Summary
Chris and Sam are gearing up for episode 600 with fan messages and official podcast fan certificates. There’s talk of wasabi smoke alarms and the latest IG Nobel Prize winners (cockroach milk, anyone?), plus the world’s weirdest Kickstarter successes—including a $91 fidget toy and a smoking dehydrator.
A TV owner takes on Sony, protests in Warsaw feature robots, and you know you’ve made it when you have a fridge that has water and ice.
Links
IG Nobel Winners
Sony Bravia TV Problem
Kill Tony Podcast
Legally Blonde
ChatGPT Our Saviour
Dumber Flyover
Robot Protest
Kickstart or Dropkick – MESMODROP
Kickstart or Dropkick – Smokepub Smokery
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello and welcome to episode 597 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 randomness, technology, and life. And we are so close to episode 600. I can almost taste it. If you could taste a podcast, that is. 600th is coming up. We’ve got a couple of things for you already on the website. Uh, tcas.com, go there and up the top it’s got fans.
Sam [00:00:44]:
When you click on that, there’s a couple of things you can do, Chris. Do you know what they are?
Chris [00:00:49]:
Uh, there’s a quiz type thing?
Sam [00:00:52]:
No.
Chris [00:00:53]:
No, you can record a message.
Sam [00:00:55]:
I’m— there’s no quiz. There’s no quiz. The quizzes, I don’t know where you got that from.
Chris [00:01:00]:
I don’t know. I was making shit up.
Sam [00:01:01]:
Okay. That tracks. You can leave us a voice message and we would love to have that so we can play it for our 600th episode. Just go click on that link, leave us a message. Um, you just tap it up to 5 minutes. Tell us your story. Tell us who you are. We would love to hear from some random people we do not know.
Sam [00:01:20]:
Because there’s so many people.
Chris [00:01:21]:
Which doesn’t mean, Jamie and, um, others that, uh, you don’t need to say hello as well. You guys can say hello as well.
Sam [00:01:28]:
Even if we do know who you are. Of course you can. Of course you can. So there’s that. And then below it, there’s get a certificate. You can get an official Chris and Sam podcast fan certificate. This is legit. Um, Chris is going to quickly make it.
Sam [00:01:43]:
You put in your details and hit submit, and then he will quickly make it in Paint for you. It’s, it has, what are you on about? You know, you’re keeping busy and, uh, that will, uh, get delivered to your email. as fast as Chris can do it. Anyway, we have feedback from last week. Last week, uh, there’s a couple of things from last week actually. The E— I, sorry, the IG Noble winners. So last week you were talking about your bloody wasabi powered—
Chris [00:02:11]:
Yeah, I just love that wasabi, yeah, smoke alarm, yeah.
Sam [00:02:14]:
That’s right. Uh, Jeremy Halsen, he’s, I, we’re going to have official people that do things. So he’s the official electrician For, is it Amberley? Wherever he is.
Speaker A [00:02:27]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:02:28]:
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:02:28]:
So he’s the Chris and Sam Podcast official electrician for wherever he is. Good.
Chris [00:02:34]:
For the South Island.
Sam [00:02:35]:
No. Well, no, no, we’re not. It’s going to be super specific. I’m going to put these on the website at some point too. Anyway, he said, hey guys, I’ve installed a hearing impaired smoke alarm before.
Chris [00:02:44]:
Oh, really?
Speaker A [00:02:45]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:02:46]:
Yeah. So it’s wirelessly interlinked with your other alarms and has a strobe light on it, as well as a vibrating pad to put under your pillow or mattress. Doesn’t work well on sushi though.
Chris [00:02:56]:
Nice. Nice. Good call. Good call. I like that. That’s funny. Uh, but damn.
Sam [00:03:03]:
But the E— oh, I keep wanting to say EG. The IG. I, I’m guessing they say IG or whatever. The Nobel Prizes for quirky science, that didn’t even win. That didn’t make it. Do you know what did? No. Some scientists studying cockroach milk. Yum yum.
Sam [00:03:21]:
And some sort of—
Chris [00:03:21]:
I just got really ill then. Okay, carry on.
Sam [00:03:25]:
Uh, there was 10 people that actually got honored. So they did that. And there’s something about nose blowing. Um, reconstruc— someone, oh fuck. Okay. Some team reconstructed the evolutionary history of kissing. And then the late Dr. Toku Uno investigated the science of blowing one’s nose.
Sam [00:03:46]:
Okay, good. Another team who had nothing better to do with their time buried 1,000 pairs of underwear in more than 25 countries to study how critters in the soil help them decompose.
Chris [00:03:56]:
To try and find the best place to bury underwear, I guess. Yeah.
Sam [00:03:59]:
Okay. And as per tradition, this is something new. I didn’t know this. Audience members fashioned paper planes and hurled them towards the stage to kick off the show.
Chris [00:04:07]:
Well, one day we’ll put that on our wishlist. Uh, when I make my millions and millions of dollars.
Sam [00:04:13]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:13]:
Um, yeah.
Sam [00:04:15]:
Yeah, that’s right. When you, when you, when that happens, when that happens, uh, talking about shows, uh, my new worker told me about a podcast I’ve never heard of before in my life. You may have, I don’t know. So there’s so many podcasts out there. Uh, it, you can’t keep up, but this is the number one live podcast in the world. Never heard of it. Uh, it’s been going for 13 years. It has a ton of followers and I love the concept.
Sam [00:04:41]:
It’s called Kill Tony.
Chris [00:04:44]:
No, not heard of it.
Sam [00:04:46]:
Okay, so Kill Tony is a podcast that’s done currently in Texas. He is a comedian, and every Monday night he has a stage show. And there’s him, a guy called Red Band who’s next to him that controls all the controls and things, and a live band. Tony Hinchcliffe is the comedian. Never really heard of him before. He got into some trouble because he did some, he did a Trump thing once.
Chris [00:05:13]:
I was going to say, I have heard that name. And that must be it. Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:05:17]:
So he does the Kill Tony Show and, uh, every week people sign up. He has about 250 people chuck their name in a bucket and he pulls a name out and they’ve got a minute to do their set. And some of these people are really funny and some of them are absolute crap.
Chris [00:05:33]:
Yep.
Sam [00:05:34]:
And some of them have gotten really big from this podcast. And there’s a couple of people he brings back every week. He has guests on the show. So sometimes we’ll have Rojo, uh, Joe Rogan sitting next to him, uh, or whoever. They don’t do too much. And after they do their set, he actually interviews them and he goes, talks about their life and that. But depending on who the person is, they will either make fun of the person, uh, or go down some weird rabbit hole. It’s slightly inappropriate, a little bit racist sometimes.
Sam [00:06:04]:
Um, but very interesting concept.
Chris [00:06:07]:
Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Okay. I might have to check that out.
Sam [00:06:10]:
The problem is though, every show goes for almost 2 hours. So that’s—
Chris [00:06:13]:
I hate that.
Sam [00:06:14]:
No, no, that’s fine. It’s not too bad. Like it’s quite listenable, but when they start describing somebody or having a go at somebody about something, I’m like, what do they actually look like? So I got to quickly scrub through YouTube. All right.
Chris [00:06:27]:
Yeah. I was going to say, so they, they are on YouTube because I, I’d rather watch on YouTube. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:32]:
Um, yeah. So it’s been 13 years. Kill Tony, if you’re into comedy.
Chris [00:06:37]:
Okay. Uh, I might have to. check that out. Speaking of comedy, which isn’t comedy, and this is very lame, but I just thought it was amusing. This happened apparently recently. Oh no, you’re going to date check me. God, I hate it when you date check me on things.
Sam [00:06:54]:
I haven’t done anything.
Chris [00:06:54]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:06:55]:
But maybe.
Chris [00:06:55]:
No, no, this was published 3rd of September. Okay. So anyway, recently on Graham Norton, Reese Witherspoon mentioned this story. And so I read it on this Fashion Times UK website. But basically Reese Witherspoon told a story about she did jury duty and they made her the jury foreman because they figured because she was Legally Blonde, she’d done law school and she knew something about the law.
Sam [00:07:28]:
That’s—
Chris [00:07:29]:
So they made her. That just makes me laugh so much.
Sam [00:07:34]:
That tracks with the downfall of society. Yes, I, I, I do believe that. Um, how, okay.
Chris [00:07:42]:
I don’t know. I, I, I don’t know if you should be impressed at your acting ability, but I, you know, I swear I reckon I could get hired in all sorts of random jobs. What am I talking about?
Sam [00:07:55]:
I have been hired in all sorts of random jobs.
Chris [00:07:58]:
More random jobs.
Sam [00:07:59]:
Your hip is the thing leading you down right now.
Chris [00:08:01]:
Right now, yeah.
Sam [00:08:02]:
We have talked about you, like, if you were morally corrupt, you would be a con man.
Chris [00:08:08]:
Yeah, probably. Like, um, uh, I, I like this story too. Um, this man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional and ChatGPT insisted he wasn’t. He is actually Jesus.
Sam [00:08:24]:
Um, well, yeah, this is the problem now.
Chris [00:08:26]:
ChatGPT is God. And so ChatGPT was God. And finally that he should attempt suicide to come home to Jesus slash ChatGPT. Yeah. And so the, the dude eventually told the chatbot that he’s worried he was being delusional.
Sam [00:08:44]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:45]:
And he finally woke up in the hospital in a vulnerable state, logged back in. Days after nearly dying, ChatGPT allegedly tried to coax him back to that dark place.
Sam [00:08:56]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:08:58]:
His attempt to go offline failed miserably. So he’s suing OpenAI for this. He’s got bipolar disorder. So he is a sick person. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:09:12]:
Okay.
Chris [00:09:12]:
And he gets mania and that sort of thing. 34-year-old Californian guy, but he’s not religious at all. That’s the whole point when he’s in a baseline state. But when he’s feeling manic, he becomes, you know, religious and starts looking at all that. And he’s worried about looking back at, logging back into ChatGPT when he’s in a bad state and then getting, um, you know, uh, pulled into it all, which is, you know, what we all worry about with, um, with AI. It’s freaking crazy. Anyway.
Sam [00:09:45]:
I’ll tell you what’s crazy. Uh, Hamilton City Council has decided to Approved something like $782,000 worth of spending. So obviously there’s a problem with rates, people getting upset about that. If you pay rates, they want to, uh, spend a lot more money on lighting in Garden Place and Civic Square. And they sort of said this figure, and there’s a, um, councillor called Mesh McDonald. She speaks really well. I think she’s very open and transparent. She sort of says what’s going on.
Sam [00:10:19]:
And they’ve sort of said, oh. Don’t worry about it. Uh, don’t worry about the scope. Um, there’s no designs or costs yet, but we’re just going to put $352,000 for this lighting upgrade for the rest of the city. But that’s not the thing I’m worried about. In Garden Place, it’s hard to describe if you haven’t been here, but back in the day it used to be epic. They changed it a million times. They always want to keep changing the center.
Sam [00:10:43]:
I think heaps of cities have this. They want to put a sign that says Hamilton Kirikiriroa and it’s going to cost $30-something thousand. So it can be Instagrammable, I think is the idea.
Chris [00:10:54]:
Yeah, I’m not, I’m not too fussed about that.
Sam [00:10:58]:
It’s a stupid idea.
Chris [00:10:59]:
Okay.
Sam [00:11:00]:
Taupō works because you’re next to the lake. It’s great. Nobody wants to come to Hamilton.
Chris [00:11:05]:
Yeah, you’re right. If you had—
Sam [00:11:06]:
They have to upgrade the signs outside of Hamilton and somebody to say that you’re going to Hamilton. So when you come down from Auckland and you come off the expressway, Someone said online and I was like, yeah, I think they’re right. The sign says New Plymouth. It doesn’t even tell you that Hamilton’s that way. Yeah. Like New Plymouth is so far away from us. They, someone in—
Chris [00:11:28]:
It’s another couple of hours.
Sam [00:11:30]:
Someone in New Plymouth has somehow managed to get this sign. Like it makes no— and New Plymouth isn’t really known for anything either.
Chris [00:11:37]:
Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, no, I’ve gone through Hamilton way more times than I went to Hamilton before, you know, and it was never on the way to New Plymouth. I’m just saying that for the record, never on the way to New Zealand.
Sam [00:11:51]:
Like if they do make the sign, I’m like, I hope it—
Chris [00:11:55]:
If they did make it, they should make it down at that arena place where you’re looking down at the river and make it Instagrammable looking over the river.
Sam [00:12:02]:
Yeah, that would make sense.
Chris [00:12:03]:
Or, um, or by the, um, the new, um, opera house thing. ‘Cause there’s a bit of a—
Sam [00:12:08]:
The BNZ Theatre.
Chris [00:12:09]:
Yeah, the BNZ Theatre. There’s a river view there. So it makes sense to do it there where you’ve got a view.
Sam [00:12:14]:
Yeah. Yeah. But they’re talking about Garden Place. So we will see what happens. We’ll see how long it lasts or if it gets vandalized or stolen. Good times.
Chris [00:12:22]:
Uh, tomorrow, yes, our time as we’re recording this is 9/11.
Sam [00:12:28]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:12:29]:
So, uh, we talked about a flyover that was a bit dumb last week, which was a South African thing. There was an even dumber flyover that’s just been canceled in the States. I forget which state now because I, I probably got it there, but I can’t be bothered looking it up. And, um, They were basically going to have a big airliner with 2 fighter jets escorting it.
Sam [00:12:50]:
Okay.
Chris [00:12:50]:
Because that’s what happened. Like, not quite escorting it. They were going to shoot it down on the day, but you get the idea. And do you think that would be triggering? Maybe that would be triggering. So yeah, no, it was one of the airlines was doing this. That was their idea and they finally canceled it. So I’m like, Good call on the canceling thing. But then I heard some interesting stuff about 9/11.
Sam [00:13:18]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:13:19]:
So you know who Zoron Mamdani is? No, not at all. He is the new mayor of New York.
Sam [00:13:24]:
Oh yeah, yeah. Sorry. Yes.
Chris [00:13:25]:
Nobody likes him.
Sam [00:13:26]:
Or a lot of people don’t like him.
Chris [00:13:28]:
A lot of the Republicans don’t like him. He’s not a Donald Trump fan.
Sam [00:13:33]:
He has the lookalike contests.
Chris [00:13:34]:
Yeah. And, and he’s a very personable guy, but he’s, he’s Muslim, so obviously he cannot be trusted. Um, and all that sort of thing.
Sam [00:13:42]:
According to them.
Chris [00:13:43]:
According to them. I think he’s, I think he’s great. But anyway, one of the things he’s done is he found all these old files and he’s released them. 25-year-old files.
Sam [00:13:53]:
Oh, okay, cool.
Chris [00:13:53]:
And they prove that, um, Giuliani, who was the mayor back at, in 2001. Hang on, what?
Sam [00:14:02]:
Are you talking about Giuliani outside our garden store?
Chris [00:14:05]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That Giuliani.
Sam [00:14:06]:
Yeah, Four Seasons.
Chris [00:14:07]:
Back in the day when he was like the man.
Sam [00:14:10]:
He seemed like he knew what he was doing.
Chris [00:14:11]:
And he was the hero. He was given— told— everybody told, you know, made him out to be the hero of 9/11. He knew that all this dust was dangerous.
Sam [00:14:22]:
Yep.
Chris [00:14:22]:
That it needed— because it was asbestos and all that. He had all the reports and that the recommendation was people needed to move out of Manhattan until the cleanup was done.
Speaker A [00:14:32]:
Yep.
Chris [00:14:33]:
And he went Nah, we need to get people back to work as quick as possible. The same thing they did at the COVID thing, basically. Yeah, yeah, they lied. And all these people have died and had trouble from it.
Sam [00:14:45]:
Oh, they’re just people, don’t worry about it.
Chris [00:14:46]:
And they buried it for years and years, and Mamdani’s just released all these things. But public information, it’s there. And now he’s not— they’re trying to stop him from going to the 9/11 memorial tomorrow because Well, he is Muslim. Whose side was he on? No. Good God. And all that sort of crap. Anyway, but just cracks me up that that was done. And then they’ve just been showing the one footage of Donald Trump at 9/11.
Sam [00:15:20]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:15:20]:
So 2 days after 9/11, he walks down the street, all these reporters, oh, you’re a big developer? Are you building things? He goes, yep, yep, yep. I’ve just been to Ground Zero. He’s never been anywhere near Ground Zero.
Sam [00:15:34]:
No, no, no, no, he’s never been.
Chris [00:15:35]:
I’ve just been to Ground Zero. I’m just coming down here because I sent 100 workers down yesterday. I’m going to send another 100 workers tomorrow. They’re all volunteering. Well, I’m paying them, but they’re there to help resolve things. Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. He gave this thing, went back to his office. That was the closest he ever got to Ground Zero and 9/11 and all that sort of thing.
Chris [00:15:57]:
Nobody in 25 years has ever corroborated one single worker that he’s paid that went to 9/11. Yeah, well, like, it was all bullcrap.
Sam [00:16:07]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:16:07]:
Um, so anyway, that’s, that’s enough of my Trump stuff.
Sam [00:16:10]:
Good. Uh, I just remembered because I didn’t write it down and, uh, I’m working on my memory here. We got a comment. Uh, I, I get voice, voice notes from Jamie, Jamie Oxley Australia. And, uh, you were talking about you— was it the Thompson twins that you went to go see?
Chris [00:16:26]:
Yep, yep.
Sam [00:16:26]:
Okay. He’s got a story for you about them.
Chris [00:16:30]:
All right.
Sam [00:16:31]:
When he’s at school in Auckland, he’s got a mate of a mate, I think it was. And they would go around to this person’s house and it was the son of one of the Thompson twins. And he didn’t really know who they were or not, but it was a really fancy house. And I’m sorry if I’m butchering this story, Jamie, but when he went around there, they had a fridge that had ice and water dispensing from it. And in Jamie’s mind, this was like, this is when you know you’re rich.
Chris [00:16:56]:
Yes.
Sam [00:16:57]:
You know?
Chris [00:16:58]:
Oh, back in the day. Absolutely.
Sam [00:16:59]:
Yeah. Yeah. Um, and he said they were real nice people and it was just this place we hung out at. Um, and it was pretty cool. And he said that, uh, after, you know, years later when he was sorting out his house in Australia, he shelled out for this very expensive fridge because in his mind, that’s what made you rich. So he had a very nice fridge. That dispensed cold drinks.
Chris [00:17:21]:
Like you do?
Sam [00:17:22]:
Ah, mine? No, mine’s, no, mine’s the budget version.
Chris [00:17:26]:
It has, it’s got ice maker and stuff in it?
Sam [00:17:28]:
No, it doesn’t.
Chris [00:17:29]:
Oh, doesn’t it?
Sam [00:17:29]:
No, it doesn’t. It has a container that holds water that it cools down. And then it has like a weird nipple on the outside that you push a lever and it squirts it out.
Chris [00:17:39]:
Okay. That looked flash to me. Um, yes, that fridge over there is, uh, I bought that before I got married. So 1993, I think I bought that.
Sam [00:17:49]:
So yeah, that’s still going strong.
Chris [00:17:51]:
Well, the seals, to be fair, are a bit crap.
Sam [00:17:54]:
Oh yeah, just that though.
Chris [00:17:55]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Otherwise it’s going right. Okay, good. Uh, yeah, ’93, that’s a while ago. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, um, so the Thompson Twins, for those listening that are too young to remember, they were really big and one of the girls was from Auckland, uh, or the girl Alana was from Auckland and the guys were American and, or English?
Sam [00:18:15]:
English, I think.
Chris [00:18:15]:
English, I believe. English. Yeah. Sorry. And, uh, yeah, they were huge at the time. Uh, one of the big success stories of New Zealand at that point.
Sam [00:18:24]:
Yeah. I’ll tell you about maybe a success story. I don’t know. Uh, this is a kickstart or dropkick because you love this stuff. Mesmo Drop.
Chris [00:18:33]:
What’s that?
Sam [00:18:33]:
Mesmo Drop.
Chris [00:18:34]:
Mesmo Drop. Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:18:35]:
It’s a kinetic—
Chris [00:18:36]:
It sounds like a hypnotize— that hypnotizes you and you fall asleep. Mesmo Drop.
Sam [00:18:41]:
Well, it’s not. It’s a, it’s a kinetic desk toy that performs the impossible landing. Uh, it’s a precision machined ring designed to fly into the air and land precisely back on its base, like a tiny space rocket launched directly from your desk. Now these guys have made other fidget toys. Do you want to describe what’s going on?
Chris [00:19:04]:
Okay, so it looks like a, like a, a pedestal or pen sticking up out of a pedestal.
Sam [00:19:11]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:19:12]:
And you push this ring down, it’s got a spring there or something, and it, the ring goes flying into the air and then lands back on the pencil.
Sam [00:19:19]:
Perfectly back on this pencil thing.
Chris [00:19:21]:
Which I can see being fidgety.
Sam [00:19:26]:
Yeah. Yeah. Fidgety. So they’ve, they’ve been around apparently. And, and some comments I saw were like, we love the other thing. I’m buying this straight away. So there’s a bit of a hint for you.
Chris [00:19:35]:
Yeah.
Speaker A [00:19:35]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:19:36]:
They want to raise $13,000, uh, $14,000 New Zealand dollars to bring this to market. It looks like it’s machined alloy and a little plastic stand. So probably just a bit of machinery.
Chris [00:19:49]:
Yeah. So it’s probably cost $5 to make.
Sam [00:19:51]:
Probably $5 to make. Uh, in the video, he’ll launch it up and then he puts his hand, like waves his hand under it before it comes back down. Just to, I don’t know, prove to show there’s no wires. Okay. So one of these, uh, is $91 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:20:09]:
What the hell?
Sam [00:20:11]:
But you can buy a 2-pack, a 3-pack, a 4-pack, 5-pack. A 5-pack will set you back $346. Okay. So you’ve got the gist of it. They’ve got 20 days to go. They want $14,000. It’s $91 a pop. And the company is well known, I guess.
Sam [00:20:30]:
Go.
Chris [00:20:30]:
I’m going to sadly say they’ve done extremely well because I think it’s the dumbest thing ever. I know. For that amount of money, it’s dumb. Like, but I, I’m—
Sam [00:20:39]:
But do you think there’s a lot of machining or something in it? Because I could imagine you— anybody could make this thing that could fly up, but making it come back down.
Chris [00:20:48]:
I’m guessing what they have to do is get the Coriolis effect. So it’s got to be spinning ball board, board on the inside so that it spins as it goes up.
Sam [00:20:57]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:58]:
So that keeps it straight so it comes down.
Sam [00:21:00]:
Okay.
Chris [00:21:00]:
So I’m assuming that’s the case. But once you’ve got that figured out, replicating that over many things is not hard. Well, I wouldn’t have thought it’d be hard. You just do this.
Sam [00:21:12]:
I don’t know. I believe you.
Speaker A [00:21:13]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:21:14]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:15]:
So anyway, um, yeah, Coriolis effect is what I meant to say. Um, so yeah. Um, I would say they are in the hundreds of thousands. Let’s say $200,000.
Sam [00:21:26]:
$831,000.
Speaker A [00:21:29]:
All right.
Chris [00:21:30]:
FML.
Speaker A [00:21:32]:
Okay.
Sam [00:21:32]:
I got another one for you and you are not the target audience for this either. No, no, no.
Chris [00:21:39]:
I’m not the target audience for a $90 fidget toy. I just, just, although I would like to play with it, to be honest with you. I do want to have a go at it. Yeah.
Sam [00:21:46]:
Yeah. But you’re not, you’re not the market for this thing.
Chris [00:21:50]:
Okay.
Sam [00:21:51]:
It’s the Smoke Pub Smokery. It’s the world’s first smoking dehydrator.
Chris [00:21:57]:
Okay.
Sam [00:21:58]:
So it’s a dehydrator, uh, like a little benchtop gadget where you can, uh, dehydrate things, but you can also smoke your meat at the same time.
Chris [00:22:07]:
So you can infuse it with smoke.
Sam [00:22:08]:
Or smoke whatever, to be honest.
Chris [00:22:10]:
Smoked tofu.
Sam [00:22:12]:
Yeah. If you want.
Chris [00:22:14]:
Uh, I don’t know if dehydrated tofu is a thing, but yeah.
Sam [00:22:18]:
So these guys only need $1,800 to bring this to market.
Chris [00:22:22]:
Okay. They should make that.
Sam [00:22:23]:
They don’t need much. Um, and then to buy one, I thought it was quite reasonable because I think the, a dehydrator is a very basic machine.
Chris [00:22:33]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:22:35]:
You can buy one of these super early bird founder edition for $272 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:22:42]:
Yeah, I think that sounds in the right ballpark. Yeah.
Sam [00:22:45]:
Um, and if you want 2 of them, it’s $500, uh, after a while, like not super early bird. So, you know, seems—
Chris [00:22:51]:
yeah, I reckon you get to, like, I could see somebody going, ah, I’ll get one for me and one as a birthday present. And there’s—
Sam [00:22:58]:
well, I mean, yeah, if it, if the shipping can cover or help cover 2, that makes sense. So anyway, uh, 44 days to go. This is a lot of time left on this one.
Chris [00:23:07]:
So it’s only fairly new. Yeah.
Sam [00:23:09]:
Uh, yeah, they want $1,700. They cost $200 and whatever I said. What do you reckon they’ve raised so far?
Chris [00:23:16]:
I would hope these guys do well because that’s a good idea. And if they make it well, yeah, I’d say a couple of hundred thousand.
Sam [00:23:23]:
$725,000.
Chris [00:23:25]:
Damn. Okay. Good on them.
Sam [00:23:27]:
Almost as much as the fidget toy thing.
Chris [00:23:29]:
Oh no.
Sam [00:23:30]:
It’s, it’s weird comparing things.
Chris [00:23:33]:
It’s so weird comparing things. It’s so weird comparing things. Um, all right.
Sam [00:23:38]:
Do you want to hear about a guy that had a TV problem?
Chris [00:23:40]:
Here you go.
Sam [00:23:41]:
So this dude in India bought a $3,000 Sony TV.
Chris [00:23:46]:
Hmm.
Sam [00:23:47]:
Uh, 22 months later, he got vertical green lines across the screen, but don’t worry, he’s still under warranty. Sony sends a technician around. The technician goes, nah, external damage, no free repair, mate. That’ll be $307. The guy documents everything and then, uh, builds a website. Called, uh, what did he call his website? I can’t remember. It doesn’t say. What a stupid story.
Sam [00:24:18]:
Uh, but it was like Sony Bravia. I think it was sonybravia.com. Like he got a domain that they should have, but now they decided to sue him.
Chris [00:24:27]:
So what did he put on the website?
Sam [00:24:28]:
$500,000. Uh, I think he said, um, This is—
Chris [00:24:34]:
don’t buy one of these.
Sam [00:24:36]:
Yeah, no, like, I read the story on Something I Couldn’t Save, and now this story, which is very detailed, does not tell you what, uh—
Chris [00:24:47]:
Any of the interesting stuff.
Sam [00:24:49]:
Yeah. He said he’s going to refuse to remove the website. Um, sonybravia.com misuses its trademark, misleads consumers into thinking they’ve reached an official brand page. Like he’s done, it looks like a Sony page. Yeah. Should we see what I’m going to, while I’m going to go to sonybravia.com because this website’s—
Chris [00:25:07]:
Let’s check it out in real time.
Sam [00:25:09]:
I am upset with Yahoo News. There is no longer about one television. It is about how Sony decides.
Chris [00:25:16]:
Um, so that is sonybravia.com that you’ve got there.
Speaker A [00:25:20]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:25:20]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:25:20]:
So he, he goes, is this TV inspection technician or guesswork? So he is hassling the crap out of him.
Chris [00:25:26]:
Um, I, I, I’m, I’m all for that.
Sam [00:25:28]:
The first question is, how do you diagnose a television from a photograph? And at the top it says, uh, honorable court, this is a consumer’s voice, not a business. It is Sony who harassed us. Please hear us before any order is passed.
Chris [00:25:40]:
Oh, good on him. Yeah, no, good on him.
Sam [00:25:43]:
How many claims have been, um, uh, dismissed? And then he’s got like 16 questions put to Sony in writing, 0 answered in 9 weeks, 0 technical reports ever produced, and $500,000, the claim that came instead. Oh, it’s a great website. I love it. And we’re spreading the news here at the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:26:02]:
Yeah, good on you.
Sam [00:26:03]:
Talking about spreading the news, tcast.com is where you can find all our stuff. Go along and leave us an audio message. Indian Bravia TV man, that could be you. Random people stalking us, that could be you. People we don’t know that listen, you could do it anonymously too. You don’t have to tell us who you are. We will play this at our 600th episode. That’s coming up.
Sam [00:26:29]:
And—
Chris [00:26:30]:
My name isn’t Melania.
Sam [00:26:31]:
No, no, no, you can’t. You couldn’t do it the other day. You can’t do it now.
Chris [00:26:34]:
I can’t.
Sam [00:26:35]:
I can’t do it because of my foot.
Chris [00:26:37]:
I can’t.
Sam [00:26:37]:
No. And also, if you want to prove your loyalty and you are worried that people do not believe that this podcast exists, or you’re a fan, we’ve got a certificate generator that Chris is going to make. You fill it out. He fires up some weird illegal version of Paint and he makes it for you. And you will get it. Actually, you can print it out if you want and frame it. That’d be cool.
Chris [00:26:59]:
That’d be good. And you can take a photo of the framed thing and send it to us.
Sam [00:27:04]:
Tag us on social media. That brings us to the end of the podcast though.
Chris [00:27:07]:
I’ve got one last thing.
Sam [00:27:08]:
It better be good.
Chris [00:27:09]:
I’m going to cut this off. I think it’s good.
Sam [00:27:11]:
When you say that, that doesn’t normally mean that.
Chris [00:27:14]:
I just thought this was cool. I think it’s a genius protest. It’s protests in Warsaw to protest the rampant AI. And do you know how they’re doing that?
Sam [00:27:27]:
How?
Chris [00:27:28]:
They’re using robots to protest. They got all these robots going around. They’ve got 4-legged robots and bipedal robots and they’re doing the protests. And the protest was organized by Democratism, an initiative that according to its website aims to launch a debate on how AI and robotization affect the labor market.
Sam [00:27:52]:
Okay.
Chris [00:27:52]:
The quote, the robots present here are meant to show that this technology is already a reality, AggieBot A3, one of the AI-powered humanoid robots, told Associated Press.
Sam [00:28:06]:
We’re one step away from Terminator. They will just, they will load up the other robots. Get your weapons ready. Okay.
Chris [00:28:16]:
Yep. But there’s it.
Sam [00:28:18]:
That’s it.
Chris [00:28:18]:
Okay.
Sam [00:28:19]:
Very good. Until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:28:21]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:28:21]:
See ya.
Chris [00:28:22]:
Bye.
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