Summary
This week we cover everything from Stuntronics to new podcasts to listen to. We figure out how ACC stuffed up a signature, how North Face solved a customers problem.
We learn the NZ Navy is testing out a new boat, NZ spider experts weigh in on a global news story and we learn what an electrician is really doing at the hospital.
All this and so much more.
Links
Crimson global academy
Who Killed JFK Podcast
Tangiwai Disaster Podcast
ACC Bungled an Email Signature
North Face Sorts out Problem with Woman’s Jacket in an Epic Way
Influencer gets sentenced after jumping out of his own plane
NZ Navy to test robotic solar powered boat
Stuntronics
NZ Spider Expert Debunk a Story in Global Media
Creepy Electrician doing Super Gross Stuff
Does the dog die website
Show Transcript
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**Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode So at 459 of the Chris and Sam podcast. I’m Chris. And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life, and hello to everybody that’s listening, And, we’re enriching your lives, no doubt. Yeah. No. No. No doubt.
Sam [00:00:35]:
We’re the vitamin for your ear holes.
Chris [00:00:38]:
God. Don’t ever say that again.
Sam [00:00:41]:
I just made that up off the fly. Yeah. I know. That sounds good.
Chris [00:00:46]:
The vitamins here. Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:00:48]:
What have you been up to?
Chris [00:00:50]:
Actually, I’m gonna tell you something funny. And I’m I’m on a bit of a a telethon mission at the moment, I guess you’d call it. I don’t. I do you you remember what a telephone is? We had the whole
Sam [00:01:01]:
Yeah. I I get I get that reference. I just don’t understand what you’re on about.
Chris [00:01:05]:
Alright. So I got up. Oh, so last night, I went, oh, oh, oh. 1st Wednesday of the month, got to get to, Hamilton. Bumped tickets, jumped on the bus, went down there, walked up to the street. Oh, they hadn’t put the sign out. Get to the door, private function. Oh.
Chris [00:01:23]:
Open my phone. Check the tickets. Oh, it’s tonight.
Sam [00:01:27]:
It’s tonight.
Chris [00:01:27]:
Yeah. They moved it to Thursday, so we were recording this on Thursday. Okay. So It’s been Wednesday every single time
Sam [00:01:34]:
Yes.
Chris [00:01:34]:
Except today as a Thursday.
Sam [00:01:36]:
What’s that time?
Chris [00:01:36]:
Got there before I realized, And then I just walked home.
Sam [00:01:40]:
That’s such a you thing.
Speaker A [00:01:41]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:01:41]:
Yeah. I’m joking. Just Just running up.
Sam [00:01:44]:
That’s so ridiculous. Why would you check anything?
Chris [00:01:46]:
I know when it is.
Sam [00:01:46]:
I got
Chris [00:01:47]:
a ticket. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I’m like, oh, dumbass. So I come back. So, anyway, I got up. I had a thing on at 5 o’clock this morning, so that was cool.
Chris [00:01:58]:
I’ve just finished work. It’s been a full on day at work. It’s 4:30 now. We’re recording this. We’ve got a dinner to debrief with Misty Flix, then I’m going to the, Hamilton straight after that because, You know, I’ve already got a ticket.
Sam [00:02:14]:
And you’re already in town.
Chris [00:02:15]:
And I’m already in town. Then I’ve got a meeting in the States a virtual meeting in the States at midnight.
Sam [00:02:22]:
Of of course they do.
Chris [00:02:24]:
A startup that I’m trying to finagle my way into.
Sam [00:02:27]:
Yeah. I love how you said that. Finang.
Chris [00:02:30]:
They they they want to do 8 figure r ARR in the 2nd year
Sam [00:02:35]:
Of course.
Chris [00:02:36]:
And we’re just kicking it off. And so it’s a platform That I think will go well. I just don’t know what I can do for them. So I’m trying to work out a reason for them to have me there. And then I have another thing on at 5 o’clock in the morning, so I don’t think
Sam [00:02:54]:
You’ll be fine.
Chris [00:02:54]:
Getting much sleep.
Sam [00:02:56]:
I’m just I’m just I’m just happy we’re doing the podcast now and not tomorrow.
Chris [00:03:01]:
Yeah. I’d be pretty punchy by tomorrow, and I’ve got a lot of work to do epic after that, I think, in the morning. Oh, who knows? Anyway, it’s all good. That’s that’s how I am. How are you?
Sam [00:03:13]:
I’m good. We went bowling for our work function thing. It was fine. Oh, yeah. It was alright. It was good.
Chris [00:03:20]:
Sam’s work functions. We we can’t talk about them on here. Hey, Brett. But,
Sam [00:03:25]:
He couldn’t make it. He got COVID.
Chris [00:03:27]:
Oh, did he?
Sam [00:03:27]:
Oh, no. He might be dead. I’m not sure. I’m not even kidding. I some somebody asked him, how are you? And then, I don’t know.
Chris [00:03:36]:
Oh, no. Well, Brett Brett does listen to us. So, anyway, hope you get better, Brett. But, yeah, I was gonna say the, the the work dues from Sam are a little bit Legendary in not the best way.
Sam [00:03:51]:
Oh, we don’t normally do anything.
Chris [00:03:52]:
Exactly.
Sam [00:03:54]:
That’s why. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:55]:
Yeah. Cool. Okay. Alright. So I wanna talk about have you heard of Crimson Global Academy?
Sam [00:04:03]:
No. Sounds like the Crimson Academy from, the game.
Chris [00:04:08]:
Maybe that’s where you got the name from.
Sam [00:04:10]:
Yeah. It’s from, Resident Evil. Isn’t that what isn’t that Crimson Corporation, isn’t it? Isn’t that what umbrella corporation. Isn’t that from anyway, carry on. Who’s this? And what
Chris [00:04:20]:
is it? So it’s it’s a New Zealand guy who started this, Crimson Academy, and it’s a a global high school.
Sam [00:04:29]:
Okay.
Chris [00:04:30]:
So instead of university, it’s just a high school, but he found a bunch of things when he was going to school. Because he’s young, young guy. Okay. I saw an interview I I saw an ad on Facebook
Sam [00:04:42]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:42]:
But which was the interview with him on TV. It’s he’s using that
Sam [00:04:46]:
ad Yeah.
Chris [00:04:47]:
As TV 3 or something. I’ve I’ve 1 of the TVs. Morning shows
Speaker A [00:04:50]:
or
Sam [00:04:51]:
something like that. Okay.
Chris [00:04:52]:
A really fascinating guy. And so he went to Harvard
Sam [00:04:55]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:56]:
From New Zealand. Yes. Like, he managed to get scholarship, went over there, did the Harvard thing, came up with this this idea. And Crimson Global Academy It’s doing really, really well, and people are paying decent money for their kids to do this. They’ve got fantastic teachers, Small class sizes. Yeah. It’s all online.
Sam [00:05:16]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:05:17]:
And you can do either full time or part time. So the part time thing is like you’re going to a normal school, And then you do the supplementary
Sam [00:05:23]:
stuff. Age groups is this for?
Chris [00:05:26]:
High school. So I think it’s 11 to
Sam [00:05:31]:
Chris [00:05:32]:
13, 14 something. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Is that about right?
Sam [00:05:35]:
Are you saying years or age?
Chris [00:05:36]:
I’m saying in year age. But I
Sam [00:05:37]:
because high school goes from year 9 to year 13.
Chris [00:05:41]:
Okay. That would be it then.
Sam [00:05:42]:
I I I’m No. No. It takes it takes
Chris [00:05:44]:
takes you a while to get
Sam [00:05:45]:
your head around that when they’re talking about something.
Chris [00:05:47]:
Yeah. Well, I think it’s from form 2 to form
Sam [00:05:50]:
Chris [00:05:50]:
Sam [00:05:51]:
There we go. That’s it.
Chris [00:05:53]:
Nobody knows what I’m talking about unless you’re old. Okay. So, Anyway, I thought it was really, really good. I wanna I was interested to see if you’d heard anything. No. But they’re doing quite well by the sounds of it, and they’ve
Sam [00:06:06]:
got a
Chris [00:06:06]:
lot of, students And international students. And part of the benefit of it is that when you’re in a class, you’re in a class with people from all over the world. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:15]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:15]:
Yeah. So yeah. I I I’m I was pretty pretty pretty stoked with that. I thought it was pretty cool.
Sam [00:06:21]:
I have 2 podcasts for you this week I’ve been listening to. So there’s a podcast out that’s called, Who Killed JFK. Right?
Chris [00:06:27]:
Okay.
Sam [00:06:28]:
And, I just saw it pop up and knew a noteworthy or whatever, And I’m like, okay. Let’s have a listen to this. And, Rob Reiner, the director of, When Harry Met Sally Sally Misery, a few good men, the princess bride, and all that. He’s not hosting it. He might as well because he’s the main person driving this podcast. Cast. Mhmm. Because he’s found out all the information, supposedly, and, just talking about the different stuff.
Sam [00:06:58]:
And there’s a woman
Chris [00:06:59]:
found it out, and he’s talking about it. How does that not make him host again?
Sam [00:07:02]:
He’s not hosting it. There’s a woman, a a a journalist. Oh, okay. Who’s who’s the actual host? And she’s coming in like, okay. Whatever. You just tell me the stuff. But she’s talking to him all the time. He’s on the podcast, like, 85% of the time Gotcha.
Chris [00:07:15]:
Gotcha.
Sam [00:07:16]:
And he’s got all these contacts and different people. It’s quite interesting. If you’re into conspiracy theories and things like that, has put together reasonably well, and the other podcast I’ve been listening to just come out. I actually It’s an association with New Zealand On Air and The Herald, Tangawaia, a forgotten history. How much do you know about the Tangawaia disaster?
Chris [00:07:39]:
That’s the the train disaster.
Sam [00:07:41]:
The train on Christmas Eve. 151 people died.
Chris [00:07:44]:
I mean, when I say cool, cool, cool, I mean cool I know what I’m talking about, not that it was a cool Disaster.
Sam [00:07:49]:
So this is really cool because, basically, they have tracked down a bunch of either people that were affected by it, like family members or actual people that were there, and They’re capturing it because they said if we don’t, we’re gonna lose these people and not have the story. It’s only really short. They’re like 30 minutes episodes. Only 2 episodes are out so far. In the first one, there’s a real cool story, talking to this young officer from Auckland, and he got in trouble because he’d been looking at the, Commander’s car or something? And he was figuring it out. Like, he was reading the manual, and I think he went for a little driving and brought it back, and they’re like, nah. You know, because it was real fancy, like, v eight something automatic back in 1950, whatever this happened, 55. And, they said, you ought to clean it.
Sam [00:08:29]:
And, okay, and then they called him in, and they said, why aren’t in your uniform because I was cleaning the car in there. And then he goes he they ring him they call him, and they said, you gotta come now. And, do you know where Tonga wires? I’m like, no. Okay. You’re driving. You’re taking the commissioner and somebody else. Now, we need you to get there as fast as possible. He’s like, Okay.
Sam [00:08:49]:
What’s that mean? And they said, look. Just get us there safely as fast as possible. Just do whatever you want. So he goes, okay. So he’s doing, like, 140 miles an hour in this car, which is about 200 k’s in certain points, because he said it was Christmas Eve. Nobody’s around. Nobody’s on the road.
Chris [00:09:05]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:05]:
And he just he just drove nonstop to get there, and try and help out.
Chris [00:09:09]:
It’s interesting because I don’t think I heard of the disaster till I moved to Hamilton. Oh, really? Wellington? I don’t think I ever heard of it. Now that could be because I just didn’t pay any attention to Oh, I think. Yes. But, You know, it wasn’t that end of the country. You know what I mean? Like, it it wasn’t something like I
Sam [00:09:26]:
think it came up at primary school maybe or saw it in a journal or a book or something. Yeah. So, anyway, I just
Chris [00:09:31]:
recall that.
Sam [00:09:32]:
I thought I’d have a listen to it because it’s not a
Chris [00:09:33]:
big issue. This. I haven’t listened to anything yet, but John Dufresne, a podcast Yes. Fan from from or living in Dubai. I shouldn’t say from Dubai, but living in Dubai. He said we should check out the Smartless podcast, just that came through the other day, and I haven’t had the chance to look at it yet.
Sam [00:09:52]:
So But I did tell you about it last week.
Chris [00:09:53]:
Oh, do you?
Sam [00:09:54]:
The other people that interviewed Taika Waititi.
Chris [00:09:57]:
Alright.
Sam [00:09:58]:
So Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett It’s the Smartlist Podcast.
Speaker A [00:10:03]:
Right.
Sam [00:10:03]:
And I have I’ve only ever listened to that 1 episode. Right.
Chris [00:10:06]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So okay.
Sam [00:10:08]:
So we so yeah. Yeah. That’s why he mentioned it.
Chris [00:10:10]:
Turn now because I’ve had it from 2 people, and I don’t talk to about podcasting.
Sam [00:10:14]:
One of those ones where I I think they’re I don’t I assume they’re always talking to people. I’m not sure, but it might be a pick and choose one. Because you just get too overloaded. I can’t listen to everything.
Chris [00:10:22]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you mean. I know what you mean.
Sam [00:10:26]:
ACC, you’re in the news today. They bungled a man’s phone number. Well, like, you’re a you’re a tech savvy man with 50,000,000 emails, whatever you got on the go?
Chris [00:10:39]:
34,000 or something.
Sam [00:10:41]:
Exactly. Exactly. But this guy is looking for compensation for post traumatic stress right because a caseworker somehow took his phone number and put it in their email signature. So every time they send something out for anything, people are, oh, I’m gonna contact that case manager, ring this rando dude. Like, I know how to set up an email signature. How did you do that and not go, that’s not my number? I don’t know. It’s weird. Bloody ACC.
Chris [00:11:15]:
I tell you how it happened. I will tell you exactly
Sam [00:11:18]:
how it happened. This is what?
Chris [00:11:19]:
Yeah. It was a copy and paste. So she’s copied his number for some reason. Yeah. And then she’s gone, I’ll do my signature file, and she went to copy it, but didn’t actually hit copy.
Sam [00:11:30]:
Mhmm.
Chris [00:11:30]:
And when she’s pasted it, she’s pasted his number. That’s the only thing I can think of, but I have done Similar type things. In similar in that I’ve had paste and gone, that isn’t what I thought I’d copy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:11:43]:
There’s a woman in New Zealand that’s been hiking around Aotearoa for her 30th birthday. She’s from Texas. She purchases a North Face branded Waterproof jacket. Have you heard the story? No. Okay. So she buys it, and she gets it, and it’s got dry vent fabric as heavy rain was predicted during her hike. Apparently, I gotta read this in the
Chris [00:12:03]:
app. What?
Sam [00:12:06]:
What is this bullshit? I know I know the gist the story so the gist of the story is she complains. She gets absolutely soaked with this jacket and then, she sort of complains. And she does on social media, and I think social media picks it up. So there’s quite a few people that have seen it and they’re hassling North Face, and they’ve just gone a little bit quiet. Now I don’t know what the length of time is from the complaint To North Face having a video of someone running into their Queenstown store, grabbing a brand new jacket, jumping in a helicopter, and then literally flying to her because she’s still in the country, and they give it to her. So sorry about that. And, that worked really well for them, like, very viral both ways. Alright.
Sam [00:12:46]:
Because I think if you are a company and you got a bit of money behind you and you’re like, we we should do something, you wanna do it quickly, but you do have over the top. But you do have to have the logistics place.
Chris [00:12:56]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:12:57]:
Yeah. So, apparently, it went down quite well. So
Chris [00:13:00]:
was it just a a a bad batch or or whatever?
Sam [00:13:03]:
Not a 100% sure on that. Yeah. So I don’t know if it’s supposed to be a 100% waterproof or it’s just showerproof or what the deal is. I don’t know. And I can’t read it because someone’s sent me to an
Chris [00:13:16]:
Yeah. No. It seems a bit odd because you know how those, ShamWow type Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You’re supposed to wet them a little bit, then
Sam [00:13:25]:
they won’t work. Exactly.
Chris [00:13:27]:
So I was wondering if it’s just something that hadn’t been Activated or whatever? Or I don’t know. I don’t know.
Sam [00:13:33]:
Some of those raincoats, you know, you get sweaty inside as well anyway. Somebody knows. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:13:38]:
I remember the old Do do skins. Do you Did you have oil skins when
Sam [00:13:41]:
I know what they are. Yeah.
Chris [00:13:42]:
We Don’t them at school.
Sam [00:13:45]:
I haven’t
Chris [00:13:45]:
And when we got them, they were Oily. Like, the word oilskin was not, a you know, it meant something. They were soaking in oil.
Sam [00:13:56]:
That, that that Brings back a memory of when I hated one of my first jobs. I used to work at Benchmark way back in the day, and they had Particle board pine floor, I think it was. Big sheets that are huge for flooring. And the deal was, I think, something like you brought 10 sheets or 20 sheets or And they got a free oilskin jacket, the builders. And we got told we could have 1 at the end of summer or whatever it was If we, you know, work my ass off with dodgy old Trev.
Chris [00:14:26]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:26]:
Trev gets one, not me because I’m the young guy. There’s nothing left. We have to give it to a builder. A little bit dark after that. Oh, no. Anyway, this brings up. Hey, influencers. Is there anything they won’t do to try and be, Edgy and push the boundaries and stuff.
Chris [00:14:42]:
Well, after that guy jumped out of the plane and crashed it and filmed himself
Sam [00:14:45]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:14:46]:
That’s probably the worst I’ve heard.
Sam [00:14:48]:
That’s the one. That’s exactly it.
Chris [00:14:50]:
Oh, right.
Sam [00:14:50]:
That’s what I’m talking about. The one where he picked up the plane afterwards and then goes goes doesn’t know where it is?
Chris [00:14:55]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I I was listening to it in real time when it happened a year and a half or 2 years ago when it happened.
Sam [00:15:03]:
Okay. Well, he got 6 months in US Prison.
Chris [00:15:06]:
That’s right. That’s
Sam [00:15:07]:
they’ve just sentenced him. So he basically jumped out of the plane, filmed it, had, cameras on the plane, then went trip Tricked back to the plane wreckage, removed all the footage, then, went and picked the plane up at some point, took it away, cut it all up, and threw away the plane.
Chris [00:15:23]:
Yeah. Because, there was, like, the FCC no. What is that? If no. Yes. FCC? Is that the aircraft one?
Sam [00:15:31]:
Sounds good.
Chris [00:15:32]:
Yeah. They, Yeah. They would’ve they were going to do them, but
Sam [00:15:35]:
Or FAA. Federal Aviation. FAA. I knew
Chris [00:15:38]:
it was something. They were gonna do them, and he was like, I’ll get rid of the because he never, reported the crash. No. And he, you know, oh, no. The engine’s stalling. I’m I’m Gonna have to bail, and then he jumps out and is like, hang, and everybody immediately was like, hang on. How come he’s wearing a parachute as he’s Flying his plane. That’s weird.
Sam [00:16:02]:
Why is there cameras everywhere?
Chris [00:16:04]:
Six cameras on the plane to Get the footage of it crashing into the bush. And,
Sam [00:16:11]:
you know,
Chris [00:16:12]:
that was yeah. That was just so dumb.
Sam [00:16:14]:
I was just trying to chase those views.
Chris [00:16:16]:
Yeah. Chasing the views.
Sam [00:16:18]:
Hey, the New Zealand Navy, probably our, out of all our, military forces, they probably got the best equipment, maybe. I’m not sure.
Chris [00:16:27]:
Really? I don’t know. Have that many ships, do they?
Sam [00:16:29]:
I don’t know, but they’ve got a solar powered robot boat now Yeah. For endless recon. Look at it. It’s a little sailboat with little solar panels on it. They’ve got it. They’ve just been delivered it. It’s 6.8 meters long. It’s an uncrewed surface vessel, USV.
Sam [00:16:47]:
We love those acronyms. It’s on trial for a short term lease. They’ve Called called Blue Bottle. That’s what it’s called. It’s gonna provide persistent surveillance around the waters of New Zealand for fishery protection, border protection, Or meteorological data, probably until someone steals it.
Chris [00:17:06]:
Yeah. No. I think that’s brilliant. I think that’s perfect if you’ve got at least 30 of
Sam [00:17:11]:
Yes.
Chris [00:17:12]:
I don’t see the point in having 1 1 6 meter boat, that is Patrolling the the waters of New Zealand. That’s ridiculous.
Sam [00:17:22]:
They’re gonna they’re gonna be monitoring it from Devonport naval base. They’re gonna use cell phone when it’s close. When it’s further out, they’ll use some satellite stuff. Yeah.
Chris [00:17:29]:
I I yeah. Trial it, make it work, but it’s not really a thing until you’ve got, you know, a couple of dozen at least, I would think.
Sam [00:17:38]:
It can be transported anywhere in New Zealand and launched from a boat ramp. Yes. It can because it’s very little.
Chris [00:17:46]:
Hey. Thinking of talking about something a bit techy and and interesting, have you did you first of all, did you know that there was a Disney Adventure Tarken, California.
Sam [00:17:57]:
Disney Adventure Park, California. Okay.
Chris [00:17:59]:
Yeah. I didn’t know that. Okay. Not that I suppose that’s important, but they have this thing called, Have you ever heard of Stuntronics?
Sam [00:18:09]:
No. Not that term. So So Disney has this
Speaker A [00:18:12]:
impressive robotic Spider Man. It’s Link shot 65 PM.
Sam [00:18:16]:
Oh, yeah. No. I’ve seen that thing. That’s creepy ass. Yes. Because the guy runs I think the actor runs off Offset. Yeah. And then this thing goes
Chris [00:18:25]:
Yeah. So this guy is doing a show in in Spider Man costume and all the rest of that, and then he Goes over this thing, but, really, he stops and the robot runs
Sam [00:18:35]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:18:36]:
Yeah. Yeah. And then it does this huge leap, like, from building to building, like, has a a real,
Sam [00:18:42]:
Spider Man.
Chris [00:18:43]:
Spider Man. And this is actually a robot doing the tumbling.
Sam [00:18:48]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:18:49]:
But it’s it’s a fascinating little video that I’ll link to. It’s in Facebook, which is why it plays automatically. Mhmm. But it fascinating because there’s a couple of different people that together to do this. 1 guy was doing these. He called them bricks, but effectively, it was a a a block, But it has a weight that moves on the inside to get the momentum change.
Sam [00:19:14]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:19:14]:
And so it activates To move the weight within this block to and, change the momentum mass. Yeah. And then they the other guy did more Standard robotics in in a physical form. So they got together to make this thing. It’s I I think I found it fascinating. It’s quite a long video, but They don’t use batteries because why would you? They use high charge capacitors because it’s in flight for only, like, 5 seconds or 10 seconds or whatever it is. It needs a lot of power real quick, so it doesn’t need a battery.
Sam [00:19:49]:
Oh.
Chris [00:19:50]:
So I use high high charge capacitors. They got rid of the elbows because they’re like, you can’t tell. You can’t tell it doesn’t have elbows. And the hardest thing they found so they got it to do these amazing stunts and stuff, and somebody looked and went, nah. Can you make it so that it looks like he’s out of control? Because he’s supposed to be a teenager that doesn’t know what’s
Sam [00:20:12]:
going on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And
Chris [00:20:13]:
so they had to get it Off balance and move 1 arm this way and 1 arm that way and 1 leg this way and make it look and it makes it look like a real person,
Sam [00:20:22]:
I they’ve just launched someone across the thing.
Chris [00:20:24]:
Interesting. So, yeah. No. I I’m just fascinated. I so we’ll have that link to the video in the in the show notes, but the yeah. This whole idea of A an airborne robot Yeah. Bonded by gravity. It’s not like it’s flying at all.
Chris [00:20:39]:
It’s it lets go of the rope, and then it’s Blinging off and doing something.
Sam [00:20:43]:
The other end, does it it lands in the net,
Chris [00:20:45]:
does it? I think so. Yeah.
Sam [00:20:46]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:47]:
Yeah. But, it was funny because they show some some of the previous prototypes, And one of them’s got scratches all around its face, and it’s because its knees were hitting its face.
Sam [00:20:57]:
Oh. It
Chris [00:20:57]:
was just too much,
Sam [00:20:59]:
That old that old age old problem we’ve all faced.
Chris [00:21:02]:
Well, I’ve I’ve done that Yeah. In the past. But yeah.
Sam [00:21:04]:
Hey,
Chris [00:21:04]:
Back when I was flexible.
Sam [00:21:06]:
New Zealand’s yeah. New Zealand, What is going on with your phone? What is it doing?
Chris [00:21:10]:
I’m trying to get that to shine. Okay. It is.
Sam [00:21:13]:
New Zealand spider experts have, it’s their time to shine, Chris. They’ve got pretty excited. A viral b b BBC story this week about a spider that laid eggs in a man’s toe Had been doing the rounds. They said that, you know, you can’t really go barefoot. You gotta wear socks, basically. They made it the store on its website, but it went around the world in its original format. So basically, he went on a romantic cruise in France his wedding anniversary, he got a bite from a Peruvian wolf spider, and then apparently In France?
Chris [00:21:50]:
Yep. Okay.
Sam [00:21:51]:
This is what it’s telling me.
Chris [00:21:52]:
Okay. So alright. It’s it’s called a Peruvian spider, but it’s a French Peruvian spider.
Sam [00:21:57]:
But if this was true, New Zealanders will have to worry about this because we’ve got 27 species of wolf spiders all around the country.
Chris [00:22:06]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:22:06]:
So the experts like, nope. Not true. No spider is capable of what that spider is accused of in the story. They just don’t lay the eggs inside people, But there are persistent urban myths about them doing so. So, thanks doctor Phil Served for that. Yeah. So obviously, he had to, You know, lay down the law.
Chris [00:22:27]:
Okay. Alright. Yeah. Because I know
Sam [00:22:30]:
Oh, no. There’s another spider expert too. How many spider experts do they talk to? Okay. There’s another one going, no. That’s not true.
Chris [00:22:36]:
Yeah. Because isn’t it the, Australian what’s the really bitey one from Australia? The funnel web.
Sam [00:22:44]:
Okay. And now the only the
Chris [00:22:46]:
only thing that can pierce a toenail Mhmm. Is the funnel web.
Sam [00:22:50]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:52]:
A lot of other spiders barely pierce your skin. And if you walk barefoot a lot and you’ve got thick skin on your on your solesoid feet, then you it can’t bite through that? It can bite through some of the softer parts of the body.
Sam [00:23:07]:
So out of 50,000 or more species known worldwide, only about 30 of them are dangerous to humans. Here in New Zealand, we’ve got about 1100 species, and we’ve only got 2 that may cause some problems.
Chris [00:23:19]:
That’s a catapoo and what?
Sam [00:23:20]:
Redback. Yep. Here we go.
Chris [00:23:24]:
Let let’s do a We’ve been done too many too many nice stories. Let’s do a depressing one. Oh. Well, it’s depressing. I don’t know if it’s depressing. It’s it’s It’s it’s
Sam [00:23:35]:
it’s disturbing. Okay. Disturbing. Okay.
Chris [00:23:37]:
So imagine this. You’re at a hospital Yep. In a reception, and you see the same workmen coming in Day after day
Sam [00:23:45]:
Okay.
Chris [00:23:45]:
Not every day, but he comes in a lot. You probably know him by first name because he’s he’s an electrician.
Sam [00:23:51]:
Okay. He
Chris [00:23:52]:
comes in a lot. Yeah.
Sam [00:23:53]:
He’s always doing something. Think?
Chris [00:23:54]:
What do you think?
Sam [00:23:55]:
You’re like, man, he’s busy. What’s he up to?
Chris [00:23:57]:
Busy. You think, man, we’ve got really crap wiring. Yeah.
Sam [00:24:00]:
Yeah. It must be a big job.
Chris [00:24:01]:
Our wiring must be really Crap. Because he’s coming in over 15 years, he’s been coming into
Sam [00:24:07]:
this position. What’s he really doing?
Chris [00:24:08]:
He’s had sex with more than a 100 corpses in
Sam [00:24:10]:
the No. No. No.
Chris [00:24:15]:
Absolutely. And Where is this where?
Sam [00:24:17]:
Where is
Chris [00:24:18]:
this happening? In the States. David Fuller is serving life sentence after he pleaded guilty to 2 counts of murder because they didn’t find out about the corpses Until they got him for murder, and when they took went through his stuff, they go, what’s all these photos of? And it’s of him going into these Into the morgue and taking photos of himself.
Sam [00:24:38]:
Oh my gosh. He’s getting sick by the second. No.
Chris [00:24:40]:
Where’s the princess?
Sam [00:24:41]:
Hang on. So is the the murder isn’t happening at the hospital.
Chris [00:24:44]:
No. He he He just He did these murders, and he got done for them. And when they went through stuff, they go, hang on. What’s going on here?
Sam [00:24:52]:
So if he didn’t get caught for murders, there’s a strong chance
Chris [00:24:55]:
He’d still be doing this with every corpse from 9 years old to a 102 years old.
Sam [00:25:01]:
No. No. No. Yeah. How do you what? Okay. No. There’s too many questions. Don’t want answers to.
Sam [00:25:10]:
But the morgue should oh my gosh. He looks he looks reasonably normal.
Chris [00:25:14]:
It’s it’s it’s not it’s not America. It’s Britain. Sorry. It’s Britain.
Sam [00:25:18]:
Woah.
Chris [00:25:19]:
Yeah. It’s an American news
Sam [00:25:20]:
But, usually, from my understanding, that morgues are usually locked down pretty tight.
Chris [00:25:26]:
Yeah. Exactly.
Sam [00:25:27]:
And or and or people will be coming in or out. But what’s he doing?
Chris [00:25:32]:
So, apparently, some These videos were taken while people were working there, and he was just so, like, blase about it that he just Either he wanted to get caught or he just didn’t think anyone would. And because he was so matter of fact about everything, nobody twigged.
Sam [00:25:49]:
I’m sorry. But In my head, the corpse is either on a table or in the chiller thing. If some dude’s coming into as an electrician And if anywhere near a body, I’d be like, what are you doing? I know. Oh my gosh. This is mental.
Chris [00:26:07]:
The offenses that David Popolo committed were truly shocking. The British government ordered a report, said, quote,
Sam [00:26:13]:
and Hang on. Did he just get busted real recently? I believe so. Okay. Please, sir.
Chris [00:26:18]:
Quote. However, the failures of management, governance, and reg governance, regulation, and processes, And a persistent lack of curiosity all contributed to the creation of the environment in which it was able to offend. And and somebody in the comments went, persistent lack of curiosity means nobody gave a shit.
Sam [00:26:40]:
That that’s just next level, though.
Chris [00:26:42]:
Yeah. So, Fuller 69 is serving a life sentence with no chance of release after he pleaded guilty to 2 counts of murder of Wendy Nell, 25, and Carolyn Pierce, 20, and 2 separate attacks in the town of Tonbridge Wells in 1987.
Sam [00:26:59]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:59]:
I think he’s only
Sam [00:27:01]:
Just got done for them now.
Chris [00:27:02]:
Recently got done for them. And Oh, yeah. So this guy is also serving a 12 year term concurrent After admitting to dozens of instances of necrophilia.
Sam [00:27:14]:
Okay. So what they’ll probably be doing now, I’m assuming, It’s figuring out where else he’s been since 1980 whatever and figuring out who else is missing because he obviously must be a serial killer, Potentially.
Chris [00:27:27]:
Well, obviously, that has a fascination with death.
Sam [00:27:30]:
Oh my god. Oh, no. I need to I might have to look in this. I’m not a 100% sure if he’s doing he’d have to be doing that stuff, like, a while ago. I know you do you see the camera? I don’t know.
Chris [00:27:43]:
I, honestly, I don’t know. I it’s not a really in-depth story, but
Sam [00:27:47]:
I thought
Chris [00:27:47]:
you’d find it.
Sam [00:27:48]:
I’m gonna try I’m I’ll I’ll research it some more because I don’t think he would have been doing it in the recently. I reckon he’s been
Chris [00:27:55]:
So they said it was over a period of 15 years
Sam [00:27:58]:
No. No. So I reckon I reckon the 15 years is from 80 to 95 because I reckon it’s way more least questions would have been asked way back then just because you had, like, the Jimmy Savile stuff as well. Yeah. When he was just wandering around to his stuff.
Chris [00:28:15]:
Absolutely. That makes sense.
Sam [00:28:16]:
So, like, yeah. Yeah. I think he just got busted now for everything. No doubt there’ll be some, true crime podcasts on that. Casefile will probably do one on him.
Chris [00:28:25]:
It’s the weirdest.
Sam [00:28:27]:
It’s mind blowing.
Chris [00:28:28]:
I know.
Sam [00:28:29]:
It’s almost the end of the podcast. I don’t know how to in email something better.
Chris [00:28:32]:
Okay. I I I I think I got something I think I got something here. Good. Does the dog die? Have you heard of this? No.
Sam [00:28:39]:
It’s
Chris [00:28:40]:
a website. It’s called does the dog die. It’s brilliant.
Sam [00:28:42]:
Is it for movies?
Chris [00:28:43]:
Yes. For for movies.
Sam [00:28:45]:
Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:28:46]:
So, basically, you can go into this, and it does Tracking of a 180 or more triggers. So anything that might trigger you in a movie, like stalking or miscarriages or
Sam [00:28:58]:
Yeah. Well, that’s Good.
Chris [00:28:59]:
I was looking at the list here.
Sam [00:29:00]:
Okay.
Chris [00:29:00]:
LGBT people dying Yep. Falling deaths, body horror, or babies unborn. I thought that was unicorn. That’s unborn.
Sam [00:29:09]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:29:10]:
Who’s scared of So
Sam [00:29:11]:
so it’s got all the stuff listed?
Chris [00:29:12]:
Yeah. It’s got all these things that you can go in and say, And, obviously, dogs dying was the original trigger for whoever made this website. And so you can go in and go, Is this movie safe with any of these triggers Yeah. Or whatever, and it will come up and go, yeah. There’s these triggers for this or this, not this, Which is a brilliant idea, I thought. And I do love does the dog die .com is the is the
Sam [00:29:36]:
It’s it’s memorable.
Chris [00:29:38]:
Yeah. I think that’s cool. It’s crowdsource. It’s a crowdsource trigger thing.
Sam [00:29:42]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:29:44]:
There you go. I I that’s a little bit more, thing. So if, you know, you go, I don’t wanna hear any more about Nick Raffilius. Stop. No. No.
Sam [00:29:52]:
There’s not. No. You failed. You failed. Okay.
Chris [00:30:00]:
Well, I did I had to do it just for the look on his face. Oh, okay. Sorry.
Sam [00:30:05]:
Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:07]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:30:08]:
See you.
Chris [00:30:08]:
Bye.
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