I just don’t know. I like, I think, I think I saw someone online say a couple of the use cases are very specific. Um, people that are creators or doing something and they need to film their point of view as they’re building something.
Chris [00:08:52]:
Yep.
Sam [00:08:53]:
Which sort of makes sense because a lot of people will just strap a GoPro to their head at the moment. So, you know, that’s fine.
Chris [00:08:58]:
If you were doing a YouTube channel on model building or something, painting the models or something, that makes perfect sense to me.
Sam [00:09:05]:
But I think it’s the out and about wearing them is where people have problems with. I saw an app that can somehow help find them. Like if you’re in a crowded area, I think it’s trying to connect to the glasses and it says glasses are in the area. Because, you know, creepy weirdos, creepy weirdos are going to have them. That’s the problem.
Chris [00:09:23]:
Creepy weirdos. Yeah, but I don’t, I don’t really have a problem with that because creepy weirdos in the, in public anyway. And like whether they got glasses or not, they’re walking around with a phone with a camera on it.
Sam [00:09:33]:
Yeah, but the phone, the phone, it’s a lot more, it’s easier to spot. Anyway, that’s, uh, you know, if you want them. If you could have a cat that lived for 30 years, how do you feel about that?
Chris [00:09:47]:
I, you’ve read Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, eh?
Sam [00:09:50]:
Oh, vaguely.
Chris [00:09:51]:
So long ago. But yeah, that cat that died and they brought it back to life.
Sam [00:09:58]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:09:59]:
That creeps me out. Actually creeps me out. So a 30-year-old cat. That’s what it’s— it immediately reminds me of that.
Sam [00:10:06]:
Well, they’re not bringing him back to life. This guy in Japan, Professor Miyazaki, he realized there’s 10 million cats in Japan and a lot of them die from kidney disease. And 20 years ago, he found the AIM protein, which is found in the blood. And now he’s working to develop medication that will, um, help the kidney function in cats. And if he can do that, Potentially they’re going to live up to about 30 years old. I don’t know if they’re going to have a good quality of life, maybe, but, um, that’s a long time.
Chris [00:10:39]:
Yeah, that is. That is.
Sam [00:10:40]:
But you think there’d be other problems as well. Like he’s just fixing this one thing.
Speaker A [00:10:44]:
Uh, but the aim—
Chris [00:10:45]:
Yeah, there’s probably the other problem.
Sam [00:10:46]:
The aim of using AIM, uh, is to hopefully treat humans in the future as well.
Chris [00:10:52]:
Oh, that’s cool. Hey, um, I got this story I thought was interesting and, and I thought the guy was a bit of a And then I saw his photos and it looks pretty normal. And, and I read the story and went, nah, it’s not that bad.
Sam [00:11:04]:
So, um, so you went on a rollercoaster, rollercoaster of a story.
Chris [00:11:09]:
Yeah. The headline was man walks 16 kilometers to safety after impaling himself on a mountain. Walking to avoid the costly helicopter rescue. Where is he?
Sam [00:11:18]:
America.
Chris [00:11:19]:
USA. Could you imagine what that would cost you?
Sam [00:11:21]:
Oh, it’s too much.
Chris [00:11:23]:
If the ambulance costs you 10 grand, what would a helicopter cost you? Jesus Christ. Anyway, so in a remarkable case from the US, a man hiking on Montana’s highest mountain, basically what he did, he was close to the summit alongside 2 friends and he slipped and fell onto one of his 2 trekking poles.
Sam [00:11:43]:
Oh no, that sucks.
Chris [00:11:45]:
Yeah, because when it said impaled on a mountain, I’m like, how do you impale yourself on a mountain? But I see what they mean. He wasn’t impaled by a mountain, he was impaled by a trek pole. Basically he, but he is an emergency room nurse by profession.
Sam [00:11:59]:
Oh, well, that helps.
Chris [00:12:00]:
So he assessed the injury and decided he could walk to safety.
Sam [00:12:04]:
Just keep it in, I guess.
Chris [00:12:05]:
Yeah, he said immediately knew after the fall that something wasn’t right. Wonder what that could be. Oh yes, that pole sticking through me. The pole had reportedly speared him in the left side below his left arm, pushed through his lower back, but narrowly missed vital organs.
Sam [00:12:21]:
Oh my gosh.
Chris [00:12:22]:
Uh, I knew, I don’t quite know what it says. Through my skin, I could feel the trekking pole. I knew it wasn’t deep and I knew I could take deep breaths. So his lungs wasn’t a thing. So he didn’t panic and he and his friends decided to hike the route they’d just climbed. Um, but they, they phoned ahead with the satellite phone and saying, look, we’re on the way in and we need, we’re going to need help when we get there. Um, but yeah, pretty, that’s pretty epic. It’s a pretty good story and a good scar, I would imagine too.
Sam [00:12:53]:
Yeah. And man, wonder if he gets some new poles from the people that made them.
Chris [00:12:58]:
Didn’t mention the brand of the pole.
Sam [00:13:00]:
There you go. Oh, gutted. Absolute gutted. Bra boosters are causing problems.
Chris [00:13:06]:
Bra boosters. Like the ones that push-up bra type thing. Is that what you’re talking about?
Sam [00:13:10]:
Sort of. This is to do with the Tour de France, but the female racing. They are urging the committee that looks after it to implement checks for illegally bra maxing. So they’re stuffing bras to make the everything oversized. And then it sort of turns into aero fairing, giving them an edge.
Chris [00:13:35]:
So they’re doing a Madonna cones thing for aero benefit?
Sam [00:13:39]:
Potentially, potentially, but they ain’t just any, any air J they will try and take.
Chris [00:13:45]:
Oh, so dumb.
Sam [00:13:46]:
It is.
Chris [00:13:47]:
It’s like that, what was that ski jumping one we were talking about?
Sam [00:13:51]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:13:51]:
With the stuffing stuff down your pants, giant dongs on it, something like that. Yeah.
Sam [00:13:55]:
Yeah. Similar.
Chris [00:13:57]:
So, uh, I don’t know if we talked, I think we talked about this before, um, Midjourney’s, um, imaging technology. This has come up a couple of times in the last week.
Sam [00:14:07]:
What did that do?
Chris [00:14:09]:
So that was, so Midjourney, um, you know, the guys that did the AI picture thing a while ago.
Sam [00:14:17]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:14:18]:
created this thing that’s, um, what do you call it? A competitor to a CT scan. So a CT scan sends, um, uh, X-rays or whatever it is through you. Um, and it uses magnetic resonance. So, uh, it can tell what’s inside of you basically.
Sam [00:14:37]:
Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:14:38]:
Midjourney’s one is that you stand on this platform and you are lowered slowly very slowly into a pool of water.
Sam [00:14:48]:
Okay.
Chris [00:14:49]:
And, and the capsule around that edge of the capsule are all these, um, like miniature speakers and they fire sound out at each other and they listen. And so as it hits the body, different muscles, bones, density of material in your body will refract differently and bounce back differently. So it’s a fraction of the cost to build one of these than it is to build a CT thing.
Sam [00:15:17]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:15:17]:
It’s fairly equivalent. I don’t think you’d do your head, but otherwise—
Sam [00:15:23]:
Probably not.
Chris [00:15:24]:
Probably not. But otherwise, you know, it’s fairly equivalent. It’s pretty quick. And because it’s cheap, they’re starting to put them into spas and things like that. So you can get a proper diagnosis of, I don’t know, knee injuries, hip injuries, all that sort of stuff.
Sam [00:15:40]:
Hip injuries, you say?
Chris [00:15:42]:
I said that because I added that in because that’s what they need.
Sam [00:15:46]:
Chuck you into like a modified washing machine.
Chris [00:15:49]:
And, uh, yeah, I, it, it sounds pretty, uh, a lot less, uh, uh, what’s the word? Scary than, than a CT machine. ‘Cause those things are loud and yeah, they are like a washing machine.
Sam [00:16:05]:
Yep. That’s true. I see you’ve got something here. I think I know what it is, ’cause somebody told me, I think Sarah was telling me last night, everybody needs a hobby.
Chris [00:16:13]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:16:14]:
There’s a dude in the UK got arrested because he’s been dressing as a Grim Reaper and standing on the hospital roof and staring at patients.
Chris [00:16:24]:
I think it’s the roof opposite the hospital and staring into the—
Sam [00:16:27]:
Oh yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense.
Chris [00:16:29]:
Yeah. Yeah. I think it, and I think it’s a car park, like opposite the hospital, like a multi-story car park and he’s on the roof of the car park just looking. Or the top floor of the car park, just looking at people.
Sam [00:16:38]:
So he got charged, uh, with causing a nuisance or disturbance without reasonable excuse. Oh my gosh.
Chris [00:16:44]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:16:45]:
He had to pay— did you see his fines?
Chris [00:16:48]:
No.
Sam [00:16:49]:
He had to pay £50 in compensation, £100 in fines, and £100 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service. He also then admitted stealing £30 to £40 of cat food and cat litter from a pet home.
Chris [00:17:00]:
What?
Sam [00:17:01]:
Okay. He’s, he’s got some stuff going on in his life.
Chris [00:17:05]:
Yeah. He’s, he should be on the inside of the hospital. That’s what I’m saying.
Sam [00:17:08]:
Oh, I see. I see. Uh, what do you do if you, you’re a government agency in America and you’re, you’re like running outta money because, uh, somebody named Trump canceled a whole bunch of research grants?
Chris [00:17:25]:
Uh, I don’t know.
Sam [00:17:27]:
So you’re studying marmots. I think that’s how you say it.
Chris [00:17:30]:
Marmots.
Sam [00:17:30]:
Marmots. Yep. They’re the weird little ground mammals. Um, people have been studying them for decades apparently, and they were worried that the program might be terminated. So they’ve made, um, Only Marmots, uh, which is an OnlyFans account showing these marmots. It’s, uh—
Chris [00:17:48]:
That is genius. That is freaking genius. You know why it’s genius? Because there’s all these other married men who have OnlyFans accounts who now subscribe to Marmots. So when some, their significant other goes, what’s this OnlyFans on your account? You can go, oh, just log in. Here it is. It’s the Marmots. And they go, oh, that’s nice.
Sam [00:18:09]:
Okay. I’m with you. Uh, yeah. Okay. That’s interesting. That’s probably what they should be doing. They’ve got 31 posts on there and 2,300 likes at the moment. So hopefully it’s going okay for them.
Sam [00:18:22]:
But it’s like, you know, it is a big platform and you can, um, easily find it, I guess.
Chris [00:18:28]:
Yeah. I mean—
Sam [00:18:29]:
Oh, hang on. It does say so far they’ve only netted a few hundred dollars, which is enough to purchase the bait that lures the animals in. So maybe—
Chris [00:18:39]:
I don’t know that that would work, to be honest with you. But anyway, it’s, it, it, it got some, um, what do you call it? It got some publicity. We’re talking about it.
Sam [00:18:48]:
That’s the main thing.
Chris [00:18:49]:
We might not be one of the most expensive, uh, richest podcasts in the world, but we’re pretty influential.
Sam [00:18:56]:
We’re spreading the word.
Chris [00:18:56]:
Not Joe Rogan influential. Not Stephen Bartlett influential, but pretty influential.
Sam [00:19:01]:
Hey, we’re spreading the word on a low scale. Do you know what cracks me up is when people email us about a story directly to our website. I do not think people know how websites work. So, you know, the, uh, Kiwi bale thing or whatever it was at Field Days, and it was the edible Hay bale wrap. We get emailed about that. They’ll be like, yeah, they’ll just send an email going, hey, I really want that wrap. I want to, I want to buy it. Where do I buy it from? No, no reference.
Sam [00:19:27]:
They have no idea what’s going on. They just fill out a form. I point them in the right direction. Like I go, go to this guy’s website, but I’m like, what are you doing? How are you surviving this far in life?
Chris [00:19:38]:
Oh, well, I feel sorry for this guy. This is the reason why good people shouldn’t get into law enforcement in the States, right? Okay. So Los Angeles County is charging Officer Daniel Flores with over a dozen felony charges for secretly recording his coworkers while they made racist, homophobic, and misogynistic remarks.
Sam [00:20:06]:
Okay. So what’s—
Chris [00:20:07]:
okay. All right. But listen to this. Listen to this. So the charges include eavesdropping and recording confidential information, despite he only used the recording as part of a complaint to the Los Angeles Police Department Internal Affairs. He didn’t share it. He didn’t publish it. He didn’t give it to anyone else.
Chris [00:20:29]:
He just said, gave it to Internal Affairs and said, I think you should look at this.
Sam [00:20:34]:
What is wrong with him?
Chris [00:20:36]:
Right.
Sam [00:20:36]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:37]:
So he didn’t leak the material, didn’t give it to a reporter, didn’t do it to anything else. He just gave it to them.
Sam [00:20:43]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:44]:
And now they are, uh, charging him and he’s facing 13 years in jail.
Sam [00:20:51]:
Oh, it’s just so stupid. Wouldn’t that get thrown out? Probably not.
Chris [00:20:57]:
I don’t know. It says we deplore, uh, so the, who said this? The county district attorney said, we deplore the sexist, homophobic, and racist remarks made by certain LAPD employees, and they should be held accountable for such statements. However, in our all-party consent state where California has been one of the nation’s leaders in protecting privacy—
Sam [00:21:20]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:21:20]:
—deterring illegal eavesdropping for over half a century, one cannot simply choose to break the law because one wants to pursue a personal agenda. Oh, it’s a load of crap.
Sam [00:21:32]:
That’s so silly.
Chris [00:21:34]:
Like, I think you would think that, uh, internal affairs would be like a whistleblower thing, right?
Sam [00:21:39]:
Yeah. You think that would be more important than, um, yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:21:45]:
Anyway, so I say if you’re a good guy, don’t join the police in the US because, or the army for that matter, because they might just have you murdering people for fun and and Caribbean oceans and stuff.
Sam [00:21:58]:
Yeah, of course. Nice sunny, sandy places.
Chris [00:22:01]:
Um, actually I’ve got this, uh, we, we, we talk a lot about records and stuff. You usually come up with the Guinness World Records thing.
Sam [00:22:08]:
Well, yeah, they haven’t shown me anything recently, but for a while there, Guinness was going hard after me.
Chris [00:22:13]:
Yeah. Well, this one, I, I actually wrote this down a while back, but, um, I hadn’t got around to it. So a Brazilian couple attempt to prove they’re the best in the world with their kissing record.
Sam [00:22:27]:
Ah, okay.
Chris [00:22:29]:
Uh, he and his girlfriend teamed up to claim the record for the most kisses in 30 seconds.
Sam [00:22:36]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:36]:
195 smooches in 30 seconds.
Sam [00:22:39]:
Oh no, this is stupid.
Chris [00:22:42]:
It’s dumb, eh? It’s not just me, that’s dumb, right?
Sam [00:22:45]:
Yeah. Yeah, there’s some dumb records out there.
Chris [00:22:49]:
32 and 33 years old. They wanted to break the record together because they believe they’re the best couple in the world.
Sam [00:22:56]:
That doesn’t prove that.
Chris [00:22:58]:
I know. Okay. And it is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, so I thought I’d share it here only on the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Sam [00:23:07]:
tcasp.com. Kickstart or Dropkick this week. You can have, oh, the, the first one just tells you what it is. Whole Japanese white peach preserved at peak ripeness. That’s the title. Okay. Do not deviate from that because that is what it is. Uh, so this crowd is, um, harvesting the finest peaches from Japan, uh, with the world while reducing food waste.
Sam [00:23:34]:
Um, they get them at peach, uh, peak season only lasts for about 2 weeks. So they’re obviously trying to like get as much out of this as they can. Really available outside of Japan. It looks like a normal peach to me, but what do I know? I’m just a podcaster. Anyway, they’re on here. It’s quite a nice looking, um, campaign. They come in a jar, you tip them out, you’ve got a peach. Oh, hang on.
Sam [00:23:59]:
How many do you get? Okay. So they want to raise, uh, $1,000 New Zealand dollars is what they want to raise.
Chris [00:24:06]:
Sounds reasonable.
Sam [00:24:07]:
I’ve just, they’ve got a bunch of stuff. Okay. If you want 2 of these preserved peaches, It’s $77 New Zealand plus shipping.
Chris [00:24:17]:
Holy crap.
Sam [00:24:19]:
I don’t know if I— no, I don’t want to pay that. Okay. I’ve given you that kill.
Chris [00:24:24]:
If it had, if it came in alcohol, if it was a peach liqueur, $77 sounds very reasonable.
Sam [00:24:31]:
No, it’s not. It just comes in a fancy jar. Like the packaging does look nice. I will give them that. So, uh, they want to raise $1,000. There’s 36 days to go. How much do you think they’ve raised?
Chris [00:24:45]:
$200.
Sam [00:24:46]:
$15,000.
Chris [00:24:49]:
What the hell?
Sam [00:24:50]:
They’re on their way. So if you want—
Chris [00:24:52]:
They’re well on their way.
Sam [00:24:53]:
Yep. If you want that and, uh, you know, it talks to you, uh, check out tcas.com and we will have the show notes with the link to that. Okay. The next one, I, we’re doing this remotely this today, this podcast, so I can’t easily share the image with you, but I’ll show you afterwards and I’ll just describe it with my words. This is Smart Belt 2026. It’s a leap in comfort and elegance unequaled. It’s an Italian leather belt and in the middle of it, it’s got a Kevlar core and it’s got like a ratchet system. That’s the easiest way to describe it.
Sam [00:25:30]:
It’s got 32 micro adjustments. And it’s got a very nice looking buckle and you just pull it and it ratchets and it’s on. And I really like this actually. Apparently they’ve already done 13 campaigns and had 70,000 backers. And this is their 2026 model, I guess.
Chris [00:25:48]:
Okay. And just curious, how do you release it? Like you press a button and it just releases?
Sam [00:25:52]:
It looks like it. Yeah. Like you just, yeah, you press a button and it unlatches. So it’s pretty good because if you’re losing weight or putting weight on, this belt in theory should last you a long time. And I think it looks really cool. So they want to raise, uh, about $17,000 New Zealand dollars. So probably need a lot of money to make this. So that’s cool.
Chris [00:26:12]:
How much is each one?
Sam [00:26:14]:
The, the early bird where you’re getting 55% off, you get 2 of them. Uh, so you can get like 2 different colors, $200 New Zealand dollars. One of them is $111.
Chris [00:26:28]:
Yeah. Yeah. It’s, I mean, it’s expensive to get a decent belt, to be fair. So that’s not a terrible price.
Sam [00:26:38]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:26:39]:
So they’re up to 17,000. How far through are they?
Sam [00:26:42]:
59 days to go. So this thing’s only just launched at time of recording.
Speaker A [00:26:45]:
Only just launched.
Chris [00:26:46]:
Okay. I’d be surprised if they got, well, no, I was going to say I’d be surprised if they got 17,000 already, but they’ve already done this. A dozen times or whatever so far.
Sam [00:26:56]:
So yeah, they’ll be tapping into their past customers, I guess. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:27:00]:
I’m going to say they’re at 100,000 already.
Sam [00:27:03]:
You’re pretty close.
Chris [00:27:06]:
80,000. Wow.
Sam [00:27:07]:
I’ve just sent you the link as well. So you can look at that now.
Chris [00:27:10]:
Yeah, because, um, yeah, I guess that’s the thing, right? Is, is that, oh, I see what you mean. Yeah. That’s pretty cool. Um, if it works, why? why screw with it? Like you just, it’s already worked before. Let’s do more of that, you know? So, um, yeah, it’s cool.
Sam [00:27:28]:
Uh, and it looks like you, you get the belt and then you cut it to length to then, and then add it all together. So, and it looks like there’s different buckles and different pieces to it. So very well put together campaign, I think.
Chris [00:27:40]:
Oh, that’s cool. That’s cool. Hey, um, I saw this one thing that I, I, I think we’re about out of time, but, um, This Kia dealer. Now this is in the States, so don’t get worried about it in New Zealand as yet, but it did crack me up. So it’s in Lake Charles, wherever that is, but in the US. So the woman had a blowout on the interstate in her Kia and she got the, I assume she got the garage to like tow it, tow it into the store.
Sam [00:28:12]:
And this is just a tire blowout?
Chris [00:28:14]:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And she says her vehicle sat at the dealership for more than a month with very little communication from the service depot.
Sam [00:28:23]:
Hang on, more than a month to what? Fix a tire?
Chris [00:28:26]:
I know. I know. So I’m assuming like she must have another car and stuff, ’cause like, who can wait for a month? But anyway, so she decided she’d go in in person to check on a building, on a vehicle. I don’t know why I said building. And when she got there, she noticed the hood of a vehicle was up. She’s like, but it’s a tire. What? And so she started filming and she literally got a camera and started filming and going, hey, why’s my car got the bonnet up?
Sam [00:29:01]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:29:01]:
And oh, what’s all those pieces missing? They’d taken the engine apart and was using the parts of her motor to fix another Kia that had come in for servicing. They were using the parts of her car to fix somebody else’s car. So was that— she’s like, that is theft. That’s nuts.
Sam [00:29:22]:
So was the idea that they were like, the parts were going to take too long, so we’ll just use these and then the— I don’t know.
Chris [00:29:30]:
Didn’t, didn’t get a full explanation. Uh, the dealership did say, so she complained to the dealership. This is from the dealer, I guess, carer themselves or whatever.
Sam [00:29:41]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:29:42]:
We took your feedback seriously and immediately began an internal review. Following that review, the service manager is no longer employed with our company.
Speaker A [00:29:49]:
Oh, really?
Chris [00:29:50]:
Our team is held to a high standard of customer care, professionalism, respect, and honesty. Every customer deserves to be treated with dignity, and we sincerely apologize to the customer involved. But yeah, it just got me because it’s like, If you, if you have a flat tire, basically what is what it was. Yeah. You don’t expect people to take bits out of your car. A month. I’m like, how many times have I put a car in to get fixed with something and never, it never crossed my mind that people were taking parts off it.
Sam [00:30:21]:
No, because it’s just, yeah, they could have been, but it’s just too much hassle. Yeah. Anyway. That roundup of Random’s technology and life, uh, brings us to the end of this week’s podcast. tcasp.com for all the show notes, past episodes. And how many are we away until the 600th? I know you want to tell me.
Chris [00:30:41]:
We’re only 8 away, aren’t we?
Sam [00:30:42]:
We’re only 8 away, about 2 months. Uh, cool. No, very excited for it. We’re trying to work on some stuff, uh, along with everything else that we’re dealing with.
Chris [00:30:55]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we’ll have some, some surprises for everybody. Um, yeah, whether those surprises are good or not, we’ll see.
Sam [00:31:02]:
Yeah, that, that’s up to our listeners. But, uh, okay, until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:31:07]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:31:07]:
See ya.
Chris [00:31:09]:
Bye.
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