Summary
This week we have the full information about our 500th podcast recording. Chris had jury duty this week, as well as learning a lot about offside rules.
We catch up on the random Olympic stories this week, and talk about the drink Prime getting sued because of their flouting of the Olympic rules.
A new mechanical heart is perfected after it is based on train technology. New complex life has been found, Trump being Trump and Robert Downey Jr makes a reveal.
All this and talk of a fence. Come have a listen, and tell a friend.
Links
Prime getting sued over their Olympic advertising
New mechanical heart technology
New complex life found
Trump talking crazy again
Robert Downey Jr is Back
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 492 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly Fix a Randomist Technology in Life. And our 5 100th episode isn’t far away, and you can be there at the recording as we create some sort of history. I didn’t say it was good history, some sort of history. Okay. 7 pm, 11th September. It’s a Wednesday. I know it’s in the middle of the week.
Sam [00:00:46]:
Just deal with it at the Regent Tiaomutu Cinema 3. What have I forgotten? Nothing. Nothing. That’s it. We want you to come along. Be part of our history.
Chris [00:00:57]:
Yeah. Come along. It should be a lot of fun. We’re going to record the podcast live in front of us. It’ll be a longer podcast than that.
Sam [00:01:06]:
Probably. Probably.
Chris [00:01:08]:
Those of you that have an idea of something you’d if you remember some of the old stories we’ve told over the years, the last 10 years, and you you have a story that’s a favorite, possibly involving Trev. I don’t know. Possibly involving a bee sting. I don’t know.
Sam [00:01:23]:
No. Yes. It the bee sting is the one I go to at all times. I think of it as a motorbike story with the bee sting. That’s how I think of it. But, yes, that’s my go to when I think about weird stories.
Chris [00:01:33]:
And and whatever story you want, come armed with those. Let us know, and we’ll we’ll tell them live. I will probably be having a couple of beers, just to be fair. So it should be
Sam [00:01:46]:
His performance will be exactly as you expect. If there’s anything else that you’ve got an idea for us to do at the 500th, let us know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We’re still brainstorming.
Chris [00:01:59]:
Yep.
Sam [00:02:00]:
We’re a couple of weeks out, 4 weeks out maybe. Something like that. And, yeah. We it’s it’s it’s interesting doing an audio podcast.
Chris [00:02:08]:
Yeah. It’s it’s fun because, you know, we sit here in this room or sometimes on Zoom, but usually together in a room. There’s nobody else here. We’re chatting away as you know with these microphones, and we have no idea who’s listening. So it’s really cool when we get the opportunity to to do the this sort
Sam [00:02:28]:
of thing
Chris [00:02:28]:
in public.
Sam [00:02:29]:
Yes. I am going to say the space we’ve got can seat 58 people, I’ve been told. Now if there’s not 58 people there, don’t let that put you off. Brett, come along. You can meet some of our other fans and bond over it.
Chris [00:02:47]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can all talk about how rubbish we are.
Sam [00:02:51]:
Can’t believe you’ve been going for 10 years. What is wrong with you? Let’s deconstruct that maybe.
Chris [00:02:56]:
All that sort of thing.
Sam [00:02:57]:
What have you been up to this week?
Chris [00:02:59]:
Bit of work actually. So I’ve been I’ve been working for some, stuff on New Zealand football. Yes. And I’ve been putting together, coaching for well, coaching for the referees or or online learning for the referees around the offside rule.
Sam [00:03:16]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:03:17]:
Shoot me now. Do you know anything about the offside rule in football?
Sam [00:03:20]:
Not really. Not really.
Chris [00:03:21]:
You don’t want to. Trust me. It’s the most complicated thing, but I finally got my head around it today, and I think I think I’ve got it done. So we’ll see how that goes.
Sam [00:03:29]:
But someone’s checking the say before it goes.
Chris [00:03:31]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good.
Sam [00:03:32]:
Because I’m just imagining you going, I don’t know what I’m talking about. Do do do do do do do.
Chris [00:03:36]:
I used to do a lot of research, to be fair. But yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:03:39]:
I oh, okay. I was in Te Kwareri all day today for work and talking to rando people that have businesses. Interesting old buildings down there, Like went into a takeaway store and then we were checking the stuff out the back and it was like the front was really little. We went out the back and there was like pallet loads of, the tello stuff that they deep fry with. The boxes Yeah.
Chris [00:04:04]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:04:05]:
The pallets of it. And there was boxes and pallets of everything else. It was a huge thing. And he goes, oh, follow me. So we went past that out into another room, which had a car inside it. Like this huge building had like a garage door with a building in it and then some sort of weird office set up slash bedroom slash house. I don’t know. And then follow me, we’re going outside.
Sam [00:04:27]:
So then we went out into another section and then outside where there was an old lady gardening with a garden out the back so we’d gone from 1
Chris [00:04:35]:
That’s where they grow the spuds that they make into chips.
Sam [00:04:38]:
It wasn’t that big of the garden, to be honest. But, it was the whole from one side of the street all the way back through onto the other street. Oh, wow. We’re not really sure what the building used to be. Put it that way. It’s set up for something. It was built specifically. Lots of room, like really cool.
Sam [00:04:55]:
Make a really cool filming location. I don’t know what for but, think like maybe 70s brown paneling and like old wooden doors and like weird offices. Anyway, very busy doing that. Just got back and came straight here to record this podcast. Good on you. Good on you. Didn’t crash because I
Chris [00:05:12]:
had to drive all night. Had this week was jury duty.
Sam [00:05:15]:
Yes.
Chris [00:05:15]:
So I had jury duty. Monday Tuesday, I went in. So I met up with Jason Cargo. So I don’t know.
Sam [00:05:27]:
Is this person’s is that his real name?
Chris [00:05:29]:
That’s his name. And I,
Sam [00:05:30]:
And who was this guy? I I sat down, and this
Chris [00:05:33]:
guy was sitting opposite me when we’re waiting to go in. And he kept looking at me, and I keep looking at him. And I’m like, do I look do I know he looks sort of some
Sam [00:05:42]:
You sometimes don’t have the best recognition.
Chris [00:05:45]:
No. I don’t. But, I was like, yeah. Nah. I don’t re I might have seen him around, but I don’t know who he is. But he kept looking at me, like, a lot.
Sam [00:05:55]:
Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:05:56]:
So then we, you know, sit down. I sat down in the corner there, and then
Sam [00:06:00]:
he he was other people would sit down, and
Chris [00:06:02]:
then he finally came down and sat next to me. And he goes, I know you from somewhere. I know you from somewhere.
Sam [00:06:07]:
Oh, okay. So he didn’t know your
Chris [00:06:09]:
name right from the beginning. I gave him my name. He goes, that doesn’t
Sam [00:06:12]:
sound familiar. Oh, here we go. Is he an
Chris [00:06:15]:
extra? No.
Sam [00:06:15]:
No. That was my guess.
Chris [00:06:16]:
It turns out, because because we went through a bunch of stuff. So he he works for the council somewhere or something like that.
Sam [00:06:23]:
Hang on. So you’re, like, rabbiting off all the random stuff you’ve ever done?
Chris [00:06:27]:
Which might like Well, no. They effectively, that was it. Then when I finally said, well, I did TEDx. He goes,
Sam [00:06:33]:
it’s TEDx. TEDx. I know you’re from TEDx. I went to all the TEDx.
Chris [00:06:36]:
Of course, I have spoken to you before, but, of course, you’re way more famous than me because he he, like, is I think he’s quite big in the commerce, Chamber of Commerce and stuff or something.
Sam [00:06:49]:
Okay. Is he listening to the podcast?
Chris [00:06:51]:
Who knows? Okay. Probably not. And so, yeah. So I was like, oh, so he he know knew me from from from TEDx. So that was cool. And I think I saw Dave from North End Bakery there, which Okay. I only mentioned. I didn’t actually speak to him, but I only mentioned it because the last time I saw him was 2 years ago at jury duty.
Sam [00:07:09]:
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Chris [00:07:10]:
That’s good. So that’s how I catch up with Dave. But yeah. Yeah. So I went in twice, Monday Tuesday, and they spun the name the bin and my name never came out. Last year well, last time I went, which
Sam [00:07:25]:
was
Chris [00:07:25]:
2 years ago, they spun it twice, and my name came out both times, and I spent 3 days basically doing stuff there. But this time I I was in for the morning out and that was it.
Sam [00:07:38]:
After Tuesday,
Chris [00:07:39]:
it was all gone. Done. Yay. Well,
Sam [00:07:40]:
that’s good. Nice and easy. Yeah. Are you keeping up with the Olympics?
Chris [00:07:44]:
No. I didn’t even rise as on
Sam [00:07:46]:
Okay.
Chris [00:07:46]:
Effectively.
Sam [00:07:47]:
Have you seen the the stories about the the the, what do they call them? The specialist from the US gymnastics team?
Chris [00:07:55]:
No. I’ve seen nothing. Oh, no.
Sam [00:07:57]:
I thought I thought you might have seen this online. So there’s the men’s gymnastic team. Right? Yep. And, I’ve been watching this free on some website that streams sports streams free because I’m not paying for this.
Chris [00:08:08]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:08:09]:
Yeah. And the funny thing is whatever Isn’t
Chris [00:08:11]:
it free here? I would have thought it would be on TV instead or something.
Sam [00:08:14]:
No. This is the thing. All the they only show you New Zealand stuff. Oh. So they’ll show you what the Kiwis are up to. And and every time I turn on that channel that is free, it’s rowing all the time, and I don’t give a shit. And, so these other streams around the world, they’ll show you different things because they’re focusing on a different section of teams. Yeah.
Sam [00:08:34]:
And it’s really cool because you’re seeing stuff. And I’ve heard some complaints about the Sky TV app slash thing that you pay for this year. Apparently, it’s a bit more rubbish than it was 4 years ago. People are like, oh, I love my 2 minutes of sports between the ads. Like it’s really not very good and it jumps between stuff. Anyway, the gymnastics, I’m watching that. They’ve got the US team and they’ve got a guy that’s sitting there with glasses on with a full tracksuit on and everybody else is doing all the routines and when they come off, this guy is hyped. He hugs them, high fives them and he’s really good and they focusing on this guy.
Sam [00:09:11]:
Can’t remember his name at the top. So
Chris [00:09:12]:
basically he’s like a cheerleader slash mascot or?
Sam [00:09:15]:
No. He’s a specialist. He only does one event in gymnastics and nothing else. Okay. Does the pommel horse.
Chris [00:09:22]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:09:22]:
So when it’s time to go, he takes his glasses off. He can’t see shit. He has a condition where he can’t have contacts. He doesn’t know what’s going on. They just put him on it. Right? And he’s ripped. So he doesn’t take his jacket off. He’s ripped.
Chris [00:09:34]:
Yeah. Yeah. Pomerhorst goes out. Yeah.
Sam [00:09:36]:
Just gets gold. Just like that. And they had like a camera on him at one point And I think it had a timer and it goes 2 hours and 10 minutes of the specialist doing nothing. Like they’re tracking this guy who’s literally sitting there the whole time. But anyway yeah.
Chris [00:09:50]:
Do you know Josh Johnson?
Sam [00:09:52]:
No.
Chris [00:09:52]:
So he’s a comedian, and there’s a thing on, YouTube just cracks me up. So he does, I saw him on the, The Daily Show. The Daily Show. Yeah. John Stewart’s one. Yeah. So he’s one of their correspondents on that. And and I’ve and it’s I’ve sort of subscribed to him, I think, on YouTube, and he’s he’s a stand up comedian.
Sam [00:10:09]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:10:10]:
Freaking hilarious. So he’s talking about this year, they’ve got 300,000 condoms for the, athletes. Yeah. Because last year, they didn’t have them because
Sam [00:10:21]:
it was COVID or last last time
Chris [00:10:23]:
because of the COVID thing.
Sam [00:10:23]:
I was
Chris [00:10:24]:
like, yeah. We don’t want you getting that close. But he goes, there’s so much pressure because there’s only 30,000 athletes. Yeah. And they’re only there for 8 days. So the amount you need to do
Sam [00:10:35]:
he goes, I had a a blinding day one day, and that was 3. I thought the figure was even higher. I thought it was, like, in the millions.
Chris [00:10:45]:
I don’t know. But, yeah. Anyway, it was hilarious. Another thing I wanted to mention because you reminded me about, Olympics. One of your favorite people
Sam [00:10:55]:
Which one? I’ve got a couple.
Chris [00:10:57]:
Logan Paul.
Sam [00:10:58]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What’s he up to?
Chris [00:11:00]:
Yeah. You hear he’s getting sued or I should say Prime is getting sued.
Sam [00:11:04]:
So Oh, okay.
Chris [00:11:05]:
Drink Prime.
Sam [00:11:05]:
Yeah. Yeah. Along yep. Along with the other dude.
Chris [00:11:07]:
So Prime so so what they did is they sponsor some dude some sportsman. I I forget what it is, and I assume he’s going to Olympics.
Sam [00:11:18]:
Okay.
Chris [00:11:18]:
So on all their things, they’ve gone Olympic this, Olympic that. This is the Brian, whatever his name is, the Olympian. He’s going for gold.
Sam [00:11:26]:
Okay.
Chris [00:11:27]:
And all of those things are, trademarked terms.
Sam [00:11:30]:
Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Yeah.
Chris [00:11:31]:
He’s put them on all of these stuff.
Sam [00:11:33]:
There’s a lot. Yeah.
Chris [00:11:34]:
And they’re like, yeah. It’s not like he doesn’t get it. Like, he knows what these things are because he So he’s he’s, what do you call it? He’s been he sponsored a lot of other
Sam [00:11:47]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:11:48]:
Teams and stuff and the Dodgers and all those sorts of guys. So he knows this stuff, but he’s just seeing if he can get away with it.
Sam [00:11:55]:
So who’s suing him? The Olympic Committee?
Chris [00:11:57]:
The Olympic Committee because
Sam [00:11:58]:
They’ll have some bite behind them too, as opposed to They’d
Chris [00:12:00]:
have to because so what what happens is, Coke Yeah. Paid a gazillion dollars. Yes. I don’t I don’t know how
Sam [00:12:07]:
much, but, you
Chris [00:12:08]:
know, a ridiculous amount.
Sam [00:12:09]:
A gazillion and $1. Yeah.
Chris [00:12:10]:
Yeah. And, and so that they can be the exclusive drink sports
Sam [00:12:15]:
drink
Chris [00:12:15]:
or whatever for you know? And then Prime’s just chucking it on there. But Coke can’t sue them. They have to go to
Sam [00:12:21]:
the Olympic Committee. Yep.
Chris [00:12:23]:
And they it’s not the Olympic Committee. It’s called,
Sam [00:12:26]:
like,
Chris [00:12:27]:
it it’s it’s the American Olympic something or other.
Sam [00:12:30]:
Okay.
Chris [00:12:31]:
Because it’s it’s the country one. And it’s a nonprofit.
Sam [00:12:34]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:12:34]:
And it’s what pays for all their uniforms and their training and their health insurance is all from the sponsorship. So it’s like he’s ripping off the athletes effectively by doing this. So Logan pulls a dick. Anyway, that’s that’s all I had
Sam [00:12:50]:
to say
Chris [00:12:50]:
about that. I’ve got a link to the YouTube, thing for that too if you’re interested in looking
Sam [00:12:55]:
at it. Last story of the Olympics this week. Do I tell you about the guy that chops his finger off? No. Okay. So this Australian field hockey player, 30 years old, badly broken finger on his right hand, training session in Perth, a couple of months before the Olympics. They said we can’t fix it. It’s gonna take months to repair. If we don’t repair it, you can’t go to the Olympics or you know, there’s not enough time to repair it for the Olympics.
Sam [00:13:21]:
So he just goes in and goes, yep, sweet ass. Let’s just amputate it. So they chopped it off and off of you goes to the Olympics.
Chris [00:13:27]:
I don’t What was he doing? Do you know what his
Sam [00:13:29]:
Field hockey.
Chris [00:13:30]:
Oh, field hockey.
Sam [00:13:31]:
Yeah. So, it just says a broken finger. I don’t know which one.
Chris [00:13:36]:
I’m just gonna assume it’s his pinky.
Sam [00:13:37]:
I’m gonna assume it’s his pinky because, yeah, that’s not doing anything.
Chris [00:13:41]:
It well, funny enough, it’s those 2 that are your grippers.
Sam [00:13:45]:
Yeah. Are you holding up index middle? No. Picky Oh, yeah. Sorry.
Chris [00:13:49]:
Picky and the one next to it.
Sam [00:13:50]:
Yeah. Yep.
Chris [00:13:50]:
Yeah. I don’t know what you call that one. Not the middle. Not the index. The other one.
Sam [00:13:55]:
The other one.
Chris [00:13:55]:
Not the pinky. Not the index.
Sam [00:13:57]:
I don’t know. Like But
Chris [00:13:58]:
those are your grip fingers. So if you’re doing anything with grip
Sam [00:14:02]:
Yep.
Chris [00:14:03]:
Those are important.
Sam [00:14:04]:
Mhmm. Okay. The other
Chris [00:14:05]:
ones are manipulatives, and those 2 are the grippers. Yep. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:08]:
So I don’t know if he’s got the whole thing chopped off to the bottom or if it’s just
Chris [00:14:12]:
Yeah. And we splinted just above there, cut it off just below that. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:16]:
There’s a bit there’s a bit it’s a bit vague for my liking the story.
Chris [00:14:18]:
That’s pretty cool. That’s pretty cool.
Sam [00:14:20]:
Yeah. I mean, he’s dedicated. He’s probably got that’s the weird thing. Like, you know, they’ve put so much time and effort into it. If something goes wrong, it’s like crushing. Because there’s stories where some people have taken some time off. Like I was watching this channel and they’re like, this is, blah blah blah from whatever country. And they took the last Olympics off.
Sam [00:14:40]:
And they’ve realized they needed to come back and try and chase that dream. And I was like, I think what actually happened is they put so much time and effort into this Olympics. When they take the time off, they’ve realized, I don’t know how to do anything else. They might have had a midlife Olympic crisis. I’m not sure.
Chris [00:14:55]:
Yeah. Well, I’m impressed with Simone Biles who came back. Right? Because she I don’t think she had time off, but she got hammered last Olympics because she had that mental
Sam [00:15:05]:
Yeah. Yeah. She had that break. So she’s 27 this Olympics, which was quite old for the gymnastics. She’s done a, the, what’s this vault thing? She did a move on that yesterday or day before. It’s never been done at the Olympics before. So she ran hard out then they hit it like backwards does a back flip off it and then basically did 3 backwards somersaults while holding her legs sort of tucked straight and then landed it perfectly. And they’re like, oh, well, that’s never been done at the Olympics before.
Sam [00:15:33]:
Done at the worlds, I think. But yeah. So they lost their mind over that one.
Chris [00:15:38]:
Good on her. Good on her.
Sam [00:15:39]:
Like, you might as well go full, Yeah. And I mean, you know, I as you get older,
Chris [00:15:44]:
4 years doesn’t seem like a lot. But when you’re when you’re 20 or, you know, 18 or whatever, 4 years is like a lifetime, you know?
Sam [00:15:53]:
Do you want a do you want a, medical, story?
Chris [00:15:56]:
Okay. Yeah.
Sam [00:15:57]:
So when they do heart transplants, sometimes they have to put a temporary heart in the patient just to make sure they keep living until a transplant can happen.
Chris [00:16:08]:
Like a mechanical pump type thing.
Sam [00:16:11]:
Yeah. And traditionally, it has been sort of like a pump type situation with maybe little bags or whatever and in theory, over time, they could wear out. They’ve now created and they’ve been working on this this company, made by Vivacore. I’m sure they do some cool stuff. They’ve made a titanium heart that uses the same technology as high speed rail lines where it’s doing the mag the levitation with the magnets. Yeah. So this thing doesn’t wear out. It can just keep going forever.
Chris [00:16:43]:
Because there’s nowhere.
Sam [00:16:44]:
Yeah. But it’s not a full time solution because originally I was like, oh my gosh, they just swap out this. And they’re like, no, no, no. It’s for pre heart transplant patients. They’ve been working on this since 2013 and they perfected it. They put it in one patient. I’ve got a couple more lined up ready to go. And, yeah, it looks like a little tiny engine component made out of titanium.
Chris [00:17:06]:
Jamie OX It really does.
Sam [00:17:07]:
Jamie OX, it looks like like a twin turbo sort of thing. It’s it really does. Yeah. Anyway, that’s a bit random and, thought interesting.
Chris [00:17:15]:
Yeah. Actually, just on sort of a similar vein. I heard an interesting thing or read an interesting thing about, living funerals. So it’s
Sam [00:17:25]:
Oh, yep. Okay.
Chris [00:17:26]:
So these are people who are being diagnosed with, terminal illnesses. And and before they die, they go, oh, hell hell with it. Let’s do the funeral now Yep. While I’m still here to enjoy it.
Sam [00:17:38]:
Just like Shortland Street recently. Oh, really?
Chris [00:17:40]:
Oh, I
Sam [00:17:41]:
wouldn’t have
Chris [00:17:41]:
a clue. I I haven’t seen Shortland Street since that time I was on it. So
Sam [00:17:48]:
That’s right. That’s right. And that patient lurking around. Oh and then was it that when you sold the coffee machine you gave that guy the money? Is it that?
Chris [00:17:55]:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Great. So anyway, but the problem is so because we’ve all been to a funeral where somebody’s gone, oh, they would love this if they were still around, you know, sort of thing. So that’s the the idea. But there’s a lot of psychologists that are concerned about this trend because it’s becoming more and more prevalent. Oh.
Chris [00:18:14]:
And the concern is that funerals aren’t there for the person that’s died for everybody else to start getting over them. Like, it’s level 1 of the acceptance thing. Right?
Sam [00:18:25]:
Yes. Okay. So Okay.
Chris [00:18:27]:
Yeah. I was gonna ask what you thought about this because I think I I I think they’re both valid. But then And I think you should have something before and something after.
Sam [00:18:34]:
Yeah. They probably still have something after.
Chris [00:18:36]:
Yeah. You’d you’d hope.
Sam [00:18:37]:
And that’d be that’d be slightly different. You’re not gonna have a cookie cutter mold of this one and an identical one here.
Chris [00:18:44]:
No. But the, yeah, I
Sam [00:18:46]:
don’t know. Like I think if you had it depends I think it depends on the person and stuff. But if you got told this person’s having a terminal, has terminal illness, they’re gonna die, we’re gonna have this living funeral and and and you care about this person, you’re probably most likely gonna go and gonna try and make it as good as it can be. Like, it’s gonna be a bit weird for some people, I think, to get their head around.
Chris [00:19:08]:
Yeah. Because there was one on Boston Legal, like, back in the day. Oh, really? Legal was old.
Sam [00:19:12]:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:19:13]:
It was Michael j Fox was was the Alright. Guy, and it was his living funeral because he was and he was there with Denise Chic. Anyway
Sam [00:19:21]:
Okay. That’s a good throwback there?
Chris [00:19:22]:
Yeah. Throwback. So just
Sam [00:19:24]:
What episode was that?
Chris [00:19:25]:
Do you know? There before freaking Chortland straight
Sam [00:19:28]:
I’m waiting for you to go. It’s the episode thing. No.
Chris [00:19:30]:
I can’t I can’t even remember the season. Okay. Okay. I I heard the other day that there’s some new complex life they found, in a dig near I think it’s in West Africa.
Sam [00:19:43]:
Cool. Is it gonna come and kill us all?
Chris [00:19:45]:
No no no no. So they found fossilized complex life so they thought complex life dated back to 635000000 years ago.
Sam [00:19:54]:
Yep.
Chris [00:19:55]:
This is complex life from up to 2,000,000,000 years ago. Okay.
Sam [00:20:01]:
So why haven’t they found any before?
Chris [00:20:03]:
I don’t know, but it’s probably because this is a what would you call it? A segregated little pocket of life. Okay. It never continued. It wiped out. It became extinct. So it’s not part of our evolutionary
Sam [00:20:19]:
chain. Oh, okay.
Chris [00:20:20]:
Okay. They all died in the end. Yep. But it was 2000 2,000,000,000 years ago.
Sam [00:20:25]:
That’s random but interesting. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:20:27]:
Yeah. I yeah. This is just random. So I thought I oh, that fits with our randomness technology in life. Let me say that.
Sam [00:20:35]:
I I I just realized I do have another Olympic story.
Chris [00:20:39]:
Oh, no.
Sam [00:20:40]:
They’re at the swimming pool, and somebody’s realized there’s a swim cap at the bottom of the pool. Right? So this random dude, just semi average looking and his pair of Speedos just walks out. It It looks like a comedy thing. He just walks out. I don’t even think they say who he is, and he just dives in the pool to the bottom, gets a swim cam, gets out, and then wanders off. Don’t know who he is. He’s got yeah. He’s just this rando dude.
Sam [00:21:06]:
So
Chris [00:21:08]:
I just love it if they did that and just put rando dude as the I know.
Sam [00:21:12]:
That’s what I do. That’s what I do.
Chris [00:21:14]:
There you go, Harley. If that happens, not that it’ll happen in rhythm gymnastics or whatever, but
Sam [00:21:19]:
whatever.
Chris [00:21:20]:
So I got one more thing to mention. So you know about this. I don’t know if I mentioned it on the podcast. The back fence got knocked over
Sam [00:21:32]:
oh. 9 weeks ago. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:33]:
9 or 10
Sam [00:21:34]:
weeks ago. Yeah. Anyway. It’s a shoddily put together fence or it’s just worn out. Anyway, the whole It’s
Chris [00:21:39]:
really old.
Sam [00:21:40]:
How long do you reckon it is? 20 meters?
Chris [00:21:42]:
It’s yeah, it’s quite long.
Sam [00:21:43]:
Quite long. Yeah. It’s swollen over.
Chris [00:21:44]:
15 meters, maybe. There you go. Yeah. It had fallen over. It’s hanging off the the washing line thing and all that sort of stuff. Yeah. And I’ve been moaning about it. Anyway, the guy came and fixed it the other day because we had a flat inspection actually today.
Chris [00:21:56]:
Good. And so, they wanted to get it done before they came around for flat spectrum because I’ve been moaning about it.
Sam [00:22:02]:
I seriously I seriously don’t think they know what they’re doing sometimes because I’ve shifted who does what now. And, so do they fix it?
Chris [00:22:10]:
Yeah. I’m gonna I’m gonna ask you what you think about this because so I haven’t used the chain you’ve used the chainsaw?
Sam [00:22:17]:
Yeah. Yeah. Quite a
Chris [00:22:18]:
bit. Yeah. I have. Okay. I’ve never used the chainsaw.
Sam [00:22:20]:
That’s probably a good thing.
Chris [00:22:22]:
But I think so basically, this this fence is lying on the leaning on a 45 degree angle against this long washing line.
Sam [00:22:30]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:22:31]:
And so he’s chainsawing it into sections and taken out from putting into the
Sam [00:22:36]:
Oh, okay. Okay.
Chris [00:22:37]:
Trailer, which is perfectly fine. That makes sense, but I would have thought this is just me. Yeah. But I would think safety goggles would be a useful thing.
Sam [00:22:47]:
No. You just do a safe you do a safety squint. Safety squint. No. Yes. You need so he had nothing else on. Because the fun
Chris [00:22:55]:
He’s got heavy boots
Sam [00:22:56]:
Oh, that’s because he
Chris [00:22:57]:
does all the lawn lawn.
Sam [00:22:58]:
No. Yeah. He’s he’s, his name’s Gary.
Chris [00:23:00]:
Yeah. But he didn’t have gloves, and he didn’t have a but I was just like, I would’ve put goggles on. Like, because I used to use the angle grinder a lot at the old job.
Sam [00:23:08]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:09]:
And you don’t not put the the the freaking goggles on for you.
Sam [00:23:13]:
I mean, we didn’t have airbags either.
Chris [00:23:15]:
Oh, no.
Sam [00:23:16]:
Oh, no. So it’s crazy. Like, if you, if you’ve ever worked in forestry and you talked to old forestry guys, they’ve all got a you’ll see them. They’ve got a scar down their face on the well, usually on their right hand side of their face is a scar. So that means at some point the chainsaw has kicked back and they’ve turned the head to avoid getting cut and it’s cut their cheek. And it’s really like heaps of people in forestry that are older all have it.
Chris [00:23:41]:
Oh, wow.
Sam [00:23:42]:
Because they weren’t wearing helmets back then. So now the helmets have got the visor built in and the MR stuck to the side, and then it should hit that. Right. But, yeah, that that’s scary. I think people, miss. Yeah. Don’t don’t give it the respect they deserve with those things because you just need to do one slip and, like, he won’t have chainsaw pants on and No. They’re they’re full of fiber.
Sam [00:24:02]:
So as soon as you hit one of them, they pull all the fiber out and they just clog up the chainsaw. So you can’t it doesn’t cut anymore. Makes a hell of a mess. It just pulls all this fiber out.
Chris [00:24:13]:
Oh, because I was gonna say, oh, you mean like motorcycle pants, but not at all like motorcycle pants.
Sam [00:24:17]:
No. Slightly different. Yeah. Yeah. And then if you do if you have a chainsaw injury, like if he cut himself, you have to jam something in there straight away and don’t take it out. Like, strap it in there. Like, just get your t shirt, jam it in there, whatever. You gotta pack it.
Sam [00:24:29]:
Anyway, that’s a good fun thing. We’ve got a broken Roman blind and the
Chris [00:24:35]:
What are the Roman
Sam [00:24:36]:
What you’ve got behind you.
Chris [00:24:37]:
Oh, those. Right. Right. Right. Right.
Sam [00:24:39]:
And the chain when you pull it doesn’t do anything. It’s click, click, click, click, click. So the the I pulled it to bits to have a look and then put it back together. But the gears inside are ground out and broken. So it doesn’t work. We’re going on, I don’t know, 3 months now maybe. I don’t know. It’s been ages and they haven’t replaced it.
Sam [00:24:58]:
They were going to and then I pointed out they’re custom made because the curtains and the blinds all match in the bedroom and they’re like, oh. So I get a text mess, an email going, hey, hey, we’re chasing up that blind thing. Can you tell me if it’s a square rotational handle or a triangle? And I had no idea what they were talking about and then a couple of days later, I said to them, oh, are you talking about a Roman blind? No. Venetian, sorry. A Venetian blind that has the slats because that’s got the twisty rod thing. I think you’re wrong. I think you this has just got a chain. There’s no shape.
Sam [00:25:42]:
Just so I think they need to take it off the wall, take the whole thing to a shop and say Create
Chris [00:25:49]:
recreate one of these.
Sam [00:25:50]:
Well, undo it. Yeah. Unstitch and stitch it onto a new thing. Yeah. Anyway, we will see for the next house inspection.
Chris [00:25:58]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:25:59]:
Yeah. It goes on and on.
Chris [00:26:00]:
On and on. So anyway, they’d probably bored everybody by now. No. Talking about our No.
Sam [00:26:06]:
This is we’ve got people listening overseas. They wanna hear what it’s like living in New Zealand. This is
Chris [00:26:12]:
it. Well, it’s gonna be better than living in America at the moment. I’ve just been watching. Unfortunately, Trump went on to the, what is it? National Association of Black Journalists. They invited him to speak.
Sam [00:26:27]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:28]:
So every presidential, nominee for 70 years has gone
Sam [00:26:34]:
on this list. Okay. Okay. Okay. That makes sense. That’s good.
Chris [00:26:36]:
So okay. Because I I was thinking the same thing. But it’s
Sam [00:26:39]:
There’s a president’s type thing.
Chris [00:26:40]:
Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. So this national convention or, you know, whatever. And so the guy so Trump comes on, and the woman sort of starts off. There’s 3 different journalists, and one is in blue and one is in red and
Sam [00:26:52]:
one is in black. And I think it was one’s a democrat, one’s an independent, and one’s a republican.
Chris [00:26:58]:
Okay. And they’re they’re interviewing him.
Sam [00:27:00]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:27:01]:
And the first one is this democrat, I I I assume, says something like, okay. So you’ve done all this horrible stuff. Effectively, she see as, you know, you you’ve you’ve, said, you know, Obama was born in Kenya, and you’ve said that these, like, congresswomen should go back to where they came from when they were American people Yeah. But they’re black. And you said all these these and and she went through all this? And then she goes, so my question for you is you say you want the black vote now. Yeah. What what why should the black voters here trust you?
Sam [00:27:43]:
Okay. Fair enough question.
Chris [00:27:44]:
And he said I have never said such a horrible question. You’re just the most horrible person and just went on for a tirade for, like, 5 minutes. It was the most train wreck freaking interview you’ve ever seen. He just he did it so many times. He screwed up so many things. It’s hilarious. And then he goes, all these immigrants, they’re coming in, and you know what? They’re taking black jobs. And this woman’s like, sir, what are black jobs? Well, black
Sam [00:28:19]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:28:20]:
Well, black jobs are jobs. If you have a job, it’s a Blake job.
Sam [00:28:27]:
No. It wasn’t.
Chris [00:28:30]:
He’s a forearm. What What happened to He’s such
Sam [00:28:32]:
a boron. What happened to his ear injury?
Chris [00:28:34]:
Oh, there’s nothing nothing wrong there. I actually actually think it was a bullet at all. I think it was shrapnel from the, what do they call that thing? The,
Sam [00:28:43]:
Teleprompter. Teleprompter. But do you think it hit somebody else or it hit him? Because No.
Chris [00:28:47]:
I think the the the teleprompter smashed and it scratched him. Literally a scratch.
Sam [00:28:52]:
Okay.
Chris [00:28:53]:
That’s that’s my assumption.
Sam [00:28:56]:
Because it looked like initially there was a little like, there was some no. It looked like there was a okay amount of blood, but then it didn’t keep going because the air should just keep pumping up blood. I don’t know. It just seemed a bit weird.
Chris [00:29:07]:
If it’s just a light scratch then.
Sam [00:29:09]:
Yeah. We’re in the podcast with this story of bloody, what’s his name, Robert Downey Junior bloody making everyone at Comic Con lose their freaking minds.
Chris [00:29:20]:
Yeah. Well, it wasn’t a biggie. I I I I put it in there because I just thought it was interesting.
Sam [00:29:24]:
But did you see it?
Chris [00:29:25]:
No. I didn’t. I don’t I don’t know. I haven’t seen anything. I’ve read something about it. Oh. Tell me about it.
Sam [00:29:29]:
Oh. So the I don’t know how they started or introduced it, But all these people came on wearing all the same masks, all dressed the same except for one of them. And it was obviously how they introduced is it Doctor
Chris [00:29:42]:
Doom? Something Von Doom or something.
Sam [00:29:43]:
Yeah and I don’t know like I don’t know enough about this comic book character if this is the actual uniform that they normally wear, doctor Victor Von Doom. So yeah, they came out and then he just stood there for a bit and then he just ripped his mask off and they lost their mind.
Chris [00:29:59]:
Because it’s Robert Downey Jr.
Sam [00:30:00]:
Robert Downey Jr. So apparently, it’s either Iron Man turns into this guy or this guy turned into Iron Man. And I think one of those versions had only happened in one comic book. And then the question is like, couldn’t they have given it somebody else? Because he was getting paid, like, mega bucks for those Iron Man films.
Chris [00:30:19]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I mean, I think because Marvel’s not doing so well, they’re like Yeah. Robert Downey junior, he’s our salvation. He can make it happen. So, they’re bringing him back for that. And we had a long discussion, way too long of discussion with Adam about this when I caught up with him.
Chris [00:30:34]:
And he goes, no. It’s part
Sam [00:30:36]:
of the multiverse. People are getting all upset about it. You can’t have him being, Iron Man and this part. It’s already been sorted out.
Chris [00:30:42]:
The part of the multiverse is some some of them will be, there’ll be a a
Sam [00:30:47]:
A bit different version?
Chris [00:30:48]:
Yeah. They said there was gonna be
Sam [00:30:49]:
versions of every one of the superheroes. Uh-huh.
Chris [00:30:52]:
Up there, alter ego version or whatever the the bad version.
Sam [00:30:56]:
Can’t say I really follow it, but I do know they’ve brought it out. And the boys, they brought out their own version with the chart that looks like a Marvel one with all the spin off stuff. It was pretty good. Alright. Anyway
Chris [00:31:06]:
Yeah. I haven’t caught up with boys yet.
Sam [00:31:08]:
It brings us to the end of this podcast. We’ve done our time. We’ve told you some stuff. We’ve tried to get you to come along to our 500th. Time will tell if that works. Yeah. The Regent Theatre, 7 PM, 11th September. We will see you then.
Chris [00:31:23]:
Yes. Yes. Yes. We’ll put some, something on the social media and and on the website.
Sam [00:31:30]:
And, of course, a shout out to Paige who’s let us do that.
Chris [00:31:32]:
Yes. Yes. Yes. Thanks, Paige.
Sam [00:31:34]:
Okay. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:31:36]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:31:36]:
See you.
Chris [00:31:37]:
Bye.
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