Summary
We have an update on Sam’s car. Find out what some dogs did to a car yard and learn where a mans stolen ute ended up.
Just how early was video calling available? You might be surprised.
Turkish police got some new cars, and we don’t feel too bad about a space mission that went wrong.
All of this and much more in your weekly fix of randomness, technology and life.
Links
Starchase darts for going after stolen cars
Guy’s stolen car ends up where?
Turkish police and their new cars
Dogs cause a lot of damage at a car yard
Space mission with ashes doesn’t go to plan
Highest accident rates belong to what type of car?
The earliest account of video calling
Phone survived 16,000 feet drop from a plane
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode So and of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to another weekly dose of randomness technology in life. Yay. Yeah. I’m bringing the energy. Chris is trying to match it. Quick shout out, Jamie Oxley. He, sent me a voice message as he’s driving.
Sam [00:00:38]:
That’s how we communicate these days. You just do that on Messenger. I’m like, what is this? And you you can just hear the The. He goes, oh. So he has Sundays off, so he forgets about our podcast until whenever. You’re about 2 weeks behind, but he was listening to that, the Australian rip your pants off when you hear that song.
Chris [00:00:54]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:00:55]:
Yeah. Eagle Rock was on it. Yeah. Yeah. Eagle Rock is And, we looked it up after the fact and realized it was a thing. Nobody knows where it came from, but a lot of people do it. He’s been to and wedding in Australia, but it was over there, and he goes, nobody did it. So he did he did
Chris [00:01:09]:
They played it and nobody did it, or they never even played it?
Sam [00:01:12]:
I don’t know about that part, but he’s never heard of this Tradition, if you wanna call it.
Chris [00:01:16]:
Oh, okay. So I was like, sweet as. That’s interesting. Also, while you remind me, shout out, today is Liam’s birthday.
Sam [00:01:23]:
It is. I sent I sent him a message via the magic of Facebook reminding me and giving me a little message box where I could type it. But it also Gives you a, like, 3 different options of prefilled, like, you know, congratulations thing, and I’m I’m not using that. I’ll type something.
Chris [00:01:41]:
Yeah. I did. I all I said was happy birthday, Liam. Really, really
Sam [00:01:47]:
Oh, no. That’s pretty much what I said.
Chris [00:01:48]:
I did from From the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Sam [00:01:51]:
Oh, excellent. Good. Excellent. Yeah. Car update because everybody wants to know what’s happening on the car. I still don’t have it.
Chris [00:01:56]:
Yeah. No.
Sam [00:01:58]:
Still don’t have it. No. So the panel beater rang me up, and he said, hey. We got your car here. Can you come look at it to see what’s wrong with it, basically? I was like, yep. Okay. So this This is the panel beater that deals with, stolen cars apparently. So I turn up.
Sam [00:02:12]:
This The.
Chris [00:02:13]:
Because the the really cool one that did your
Sam [00:02:16]:
Bumper, back bumper.
Chris [00:02:17]:
The other time
Sam [00:02:18]:
That’s right. They won’t deal with stolen cars. Stolen cars.
Chris [00:02:21]:
That’s interesting because I I wanna know why that is. Did you ask
Sam [00:02:24]:
No. I I don’t think the person on the phone would have known. I think it’s literally a numbers thing because this panel beater had 20 cars outside that were all stolen. Every single car had a smashed window, and then they cover it with, like, this plastic that sticks to it. Yeah. And he’s I said, oh, you guys pretty busy? He goes, yeah. Yeah. But we he goes, we turn these cars around real quick.
Sam [00:02:42]:
I was like, oh, okay. And I said, oh, yeah. They they stole my car and left another one. He goes, what was the other car? And I said, oh, it was a Nissan Wingroad. He said, is it that blue one? I I was like, yes. He goes, yep. We’re fixing that too.
Chris [00:02:53]:
Oh, gosh.
Sam [00:02:54]:
So they all turn up at chris and panel beaters. Went around, found a scratch, which may or may not have been there When I brought the car, but they’re now fixing it. And, as Sarah points out, I am pretty much paying my excess to get a scratch fixed A wheel alignment because they’re going to test the engine, and then they go and take it for a wheel alignment to get that all sorted again.
Chris [00:03:15]:
Yep. Fair.
Sam [00:03:15]:
And then they come back. And the, you open the door, And remember the cops said they were trying to take my stereo out? Well, these are young people that are dumb, so a stereo is only held in by maybe 4 screws if you’re lucky.
Chris [00:03:27]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:03:28]:
I think mine might be 3.
Chris [00:03:29]:
Yeah. I
Sam [00:03:29]:
don’t know. Because I’ve this isn’t the original head unit. I put another one in. They have pulled my whole center console to pieces. Like The 10 pieces of plastic, all the like, plastic you don’t even need to remove is all ripped out. And I was like, oh, they had a good go at that. And he goes, yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:03:44]:
We’ll fix that up. But we and the other thing when I walked up to the car, I was like, it looks really weird. I couldn’t figure it out. But, man, they went to town, the police did, with fingerprinting dust. The whole car outside looks white on a supercar. They they just it’s like they got a bucket of it
Chris [00:04:01]:
And just threw it. We drove it through a flower mill. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:04:07]:
So the guy said the biggest Headache is waiting for parts, so I assume that’s the window. And he said, if we can get everything, he goes, it’ll be done tomorrow, Friday. We’re recording Thursday right now, Or it’ll be early next week.
Chris [00:04:19]:
Alright. So you’ve only just been to see them today?
Sam [00:04:22]:
No. No. I saw them on Wednesday?
Chris [00:04:27]:
Oh, yeah. Tuesday.
Sam [00:04:29]:
Yep. I don’t know. Tuesday. I saw him on Tuesday. Monday.
Chris [00:04:33]:
1 earlier in the week The days are just flowing by. I tell you. It’s it’s crazy. So I
Sam [00:04:39]:
did that. I did that. Yes.
Chris [00:04:41]:
Have you heard of this? So I’m gonna change it Topic now. So, I this seems so obvious that I’m not sure why it hasn’t been and before.
Sam [00:04:50]:
I like when you say that, and now I’m gonna be like, oh, damn it. Don’t don’t stuff this up. Go.
Chris [00:04:55]:
So Starchase Darts, They are a solution in the US, and you can see a photo of and having their bumper. Yeah. And so When there’s instead of a high speed chase, the cops fire this dart at them, and it uses a combination of glue, like hot glue and magnets to stick.
Sam [00:05:19]:
I randomly was thinking about chris, and I was
Chris [00:05:22]:
like The let them go because it just, GPS’s them, and then they Up here.
Sam [00:05:27]:
I don’t know why, but I was thinking about this because my car got stolen. And I was like, I wonder what the best option is of fixing something that you fight at a car. Like, I was like, You don’t want it to puncture the bodywork. And I was like, will a magnet be enough? Yeah. But now you said there’s glue.
Chris [00:05:43]:
Yeah. So, I did look at this up earlier, and it says The it took them quite a while to get this mix of glue and magnets.
Sam [00:05:52]:
I bet. I bet. To work.
Chris [00:05:54]:
But, yeah, they’re using it in Bill Mead, Tennessee Tennessee. Well, this is what they
Sam [00:06:01]:
need to do here, but bloody bureaucracy podcast, and they really, really don’t like bringing anything new here. Like, they’re really worried about everything. Yeah. They just need to do some stuff.
Chris [00:06:10]:
I wonder if it’s worth grabbing one of those GPS things and lowjacking your car. You know what I mean? Like because you can get and at AliExpress.
Sam [00:06:18]:
Well, no. Even better than that, I can just get an Apple AirTag. So this guy had a car stolen multiple times. He’s like, damn it. I’m gonna hide 2 Apple AirTags. Do you know how these work?
Chris [00:06:28]:
Yeah. Yeah. Vaguely. I mean, it works on the Apple network, so another Apple device Exactly. To it. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:35]:
So his car gets stolen from Canada. He’s like, okay. I’ll track it. So they track it for a while. It gets driven From Canada, The middle of nowhere somewhere else, and it’s at a railway yard. And the police are like, it’s in a railway carriage. It’s in a container, but we don’t know which one. And then the the train’s gotta go.
Sam [00:06:53]:
So they for whatever reason, they’re not gonna stop it just for 1 car. That’s okay. Whatever. Yeah. Carries on, Ends up in a port in Belgium after months. It it re because, Like, if there’s nothing around, nothing happens, and then it just opens back up.
Chris [00:07:10]:
Pings. Yeah.
Sam [00:07:11]:
Then where do you think it ends up? United Arab Emirates in a secondhand car yard, And he sent a private investigator to go find it, and they’re like, yep. This car has been built to Canadian standards. The VIN’s different, but we’re this is your car. So the black market of SUVs or cars being stolen in Canada go on this hell journey for, like, 9 months And end up overseas.
Chris [00:07:35]:
Oh, that’s a cabin footprint. Do these are these thieves not interested in their cabin footprint at all?
Sam [00:07:40]:
How dare they not Think about The environmental impact. We’ve got shitty cardboard straws to save turtles, which drives me mental, But these thieves are not thinking about it. So no. But do you know what the Turkish police are doing?
Chris [00:07:54]:
No. What are they doing?
Sam [00:07:56]:
They’ve got some new cars. So, They arrested, finally, this 44 year old called Hakan Ayak. He’s supposed to be one of the largest drug dealers in the world. Alright? And I think he’s got something to do with Australia.
Chris [00:08:11]:
Okay.
Sam [00:08:11]:
They reckon he’s got about $1,000,000,000 in assets. So they managed to impound a lot of his vehicles. Bentley’s Continental GTs. Oh, sorry. Bentley Continental GT, Porsches, high powered Ferraris, souped up Volkswagen Golf R’s, About $3,400,000 worth of chris. And then the Turkish police are like, we’re now using them. So I’ve got all these cars. They just put police badges and now they’re all police car.
Sam [00:08:39]:
Fair. How cool is that?
Chris [00:08:41]:
That’s awesome.
Sam [00:08:41]:
So what are you gonna get today? I don’t know. Let’s just sam hounds of stuff. Like, You know, it makes no sense at all, but good on you, turkey.
Chris [00:08:49]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’m sure they used to do that in a bunch of countries, just, things The impounded just became Well, I don’t know. And I and I think in The states, because, you know, there’s a and different cop Companies or whatever you want to call The, or police organizations, they all have We’re just crazy. Procurement. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:09]:
The must yeah. Must be terrible.
Sam [00:09:11]:
I mean, we’ve heard of, like, real fancy I think UAE, again, you’re you’re not an Arab Emirates. They’ve got real fancy Porsches and stuff to keep up or Ferrari’s to keep up with really fast speeders.
Chris [00:09:21]:
Oh, do they?
Sam [00:09:21]:
But I think they just buy those. Yeah. Yeah. And I Which makes way more sense.
Chris [00:09:26]:
Pretty sure, Germany’s been using BMWs for forever pretty much.
Sam [00:09:31]:
Yeah. Yeah. Probably. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:32]:
It’s a local car.
Sam [00:09:34]:
Actually, talking about I’ve got another I’ve got a car related story.
Chris [00:09:37]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:38]:
Some stray dogs caused some damage to the car yard. Yep. Now how much damage? This is in Texas. They think the 2 dogs were chasing a cat, Ended up in the The somehow, caused some damage. They saw
Chris [00:09:51]:
get, like, locked into the kayak or just just It was an open typo.
Sam [00:09:56]:
It just says car dealership, so I think it may be just out in a open
Chris [00:10:00]:
Yeah. Yard. Yeah.
Sam [00:10:02]:
How much damage here can they cost?
Chris [00:10:03]:
Well, who wouldn’t have thought March?
Sam [00:10:07]:
$350,000. What? They’ve scratched a whole bunch of cars for some reason, like with their claws, and chris bumpers off. They’re doing nuts. Yeah. So yeah. They’ve never seen anything like this. They’ve got it on video. They’ve seen it on video, apparently.
Chris [00:10:24]:
Oh, that’s gonna be on YouTube.
Sam [00:10:26]:
If you didn’t see the dogs and the dogs took off And you didn’t have the camera. You’d just be like, what is going on?
Chris [00:10:32]:
Yeah. Yeah. You just think of it as vandals or something. It’s crazy. Have you heard about the the final frontier thing? It’s been on the news a bit, so you may have heard about this. So The there was a a space mission went up and this,
Sam [00:10:49]:
From from, like, US or someone else?
Chris [00:10:52]:
Like a private one, I
Sam [00:10:53]:
think. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. The last.
Chris [00:10:54]:
And, it was gonna have a moon lander on it, like a red buffered moon lander. Cool. And on that Moonlander, I think there are other things, but amongst other things, were The, Remains or partial remains of people.
Sam [00:11:10]:
Oh, okay. Stuff. So we get to pay this company to take us and take out Leftovers
Chris [00:11:17]:
To the moon.
Sam [00:11:17]:
To the moon. This sounds great. What actually happened?
Chris [00:11:20]:
Did it
Sam [00:11:20]:
burn up? Did it blow up?
Chris [00:11:21]:
No. Well, so some of the cast that were slated to go The the moon, were the cast of Star Trek.
Sam [00:11:30]:
The remains of people.
Chris [00:11:32]:
Remains of DeForest Kelley, who is doctor McCoy
Sam [00:11:35]:
Yep.
Chris [00:11:36]:
James Doohan, who is Scotty, and, lieutenant Uhura, Who was Nichelle Nichols?
Sam [00:11:42]:
So is this all The remains or just part of their remains?
Chris [00:11:44]:
I I I wouldn’t think they’d give them all. I think it’d be
Sam [00:11:48]:
Okay. Symbol of The. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Thank you.
Chris [00:11:50]:
I’m guessing. I’m guessing.
Sam [00:11:51]:
I know that’s what that’s what I thought, but I was just That’s right. Okay. Go.
Chris [00:11:54]:
But, anyway, so it’s The there was a problem with the, probe. Yeah. So it’s not going to and. So it’s just heading into deep space.
Sam [00:12:07]:
Oh, that’s okay.
Chris [00:12:07]:
Boldly when no idea can’t be fun.
Sam [00:12:11]:
I think they’d be okay with The. Yeah. I think it’s gonna be even better. Yeah.
Chris [00:12:14]:
You know, honestly.
Sam [00:12:15]:
That’s great.
Chris [00:12:15]:
But, yeah, I think, originally, there was some people, some Remains that were supposed to go on, and some remains were supposed to go to the moon. Now they’re all going on together. So The
Sam [00:12:27]:
doesn’t matter. I’m okay with that. Yeah. And think it’s pretty upset about that. I’ve got another car one. I don’t know what’s going on with cars this week. I’ve got it on my mind because I want my other car back. The highest accident rates From the drivers of what vehicle? So they’ve done a study in America
Chris [00:12:42]:
In America.
Sam [00:12:43]:
And it was for a year, a year’s worth of Driving data, and they’ve worked out some stuff.
Chris [00:12:47]:
I would say Ford F150 because it’s the most popular one, and there’d be more of them than anything else.
Sam [00:12:52]:
Yeah. You’d think so, But, no, it’s Tesla’s.
Chris [00:12:54]:
Okay. That was gonna be actually my 2nd twist.
Sam [00:12:58]:
24 accidents per 1,000 drivers. They clocked in with the worst accident rate in the US according to the study, and, that was a hit of Ram Dodge Rams and Subaru and. And BMW drivers are most likely to what?
Chris [00:13:13]:
Not use their indicators.
Sam [00:13:16]:
That that’s that’s a given. They they don’t know how they work. No. Drive under the influence.
Chris [00:13:22]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:13:23]:
Yeah. They had about 3 DUIs per 1,000 drivers in a year, twice the rate Of DUIs among the Ram drivers who were the 2nd worst. So anyway, they’ve done that study. Good to know. So here in New Zealand, the big talk online, if you if you keep up with this sort of stuff, electric cars had a rebate that went away, so that’s okay.
Chris [00:13:45]:
Oh, is that gone now? Alright.
Sam [00:13:46]:
Yes. That finished. So the government got rid of that. The Ute tax, actually, nothing to do with that nothing to do with Utes at all, really. It was just a catchy title that got the Ute people really upset. When you think about it, don’t worry about it. But rucks are coming in. Road user charges for electric vehicles are coming in, right, because they’re not paying anything.
Chris [00:14:07]:
Oh. Oh, petrol. They’re not paying petrol. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:09]:
Exactly. So the government, instead of making it fair and even, they went with easy.
Chris [00:14:15]:
Oh, no. That’s a surprise. What? Really?
Sam [00:14:18]:
So it’s I it’s identical to diesel drivers. But if you’ve got a hybrid that’s petrol and electric, You’re paying the fuel tax, and you have to pay your rucks. So why would you have and?
Chris [00:14:33]:
That is the dumbest So there’s
Sam [00:14:36]:
There’s very little, the only There’s no incentive. The oh, well, you’ve got less maintenance in electric vehicle, which don’t have the engine bits where you gotta have that much servicing. That’s pretty much it, and the costs are about the same.
Chris [00:14:49]:
So They should they should say with hybrids that you’d you just pay petrol Oh, just pay rugs, but I think just pay petrol.
Sam [00:14:57]:
The, I don’t know.
Chris [00:14:58]:
Gives you an incentive because you’re paying less petrol. So that’s more likely to drive people from Petrol to hybrid? Yeah. Slightly.
Sam [00:15:06]:
So, anyway, that’s been happening.
Chris [00:15:08]:
Oh, I didn’t know any of that, and I’m now depressed that I do.
Sam [00:15:12]:
Well, says the man who’s the most environmentally friendly because he does not have a car at all.
Chris [00:15:16]:
Yeah. Yeah. My bicycle. Yes.
Sam [00:15:19]:
That’s right. Look at it. Fine steed it is right next to us as we record this.
Chris [00:15:24]:
Right. Yeah. So, oh, I I’ve Came across this random video called the and it was about the Mandela effect. It was a compilation of all these things this guy had been talking about, the Mandela effect. Yeah. Yeah. Have you heard of The man do you know what that is?
Sam [00:15:38]:
That’s the sort of group conscious thing where you think something’s happened, but it hasn’t really. Alright. Like, I’ve never heard of it before. The movie with bloody what’s the movie and? Was, is it, the black guy, the comedian? Sinbad. There’s a there’s a everybody thinks that there’s a movie that Sinbad was in called Shazam or something. I don’t know. But it doesn’t exist. It never did.
Sam [00:16:00]:
And for some reason, everybody remembers this movie, Berenstain Bears.
Chris [00:16:05]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The But beer beer beer beer stone bears.
Sam [00:16:08]:
It’s always spelt completely different to what everybody remembers it. What else you got? Yes.
Chris [00:16:13]:
Well yeah. Okay. So so these are I don’t think they were all that good.
Sam [00:16:18]:
Okay. Well, we will be the judge then. We’ll be the judge.
Chris [00:16:20]:
Some of them were. It’s just things people didn’t even know about.
Sam [00:16:24]:
Right? Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:16:25]:
But I got a couple of things out of there that I thought was interesting. So The original drones. Now drones are changing the face of warfare. Right?
Sam [00:16:35]:
Okay.
Chris [00:16:36]:
You you think about Ukraine, drones are a Big part of that whole fight back
Sam [00:16:40]:
Yeah. I bet. I bet.
Chris [00:16:41]:
And all
Sam [00:16:41]:
the rest of it.
Chris [00:16:42]:
So what I didn’t realize was in World War 2
Sam [00:16:47]:
Yes.
Chris [00:16:47]:
The Japanese effectively used drones in World War 2.
Sam [00:16:52]:
Okay.
Chris [00:16:53]:
They were called fire balloons, and they sent these Helium balloons across the Pacific chucked them up into the the jet stream
Sam [00:17:02]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:17:02]:
And it went across, and they had a bomb suspended below them. Oh, right. And they dropped bombs all over the US.
Sam [00:17:09]:
Okay.
Chris [00:17:11]:
The was and and thousands of these things hit this US.
Sam [00:17:15]:
Okay.
Chris [00:17:17]:
Only and ever hurt anybody.
Sam [00:17:19]:
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it’s a it’s a numbers game.
Chris [00:17:21]:
1 landed, and then these kids went to play with it.
Sam [00:17:24]:
Oh, no.
Chris [00:17:25]:
Hannah killed 6 people
Sam [00:17:27]:
Okay.
Chris [00:17:27]:
Mostly around 12 and 13. There was 1 26 year old there.
Sam [00:17:31]:
Luke. Well, the 26 year old probably deserved it.
Chris [00:17:33]:
Probably been over with, hey. Don’t do that, boob.
Sam [00:17:35]:
I know. I was thinking I was thinking something a bit darker after watching Criminal Minds for a bit.
Chris [00:17:42]:
Okay. Alright. Yeah. But, anyway, so but that fascinated me because it’s like chris was a thing. They they kept talking about these different things, and that was like, Oh my god. Never even heard of that. Oh, that’s my,
Sam [00:17:53]:
What’s that mean? Something beeped?
Chris [00:17:55]:
Yeah. That’s the charger on my, Oculus.
Sam [00:17:58]:
Oh, that’s right. That’s right. I thought we got a ball ball.
Chris [00:18:00]:
Just beeps every
Sam [00:18:01]:
Okay.
Chris [00:18:01]:
Okay. And again. So that’s that was and.
Sam [00:18:04]:
So But in but in in regards to the Mandela effect
Chris [00:18:09]:
He’s like, oh, because this guy’s from America. He goes, we’ve been bombed from Other countries.
Sam [00:18:14]:
Oh, I see. Okay.
Chris [00:18:15]:
Say that, you know, 9 eleven’s The first to check on American soil. Blah blah blah blah blah. So that was 1. And they talked also quite a bit about The, oh, no. I’ve forgotten the name of it now. There’s a there was a big explosion in the States. The 1st terrorist attack, actually, which sort of damaged the Statue of Liberty and blew out, like, Four miles of of roads. Was it The explosion because it was ammunition.
Chris [00:18:43]:
It was World War one.
Sam [00:18:44]:
Oh.
Chris [00:18:45]:
The Germans, sent some spies, and they blew up this big ammunition dump in New York.
Sam [00:18:50]:
Oh, okay. Okay.
Chris [00:18:51]:
And, it was like a 5 on the Rook to scale.
Sam [00:18:53]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:18:54]:
Like, that was how big the explosion was, and all the Americans don’t know about. I knew about it because I listened to The Ray Rachel Maddow, podcast on it. It was pretty interesting, but yeah. Oh, yeah. Anyway, this one I thought was really interesting. So, oh, no. Open now. Come on.
Chris [00:19:13]:
Don’t do this to me. Edit description. No. Open. So when do you think so video call. We have FaceTime. We have Zoom. When do you think The 1st commercial Okay.
Chris [00:19:33]:
Video calling happened.
Sam [00:19:35]:
I think The it was ages ago because I think they were using basically television cameras to do, like, a call. So I’m gonna say 19, like, 70 As a guest
Chris [00:19:45]:
There was something in the world fair in the 19 fifties, I think.
Sam [00:19:50]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:19:51]:
But the first Closed circuit Yeah. Video phone systems for public use
Sam [00:19:57]:
Oh, for public use.
Chris [00:19:58]:
Were in 1936 in Germany.
Sam [00:20:02]:
What would that have looked like?
Chris [00:20:03]:
Apparently, it was really, really good, quality. You could hold your Your wristwatch up, and they could see the time on it. It was that good.
Sam [00:20:13]:
I’m really skeptical on this. I don’t know anything about it at all. I’m gonna I
Chris [00:20:17]:
I I Wikipedia ed it.
Sam [00:20:18]:
Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:20:19]:
Because I was like, I don’t know about
Sam [00:20:21]:
this thing. Sounds and bit suspect.
Chris [00:20:23]:
So there’s a whole bunch of, they they had these stores. You could go into The, like, So there were 1 in each town type thing, and you go in and you pay I did say how much. I can’t remember what
Sam [00:20:34]:
it is. So many francs.
Chris [00:20:35]:
Pay so many francs or whatever it And then you’d go in and you the person at the other end, and you’d talk to each other. You could see each other. You’re sam in front, you know, microphone and the TV in front of you. And, yeah, they they covered a distance of approximately a 160 kilometers.
Sam [00:20:50]:
The, okay.
Chris [00:20:52]:
Yeah. And and it was going been quite well, and then
Sam [00:20:55]:
World War The?
Chris [00:20:56]:
World War two.
Sam [00:20:57]:
2. World War two.
Chris [00:20:58]:
2 came along, and and and and it was all over. But they were so far ahead of its time.
Sam [00:21:04]:
Yeah. It’s next level.
Chris [00:21:05]:
Yeah. That that’s that’s huge. The really, really got me. Anyway
Sam [00:21:09]:
That’s pretty cool. Well, was that it for your Mandela stuff?
Chris [00:21:12]:
Yeah. That was it for the man. Those were I mean, there was a bunch of them, but those were the 2 that I thought were the most interesting.
Sam [00:21:17]:
So, you just reminded me about stuff falling from airplanes, not bombs. Did you see that Alaska Airlines thing with the door ripped off it?
Chris [00:21:27]:
Crazy,
Sam [00:21:28]:
Yeah. Nobody was sitting there, which was lucky.
Chris [00:21:30]:
Were very lucky.
Sam [00:21:31]:
Ripped the shirt off a child, apparently. I think someone said wasn’t
Chris [00:21:34]:
a child. He was about Seventeen.
Sam [00:21:35]:
Yeah. Still a child. Have you have have you spoken to a 17 year old? Their brains are mush. There’s there might be some smart ones out there, but, There’s some dumb ones. They have no life skills. They don’t know anything.
Chris [00:21:47]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chris there someone you’re particularly thinking of right now?
Sam [00:21:51]:
No. Don’t know what we’re talking about.
Chris [00:21:56]:
But did
Sam [00:21:58]:
you hear about them finding the phones? No. Who’s that? So they just found I think they found 2, and there’s there’s a story definitely about 1 of them. They found and someone’s iPhone got ripped out of their hand.
Chris [00:22:09]:
Yeah. Because I heard that a couple of phones got
Sam [00:22:10]:
lost. and feet. It just dropped, and they just found picked it up. Still working. All good. Yeah. And
Chris [00:22:17]:
it’s funny because Because of the flatness of a phone Mhmm. Or or anything that’s like a book or anything that stays in shape and the lack of Mass. It’ll keep flicking and spinning and tumbling, and it adds enough, inertia, what do you call it?
Sam [00:22:38]:
On the Eutel. You’re telling story. Yeah.
Chris [00:22:40]:
So that it yeah. It’s it doesn’t have that Critical, velocity and No.
Sam [00:22:44]:
So some scientists did work out what maximum speed it would have been going, but it did help that it landed in grass. Yeah.
Chris [00:22:51]:
I was gonna say, I mean, if it The on concrete, because we all know if you’re gonna drop a a phone, your phone, your expensive phone Will land on its edge on the contrary. That’s right. That’s right. It’s in this case,
Sam [00:23:04]:
and it never leaves this case.
Chris [00:23:06]:
Oh, Oh, that’s right. You’ve got a really expensive phone. Yeah.
Sam [00:23:10]:
Yeah. So that’s pretty cool. And the people are like, whoever made those cases, they need to find out It’s The one. Like, it’s just advertising.
Chris [00:23:16]:
Because who is talking about this? Oh, it was on My First Million, though, we’re talking about it. It was an old one. It was an old one. I was listening to an old one. And, Stanley Chris.
Sam [00:23:27]:
Yes. Yeah.
Chris [00:23:29]:
And yeah. Because I’d Seen the video of that woman whose car
Sam [00:23:34]:
Caught on fire.
Chris [00:23:35]:
Caught on fire, and then she had a Stanley Cup, and she picks up. And The the the chris gutted, and there’s Stanley Cup’s there, and she picks it up and
Sam [00:23:42]:
Still got ice in it.
Chris [00:23:43]:
Still got ice in it. And, they bought her a new car for that. Yes. Brilliant, Pierre.
Sam [00:23:50]:
It is. It’s one of those ones where they jump on it so quick. They’re so good. That’s what you should do.
Chris [00:23:55]:
Absolutely.
Sam [00:23:56]:
The Stanley Cup thing is just next level. So they were making The Stanley Cups. They gave a Bunch to, some, like, mummy blogger for some reason. I don’t know how, why they who someone, their marketing person, decided to give it to this person.
Chris [00:24:10]:
No. They I think well, because that’s what they said in the podcast. They said, she she’d been talking about them, and it came up on their thing. And they said, oh.
Sam [00:24:19]:
Yes. That’s right.
Chris [00:24:19]:
Like this stuff.
Sam [00:24:20]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:24:20]:
And she goes, yeah. Yeah. You know, we love it.
Sam [00:24:22]:
But this was The standard
Chris [00:24:23]:
to say, stay hydrated. And they said, well, if we give you some
Sam [00:24:29]:
Yes. That’s right.
Chris [00:24:29]:
See if you can sell The?
Sam [00:24:30]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:24:31]:
And they gave me a 1,000, and they sold them within a day. Yeah. Yeah. And went,
Sam [00:24:36]:
but we’d but we’d like, more womanly colors.
Chris [00:24:38]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I like the way they said that, your your colors are crap. But these what what do you mean moss green as crap? You know, black. What what’s wrong with this?
Sam [00:24:49]:
Can you do a
Chris [00:24:50]:
pastel pink? Okay.
Sam [00:24:51]:
They just They just did a collaboration in America with Starbucks, and it’s a pink one. And that’s the one, if you see it, these people are storming Target. Riot broke out Trying to get this cup.
Chris [00:25:03]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:25:04]:
Sells for $50 already on eBay for 200. And here in New Zealand, Starbucks sends out an email on not oh, no. And Starbucks. Stanley sent out an email yesterday for a pink cup, bright pink, not pale pink, and it’s for coming up for Valentine’s Day. And, someone in my house really, really wants that one. They’ve already got they’ve already got a pale pink one.
Chris [00:25:27]:
Someone in your house.
Sam [00:25:29]:
The that they’ve they’ve got a pale pink one, but they need this other one. But it’s funny because I don’t think I’ve saved it, but there was a, like, an Instagram reel, and there’s a guy and he goes, He’s like, oh, Stanley Cup. And they’re like, yeah. Yeah. It’s like the next big thing. And then there’s multiple versions of him, but it’s all the cups that came before it. So remember they got those, Nalgene, whatever they were? They had those ones, and they were the cup that everybody wanted. And then there was this other cup, and they’re like, but what about the nah.
Sam [00:25:59]:
Not that one. What about the nah. That’s gone. This is the new cup. So it’s a cyclic thing with them. Right. They are very
Chris [00:26:05]:
I didn’t even know The had Stanley Cups in New Zealand. I just assumed it was American only thing.
Sam [00:26:10]:
No. You can buy Stanley gear here. There’s a website here.
Chris [00:26:14]:
The same as the Stanley Tools? Is it the same and, or is it just a coincidentally The name?
Sam [00:26:19]:
I don’t know what the tie in is. There is a tie in, and I don’t know if they’re separate departments or if they’re just and the The. I don’t know, but there is a division that does all the you can get Stanley hip flasks, metal lunchboxes, and these cups. Now I will say the Stanley Cups, I think they’re about $80 here for the Holy crap. For the 30 ounce and. So it’s about that big. There is one bigger. Yeah.
Sam [00:26:42]:
There’s a 40 ounce, but they the insulation in them is next level. Like, you can fill it with ice and just leave it in your car all day. Like, it’s pretty good.
Chris [00:26:52]:
Oh, yeah. That’s that’s impressive.
Sam [00:26:54]:
I just don’t think I I’m just not a big guy. Like, they’ve got different versions. I’d buy The that would just had a normal sort of drink top Thing, I because these ones got straws. I don’t wanna sit there drinking out of a straw holding this mug mug thing.
Chris [00:27:07]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:27:08]:
That’s not me. But for females, apparently, Very, very good, especially because it doesn’t affect makeup or lipstick and stuff. Yeah. Like, they’re just oh, and I will say, Sarah, who does have the cup in my house, she takes it to school, and to stop kids from touching the end of the, straw, We’ve got a straw cover that goes on top of the straw, but it’s a mini Stanley Cup that goes on the straw.
Chris [00:27:33]:
Yeah. Okay. She’s like an Uber fan.
Sam [00:27:36]:
Yeah. Pretty much.
Chris [00:27:37]:
I had no idea. Okay. And I brought that one up.
Sam [00:27:40]:
Last couple of days, I’ve been to op shops, Chris. The other you know, we went on a a couple years ago, actually. Years ago. It would
Chris [00:27:47]:
have to be years ago. Yeah. You can
Sam [00:27:49]:
find it on YouTube, on our channel. Look up the Christmas Sam on YouTube, you will find a, story where me and Chris, we go on a epic road trip, I guess, or an excursion To find you a lid for your rice cooker.
Chris [00:28:01]:
Yes. Which I eventually did. Which we did.
Sam [00:28:04]:
Yeah. Yeah. Good. Good. Look how happy he is when he’s doing Anyway, we went to the, I’m pretty sure we went to the rubbish dump shop.
Chris [00:28:11]:
Yep.
Sam [00:28:11]:
There’s yeah. Okay. But there’s another rubbish dump with another new op shop.
Chris [00:28:16]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:28:17]:
It’s very good.
Chris [00:28:18]:
So much cool stuff.
Sam [00:28:19]:
It’s very massive. Oh, I need to take you there. If you want random boxes Of TV remotes, Chris. This place has on. I will say I’ve been to a few op shops in the last couple of days. The amount of junk that they think people are going to buy. Like, I went to and today. They have a VHS tape Of some sort of Katcha water blaster instruction video for a dollar? No.
Sam [00:28:49]:
I could have brought you the whole set of Tony Robbins, one of The, master something or other.
Chris [00:28:57]:
Yeah. Yeah. Get the edge or whatever.
Sam [00:28:58]:
One of them, I don’t know, a really old one because he’s really young. I could got you every single audio cassette tape for that for $3 today. Yeah.
Chris [00:29:07]:
Yeah. I I need to buy a VHS player, really. I still got these VHS tapes here. My black belt grading, my wedding. Gosh.
Sam [00:29:16]:
Yep. I almost brought I almost brought, but I didn’t because And had a IBM Selectrics 2 typewriter.
Chris [00:29:29]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:29:29]:
Yeah. Beast of a thing, and you can Do corrections on it. Apparently, when I quickly looked it up, go between maybe and to $400 in America. Right. Here in New Zealand, I found 1 on TradeMe for $100 that some pea 1 person may have been interested in, And that one had all the extra font changing things and all this extra stuff. The one I found today was $15, and I was like, I don’t know. I might be able to sell this, or it’s just gonna sit around forever. So I didn’t buy it, but, anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to.
Sam [00:30:04]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:30:04]:
Yeah. Fair enough. Fair enough. I yeah. Because I think I’ve told you dad The was dad’s thing. Hey. It was like, right. We’re getting up early on Saturday morning.
Chris [00:30:14]:
We’re going to the, garage sales, and that’s his thing. He would go, Yeah. Go through the newspaper circle, all the garage sales, make the plan. We’d go, and we’d we’d do all that. And then, Yeah. This was all before the Internet or whatever, but then he became quite big on the old, trade me selling stuff.
Sam [00:30:31]:
Didn’t he get banned? He got banned Yeah.
Chris [00:30:33]:
Yeah, from being A an an annoying old man, I think. So I’m gonna I guess
Sam [00:30:40]:
I’m gonna I
Chris [00:30:40]:
think I
Sam [00:30:40]:
think garage sales is where it’s at, Though, but the trick is trying to find out where they are. There’s a bunch of cool stuff that I never see in op shops that must end up somewhere.
Chris [00:30:49]:
Yeah. I don’t know. And Well, I think if you owns the op shop
Sam [00:30:54]:
Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Shop.
Chris [00:30:56]:
You’re skimming the best stuff. Yeah. You know? So yeah.
Sam [00:31:01]:
Anyway, that brings us into the podcast. What’s happening? Anything this week?
Chris [00:31:07]:
I’ve got a lot of work to do, and it’s,
Sam [00:31:10]:
building up.
Chris [00:31:11]:
Yeah. It’s, it’s difficult.
Sam [00:31:12]:
You don’t need sleep. Remember that.
Chris [00:31:15]:
No. No. I don’t. But no. No. Nothing nothing major happening. I need to, come up I need to announce the Misty Flix challenge, pretty sure.
Sam [00:31:26]:
Going?
Chris [00:31:27]:
I’ve got my Ten Commandments.
Sam [00:31:29]:
Nice. Nice. I forgot to ask you last week about it. I was gonna ask you this week, Kelsey Sam.
Chris [00:31:33]:
Yeah. Yeah. So I I need to talk through, with, that’ll be
Sam [00:31:36]:
a quick discussion, of course.
Chris [00:31:37]:
Yeah. So well, yeah. You mean Paige might have to jump on Zoom or something. Yeah.
Sam [00:31:42]:
Sounds good. I’m gonna get my car back hopefully and go to work, and, that’s about it. Until next time. We’ll, catch you then. My name’s Sam.
Chris [00:31:52]:
I’m Chris. See you. Bye.
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