Summary
We catch up after Fieldays, swapping stories about lost phones, near misses with golf carts, and what we saw while we were there.
There's a crazy ride with a non-English speaking driver, a Bluetooth speaker that turns a plane around, and the discovery of Christian energy drinks.
We dig into weird AI graduation fails, Red Bull-fueled haircut chaos, and plenty of random laughs along the way.
Show Notes
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 584 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:25]:
I'm Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I'm Sam. And Chris is coming hot aloud. We've been at field days recently. So if you are listening to this right now and you're brand new, this is our normal podcast. This is what we do every week, 30 minutes. We explained it a lot over the last couple of days, which is cool.
Chris [00:00:41]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I like the way you say recently when you were there today and I was there yesterday with you, but I suppose, yeah, when this comes out, it'll be recently. Yeah, okay, fair.
Sam [00:00:55]:
Because, well, you know, people could be listening to this way in the future. True, true. We had a good time.
Chris [00:01:00]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:01:01]:
Oh, Steve at Field day's almost ran me over in a golf cart this afternoon actually.
Chris [00:01:05]:
He came, Steve Chappelle.
Sam [00:01:07]:
He came flying down this thing and into the thing and I was like, oh, did they let you drive that? He goes, yeah, only once. This is it. And he had giant checks, like I think they were novelty checks. And all the awards for the innovation people. They have a big dinner tonight.
Chris [00:01:21]:
Oh yeah.
Sam [00:01:21]:
And I was like, can you find
Chris [00:01:22]:
out who won or.
Sam [00:01:23]:
No, I didn't ask him and I don't think he would have told me. So. Interesting people. We have the interviews coming out very soon. By the time you listen to this episode, they might already be out. We will see.
Chris [00:01:35]:
I'm pretty happy with the interviews I did. I was there for one day. Sam was there for two. One day was all I can handle. Yeah, you did. You moved gimpy.
Sam [00:01:44]:
Wow. That's right. You moved a lot better than I thought you were going to.
Chris [00:01:47]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:01:48]:
So I don't know if you were pushing it.
Chris [00:01:49]:
Bloody tired by the end of the day. And then I, I wandered off and got the shuttle up the hill. Cause I did.
Sam [00:01:57]:
Well, no, that you should have like that. It's perfect that they have that. Yeah, shut up.
Chris [00:02:01]:
So I jump in the front seat. Cause I, I was leaning against the fence. Cause all these people are gathering rounds to jump in the van. And I'm like, I'm leaning against. Ah, saw.
Sam [00:02:10]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:02:11]:
And then somebody goes, you jump in the front, you know, So I jumped in the front. That was great. Went up there, hobbled around to the bus, the bus arrived, jumped on flash looking bus. Jumped on the bus, thankfully, put my hand in my pocket and went, oh crap, where's my phone?
Sam [00:02:27]:
Is it on the fence post?
Chris [00:02:29]:
Nah, it was in the van.
Sam [00:02:30]:
Oh, in the van.
Chris [00:02:31]:
In the van. So I, I was like, van guys have got, hang on. Talkies. These guys got walkie talkies. Can you talk to the van guy with the walkie talkie and just see if I left a phone in there? Yeah, like, no, different walkie talkies.
Sam [00:02:46]:
Oh, different things.
Chris [00:02:47]:
So I had to hobble all the way back to the.
Sam [00:02:50]:
And you forgot something in the morning as well?
Chris [00:02:52]:
Yeah, I forgot the stool before I left. So, yeah, so I, I hobbled back and, and it, somebody else was sitting in the front. They got out and just in the console, you know. Yeah, van's got a console. My phone just sitting there.
Sam [00:03:07]:
Good.
Chris [00:03:08]:
The guy sitting there probably thought it was the drivers.
Sam [00:03:10]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Good, because it just
Chris [00:03:12]:
slipped out my pocket. So that was cool. Got it, Jumped on the bus, went back, took to Stu for a bit. Stu. Some dude sat next to me on the bus. We had a lot of laughs using traffic. It was great.
Sam [00:03:25]:
It was great. You say that. I bet if anyone else was listening, it was terrible. Was. He was an old white man.
Chris [00:03:32]:
Old Mori dude.
Sam [00:03:33]:
Oh, okay. Okay.
Chris [00:03:34]:
Yeah, yeah. So it was funny. It was very funny. Yeah. And in the morning, so it was zero degrees when I left here. Here, I, I hobbled to the bus stop and realized I'd forgotten my stool and then hobbled back. I am so glad that I got. Stool was bloody handy.
Sam [00:03:52]:
You needed that.
Chris [00:03:53]:
Yeah, no, but the, the beautiful day
Sam [00:03:56]:
fulfilled days they posted today in that email, they said this is some of the best weather we've ever had in recent memory.
Chris [00:04:02]:
I, I, I would, Yeah, I would agree. It was really good. If you are. Well, no, by the time this comes out, you've already gone.
Sam [00:04:11]:
If you went to field days, we hope you had a good time.
Chris [00:04:13]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:13]:
If you're listening to this because somehow you found out about us or we interviewed you, welcome. Normally we do a ramble about what we've done during the week. So this is what we've done so far.
Chris [00:04:23]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So other than that, this week, my death drive. I suppose you wanted to hear about the death drive.
Sam [00:04:30]:
Oh, yeah. Hang on, hang on. So who was I explaining that to today? I was reading it to someone today. I said, look at this. Oh, one of the, one of the delegate delegates from the uk I was explaining our normal podcast and I said, you know, just stuff happens. We talk about it. I. E.
Sam [00:04:49]:
Like Chris took this random trip to Auckland with some taxi person. So the story last time was this guy that Left a card in your mailbox with this janky card, said that, don't worry, I'll drive you anywhere, anytime. And you contacted him and then they. He was going to take you to Auckland now. Now what's actually happened?
Chris [00:05:10]:
So then he, he asked for a deposit at that time. So it was a week ago or whatever it was.
Sam [00:05:15]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:16]:
And I put 50 bucks in because we settled on 200 bucks to get me up to Auckland back, which is what we organized in the contract anyway for these people. So that was perfect. Yeah, that's what I was going to spend on hiring car or whatever.
Sam [00:05:29]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:30]:
So I'm like, sweet, that's cool. So then he messages me. Oh, the next. The day before we go, I messaged him and said, what time are we leaving to get up there? By nine. And he says, my wife, you will be going up with my wife. My wife will drive you up there. She doesn't speak English. She'll be there at seven.
Chris [00:05:50]:
So that's cool. So I go, I can't even remember what sort of car it was. It might have been a Prius, something like that. Very smartly dressed Asian lady. So, like had a blazer on. I felt like I was being chauffeured.
Sam [00:06:05]:
Good.
Chris [00:06:06]:
It was fantastic. So I jump in the thing. I'm going up there for a. To the studio. I'm doing some producery type thing for a. For the Auckland City Council. So sitting in there, I decided to do some social media videos in the back.
Sam [00:06:24]:
Did not see any of the social media videos. Did they post?
Chris [00:06:26]:
Well, it wasn't really in the social media, it was in school.
Sam [00:06:30]:
Oh, okay. Okay, that's right. Then that makes sense because when you were telling me yesterday, I was like just nodding and smiling going, okay, maybe you didn't actually publish these.
Chris [00:06:38]:
No, no, no.
Sam [00:06:39]:
Okay.
Chris [00:06:40]:
Two. Two specific ones for school. So, yeah, so I did that and. Which startled her a little bit, me starting talking in the back seat.
Sam [00:06:50]:
Oh, you startle all sorts of people just talking.
Chris [00:06:52]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's cool. And we got up there fine then when we left. So Guy has the studio, he does lots of podcasts from the studio. Studios attached to his house, basically.
Sam [00:07:08]:
Yeah, that's right.
Chris [00:07:09]:
Does a bunch of podcasts, does a bunch of these sort of video things in there and it's all set up and it's just. There's all these cameras. It's a maze of wires. Yeah, yeah, it looks fantastic. And he goes for everybody. All it does is he finishes the day. He goes export to the drive Boom. There you go.
Chris [00:07:32]:
See you later. Bye. Not with me.
Sam [00:07:35]:
No, not last time.
Chris [00:07:36]:
Not this time.
Sam [00:07:37]:
No.
Chris [00:07:37]:
Everything goes wrong.
Sam [00:07:38]:
You're jinxing.
Chris [00:07:38]:
So we. Yeah, I am. It's a Chris curse. He said now. It's like he said the last time this happened was the last time you came here, which was six months ago or whatever it was. So. Yeah. So we ended up having to do all this file stuff, and I took a drive up to use, but of course, that didn't work on his system.
Chris [00:07:56]:
So I've got his drive again. I've got a courier back to him.
Sam [00:07:59]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:00]:
But, yeah, anyway, so I ended up leaving a little bit late.
Sam [00:08:04]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:08:04]:
The guy. The taxi guy rings me.
Sam [00:08:07]:
Where are you? Get out.
Chris [00:08:09]:
I just hit delete. I hang up. And then I messaged him, said, running late will be another five minutes or something because we're still converting the last file.
Sam [00:08:21]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:21]:
So I go outside and she's. She's sit in the car outside. So that was cool. Jumped in the car, we took off and we're going back, all good. And then we're just getting towards the outskirts of Hamilton. I think we just passed Gordon or whatever. And she gets a phone call. She's talking away, and whatever Asian language it is, I'm not being racist, I just don't know.
Sam [00:08:43]:
No, no, let's say Mandarin.
Chris [00:08:44]:
Yeah, yeah. And. And then she hands the phone back to me.
Sam [00:08:48]:
Okay.
Chris [00:08:48]:
And I'm thinking, oh, no. This guy's like, oh, you're mucking me around and we're late and you need to pay us more money or something.
Sam [00:08:55]:
Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:08:55]:
But it wasn't anything like that. It was like, hey, is it okay if my wife picks up our daughter on the way back? It's not far from your place anyway. And I'm like, oh, yeah, no, that's fine. Like, I don't care. So we had to go to Silverdale School, which is not far from my.
Sam [00:09:10]:
No.
Chris [00:09:11]:
And just pick up her daughter, which was cool, because then I could explain to her daughter, who speaks English, why I was late and apologized the lady, because I couldn't do that before because she couldn't speak English. It was really bizarre. Anyway, it was cool. I survived. I will be using that service again so that I like to think that
Sam [00:09:32]:
if he drives you next time, it's batshit and he just drives like a crazy person. That's the real thing.
Chris [00:09:38]:
Yeah. No, she was a good driver, too. It was. Oh, it's really good.
Sam [00:09:41]:
It was good on them having a little business to help people out.
Chris [00:09:45]:
Yeah. So that was, that was it. So that was my busy week, really. I had a four day summit. I spoke at the summit. That went really well.
Sam [00:09:54]:
Oh, did you see the email they sent out? I didn't realize you'd done a TEDx talk. Have you done TEDx talk?
Chris [00:09:59]:
No, I haven't.
Sam [00:09:59]:
Okay.
Chris [00:10:01]:
They said a TEDx speaker coach. And it looks like I'm a TEDx speaker, but I'm a TEDx speaker coach. Oh, yeah, because I looked at it went.
Sam [00:10:12]:
There was one where I'm sure it said, yeah, okay, I see what you mean.
Chris [00:10:15]:
Yeah, well, one that I saw that and I think there was one where they said I was a TEDx speaker. And I was like, oh, I'm not gonna. I mentioned it in the, in the talk though. I said, I am not a TEDx
Sam [00:10:25]:
speaker because I don't know, my dad's
Chris [00:10:28]:
a plumber and he has leaky pipes. I coach TEDx speakers. I'm not a TEDx speaker. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, that's cool. But I'll tell you what is cool.
Sam [00:10:37]:
What?
Chris [00:10:37]:
I got a big bump to my membership at school and I'm over 100 members now.
Sam [00:10:41]:
I saw that. Actually, I was gonna say congratulations on that. It's pretty good. You just need them to all to pay you. Yeah, there's a difference. They're on a free.
Chris [00:10:49]:
All of them to pay me. I just need some of them to pay me.
Sam [00:10:51]:
Any of them to pay you. That'll be good.
Chris [00:10:54]:
I've got some. All right, what else have we got to talk about today?
Sam [00:10:59]:
I was just going to say shout out to Quentin. Hello, there's a post. I don't know if you've seen that. Jason Tiller posted that one. It's talking about that they're looking for somebody to do senior account manager and it's quite dynamic and different in that. And it says picture of the happiest CTO in the ad industry. And there's Quentin. And then I posted.
Sam [00:11:24]:
I like to think he looks like that when he listens to our podcast. And then Jason. And then Jason, who's really cool, he goes. Especially when he gets a personal shout out. So there it is.
Chris [00:11:35]:
So there you go. Hopefully you've got a big grin on your face, Quentin. And we should say. I should say congratulations to Angela. This is a bit belated though. But yeah, they. They got Prin Small to medium PR agency of the year.
Sam [00:11:49]:
Wow, that's pretty cool.
Chris [00:11:50]:
Yeah, so it was pretty cool. So well done for. For them. You. You talked about the red Bull a little bit. You got your free Red Bull from.
Sam [00:11:59]:
I got. Yeah, yeah, I did. And I learned about the difference between the lawn normal lawnmower racing and then the Red Bull thing, which you can hear about an upcoming interview, but they have. I think it's called the Red Bull cut it racing or something. And Red Bull approached the guy and said, hey, we're going to do it. They did it for the first time last year. That's why I hadn't really heard about it. So this is sort of like an extra day instead of normal racing.
Sam [00:12:23]:
And they said, well, we've got to do something cool. So the guy goes, sweet, I'll build a ramp. And I said, was there specifications for the ramp? He goes, no. So he just eyeballed this ramp, and apparently it was a bit too tall and it broke some of the lawnmowers, so.
Chris [00:12:38]:
So they had to jump the ramp as part of the race.
Sam [00:12:41]:
Well, as part of The Red Bull one, they've got like C. CO2 canisters going off and all sorts of stuff happening because that's what Red Bull do. And I was like, oh, cool. But I said, he goes, we've done it. So they can drive around the ramp if they want, but it takes a bit longer.
Chris [00:12:56]:
Yeah, yeah. Anyway, you got to do the ramp.
Sam [00:12:59]:
Anyway, what's happening with Red Bull?
Chris [00:13:01]:
You've heard the wwjd.
Sam [00:13:04]:
The what?
Chris [00:13:04]:
Wwjd I don't know.
Sam [00:13:06]:
Have I. What's it mean?
Chris [00:13:07]:
Thing in the States.
Sam [00:13:08]:
Okay.
Chris [00:13:08]:
What would Jesus do? They all ask themselves all the time, what would Jesus.
Sam [00:13:14]:
Okay. You understand the concept, I guess.
Chris [00:13:15]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:13:16]:
Okay.
Chris [00:13:16]:
Okay. Well, I thought this was funny because it's now. It's what would Jesus drink is the new wwjd. Yep. Welcome to the age of Christian energy beverages.
Sam [00:13:28]:
Oh, my God.
Chris [00:13:29]:
Yahweh Praise Energy. Say they're raising awareness for Christianity, but are they just treating Jesus like an uncopyrighted Mickey Mouse if they've got cancer with Jesus on them?
Sam [00:13:44]:
Hang on. What is that called?
Chris [00:13:45]:
Yahweh is the old Hebrew name for Jehovah. Yeah.
Sam [00:13:49]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:13:50]:
Okay.
Sam [00:13:50]:
Yeah, good. I learned something.
Chris [00:13:51]:
The name of God.
Sam [00:13:52]:
Okay, so instead of having a drink called, like, say, Liquid death, which is just water in a can.
Chris [00:13:58]:
Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:13:59]:
These guys, whoever it is. Well. Cause.
Chris [00:14:01]:
Okay, I'm going to read this out, actually, because it just.
Sam [00:14:03]:
Should we be doing this?
Chris [00:14:05]:
By now you've probably noticed the trend. Every celebrity and influencer. Yeah, maybe it is us. Every celebrity and influencer appears to be chasing the same Price the Deep in the area of celebrity beverages, Kim Kardashian as Update Energy. All these other people we know, even Danny DeVito, what's he got? A limoncello type drink.
Sam [00:14:27]:
Oh, okay, Good on it.
Chris [00:14:28]:
Which works. Okay, so. But yeah, no. Now the Jesus, it turns out, has a branding problem. Too many people simply haven't heard the message. God put it on our hearts to specifically preach the gospel through an energy drink, said the creator of Yahweh in a recent Instagram video.
Sam [00:14:50]:
Oh, does that mean they could be tax free? Do they do that over there?
Chris [00:14:54]:
I don't know. They do for so many mega church things. I wonder. I wonder if it is.
Sam [00:15:01]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:02]:
Yeah. So I didn't actually read enough of this to answer that question, if it does actually talk about that. But just the idea that, you know, they're like, oh, yeah, what can Jesus. What Jesus drink? Or, you know, how can we monetize Jesus? Is a better freaking phrase for it. It just cracks me up that doing this. So, yeah, I thought I'd share that little bit of joy with you.
Sam [00:15:26]:
Excellent. Anything just to make some money.
Chris [00:15:30]:
See, in. In the same frame.
Sam [00:15:34]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:15:35]:
In terms of religiousness in the uk, the usa. Well done, Oklahoma. I. I'm just gonna shout out, well done, Oklahoma.
Sam [00:15:44]:
The whole state.
Chris [00:15:45]:
The whole state passed a law that says you must be 18 to marry with no exceptions.
Sam [00:15:52]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:15:53]:
Which is pretty cool.
Sam [00:15:55]:
They have to do that. But Alabama's not doing that. Or whoever. The random ones.
Chris [00:15:59]:
Child marriage. I clipped this out and put this in here just to say child marriage remains legal in 33 states.
Sam [00:16:08]:
Whoa.
Chris [00:16:09]:
Including a handful where there is no minimum age. So in most of those states, the age is either 13 or 16. And there might be a couple that are 17. Like, 17 doesn't worry me too much because 17 and 18 is like a year, like, you know, but 13, it's just crazy, right? And then. But where There is no minimum age to marry, according to Unchained At Last. Unchained At Last is an organization.
Sam [00:16:37]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:16:37]:
Who says nearly 315,000 children as young as 10 were married in the US between 2000 and 2021. No, mostly girls married to adult men.
Sam [00:16:52]:
Oh, yeah, we know that. I like how it said mostly because there's obviously the switch.
Chris [00:16:59]:
There must be switches.
Sam [00:17:01]:
Okay. That can't be common.
Chris [00:17:03]:
Boys and adult women.
Sam [00:17:04]:
Cougars.
Chris [00:17:05]:
Yeah, I can imagine there'd be young boys and young girls, like.
Sam [00:17:11]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:17:12]:
Like the family.
Sam [00:17:13]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:17:14]:
Maybe Dynamic thing. I don't know why or how, but I don't really want get the.
Sam [00:17:18]:
No. Well, it'd be joining the two families together. So one of them gets a tractor. No, that's a plot. That's a plot. That's a plot line from the office pretty much.
Chris [00:17:31]:
But yeah. So anyway, so Oklahoma. I didn't expect them to do that because they are usually as backwards as anybody else.
Sam [00:17:41]:
When I went to get my free Red Bull. So Red Bull have this area next to where these lawnmowers are and they've got this whole end of a building with three barber's chairs in it. And if you don't go to the furthest reach of field days in the corner, you don't know it's there. These guys, I'm assuming they were all doing it. You spun a wheel and it would tell you what the haircut was. Bowl cut mullet. And then they just do it. But so when I walked past, there was no one with the Red Bull car.
Sam [00:18:15]:
And I was like, oh, no. And then while I was doing something else interviewing someone, I saw all these people with Red Bulls. And I was like, sweet, I'll go outside. And these two girls were there and they got. I don't know who invented it, but these people that give away drinks now have these giant hard shell backpacks. Imagine a suitcase stuck to their back. Yeah, that's what the drinks are in now. And they sort of just pull them out and that's fine.
Sam [00:18:36]:
And then as I went up to him, they stopped giving drinks out. And then these group of people walked away and I said, oh, have you run out? She goes, oh, no, they're under 16. We can't give them drinks. I was like, oh, good, don't worry about the children. And then this dude turned up and he was older than me, and he goes, oh, are you selling Red Bulls? I said, no, they're for free. And it's okay because we're not children. He was like, what?
Chris [00:18:58]:
I said, yeah.
Sam [00:18:59]:
And he's like, sweet.
Chris [00:19:03]:
Anyway, yep. So, you know, can't give them a Red Bull. Can't marry them.
Sam [00:19:06]:
All right. Exactly.
Chris [00:19:08]:
Children. Oh, Jesus. I. I like this thing. This happened probably a couple of weeks ago now. Honestly, it doesn't matter.
Sam [00:19:17]:
Our podcast is timeless.
Chris [00:19:19]:
It's podcast timeless. Okay, go. It's all good. So a United Airlines flight.
Sam [00:19:23]:
Why is it so light outside your window? What happened?
Chris [00:19:25]:
Because that light keeps flicking.
Sam [00:19:27]:
Okay, okay. That's right. Sorry.
Chris [00:19:29]:
Just flight. It was my laugh that set it off. Cause it's set off by sound, so. Oh my gosh,
Sam [00:19:37]:
it's gone off again. Hang on.
Chris [00:19:40]:
Say the laugh. Hang on. So my house goes off when I laugh inside.
Sam [00:19:44]:
Oh my gosh. You've got a neighbour to the next. You've got a neighbour to one side and a neighbour above you. I feel sorry for them because, you know, these walls aren't soundproof. Okay.
Chris [00:19:55]:
Okay, so United Airlines flight to Spain.
Sam [00:20:00]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:01]:
Turned back to Newark because of a Bluetooth device name.
Sam [00:20:05]:
Oh, yeah, I saw this.
Chris [00:20:07]:
So you did see this. Yeah. So basically it was going to Palma de Mallorca in Spain. But the whole point, the crux of the thing, which I had to scroll down to actually see why a 16 year old passenger had one of those personal Bluetooth speakers.
Sam [00:20:27]:
Yeah, yeah, he did.
Chris [00:20:28]:
And he just named it Bomb.
Sam [00:20:30]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:31]:
But I think being a kid he probably named it Bomb like a year ago. And it's just always been called Bomb.
Sam [00:20:38]:
Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:20:38]:
And of course they're like, this phone's Bluetooth to a bomb. We have a bomb.
Sam [00:20:43]:
But that means somebody else, like who was searching for WI fi to find the.
Chris [00:20:49]:
Maybe that device thing these days it wouldn't be. I wouldn't be surprised if that's a statistic.
Sam [00:20:55]:
Maybe because we're at field days. Obviously we've already covered that. But when we looked for WI fi, there was a ton of random WI fi names out there.
Chris [00:21:03]:
Yeah, yeah, But I mean, could you imagine being that kid? I'm assuming it was an innocent mistake. Like he didn't even think about it.
Sam [00:21:12]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:21:13]:
I might be wrong, but I'm assuming that was not malicious. And the planes turned back and he'll be like, oh, what's going on? What's going on? Like with everybody else. And then suddenly somebody's got a thing here called a bomb and he's like, oh, crap.
Sam [00:21:30]:
If you fully turned it off though, could you get away with it? Like, or they go through everyone's stuff,
Chris [00:21:37]:
they only notice it if it's turned on.
Sam [00:21:39]:
No, that's what I'm saying. But if they've noticed it and they've turned the plane around, they're going to be right. Who's got it? Where is it? What is it? Yeah, I don't know. There's a lot of questions for that one.
Chris [00:21:49]:
A lot of questions on that. And I don't have any answers, honestly. And it doesn't even say they did anything with the kid. I don't think they did. I think they just check and it wasn't real.
Sam [00:22:00]:
The moral of the story is to not call your device bomb at all.
Chris [00:22:04]:
Ever. Or anything. Anything too dodgy. Yeah. Trust me, you don't want to do anything too dodgy. Okay. What else have you got? Anything you wanted to particularly bring up?
Sam [00:22:18]:
I've been busy at field days.
Chris [00:22:19]:
I've.
Sam [00:22:20]:
My brain's much.
Chris [00:22:21]:
You've got something here. How lazy do you have to be?
Sam [00:22:23]:
Yeah. So this what happened a couple of weeks ago again. And Arizona College had to skip over several graduation graduates. Sorry. After an AI malfunction. So for some reason the school was using AI to read names for the ceremony. Like. Okay, seems like.
Chris [00:22:44]:
Why?
Sam [00:22:45]:
I don't know, like.
Chris [00:22:46]:
Cause we can.
Sam [00:22:47]:
Yeah. They were met with loud booing by students. After she admitted the AI that was being used to rename skipped over some of the graduates. I don't know why it skipped over them. Near the end of it, they had to address the ceremony all about it. Oh, you can watch on YouTube stream of the ceremony as well. She said, what's happening is we're using a new AI system as our reader. And everyone booed.
Sam [00:23:11]:
And she goes, yep, that's a lesson learned for us. They would not be able to redo the walk to include all the names on the screen, but if you are not called up, don't worry, line up over there and we'll sort it out. I don't know, it just seems like a weird.
Chris [00:23:26]:
Just why, if. Just why. All you normally do honestly is print it out on a piece of paper and have somebody. And next we have blahdy blah.
Sam [00:23:38]:
And you're not. But you're not doing it every single day in and out. Like if you were doing it for 200 days of the year.
Chris [00:23:46]:
Yeah. You do it once. Well, twice a year.
Sam [00:23:48]:
Yeah, whatever. But it seems like the stupidest idea. I swear. People just use it because it's there without much thought. Where was I the other day? And they. They talked about it a little bit. I can't remember. It must have been a work thing or something.
Sam [00:24:03]:
And they were. Someone was. Or someone was talking about it and I was just like, no, you're just jumping on a bandwagon. Yeah, that happens quite a bit, I think.
Chris [00:24:14]:
Yeah, I think so. And I mean we're gonna have some interesting times with. Well, first there's a SpaceX IPO.
Sam [00:24:24]:
Yeah. Which is.
Chris [00:24:25]:
It's mental. It's absolutely mental.
Sam [00:24:28]:
Is it Google that's pumping it?
Chris [00:24:30]:
Well, see, Google owns a bunch of shares in that anyway.
Sam [00:24:35]:
That's right.
Chris [00:24:36]:
And Google has just done a deal with them to buy some additional infrastructure or rent, I should say, some additional infrastructure for like $900 billion. Some ridiculous.
Sam [00:24:50]:
Just chump change.
Chris [00:24:51]:
Yeah. 900 million. I can't remember what it was, but it was a decent amount of money. But they're going to make their own. It's just it happens to be there. So that looks good on their books. SpaceX or Xai, honestly, to be more specific. Well, SpaceX as a whole, the IPO is losing money.
Chris [00:25:12]:
Right, Good. And they are selling the IPO at 94 times the annual revenue.
Sam [00:25:20]:
Nothing wrong with that.
Chris [00:25:21]:
Okay. By comparison, Amazon is hugely profitable and their thing goes at four times annual revenue.
Sam [00:25:33]:
Yeah, it's not.
Chris [00:25:34]:
No, it's not. 94 times. And it makes no sense. So everybody who's getting shares, you know, offers, you know, because you've got to get in to buy this stuff. Yeah, they're gonna buy it and immediately turn around and sell it. It's the only way they're gonna get any money out of it before it crashes.
Sam [00:25:54]:
Yeah. You know, the trick, I guess, would be how fast it does that. I don't know.
Chris [00:25:58]:
Yeah, yeah. And I. And I think it'll crash pretty quick. It's not doing particularly well, I don't think.
Sam [00:26:06]:
Okay, don't take advice from us. We're not financial experts.
Chris [00:26:09]:
100%. And I'm curious to see what Carl's doing with all his Tesla shares and stuff. So.
Sam [00:26:14]:
Yeah, we love it. And Harley, Harley's big on the Tesla stuff.
Chris [00:26:18]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:26:18]:
Yeah. Hey, did you know there, there's a new. A sequel basically to the Social Network movie? Oh, no, it's called the Social Reckoning and they've got Jeremy Strong playing Mark Zuckerberg. He was Kendall on Succession, but his voice is just like Mark Zuckerberg. Like he's doing it so well.
Chris [00:26:41]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:26:42]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really cool. I don't know if the movie's gonna be any good or not, but they've got the bit where he's in that depositions thing where he's like an alien, you know. Robot.
Chris [00:26:50]:
Yeah, the robot.
Sam [00:26:50]:
And they're sort of doing some training and the guys, they've got him in a mock room and the guy sort of says, ah, I can train you, but at the moment I don't think anyone's going to like you. Like, he's like, like. So anyway, that's coming out soon. We saw a trailer for. What was that movie?
Chris [00:27:08]:
The Dog Show.
Sam [00:27:08]:
The Dog Show, It's a Kiwi film coming out in November, I believe the
Chris [00:27:12]:
5th of November is opening.
Sam [00:27:14]:
Yep. It's a family film, I guess. I don't know.
Chris [00:27:19]:
I'd Be keen to see it. It'll be good for. I mean, obviously it's thing you take your kids to. Yes. The protagonist, by the looks of it, is young girl. I'm going to say 12 years old.
Sam [00:27:31]:
Yep. Something like that.
Chris [00:27:31]:
Something like that. Who? It's a rural movie and she is really good at training sheepdogs or something. By the looks of the trailer.
Sam [00:27:40]:
I was. Yeah, that's true. I was thinking about field days today and yesterday. The placement of where you are in field days is so important.
Chris [00:27:51]:
Oh, yeah. So if you're a stool holder.
Sam [00:27:53]:
Yeah, no, but just like really do some research on it because it's really weird seeing places with where they're nowhere near anywhere. So here's an example. Fire, ambulance and I think rescue helicopter all together next door. Waka Katahi with the car crash. Yep. Where's the police? On the other side of field days. In a tent by themselves. And they had a little police dog there, like a puppy.
Chris [00:28:18]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:28:18]:
And they were drawing people in, which is cool. But it was way over where the tiny houses were, like in between all of that lot.
Chris [00:28:24]:
Yeah. I don't know.
Sam [00:28:25]:
And I was like, hang on, why do you not. With the other people.
Chris [00:28:27]:
Yeah, yeah. Because I mentioned that to Steve, like, you know, the. With the arts. Because we're talking about cultural and the arts and stuff like that and Yeah, I don't want to bitch and moan about that because it must be a ridiculously hard job.
Sam [00:28:43]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:28:44]:
Crazy to, you know, mental. How many stores are there, do you know?
Sam [00:28:48]:
I don't know. Lots. And some of them book years in advance and they stay in the same spot.
Chris [00:28:53]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:28:54]:
But interestingly, at the bottom of the media center was the welcome India. I think it was.
Chris [00:28:59]:
Yes.
Sam [00:29:00]:
And it was talking about doing trade with India and stuff. And they had a very small stand and they had some sort of event type thing, but everyone was there jammed in the corner of the pavilion. But also right next to the bit where we had to get out. Yeah. And they're going to hopefully do something bigger and better next year. But the funny thing was they must have been doing something a lot later because when I was leaving. You know what it's like leaving the car park. There's cars everywhere.
Sam [00:29:25]:
Guess who's trying to get into park? A bunch of Indian guys. And I was like, no traffic is going into field days at 4:30pm Those
Chris [00:29:35]:
are the cleanest brothers.
Sam [00:29:37]:
The cleaners are people that Sarah works with.
Chris [00:29:41]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:29:42]:
Who are part of a. I don't know if it's the Mormon church or a church. And they were going in at night to clean. Oh, yeah, yeah. And one of them wanted to know how much a tiny house cost and I had to go find out that information today for them.
Chris [00:29:57]:
Did you get the answer?
Sam [00:29:58]:
$155,000 for a two bedroom, fancy 52 square metre tiny home. To be honest, it's about the size of your flat. So it's similar to this. Yeah, yeah. But the bedrooms are either end.
Chris [00:30:13]:
Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's pretty cool.
Sam [00:30:14]:
Anyway, that brings us to the end of this podcast. Where can they find us?
Chris [00:30:18]:
TCASP is the easiest way, so. And while you. So tcasp.com stands for the Chris and Sam podcast. Of course.
Sam [00:30:27]:
Yep.
Chris [00:30:28]:
And this week, check out techcasp.com fielddays which is F, I, E, L, D, A, Y, S. You will see all
Sam [00:30:41]:
our past interviews and all the new ones appear at the bottom.
Chris [00:30:44]:
Yeah, so, yeah, I think that will be. I really, I'm looking forward to re listening to the interviews I did.
Sam [00:30:53]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:30:53]:
And listening to some of the ones you did as well. And of course the ones I didn't see from today. Yeah, yeah. So it'd be cool.
Sam [00:31:00]:
So anyway, thanks for checking us out. Thanks for saying hi, taking your valuable time and being part of our show.
Chris [00:31:07]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:31:08]:
Until next time, I'm Sam.
Chris [00:31:09]:
I'm Chris.
Sam [00:31:10]:
See ya.
Chris [00:31:10]:
Bye.
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