Summary
This week Chris travelled to record a pilot episode of a new podcast. In Chris fashion he got confused when trying to find the recommended place for dinner.
We learn more about brain worms and not to eat undercooked bear meat.
We learn all about thorium reactors and get a bit mad about a fish and game warden who goes after a woman casting a fishing rod with no bait.
All this and much more, so come have a listen and get your weekly fix of randomness, technology and life.
Links
Mister D Dining
New athletics record broken
Brain Worms from Bear Meat
Brain Bridge
Titanic Expedition
ViTool Invention
Fish and Game Ranger goes power mad
Copenhagen Atomic – Thorium Reactors
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode and 83 of the Chris and Sam podcast. I’m Chris. And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology and life. And if my math serves me correct, Chris, we’re 17 episodes away from 500.
Chris [00:00:36]:
Woo hoo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yep. If you haven’t already, get the night booked off.
Chris [00:00:43]:
11th 11th September. It’s an easy one to remember. Yep. Apparently. But, yeah, Yeah. We’re we’re not. We’ll give more details as we get closer to the event. We’ve got field days first.
Chris [00:00:55]:
Yeah. We got field days first. I actually was quietly chuckling as you started off.
Sam [00:01:01]:
Was that?
Chris [00:01:01]:
Because as you know, you do all the work on this podcast.
Sam [00:01:05]:
I do it. I do I do do some of it. Yep.
Chris [00:01:08]:
Yep. Yep. You do pretty much all the work. Yeah.
Sam [00:01:09]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:01:10]:
And so yesterday, I shot off up to, the
Sam [00:01:16]:
Up to or down to?
Chris [00:01:17]:
Down to chris to Napier. Yep. And, I, was hosting a podcast, but I was bringing our, equipment, which Sam’s looking at really dubiously
Sam [00:01:27]:
right now. I just sound I don’t sound a 100%.
Chris [00:01:30]:
I reckon that that, damaged wire.
Sam [00:01:33]:
Yeah. That that okay. Yeah. There’s a very okay. Yeah. That’ll do it. No. I’m good now.
Chris [00:01:37]:
I I noticed that when I, when I was, plugging in in in Napier. Anyway, so I’m doing what you do here. Yeah. And it was going so well when I went through the intro and got to the first question and finished the first question and then realized I hadn’t hit record yet. What What did you say? How do you what do you I hear What? Hang on a sec. Right. This might work better if we hit record.
Sam [00:02:10]:
How’d that go down?
Chris [00:02:13]:
It’s good. Because Emma was quite nervous. This is the person I was interviewing. And and I just laughed. And I said, I’m just gonna turn red right now, and I think I did. And then I but, yeah, I I actually relieved a lot of the The. So it was cool.
Sam [00:02:28]:
The, that’s good. That’s good.
Chris [00:02:29]:
So yeah. Because she she’s, science background and she’s quite, you know, she likes to have all her,
Sam [00:02:37]:
she likes to be
Chris [00:02:38]:
in control and all the rest of it. She had notes. She had a laptop, and she had written notes. And she was like, deer in the headlights almost, a
Sam [00:02:45]:
little bit. What? She should just
Chris [00:02:46]:
a little bit. No. She was fine. She was fine.
Sam [00:02:48]:
Just wing it. If I’ve learned anything from podcasting for almost 500 episodes, just wing it.
Chris [00:02:54]:
Wing its works. But, wing it and press record. Those are the 2 things that you need to
Sam [00:03:01]:
That is what I needed.
Chris [00:03:02]:
At least I noticed it early. Jeez.
Sam [00:03:05]:
So your trip was okay?
Chris [00:03:06]:
Yeah. It was fantastic. So, we had two options. You leave Hamilton, and you fly to Wellington, and then fly to, Napier. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:15]:
Or you drive up to Auckland and fly straight over to Napier.
Sam [00:03:18]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:19]:
So we we drove up to Auckland, flew over to Napier. I took an umbrella in my bag Okay. And I didn’t take sunglasses. And it was sunny as
Sam [00:03:30]:
there was
Chris [00:03:31]:
not a cloud in the sky.
Sam [00:03:32]:
You can’t rely on the Hamilton weather.
Chris [00:03:35]:
Because the day before here, it was pouring down torrentially. Anyway, so that’s cool. Went there. I’ll tell you, we went we went and did our interview. And that night oh, we asked Emma, the person And interviewed, for The Intersect podcast. I’ll just mention that.
Sam [00:03:51]:
Oh, so what’s it gonna be called?
Chris [00:03:52]:
It’s called The Intersect. Yep. It’s, sponsored by KiwiNet, and it’s the intersection of, science, IP
Sam [00:04:01]:
And.
Chris [00:04:02]:
Research and commercialization. Oh, very good. Basically, that’s what it is. So I’ll be, hosting that that podcast or at least I’ve hosted the pilot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:04:12]:
We need to get The okay to carry on.
Sam [00:04:14]:
They might switch you out.
Chris [00:04:16]:
Yeah. We’ll see how we go. But anyway so, yeah, I’ve gotta do some The, so I’ll talk to you about that later. But anyway, we got a recommended so Shannon, that I traveled with from Kiwi net says to, Emma, like, oh, do you we where do you recommend for for dinner? And I Yeah.
Sam [00:04:33]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:04:33]:
And she goes, oh, you’ve gotta try them. Well, she goes, well, first of all, I’ve got a young child at home, and I haven’t been out for dinner and God knows how long. But my old, you know Recommendation. Recommendation would have been mister d’s. Right? So we found out where mister d’s was. Get the d. And we we’re walking along, and we turn into the street. It’s, oh, it’s just down here Down here a little bit.
Chris [00:04:59]:
And I see m m r d, mister d. And I’m like, oh, sweet. So I go over, and it’s closed and it’s got and we’re looking at it. I’m like, this is weird because it should be open. It’s it says it’s open on the, Google thing.
Sam [00:05:13]:
Have they got a new location?
Chris [00:05:14]:
And it’s and it has a mister d MRD and this sort of thing and it’s got web in there. And I’ve got a mister d’s web? Sounds doesn’t sound like a restaurant at all. What’s going on? So we spend a re and then inordinate amount of time looking at the window trying to figure out what’s going on right now.
Sam [00:05:36]:
This sounds like Chris
Chris [00:05:37]:
Then we then we we go, oh, I don’t know. Well, maybe we’ll find somewhere else. And we walked down the street a little bit and across the road, there’s mister d’s, m I s t e r d. M e m I So
Sam [00:05:49]:
it’s a popular name.
Chris [00:05:50]:
T e r Now the Yeah. Okay. And and I said to the guy, what’s with the mister d across the road? And he goes, what are you talking about? I said Oh, no. There’s a mister d across the road. And he goes, those are isn’t. And I’m like, it’s right there.
Sam [00:06:05]:
Oh, no. Here we go.
Chris [00:06:05]:
And he goes, oh, m r d. Creative. It’s a creative I’m like, well, it look like mister d to me. It’s like, well, The m I d, we’re mister d’s. I’m like, okay. I give up. But they The the most amazing thing, the desserts there. They had these donuts.
Chris [00:06:24]:
And you, you choose the the filling you want Yeah. And it comes in a hypodermic needle
Sam [00:06:33]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:06:33]:
Which you inject into your doughnut. So we had, custard and konjac. Oh. Konjac flay flavored custard. There’s a stolen rum chocolate and there was a a honey manuka 42 Below.
Sam [00:06:49]:
Oh, wow. That’s pretty good.
Chris [00:06:50]:
It’s pretty it was very nice. Very nice. Beautiful place. So if you do end up in Napier for some random reason Don’t go
Sam [00:06:57]:
to the design company.
Chris [00:06:58]:
Don’t go to the design company. Go to mister d’s. It wasn’t cheap. It was all being expensed, so I didn’t care. But,
Sam [00:07:07]:
Oh, yeah. You have to do that sometimes when you’re traveling. Like Yeah.
Chris [00:07:10]:
Yeah. It’s not like day to day. It was fantastic food. Like, unbelievably good food. Mhmm. Really, really good.
Sam [00:07:16]:
What did
Chris [00:07:16]:
you have for
Sam [00:07:16]:
actual The dinner? Like
Chris [00:07:18]:
I I I had a What did they what what was
Sam [00:07:20]:
the option for you?
Chris [00:07:21]:
I had a pan seared, salmon Mhmm. And a a sort of, lemongrass broth. It was really nice. It was really, really good ice. But I was tossing up between that and the, eggplant thing. Oh. And Shannon got the eggplant thing. Yeah.
Chris [00:07:36]:
And it looked way bigger than mine. And I was like, oh my god. So either one of those looks great.
Sam [00:07:43]:
That’s good.
Chris [00:07:44]:
Anyway, so that’s, that was my my, last couple of days.
Sam [00:07:47]:
I’ve got,
Chris [00:07:48]:
I’ve just I finished work today. I’ve got 4 more days at my current job over 2 weeks, and then I’m done.
Sam [00:07:54]:
So that’s good. Counting it down. Actually, it’s my last morning shift this morning.
Chris [00:07:59]:
Oh hoo. So we’ve got 4 night shifts, 4 evening shifts to go.
Sam [00:08:02]:
Remember that guy, Patchy? He was the guy that was serving coffee out of a coffee cart and then he raised he raised some money. He raised $13,000 And turns out, he may not actually know what he’s doing and, he’s run out of money and he’s asking for some more money And, that’s what I was gonna tell you. Because he I was reading online on Reddit and I think the general consensus was people thought he was just gonna upgrade his shopping cart to an actual coffee cart of some description. Because that would have made way more sense for him. But he got a commercial premises that he signed a lease for and then brought $1,000 TVs to put up for menus and stuff. Right? I don’t think he’s got any idea in the world. He was sleeping in his car. Anyway, today there’s a video and he’s just comes across as unhinged.
Sam [00:08:47]:
He’s looking for a business development manager, I think, and somebody else to operate a coffee cart on the street. And I was reading the comments and they’re like, hang on. He wants somebody to work from for free in the The, serving coffee. I don’t think this is going how everyone thought. So anyway,
Chris [00:09:04]:
that’s sam.
Sam [00:09:05]:
He might be ending up, you know, back where he started. Hey, Hey, in the world of athletics, there was big news this week. Petis now held a record for 62 years for the 800 meter, running. Oh, wow. And it just got beaten
Chris [00:09:22]:
in Germany. Oh, it wasn’t just a New Zealand record.
Sam [00:09:26]:
Oh, no. No. No. This is a world record. But beaten by a, guy from Wellington, but in Germany.
Chris [00:09:32]:
Okay.
Sam [00:09:32]:
Yeah. Yeah. So it’s 27 year old middle distance runner. He got it and, Austin.
Chris [00:09:38]:
So is the record a New Zealand record? Like, it’s a New Zealand record as in that it’s held by a New Zealander. National record. Okay. So it is a New Zealander. Right. Right. Right.
Sam [00:09:50]:
Right. But then I wish it would tell me what the world record is then. Yeah. Anyway, Yeah. So 800 meters and, it’s been held since 1962. So this gives him the Olympic qualifying standard, which is and. And I think there’s still people having arguments about the Olympic thing. I can’t remember what it was.
Sam [00:10:12]:
They were like, these people I don’t know. They’re very specific on who they’re allowing to go to the Olympics. And I think some of our athletes or sports people are doing some of their best times ever, but they’re like, no. For some reason. Someone more, clued up than me will know more more about that.
Chris [00:10:30]:
Well, actually, on on Olympic because it’s the perfect segue. Donald Trump. No. I are you aware of the latest? Yes?
Sam [00:10:43]:
He got found guilty on the killing Yeah. He got found guilty.
Chris [00:10:46]:
So what
Sam [00:10:46]:
does it mean?
Chris [00:10:47]:
Like 6 hours ago as we’re recording this, he has been found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Sam [00:10:56]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:10:57]:
It’s a felony conviction. So he is a he will be a convicted felon. He’s not convicted until they do sentencing, which is 11th July. Oh, good. Sentencing date.
Sam [00:11:07]:
Is there what July. July.
Chris [00:11:09]:
What
Sam [00:11:09]:
The they thinking they’re gonna sentence him with?
Chris [00:11:12]:
I reckon there’s a good chance well, there’s always a chance he’ll get off with a slap on the chris. But there’s a better than zero chance that he will get 18 months in prison.
Sam [00:11:24]:
And then he’s out of presidential?
Chris [00:11:27]:
No. I think he can still Oh my god. He can still become president.
Sam [00:11:31]:
Good.
Chris [00:11:31]:
Just, Good. With an ankle bracelet. He can’t leave the weight out.
Sam [00:11:35]:
He won’t be allowed he won’t be allowed overseas or anything.
Chris [00:11:38]:
Well, that’s the funniest thing. He’s in Florida. Right? The because he’s moved to Florida. Right? Yeah. And the governor of Florida is Ron DeSantis, who he, like, battled for in the primaries. And they ended up calling them each other names. Ron DeSantis has been really big on being tough on criminals. So in Florida now, if you’re a convicted felon, you can’t vote.
Chris [00:12:02]:
So Trump’s now gotta go to Ron DeSantis and give a ask for permission to get special permission to vote for himself in the new election because, you know, that’s what they do is they get cameras following them in to vote for themselves.
Sam [00:12:15]:
Just so they
Chris [00:12:16]:
can either vote. That’s
Sam [00:12:18]:
so stupid. That’s so so stupid.
Chris [00:12:21]:
It’s it’s nuts. It’s nuts. Hey, did you did I, did I mistake it or did you say something about brain worms?
Sam [00:12:30]:
Yeah. Yeah. So last week we were talking about brain worms with,
Chris [00:12:33]:
The Old RFK.
Sam [00:12:34]:
RFK. Now a family has been stricken with rear brain worms after eating undercooked beer. Beer? No. Beer, as in though The,
Chris [00:12:46]:
grizzly bear. Who eats beer? Oh, my god.
Sam [00:12:51]:
Hang on. It was, also it was a it was a reunion as well in South Dakota, and they had a special meal with kebabs. It says kebabs here, but it must be kebabs. Yeah. Made with the meat of a black beer. And, that and of the family members had harvested it, but they lacked a meat thermometer. That was the problem. And they just assessed it by the dark colored meat by eye, Which a few family members, noticed before a decision was made to recook it.
Sam [00:13:18]:
And then, nothing else really and. And then, 29 year old male sought care for a mysterious illness. Brainworm. Yeah. He he actually look, he actually went to
Chris [00:13:29]:
How does it I I’m fascinated The. Like, because you eat something, it goes now chris is my basic The, but it goes to your stomach. How does it get from your esophagus or your stomach or wherever it goes into your brain. How how does that work?
Sam [00:13:47]:
Well, they’re parasites, so they’re pretty small and, so once eaten, larvae encased in the meat are released and begin to invade the small intestine, right? Which causes pain, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. Then they develop into adults in the gut, mate, produce more larvae, so they’re breeding inside you. The and generation The go wandering through the lymphatic system in the blood, and then throughout the systemic, throughout the rest of the body. So they can end up all over you, reaching skeletal muscle, the heart, the brain, which is rich in oxygen, and, it’s not good.
Chris [00:14:23]:
No. It it sounds horrific and I’m glad you answered it so completely And I’m also sad you answered it so completely. Do you know why it’s terrible?
Sam [00:14:32]:
Do you know why I could answer it so completely? Why? Because this was on the ArsTechnica website. And they actually have reporters The actually write really good stuff. So, That’s cool.
Chris [00:14:42]:
That’s cool. Now the one of the reasons I wanted you to talk about that because I I saw that you had more brain worms written down. I didn’t know what that was. So, I came across something called BrainBridge, and I’ve got a a a a link to the LinkedIn, podcast. And it’s it’s actually a thing. Although The the video shown, which looks great, is just, you know, animated video, basically. And BrainBridge is this robotic, surgical thing
Sam [00:15:15]:
Oh, yeah. I think I know what you’re gonna tell me.
Chris [00:15:17]:
That swaps heads over.
Sam [00:15:18]:
No. That’s not what I was thinking on.
Chris [00:15:19]:
Sorry. It’ll transplant and head to another. So you can move take The head off a head off somebody and put it onto another body.
Sam [00:15:27]:
And they’ve done this or not?
Chris [00:15:29]:
No. They’re working on it.
Sam [00:15:30]:
Oh, I bet they are. Because there was a couple of stories this week as well about cryogenics and how the original ones are just mushed now. They’re liquid. They didn’t survive it. No. And they had the first, I think it was Australian person. Was it Australian? Yeah. Get cryogenically frozen.
Sam [00:15:52]:
And The had to, the guy rocked up and they ended up going to the petrol station buying all these bags of ice and like throwing it on the dead body straight away. And then they had to keep reducing, reducing, reducing it. And they were like, yeah, it’s great. He’s gonna be in this facility that we’ve built and all this and all the experts are like, no, no. There’s too many cells in the human body that just get destroyed even though they pump and full of whatever. I think they said the only thing that they can sort of freeze that worked quite well. I’m sure they said the liver that only has and type of cell structure and that’s it. And they can deal with that.
Sam [00:16:27]:
But like the brain has 200 plus or something. Right. So anyway, yeah. There’s all these mush Yeah.
Chris [00:16:32]:
Well, anywhere you’ve got Yeah. So so when you freeze water, everybody as everybody knows, it expands. So if you freeze a cell, which is made of 80% water or whatever it is, it expands and it breaks The cell wall. So, when they defrost again, all those cell walls are no longer intact, and like you say, it becomes mush. So yeah. You almost have to dehydrate people rather than freeze.
Sam [00:17:02]:
And then rehydrate The.
Chris [00:17:03]:
Yeah. I Or we might be on something. Powdered people.
Sam [00:17:06]:
Do you know what do you know what the world needs, though?
Chris [00:17:08]:
What’s what does the world need?
Sam [00:17:09]:
We need a billionaire having another expedition in a submarine to the Titanic.
Chris [00:17:15]:
Oh, god. Oh, actually, who was I looking at? I turned on Sky at the hotel. I was staying at I stayed at Quest. It was pretty good. And William Shatner was hosting some show, and it had, like, different things all around the place. The deep trench. Yeah. Some but he got to the bottom here.
Sam [00:17:38]:
This is the same guy.
Chris [00:17:39]:
Oh, is it?
Sam [00:17:40]:
Yeah. So he’s the and of the
Chris [00:17:41]:
very What’s his name again?
Sam [00:17:43]:
Larry Connor. So he’s one of the first to go as a space tourist up into space at the space station and he’s gone into the trench And he actually has this actual 2 person submarine that can go to the depth of the Titanic. Not a problem. Can actually go 200 meters deeper than that if it wanted to. And, yeah, he just said he’s gonna do it.
Chris [00:18:06]:
Yeah. He he seemed pretty good. So they they interviewed him. He he and he’s he’s sane. You know, he’s not an Elon Musk. He’s not a nut job. Not a Jeff Bezos. He seemed like a a normal dude.
Chris [00:18:20]:
Like, I don’t know. Have you ever heard, Cameron talk? James Cameron?
Sam [00:18:26]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:18:27]:
He’s he’s a normal dude, you know. Oh, yeah. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. And and when because I saw a really good interview with him after the the, that and, the Lance imploded or whatever. Yeah. What a minute.
Chris [00:18:38]:
What’s up. And he he was like, you know, they’re idiots and this is the way things are. But he talks technical and he’s a a normal dude. This other dude that Larry, whatever his name was, look, sounds the same. He’s saying like a a normal dude.
Sam [00:18:52]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As normal as you can be.
Chris [00:18:54]:
As normal as a billionaire can be. Yeah.
Sam [00:18:56]:
Hey. I came across a story this week, and the Waikato Times. This dude, called Tom Martin, he got taken out with an ACL injury and put him off the rugby field. Right. And he was like, he was a former aspiring professional player. And he was like, he’s only 23, this dude, and it sort of put him off. And at the same time, he was doing a, a design degree, I think it was. And he’s basically made this he injured himself again and he’s like, I can’t play rugby.
Sam [00:19:27]:
So he’s gone full force in this thing and he’s launched Shard, s h a r d, Studios. And this thing’s called a VI tool, Vital. Yeah. And it’s for rugby players and it’s like a little multi tool for rugby players. And he’s managed to, like, ship, like, ship it to, like, the All Blacks have got it and all sorts, got it all in place.
Chris [00:19:50]:
Hang on. A tool. What what what do you do with it?
Sam [00:19:54]:
Exactly. I
Chris [00:19:54]:
unscrew the I don’t know. What do I do? I sort of tool.
Sam [00:19:58]:
Yeah. It’s like, tightens Briggs and cleans them out and, changes all them around. Oh, right. Right. Yeah. Because he said you don’t always have pair of pliers and stuff on you. So he just made this. It’s sort of like a little orange thing with a clip.
Chris [00:20:13]:
Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:20:13]:
It’s got a whole bunch of different things you can do with it and, it’s always going pretty good. Oh, good on him.
Chris [00:20:18]:
Good on him. That sounds pretty cool actually. Because did you come across notification apps? What is that? So it’s a bit of a
Sam [00:20:29]:
And do you come across chris?
Chris [00:20:30]:
Oh, I I I just
Sam [00:20:31]:
The phone. I got zooming on the go and the phone started going slow, but it’s alright because I’ve got this folder called notification.
Chris [00:20:37]:
Yeah. No. I I saw it on a news thing in the States, and I just it was cute. I I didn’t even write any details The because I was just, like, curious if am I the only person that doesn’t know about this? Because it was just, like, it seemed like it was sort of normal. So over in the States, there’s a lot of kids are getting in trouble, or, you know, complaining because you can take a photo of somebody in your phone and you go into one of these notification apps and they just put that person’s face on the body of on a nude body, basically. Okay. So it looks like you’ve been taking nudes of
Sam [00:21:12]:
The, but didn’t know that was a term, to be honest.
Chris [00:21:14]:
I’d I’d never heard of it. So I’m glad I’m not the only one.
Sam [00:21:17]:
I mean, are you you people were doing that and stuff, but
Chris [00:21:20]:
Yeah. Yeah. Because, honestly, I am sure kids have been doing that with Photoshop. You know, we’re talking teenagers or whatever. I’m sure they’ve been doing that with tote Photoshop since
Sam [00:21:30]:
It’s it’s just the ease of it now.
Chris [00:21:32]:
Yeah. Exactly. So now it’s an app. It’s just but that’s the problem, you see. It’s, you know, it people are being, you know, blackmailed with these notification and. So it’s like, it’s not even me. It’s it’s my face, but it’s it. And, but there’s there’s no law against it because it’s like, well, you haven’t taken a photo of them.
Sam [00:21:54]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:55]:
It’s it’s really great. It’s a
Sam [00:21:56]:
great idea. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:57]:
And I was like, oh my god. That’s so it’s so sick. It’s so sad.
Sam [00:22:03]:
Talking about that, did you see the thing with Scarlett Johansson? With OpenAI?
Chris [00:22:07]:
Yeah. They said, oh, you’re using her voice and OpenAI said, no, that’s not her voice.
Sam [00:22:13]:
No, I think they reached out and said, can we use your voice for something? Oh, okay. And she was like, no. And then they sort of released this thing that sounds remarkably like her because she did the movie Her.
Chris [00:22:25]:
Yeah. I’ve never watched it.
Sam [00:22:26]:
It’s pretty good. Oh, so basically The dude, whoever he is. Anyway, the actor, he basically in that world, you just have a operating system on your phone and he just talks to her all the time and basically has a relationship with his phone.
Chris [00:22:41]:
Okay. And she doesn’t? And. And that’s
Sam [00:22:43]:
why they asked her and she said, no. They released it and she’s like, oh, I’m gonna have to get my Louis involved on this one.
Chris [00:22:48]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:22:49]:
So
Chris [00:22:49]:
But they they said, oh, no. That’s not her.
Sam [00:22:52]:
Yeah. Yeah. But her voice is quite unique.
Chris [00:22:55]:
Yeah. I wouldn’t have picked it. I wouldn’t even notice. But anyway.
Sam [00:22:58]:
But you don’t notice things?
Chris [00:22:59]:
Oh, I don’t notice those sort of things. Did you hear about Mike Mike Tyson’s little, escapade yesterday or the the other day? Oh, no. What’s that? Oh, he, he got, medically evacuated from a plane. So he came back. What? He he was landing on the plane. I don’t know if the altitude, the pressure was part of the issue, but it caused a, an ulcer flare up. Mhmm. And he ended up going in the hospital.
Chris [00:23:26]:
He’s fine now, but it’s like he’s only, what, 19 days away or 20 odd days away from, fighting Jake Paul.
Sam [00:23:34]:
You better beat the crap out of him.
Chris [00:23:35]:
He better. He’s so better. He’s the same age as me. Alright. Mike Tyson. So
Sam [00:23:41]:
He looks pretty like, they’re saying like because the rounds are only 2 minutes long, ain’t he?
Chris [00:23:46]:
Yeah. I don’t know.
Sam [00:23:46]:
That’s another change they’ve done, I think. Yeah. Because I think some of them are saying, I don’t know who to believe, but they’re sort of saying he can move really quick and stuff, but I don’t think he’s got the endurance because he’s just that old. But I don’t know, like he looks super fit.
Chris [00:24:00]:
Yeah. He looks fit. Although Jake Paul looks fit too.
Sam [00:24:04]:
And maybe that’s the plan, which is just like the Simpsons where they’re like, and when Homer became a boxer and he just stood there and they’re like, just take it and they’ll The themselves out and The fall over.
Chris [00:24:15]:
Yeah. So I it was interesting. So I, what was I watching? Oh, it’s it’s just on YouTube. It was, a thing of all, some of Tyson’s best fights in in 1986 and stuff. And, dude, that guy had some power.
Sam [00:24:30]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:24:31]:
Like, I do remember that at the time, we used to watch quite a few of his boxing matches at the pub back back in the eighties. And, yeah, It it was his power was yeah. It was phenomenal. It was absolutely full. You wouldn’t wanna be we be wearing that. And I still think he would have a lot of that power. And it’s really unfair, this fight with Jake Paul. And I just hope Tyson cleans his clock, honestly.
Chris [00:25:01]:
Because if Jake Paul wins, it’s just like, dude, you’re just, you know, oh, yeah. You got fit. Good on you. You there’s no way you would have got close to Tyson in his prime.
Sam [00:25:15]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:25:15]:
You know? Anyway.
Sam [00:25:17]:
Some people have a little bit of power and take it too far. Right?
Chris [00:25:21]:
Mhmm.
Sam [00:25:21]:
A bit over the top. A fish and game ranger here in New Zealand, down in Christchurch near Rolleston. He was spying and seemingly spying on a family on a boat. And the sam gets summoned to court because she helped her child cast a fishing rod without a license. Now the kids had a freshwater fishing license, but she didn’t. So she was summoned and only avoided conviction by taking a diversion and making a hefty payment. Like,
Chris [00:25:58]:
that is bullshit. Okay. What say I don’t have a driver’s license? And you and I go out, and you get a flat tire, I help change your car tire, and maybe I back your car out and then you drive off. Can I get done for driving without a license? Like, that’s the stupidest thing.
Sam [00:26:21]:
The kids
Chris [00:26:22]:
If if she didn’t reel a fish in, I don’t see what she’s got to she has an issue.
Sam [00:26:27]:
So the kids got fishing rods from the grandparents and Christmas. The 6 year old had trouble casting the rod. She helped and then a West Coast fish and game dude appeared apparently out of nowhere. We were one of the only boats on the water. He must have been watching us for quite a while. He served her with an infringement notice straight away. We said we could buy a license on the spot, but he said it was too late. And she said it was such a power trip for this dude.
Sam [00:26:57]:
It was not like we
Chris [00:26:57]:
had a boatload of trout. I highly doubt
Sam [00:26:59]:
the kids would have caught a fish. We didn’t even have bait.
Chris [00:27:05]:
What the If if she had pulled it in. If she’d literally if he caught her pulling in the fish, I might have gone I I would still go, come on. It’s a kid’s fish. The kid caught it and she just helped pull it in. But if she pulled it in, they’ve got a case. She didn’t pull a fish in. It didn’t have bait on the hook. All she did was cast it out and give it back to the kid.
Chris [00:27:30]:
That is not a crime.
Sam [00:27:31]:
Oh my god.
Chris [00:27:32]:
I’m I’m actually well
Sam [00:27:33]:
I don’t know why the judge at the court didn’t go you’re a dick to the dude. Throw it out. So so they offer her diversion. Right? Yeah. Which is a scheme operated by the police, which allows some often first time offenders to take responsibility for their offending outside the court system The avoid getting a criminal record and she had to agree to pay $600 to fish and game. She goes, I’ve never done anything illegal in my whole life. Now I have a diversion for casting a fish in line for a bunch of small children. You think like
Chris [00:28:04]:
Oh, man. I I I tell you why. If I was small minded and lived in Christchurch.
Sam [00:28:10]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:28:11]:
I would be following this guy waiting for him to drop or something and busting and make it citizen to rat and just nail and. Nail him to the ground.
Sam [00:28:20]:
The kids are scared The mama’s gonna go to jail. Now now somebody called Bailey Kirsten, who is the The Coast Fish and Game Compliance Coordinator, who sounds like a muppet as well, said the ranger was just doing his job.
Chris [00:28:34]:
No he
Sam [00:28:35]:
so To ring
Chris [00:28:37]:
Shut up. Yeah. So
Sam [00:28:39]:
in the police situation, if that was police, and I’m sure this guy would have too, and common sense would sam, you would go, hey.
Chris [00:28:47]:
Warning.
Sam [00:28:48]:
Here’s a warning. Yeah. They’re so power hungry The people in dumb positions,
Chris [00:28:53]:
No. That’s are those bloody camera operators?
Sam [00:28:56]:
No. No. They’re just weirdos.
Chris [00:28:59]:
Hey. I wanna talk a little bit about this thing.
Sam [00:29:01]:
This is the last and.
Chris [00:29:02]:
Yeah. Last one. Okay. I thought this was really cool. So I came across this thing, by Copenhagen and Autumn Atomic. Copenhagen The is the company. Okay. And I thought I’d put the link to the YouTube channel thing, but I will find it and and pass it on to you so we can put it in the show notes.
Chris [00:29:21]:
And it’s quite a long long little story and stuff, but, YouTube video. But thorium reactors, this is what these guys sell, The Copenhagen, to provide all the energy you would need for your entire life, including all the lights you’ll ever use.
Sam [00:29:44]:
How hard is it to get The stuff in?
Chris [00:29:47]:
All the, what do you call it? Medical if you go to hospital, all that energy all the energy you’d ever use if you live to be a and would be within a $100 worth of Thorium.
Sam [00:29:59]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:29:59]:
Right? Thorium is plentiful in virtually every country and continent on the planet.
Sam [00:30:05]:
Okay. What’s the okay. And. Right.
Chris [00:30:07]:
So Copenhagen Atomic are working on these reactors, and they’re building it up so The goal is to be able to create a reactor a day. Now these reactors are about, I wanna sam, the size of a cement mixer, like a a a truck, cement truck. You know? One of those cement mixers. And, The business model is pretty cool. I really like it. I’m really I was really excited about this whole thing. So the business model is unique with no government investment. Mhmm.
Chris [00:30:37]:
So, the first one is I did I didn’t write it down. I think it was in Indonesia. They’re doing it now in in some some place. So they they have a a plant. They own it. Yeah. And that they can make one of these reactors per day, but they the plant would have probably around 20, 25 reactors in it of The thorium.
Sam [00:30:58]:
Okay.
Chris [00:30:59]:
And it uses, molten salt. It heats up
Sam [00:31:04]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:31:05]:
Salt. I don’t know why salt, but that’s what it is. A heat transference, I guess, and something like that. And all they do in this in this unit is they heat the salt up and send it out to the back. And then The back, different businesses, different power companies
Sam [00:31:23]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:31:24]:
Have their buildings and they get the hot salt coming in and pipes and basically just heats the pipes up and they use that to create the electricity. So these guys make their own money, and these guys just supply the the heat from these Thorium reactors. And that’s a business model.
Sam [00:31:42]:
Okay.
Chris [00:31:43]:
That’s freaking
Sam [00:31:44]:
So this is a real chris this actually a real thing?
Chris [00:31:46]:
It’s a real thing. It’s still early days. They’re they’re doing their prototype, model now. Like I said, I I think it was Indonesia. It might be I might be wrong there. But, yeah. So it sounds great.
Sam [00:31:59]:
Very good. Yeah. That brings us to the end of the podcast. Everything’s as usual. I’m still not feeling a 100%. But, until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:32:10]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:32:11]:
I’ll see you.
Excerpt
From finding Mister D, to more brain worms and a power hungry fish and game warden, we cover a lot in this episode.
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