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In this episode, we dive into a wide range of intriguing topics, guaranteed to keep you entertained and engaged. From unusual funeral mishaps to philosophical stories and even a brain-exploding surprise, this episode is packed with surprises.
We also touch on the peculiar situations like the ape alarm at Auckland Zoo, Rome’s rat problem, and Liam Neeson’s return in another Taken movie.
And that’s not all! We also explore a whistleblower’s brave stand against excessive charges, reminiscing about an eventful encounter with a sprinkler head, and the unbelievable case of the live roundworm found in a woman’s brain.
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India lands on the moon
Fire crews respond to zoo after primate sets off sprinkler
Cremation done too early in error
Spanish Agency for regulating AI
Super Bowls Dunedin Eatery
Woman has a live round worm in her brain
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:06]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 445 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam, welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life and happy Father’s Day.
Chris [00:00:31]:
Oh, really? Oh, okay. Cool.
Sam [00:00:33]:
That’s it.
Chris [00:00:33]:
Yep. Yeah. Not a father. Don’t care.
Sam [00:00:36]:
That’s the spirit. the spirit we bring to you at the Christmas sand podcast. They find the family feeling. I don’t know if they could be cast as that, but here we are.
Chris [00:00:47]:
That that’s just me then. Alright. Okay. Yeah.
Sam [00:00:50]:
You wanna talk about India?
Chris [00:00:52]:
Oh, yeah. So, literally, hours after we recorded last episode.
Sam [00:00:58]:
Episode 44. Look at it up, wherever you listen to podcasts.
Chris [00:01:02]:
Yeah. Hanlan’s razor. Literally hours after we talked about Russia’s, rocket crashing into South Pole — Yes.
Sam [00:01:12]:
—
Chris [00:01:12]:
of the moon, India landed — Oh.
Sam [00:01:16]:
—
Chris [00:01:16]:
on the south south pole of the moon.
Sam [00:01:18]:
Okay.
Chris [00:01:19]:
So I didn’t realize that there’s been this low level sort of space race between India and and the so and Russia.
Sam [00:01:27]:
Hang on. So, so as top tier the US and China, And then next is Russia and India. And then below that, us and let’s say Australia. Something like that.
Chris [00:01:41]:
Possibly. Possibly. But yeah. Yeah. so basically, India has become the 4th country to land on the moon.
Sam [00:01:50]:
Okay. So America, India, rush. Have they actually landed something? Yes?
Chris [00:01:57]:
Yeah. I think they have. Who’s the last spoke on? In China. I should.
Sam [00:02:00]:
Oh, okay. And you’re a European Space Agency haven’t. Hey. They’ve just been sending people up, I think, to the space station. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:02:07]:
Yep. See it. So there’s only 4 yeah.
Sam [00:02:09]:
So do So last week, you thought there was a conspiracy that
Chris [00:02:13]:
was just winding in there.
Sam [00:02:14]:
Are you sure? I think you’ve know, let’s let’s exploit it. You had a conspiracy that the Russia actually was there, and now we know that Indians are there. What are they up to?
Chris [00:02:24]:
That they,
Sam [00:02:25]:
it’s just scientific sort of stuff.
Chris [00:02:26]:
Scientific stuff trying to find this, water, the water, at the south pole. So, yeah, so anyway, good on them. But what got me, can you imagine can you guess, I should say, how much their moon mission rover landing on the south pole of the moon cost.
Sam [00:02:50]:
Oh, I don’t
Chris [00:02:50]:
In US dollars.
Sam [00:02:51]:
I don’t know if you’re gonna go a crazy figure because the throwing tons of money at it, or they’ve somehow bootstrapped it and it’s made of rubber bands and things. So I’ve got no reference point. I don’t know. 5,000,000? No.
Chris [00:03:07]:
No. It’s it’s well more than that.
Sam [00:03:08]:
Oh, I don’t know. Like like I said, right? I don’t know.
Chris [00:03:11]:
So, yeah, no, it’s it is a shoestring budget. So but it is 75,000,000 US dollars.
Sam [00:03:17]:
Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. That wasn’t I thought you were gonna get 100 of 1,000,000 for a second
Chris [00:03:21]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:03:21]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I suppose.
Chris [00:03:22]:
I think 100 of 1,000,000 is is the normal minimum.
Sam [00:03:27]:
So my question is, obviously, they landed there into that Did they launch their rocket or did they put their thing in somebody else’s rocket and get launched up in there?
Chris [00:03:36]:
I think it’s their rocket.
Sam [00:03:38]:
I think
Chris [00:03:38]:
they have a space thing going now. And I think it’s, yeah, and I think it’s a it’s a political winner for them because, so the geopolitics of the world are changing quite a bit. Yeah. China’s birth rate is diminishing. Right?
Sam [00:03:54]:
Of course.
Chris [00:03:55]:
So within 8 years, if they don’t get take Taiwan, they won’t be able to because their country is diminishing so quickly.
Sam [00:04:03]:
Okay.
Chris [00:04:04]:
What’s gaining is Mexico and India.
Sam [00:04:07]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:08]:
And they will become the new, workforce of the world.
Sam [00:04:13]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:04:14]:
And that’s where all the, things are going to be. So India is now bigger than China.
Sam [00:04:20]:
I think, yes, I think Apple, I saw a headline. I think Apple wants to move some of the production to India now. Yeah. And I think a lot of people.
Chris [00:04:28]:
Yeah. So, yeah, India and Mexico are the 2, most populous countries. Hey.
Sam [00:04:35]:
Before this podcast came out, I threw out the call to our podcast listeners on Facebook, look us up the Chris Sam podcast on Facebook, and I said, hey, do you have a topic or a, question for us? Jeremy Hellson, number 1, super fan, came to the party, because all he does is scroll Facebook all day long, and he sent a link to, Fire cruise respond to Auckland Zoo after an audacious ape sets off of the alarm. So they sent 2 2 brigades there. just to find out that it was the work of a playful primate. when Why have they got a fire
Chris [00:05:09]:
alarm in the 8th cage?
Sam [00:05:11]:
It’s a sprinkler a sprinkler head. Now, got a story about that. So they knocked the sprinkler head that went off and it set off the fire alarm I don’t think the actual sprinkler goes off. Years years ago, I was doing a forestry course in rotorua and I was at the at the time it was the Forest Research Institute and it’s made up of all these old buildings. 1 of the buildings had a pool table in it and for some reason somebody grabbed a pool cue and smashed this sprinkler. Fire cruise got there pretty quick. yeah. It wasn’t me.
Chris [00:05:45]:
Yeah. So I I can see how that might work. Like, you’re holding the the queue. You lift it up from the table and you just I
Sam [00:05:53]:
think it was on purpose. Oh, good. I think they just that is done.
Chris [00:05:56]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is done.
Sam [00:05:58]:
So they arrived within minutes disabled the alarm and sprinklers it said. there was no danger to these primates, orangutans, or stuff. And, Yeah. They a spokesperson stole stuff. Sounds like an orangutan being an orangutan. If that’s not the most casual due to the zoo ever, sounds like a meerkat doing what a meerkat does. Imagine imagine being on a tour with that guy. So, just I see the lion over there doing something. It’s a lion. Just doing a lion does. Okay. Joe exotic. bloody hell.
Chris [00:06:37]:
Oh, you don’t wanna see what lie Joe exciting makes a tiger do.
Sam [00:06:42]:
Not at all. Hey, Talking about animals. This is a travel story, in Rome. Rome have called in some cleaners armed with shovels to fight rats at the coliseum because of it investigation. I’m thinking there’s a movie
Chris [00:07:01]:
here. That’s right.
Sam [00:07:02]:
You get a high pay, like, what’s his face, not Liam Nissan, any of them, whoever you want action star, all they’ve got is a shovel. and they gotta protect Rome because the Catholic church has fucking holding his parents hostage or something. particular
Chris [00:07:21]:
set of skills.
Sam [00:07:22]:
I’ll talk about that in a second. so, yeah, they’ve got short clips have been posted online. They’ve been scampering through heaps of plastic bottle and just doing stuff. tourists are sitting just feet away from the spectacle. They were all filming it. And
Chris [00:07:37]:
So they’re whacking them in the head with a shovel. Is that basically what the shovel’s for? Like, well, they’re trying to it’s not a spade. A spade would be cutting off.
Sam [00:07:45]:
it it’s weird because, you know, they’ve done the click beige headline to draw me in and things like that. So they called in officials quickly, with teams with large shovels to clean up the extra of refuse and littering that’s around the place. which is drawing the rats in extra traps would be set and then they disinfect measures would be taken to, get rid of them. They reckon there’s about 7,000,000 rodents live in Italy’s capital. So that’s about two and a half rats per person. Nice. Liam Neeson’s back with, another taken movie.
Chris [00:08:22]:
Oh, is he?
Sam [00:08:22]:
So the rich
Chris [00:08:23]:
I did. I know. I made that reference. I had no idea.
Sam [00:08:26]:
So I saw an ad for it, or I saw the promo. I was like, what is that? She was like, I’m gonna watch She’s right into him. I said, hang on. So I think it’s the first one is his daughter. Yeah. Yeah. The second one’s his wife. I don’t know. The third one’s his parents, I think, or someone. something else.
Chris [00:08:41]:
I don’t think I think I’ve I’ve seen the first one. I may have seen the second one and I don’t.
Sam [00:08:45]:
Well, apparently this one’s got real bad reviews. I don’t think it matters. It’s just cashing in. He’s just there.
Chris [00:08:50]:
Yeah. And
Sam [00:08:51]:
he’s gotta say the same line, I guess. You know, the speck whatever. Special set of things, whatever. You know who does
Chris [00:08:59]:
Have a particular set of skills.
Sam [00:09:00]:
Do you know who has a special set of skills, but they still stuffed up?
Chris [00:09:03]:
No. Who’s that?
Sam [00:09:04]:
The crematorium. and not just the one simply cremations. So simply cremations is at the top of Tarapa next to Burger King. Right. and they started off with I don’t know anything about him, but I do know just driving past them so often. They started off with like a shed. and they had to shed and I think they were doing the cremation somewhere else. Then they took the building over next door and they put in a giant smokstack thing, which obviously is for cremation. And then at one point, they brought in their own cremator, which was this huge. They craned it in. It was like the size of the building, like a really big unit that went in. and they took over backdoor surf shop, which is
Chris [00:09:43]:
it. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:09:43]:
So all of that is something cremations. Anyway, this guy is upset. He went to the, thing. they accidentally cremated his mother before the funeral. Okay?
Chris [00:09:55]:
I was I was waiting for you to say before she died. No. So
Sam [00:10:00]:
His mom’s a 101. Right? She become unwell and he says, I think she’s probably gonna pass away soon. So he made arrangements with them to do all this and his plan was to carry his mum from the chapel to the cremation place and they were gonna video that live stream it to the UK. she got 20 grandchildren. They’re gonna watch it. So that’s all good. She died on Tuesday. He was surprised by the postmortem examination results he received the next day. She’s 101. I don’t know what’s gonna surprise you. Anyway, he rang the undertaker and says, hey, look, don’t do it now. I want to make sure I get another postmortem done to find out what’s going on. I’m gonna get a private pathologist and he’s agreed kinda come and do it. And he’s like, yep. Sweet ass, but that undertaker didn’t tell one of the other undertakers. There’s four of them there. So they’re like, yep, fire it up. Chuck her in there. So they did that. they rang up and they were like, oh, so sorry I effed up and, I burned the evidence. I cremated your mother today by mistake. He was in total shot. He could barely speak this man and he’s I don’t know how old he is. 70 something. Anyway, it’s been a whole thing. He can’t believe what happened. He went to the funeral director’s association of New Zealand. They said, oh, they were a member of us, but they actually didn’t wanna be part of us anymore, so they stopped paying us. and the guy goes, yeah, but their logo’s on their website. It’s on their they removed it from the front page, but not some other pages. So they’ve done that. They’ve said, Hey, we’re real sorry. We’re not gonna charge you anything. Of course. I mean, what else can you do? Like that, like, you know, And now he’s like,
Chris [00:11:46]:
I don’t even know that. Who Ash is?
Sam [00:11:49]:
So he’s gone full, special on it, and he Well, he he he’s had so much impact by this. I don’t think he’s worked for 6 months or something. He’s seventy. Well, I don’t know. Well, I don’t know how old he is, but she’s a 101. Yeah.
Chris [00:12:06]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:12:06]:
Anyway, I was just like, okay, I get it. He looks familiar. Oh, here we are telling a story and you’re like, oh, I know who that is. Hang on. I clicked the oh, oh, spazzing out. he’s from tower murder if that helps you. I’ll give you his name and then you’ll probably like, oh, I know him. And then we’ll just laugh and laugh and laugh and I might just have to edit most of that story out just in case.
Chris [00:12:30]:
No. No. My whole life. the phone is just getting real.
Sam [00:12:35]:
It doesn’t no. It doesn’t matter what it is. My whole life is when I want something to work, it never does. It it just happened to the things. this dude is called Mike Lewis.
Chris [00:12:44]:
No. No. I don’t know. Okay. I I that’s a tough one. I feel both sides.
Sam [00:12:49]:
I do feel both sides, and I’m like, Yeah. I it’s a communication breakdown.
Chris [00:12:55]:
Yeah. And, you know, funeral homes, I am sure they have make the same sort of mock ups and errors every other business that makes. It’s just way more emotional.
Sam [00:13:07]:
Yes.
Chris [00:13:07]:
When when they do it. So, yeah, it’s — Yeah.
Sam [00:13:11]:
—
Chris [00:13:11]:
it’s unfortunate. It’s too bad. But again, like, you’re right. What could the post mortem have shown for a hundred and one year old.
Sam [00:13:20]:
I don’t know. That’s the thing I thought was weird. I’m like, bring in CSI. Quick. Now find out the cause of death. Okay. how old was she? 101? Easy. She’s old. No disrespect at all here at the Christmas ham podcast?
Chris [00:13:35]:
No. Talking about random stuff. because that’s what we do. Did you hear Spain has become the 1st country in the EU to establish a special agency for regulating AI government agency?
Sam [00:13:50]:
No. Okay.
Chris [00:13:51]:
Right. So 22nd August, the council of masters approved a rule by a royal decree or approved a royal decree
Sam [00:13:57]:
—
Chris [00:13:57]:
Yep.
Sam [00:13:57]:
—
Chris [00:13:57]:
to establish the Spanish agency for the supervision of ai. It’s called Acea, a e s i a. Okay. Agency for supervision of AI. ACL will oversee Spain’s national AI strategy, which includes calling for Spain to lead global development Spanish speaking AI tools.
Sam [00:14:16]:
I know. We know them well. Yes.
Chris [00:14:17]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:14:18]:
All three of them.
Chris [00:14:19]:
And apart from that, not much, I’ll speak with you over the stage.
Sam [00:14:23]:
That’s that sounds like a real that sounds like a really crazy job to get. You’re like, what are you doing? I’m just risking that AI. Just keeping it under control. How’s it going? Good. Good. Good.
Chris [00:14:33]:
Good. Just making sure that, it’s not
Sam [00:14:35]:
gonna get out control.
Chris [00:14:36]:
It it speaks Spanish well.
Sam [00:14:37]:
What are you doing? I’m watching Terminator 2. for the 10th time. Just picking up some subtle hints. When it gets like that, L Skynet is the problem. It’s Skynet.
Chris [00:14:49]:
That’s the title of
Sam [00:14:50]:
this one. Yeah. okay. Good. Good. Good. yeah.
Chris [00:14:57]:
So, anyway, but they do think there will be other AI and, what do you call agencies or whatever in the other EU countries. So they reckon that all will will happen. But that’s somewhat typical. Right? America talks about stuff never does anything. It’s always Europeans that do something.
Sam [00:15:15]:
Oh, so much stuff. Yeah. Like, oh, it’s crazy. Hey, I heard about this. I read the story to, yesterday. and it’s called Super Bowls because the want prices. And it made me think of you because Oh, okay. Yeah. Because, basically, these, I think they’re a couple. they’re a young couple. And they’d been studying philosophy and politics at Tiger uni and, there’s other the the woman had been doing community development background as So I didn’t know this but this will try back into you. There was a lunch lady who dished out $4 hearty Krishna meals at the Otago University Student Associate for 24 years, right? And she stopped earlier this year and you got that meal that time at field days — Yeah. — from the holy Krishna people. And it was really good.
Chris [00:16:04]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:16:05]:
So these guys had a food wagon and they decided to do it and they called it Super Bowls and you gotta bring your own bowl. Right? And they provide, they’ve actually gone into a building now. And they’ve got a little washing area for the customers and all this sort of stuff. They’ve got 14 staff and whatever the main meal is is 4 bucks. That’s it. They’ve worked it out. It’s vegetarian. No meat. makes things a lot easier.
Chris [00:16:32]:
Yeah. cheaper.
Sam [00:16:33]:
And cheaper. And, they need to sell I think it’s 6000 no. Sorry. 600 bowls a day. to break even or make money, make it worth it. But they’ve been tweaking and tweaking and tweaking it, and they said it’s a $4 main meal, $3 smoothie or dessert. these people are going there two, three times a week now because they can feed family of 4, 3, the $16 or $28 if you’re including a dessert, which is great. They budget everything else. Their menu does change all the time on the front, whatever they’re doing. but he said within 1 a half hours, they’ve already sold 200 meals. Easy. But they are only open 4 hours a day for not sure how many days, but it’s 4 hours a day, and they said, because of that, we know how much, you know, we can employ the people. Like, 14 seemed like a lot once I realized they’re only even 4 hours a day. I’m assuming they’re rotating those people through days.
Chris [00:17:32]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:17:33]:
But, they said it’s going really well and someone that people are rowing up for over half an hour to get these meals. he said, we’re not gonna make a killing of it. That’s not the point. we’ve just got there’s a frustration of inequality in the world. People accept that’s the way it is. It doesn’t have to be. And this guy is going hoping that other people will set up similar operations around the country or wherever in their communities, the doors open. If you want, start talking to us. I wouldn’t be surprised if that thinking of either selling it as a model or a some sort of, I don’t know, franchise is probably the wrong word,
Chris [00:18:08]:
but — Yeah. I I I think it it’s more like open source restaurant.
Sam [00:18:12]:
Maybe. Yeah.
Chris [00:18:12]:
Yeah. so, yeah, cause when I was in London, I went to the Harry Krishna, restaurant a few times back in the early nineties. and that was before I was vegetarian. I was
Sam [00:18:25]:
—
Chris [00:18:25]:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But, again, it was real cheap, tasty food. and lots of it. and, you know, I was working on a poor sort of bartender’s way
Sam [00:18:38]:
That’s right. So I just thought it was interesting. And like, I don’t know. I just like it when people look at something differently and just do it.
Chris [00:18:44]:
Actually, on on the on the topic of making some money when you’re not really wanting to make some money.
Sam [00:18:49]:
Yep.
Chris [00:18:50]:
This this one I got got me, I I I just find this interesting. So I’ll I’ll tell you the story see what you think. So this ex marine captain, I didn’t get her name. I saw her the interview with her, so she was in the marines. You know, she served. She went overseas to whatever they do. Kill people, I guess. came back and then she, she’s working for this, company that does a lot of, contracts and all that sort of thing.
Sam [00:19:21]:
Well, the military contracts. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:24]:
And so the selling stuff to Saudis, and they said something else, and another country, forget which one. But the Saudis and these other countries, and they’re making a loss on those. Like, they’re not making a profit on them.
Sam [00:19:34]:
Okay.
Chris [00:19:34]:
So they charge the US government more to to cover the loss they’re making. Yeah. And she’s like, she she finds this out, and she’s like, we can’t do that. And so she she puts together a report of, you know, this is what’s happening within the company, gets the executives together, and does a presentation to them. And she’s like, I think there was one other woman in the room, but she was by far the youngest. Okay. 31 or something at the time. And then she said, right. This is what we’re doing. We’re charging too much to the American government And the US soldiers are are missing out. They’re not getting all the equipment they want because the the price is too high.
Sam [00:20:15]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:20:16]:
No. Yeah. So we should be selling it, either selling it the same price we’re selling it to the Saudis or whatever or in between, you know, drop out Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Up there. So whatever. And they went, no. We’re not gonna do anything about it this this year.
Sam [00:20:33]:
Okay.
Chris [00:20:34]:
So she goes, well, in that case, I quit. And so she quit. Yeah. This is 7 7 years ago, I think. And she she talked to a lawyer, and the lawyer goes hey, there’s this law, and I’ve forgot what it what it’s called, but it’s from the civil, war era Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. All good laws.
Sam [00:20:53]:
Yeah. All good.
Chris [00:20:54]:
Actually, I think the the law that has regulates the brakes on trains is from the civil war era. And that’s still the one they used today.
Sam [00:21:02]:
Good. That was strong, strong laws back in the day.
Chris [00:21:05]:
Strong rules back in the day. So anyway, so she she she goes to this lawyer and they and what happened what this law says is they can sue on behalf of the government as a private individual
Sam [00:21:18]:
Okay.
Chris [00:21:19]:
Sue, in the interest of the government, and then if the government wins the case, she gets a percentage.
Sam [00:21:28]:
Okay. Yeah. So did they win the case?
Chris [00:21:30]:
So they won the case. 7 years later, won a civil settlement of
Sam [00:21:34]:
377,000,000. Fire out.
Chris [00:21:38]:
and she got
Sam [00:21:39]:
40,000,000. Woah. Her and
Chris [00:21:41]:
her husband and her 2 kids. And and then the interview, it’s just just a normal chick, like, you know, obviously, they’re at 40 now, I guess. But, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:21:50]:
But I guess if you didn’t win, you’d just have legal bills?
Chris [00:21:53]:
Yeah. Well, I presume the, the lawyer will take a percentage. They usually take a third, and I’m assuming they’re taking a third of her cat. So she’s probably You know?
Sam [00:22:04]:
But still.
Chris [00:22:04]:
Yeah. Alright. Good. Good idea. Good stuff. But that’s we’ve had so many whistleblowers get nobled
Sam [00:22:12]:
—
Chris [00:22:13]:
Yeah. — for being whistleblowers. This is the first good story where a whistleblower actually goes out, you know, it goes well with it. She said she’s gonna give a whole bunch of the money to his church.
Sam [00:22:24]:
Okay. Good. Good.
Chris [00:22:25]:
I don’t know if things could, but No
Sam [00:22:26]:
no comment there. Do you know what’s worse than having a lesion in your brain?
Chris [00:22:32]:
A lesion somewhere else. No. you
Sam [00:22:35]:
know, you get symptoms. You’re Australian. You’re a sixty four year old woman. You go in. They’re like, yep. We’re gonna have to go in. They do a biopsy. they crack it open, and then they find it 8 centimeter live roundworm in your brain. They don’t think they’ve ever found one like that. and this roundworm, which usually lives and reproduces in carpet pythons. So they think she’s somehow ingested an egg or something. And then it grew. So there’s neurosurgeons like, oh, we cracked it open. We put it in the tumor. I’m holding it. And he goes, I picked out a linear object. I thought it was like a wire, but then I realized it was moving. we all felt some wave of nausea. and then we put it into a pot too.
Chris [00:23:25]:
We’re looking into somebody’s brain.
Sam [00:23:27]:
They put us they put it into a little jar, and it’s wiggly away.
Chris [00:23:32]:
Oh my god.
Sam [00:23:33]:
Yeah. Crazy, are they?
Chris [00:23:35]:
That’s mental.
Sam [00:23:36]:
She started having abdominal pain and diarrhea. Okay? Then a fever and then cough and shortness of breath. That’s like a Monday for most people. But anyway, it must have got worse. and they said, the symptoms in retrospect were probably due to the migration of the roundworm larvae from the bow and into her other organs. At the time, no other parasites were identified. so she had subtle changes in memory and thought processing. What did
Chris [00:24:04]:
she do? Like, can you would an MRI pick that up?
Sam [00:24:08]:
Well, she had an MRI and it just said, oh, there’s a weird lesion. So it sounds like there was a lesion potentially. Or — Yeah.
Chris [00:24:16]:
because an MRI would looks at the denser Right? So if it’s a fleshy object within a fleshy object, you wouldn’t see it so much.
Sam [00:24:24]:
Yeah. I guess so. So she they think she caught it because she was collecting a type of native grass, and they said it would have shed the Python would have shed the parasite into the grass and then species. She used the greens for cooking and was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating it, they reckon this was the world 1st and highlighted the danger of diseases and infections passing from animals to humans. You know what else there was? The bet from China.
Chris [00:24:57]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve heard about that. Yeah. Bet from China, I think.
Sam [00:25:02]:
So, What else have you got coming up this week? No. So the the day — The
Chris [00:25:07]:
day that this, it comes out. So if you’re listening to this on Sunday
Sam [00:25:11]:
— — hard listeners that drive me crazy while I’m trying to edit this that you have no idea how often I’m editing this just before it gets published. you guys, We’re talking to you.
Chris [00:25:23]:
So if you happen to be in Hamilton anyway, make
Sam [00:25:25]:
the trip if you’re not, do it.
Chris [00:25:28]:
Yeah. I am performing at the meet you. a live improv combat. So I talked about this the other day tonight. So do much like whose line is it anyway? It’s, I used to go and watch it probably 10 years ago. It disappeared for quite a long time, and
Sam [00:25:46]:
now it’s
Chris [00:25:47]:
okay. Yeah. Yeah. because I was
Sam [00:25:48]:
I realized it was a big gap.
Chris [00:25:50]:
Yeah. Yeah. No. It was a big gap. So I was at, telecom when I used to go and and I still lived down there. So it was just yeah.
Sam [00:25:57]:
So you’ve had a practice with your team?
Chris [00:26:00]:
Yeah. Well, I found out who my team is, met the team, most of the team, most of the team were there. Some of the team went
Sam [00:26:06]:
there. Okay.
Chris [00:26:07]:
and we had a bit of a practice, played a few games, had a bit of fun. I’m not as bad as I hoped. That’s the wrong word as I thought I would be. and yeah. Yeah. so I’m I’m performing on Sunday 3rd and then Sunday 17th. I think there’s only the
Sam [00:26:26]:
Chris [00:26:27]:
So we’re doing a round robin with four teams over all those weeks.
Sam [00:26:31]:
Okay. Okay. I’m just checking my calendar. 3rd, I probably can’t make it 17th. Who knows what I’m up to?
Chris [00:26:38]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so I’m looking forward to that. Also, this week, I had the week off, having doing nothing, but I have been doing some work, actually, today on my stand up routine, and I think I’ve got that nailed. I don’t know if it’s funny or not, but
Sam [00:26:54]:
— It’s got something nailed.
Chris [00:26:56]:
I’ve got it I’ve got it written down. So that’s cool. but yeah. And then I have to go back to work next week.
Sam [00:27:02]:
I know. Worksucks. Gotta pay those bills.
Chris [00:27:05]:
Gotta pay those bills.
Sam [00:27:06]:
The podcast isn’t doing it.
Chris [00:27:07]:
Although I have been, helping out, Paul Spain with his, speaking this week, and I’ve gotta do that straight after this. So
Sam [00:27:16]:
Oh, okay. Yep.
Chris [00:27:17]:
Well, I’ll have time for dinner first.
Sam [00:27:18]:
Oh, good. Good. Good. Okay. Until next time, I’m Sam. I’m Chris. See
Chris [00:27:22]:
Bye.
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