Summary
🔊🎙️ New Episode Alert! 🔊🎙️Hey everyone! The latest episode of The Chris and Sam Podcast is now live! In this week’s captivating episode, titled “Cow Manure Ponzi Scheme,” Chris and Sam dive into a myriad of intriguing topics that are sure to keep you hooked from start to finish. Here’s a sneak peek of what you can expect:
🚂 A bizarre incident involving slow drivers and a Nissan in Morrinsville.
✈️ The suspenseful tale of a suspicious aircraft flying near a French nuclear plant.
💼 The debate about the logic behind putting up a “under new management” sign when buying a business.
🎬 Hilarious stories and unusual phrases, including the infamous “Chat GPT” term.🚗 A jaw-dropping tale about Randy Lanier, the rookie driver turned notorious drug trafficker.And that’s just the tip of the iceberg!
Plus, Chris and Sam share their thoughts on various captivating topics, from China’s demographic issues to San Francisco’s ongoing challenges. Don’t miss out on this captivating episode!
Tune in now on your favorite podcast platform to join Chris and Sam as they unravel the mysteries of the “Cow Manure Ponzi Scheme.” 🐄💰
Links
People being burned in Arizona
Heatstroke not drunk
Stealth train
Sun Bear in China an actual bear and not a man in a suit
Ponzi Scheme with cow manure
Drug dealers throw out drugs after being in restricted air space
US domain name causing problems
Tiny robot to help with lung cancer
Fulltime children in Japan
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello and welcome to Episode 441 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 randomness technology and life and all the good stuff that comes along with it.
Chris [00:00:34]:
Yeah, lots of work at the moment. I’ve been busy, busy, busy with really dry, boring work. So I haven’t done a lot of stuff. Yeah, haven’t done a lot of stuff. But I’ve got a few things to talk about. Although we did have our cast and crew screenings since our last podcast. Yes, that’s right.
Sam [00:00:55]:
You did for surgical precision.
Chris [00:00:57]:
Surgical precision. Yep. Saw that on so because I sort of stopped in my head, I was like, Hang on, that was after we.
Sam [00:01:04]:
Recorded Last Technology Is.
Chris [00:01:09]:
Yeah, no, it’s great. It was really good. I’d had a chat with Adam the week before and he lowered my expectations. I was that was no, it was great. It was good. I think it was easily as good as any of the others movies. We’ve no, I didn’t think there was any drama about it. I think you were just buried into the work there, Adam. I know you’re listening to this, but yeah, no, I thought it was really good. Got good reviews from other people that I talked to there. And ten Minute 42nd what do you call it? Runtime. Yeah, it’s good.
Sam [00:01:51]:
I, too, have seen it. Oh, yes. That’s how I got that screenshot of you that I sent you.
Chris [00:01:56]:
Yeah, I saw that and I thought did you already get a look at the yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:02:00]:
Thank you, Adam. No, it’s very cool. I liked and his performance was really.
Chris [00:02:08]:
No, he the does really well, so he’s got I’ll probably get it wrong, cerebral palsy, I think, is the okay. Yeah, he’s got something from birth type thing. I’m just saying this for listeners. So he’s our lead actor. And so he’s basically in a wheelchair for most of it. Although in real life, he gets around. He works for Warner Brothers. TV Three. Basically.
Sam [00:02:35]:
Oh, nice.
Chris [00:02:36]:
Yeah, in real life he gets around on crutches. But he was in a wheelchair.
Sam [00:02:44]:
I thought he was a great pick for the lead. I don’t know, I just liked the way he acted like he was.
Chris [00:02:50]:
Yeah. And because you hadn’t seen anything. So what were your thoughts? I haven’t spoken to Sam about this, obviously, so I’m real keen to find out now. What are your thoughts on it?
Sam [00:03:00]:
Yeah, it was good. I like the story and I like how it was shot. The music was good. Everything was really good. It was a real cohesive short film.
Chris [00:03:08]:
Do you think it was a good tribute to Mac? Because that’s really part of what that film totally, totally.
Sam [00:03:14]:
It was good. So.
Chris [00:03:16]:
Mac’s great Dane. Adam’s great Dane. And it’s getting a little old now. He’s at the end of his use by date type thing, so to speak. And my part I was okay in that.
Sam [00:03:28]:
You were as about as good as you can ever be, Chris. No, you’re good. Yeah, no, it was cool.
Chris [00:03:39]:
We will let everybody know when it’s available to watch. It’ll be going through the festival thing, so we can let you know when it’s on at festivals. But it won’t be distributed to anybody until after it’s done its festival run, or at least most of its festival run or whatever. So, yeah, that’s.
Sam [00:03:56]:
Hanging out. I’m hanging out for Adam’s feature film. That’s what he needs to do.
Chris [00:04:01]:
Yeah. Well, actually, I’ve mentioned this to you, but yeah, I am going to be producing his next short film.
Sam [00:04:12]:
Yes.
Chris [00:04:12]:
And it’s a little bit different from surgical precision. It goes back to what we’ve done with two previous films, bloody Late Shift and Minimally Invasive. I was involved with bloody late shift, but I wasn’t involved with minimally invasive. And the three this new one is called Hairy Landing are quite similar. It’s like in the same universe type scenario. And yeah, I’m really looking forward to it. So I’m going to be busy on that in the next year and I anticipate that once that has got that has been done, the three films are a strong showing for his feature, which is also in that same universe.
Sam [00:04:59]:
Excellent. Looking forward to it.
Chris [00:05:01]:
Yeah. So that’s really cool. So, yeah, I said I hadn’t done anything this week, but I suppose I have.
Sam [00:05:06]:
There you go.
Chris [00:05:09]:
I’ve got a whole bunch of stuff. And I see you have got a list of nothing.
Sam [00:05:14]:
Don’t be like that. There’s three things at the bottom, and one of the things is the exact same thing you’ve got.
Chris [00:05:19]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:05:20]:
So don’t worry about that. There’s stuff there. I’ll put them next to each other so you can see them. Your old man eyes can now comprehend what’s going on.
Chris [00:05:33]:
It’s the scroll bar. Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:05:35]:
So it’s getting super hot around the world. Temperatures are going mental, and it’s so hot in Arizona that doctors have to treat all these patients that are falling over, hitting the ground and getting severe burns. They’re like cooking on the pavement, which sounds terrible.
Chris [00:05:55]:
Yeah. And that’s crazy. That’s crazy hot.
Sam [00:06:00]:
It is not. Apparently for most people. I never had this. Burning flesh is a smell that sticks with you, apparently, if you ever smell it.
Chris [00:06:12]:
Yeah, I don’t think I’ve smelt. Really? Burning flesh. I don’t think I have.
Sam [00:06:19]:
No, I’d be surprised if you had. I’m not sure.
Chris [00:06:22]:
Yeah, I mean, bacon’s bad.
Sam [00:06:26]:
Exactly.
Chris [00:06:26]:
Exactly.
Sam [00:06:27]:
So it’s pretty much the same thing. But I did see in another story, which I didn’t link to, I want to say in Texas or something, is it the guy that was acting drunk?
Chris [00:06:37]:
Is that yeah. They filed a lawsuit against his employer because he was fired because they thought the was drunk. According to the lawsuit, he began exhibiting heat stroke symptoms, including confusion, altered mental state, dizziness, and loss of consciousness. Somebody started pouring cold water over him, trying to cool him down. They called the police. They said his bizarre behavior was due to drugs and pushed for drug test, but he later died in a hospital from severe heat stroke.
Sam [00:07:17]:
Yes. I think you can go downhill pretty quickly with the heat stroke, and you want to stay on top of yeah.
Chris [00:07:26]:
Is it Texas that recently passed that law that says workers because there had been a law they repealed a law, I should say there was a law that workers had to have a five minute drink break if they’re working outside every hour in summer. Okay. I think it was texas. They repealed that law because that’s not good productivity. So they repealed that law.
Sam [00:07:56]:
They changed these laws and stuff. But I want to know, in reality, are the people just like, yeah, let’s have a drink? They have to be. The law is one thing, but common sense must be there. I’m assuming it’s hard to say.
Chris [00:08:12]:
It’s hard to say. Specifically in America. I’ve got a good one for America, for you.
Sam [00:08:19]:
It’s a country that keeps on giving, really is.
Chris [00:08:23]:
I love this. Now, it’s come up page unavailable when I click on it. Damn it.
Sam [00:08:30]:
All right, I’ll tell you what it is.
Chris [00:08:31]:
From memory.
Sam [00:08:31]:
Go from memory.
Chris [00:08:32]:
What could. So this car, in a rural town, this car, police car, does a traffic stop, pulls somebody over and calls for backup. And I don’t know the details. It didn’t go through the details, but they’re basically arresting this woman, put her in handcuffs, and she puts her over and puts her into the second police car. The backup police car came along. They put her into that police car and then go back to the first police car to radio in or whatever they got to do, or maybe search the car, and a train hits the police car that the woman’s in, and she severely hurt. Brain injury, all the rest of it.
Sam [00:09:17]:
Yes.
Chris [00:09:17]:
And they are suing the police for this because why did you put her in a police car on the train tracks?
Sam [00:09:28]:
Okay?
Chris [00:09:30]:
The affidavit is the lawyer for the policewoman says, well, first of all, she didn’t park that car. She didn’t know it was on the train tracks.
Sam [00:09:40]:
Okay?
Chris [00:09:41]:
Secondly, the train tracks were flush with the road. You didn’t notice the were train tracks. And thirdly, there are no barriers, no signs, no lights, nothing like that, okay? And I’m like, what are these stealth trains in States? Well, they just have trains going through roads with no lights, no barriers. Is that a train track? Oh, we’re not.
Sam [00:10:09]:
No, we do have them here, though. I’ll tell you, a good spot to check that out is in Morrinsville. If you go into Morrinsville, the train tracks on your right and there’s like driveways that go over and there’s nothing there. And the milk tankers have to stop and look and if they don’t, they’ll get taken out. I was in Morrinsville at the start of the week and as I came back there was like this old people slowly going over the railway tracks, the big set with all the barriers and the intersection as you go into Moronsville. And they were going super slow and there was no reason for it. And I was like, this is stupid. As we go around the corner, I’m about to overtake them, but a guy in a Nissan Navarro ute wants to overtake both of us at the same time. So he guns it, absolutely goes past us. That’s fine. There’s a huge amount of roadworks halfway to Moronsville and you have to stop at Single Lane. So the dude in the utes in front of me and we’re waiting a few minutes, he gets out of the ute and decides to take off his jersey and he’s just got a singlet on. He’s all tatted up and he’s an old guy, that’s all good. Then he starts stretching against the ute because it’s a tough drive, whatever he’s been on. Gets back into the ute and then a minute later, because we’re still waiting there, what do you think he does next?
Chris [00:11:24]:
Goes for a pee.
Sam [00:11:25]:
Exactly. His bladder is full, so he has to pee standing next to his truck. Peeing like next to the door, as you do now. After that he’s all good and we can go.
Chris [00:11:39]:
I remember we were getting a bus back from Hamilton, back to Wellington, me and my wife back at the were we were driving car we were we were driving car back. That’s right.
Sam [00:11:56]:
Okay.
Chris [00:11:57]:
And there was this bus parked and it was like in a lay by. A whole bus was there. And obviously the bus doesn’t stop normally, but it stopped because there’s this one woman squatting and taking a piss on the roadside, not away from the bus, but on the roadside of the bus. And as we’re driving up, Ellen’s like, oh my God, look at that. And this woman’s like big smile on her face, squatting there taking a piss and waving at what? It’s indelibly. I think she had two. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:12:37]:
When you have to go, you have to go.
Chris [00:12:40]:
Yeah, I guess it was better than on the bus. So there you go.
Sam [00:12:45]:
That’s right. Have you seen the sunbear thing?
Chris [00:12:49]:
Sunbear?
Sam [00:12:51]:
So a sunbear is like a little brown bear thing?
Chris [00:12:55]:
I think I have seen an image of a sunbear back in the day.
Sam [00:12:58]:
Okay, well, go into that card and click on that link and the sunbear standing up and waving at you, looks like a man in a suit.
Chris [00:13:07]:
Is that the zoo bear?
Sam [00:13:09]:
Yeah, and it’s not. It’s just creepy looking. It’s so creepy it looks like someone in a suit waving, and there’s video of it as well, somewhere online and that all these experts have had to chime in and go, no, that’s what they look like when they’re standing up. It’s not the Chinese putting a man in a suit.
Chris [00:13:32]:
It does look a bit because there’s.
Sam [00:13:34]:
A shot where it looks like the bear is wearing boots, like its feet look like it’s got little boots on. Anyway, that’s creepy. If you find the video of that.
Chris [00:13:45]:
That’S pretty dodge looking.
Sam [00:13:49]:
That’s crazy.
Chris [00:13:54]:
You put your name on this before and I don’t know why, because I took it off, because I thought I’d accidentally done it.
Sam [00:13:59]:
But, yeah, I don’t know how I put my name on it.
Chris [00:14:03]:
Chat GPT this is just a tweet on, like, mastodon. So I don’t know if you call it a tweet or a trumpet. Okay, so I like this. I’m going to just read it out. But, yeah, life is extra surreal for French speakers right now, because in French phonetically chat GPT sounds like shat, which is cat in French, and J Pate, which is I farted. So everywhere on TV, in the news, people are going, cat, I farted over and over with a straight face. It’s cat eye farted is going to steal your job. How are schools dealing with cat eye farted? Lawyer caught using cat eye farted. It’s incredible.
Sam [00:14:53]:
Excellent.
Chris [00:14:54]:
That just tickled me. I thought that was hilarious.
Sam [00:14:57]:
That’s pretty good. So with this X thing with Twitter, so he’s had the domain name X.com for 20 something years and he wanted to call PayPal that, and Peter Teal and them said, no, bugger off. That’s when they kicked him out, is because he just kept going on about this domain name, apparently. So he finally found a use for it and he goes, we’re going to do this. Did you see the giant sign?
Chris [00:15:23]:
Hang on, this is in my head. I’ve got to say this, because this has always bugged me. If you buy a business, why would you put a big sign that says, under new management? Because the whole point of buying a business is to buy the customers that came with the business. Unless the business was really shit and then you go, It’s under new management, it’s going to get better. In which case you better have bought it for a bargain. But in this case, he’s paid $44 billion for Twitter, which is a name that everybody knows, and he’s going to change it to a name that nobody knows.
Sam [00:16:01]:
Yeah, well, that’s because he’s got the domain name. Chris, you know what it’s like sitting on a domain name for 20 years.
Chris [00:16:06]:
Come on.
Sam [00:16:09]:
Did you see his sign that they made?
Chris [00:16:11]:
No.
Sam [00:16:12]:
You’ve seen how the logo anything? So if you go to can I go to Twitter? You can go to Twitter, yeah. If you go to Twitter, you’ll see the new logo, which is an X, and some people said the design’s crap. Whatever.
Chris [00:16:28]:
Okay. Yeah. Oh, wow, that’s weird coming into Twitter, because I’ve obviously not been in here since it was changed. Weird.
Sam [00:16:36]:
He had this sign, this giant, giant X looking exactly like that put on top of Twitter headquarters, right? And I don’t know who made it, but this thing strobed. Like, it blinked ultra bright white light, like and people are like, that’s not good, because the people that live opposite Twitter headquarters in an apartment building are normal people. So they had the strobe light thing going. I think it was up for about three days. And the San Francisco said, you got to take that down. And he’s really big on saying, we have to stay in San Francisco. We have to come into work because otherwise it’s just going to turn into a crappy hellhole. And apparently it’s already that everywhere you go, there’s homeless people and druggies and crap everywhere. Apparently. It’s pretty.
Chris [00:17:34]:
Musk. I don’t know what’s going on with that dude, man.
Sam [00:17:37]:
No one does. No one does. It’s hard to tell some people.
Chris [00:17:41]:
I’ll tell you about somebody who did something worse than musk. How’s that for a segue?
Sam [00:17:48]:
Okay.
Chris [00:17:49]:
California man’s been sentenced to over six years in prison for an $8.7 million Ponzi scheme, which I think was amusing, but it was a bit of a shit deal, basically. So man from California who ran a multi million dollar fraud scheme where he claimed to turn cow manure into green energy, basically, he’s just gone around convincing investors he could build anaerobic digesters. Digesters? Rather.
Sam [00:18:21]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:18:21]:
Machines that create methane through microorganisms, breaking down biodegradable matter on dairies and stuff like that. Dairy farms. And then the methane can be sold in the open market as green energy.
Sam [00:18:34]:
Okay.
Chris [00:18:35]:
Basically, he goes, you get a 66% tax incentive. No, you get tax incentives and 66% of all net profits. And then he gave them tours of dairy farms that he claimed he built digesters on. I don’t know. He just turns up at a dairy farm, I guess.
Sam [00:18:55]:
Load of people. It’s okay, show them around.
Chris [00:18:58]:
It sent them forged lease agreements with the dairy owners. But I thought that was hilarious. Like, if you’re going to go down for something, make it a shit one. That’s laughable. That’s cool. I like that.
Sam [00:19:11]:
Yeah. But the thing is, the technology is there. So you can buy home based ones of those. You put your kitchen scraps into these giant bag things, and they fill up. And then you get the methane and you can hook it up to your house.
Chris [00:19:29]:
There’s one called Lumi. It doesn’t do methane, as far as I know. All it does is it turns vegetable scraps into okay, so it’s an electric composter. And it’s pitched a lot on some of the YouTube videos that I oh.
Sam [00:19:47]:
I think Sunbeam make one. It sits on your yeah, yeah. And you put your stuff in and it just grinds it up and it’s like a giant coffee grinder, basically. And then apparently but they’re real expensive, I think.
Chris [00:20:01]:
Yeah. Looks expensive. It looks expensive. I’ll tell you what, Go, taking a flight on a plane can be expensive, apparently. So this happened in France. There’s an aircraft, and it was going suspiciously close to a nuclear plant or whatever. So the French scrambled a French fighter jet because it’s like, what is this plane doing? It’s in restricted airspace. So one of France’s most modern fighter jets was sent to check out the single seated tourist plane over the remote adeshe region on Saturday after it flew through restricted airspace near a nuclear plant and was judged to be maneuvering suspiciously as the Rafali, I think that’s how you say it, fighter jet drew near. The air force pilot witnessed very erratic behavior in the cockpit of the tourist.
Sam [00:21:08]:
Are you going to tell me a monkey’s flying it or something?
Chris [00:21:11]:
No real agitation. A military spokesman told the over the course of a few minutes, he saw the door open and packages being thrown out.
Sam [00:21:20]:
Okay.
Chris [00:21:21]:
They were full of drugs and they’re like, oh, they’ve sent the cops up.
Sam [00:21:27]:
Oh, my God.
Chris [00:21:30]:
Meanwhile, it’s only because they flew near the nuclear plant.
Sam [00:21:34]:
I like to think one of them is saying, keep calm, keep calm. Everything’s good. They’re like, no, there’s a fighter plane.
Chris [00:21:39]:
Let’s throw it. The suspected trafficker, a Polish national with past drug offenses was arrested after he landed the thing. Investigators found 15 packages on the ground containing estimated 66 pounds of white powder that is still to be analyzed.
Sam [00:21:57]:
Wow. We got a sneaking suspicion on what that might be.
Chris [00:22:01]:
Yeah, I thought that was hilarious.
Sam [00:22:05]:
That’s crazy. I’ve been listening to this podcast. It’s called Past Gas, which is done by the donut media guys who do this car stuff on YouTube. And their production quality is great. I can’t get enough of this stuff. They just explain things for dumb people like me really well when it comes to cars. But they talk about new cars, old cars, do random tests, all this stuff. But they’ve got a podcast called Past Gas and they talk about different things. Now, this is a story I never heard of. There’s a guy called Randy Lanier, and he was a promising rookie driver back in the 80s, but he also happened to be one of the largest drug traffickers in US. History. He brought over 600,000 pounds of marijuana into the country.
Chris [00:22:54]:
Holy crap.
Sam [00:22:55]:
Yeah, and he started with, like, a little boat, and then he got a bigger boat, and then he ended up having a huge barge that would be pulled in by a tugboat. And the whole thing was full of marijuana. And he was dealing with people to get it from. And then he cut out the middleman and he was just picking it up like whole bales. And then that unload it in a naval dock and it was a whole crazy story. He got like 20 something years. He’s out now, but I might have.
Chris [00:23:27]:
Listened to the podcast series on that dude, or someone very similar.
Sam [00:23:31]:
Yeah, he must have been mentioned somewhere else as well. But he ended up having so much money, he couldn’t spend enough of it. So he had a racing team and he was, like, doing all Chris stuff, and for most races, money is a problem. But this guy said, don’t worry about it. And then it turns out all these people that he was competing against in racing were also drug dealers as well. And he was like, oh, I didn’t know. It was very random. Different time back then.
Chris [00:24:05]:
I think this is amusing. America is a bit we’ve already talked about America, but one of the things that bugs me about America is they don’t have US at the end of their domain name. Well, they don’t internet.
Sam [00:24:21]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:24:22]:
Well, OKAY.com. Or whatever. But it’s backfiring a little bit because they’ve got mill as their military thing.
Sam [00:24:29]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:24:36]:
If they had mill US, I don’t think this would be a problem. But because mill, there’s a lot of spelling errors that happen and people go, ML, which is the top line for Mali.
Sam [00:24:51]:
Okay.
Chris [00:24:52]:
Yeah. Mali is a Russian ally. Now, there’s a Dutch dude, Johannes Azerbia, who’s the entrepreneur that has the license for Mali’s national domain. He does ML, but his thing is running out, his lease, whatever you call it, for that job, is running out in the next year. And he said about a decade ago, he realized that he’d seen millions of the misaddressed emails going to the ML domain.
Sam [00:25:31]:
Okay.
Chris [00:25:31]:
When they send these emails, it goes to the top level domain first. So if it’s mill, it goes straight to the US military, wherever that is organized. But if it goes ML, it goes to Mali and then they sort it out from there. Well, if it’s a Russian thing, I’m just going to dead all these military freaking things. He’s recorded more than 117,000 emails since January.
Sam [00:25:57]:
Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
Chris [00:25:59]:
So a lot is going through that. They’re not like confidential emails, but some of them would be useful. Like, they will tell you where certain people will be at certain times.
Sam [00:26:09]:
Yeah, book me a flight here.
Chris [00:26:11]:
Yeah. All that sort of stuff. So he’s going, for ten years, I’ve been telling the military to sort this out, and they haven’t done anything. I’ve been running it, so I’ve been just deleting them. But when I hand this over back over to Marley, you probably want to do something about it.
Sam [00:26:33]:
I think so.
Chris [00:26:36]:
Oh, God. America.
Sam [00:26:40]:
The researchers at the University of Leeds have made a tiny robot that can travel deep into your lungs to detect and treat the first signs of cancer. Apparently.
Chris [00:26:53]:
That is cool. It’s a little creepy, but it’s cool.
Sam [00:26:57]:
Yeah. It’s creepier when you see the image of it it’s an ultrasoft tentacle which measures just 2 mm long. Now, when it’s magnified, it looks like the worm from bloody elmo.
Chris [00:27:17]:
I’m just looking at it now. I don’t know what the worm from Elmo is.
Sam [00:27:20]:
It’s like a little striped thing. Anyway, they use magnets to control it. It can go in, it can travel 37% deeper than standard equipment, and you have less tissue damage. And they’re hoping this will lead into more accurate, tailored, and less invasive approaches to treatment. So it’s pretty cool.
Chris [00:27:42]:
I just looked at the brain surgery image further down that page.
Sam [00:27:47]:
Yeah, that’s good. They just go straight up your nose and into your brain.
Chris [00:27:50]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:27:50]:
With a laser. Yeah, it’s good. So that’ll be good. It’s the first demonstration as well of the bimanual magnetic soft robots for skull based surgery. So there’s a whole bunch they can inject these things everywhere. It’d be great.
Chris [00:28:10]:
I don’t know. There’s one thing I came across which I thought was worth sharing, and it’s a little bit different. And the reason I find it amusing is that this means one thing in China, or the way China is interpreted is totally different from the way America thinks about these things. And you can judge which you think is better. So in America, when kids don’t find know, adult children, they live at home and hang out in the know, I’m living at home with my mum, or yeah, and it’s got a really negative connotation. Eh, it’s just.
Sam [00:28:59]:
Yeah. Oh, it used to, but now a lot of them are at home because they can’t afford yeah.
Chris [00:29:04]:
Yeah. Well, true. So same sort of thing is happening in China. China’s got some huge issues with their demographics, and their economy is starting to shrink because of it. Right, okay. But yeah, they’re facing job scarcity in China. Some adult children are finding work as full time children, tag full time son, full time daughter, and their parents are paying them to spend time with them and do household chores or work the land if they happen to be rural or whatever. But basically they can’t find a job, so their parents are paying them.
Sam [00:29:50]:
Okay.
Chris [00:29:51]:
In recent months, the hashtag full time daughter and hashtag full time son have been trending on Chinese social media platforms.
Sam [00:29:59]:
Tracking oh, my gosh.
Chris [00:30:00]:
Views. So, yeah, it’s a thing, but it sounds like a lot more positive than what the American version of that was, or I shouldn’t say American western version of that.
Sam [00:30:15]:
Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:30:17]:
Anyway, I thought that was interesting, but yeah, China, I’ve been watching a few dockos on the recently with their population changes and all the rest of it, they have finally hit that decrease, and I think they are now not the most populous country in the world. India’s taken them over. India’s death rate is way higher, and Mexico are going to be much more the labor force of the world going forward and China’s decreasing. So, yeah, we’ll get a lot more made in Mexico, made in India than we will made in China.
Sam [00:30:59]:
OK, but you know what won’t be made there? Chris.
Chris [00:31:01]:
The Chris and Sam podcast.
Sam [00:31:03]:
That’s right. We’re kiwi made proud of it. We’ve got listeners from all around the world that don’t talk to us. And that brings us to the end of the podcast. So I don’t really have much coming up, do you?
Chris [00:31:17]:
I got lots of work. That’s about it.
Sam [00:31:20]:
That’s the spirit. Until next time.
Chris [00:31:22]:
Do you know what happened with the football? So as we’re recording this last night was women’s football in Hamilton. I don’t even playing. Do you know?
Sam [00:31:34]:
No.
Chris [00:31:35]:
Okay, that’s cool. That was one of the things that came up at the comedy thing last night. And they said, what did you think of the football? And I was like asked me actually the women’s football thing that played. Know when New Zealand played? I’m like, I don’t know. I didn’t know it was on. I’m old.
Sam [00:31:52]:
I think they drew. I think New Zealand drew if they played last night.
Chris [00:31:57]:
Yeah, that was the whole point of the I scream until somebody scored. And so I’ve lost my voice and nobody laughed because watch the soccer.
Sam [00:32:06]:
Yeah. Know your audience, man. You’re in a dingy little place doing comedy. Nobody’s watching the soccer. Because if they were, they wouldn’t be there.
Chris [00:32:15]:
They would have been at the soccer. Yeah, exactly.
Sam [00:32:18]:
Okay, until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:32:20]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:32:21]:
See ya.
Chris [00:32:22]:
Bye.
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