Summary
This week Sam went to the Pink concert. Find out how that went, while Chris was taking part in the Strategic Alliance Summit.
There was a lot of problems this week for people flying. Would it put you off? Plus we talk about a new airport that isn’t getting a traffic tower.
A crypto deal goes wrong in a New World carpark while two dumbasses come up with a plan involving blowing up a house and a python. Find out what other options they had.
All this and so much more. Come have a listen.
Links
Strategic Alliance Summit
Two pilots fell asleep for 28 minutes
Boeing whistle blower found dead
Boeing’s 737 Max Plane Fatal flaw
Flight delayed after passengers threw coins into the engine
Chopper hits kite string and has to land
Sandbar plan didn’t work
New airport doesn’t need traffic tower
Crypto currency deal goes wrong in a supermarket carpark
Blow up a house and release the Python
Police officer gets out of crashing his car…
Would be Assassin now doing concerts
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 472 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fixer randomness, technology and life brought to you by us 2 amazing folk.
Chris [00:00:35]:
And, speaking of amazing folk, you had a big outing this week. How was the concert?
Sam [00:00:42]:
Yes. I went to PINK, because obviously everybody knows I’m a huge PINK fan. No. Sarah is. So I went with her. But, it was good. So we turned up. We went to the accommodation.
Sam [00:00:55]:
And got a Uber that I’d already booked, like, a week ahead of time. The dude had no idea what was going on. Like, they are so oblivious to anything, Like, the dude’s just like, oh, I’ll just what’s what’s happening? Where are we going? Oh. Oh, okay. Oh, cool. So he drops me off. So we’re waiting for ages, and we’re near a gate which is like sam sort of VIPs could come in. I don’t know.
Sam [00:01:20]:
But there’s these guys rolling out a red carpet and it’s in a big l shape and it got windy so they’re taping it down. I’ve never seen so much gaffer tape used. There was, like, layer upon layer, and they’re trying to tape this red carpet to just asphalt. And, it’s just mental. And the wind just picks it up. And they just look at each other. They make a phone call and they’re just like, nah. They just start rolling back up.
Sam [00:01:45]:
So somebody didn’t get the full experience, whatever that was. The concert itself, really, really good. Really good. You probably haven’t seen any of the aerial stuff she does?
Chris [00:01:58]:
No. I I I’ve I’ve heard about it. I I may have seen a bit of a clip, years years years ago. But I was gonna say, apparently, she puts on a real show.
Sam [00:02:08]:
Yeah. I’ll send you this clip later. But, basically, it it starts oh, well, like, you’re in the stadium. So it’s 50,000 people, at Mount Eden. And there’s, like, wires 4 wires coming in with this thing suspended in the middle. And you’re like, okay. It’s got something to do with something. And then they sort of some stage guys come out at some point and they’re fluffing around with it.
Sam [00:02:33]:
They bring it down and they put this big bag of, big sandbag, huge sandbag on it and they’re doing something and then they bring it down and fluff around The it just goes back up. So that’s all good. There’s an opening act. That’s all good. There’s a DJ. This dude that’s traveling around with her and he’s just all he does is mash together, like, you know, as a DJ would, just random songs and just keeps yelling into the microphone as he does. And then it just sort of stops and, it goes all black and they’re playing some songs and it’s like going through they’re playing MC Hammer, can’t touch chris. And the girls in front go oh it’d be amazing if she just comes out now and Sara goes she’s not gonna come out like mid song will she? Yeah no she did.
Sam [00:03:12]:
It light it lights up, and then at the top, it’s got I think it’s Summer Carnival and big words, which is actually a screen, but on in the middle was a giant mouth. And at some point, she got up in there. So the mouth opens and then pink literally just bungee jumps, I guess, almost. Just drops from this thing to get to the stage. Like, bounces a few times, and then they lower her down. It’s crazy ass. Later on, she gets into the harness for this four wire contraption and literally flies around the stadium while singing at the end. Like, it’s the insurance on this is the thing I’m thinking about, Chris.
Sam [00:03:51]:
The logistics. The logistics. At the and, so the night before she actually did an encore. This night The were like, we’ve got to stick to our schedule. So she sang all the songs. Oh, an interesting thing. I thought this was just really cool. Some of her and The pianist, definitely.
Sam [00:04:11]:
Because she told she shows she he’s been with me for 23 years, this guy. Just playing the piano. She brought out she she tells you who everybody is. She says their name. They do a little solo act at some point. She brings them all out into the middle. Even the drummer, they brought out some big drums for him to play right in the center of the crowd like hard out and, her guitarist I don’t know what else he’s done all but he could do everything. He was really clever.
Sam [00:04:38]:
He was doing classical full rock metal. He looked like a budget version of a Metallica player. He’s pretty good. At the and, though, soon as it stopped, lights came on. There was, like, 50 crew all over the stage. There was a guy, like, climbing the screen straight away to unbolt it. Because I think she had to be in a I think she was performing in Australia in 2 days’ time. So The was just getting dismantled as we were just standing there.
Chris [00:05:06]:
Yeah. That have a a hard, hard
Sam [00:05:09]:
Gotta get out of there.
Chris [00:05:10]:
Yeah. Yeah. The plane’s got to be loaded by yeah.
Sam [00:05:13]:
Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway, you have 50,000 people leaving, Mount Eden all at the same time, which is fun.
Chris [00:05:22]:
That’s fun.
Sam [00:05:23]:
It’s the biggest crowds I’ve ever been stuck in.
Chris [00:05:26]:
How did Spira handle that? Because she doesn’t like crowds much.
Sam [00:05:29]:
No. She did really well. She did really well. It was good. So we had a point on this map that they sort of had said, this is where you could get rideshare pickup from. I was like, okay. But we had so there was 55 buses that Auckland Transport had put on. So these buses are rolling in.
Sam [00:05:46]:
There’s people coming towards us. We’re going one direction. We’re trying to get through. There’s a whole bunch of us trying to get through because as you go down the street with all these buses and stuff, at the far end is a train station, and a lot of people are catching trains. Yeah. We have to turn left, but that road’s closed for kilometers. And I was like, oh, this is crap. So, we walked for a while, 10 minutes probably, and I ended up in the suburbs in the middle of nowhere.
Sam [00:06:11]:
I don’t know where I am. I’m outside some guy’s house at 11 o’clock at night and the phone won’t work. Uber won’t work. Like, the Internet is dead. And all I’m thinking is if there was an actual emergency, I could see how people get trampled so easily.
Chris [00:06:26]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:06:26]:
Like, you know, Cas. Anyway, finally got an Uber. The dude turned up, like, 8 minutes later, and he’s like a little, African dude from he said he’d been in Abu Dhabi.
Chris [00:06:38]:
Was it? Abu Dhabi.
Sam [00:06:40]:
Yeah. He’d been there for a while and done all sorts of stuff. He’s one of the top rated Uber drivers, this guy. Right? Right. And he said to me and it was interesting. We had talked. He goes, thank you so much for booking it in an area I can actually drive to. He goes, everybody else has booked me, and they’re stuck in that zone where I can’t drive because the roads are closed and they don’t answer their phone or if they do they go, I never booked an Uber and that affects his ratings and he goes I was 2 days away from getting a $500 bonus because I’m one of if not the best rated Uber driver And he goes, but if I don’t if I don’t pick the ride, I lose points.
Sam [00:07:23]:
And if I don’t pick the person up, I lose the points. And he goes and he goes, when your one popped up and it goes, you’re here. And I was like, no brainer. And we got back to The, motel
Chris [00:07:36]:
place.
Sam [00:07:36]:
And then I then I went to go get some McDonald’s because I was hungry. And there was chris these people, getting but trying to open their room door. They couldn’t get in. And I said, oh, how was the concert? Oh, it’s a and, you know and the woman goes, oh, it was great. She goes, did you go to pink? And I said, yeah. She goes, how did you get back here so fast? We couldn’t get out. They went to the train station thinking that there was a train that went from there to where we were staying. There might have been.
Sam [00:08:01]:
I’m not sure. But nobody could answer her. She goes, I don’t know. And then nothing was working. Anyway
Chris [00:08:08]:
Oh, man. New Zealand just does We do, public transport so badly. Well, I shouldn’t say that. I think Wellington does it well, but everybody else does it so bad.
Sam [00:08:18]:
They do it better than anybody else, but that’s The
Chris [00:08:22]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:08:24]:
Anyway, that was my, excursion out into the wild in Auckland. Went to a few other places the day before and the day after. Ended up at the fancy shopping mall in Newmarket. They’ve got this, claw machine.
Chris [00:08:42]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:08:44]:
Not building. It’s like in the corner. Somebody’s put all these claw machines. And there’s there’s ones that are, like, this tall, little tiny baby ones. Yeah. And then there’s these really big ones. And there’s 3 real big and, like, almost taller than me. And all it does, it’s got a huge soft toy that’s half my height, and it goes forward and it it it’s got a razor blade on it, and you have to tell it when to cut the string.
Chris [00:09:10]:
Oh. Right?
Sam [00:09:12]:
And there’s a woman there, and she turns to me. She goes, I’ve already dropped $250 in this machine.
Chris [00:09:18]:
Goddamn it.
Sam [00:09:19]:
I’m getting it. She goes, I’ve already got 4 of these. I’m getting another one. So they just keep putting yeah. And she got it. It it cut it, and it dropped it. Yeah. It was mental.
Chris [00:09:30]:
That sounds so easy. I suppose that’s the whole point. Right? That’s how Well,
Sam [00:09:34]:
it just it it yeah. It’s that whole pressure thing where it just sort it just touches a little bit, and it was just like thread after thread after thread. And then and then the next day, we went to a place called Pandamart.
Chris [00:09:47]:
Alright.
Sam [00:09:48]:
Which is in the Papakura Mall, I think it is. And it’s this huge it’s it’s the size of a supermarket, if not bigger. And it’s just got everything you can imagine everything’s super cheap like it’s crazy like really really good but the weird thing is this pepacuramole is absolute dog shit. The food court there’s nothing apart from a subway everything else is abandoned It would be the ultimate place for a zombie apocalypse film. Nice. It it there’s no shops. There’s, like, 4 shops, and and it’s absolute yeah. Anyway, that was my trip.
Sam [00:10:24]:
What have you been up to?
Chris [00:10:25]:
What have I been up to? So last week I didn’t mention and, but last week when we, recorded, I was doing The strategic alliance summit, and it was starting at midnight every night going to 8 AM. And then I was doing my, epic and, and, yeah, that that screwed me, I reckon, because I’m still not feeling a 100% now. I’m like, holy crap. So that that was pretty cool.
Sam [00:10:49]:
But it’s worth it. Isn’t it?
Chris [00:10:51]:
It was. It was. It was good. I’ve got I’ve got a few meetings out of it and stuff like that. And the next one so that that one’s in central year parent’s time. They do 3 a year. They do and in the US time, which was okay. That was like a 4 AM start.
Chris [00:11:05]:
I can handle that. No problem. But the midnight start just screwed me out, which was Central European time. And next The is Australian time, so it’ll be pretty much our time. So looking forward to that. Hopefully, I’ll get a few people along to that because we would need to represent and make sure they keep doing it down this end of the planet.
Sam [00:11:24]:
Does The mean they’re running it? Do they come to Australia or New Zealand to run it so they’re in the same time zone?
Chris [00:11:29]:
Yeah. Yeah. He’s going to fly to Aussie for that one. Okay. I was just thinking about it. Going to do that. He said, I’m not doing that from home. No.
Chris [00:11:38]:
But that’s cool. I oh, there was something else I was gonna sam. Oh, yes. So we went no. No. We talked about, home kills, didn’t we, last time?
Sam [00:11:49]:
Yes. Yes.
Chris [00:11:50]:
Yeah. Yep. Alright. Flying and planes. I’ve got something here I and to talk about. So it I I’ve just got The whole there’s, like, 4, 5 stories here. And I I just had to mention and because this whole flying and planes thing is, surprising me. Do you feel comfortable flying in planes?
Sam [00:12:11]:
I don’t mind flying in planes. It’s just the seats are too small, and I’m jammed in there. But, physically, I’m too big.
Chris [00:12:18]:
I’ve I’ve never worried about in fact, I I really enjoy flying. I love the takeoff. I love that sort of thing. And, I don’t worry too much about crashing and dying because, you know, if it happens, it’s all you can do about it. So, nah, it’s all good.
Sam [00:12:31]:
That’s right. That’s right.
Chris [00:12:32]:
Yeah. So but I did watch, an updated frontline thing on YouTube, and we’ll have the link in the show notes, called, Boeing’s Troubled and 37 Max plane, Boeing’s fatal floor. Mhmm. And because it’s been updated with the whole door plugs for flying out, but it was Yeah.
Sam [00:12:52]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:12:53]:
You know, that whole Podcast thing and all these people dying. And I’m like, I would be very tempted to go, hang on. What sort of plane is it? Is that a Boeing or an Airbus? I would go with an Airbus. I’m not sure I’d go with The Boeing. Because I don’t know if you heard this week, the one of the Boeing whistle blowers, died. Apparently, committed suicide. He
Sam [00:13:14]:
The suicided himself.
Chris [00:13:16]:
Yeah. Going to court this this week. So I was like
Sam [00:13:18]:
The day no. The day yeah. The day of, I think, he or the day before.
Chris [00:13:22]:
Day before, I think it was. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:13:24]:
He, shot himself in the head with a gun. And then they had to quickly remove that from the BBC website.
Chris [00:13:30]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:13:31]:
Yeah. They actually said what he did. Yeah. I don’t know.
Chris [00:13:37]:
Okay. Cool.
Sam [00:13:38]:
But, you know, how how convenient.
Chris [00:13:42]:
Well, yeah, there’s yeah. Conspiracy stories aside, I think it’d be a pretty horrible job, and and when lots of things are happening. So anyway, I thought I’d I’d go through another couple of stories that on the flying front that I thought were amusing. So Indonesia, these 2 pilots, they, well, the the copilot, the younger one’s 28, I think. He, his his his, wife’s just had twins. So he hasn’t been having a lot of sleep. And so he sort and dozed. This is an Air Indonesia flight, yeah, within Indonesia.
Chris [00:14:26]:
And then, he had The doze off and then they landed they took off again. And the older guy, 32 year old guy, says I need to have a nap. And he he had a nap, and then the copilot fell asleep while he was asleep. So the plane went off course for for almost 30 minutes. And, yeah, the the tower is trying to get hold of The, and nobody is answering. And you can just imagine the panic on the ground at that point. They they woke up and they go, oh, better better land at the right airport and turn this thing around. You know, it wasn’t far off course, but, yeah, nothing happened from that.
Chris [00:15:02]:
So that was okay. Then there’s this chopper in Trinidad. It just cracks me up because the guy’s flying chris his chopper fairly low. Didn’t say I don’t recall what what the reason for it was, but he’s flying The chopper rear fairly low, and then, he got tangled in kite strengths. Some kids were flying
Sam [00:15:28]:
Oh, man.
Chris [00:15:28]:
Flying a kite. It had to land. Had to land. Managed to cut it all off. Chopper was fine. No real damage. But it you know, just the nylon kite strings was enough to to stop the controls from working properly.
Sam [00:15:43]:
Yeah. That’s crazy.
Chris [00:15:45]:
So then all the locals got selfies with the helicopter and then he took off and flew off again. So that was nice story.
Sam [00:15:51]:
But what Oh, man. Me out more
Chris [00:15:53]:
than anything else is China. And, apparently, this happens a lot. A flight in China was delayed for more than 4 hours on Wednesday after passengers threw coins into the engine.
Sam [00:16:04]:
Oh, I saw that, but I didn’t read the story. And I’m like, who is throwing coins in an engine? Good luck. Apparently. I know The. These are the same people that get magical powers from deer testicles or something. I don’t know.
Chris [00:16:17]:
Yeah. Pangolins and stuff.
Sam [00:16:20]:
Oh, no.
Chris [00:16:21]:
Yeah. So yeah. Apparently, it happens a bit. People people say it’s, good luck. Oh, I’ll just throw. And and so the engineers saw this and went, what what did you just do? I threw some coins into the engine for good luck. How many coins? I don’t know. 3 to 5? So 4 hours, the guy’s in there trying to find all these coins to eat down.
Sam [00:16:42]:
I actually, out of like, you know, that they have trouble when they hit a bird, like bird strike. And but a coin, like, a solid metal coin just rattling around inside of the
Chris [00:16:53]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:16:54]:
As as it’s That’s not good. Off off point. No.
Chris [00:16:57]:
They’re going to the next. I thought that was like
Sam [00:16:59]:
They they should just get kicked off. They get on a no fly list. You’re never allowed to fly again.
Chris [00:17:04]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I reckon. That’s, it’s just I cannot think of anything stupid. Actually, I can think of one thing stupid. I’m gonna go straight to this other story because, I think it’s stupider. There’s a coastal community in Massachusetts, where the the the water’s coming up and it’s the houses are starting to, get encroached on by the water.
Chris [00:17:30]:
Yeah. So what do you think they do to, fix that?
Sam [00:17:34]:
Oh, is it I think I’ve seen all your stories this week. Is this the one where they built a giant sandbar or something to help protect the houses and then it washed away? Because
Chris [00:17:43]:
$500,000 on Yeah. On sand a big sand dune to protect it. And it took only 3 days to wash it all away, and now the the houses are starting to be undermined. It’s just like, yeah. I think I could’ve told you that. And a quick Google search would’ve given you a and ideas of how to fix it better.
Sam [00:18:06]:
No, no. They knew someone with a digger. That’s The that’s how they work.
Chris [00:18:12]:
Alright. What did you got?
Sam [00:18:13]:
Oh, just sticking with the airplane theme. Never really thought about it, but Sydney is getting a new airport, which is cool. But it doesn’t have a traditional control tower. Right? It just has a 45 meter pole mast and it’s going to have 20 cameras on it. That’s all they need. And then it gets fed back to a data center 17 kilometers away. And that’s all you need. Right? The can just monitor it like that.
Sam [00:18:40]:
And I was like, oh, okay. That’s interesting. And they said, like, we’ve got fail safes and if one camera fails or a couple of cameras fail, the other cameras can stitch together all the images to still get a complete picture. And AI can help track what planes are coming in and who’s what and where they are and all chris sort of and. And I was like, oh, okay. That’s pretty cool. It’s all absolutely safe. And I was like, that’s pretty interesting.
Sam [00:19:03]:
The London City Airport has the same setup and the air traffic controllers are a and kilometers away. I was like, oh, okay. They’re nowhere near it. That’s even crazier.
Chris [00:19:19]:
Yeah. Yeah. I I don’t know. I I don’t know, honestly.
Sam [00:19:24]:
It’s weird. Like, you have to, like, just trust them that they know what they’re doing.
Chris [00:19:28]:
I I I there are benefits to and camera because, presumably, you could use some sort of infrared when it’s, foggy or whatever. You know what I mean?
Sam [00:19:37]:
Yeah. Yeah. They did that. It can work through whatever.
Chris [00:19:39]:
Yeah. So that that makes sense. I I was all often interested, intrigued, main mainly just as being a kid, in Wellington because one of the towers is just on a hill, like, nowhere near the airport. But it’s got a really good like, it was the ideal place to do. But but it just seemed weird to me that it was away from the airport. But yeah.
Sam [00:20:01]:
When you’re in Wellington Yep. If if you were young if you were there now, but you’re younger.
Chris [00:20:08]:
Yep.
Sam [00:20:09]:
Do you think you’d be getting robbed in The New World car park over a cryptocurrency exchange? Would you be a part of that?
Chris [00:20:19]:
I wouldn’t be part of that. No. But, so it’s a setup. Right? It sounds like a setup. Hang on.
Sam [00:20:28]:
Cryptocurrency happens on the Internet. There’s digital wallets. Why are you talking to someone on Discord and going to a car park with a wad of cash and some guy goes, I’ll give you some cryptocurrency. And The just robs them. I’m sorry. Yeah.
Chris [00:20:46]:
That’s dumb. That’s sick. Like,
Sam [00:20:49]:
what was it? And if the dude turns up and does not have a laptop or something with him, is that a red flag? Anyway, they’ve arrested this guy. He’s 32 years old.
Chris [00:20:57]:
Why why was he buying the crypto? It’s I bet you it was along the lines of, oh, you want those drugs? Well, you have to use crypto. I don’t have crypto. How do I
Sam [00:21:06]:
Maybe. Maybe. It hasn’t said that yet.
Chris [00:21:08]:
To come here and buy the chris, and then you can get the drugs. And then they just all they’re doing is rolling them. But yeah.
Sam [00:21:14]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That that makes way more sense.
Chris [00:21:16]:
Because I’m just like I’d do it. Yeah.
Sam [00:21:19]:
I knew I knew you’d know. Hey. We both we both have the same story here.
Chris [00:21:25]:
I know. I I let you go with it.
Sam [00:21:28]:
You’re tight I’m just gonna say we’ve got 2 different titles. You say why dating sucks, and I just wrote blowing up house, python eating a child, the usual.
Chris [00:21:38]:
Yes.
Sam [00:21:40]:
So these 2 men
Chris [00:21:43]:
The meet online.
Sam [00:21:45]:
I haven’t even read the story. You tell me what’s going on.
Chris [00:21:48]:
I think I might have closed that story. Here we here we have
Sam [00:21:51]:
Well, they
Chris [00:21:52]:
yeah. So so and one guy has chris, meets this chick and, they Online dating, I guess. Online dating. Yep. On a dating app. And but their relationship eventually went south, so they decided to block each other. So this other dude, a friend so Glosser is the the the boyfriend, and then Kinsey is this dude’s friend.
Sam [00:22:18]:
You just hang on. The so you bring up your mate and you’re like, hey. This relationship’s gone south. We got I’ve come up with a plan. We’re gonna shoot some arrows in her door. We’re gonna then mail her dog feces or dead rats. Whatever’s easiest. You just you figure that out.
Sam [00:22:35]:
Then what we should do is we’ll scalp her head because that sounds cool but it, you know, I haven’t thought much of The. But then we’ll blow up the home and release the large python to eat her daughter. Are you in? And the guy’s like, I’m already on my way.
Chris [00:22:51]:
Yes. I’m picking up the python now. Yeah. So elaborate is that? So you go, oh, yeah. This is just guys being guys being dumb. I mean, uber dumb. But, no, they blew up the house.
Sam [00:23:10]:
Yeah. So so they use Tannerite. Now Tannerite, from what I understand, from my giant pumpkin growing world, every man and his dog can buy Tannerite. Yep. And it it yeah. And they strap it to a pumpkin, and then you just shoot at it with a bullet, and then it just explodes. Like Kenra
Chris [00:23:27]:
is made specifically to be hit by a bullet to explode in target shooting. That’s all it does.
Sam [00:23:34]:
Yeah. I know. I know. Yeah. I know. Oh, yeah. It’s crazy. So, anyway, they, they they did blow up the woman’s house, and then some a witness saw the black SUV leaving.
Sam [00:23:47]:
And then they found, evidence of the explosives. And his journal, dear journal, the python is hungry.
Chris [00:23:55]:
Thinking scalping. Maybe maybe python for the daughter. She’s too fat to get eaten by a python, but her daughter’s not. I don’t know. Like, it’s just crazy. It’s crazy.
Sam [00:24:07]:
Imagine just for The logistics of releasing a python and going, why is it going away from the house? No. In the house. Like and the girl’s gonna stay like, it’s so dumb.
Chris [00:24:17]:
I could just see them holding the python’s head in a vise and then showing pictures of the the daughter in front of it on a slideshow going, eat The, eat that, eat that. It’s just mental. I’ve got another one that I think is quite amusing. This one here. So Durham in, not not in Ireland. It’s another American one. Ontario. Canadian, actually.
Chris [00:24:46]:
Sorry. Canadian.
Sam [00:24:48]:
Canadian. Yep.
Chris [00:24:50]:
What’s worse than driving a police car after work, popping into a bar, drinking too much, and then crashing the car on the way home drunk.
Sam [00:25:03]:
I’m guessing you crash it and your workmates turn up.
Chris [00:25:06]:
No. What’s worse than that is then you go, oh, you run away and you go, the cop car was stolen while I was in the bar and somebody else crashed
Sam [00:25:16]:
it. Aw. That old story.
Chris [00:25:19]:
They The found no. No. No. It was you. So you’re just making it worse, dude. So, he’s been handed a 2 year demotion. I’m surprised he wasn’t Sags after he
Sam [00:25:33]:
The hard the they’re hard to come by The hot top quality cops in America.
Chris [00:25:36]:
Yeah. Yeah. After he admitted to crashing his car on the way home from the bar before reporting it as stolen in an attempt to evade criminal and civil liability, I don’t think there’s anything else to say about that. It was just like, dude, there is a bad decision made. There is another bad decision made, and then it went downhill from there in your decision making.
Sam [00:26:01]:
Yeah. It’s not it’s not good. It
Chris [00:26:06]:
cracks me up. It’s great to laugh at other people doing stupid things.
Sam [00:26:10]:
Well, that’s true. That’s true. You got the story here about the the guy that tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Chris [00:26:16]:
Oh, yeah. So I wanted to ask what you thought about it because okay. Hang on. 1981. Do you remember Ronald Reagan’s attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan? I
Sam [00:26:27]:
wasn’t even born then.
Chris [00:26:28]:
Oh, okay. I was I was in college. I I remember it quite vividly. We we just got played over and over on the news. It was Yeah.
Sam [00:26:38]:
I bet. I bet.
Chris [00:26:38]:
It’s the biggest news story, you know, back when there were 2 channels. And so yeah. So the anyway, this dude, John Hinkley, he he may got found not guilty by reason of insanity. And, incidentally, and I don’t know if you recall this, he was hot for Jodie Foster.
Sam [00:26:57]:
That’s right. It it is. It’s right. He was all over. Yeah. That’s right.
Chris [00:27:00]:
Yeah. He was stalking her, and I think the whole thing is he said, I’ll kill the president for you.
Sam [00:27:06]:
And Yeah. Yeah. It makes sense when you think about it.
Chris [00:27:08]:
Yeah. And he he was he literally was nuts. Anyway, so he went to prison for donkey’s years. I can’t remember how long. He was 25 at the The, anyway, in 1981.
Sam [00:27:19]:
He got found not guilty by reason of insanity. He got released in 2022.
Chris [00:27:24]:
Yeah. So yeah. So he went to a mental institution, and released in 2022. In that time, he he got into music. He started playing guitar and writing songs. And I remember, reading something about it, you know, 10 years ago or something or 5 years ago, about you know, he’s he’s thinking of having a career. Anyway, so he’s now playing concerts. He’s now out, and he’s playing concerts.
Chris [00:27:50]:
And, a lot of his concerts, he’s been he scheduled it, and then the, venue have canceled him.
Sam [00:27:57]:
Oh, yeah. It’ll be because somebody will go, actually, you know who that is? Like, we shouldn’t have that.
Chris [00:28:03]:
He shot the president. And so, anyway, he’s he’s got one in Connecticut, I think it is. Yep. And it’s, like, he’s he’s only charging $20 a head for the the concert tickets Yeah. Which is fair enough because it’s folk music. I mean, you can’t really charge much more than that. I don’t think for a guy with an acoustic guitar. But I what what are your thoughts about this?
Sam [00:28:31]:
Oh, he’s well within his rights to do it. I don’t know if it’s the best thing he should be doing. And, I don’t know if anyone will go and check it out. But then you’ve got, like, Bill Cosby going around. Isn’t he doing stand up now? So
Chris [00:28:43]:
yeah. Yeah. Stand up, have a drink, and lie down. Yeah.
Sam [00:28:48]:
Alex, I am.
Chris [00:28:49]:
So yeah. No. I I I think The Hinkley thing, I think go for it. I fit good on him. I don’t see him as trying to profit from the mistakes of his past. Like, he’s not
Sam [00:29:03]:
No. No. No. I think it’s completely separate.
Chris [00:29:05]:
Yeah. Exactly. And so, I mean, I think you have to believe in redemption for people. You know? Otherwise, why why put them in prison? Just fucking kill them all. Like, you know, if if people can’t be redeemed,
Sam [00:29:18]:
then, you
Chris [00:29:19]:
know, yeah. So I think you’ve gotta you’ve gotta give them the benefit of the doubt with with the redemption thing. And, you know, folk music, I mean, it’s not necessarily to my taste, but good on them. Give it a go.
Sam [00:29:32]:
That’s right. That brings us to the end of the podcast, Chris. Yes. I don’t know what I’m doing for the next week, but, I will be here next weekend with another podcast.
Chris [00:29:44]:
Well, I’ve gonna be, going to a workshop with Guy Pigdon on Saturday. So there The people. So, yep. We we will Give an update on that?
Sam [00:29:54]:
Yeah. Yeah. We will. I’m trying I’m thinking I don’t know what day it is today, but yeah. Okay. Thursday. No. Very good.
Sam [00:29:59]:
Okay. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:01]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:30:02]:
See you.
Chris [00:30:02]:
Bye.
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