Summary
Chris has faster internet now which is making his life better.
We learn about a guy who decided to see if he could hold his breath longer, turns out he couldn’t and he died.
Sam saw Extraction 2 this week and gives his review on that. All while being angry the amount of money Countdown is spending to change back to Woolworths.
Would you hire clothing if you were traveling? We hear about a new company that’s wanting to do just that.
We touch on the tragedy that is the Auckland shooting. Discuss the Hamilton Comedy club.
And we round off this episode talking about deep drilling into the crust of the earth.
Video
Links
Man drowns after trying to hold his breath longer in a pool
Extraction 2
Countdown changing to Woolworths
Anywear, Anywhere
Auckland Shooting
Two Bit Divinci YouTube channel
Quaise Energy
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 439 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randoms technology and life and high speed Internet. For Chris.
Chris [00:00:34]:
Well, yeah. So I’ve got new Internet. It has doubled my download and tripled my upload.
Sam [00:00:43]:
Your upload was one?
Chris [00:00:45]:
Yeah, exactly. Well, no, it’s like 200 upload and 150 download or something.
Sam [00:00:54]:
Actually, it’s weird that your download is.
Chris [00:00:56]:
Less yeah, I reckon this area is pretty crap. Or that I’ve got looks like it was built in the 50s. They didn’t have fiber in the 50s, but looks like that’s where it came from.
Sam [00:01:10]:
Okay.
Chris [00:01:11]:
Actually, I’ll do a speed test now.
Sam [00:01:12]:
While we yeah, let’s find out. No, 200 up is pretty good. Better than 30 up.
Chris [00:01:17]:
Yeah, it was way better. And my brain also has had a speed increase since last week. It’s improved from the COVID somewhat.
Sam [00:01:33]:
Improved as much as it could possibly with the degradation of old age. There’s only so much science can do, Chris.
Chris [00:01:43]:
Well, yeah, okay. I’m not going to say anything else. We’ll see what happens when we get through some of the topics that I’ve got. That’s the real test, I guess.
Sam [00:01:54]:
Okay.
Chris [00:01:56]:
I’m just looking at a speed test now. It’s not looking as good as it was for upload yesterday or whenever I tested it because it was a day or so late. It was supposed to come in on Monday. Came in yesterday.
Sam [00:02:10]:
Are you using speedtest net?
Chris [00:02:12]:
Yes, speedtest net. I’ve got 247 down and 129 up.
Sam [00:02:16]:
Okay. I’ve just clicked the button to see what I’ve got. I have no idea.
Chris [00:02:20]:
I know you and Carl have way more than me. The were like, 500 down and 400 ups and stuff.
Sam [00:02:29]:
I don’t know. Yeah, but they must have just jammed everyone in that whole area, including the university. All on your yeah, there’s that.
Chris [00:02:38]:
And plus, I don’t know how much of an issue it is, but there’s a definite wall between the Wi Fi signaling thing and my oh, yeah.
Sam [00:02:49]:
You should run a cable and have a test just to see.
Chris [00:02:52]:
Well, Brent doesn’t listen to it. Our landlord doesn’t listen to this hole through the wall. Put a bloody through the wall because.
Sam [00:03:02]:
I’m currently 930 download and 550 up.
Chris [00:03:07]:
Holy crap. That’s ridiculous.
Sam [00:03:12]:
We’re good?
Chris [00:03:13]:
Yeah. I might drill a hole through the wall. Have you got a drill?
Sam [00:03:18]:
Yeah, I should have something that can do that.
Chris [00:03:20]:
There is a power supply right next to it, so I need to be careful.
Sam [00:03:26]:
I’ve got a tool that should be able to tell us where that cable is.
Chris [00:03:29]:
Nice.
Sam [00:03:30]:
On next week’s episode listen to how we blow ourselves up.
Chris [00:03:34]:
Chris is burned out in the house.
Sam [00:03:37]:
You know what you shouldn’t do? What’s that? Like a photographer told his wife he was going to hold his breath underwater, and then he died. Okay, so this guy was living he’s a Kiwi, he’s a respected Kiwi photographer, but he lived in the UK. He’s on holiday in Auckland, and for some reason, he was trying to see how long he could hold his breath for. And the day before, he did it for three minutes, and he says to his wife, I’m going to see if I can do it for longer. And he basically passed out at the bottom of the pool. And then ten minutes later, his wife realized he hadn’t come out of the pool at this accommodation in Auckland. This happened at the start of the year, and he’s dead now.
Chris [00:04:32]:
I’m speechless. I just don’t know what to just that’s the dumbest thing I know is that I could totally see myself doing that.
Sam [00:04:44]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:48]:
Because I remember going, right, I’m going to duck dive. Like, not dive into the water, but I’m swimming along the top of the water. I’m going to dive down and touch the bottom of the pool. And this was a diving pool and it was 16 foot deep. It was the tall diving boards and I’m vertical going down for what seems like ages. And I was only a kid, so I don’t know, I was like three foot tall or whatever, but I managed to touch the bottom. But I was definitely running out of air before I got to the yeah.
Sam [00:05:23]:
Yeah, I’ve done that before as a kid as well. At the Aquatic Center in Rotorua, they’ve got a pool that you can dive into and then next to it’s, the Lane pool, but blocking them off is this huge bulkhead thing, but you can swim under it. And there’s always signs, do not swim under it. So you’re always under it. Yeah, of course. So seems good. This week I saw Extraction Two. That’s the one with Chris hemsworth. You’ve seen extraction? One.
Chris [00:05:52]:
Have I?
Sam [00:05:53]:
Yeah, you saw it when it first came out on Netflix ages ago. And then I only just saw Extraction One so I could watch Extraction Two. It’s the one where he’s an ex mercenary. Whatever.
Chris [00:06:03]:
I remember that. I really liked it. I really liked it. Yeah, I was trying to remember it. Sound familiar?
Sam [00:06:09]:
But yeah, the second one you will like. It’s action packed. They’ve got some big one shot takes that they love to do. Lots of fighting, probably a bit more over the top than the first one. And a really dumb story that I don’t like. I highly recommend grabbing a copy of that to watch.
Chris [00:06:36]:
Actually, I’ve finished watching Succession, but I think there’s another season, right. So I’ve done three seasons.
Sam [00:06:43]:
No, yeah, there’s one more. There’s four seasons.
Chris [00:06:46]:
Right. I thought I’d watched all the Barry’s, but there’s another season of that as well. The downloading of these things is pretty crap. They’re just not giving me the last seasons on these things.
Sam [00:07:01]:
Where are you looking? You can easily get them. I’ve got them all from reputable resources. Yeah, well, I don’t know what you’re searching for. I will say what I did like about extraction two is it carries on from extraction one, and it shows how he’s stuffed up he is.
Chris [00:07:20]:
Oh, good. I have to rewatch extraction one, I think.
Sam [00:07:24]:
No, I don’t think you do. The extraction two shows you a little bit of the end of one, and then it carries on, so you’ll be fine.
Chris [00:07:32]:
I’ll probably want to watch it anyway.
Sam [00:07:35]:
No, don’t do that.
Chris [00:07:38]:
Hey, I wanted to talk a little bit about the American Heatwave, although the numbers I’ve put in here was, like, a few days ago. And they’ve broken these records now because I know they broke some records in Arizona this week, but when I noted these, it was 48 degrees Celsius in Miami Beach, and it was 52 degrees Celsius in Oklahoma City. That is really hot.
Sam [00:08:12]:
But we don’t have a global warming problem, so let’s not worry about it.
Chris [00:08:17]:
Because the reason I want to mention it was, like when I was in the Costell salsa, I was there for a couple of summers, and I was working physical work, laboring and stuff, construction site. The hottest. I remember it being because they had digital heat things all over the place was between 36 and 38. And that was hot. That was really hot. And if you were working in the sun, particularly out of the breeze, so there’s a lot of sea breezes where I was, which is okay. But there was a couple of times I’m working in places where there just wasn’t any wind there, and it was stifling. We were working in what was originally the walls of the fort, and they came down, and we’re in this corner, and the heat was just bouncing off this marble. I’m sure that might have been getting up to in the 40s, but do.
Sam [00:09:24]:
You think this is a dry heat or a humid heat? I have no idea.
Chris [00:09:31]:
I don’t know about oklahoma. I suspect it’s actually quite humid, because I spent a little bit of time in st. Louis, and that really hit me for how humid it was. And I think oklahoma I believe oklahoma is central as well. So I think it’s probably I will.
Sam [00:09:52]:
Take that as gospel, and if it ever comes up in a conversation in the future.
Chris [00:09:57]:
But miami, I assume, is more like because that’ll be on the coast. That was on the coast. So I don’t think that will be as humid, because you have that sea breeze and all the rest of yeah.
Sam [00:10:07]:
Yeah. Something that’s made me super angry this week, more angry than I should be, is countdown’s latest plans. Oh.
Chris [00:10:15]:
To go to hear. Did you hear the warehouse is renaming to decker?
Sam [00:10:24]:
Yeah, I heard that. $400 million. Don’t worry. We’ve been planning it for a little while. I think they could have handled it a bit better. They seem a bit tone deaf because cost of living crisis. But the best thing is that $400 million, Chris, it’s not going to come from the consumer. Don’t worry about pricing, we’ve got it covered. We’re going to bring in some new features and some stuff and, oh, there’s going to be a lot more jobs for our current staff. No, it’s just so much spin on this, it’s crap. So I’ve been a bit ragey on their Facebook page.
Chris [00:11:01]:
I didn’t see the price, I saw that they were changing it, but I never saw that price. I’m like, oh, okay, $400 million.
Sam [00:11:08]:
The have to go back to Woolworths. They’ve decided that that’s a good option. Somebody somewhere has got a bonus from this amazing idea, I’m sure of it. And they were well, they didn’t answer me, put it that way. They answered everybody else on their Facebook page and they’re, no, no, we’ve been planning this for a while and it’s going to be really good for everybody and they’re so vague. We might be able to bring in different products that New Zealand doesn’t. Nah, I hope, and I wrote that I hope Foodstuffs really does something about this and just smashes them in price or something, I don’t know.
Chris [00:11:45]:
Because I will say one thing, it does make some sense in terms of if Countdown is just a New Zealand thing and you’ve got all those cans know, because I’ve got them in the cupboard here, count down black beans and count down this and count down that. It does make sense that they use the same brand they’ve got in. So because the Food FANZ is legislation for both New Zealand and Australia, we share the same legislation. So it makes sense long term that all the brands are the same. But 400 million is a ridiculous amount of money. I would have thought it’d be more like the 30 to 40 million range I would have expected.
Sam [00:12:31]:
Well, it’s every single store has to be completely rebranded, every single uniform, every single system, every single everything. And apparently 15 years ago when they went to Countdown, that was because we had to have our own individual brand and we’re going to be the cheap alternative for New Zealand, blah, blah, blah, blah. And now, I don’t know. Anyway, it just got me super ragey. Just I don’t know, I think if they just said if the didn’t have a figure and they said, hey, look, we’re going to start changing over to Woolworths, I probably would have been okay with it. But they’re like, hey, guess what, guys? $400 million.
Chris [00:13:09]:
Yeah, so I didn’t hear the number and I didn’t give a crap, really, about it.
Sam [00:13:15]:
It’s changed your perspective a little bit.
Chris [00:13:17]:
Yeah. No, it is 400 million. It’s ridiculous. It is ridiculous. Hey, talking about not giving a crap about something, what’s your take on this thread thing. Have you been on it? Because I couldn’t find it. I tried to find it and you couldn’t find it? I looked up threads in the fucking Google Play Store and it goes, threads, brackets, not the meta one. And I couldn’t find another one. So I was like, well, that was a waste of time.
Sam [00:13:45]:
It’s the most downloaded app ever in the history. Nobody find well, no, of course people have found it, Chris. I don’t know what you’re looking up. If it’s not that one, it’s like the second one. I don’t know. It’s just threads by it says threads by Instagram, I think. Anyway, it’s great. Love it all over. It like a rash. All right. Yeah. It’s a very throwbacky feel to original Twitter. You can’t DM anyone? The feed is a mess of random people, but there’s a lot of people who had quit Twitter have come back on this thing and they’re just like, hey. They’re like saying hi to me. They’re like, hey, how’s it going? Haven’t seen you on here.
Chris [00:14:30]:
So your website Sam, of course, yes.
Sam [00:14:33]:
Use the same name. Well, I made sure that I use that Instagram account because it’s all sort of tied together. Yeah, it’s all right. I don’t know how it’s going to go, to be honest. So it looks like there you go.
Chris [00:14:47]:
Maybe I have another go crack at it.
Sam [00:14:49]:
Hang on, I’m going to have a look at the Play Store and see if I can find it for you. Or maybe your phone can’t have it.
Chris [00:14:59]:
There is a distinct possibility, but let’s not go there.
Sam [00:15:03]:
Hang on. Threads. Threads. An instagram app. And it’s that it’s hard to sam, it’s that black. Have you got it?
Chris [00:15:14]:
No, hang on. Just getting Play store. Okay.
Sam [00:15:17]:
They may have said that you’re too old for it, and they’re like, no.
Chris [00:15:22]:
All right, so if you’re listening to this oh, no, it’s the very first one. Or maybe I was just too early.
Sam [00:15:29]:
Whatever. You could download this before it released. I had it like two days before. I was just too early. Listen to them.
Chris [00:15:37]:
I’m so far ahead of the wave that I didn’t even get on the wave. Okay. I’m installing it right as we speak. Anyway, what else have I got here? I thought this was a pretty cool idea called Anywhere, Anywhere. But it’s spelled A-N-Y-W-E-A-R comma. A-N-Y-W-H-E-R-E. Good. Anywhere anywhere.
Sam [00:16:06]:
Yeah, that’s good.
Chris [00:16:08]:
Nothing like spelling on a podcast.
Sam [00:16:10]:
All right, but anyway, I thought you were going to say which way do you prefer to spell it? Or something?
Chris [00:16:14]:
No, that’s actually what it’s called. And so what it is, it’s in a bunch of hotels. It started in Japan, and if it takes off as sort of like a startup, I think it will spread and I think it will go. But the whole point is, if you’re going to stay at these hotels. You can not pack any clothing. You just rent clothing there. And the clothing will be ready for you at your hotel for up to two weeks. So it depends what you want. You pick it all ahead of time. Ahead of time with the app and all the rest of it. And you can go as basic as three summer sets of clothes. Or I want fashion. I need business, I need casual business and all this sort of stuff. And they reckon their big selling point that they’re pushing is that for every kilo of luggage you don’t take on the plane, you save X number of carbon dioxide emissions. I forget what it was, but it.
Sam [00:17:22]:
Was pretty I mean, huge. It’s an interesting idea. I don’t know how well it would go for a broad market appeal, but.
Chris [00:17:30]:
Broad market, I don’t think, but I high, and properties travel a lot and those that have plenty of money god, you don’t have to worry about carry on luggage or waiting around for the other luggage. I mean, sales and that I think there’s a definite market there. I thought it was a pretty good idea. And once you say it, you go, oh, that’s a pretty simple idea, but hadn’t been done before.
Sam [00:17:55]:
No, maybe that’s the way we’re going to go. You just hire a car, you hire your clothes, you hire your seat. I don’t know how that’s going to work. They’ll catapult you somewhere, maybe. I don’t know. Something like that. We had to deal with a bunch of shitheads at Center Place the other day.
Chris [00:18:16]:
Okay.
Sam [00:18:18]:
Hamilton is turning into a cesspool of problems.
Chris [00:18:22]:
Hamilton new Zealand.
Sam [00:18:25]:
No, Hamilton is definitely up there. So the other day, it must have been on Matariki weekend. I don’t know which day it was. We went to Center Place, and while we were there, there was a heavy presence of security guards everywhere. And I was like, oh, this is interesting. And they were running from one end to the other. I don’t know what they were doing, but they were running all over the place. And the security guards now, man, they’re decked out. They’ve got body cameras, dad proof vests, pouches full of God knows what. There’s so much gear on these guys. They’re carrying almost more gear than the cops. Apart from they don’t have a taser and probably handcuffs, I guess. I don’t know. And that was all interesting. So we looked around. There’s a lolly shop in Center Place now next to Donuts and hang on.
Chris [00:19:17]:
Was that the one that used to be outside? I’m thinking of Tiara. There was one of those lollipop shops in Tiawa. That was the American lollies or whatever similar.
Sam [00:19:27]:
This is inside the store that’s opposite where Paper Plus is. Yeah, I don’t know what it was. I can’t remember. So it was all good. We’re in there looking around. There’s a few people in there. And then some juvenile delinquents come in, four or five of them, and they’re just jamming stuff down their pants. And this little cleaning lady comes by and she says, oh, stop doing that. What are you doing? And they have a few choice words to her and then she radios up on the radio and then the security guards turn up and we said, yeah, they were definitely stuffing some lollies down their pants, right? So the security guards take off while all this is happening. There’s a guy in the store who looks like he’s seen some stuff. I don’t know if he’s Special Forces, I like to think he was, but he looked like he’d seen some stuff, he knew what was going on and I reckon he could have taken out all these people. Anyway, he disappears, like he’s like, I don’t want anything to do with this. So he leaves.
Chris [00:20:34]:
He was just a customer.
Sam [00:20:35]:
He was just a customer. Yeah. The security guards come back and one of them is like, I don’t know, it looks like he’s about twelve, the security guard. And then there’s another one, and then one guy is from Red Badge Security and he has no gear on, he’s just wearing a shirt and he’s got a walkie talkie in his hand. He just doesn’t care. So they said, what happened? And these kids were there and we said, wow. Yeah, they were like stuffing lollies down their pants. So then these kids basically started having a go at us, going, oh, do you want to search me? Do you want to search me? And obviously nobody you can’t touch any of these people.
Chris [00:21:14]:
I’m so sure I’d be touching somebody.
Sam [00:21:17]:
No, you can’t. And then a seven year old, like the little one has more balls than anybody, so he just comes up and starts screaming a boost at your face. And then a parent of one of them was there, but she’s almost as short as the kids, so you didn’t notice her. So she’s up in your face going, are you telling me my kids stole some? No, no, I’m not saying that. I’m saying that we saw them put some stuff down their pants from the store, so there was almost a punch up. Like, I thought this woman was going to have a go at Sarah. Like, Sarah’s shocked, she doesn’t know what to do. And then this kid grabs this lolly, this little round thing in a packet and throws it and hits Sarah dead center in the head. And the security guards like fucking grab him and go, you’ve got to get out. And they drag them all. Oh, and before all of this, there was cops and ambulances there as well, doing something. I don’t know, I didn’t see what they were up to. And then they were radioing up saying, look, we got more trouble. And then these guys took off in a car and it was a whole thing. Yeah, good times. Good times. It’s a bit scary, actually.
Chris [00:22:23]:
Well, yeah, that sounds pretty crap talking about scary, because this has only just happened as we were recording this. That’s right, the Auckland shooting thing. So my understanding not that I followed much of what’s going on, but there was a guy with shotgun, went into a construction site, started working his way up the construction site, taking potshots at people, a couple of people injured, a few people, including a cop. Hot shot himself in the end. Good job, I guess, is what I’d say to that. What the hell?
Sam [00:23:00]:
He’s 24 years old. He was wanted for domestic violence earlier on in the year, for choking out his partner and all sorts of stuff, and he had an electronic bail bracelet on, and he was at some point working on that job site. So that’s how he knew. And I don’t know if he was targeting certain people. They don’t know. They haven’t said. He looks like a child in the photo that they found of him. Yeah, it’s pretty crazy. Police were there. A helicopter was the in three minutes. First police were there in eleven, and then three minutes later, AOS were there. So it’s a pretty big pretty fast response for the police.
Chris [00:23:42]:
Yeah, they’re making a big deal of it and is a big deal because it’s the FIFA opens today, so there’s a lot of press in town, all these different countries with people in Auckland right now. Interestingly, Nat took on two weeks ago, took on security for FIFA. She took on a role for managing security as an addition to her job. So she’ll be having a good day.
Sam [00:24:20]:
I think she’ll probably be pretty busy and there’ll be a few meetings.
Chris [00:24:23]:
I’m thinking, oh, God, yeah. I don’t want to think about no, that’s really bad news. That’s terrible. It does make you wonder what’s happening in New Zealand in general.
Sam [00:24:40]:
Just in general, yeah. So this guy didn’t have a gun license and shouldn’t have had access to a shotgun. So there’s that question. Did you watch the press conference with the Prime Minister?
Chris [00:24:51]:
I flicked it on, but I must have missed at least half of it.
Sam [00:24:55]:
I think the reporters, it seemed they were a bit sad that it wasn’t an actual terrorism act. They were like, is this global A? And they’re like, no, there’s nothing to indicate that. It’s just a sort of lone thing. And then they asked why Chris Hipkins seemed a little bit like, this seems to have affected you. Why? And he goes, I think it should have affected everyone in New Zealand. Like, we shouldn’t be dealing with.
Chris [00:25:33]:
Yeah, the media is a bit stupid, I’ve got to say. A lot of media there is. I try to go, they’re all right, they’re just doing their job and stuff. But honestly, yeah, particularly when big things happen like this, they’re out of their depth. Like, straight away.
Sam [00:25:52]:
I think they want to be the one that asks the really hard hitting question and try and figure out what that is, but there isn’t one.
Chris [00:25:59]:
Yeah, I’ve got something here I’ve got written down. So hamilton Comedy Club.
Sam [00:26:07]:
Yes.
Chris [00:26:07]:
It’s the competition to Hamilton.
Sam [00:26:12]:
I’ve seen. Are these the ones doing something in Cambridge or somewhere else?
Chris [00:26:17]:
These guys are at the helm every Wednesday.
Sam [00:26:21]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:21]:
So it clashes the one Wednesday of the month with the other.
Sam [00:26:25]:
Oh, so this is every Wednesday?
Chris [00:26:27]:
Every Wednesday they’ve got an okay. Okay. So it’s interesting because on one hand, I’m like, it’s a good idea to have more opportunities to get on stage. Yeah, it’s just going to be better for any comedians here. On the other hand, it’s like, do we have the depth to handle one a week?
Sam [00:26:50]:
I don’t know. But is the helm set up as a good place for a comedy?
Chris [00:26:55]:
I don’t know.
Sam [00:26:56]:
I can’t remember.
Chris [00:26:57]:
I’ve been there a couple of times recently, but not like at night. I was catching up with someone for a beer after.
Sam [00:27:06]:
Do you think that there is if you could get a building for cheap and money was no object, do you think we could have a Hamilton actual comedy club that was actually just that?
Chris [00:27:18]:
Yeah, I think you could do it. It’d have to be a cheap building.
Sam [00:27:24]:
Yeah, totally. Totally.
Chris [00:27:28]:
The way the comedy club works in Auckland, and it does really well there. It does nothing else but comedy. So there’s a lot of other like the COVID Theater does a lot of improv in that, but they also do other things and they rent out the venue for other things. But the comedy club in Auckland does nothing but comedy. But it’s got comedy five days a week, or might be seven days a week.
Sam [00:27:51]:
Actually.
Chris [00:27:51]:
Can’t remember. I do remember that Tuesdays were good because it’s $5, but you’re just getting whatever turns up on the day. It was everybody testing material out and you can jump up on stage for your $5 as well type thing. It was like that, which I did enjoy. I went there a few times whenever I worked in Auckland. I used to go if I was staying overnight, I’d go to the comedy.
Sam [00:28:16]:
But they’ve got the population as oh, yeah, for sure.
Chris [00:28:20]:
And that’s a big difference. If you did it here in Hamilton, you couldn’t do it every night. But I do think you could manage two, three nights a week. So Friday, Saturday and then like a Tuesday or whatever for the people to test things out. Yeah. Or maybe Thursday. Friday. Saturday with the Thursday.
Sam [00:28:42]:
So are you going to go along on one of these nights to check it out?
Chris [00:28:46]:
Yeah, I thought about it yesterday. I had something else on which ended up being canceled anyway. But that’s oh, no, I might pop in next week and see what it’s like. I’m going to keep going to the Haha Hamilton in the first week. Yeah, I’m supposed to catch up with Jamie for a beer next week as well. And we’re going to talk about my comedy set. I’ve been writing some jokes. I’ve been working on.
Sam [00:29:09]:
You. Am I allowed to hear these beforehand or do you want me to just come along?
Chris [00:29:15]:
I’ve got a lot more work to do before I’m ready to share it with anyone. But I definitely should be running it past somebody before the night we’ll see. But he did ask me when I wanted to do that. And I’m like, I might squeeze it in this year, but I don’t know. It’ll either be end of this year or beginning of next year.
Sam [00:29:38]:
Yeah, just commit to it. I reckon it should be near the end of this year because then you won’t have a gap where people are coming to the comedy thing.
Chris [00:29:49]:
Yeah. It gets busy though. And I don’t think they do December well. They didn’t do December last year, so it’ll either have to be October November, or it’ll be January, February, whenever it starts back up again anyway, but that’s cool. Oh, one other thing I had here. We got time.
Sam [00:30:09]:
Let’s finish it off with this thing.
Chris [00:30:11]:
Yeah. I went into one of those little YouTube rabbit holes. I started following this dude. He’s called Two Bit DA Vinci, which is a random name, but he’s an engineering dude. He’s like really into his engineering. And I came across it because I ended up watching a couple of the Ocean gate things. So it brought that thing up and he talked about engineering. Really interestingly. And then he had this other video called china is Drilling the World’s Deepest Hole here’s why? And it was fascinating little video. This video is about 20 minutes long, something like that. And it talks about the hole they’re drilling. So before we did the space race, the big thing was how deep can you drill a hole? How deep can you drill a hole? And we think we’re drilling like way into the Earth. But the way he said it, he said if your arm was the Earth, the deepest hole is would be a millimeter into your skin. You’d hardly notice it type thing. Right. So there’s a whole bunch of we need more and more minerals and stuff. Specifically, one of the key ones is Iridium, which is really useful in hydrogen processing. And Iridium, the way it works, it just goes deeper and deeper into the Earth. It’s a heavy metal that moves into the Earth.
Sam [00:31:46]:
Okay.
Chris [00:31:47]:
So the more you dig, the more likely you are to get it. So one of the things that interested me was the only thing I was going to talk about here was Quays, which is a company that’s doing something a little different. But when you talk about drilling, you’ve seen them talk about the mud.
Sam [00:32:08]:
The what?
Chris [00:32:08]:
Drilling mud, like the spill that they pull out. Yeah. So what happens is, as they drill the hole deeper and deeper, just like we were talking about Ocean Gate and the depth and the pressure, as you’re drilling a hole deeper, the pressure on the sides of the hole becomes so.
Sam [00:32:27]:
Intense, all right, it wants to collapse.
Chris [00:32:29]:
It wants to collapse. So they fill it with water. They push water at the bottom, which makes a big mud thing, basically, because you’re drilling in, there’s water to equalize the pressure.
Sam [00:32:40]:
Okay.
Chris [00:32:40]:
That equalizes the pressure to keep you going further down. Otherwise the hole would just collapse on itself. And they have this mud. There’s this term for it, I’ve forgotten what it is now. Something mud. And so that’s interesting. There’s this company called Quays that are using a gyrotron that sounds like a made up freaking term, but anyway, it’s a gyrotron, okay. And it uses millimeter wave energy beams.
Sam [00:33:08]:
These are the sort of this sounds made up, too.
Chris [00:33:10]:
Yeah. This is the sort of thing they’re using in fusion when they’re making those fusion reactions, of course. And so what, it goes down and it basically superheats the rock and melts the rock.
Sam [00:33:28]:
Oh, nice.
Chris [00:33:29]:
And so this thing, they reckon, will go deeper ton a lot quicker. For one thing, there’s no moving parts. You don’t wear out the drill bits because the typical one, you have to keep bringing the whole thing back up and changing the drill bits. They only last X number of feet, right?
Sam [00:33:47]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:33:47]:
And you get a new drill bit. But this one, no moving parts.
Sam [00:33:52]:
But you’d have to have more and more power as it goes deeper and deeper, wouldn’t you?
Chris [00:33:56]:
No, just a longer cable.
Sam [00:33:58]:
Oh, I see. Sorry. I’m with you. For some reason, here I am thinking they’re shooting a laser beam from the top. I don’t know why.
Chris [00:34:04]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:34:04]:
Okay. So just a cable going down.
Chris [00:34:06]:
And again, the hole it’s making. And the other thing is, they don’t need the mud because basically it makes the sides become glass.
Sam [00:34:15]:
What?
Chris [00:34:16]:
It’s a hole. But the amazing thing is the cost. So Quiz reckons an eight inch wide, ten kilometer deep hole.
Sam [00:34:29]:
Yeah. That’s what we want.
Chris [00:34:30]:
Right. How much do you expect that would cost? I’ll tell you what they estimated.
Sam [00:34:35]:
I don’t know. Million dollars?
Chris [00:34:38]:
Close. 500,000.
Sam [00:34:40]:
Okay.
Chris [00:34:40]:
But if you use the normal drilling, 30 million.
Sam [00:34:45]:
Whoa. I’m assuming you need way less manpower as well, do you? Yeah.
Chris [00:34:51]:
Well, you don’t have changing up the mud. I assume there’s still the pipe thing at the top that you keep extending the thing down on, or however that works.
Sam [00:35:02]:
But yeah, no, it’ll be a cable now. It must be on a big spool. It must just go yeah, I think.
Chris [00:35:07]:
It’D still have to be, I don’t know, push or not, but yeah.
Sam [00:35:12]:
Is there any videos of this thing?
Chris [00:35:16]:
It had like, what do you call it, graphics. Check the video out. It’s pretty interesting. I thought it was interesting anyway, but yeah, that’s the next thing is we will end up doing a lot more.
Sam [00:35:27]:
Drilling and deeper I’m on the Quay’s website already. Unlocking the true power of clean geothermal energy.
Chris [00:35:34]:
Oh, that was the thing too. Yes, sorry. Because that’s the big thing. If you can get geothermals, it’s like free energy and it’s totally sustainable and it could power everything. The problem is, if it costs you $30 million to do a ten K hole, it’s like we don’t know if we’re going to hit the right spot and it’s too expensive. But if this thing can do it for a fraction of the cost, geothermal suddenly becomes a reality for a lot of places.
Sam [00:36:09]:
Their website states millimeter wave drilling will unlock the most abundant and powerful clean energy source on Earth by allowing us to drill down to 20 degrees Celsius.
Chris [00:36:22]:
Yeah, check out the video. We’ll put the link in the show notes. It’s quite fascinating, I thought.
Sam [00:36:28]:
Yeah, it’s pretty cool. That brings us to the end of your random technology and life fix this week. Hope you enjoyed it.
Chris [00:36:35]:
Give us a shout. Plenty of random.
Sam [00:36:39]:
We’re all about that. Yeah, come say hi on one of the social medias that we use. Maybe threads, maybe not. No, actually, just come find us on Facebook. That’ll be the quickest and easiest way. Until next time. I’m Sam. I’m Chris. See ya.
Chris [00:36:56]:
Bye.
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