Summary
This week Chris has finally got Covid. Sam saw the latest mission impossible movie and found random shops in his travels.
After 20 years filming of power rangers in NZ has come to and end. Who is Bobby Broccoli? What’s the deal with Europe passing some new laws on soil and we learn how donkeys make the best security guards.
Links
Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1
Last Stop Donkey Charity
Europe is passing a law on soil
Filming of power rangers in NZ comes to an end after 20 years
Bobby Broccoli YouTube Channel
Te Huia Train being Banned from Auckland City
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:06]:
Hello and welcome to episode 438 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. And this is your weekly fix of randomness technology in life and a little sprinkling of COVID Welcome along.
Chris [00:00:35]:
Yes. So finally the big C is caught up with me.
Sam [00:00:40]:
No, not the big not the big.
Chris [00:00:41]:
C. The smaller C. Yeah, whatever. Another C. Yeah, so finally, I have tested positive for COVID. So I’ve been crooked a couple of times and thought it must be COVID by now and I’ve always tested negative. And so I’m like, I don’t trust it. I think I’m just doing it wrong. But this time I was like, I don’t know if it’s that bad because I’m pretty sure I was sick or worse.
Sam [00:01:08]:
It is a bit weird.
Chris [00:01:10]:
But, yeah, I went test. I better test because I got pretty bad pretty quick. Like Friday, Saturday, I was just suddenly pretty sick. And then I have never seen that line just blow up so quick. Like, you’re supposed to wait 15 minutes by five minutes. It was like a pen across there. It was like, Holy crap.
Sam [00:01:30]:
That’s right. That’s how they get you. So shout out to everybody that has made it through the school holidays. It’ll be the last day of the school holidays when this comes out. I hope you’re okay mentally prepared to make your children go back to school.
Chris [00:01:46]:
I’m sure they will be. I’ll be out of isolation on Monday, too, so I will be able to double walk or whatever.
Sam [00:01:54]:
Double celebration time.
Chris [00:01:57]:
Yes, I reckon.
Sam [00:01:58]:
Hey, the other day, I Sam. The latest Mission Impossible movie at the movies. Yes.
Chris [00:02:05]:
I didn’t know it was out of the movie. I mind you, I haven’t been paying attention.
Sam [00:02:08]:
It literally only just came out.
Chris [00:02:10]:
All right.
Sam [00:02:12]:
The reason I saw it is because Sarah and I helped her uncle get a job within two days, thanks to the magic of Chat GPT.
Chris [00:02:23]:
And he chatted you some tickets. Nice.
Sam [00:02:25]:
He did. It was a bit funny because he applied for a certain job and we were like, you haven’t told us anything about this job. And he goes, oh, yeah, I used to own a store that did that. And then I brought shares in another company way back in the day. So when they read his CV, they asked around from like, 25 years ago and the people said, you’re an idiot if you do not employ this man. So they gave him a job on the phone and he’s going there in a couple of weeks. He’s in Hamilton now. This job is in Christchurch. So, anyway oh, nice. 2 hours and 43 minutes.
Chris [00:03:00]:
Oh, that is long Tom Cruise time.
Sam [00:03:03]:
Yeah. They really liked explaining the plot multiple times every time a new character appeared. So they did that, which was a bit weird because I was like, yeah, I get it. I get what you’re telling me. And then they also but it’s for the millennials.
Chris [00:03:20]:
Just to keep reminding the.
Sam [00:03:24]:
I think they could have cut half an hour off this film if they just tightened it up. But they had a bit of backstory about the IMF. Like, it was almost like if you’ve never seen a Mission Impossible film before, so Sarah never had seen one before, and she wasn’t 100% sure if she was going to like it. It held her attention for the whole period of time, which is really good.
Chris [00:03:45]:
That’s impressive.
Sam [00:03:46]:
And she was like, I think I might want to see the very first one now. I’m like, okay, cool.
Chris [00:03:53]:
Because I really like that very first one. That first one was fantastic. Yeah, the second remember all the others? I remember the burge one, whatever that is.
Sam [00:04:02]:
This is part one of Dead Reckoning, and part two is happening at some point.
Chris [00:04:08]:
It’s a little bit like the yeah, I know what I’m thinking. Nobody else does, because it’s a two.
Sam [00:04:15]:
Part story and I can’t tell you Kill Bill.
Chris [00:04:18]:
I was thinking like, Kill Bill one and Two is what I was thinking.
Sam [00:04:21]:
There was one bit that was very James Bondish, which watching it, I was like, this is a bit weird. Anyway, it was pretty good for Mission Impossible.
Chris [00:04:32]:
Yeah, I like Mission Impossible.
Sam [00:04:34]:
That’s some good stunts.
Chris [00:04:35]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:36]:
So that happened.
Chris [00:04:37]:
Cool.
Sam [00:04:39]:
I’m going to have to find this thing. I was in Ruddera this week, and I also was in Toweringer for a little bit. And I’ve heard of this place, and it’s called Xanadu Book Exchange, which makes sense. This is in Papamoa, and apparently a woman started it. She has three commercial buildings. I’ll send you some photos later because it’s hard to visualize it. One building has got games, jigsaw puzzles, DVDs and records. The whole industrial building has that in it and a couple of books. And then she said, oh, if you go two doors down, that’s where all our books are. Okay. So we went down there and there was like, I don’t know, hundreds of thousands of books on shelves. And it set up like a maze. For some reason. We went down one aisle and it got narrower and narrower. And then there was a dead end around the corner. And I was like, oh, damn it, we got to go back the other way. And the they’ve got a third building, which they like to call their collectibles. There’s some stuff. More junk than collectibles, I think, so that was pretty cool. Check that out if you want to find something. I think all the DVDs are $5. There’s thousands of those.
Chris [00:06:02]:
That does sound familiar. Like the Xander do thing. It’s like I’m sure I’ve heard that.
Sam [00:06:08]:
I think there was a news story maybe six months ago. Yeah. I don’t know but after that, we went to the beach just to have a look around Papama Beach. And this woman walks up to me. She’s got two little boys with her, and she goes, hi, are you going for a walk along the beach? Sorry, I’m already on the beach. And I’m just like, yes. And I’m like, I don’t know where this is going. Spidey senses are tingling. I’m getting ready to bust out some sort of move. But she’s like, I’ve dropped my phone. If you find a gold colored a phone and a gold case and I’m not here, can you just put it on the tire on the Hyundai in the car park? And I’m like, yeah, okay, sweat ass. So we wandered around, wandered around. And then her husband appeared from over the sand dunes, and he’s like, oh, have you found it? And she’s like, no. And then she goes, oh, my God, there it is. She just looks down, and there it is. So she found the phone. Not a problem. We walk back to the car park.
Chris [00:07:14]:
Because you would think, what’s colors sand? It’s not iron. Gray? I’m thinking, no, the other coast gold phone would stand out still a little bit. You’d think from yeah.
Sam [00:07:29]:
In my brain, as I was scanning around, I was like, I’m assuming it’s not buried. And I’m looking for a rectangle or a square, which doesn’t fit in a beach scenario.
Chris [00:07:41]:
Looking for that pixel out of place.
Sam [00:07:44]:
That’s right. So anyway, it gets even better. I get back to the car park, and there’s a woman probably in her 60s, getting out of a car. And away from the car is a small boy, which must be her grandson, and a dog over at this park. She gets out of the car, and she says, hi, excuse me. And I look, and her hazard lights are going. And she goes, I have no idea why my lights are going. Do you know? I was like.
Chris [00:08:14]:
Sounds like you’re in the town with the pod people.
Sam [00:08:18]:
Yeah, I know.
Chris [00:08:19]:
It felt like it sounds like a Rick and morty.
Sam [00:08:25]:
She got out of the car, and I just leaned in, and in the middle, at the top, like most cars, it’s this giant rectangle hazard light. And I just pressed it, and they turned off. I said it was the hazard light. So she looked at me and went, oh, the hazard lights. And then she turns around and yells to this kid who’s like, across this car park, it’s okay. This man fixed it. I’m like, okay. I don’t know what’s going on.
Chris [00:08:56]:
Oh, God.
Sam [00:08:57]:
That happened. And then, as is tradition, it’s about the right time of the year for a TV production company to get hold of me for pumpkins. All right? So this guy called Tom emailed me, and he goes, hey, I know. Like, he did some research. I will give it to this guy. Hey, I know that there’s no pumpkins right now, but I was hoping does somebody have a dried one? If not, we’re trying to recreate a pumpkin event. Can I talk to you about that? And I was emailed him back, I was like, yes. Sweet, here’s my number. He rang me in like, 10 seconds because they’re filming this next week.
Chris [00:09:40]:
Oh, gosh, yeah. Nothing like last minute, but that’s typical.
Sam [00:09:46]:
So he talks to me and I said he goes, oh, thanks so much for replying so quickly. And I said, no, that’s fine, I get it. You’re filming next week. You have to figure this out. And he goes, oh, we’re doing a TV ad for I won’t say who, but, like, rural people, and we’re recreating a pumpkin event. And it’s one of the ones I’ve been to in the South Island. And I was like, oh, yeah, I’ve been to that. And he goes, oh, okay, cool. I was thinking of doing it in a hall with some hay bales. How do they weigh the scale? How do they weigh the pumpkins? I’m thinking like this. And I said, yeah, that’s cool. But I said, you have to realize that we’ve weighed pumpkins that weigh over 800 kilos. But most people, when you think over 60 kilos, they freak out about. So I said, as long as you get the anticipation and people wanting to know what a pumpkin weighs and the excitement, it doesn’t matter that the pumpkin isn’t as big as me. He goes, okay. And he goes, and you’re sure nobody has a pumpkin? Because he goes, this ad is just about to get real expensive. I’m about to press buttons on 3D printers to make pumpkins. And I was like, oh, yeah, Noah’s got one of those. I said, I wish I had them, because then I could just rent them out to you guys. He goes, look, at the end of these ads, we just throw most of the stuff away. So if they don’t want this, I’ll get in touch and I’ll see if I can get it to you.
Chris [00:11:11]:
Yes.
Sam [00:11:14]:
So anyway, that happened.
Chris [00:11:16]:
Oh, that’s cool. Yeah, we’ve talked about this before, and absolutely you need to invest in some I don’t know what you call it, lacquer or something to put on the outside of a pumpkin.
Sam [00:11:31]:
Oh, no, I think you would have to make one from scratch, but you’d use a real one to look at. I’ve seen someone’s on YouTube, they’re made out of polystyrene and they’re really good. All right. And then the do either some sort of fiberglass or some sort of coating. The painting of them, I think will be the key. You need somebody that works with props, I think, to say, you know what? That will look pretty good on a camera. I don’t know. But anyway, that’s a future project. Let’s add it to the list.
Chris [00:12:10]:
Chris, add to the list. Add to the list. Yeah, I’ve been a bit braindead with this whole COVID thing. I’ve done a lot of sleeping over the last few days. I am feeling a lot better. I’m not coughing right now, which is impressive.
Sam [00:12:29]:
That’s a top tip for podcasting, is don’t cough.
Chris [00:12:31]:
While I know, but one of the things I did do is I ended up watching this thing. Have you ever heard of Bobby Broccoli?
Sam [00:12:41]:
What the hell is that?
Chris [00:12:43]:
It’s a guy it’s a YouTube channel. Bobby Broccoli, I’ve never heard of him. I have no idea why this popped up in my feed, but I ended up watching his thing called America’s Missing Collider and it was actually three of his he does long form videos. Anyway, there’s three of these videos stuck together which was like two and a half. It was almost 3 hours, I think. But of course I’m in COVID fog, so it didn’t matter.
Sam [00:13:11]:
Do you want me to read out his blurb?
Chris [00:13:13]:
Yeah, go for it.
Sam [00:13:14]:
He says howdy I do deep dive. Brockumentaries is what he calls them, into science scandals and controversies. Currently I animate and blender and previously dabbled in Google Earth for a bit. He studied engineering, physics and photonics in school. My old videos focused on video game content. Shout out if you’ve been here since the SpongeBob days.
Chris [00:13:34]:
Yeah, so he’s pretty cool. I really liked this. America’s missing Collider, which is SSE. It was called the Superconducting Super Collider.
Sam [00:13:49]:
Okay.
Chris [00:13:49]:
Because it was so big in the 80s, when they started it, they had to use the word super twice in the acronym. Anyway, the way he does it, he has this visualization representation of these years and he’s putting these little tiles in as he goes along. When it started off, I was like, this looks really neat. But as it goes through, particularly because it’s long and it’s winding story and it keeps skipping back and forward in time to go, this happens here, so this happens here. It was very effective just from the logic of it. I didn’t put the link in there, did I?
Sam [00:14:36]:
I’ve got it here. That’s fine. I haven’t watched it yet. I’ve just quickly scrubbed through this and yeah, it’s really looking interesting. How he’s transitioning from whatever he’s talking about to the facts and figures to the next section and the overall arching thing.
Chris [00:14:52]:
I think he’s got somebody else writing it because I think everyone’s written by Kevin or Keanu or some weird name. But anyway, yeah, definitely worth checking out. I’m going to check out some more of Chris stuff. But there’s no way normally that I would spend 3 hours watching a video. I did send that to you going, I’m really enjoying this, surprisingly enough, but I don’t know if you have time for it.
Sam [00:15:17]:
I’ve got to carve it out, but it’s nothing like having a spicy cough to give you a bit more time in your day. Yeah. Did you see the news? So, obviously for school holidays, I’m staying at my parents house and they’ve got the TV on all the time. The news is on. I don’t even know what they’re talking about half the time. That’s my parents and my sister. I don’t know what they’re on about. I’m just like, I don’t watch TV. I don’t know. Anyway, did you see the story about Tahuia, the train no. Has been banned from Auckland City.
Chris [00:15:49]:
Isn’t that the whole point is to.
Sam [00:15:51]:
Get from well, it can only go to papakura now. And the reason is, right, it failed to stop twice on a red light. It just kept going. It could have been catastrophic. It could have just crashed into another train on the Auckland system. Right. And this news article so is there.
Chris [00:16:15]:
A driver or what?
Sam [00:16:16]:
Yeah, it’s driver error. They said in this news article that I saw on TV, it’s driver error. Right. Okay. So they are now going to fit this train with new technology which will help it know that there’s a red light and stop the train, I guess, automatically or something, even if it just.
Chris [00:16:36]:
Makes a loud noise. Because you can understand why somebody, a driver of a train would lose concentration.
Sam [00:16:44]:
Yeah, but that’s what they do. That’s what they’re supposed to be doing. Anyway, it’s going to take more than twelve months to design, install and test this system that they have to make from scratch, apparently, which is mind blowing.
Chris [00:16:58]:
Yeah. And all the trains which have been going for over 100 years now, nobody’s thought, hey, we should have an automatic system to get it to stop.
Sam [00:17:08]:
I don’t know if it’s just this train and the other trains have it, it sounds really weird. And I’m wondering here’s the conspiracy theory. There’s someone trying to stop this train from running.
Chris [00:17:19]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:17:20]:
Throwing it out there.
Chris [00:17:21]:
Yeah. I think there are people who want to stop all trains from running. There should be nothing on the road except my limousine. Screw everybody else. That’s what it should be. I’m pretty sure. Maybe one or two of those people around.
Sam [00:17:37]:
Maybe. Hang on, wait. The I got to reach over my desk and find this random book I got.
Chris [00:17:47]:
Yes, it sounds bad, people. You should see the camera on my screen.
Sam [00:17:51]:
Hang on, I can’t hear you.
Chris [00:17:52]:
I know.
Sam [00:17:55]:
I’m back. How’s that? Yes. Taking one for the team. So while I’m on holiday the other day was it yesterday? All my days blew into one, as you know, just with COVID We went to a bunch of op shops in Rotora and my sister says to me, hey, there’s this real weird op shop. I think it’s run by the Red Cross, but I’m not sure. Maybe it’s behind Countdown. Yeah, we should go there. Okay. So went to meet her there.
Chris [00:18:28]:
Can you define a weird op shop or are you getting to that?
Sam [00:18:32]:
I’ll get to it. So she goes, yeah, behind countdown. So in my head, there’s three Countdowns in ruddera. There’s one right in the city center, sort of so it’s not that one. There’s one near down the road from Skyline Skyrides, and then there’s one over on the other side where all the hotels are. And in my head because she said something about I said to her, is it near the place that while I just went to get that book, I knocked my drink over and I didn’t realize the lid was off. So there’s all this electronic stuff covered in water. Anyway, I’ll just carry on and if you see a bright spark, that’s what’s happened. Yeah. So anyway, I kept driving around thinking where it was and I couldn’t find it. And the goes, where are you? And I said, I don’t know, I’m behind this countdown. And then I was like, oh, damn it’s the other countdown. Then she goes, no, you just drove past me. And I’m like, where are you? So I went round the block and it’s across the road, down a long driveway, and then right at the back is some sort of recycling center. But in the front is this big weird building and they’ve got all this it’s a creepy building. I don’t know what it would have been like a creepy, creepy building. And it’s got a bunch of stuff. Heaps of some good stuff, some bad stuff, but a lot of different stuff. I got this book called The Six.
Chris [00:19:59]:
Professors who’s it by?
Sam [00:20:02]:
Robert a lowe. Okay, don’t I no, you won’t know him because the was the public relations officer for the city of Rotorua back in 1983, and he was worried about people becoming unemployed when they left high school because at the time, Rota had one of the highest unemployment rates. And this book is really weird. He’s got different professors who, what, when, where, how, and why, and he’s basically talking to millionaires in Rotora and saying, what did you do for a job and what do you do now? And how did you get there? Like, this dude is standing in front of his two Rolls Royces, and a lot of these people have never publicly spoke back in the day of how they made their money.
Chris [00:20:47]:
What year are we talking?
Sam [00:20:49]:
19 83.
Chris [00:20:50]:
83, okay.
Sam [00:20:51]:
Yeah, it’s real interesting. I’ve just started reading it and they got John Rolls to talk about his story. Anyway, that cost me $2. And here’s an ad on the back. The Accident compensation corporation, parents care society cares. Young men aged 15 to 24. Cool at you guys. Stop driving yourself to the grave.
Chris [00:21:18]:
Okay?
Sam [00:21:19]:
Look at that logo. That was ACC.
Chris [00:21:22]:
Yeah, I remember that ACC logo I’ve.
Sam [00:21:24]:
Never seen from my life. But look at that old ad. Anyway, checked out this op shop, got some random stuff.
Chris [00:21:29]:
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that was the ACC logo we had when I started working. Yeah. What did you say? You said something about that creepy building. So shout out to adam tomorrow, which will be gone by the time you’re listening to this. He’s going to spookers with his son for the day thing for the kid. That’d be cool.
Sam [00:21:56]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:57]:
The lights aren’t so on. May look a little naff. It doesn’t look as scary because you can see how it’s made, as it were. But when it’s a haul and shadow, you’ll be surprised how serious it is with the music going. They really tone it down for the kids because they don’t want to scare the kids.
Sam [00:22:19]:
No, that’s fair enough.
Chris [00:22:20]:
I think they walk them into the room and it’s all lit up and then they might turn the lights off and show you a bit and all that. They have a couple of actors just following, going around with the kids, so they don’t it’s a bit different, but yeah, it should be good. That should be fun. I wanted to give a shout out to Steve Chapel, who shared the podcast on LinkedIn. Assuming he’s listening to us.
Sam [00:22:46]:
Steve, no doubt, is listening to us. I am now friends with Steve on LinkedIn after I commented on that. So that’s pretty cool.
Chris [00:22:54]:
That was pretty good of him.
Sam [00:22:55]:
Yeah. We’re hopefully going to do some cool stuff next year. Yeah. Because I listen to the steve, we’re going to come up with something. Yeah.
Chris [00:23:03]:
No, absolutely. Because next year, I reckon we talked to Steve beforehand and say, give us a couple of people that you think we should be talking to as well. Might get him to yeah, totally.
Sam [00:23:15]:
We should have a planning session because we can write that off as a business expense, I think.
Chris [00:23:20]:
Yeah, we can certainly do that.
Sam [00:23:23]:
I had an idea today. I’ll tell you about that later. Did you know that the Power Rangers are finally ending production in New Zealand?
Chris [00:23:30]:
I didn’t know they were still going.
Sam [00:23:32]:
Neither did I. That was the bit that surprised me.
Chris [00:23:34]:
Yes.
Sam [00:23:35]:
I knew they had filmed here.
Chris [00:23:36]:
Yeah, because Paige was right into that a she did it.
Sam [00:23:40]:
Yeah. She helped out there and did some stuff for more than 20 years. Chris, it’s been filmed here. Okay.
Chris [00:23:47]:
I knew it’d been a while since it was started being man, I just feel so old all the time.
Sam [00:23:54]:
I know.
Chris [00:23:55]:
People keep going. Yeah, it’s 2023. I’m like, oh, 2013. No, it’s later than that. Shit. Everything after year 2000 just seems so recent.
Sam [00:24:06]:
That’s right. So they did ten years of production in the US and Japan and then they brought it to New Zealand in 2002 because it could be made for cheaper. They brought in over $340,000,000 into the New Zealand economy.
Chris [00:24:23]:
That’s pretty good.
Sam [00:24:24]:
And now they’re going to where are they going? I don’t know. They just said that they’re not quite as competitive because they can only give a tax rebate of about 20% with an extra 5% if the production meets a certain criteria.
Chris [00:24:44]:
Yeah, those tax rebate things, they’re a difficult thing to manage. And that’ll always fluctuate for any country. Like they always go up and down and being political type thing.
Sam [00:25:01]:
Yeah, totally.
Chris [00:25:02]:
Anyway, I got something that I think would be interesting for you, like would have intrigued you a little. Soil. Soil is quite important, isn’t it? It is. So Europe is just passing some law on soil, the European Union. Now, in Europe, 60% of the soil everywhere, presumably is of poor, is considered poor soil. Which sort of makes sense because they’ve been farming the hell out of Europe for junks, centuries and centuries. Whereas we’re pretty new to all of that here, so we don’t quite have as much problem. But that’s quite a huge percentage.
Sam [00:25:52]:
Right.
Chris [00:25:52]:
60% soil is poor, but what they reckon is in 60 years, the world’s soil at this current rate of consumption will be gone.
Sam [00:26:02]:
Oh, wow. Yes.
Chris [00:26:03]:
We won’t have soil anymore. So the law aims to limit the impacts to soil, which is thought to take 1000 years to develop. And if we only got 60 years left of it, I think aquaculture is going to be pretty cool, maybe.
Sam [00:26:19]:
Yeah. Vertical farming.
Chris [00:26:23]:
Yeah, exactly. All that stuff.
Sam [00:26:25]:
Yeah. That’s interesting. My cousin is really highly regarded in soil. I think Joe’s Cow’s wife all right.
Chris [00:26:35]:
Because she does well, I always say she does stuff with worms, but Carl goes, no, it’s actually soil, not worms.
Sam [00:26:42]:
Oh. She probably knows my cousin, I would.
Chris [00:26:44]:
Imagine it’s a small community.
Sam [00:26:46]:
Well, my cousin is based in Tasmania, but they fly her to New Zealand to give lectures. All right. And she’s currently in Europe on holiday. But I don’t know if she’s doing something over there as well.
Chris [00:26:57]:
What’s her name? Because Carol will be listening to this. Kerry.
Sam [00:27:01]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:27:04]:
Be interesting to see if Moira knows Kerry. Anyway, cool. All right, what else do I have? I didn’t have much else, really.
Sam [00:27:13]:
What? I find that hard to believe, dude. I saw this story and hang on, this is reading this on the fly. Donkeys make the best security guards, did you know that?
Chris [00:27:26]:
No. Why?
Sam [00:27:28]:
They are super territorial. You just chuck one in a paddock and they’ll protect your stock from pests.
Chris [00:27:34]:
Oh, that’s right. I remember hearing something about put a donkey in with your llamas and they protect all your llamas or something.
Sam [00:27:42]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:27:42]:
I think that’s what they do in South American countries, I think so. They do all this llama farming and then they have wolves or whatever, they have cats, whatever, and they throw a donkey in with them. But there’s a thing where you can’t have two donkeys. You can only have one donkey, and it bonds to the llamas that are there and it will fight off a predator. But if you put two donkeys in, they bond together and get rid of the llamas.
Sam [00:28:19]:
Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
Chris [00:28:21]:
Something like that. I don’t know why I know random shit like that, but there you go.
Sam [00:28:25]:
This is what I understand. It as if you only have one donkey by itself in a paddock. They get depressed.
Chris [00:28:31]:
Yes.
Sam [00:28:32]:
And that’s why you need more donkeys. But yes, you’re correct. So in Australia, they have feral donkeys and there’s a charity called Last Stop Donkey who rehabilitate these feral donkeys and turn them into security guards for farmers.
Chris [00:28:48]:
That’s pretty cool. What was the charity called again?
Sam [00:28:51]:
Last stop donkey.
Chris [00:28:53]:
Last stop donkey. Okay.
Sam [00:28:55]:
Yeah. So they get them introduced to people and get them a bit more friendly and they transport them to New South Wales. Yeah. Even if they’re not actually doing anything because they’re so territorial, they will run to you to find out what’s going on.
Chris [00:29:12]:
Cool.
Sam [00:29:13]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:29:14]:
I didn’t realize they’re that territorial. Other than that random fact about and.
Sam [00:29:20]:
This is where it catches many of the predators unaware. They mosey on down like they’re no threat. But then apparently the donkeys unleash their fury. Whatever’s not supposed to be there, they will take it out. They’ve seen them kill wild pigs and they will kill a dog. And it’s pretty full on.
Chris [00:29:39]:
Okay. Never knew that. I’m trying to think like I’m sure I’ve petted a donkey somewhere, but I couldn’t remember the last time I saw a donkey.
Sam [00:29:52]:
There’s a donkey farm if you go into Toweronga, and there’s one, I think, out the back of Moronsville.
Chris [00:29:57]:
Yeah, but yeah, they’re not you see.
Sam [00:29:59]:
A lot of no, but then if you’re not going out of your way to try and find one.
Chris [00:30:04]:
Yeah, true.
Sam [00:30:06]:
Anyway, that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast. Thanks for listening. I hope you’re all covered free and Chris has not given it to you.
Chris [00:30:16]:
Actually, that’s interesting point. I wonder if I caught this COVID from the Hamilton maybe because I couldn’t.
Sam [00:30:26]:
Figure out where you’d been. But yeah, now that you mean that.
Chris [00:30:28]:
Would be the only big gathering place? I mean, other than going to like supermarket or dairy type yeah, that would.
Sam [00:30:36]:
Be I mean, it’s out there. Yeah, still out there. So anyway, stay safe and until next week, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:42]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:30:42]:
See ya.
Chris [00:30:43]:
Bye.
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Chris has Covid finally, Sam found some random shops. We learn about donkeys being the best security guards and so much more.
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