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Sam [00:00:06]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 452 of the Chris and Sam podcast. I’m Chris. And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology and sweaty people talking into microphones.
Chris [00:00:32]:
Speak for yourself. I’m not really that sweaty.
Sam [00:00:33]:
It’s pretty warm, though.
Chris [00:00:34]:
It is it is nicely getting warmer. I I actually stopped for a beer yesterday out in the sun. At the uni, they have a a a a student bar there. So I
Sam [00:00:44]:
Oh, do they? Where’s that?
Chris [00:00:45]:
In between where all the fields are? Yeah. It’s it’s on the edge of one of the fields.
Sam [00:00:49]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:00:50]:
Dawn. Yeah. So I’ve never gone past it loads of times. Never gone in, and I went, it’s quite nice. It was quite summery, and they have a, like, a A garden bar type thing. So I’m just sitting out there having a a corona. I was like, yeah. This this is what life should be like.
Chris [00:01:04]:
So, yeah, we’re just starting to get to that Top of the year.
Sam [00:01:07]:
And then it’s gonna get super, super hot. Yeah. Yep. El Nino’s coming or whatever it is.
Chris [00:01:13]:
Yeah. El Nino. Yeah. So, anyway, how’s your week been?
Sam [00:01:17]:
It’s been okay. I wanna hear about your 24 hour movie moving going from that straight into
Chris [00:01:22]:
Movie madness.
Sam [00:01:23]:
Movie Madness going into improv.
Chris [00:01:25]:
I I went to the 24 hour movie marathon. It’s their it was their 24th annual event.
Sam [00:01:32]:
Oh, well, that’s cool.
Chris [00:01:33]:
So yeah.
Sam [00:01:33]:
How many you’ve been to quite a few.
Chris [00:01:35]:
I think 3 or 4.
Sam [00:01:37]:
I was gonna say 3 at a guest, but yeah.
Chris [00:01:38]:
Yeah. So, yeah, This was either my 3rd or my 4th. I can’t remember now. But, yeah, I I haven’t been for a few years. It’s been a few years since we went last time. Steve that we went up with, He’s been to 23 of the 24. What a legend.
Sam [00:01:53]:
I know. I don’t have yeah.
Chris [00:01:54]:
Okay. Person that’s been to all of them. So
Sam [00:01:57]:
yeah. Woah. Okay. But it’s one of those things, like, I think, like, if you were really into it, you’d be like, yeah. I could do that. I’ll just keep going to everyone because it’s such a great event or whatever, but only if you knew when the very first one had started. Otherwise, you can’t. Like, I’ve been to every pumpkin carnival event that ever put on just because I randomly somehow went to the very first one.
Chris [00:02:23]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A 100%.
Sam [00:02:24]:
You know?
Chris [00:02:24]:
A 100%. And I mean yeah. So it it is a great event. It’s really unique. So for those that don’t know what we’re talking about, It’s, you go in. You the program is 24 hours. It was 14 feature films. We have a a you know, we started it kicks off about I think it was about 3 o’clock.
Chris [00:02:44]:
It kicks off 2 or 3, something like that.
Sam [00:02:46]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:02:47]:
You have dinner around 8 o’clock at night And then breakfast around 7 o’clock in the morning, about a half an hour break or an hour break for each of those. There’s a couple of, like, brief rest Periods in between, like restock and go the loo type thing. Yep. They only book I didn’t realize this. They only book out half of the theater. They limit the tickets to half of what the theater can hold.
Sam [00:03:08]:
Alright. That makes sense.
Chris [00:03:09]:
So the space. Space. Yeah. And they take a lot of the seats out of the front, and people can pay a different Ticket price where I’ve never done it. We they had beanbags
Sam [00:03:18]:
down the front. You saying this previously because I was just gonna say, isn’t there beanbags?
Chris [00:03:21]:
Yeah. There’s beanbags down the front. So we got our Favorite spot well, my favorite spot.
Sam [00:03:27]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:03:28]:
Adam was was, lobbying for a different spot, and and he may have been better.
Sam [00:03:34]:
I would trust Adam in this battle.
Chris [00:03:36]:
Alright. So let me tell you about the 2 spots. So we’re upstairs, and then the where Adam said is There’s a area for people to walk by
Sam [00:03:45]:
Yep.
Chris [00:03:45]:
And you can stick your legs right out. Right?
Sam [00:03:47]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:48]:
And my spot was right at the very front of the Yes. So there’s just the banister in front of you. There’s nobody there.
Sam [00:03:54]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:55]:
You can’t really put your feet on the banister because the people behind you can’t see, but there’s nobody else in your way, and it’s It’s like the best spot. So we got that, alongside my friend, Daryl, who always sits there. And
Sam [00:04:07]:
Doesn’t he have his bag of energy drinks?
Chris [00:04:09]:
Yes. He gave me a couple of energy drinks and some Jamisons. So he had a hip flask of Jamisons, and it’s quite good to keep you going at at 6 In the morning or something
Sam [00:04:20]:
like that.
Chris [00:04:20]:
Right? But Steve had a guy there. 1st time he’d ever been, he had a whole Bottle of spirit. Dumbest thing ever. You’d like, you don’t wanna be drinking alcohol there. Like, a nip out of a a a flask is one thing.
Sam [00:04:35]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:36]:
That’s alright. And, I mean, we’re sharing that around. There nobody got drunk on that. But this guy apparently got drunk and had to get shown outside.
Sam [00:04:44]:
Oh, I see.
Chris [00:04:44]:
Started stories.
Sam [00:04:46]:
No. Too much. Too much.
Chris [00:04:48]:
But, anyway, I tell you the worst thing that happened Okay. The way home. So we, we did the the the 24 hours. We’re driving back. I’m in the back. Do you know what it’s like when the particularly music’s playing? You you’ve been awake for this point nearly 30 hours. The news that that’s alright. That’s my Oculus.
Sam [00:05:08]:
Oh, okay. Something just beeped, and I don’t know what’s going on.
Chris [00:05:10]:
Yeah. You’re you’re, you’re sort of 30 hours into it. You’re a bit brain dead. Yeah. Sit in the back seat. You can’t hear the people talking in the front seat I
Sam [00:05:19]:
was
Chris [00:05:19]:
right behind the driver. So Yep. You know, you’re just kinda here. My subconscious must have picked something up.
Sam [00:05:26]:
Okay. Did you get that old Spidey tingle? And I said Oh, here we go.
Chris [00:05:31]:
Rugby. Yeah. Yeah. The All Blacks won. Did you know that? And what Adam had just said was, I’m gonna watch the rugby with my son, so I don’t want to know the score. Classic. And then Chris might go, oh, yeah. The All Blacks won by a couple of points.
Chris [00:05:47]:
Really tight game.
Sam [00:05:48]:
Classic Chrises. Buddy, when you think this 1
Chris [00:05:51]:
of them
Sam [00:05:51]:
is gonna be a problem. You got 2 of them. They’ve ruined everything.
Chris [00:05:54]:
I’m sorry, Adam. I am so sorry about that. Bless you. And then he goes, I just said that. I said, I don’t know what you said. I didn’t hear it. God damn. I don’t know.
Chris [00:06:04]:
Anyway so that was the worst part. And then he dropped me off straight at the theater,
Sam [00:06:09]:
I bet he was glad to get rid of you, kicked you out.
Chris [00:06:13]:
Yeah. I’m pretty sure he’s glad to get rid of all of us at the by that stage. And then, Yeah. And then I jumped onto stage and did, improv combat. And I also think I and I’ve I’ve found somebody I think will be cast in one of our films, so I gave them a copy of
Sam [00:06:30]:
the script.
Chris [00:06:31]:
So yeah. So I was being very hyperworking, like,
Sam [00:06:35]:
oh, yes. I’ve got
Chris [00:06:36]:
this guy. I’m talking to him, and I’m sending him the Email, which took, like, a lot longer than it would if I hadn’t had had had had had had slept in the previous 35 hours at that point. But yeah. So I, yeah, that Went okay except for my song. So we were playing 1 of the games.
Sam [00:06:53]:
Yeah. What what was the game?
Chris [00:06:54]:
The game, it was a mashup of 2 games. So there’s 1 called a game called singer, And, usually, you’re doing a, acting something out, and somebody says, that’s interesting. Sing it. Whatever line you just said, you gotta sing it. And there’s another game called Notes, whereas you’re walking around, you’re talking away, and you pick up a note, and you’ve got to say that line. Okay. Well, this was a mashup of the 2, and you just took it away. And you pick it up, and you gotta sing that.
Sam [00:07:16]:
Yes.
Chris [00:07:17]:
And the scene ended up being, because the audience pecks, you know, we’re somewhere to take somebody on a first date, A graveyard. Cool. So we’re in a graveyard. Yeah. Yeah. There’s a couple, and I’m playing the crotchety old gravedigger there.
Sam [00:07:33]:
Good.
Chris [00:07:33]:
You know? Because that just fits with my cheery personality and and things. So you
Sam [00:07:38]:
get a lot.
Chris [00:07:39]:
And I pick this note up and and because the girl comes over and she goes, Oh, how is it working here? I’m like, let me tell you. And I pick up this note, and I open it up, and it goes, my hands are clammy, But I want you.
Sam [00:07:53]:
Yeah. And
Chris [00:07:54]:
you singing it. And I sang that, and then I just totally Couldn’t think of any lyrics to go with that. No. Just
Sam [00:08:02]:
Oh, you can’t you just carry it on.
Chris [00:08:04]:
Because you keep going.
Sam [00:08:04]:
Oh, right. Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:08:06]:
Playing the organ. Yeah. You got the So we got the music, and I’m singing a couple of lines, and then I just, like, fold her off. But, yeah, other than that, it was great.
Sam [00:08:16]:
Did it take you long to recover from, being awake? I was fine. It
Chris [00:08:19]:
was fine the next day. I had a a full on Monday, but then The last couple of days, I’ve ended up my sleep cycle’s been a bit screwed up, and I’ve been having afternoon naps Up late at night and then up late in the morning. I don’t know. It’s a bit screwed up. But otherwise, good.
Sam [00:08:36]:
Yeah. So this week, we at my house, we’re dealing with the Application for the, TeachingZ. I can’t remember the name of it, so I won’t try and remember it, But, the career change scholarship. My partner, Sarah, wants to change careers from a teacher aide to go into teaching, and, this career change scholarship Helps people do that.
Chris [00:08:59]:
Right. And because we need more teachers. Right?
Sam [00:09:01]:
Yeah. We do. They do put preference on high school, mass, High school science, Maori and Pacifica, and then after all of that, primary. Right? And she wants to do primary.
Chris [00:09:12]:
Uh-huh. So she’s
Sam [00:09:13]:
at the bottom of this list. Last year or the previous year, whenever the last time they did this, they had a 135, scholarships. This year, there’s only 85, so a lot less. Oh. But we don’t know how many people are applying. And the gist of it is they will pay for all your Schooling, and that’ll be $30,000 every year. So it’s like $100,000 over 3 years.
Chris [00:09:36]:
Right? Nice.
Sam [00:09:38]:
So you think, They’re giving away that much money and so many things. It would be very in-depth, potentially. Organized even
Chris [00:09:47]:
because it’s a teacher thing.
Sam [00:09:48]:
You think so? They have, because initially, on their front page before it opened, it sounded like you had to make a video. They had this whole page talking about making a video. Anything over 3 minutes, we will not watch it.
Chris [00:10:02]:
I remember you telling me that.
Sam [00:10:03]:
And it seemed really intense, and they had all these little sections of what you had to talk about. They then had another web page that told you how to do the video, what they’re expecting. Okay. So we’ve been doing a lot of thought about this video. The application opens, and they’re like, hey. If the stuff you write is no good, we’re not even gonna watch your video. Oh, okay. Cool.
Sam [00:10:24]:
So they put more emphasis on this writing thing. Sweet. What do they want? Don’t really know. They’ve got 3 different website pages that are all vague ass. Okay. And and some of them contradict each other. Cool. And you don’t know yeah.
Sam [00:10:37]:
Anyway and you don’t know which one’s which. So so, anyway, she wrote all the stuff Pretty good. We shot the video. So we were doing it all because they were like, when you apply, You have to do all in one go.
Chris [00:10:51]:
Send everything away.
Sam [00:10:52]:
May or may not save anything, and who knows? Like, it was a big ass. And then they’re like, you go
Chris [00:10:58]:
I I get that, though. Sending the package with everything makes sense.
Sam [00:11:01]:
Yes. But a lot of things like Application y things with multiple steps, you can just hit a button save and go back to it. Oh. This thing was like, it might save. It might not. You have to literally do it all The one time
Chris [00:11:17]:
So you’d, like, write it all in in text and then copy and paste it? Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. God.
Sam [00:11:23]:
So But you go to their website, and then keep you go to their website to I know. You go to this portal thing, and it goes, hey. Just log in. Okay.
Chris [00:11:32]:
How? Exactly. I don’t know.
Sam [00:11:34]:
You can’t sign up or anything, and at the bottom, it’s just got a a button for Apple and a button for Google. So I tried it. I just pressed Google, and it goes, hey. Welcome back. Like, it just sucked in my information from Google, didn’t do anything else, and it just goes, yep. You’re in. I’m like, this does not seem secure. Anyway and when we first went into it, we could just Only see the headings of these sections.
Sam [00:12:01]:
So we had a real basic idea between the 4 random website pages, These 4 headings of what they want
Chris [00:12:08]:
to didn’t know what the questions were yet?
Sam [00:12:09]:
No. You can’t view them because you can only go step by step. And the first step is The first step is upload all your, like, birth certificate and stuff. And we’re like, oh, okay. So anyway, you go through it, and then guess what? 500 words for everything. Every section, 500 words. So we had to edit the crap out of this roto.
Chris [00:12:31]:
Because he’s gone over 500. Yeah. Which is better than being under host.
Sam [00:12:34]:
But their website didn’t block it if it was over 500. It wasn’t doing a word count. So it was like I said, I don’t know. I reckon they’ll just I don’t know. The they might just chop it at 500 and stop
Chris [00:12:46]:
reading it. Exactly. I I reckon that would suit what happened. It’s nice
Sam [00:12:49]:
to know. I can’t trust these guys. And it’s $100,000 for 3 years, and this is what you have to do. So All this great work They’re
Chris [00:12:56]:
gonna make them work for it.
Sam [00:12:59]:
Well, I don’t know. I don’t think they did. So this great work From 800 or 900 words gets whittled down to 500. It’s basic almost basically bullet points at that point. Quick. No. Don’t talk about that. How can you reword that? I don’t know.
Sam [00:13:13]:
So anyway Check GPT. Quick. Yeah. Exactly. It’s like whittling shit down. So, got that. Hit submit, and then it goes because at 1 page, it sounded like they wanted multiple references on the application. Put your reference in, And then that’s it.
Sam [00:13:29]:
I guess, thank you. Then that’s it. The whole thing’s done. So, it’s her current boss, principal, and, She’s told her about the averageness of this and said if they do contact you, just say, Drop in some more references if you can if they bring it up. I don’t know. What we did find, we think they’ve done. Previously, you had to have 12 years experience of working with children in some capacity. We think they’ve dropped it to 7 years now.
Chris [00:13:59]:
How many years has Sarah had?
Sam [00:14:01]:
Chris [00:14:01]:
Nice.
Sam [00:14:02]:
So I think I think I said to her, hey. If they’ve gone from 12 to 7, I don’t think they had enough people applying that could fit their criteria.
Chris [00:14:09]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:14:09]:
I I said you fit the criteria, like and the video, I think we did, like, I don’t know, 14 takes maybe. And then
Chris [00:14:17]:
I I’m I’m pretty sure your video would have been a work of art by the end of it.
Sam [00:14:22]:
Well, the funny thing is you have to submit This, scholarship to YouTube as an unlisted video. If you go into YouTube and type in the scholarship, you see the dumb people that don’t know how to do that. So there was 12 or 13 people had their videos on YouTube, and some of them were not good. You could do better. You could do better. You could literally just go, hey. I’ve done this, this, and this. This is what I wanna do.
Sam [00:14:49]:
Some of these people, One of them didn’t show her face and just had because what they said in the application, we want to see you talking and we want to see you just interacting with, like, Pretending like you’re talking to people. 1 woman just had b roll the whole time of all this random stuff.
Chris [00:15:07]:
Anyway, because when when I used to get curate for, TEDx recruiter
Sam [00:15:12]:
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Those videos
Chris [00:15:14]:
in, and some of them were just like, What
Sam [00:15:17]:
I think I wanted
Chris [00:15:18]:
to speak. Think it was a 2 minute. I’m pretty sure it’s 2 minutes.
Sam [00:15:21]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:15:21]:
Might have been 3, but 2 minutes, I think. And, you know, 7 minute video, 8 minute video, and just, like, not watching it. Don’t care. Yeah. You know? If you can’t follow those instructions, I’m not coaching you. Like, Seriously. So, so yeah. Funny.
Chris [00:15:36]:
When you said the cutoff, it just remind me of the other week, and we talked about this quite a bit on the drive. But the other week, I went to see The Exorcist in in Kiamutu. Right?
Sam [00:15:45]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:15:46]:
And, I went with Adam, and Adam’s working There at the moment. He’s volunteering at the Regent Nice. Cinema. Yeah. Yeah. And his big thing is because they had intermissions, He got really frustrated. They cracked me up, and and they did it in the, Exosys as well. They go, oh, it’s a 125 min 140 minutes long.
Chris [00:16:09]:
70 minute mark. That’s where we have it, and they just cut it there.
Sam [00:16:12]:
No. But you don’t know what’s happening. No. So as
Chris [00:16:15]:
And The Exorcist, Mid sentence, mid conversation. It’s a mission.
Sam [00:16:22]:
No. And
Chris [00:16:22]:
then when it comes back on, it it it goes back 20 seconds, So you get the last bit. But, so that Adam’s like, please, please don’t do any more films until I come in, and I’ll pick The point at which Yeah. Yeah. They put the intermission at at the end of the scene. You know what I mean?
Sam [00:16:39]:
Actual intermission isn’t because of a physical thing. They just do it No.
Chris [00:16:43]:
No. They just do it to Turd. Oh, it’s just because when I because they get money from the candy bar, basically.
Sam [00:16:48]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well because when I grew up, my dad was a projectionist.
Chris [00:16:50]:
And Yeah. I mentioned that to Sam to to Adam, and he’s like, Oh, really? So yeah.
Sam [00:16:55]:
Yeah. He he showed the last 3 films and the last 3 cinemas that closed down in Rhetorua. So he did the Odeon, Yeah. The Odeon, which got taken over by, what’s his name? Tamaki? Brian Tamaki. Oh. The church. Oh, Jess brought it up.
Chris [00:17:11]:
Church. Yeah.
Sam [00:17:12]:
The cinema 5 was the last one that shut down, and, the other one’s escaped my name right now. But, yeah, it was, You know, intermission was because the food would run out,
Chris [00:17:20]:
and they were flicking out. I I said that, you know, when I was young. Yeah. Yeah. Intermission was to actually change the film. Then they used to have 2 projectors Yeah. Just switching
Sam [00:17:28]:
from 1
Chris [00:17:29]:
to the other, but they still had the intermission because it was a thing. Yeah. You know? But they do it in the region, I think, just for the for the money. Actually, the other thing that you might find amusing is there’s a right wing documentary Yes. Called Free
Sam [00:17:44]:
I’ve I’ve seen the ad or something for this. Is it being oh, no. It’s being played at the
Chris [00:17:48]:
film Well, they’re playing it at a couple of times at the region. Yeah. Yeah. She plays it all the time, and because it’s the biggest money spinner forget Barbie. Forget Oppenheimer. All these angry Yep. Right wing people coming in, She goes, they they’re screaming at that at the cinema. They’re screaming at
Sam [00:18:08]:
Like,
Chris [00:18:09]:
get them. Yeah. Bullshit. Yeah. I call this Hector. And and who won, Adam says, who won thing of defiance was she put a Hand sanitizer at the door. Yeah.
Sam [00:18:23]:
I think we need to look into making money with these crazies.
Chris [00:18:26]:
Honestly honestly, it’s it’s scary. It’s scary. Anyway
Sam [00:18:32]:
Oh, talking of movies real quick. I watch all the Final Destination movies.
Chris [00:18:35]:
We were it’s funny you should say that. We talked about that on the way back too.
Sam [00:18:39]:
Okay.
Chris [00:18:39]:
And I was like, I’ve only seen the first one, and they said first one’s the worst. The second one’s probably the best. Yes. And I’m like, oh. And I saw the first one went, no. I’m gonna bother with that again.
Sam [00:18:48]:
The 4th one’s terrible. 5th one’s better. And, apparently, 6 may be in preproduction, potentially, but I’m not sure. Alright. But it’s been number 5 came out in 2011, so it’s been a long break.
Chris [00:19:00]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:19:00]:
But literally, like, Sarah Sarah wants to watch him, but she hates watching it as well. She’s like
Chris [00:19:05]:
just gonna say.
Sam [00:19:06]:
No. She is. She loves watching these things, and then she’s, oh, no. And I’m like, you know. But you’re just sitting there trying to figure out how these people are gonna die. Like, writing these movies must be great because you’re like, oh, you know what? We’ll show the saw over here and a chainsaw, but what’s actually gonna kill him is that light switch, a bowling ball, and a bloody thumbtack. I don’t know.
Chris [00:19:25]:
Yeah. Don’t don’t don’t
Sam [00:19:26]:
take this switch away. I just made that I I made that up. But they literally can make this movie forever. I don’t know why there’s not more. Because the cast just die, and then another one comes in. There’s no explanation. There’s no backstory. You just know they’re gonna die, and it’s gonna be creative.
Chris [00:19:41]:
It’s it’s it’s a creative snuff movie is all it is. Yeah. It’s terrible. It’s great. Okay. Okay. So cool. Well, did you wanna say anything else about it? No.
Chris [00:19:51]:
That was it. Okay. I I just wanted I actually should just put this into my newsletter and write it in. I had to crack up this week at one of the quotes from the Ex president of the United States. You know the orange one?
Sam [00:20:05]:
Your piggyback. Your buddy. What did he say?
Chris [00:20:07]:
There are only 2 things that have consistently worked, wheels and walls.
Sam [00:20:13]:
Well, okay. We know his wall didn’t work. What’s his fascination with a wall?
Chris [00:20:19]:
Well, because because the whole point was, Pence had not Pence. Biden has to, finish some of the wall.
Sam [00:20:26]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:20:27]:
The funding had already been passed.
Sam [00:20:29]:
Right? So you
Chris [00:20:29]:
have to
Sam [00:20:30]:
do it sort of
Chris [00:20:30]:
building it. Funny enough, the the wall they’re building It’s a transferable wall so it can be moved. So to the letter of the law, he’s may building the wall, but I think it’s a wall on wheels. So wheels and walls Actually, quite a good quote. Oh my god.
Sam [00:20:47]:
That’s mental.
Chris [00:20:49]:
Freaking everything’s mental. Actually, countdown. I saw this on Reddit, of all things.
Sam [00:20:54]:
Funny you say that because I saw the same thing, and I’ve already had a conversation this morning about So you put it on
Chris [00:21:00]:
there, and
Sam [00:21:00]:
I was like, come on. What’s going on?
Chris [00:21:02]:
I only saw it today when I was waiting for the dentist. Actually, I was sitting at the dentist, like, scrum around mucking around. But yeah. So somebody says, hey. What’s happening with the baskets and countdown? People Baskets. Every time I’ve come back the last couple of days, and I haven’t been out there for a while, there’s no baskets. And this employee or he he says he’s an employee, I I assume he is, says, yeah. No.
Chris [00:21:27]:
No. We’re we’re trialing getting rid of the baskets because people keep nicking them.
Sam [00:21:31]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:31]:
And I’m like, who nicks?
Sam [00:21:33]:
No. It’s the basket. Well, no. They just walk out with it, the whole thing, full of food. Then that was the argument. So in that conversation thread
Chris [00:21:40]:
But you mean they’re, like, shoplifting
Sam [00:21:42]:
Nick, Yeah. Well, the the the in the conversation, someone goes, I don’t understand why they have security because they can’t do anything. People just walk out with a trolley Or a basket. With a basket, they can just go straight from that into the car. Right. Because when they have the trolley, someone from the public one might stop in and go what? Because what the what you see sometimes, if you if someone’s shoplifting and they’re all standing there and go, oh my god, a member of the public will just go over and you just push the trolley over. And they’re, like, trying to grab meats and stuff as they’re trying to run off.
Chris [00:22:12]:
Like Yeah. But it’s terrible. But who knows? Maybe Yeah. Because I I use, And I have a very pragmatic reason that I use the, basket.
Sam [00:22:21]:
Because you’re old. No. You need more you can’t carry everything.
Chris [00:22:25]:
Exactly. Because I’ve always walked to the supermarket. Yeah. I don’t like driving there usually.
Sam [00:22:29]:
But there’s no difference between using a trolley, though, is there? It’s no.
Chris [00:22:32]:
It’s no. Well, it’s the thing is if I fill a trolley up and then I put it into bags to walk home, and I it’s too heavy. I don’t know how heavy it is. But if I walk around with a a thing, I’m like, yeah. I’m not getting any more ass as much as I can carry.
Sam [00:22:44]:
You could argue the point though that psychologically, it’s like, well, if we don’t have baskets, they’ll buy more. Like what you said, you put in the show there. You know?
Chris [00:22:53]:
Yeah. I’m sure they’ll
Sam [00:22:54]:
support them. In that phase with us the transitioning from Countdown to Woolworths, So they may have just removed the basket till new ones are coming? Yeah. I don’t know. It could be a range of things.
Chris [00:23:03]:
Anyway, that was I thought that was interesting.
Sam [00:23:05]:
Have you heard of the Everest Mega Millions promotion? No. So, we were watching something called TVNZ on Demand. An ad came up, and it was TAB. And they had the Everest Mega Millions. It was a promotion to raise interest in the Everest and 1st ever New Zealand representative I Wish I Win, whatever the hell all this means. Anyway, they were like, we’ll give everybody a free bet. If you got a TAB account, you can bet on this for free. Some dude did.
Sam [00:23:31]:
He picked every single horse. $10,000,000 he won. Largest win in TAB history.
Chris [00:23:37]:
On a free ticket? Yeah. Pretty sure it was Brazier was free. Yeah. So Holy crap. 10,000,000.
Sam [00:23:48]:
But it’s okay because they took out insurance on that one. So
Chris [00:23:51]:
Yeah. Of course they did.
Sam [00:23:52]:
They do?
Chris [00:23:53]:
Of course they did. Biden’s got game going back to the states again. Who is that? I think it’s hilarious. So, do you know what truth social is?
Sam [00:24:05]:
Yeah. That’s the stupid Yes.
Chris [00:24:07]:
Trump’s version.
Sam [00:24:07]:
It’s whatever it is. Yeah.
Chris [00:24:09]:
Yeah. So Biden’s team put an accountant there, got a count this week.
Sam [00:24:13]:
Woah. Okay.
Chris [00:24:14]:
And they’re just slacking the shit off people. And so the Republicans, they’ve got a big problem with Speaker and all the Republicans are dishing shit at each other? Oh, okay. And Truth Social is a Republican side effectively?
Sam [00:24:26]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:24:27]:
So all all Biden’s tweets are 1 Republican slagging another one off. Just videos of Republicans slagging off Republicans. I don’t know. I think it’s hilarious.
Sam [00:24:39]:
Talking about social media, Bury the Bird.
Chris [00:24:41]:
Yes.
Sam [00:24:42]:
I saw that.
Chris [00:24:43]:
Yeah. That’s cool,
Sam [00:24:44]:
It’s cool, but, of course, it’s always on the same night everything else is happening.
Chris [00:24:48]:
So, yeah, this is the night I’m doing my stand up comedy debut.
Sam [00:24:51]:
So, basically, Back in the day, there was tweet ups. That’s how Chris and I met. Yes. Back in the day, I just I forget that. Yeah. I forget that. We met a whole bunch of cool people back in the day as well, And there was real, community on Twitter, which led into New Zealand Secret Santa and just cool stuff in general. And, they’re having 1 big last tweet up in Auckland.
Sam [00:25:13]:
And we’ve been to quite a few of the Auckland ones too. We knew a
Chris [00:25:16]:
lot of those guys. And they knew us. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I would absolutely, a 100% love to be up there for that Yeah. Because that’d be great. Just catch up with these guys. I haven’t seen for Probably a decade.
Chris [00:25:29]:
Yep. But yeah. And so so if you can, if you’re in in that crowd, go. Speaking of that crowd, Kim Millward was one of that crowd, and I caught up with her at the movie marathon just before we went in.
Sam [00:25:42]:
Was she at the movie marathon, or
Chris [00:25:44]:
did you No. She was in the cafe before it.
Sam [00:25:46]:
Okay. Yeah. And what’s that? Just a fluke.
Chris [00:25:48]:
Yeah. It’s a fluke. She lives nearby. And it’s a local cafe. So, you know, so that’s fine. So I hate to to Kim if she’s listening. But yeah. So, but, yeah, I’d love to go there.
Chris [00:25:58]:
It looks like it’d be hilarious.
Sam [00:26:01]:
Yeah. And they’re doing a bit of a there’s there’s a bit Talk about the future of social or whatever’s coming.
Chris [00:26:06]:
And so Twitter’s gonna start charging a dollar a year For people in New Zealand to use it?
Sam [00:26:13]:
For any new user that wants to tweet or type, they have to pay a dollar. That it’s a Trial by trialing here in New Zealand and the Philippines.
Chris [00:26:22]:
Yeah. And it’s so because robot accounts don’t have credit cards, basically, is
Sam [00:26:27]:
That’s right. And the gist of it is, yeah, the the banking system has very robust things to prove who you are.
Chris [00:26:36]:
And tweeted.
Sam [00:26:36]:
Can’t be bothered sorting it out. No one cares. Everyone’s on blue sky. Go to blue sky. If you want an invite code, I’ve got 1, I think.
Chris [00:26:44]:
I’ve got 2 people that just show up nonstop in my
Sam [00:26:48]:
Feeding. Yeah.
Chris [00:26:49]:
Feed just because of how it’s set up. Neil Gaiman, which is cool.
Sam [00:26:54]:
Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:26:55]:
And descending, which is a little bit risque for me, but I don’t know how to get rid of her now. So, anyway, India.
Sam [00:27:04]:
Oh, okay. I thought we were just gonna quickly talk about your, upcoming comedy debut.
Chris [00:27:10]:
I did a practice today, and I don’t wanna talk about it. So I filmed myself and went, none of this shit is funny.
Sam [00:27:18]:
So we’re safe. I mean, that self doubt would come in, and you but you don’t wanna tell everyone either as well. No.
Chris [00:27:22]:
I don’t. I don’t.
Sam [00:27:24]:
You’ve shared the link, The poster and stuff, but it’s still not on Eventfinder. So I can’t buy a ticket yet.
Chris [00:27:30]:
No. I don’t so I don’t think they do until, week after now. So yeah.
Sam [00:27:34]:
So, Anyway, I’m gonna come along.
Chris [00:27:37]:
Cool. Well, you might have to bring your, Osmo or something in and record,
Sam [00:27:43]:
in Am I allowed to do that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You are. Okay.
Chris [00:27:45]:
Because other people do it for other people. Okay. So that’s cool.
Sam [00:27:48]:
Good.
Chris [00:27:49]:
So, did you know India’s aims to send an astro astronaut To the moon for 2040 by 2040.
Sam [00:27:58]:
Oh, I thought they would have done it way sooner than that.
Chris [00:28:00]:
I don’t know. I think it’s still pretty impressive.
Sam [00:28:03]:
Yeah. But, didn’t didn’t they do some or might think of China? Who was the ones at the back
Chris [00:28:07]:
of the moon? Was the one that recently landed a a a thing on the moon
Sam [00:28:11]:
over
Chris [00:28:11]:
on the moon On the in the dark side. Yeah. Yeah. So but that’s the exponential, movement from sending a rover, Which is still a a great impressive, thing for a $140,000,000 to sending people. That’s a huge, Exponentially bigger deal.
Sam [00:28:30]:
I don’t know. Put it this way.
Chris [00:28:32]:
Just send a few pages.
Sam [00:28:33]:
No. No. From the Wright brothers inventing flight To go into the moon was 50 years.
Chris [00:28:39]:
Okay. That And now
Sam [00:28:40]:
we’re talking about 2023 to 2040 to get some people up there. Not sure on that one, but I
Chris [00:28:46]:
assume They hadn’t invented health and safety bags then. Do you
Sam [00:28:50]:
think do you think India has health and
Chris [00:28:53]:
Hey. Not a 140,000,000.
Sam [00:28:56]:
No. They’re probably to be honest, they’re probably being bottled by, like, NASA and the international space People.
Chris [00:29:02]:
Yeah. Their their their, new rocket will be on Kickstarter shortly.
Sam [00:29:07]:
Good. I I look forward to never Ever getting those rewards, whatever they may be. You know what it’ll be? It’d be like a Zoom call from some dude in space.
Chris [00:29:16]:
I can help you with your Excel.
Sam [00:29:18]:
Oh, shit. Real quickly, a 104 year old woman dies days after making a skydive that could put her in the record books.
Chris [00:29:25]:
Oh, that chick. She’s been on everything.
Sam [00:29:29]:
Okay. Well, she did it because a 103 year old went in for the record. What are what what what is up with all these people? Yeah. So, she just died in her sleep after she did the jump, so she doesn’t know if she actually got it. Oh, damn. But luckily, She will not be going to that weird, funeral home in Colorado. You see heard about that one? No. Oh, So they it shut down, and, I think it was shut for, like, a year or something.
Sam [00:29:53]:
And they were like, smells a little bit in there. And, they were like, oh, it’s like 115 bodies in there. No. No. There’s a 189 bodies in there, Chris. So they’ve removed it They removed all the bodies from this Colorado funeral home. They were discovered 2 weeks ago. They responded just because of the smell.
Sam [00:30:12]:
And, basically, it seems like this,
Chris [00:30:16]:
so What? Were they not burying people, or are they saying that they cremated them and just didn’t bother?
Sam [00:30:22]:
Yeah. I don’t know. So, they missed some tax payments in recent months. They were evicted, sued for unpaid bills, buy a crematory, and all sorts of stuff. And, they tried to conceal the improper storage of corpses, so they acknowledged having a problem with that. And they practiced some taxidermy There as well because that’s what they do when you’re crazy. They offered cremations
Chris [00:30:45]:
stop the smell a bit.
Sam [00:30:46]:
Yeah. They offered Cremations and green burials without embalming fluids keep doing business as all its financial and legal problems mounted. Yeah. They just held on some bodies, I guess. That’s a lost day.
Chris [00:30:58]:
Problem that you have when you turn your hobby into a business, I think.
Sam [00:31:02]:
It is. It can yeah. It can be. You’re exactly right.
Chris [00:31:09]:
Damn it.
Sam [00:31:10]:
Gonna have to rethink my plans. That that That brings us to the end of the podcast.
Chris [00:31:16]:
Yeah. Cool. So coming up, so this week isn’t the, comedy thing. It’s the following week.
Sam [00:31:22]:
1st November.
Chris [00:31:23]:
1st November.
Sam [00:31:23]:
So Wednesday.
Chris [00:31:24]:
Wednesday. So that’d be cool. Yeah. I do have a a big, speaking event this Sunday morning, which is Saturday afternoon in the UK. But, yeah, otherwise, that that’s my week coming up. Nice. Anything. I I and, of course, it’s a long weekend.
Sam [00:31:41]:
Yeah. That doesn’t mean anything, when you work all of it.
Chris [00:31:45]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:31:46]:
I just Yes. Crazy. No. I’ve got pumpkin seedlings that are all sprouting up all over the place, and then I have to pick the best one and transplant it in the next week or 2. Cool. That’s exciting for me. It’s pretty much my Christmas. Okay.
Sam [00:31:59]:
Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:32:01]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:32:01]:
See you.
Chris [00:32:02]:
Bye.
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