Canopy Tours is Awesome – EP6

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Sam [00:00:21]:

Hello, Chris.

Chris [00:00:23]:

Hello, Sam. And welcome to episode number six. Yes.

Sam [00:00:26]:

Number six.

Chris [00:00:26]:

Yes.

Sam [00:00:27]:

Woohoo.

Chris [00:00:27]:

I got it.

Sam [00:00:28]:

Right. Hope everyone out there that is listening to this, wherever you are, whenever you’re listening to this, it could be anytime. Everything’s going great for you.

Chris [00:00:37]:

Yes, life is wonderful.

Sam [00:00:40]:

It’s the only way to be.

Chris [00:00:41]:

And if it isn’t, I don’t want to know.

Sam [00:00:43]:

Yeah, don’t tell us your problems.

Chris [00:00:46]:

Did you just kick the microphone or did I?

Sam [00:00:48]:

I think that was you that time. We’re still waiting on a few components to turn up from China to help get this going a bit better, but we do have the phone microphone covers, so I can sort of tap the microphone. I can go it’s not as bad, but we can touch the mic a bit now or get further and further closer away.

Chris [00:01:07]:

Yeah. Which is good. And I have moved the washing line so the Chinese laundry isn’t in Sam’s face because he was moaning about it. It was the not green, so that you can’t see the motorbike from where we are sitting. So, yeah, no, it’s evolving. It is evolving.

Sam [00:01:28]:

We even have people that want to come and sit here and talk with us.

Chris [00:01:31]:

Yeah. We’ve been invited to one other podcast, is that right? Yes. And we have a couple of guests that we want and actually, if you are interested in being a guest on.

Sam [00:01:41]:

The Christmas, you don’t need to be qualified in anything. If you can speak, that is the preferred option.

Chris [00:01:50]:

I would sam, you should be interesting. If you’re not interesting, we will make you interesting. And by that I mean we’ll take the piss out of you.

Sam [00:01:57]:

Yeah. If you’ve got some interesting stories, that’ll be handy absolutely.

Chris [00:02:03]:

That would be quite useful. As you talked last week about somebody firing off fireworks into a house yeah.

Sam [00:02:12]:

Check out last week’s podcast if you want to hear about the joys of going to someone’s house and have them shoot fireworks at you.

Chris [00:02:18]:

Yes. Did I say last week? I did say last week that I think it should get banned. I don’t see the point in it, to be honest. And when I was in Spain, it wasn’t Guy Fawkes, obviously, but it was the King’s birthday. They had these fireworks and oh, my God, they were the loudest fireworks I have ever heard in my life. So we go down to the beach and there’s a pier going out into the sea and the got these fireworks going off at the end of the pier and it was spectacular. But then the big ones went off and you could feel this like a through your chest and oh, my God, I’ve never seen heard anything so big. What happened, though? A mile behind us, half a mile, something like that is the town. And those same fireworks blew out windows in the apartment building.

Sam [00:03:10]:

That is awesome. That’s when you know you’re doing it right.

Chris [00:03:13]:

Yeah. So get rid of the piddly little things they sell at the warehouse here. Get some megas like that. Do the public display. I’m in. Anyway. So how has your week been?

Sam [00:03:24]:

Been pretty good. Nothing too exciting to report, unfortunately.

Chris [00:03:28]:

Okay.

Sam [00:03:30]:

I’m going to a quiz night tonight. That’ll be interesting.

Chris [00:03:33]:

Yes. Do you do that a lot or.

Sam [00:03:35]:

No, this is a once a year PTA school thing.

Chris [00:03:41]:

Okay.

Sam [00:03:43]:

Last year I ran the quiz while I did the quiz questions, and I was running the computer, and they bring in this woman. I don’t know what she actually does, but she’s a friend of a friend, and she’s run a whole bunch of quizzes before, and she’s really good as the quiz master, and she has all these random events and things to do in between rounds. Cool. So this year I’m not doing that, but I’m taking part.

Chris [00:04:09]:

Okay. You don’t feel the pressure? I’m at school with a bunch of teachers and I’m going to be answering quizzes.

Sam [00:04:16]:

No, not at all. Most people aren’t there for the quiz. It’s more socializing.

Chris [00:04:23]:

Yeah. I think I just have anxiety, performance anxiety of answering questions with teachers around?

Sam [00:04:29]:

No, maybe not. Although if you do give them a question and they think they know they’re right, they will argue it to death. And I didn’t have the comprehensive list of background information on the questions I had, and I should have, because I knew I was right on one. And out of the 200 odd questions, one of them was wrong, I will admit that. But the second one wasn’t. They just weren’t thinking outside the box.

Chris [00:05:00]:

Okay. Anyway, so that sounds pretty good. Is that a charity thing or just a social thing?

Sam [00:05:07]:

All the money goes towards the PTA.

Chris [00:05:10]:

Yeah.

Sam [00:05:13]:

And I’ll report back if there’s anything exciting that happens from that.

Chris [00:05:17]:

Oh, and while I remember, because you just reminded me, we’ve got Relay for Life. Have you ever done a Relay for Life?

Sam [00:05:24]:

I haven’t, but my mum and dad have done it quite a few.

Chris [00:05:27]:

Yeah, that I’m old, right?

Sam [00:05:29]:

No. There you mention it, though. You are?

Chris [00:05:32]:

Yeah, I am, but yes. So Relay for Life, we did it for a number of years. It was a group of us that did it for several years, and it was quite sad because one of the guys that did it with me for three years, I used to work with him, he got cancer. So Relay for Life is a fundraiser for cancer, and he got cancer in the brain. He was 30 years old. He lasts about seven months. It was pretty bad. So we did a couple more years and then anyway, it’s coming up. It’s not till March, but we’re going.

Sam [00:06:06]:

To be it’s not till March?

Chris [00:06:08]:

Yes.

Sam [00:06:08]:

I thought you were going to say October.

Chris [00:06:10]:

No, it’s not till March.

Sam [00:06:12]:

Okay. It’s in March, people mark that in your calendar.

Chris [00:06:15]:

Well, no, we are taking donations now, so I will put a link so.

Sam [00:06:20]:

You can have a team and take donations like nine months ahead of it.

Chris [00:06:27]:

We’ve had to do the bookings. The bookings all went in last week. So this is the first year they’ve had it mystery Creek. The last couple of years they had it out in Ruakura, and before that they had it or a few years in Rurakura and before that they had it in where they got the new Claudelands showgrounds.

Sam [00:06:47]:

Claudelands.

Chris [00:06:47]:

Claudelands, yeah. Anyway, so basically what it is is Relay for Life is 20 hours. People walking around the track. You got to keep the baton moving around the track. So somebody in your team is walking around.

Sam [00:07:03]:

How did they decide on 20 hours and not just go to 24?

Chris [00:07:06]:

I have no clue. I thought it was 24 and then it was like, oh, it’s only 20 and it’s just 20.

Sam [00:07:11]:

I’ll just go 24.

Chris [00:07:12]:

Yeah, I know.

Sam [00:07:13]:

Okay.

Chris [00:07:13]:

But it’s 20 hours.

Sam [00:07:15]:

So you’ve registered a site with a.

Chris [00:07:18]:

We’Ve got a site and we got a tent team. I bought a tent specifically for Relays for Life. I’ve got a big dome tent that.

Sam [00:07:26]:

I bought just so is your team already preregistered as well?

Chris [00:07:29]:

We’re preregistered. I forgot what we’ve called our team because there was two people I knew that were trying to set up a team and they were both having trouble getting up, getting a team together, enough people. And I have been busy doing other things. I couldn’t organize anything at the moment because usually I’m one of the organizing people. And so I just got hold of them both and said, I think you should just join teams and then I’ll be with you guys. And so they amalgamated. They called themselves something like the Randoms or something. I can’t remember.

Sam [00:08:01]:

Okay, well, look forward to hearing more about this in the future.

Chris [00:08:03]:

I will put it in the show notes. I’ll get the link and all that sort of thing. But yeah, if you are in Hamilton, come down and say hello on the day, which is in March 2015. So I hope it’s not like the.

Sam [00:08:17]:

Weekend of the 28th, 29, the I can’t remember. Okay. Might look it up.

Chris [00:08:22]:

I think it’s early, actually. I think it’s early March. I hope so. Why is that? The pumpkin great.

Sam [00:08:29]:

That’s when I’m involved with pumpkin stuff.

Chris [00:08:31]:

Is that? The Great Pumpkin Carnival?

Sam [00:08:33]:

It is the Great Pumpkin Carnival.

Chris [00:08:34]:

It’s just I don’t want to miss.

Sam [00:08:35]:

That when it get really busy.

Chris [00:08:39]:

Yes, it would be busy around that time. Here we go. We’re looking for relay for life. Hamilton and Seven, the 8th March. There you go. I thought it was early on.

Sam [00:08:49]:

Very good. Sounds really cool.

Chris [00:08:50]:

I look forward to seeing it’s a great cause.

Sam [00:08:53]:

What’s going on and I’m going to make sure actually, I will make sure I’m the it doesn’t matter if I’m working or not because I can just turn up at and time.

Chris [00:09:01]:

Yeah, we’ll be there all night. Woohoo. So, yeah, no, it’s a lot of fun and it’s a great venue for the kids and they have sort of little things going on throughout the night. So they have a few fancy dress laps. People are dressed up as Halloween or they’ll be dressed up as a Rocky Horror Picture Show lap or whatever. I don’t know what they’ve got set up. I don’t think that program has been put together yet. But yeah, it’s a lot of fun and New Zealand Cancer Society is a great cause. So there you go. And we’ll put a link in the show notes for that.

Sam [00:09:39]:

We sure will.

Chris [00:09:40]:

Okay. So anyway, that was my little segue off because you reminded me about charity stuff and I’ve just been helping organize this little bit. What else is up?

Sam [00:09:52]:

I thought in episode four we had the Kickstarter drop kick oh, yeah. Segment and we will do that again in the future with a new one. But I thought I’d show you what they’re both up to.

Chris [00:10:06]:

Yeah.

Sam [00:10:07]:

First. We’ve got spoolie.

Chris [00:10:09]:

So this is the earphone bud wrap around the finger thing. Yeah.

Sam [00:10:15]:

They still got 25 days to go as we record this.

Chris [00:10:19]:

Cool.

Sam [00:10:20]:

You want to read out how much they’ve made out of their goal.

Chris [00:10:23]:

Their pledge of their 8000 goal is now 26,825 with 25 days ago. So pretty fair assumption. They are gone, they’ve done and they.

Sam [00:10:35]:

Are funded, completely funded. And then you’ll remember becoming a Piercer.

Chris [00:10:40]:

He’s my favorite Gosh pledges of the 650 pound goal with 48 days to he’s got a lot more time to go.

Sam [00:10:48]:

He does. He actually had a massive he almost had two months. I think he was like 58 days or something.

Chris [00:10:53]:

Yeah. And he’s going to need it because he’s at zero, zero backers with zero pounds pledged.

Sam [00:10:58]:

We’ll keep you up to date with becoming a Piercer. And if he ever makes some money, we might have to send him an email and just say okay, so I.

Chris [00:11:04]:

Want you to look up one for me now because I want to talk about this AFK.

Sam [00:11:10]:

Yes, I’ve got a question about that too.

Chris [00:11:13]:

Okay, you can tell. Ask the question. I don’t know if I have an answer for you, but I want to see how AFK is going. I backed it. I put $25 in.

Sam [00:11:20]:

I was going to ask you how much you backed it by.

Chris [00:11:22]:

Yeah, $25 in because I wanted them to write a song about me.

Sam [00:11:27]:

Is that what the $25 gets?

Chris [00:11:29]:

Yeah. $20 gives you I think I can’t remember $20 gives you like a credit or something, like in the credits or something. Yeah, but if you go the extra $5, they incorporate you into a song and I’m like, okay, yeah, whatever. Extra $5. I’ll go with that.

Sam [00:11:44]:

Have we spoken about this? I think we have. Have we? I can’t remember.

Chris [00:11:47]:

I don’t know.

Sam [00:11:49]:

I know we’ve spoken about it.

Chris [00:11:51]:

We haven’t spoken about it on the podcast because I was going to talk about it last week when I was going off and off on movies, and I went, oh, I’ve got to talk about AFK.

Sam [00:12:00]:

Yes.

Chris [00:12:00]:

And you said, yeah, that’s enough movies.

Sam [00:12:02]:

For one day, Chris. At the moment, it’s $9,106 out of their $15,000 goal. This was 8500 this morning.

Chris [00:12:12]:

All right.

Sam [00:12:13]:

And they public pushed it out on Facebook today, I think, or someone shared something.

Chris [00:12:17]:

So as we’re talking right now, bearing in mind we pre record this, it’s 15 days ago. So by the time this gets out, we got seven days ago, probably, possibly.

Sam [00:12:29]:

We’ll see how we go.

Chris [00:12:29]:

We’ll see how we go. I urge you to go to Kickstarter. Look up AFK, which is away from keyboard. AFK gaming web series.

Sam [00:12:39]:

Is that what that is?

Chris [00:12:41]:

Okay.

Sam [00:12:44]:

I read all of this and I didn’t even come across I don’t think.

Chris [00:12:47]:

It explains what it is. It’s just gamers. No, AFK means I’m away from the something new today. Okay. So anyway, it’s great. I think it’s a wonderful story. We’ll put a link in the show notes definitely to this. You’ve got to watch the video. When you watch the video, it does the whole interviews with the people, and they show a few clips. But at the very end of that video, the do the trailer. I almost think they should have done the trailer at the beginning.

Sam [00:13:14]:

They should have.

Chris [00:13:15]:

But anyway, it’s worth it just to watch the trailer. I love the characters that they’ve got. I particularly love the old 15 year old. So the idea is that these guys are playing a game, a role playing game, online game, and they wake up and they are their characters, and they’re in this fantasy world, and all the monsters and non player characters have disappeared. And it’s just the people that play the characters are in there, but they’re in there for real. And if they die in there, they’re going to die. But the funny thing is that you choose your characters when you play these games. So there’s a magic user, and there is no magic.

Sam [00:13:54]:

No.

Chris [00:13:55]:

So he’s useless, basically. He’s just there, but he looks like 30 or something, I guess, give or take. And it’s being played by a 15 year old weddling boy. So the guy behind the keyboard is a 15 year old. So you’ve got this guy, matureish looking guy being played by the most annoying, freaking weirdly. It’s just like, God, you’re annoying, but it’s perfect for that guy. And then you’ve got that hot can I say that? Hot Asian girl. And she’s being looking Asian female, and she’s being played by a guy who says, well, this is out of the movie, so I’m allowed to say that, right? He says, Well, I figured if I was going to see some ass wiggling in front of my screen all day, I’d make it a good one. So I’m this guy playing a girl, but, yeah, so you have to check it out anyway.

Sam [00:14:49]:

It’s going to be a web series. Yeah, it’s got very good production values. Looks amazing.

Chris [00:14:55]:

So it’s being made in Auckland. They did most of the filming they’ve already done, so apparently they’ve finished the pilot. I haven’t seen the pilot yet. I’ve just seen the trailer. But they’ve done the pilot. They filmed it all within the bounds of Auckland. Excuse me. If they get funding, they’re hoping to go further afield and get some location shooting in some of the nicer parts of New Zealand, where they do Lord of the Rings type stuff and what have you.

Sam [00:15:23]:

It would definitely fit in there.

Chris [00:15:25]:

Oh, yeah, it’s a fantasy film and it looks I actually love the characters. I’ve only seen what it’s got in Kickstarter here. They were at Armageddon when I went up to Armageddon the other week, but I didn’t see them. I learnt about this after I got back and I was like, yeah, I.

Sam [00:15:43]:

Saw them with a few photos with the celebrities. They were dressed up next because they.

Chris [00:15:49]:

Got to see Jenna. I missed Jenna. Yeah, let’s not start on that again.

Sam [00:15:55]:

I’m fine. It’s you I’m worried about with that one.

Chris [00:15:59]:

Anyway. So, yeah, so definitely check out AFK. And I would suggest that you back them because I want to see that series made, which would be awesome.

Sam [00:16:09]:

Yeah, very good.

Chris [00:16:11]:

And just interrupt the dead air there for a second. So, we’ve got a meeting with our Star Wars outcast guys this weekend, so we’re going to find out where we’re going and what we’re doing next and how we’re going with everything. So that’d be quite cool.

Sam [00:16:24]:

Oh, cool. So have you done all the individual stories?

Chris [00:16:27]:

No, no, we’ve filmed three episodes. We’ve got to refilm one because the lighting was we didn’t film it well in low light. It’s basically what I’m trying to say. So if you refilm one and then we’ve got two more that we have to film the are location shoots, so we’ve got to do them on location at different places. So I don’t think we’ve even scouted out the location. So hopefully we’ll get the five done before Christmas, or filmed before Christmas. But we are actually thinking about being a lot smarter this time and filming the last two and the featurette, the 20 minutes featurette, all at the same time.

Sam [00:17:06]:

That makes sense. In my head.

Chris [00:17:09]:

It does. It makes a lot of sense. And we were bouncing back and forth and it was quite painful. But that’s the experience. We are living and we are learning.

Sam [00:17:18]:

Yes, I’d say so.

Chris [00:17:22]:

That’s much better.

Sam [00:17:23]:

Yeah.

Chris [00:17:25]:

All right, so what else is new? What have we got on our list.

Sam [00:17:28]:

We have nothing on our list. We’re not that organized. Although did you know that Microsoft have now made all the Office programs on Android and tablets and Apple and all that free now? You used to have to have an Office 365 subscription, which is the new way they do things now. And then once you had that subscription, you could get these apps and do your documents on the go. So the workaround for that was you’d have to use Google Docs or something else that was free. Anyway, they’ve done a partnership with Dropbox now, so all their stuff will be uploaded to the cloud and yeah, I think it was today they said you can all have them for free. So all the apps are free now for Office products.

Chris [00:18:14]:

That’s odd. That’s great.

Sam [00:18:16]:

It’s a big turnaround. It’s a big turnaround.

Chris [00:18:18]:

But that’s so surprising.

Sam [00:18:19]:

You do have to sign up, like you download it and then it says enter in your Microsoft details. So it’s all free. But you do have to sign up for their account or something.

Chris [00:18:31]:

Yeah, well, just like you have to sign up for a Gmail account to get Google Docs or whatever. Yeah, no, it’s interesting because this is about a year ago, less than a year ago, I was talking to some of our friends from New Zealand Post and New Zealand Post use Google Docs.

Sam [00:18:49]:

A lot for they use Chromebooks.

Chris [00:18:51]:

Yeah, they use Chromebooks and Google Docs for all their internal things. And so this is quite a largeish corporation and they use all this stuff. They don’t paying a corporate rate. That enterprise account that I know of, I might be wrong, but they do all this stuff and they love the fact that you can do that collaborative approach on Google Docs. So a couple of people can be in there talking will they call them the RFP request for procurement? Yeah, something like that, I think so. So you do an RFP and you got a couple of people from different parts of the organization working on the same document at the Sam time at different points and then flagging things to say, chris, check this for me. Sam you do Chris one and they’re all working on it and they can get it done so much more quickly, whereas the Microsoft 365 still at that point couldn’t do that. I don’t know if it still can. Only one person could be in there at a time, but anyone could access it, but only one at a time.

Sam [00:19:50]:

Actually talking about that and I’m trying to think what the name of it’s called. I’ve got a friend whose son’s an intermediate and going to high school, but they are trialing and I don’t know how many schools are trialing it. Google has a cloud based solution for schools education and they’ve got teachers out there using it now with classrooms and the kids are submitting work and doing work collaboratively and doing all this stuff.

Chris [00:20:17]:

I tell you that. Collaborative work, I think, is the future for kids and stuff. They need to learn how to work collaboratively. This whole do things yourself, it isn’t a great skill. And this was a big epiphany for me. I’m going to get personal for a second here, okay? For me this week was that was me kicking the microphone again, okay? Was that I have always been far too self or tried to be self sufficient. I haven’t worked as a team. I haven’t trusted the people to work with me to get things done. And I realized this week this has held me back in a lot of things that I do, even to the degree, let’s say, for example, social media club. So that’s pretty much where I met you. But I don’t want to disparage anybody else. I’m not disparaging what their input is, but it feels like the last year it’s pretty much just been me organizing it. And you can only do that for so long by yourself. So you sort of need to have that team. And what I think is the best skill that I personally could get now, and why I mentioned this with kids is that if I could learn to build a team, work a team, motivate that team, and integrate it into all the projects that I’m doing, I’d do a lot better than I currently am.

Sam [00:21:47]:

It definitely is a thing to get your head around. So I think we’re it is a skill set. It is. And because we weren’t digital natives, that’s the term for kids now. They grow up and they’ve got these computers and tablets and being connected to everything, whereas it was probably just starting as I was leaving high school and I wouldn’t have been around. I’m guessing when you’re in that time, that’s being politically correct and we’re in the middle of the change, so it’s a bit hard sometimes to get hit around.

Chris [00:22:20]:

Yeah. I remember when I first came across bulletin boards and like, one computer can talk to another, but in a very linear fashion. There was none of this social media and collaborative things that we have today. So anyway, that’s just, again, highlighting my advanced years. But at least I am self aware enough to know that I need to learn a new skill set, and that is to build and manage teams.

Sam [00:22:50]:

Very good.

Chris [00:22:51]:

Now you look like you’ve got something over there.

Sam [00:22:53]:

No, I don’t, actually. I don’t. I have nothing. I was just reading email.

Chris [00:22:59]:

Well, I’m boring him. I hope I’m not boring you guys out there listening.

Sam [00:23:03]:

No, you’re not boring me. I just multitask and start staring at things. So we’ve brought a lot of stuff from AliExpress.

Chris [00:23:11]:

AliExpress is our friend.

Sam [00:23:12]:

Aliexpress.com. Check it out.

Chris [00:23:14]:

And the app, grab the app if you’ve got Android.

Sam [00:23:17]:

I’ve just got this email come through and it’s come from New Zealand. Post USHOP division, and I’ve never heard of this, but I do know AliExpress has got a big sale on the 11th of the eleven the, right?

Chris [00:23:28]:

Yeah, my dad’s birthday.

Sam [00:23:30]:

Okay, cool. Yeah, mine’s on the 12th. My dad’s on the 12th of the 12th.

Chris [00:23:35]:

Look at that.

Sam [00:23:37]:

So that’s cool. And they’ve got some ridiculous prices. Like they’re showing you there’s like a watch on there for, like they’ve got 50 the for sale, so that’s all good, but I didn’t realize there’s a name for this whole thing. It’s called Singles Day. Did you know this?

Chris [00:23:52]:

1111 one one singles, 24 hours of.

Sam [00:23:55]:

Sales, 270,000,000 Eshoppers, $10 billion in sales expect. So apparently it started as a joke. It started as a joke among Chinese students to celebrate being single. It’s now the world’s biggest shopping event, with the major retailers like Tmail.com or sorry, Tmall.com. Never heard of it, but I’m assuming I’m going to check that out in a minute. Amazon, China, and Alibaba all taking part. Interesting.

Chris [00:24:20]:

See? I like that already. Better than Valentine’s Day? I haven’t had to worry about Valentine’s Day for ten years. In the last ten years, singles Day got my vote.

Sam [00:24:34]:

Yeah. And actually, by the time you hear that, that sale would have been over. And I’ll inform you if we if I brought anything awesome or not, but.

Chris [00:24:43]:

I was just oh, yeah, that’s only a couple of days away.

Sam [00:24:45]:

It’s only a couple of days away. As we’re recording this, we try and have a few rode up, but what I was going to ask you, Chris yes. It’s November. It’s leading up to December. Are you a big gift buyer and trying to work out what to get people? Like, I have to be really mindful of saving money throughout the year to have stuff.

Chris [00:25:03]:

I don’t buy anything for anybody ever, really, seriously. So I grew up quite strictly a Jehovah’s Witness.

Sam [00:25:12]:

Okay.

Chris [00:25:13]:

So there was no Christmas, there were no birthdays. I turned up to my sister’s 21st birthday, and I brought a friend of mine, Carolyn Down. You’ve met Carolyn? Carolyn, yeah, because we’ve been friends for a long time. And I said, oh, you want to come down to Wellington? And we’ll go and see Val for my sister for a 21st. And we get there and Carolyn has a present. And I went, because you would never have I should have got a present for a 21st. Didn’t even occur to me. Wasn’t even a thought. It’s like, never thought of it. So, yeah, no, I don’t do that.

Sam [00:25:46]:

That’s got to be good in some respects.

Chris [00:25:48]:

Yeah, it is good. It’s just every now and again, it’s still such an alien concept. And I’m like, oh, yeah, I should have thought of that. I just didn’t, because I never have.

Sam [00:26:00]:

Kids are funny. You get them to write a list and say, what would you like for Christmas? And the list keeps going on and on, and now you get to the point where they’re playing all sorts of ads on TV for kids toys.

Chris [00:26:11]:

I want that thing and that one.

Sam [00:26:13]:

And that one, but I only want that one in blue. Okay. See what we can do. But it’s funny because even my daughter admits I’ve got so much stuff. I think I’ve got everything I need.

Chris [00:26:25]:

Oh, really? I really like and this might sound a bit sappy or whatever, but I really liked what Tony Robbins did a few years back. I read this or heard it on an audio years ago, but basically he took his kids and with little gifts, I think it was just balloons and stuff, and took them to old persons home for Christmas and just said, give things away and make old people smile. And that was their gift for Christmas and it was just the gift of giving. That sounds so old fashioned.

Sam [00:26:59]:

Old fashioned, yeah. Anyway, another way of thinking about it, and it’s good if you’ve got the spare cash, but it’s to get people an experience.

Chris [00:27:06]:

Oh, yeah, I’m totally about that experience.

Sam [00:27:10]:

So last year, me and my mum went ziplining.

Chris [00:27:13]:

Really?

Sam [00:27:14]:

Yeah.

Chris [00:27:15]:

Oh, awesome.

Sam [00:27:16]:

Yeah, in ruddera Canopy tours, I think it’s called.

Chris [00:27:19]:

Yeah, I heard about that because we were going to go one time.

Sam [00:27:22]:

Awesome.

Chris [00:27:24]:

Yeah. No, I totally agree. I think experiences are things that you can never lose. People can’t take them away from you.

Sam [00:27:32]:

You can’t recreate the exactly.

Chris [00:27:35]:

And it’s the group, usually the people that you take on that experience with you.

Sam [00:27:39]:

Definitely.

Chris [00:27:40]:

That’s awesome. Oh, cool.

Sam [00:27:42]:

So I’d be thinking of doing some other things in the future.

Chris [00:27:45]:

Yeah, we should totally do a canopy podcast. Maybe not.

Sam [00:27:54]:

Maybe not. I think at some point we may need to do some video, maybe. I’m not sure.

Chris [00:28:00]:

Yeah, we can do that. We have the technology.

Sam [00:28:05]:

We do?

Chris [00:28:06]:

Sure. I just don’t know if we just.

Sam [00:28:09]:

Trying to get round to doing it and having the motivation to edit it well enough.

Chris [00:28:13]:

Just get the mixer set up again this time. Oh, yeah.

Sam [00:28:16]:

We plugged it in the wrong put it in the wrong socket and you can’t hear anything properly.

Chris [00:28:21]:

We got a sus now. What else was I going to say? There was something I was going to talk about just before, but I forgot.

Sam [00:28:28]:

I have no idea.

Chris [00:28:29]:

No, that’s all on the list in your head. Yes, and that list keeps getting buried. Okay, so I was going to talk about a story. Do we want to have time? Do we have time for a story?

Sam [00:28:42]:

Depends how long the story is. What’s the story involved?

Chris [00:28:44]:

Story?

Sam [00:28:47]:

We’re going to save the story for next time. What does it involve?

Chris [00:28:51]:

What was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me? This is my story that I had up my sleeve just in case we ran out of things to talk about, but I didn’t realize we’ve actually been going for. 30 minutes.

Sam [00:29:00]:

I know. It’s quite surprising how fast time goes.

Chris [00:29:02]:

Yes. So I’ve managed to waffle on enough.

Sam [00:29:06]:

So in episode seven no go backwards. Episode two or three, you shared another yeah. Story.

Chris [00:29:15]:

Shared the pisha. That was my second most embarrassing and.

Sam [00:29:19]:

I shared my pube CD story. So if you want to find that it’s a good little quick story. Was the only one I could think of.

Chris [00:29:27]:

Yeah. So this one is a little bit more in depth and is quite long. Okay, we’ll do that sometime.

Sam [00:29:34]:

That’s definitely going to feature in another podcast episode.

Chris [00:29:37]:

All right, so that’s pretty much it from us. So we’ve got itunes. Check us out on itunes, please. If you feel good about what we’re doing here, leave a review.

Sam [00:29:50]:

Leave a review and a rating.

Chris [00:29:52]:

Yeah. Because apparently those things help us I don’t know. Yeah.

Sam [00:29:55]:

Helps us get found more, I think, how they display things.

Chris [00:29:59]:

And of course, you can always share it with your friends if you so desire.

Sam [00:30:04]:

Check us out on Facebook.com. Thecrisandsampodcast yes.

Chris [00:30:09]:

Do we have a Twitter handle? Are we going to do that? Chris and Sam.

Sam [00:30:12]:

Chris and Sampod is our Twitter account. And that’ll be up and running by the time you listen to this.

Chris [00:30:17]:

Yeah. We don’t know how much we’re going to be using that yet because we’ve just that out. But we’ll see.

Sam [00:30:23]:

We’ll definitely have the links to the later shows up there.

Chris [00:30:26]:

Yeah.

Sam [00:30:26]:

We’ll definitely have a bit of conversation going backwards and forwards.

Chris [00:30:29]:

Yeah. And you can certainly tweet us and let us know what you like, what you don’t like, what you’d like to hear, what you wouldn’t like to hear. And we might listen to you or.

Sam [00:30:40]:

Get hold of us if you want to be on the show.

Chris [00:30:41]:

Yeah, absolutely. We are keen to get some people along here to have some guests on.

Sam [00:30:48]:

Yeah.

Chris [00:30:49]:

And we will actually we will have my friend Carl, the lush monster that’s on Twitter.

Sam [00:30:56]:

Yeah, it’s his Twitter handle.

Chris [00:30:57]:

It’s his gaming handle, too. I think there’s gaming handle for he’s.

Sam [00:31:01]:

A gamer throwing through.

Chris [00:31:02]:

Yeah. So he just did a tour through Asia, and one of the featured parts of his tour was he went to the Lol League of Legends league of Legends semifinals. I think it was building up. Yeah. So he went to I think he went to Two. He was planning on going to Two. I think it was in Taipei and somewhere else. And the thing that made me laugh was that I forget which city. He was like, oh, we want to be here for this weekend to the travel agent. And she’s like, are you sure? Isn’t that the weekend before the Grand Prix? On the weekend before? And he goes, I don’t want to go to the Grand Prix. I want to go to the League of Legends.

Sam [00:31:39]:

That’s just people just doing generalizations of when people want to travel.

Chris [00:31:43]:

And she goes, I don’t think there is that thing on, but the Grand Prix definitely on. Anyway, he goes the next weekend, goes to Legal Legends and he goes and I saved $3,000 on our accommodation because it was the next week.

Sam [00:31:58]:

Yeah, so we’ll definitely have him on and we’ll listen to his amazing stories.

Chris [00:32:02]:

Yeah, looking forward to it. Okay, so it all from us. Have a great week.

Sam [00:32:07]:

Yep. Until next time. See ya.

Chris [00:32:09]:

Bye. Hope you enjoyed the show. Make sure to subscribe and we’ll catch you next week. Don’t forget to tell your friends.