Summary
This week, find out what happens when a Spanish bar forgets the mayo and things get fiery. There’s a billion-dollar sick day on the cards thanks to GTA 6, plus tales of brain-melting fungi and a 16-year-old tackling fire with sound.
Kickstarter oddities return, from suspiciously fresh wipes to an all-in-one mega-monitor, and much more.
Links
Dodgy Meta and Elections
Brain eating fungi infecting humans
Fire suppression tool
Buddy – Movie
Widows Bay – TV Series
Kickstart or Dropkick – FRSHie
Kickstart or Dropkick – Prisma
Man angry after missing mayo
Expensive sick day
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 604 of the Chris and Sam Podcast. I’m Chris. And I’m Sam. This is your weekly fix of random technology and life, and it’s the podcast that I spend most of my life I don’t listen to it again after we record it. You do a lot. I don’t know why you’re here.
Chris [00:00:41]:
I can never remember what I said. I’m like, people say, what was the episode about? I’m like, I don’t know. I have to have a listen. I can’t remember. Some crap fell out of my mouth. I don’t know what it was.
Sam [00:00:52]:
He’s on autopilot. tcasp.com for all the show notes and past Or you can find us on all the good podcasting apps.
Chris [00:01:01]:
Yes. Yes. I was at an event today and, uh, the guy from Duncast was pitching his, his wares. And it does a lot of, um, automatic, um, editing of the podcast.
Sam [00:01:14]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:01:15]:
So it uses AI. So if you say something wrong, you, you just use the— if I went, it’s the Sam and Chris podcast, and I say mulligan, it’s the Chris and Sam podcast. Gets rid of that first bit. Gets rid of the first bit.
Sam [00:01:26]:
Okay.
Chris [00:01:27]:
Um, so you just have these code words that you throw in. Like if you say gold, it’ll clip that previous bit and it’ll use that as a promo thing.
Sam [00:01:36]:
Interesting. I wonder how good it is. Cause sometimes I think some of those things just aren’t quite there yet.
Chris [00:01:41]:
I was like, why do you need a Duncast? I have a Sam. You should get a Sam. Sam’s just good.
Sam [00:01:47]:
I,
Chris [00:01:48]:
the amount of editing I’ve done in the last 14 years is What is editing?
Sam [00:01:56]:
I will say, yeah, I will say though, like in a perfect world, I would, I’ve done it a little bit, like a couple of times I’ll pull clips out and make something with it, but it’s so time consuming and I’m just, I’m barely, I just do the normal edit. And I think if I had nothing else on at all, and this was the only outsider work hobby I had, I could probably commit more time to it.
Chris [00:02:20]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:02:21]:
But I can’t.
Chris [00:02:21]:
But speaking of outside of work hobbies.
Sam [00:02:24]:
Yes.
Chris [00:02:25]:
34 films.
Sam [00:02:28]:
So Tuesday, one of us took time off work because they had to, and the other one just turned up.
Chris [00:02:33]:
Because he had to.
Sam [00:02:34]:
No. Well, he’s unemployed, but he’s got all the time in the world. No. Uh, but we went to, uh, the Regent in Te Awamutu where we’re playing Misty Flicks. We keep talking about it. It’s happening on the 6th, 7th, and 8th. If you want to watch some films, go buy some tickets, mistyflix.co.nz. But we did a technical run-through, I guess is what it’s called, or something like that.
Chris [00:02:53]:
Make sure all the sounds were leveled and stuff like that. But it wasn’t my diary.
Sam [00:02:56]:
2 features and then 32 shorts.
Chris [00:02:59]:
It wasn’t my diary for 9 till 12. And in my head, I’m like, I’m sure it’s going to take longer than that. But I, cause I didn’t know we’re going to go through the whole lot. I figured it was going to go through the bits we hadn’t seen yet. So yeah, anyway, so I was like, I think it’s going to be late, but I had 2 coaching things in the afternoon. I’m like, yeah, we’ll get back in time for that. Did we get back in time for that? No, we did not freaking get back in time for that. We were there from 9 till 6 effectively.
Sam [00:03:25]:
Uh, yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:26]:
Yeah. Pretty much. It was 6 o’clock when we left, I think. So, um, anyway, it was good though. Uh, I am glad I’ve seen all these films. I, uh, I think they’re great. I think it’s a great festival. Uh, it’s, it’s good for us because often when you’re there, you are so busy with running the festival, you either don’t watch the film or you’re sitting in front of the film, it’s playing, and you’re thinking about something else that you’ve got to get done.
Sam [00:03:48]:
Yeah, definitely.
Chris [00:03:49]:
You know, like you’re not paying attention. So it’s good to have been sat down and actually see all the films. So
Sam [00:03:54]:
yes. And we know that, I think the only problems we had was a couple of, um, extra, like high levels of sound, which is fine.
Chris [00:04:02]:
Yeah. They can, they, we’ve got the notes, they can fix that now. So sweet.
Sam [00:04:06]:
Which is good because this year we’re actually repackaging them and Misty Flick’s films are being shown at other theaters around the country.
Chris [00:04:15]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:15]:
So that’s happening in December. Uh, so I’ve got to—
Chris [00:04:18]:
Do you know what cities? Because I did get asked that because I mentioned it and I was like, I don’t know.
Sam [00:04:22]:
Nah, somewhere. Wouldn’t have a clue. There’s 3, I think, that are locked in.
Chris [00:04:27]:
Yeah, I, I’m pretty sure she told me at one point, but I—
Sam [00:04:29]:
Oh yeah, it’s fine. It’s fine. Uh, so yes, that took up all of Tuesday and then decided to go to work yesterday. That was fun.
Chris [00:04:39]:
Oh, that’s right. Yeah. Cause it was a long weekend. Us unemployed people don’t know about these things.
Sam [00:04:43]:
Um, you didn’t, even if you’re unemployed, I don’t think you would know. But yes. Uh, yeah, long weekend, which was great.
Chris [00:04:50]:
Uh, and then Tuesday sitting in a movie theater all day.
Sam [00:04:55]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:55]:
Yeah. Yeah. Getting a lot of work done.
Sam [00:04:57]:
Body was feeling that, hey, just sitting. I was like, oh yeah, I was like, I got to stand up.
Chris [00:05:02]:
Uh, I’m the opposite actually.
Sam [00:05:04]:
Talking about like work and having time off, they’re thinking that there could be a, uh, $1 billion sick day coming up. That’s the cost of the sick day with 1.5 million estimated to skip work.
Chris [00:05:22]:
Grand Theft Auto 6 release?
Sam [00:05:25]:
Yes.
Chris [00:05:26]:
Yeah, I’ve seen some. memes on thing. Oh yeah, it was the Viva—
Sam [00:05:34]:
Legit League?
Chris [00:05:35]:
Yeah, those guys. I always forget what they’re called. Yeah. And they did a skit on it. Why are you getting that day off? My grandmother died. She died last year. I know, it’s a recurring issue. And everybody wants the same day off.
Chris [00:05:50]:
And it’s like, oh yeah, GTA.
Sam [00:05:53]:
A lot of people are going to have GTA flu is what they’re calling it. I was talking to the guy at work that games quite a bit and he was not interested in GTA 6 at all. And I haven’t seen this thing, but they released like a 26-minute playthrough or something on Netflix.
Chris [00:06:08]:
All right.
Sam [00:06:08]:
So it was like a marketing thing and he watched it and he was like, that’s it. Gotta take that day off.
Chris [00:06:14]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:06:14]:
Yeah. Like straight away. He’s like, yep.
Chris [00:06:16]:
See, I still haven’t got around to GTA 5 and I know that was a big deal.
Sam [00:06:20]:
Wow.
Chris [00:06:21]:
It’s so expensive. I’m one of those gamers that are like, I’m clever. I’ll wait 5 years and then get it at bargain basement prices.
Sam [00:06:29]:
I think that’s a smart move. I just, there’s so many, like there’s so many games out there. Your Steam library must be chaos.
Chris [00:06:36]:
I’ve got a huge Steam library.
Sam [00:06:38]:
Yeah. Yeah. Uh, there’s always, yeah. Okay. It’ll be interesting to see how that goes. I’m sure all the internet will handle
Chris [00:06:45]:
all
Sam [00:06:46]:
those people.
Chris [00:06:47]:
Um, actually I want to do a congratulations.
Sam [00:06:49]:
Okay.
Chris [00:06:50]:
Lula. Congratulations, Lula da Silva. So he won the presidential election. Presidential? Prime minister? Is he prime minister or president? I forget. Whatever it is in Brazil. Oh,
Sam [00:07:03]:
okay. Okay.
Chris [00:07:04]:
So, but what is interesting about this story is they are having a bit of a bitch and moan about Meta. Should I tell you what happened with Meta?
Sam [00:07:15]:
Okay. What’s dirty old Meta up to? Mark Zuckerberg’s love child.
Chris [00:07:19]:
Dodgy, dodgy Meta. Dodgy, dodgy Meta. data. So this is one of the things that people were concerned about. And now Lula’s won, they might actually, what do you call it, investigate it a bit more.
Sam [00:07:31]:
Okay.
Chris [00:07:32]:
So if you ask Meta’s AI, and if you’re in Brazil, if you ask Meta’s AI to create a poster, like an image for the social media of Lula da Silva, it would tell you, I’m sorry, we can’t do political Stuff like that.
Sam [00:07:49]:
Okay. Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:07:50]:
But if you said, can you do a poster of Bolsonaro, the guy who he’s against, he’ll go, sure.
Sam [00:07:57]:
Oh,
Chris [00:07:58]:
and it would do that. So that’s a little bit dodgy, right?
Sam [00:08:01]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:01]:
But it gets worse because it’s meta.
Sam [00:08:03]:
So there you go. It always gets worse.
Chris [00:08:06]:
So if you said, oh, uh, I want to make a joke poster, vote for my dog, it would do your dog. And then it put the number because they all vote by number. It put Bolsonaro’s number on the top so that people go and vote 22, which is Bolsonaro.
Sam [00:08:25]:
I
Chris [00:08:26]:
mean, not dodgy at all, Meta. Not dodgy at all.
Sam [00:08:30]:
I wonder if you’ve got to pay a lot to get that happening. I voted this week already.
Chris [00:08:35]:
All right.
Sam [00:08:35]:
I just went to Centreplace. They’re just sitting there.
Chris [00:08:37]:
Crap.
Sam [00:08:38]:
You can vote from now till thing because Saturday. On election day, we’re busy with the film festival.
Chris [00:08:44]:
We’ve got the film festival.
Sam [00:08:45]:
So you need to find your way to wherever’s closest. I don’t know. Oh, they might be doing it at the uni.
Chris [00:08:49]:
There might be a place at the uni. I need to, I need to find out. You investigate that. And do that this week. Yeah, absolutely. Because I’m not going to do it on Saturday.
Sam [00:08:55]:
No, no, super easy. Uh, get there, get out there and do it.
Chris [00:08:59]:
Yep.
Sam [00:08:59]:
You can’t complain if you don’t vote.
Chris [00:09:01]:
Yeah. And, um, the good news is that it looks like the dumbest candidates around the world aren’t winning everything.
Sam [00:09:11]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:09:11]:
Like, Bolsonaro is pretty dumb.
Sam [00:09:14]:
Yeah,
Chris [00:09:14]:
like there are some dumb things. Trump is pretty dumb. And I have to say it, and I know this is not a political podcast, but Luxon is pretty freaking dumb.
Sam [00:09:25]:
I liked when he got owned by the, uh, was it Otago or Dunedin students were interviewing him?
Chris [00:09:30]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:09:30]:
And they’d actually done their research.
Chris [00:09:32]:
Yeah. What? What’s research? What?
Sam [00:09:37]:
Yeah. I like, yeah, we’re not going to get into it, but I think he’s just a, he’s not a politician. He’s a wannabe CEO. He’s just a, yeah. And that’s my opinion. And I think—
Chris [00:09:47]:
He’s a CEO that’s failed upwards. And you and I have both been in organizations where we’ve been around people that have failed upwards.
Sam [00:09:55]:
And
Chris [00:09:55]:
you just look at them sometimes, you go, do you know even what we do here? Like they have no freaking clue. Politically in the organization, they seem to have their thumb on the pulse, but practically you’re like, what planet are you on?
Sam [00:10:12]:
Yeah, it’s, it’s amazing. It’s amazing what people can achieve when they stumble around. Um, I, yeah, I saw a movie. I told you briefly about it, I think on the weekend, maybe Buddy. Check that out. It’s sort of like, uh, it’s a replica of Barney the Dinosaur.
Chris [00:10:30]:
Oh, that’s right. Yep. You did.
Sam [00:10:31]:
And you watch, uh, you watch a couple of the episodes at the start. And they sort of start going off the rails and then he starts getting upset with the children and, uh, that’s great. And then there’s real world as well. And I thought, well, that was pretty well done.
Chris [00:10:46]:
So it was a miniseries?
Sam [00:10:48]:
No, no, it’s a movie.
Chris [00:10:49]:
It’s a movie. Oh, okay.
Sam [00:10:50]:
But when you start watching it, you’re watching the kids’ TV show.
Chris [00:10:53]:
Oh, I see.
Sam [00:10:54]:
And you’re like, what’s going on? And then it just sort of ends like it’s a normal episode and then the next one starts. And then it sort of devolves from there. And then you go into the real world a little bit, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I just picked it at random. Didn’t even know what it was. I was like, yep, that orange looking unicorn Barney looking thing. That’ll do.
Chris [00:11:13]:
It reminds me of that. What was the TV series we watched with the, um, with the unicorn that floats around the guy’s head?
Sam [00:11:23]:
Uh, I know, I know exactly what you’re talking about, but I can’t remember what it’s called.
Chris [00:11:26]:
That was so good.
Sam [00:11:28]:
With the creepy Santa.
Chris [00:11:29]:
Creepy Santa. Okay, so on the cool things, scientists have discovered a brain-eating fungi infecting humans. Well, actually, that was the headline. It’s not they’ve discovered it, it’s been around for ages. They’ve known about it for ages, but incidence of it has quadrupled.
Sam [00:11:48]:
Oh, good.
Chris [00:11:49]:
So if you breathe in these spores—
Sam [00:11:51]:
I like to lick them.
Chris [00:11:53]:
They get into your bloodstream, they go straight to the brain. I
Sam [00:11:57]:
mean, of course.
Chris [00:11:58]:
And they basically
Sam [00:11:58]:
start melting
Chris [00:12:01]:
your brain. The problem is it’s 76% fatal, which is mostly because nobody’s testing for it and stuff. Because in the past, the fungal stuff would not live in anything as hot as the human body, 97 degrees or whatever it is. I’m not sure. Adam’s screaming at me the actual Celsius measurement of the body. I just can’t remember.
Sam [00:12:28]:
You can just carry on.
Chris [00:12:28]:
96.8 degrees, whatever it is. That would kill it off. But because Because of global warming, it’s adapted to a higher heat. And so it’s infecting more. This is the plotline of The Last of Us. It is literally the plotline of The Last of Us. Except this one just melts your brain and kills you instead of turning you into a zombie, which, that’ll be the cool fungus, but that’ll be coming too because that literally is the opening plotline.
Sam [00:12:56]:
Yeah, I know. I wonder what else is going to happen happen due to global warming that we just don’t know. There might be a super COVID breeding or something. I don’t know.
Chris [00:13:06]:
Yeah. So this talk, one of the talks that I’ve just been coaching at TEDx University of Waikato, he talks, and I’ve just told this to Sam, I think it’s fascinating. Sam doesn’t think it’s fascinating, but I’m going to bore you with it too now.
Sam [00:13:18]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:13:19]:
Some of these microbes that they’re studying there, their life cycles are in centuries to millennia. They are geological timescales because between birth and death is hundreds to thousands of years because it’s so cold, everything’s so slow there. But now it’s speeding up and it’s getting hotter. And so it’ll be interesting to see what happens. So anyway.
Sam [00:13:45]:
That’s right. We’ll keep you up to date with all of that at the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:13:49]:
In 1,000 years, I’ll be giving you an update. Episode 4,500 or whatever it’d be.
Sam [00:13:56]:
The AI bots will just be making it up. They’ve got, hey, they’ve got a back catalog. They can just
Chris [00:14:00]:
copy us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’ll be, I’ll be 11 labbed out by, to the max by then.
Sam [00:14:05]:
That’s right. Uh, you don’t want to get upset though, uh, in that time period because a sandwich came with no mayo. The Spanish bar customer is now in prison.
Chris [00:14:17]:
Oh, what did he do?
Sam [00:14:18]:
Uh, they didn’t, he set it on fire.
Chris [00:14:21]:
What, set the bar
Sam [00:14:22]:
on
Chris [00:14:22]:
fire? Bar on fire.
Sam [00:14:24]:
Because they didn’t bring his, they didn’t put his mayo in his little sandwich.
Chris [00:14:27]:
Uh,
Sam [00:14:28]:
it happened in August last year and it’s only just gone to trial now. Um, and he’s got, uh, 3 years and 6 months in prison.
Chris [00:14:36]:
At least. Geez. Um, so my question is, did he like on the spot start setting fires or did he come back at night when nobody was there and try and set a fire? I’m curious. Uh,
Sam [00:14:47]:
I don’t know. People reported that he used petrol from a plastic bottle to douse the bar counter before setting it alight. Despite knowing the premises were full of customers.
Chris [00:14:57]:
Oh, so it was open. Oh, okay, cool.
Sam [00:15:00]:
So he just had this little bottle of petrol with him, I guess, just in case.
Chris [00:15:04]:
Because you gotta be prepared. He must have gone back out to the car, but why would you have petrol in the car?
Sam [00:15:09]:
Well, you gotta be prepared.
Chris [00:15:10]:
Well, he is probably an asshole.
Sam [00:15:11]:
It doesn’t matter what the slight is. You’re just like, if it happens, I’m going to burn it to the ground.
Chris [00:15:16]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:15:17]:
No, he’s probably like a, um, I don’t know. Is he a bit of a pyromaniac?
Chris [00:15:22]:
Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking. He’s a pyro and he always has petrol on him.
Sam [00:15:27]:
That’s what you need.
Chris [00:15:30]:
Actually, I’ve got a fire one. This is what he should have got. And I’ve got a video of this. We’ll put a video in the show notes, but it’s this 16-year-old girl. And I want to say it was Mexican or maybe somewhere in South America, maybe Argentina. I can’t remember. But 16-year-old won the science prize. You know, when they do the science school science thing?
Sam [00:15:52]:
Mexico.
Chris [00:15:53]:
Mexico, yeah. And it’s the world science thing. And she’s got this speaker with a backpack, like batteries wired to her backpack, and she points it at fire and it douses the fire with this low-frequency thing. And in the video, it’s just like clips of her doing this over and over and over again with lots of different fires in different situations, and it seems to work really well.
Sam [00:16:22]:
Did we talk about something like this a while ago?
Chris [00:16:25]:
I think we’ve talked about something like this.
Sam [00:16:27]:
I can’t remember what it was, and that was not as impressive as this demonstration. Like, this is working.
Chris [00:16:32]:
This looks really good. I was so impressed with this video. So check it out. But I mean, I don’t know. I still don’t know the practicality of it, to be fair.
Sam [00:16:41]:
Uh, no. I’ve got a feeling, were we talking about sound waves in a room or something? Like in a smoke detector alarm or something?
Chris [00:16:52]:
We did the wasabi one.
Sam [00:16:54]:
Yeah, I remember that. There was another one because I remember making the image of these guys putting out a forest fire with a backpack with this thing on it. But the demo of that, it took the guy forever. And that’s what we were joking about, but this is different.
Chris [00:17:08]:
This, this looks really different from, from that. But yeah, anyway, I thought I’d share it.
Sam [00:17:13]:
So yeah, it could be.
Chris [00:17:14]:
But a 16-year-old just went, nah, I’m going to make this.
Sam [00:17:17]:
Ah, probably super, super clever.
Chris [00:17:19]:
Yeah. Good on her.
Sam [00:17:21]:
Um, talking about clever, I’ve got kickstart or drop kicks for you.
Chris [00:17:25]:
Uh oh.
Sam [00:17:27]:
You can have Freshie without an E at the start. So F-R-S-H-I-E or Prisma.
Chris [00:17:35]:
Let’s go with Freshie.
Sam [00:17:37]:
Okay.
Chris [00:17:38]:
Can you, can you hear that I’m not impressed already?
Sam [00:17:43]:
It’s the first pocket-sized freshness kit. From coffee spills to campfires and everything in between, spills wiped clean, hands washed fresh, wherever the mess finds you. That’s what Freshie is. Freshie looks like a weird little, it’s like, it’s a little plastic case.
Chris [00:18:02]:
Oh yeah.
Sam [00:18:03]:
And inside it, it can hold 8 of those round compressed towels that look like Oddfellow mints.
Chris [00:18:08]:
Yeah, I have.
Sam [00:18:09]:
If you’ve ever seen them. And then it’s got a roll of soap. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the sheets of soap you can get.
Chris [00:18:16]:
Ah.
Sam [00:18:17]:
Anyway, it’s got that in it. And with its powers combined, uh, you can have that in your pocket. And if you need to clean up something, you’re ready to go. You add a bit of water to expand the towel thing. That’s cool. I think I’ve got some of them in my car right now, actually, randomly. Uh, and then you can use this thing. So that’s the gist of it.
Sam [00:18:37]:
You, he does not look impressed.
Chris [00:18:39]:
I mean, I’m sure there is some, um, what do they call them? The phobic people that just don’t like—
Sam [00:18:45]:
Germaphobic.
Chris [00:18:46]:
Germaphobic.
Sam [00:18:46]:
They’ll be all over
Chris [00:18:48]:
it. They love that.
Sam [00:18:49]:
I will say though, like the, the, the, the, uh, campaign on this, the video somewhere here on the desktop, it doesn’t seem to want to show me on my phone. It’s sort of got these influencers and they’re like, we’re the clean couple. And then he puts a jacket on and then at one point he’s like scrubbing a banana. Like, it’s really weird to watch. Anyway, they’re behind this, I believe. They need $3,000. Uh, no, I lie.
Chris [00:19:14]:
Oh, so they’re a YouTube couple that are behind this. Okay.
Sam [00:19:16]:
I don’t know.
Chris [00:19:17]:
I’ve already jumped up my estimates. Like, carry on.
Sam [00:19:20]:
I’m assuming. I didn’t listen to it. I’ve got no time to listen to stuff. Uh, they need $5,000 New Zealand dollars to make this project a reality.
Chris [00:19:28]:
Right.
Sam [00:19:29]:
And then to buy one. $63 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:19:35]:
Yep.
Sam [00:19:35]:
You get one free soap roll thing.
Chris [00:19:38]:
You don’t get one free. You get one for $66 New Zealand dollars.
Sam [00:19:41]:
No, you get a free refill of the soap and the soap. Yeah. That’s where they get you.
Chris [00:19:46]:
It includes a refill.
Sam [00:19:48]:
Well, cause no, like if you run out of the soap thing and you can’t get it anymore, then it’s a waste of time. Anyway, $63 and they come in sort of different colors.
Chris [00:19:58]:
Okay.
Sam [00:19:59]:
There’s a minty green one and there’s multi-packs. If you want 2 of them, it’s $134 New Zealand dollars. Anyway, they, they need to raise $5,000. There are 21 days to go, by the way.
Chris [00:20:10]:
21 days. So they’re over halfway.
Sam [00:20:12]:
You’re going to run your math now. $5,000 is what they want.
Chris [00:20:15]:
How much will they raise? They’re well over the $5,000. There’s so many sick, dirty people out there that I would say they’re
Sam [00:20:22]:
at
Chris [00:20:23]:
$320,000.
Sam [00:20:25]:
No, only 103.
Chris [00:20:26]:
Oh, thank God for that. The world is sane.
Sam [00:20:31]:
You might, you might like this next one, Prisma. So Prisma, it’s a 40-inch curved 5K monitor with a docking station built into it, an SSD bay, a USB hub, and a charging pad all built in.
Chris [00:20:47]:
Cool.
Sam [00:20:48]:
So all you need is your computer or laptop. You just plug it straight in and then this thing handles everything else.
Chris [00:20:53]:
Right.
Sam [00:20:54]:
That’s the gist of it.
Chris [00:20:54]:
Give me it. Take my money.
Sam [00:20:57]:
They want to raise $26,000, 17 days to go. Now here’s where you might be like, oh, I don’t know. If you want to buy one super early bird, uh, $1,700 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:21:11]:
Um, it does look good.
Sam [00:21:14]:
And it’s a, it’s a decent sized screen.
Chris [00:21:16]:
It is.
Sam [00:21:17]:
I just worried like. I don’t know if it’s good build quality or not. Like it’s a big risk.
Chris [00:21:24]:
Yeah, that’s, that’s fair. It is a big risk, but it’s an expensive piece of kit anyway. It all depends on how well, you know, these guys, like if they’ve done something before and, you know, if they’ve got a track record, then there’s a huge difference.
Sam [00:21:39]:
Well, I’ll let you know, Mobile Pixels, uh, founded in 2018 as a student startup. between Northeastern Uni and MIT. Uh, they’ve created 14 different things. Just loading it to see if it’s something we know about. They’ve done a shuffle wallet, 2 monitors attached to your laptop, uh, another dual screen thing, portable entertainment system, some sort of split keyboard, another type of wallet, um, oh, stacked screens. for your laptop. So they’re on top of each other. More screens.
Sam [00:22:16]:
Uh, looks like they’ve funded almost everything they’ve ever done. So that’s good. Lots of dual screen laptop situations, all different varieties.
Chris [00:22:25]:
I told you I ordered one of those once. Did I tell you?
Sam [00:22:28]:
Did it never turn up?
Chris [00:22:29]:
It never turned up. I did get my money back though.
Sam [00:22:31]:
Oh, okay. Okay. $26,000 is what they want to make. That’s $1,700 for early bird.
Chris [00:22:40]:
Uh, and they’ve got—
Sam [00:22:41]:
And they seem to know what they’re doing.
Chris [00:22:42]:
They’ve got their back.
Sam [00:22:43]:
Yeah, they’ve got, they’ve got manufacturers that can build this for them.
Chris [00:22:47]:
Damn, they’d be around a million, wouldn’t they?
Sam [00:22:50]:
$902,000.
Chris [00:22:52]:
Yeah,
Sam [00:22:53]:
you’re very close. Yeah, well done.
Chris [00:22:55]:
Um, actually on that,
Sam [00:22:57]:
yeah,
Chris [00:22:57]:
so I had this question about, about this from Adam, uh, this week when I caught up with him. He says tweezers. Yeah. A million dollars. What? I can’t remember what it was.
Sam [00:23:07]:
Oh yeah, whatever it was. Whatever it was. You were really excited about them. Yeah. Those locking—
Chris [00:23:11]:
He goes, is this just a money laundering scam? And I was like, I don’t, I don’t possibly, but, um, no, ’cause I said to him like, they’re not tweezers. Like, I don’t know why, where they got the name tweezers because that is not what I would’ve called these things.
Sam [00:23:27]:
It’s like, um, locking pliers.
Chris [00:23:29]:
Like delicate. Yeah. They were much more like Yeah, yeah. It was much more a tool and it required some tooling as opposed to tweezers. Not to impinge on the tooling that you could do with tweezers.
Sam [00:23:43]:
But there must have been a need for it.
Chris [00:23:45]:
Yeah, exactly.
Sam [00:23:45]:
Because I don’t think it is money laundering, but I—
Chris [00:23:47]:
No, no, but he did say, but wouldn’t Kickstarter be a great way to launder money? And I’m like, yes. Probably.
Sam [00:23:55]:
Probably.
Chris [00:23:55]:
If you had some Magnets in it.
Sam [00:24:00]:
Oh no, no.
Chris [00:24:02]:
You could launder a lot of money.
Sam [00:24:04]:
Oh, we’ve talked about some really dumb things on this. Okay.
Chris [00:24:09]:
And I was like, I don’t know, I could definitely see a screenplay in that. Anyway, so.
Sam [00:24:17]:
Well, very good. Uh, yeah, no, a bit crazy. Uh, oh, the other thing I watched this week was, um, Widow’s Bay. It’s a TV series. It’s 10 episodes long. Apple makes it. It won a bunch of Emmys. And the tagline is, a skeptical mayor leads the superstitious residents of a cursed New England island.
Sam [00:24:38]:
It’s classed as folk horror, comedy horror, mystery thriller. It sort of touches on all of them. It’s sort of, it’s, yeah, it’s watchable. They gave it 8.1 out of 10 on IMDb. And, and people are like, oh, it’s one of those things that probably more people need to watch. But when you have all these different platforms, because every time I mention anything Apple, everyone just goes, no, I don’t have that. So I don’t know.
Chris [00:25:04]:
Yeah. I’m going to talk about, uh, this, uh, wicked as.
Sam [00:25:10]:
Wicked as what?
Chris [00:25:11]:
Lime Scooter Deluxe. Look at the, look at what the cops pulled over. Explain, describe that for
Sam [00:25:17]:
us. It’s 2 Lime scooters side by side, and then there’s a 2-seater couch sitting on top of them. Yeah. So, okay. Okay.
Chris [00:25:25]:
This is in North Carolina.
Sam [00:25:27]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:25:28]:
Yeah. ‘Cause it looks exactly the same line of scooters as we get here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, North Carolina.
Sam [00:25:34]:
Are they just—
Chris [00:25:35]:
This story is by Jason Gunn, which also cracked me up because that’s a well-known New Zealand name. Yeah. But yeah, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department stopped 2 men driving down a city Street on a couch. Um, yeah, but, uh, a 2-seater loveseat hoisted up on 2 electric scooters.
Sam [00:25:57]:
Are they just balanced on it? Because I would have thought the scooter would have fallen off, but then maybe the weight is enough to keep them flat.
Chris [00:26:03]:
I’m not sure. I, it, you can’t tell from that image and it doesn’t really say. They just plonked it on and I can’t imagine they got very far before they were pulled over. I mean, I’m not, they’re not going across town on that thing.
Sam [00:26:19]:
I went to the supermarket the other night. I can’t remember what I was getting, something. And there was 2 young guys out the front with scooters.
Chris [00:26:26]:
Their own scooters or the rented ones?
Sam [00:26:28]:
No, their own ones, own electric scooters. And one of them was bought, had brought 2 liters of ice cream. And they were having this really weird in-depth conversation because he didn’t have a bag. And he was just like, I’m just going to leave it here between my feet. ‘Cause you can’t hold it easily and ride his scooter. So the other guy goes, oh, oh yeah, yeah, that sort of makes sense. He goes, yeah, I’ll just, I’ll just put my feet either side of the tub and then I’ll just ride home. And they seem to think that was a good idea.
Sam [00:27:01]:
I guess it would work, but, uh, I don’t know.
Chris [00:27:03]:
You sort of, it would be better if you had a bag and you stood on the bag. You know what I mean?
Sam [00:27:10]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:27:10]:
Put it where, between the feet, but you your feet are on the bag and it’ll stop it from falling off. But yeah.
Sam [00:27:16]:
I really wanted to see how that story unfolded.
Chris [00:27:19]:
But you didn’t want to be that creepy guy following kids on the bus.
Sam [00:27:23]:
Yeah, no, no, exactly. Not again.
Chris [00:27:25]:
Not
Sam [00:27:26]:
again. It’s frowned upon apparently.
Chris [00:27:28]:
Uh, yes.
Sam [00:27:29]:
Ah, that’s all we have. That’s okay. We’re almost at the end. So Mistyflix is coming up.
Chris [00:27:35]:
Yep.
Sam [00:27:36]:
Please go to mistyflix.co.nz. Oh, We’ll talk about that. Did, I don’t know if you’ve seen any of the messages, the venue we were going to. Oh,
Chris [00:27:44]:
I saw that. Yeah.
Sam [00:27:46]:
That we had a venue last night. We had a venue for drinks and nibbles on one night and then breakfast the following night,
Chris [00:27:52]:
following morning. Yeah.
Sam [00:27:53]:
The locals had this massive, um, thing going on where they were like, oh my God, it’s closed down. And they’re like, is it? I don’t know. Is it? And then we got told about it and then we were like, is it? And then someone goes, yeah, there’s no tables or chairs and the bar’s been removed. So they’ve just shut down overnight and now we’re finding a new location.
Chris [00:28:14]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:28:15]:
So that’s fun.
Chris [00:28:16]:
So the handy thing was that it was 5 doors down from the, um, 5 doors down or whatever it was from the cinema.
Sam [00:28:23]:
Yes.
Chris [00:28:24]:
So I don’t think we’ll find anywhere closer. No, as close.
Sam [00:28:28]:
No, there’s like, we’ve got like 3 options on the go all at once at the moment.
Chris [00:28:32]:
All right. I, I’m not getting involved.
Sam [00:28:34]:
So no, no, no, you don’t, you don’t need to be, but, uh, yeah, fun and games. I’m glad it’s probably better now, 2 weeks out than like 2 days out.
Chris [00:28:41]:
Yeah. But you’d think—
Sam [00:28:43]:
What a dick move not telling anyone.
Chris [00:28:45]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:28:45]:
I guess they got bigger things to worry about if they’re removing stuff.
Chris [00:28:49]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:28:50]:
Anyway, tcast.com, that’s our website. We’re slowly updating all the show notes and transcripts. Every month I do the next batch of them, maybe. Um, yeah. And leave us a voice message. You can do that anytime. I realized I hadn’t updated it from saying the 600th.
Chris [00:29:07]:
All right.
Sam [00:29:07]:
So I’ve updated it so it makes more sense now. But anytime you want, you can leave us a message.
Chris [00:29:14]:
And are we going to have a bit of a surprise for our listeners before the end of the year? Is there?
Sam [00:29:19]:
No.
Chris [00:29:20]:
Not gonna? Okay.
Sam [00:29:20]:
No, not at all. We’re going to have a mental breakdown before the end of the year. So until then, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:29:27]:
I’m, I’m, I’m Chris.
Sam [00:29:30]:
See ya.
Chris [00:29:30]:
Bye.
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