Summary
This week we talk about Vince and their crowdfunding plans to get into all the supermarkets. John Oliver and his plan to let everyone know about NZ’s bird of the year.
Kitten yoga in Northland gets a mention as does a new way for NASA to navigate.
What’s the deal with adult children not wanting to leave home and what happened with bird at Two Birds Cafe.
All this and more. Come have a listen.
Links
Update about VINCE product and their crowdfunding plans
John Oliver and the NZ Bird of the Century
Italian woman sues her sons to get them to leave her house
Inglewood has the fanciest AI laundromat in the country
Kitten yoga in Northland
NASA new way to navigate
Misty Flicks
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 455 the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
Hi. I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life brought to you via the power of Zoom.
Chris [00:00:33]:
Yes. Yes. And I am so far behind. I’ve still gotta find things, and so take it away, Sam.
Sam [00:00:40]:
Don’t worry about that. Hey. You remember when we went to Field Days a couple of years ago and we saw a, a product called Vince?
Chris [00:00:49]:
Yes. I think I may still have some in my freezer
Sam [00:00:53]:
That’s
Chris [00:00:54]:
that I’ve never opened.
Sam [00:00:56]:
I thought it’d come in a packet.
Chris [00:00:59]:
Anyway okay. Yeah. Okay. Yep.
Sam [00:01:00]:
Okay. Okay. Okay. Anyway, it’s mushed up vegetables. It’s an alternative to mints. It tasted really good. It’s dehydrated, I think. You just add water, and so that was pretty cool.
Sam [00:01:12]:
I came across a story the other day about them. They basically it sounds like they’ve changed their marketing a little bit. So it sounds like they’ve been telling people, to add it to mints, to pack out your mints. So that’s okay. Which is fine. They, want to get onto supermarket shelves. So to do that, they need to up their production. And to do that, they got to get a giant chopping machine.
Sam [00:01:47]:
So currently, it sounds like they have some, the the virtual relationship with a team, from a group called and I think that is, young adults with disabilities, and it helps them get some job training. So these guys are chopping the vegetables up, and this machine will allow them to chop up more vegetables, and then Vince can be, put onto the supermarket shelves. So that crowdfunding for $25,000 to get a vegetable chopping machine. Okay. I don’t know how I feel about it.
Chris [00:02:24]:
That does sound
Sam [00:02:26]:
Like, get a loan. Like, you’re a business.
Chris [00:02:29]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:02:30]:
It just I don’t know. It seems like a weird like, love the product. Love the people. I just think it’s a bit weird. There’s 1 month left. They’ve got almost $5,000 out of their $25,000 goal. So, I don’t know. I think if I if I had spare money to, throw at a Some sort of fundraising thing.
Sam [00:02:54]:
I don’t think it would be for a company to get a vegetable chopping machine.
Chris [00:02:59]:
What are they giving for that? Is it is it is it are they getting a, shit? It’s it’s not No. Thing?
Sam [00:03:08]:
Nope. Nope. You get an ebook and a bag of Vince, or another it depends how much you think. Yeah. So you the biggest one is you might get some, vegetables and a whole bunch of the Vince product.
Chris [00:03:24]:
Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:03:25]:
But weird. Talking about crowdfunding, the podcast Guilt finding Heidi. Hi. They have a crowd funder going because he has decided to raise a reward. He wants to raise $10,000, over the next 3 months.
Chris [00:03:43]:
So that’s a reward for information leading to type stuff.
Sam [00:03:47]:
Finding the body, yes, or the remains. And, no questions asked, basically, but they have to have the certain criteria. And one of them is they cannot be a psychic Or a weirdo, basically. And
Chris [00:04:03]:
Psychic.
Sam [00:04:05]:
Yeah. He says no no psychics because you’re just gonna be throwing darts at the board. If if there is no information that leads to it, he’s gonna refund everybody their money. Okay. But the funny thing is they had to put put put a pause on the Facebook group Because it was basically getting so toxic with all these people just arguing. So more episodes are coming. There’s a 4 4 or 5 more to come. He’s been 2 and interesting people, and, he just goes, I think this reward might help bring some people out of the woodwork.
Chris [00:04:42]:
Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. So I, I I just wanna say, just so people know what’s going on, I’m doing a 3 day event, And I’m in the middle of it, and this is a lunch break. I’ve got a 26 minute lunch break. I’m putting a 30 minute podcast in it, so that’s cool. I’ll be a bit late back.
Chris [00:04:59]:
I don’t care. That’s all good. But, I I have to say, I gotta tell you a story. I gotta tell you a story. I caught up with Carolyn, my friend, Carolyn, we’ve been friends since, freaking since I was, like, 18 or something like that. We were flatmates back in the day.
Sam [00:05:17]:
Yep.
Chris [00:05:18]:
And so we’ve known each other a long, long time. So Carolyn comes down. She’d just been on holiday for 5 weeks just, Yeah. Malaysia and and Indonesia and Bali and bits and pieces. So that was cool. So she’s looking suntanned and relaxed. I was not, but that’s alright. Yep.
Chris [00:05:35]:
And we went to 2 Birds Eatery. Do you have you ever been there?
Sam [00:05:38]:
Yeah. I’ve been there with you once before.
Chris [00:05:40]:
Oh, okay. Okay.
Sam [00:05:41]:
It’s in the corner of the Clyde shopping thing on the corner.
Chris [00:05:44]:
Yeah. So we’re out the back in the in the, garden sort of area. So we got a nice little garden area. There’s birds around and all the rest of it. And I’m facing her, and I’m talking to her, And this bird, I I saw it on the ground, but it wasn’t there when I sat down. So I think this bird flew into the wall and broke its neck.
Sam [00:06:02]:
Oh my gosh.
Chris [00:06:03]:
Yeah. So I see this bird, and I’m sort of talking to her and keeping one eye on the bird. I’m not gonna mention it. There’s sort of you feel a bit bad When something like that happens, right, you just do. But I’m not gonna make sure. Yeah. And then this woman comes and she’s sitting there and she So looks down as she sees the bird, and then I’m like, what is she doing? So so she gets a She gets a survey and she picks up the bird, and I’m like, is this the point at which I mentioned to Carolyn that this weirdo behind her is picking up the dead bird off the floor? But then she goes over to the garden, and then I’m going, alright. I’ve got attention to Carolyn.
Sam [00:06:41]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:41]:
But then she goes Does she just put the table, and I’m like, alright. So she’s just, Like, dump the bird there? Yeah. Yeah. Nope. She’s getting a spoon. And then she goes back to the garden. She starts digging a crate for the bird. What? What? How do I keep my face straight at this point? This woman is at the back of These people sit there with all these picnic tails eating that, and she’s digging
Sam [00:07:07]:
a a grave
Chris [00:07:08]:
with a spoon For this dead bird. I’m like, Caroline, I was gonna say don’t look now, but you have to. It’s the Chicks taking a crack for the bear. I explained that whole thing. She goes, does that mean they can’t call it the 2 bird eatery anymore?
Sam [00:07:25]:
This is this is one of those things this is one of those things that happens where I’m just like, Are they non playable characters? What is going on?
Chris [00:07:35]:
They she did look a little,
Sam [00:07:38]:
petty shit,
Chris [00:07:39]:
but Not a 100% with it. You know? Mhmm. Yeah. She did look a little bit that way. Although, I I thought she looked that way, and then somebody came and joined her, And she was more animated when she was talking to them after the bird had been resolved. So I don’t know. I don’t know. It was a bit it was really weird, and I was like, Yeah.
Chris [00:07:58]:
I think I mentioned that in the podcast.
Sam [00:08:02]:
Nice. Talking about birds, have you seen what John Oliver’s up to?
Chris [00:08:07]:
I haven’t seen that. I I actually voted for it because you sent it through. And I meant to watch it, but I never got a chance because, Yeah.
Sam [00:08:15]:
Okay. Yeah. So so Forrest and Bird normally run a bird of the year competition, which is quite popular with some people. But it’s the 100th year, so they’re having bird of the century. There’s 75 bird species up for the title. Voting closes on November 12th, so head to their website. But, yeah, John Oliver, the late night talk show host.
Chris [00:08:39]:
I’m a big fan. Huge fan.
Sam [00:08:41]:
Yeah. Yeah. He’s pretty good. Hey. They he’s launched a global campaign For a bird, which I’m gonna butcher its name, the putty putty care ticky. I don’t know which yeah. Anyway, so he wants it to win. So he’s put billboards up all around
Chris [00:08:58]:
the world. He’s crashed Really?
Sam [00:09:01]:
Oh, yeah. Like, Paris, Mumbai, there’s gonna be a mobile ad in London, an ad behind a plane in Brazil, stuff in Wisconsin and the US. Tokyo, there’s bought billboards, and there’s trucks driving around saying vote for this. He’s broken their website, So they’ve got that back up and running. They said all votes will be counted, so that’s good. Vote this bird .com is where you need to go. Vote this bird .com. Yeah.
Sam [00:09:31]:
I just love how he just goes full freaking, right into it.
Chris [00:09:37]:
Can you just imagine that It’s just that budget thing. Right? Just having that if the Chris and Sam podcast had a ridiculously unlimited budget to do something random, I mean, it’d be cool as hell, but I just don’t know that I want their responsibility.
Sam [00:09:53]:
I wonder what ideas his team and him don’t go through with.
Chris [00:09:57]:
Yeah. Like, in like yeah. And and
Sam [00:10:00]:
it it’s gotta be a team thing.
Chris [00:10:03]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:10:04]:
Yeah. Like, Yeah.
Chris [00:10:06]:
No. That’s cool. That’s cool. Yeah. So I I it it was interesting. The one thing I really like about that particular bird, and I’m not gonna even try and say it because I don’t have it Good.
Sam [00:10:14]:
In front of me. Good. I know. That’s that’s a tough one.
Chris [00:10:16]:
Is that it, swims around with its chicks on its back.
Sam [00:10:22]:
That’s right. That’s right. It says that in the article. That’s why he quite likes it. And it also does, Just a yeah. He he goes, I want it to do to other bird of the century candidates what it does to fish in New Zealand’s lakes. Eats them alive then throws them back up in a ball of feathers because frankly, there is no bird on earth more deserving of the title of bird of the century, then this one right here. And he had a large inflatable version of that bird in his studio.
Chris [00:10:54]:
Oh my god. I’ve gotta see
Sam [00:10:55]:
Someone has to go make it.
Chris [00:10:56]:
I I’ve gotta see this thing because it’s quite a unique looking bird too.
Sam [00:11:00]:
It is. It is.
Chris [00:11:02]:
Alright. Moving away from there. I I have you heard this? I think the story’s been around a bit, so maybe you have. The this Italian mother has won a court case against his Her sons to evict them.
Sam [00:11:14]:
I saw I saw the headline, but I didn’t really know what was going
Chris [00:11:17]:
on. So a 75 year old Italian woman sued her 2 sons, aged 40 and 42 after repeatedly asking them to move out and live more independently, and they refused. They both got jobs, but they won’t put any money in. The children refused to move out while while their mother was doing all the cooking and cleaning at her own expense. She tried in vain to get them to leave telling the local newspaper, neither of them wanted to know. She got so tired in the end she decided to sue them. Okay. Got jobs, but they just won’t do any household chores, and they won’t add to pay any of the expenses.
Chris [00:11:55]:
If you’re 40 and you’ve never paid any Bills, this is just blowing my mind because I I was flatting by the time I was 16. I don’t know what that would be. They’re just oh my god.
Sam [00:12:08]:
They They seem like a bunch of losers.
Chris [00:12:10]:
Yeah. I would say so. But, yeah, the the the judge agreed with her and went, yep. You got 30 days you’re out or something along those lines. But, you know, I I just it just cracked me up.
Sam [00:12:23]:
I’ve got a text story for you, and it’s involving a little tiny town in Taranaki called Englewood.
Chris [00:12:30]:
Englewood? Yeah. Okay. Why does that sound familiar? Alright. Carry on.
Sam [00:12:35]:
They have the country’s most sophisticated AI assisted laundromat. So this company does commercial laundry for a whole bunch of places. And for some reason, the guy Goes, I saw this machine in Denmark, like, 6 years ago when the machine was in development, like, hadn’t even been made 6 years ago, and he thought That’s what we’re gonna do. It cost, about $5,000,000 to revamp the whole area and 1 machine that separates garments and sorts them out cost $2,000,000 just by itself. Right? That’s crazy as no redundancies. So they’ve kept everybody on board. They have about 300,000 pieces of Items that go through it. Fifty tons of laundry a week goes through this factory.
Sam [00:13:33]:
So that’s pretty cool. When Americana is on and WOMAD, big events in the Taranaki district, they get up to about 70 tons of product. The machines can do a whole bunch of stuff. They can do up to 800 towels an hour, which is crazy. Like, it’s this huge production thing. Everything has a microchip in it, so they’re tracking it. So after gonna ask,
Chris [00:13:56]:
how the hell do you find anything?
Sam [00:13:58]:
No. After 50 washes, It downgrades it from 5 stars to 3 stars. After another 50 washes, it goes from 3 to 1, and then after that, it’ll go to be made into rags. They’ve got 2 engineers on-site that are employed to fix anything that’s problem, problematic. They’ll diagnose the problems online if they need to. So engineers from around the world can come and check on it and go, oh, yep. This is what needs to be done. They did have 1 machine break and because they’re so big, they had
Chris [00:14:27]:
to remove the roof And
Sam [00:14:28]:
then craned it out. Big investment, but this guy seems to think it’s worthwhile. They’re they’re going through some stuff. Yeah.
Chris [00:14:35]:
Yeah. We because that’s bizarre, man. Inglewood. Because you think like, oh, yeah. If they’re in, I don’t know, Auckland somewhere, that might make some sense. You know what I mean?
Sam [00:14:47]:
I know. I mean, are the other laundromats creaming it and just using, like, Really cheap labor? I don’t know. Like, it it boggles it’s boggles me my mind. Redundancy. So Yeah. But he must have been making a Fear whack of money? I
Chris [00:15:04]:
guess, part of that. I know I know, dry cleaners make a bunch of money. Dry cleaners do.
Sam [00:15:10]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:11]:
Yeah. I yeah. Anyway, okay. Cool.
Sam [00:15:15]:
So it’s pretty cool. They’ve got, like, like, robots moving all the stuff around and
Chris [00:15:19]:
Is there a video of it in operation or anything like that?
Sam [00:15:22]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:15:23]:
Oh, I might have to take a watch of that later. Yeah.
Sam [00:15:25]:
There’s a little video talking about them and their $5,000,000 revamp.
Chris [00:15:29]:
Cool. I’ve got a I’ve got a random thing as well. Yeah. It’s in Northland, and there’s a good link in there That we’ll share from, the Radio New Zealand. But, basically, yeah, perfect combination, kitten yoga.
Sam [00:15:46]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:47]:
Okay. Downward dog at 1 Northland Yoga Studio. It’s all about kittens. So yoga and Frisky felines might not seem an obvious combination, but for the owner of Yin Side Yoga near Paihia in the Bay of Islands, perfect match. So she’s Francie Long’s a a volunteer with the local coast to coast cat rescue, and the the sessions are fun, but they They serve a a serious, purpose. So, basically, she doesn’t even charge for the yoga. You just turn Oh. Yoga.
Chris [00:16:17]:
But there’s kittens everywhere because they’re all rescues. And so far, this little combination has homed over a dozen abandoned, rescued, or unwanted cats.
Sam [00:16:28]:
That old trick.
Chris [00:16:29]:
Yeah. Because and there’s some rules. I love this. There’s some rules.
Sam [00:16:33]:
Okay.
Chris [00:16:33]:
So so, basically, she said she’d fostered kittens for, 30 or so kittens herself. I love kittens, and I love yoga, so I thought it was a good mix to bring the 2 together to raise awareness and fundraise for fostering. So there I think there might be a for the, yoga that goes to yoga. But, basically, you start doing the yoga, And the rule is kittens can do whatever they want. And if they lie lie down on top of you while you’re in a pose, You don’t move to the kitten moose
Sam [00:17:03]:
Okay.
Chris [00:17:05]:
And things like that. It’s it’s got some great photos. So definitely check that out. I think it’s brilliant. So, Long said, it’s one of the challenges of kitten yoga. If a kitten fell asleep on you in mid post, You might have to wait for it to wake up before you can change position. They’re very quiet, so you don’t know they’re around sometimes. Maybe it’s only when you roll out of a pose Or you hear a meow or feel a scratch telling you, yeah.
Chris [00:17:30]:
Don’t move.
Sam [00:17:31]:
They, they do look like crazy cat people in the photo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully, it doesn’t smell because there’s a there’s a cat cafe in Rotorua.
Chris [00:17:41]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:17:41]:
It’s just full of cats, and it’s just I don’t like the idea of it. I did see on, Instagram reels, though, the exact same concept, but with Bernese mountain dogs puppies.
Chris [00:17:54]:
Okay. Are they the ones with no hair? No. That’s something different.
Sam [00:17:57]:
Oh, no. No. There’s the big, black, white, and tan, big dogs. When they’re fully grown, they’re huge.
Chris [00:18:04]:
Oh, right. Right.
Sam [00:18:05]:
Right. They’re sort of like, but smaller than, Saint Bernard, I guess.
Chris [00:18:09]:
Right. Gotcha.
Sam [00:18:10]:
Yeah. Yeah. But, they’re puppies. I saw people doing, like, yoga and stuff with these puppies. Same concept, I guess.
Chris [00:18:17]:
Cool. Cool. Cool.
Sam [00:18:18]:
You’ve got jail bait entry here. I had to add that in.
Chris [00:18:22]:
You added that in.
Sam [00:18:23]:
You said add it to the list while we’re in a meeting.
Chris [00:18:27]:
Oh, okay. Yep. Alright. Yeah. No. Why did we why did I say that? I said it because he Spelled it wrong? I don’t
Sam [00:18:36]:
Yeah. There was there was a there was a error spelling error, and there’s 2 versions of this film apparently.
Chris [00:18:43]:
Oh, yes.
Sam [00:18:45]:
I picked up on it the other week, but I didn’t understand what they meant because I said something. I think it was Paige. And I said, oh, yeah. I helped out with Gerald Page. She goes, oh, which one? And I was like, I don’t know. Like, I didn’t know what or whoever said it, and I was like, I don’t know.
Chris [00:19:00]:
Yeah. Because I would have thought she meant which film?
Sam [00:19:03]:
Yeah. Some it was something like that. Yeah. No. There was something weird, and I was like, oh, so it sounds like one of them Didn’t work or stuffed up or something?
Chris [00:19:13]:
Yeah. Sam well, I do know he was gonna try a couple of different so he Originally did the one shot for a particular
Sam [00:19:20]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:19:21]:
Thing festival. We took all those extra shots so I could do an edited version.
Sam [00:19:26]:
Yes.
Chris [00:19:26]:
Yes. Presumed the edited version was the one he was gonna send through, but I am a bit disappointed. She goes, oh, no. The version you’re in doesn’t have you. I’m like, I’m the only other person in
Sam [00:19:40]:
it. I don’t know.
Chris [00:19:40]:
Me out of a 2 person film. What the hell? Or they reshot it. Yeah. Well, oh, yeah. Maybe they reshot it. But
Sam [00:19:48]:
Yeah. Maybe. Because anyway, last weekend, Chris, the festival of weird was on In Hamilton.
Chris [00:19:56]:
Festival of Weird
Sam [00:19:58]:
Yes.
Chris [00:19:58]:
In Hamilton. And so we didn’t know about it because
Sam [00:20:02]:
Why? Yeah. Exactly. That’s what’s pretty much gonna say. I may have heard about it last month. I completely forgot. I don’t Know what happened, I didn’t see anything shared by anyone anywhere. I think it was a whole week thing leading up to last weekend. So They’ve they had a whole bunch of stuff on with performers and things on all over the place.
Sam [00:20:23]:
So, maybe if it happens again next year, we might Head along to it.
Chris [00:20:28]:
Yeah. It sounds like a great place to take a microphone and interview some people, Sam.
Sam [00:20:34]:
That’s That’s right. That’s what we like to do.
Chris [00:20:38]:
Hey. I got a bit of a techie thing. If you wanna click on the link for the, The flood? Yep. Closing self closing floodgate. Just so you can see the video, it’s it’s LinkedIn, so you just see a LinkedIn video in there. Now this is brilliant. This is brilliant. So it takes a bit of engineering, and you put the, This this thing around your area, your city, your
Sam [00:21:05]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:05]:
Your property or whatever. And as the water level Rises. So you’ve got water, you know, got drains and all the rest of it. As the water level rises, this barrier floats Up, and it locks in so that it can stop the more water coming into this area.
Sam [00:21:22]:
Yeah. So
Chris [00:21:23]:
it’ll It’ll flood a little bit, and then it’ll just stop the majority of the flooding behind it. I just looked at it and went, This is genius. I mean, there’s no doubt a bunch of cost involved in putting that in. But then when you think about how much money it saves, and, you know, you strategically in the right buildings and what have you, the it’s well worth the expense. We’ll we’ll see if we can share that link in the show notes because it’s mesmerizing just watching it. I’m actually just, Sorry. The video is so short. It
Sam [00:21:58]:
should Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:59]:
It should be longer, and it really needs a little bit more explanation because I watched it, like, 4 times trying to figure out exactly how it works.
Sam [00:22:07]:
Yeah. No. There should be a video more on it. It’s always interesting about reading the comments on these things. People are like, you know, How well will it work after 10 years of gravel and leaves and crap in it? And they’re like, well, maintenance is the key there. What about your neighbors? Don’t worry about that. They’ll just get flooded. You won’t.
Sam [00:22:24]:
Yeah. Look. But like you said, certain areas, there’s a picture here where it’s on, like, a seawall edge. Yeah. That could potentially work. But it’d be funny if, like, the they they engineered it wrong, and the water keeps coming in and out with the tide, and this thing just keeps going up and down All day long up and down. I mean, it’s doing its job, but, yeah. No.
Sam [00:22:43]:
It’s interesting. And there’s a there’s a shot where it’s been put, Like, right next to a new builder like a new house builder looks like. But like you said, the video is way too short. So, we’ll try and track down a better video of that hopefully for you.
Chris [00:22:56]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because it’s pretty cool.
Sam [00:22:58]:
That’s everything. What’s NASA has found the mother of all space navigation solutions?
Chris [00:23:05]:
Yes. Let’s talk about that next week. Mainly just to reread it, and I’m like, I can’t remember.
Sam [00:23:10]:
You’re like, it’s too complicated to figure out right now.
Chris [00:23:14]:
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, actually okay. So the the the thing was I just never really considered how hard it is to navigate in space.
Sam [00:23:24]:
Yeah. Yeah. I just saw that.
Chris [00:23:25]:
No fixed point of reference.
Sam [00:23:28]:
No. Not really.
Chris [00:23:29]:
No. Effectively, all this is is it’s like Google Maps for the stars so that you can look at all the constellations and work out where you are, which is pretty much what the Polynesians did when they were doing the Pacific and back in the day. Yes. You know? But but they have to navigate via that in a three-dimensional space, in space. Yes. So they’ve had a lot of trouble. So they they think they’ve worked it out. I will be honest.
Chris [00:23:55]:
I started reading. I was going, wow. I never even Thought of this. This is really interesting, and I couldn’t get my head around it. I think I was just too tired when I and I went, put it in the show notes. We’ll talk about it when I’ve looked at it, and, of course, I’ve Not looked at it. So
Sam [00:24:09]:
It’s it’s pretty it’s a pretty it’s not it’s not the most technical, story. So it this Goddard image analysis navigation tool, which is called Giant. It needs a picture of the target, and then it can determine the distance. The mass and center of spinning object and even identified landmarks on the surface of a celestial body, then three-dimensional maps So potential landing zones can be generated complete with potential hazards. That’s pretty much it in a nutshell. So, Yeah. That’s good.
Chris [00:24:43]:
Put the link in the show notes. People can read it themselves, and they can go, what the hell was Chris talking about? He’s an idiot. Now that’s fine. Something with that.
Sam [00:24:50]:
They may not need to read the
Chris [00:24:54]:
Yeah. If you think I’m already an idiot, don’t bother reading it because, you know, you already know.
Sam [00:25:00]:
But that’s pretty, Yes. That’s pretty much it. It might be a shorter episode this week.
Chris [00:25:06]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I I do apologize. I I’ve Been up since, 4:30 this morning. I’m on to my 3rd coffee and,
Sam [00:25:15]:
Are you talking to people on this thing, Well, you just
Chris [00:25:18]:
doing a lot of talking. It’s a it’s a strategic alliance summit. It’s a lot of networking and bits and pieces and
Sam [00:25:24]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:25:24]:
Hopefully, I’ll get on a few podcasts around the world. There’s nobody else from New Zealand, few Aussies there or 1 at least 1 Kiwi that’s living in Aussie at the moment.
Sam [00:25:35]:
It always surprises me with those things. You’re like, okay. Any other Kiwis here? Yes? No? Okay.
Chris [00:25:41]:
Well, there might be, but I haven’t seen any yet.
Sam [00:25:43]:
No. They’ll be They’ll be hiding somewhere probably lurking lurking in the background. So that’s pretty much it. We are doing some work with the Misty Flix helping out With the film festival.
Chris [00:25:54]:
Yep. Later this month. So absolutely, if you’re in the area, in in the Waikato, organized to get to the Misty Flix, 24th, 25th, 26th of, of November. There’s 25th. Basically is the main day. Yeah. Yeah. You don’t There’s so many days.
Sam [00:26:12]:
Film festivals on, Like, in general. I just saw 1. Did you see the mental health one? No. The mental health film festival’s coming up this week or next week, I think it is. Might be in Raglan. So they got, like, 9 movies, I think it is, all centered around mental health In New Zealand.
Chris [00:26:28]:
Yeah. The the the Rotorua one’s the same day as the Misty Flex.
Sam [00:26:33]:
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Chris [00:26:34]:
Weekend, which is a bit of a shame, but, anyway, bit of miscommunication there may be.
Sam [00:26:40]:
Oh, well, very good. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:26:43]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:26:44]:
See you.
Chris [00:26:45]:
Bye.
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