Summary
In this week’s episode of The Chris and Sam Podcast, we dive into a wide range of topics.
From exploring career options to the shrinking field of podiatry, we discuss the limitations and financial challenges faced by many professionals.
Join us as we discuss a situation with the Commerce Commission, Sanitarium’s social media response, and even dolphins’ unique exploration methods.
Links
Hooked on Freddy podcast
Car strikes in the US and the crazy CEO salary’s
Lettrboxed app has new owner
World record for bungy jumping the most in one day going to be attempted.
Weetbix and The Warehouse update
AIDS Memorial in Palm Springs upsets locals
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:06]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 450 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life. That’s it. This I sorry. I us. I I just started saying that, and I was like, do I normally say that as I’m adjusting a dial on the volume for this mic? So my brain just went, no. Let’s let’s just focus on that. Us.
Sam [00:00:42]:
But here we are. Hey. Couple of things from last week.
Chris [00:00:45]:
You sure it wasn’t a mini strike.
Sam [00:00:47]:
Okay. You, the listener, you tell us you tell us, what you think. No. I’m good. Last week, we have a correction. Story from Chris again. The the bloody dolphin one. Oh, right.
Sam [00:01:00]:
Freddie gets, us. Hooked on Freddie.
Chris [00:01:04]:
Hooked on Freddie.
Sam [00:01:04]:
Hooked on Freddie, the podcast. You said it was from the seventies. It was a guy, and it was in Wales. It’s the North of England. It’s in the 19 nineties, and it was a female reporter. So Yeah. So pretty much. Right? No.
Sam [00:01:17]:
No. No. So that podcast is
Chris [00:01:19]:
it 19 nineties? Okay.
Sam [00:01:21]:
Alright. Yeah. It was 19 nineties because I’ve been listening to the podcast.
Chris [00:01:25]:
Alright.
Sam [00:01:26]:
Okay. So only 4 episodes have come out so far. Yeah. And she didn’t actually record much from the early nineties. She was just a beginner journalist, And she just had a little bit of audio. She had audio of her swimming with Freddy the dolphin in the water. So the dolphin’s called Freddy. And And he just turned up and everybody came popular.
Sam [00:01:44]:
It it became super popular. Everyone wanted to swim with him. This guy named Alan, who was just sort of a, us. Activist. Animal rights activist Yeah. Slash gardener.
Chris [00:01:54]:
And Slash gardener.
Sam [00:01:55]:
Yeah. And he just wanted to swim out there all the time, and he was there with all the time with the dolphin. Us. And some people saw him with a dolphin and said some stuff. Because dolphins use their penis as a hand and that’s how they explore the world, Chris. Us Really? Yes. They are erect all the time and it’s but not showing all the time. There’s 2 different things.
Sam [00:02:16]:
I can tuck it away somewhere us. And, you’re ready to go at all times. But what they do is apparently, when you ride with dolphins, they’ll hook you with it. So it’ll go around your arm, I guess, or your leg, and they’ll like pull you around with that. And it’s completely normal. That’s what I’ve learned from this podcast.
Chris [00:02:33]:
Okay. This is even weirder than what I said, I think.
Sam [00:02:37]:
Yeah. So
Chris [00:02:37]:
So so what what is the podcast like? You is it us Westwood
Sam [00:02:41]:
Yeah. I think so. It’s pretty interesting. The yeah. It’s it’s at the moment, I think 4 episodes are out. He’s in court. They never thought it would go to court, us. And, he’s just, like, what is
Chris [00:02:53]:
going on? Sounds like a hilarious story. So
Sam [00:02:55]:
Oh, it just sounds stupid. Us So that happened and update about my toe last week. I went to the podiatrist, paid him a ton of money. It’s all good. It’s really good. And, for
Chris [00:03:08]:
able to walk away afterwards?
Sam [00:03:09]:
Oh, yes. Like nothing. Like, he there’s no it was almost no pain afterwards. Nothing. Oh, yeah. It’s nothing. Like, I us. Honestly, I don’t know if it was worth the money, and I think next time I’ll just try it myself.
Sam [00:03:21]:
Because I saw what he did.
Chris [00:03:21]:
The old hedge cover there.
Sam [00:03:23]:
Oh, no. It wasn’t much to it. He us. Hacked it out. Oh, and the funny thing is he said to me the week before, he says, let me know if you have any allergies, and I was, us. If you’re allergic to any of the, local anesthetic. And I was like, yes, sweetest. And I said, actually, you know what? I’m not allergic to it, But I need more than whatever you’re gonna give me.
Sam [00:03:41]:
Like, when they do dental work, they’ll do 2 injections and I still feel it? He goes, oh, okay. Well, yes. Some people,
Chris [00:03:49]:
us Metabolizer
Sam [00:03:50]:
or whatever. Whatever. So he did 2, and I could I was like, no. I can still feel a little bit. He goes, okay. He gave me another one. So that was all good. Us.
Sam [00:03:56]:
He did all that. And I said to him, like, I’m yakking away at him. And I said, how did you get into this gig? He’s been doing it for a while now. I think he said he’s been in New Zealand 34 years.
Chris [00:04:06]:
Oh, where where is he from?
Sam [00:04:07]:
He’s Asian guy. Oh, yeah. That’s all I can tell you. But, he goes, You know when you talk to people because the general podiatrist story is they they’ve gone somewhere and somebody’s fixed them and don’t fixed their feet and they’ve gone, This is amazing. This is what I want to do. He goes, no. I didn’t do that. He goes, so I’m he must have still been studying.
Sam [00:04:27]:
Us. And he was doing some studying to be a cardiologist, something like a rather, and he goes, I just after a while, I just hated looking at a microscope, us Looking at these slides and he goes, it was just doing my head in. So I was like, oh, what else has the uni got? So he goes, the only thing that was accepting people was podiatry. And he goes, I don’t even know what that was. Signed up to it. Here I am.
Chris [00:04:53]:
So good the days of our life.
Sam [00:04:55]:
But he said us. He said because we’re in New Zealand and the rules around it, you can’t just set up your own
Chris [00:05:01]:
practice. Yeah.
Sam [00:05:02]:
You’ve got
Chris [00:05:03]:
So he did that Overseas or did that here?
Sam [00:05:05]:
No. Here. Okay. From what I understand, down south. But he was saying, like, because the rules are so regulated here, he goes, so many people just Drop out after a while. Like, you guys have had colleagues have done 20, 30 years. That’s like, no. I’m out.
Sam [00:05:18]:
Because they can’t go anywhere else. They can’t make any more money. And the options are you go overseas and do it, or he goes, I’ve got I’ve got friends that are now real estate agents. I’ve got friends that are like some sort of businessman or they own Different stuff. And he goes, yeah. He goes, the the podiatry thing is just shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. And he goes, it’s a bit tough.
Chris [00:05:38]:
Okay. Sorry. It’s shrinking and shrinking and shrinking because people are having less problems with their feet.
Sam [00:05:44]:
No. They’re just capping out. Like, these guys wanna make more money and they can’t.
Chris [00:05:47]:
But, Yo. Okay.
Sam [00:05:48]:
Because they have to work for somebody. They can’t
Chris [00:05:50]:
make more work for him, but he just can’t up the price is what you’re
Sam [00:05:53]:
saying. Well, yeah. Because they can’t go out on their own And create their own business. They have to be part of a group, I guess. A medical I guess, that’s the way you sort of described it to me. Yeah. But I guess after a while, you just must get out. Like, you just, this is my life.
Sam [00:06:09]:
It’s a job. Exactly. Exactly. There’s only so much you can do when you Think he’s saying do he’s doing, like, 2 or 3 of these, toenail things a day, he reckons, sometimes.
Chris [00:06:19]:
Okay. Yeah. I suppose. Get to chat some interesting people.
Sam [00:06:22]:
That’s
Chris [00:06:23]:
right. I’m gonna mention something about the, the, car things. What do you call it? They had those strikes in the States with the cars, and I saw this, really cool Did they?
Sam [00:06:36]:
I didn’t know that.
Chris [00:06:37]:
Didn’t you know anything about Okay.
Sam [00:06:38]:
I just knew there was a writer strike on Yeah. That and all of
Chris [00:06:41]:
that. That’s all over. Yes. I knew that. And my late night shows are back in my Yeah.
Sam [00:06:45]:
You’re so happy.
Chris [00:06:46]:
Feeds. I’m so happy.
Sam [00:06:47]:
So was Car manufacturing.
Chris [00:06:49]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, there’s 3 or 4. There was, Stellantis, which I’d never heard of us
Sam [00:06:57]:
- Yeah.
Chris [00:06:58]:
Okay. Yes. Okay. Atlantis, Ford, GM was it Chrysler, or is it just those 3? I think it might have just been those 3,
Sam [00:07:05]:
actually. Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:07:06]:
So, anyway, the, they’ve been on strike for a bit, and and president Biden joined the picket line. 1st time a president’s team has done that in in modern history.
Sam [00:07:15]:
Did he know he was doing that?
Chris [00:07:16]:
Yeah. He just wanted
Sam [00:07:18]:
to Every time I see him, he’s getting older and older, like
Chris [00:07:21]:
He’s still only 3 years older than Trump, so it’s not that bad. Yeah. I know. Anyway, but what they were striking for was A decent pay rise. Do you know how much pay rise they wanted?
Sam [00:07:34]:
I don’t know. 20%. Forty
Chris [00:07:38]:
Hello. Yeah. Now that sounds pretty horrific, but, few years back, however many years back that was. Yep. They did the, they had to bail them out. Right? Yes.
Sam [00:07:53]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:07:54]:
Yes. All the workers took a pay cut.
Sam [00:07:56]:
Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:07:57]:
Yeah. To give you Management No. They don’t. Had lots of pay rises since then, but the workers haven’t.
Sam [00:08:02]:
Right? Yeah.
Chris [00:08:05]:
So, basically, Biden’s going, look. You guys, you know, sacrifice for the company’s time this company Freaking paid. You’re back. Right? But, anyway, I saw this tweet by, Robert Reich, who I’ve mentioned before. He was an old economist and stuff. Us These are the CEO pays of the largest carmakers of the world. Yeah. So in Japan, you’ve got Honda us CEO, 2,300,000.
Chris [00:08:29]:
Yeah. Nissan, 4,500,000. Woah. Toyota, 6,700,000. Yeah. And And then if you go to Europe, you got BMW, 5,600,000. Okay. Mercedes, 7,500,000.
Sam [00:08:43]:
Yep. That’s high class.
Chris [00:08:45]:
Porsche, 7,900,000. Then you go to the US, and you’ve got Ford Yeah. 21,000,000. Oh, woah. Stellantis, 25,000,000. Us. GM 29,000,000. And he goes, folks, don’t believe it for a second that US automakers can’t afford to pay workers better wages.
Sam [00:09:03]:
But that’s, like, almost every industry.
Chris [00:09:06]:
Everything. Yeah. But there’s a huge difference between Japan and, US. Ten times the salary for the Yeah. I know. Yeah. That
Sam [00:09:15]:
yeah. No. No. But the disparity between what
Chris [00:09:17]:
the disparity between the CEO and the worker Yeah. Is is huge, But it’s actually way bigger in the States than it is
Sam [00:09:24]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:24]:
Elsewhere. That’s that’s
Sam [00:09:25]:
So that’s still on strike? Or have they come up with a plan?
Chris [00:09:29]:
No. They they’re still on strike at the moment. They got pretty close. As far as I know, I haven’t heard anything for the last few days. But as far as I know, that’s still pretty, pretty much. Us. But, then there was this other story just sticking with that car thing for a second. Yep.
Chris [00:09:46]:
These lawyers sued The Tesla board for excessively paying themselves. Mhmm. So the Tesla board paid themselves something like I think it was $790,000,000?
Sam [00:10:00]:
Chump change. Don’t worry about
Chris [00:10:01]:
it.
Sam [00:10:01]:
Yeah. We’ve all got that laying around.
Chris [00:10:04]:
735,000,000 in compensation. Yep. Far out. The yeah. The 12 director defendants, us agreed I agreed to return 735,000,000 in compensation. Right? Yeah. So god knows what they were paid. But the this article, which is very clickbaity, is going, well, the lawyers that have recouped their cost, us.
Chris [00:10:30]:
Wanna be paid more than $10,000 an hour.
Sam [00:10:32]:
Of
Chris [00:10:33]:
course. But that’s about click bait because they basically are getting paid a a percentage of The Return or whatever.
Sam [00:10:40]:
Oh, okay. And so That was
Chris [00:10:41]:
split it between the hours, it
Sam [00:10:43]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:10:44]:
Okay. Anyway, I I thought us. Anyway, okay. That’s that’s enough American
Sam [00:10:48]:
caster. There’s a story, that just came out. I think I read it today. This golfer got us Oh, sorry. This golfer was banned after eating a custard pudding contaminated with a banned drug. Now Oh, hey. Hey. Wait.
Chris [00:11:02]:
Oh, Okay. Sorry. Lots of questions there. When you say this golfer got banned, I thought he was getting kicked out of the golf
Sam [00:11:09]:
club.
Chris [00:11:09]:
Sorry. No. He’s competing in a tournament, And he got drunk
Sam [00:11:14]:
No. He got a 6 month ban, and it’s a young amateur golfer, right, here in New Zealand, because she actually tested positive to a banned stimulant That may have been ingested from custard pudding. So the sports pride sorry. The sports tribunal rejected suggestion that the stimulant called Osterine, us. Which improves muscle mass, bone density could have been passed on to the golfer, age 20 at the time, through kissing a body builder Who was said by witnesses, known user of steroids, but was likely caused by 2 spoonfuls of custard pudding. Right. Now it’s just bizarre. So they’re playing again now.
Sam [00:11:51]:
They’re okay. And the reason I brought this up was back in the day, I was doing forestry course. We had a guy on our course called Dean. Real nice guy, really onto it. I think he played for the New Zealand under 21 hockey
Chris [00:12:02]:
team.
Sam [00:12:03]:
Right. He had a little card with him That had everything he wasn’t allowed to go near or touch for drug testing. And he was like, oh, I could I can’t eat. It was just
Chris [00:12:14]:
That might have been me.
Sam [00:12:15]:
Oh, it was you. It’s just real random stuff that you can’t, what’s happening? Someone after you. Just mash that keyboard, Chris.
Chris [00:12:23]:
I just, us Turn the turn it silence it. Yep. Sorry.
Sam [00:12:27]:
But he had this little card and, it was the amount of stuff that you couldn’t eat just in case, you get a trace Elementor, like, crazy ass.
Chris [00:12:36]:
That’s nuts. That is nuts.
Sam [00:12:37]:
But, like, when if, like, if they drug tested you, like, 6 weeks from now, And you’re like, and you didn’t take drugs. And you’re like, oh, well, maybe I had something. Like, it must take ages.
Chris [00:12:51]:
Us Yeah. Yeah. I’m I’m so glad they didn’t drug test us when I was, fighting.
Sam [00:12:57]:
Did they bring that in or not?
Chris [00:13:00]:
I didn’t think that. I mean, because, like, the 1 tournament I did win, and there was a bit of a break us the semifinals to the finals. So it’s a a a what do you call it? Tournament? Knockout tournament?
Sam [00:13:12]:
Knockout tournament. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:13:13]:
Okay. So we were away. Us. There was a bit of a wait and to de stress, I went next door and had a pint.
Sam [00:13:20]:
Oh, well, that’s fine.
Chris [00:13:21]:
I don’t think that’s that counts as, us. No. I felt
Sam [00:13:25]:
good day. Well, that’s good. That’s the
Chris [00:13:27]:
main thing. And I won the tournament.
Sam [00:13:28]:
That’s the main thing. Luxon came out today because obviously, our politicians are just coming up with random us He is now promising we’re gonna get a space minister. Yes. He was at Is
Chris [00:13:42]:
it is that so he can tax us. Space?
Sam [00:13:45]:
I hope so. He hopes so. So yeah. So you that’s happened today, and that’s Because he was touring, Rockland Rockland.
Chris [00:13:54]:
Yeah. Of course.
Sam [00:13:54]:
Site. And, Grant Robertson on the other hand has said, look, that’s scamming. National was gonna scam New Zealand because the $250 maximum tax refund only applies to 3,000 people in the whole of New Zealand. Us Like, it doesn’t make sense. Also, the electoral commission got rid of the I voted stickers, for when you, vote. Us You you remember getting one
Chris [00:14:19]:
of these? No. Vaguely. Yeah. This is sort of pointless. It’s a little bit like getting No. Chris.
Sam [00:14:24]:
No. Isn’t it? It’s not pointless. And people online are upset. So you know what they’ve done? They’ve come back with a 6 up orange guy
Chris [00:14:32]:
sticker. Oh, really?
Sam [00:14:33]:
Yes. The little us Orange Gollum dude.
Chris [00:14:36]:
I know the dude. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:37]:
Or whatever he is. I don’t think he’s part of it this year. I haven’t seen him around.
Chris [00:14:41]:
He’s been on the envelope. I’m pretty sure he’s on the envelope when he’s sent out.
Sam [00:14:44]:
So they’ve made some, interesting little images there online. Yeah. Look at that.
Chris [00:14:50]:
When you say sexed up, you mean
Sam [00:14:51]:
sexed up. Oh,
Chris [00:14:52]:
I can do that.
Sam [00:14:53]:
God. He’s looking good. Look at him. Some people have made some 3 d printed
Chris [00:14:59]:
pins Oh. Which
Sam [00:15:00]:
is pretty cool. And, us. Yeah. Look at him go. I voted. This dude’s laying on his back with his legs open and the voting boxes in his crotch Just to paint a visual picture
Chris [00:15:12]:
Okay.
Sam [00:15:12]:
For everyone out there.
Chris [00:15:16]:
Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know if I wanna rock that sticker necessarily. You You haven’t voted yet? Because I’m not early voting’s open. I haven’t voted. I I don’t know who I’m voting for yet. I haven’t even looked at it anyway. I’ve managed to avoid it.
Chris [00:15:28]:
I’ve been working pretty hard. Yeah. So I’ve had to do a bunch of writing and stuff. I’ve got, a couple of talks coming up, us International talks that I don’t get flown out anywhere to do, but
Sam [00:15:40]:
No. That’s that’s
Chris [00:15:41]:
from my lounge, you know, that sort of thing. But that is cool. Us. So 1 in Europe and 1 in the US, I got coming up. Nice. And I am suffering the loss us of the car. So to Okay. I think those dings that I had before was Adam trying to get hold of me about what’s your address so Lee can pick me up tomorrow on our way home from work so that I can go to Taormu to watch The Exorcist original
Sam [00:16:08]:
Oh, nice.
Chris [00:16:08]:
Thing Yes. Which would be cool. And then This weekend, he’s taking me out to Auckland for, a, show me shorts production sort of workshop us And then the following
Sam [00:16:20]:
weekend, he’s
Chris [00:16:20]:
taking me out to Auckland for the 24 hour film marathon, which he promises to get me back in time for me to us. Perform at the improv, after I’ve done 24 hours being
Sam [00:16:32]:
up. That’s the show you wanna go to. If you wanna go see some high quality Something. Pro.
Chris [00:16:42]:
That’d be me.
Sam [00:16:43]:
That’s right. That’s
Chris [00:16:45]:
right. Oh, okay. Oh, and Hamilton was on last night, so I went with, Adam McFall. So shout out to Adam. Yeah. It was, yeah. It was good. It was pretty good.
Chris [00:16:57]:
I’m quite nervous because I am in the next one. So 1st November, I
Sam [00:17:02]:
will be Oh, 1st
Chris [00:17:03]:
November. Dubay debut. Dubay. Us Debut. Okay. That’ll be
Sam [00:17:10]:
interesting. So sorry. There’s a app that I’ve got, I don’t can’t remember if I told you about. It’s called Letterboxd. It’s an online haven for film nerds, and it just got a new owner. Right? Right. So yeah. I’ll I’ll explain what it is and stuff.
Sam [00:17:23]:
So you can, It’s like a social network for recommending and reviewing movies. And over the last decade, about 10,000,000 people now use the service. Right? Okay. And it says, you know, you you people go, you like this film? Check out this film. It’s pretty good. But, Barbie star Margo Robbie created an account. Tom Cruise’s directing partner uses it all the time, apparently. All this stuff.
Chris [00:17:47]:
Right?
Sam [00:17:48]:
Right. Pretty cool. Made by 2 guys in New Zealand.
Chris [00:17:51]:
I didn’t know that. No. Well, I didn’t even know about it.
Sam [00:17:53]:
You didn’t know it existed. It got valued at 50,000,000 US dollars, And, Andrew Wilkinson from Tiny came over and says we’ll bite off
Chris [00:18:03]:
you. Oh, wow.
Sam [00:18:04]:
Who’s a guest on My First Million if you listen to that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they weren’t Planning on a sale. They didn’t announce they’re going for a sale, and he was in the country a couple of months ago, and he must have been doing this. Us
Chris [00:18:16]:
Oh, wow.
Sam [00:18:18]:
So, by the end of 2021, they had 4,100,000 registered users. Today, they’ve got 10,000,000 registered accounts And half of them active in the last 90 days. So you have about 5,000,000 people using it. Do you know how big a business it is?
Chris [00:18:30]:
Like, how like, how many people? Is it still just the 2 of them or they got 12 man team or
Sam [00:18:36]:
no. They never tell you that. No. They never tell you that. I’m just curious because I’d
Chris [00:18:40]:
love to know. Us. Because those things scale. Right? And 10,000,000 users. Yeah. Sure. You’ve got customer support at some level. Yeah.
Chris [00:18:49]:
And that sort of thing probably wouldn’t be as much as
Sam [00:18:51]:
So there’s a free tier and there’s a $19 US or a $49 US, us. A year tier as well. You get extra services. You can pick, ability to pick their favorite posters for each film, change the usernames, and there’s a little bit of advertising. And there’s a small team of journalists who produce a podcast, apparently. Didn’t know that. And cover entertainment industry news. So yeah.
Sam [00:19:15]:
These guys, us. Yeah. We just built this thing. It’s, it’s pretty light on the how they built it details. It’s more about just the sale.
Chris [00:19:23]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So But that’s because us. Journalists are lazy.
Sam [00:19:27]:
I
Chris [00:19:27]:
know. And this is the Herald, so they’re really lazy.
Sam [00:19:30]:
I think so. Brett, When you listen to this, you’ll feel our pain of not knowing any more about the story.
Chris [00:19:37]:
Yeah. Plus, we had to get through the firewall to
Sam [00:19:43]:
What? No. No. No. No. This is a premium article and I’m reading it completely legally. Okay? I I don’t know what you’re talking about. Anyway, back onto another story. This guy is, attempting to bungee jump 800 times in one day.
Sam [00:19:57]:
It sounds terrible. And the reason he’s doing it is because in 2017, he realized that his, previous record got beaten. That upset him.
Chris [00:20:06]:
Us. What was his previous record?
Sam [00:20:08]:
You think they’ll tell you that in the right order? They do not. So, I tell you what, last year, a guy oh, no. So the oh, hang on. How’s this written? Who’s writing this crap? Big 12
Chris [00:20:23]:
year olds. No. Jack
Sam [00:20:25]:
GPG. Sorry. 3. He had the world record in 2017. Yeah. He got beaten last year by a Scottish man. A a French man in Scotland beat him.
Chris [00:20:36]:
French man in
Sam [00:20:36]:
Scotland. He did 765 jumps. Us. And previously alright. So this guy also holds the record for the most bungee jumps to one us. Which is 80. Him and his team are working hard. He’s doing a lot of training, and I don’t know what his, Original record was.
Sam [00:20:55]:
Who knows? This is a makeup figure. Anyway, I know 430. So we had the word record of 430, the French Scottish dude, whatever.
Chris [00:21:04]:
Playing his baguette pipes. Yep.
Sam [00:21:08]:
So this guy’s doing it. Us. This is happening October 10th. He’ll start at 7 AM and go for 24 hours. 800. Oh, it’s just yeah. And he says, like, it’s all mental and a bit physical. Like, at the end, he says it’s it’s mental.
Sam [00:21:26]:
Like, Like, physically, you know what it’s like,
Chris [00:21:28]:
but Anything at the end is mental. Yeah. Exactly. Endurance. Oh, no. That that that’s that’s a Ridiculous number.
Sam [00:21:35]:
It is 8. Like, 800 I don’t even
Chris [00:21:38]:
Have you ever done a bungee jump? No. Would you ever do it
Sam [00:21:40]:
at night? I’m worried us. My my back’s a bit stuffed.
Chris [00:21:43]:
Yeah. Yeah. I don’t No.
Sam [00:21:43]:
I I no. I wouldn’t do it.
Chris [00:21:45]:
No. That was my running joke when I used to go to the when I when I was UK when I was 21 or whatever I was. Yeah. 21, 22. People go, oh, why’d you come all the way over here instead staying in New Zealand, I was like, if I stayed there any longer, I would have to do a bungee jump. That
Sam [00:22:01]:
was just like That’s a good one. That’s a good one.
Chris [00:22:02]:
Yeah. Regular answer, and it was Partly true. That really wasn’t that age. And it was yeah. That was the AJ Hackett. Us Yeah. Yeah. That was the time.
Sam [00:22:14]:
Yeah. Yeah. So also this week, sanitarium, everyone’s favorite church lead, breakfast company, decided to us. Stop selling or supplying, actually. Stop sell supplying the warehouse Weetbix. Right? So the warehouse we’re able to sell it for $6, I think, for a box, Cheaper than all the supermarkets, and it was pretty good for them. And the warehouse just came out and said, sanitarium won’t supply us anymore. We don’t know why.
Sam [00:22:38]:
They just said they can’t. Us. We’ve we’ve asked the Commerce Commission to look into this. I don’t know. Right? So if a few people lost their absolute minds, they’re like, right, That’s it. We’re gonna buy, you know, all the wheat bricks at the warehouse, and then after that, Sanitarum gets stuffed. Okay? So, we assume the Commerce Commission have been pressing some buttons Or something. This is the response sanitarium put on all their social media.
Sam [00:23:01]:
Now you tell me, to me, this is a little passive aggressive. See what you reckon. Us. If you raised your voice to demand Weet Bix back on shelf in the warehouse, then we have heard you. So we’ve reinstated supply of Weet Bix to the warehouse. It means We’ve had to make a tough decision to reduce supply allocation to our export markets. We hope you’ll continue enjoying your Weetbix, and we sincerely apologize for any concern we have put you and your family. Us Okay Sanitarium.
Chris [00:23:28]:
Yeah. I don’t wanna go to their church because those those preaching sessions sound really dry and boring. Little bit like the Weetpix, actually. Maybe.
Sam [00:23:38]:
So it’s it’s interesting. So I don’t know if initially, the foodstuffs and those guys put the pressure on and says, hey. You a supply in the warehouse or I don’t know. It seems weird. But anyway It
Chris [00:23:49]:
does seem weird. And why would anyone care if it us Destroys the export market. We don’t give a shit.
Sam [00:23:55]:
That’s the that’s what every that’s what everybody said. Look after your own first. What are you doing? Then there’s been a big talk apparently us. In the political circles, I can’t remember who’s doing what, but one of them has said, if we get into power, we’ll start taxing these guys. Yeah. Us. And people are, oh, so it’s a whole combination of things and but I just thought Air Reply was a bit dumb.
Chris [00:24:15]:
Yeah. Their reply was dumb. But, yeah, I’m I’m a bit, I’m not real happy about them not being taxed,
Sam [00:24:22]:
honestly.
Chris [00:24:22]:
Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. But that goes for old us Religions pretty much. Yeah. I had the J Dubs knock on my door this morning. Oh, did you? Yeah.
Sam [00:24:30]:
Did you bring him in? No. Tell him about your podcast?
Chris [00:24:33]:
Us. I went real dark real quick with my background and went, no. Thanks. See you later. Bye.
Sam [00:24:38]:
Oh. They don’t, I don’t think they’ve come around to my house. Us
Chris [00:24:42]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I was I was surprised. I because I had a a couple come in, who were doing a a survey who are religious before. And I think I told
Sam [00:24:53]:
Yeah. Favored.
Chris [00:24:53]:
Yeah. Ages ago. And I was pretty much telling stories to keep them away from the cult aspects of religion. Yeah.
Sam [00:25:01]:
Yeah. I’m sure I’m sure that worked well for them, and they are, doing well.
Chris [00:25:06]:
Oh, I don’t know. But, anyway, they probably thought I was just weird. That’s
Sam [00:25:10]:
I find that hard to believe.
Chris [00:25:11]:
That’s quite possible. That’s quite plausible.
Sam [00:25:13]:
You’ve got, us AIDS Memorial. What what? That’s what I’ve got.
Chris [00:25:17]:
Oh, yes. So there’s this there’s this thing that they’re doing in, Somewhere in the States of Palm
Sam [00:25:26]:
Springs.
Chris [00:25:27]:
Okay. And, let me see a photo that you can see. It’s a a. It looks like a doughnut with ridges is what I’m going to call it for, the view the listeners.
Sam [00:25:40]:
Okay. So it’s a big circle thing.
Chris [00:25:42]:
So you you can see it in the corner there. That’s one side. And the
Sam [00:25:45]:
Oh, yeah. Okay. It’s not even that big.
Chris [00:25:48]:
It is quite big. I think they’re 6 foot tall. Material, but that I’d say it’s around that sort of size. Yeah. Yeah. So it’s a doughnut with a, sort of ridges or whatever around it.
Sam [00:26:04]:
It sort of looks like a sashile
Chris [00:26:05]:
or something like that. Has, Quite a different texture on
Sam [00:26:08]:
it. Okay.
Chris [00:26:09]:
Oh, there we go. There I I knew it would come up. You see what I
Sam [00:26:12]:
mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. One side looks like a pocket asshole. Us
Chris [00:26:15]:
Yeah. That is the thing. I wouldn’t have picked that.
Sam [00:26:18]:
No. It’s it’s yeah.
Chris [00:26:20]:
Okay. Yeah. It’s It’s it’s there for 8. Okay. Okay. And, the locals have just gone nuts because they’re just like, it’s, it’s an us
Sam [00:26:31]:
It does look like 1. I’m, like, I I I’m not
Chris [00:26:34]:
at admit, I’d when you look at the other side, that does definitely
Sam [00:26:37]:
look like It’s the other side.
Chris [00:26:38]:
It’s us I was like, that’s alright. But yeah. So they they are, yeah. They are looking at redesigning it. A revised design is in process.
Sam [00:26:51]:
If they just made
Chris [00:26:52]:
it What got me was you you look at it and you go, okay. What they were trying to
Sam [00:27:00]:
do, was What were they trying to do?
Chris [00:27:02]:
I had it here somewhere. The opening at the center is at eye level. Oh, okay. So it must be a lot bigger than 6 foot, probably 12 foot. The opening at the center is eye level And allows a view through offering a connection, a sense of hope, a view beyond what is directly in front us an opportunity for reflection and remembrance. Okay. Yeah. But on the books.
Chris [00:27:29]:
Is an
Sam [00:27:31]:
asshole. Yeah. And and and I we’ll have a link to it, but it is pretty subtle, and it’s a us Fine looking piece of art or whatever it is. I guess I’ve seen worse. They’ll get me started. My sister sends me random stories about things. It goes, oh, look, like, here. Here’s some art.
Chris [00:27:49]:
Art. Yeah. I know. I every time I see something, I’m gonna think, oh, I should take a photo of him and
Sam [00:27:55]:
Sam.
Chris [00:27:55]:
Yeah. Us If you are listening to this and you come across some absolutely wack art, please please say the take us. Photo and, and share it with us on our Facebook page. And I’ll try and record, us. Sam’s reaction because he gets weary about it. It’s it’s
Sam [00:28:18]:
hilarious. Just just in case you’re wondering what the caliber is, a woman had 3 trailers with plastic pipe in it down in Christchurch. That was art. The the,
Chris [00:28:29]:
us. The witchy talked about page.
Sam [00:28:31]:
Yeah. Yeah. She just wants some free trials on. The, the what was it? The art award for us. Art made of paper, the winning, the winning entry was a pile of carpet in the corner. Of of cuts of carpet in a corner
Chris [00:28:46]:
on the room. See, that was the other thing I had written down here. Okay. I was gonna talk about it last week and I forgot about it. It was the, the guy that did the blank canvases. Us. It was in Europe somewhere.
Sam [00:28:58]:
That’s what my sister sent me, actually.
Chris [00:29:00]:
Yeah. Take the money and run. Yes. He he called it, take the money and run and sent to blank canvases.
Sam [00:29:05]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:29:05]:
The courts made him pay the money back. Okay. 77
Sam [00:29:08]:
But he was okay with it, wasn’t he? I think.
Chris [00:29:11]:
I think he was. I think he did this thing.
Sam [00:29:13]:
Us Yeah.
Chris [00:29:13]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He he definitely made a bit of a name for himself and got some
Sam [00:29:18]:
publicity. But he was he was pointing out the craziness of it all.
Chris [00:29:21]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, anyway, I thought that was interesting since you reminded me about the art
Sam [00:29:26]:
thing. Okay. Well, that brings us to the end of the podcast.
Chris [00:29:29]:
Us. Yeah. So what’s coming up? I’m going to this, event this weekend, so that should be cool. Nothing much else, To be honest.
Sam [00:29:40]:
No. Me too. Me need, no. It’s pumpkin growing time. If you wanna grow a pumpkin, now’s the time in New Zealand.
Chris [00:29:45]:
Yeah. If you wanna spend some money on seeds, us. You won’t pay the $200 per seat that you pay in the US. 200 US per seat, just saying. Us. We’re at the giant pumpkins.co.nz. Sam charges way less than that.
Sam [00:30:00]:
So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you just hit me up. Us. I’m pretty I’m pretty loose on it, to be honest. It’s you know, just, like, whatever.
Chris [00:30:07]:
You just go, I want this Chris and Sam podcast discount, And he will give you that.
Sam [00:30:12]:
Yeah. Something like that. Okay. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:16]:
I’m Chris. See you. Bye. Us.
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