Summary
In this weeks episode Chris has to get some Trump stuff off of his chest. While Same talks about a rat and some new fertiliser he has tracked down.
We talk about the backyard ultra marathon world championships and what’s happened.
How has the comedy show prep been going for Chris?
The Red Cross has an epic clothing campaign, Deathgasm 2 is coming and much more.
Come have a listen and tell a friend.
Links
Backyard Ultra Marathon World Championships
Red Cross Clothing Drive using Uber
Deathgasm 2 is announced with interesting crowd funding plan
Massage during zoom meeting
Haha Hamilton Eventfinda
Show Transcript
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Hello, and welcome to Episode 453 of
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the Chris and Sam Podcast.
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I’m Chris.
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And I’m Sam welcome along to your weekly fix
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a randomness technology in life. Hello, everyone.
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Hi. How is everybody doing? Isn’t the world a lovely place? What? Well, actually, it’s been quite summery. It’s been pretty sunny. It was a bit creepy at the moment, but it’s been pretty sunny for the last couple of days, so that’s been good. It is. Meanwhile, Overseas, everything’s turning to crap. So we’re lucky we’re over here. Right?
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I guess so.
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Now I said just before we started That, I have to apologize, but I have to start off with the Trump watch.
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Yeah. You’re alright. Carry on.
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Okay. Cool.
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I don’t know what that means. You tell me Trump watch
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Trump watch is I’m just calling it Trump watch because there’s just so much going on that I have to get some of this off my chest, but it’s sort of amusing and sort of not amusing, I guess, at the same time.
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Okay.
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Cool. I don’t you I’m gonna assume you know nothing about what’s going on. Right? So I’m gonna I’m gonna tell you as if The only
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the only thing I’ve heard from the US There’s another mass shooting that happened today.
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I, I heard that I wasn’t gonna talk about it. Okay. So 4
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of
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the 19 that were Indicted for, Rico, election fraud in Georgia. So this is the state.
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Okay. Okay. Yep.
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State election fraud in Georgia, And and Trump is one of them. Right? Yeah. 4 have pleaded guilty. They’ve been convicted so far.
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Oh, okay. They’ve changed
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their plea to guilty, and they flipped.
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Oh, good.
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3 of those are are lawyers.
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Okay. You because you’d want them to do that first, wouldn’t you? Yes.
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And the lawyers are the 1st one’s going. I I think the 1st guy was just some numpty who didn’t do anything. He was just like, this is well above my and he probably couldn’t afford a lawyer, and he was just like, I’m guilty. Just, Yeah. Whatever. Okay. So he was the first one, like, way back. And now in sort of, like, I think 4 or 5 days, 3 lawyers flipped.
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Oh, wow. The lawyers, because they know the game. Right? And they’re like, the longer I stay out, the, the worst this is gonna be. Right? Flip, flip, flip. So I think there’s only a couple more lawyers that like, one one of them is Rudy Giuliani. They he probably won’t flip.
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The He’s such a
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special numptych. He he Lawyers
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all his terms.
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Different goblin altogether, really. So anyway so 3 of those, And and the reason this is interesting is because this is the Georgia case. So even if Trump gets the presidency and can Pardon pardon himself? Yeah.
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Yeah. What do you
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can’t pardon himself for a state.
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Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
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So he will be in jail. He can’t pardon himself from this.
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No. Nobody. He he just be in jail now anyway.
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Anyway yeah. Okay. So that’s right.
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Okay.
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Alright. So that’s one thing. ABC has reported in the last few days that, or last couple days, that Former chief of staff Mark Meadows has flipped for an immunity deal. There is a little bit, controversy with How accurate that reporting is because there’s different levels of immunity deals and whether it’s totally flipped or whether it’s flipped for just 1 little piece of evidence or yeah. You know what I mean? Yep. But if he’s totally flipped, that’s huge. Today, Trump got fined $10,000 from this is the 2nd time, For mouthing off to the press in the hallway at court, because he’s got a gag order Yeah. And he’s going, the person next to the judge is a total idiot.
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And the judge goes, I told you not to talk about my, what do you call them, law clerk like that? I was talking about, Michael Cohen on the other side of you. I don’t believe you. $10,000 fine.
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Just keep $100,000. Make it bigger.
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and that’s the thing. Like and then he says, if you do this one more time, because it’s the 2nd time, you’re gonna have a serious problem. So they’re thinking maybe they’ll check him in jail for a
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bit. Okay.
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Meanwhile, Trump is all that’s happening. Meanwhile, Trump is polling 20 points ahead of all of his competition. When I say 20 points ahead, I mean, if you got everybody else and added them up, he’s 20 points ahead of that. So he is going to be the Republican nominee. So there’s a nonzero chance. Actually, there’s a significant chance that Trump will be the president in jail At
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the end of next year. Hang on. So does he become president then goes to jail? Or does
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he become the election’s at the end of next year. It’s How quickly he gets in jail, but he can be he can be in jail, and they make him president. What?
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Yeah. It’s Is this done being been done before?
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No. No. No. It’s not been done before.
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Hang on.
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So But he’s But he’s a he’s a he’s a he breaks new ground all the time. He’s hang on. So There is no rule to say you cannot be president if you’re in jail.
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But, like, logistically, how does it work? Does he just have a phone and eats his cake?
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We’re hoping we’d never have to find out.
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No. We we are gonna we are gonna find out. And,
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But, yeah, it looks like it’s gonna be Trump and Biden again for the next year, and,
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Oh my gosh. They really need to
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And there’s a it’s a a significant chance Because a lot of people don’t wanna vote for Trump Biden. And it’s like, yeah. But
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It’s that whole
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If the the option Trump or Biden that’s the thing I hate about those Guys, right, their elections is just the 2 people all the time.
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No. That’s right. But the same argument could be said for how New Zealand election just went. So many people didn’t want labor, Yeah. So they voted national even though they may not actually align with that. That’s fine.
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Yeah. Anyway so so So that’s all that, but on the on the on the positive side, the House of Congress now has a new speaker. So they’ve been 20 odd days. The only thing is he is one of Trump’s closest allies. So that’s the 3rd closest in 3rd in line for power. So, you know, I I wouldn’t put it past Trump to get, Biden and Harris assassinated, and then he’s he’s all good again, except, you know, he might still go to jail.
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How do you feel getting that off your chest?
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I feel so much better.
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I don’t know.
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It’s just nuts, though. I it feels like I’m talking to you about Some sitcom that I’m into that nobody else watches.
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That’s how it feels.
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Yeah. Because it’s nuts. It’s just ridiculous. Anyway okay. Sorry. No. You’re alright. Get that off from my chest.
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This week, I caught a giant rat in my rat trap. Oh. It was freakishly large. Oh, yeah. The body was, like, that big. Holy crap. Had a tail, So I had to dispose of that, which is fun. Luckily, it was rubbish day, today.
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Far out. Do not like trying to pick them up with the reachy, The grabby hand thing I’ve got. Yeah. Yeah. It’s like too big for it to lift it.
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Oh, no.
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Anyway, that happened. And then I went to go get some, Fertilizer today for my pumpkins. I’ve been researching it online, and I’m like, sweet. I go to Farm Source, which is the, Fontera run, you know, farming store.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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You always feel out of place going in there, but That’s right. Their stores are really
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That’s that’s the bulk bulk one,
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Oh, no. They’ve got everything. Like Oh, yeah? It it’s pretty cool. It’s amazing what they sell, and you don’t realize Because they want to be the one stop shop for farmers.
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Yeah. So they’ll do a lot of grocery ish type
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Oh, just the odd little thing, but it’s just, just a whole bunch of different products
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That you
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didn’t realize I had stock and clothing as well and stuff like that. So I’m like, hey. This is the fertilizer I want, and they’re like, yep. We’ve got that. It’s over there. And I was they brought it up, and I said, no. That’s not the right one. My the one I want is slightly different, like, just a little bit different.
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And I said, it’s on your website. She goes, oh, they just put everything on our website. We just don’t know what we have really. She goes, oh, hang on. Brings up, there’s only 1 store in the whole of the country that has it.
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Fielding. Fielding.
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I’m like, okay. Can you, like, Order of in? She says, yeah. We should be able to do that. I’ll give you a ring in the next couple of days. Okay. We will see. Then while I’m researching, I’ve been getting ads for this, Oh, I can’t even remember the name of the product, so I can’t even tell you. Nutra NutriZest is the product I’ve just ordered from a crowd in Auckland, but they make 3 or 4 different versions, and I’ve
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been getting ads. This is for plants still or for humans?
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This is for plants.
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Okay. Alright.
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And the ad I’ve been getting is about kiwifruit orchards. It’s like if you want bigger yields at kiwi fruit, blah blah blah, here’s our product. And I went I was just like, okay. Cool. Went through it. It’s 2 scientists With a bunch of letters after their name, peer reviewed paper, white paper they’ve done, and they’ve won all these biotech awards, And they’ve got this random product made in New Zealand from other plant matter that does something to increase yields. Don’t ask me what, but they’ve got the
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But I fought over the cash. That’s the one. That’s the one.
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I’ve got the, I’ve got the one that they use for home gardening sort of stuff, and you can put on any plant. With the kiwi fruit one, they have, like, a money back guarantee. They’re like, hey. If you grow a hectare of kiwifruit with our product and have a hectare without it and share all your results, if you don’t get better yield, like, 15% or something,
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We’ll give you all the
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money back for the product. And they’ve got these amazing testimonials from Kirifruit people on there.
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Like Holy crap.
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People’s names and the where they’re from, and it says, I’ve used so many products over the last 15 years.
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Promise the world.
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Yep. And I’ve thrown everything away except for this one. Anyway, From what I’ve read online and the scientific paper that I tried to read, I got a bit bored with it. It seems pretty good. And now, like, We don’t know anybody that’s ever used it on dried pumpkins before. Let us know how it goes.
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Cool. Cool. That sounds good. That sounds really good. Oh, so you got you got to Talk to somebody.
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Oh, I emailed them.
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Email again.
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I emailed and said, what’s your application rate? Because it’s, 500 mils or 1 liter. And I was like, I think I only need 500 mils because you use 10 mils of this product in water a time, and you spray it everywhere. And she goes, oh, I said, this is a weekly. Most of the stuff’s always weekly. And she goes, yeah. Yeah. You can apply it weekly, but literally, you can apply it as often as you want Because it’s nontoxic, it’s not a fertilizer. It’s doing something else.
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You can eat the product straight away. You can bathe in it. You can do whatever you want. I don’t know. Alright.
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Cool.
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Anyway, that’s turning up. We’ll see.
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Cool. Cool. Cool. I actually I just remembered something. Yeah. Okay. You you carry on. I’m gonna try and remember what I’ve
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Okay. I don’t know if we’ve ever spoken about this, and I I’m pretty sure I’ve read about it, so I don’t know. We’ve done a lot of podcasts In the past, there’s this, running competition called the, I just wanna get the name right here. It’s happening in America, Which is cool. I sometimes think we live in a 3rd world country without Internet. Anyway, this guy from Christchurch, He’s a running sensation I’ve never heard of. His name’s Sam Harvey. He’s trying to get the world record at the backyard ultra marathon world championships in the US.
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Right? And he needs to get, about 600 kilometers, I think, is what he needs to do. So oh, yeah. He’s ran for three and a half days, almost done 100 kilometers. He’s one of 10 people still competing at Big Dogs Backyard Ultra in Tennessee. What they have to do, They run a 6.7 kilometer loop every hour. Anytime that’s not used up in running in that hour, they can do whatever they want, Sleep, eat, whatever. Soon as the hour comes around again, they gotta start. They just keep going till last man’s standing.
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That’s it.
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That sounds familiar.
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It does. Thank you.
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Around the block in town?
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I don’t I don’t know. It looks a bit outdoorsy, some of the photos I’ve seen.
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Yeah. Because I remember you’re talking about one that was around the block in, like, New York or some random city. Yeah.
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So the 1st goal he wants to do is break his own record of a 101 loops, 677 kilo kilometers. 101
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loops. So that’s a 101 hours.
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Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. That’s true. He’s managed to get a couple of 15 minute sleeps in. They’ve been keeping him cool with ice because temperatures rose about 25 degrees during the day. So that’s all been good.
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Right? All good good good. So that’s what I initially had. Then they had another story come out. Same guy, same event, and, he was the favorite. So these people that were left, he was still looking strong. He’s he must do ultra marathon and stuff normally, I guess. I don’t know. He pulled out after 91 hours.
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He did 610 kilometers. He was 73 kilometers short of the world record, And, he was talking to his mom on the phone, I think he said, and he was the strongest, and he just said, I just had enough of it now. I just don’t wanna do it anymore. And he says thanks for helping me do the stupid thing, he said to his mom. Oh, she was there. He hugged her. He He said it was big and stupid, and now I’ve done it. We can get on with our lives.
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What a great couple of days. Yeah. And that’s it. He was like, the favorite just to keep going, and he says, I’ve had enough of this.
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That’s that’s awesome. I like that. I think that’s awesome. Talking about doing stupid things. Yes. Go. So I’ve got the, I’ve got the, comedy coming up this week.
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Got my tickets.
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So have you? Yeah. Yeah. So Wednesday. So Adam’s coming along, I believe, so you guys Good. Hang out. Yeah. And, Sam’s going to record it, really, just for me to check what it is, what it looks like so I can see how bad it is. But, yeah, it’s I’ve gone through it with Jamie.
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Well, I’ve sent him
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When do you go up in the lineup?
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I think I’m usually, they put the debut on about 3rd or 4th.
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That makes sense. That’s good. Good.
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So they’ve got somebody warm up a couple of bits, and then you’re before, you know, The really cool people. You don’t you wouldn’t wanna be last where where the really good people are then, and then they put you up. And you don’t wanna be first either because that’s That’s rough.
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That is rough.
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So, yeah, usually, 3. I I I don’t actually know. I don’t think it’s even been decided, but I would imagine about 3rd ish.
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Okay. How are you feeling about this?
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It depends on whatever any given hour. Sometimes it’s like, oh, I should be right. And sometimes it’s like, what the hell? What are you doing? But the reality is that the next day will be just another day, so nothing’s gonna hurt. And, Yeah. After doing years of tournaments, it’s like nobody’s gonna kick me in the head. So Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
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That bad. It’s never that bad. So yeah.
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I guess I guess the only thing I think that’ll come from this will be obviously, I know you’ve used this as a, an example of the people you speaker coach, you asked them to do hard things and get up on stage, and now you’ve said, well, I’m doing this. Like, I’m Yeah. Getting out of my comfort zone, which is great. I think the only thing that will be will be if you decide to do it again or not.
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Yeah. And and sort of when I was getting feedback from Jamie, he was like, you know, So what you’ll find because it was hard doing it to a camera so Jamie could have a look at that.
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Not giving feedback.
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There’s no feedback. So it’s it’s it’s stuttery, but and and he goes, You’ll find when you as you do it more often, you know, you you you’ll add other little jokes, and I I have a few others that I didn’t put into that thing because I was trying to keep it down to 6 minutes. And and that and I’m like, If I do it again But that’s sort of what that club’s about. So a lot of those guys will come back and do exactly the same Yep. Set again Several times a row because, normally, it’s not the same audience.
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I’m That’s right.
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I’m the only person that’s been to everyone. So, although there are a few that are regulars that go Yeah. A lot of times. But, yeah, anyway so, yep, that’s, that’s happening. So look out for next weekend when, next week’s Podcast when I tell you how it all went from my point of view, and then you’ll hear how it all went from the audience point of view. That’s right.
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Really looking forward to it. Can’t wait.
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And you’ll be happy to know there’s nothing about Trump. Actually, it’s It’s all about me.
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Good, I think. I’m not sure.
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I’m not sure either, but, anyway, we’ll see.
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Hey. The Red Cross came up with a really clever promotion type thing the other day. I thought this was great. Mhmm. So they wanted to do a nationwide clothing drive. So they partnered with Uber, and they said, you just tell us that you’ve got clothes to pick up. We’ll send an Uber To pick it up in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch free of charge. Right? So they had over 10,000 kilos of clothing donated before lunchtime.
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That is brilliant. You know, I would be tempted to empty some of my wardrobe if that was in Hamilton Yeah. Because I have got clothes in my wardrobe that I bought in the early nineties.
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I am not joking. Let’s be real here.
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Early eighties. No. No. Those don’t fit me anymore. They’re under the bed. Mhmm. The ones in the wardrobe, I can still sort of fit. Yeah.
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So they reckon that there’s an estimated $3,100,000,000 of unused clothing sitting in Key West wardrobes. They’re trying to tap into that. I don’t know how much of that
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Yeah. It it’s 1,300,000,000 until you you have it in stores, and then it’s like So there’s too much too much demand. So there’s too much supply for demand, so it’s not worth that much money anymore. You know you know what I’m saying?
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No. I don’t think you can I don’t think I don’t think you can oversupply the need for this stuff?
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Really?
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Yeah. There’s because there’s these upside there there’s all these recycled boutique places and Stuff everywhere as well.
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Yeah. I guess. Yeah. I I went to save my I quite like the one in, Frankton. Yeah. Right at the end by the railway.
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It’s really tucked away if you
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don’t know it’s there. Tucked away if you don’t know it’s there. It’s it’s pretty good. There’s some good stuff, but all those places just have so much. Well, it appears to me they have so much stock.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They do. I just wonder what percentage of this clothing was a bit, rubbishy.
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Oh, yeah. But who knows?
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Dead dead
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dead dead.
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But But I thought it was a I thought it was a clever
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idea. Oh, it’s brilliant.
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And I’m thinking, what else could you do and use Uber for? Mhmm. Like, it’s gotta be worth your while to pay all these Uber bills.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Go there, pick it up, drop it off here.
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Yeah. Yeah. And and that’s the thing because they’re getting it for free effectively except they’re paying the Uber. So it’s only costing them the Uber For kilos of product.
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And the and they’re getting a lot more than they would of just waiting for somebody to bring it into a store. Yeah. Yeah. So that’s gotta outweigh it. They obviously must have worked out their sums. I hope it works for them?
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I’m sure it will. I think I think a 100%. Eventually, it will. Because, really, you only have to sell 2 or 3 items per delivery.
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Oh, yeah. True. True. True. And Yeah.
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You’ll be fine. Person who’s gotta bother with it is gonna have a sack of stuff to get the Uber guy. That’s right. Suppose the Uber guy is gonna be pretty happy too. Nobody’s throwing up in his in his cab, like, you know, doesn’t have to talk To the laundry, you know, all the, you know, the clothing. Yeah. That’s right. All good.
Chris [00:19:11]:
In early 2024, Deathgasm 2 will go into production. Oh, nice. To raise money, they have been selling their used sex toys that they used in the 1st Deathgasm movie, And they’ve already raised $11,000. Holy crap. 1 guy paid $4,292 For one of them that were used in the 1st film, they’re bringing back all the same cast.
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Oh, cool.
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And basically, the gist of it is the main guy is going to resurrect his bandmates from the dead in order to win back his ex girlfriend in an attempt to win a big music competition.
Chris [00:19:50]:
Okay. So I need to rewatch that. I remember we you, me, and Adam went and saw it at the movies, I think.
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No. No? I did not see that at the movies.
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I I I did. I saw it with somebody at the movies. Okay. Because it was a a film festival thing. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. So I I didn’t know
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you told me about it.
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Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it was me and Adam went, and, but I can’t I remember bits of it, but I don’t remember the whole thing. I just remember going, This is not at all what I expected.
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Yeah.
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And, this is really cool. Oh, I’m gonna have to watch it again. Cool. Alright. Excellent. Good stuff.
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You’ve got Amazon here as limiting book uploads.
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Oh, yeah. I
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What does that mean? Like, you’re selling books.
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It’s it’s hilarious. No. So, with the impact of AI, so have you ever seen an ad saying, why bother writing a book? Personally, Just get AI to do it. You’ll make 1,000,000 of dollars. Oh, okay. Okay. So people are uploading, like, ridiculous numbers of books they have written It’s a Kindle.
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Right? Yes.
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So Amazon’s gone. That’s that’s spamification. There’s spam going on here. We have to limit it to a reasonable number that a normal human being would be. Three books per day. 21 a week. That’s normal. That’s what grinding it out.
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That’s what a normal human would. Right? Three books a day Their account. It yeah. It’s crazy.
Chris [00:21:22]:
It it’s weird in this weird content thing. So Google keeps changing the algorithm at the moment, And it’s upsetting all these content publishers. Alright. So all all on websites and blogs. So it’s like, we need it to be, like, Helpful and useful and written by humans. Then they’re like, we don’t care about that. Just whatever. And they just keep tweaking it.
Chris [00:21:39]:
So all these people’s Rates and, what they’re making is going up and down in their views and Google results. Because in the day, Google doesn’t really care. They’re just gonna show some information on the results page.
Chris [00:21:49]:
Yeah. But But they’ve gotta get the balance right, so they’ve got to have good information that you find from a Google search. Because if you start just getting crap from Google searches, you’ll just stop using Google.
Chris [00:22:02]:
Yeah. That’s true.
Chris [00:22:02]:
Right? I mean, that’s their thing. They’re like, But they also want to make sure they get the, advertisers and all that sort
Chris [00:22:10]:
of thing. So, there’s this guy called Matthew Zimmer Zimmerman Matthew Zimmerman. He’s made a program called Zimwriter, and these people love it. They haven’t used it. Taps into ChatGPT. So you buy this, or pay a monthly fee for this piece of software. That’s it. Then you’re paying for credits for ChatGPT.
Chris [00:22:29]:
It’ll write a whole 2,000 word article for, like, 2¢. Right? And it’s really in-depth. Like, I’ve seen screenshots of this thing. It’s mental. It’s got, like, 500 options. Seems like it’ll blow your mind. But what you do is you set it up, and these guys are doing it, and you go blah blah blah blah blah blah. Here’s the requirement, and you just go right.
Chris [00:22:47]:
And you just leave your computer running all day. These guys are going to work, and the computer’s just tuning a 1,000 articles a day. Boom. Straight to a website. Website’s done. Move on to the next one. These guys are doing thousands of articles a week for, like, $30 or something, silly.
Chris [00:23:04]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:23:04]:
But if used correctly, This thing can write really good articles about whatever,
Chris [00:23:10]:
but that’s true. I don’t mind using AI. So So my news letters have been written very much myself. I don’t use AI for that except Grammarly.
Chris [00:23:20]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:23:21]:
Yeah. Yeah. Grammarly because, you know, that that
Chris [00:23:23]:
Spell check.
Chris [00:23:23]:
Yes. Spell check effectively. But that that’s cool. Having said that, I do use AI with the instruction design stuff, but, Again, you don’t leave you don’t use what it spits out. No. You get an idea from what it spits out and tweak it. Right? It it’s really good brainstorming. It’s really good for giving you angles you hadn’t thought about.
Chris [00:23:43]:
But
Chris [00:23:43]:
Well, that’s the funny thing because some of these people in the Zoom writer group, Some of them are just like, oh, no. You just tweak it. Like, you you set it up perfectly. They can use everything a 100% straight from the article? Up and not getting huge results. Like, they just like they they get it
Chris [00:23:59]:
I’m imagining they’re setting up their own profile so it writes in their style.
Chris [00:24:03]:
Yes. I think so.
Chris [00:24:04]:
Yeah. And that’s different. That’s that’s cool.
Chris [00:24:06]:
But you got new people at
Chris [00:24:07]:
the desk. My my my photos. If you look in my LinkedIn, all my profile photos and the cards and stuff, None of those photos are real. That all AI generated.
Chris [00:24:17]:
I know. They freak me out. There’s a little bit of uncanny valley.
Chris [00:24:20]:
They they are a little old, because they’re 2 years old now. Yeah. Yeah. Year and a half old. So I should get ahold of Carl. Carl, if you’re listening to this, I need some, updated photos, For my, for my
Chris [00:24:33]:
Hey. When you’re in a virtual meeting with teammates or work colleagues or whatever, Have you thought about just getting a massage while that’s happening? No. Okay. AirAsia cofounder has sparked heated criticism Because he posted a half naked photo of himself while, in the Zoom meeting getting a massage. So he just showed it off there.
Chris [00:24:52]:
I I just had a genius idea. I’ve got I’ve spent hours and hours and hours and hours this week in these meetings with the green screen behind me Yeah. And I have that green Screen suit.
Chris [00:25:04]:
Yeah. Yeah. You’re more like that you can’t fit into.
Chris [00:25:06]:
Yeah. That I can’t fit into, but I could get somebody in there, and they could message me while I’m in that chair, and nobody would know.
Chris [00:25:12]:
Okay.
Chris [00:25:16]:
Oh, that’s genius. He wanted
Chris [00:25:18]:
he he’s he posted this image to LinkedIn and was Promoting his company’s culture that allowed him to receive the massage during important meetings, because he said that they’ve got a flexible work culture As he’s just sitting there
Chris [00:25:31]:
Flexible.
Chris [00:25:34]:
I don’t know if that’s the right one.
Chris [00:25:36]:
That’s dodgy as. It’s dodgy as. Oh, so I did hear this thing. I’m pretty sure it was a Cleo Abrams thing again. It was the amount of groundwater that has been pumped out of the earth is so great now. There’s so many places where the aqua Fires are in, like, danger zone.
Chris [00:25:59]:
Don’t worry. Nestle needs that water.
Chris [00:26:01]:
And and as you know, it takes a long time to replenish because it’s gotta fill water’s gotta A filter through the rock. But so much of that water has come out and is now surfaced that the tilt of the planet has changed 80 centimeters.
Chris [00:26:15]:
Good. Don’t worry about that. We need that. The Earth is thanking us for sucking all the water out of it. It was too, like, moist. We gotta dry it out.
Chris [00:26:25]:
No. No. I said word moist, so we gotta get rid of that. Moist for
Chris [00:26:30]:
all you ASMR fans out there. We you know what? That’s gonna fix climate change problems, guaranteed.
Chris [00:26:38]:
I don’t know if it’s actually not not helping.
Chris [00:26:41]:
So, obviously, It’s causing problems with or or What happens with the access shift? What happens?
Chris [00:26:47]:
The access shift is just the, I as I understand it, the, As I understand it, which is probably totally wrong, is that when the water’s locked into that Earth, it’s in a certain space. When it’s outside, The Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Center gravity’s out, but it also moves around.
Chris [00:27:03]:
Right? What what was the was something gonna happen to us if that’s out?
Chris [00:27:06]:
No. No. It’s This
Chris [00:27:07]:
is a thing that’s happened, but Just
Chris [00:27:08]:
a thing that’s noticeable. But, yeah. But we’re we’re using more water now than we ever have out of groundwater, which is stupid because we should Absolutely be using all these things that they’re now creating that you can get, water out of the air and all that. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. To those things.
Chris [00:27:24]:
They should be.
Chris [00:27:25]:
Even Non powered ones now, that they use in in African countries and stuff. You know?
Chris [00:27:34]:
Yes. I’ve got a no. I won’t go into that. I’ll tell you off air about my African story.
Chris [00:27:40]:
Yeah. Alright. Sweet.
Chris [00:27:42]:
Hey. You got a thing here about some, fancy ice, special ice That only mounts to extremely hot temperatures. This is you?
Chris [00:27:47]:
Yep. Yep.
Chris [00:27:49]:
So what happened? They made it or they found it?
Chris [00:27:51]:
No. It’s sort of something that was, would it theoretically possible, and now they’ve done it? Oh, cool. So yeah. I Yeah. It says here, odd things happen inside of planets where familiar materials are subject to extreme pressures of heat.
Chris [00:28:07]:
Okay. Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:28:08]:
So, basically, it’s The the crystalline structures of the water Mhmm. Is packed so densely that you actually need to, like, fire it to 2,000 degrees to melt it.
Chris [00:28:23]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:28:24]:
Yeah. It’s So, yeah, they think that, the, Uranus and Neptune. Yep. I reckon those things have that sort of stuff going, And scientists confirmed in 19 2019 what physicists had predicted back in 1988.
Chris [00:28:41]:
Oh, woah. Okay. So they thought about it back then.
Chris [00:28:44]:
Yeah. But it was just like well, they couldn’t do it, and now they’ve used it says something in the article. We’ll post the article. It was interesting at the time. I it’s actually over a week ago that I read that, so I can’t remember. But, yeah, have a read. We’ll we’ll put the link in there. Interesting stuff.
Chris [00:28:58]:
Excellent. What else is coming up this week? We got your I don’t know. Is there anything different coming up this week that we haven’t spoke about? No. I’m So Wednesday, this Wednesday, 1st November, Doors open at 7. Show starts at 8. The tickets are, like, $10.25, which includes their weird little fee. 10.25.
Chris [00:29:18]:
So the tickets are 10/25 unless you buy at the door. So I used to keep going buying at the door, and they’ve changed it. Now if you buy at the door, it’s $15. Yes.
Chris [00:29:25]:
That makes sense.
Chris [00:29:26]:
Okay. Bought I bought 1 of it $15. Well, what’s happening with this? And I read the thing on the thing on the plate. Right. So now
Chris [00:29:32]:
want to go to event finder. You wanna look up Hamilton. We’ll have a link, and promote it.
Chris [00:29:36]:
Yeah. Or Hamilton, Facebook page, and it links straight to being from there. That’s how I usually do it when I’m doing it.
Chris [00:29:43]:
Nice.
Chris [00:29:43]:
Yeah. So, look forward to seeing some friendly faces in the audience. And if you are a friendly face in the audience, you have to laugh. No pressure, but you have to. Okay. Okay. I I I
Chris [00:29:57]:
was just thinking, should I try and Channel, you’ll laugh. No. I don’t think I could do it.
Chris [00:30:03]:
Okay. You you just bring a recording of Kim’s laugh. Oh my gosh.
Chris [00:30:10]:
Okay. Well, that’s a thought, we’ll leave you with. Until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:14]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:30:14]:
I’ll see you.
Chris [00:30:15]:
Bye.
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