Summary
Welcome to our first episode of 2024.
We start off with Sam’s uncle Nigel and his amazing card trick, mixed in with some weird Aussie tradition of dropping your pants to the song Eagle Rock.
Find out how an escape room went and after that how Sam lost some glasses and some dickheads stole his car.
We learn how many washboards are sold annually, discuss NZ tech failures and what Chris had to do with them.
Hi tech mouth guards are a thing now. What is the problem with Trump and his stink. All this and much more. Come have a listen and tell friend.
Links
Eagle rock and dropping pants
Trump Stinks
NZ’s embarrassing tech failures and Chris’ involvement in them
Hi Tech Mouth guards
Disney intellectual property that’s now available
Peter Zeihan
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode and of The Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix randomness technology in life, and this is Happy
Chris [00:00:30]:
happy New Year.
Sam [00:00:31]:
Yeah. 2024 first episode. Hello. Welcome. We’re all refreshed. Had a break. Yeah. Some stuff happened.
Chris [00:00:37]:
Did we have 1 week off too? 1. 1.
Sam [00:00:39]:
-
- Okay. We almost we almost didn’t, And then I couldn’t be bothered. I just couldn’t be bothered, Chris.
Chris [00:00:45]:
Yeah. A lot has happened. Well, for you, for me, Very little has happened.
Sam [00:00:50]:
That’s good.
Chris [00:00:50]:
You’re the 1st person I’ve actually talked to in about a week and a half.
Sam [00:00:53]:
Good. Good. Good. You keep keeping up with things?
Chris [00:00:57]:
Yeah. Yeah. I I, I’m on I’m on a budget, so I’m, like,
Sam [00:01:02]:
not going
Chris [00:01:02]:
anywhere doing anything. I’m just I’m Reading books and Okay. TV. I’ll
Sam [00:01:06]:
kick this off. Christmas was really good. My auntie and uncle are from England. Shout out to my uncle Nigel, auntie Aileen. The here, my uncle’s real crack up. He has a card trick that he needs to show every single person that he ever meets. Yeah. It’s the one and only card trick he knows, so that’s a thing.
Chris [00:01:21]:
Is it good?
Sam [00:01:22]:
It’s okay. I think I I mean, yeah, it’s a card trick, and he he counts some chris, and then he finds your card. That’s it. But he likes bringing that up a lot. He’ll probably listen to this. He was asking a bit about this. I gave him some fridge magnets, the Chris and Sam Podcast fridge magnets. Hey.
Sam [00:01:39]:
He went to they were in Australia first for a wedding, and apparently, thing over there, when you’re at a wedding, I don’t know if it’s Everywhere in Australia or just the wedding, and I don’t know if I’m gonna cut this music in here or not, Eagle Rock, when that song comes up, they will drop their pants.
Chris [00:01:53]:
What?
Sam [00:01:54]:
Chris video of my uncle on YouTube,
Speaker B [00:01:56]:
it came on, and they went, yeah.
Sam [00:01:58]:
And then they’ve dropped their pants. And he was like, I better join in. I don’t
Chris [00:02:01]:
know what’s going on. What
Speaker B [00:02:03]:
the hell?
Chris [00:02:04]:
So We need to ask Bex.
Sam [00:02:06]:
Yes. Sounds Australian.
Chris [00:02:08]:
I’ve never heard that before.
Sam [00:02:10]:
So
Chris [00:02:11]:
if anybody’s listening and knows anything about this, jump on Facebook and make a comment on this Have
Sam [00:02:17]:
you come across this Jamie Oxley?
Chris [00:02:18]:
Yeah. And just tell us because, Yeah. That that’s weird. I’ve never heard of that.
Sam [00:02:22]:
No. I’ve never heard. Because he was tell they were telling me about it,
Chris [00:02:24]:
and I was
Sam [00:02:25]:
like, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Chris [00:02:28]:
How did you come across this? Well, we’re in a cafe, and the eagle rock came on, and he jumped up and put it
Sam [00:02:32]:
next step.
Chris [00:02:33]:
Went, oh, is this only an Australian thing?
Sam [00:02:37]:
That’s right. So we did some touristy stuff, and, we went and did an escape room with 5 adults and 3 children.
Chris [00:02:46]:
Okay. How young were the children? Just first.
Sam [00:02:49]:
You’re gonna put me on the spot here. 10 10, 11, 14?
Chris [00:02:53]:
Not too bad there.
Sam [00:02:54]:
No. No. No. No. I wouldn’t have taken these things. The problem I find though is with a lot of these places, Chris, they have none of them have air conditioning. The the escape room is upstairs in a big warehouse type situation called oh, I can’t remember what the name of it is. There’s a big place in Ritter Root.
Sam [00:03:09]:
It’s got everything in it. Arcades, mini golf, tent Yeah. Yeah. In the escape room. Escape room’s pretty good, and it was an interesting dynamic seeing all these people running, Ended up in 3 rooms, basically. It’s spread over 3 rooms.
Chris [00:03:21]:
So you go through and in the other one? Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:03:23]:
So they’re all running around doing stuff, and it’s hard to Keep track of where The, and and I did pick 1 that was mainly locks. So it was like a ton of, combination locks.
Chris [00:03:34]:
Right.
Sam [00:03:34]:
There’s locks on everything. And I understood the concept straight away. It was like get 6 cards, put them on this gritty thing, and then the pictures on the grid of the superheroes matched up to the 2 locks, Which is your 2 sets combos, and that’s what our goal was to do that, which we did 45 minutes. Great. But when somebody goes, I’ve got this thing. Here it is. Okay. Cool.
Sam [00:03:53]:
And you’re just trying to figure out where that came from and what it’s for?
Chris [00:03:57]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:03:57]:
So that’s probably the only weird thing. It was alright. Yeah.
Chris [00:04:01]:
So it’s been a long time since I’ve been, you know, in corporate. Outside. Outside. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. In corporate and stuff.
Chris [00:04:08]:
So, I do you think there would be a good team building exercise, or do you think it would ruin some teams? It would break some team. I’m pretty sure there’s a few teams I’ve been in the past who would break.
Sam [00:04:19]:
Sarah did it last year for, the previous Christmas for her work thing. Yeah. And they weren’t allowed to pick the room, and they didn’t pick their teams. So oh, and it was a weird one. We had to keep crawling between the The, but through a fireplace. And so, no. It doesn’t work for everyone, and it can be bad if you don’t have a good team, a well rounded team, or one that can communicate well.
Chris [00:04:40]:
But I still think it would be a good challenge for the right team. Like, if you’re a project team that
Sam [00:04:45]:
You do have to pick the right room. Yeah. So, anyway, that all happened. We came back from Rotorua, And everything should hit the fan. I left my phone charger in the apartment we stayed at, tracked that down, rung him up. Oh, no. The the, the cleaning team oh, that was a whole story anyway. Over Christmas and that, they were just a bit lackluster on doing anything, which is fine, but they didn’t sort of tell us Whatever.
Sam [00:05:08]:
And, no. No. The cleaning team hasn’t found anything in that room. And I said, it’s the far one on the ground exactly here. I will go have a look. Okay. No. No.
Sam [00:05:17]:
Can you describe it to me? It’s a white charging brick with a cable that plugs into it. Okay. Is there a name on the charging thing? And I was like, oh, I didn’t name it. And I said The brand is MOMAX. She goes, we do have that. Nobody could have made that up. So anyway, my mom and dad’s got that
Chris [00:05:36]:
How did you know the brand name was like, is that is that a thing you bought? Or is that what came
Sam [00:05:40]:
oh, I can’t No. No. But yeah. No. But I you know I remember these things.
Chris [00:05:44]:
Yeah. Okay. So that
Sam [00:05:45]:
was all good. Then on the way back, we stopped and got Petro and Tidau at the BP. Opened the The. Sarah wanted anything. Her bag fell out. Didn’t think anything fell out. Turns out her glasses did. So they’re gone.
Sam [00:05:56]:
She’s only got sunglasses. We realize that when we get home, and then, it’s like, no worries. We’ll ring the insurance in the morning. Late for them. Can’t ring them after 6 PM apparently for a claim. That’s all good. I wake up the next morning, quarter past 6. I’ve got all these weird messages on my phone from the police.
Sam [00:06:11]:
Hey. You’re the owner of this car. Do you know where it is? I think it’s what it said. I was like, gosh. And in my head, I was like, they better have just taken the number plates. That’s what I thought.
Chris [00:06:23]:
I like The take blanks. Oh, Evan The optimist.
Sam [00:06:28]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So so I look out the window, because here it’s like I heard you just, like, stomping around. I didn’t know what was going on, but I went outside. My car wasn’t there. There was a little bit of glass and my ignition barrel on the road and a blue Nissan wing road with the engine running with chris ignition ripped out of another stolen sam. And, yeah, The the Stolen car relay.
Sam [00:06:52]:
Yeah. From one side of Hamilton to a very, like weird spot really, a cul de sac?
Chris [00:06:58]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:59]:
And multiple cars they could have taken. For whatever reason, they went on my car. So they took that. The following day, they found it. Our Chartwell dumped. And They’ve done, fingerprinting on it, and I’m just waiting for the insurance people to look at it.
Chris [00:07:15]:
Right. So it’s
Sam [00:07:15]:
at the Toyota at the moment.
Chris [00:07:16]:
Still don’t know what should have stayed at some.
Sam [00:07:18]:
Well, I rang the cop well, I spoke to the cop when they found it, and I said, hey. How how stuffed is this car? And he goes, oh, well, you got the broken window and the pool technician, which you should know about. I was like, yep. And he goes, No. They haven’t crashed or anything. I think they’ve been trying to rip your heat unit out though, but they haven’t succeeded. I was like, Oh, and, there’s some vodka cruiser bottles in the back. Are those yours? No.
Sam [00:07:40]:
Okay. We’ll be fingerprinting those. Good. Good. Good. So, anyway, good times. Not really. Pain in the ass, really?
Chris [00:07:47]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you’re careless at the moment? Yeah. Oh, oh, you’ve you’ve got I was like, oh, yeah.
Chris [00:07:53]:
You drove around here.
Sam [00:07:55]:
That’s right. That’s right.
Chris [00:07:56]:
Yeah. So you got Sarah’s car at the moment?
Sam [00:07:58]:
I do.
Chris [00:07:58]:
Nice. Okay. Alright. That’s, that’s a hell of a start to
Sam [00:08:04]:
Well, it’s the end of 23, you see, not the start of 24, so I guess that’s
Speaker B [00:08:08]:
something only get better? Yeah. Oh, and then we had
Sam [00:08:10]:
I’ll tell you afterwards, but basically, I will say OPSM are dicks. Specsavers, we’d like you. Good.
Chris [00:08:19]:
Right. Okay. Alright. Alright.
Sam [00:08:20]:
Because we sorted out the glasses thing. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:08:28]:
I I I haven’t done a lot. I’ve I’ve been doing a lot of reading and and mucking around, and And I’ve done a lot of videos actually, but, for for this course that I I had started, I haven’t quite finished it. I had expected to get a lot more done in my 2 weeks off than I actually got done,
Sam [00:08:46]:
which is fine. Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:08:48]:
Which is fine.
Sam [00:08:48]:
So not as productive as you hoped?
Chris [00:08:50]:
Not as productive as
Sam [00:08:51]:
I hoped. But you don’t have an external thing causing that?
Chris [00:08:54]:
No. I’m just being lazy. Basically,
Sam [00:08:57]:
I bet you’re wondering how many washboards the Columbus Washboard Company still sells annually.
Chris [00:09:01]:
I didn’t know what what was the washboard? A washboard. Is that Yeah.
Sam [00:09:04]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I don’t know. Washboard that you think. In the 19 forties, they were selling a 1,000,000 plus of them.
Sam [00:09:11]:
Right?
Chris [00:09:11]:
Yeah. A year. A year. I guess that is.
Sam [00:09:14]:
Sales jumped by 57% in 2020 during the pandemic, and they’re selling about 11,000 of them a year. But what for mainly?
Chris [00:09:26]:
Music?
Sam [00:09:26]:
Yeah. Percussionists make up 40% of their sales. You imagine that you’re like,
Chris [00:09:31]:
oh, this product is great for washing.
Sam [00:09:33]:
Nah, mate. Gonna strum it.
Chris [00:09:35]:
Yeah. Well, because who’s gonna use it for washing?
Sam [00:09:38]:
I don’t know, but it’s great that they could Still keep making The.
Chris [00:09:41]:
Yeah. Yeah. No. They
Sam [00:09:41]:
just and a year.
Chris [00:09:43]:
I’ve I’ve gotta talk about this. This is probably a couple of weeks old, but I I It just cracks me up every time I think about it. It keep it keeps coming up. And I don’t know. Have you heard about the Trump stinks? No.
Sam [00:09:54]:
When you start a story with, it cracks me up every time I think about it, I know it’s Trump. That’s a problem. What’s Trump stinks mean?
Chris [00:10:04]:
What is it? Okay. So this was a trending Twitter, hashtag. Right? Mhmm. And what happened was Adam Ken Kinzinger, who’s a, a congressman from I’m
Sam [00:10:16]:
enthralled. Carry on.
Chris [00:10:18]:
The Republican congressman goes, He said off handedly in in some interview, he goes, what gets me is, why has nobody said anything about, The odor of Donald
Sam [00:10:29]:
Trump. Oh, does he physically smell?
Chris [00:10:30]:
He actually physically smelled. He has this really distinctive body odor, probably, that he covers up with or tries to cover up with this cologne and all this stuff, but it just smells really odd.
Sam [00:10:46]:
Oh, okay. Okay.
Chris [00:10:47]:
And he said, I’m I’m just surprised that nobody ever mentions this. And he he said that as an offhanded comment, and then all these other people went, yeah. No. That’s true. He stinks. He stinks.
Sam [00:10:57]:
But you wouldn’t really bring it up, though, would you? No.
Chris [00:10:59]:
And by The, it’s like, okay. That it it’s amusing and because, you know, it’s funny because Trump picks on everybody.
Sam [00:11:09]:
Oh, yeah. No. Got that.
Chris [00:11:10]:
But But then then All of this came out. There’s a a a link here, with a that includes an interview on camera with a guy that worked on The Apprentice, and he called it he said, the inside name for it was the shit show. And the reason we called it the shit show Oh. Was that in the eighties, Donald did so much coke and uppers and barbiturates Oh, yes. That he lost The he became incontinent.
Sam [00:11:41]:
Oh, right. Okay.
Chris [00:11:42]:
Okay. So he wears an adult diaper.
Sam [00:11:44]:
Yeah. We’ve seen a photo of that in the past somewhere. I’ve seen
Chris [00:11:47]:
Have you?
Sam [00:11:48]:
Yeah. Yeah. They I
Chris [00:11:48]:
hadn’t seen that.
Sam [00:11:49]:
There’s a picture of him golfing, and he’s wearing, like, weird and white shorts. And they’re like, it looks like he’s wearing a incontinence thing.
Chris [00:11:56]:
Yeah. Yeah. So, apparently, he’s been wearing them since the late nineties, so early and. And and there’s a couple of cases where he goes, He loses con he gets angry, and he and he loses control. And you could smell it like The cameraman’s like, oh god. He’s shit himself. And one of the guys, his job, they called him wet wipes.
Sam [00:12:19]:
Oh, go help sort it out. Job was to help
Chris [00:12:21]:
clean them up, And he ended up being one of the people at the White House working at the White House. Okay. The wet wipes dude. I’ve forgotten his name now. But it’s just oh my god. You couldn’t make this stuff up.
Sam [00:12:33]:
Oh, it’s oh, man. It’s just what it is. I’m not gonna I’m not gonna pile on too much on that one.
Chris [00:12:39]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:12:39]:
No. No.
Speaker D [00:12:40]:
Okay. And. No. Like, he can’t, like, he
Sam [00:12:43]:
he can’t help it.
Chris [00:12:44]:
Dude, if he can pick on people for Everything under the sun. Yeah. He can’t he can’t handle being picked on for being diaper Don because they said that’s where that Nickname came from. It’s not from nowhere. They and he said also, you can see one of the when it appears in the WWE or WWF back in the day, you can see the the diaper under his
Sam [00:13:08]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:13:08]:
Under his clothes that he’s wearing if you look at the old videos. Yeah. I I yeah. It cracked me up. I thought it was hilarious.
Sam [00:13:15]:
The Herald have published New Zealand’s embarrassing tech failures part 1. I don’t know if part 2’s out, but the interesting thing is you may have been involved in some of these.
Chris [00:13:24]:
Oh, no. What are we talking about?
Sam [00:13:27]:
We’re talking about, like, New Zealand as a whole The tech failures. Yeah. So telecom spirit. Remember that?
Chris [00:13:34]:
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I was yep. Yep. Sort of involved in The.
Sam [00:13:38]:
Yep. Born in and, put down, later in 2009, $30,000,000. There was many questions about this virtual shopping mall, including why why could you just not look at products on its web why, yeah, why could you look at its Products on its website, but not buy an item. Why misspell ferret? They were never answered. Here’s another one you may have been involved in, Telecom’s XT launch.
Chris [00:13:59]:
Yes. I went to The, the the, what do you call The advertising agency that did it Yeah. Because I was so involved with it The I got
Sam [00:14:08]:
I thought you were. I thought you were. Hey. Hey.
Speaker B [00:14:10]:
Because your fingerprints are
Sam [00:14:11]:
all over this.
Chris [00:14:12]:
Launching I went to the launch party for that, and I had this huge thing that I actually did Got really, big kudos within the organization for organizing something around the XT launch. So what happened was This is gonna bore you now.
Sam [00:14:27]:
No. No.
Chris [00:14:28]:
You tell me that. If you ordered and of these new XT phones Yeah. We used to send out a letter saying you’ve got this phone. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Chris is it. And what I did was, for the 1st time this is easy now, but the the first time they ever did it, if you ordered that phone, The letter came with a picture of that phone. It showed you all the it had the thick bullet points around it to show everything, and it was the 1st graphic, image that we sent out as a letter that was responsive to what you ordered.
Chris [00:14:57]:
Yeah. And and I got a A pay rise from that.
Sam [00:15:01]:
Nice. Because they basically said like, they they enlisted Richard Hammond to promote it. And I saw the picture, and I was like, oh, I vaguely remember him doing that.
Chris [00:15:08]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:15:09]:
The network fell over 4 times
Chris [00:15:11]:
Yes. And they
Sam [00:15:11]:
launched it too quickly. The low point was telecom staff had to hand out SIM cards For its rival 2 Degrees at the Canterbury DHB, $10,000,000 was paid to compensation to customers, and the branding was dropped, and the campaign with Hammond also. And it says here, oh, an apology advertisement which featured chief executive Paul Reynolds Talking to camera while fly fishing and remote stream somehow failed to mollify customers. Imagine that. Hey, guys. I’m so sorry. The only winner was Hammond who played it for laughs in his live shows. NovaPay makes a mention as a failure, and then Weddle.
Sam [00:15:47]:
Remember that? The was a TradeMe head to head thing. It was like
Chris [00:15:50]:
I don’t remember The.
Sam [00:15:51]:
Yeah. So, one of the Mainfreight cofounders, sort of did it, and then it was around about 2020, 2012, and it died in 2014. So it had that The 2019 Rugby World Cup New Zealand versus South Africa where they were trying to Spark was trying to livestream it everywhere, and that failed.
Chris [00:16:08]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:16:08]:
And that’s where we’re at. I don’t know what part 2 is, but I’m hoping that you’ll be part of that too. I knew you had something to do with one of these.
Chris [00:16:15]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. I I really remember the XT launch because, It was I won’t mention the branding company. It was a big global branding company, but I went and, spent the night at a Flash Hotel up in Auckland. Went to the launch party for the branding agency, and they spent a chris load of money on us.
Sam [00:16:34]:
Yeah. Of course. There’s nothing.
Chris [00:16:35]:
It’s really cool. So For me, XT was a huge success.
Sam [00:16:42]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was great. Hey. In the MIT Technology Review website, Which we all, love and check out daily. The companies designed very, high-tech mouth guard The might help prevent concussion. Okay.
Sam [00:16:58]:
So, basically, it says here The athletes or soldiers have a concussion never really thought about the soldier aspect of it, but they’re obviously Getting smashed all the time.
Chris [00:17:05]:
Yeah. Well, they get concussion from blasts.
Sam [00:17:07]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s what I was thinking. So they said it’s a mystery at the moment That some people get concussions, some don’t, and what causes and what doesn’t. So now they’ve got these measuring devices, and it it’s just a a fancy mouth guard, and it can remove it has all the data. It gives immediate warning.
Chris [00:17:25]:
Oh, so it’s like The accelerometers in it to see how faint
Sam [00:17:28]:
it is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I can give immediate warning that that person has to be removed from either war or play or whatever to help protect them from brain damage, And it’s called Prevent Biometrics, so it’s pretty cool. They’ve got a whole package. You can buy a whole case of The, comes with all the software, comes with a big rolling case.
Sam [00:17:48]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:17:48]:
No. That that’s a great idea. And particularly, you know, the a rugby team or whatever, they should definitely be doing The. You know? Like, the Chiefs or, you know, any any any, big One of them like that.
Sam [00:18:01]:
Oh, actually, one of the biggest things for United States Army It’s for the paratroopers. When they’re landing Yeah. Yeah. So they’re doing that, and they said, yep. They just get up, and even if they have a bad landing, they just get up and keep going. So that I mean
Chris [00:18:14]:
What are they gonna do otherwise? Oh, my my mouth’s beeping. I better just lie here. No. Just without
Sam [00:18:20]:
no. Without the beep without the beeping mouth. Yeah. I know.
Chris [00:18:23]:
I know. You know? What are they gonna do when they get these things? They’re still gonna have to get on their feet and run.
Sam [00:18:28]:
I think whatever you make, you just have to get The sweet, sweet government contract US military. Yeah. Doesn’t matter what it is.
Chris [00:18:34]:
Oh, alright. A 100%. That’d be great. Hey. Did you I I’ve caught up on a couple of podcasts Okay. Over the last couple of weeks, and I’ve Listen to a couple of My First Million.
Speaker B [00:18:43]:
Yeah. Did you listen
Chris [00:18:44]:
to The with Steph talking about a bunch of her Internet pipes, you know, where she gets her good ideas?
Sam [00:18:51]:
The funny thing with that is half the time they talk about something that’s brand and. I’m just like, The, I know that. Yeah. Yeah. I’m just like, I just don’t have an audience.
Chris [00:18:58]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:18:58]:
I’m just like, okay. Maybe.
Chris [00:19:00]:
Yeah. I I I I don’t know. There was nothing. It was amazing or whatever, but one thing did stand out a little bit, and she goes, yep. The beginning of the year, we’ve got a lot of or in January because I think this was in October or November
Sam [00:19:13]:
Okay.
Chris [00:19:13]:
Podcast. In January, we’ve got a lot of, patents Coming open?
Sam [00:19:19]:
Yeah. Which and were they talking about?
Chris [00:19:21]:
Just in general. She was just talking about chris is where you go to check it, and she’s talking about a couple of things, which was interesting. I only and that because, there’s 2 that have been, noted recently. Yeah. Bambi The reckoning It’s a horror film
Sam [00:19:35]:
Good.
Chris [00:19:36]:
That’s coming up because The Bambi thing, and then there’s a Mickey Mouse horror film Coming out as well because that’s now
Sam [00:19:44]:
Public domain, which I just put here. But only only Steamboat Willie.
Chris [00:19:48]:
Yeah. Yeah. Mickey Mouse horror film unveiled as copyright ends. Yep. Yeah. So Corridation film.
Sam [00:19:55]:
So corridor crew uploaded the full Steamboat Willie movie. Hi. With no everyone goes, oh, we thought we’re gonna do something with it, and they’re like, nope. We just wanna say that we can release it. It’s public domain. Here you go.
Chris [00:20:07]:
Yeah. Because I think I’ve seen the full steam Boo. Willie movie. It’s pretty crap.
Sam [00:20:13]:
Well, it’s the first one.
Chris [00:20:14]:
Yeah. Because the fur what
Sam [00:20:15]:
do you expect? I know.
Chris [00:20:16]:
I know.
Sam [00:20:16]:
You’re like,
Chris [00:20:17]:
it’s not up to Monsters Inc
Sam [00:20:18]:
or something else. Bro, they drew every frame by and, Smoking a cigar, probably.
Chris [00:20:26]:
Yes. No. It’s gonna doubt.
Sam [00:20:28]:
But but then you’ve got that, horror movie with Winnie the Pooh.
Chris [00:20:32]:
Yeah. Exactly. And who Honey honey and blood or whatever it
Sam [00:20:35]:
is called. Talking about that? I don’t think it was you, sam somebody else. And it was just like, oh, it’s really crap, But they sort of just went, oh, we can buy that mask. So one of these, masked people that I follow on Instagram, I follow all these people that make Horror stuff for some reason.
Chris [00:20:50]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:20:50]:
Yeah. And of them makes a horror Winnie the Pooh mask, and that’s exactly what they’re wearing in this film. Yeah. And The can just reference as Winnie the Pooh. So, yeah, you even though there’s stuff coming up, you
Chris [00:21:00]:
can Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, it just it what amused me as much as anything else is that they just that The go to thing for this is horror.
Sam [00:21:08]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:08]:
Yeah. Oh, this is coming available. How can we make it a horror?
Sam [00:21:11]:
It’s probably a lot easier than going romantic comedy. Musical. I don’t know.
Chris [00:21:18]:
Yeah. Yeah. What do you reckon? Yes. Yes. Winnie the Pooh and That’s the lowest common denominator. But the reason I wanted to avoid saying that was because I didn’t wanna piss Adam off. Oh, Steve
Sam [00:21:30]:
this summer, Steamboat Willie and Winnie the Pooh come out with Poo Willy, the romantic love story that you’ve always wanted.
Chris [00:21:38]:
Free poo. I mean, free Willy. I mean
Sam [00:21:40]:
I could never have. Yeah. I don’t know. Something like
Chris [00:21:42]:
that. Yeah.
Sam [00:21:43]:
So that’s cool. There’s a company in the UK called Helix with 2 x’s because that’s how you do it. Mhmm. They’re 3 d printing some vehicles, and they’re starting a run of a 100 single seat vans, little tiny vans. You sit in the center Because that way, they can just put them anywhere in the world. It doesn’t matter. They’ve decided to do that. They use swappable batteries, And it’s basically made of 5 3 d printed parts that click together.
Sam [00:22:10]:
I don’t know how I feel about that safety wise. Says it reduces the manufacturing process up to 50%. In theory, it’s cheaper, more sustainable, but I guess it’s a scale thing. But if you could tap into something like that in, like, the Asian markets where they got, like, rickshaws and stuff
Chris [00:22:26]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:22:26]:
And it worked. But But it’s a battery thing again, Like, do your battery dies after so many cycles?
Chris [00:22:31]:
Yep. Although it’s interesting because I got this one here, And it’s a solid state battery. It’s by NIO, n I o
Sam [00:22:41]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:41]:
Which is a Chinese sort of Tesla competitor. Right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they created this, solid state battery, so I don’t think it uses lithium at all, From I read it a while ago. It has, now solid state chemical chemistry. Now with Semi solid state chemistry
Sam [00:23:01]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:23:02]:
Allowing it to have greater energy density than a similar sized lithium ion battery. So this car and it looks pretty nice.
Sam [00:23:09]:
Yeah. Yeah. They’re really good looking.
Chris [00:23:10]:
Yeah. This car drove, over a 1000 kilometers on a single charge. That’s cool. and 44 kilometers. I
Sam [00:23:18]:
wonder how quick it can charge compared to
Chris [00:23:20]:
the other ones. They drove it pretty conservatively
Sam [00:23:22]:
Of course they did.
Chris [00:23:23]:
To to that Target. But The that that’s pretty cool. So I think that’s gotta be the thing because we can’t The way we’re trying to do this green energy thing, we have to have, like, 10 times as much lithium as we actually ever had before, and no time in the history of the The world, have we ever more than doubled the production of any one thing within a 5 year period? And here, we’re sort of going about tripling of talking about tripling and quadrupling a dozen things to make batteries. You know? It’s not gonna happen, So we have to change how we do chris battery. So the stored state thing’s pretty good.
Sam [00:24:02]:
That’s cool. So, BYD, The Chinese car manufacturer
Chris [00:24:07]:
Oh, okay. I was gonna bring your own device.
Sam [00:24:09]:
No. Shield your dreams. Oh, really? On the car.
Chris [00:24:12]:
Oh, I said the oh, those are those things I’ve seen in the I’ve seen those cars driving around.
Sam [00:24:16]:
Yeah. There’s a lot.
Chris [00:24:17]:
Yeah. And I’m going, what the hell is that? Because it’s sold you a dryer jeans on it.
Sam [00:24:21]:
That’s what it is. The. And so they mark themselves as the electric car company you’ve never heard of. Right? There’s a ton in Christchurch. If you go to Christchurch, they’re everywhere. Like, saw a ton down there. And what they’ve done is they are going to overtake Tesla for the amount of cars being sold anywhere in the world, in the next 2 months, I think, next month. Really? How many there are.
Sam [00:24:41]:
And what happened is they’ve they’ve got they had
Chris [00:24:43]:
sam a good price thing.
Sam [00:24:44]:
I think they’re comparable. Yeah. And they’ve got 2 models that they’ve just released, And it’s called oh, shit. It’s like a little sedan that’s gonna match up because most of the BYDs here in New Zealand currently The big SUVs. Yeah. Yeah. And now they’ve got the sedan thing, and it’s called a I wanna say a dolphin, but that’s the wrong word. It’s something like The, some aquatic animal, I think.
Sam [00:25:05]:
And they’ve just started bringing them in, I think, and they reckon it’s gonna sell really well. Anyway, BYD, they’re gonna probably overtake Tesla and sheer numbers.
Chris [00:25:13]:
I’ve This I haven’t got this written down, but I’ve spent a little bit of time last night.
Sam [00:25:17]:
I think I think you’re gonna say money for a second. No.
Chris [00:25:19]:
No. No. No. No. No. We got no money. I I spent time last night. I I saw this thing when I was sort of working on The computer.
Chris [00:25:26]:
I was listening to this thing on YouTube, and then I watched 4 hours of it this morning.
Sam [00:25:31]:
I’ll just tape this.
Chris [00:25:33]:
Okay. This is why I haven’t got things done.
Sam [00:25:34]:
Okay. Just imagine what he’s gonna say next. Chris is welcome to my world. How you going?
Chris [00:25:40]:
Okay. So this guy, Peter Zohn, Zohan, Zohan.
Sam [00:25:44]:
The Zohan. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:25:44]:
Peter Zohan. He’s talking about he’s sort of like a futurist. There’s a geopolitical, talking about what’s
Sam [00:25:53]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:25:53]:
And a big part of it is demographics, and he’s basically saying he’s just got another new book out. Basically saying that China’s gonna collapse within the next 10 years. Okay. So possibly 10 years is the outside. It’s gonna happen before that
Sam [00:26:07]:
Alright.
Chris [00:26:08]:
And a very significant collapse. And I’ve watched, like I said, 4 of his keynote presentations and on Yeah. On on Facebook.
Sam [00:26:16]:
You’re all over the sky like a race.
Chris [00:26:18]:
Yeah. All over it. Like and and it’s it is Is that true? He says makes sense, and it from that point of view, it’s quite scary.
Sam [00:26:26]:
Okay. Is it due to the population not growing enough?
Chris [00:26:29]:
Yeah. So their population birth rate has dropped 70%, and We were all thinking, you know, oh, India’s just overtaken, the population of China just now and And now that it’s come to light The, no, that actually happened about 8 to 10 years ago
Sam [00:26:49]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:49]:
Yeah. And just nobody told us. Like, So it’s a lot worse than we thought, and the cost of labor in China is way higher than it is here And places, obviously, like Mexico and India, which are the economic driving forces right now. So Alongside that, there’s the political thing with Xi. He I I I’ll tell you The story because I think this is hilarious. So when Putin The. Decided he was going to invade Ukraine, right, and of the foreign ministers went over to see Putin, and he’s from the US, and he goes, yep. We know you’re you’re going to invade Ukraine Yeah.
Chris [00:27:32]:
Because When you went into that secret meeting in the safe within the safe within the safe, that there were no meeting minutes taken and all that. Yeah. We Yes. It could we printed that transcript to that call Yeah. In the in the media. We know where you are at all times. So if you ever think to escalate to nuclear and you don’t think The and missile we send is going to hit you personally, you’re dreaming. Okay.
Chris [00:27:57]:
Right? And he’s not made a nuclear threat No. Since. He said, that’s how good the Americans are at getting information. Okay. But in China, They can’t, and the reason they can’t isn’t because China’s got better, security, because they’ve actually got worse security than the Russians. The reason The China is Xi doesn’t talk to anybody.
Sam [00:28:18]:
Oh, right.
Chris [00:28:19]:
It’s all in his head. Yeah. So he nobody knows what he’s gonna do till he sees it, and he doesn’t ask anybody. And That’s the way to
Sam [00:28:26]:
do it.
Chris [00:28:27]:
When that stupid spy balloon went over Yeah. Yeah. He didn’t know about it until after it’d been shot down. Alright. Because nobody in his government will tell him anything that goes wrong.
Sam [00:28:37]:
Oh, yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:28:37]:
Yeah. A couple of years ago, they had the the rolling blackouts
Sam [00:28:41]:
Okay.
Chris [00:28:41]:
Throughout the whole of Beijing and and to these provinces, he didn’t know until Biden mentioned it to him in a in a Zoom call. Oh. And he goes, what are you talking about? And then
Sam [00:28:50]:
So I chase that out? I was just I’ve got to I I talked to my people about that. He’s like, yeah. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:28:55]:
So, yeah, it’s it’s scary stuff. Anyway, it’s been my That’s been my morning.
Sam [00:29:00]:
Sounds enthralling and exciting. I, don’t envy you at all.
Chris [00:29:08]:
Yes. Yes. That’s why I’m single.
Sam [00:29:11]:
No. The I’m sure
Chris [00:29:14]:
There are other reasons.
Sam [00:29:16]:
No. I was gonna no. I was gonna say that. I’m sure there’s people out there with the same interests. The problem is they’ve got the same interests.
Chris [00:29:26]:
The expression on his face as he said that was the funniest thing.
Sam [00:29:29]:
Anyway, That brings us to the end of the podcast when we wrap this up, episode whatever.
Chris [00:29:35]:
Yeah. 562. So we’re gonna hit episode 500 this year.
Sam [00:29:39]:
I know. Well, you’ve gotta do some planning for that.
Chris [00:29:41]:
Yeah. It’s not till the end near the end of the year, so we got some time.
Sam [00:29:45]:
We’ve got some time. I hope the I hope the start of the year has been good for you. Thanks for listening, whoever you are. Shout out to my relatives who may or may not be listening. And, what else? That’s it.
Chris [00:29:55]:
Yeah. That’s pretty much it. Let’s make, this year a good one, and, yeah, look forward to hearing from you. Okay.
Sam [00:30:00]:
See you next time. Bye. See you. A bit rusty.
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