Summary
Chris survives next door demolition chaos and pulls an early-morning shift at a US-based mini Shark Tank, where sharp pitches and speedy feedback abound.
We hear about the perils of cheap digging tools during the latest metal detecting adventure, while Sam celebrates a smooth online business sale.
A couple of wild Kickstarter projects—Magic: The Gathering pens and the mysterious Sipper Seat—get the Kickstart or Dropkick treatment.
Busy weeks, TEDx, Mistyflicks, and speculation about becoming NZ’s longest running podcast—plus much more.
Links
Kickstart or Dropkick – Magic: The Gathering™: The Mox Ink & Writing Collection
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello and welcome to episode 601 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 random technology and life, and we hope that you love the 600th podcast episode. It’s a bit longer than normal, but we had 4 messages from our longtime diehard fans, uh, Jamie, John, Adam, and Jeremy. Thank you so much. It’s always great to hear from people. Those weird random people obviously did not Want to leave a message.
Chris [00:00:53]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it was the usual suspects, basically.
Sam [00:00:57]:
It was the usual suspects. And the person I was talking about in the 600th podcast episode that I heard was listening to the podcast, I actually bumped into them because I was working at a different office on Tuesday and they came up to me and they were talking to me all about it. And they said, obviously I’m not going to go back in the back catalog, but I jump around podcasts and I listen to you guys sometimes and I just, I find it sort of entertaining. I was like, okay, I’ll take that. Um, it’s a bit random and, uh, yeah, and we’re back into it. This is another episode, but this time we’re doing it remotely. Why are we doing it remotely?
Chris [00:01:33]:
Because, um, next door is no longer, uh, that this big digger came in and knocked that building down next door and it was loud all day, which has been a pain in the butt. Yeah. I had a meeting scheduled for 3 AM, but I went, nah, it’s just networking. I’m going to skip that. So I didn’t get up until the 4 AM mini Shark Tank this morning. So I went to mini Shark Tank, which is based in the States.
Sam [00:02:05]:
The amount of meetings and conferences and whatever you want to call them.
Chris [00:02:10]:
You have no idea what I’m looking at here. I’m just going to run through my day. So I had mini Shark Tank from 4 AM to 6 PM. Was that good though?
Sam [00:02:17]:
Was that good?
Chris [00:02:18]:
It was actually really good. It’s the first time I’ve been there. The format’s really good and the people in there were sharp, real sharp.
Sam [00:02:25]:
So people are pitching remotely?
Chris [00:02:27]:
Yeah. So people are pitching remotely. You have to apply to pitch and you’ve got to be accepted and all this stuff.
Sam [00:02:31]:
And what sort of things are they pitching?
Chris [00:02:33]:
So I knew one of the guys that was pitching. So I was like, and then he invited me to come along and I was like, oh, I’ll check it out. So it was really good. So he, he, he, there was 2 people pitching. Um, I had to leave earlier because I had a coaching call set for 5 AM.
Sam [00:02:49]:
Of course you did.
Chris [00:02:50]:
Um, but anyway, um, so Ben pitched first. He did really well. This guy I knew, he does, he’s a speaker coach as well, but more in the line of he helps people organize and manage events style thing.
Sam [00:03:07]:
Oh, okay. Okay.
Chris [00:03:07]:
Build events. So yeah. And, uh, and we’re going to do some collaboration going forward as well. Uh, so that’s cool. And then there was another chick I’ve forgotten, and her one was much more, uh, general business, like helping people with their technology, working out their stuff.
Sam [00:03:24]:
Oh, so are they pitching services basically?
Chris [00:03:27]:
Pretty much. Pitching services.
Sam [00:03:29]:
I thought it was going to be a weird product.
Chris [00:03:31]:
Nah, nah, nothing too exciting.
Sam [00:03:33]:
You know, I like a weird product.
Chris [00:03:35]:
Um, but the, the feedback they were getting was pretty sharp on their pitches and stuff. It was, it was pretty good. So I was quite cool. And I met, uh, Thelma Anderson. She’s really switched on. I was pretty impressed with her. And then, um, I jumped off for this coaching call at, uh, 5, but that, what I’d missed was he had messaged me around 4 saying, I’m not going to make it at 5. I’ve booked it for 4 tomorrow morning.
Sam [00:04:00]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:00]:
So yeah.
Sam [00:04:01]:
Good.
Chris [00:04:01]:
Uh, and then I had a 7 o’clock meeting. Uh, so that was cool. I did that. And then we had networking, uh, another networking meeting at 8 o’clock and Thelma was there and we ended up in a room together again. And that was cool. So, uh, networking meeting from 8 till 9 there. And then I jumped on to, um, a workshop with Vinh Giang. Do you know Vinh Giang? He’s the—
Sam [00:04:25]:
Oh, Vinh Giang. Hang on. Is this, is this the real Vinh Giang?
Chris [00:04:30]:
The real Vinh Giang. He’s the, um—
Sam [00:04:31]:
No, I do not know Vinh Giang.
Chris [00:04:33]:
No, he’s a Vietnamese Australian, uh, who’s like one of the biggest, um, communication coaches out there. So he doesn’t do these, um, live things very often.
Sam [00:04:45]:
Why was he there then? Is he hard up for money?
Chris [00:04:48]:
Well, he did all right. He had 180 seats sold for $899. So—
Sam [00:04:54]:
Such a weird circle jerk. But anyway.
Chris [00:04:57]:
Yeah. So he did all right. I was not the prime person to, I was not, I shouldn’t have been in his audience. I was there just to steal his stuff. No, I was—
Sam [00:05:08]:
Yeah. Yeah. You’re doing like—
Chris [00:05:10]:
I wanted to see what he, what he’s got, but he’s really good online. He’s really good on LinkedIn and YouTube and all that. It’s very funny. Okay. So that was cool. And then I got stuck into doing a bunch of email stuff sequences for these summits that I’m appearing on in the next couple of weeks. And I was like trying to do all that and I almost missed my, well, I was late to a TEDx coaching thing. So Uh, and all the time that all of that was going on, next door was being like my great, the ground shaking.
Sam [00:05:46]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:46]:
While all this diggers knocking this building down next door. And, uh, so I had mentioned to Sam earlier in the day, I said, I don’t think you want to come around here and, and record because it’s, uh, it’s too loud. It, it wouldn’t work. And it’s finally gone silent maybe in the last half an hour. So anyway,
Sam [00:06:07]:
nice. I’m looking forward to the 17 townhouses being jammed into that property next door to you.
Chris [00:06:13]:
It will be too. It will be. And, you know, we’re already, uh, pretty screwed with the infrastructure around here. So putting more, um, drain on that infrastructure, can’t wait till my, um, fiber craps out even more and the street floods even more and, uh, everybody’s toilets get blocked.
Sam [00:06:35]:
So, well, they should. I mean, they should have done some planning and stuff. So in theory, it’s all good to go. They’ve paid, uh, contribution costs for whatever they’re doing. It’ll be fine.
Chris [00:06:45]:
Yeah, you’re in the council. I don’t, I don’t know how any of that works. I, I’m just being pessimistic.
Sam [00:06:49]:
Neither do I.
Chris [00:06:50]:
So yeah, so that was my day today. Um, but yeah, um, so we’re doing the TEDx University of Waikato. I’ve got, we picked 5 speakers.
Sam [00:07:02]:
Yep.
Chris [00:07:03]:
Uh, one of them bowed out straight away. They tried to say, hey, you know, health isn’t that important. You can be fine and screw your health.
Sam [00:07:14]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:07:15]:
And he’s basically gone, no, I’m going to, I’m going to prioritize health. Uh, and I’m not going to do this. So they’re looking for a 5th person to jump in, but it’s like, what are we today? 8th of October. So we’ve only got, you know, 6 weeks basically, I think.
Sam [00:07:33]:
That’s all you need.
Chris [00:07:35]:
Yeah, it’s pretty, it’s going to be tight. It’s going to be tight to get this done.
Sam [00:07:39]:
Actually talking about that, uh, one of the, uh, uh, co-organizers of, uh, Mistyflix messaged me at one point and said, is Chris okay? He hasn’t interacted with anything and I haven’t seen him online. And I said, no, he’s just busy with TEDx. Don’t worry about it.
Chris [00:07:55]:
Yeah. Yeah, I haven’t been doing much on, I haven’t been on LinkedIn and stuff. So that’s true. And I’ve still got some other videos to, uh, do for, uh, I haven’t finished editing Alex and Adam’s video for Mistyflix either.
Sam [00:08:11]:
Well, you better get onto that.
Chris [00:08:13]:
I’ve got so much on. So it’s, you know, you just think it’s a bed of roses being unemployed, man, but there’s a lot of shit to do.
Sam [00:08:22]:
I mean, yeah, I mean, I will say, yeah, I will say you are doing a lot of stuff. I don’t know if it’s making any money, but you are doing a lot of stuff.
Chris [00:08:30]:
I’m doing a lot of stuff. It’s not, not necessarily making a lot of money at the moment, but anyway, that’s all right.
Sam [00:08:36]:
Uh, you’ll be happy. You’ll be happy to know that I went metal detecting the other day.
Chris [00:08:40]:
Oh, nice. Uh, did you make any money?
Sam [00:08:42]:
Well, old money, old money. Uh, so the funny thing was, you know how I won that, uh, I talked about it last episode and I won that adventure pack thing, whatever it was called, expedition thing. whatever it was, and it had the digging tool.
Chris [00:08:54]:
Yep.
Sam [00:08:55]:
And somebody at this event told me like, that’s really, really crap. Like, for whatever reason, and I’ll put it out there, Minelab can build really good detectors, and then they’ve decided to build this subpar digging tool. It looks like a little hand trowel thing. And this person said to me, that’s really, really crap. And when you hold it, it’s very solid. And it seems just as solid as the thing that I had before. And I was like, oh, okay, cool, I’ll try that. I think I dug 5 little holes and it’s completely bent.
Sam [00:09:29]:
What, the
Chris [00:09:31]:
new one?
Sam [00:09:32]:
Yeah, it’s so interesting. Uh, they’ve used some sort of weird mild steel, I guess. So anyway, um,
Chris [00:09:40]:
so it’s chinesium, it’s basically— oh, this is their branding play. They’ve just put the Minelab logo on some chinesium that they’ve got to—
Sam [00:09:49]:
It’s so Chinaseum. It’s—
Chris [00:09:51]:
and this is why it’s free.
Sam [00:09:53]:
Oh, it’s— but it’s so bad and so crap. I’m like, that— why? Anyway, uh, that happened. And I’d been— I went to the lake actually, uh, for this expedition. And in theory, it’s a place where there’s, uh, a ton of people have been, like, to metal detect, but you can still find stuff. So that was interesting.
Chris [00:10:15]:
So what did you find?
Sam [00:10:17]:
Oh, I found a, uh, silver shilling and 2 other, a florin and a, uh, some other old coin. So it’s pretty good.
Chris [00:10:27]:
Is the florin the one with the, um, kiwi on it or is it the one with the, um, fleur de whatever they call it?
Sam [00:10:34]:
Uh, this one had kiwi.
Chris [00:10:36]:
Oh yeah.
Sam [00:10:36]:
So the one I found, but, um, it was, it was pretty good because the ground Doesn’t have a bunch of junk in it. So the machine is like, unlike my backyard, which is full of wire for some reason and nails, but the machine’s very quiet until it hits something like, oh, and I found, um, 2 really old, uh, can tabs, pull tabs. Um, they ring up like really strong and you’re like, this is going to be something awesome. And it’s not.
Chris [00:11:05]:
So you mean the little, uh, teardrop ones that you pull out?
Sam [00:11:09]:
Yeah. But like from ancient cans. Oh, and also one of them was gold and I was doing this very early in the morning. Like I started in the dark. So later on when I got this one out, I was like, that looks like a ring. Got a bit too excited. Um, and the other thing that’s been happening this week, uh, I’ve sold the op shop directory.
Chris [00:11:31]:
Woohoo!
Sam [00:11:32]:
Now this sale has gone so smoothly. It’s gone better than maybe some Trade Me sales or Facebook Marketplace stuff I’ve done in the past for like random $10 stuff. The person that bought it is doing something in the same space. Their platform’s really cool. They’re very switched on. They came up with a, a really good agreement with all the assets that they wanted. I provided even more than what they wanted and they were really happy about that. In the whole process, I have not spoken to this person on the phone or in person or seen them.
Sam [00:12:11]:
I’ve
Chris [00:12:11]:
literally, it’s all been emails, emails, just
Sam [00:12:14]:
literally emails. And I was like, oh, this seems legit. Let’s go.
Chris [00:12:18]:
All right. Well, you’ve got the money in your bank.
Sam [00:12:19]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:12:20]:
That’s what matters.
Sam [00:12:21]:
Exactly. So anyway, it’d been an interesting experience. Um, yeah. Uh, we just did the final thing with the domain. Their domain person, they were like, she’s like, you got to fill out this form. Even though I transferred the domain, like I transferred the domain and then they’re like, oh, you got to fill out this form. So I was like, okay, that was all good. And then they came back to this person and go, oh, you need the person that sold it with this email on the form to email us just to say, yes, this is correct.
Sam [00:12:51]:
So I literally wrote, yes, I agree to this. And now then they’re like, sweet as. And I was like, oh. Okay.
Chris [00:13:00]:
That’s funny. Yeah, it’s funny because I’ve done a bit of switching over. So I had GoHighLevel, which for most people will not know what that is. It’s like a CRM thing that costs an arm and a leg, basically $97 a month. I really didn’t need to be spending that money, but I thought I needed to.
Sam [00:13:23]:
Okay. That’s your whole life story.
Chris [00:13:28]:
Yeah. Anyway, so I had to transfer domains and do all sorts of stuff. And so I was getting AI to, you know, Claude to help me with a bunch of this stuff, which is cool. So Cloudflare is brilliant. I can, I’ve put, I’ve got a simple website on Cloudflare. It doesn’t cost me anything to do that. It’s free. Cloudflare’s a free website on there, which is great.
Chris [00:13:54]:
And then I’ve got, you know, email domains going here, there, and everywhere and all this other stuff. And I got to one point and I was like, oh, I’ve got to do this. And I clicked over to the code and I went, I’ve got to do this. And it went, oh yeah, just log into those 4 things. You know, it was Moosend and these other platforms. Yeah. And it just did it all.
Sam [00:14:16]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:14:17]:
It went into Cloudflare and it And it put new records in and it went into the other one. And the only thing it couldn’t do was it would, it’s not allowed to take the API key and it says, go there, get that API key, go there and paste it in there. You’ve got to do that. And I did that and it’s all working.
Sam [00:14:37]:
I don’t like that. I just take a screenshot and then I get it to tell me what to do and then I do it.
Chris [00:14:43]:
Well, that’s what I started off doing. I didn’t know it could do all this other stuff and it just went, Oh yeah. Um, just log into those things. And I was like, yeah, okay. And then it went, okay, I’ll take it from here. And I was like, okay. Oh, I was, I thought it was cool.
Sam [00:14:57]:
Oh yeah. It’s cool. As long as it doesn’t like stuff it up or,
Chris [00:15:01]:
uh, yeah, it’s not like I’ve got an active running business that’s, um, pumping through lots of money.
Sam [00:15:07]:
Mission critical.
Chris [00:15:09]:
Mission critical. Yeah.
Sam [00:15:10]:
Okay. Fair enough.
Chris [00:15:10]:
Fair enough. You know, I, I didn’t have a lot to lose. Put it that way. But it is an interesting sign of the times of what’s to come. But I did make the mistake of calling it AI, didn’t I?
Sam [00:15:24]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:15:25]:
Are we calling it SI? Should we be calling it SI?
Sam [00:15:27]:
No, no one’s calling it that. No one cares.
Chris [00:15:30]:
Well, no, I mean, Elon Musk started calling it SI and Jensen Huang started calling it SI and—
Sam [00:15:38]:
Who cares? Doesn’t matter.
Chris [00:15:40]:
All the others, because they were in front of Trump at the time.
Sam [00:15:43]:
No, doesn’t matter. I’ve got a kickstart or dropkick for you this week.
Chris [00:15:49]:
All right, go for it.
Sam [00:15:51]:
Uh, you can have Sipper Seat or the Mox Collection.
Chris [00:15:58]:
Let’s start with the Mox Collection because Sipper Seat sounds really bad.
Sam [00:16:02]:
I’m going to send you a, I, cause we’re doing it remotely, it’s very easy for me to send you a photo of what it looks like without sharing bloody how much it costs and stuff. Okay. So this, this is Magic: The Gathering, The Mox Collection, Original Ink and Pens Kickstarter. Did you ever get into Magic: The Gathering?
Chris [00:16:22]:
No. Uh, no, not at all.
Sam [00:16:24]:
No, there was like maybe one guy at high school when I was there that did. I don’t think he played with anyone at school, but I think he had a lot of money to spend on these cards. And I’m assuming the cards that he had back then, if he still had them now, are probably worth a lot. I don’t know. So these—
Chris [00:16:42]:
Hang on, this is, but this is pen.
Sam [00:16:44]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s original ink and pens, which is sort of like based on, uh, uh, my, it’d be good if it told me from the start, but it’s telling me about VIP rewards. Hang on. Uh, yeah, so there’s 5-color signature vault or the complete 5-color vault. Uh, long treasured as some of, oh, okay. It’s based on some of the rarest and most powerful guards and magic. Uh, that’s what it is, but it is an ink set and a fountain pen.
Chris [00:17:16]:
Fountain pens. So I am a bit of a, oh dear, I almost said penophile, but I don’t want to do that. Um, I like pens. Yeah. Um, so I’ve got a bunch of pens. I, and I used to have a really nice fountain pen and stuff like that. So
Sam [00:17:34]:
that, um, it does not surprise me. Um, add that to the list of stuff I could have guessed about you. Uh, so yes, uh, you can get a whole bunch of these pins. Um, they look nice-ish, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. If you’re into Magic: The Gathering, that’s probably a good thing. They want to raise, uh, I’m on the desktop, so everything looks different.
Sam [00:17:58]:
They want to raise $12,000, $12,500 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:18:03]:
That’s what they want. Okay, that’s a little more than I would have expected. I
Sam [00:18:06]:
don’t know. Like, I think, like, sometimes these guys have got realistic prices, I think. So I think to get something manufactured at a quantity that makes sense. Anyway, you can get one of the ink with no pen, one ink, no pen, $69 New Zealand.
Chris [00:18:25]:
Is it, am I right with the way I’m looking at this? It’s like a glittery ink.
Sam [00:18:30]:
Um, maybe. Yeah, it does look a bit shimmery.
Chris [00:18:34]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:18:35]:
Uh, one pen and one little 10 ml of ink, $87 New Zealand.
Chris [00:18:43]:
Jesus.
Sam [00:18:45]:
If you want, there we go. This is it. Get, get ready. All 5 limited edition pens, all 5 ink sets. And a full set of mana dividers. That’s probably important. $1,376.
Chris [00:19:03]:
There are people that’ll pay it. Uh, there are people that are into Magic: The Gathering that might be able to pay
Sam [00:19:09]:
it.
Chris [00:19:09]:
And there are pen people that will absolutely like it. So, yeah.
Sam [00:19:15]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:19:16]:
Okay.
Sam [00:19:16]:
So that image you’re looking at, that’s the full-size bottle of ink. And if you want one pen and one of those bottles, they match a green bottle, green pen, $312 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:19:28]:
That’s not ridiculous.
Sam [00:19:30]:
Hang on, you freaked out at $69 before.
Chris [00:19:33]:
For 10 mL of ink.
Sam [00:19:35]:
Oh yeah, true, true. Okay. Anyway, uh, 19 days to go, $12,500 they want to raise. How much do you think they’ve raised?
Chris [00:19:46]:
Oh, so the, They’re 2/3 of the way through. I reckon, yeah, a couple of hundred thousand. Let’s go.
Sam [00:19:53]:
You’re almost bang on. $272,000. Very good.
Chris [00:20:00]:
That’s pretty good though.
Sam [00:20:01]:
Yeah. And now I’m going to send you the sipper seat and just give me your first impression on this. Because
Chris [00:20:09]:
I, this already sounds terrible. It just sounds terrible.
Sam [00:20:13]:
Are you not a fan?
Chris [00:20:15]:
The name just sounds terrible. I’ve just got so many things in my head that I don’t want to know about. Okay, that’s way better than what I thought it was.
Sam [00:20:24]:
Okay, so it’s an inflatable seat. Lounge comfort anywhere. It’s compact, lightweight, engineered to last, sets up in 30 seconds, and gives you back support, real back support on any ground.
Chris [00:20:37]:
So it’s one of those self-inflating things that I’m picking?
Sam [00:20:42]:
Um, it can hold, oh yeah, it’s pretty, 30 seconds. It’s a pressure, it’s got pressurized airframe. Hang on, is that person floating in a river? Uh, yeah, someone’s on a paddleboard sitting on top of it. You can get it with an electric pump. So it’s not built in. You’ve got this, uh, wireless, sorry, rechargeable, uh, air pump that goes with it. For, uh, where’d it go? They want to raise—
Chris [00:21:09]:
does the air pump always come with it or is that an optional extra?
Sam [00:21:13]:
It looks like it might be an add-on, like optional extra. Yes. So if you’ve got your own pump, you can, you know, use that. Uh, $9,000 is what they want to raise. 40 days to go. So it’s pretty fresh.
Chris [00:21:28]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:21:29]:
Uh, if you want, okay. DuroPack. Okay. You get 2. Okay. If you want 2, oh, that’s weird. No, I’m not going to tell you that. If you want just the seat by itself, it’s $195.
Chris [00:21:42]:
That’s a bit steep for an inflatable chair.
Sam [00:21:46]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:47]:
And, and let’s, let’s face it, right? Inflatable anything never lasts that long.
Sam [00:21:52]:
Oh no, I don’t believe— oh, you, I mean, it, in the photo that with it upright, it sort of looks like the material that might be used in those inflatable dinghies. Maybe. Plus shipping, of course. So anyway, there’s multi-packs. You can buy 3, 2, 4. Uh, you get 2 with the pump. It’s all sorts of pricing, but just one of them is $195. How much do you think they’ve made?
Chris [00:22:19]:
So it’s not long been out. Um, $40 grand.
Sam [00:22:24]:
Not quite. $133,000.
Chris [00:22:28]:
Jesus.
Sam [00:22:29]:
Uh, so it’d be interesting to see how that one goes.
Chris [00:22:32]:
Um, yeah, I’m not, I’m not so, I, uh, well, the static image is never that good. I need to look at the video, but, um, yeah, it doesn’t look that flash, honestly. I don’t think I’d spend that much on it.
Sam [00:22:45]:
There’s one where someone’s asking, does, how does the cup and phone holder attach to the sipper seat? You have self-adhesive adapters and you stick it to the seat.
Chris [00:22:54]:
It’s not even Velcro. Jeez. That’s sad.
Sam [00:22:58]:
Oh, won’t the dark gray option be available at launch like in your promotional photos? The dark gray color will not be available. It was not the most popular in surveys and also tended to heat up quicker in sunlight, which some of the test users did not like. They went with a blue shadow color, which chosen as the fan favorite. Okay.
Chris [00:23:22]:
All right. Yep. No, I don’t know.
Sam [00:23:25]:
Oh, they’ve got a, they’ve got a car running it over and a front end loader.
Chris [00:23:30]:
Okay. That’s interesting.
Sam [00:23:31]:
But I think it’s underinflated. So then the thing can go over it.
Chris [00:23:37]:
Yeah, but it’s still pretty impressive because it’s the stitching and stuff with the weld, plastic welding.
Sam [00:23:43]:
Oh, I mean, it runs it over and then the little video stops instantly. So it could like be deflating.
Chris [00:23:52]:
Yeah. Oh gosh. Yeah, no, I’ve told you before about, I’ve mentioned it before. There’s a TV series called Pitchmen and I absolutely loved it. It was one of those reality TV shows.
Sam [00:24:05]:
Okay.
Chris [00:24:06]:
And only did one season, I think, before one of the hosts, Billy Mays, died. But it’s great because what they do is they find, the whole show is about finding inventors and they find 4 or 5 inventors and they go through this thing and they test their product or whatever it is. And the ones that they like, they take them on and do the QVC thing with them.
Sam [00:24:31]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:24:33]:
And one of them was the DualBlade. And so there’s this French guy, really good-looking French dude who was a fireman who said, oh, we had to cut people out of cars. And when you start one of these, uh, blades, handheld blade things, it would jerk. Oh,
Sam [00:24:51]:
okay.
Chris [00:24:52]:
So he engineered one. So one blade went forward and one went backward. And when you cut it with that, there’s no jerk because they cut it. Um, yeah, I know.
Sam [00:25:02]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:25:03]:
Yeah. And, um, and so the way they set up the— so they go all the way through and do the QVC ad, and then the whole reveal is how much have you sold at the end of the weekend or the test week or whatever it was. And, um, you know, this guy, you know, he’s put everything into this thing, and the test was he had to cut a car in half.
Sam [00:25:25]:
Oh, wow. Like,
Chris [00:25:26]:
as, as the ad, that was the, the QVC ad. It was fantastic. And, uh, yeah, he made a Million bucks. So yeah, good.
Sam [00:25:36]:
Very good. Uh, I know who hasn’t—
Chris [00:25:40]:
better than today’s mini Shark Tank, but only just.
Sam [00:25:44]:
I know who hasn’t made a million dollars today, and that was us.
Chris [00:25:47]:
Yes.
Sam [00:25:48]:
Um, the podcast, it’s, it’s not a moneymaker. Let’s be real. But we do appreciate everyone that’s listening and we’ve been hassled about podcast being late? Honestly, just been super busy. Like,
Chris [00:26:05]:
yeah,
Sam [00:26:06]:
I, yeah,
Chris [00:26:07]:
super busy, super stressed.
Sam [00:26:09]:
Yeah. It’s, it’s actually crazy. It’s, I don’t know. It’s, it’s crazy at the moment. Uh, so,
Chris [00:26:14]:
um, it is this time of year, but it’s like, so you had, we, we both do the Mistyflix, which is in the beginning of November. And then I’ve got TEDx, which is Actually, last year it was in the same week as Misty Flicks. So I was stressing out. This year it’s later, but we only just got the license. So it’s not late enough.
Sam [00:26:36]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:37]:
Yeah. And, um, yeah, so yeah, there’s always a bit of stress here. Um, fortunately I don’t have a job, so I don’t have to stress as much as you because you’ve got to do that thing as well.
Sam [00:26:48]:
Yeah. Yeah. I, yeah, I don’t know. I don’t know how you would do everything if you had a full-time job at the moment. If you were mobile, like, oh, did you go? Oh, okay.
Chris [00:26:59]:
Anyway, my, my hospital appointment’s not until next week.
Sam [00:27:02]:
Oh, okay, good. That brings us to the end of the podcast, 601, heading on towards, we don’t know. Like, I, I don’t know when this is going to stop. No one, but nobody does. At some point, if we keep going, like, we will be the longest running New Zealand podcast ever.
Chris [00:27:20]:
That’s true.
Sam [00:27:21]:
Because these other podcasts are going to stop.
Chris [00:27:23]:
This is true.
Sam [00:27:24]:
We might, we might get a record for this. This is it. This is what we’re going for.
Chris [00:27:29]:
We’ll keep going long enough to get a record. You know what that means? We’re going to have to sabotage other podcasts because we can’t wait that long.
Sam [00:27:40]:
I don’t know what that looks like, but it could be interesting. Uh, until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:27:45]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:27:45]:
See ya.
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