That's Not a Hedgehog - EP474 - The Chris and Sam Podcast

Summary

We start off with a quick update on Trumps latest grift which will probably make him millions.

Chris has been smashing his way through the book series Dungeon crawler carl

Sam had a meeting this week and caught up with Spencer from Shift 72 to find out what they do.

We then talk about the Baltimore bridge collapse, the fish doorbell, a meteorite finder, the first New Zealander to finish the Barkley Marathon, a hedgehog that’s real and an expensive movie prop.

We learn about the Lego faced criminals and what Brian Tamaki and his silly followers have been up to this week.

All this and much more. Come have a listen.

Show Transcript

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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode and of the Chris and Sam podcast.

Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.

Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life in 30 minutes or less.

Chris [00:00:31]:
Yes. 30 minutes. That’s the deadline.

Sam [00:00:33]:
Let’s go.

Chris [00:00:35]:
Just because you don’t wanna hear about it, have you heard about Trump’s latest grift? No. He’s selling can you imagine what he’s selling? Can you give a guess?

Sam [00:00:43]:
Well, he had the shoes the other week. So now it’s He’s

Chris [00:00:46]:
had the shoes. He’s had the NFTs.

Sam [00:00:48]:
Some sort of hair care product.

Chris [00:00:50]:
No. Oh, he had the scent. Don’t forget The the scent.

Sam [00:00:53]:
Oh, yeah. Okay. Go.

Chris [00:00:54]:
What is it? Bibles. God bless the USA Bibles. He’ll make so much money. 60 US dollars a Bible.

Sam [00:01:00]:
And are they just normal or is he something has he what are they telling him?

Chris [00:01:03]:
With the constitution Oh. And the, oath of something or other or some some other crap. He’s probably gonna make a ton of money.

Sam [00:01:11]:
I assume there’s a crossover between his supporters and

Chris [00:01:14]:
Yeah. Oh, there is. Huge evangelical thing. But yeah. So he’s, he’s partnering with some guy, obviously.

Sam [00:01:21]:
Of course.

Chris [00:01:21]:
Some, the gemstones. He’s partnering with the gem The gemstones. Yes. The righteous gemstones for those not in the house.

Sam [00:01:28]:
Have you been up to anything since last episode? That’s what I was gonna ask you.

Chris [00:01:33]:
One thing. K. Go ahead. I have, read 3 books in a series called the, Kyle the Dungeon Crawler. Dungeon Crawler Kyle series. It’s a little bit like,

Sam [00:01:46]:
A 14 year old boy’s story. No?

Chris [00:01:49]:
Ready Player 1.

Sam [00:01:50]:
Oh, okay. Okay.

Chris [00:01:50]:
It’s a bit like Ready Player 1. That’s the nearest thing I can say. Okay. But, yeah, it’s it’s almost like Dungeons and Dragons meets Space Aliens.

Sam [00:01:58]:
So you quite liked it though because you smashed through The works?

Chris [00:02:00]:
Yeah. I I I just bought the other the next 3.

Sam [00:02:03]:
How many The you?

Chris [00:02:04]:
There’s only 6 in The series.

Sam [00:02:05]:
Oh, okay.

Chris [00:02:05]:
Season series. I thought I’d buy 3 and I because I hate finishing 1 and then not being able to start the next. And then I ended up reading 3 of them in, like, 3 days. How long how long are The, though?

Sam [00:02:17]:
I can’t I know you read you can read a lot,

Chris [00:02:20]:
but I

Sam [00:02:20]:
don’t know if they’re normal sized novels?

Chris [00:02:22]:
Yeah. They’re normal.

Sam [00:02:23]:
Okay.

Chris [00:02:24]:
The reading time it says the reading time is like 7 hours on them.

Sam [00:02:27]:
Yeah. It’s a smash out.

Chris [00:02:29]:
Up. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so it’s the biggest thing I’ve done. What about you?

Sam [00:02:32]:
I had a meeting today with Paige with the shift 72 people. Well, when I say people, it

Chris [00:02:37]:
was just and. Spencer, shout out. I’m sorry. I’m blanking. I was like Shift 72.

Sam [00:02:41]:
Yeah. So Shift and is a Waikato company that has a, online platform to stream movies for film festivals.

Chris [00:02:49]:
Around the world, not just in New Zealand?

Sam [00:02:51]:
Yeah. So they started off really big. So it sounds like from the gist of it, they sort of came up with an idea before the pandemic and that hit and they went They’re

Chris [00:03:00]:
in the money.

Sam [00:03:01]:
It seemed like it. They’re in a new office, and it was

Chris [00:03:04]:
very nice office on, Victoria Street actually.

Sam [00:03:07]:
Yeah. It was good. Good conversation. They came to do something with Misty Flix. Not too sure what that means. But they do, like, trying to get more in with the New Zealand film festivals. They’re in with some of The. But what they’re finding is, it’s funny, you you like The story.

Sam [00:03:22]:
He said, sometimes they’ll they’ll part they’ll they’ll help someone out. They’ll do some stuff. And then whatever reason, the people go, that’s not working for us. And he’s like, okay. Goes to their website. There’s like no link anywhere to go to this thing, this platform. And he goes, well, how did you tell people? Oh, we did a post on Facebook, like, 9 months ago. And he goes, okay.

Chris [00:03:42]:
Yes. Alright. So, for anyone listening, the Misty Flix challenge is open. You can register now to, make a film for the competition. I know we’ve got at least and entry in because they’ve told me.

Sam [00:03:54]:
Nice.

Chris [00:03:55]:
Thanks, Adam. And, he’s he’s paid, and, I have no notifications. And need to, catch up with Maddie and go, who are these notifications going to?

Sam [00:04:05]:
Wouldn’t have a clue. I haven’t seen anything either. So that’s good. Yeah. So what have you got? Have you

Chris [00:04:12]:
seen this Baltimore Bridge thing?

Sam [00:04:13]:
Oh, that was crazy. Look at The go.

Chris [00:04:15]:
It is, It was it was it was interesting. So I managed to watch a, a nautical man. I don’t know what you call him. Some some dude that

Sam [00:04:24]:
A vocation expert?

Chris [00:04:25]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A nautical

Sam [00:04:26]:
a nautical man. Okay. Yeah.

Chris [00:04:29]:
Good. Yeah. Whatever. Anyway, so he was sort of going through. It was fascinating though because he goes, right. You can see as it’s coming because they had that, camera

Sam [00:04:38]:
That white shot.

Chris [00:04:39]:
Static camera. Yep. Just looks at the bridge, and he said you can see the lights coming off and you can see the smoke here coming out. Mhmm. It shouldn’t be belching that smoke. So something’s gone wrong and. And all the lit, lights have gone off on the The, so everything’s gone. So what he’s done is he’s lost his lost way, lost lost steam.

Chris [00:04:59]:
They managed to get it on, but he’s hit reverse.

Sam [00:05:02]:
He hit reverse.

Chris [00:05:03]:
Now when you hit, he said it would have been better if he just left all the engines off and because he he’s still got forward motion and the rudder could still steer. Yeah. Okay. Because he hit reverse and it’s a single prop, it sort of does that like it

Sam [00:05:18]:
Like the

Chris [00:05:19]:
side? Like a pendulum with the front being the the bottom of the pendulum.

Sam [00:05:23]:
Oh. And so That’s

Chris [00:05:24]:
it wasn’t enough to bring it back, but it was enough to take it off course. Yeah. And it’s just swiped. It went again, like The power went again. And so they did The had no control again, and so it’s aiming in the wrong direction. They managed to they told the, port authority who who stopped traffic from the bridge Okay.

Sam [00:05:42]:
But, obviously, there were

Chris [00:05:44]:
some people still already on there. I don’t know how long it took them to stop the traffic. But, yeah, when you look at that and you go I mean, I know the video that I saw, most videos were 4 times speed up. Oh, okay. And. And and it falls really quickly. But even so, that’s The

Sam [00:06:00]:
was a big span.

Chris [00:06:00]:
That Yeah. It’s a it’s a mile.

Sam [00:06:02]:
Oh, yeah. It just drops.

Chris [00:06:03]:
It’s a mile span. So if you haven’t seen that video, look it up. But I think everybody probably would have seen that. It it’s fascinating. It doesn’t take well, as you say, it doesn’t take a lot to down a a bridge, container ship. That’s a lot. Yeah. Yeah.

Sam [00:06:20]:
That’s right.

Chris [00:06:21]:
In fact, you look at it and you go, that wait. That’s supposed to fit under that bridge? Under my yeah. Apparently it does. Yeah. Have you heard of

Sam [00:06:29]:
the fish doorbell? I learned to that this week.

Chris [00:06:31]:
The fish doorbell? No.

Sam [00:06:34]:
So it’s a doorbell and you can help some fish. So every spring, this is through the city of Utrecht Utrecht, wherever that is.

Chris [00:06:43]:
Germany.

Sam [00:06:44]:
Yep. And so every spring, these fish migrate upstream and, search for places to spawn. And they go through the city center, but the boat lock is closed during spring. You but you can help the fish. So they’ve got like a streaming camera underwater and it’s just like black and white, I don’t know, dark grainy just water going podcast, and at the so that’s based at the bottom of the boat lock. When you see a fish, you press the button, and it basically takes a photo. So I think they see that, and the ecologists are like, oh, they can see it, and it sort of tracks it and then when so many people hit the button, it sort of opens it a little bit, it leaves the fish out and closes again. But it says here, hey, if the doorbell is not there, it’s okay, but please note we’ve only got 950 streams available.

Sam [00:07:30]:
Like, that’s how many times they can do it. We did not expect so many to help, but we can stream it live on YouTube, but YouTube doesn’t have the doorbell feature. So you might have to open 2 screens just to see this doorbell. It says The fish are increasing in the next couple of days and it’s good, even though it’s still cloudy, you might see something but you gotta be fast enough to

Chris [00:07:51]:
click the button, to take the picture. This is this is this is almost like your minutiae.

Sam [00:07:58]:
Oh, don’t worry. I’ve got my phone off silent in case that goes off because it went off twice yesterday and it didn’t hasn’t gone off today yet. Oh. So anyway, yeah. So that’s happened and, which is cool. And the other thing that I thought was pretty cool this week before I

Chris [00:08:13]:
get into, dickhead of the week. Chris, Greg, Greg, Greg. Chris?

Sam [00:08:20]:
It’s it’s Greg.

Chris [00:08:21]:
C c r a

Sam [00:08:22]:
I? No. No.

Chris [00:08:23]:
It’s Greg with a g and

Sam [00:08:24]:
an I. Greg. Greg Hamilton, he becomes the 1st New Zealander to finish that Barclay marathon. Did you see that? No. Oh, so this Barclay marathon is a 100 miles. Right?

Chris [00:08:36]:
Right.

Sam [00:08:36]:
Which isn’t that like it’s it’s ultra marathon whatever. People who’ve done that before. It’s got a 60 hour time limit to do it.

Chris [00:08:43]:
Oh, okay.

Sam [00:08:44]:
He did it. He had 21 minutes left, I think. And he’s the only the 19th finisher in 38 years.

Chris [00:08:52]:
Holy crap. Because it has an elevation twice the

Sam [00:08:55]:
height of Everest. That’s how much they go up

Chris [00:08:57]:
and down basically on this track. And this story is absolutely terrible

Sam [00:09:02]:
because, it’s got some weird rule where you have to run you have to be with people for the first 3 or 4 laps or something And then after that, you can sort of go through. So this year, they actually had 5 finishes.

Chris [00:09:17]:
Oh, wow.

Sam [00:09:18]:
So the most finishes ever in and race. Yeah. It’s pretty crazy. The fastest time was 58 hours and 44 minutes.

Chris [00:09:24]:
A bounce. Just

Sam [00:09:24]:
a Good question. It’s it’s it’s at Barclay.

Chris [00:09:29]:
Okay. Alright. Thanks. I’m assuming it’s the US.

Sam [00:09:33]:
Yes. Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee, US. There we go.

Chris [00:09:38]:
Okay.

Sam [00:09:38]:
So it happens. Now and dickhead of the week.

Chris [00:09:40]:
Oh, no. Come on. Come on. Give me a go. Have you seen the hedgehog thing?

Sam [00:09:44]:
What’s the I don’t know. Maybe. What is it?

Chris [00:09:47]:
So it’s it’s Oh, is

Sam [00:09:48]:
it the stupid photo of the woman that Yeah. It’s Yeah. Okay.

Chris [00:09:51]:
So the story is

Sam [00:09:52]:
I don’t know about it. Someone just

Chris [00:09:54]:
found the tassel of a, a pom pom of a hat, and it looks like The was something else.

Sam [00:09:59]:
Yeah. That’s right. The was. Sort of.

Chris [00:10:01]:
And and raced it off to the local hedgehog chris station and in, in the UK because they have these hedgehog rescue stations. And so there’s a photo of this pom pom or whatever the hell it is next to a, you know, a a a bowl of water and a bowl of cat food.

Sam [00:10:19]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:10:19]:
Now I don’t believe it at all.

Sam [00:10:21]:
I don’t believe it at all.

Chris [00:10:21]:
But I think it is the best marketing thing they’ve ever done.

Sam [00:10:25]:
So is it?

Chris [00:10:26]:
I think it’s a marketing thing. I think they threw it up in social media and said Okay. This is the story. Because how else are you gonna raise elevate people looking at hedgehog rescue? Nobody gives a shit. That’s right. You go, some dear old granny’s lost their marbles. Everybody’s like, that’s hilarious.

Sam [00:10:44]:
And you get some podcasts talking about it in New Zealand.

Chris [00:10:47]:
Yeah. I and and that story went around the world. Mhmm. Okay. Who’s the dickhead?

Sam [00:10:52]:
Russell Chris.

Chris [00:10:54]:
Oh, yeah. Okay. I think we all knew that. Did you hear him about getting the wax about the dolphins? No. No. I don’t know. Oh, okay. I I’m I’m I’m thinking 20 years ago.

Sam [00:11:02]:
Oh, no.

Chris [00:11:02]:
No. No. So recently.

Sam [00:11:04]:
So there’s a series of racing called SailGP Okay. And they were doing it down in Christchurch. And last Sunday, I think it was, last Saturday actually, in Littleton Harbour, there were some dolphin sightings on the race course. So they said, we’re going to stop it. So there’s 10 chris, they sat around on their boats for about 90 minutes, they decided to cancel that day’s schedule and call it off. It’s the 2nd time in as many events in the harbor that dolphin sightings have caused The delay. He got completely upset about it. He went on a complete rant on radio for like 10 minutes.

Sam [00:11:38]:
He didn’t talk for that long. And he’s like, they’re not endangered. Just go. It doesn’t matter. They’re in the water. And now and The now

Chris [00:11:44]:
I totally agree with them.

Sam [00:11:46]:
And the conservationists are like, no. They are it’s a it is a, it is a Maui? Maui? No. Hector. Hector. It is a it is a protected sort of species. So anyway, I got a bit upset about it and they’re talking about moving it and stuff.

Chris [00:11:58]:
I I appreciate that The not, I appreciate that they’re endangered, but I don’t see how a boat race would beat them.

Sam [00:12:08]:
Well, this is this is SailGP. They’re going pretty quick.

Chris [00:12:10]:
I think if they turn, they

Sam [00:12:10]:
could just hit a dolphin. I guess they don’t want the bad publicity of having a dolphin cut in half. I don’t know.

Chris [00:12:16]:
Yeah. There’s that. True.

Sam [00:12:17]:
But The so he’s like

Chris [00:12:18]:
I I just I can’t imagine a dolphin getting hurt.

Sam [00:12:22]:
Well, yeah. He said it’s a poor decision. He said, he there was no doubt there are marine animals in the water all over where they race. We’ve never had an incident in 35 years. The flip of that is like they’re like, yeah. That’s cool. But you don’t have that incident because they do call it off if there’s a lot of dolphins being spotted.

Chris [00:12:38]:
I don’t know.

Sam [00:12:39]:
Anyway, he got a bit a bit upset about it. Chris dude found a meteorite the other week. Did you hear that? No. So this Wellington man, he’s part of the Fireballs Aotearoa group, which

Chris [00:12:51]:
is this random website and group. Which you look very excited about. Just then. Oh, I don’t know.

Sam [00:12:57]:
It’s pretty cool. So they they they take photos. I’ve only got, like, a couple of photos and one’s from, like, 10 years ago. Right? So it’s massive, like, meteorite coming down.

Chris [00:13:07]:
This is a chris is a group. It’s a Facebook group. And in the Facebook group, there’s 2 photos from 10 years.

Sam [00:13:13]:
Website. Website.

Chris [00:13:14]:
Where’s No.

Sam [00:13:15]:
No. It’s got a lot of stuff. But basically, the group of more than 20 ran out to Lake Tekapo Thursday morning to try and find this meteorite after they saw it. Right? It’s been 20 years since one’s been found in New Zealand and 99 years since one was discovered in South Canterbury. Right? And he just goes, I think that’s it. Like, he just, and they’re like, yeah, that’s it. So it’s pretty certain he’s

Chris [00:13:40]:
got it. They’re gonna get it tested. It does look like meteorite. It was just sort of wedged on the ground. Because there was one that went through a a house roof a while back.

Sam [00:13:49]:
That was the one before this.

Chris [00:13:50]:
Yeah. Was didn’t it go through a kennel or something?

Sam [00:13:52]:
Yeah. Something like that.

Chris [00:13:53]:
That’s the one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think yeah. Anyway, it’s a half kilo, rock, and, they all got pretty excited about it.

Sam [00:14:02]:
But I bet there’s some people like real dark that and that he found it and not them.

Chris [00:14:07]:
So the first Neuralink recipient. Have you heard about that dude?

Sam [00:14:11]:
I saw a chris, but I didn’t watch it. What was it was he doing? He was typing with it? No.

Chris [00:14:16]:
Oh, he’s playing, Civilization 6.

Sam [00:14:18]:
Of course, he was. What do you want? I wanna play Civ 6. Yes.

Chris [00:14:23]:
Well, Chris so he he, When did you get your implant? He’s quadriplegic. Yep. So he had a diving accident 6 years ago. Okay. And he’s lost all, ability to move from neck down. Yeah. Yeah. So he can’t do anything.

Chris [00:14:38]:
So he had been playing chess and I don’t know what interface he had been using for The.

Sam [00:14:43]:
Probably eyeball tracking?

Chris [00:14:44]:
Yeah. But he couldn’t play, civilizations without somebody there helping him. But you know how long a game that is?

Sam [00:14:52]:
Yeah. You imagine being the help, you’re like, okay. I’m coming in. Do you want to be changed? Am I lifting your bed? No. Civ 6. Click that button. Change that. Move it there.

Sam [00:15:01]:
Okay. Upgrade that. Keep going. We’ve got 26 hours of this.

Chris [00:15:04]:
What? Yeah. Yeah. Basically. Because he goes, it’s so good. I don’t need anybody else. I can do it. I can just lie there and play this. He goes, the only thing is, after 8 hours, I need to put it on the charger.

Chris [00:15:19]:
So I need to break every 8 hours, which I don’t know if that’s a design feature or a bug. And is it and that’s the Neuralink thing he’s gotta charge? That’s So is it? Well, it’s I I I I guess he he puts his head on The mat. Yeah. Because it’s like

Sam [00:15:35]:
chris the whole thing completely in his head? Do we know?

Chris [00:15:37]:
It is. I I I think so. I didn’t, I I don’t know if there’s a port. I think it’s all in turn, but I didn’t read enough of it. And it looks like I didn’t save the link which I No.

Sam [00:15:49]:
Well done.

Chris [00:15:50]:
Well done. Sorry about that.

Sam [00:15:51]:
No. You’re doing good.

Chris [00:15:52]:
You’ll find it. But, yeah. So but it’s, you know, it’s such a good thing that you’re doing, Elon, for these, for these people that have no ability to move? Yes. But you know what his ultimate goal is? To put it in all the people that work at Tesla. So they when they go to complain about anything, again, shut them off.

Sam [00:16:16]:
I mean, that’s a long that’s a long term goal. We’ve got a guy that can play Civilization 6. Like, that’s not what I thought they’d be doing with the first dude. I don’t know what I’d they’d be doing but I don’t know.

Chris [00:16:28]:
That’s what he’s and. So that was that was his choice, not theirs. I don’t think. But, I’m sure Civ 6’s pretty happy about it. I bet, yeah, he gets the first edition of the next

Sam [00:16:39]:
edition. Do?

Chris [00:16:40]:
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

Sam [00:16:41]:
He should do.

Chris [00:16:42]:
I’ve got and here about I’ve I’ve named it expensive balsa wood. Have you heard this? You know how they, auction off props from movies? Okay. Yeah. So until recently, the most expensive thing that they had was the Indiana Jones Bulwark from Temple of Doom.

Sam [00:17:04]:
Oh, yeah.

Chris [00:17:05]:
Oh, shit.

Sam [00:17:05]:
That’d be pretty cool.

Chris [00:17:06]:
Doesn’t say how much The paid for that.

Sam [00:17:08]:
Okay. I think it went

Chris [00:17:09]:
And Yep. And the other one was, Nick Jack Nicholson’s x from The Shining. But they’ve been topped now by the biggest one of all.

Sam [00:17:17]:
Okay. Oh, part of the Titanic set.

Chris [00:17:20]:
Yes.

Sam [00:17:20]:
Is that what it is?

Chris [00:17:21]:
It’s the final door that she’s floating. Oh. So it’s balsa wood.

Sam [00:17:27]:
I just guessed because in my head you said balsa wood. And then I just thought of, Rick and Morty When he’s on

Chris [00:17:34]:
the boat and that woman’s trying to kill him,

Sam [00:17:36]:
and she’s like, pretend you pretend you’re Jack. And then when he leaves, they’re like

Chris [00:17:39]:
Have I not seen this one? Maybe I haven’t seen this one. She tries to have yeah. She anyway, And then when they

Sam [00:17:44]:
go back to the car, he’s got a complimentary door, and he’s put it on the roof. They’re like, gave him a door. Anyway, that’s what made me think of that.

Chris [00:17:50]:
Yeah. It’s exactly that.

Sam [00:17:51]:
Okay. Cool.

Chris [00:17:51]:
So what do you think they that’s sold for? Oh. And I assume this is, in American dollars. It would be. It’s the Hollywood. I’m gonna say, 850,000. Pretty close, actually. I don’t think 718,000.

Sam [00:18:04]:
Oh, well, I didn’t think I was gonna crack a million. No. So that was a random guess.

Chris [00:18:08]:
But no. It’s very close. $718,750. Mhmm. So I I don’t know. I’m just like, The whip I could get into, the x I could get into, they’re quite portable. You can stick them on the wall. And door made of balsa wood.

Chris [00:18:28]:
I mean, it’s not heavy. No. So there’s that. But, yeah. I just don’t think it’s that, yeah. It’s not that good.

Sam [00:18:36]:
It’s not for you.

Chris [00:18:37]:
It’s not for me.

Speaker A [00:18:38]:
It’s not

Sam [00:18:38]:
for you.

Chris [00:18:38]:
It’s not for you.

Sam [00:18:38]:
Hey, a Nigerian entrepreneur.

Chris [00:18:40]:
That’s a good sentence, isn’t it?

Sam [00:18:42]:
She did a review of a can of tomato puree

Chris [00:18:45]:
and, threatening her with imprisonment now. Yes.

Sam [00:18:49]:
The manufacturer accused her of making malicious allegation that has damaged its business.

Chris [00:18:54]:
So she said on the, on the social media, she goes, I’ve tried this stuff. I don’t really like it. Can anybody tell me of any others they tried? And somebody said, that’s my brother’s company. Don’t you say anything bad about them. And she said, tell your brother he’s, effing killing people because there’s way too much sugar in chris, and that’s what got her in trouble.

Sam [00:19:16]:
And it sparked protests, by locals, who say she is being prosecuted for exercising her right to free speech.

Chris [00:19:25]:
But what’s the law? There’s a law they quoted in there.

Sam [00:19:29]:
She was arrested, with, she used The Facebook account with the intention of instigating people against Chris Foods is what the, claim is.

Chris [00:19:41]:
Yeah. There was some I I thought there was some word like it might have been instigating or something like that. Chris is just The most bullshit sorted to that ever.

Sam [00:19:49]:
You imagine if they did it here because you know who they should go after? They should go after stupid Brian Tamaki, his stupid followers. They got upset about a rainbow colored zebra crossing thing in Gisborne, and they painted over it. Right? So they So

Chris [00:20:04]:
did they get done for vandalism?

Sam [00:20:06]:
The police arrested them and then according to Brian Tamaki, the mayor who was a cross dressing gay man went out and spent taxpayer money and repainted it overnight. So all his followers in our sam about that. They tried doing the exact same thing in Auckland. They either didn’t use the right paint or the rain came too quick and most of it got washed away. But, he’s an idiot. So anyway

Chris [00:20:30]:
He he is totally an idiot. Hey. Did you have you seen this thing about the Lego faced criminals?

Sam [00:20:35]:
What is a Lego faced criminal?

Chris [00:20:37]:
You have to link on click on to the link.

Sam [00:20:39]:
Okay.

Chris [00:20:40]:
So a bylaw, a local bylaw, I don’t know whether it’s a state bylaw or a, a state law or a county law, has said that you’re not allowed to publish the face of criminals suspects. So before they’ve been convicted, you don’t know if The guilty or anything.

Sam [00:20:58]:
Yeah. Yeah. So

Chris [00:20:58]:
you can’t show their face. No. Yeah. I could So somebody in the police station, because they obviously have these things in the local news and the local I don’t know. Yeah. What website or whatever. He’s been putting, Lego heads on them.

Sam [00:21:12]:
Oh, I see.

Chris [00:21:13]:
To hide they’re addictive. Okay. But Lego’s just got, very not happy about it. Which I get. I get it. I actually think they look really good using the LEGO heads.

Sam [00:21:24]:
They And

Chris [00:21:25]:
I can imagine that guy patting himself on the The back going, this is awesome. This looks good.

Sam [00:21:29]:
So they were respectively asked to refrain from using their intellectual property. They’ve got a picture here that says, why the covered faces? And it’s a lineup, like a police lineup, and The all looks like they’ve got Lego heads on. Yeah. And I think the guy, or whoever’s doing this person, has taken way too much time to match up the Lego head to their neck and the size because it looks like they’re actually wearing the Lego head. Because norm

Chris [00:21:54]:
No. That’s mental. No.

Sam [00:21:56]:
There’s a there’s

Chris [00:21:57]:
a video, but actually it’s really sad because it that video, The website that I’ve got linked to, and we’ll have a link in the show notes, is a Fox News website. And they’ve got the TV program talking about it, and they start going on about the the woke woke police station. Why don’t they show the criminals faces? We wanna know who the bad people are. Like, do you not understand the whole idea of innocent till proven guilty? Like, do you not get it?

Sam [00:22:22]:
They do not. They’re idiots.

Chris [00:22:24]:
Fox News, apparently not.

Sam [00:22:26]:
So Like, in those photos, normally, you just use an emoji.

Chris [00:22:29]:
Well, normally, you’d blur them. Right? You do the pixelator thing. Right? But I I think an emoji would probably be the next best thing. Yeah. They actually looked really good with the Lego heads.

Sam [00:22:41]:
Oh, no.

Chris [00:22:41]:
They’re huge. Different faces just for everyone listening. He he didn’t use the exact same one. He used different, what do you call it, expressions and some have stubble and some don’t. Yeah. I thought it was hilarious, but, yeah. Lego didn’t see doesn’t share my sense of humor on that. The British Museum has lost some credibility.

Sam [00:23:01]:
They stole too much stuff?

Chris [00:23:03]:
Exactly. Well, just something that’s Okay. Too much stuff was stolen from them.

Sam [00:23:08]:
Oh, okay.

Chris [00:23:09]:
So, one of the the the what do they call them? The curator, I think, has stepped has resigned because he was warned by somebody, an art dealer or historian or something said to him, hey. You know some of your stuff’s being sold on eBay? And he said, no.

Sam [00:23:27]:
Like, from the collection that’s of

Chris [00:23:28]:
From the collection.

Sam [00:23:29]:
Out of the out of the view?

Chris [00:23:31]:
I’m assuming it’s out of the view. Yeah. Because they have sort of

Sam [00:23:33]:
like, what if they only show, like, 5% of the whole collections of the pool

Chris [00:23:37]:
or whatever. Yeah. Okay. So do you so somebody who is working in the I think I wanna say Roman and Greek, something like that area.

Sam [00:23:44]:
Okay. Yep.

Chris [00:23:46]:
They sold a bunch of items on Ebay and stuff like that. Yeah. Wanna guess how many?

Sam [00:23:52]:
How many items?

Chris [00:23:53]:
Yep.

Sam [00:23:54]:
Oh, chris is gonna be a silly number.

Chris [00:23:56]:
200. 1800. And I assume that it’s been happening,

Sam [00:24:03]:
For a while?

Chris [00:24:04]:
For a while. Yeah. Yeah. And. And he’s been doing it on eBay, PayPal records, state that or The asked for the eBay and pay PayPal records.

Sam [00:24:13]:
That’s crazy.

Chris [00:24:15]:
He tried to cover his tracks by using fake names, creating false documents, and manipulating the museum’s records so that they don’t know they’re missing and

Sam [00:24:24]:
all that

Chris [00:24:24]:
sort of stuff. Yeah. But, yeah, because there’s so much stuff in the background, you know, he’s just selling this crap off.

Sam [00:24:31]:
Did it

Chris [00:24:31]:
say how much he made? No. No. And I think I I think it’s early in the investigation.

Sam [00:24:36]:
Okay. That’s what I wanna know.

Chris [00:24:39]:
Yeah. So, you know, it doesn’t say anything like that yet. So yeah. But yeah. So, British Museum, you and been stolen everybody else’s stuff and now you’ll get your stuff all stolen.

Sam [00:24:53]:
That’s right.

Chris [00:24:54]:
That’s right. I should have done that with a British accent, but I can’t.

Sam [00:24:58]:
No. You did your best. That’s enough. No more.

Chris [00:25:00]:
I didn’t. I’ve got one here about oh, I got a couple more.

Sam [00:25:04]:
Oh, okay.

Chris [00:25:04]:
Nappy change. I this is I thought, oh, that’s interesting. But it’s probably not that interesting, is that that one of these nappy companies in Japan have stopped selling infants nappies, and they’ve switched their production line to adult nappies now because the boomers have all hit The age.

Sam [00:25:23]:
Oh, yeah.

Chris [00:25:23]:
Okay. And The Japan’s

Sam [00:25:27]:
birth

Chris [00:25:28]:
rate has dropped so significantly. Only 700,000 people, children were born in Japan last year. It’s not enough. It was 2,000,000 in the Woah. Seventies or eighties. Okay.

Sam [00:25:42]:
Yeah. They’ve got a big population, during,

Chris [00:25:44]:
you know, debriefs. They’re really aging out. But yeah. So it just makes you wonder all these other things that are gonna change with, the boomers hitting that sort of

Sam [00:25:54]:
That’s what you need to think about so you can get on board with it and start selling them random stuff.

Chris [00:25:58]:
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Your memory thing. So so, yes, that’s that’s interesting. And I I saw another thing with Zeyhan, Peter Zeyhan The other day and then going through this demographic thing. And it just does look like China because China’s having worse problems than Japan.

Chris [00:26:16]:
Mhmm. Because they had the and child thing for so long.

Sam [00:26:19]:
You know what? Don’t don’t you give a don’t aren’t they paying people now, someone? Yeah. There’s like a incentive.

Chris [00:26:24]:
And and their wage rate is so much higher than everywhere else now.

Sam [00:26:28]:
Alright.

Chris [00:26:28]:
So in the next 5 years, you’re not gonna get cheap shit from China anymore. Mhmm. This is too expensive to make there.

Sam [00:26:34]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:26:35]:
So everything made there is subsidized by the government, but they can’t afford to keep doing The.

Sam [00:26:40]:
Oh, okay. Good.

Chris [00:26:41]:
So that’s gonna be interesting. And I got another one here of a robot police dog Yeah. That got shot up.

Sam [00:26:49]:
Is this one of the, is chris, the Boston Dynamic thing? Yeah.

Chris [00:26:52]:
Chris. It’s Boston Dynamics.

Sam [00:26:53]:
And of the spot dogs, whatever they’re called?

Chris [00:26:55]:
Yeah. So a a suspect, I guess you call him a suspect because he was shooting, barricaded himself in the The. And The cops, instead of going in, they sent 2 3 robots. The and Boston Dynamics robot dog and a couple of, bomb disposal, which I think attract. Attract. Yeah.

Sam [00:27:15]:
Until we get the humanoid ones.

Chris [00:27:17]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, the robotic dog named Roscoe, was part of the Massachusetts State Bomb Squad. And yeah. So it’s being remotely controlled. Yeah. That’s good.

Chris [00:27:30]:
Went in, cleared the rooms, went down the basement. So the guy had gone into the basement because they thought didn’t know where he was. So it opens the door That’s right.

Sam [00:27:39]:
It’s got The little arm.

Chris [00:27:40]:
Yeah. And so it got shot 3 times, I think. Oh, yeah. Twice knocked over The robotic dog before shooting it 3 times and disabling its communications. The person then shot at 1 of the other robots and an outdoor swimming pool. Yeah. Why would you shoot in an outdoor swimming pool? Because he’s on meth.

Sam [00:28:00]:
It makes sense when you think about it.

Chris [00:28:02]:
Before police deployed tear gas and arrested. But yeah. So, how long do you think it will be before all schools now have robotic dogs?

Sam [00:28:12]:
Probably. Oh, that would

Chris [00:28:13]:
be how long before terrorists learned to reprogram the school’s robotic dogs and kill students that way?

Sam [00:28:22]:
And if they did Oh my gosh.

Chris [00:28:24]:
It’s awful. Would that be against the and amendment to ban the robotic dogs? Because

Sam [00:28:32]:
I I don’t know.

Chris [00:28:32]:
There’s a there’s a lot of,

Sam [00:28:34]:
thought questions here.

Chris [00:28:36]:
That brings us to the end of

Sam [00:28:37]:
this week’s episode. Yes.

Chris [00:28:39]:
It does. Oh, so happy Easter to everybody because it’s Easter.

Sam [00:28:44]:
Oh, yeah. It’s coming out on Easter. Yeah. I’ve gotta organize that.

Chris [00:28:48]:
Well, this is coming out on Easter.

Sam [00:28:50]:
Oh, no. That’s what I’m saying. I wanna sort it out.

Chris [00:28:53]:
So, yeah. Happy Easter, everyone. Have a have a good holiday. I basically did no work today. I’ve been feeling a bit crooked. But, yeah. I’m probably gonna do stuff over the Easter holidays. But I might read more Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Sam [00:29:07]:
Excellent. Okay. Until next time. I’m Sam.

Chris [00:29:09]:
I’m Chris.

Sam [00:29:10]:
See you.

Chris [00:29:10]:
Bye. Hope

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