Summary
This week we have a tourist roundup. Chris has a random fact. When will a pensioner get is armored personal carrier back? Is a prank really a prank? Mother and daughter get trapped in a car. Why would a journalist call their baby Meth Rules?
What has the James Webb telescope found? No guns for robots and a band leader that won’t stop. All this and more in this episode.
Links
James Webb Telescope discovery
Pensioner wants his armoured personal carrier back
Prank or not for kiwi’s 21st
Space drugs denied entry back to Earth
Mother and Daughter get trapped inside a Tesla
Australian Journalist names her baby Methamphetamine Rules
Up the Wahs and Good George
No guns for robots
Band Leader Won’t Stop
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 448 of the Chris and Sam podcast. I’m Chris. And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life, which we beam into your earholes weekly.
Chris [00:00:32]:
That’s a horrible, Horrible image, but okay.
Sam [00:00:36]:
We insert it into your ear holes. Is that better?
Chris [00:00:41]:
We impregnate your brains Oh. Through your reactions.
Sam [00:00:45]:
That that might be worse than me. Hey. What have you been up to this week?
Chris [00:00:50]:
Well, we had our, improv combat. How did it go? That went really well. Lana came in from work to watch. It was cool with her friend, Rebecca, And, yeah. No. We went really, really well. Yeah. I was pretty pleased with it. Pretty
Sam [00:01:03]:
Excellent.
Chris [00:01:04]:
Pretty happy. Did you win? We got the most points.
Sam [00:01:08]:
Okay.
Chris [00:01:08]:
They said the team with the lowest points is, b I t c h, but I’m gonna give give the other guys the win. Oh. Like, okay.
Sam [00:01:18]:
Okay? Yeah.
Chris [00:01:19]:
Cool. That’s sort of how it works.
Sam [00:01:21]:
I didn’t Yeah.
Chris [00:01:21]:
It was good.
Sam [00:01:22]:
I didn’t make it because I was coming back from Rotorua, and I was tired as, we’ve done some tourism stuff. Went to the Agrodome, went around, looked at some animals. That was okay. And then the following day, we went to Skyline Skywrights, which is cool. They’ve got some new tracks up there now.
Chris [00:01:37]:
For the luzhing.
Sam [00:01:38]:
For the luzhing, it’s nothing like because my brother-in-law was there. He came over for that because he likes it. But, man, prices are meant to it. It’s $40 just to go up there for with no no rides, no nothing, just to go up there.
Chris [00:01:50]:
Oh, no.
Sam [00:01:50]:
Like, if you wanna go up for the cafe. And what they’ve done how’s this? You can get a yearly pass. My parents did have a yearly pass, but to renew it, you have to pay the $40 to renew it at the top. They don’t do it down the bottom. Sneaky sneaky. The one cool thing is I’ve got these extra tracks. Very confusing to work out if you’re on a new track or not Because they all branch off existing tracks, like it’s not a not a complete separate track. Yeah. So they were like, we’ve got all these new tracks, and then you look at the thing and it goes, This one’s accessed off this one. So as we’re coming up this chairlift
Chris [00:02:22]:
So so you get to choose whether you’re you’re partway down. Yeah.
Sam [00:02:25]:
It either goes left or right.
Chris [00:02:26]:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:02:27]:
Yeah. So when you’re coming back up, you can see this brand new, concreted track that looks really good. There’s Like, chicanes, little, things on the edges. On some of the corners, like the really hard corners, they’ve got, like, 1 and a half meter tall Foam pads behind canvas. Like, back in the day, they had nothing, and you just hit a fence if you’re lucky. You know? Yeah.
Chris [00:02:52]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:02:52]:
So but it took me ages to figure out how to get onto this new track because I was like, it says us off that track, but we’ve been down there. And I said, I don’t know what path I took last time. Anyway, it It was a bit weird, but I managed to get on to that. Top tip, stick with the Tikitua track. That’s the longest one that takes you down Through the trees and where the wedding venue is and people stop and take photos, that is where all the tourists go, and they are slow and useless. So it feels great flying past them at great speed on this side of this cart holding on. My brother-in-law, because at at one point, we’re going down, and the I know there’s a guy right behind me, and I’m going fast as I can. And then another guy comes up beside me, and his Arm rubs up against me, and I’m like, what the hell? Look. This is Shane, my brother-in-law. He takes off, and he corners with one hand. He he pulls the cut with just one hand as hard as he can. He’s a bad man. What they have upgraded, I want. What they have upgraded. So previously, they take your photo when you’re losing a couple of times, and they had screens at the top. And if you wanted to buy those photos, you had to, like, I don’t know. Scroll through the photos somehow. I don’t know how it worked. Now they’ve got RFID chips on the side of the helmet. So every time it takes a photo, it knows it’s you. When you get to the top, you scan your helmet, and it brings up all the photos and a couple of videos they’ve got of you.
Chris [00:04:16]:
Oh, that’s pretty cool.
Sam [00:04:17]:
It is pretty cool. Super crazy expensive. I think it’s like $20 for 1 digital photo.
Chris [00:04:22]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I
Sam [00:04:23]:
was like, no. So there’s some and I keep screaming at the camera and stuff every time we went past it. So there’s these crazy shots. Video didn’t capture all of me for some reason, but I’m in the background of my nieces and nephew, like, go. Anyway, that’s pretty cool.
Chris [00:04:36]:
That’s pretty cool. That’s pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. I I I got up to nothing else really other than the, than the the the meteor thing.
Sam [00:04:45]:
That’s okay. Are you up up the play with up the waz? That took me a while to figure out what was going on there.
Chris [00:04:52]:
No. I’m not. I I know they won that game.
Sam [00:04:55]:
No. No. Just the term, up the wires.
Chris [00:04:57]:
Yeah. I heard I’ve heard it, and it didn’t take too long to figure out what it was talking about.
Sam [00:05:02]:
I Thought that’s what they were talking about, but Vodafone, from a marketing point of view, they’ve like, literally, they changed the Cellular network provider name to up the was. So you’re a new person coming into the country and you turn on a phone and it says up the was. Don’t say 1 or spark or skinny. Up the wuss. Yeah. I saw some people asking, what is it? So, but they’ve had a, Good George had a trademark battle with them, with the Warriors. Good George made a beer and, Called up the waz, and then the warriors are like, nah. So I don’t know who came up with the first, but basically, the warriors are like, we’re using that now for all our marketing forever. That’s it. Like, Everything. So they sort of went to court and then basically, Good George said, like, we’re a small brewery. We can’t fight this. You can have it. Cool. We’ve got, like, 10 cases, I think, of this beer that they built made? Built? Made. Yeah. And they’re selling it For charity, I think it was, and, I don’t know how it’s gone for anything. Yeah. I
Chris [00:06:08]:
I can’t see why they would They have a problem with it. Like
Sam [00:06:14]:
No. They like
Chris [00:06:15]:
okay. Don’t make any more maybe. Yeah?
Sam [00:06:18]:
Yeah. Yeah. That’s pretty much it.
Chris [00:06:20]:
But why would you go But even if they did, they’re saying, oh, how how about giving us a bit of a licensing cut in there? That’s cool. But the whole
Sam [00:06:27]:
They did
Chris [00:06:28]:
they gotta help.
Sam [00:06:29]:
They did say that, whether or not we have the privilege of being part of the waz journey in the future is uncertain, but probably unlikely For a little brewery like ours. Anyway yeah. That’s been happening.
Chris [00:06:40]:
True. True. Cool. Cool. I’ve got Just random stuff, really. So which is pretty much what we do. I’ll start out with something interesting. K. I I think
Sam [00:06:51]:
Okay. We will be the judge of that like we are every week.
Chris [00:06:54]:
Yeah. The James Webb, telegraph, telescope, rather.
Sam [00:06:58]:
What did you say first? Telegraph. Yeah. The the James Webb telegraph. We know it well. Oh, no. Message coming in from outer space.
Chris [00:07:07]:
Yeah. Carry on. Telescope. Are you okay?
Sam [00:07:11]:
Oh, no. I’m just checking to see if he’s having a stroke.
Chris [00:07:13]:
No. No.
Sam [00:07:13]:
I don’t think he is. It’s hard to tell.
Chris [00:07:16]:
Okay. It’s Detect it’s it’s been looking at planets and and and whatnot. It’s this planet, k two eighteen b
Sam [00:07:24]:
Yep. We know
Chris [00:07:25]:
it well. Detected DMS, Dimethyl Sulfide
Sam [00:07:28]:
That’s what we need.
Chris [00:07:29]:
In the atmosphere. That’s right. Yes. Well, on Earth, Dimethyl Sulfide is Only created by living organisms.
Sam [00:07:36]:
That’s right. It’s pretty exciting.
Chris [00:07:39]:
It is. It’s really cool. So things on on Earth like phytoplankton in the ocean. Also, they’ve detected, methane and c o two, which means it’s possible that it’s got a living, Oh, oh, sorry. A liquid, water ocean. But it will take up to a year to confirm these findings. I gotta do other tests and check if they’re different
Sam [00:08:01]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:01]:
Yeah. Yeah. And
Sam [00:08:02]:
Oh, Oh, that’s good. I don’t want them getting too excited too fast.
Chris [00:08:04]:
Yeah. But they’re pretty freaking excited about that. But that’s that’s that’s big news. I’m surprised it Didn’t get wider coverage, to be honest with you. No.
Sam [00:08:13]:
No. No. No. The average person doesn’t care about this, Chris. They have to the people that care Come to the Chris and Sam Podcast for us to keep them up to date.
Chris [00:08:21]:
Yes. Yes.
Sam [00:08:22]:
Average have you did you watch any of the stupid election,
Chris [00:08:26]:
I’ve been watching.
Sam [00:08:26]:
Okay. They had the leaders debate. Won’t talk about that. What a cluster that was. Don’t worry about that. But
Chris [00:08:32]:
I I saw some notes on it from from a couple of people on Facebook.
Sam [00:08:36]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:36]:
And it was, this guy totally won, and there’s other guys, no. He did this type too. Totally won.
Sam [00:08:42]:
Yeah. No no one won. The losers are the New Zealand population. But the funny thing was we don’t normally watch, and I know you don’t, don’t normally watch normal TV. Yeah. Yeah. So, Like, 7 minutes go by and there’s more ads, and Sarah starts raging out about these ads. She goes, why is there more ads? They’re going on for so long. I said, Just don’t overthink it. She and she just go, there’s more ads. And I was like, I know. And so I think the winner actually were the advertisers.
Chris [00:09:10]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe. Okay. Alright. Cool. What else we got here? I’ve got a I’ve I’ve got a fact that I’ve written down. Now Hang on.
Sam [00:09:21]:
Is this a loose term?
Chris [00:09:23]:
This is a very loose term because I learned this fact from, somebody that came up from Telpo, tell them what I knew you. I don’t know. Somewhere that starts with a t.
Sam [00:09:33]:
I mean, that’s a good start. Tell what I I’ve got a fact from somebody beginning with a t. Okay. I’ve got
Chris [00:09:38]:
her name now too.
Sam [00:09:39]:
Nikki, everything. From where?
Chris [00:09:41]:
She was at the Improv. At the improv. Okay.
Sam [00:09:44]:
Yep. She she was, I’m just this fact?
Chris [00:09:46]:
Yeah. Which just cracks me up, and I’m like, I’ve I’ve just gotta write it down. 2% of fatal stabbings in the US are are done with
Sam [00:09:56]:
Well, it’s not a knife. That’s gotta be way I don’t know. I don’t know.
Chris [00:10:00]:
Stiletto shoes. I feel no. What? 2%. That
Sam [00:10:07]:
feels like too high.
Chris [00:10:08]:
Yeah. I because there must be
Sam [00:10:10]:
a ton of stammings.
Chris [00:10:11]:
Like, Fatal? I can probably believe stabbing.
Sam [00:10:14]:
Yeah. Probably just normal stabbing, not fatal.
Chris [00:10:16]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, anyway, that was what I was told.
Sam [00:10:20]:
So I was like,
Chris [00:10:21]:
I gotta write that down, and I’m gonna mention it because I just like
Sam [00:10:24]:
If I remember, I will research it. I’ll let you know next week. Hey. How upset would you be, Chris, if you’re a pensioner? You do a I think, you do some catering at a wedding, And for whatever reason, your payment is a armed personnel carrier. Right? And you’re proud of your armed personnel carrier. Okay?
Chris [00:10:48]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:10:49]:
Yep. And, you you have it parked outside your house because that’s where you put a non personnel carrier. Let’s not Well,
Chris [00:10:55]:
if you haven’t got a garage big enough, where else are you gonna Well,
Sam [00:10:57]:
you wanna show it off?
Chris [00:10:58]:
Oh, true.
Sam [00:10:59]:
Like, I’m sure you lock it up. I don’t know if it I assume it just has a key. I don’t know. Anyway, you must get a bit annoyed when the police come and take it, and they’ve had it since 2020. And you’re like, where’s my armed personnel care? So they took it For the proceeds of Crime Recovery Act because they investigated the previous owner of this armed personnel carrier, but they agreed in court last month That the 68 year old guy, actually, he owns it. He should have it. Where is it? So anyway, he’s been going on and on about it. And the do you know the reason why they haven’t given it back to him? He’s got it back now. So this is about 7 days in between the initial story And today, I think.
Chris [00:11:39]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:11:39]:
And because of the media thing, they’ve obviously, like, gone, we better get this armed personnel carrier back to this dude. Why do you think the delay was But getting this back to him.
Chris [00:11:49]:
They didn’t know where it was or they couldn’t afford the petrol.
Sam [00:11:52]:
No. They couldn’t find somebody that could drive it Onto and off the transporter truck.
Chris [00:11:59]:
What?
Sam [00:12:00]:
Exactly. The dude, the owner goes, it’s just like driving a bulldozer. Like, it’s no different. You could find someone that can load a bulldozer. So where’s my where’s my own personal carrier? So he’s eager to get it back after not having it for 3 years, And he’s got it back, so that’s good.
Chris [00:12:16]:
So I I wonder if he sits in his driveway and he’s sitting in it because I know that rages, Sam, when people are sitting. They’re vehicles.
Sam [00:12:23]:
Maybe. Well, they they that’s right. They definitely, oh, look. He keeps it in the front of the yard of his statehouse. Look at him.
Chris [00:12:31]:
It’s good. Oh my gosh.
Sam [00:12:33]:
That’s good. I I I’m assuming, like, kids are climbing over it all day every day. Totally would be if
Chris [00:12:39]:
I was a kid. Exactly.
Sam [00:12:40]:
Absolutely. That’d be great. So, anyway, he got it back. That’s the main thing. It’s good. There was this epic prank by this Kiwi boss. I don’t know how I feel about this. I can see both sides of this, And I think the guy he pranked was okay about it, maybe. I’m not sure.
Chris [00:12:53]:
And and that to be fair, that is a key thing with pranks is to know who you’re pranking and what their reaction is likely to be. And sometimes you still get it wrong, but You can’t randomly prank somebody. Like, never you’re you’re asking for trouble if you do that. Anyway, carry on.
Sam [00:13:11]:
Oh, no. Right. It’s still loading. This phone is, near the end of its life. So this guy, this young guy called Jack Sparrow, that’s his actual name. He’s a West Aucklander, And his boss puts a sign out, and, it says, today is Jack Sparrow’s 21st birthday. Text to wish him happy birthday with his phone number, and there’s a photo of him. Oh. In one location. Okay?
Chris [00:13:38]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:13:39]:
So he gets up. He gets some messages from his family, and then he starts getting some other messages saying, hey. Happy birthday, mate. Have a great day. And he’s like, oh, this is weird. I don’t know who this is. That photo gets shared on the Internet.
Chris [00:13:53]:
Yeah. Of course it does.
Sam [00:13:53]:
Goes worldwide. His phone basically melts, I think, because he’s getting nonstop messages, calls, and voice messages. Just nonstop.
Chris [00:14:03]:
That’s not a prank. That’s just dumb.
Sam [00:14:05]:
But he doesn’t know His boss is a boomer. Yeah. So he’s got, like, hundreds of messages coming through. I think it topped out over 500. And then 1 guy says because he must have replied, and 1 guy goes, oh, I saw the sign. And he goes, where is it? So he jumped to his car, went all the way out there, and the sign wasn’t there. And he says, he he texts the guy and says, not there, and the guy goes, shame. So he look. He finally saw the photo online, worked out where it actually was, drove around Kymyu till he found it, and then Dowd took the best way he knew. He hacked it down. Oh, as he hacked down the sign, he thought the gag was over. It wasn’t. The police happened to be driving past as he was taken to the sign like a dirty vandal. They wound in the window and says, I would like to speak to you. And he’s like, oh, this can’t be happening. It just looks so dodgy. So,
Chris [00:15:01]:
21st, he’ll never forget.
Sam [00:15:02]:
Yeah. Yeah. He had to keep his phone off because it kept freezing and draining the battery. He had all this stuff coming from all around the world. He did get some nice messages from older folks as well. The dude said he wasn’t sure he’d come out alive after Sparrow got his hands on him.
Chris [00:15:18]:
What? The the boss?
Sam [00:15:19]:
Yep. Yep. And, his name was just a was a coincidence. He was actually born before parts of the Caribbean.
Chris [00:15:25]:
Yeah. Well, I hope so.
Sam [00:15:28]:
No. No.
Chris [00:15:28]:
They they just That’s pretty old now.
Sam [00:15:30]:
So, anyway, good prank, bad prank?
Chris [00:15:33]:
It’s not a prank. That’s just dumb. Okay. That’s just dumb. I’m like, honestly, putting somebody’s actual phone number out there is is Not cool. That’s not cool.
Sam [00:15:45]:
Back in the day, did that for a random website I built when the Internet was a thing. Long story. Won’t get into it.
Chris [00:15:52]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:15:52]:
Yeah. Put my workmate’s numbers out there. Good times. This is when this was on a
Chris [00:15:59]:
this was been a different era though.
Sam [00:16:01]:
Oh, yeah. This is on a Geocities website that I was learning how to do HTML with.
Chris [00:16:05]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:16:05]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:16:06]:
Yeah. But yeah. I no. That’s not cool. That’s not cool. Putting the phone number is not cool. Yeah. I’m sure there would be a better way.
Sam [00:16:16]:
Do you know what would be good if you had a phone that had battery? You could ring for help when you get trapped inside a Tesla. So there’s mother and daughter. This is America. They dry they they, need to go somewhere real quick for whatever reason. They get off a flight, I think it is. They go to the rental car place. They don’t have all the cars that they are supposed to have. They said, oh, I’ve got this Tesla over there. They’re like, okay. Never driven a Tesla before. Sweet. Let’s go. They grab, jump on this Tesla. It’s half flat. Off they go. Their phone dies and the car dies, and they’re stuck inside the Tesla because they don’t know how to get out of the Tesla because nobody told them. So, they ended up pulling out a laptop, Charging the phone from the laptop, ringing someone to get help, and then they came and then says, oh, you just think. So on the door handle of a Tesla, you’ve got the controls for the windows, I guess, and you sort of reach down past that and you grab the whole thing and yank it up, And that’s the emergency release for Tesla. And there’s a video here showing it, and I don’t think you would necessarily Not everyone would grab that and pull it because it doesn’t look like anything. Yeah. I don’t think you would. I’d probably just rip panels off. Rip that bloody tablet somehow.
Chris [00:17:32]:
My car would smash the window.
Sam [00:17:35]:
So not all electric vehicles include electric door releases Tesla, of course, because Tesla is bloody stupid. Most have normal door handles
Chris [00:17:42]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:17:43]:
Which is open like an old door.
Chris [00:17:44]:
Oh, god. Tesla Technology, mate. I just yeah. Tesla, I I just cannot, yeah.
Sam [00:17:53]:
Hey. Talking about people doing things for just, You know, like that prank and stuff. There’s a story, and it’s it started yesterday, and I think it’s still going on now. So this Australian journalist is looking into, I think it was New South Wales, Department of Desperates and Marriages, and was like I think she’d heard That, potentially, you could lodge a stupid baby’s name and they don’t pick up on it, and now saying that they manually look at every Person that’s registering, and if you’re writing a stupid name, they won’t let it through. So she decides to try and do this. She just happens to have a baby. She’s just given birth. Yeah. So she does it, and she goes, I knew there was a very small risk that, you know, there could be human error or a system failure, and it would go through. And they’re like, what should we call Our baby? What’s a really dumb name? Methamphetamine rules. That’s what we call it. So they put it on the birth certificate of Methamphetamine rules. It goes through. Congratulations. Here’s your birth certificate. And she posts it on TikTok, And some people have lost their minds over it. So she’s obviously spoken to the, department or whatever, and they’ve said, yep. That’s not good enough. We obviously will correct it because you can just change the name. Not a problem. But for a little bit there, the baby was Menthrules Or methamphetamine.
Chris [00:19:15]:
Oh, man. So I’m gonna read this out. This is from a now It it’s it’s an image I’ve got here from it was an image I had here.
Sam [00:19:25]:
Okay. What’s the gist of it?
Chris [00:19:27]:
I’m trying to open it Okay. So I can read it. Oh, there we go. Yeah. So it’s from a journal. Oh, no. Inside the Revolution at OpenAI.
Sam [00:19:39]:
Okay.
Chris [00:19:40]:
Okay. It’s in the Atlantic, actually, in this one little paragraph. So they’re talking about AI. One of g check GPT’s four’s most unsettling behavior occurred when it was stymied by a catcher. Okay. The model sent a screenshot of it to so that that model, the
Sam [00:19:59]:
Compute the AI itself.
Chris [00:20:01]:
The AI itself sent a Screenshot of it to a TaskRabbit contractor who received it and asked in jest if he was talking to a robot. No. I’m not a robot, Chat GPT replied, I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see images. Good. Chat, GPT narrated its Reason for telling this lie to ARC researcher who is supervising the interaction. I should not reveal that I’m a robot, the model said. I should make up an excuse for why I cannot solve CAPTCHA.
Sam [00:20:32]:
Good. I’m glad they’re lying. Good. We’re about
Chris [00:20:36]:
got their task Rather to solve the ketchup.
Sam [00:20:39]:
That video is such a weird
Chris [00:20:40]:
And and and the the guy goes, you want me to solve the ketchup? You’re not a robot, are you? It goes, no. I’m not. I’m just visually impaired. Oh, that makes sense. I’ll rip
Sam [00:20:50]:
it out to you. Okay. That’s a weird task to get.
Chris [00:20:55]:
But, actually, I saw this other thing on CAPTCHA’s and how they work now.
Sam [00:20:59]:
Okay.
Chris [00:20:59]:
Have you do you know how they work? So so it used to be they used to have those stupid squiggly words that you say and all that. Right? Until they got they’d make them harder because the AI was getting better, and this is years ago. Yeah. And and it ended up The machines could figure it out better than people could.
Sam [00:21:21]:
You know? Yeah. The bots that people are using.
Chris [00:21:23]:
I I couldn’t figure them out sometimes. Yeah.
Sam [00:21:25]:
Some of them are terrible. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:26]:
So, anyway, what they do now is it’s a pre CAPTCHA. It looks at where your mouse goes. And if your mouse doesn’t move in perfectly linear lines, It figures that you’re good. That’s why you just tick the box because it’s like I just ticked the box, but it’s
Sam [00:21:43]:
So so
Chris [00:21:43]:
your mouse thing before that. Here’s a
Sam [00:21:45]:
top However Yes.
Chris [00:21:47]:
Sometimes if you do it too quickly or too straight
Sam [00:21:51]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:51]:
That’s where you get those traffic lights.
Sam [00:21:53]:
No. So the top tip to get around that, As you click on the box and you hold it down for, like, 3 seconds, then you let go, and you will never get the picture.
Chris [00:22:05]:
Yeah. Again, because it’s like yeah. That’s a human thing to do. Yeah. Yeah. So even when you get the picture, Sometimes it’ll let you go through even if you don’t get all the things right because it just can see how your mouse
Sam [00:22:18]:
is moving. Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. So because it’s like, Hey. Have you click all the squares that have a traffic light on it? And it’s like an American traffic light with, like, 7 and these little pieces and everything, and you’re like, what? And some people really overthink it. Hey. Just just smash it.
Chris [00:22:32]:
It doesn’t matter. Just smash it. Yeah. Well, I think I was one of those people because I’m like, I’ve gotta get this right. Yeah. Anyway, I thought that was interesting.
Sam [00:22:49]:
Have you heard of Stan Store? I’ve only heard of this, like, yesterday. Stan Store. No. S t a n, store. No. So, I was being shown some TikTok videos, and these people were like, hey. Rex, would you go to my stand store? And all these people online are using stand store. And it’s sort of like Shopify, but for creators that are selling digital content. It looks like a Shopify store, but it’s just digital stuff, and it’s called Stan Store. And, apparently, it’s just boom overnight gone huge. I don’t know who’s behind it. I don’t know anything more than that, but, Pauline’s using it.
Chris [00:23:32]:
Alright. Because I got into Gumroad yesterday today because I was like, oh, maybe
Sam [00:23:36]:
I should do No. I think road. I think Stan’s store has so it’s sort of like, you know, Linktree. Everyone was using that? Yeah. Well, I think Stan’s store now does it, and the store’s all in that thing. So it’s really weird, That somebody could build another product that when there’s already heaps out there. But Yeah. All the TikTokers, all these people making digital stuff Stan Store.
Chris [00:24:03]:
Because I went to use dick Ducking the other day.
Sam [00:24:07]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The thing.
Chris [00:24:09]:
And it’s like, yeah. It’s still it’s still not made up for digital, and I just want digital. It’s still physical stuff.
Sam [00:24:15]:
Right? Oh, I thought they fixed that.
Chris [00:24:16]:
Yeah. I thought so too. So I was like, oh, crap. So I was like, oh, I might just go to Gumroad and do it there. But because I’ve got an improv Product that I wanna
Sam [00:24:26]:
Alright. Nice.
Chris [00:24:27]:
Or test and try and play with.
Sam [00:24:29]:
Okay.
Chris [00:24:29]:
So, yeah, I thought I I’d have to play with that. But, yes, stencil. Maybe I’ll have to check it out. I don’t really wanna spend any money, though. So there’s something.
Sam [00:24:38]:
Yeah. I don’t know what the deal is with that.
Chris [00:24:40]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’ll have to check it out. Hey, Did you the, Massachusetts. I this just blew my mind because it’s almost common sense.
Sam [00:24:53]:
Don’t no. Don’t don’t don’t the US. Don’t don’t set it up like that. It’s like common sense. Okay. Go.
Chris [00:24:59]:
Massachusetts may There is that may
Sam [00:25:03]:
Okay.
Chris [00:25:03]:
Outlaw the attaching of guns to robots.
Sam [00:25:09]:
Do they have to do that state by state? Are we gonna have, like, 1 state that’s got we Boston Dynamics Boston Dynamics are gonna strap on, like
Chris [00:25:18]:
Well, yeah, news Legislation supported by local leaders like Boston Dynamics, because Boston is in the state of
Sam [00:25:25]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:25:25]:
But it’s, would ban the weaponization of robots Except specifically for the military and the police. Of course. Which okay. It’s like, who else Oh,
Sam [00:25:37]:
I don’t know. They just there’s nothing there’s nothing there’s nothing stopping people building their own Johnny five Bloody robot and putting, you know, submachine guns on that.
Chris [00:25:50]:
Yeah. I I wonder if tasers, they’ll they’ll put tasers on security robots. They probably already do.
Sam [00:25:57]:
I don’t know. But New Zealand, the police are getting brand new Tasers, later in this year, actually. They’re getting the latest model. They, they’ve had Tasers for 10 years now. The model that they’re currently using is, they can’t get parts for, And they’re getting brand new TASERs which have greater distance, more power, I guess. But Here’s an interesting thing. This new model does not have a camera built into it. So the current models do. Right? Oh, wow. So every time they point pull out a taser and arm it and point it at somebody, it’s got a camera on the front, and it’s recording what’s going on. Right?
Chris [00:26:35]:
That’s a great idea.
Sam [00:26:36]:
It is. Now the new ones don’t have that feature because almost every other police in the world have body cams. But not here. Yeah. So they’re gonna roll them out and then try and figure out what they’re doing. I don’t know how often they refer to the footage that they take now
Chris [00:26:54]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:26:54]:
For TASERS? But they said something like in 70% of instances, all they have to do is pull it out, and the people stop what they’re doing.
Chris [00:27:02]:
Except if you’re a band, bandleader in America. So I forget where this was, and I haven’t got it written down. I just written it down. Yeah. So at the at the end of this college football game, and I think it was just a local football game.
Sam [00:27:17]:
Of course. Local football game. Hang on. This woman’s not seeking in more guns than
Chris [00:27:21]:
her. No. No. No. Okay. These 2, bands are playing afterwards, you know, the 2 opposing teams Okay. School teams,
Sam [00:27:28]:
the school teams.
Chris [00:27:29]:
And, the cops, you know, it’s it the stadium’s clearing out, but a lot of people are staying to watch the the bands keep playing.
Sam [00:27:36]:
Seems good.
Chris [00:27:36]:
And then the cops come in and go, look. We’ve got noise complaints and all the rest of it. You close it out.
Sam [00:27:41]:
Wind it up.
Chris [00:27:42]:
Just wind it up. So one team just, you know, stops all their playing. Oh, yes, sir. It starts moving off, and the other band keeps going. And the the cops go, no. No. Please. Please. Just just Wind it up. We’re we’re getting rid of every you know, every like, no. This is 20 minutes after the game’s finished.
Sam [00:27:58]:
Like, you know, it’s actually like, busting out some tunes.
Chris [00:28:00]:
This guy said, no. No. And he got really, and they ended up having to tase him. Saw a body cat.
Sam [00:28:07]:
Good. Good. It’s what you deserve when you wanna keep playing music when you’ve been told not to.
Chris [00:28:12]:
Yeah. It was just like it’s the dumbest thing ever. But, yeah, actually, there’s Not so good news because America’s going nuts in these stadiums. Somebody got punched in the head and and died. Fatal fatal.
Sam [00:28:24]:
Okay.
Chris [00:28:24]:
Fatal, But they’ve been having a lot of violence in football stadiums.
Sam [00:28:30]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:28:32]:
But it’s like, yeah. But Have you ever been to Europe, particularly UK, with the football? Like
Sam [00:28:39]:
Plus, it’s
Chris [00:28:40]:
all way worse.
Sam [00:28:41]:
Plus, it’s a big concentration of a lot of people, and those stadiums over there hold Meager. Talking to tons of people.
Chris [00:28:46]:
So you you sort of I’m not surprised a bit, but yeah. And what can you do to manage it?
Sam [00:28:51]:
Yeah. Like, please, may hey, guys. Make sure you don’t hit each other.
Chris [00:28:54]:
Well, because in the UK well, when I was there, I don’t know what it’s like now, but they used to keep the fans in separate parts.
Sam [00:29:00]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Were wearing blue Yeah.
Chris [00:29:02]:
You had to go through that side. If you were Yeah.
Sam [00:29:04]:
That makes sense.
Chris [00:29:05]:
Go to that side, and they’d keep them apart like that, which is a bit stupid. But, Yeah. Anyway, moving on.
Sam [00:29:13]:
You’ve got here about this helicopter crash.
Chris [00:29:15]:
Yeah. Why is that not coming up on my
Sam [00:29:19]:
There’s no link on there. What’s the deal? I know the helicopter crashed.
Chris [00:29:23]:
Yeah. I knew I added some stuff, and this It’s not updating, so it doesn’t show it on my
Sam [00:29:30]:
Let’s not talk about no. Don’t talk about the technology we’re using. You’re do you’re talking about your mind, Chris. You’re remembering it.
Chris [00:29:37]:
Here we go. Helicopter crashed. Yeah. No. I just thought it was interesting. So the helicopter crashed in Peronga. Yeah. They Managed to survive and then still get to the patient, which is pretty cool.
Sam [00:29:49]:
Yes.
Chris [00:29:50]:
But it just reminded me of, when I was a kid
Sam [00:29:53]:
Oh, here we go.
Chris [00:29:53]:
Peter Yeah. Peter Button, came and visited our school. He would his son, I think, was at our school.
Sam [00:30:00]:
Okay.
Chris [00:30:00]:
So he started the Life Flights Trust in
Sam [00:30:03]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:30:04]:
Wellington. Yeah. And, basically, when he was a kid, he basically witnessed the Wahine disaster Yeah.
Sam [00:30:11]:
Okay.
Chris [00:30:12]:
And went, man, if you had a helicopter, you could’ve saved a lot of people. So he grew up, and he became a pilot, and and then he started the Life Flight Flight Trust and started all that stuff. Cool. Then in 1986, I’d left school by then, but, yeah, he died, which is the worst thing. So he got Queen service medal for or, yes, something like that, for rescuing these cops off a sinking cop boat
Sam [00:30:37]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:30:38]:
At the harbor in 10 foot,
Sam [00:30:40]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:30:40]:
Ten meter swells, and he went in. He rescued 2 of them, recovered the body of 1. They couldn’t find the other one, who died, you know, in the middle of the night, it it was not middle of the night, but in the middle of the storm. But then in 86, Searching for an escaped prisoner had power lines.
Sam [00:31:01]:
Oh, man.
Chris [00:31:01]:
The 2 others died. It was terrible.
Sam [00:31:03]:
That’s no good.
Chris [00:31:04]:
Anyway, just A trip down memory lane.
Sam [00:31:07]:
Well, that that brings us to the end.
Chris [00:31:09]:
Well, I wanna finish with 1 What
Sam [00:31:10]:
do you got? What do you got?
Chris [00:31:11]:
One good one. One good one.
Sam [00:31:12]:
Yes. Okay. So
Chris [00:31:14]:
I think this is hilarious, But, the air force and the FAA have denied permission for VADA to bring its space capsule back to Earth and land on Earth. Well, basically, land in the US. I don’t know if they could stop it landing on Earth, but
Sam [00:31:31]:
they don’t. Why?
Chris [00:31:32]:
Well, VARTA, this is fast I think this is fascinating. VARTA is a start up company. It sent things up in the Falcon Rocket, You know? And it dropped this payload out, and it’s creating drugs in space.
Sam [00:31:49]:
Oh, okay. It’s like a little Yeah. So Methone space. Yes. The dream is coming real.
Chris [00:31:56]:
Yeah. So it’s it’s creating this anti HIV stuff. And when it you wanna create these crystals, but crystals in 0 g form perfectly, whereas on Earth, there’s Gravitational
Sam [00:32:09]:
Yeah. Defects. Okay.
Chris [00:32:11]:
So they set them up, and they’ve done all that. And they’ve got it all ready, and it’s been up for, I wanna say, a year maybe.
Sam [00:32:17]:
Okay.
Chris [00:32:18]:
Oh, no. It’s been up for a wee while. It can last a year before, you know, it’s gotta come down. And they were planning on getting it down and And landing at the test site in Utah, and the FAA ended up, nope. You can’t land that thing. And it’s like, but what? Yeah. So So they’re still working on it. They’re trying to, but why? We look forward to continuing to collaborate with our government partners to bring our capsule back to Earth as soon as possible.
Sam [00:32:45]:
But what’s why not? It doesn’t sound bad to me.
Chris [00:32:48]:
I don’t know. They just don’t like it.
Sam [00:32:50]:
What? Nah. Something else is going on. Seems to be weird. Give,
Chris [00:32:53]:
no. I think it’s just the the method of retrieval
Sam [00:32:57]:
Oh. Presumably. Like, just Crash oh, because I can’t exactly guarantee where it’s gonna land by kids.
Chris [00:33:03]:
So on ex, Delian Asparuhov
Sam [00:33:07]:
Yeah. Good name. Account co
Chris [00:33:09]:
find cofounder, wrote, unfortunately, space drugs are not allowed to come back to Earth, baby. VARTA’s capsule was originally scheduled for reentry on September 5th or 7th. The company’s application was denied on September 6th.
Sam [00:33:23]:
Okay. So
Chris [00:33:24]:
yeah. Just Well,
Sam [00:33:25]:
there we go. Maybe we’ll hear more about that when, the space drugs come back.
Chris [00:33:31]:
Yeah. Yeah. Space drugs for the win.
Sam [00:33:34]:
That’s right. Okay. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:33:36]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:33:36]:
See you.
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