Summary
This week we find out just what Chris has been up to this week with exciting future plans discussed.
Why is a man suing the US government and who is at fault, we work it out. We learn humans are the only thing that has real chins.
And we find out what some Indian guys have been up to in regards to modifying a car they purchased.
All this and much more. So come have a listen.
Links
Mike Tyson VS Jake Paul
Woman loses hand while using a hair dryer
Suing the US government over crashing into a black hawk helicopter
Reddit CEO defends his salary
Indian men fined for turning their car into a “helicopter”
Humans are the only animals that have an actual chin
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 473 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness, technology, and life as we head towards episode and.
Chris [00:00:33]:
It’s coming.
Sam [00:00:34]:
We haven’t organ we have not organized anything for that.
Chris [00:00:37]:
Anything at all.
Sam [00:00:38]:
We will do.
Chris [00:00:39]:
People who know me are not surprised by this at all. I also wanna say hello to Tony, if you’re tuning in, Tony. So I caught up with Tony on a Zoom call earlier this week, and I don’t usually talk to people about, you know, the fact that we have a podcast.
Sam [00:00:54]:
Are you sure? Because almost everybody you ever see, I’m sure you’re dropping The
Chris [00:00:57]:
signals. Because all the ones I talk to on these Zoom calls and The things, they’re all looking to be guests on podcast. So I don’t mention it because I don’t want them going, oh, can you be a guest on your podcast? Because it’s not that sort of
Sam [00:01:09]:
No. No. It’s not.
Chris [00:01:10]:
But this, this guy’s starting his own up, and I and and we got on really well. And I said, oh, because he he’s built an app for people to find it’s called Guestify Mhmm. A dot ai. Guestify dot ai. And to to find podcast, do all that sort of thing. And it’s pretty cool. I’m just I’m still going through and learning it. But, I said, yeah.
Chris [00:01:32]:
Well, actually, I do know a little bit about podcasting because we’ve got one that’s almost 10 years old.
Sam [00:01:37]:
Did he hit you up on LinkedIn?
Chris [00:01:40]:
No. I I I met him through one of these networking events online videos.
Sam [00:01:43]:
There’s some dude that’s hit us up on hit me up on LinkedIn.
Chris [00:01:49]:
And I get some LinkedIn things.
Sam [00:01:50]:
And they wanna come on. I think this guy was organizing people as guests or something. I just couldn’t be bothered explaining it to him.
Chris [00:01:58]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:01:58]:
Because the weird thing is you either have a podcast that has guests or you have a podcast around a very specific topic. We have neither of The, and that’s why we have the huge fan base that we have. Well put. Well, which is fine because that’s what we like
Chris [00:02:15]:
to do. Because I said to him, yeah. And we haven’t monetized it. We do this for fun.
Sam [00:02:20]:
We can’t monetize it because we’re not not monetizable. And we don’t have guests.
Chris [00:02:25]:
It’s not monetizable. Well, no. But that’s the whole point. And he goes, yeah. Well, you shouldn’t. You don’t have to monetize everything. I’m like, yes. You get it.
Chris [00:02:33]:
That’s cool.
Sam [00:02:34]:
Thank you. Good. That’s a good judge of things. I, I wrote a blog podcast. I was thinking about online, there’s all these people recently because of the, cost of living crisis at the moment. Heaps of people The appearing on Facebook groups going, I need a side hustle. What can I do? I need money. That’s it.
Sam [00:02:51]:
They give no other context. And then the people go, well, what do you do? Oh, oh, by day, I’m like an accountant or something. And the answer is 99% of the time, just do The, but for other people.
Chris [00:03:03]:
Yeah. Absolutely.
Sam [00:03:04]:
Like, but you have to find those other people and, I was just thinking sometimes when you talk to other people, like, we do random stuff, when the person comes up to you and goes, how are you gonna make money from that? Nah. You’re not my person because you’re thinking about it the wrong way to how I think about it. Yeah. Money can be part of the equation, but it’s not the first thing.
Chris [00:03:24]:
No. And I think for for the accounted guy, for argument’s sake,
Sam [00:03:28]:
a big
Chris [00:03:29]:
part of it is look for the gaps. What is it that your business doesn’t do for people and they’re always frustrated about?
Sam [00:03:34]:
Well, it’s not even that. People don’t know what they don’t know. You just have to find another circle of people. Yeah. So people I we hang around with know how to make a podcast or update a website or build a website. Then and then you got people like Ryan who I built a website for. He doesn’t know anything. He knows how to be an electrician Yeah.
Chris [00:03:53]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:03:53]:
And do stuff. Anyway, that’s interesting. What else have you been up to this week?
Chris [00:03:58]:
I’ve been spending way too much time watching the Ash versus the Evil Dead because it’s on that 3 app thing, you know, 3 now.
Sam [00:04:05]:
Oh, yes. Okay.
Chris [00:04:06]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I finally got up to my episode
Sam [00:04:08]:
Yeah. That I was in.
Chris [00:04:09]:
And I was like What
Sam [00:04:10]:
is the episode? What number?
Chris [00:04:13]:
I think it’s it’s the end of season 2. I think it’s the episode 10 because they they I’m in the crowd scene where they’re all celebrating at the end. Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah. So that’s it’s the final episode. I think it’s 10. Whatever the final episode is.
Chris [00:04:27]:
Good. And, yes. So I was looking. I knew I know exactly where I’m standing, and I’m, like, I’m not shot at all. I couldn’t see myself.
Sam [00:04:35]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:04:35]:
So anyway, that was sad.
Sam [00:04:37]:
That’s okay. You’ll get over it. You already filmed The.
Chris [00:04:40]:
I’ve already over it years years ago. But it was still the closest I got to Lucille Lourdes.
Sam [00:04:46]:
Anyway. Yes.
Chris [00:04:48]:
But we’ve got to give a shout out to Guy, Guy, Pigdon. So, Guy is a friend of The podcast. We we’ve known Guy. Our was it 1 100th?
Sam [00:04:58]:
1 100th. Somehow, we ended up at the house.
Chris [00:05:00]:
We had our 1 100th podcast episode party at the house. So, anyway, yeah, Guy, excuse me, did a, what do you call it? A director’s workshop
Sam [00:05:11]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:12]:
Yeah, for filmmakers. Ridiculously cheap. I shouldn’t say that, but it was. And so I went along with 20 other people. It was great. He he he was very ambitious with what he wanted to cover. He had a huge list of things. I will give I gave him some feedback directly.
Chris [00:05:32]:
I said, when you because what he’s done is he’s put a slide for each topic, and then he’s filled the slide up with a lot of tags. Yeah. And as there was more text, the font got smaller and smaller.
Chris [00:05:45]:
Oh, okay. It’s so simple.
Chris [00:05:46]:
I was in the front row, and some of them I could barely read. Yeah.
Chris [00:05:50]:
The guys in the background,
Chris [00:05:52]:
no jobs.
Sam [00:05:53]:
There’s something there.
Chris [00:05:53]:
And I was like, you wanna pick The font size and just have multiple slides with The same header. Yeah. It’s all good. Anyway, but that was cool. I mean, he really has a good take on stuff. And it it you know him. He’s no bullshit. It was straight up.
Chris [00:06:10]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:10]:
And this is what you gotta do. So I I got a bunch of notes and I really enjoyed it. I know the others enjoyed it too. He was mobbed afterwards and then we went for a coffee and then I went to the The well, I went to go to the library to do some writing, but I ended up at the pub because the library was shut shut by that stage. That’s right. That’s right. So I did some writing. No.
Chris [00:06:28]:
It was good. It was a great weekend, So it was cool.
Sam [00:06:30]:
That’s cool. That’s good that it came down. I, checked out all the short films that you were in apparently. No. Actually, Sash mainly. The short there’s some, a showcase of short films at The region to Taormutu and it was part of the creative trail thing that they were having on the weekend. Yeah. And and I I just knew it was happening but I didn’t look up any of this Creative Trail stuff until the morning of.
Sam [00:06:54]:
Right?
Chris [00:06:55]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:06:55]:
Yeah. Yeah. It was at all the people’s studios or house, miles away from everywhere. You had to drive multiple kilometers to get to all these things. I’m not doing that. I thought it was a walk down the main street for some reason or nearby at least.
Chris [00:07:09]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:07:09]:
There’s not. So anyway, I watched The Sheik, which
Chris [00:07:15]:
is I haven’t seen that.
Sam [00:07:16]:
I’d be surprised if you did. I was watching it and it’s a silent film and, they had, it was a DVD they were actually playing through the projector and, it looked like at the credits at the end that they’ve added maybe the music on afterwards, and it was sort of more, in-depth music, I guess, because it’s like an orchestra, I guess. And it was pretty cool. And it was all good and it was shot okay and the story was a bit random and, I was like, oh, I don’t I have no idea what year chris is. 1921. And, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Real old.
Sam [00:07:47]:
Old. Nathan was there with his dad for the short films after that, so shout out to John and Nathan.
Chris [00:07:52]:
I’ve got a week. I’ve got 4 tickets to The Regent Cinema that I’ve got to use in the next week, and I don’t have a car. Good luck. So, yeah. Yeah. I think the Regent did well out of bribing me with those tickets. But yeah. But unless somebody listening to this, Adam, I’m thinking about No.
Chris [00:08:11]:
No. Adam Mickfall. Adam Mickfall. Unless, Adam, you wanna, go to the Regent cinema and see Dune and, But
Sam [00:08:18]:
you you have to check because some of them can’t use comps.
Chris [00:08:21]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:08:21]:
Yes. You have to check on their website. That’s where you get through. That’s when you
Chris [00:08:24]:
go say that in front of Adam. He’s listening. Fuck. We would’ve got The, and he goes, yeah. We wanna see June. I’m like, no. We can’t get into June. You might be out there.
Chris [00:08:31]:
We’re gonna watch this one instead.
Sam [00:08:35]:
Who knows?
Chris [00:08:36]:
That’s okay.
Chris [00:08:37]:
It’s all good.
Sam [00:08:38]:
Do you know that there’s a Mike Tyson versus Jake versus Jake Paul fight coming up? Have you seen all
Chris [00:08:43]:
those Mike Tyson short reels? Yes.
Sam [00:08:46]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:46]:
So it’s all like that’s what I’m saying. I mean, I’d sorta heard about it, and then I’d see all these Mike Tyson shorts. And he’s He’s scary as
Sam [00:08:53]:
He’s a machine. So I think Jake Paul, said I’m gonna fight you to because they’ve had a little, Mike Tyson did some sort of belt somewhere back in the day 6 months ago or a year ago.
Chris [00:09:06]:
Oh really?
Sam [00:09:06]:
Yeah. I think so. And I think it might have been just an exhibition fight because I don’t think he had full retard, and Jake Paul was The and or something like that.
Chris [00:09:14]:
Yeah. So The And Jake Paul, to give him some credit, he he put some work in and he
Sam [00:09:21]:
He does put
Chris [00:09:21]:
the word okay boxer. Yes.
Sam [00:09:24]:
So this is going to be they’ve done a deal with Netflix, I think it is, and it might be one of the biggest streamed things in the world ever, sporting events. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. So it’s massive. There’s a bunch of rules that they’ve put in. So Jake Paul is allowed to wear all the headgear and everything and there’s they said if Mike Tyson doesn’t go full normal and just knock him out then obviously he’s been paid and it’s like worthless. But those training videos, he’s a machine. The guy that’s holding the pads
Chris [00:09:55]:
for him is getting pummeled at the end. He’s like
Sam [00:09:58]:
and Mike Tyson keeps saying, I’m not going. He’s like, you wanna fight? I’ll fight you.
Chris [00:10:02]:
I I think Mike Tyson in the ring has and speed. Like that was always his thing. Like he’s got one speed.
Sam [00:10:08]:
So I I hope he just I hope he just goes full Mike Tyson on him.
Chris [00:10:12]:
Yeah. Yeah. I I And and
Sam [00:10:13]:
go, look. This is what pro this is a pro boxer. He’s 56 or something.
Chris [00:10:17]:
I know. That was the thing that got me. I was like, how old is Mike? Because I, you know, I watched Mike Tyson when I was younger.
Sam [00:10:23]:
Yeah. He’s been around.
Chris [00:10:24]:
Yeah. He’s been a bit younger than me, but, you know, I was, yeah. I was fighting when he was fighting. That’s a long time ago.
Sam [00:10:33]:
That’s right. If you had to lose your hand in an accident, how would you want to do that? It’s just a philosophical question.
Chris [00:10:41]:
A clean-cut off, I think. Rather than being crushed or something
Sam [00:10:47]:
like that. Yeah. So this woman, was using a hairdryer and she passed out. And then the hairdryer basically cooked her hand for 20 minutes as she’s unconscious. Wakes up, got to amputate it. So she’s lucky it wasn’t blowing in her face or, I don’t know, on her chest, I guess. Weird, The is bizarre.
Chris [00:11:08]:
Was The a dominant hand, or was it held in The dominant hand and it it blew on the other hand?
Sam [00:11:13]:
Jesus, you’re asking a bunch of questions. I don’t know. I mean I don’t know about that. And happened on February 7th. She just went unconscious. She just woke up. It caused all, like, The nerve damage is what did it. Her partner found her and rushed her to the hospital and, they’re like, no, we have to amputate that.’ And she’s sort of saying like she’s calling for hairdryers to have automatic shutoff features similar to what some flat irons do.
Sam [00:11:40]:
But I don’t know like it’s just one of those freak accidents really isn’t it? Yeah. It’s a tough one.
Chris [00:11:45]:
I I
Chris [00:11:45]:
I no. I actually think The that automatic shutoff is not a bad idea.
Sam [00:11:49]:
It should be like it.
Chris [00:11:50]:
Because it’s a heat source Yeah. And there’s a whole bunch of other things that could happen. Start a fire, kids playing with it, all that sort of thing. So that there should be an automatic shutoff. I and I actually was surprised that there isn’t. You know? Mhmm. I don’t know how that would work exactly. You know, like, 2 minutes without it moving and it’s still blowing, it turns off.
Sam [00:12:10]:
Yes. It should. Yes. Okay. Yeah. It
Chris [00:12:12]:
should do that. Sort of thing like that. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Cool. I had a big meeting to this week. Yeah.
Chris [00:12:19]:
I I was little bit intimidated. I I did fine in the end. But going into it, I was a little bit intimidated. So I got contacted by the deputy vice chancellor of research for the University of Waikato. So I went out there.
Sam [00:12:34]:
Okay. So it’s a process date title. Yes.
Chris [00:12:37]:
Yeah. I know. I had to practice it. The deputy advice chancellor of research.
Sam [00:12:42]:
So what I’m gonna say is, like, quite high up?
Chris [00:12:44]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:12:45]:
Okay. And they want to know how we’ve been doing a podcast for almost 10 years and made no money. Is that all it was?
Chris [00:12:53]:
Not quite. Okay. But yeah. And so I was there. He’s an older guy, nice and, really nice guy, Gary. And then he had, 2 Jesses. Just to make it easy on you, we got 2 girls called Jess. One’s legal and one was the communications, and then Sean was, events manager.
Chris [00:13:11]:
And so they’re talking about doing TEDx, and they wanted to sort of have my input on that. And And you’re like, I’ve got
Sam [00:13:17]:
a whole system. I know how it works. I’ve got it ready to go.
Chris [00:13:21]:
Yeah. Pretty much.
Sam [00:13:23]:
Okay. Interesting. So they’ve been talking to Quentin or not?
Chris [00:13:26]:
Not yet. I’m actually catching up with Quentin. As we’re recording this, I’m catching up tomorrow for, for coffee in the morning. And that’s the thing. They want because it’s a big, what do you call it, birthday for The? This year, university birthday. Okay. I believe you. I don’t know.
Chris [00:13:44]:
I don’t know either.
Chris [00:13:45]:
How old? It’s important to know. I didn’t ask.
Sam [00:13:47]:
Exactly. Okay. Let’s just say 100, 150.
Chris [00:13:51]:
Yeah. Hundred.
Chris [00:13:52]:
I don’t know. Something like that, probably.
Sam [00:13:53]:
Someone back check
Chris [00:13:54]:
us. Wanna ask because I didn’t wanna look stupid inside the
Sam [00:13:56]:
I and seen anything about it, so I don’t know.
Chris [00:13:59]:
Yeah. Anyway, so they want to do the big event, but, of course, the 1st year, you can only have a and in there.
Sam [00:14:05]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:14:05]:
So I’m talking to Quentin and see if we can get him on and advisory board as a license holder and see if we can circumvent that and thing. Otherwise, they’re looking at, oh, we’ll just do 1 a week. Oh, I’m not
Sam [00:14:18]:
fucking kidding. Week? No. No. We’re all The quality here. I need 9 month lead up.
Chris [00:14:22]:
Yeah. Well, it’s a 3 month lead up. But yeah. The yeah. No. They seriously had been thinking about doing quarterlies or something like The. Because I said, have you got enough researchers? Because that’s the point. They wanna get these research people.
Sam [00:14:35]:
Oh, okay. K. K. K.
Chris [00:14:37]:
Because it’ll be university. Oh, TEDx University of Waikato. Yes.
Sam [00:14:42]:
Because they have uni based and, don’t they? Is that right?
Chris [00:14:44]:
So they have a special, license with that as well.
Sam [00:14:47]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:14:48]:
And but we were checking it as we’re in the meeting, and they were like, oh, no. It’s still a and. So I don’t know if if having Quentin if I can talk him into it. He’s probably gonna listen to this, but it’ll be after the meeting.
Sam [00:15:00]:
Yes. It’ll be after the meeting. So it’s okay, Quentin. Whatever you say, whatever you tell Chris, it’s fine because right now everything’s good.
Chris [00:15:07]:
It’s all good. It’s all good. And I don’t know what the answer is.
Sam [00:15:10]:
And you’ll be in a speaker coach? So how did they get hold of you before Queensland?
Chris [00:15:14]:
Sarah Burns. You know? Do you know Sarah Burns? She worked with me at Telecom.
Sam [00:15:18]:
No. I’m thinking of different people.
Chris [00:15:19]:
She yeah. She was my boss for ages at Telecom while I was doing the texting. So yeah. She works at uni now. So she called on good. Initially, and then he checked it out. But Gary spoke at TEDx. I think he’s spoken twice.
Chris [00:15:33]:
He spoke at TEDxScott Base because he was the
Sam [00:15:35]:
Of course. For 4 years,
Chris [00:15:36]:
he was the Scott Base he ran Scott base or something like that.
Sam [00:15:39]:
Well, that’s pretty interesting, isn’t it?
Chris [00:15:41]:
No. He’s a cool guy, and, and I think he spoke at TEDx Christchurch because that’s, like, he was a University of Otago professor he still is so yeah.
Sam [00:15:51]:
I’m just staring out the window as a small pubescent teenager maybe with a bike is trying to get past my car. If he touches it, it’s on.
Chris [00:16:00]:
You should bleep The. I’ll scare him. That’s right.
Sam [00:16:04]:
Oh, no. So anyway, TEDx, whatever. What can
Chris [00:16:07]:
I do? Yeah. Potentially. University work there.
Sam [00:16:09]:
That’s exciting. Now do you have can you can you charge for coaching or is it is everyone a volunteer? I wasn’t sure.
Chris [00:16:17]:
It’s a good question because I think it’s different for the The. So they might be able to pay me.
Sam [00:16:22]:
The contractor. Yeah. Triple whatever you’re thinking. That’s my advice to him all the time or even teaming he does. That’s what
Chris [00:16:28]:
he says all the time.
Chris [00:16:30]:
Triple it.
Sam [00:16:31]:
You know who could use a bit
Chris [00:16:33]:
of money? Who?
Sam [00:16:34]:
There’s this dude
Chris [00:16:35]:
Other than Trump. Oh, I’d rather know.
Sam [00:16:37]:
Oh, yeah. Chris dude is suing the US government, for $9,500,000 lawsuit because back in March 12, 2019, this real estate attorney and passionate snowmobile rider, Jeff Smith, Hoped on a snowmobile going back to his home after visiting his mother as you do just plating around. He used a well known snowmobile trail as he always did. Zapping, doing all this stuff. At the same time, oh no, at the same highway speed. So he’s at 65 miles an hour just at and kilometers. He crashes into a Black Hawk helicopter.
Chris [00:17:16]:
Yeah. I actually had read this. Yeah. So it The Black Hawk helicopter is parked there.
Sam [00:17:24]:
Yes. It’s been there a couple hours.
Chris [00:17:25]:
Yeah. It is actually part of an airfield and these Blackhawk helicopters are allowed to park there, but they haven’t parked there for 2 years.
Sam [00:17:34]:
Okay. So he’s just never come across sam before?
Chris [00:17:36]:
He’s never come across one before and the the track cuts through this airfield. So he I don’t know what his chances
Sam [00:17:43]:
are. I don’t know. He did
Chris [00:17:45]:
get I
Chris [00:17:45]:
mean, you think they’d put an orange flag off the tail? Because my understanding is he hit the tail. He hit the but I might be wrong. I might have just imagined that’s what
Chris [00:17:54]:
happened.
Sam [00:17:55]:
I think it did. I think it was the back, but he did end up with, broken ribs, punctured lung, internal bleeding. He was in hospital for a month. To this day he can’t move his right arm and has breathing issues and has an oxygen machine. So that’s
Chris [00:18:07]:
not good. But the crew saved his life.
Sam [00:18:10]:
I mean if you’re gonna crash into something you obviously that’s very handy Yeah. Having those guys there.
Chris [00:18:16]:
Yeah. They they weren’t in the helicopter. The helicopter had been there, like you said, for a couple of hours. They were in a nearby accommodation, I assume, or shed or whatever they were and. But they heard the crash, which I imagine was pretty significant. Came out and find found this guy trying to breathe. They they did a bunch of medical stuff, which if they hadn’t done, he would have died.
Sam [00:18:38]:
So before this judgment comes out in the next couple of months he already filed an action against the owners of the airfield which was allowing both the snowmobiles and the Blackhawk on the airfield and that got settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. So I’d I’d it’s not like they
Chris [00:18:55]:
have an air controller for the freaking snowmobiles. No. You’ve got to loop around again. I’m afraid there’s a Blackhawk helicopter on. But I
Sam [00:19:03]:
think if you’ve done that with the the owner of the airfield that that’s it. Like that’s that’s the problem there, isn’t it? It’s not the helicopter. The helicopter’s allowed to be there. The dude’s allowed to be there. Yeah. You could argue you didn’t see what you’re doing. What lights did you have on?
Chris [00:19:17]:
Yeah. Yeah. I I I don’t I don’t rate his chances on
Sam [00:19:22]:
I don’t rate it either.
Chris [00:19:23]:
Yeah. Speaking of money though, did you see that re the Reddit CEO thing got thrown up a little bit?
Sam [00:19:31]:
No. What happened?
Chris [00:19:32]:
So Reddit CEO has, I’ll just read the headline because that pretty much says it all. Okay. Reddit CEO, Steve Huffman defends and $193,000,000 compensation following backlash from unpaid moderators.
Sam [00:19:47]:
Don’t worry about it. He doesn’t he’s doing the he’s doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes. Yeah. And everybody else that’s doing the actual work are ungrateful slobs.
Chris [00:19:56]:
Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. He goes, well, if the company does well, I will do well. Okay. Yeah. Dude, you’re just screwing the pooch, honestly.
Sam [00:20:10]:
It’s a bit weird, because the other, who’s the main guy that, died The founded Reddit?
Chris [00:20:16]:
I can’t remember his name. I do know who you mean.
Sam [00:20:18]:
So there’s a pod Swartz Schwartz? Aaron Swartz. I think Swartzman? Swatch. Anyway, they did, Behind the Bastards Christmas episode on him.
Chris [00:20:28]:
Oh, the Christmas episodes the reverse where he’s a good guy.
Sam [00:20:31]:
Super clever, super talented guy and basically The, yeah. There was there was like 3 things he invented. RSS feed, Reddit, and something else and he’s the driving force between all those three things and basically for the The. Super clever dude. Government came after him for one thing and hounded him nonstop and because he’s on the spectrum he just couldn’t deal with it basically.
Chris [00:20:55]:
Wow. But, yeah. That reminds me of something I was reading and I sort of knew part of the story, but I didn’t realize all of it. And so this might be a little x rated if you got kids and, not maybe not. But, Hetty Lamarr. You’ve heard of Hedy Lamarr? No. She was a silver screen actress from Hollywood back in the thirties, forties? I don’t know. Okay.
Chris [00:21:16]:
Back
Sam [00:21:16]:
in the So you’re about 10 then.
Chris [00:21:17]:
Yeah. Yep. Black and white. Okay. Yes. And she is the first this is what I didn’t know. She’s the first woman to ever fake an orgasm on screen. Okay.
Chris [00:21:28]:
She did the whole, ah. Yeah. Whatever.
Sam [00:21:30]:
That’s exactly how it goes.
Chris [00:21:31]:
Yeah. That’s exactly how it goes. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:32]:
Anything else is a lie.
Sam [00:21:35]:
Welcome to the The And podcast.
Chris [00:21:36]:
And so it it she became the seductress. It it blew people away. They just couldn’t believe
Sam [00:21:42]:
that
Chris [00:21:42]:
that was on screen and all the rest Yeah. And so she was, slated a seductress was not a good thing No. No. No. Back then, so it really ruined her her career. Well, it it tainted her career. But she was also probably the smartest woman in Hollywood.
Chris [00:21:59]:
Mhmm.
Chris [00:21:59]:
Okay. Because she came up with she, worked out the, oh, god. I can’t I even I don’t know what it is. Whatever it is that makes Wi Fi possible.
Sam [00:22:09]:
Oh, yes.
Chris [00:22:10]:
And Yep. And sam radar type thing.
Sam [00:22:14]:
Yep.
Chris [00:22:14]:
So it was all interconnected. And she worked out the math for that and, gave it away. She didn’t sell it. She gave it away, I think, for the war or whatever it was at the time. Probably. Yep. And, yeah, one of the smartest women ever and but, no, that’s not how No. No.
Chris [00:22:32]:
I know. I The.
Sam [00:22:33]:
It’s crazy.
Chris [00:22:33]:
At the time. Yeah. Just blows my mind.
Sam [00:22:35]:
There was a story today, and I I just love it. It’s so good. 2 brothers in India have been fined for converting their car into an imitation helicopter.
Chris [00:22:45]:
An imitation helicopter. So it’s not taking off?
Sam [00:22:48]:
Well, you tell me if that can take off.
Chris [00:23:00]:
So There’s a there’s a there’s a a playground down the road from me Yeah. Opposite The Foursquare there, and they’ve got this helicopter for the kids to play. And it’s quite a big thing with a little tiny helicopter
Sam [00:23:13]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:14]:
Spinning blades on top. So
Sam [00:23:16]:
okay. I’m gonna quote New Zealand dollars here. They brought the car just under $2,000. It’s a Suzuki Wagon R. So it’s like a cube. And of those cube. It’s like a Nissan cube. Yep.
Sam [00:23:27]:
And they’re bolted on like a little tiny rotor on The. And a tiny rotor.
Chris [00:23:31]:
And I cannot I cannot I reemphasize at this point how tiny the rotor is. I don’t think it reaches the edge of the roof.
Sam [00:23:39]:
No. And and they built this giant tail coming out the back. Right?
Chris [00:23:43]:
Yeah. And it took
Sam [00:23:44]:
them several weeks. And, they got pulled over by the police and they got fined $40 for illegally modifying their car. Right? Yeah. They made the fine. They let them go. They got the car back. They’re back at their house. All the neighbors, all the people all come to seen it.
Sam [00:24:00]:
They think it’s great. Why did they build it? To advertise something. No. No. I don’t know. The are going to charge people $99 a day and there’s people lined up that want them to finish it so they can do it at weddings.
Chris [00:24:16]:
I arrived at the helicopter.
Sam [00:24:18]:
No. It’s just gonna sit there. Or maybe you do drive it. I don’t know.
Chris [00:24:26]:
I can’t I can’t go for that picture. So if that’s not oh, no. We’re gonna do an AI picture for The episode
Sam [00:24:42]:
We’ve got several requests from people for the helicopter car, but we haven’t made any bookings yet. We’re just trying to get it finished. Once it’s ready, only then we’ll start taking the bookings.
Chris [00:24:51]:
I will say that tail looks pretty good.
Sam [00:24:53]:
Oh, yeah. It looks like But it’s still gonna look like Legit ass. It’s still gonna look like a helicopter, A weird helicopter crashed into the back of a little car.
Chris [00:25:01]:
Well, I mean, they’ve gotta be careful about snowbobiles.
Sam [00:25:04]:
Yes. Right.
Chris [00:25:04]:
That’s exactly
Chris [00:25:05]:
That’s the main thing. We’ve gotta follow
Sam [00:25:08]:
the story because I wanna know if they’re gonna build a body going on and the outside of the car to sort of hide the car or if that’s it. And and they’re just gonna paint it.
Chris [00:25:17]:
Yeah. Because if they make a better body for that, then, yeah, it’ll be legit.
Sam [00:25:21]:
I mean, it’s something Legit’s the wrong word.
Chris [00:25:27]:
Okay. The they took all my fancy. That’s awesome.
Chris [00:25:30]:
I
Sam [00:25:30]:
thought it might.
Chris [00:25:32]:
Okay. So, one one last thing. Well, one one thing I was gonna mention, for those that have been, signed up for my newsletter, I sent out and a late episode. So I’d missed a week. This is what put me off. And I’ve been trying to be as consistent as we are here at the Chris and Sam Posse. You’ve been
Sam [00:25:50]:
very consistent with your newsletter, I have to say.
Chris [00:25:52]:
So the newsletter is a compelling communicator, and I’ve enjoyed doing it. But I realized that or I feel that I don’t haven’t been giving it quite the, love or quality it deserves. So, I’m trying to create a better workflow so it means my I’m going to let go of the it must go out on the Monday at 10 o’clock thing, which means it may be late a few times until I get this, workflow sorted out, but the quality should remain high because I’m starting to feel like I was writing madly like a monkey together now and it wasn’t the best quality. So I’m that’s what I’m doing in the meantime, but I’d hope to get the workflow sorted so that it will eventually get back to the consistently on time, but with better quality.
Sam [00:26:38]:
Yeah. Very good. Where can people sign up for that?
Chris [00:26:41]:
At thecompellingcommunicator.beehive.com.
Sam [00:26:46]:
Just look for that.
Chris [00:26:48]:
We have a link
Sam [00:26:48]:
in the show notes. And if you get stuck, just
Chris [00:26:51]:
hit us up. If you Google The compelling communicator You’ll
Sam [00:26:54]:
get on someone’s list. Yeah. There’s a story, the American Academy of Audiology of all things have come out and said that we humans are the only actual animal that has a chin. Every other animal that you think has a chin, it’s usually the bottom of The lower part of the mandible, which is their jaw and we’ve got a true chin which is the bony part that juts out and, The there’s no neat there’s no real reason for it it’s just The thing we’ve got. It serves no real I was
Chris [00:27:31]:
gonna say I’ve got a prominent chin you I don’t know it’s behind here.
Sam [00:27:35]:
No I don’t I don’t think so But they they don’t really scientists don’t really think it serves a purpose. The theory was that it helped us chew, but that got debunked. They just don’t really help with speech and, yeah. They’re just The thing that happened. We’ll likely never know why we actually have The.
Chris [00:27:56]:
But weird, Like, it is weird, but it’s interesting the audiology, likes that because the one thing that I would say chins are used for The I I’ve heard of is is deaf people putting their chin on pianos on other people’s chin. For the vibrations. Yeah.
Sam [00:28:17]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:28:18]:
Because I’m pretty sure Helen Keller, there’s something about her doing that
Sam [00:28:21]:
Okay.
Chris [00:28:22]:
Back in the day. And, yeah, and I’ve I’ve heard chris.
Sam [00:28:26]:
No. It could be. Yeah. Just I’m just lucky that’s boning, I guess.
Chris [00:28:30]:
Because it all resonates through. Yeah. And that’s that’s the reason. I don’t know if The
Sam [00:28:35]:
And if you want to listen to the Chris and Sam podcast, you can get a speaker, Bluetooth speaker, and just rest your chin against it, and you’ll hear Chris laughing
Chris [00:28:42]:
through your body, it’ll vibrate through it,
Sam [00:28:45]:
and maybe you 2 will fake an orgasm. Okay. That brings us
Chris [00:28:53]:
that’s right.
Sam [00:28:53]:
That brings us to the end of this amazing podcast. What do you will you retold us what happened? I’m judging a pumpkin event tomorrow. Oh, are you? Yeah. To Kaufai School.
Chris [00:29:02]:
Oh, cool.
Sam [00:29:02]:
It’ll be my 4th or 5th year I’ve been doing that. They’ll let me turn up
Chris [00:29:06]:
and I I will get my last few, invoices, tax what do you call it? Expense account things. Yeah. So this last year, for whatever reason, I went, nah. I won’t bother every month putting my expenses together.
Sam [00:29:24]:
Yep.
Chris [00:29:24]:
Which is all I’m doing is putting the PDFs into Henry. Henry does it all anyway. That’s right. Sponsored by Henry. Yep. I wish. But, no. I left it all and did it all on one day, which took me 5 hours.
Chris [00:29:39]:
I said it’s And, and then there’s obviously, some invoices that are coming in at the moment. So
Sam [00:29:44]:
Very good.
Chris [00:29:46]:
Everybody needed to know about that. That’s just amazing. What I’m saying is next year, I’ll be doing it every month, and I won’t be leaving it all till last minute.
Sam [00:29:56]:
Very good.
Chris [00:29:57]:
You can hold me to that.
Sam [00:30:00]:
Until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:01]:
Bye, Chris.
Sam [00:30:02]:
I’ll see you.
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