Summary
This week we have our final Olympics update, find out what’s been happening and how delusional Britons are.
Has Trump got Asylum seekers wrong this whole time?
Also this week someone donated a bunch of meth lollies, Sam won some running shoes by doing the bare minimum and we talk about how self driving cars are being chaotic.
We talk about an interesting art installation that involves fake graves. Social media is used to find a long lost missing painting and Chris gives his review of the new Aliens: Romulus movie.
All this and much more packed into 30 minutes of randomness, technology and life.
Links
Our last Olympics update
How delusional are Britons when it comes to the Olympics?
Getty and their goal at the Olympics
Donated meth lollies
Self driving cars causing problems
Social media post helps find missing painting
Spinning iceberg
Dancing on graves art installation
Alien Romulus Review
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 494 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 of randomness, technology, and life, and all that good stuff.
Chris [00:00:32]:
And the end of the Olympics.
Sam [00:00:34]:
You love the Olympics?
Chris [00:00:35]:
I saw nothing of the Olympics.
Sam [00:00:38]:
I’ve got I’ve got an Olympics update for you.
Chris [00:00:40]:
Right. I’ve and I’ve got one thing about the Olympics just, because I saw your one there. I’m gonna mention this.
Sam [00:00:45]:
You thought you’d jump on the bandwagon even though you don’t know what it is? Yeah. We have got the highest tally medal since 1984 this time around.
Chris [00:00:54]:
New Zealand has?
Sam [00:00:54]:
Yes. Oh, wow. We’re like the 10th or 11th in the rankings per capita or something like we Oh that’s pretty good. Punched well above our weight. We got a gold for high jump which blows my mind. I don’t know why Guy in Dunedin don’t even know his name does not matter. Did you see the breakdancing thing? You must have.
Chris [00:01:14]:
I okay. My my favorite comedian Josh Johnson.
Sam [00:01:18]:
Oh, was he talking
Chris [00:01:18]:
about it? He’s he’s done a thing, on the the Olympics and included, that. Okay. And it’s hilarious because I’ve seen a bit because Nat, you know you know Nat, have you you’ve met Nat. Yes. Nat that works with me, she, Have I met her? Yeah. I think you met her at, unconference.
Sam [00:01:41]:
Oh, yeah. Probably.
Chris [00:01:42]:
Yeah. Back in the day. Back in the Anyway, so she she’s Australian originally.
Sam [00:01:45]:
Okay.
Chris [00:01:45]:
Apparently, she just got inundated with everybody going, have you seen you on TV? It looks like you, and it dances like you. She looks like you, and she dances like you when you’re drunk. And and that’s got, what is this all about? And she takes it out, and she goes, oh, yeah. That is exactly how I dance when I’m drunk.
Sam [00:02:07]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:08]:
But, yeah, Josh Johnson, well, I’ll have to include the link in the show notes because it’s the funniest stuff he goes he goes on about it.
Sam [00:02:16]:
But do you know much about it? The Woman Breakdown?
Chris [00:02:19]:
I did end up reading something.
Sam [00:02:21]:
So heaps of stuff comes out. Yeah. So I’m just surprised she made it past the, the person she beat in the qualifying whatever to get to the Olympics was not much better than her. And if you saw the male breakdancing people at the Olympics, they were doing it how you imagined it would be done. Like doing amazing moves, flips, all sorts of stuff. This Raegan person, she was they interviewed her somewhere and she said, oh, I’ve, she studied some sort of dance or something and she got funding to do a paper at uni about breakdancing. So she’s getting money from the government to do that. And then somewhere along the lines, I assume she thought, oh, I will just go to the Olympics.
Sam [00:03:08]:
I’m not sure. She’s now come out and says, it’s amazing what you do with only 37 minutes of training, and I’m the best breakdancer in the world. She got 0 points. Absolute embarrassment, really.
Chris [00:03:21]:
So I I read something quite different.
Sam [00:03:24]:
Okay.
Chris [00:03:24]:
And I I don’t know what to believe now. So I really don’t. So this person had written this thing, and and I think it was a I thought it was a credible source, but I can’t remember where it was now. But, basically, this woman, has been an international breakdancer and has done breakdancing at different competitions, and she’s done very well in them. The same woman, Regan. Yeah. And but when they said breakdancing was going to go to the Olympics Yeah. A little bit like the parkour thing back in the day Back in the day.
Chris [00:03:57]:
She was like, no. No. It’s gonna ruin it. You can’t score people. It’s about the expression. It’s it’s an art. It’s not a scoring thing. Right?
Sam [00:04:06]:
Yes. I’ve heard that before too.
Chris [00:04:07]:
Yeah. And so the person was saying that she managed to get in just so she could do that as a protest dance, and that was her artistic expression of, screw you all.
Sam [00:04:24]:
I think she game the game to the system to get a free trip. I don’t know, but, she looked very similar to that Celeste Barber woman who’s a comedian slash got a show and stuff, and she’s Australian. And I wouldn’t be surprised I literally thought it was her when I first saw her, and, I don’t know. Anyway, it’s been canned. They’re not having that again in the next Olympics already.
Chris [00:04:45]:
No. It was it was a Okay. It’s a dumb idea. So I’m gonna tell you a little bit about this because I thought this was funny. Yeah. Because we’ve talked about similar things in the past about how delusional Americans are. But this one’s how delusional Britons are.
Sam [00:04:58]:
Okay.
Chris [00:04:59]:
So they went in, and they asked a lot of British people, if they think they could qualify for the Olympics in 2028.
Sam [00:05:09]:
And After watching the breakdancing woman, you’re gonna say yes.
Chris [00:05:13]:
How many What percentage of Britons overall do you think would say, yeah, I could qualify for
Sam [00:05:19]:
Oh, I don’t know. Olympics? It’s gonna be way too many.
Chris [00:05:22]:
4 I’ve got, 4 years. 50%. No. No. It’s not that bad.
Sam [00:05:27]:
Okay. Good.
Chris [00:05:28]:
Good. 27%.
Sam [00:05:29]:
Oh, wow. Which
Chris [00:05:31]:
is a lot, but I tell you why I think that’s just a bad because it says quarter in the, 1 in 4 Britons is what it says in the, headline. Yeah. But it’s actually worse than that because they break it down by age group and by sex. Right?
Sam [00:05:49]:
Okay. Did we go with old people?
Chris [00:05:51]:
So men out of, just men and women, just breaking down to men and women, men 30%, women 25%.
Sam [00:06:00]:
Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. Yep.
Chris [00:06:02]:
And then when you break it into age, 18 to 24 year olds, 39%. That’s a lot more than 1 in 4. Right? Yeah. 39%. 25 to 49, 34%. 50 to 64, my age group
Sam [00:06:19]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:20]:
23%. Excellent. 65 plus? What do you reckon?
Sam [00:06:26]:
A lot.
Chris [00:06:27]:
You’re 65 plus. And they’re like, could you qualify for the Olympics in 4 years’ time?
Sam [00:06:33]:
Yes.
Chris [00:06:34]:
Yes. How many?
Sam [00:06:36]:
37.
Chris [00:06:36]:
No. 15%. I mean, it’s that’s the only reason it’s dropped the average down Mhmm.
Sam [00:06:42]:
Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:06:43]:
Down to 27%. But but 15% of retired people think they could qualify for the Olympics in 4 years’ time. That that alone just blows my mind.
Sam [00:06:56]:
But if you if some rando come up on the street, you’d be like, yes. Like, did they ask about what sport? We don’t know, do we?
Chris [00:07:03]:
No. No. No. It, there’s there’s quite a story here, and there’s a lot of stuff. Because I think a lot of people watch that Turkish guy shooting.
Sam [00:07:11]:
I think so. Easy. So this guy And
Chris [00:07:13]:
maybe that breakdancer.
Sam [00:07:14]:
Instagram story the guy goes, there’s only 3 things I remember about this Olympics. The guy that won silver place for shooting, the break dancing woman, and the high jump dude that knocked it over.
Chris [00:07:25]:
Oh, actually further down in the article, they do have a breakdown of
Sam [00:07:31]:
The sports?
Chris [00:07:31]:
What they the sports.
Sam [00:07:32]:
Okay. Go.
Chris [00:07:33]:
So the top one Shooting. 15%. Yep. Air rifle shooting.
Sam [00:07:37]:
Yeah. I thought so. Because we
Chris [00:07:39]:
second one, close to shooting.
Sam [00:07:43]:
Okay.
Chris [00:07:44]:
13% archery.
Sam [00:07:45]:
Oh, yeah. Archery. Yeah. Of course.
Chris [00:07:46]:
10% badminton. Have you played badminton then?
Sam [00:07:49]:
Oh, no. That’s It’s tough.
Chris [00:07:50]:
That’s the next level. Tough game.
Sam [00:07:52]:
Yeah. It’s fast.
Chris [00:07:53]:
9% table tennis. That’s even worse. Yeah. 7% rowing. And then it goes 100 percent, 100 meter sprint, road cycling, breaststroke swimming, and champlain. And I assume there’s things like, well, I can ride a bike, so
Sam [00:08:11]:
I can get That’s all you need. That’s all you need.
Chris [00:08:13]:
And it goes to engulf like the there’s, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 5, there are 3%. These are the worst ones. Yep. Rhythmic gymnastics. Fair.
Sam [00:08:25]:
Okay.
Chris [00:08:26]:
Artistic gymnastics. I don’t know what the difference is.
Sam [00:08:29]:
Rhythmic is with the ball or the ribbon. Yeah. And the other one is when they’re on the floor.
Chris [00:08:33]:
Just just the mat thing. Yeah.
Sam [00:08:34]:
Yeah. The mat thing. Yeah.
Chris [00:08:35]:
Okay. Cool. I think I just always called it the mat. Yeah. Diving? I mean Yeah.
Sam [00:08:40]:
High dive. High
Chris [00:08:41]:
diving and stuff. Rugby sevens, I would have thought that would have been up there. Nah. It’s And use oh, no. That’s in Britain.
Sam [00:08:48]:
Exactly. It’s pretty brutal for them to watch.
Chris [00:08:49]:
And then the last one they’ve got here, which I think is just, yeah, is skateboarding, which is also 3%, which is fair. So, yeah, anyway.
Sam [00:09:00]:
So at the Olympics, Getty Images is there. They’re one of the biggest photography whatever places in the world, that gets photos to share out amongst, you know, that’s how they do it. So they had, editors in London, Australia, and US to cover all the time zones, not actually there. They have their own private 5 gs network set up in the whole area as well as using hardwired things. What what’s their, goal of taking an image and then giving it to the network so that Aetasys can work on it?
Chris [00:09:30]:
How quickly? Yeah. So from from the time the race finishes or whatever By
Sam [00:09:34]:
the time the photo is taken. An hour? Within 26 seconds.
Chris [00:09:40]:
What the hell?
Sam [00:09:41]:
So the cameras are just pumping out all the data. They’re capturing because they have to get the images out as soon as possible to the news networks so they use their images. So every time you see something iconic, they’re just like, like, you know, firing it off. And they said, they’re currently not using AI to do the editing. They’re using AI, I think, for tagging photos or where they are in the, arena and stuff. So anyway, that happened. Did you see the remote control buggies? No. Oh, so athletics outside track and field, there’s these really big radio controlled cars and there was footage of them swapping them over.
Sam [00:10:16]:
So there’s 2 of them, 2 drivers and they took them off and brought out another 2 drivers and, what do you think they’re being used for? They’ve got drivers. Well, people are controlling them obviously. They’re radar controlled.
Chris [00:10:27]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:10:28]:
And they go shooting off somewhere and then they come back. But what are they doing with them? Do you know?
Chris [00:10:32]:
Getting the shot put and the discus?
Sam [00:10:34]:
No, the Javelin stick.
Chris [00:10:35]:
The Javelin?
Sam [00:10:36]:
Yeah, they put them in and then this car comes flying back and then somebody takes them out. So that was pretty cool. And obviously at the end of the Olympics, you’ve got the closing ceremony. They have to hand it over to the next Olympic location, which is LA. So what do you do? You get snoepedog. You get Tom Cruise to rappel from the roof. Oh really? Yep. He rappels down, grabs the Olympic flag, jams on the back of a motorbike, takes off out of the stadium.
Chris [00:11:04]:
Does he wheelie? I would, I could just see him.
Sam [00:11:06]:
No, I don’t think so. I don’t think so. He takes off and then they have a pre filmed bit where he takes off jumps on a plane, goes to LA. I think I think he jumps out of the plane because you know but I’m just like come on Tom Cruise. So that was a bit interesting.
Chris [00:11:22]:
That’s that’s cool. That’s that’s pretty cool.
Sam [00:11:24]:
So that brings us to the end of this Olympics I think. Yep. And before we move on we better say 500th episode recording live 11th September 7 pm. The regent in Tiamutu. Apparently, people are coming.
Chris [00:11:38]:
Yeah. I don’t know. It should be good. It’ll be great. It’ll be great. It’ll be something. And we’ll have some, some recorded people. So we’re gonna get a hold of some people that aren’t in New Zealand that can’t get here for that, because apparently, you know, Teow Moutou doesn’t have an airport.
Chris [00:11:55]:
That’s right.
Sam [00:11:56]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:11:56]:
Yeah. Can I do a little bit of a Trump thing?
Sam [00:11:59]:
Real quick. Real quick. Okay. Super quick.
Chris [00:12:01]:
So there’s a couple of things about Trump. So he’s he’s had a bad week. He’s having a bad month this month, basically.
Sam [00:12:06]:
He started slurring with Musk.
Chris [00:12:08]:
Yeah. He had the thing with Musk. He was slurring. But what what caught my attention initially was, one of the guys made this offhand comment. I was like, oh my god. You’re right. And then I’ve I’ve seen it, repeated since then. But, basically, you know how he he keeps saying and he has said for ages that, all around the world, they’re emptying their prisons and they’re sending it them to the United States, and they’re emptying all the mental hospitals and sending them to the United States.
Sam [00:12:39]:
You’re right.
Chris [00:12:40]:
And somebody goes, I I think I just realized. He when they say they’re asylum seekers, he makes Afro mental asylums because he doesn’t know.
Sam [00:12:52]:
Does he? Because he doesn’t
Chris [00:12:53]:
know English. Does he? And I’m like, oh my god. I think you’re right. And then there was the, Willie Brown thing. Have you heard about that?
Sam [00:13:01]:
Yeah. Helicopter ride, and he got confused between Willie Brown and who the other dude was.
Chris [00:13:05]:
Nate Nate’s somebody who’s another black man. Because, basically, Willie Brown goes, I was never in a helicopter with Donald Trump. I think he’s just probably mixing me up with another black man. And this other black guy goes, yeah. I was in that helicopter with him. And then, and then, he in his thing with Musk, he got he shows the picture of, Carmela. Oh, yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:13:29]:
Well, he talks about the picture from Carmela because she made, Time Magazine front cover. Oh, I didn’t even know that yet. Gorgeous. She’s she’s looks like one of the most What? This is what Trump said about Harris.
Sam [00:13:42]:
Okay.
Chris [00:13:42]:
She looks like one of the most, beautiful women, and actors that she looks so good. In fact, she she reminds me of Melania.
Sam [00:13:53]:
Okay.
Chris [00:13:54]:
And I’m like, is it what?
Sam [00:13:56]:
Is he getting what what was the gist of that? Did he just say it?
Chris [00:13:59]:
You know, he’s
Sam [00:14:00]:
just saying it. Was he no follow-up? No.
Chris [00:14:01]:
He wasn’t given a hard time. He was just she’s beautiful. She’s so beautiful. She’s just like our our favorite former,
Sam [00:14:09]:
First lady.
Chris [00:14:10]:
First lady, Melania. And it’s just like
Sam [00:14:13]:
That’s weird.
Chris [00:14:13]:
Dude, he can’t tell the difference between women because remember, he mistook, E. Jean Carroll for his wife.
Sam [00:14:20]:
Oh, that’s right. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:14:22]:
That’s right. The other day. Yeah. He can’t tell 1 black person. He in in his mind, I think there’s only 2 people in the world, him and other.
Sam [00:14:33]:
I think so. That’s crazy.
Chris [00:14:35]:
Anyway anyway, that’s my, my little, Donald Trump rant for today.
Sam [00:14:39]:
Did you see the story with the crazier, the meth lollies?
Chris [00:14:43]:
I I saw the, headline, and I was gonna look at it. And then I thought, oh, Sam’s already got something. I’ll wait to hear from him. So I
Sam [00:14:51]:
So don’t know. So somebody who I like to call Methony probably, somebody somebody stuffed yeah. So somebody stuffed up. There’s these pineapple lollies that are wrapped. Right? And somebody donated a whole bunch to the Auckland City Mission. And somebody must have had a reaction, of course. Oh, yes. A couple of children were taken to the hospital.
Sam [00:15:15]:
There’s 4 people so far that have been taken to hospital for these lollies. Now they have got a ton of Methanum. Almost, I saw a statement early on up to 300 times more than normal.
Chris [00:15:25]:
So 300 doses in one
Sam [00:15:27]:
300 doses. Yeah. Because they’ve been made to smuggle them in from wherever.
Chris [00:15:32]:
And then they gotta break them down and, you
Sam [00:15:34]:
know, fix
Chris [00:15:35]:
them with talcum powder or whatever the hell they do. I don’t know.
Sam [00:15:38]:
Yeah. And then one of these people that received said meth lollies has been tracked down by the police because he started selling them on Facebook. Because it must be worth quite a bit.
Chris [00:15:47]:
Well, if you’re going, dude, I have just bought the most amazing pineapple lumps.
Sam [00:15:53]:
If it doesn’t if it doesn’t kill them. That’s what they’re worried about.
Chris [00:15:57]:
Oh, yeah. No. That that’s that’s crazy.
Sam [00:16:00]:
Oh, that’s what happened this week. I knew something happened to me. Now here’s a top life tip because we’re all about things like that. If you enter a competition on Facebook, the people running the competition do not care what you write. So let’s say you’re Rebel Sport, and you’re giving away a pair of $320 running shoes, and you say, tell us about your running goals. Right? These people were writing their life story. They’ve got photos of kids, dogs, god knows what else. It’s a lot of waffle.
Sam [00:16:36]:
And here I am and I wrote please let me win. Thanks. Something along those lines. And I won. Oh, what? I’m waiting for the shoes to turn up.
Chris [00:16:46]:
Yeah. Because because you don’t have running goals. One day, I wanna run.
Sam [00:16:57]:
It doesn’t matter. It’s a random number. It’s like a random number generator thing. Yeah.
Chris [00:17:02]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:17:03]:
And nobody gives a shit. So, yeah. I just wrote something real one line that just says enter me in the draw to win, I think is what I actually wrote. And I and the funny thing is, I don’t think I follow Rebel Sport. So they sort of mentioned me, but they didn’t tag me. So I didn’t see it. And then somebody else sort of said, hey, congratulations on winning just some rando. And I got that notification, and I was like, oh, that competition finished ages ago.
Sam [00:17:28]:
And in their terms and conditions, it was sort of like, if you don’t respond within 2 days, we’ll redraw it. And I think it had been 4 days. So I messaged them and these people running social media don’t know what’s going on. I think Rebel Sport is celebrating their birthday or something so they’re giving stuff away all day. So I was like hey I won a competition like oh which one? And I said this one and they’re like
Chris [00:17:52]:
okay hang on
Sam [00:17:54]:
and then it took like a whole day and then like
Chris [00:17:55]:
yeah all good good good give me
Sam [00:17:57]:
your address and shoe size and stuff so anyway.
Chris [00:18:00]:
That’s cool though that that’s pretty cool I like that. Yeah. Actually going back to that, the drugs thing. Yeah. Because there’s there’s been some storms in, you know, like, off Florida and all that sort
Sam [00:18:14]:
of stuff.
Chris [00:18:14]:
And all these Florida police just keep finding cocaine in the water.
Sam [00:18:19]:
Oh, man. It’s crazy.
Chris [00:18:20]:
And they found some in the mangrove swamps, and they found some just washed up in the beach. And and people are just turning it in, just turning in these big bricks, a brick the size of the, the microwave oven Yeah. Yeah. Like Good. Of cocaine. And so far, they’ve got been handed in over 1,500,000 of of, thing. It’s just been wherever they’ve been, like barnacle encrusted
Sam [00:18:44]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:18:45]:
They’ve been, you know, they’ve just been, broken up by the storm and washed away.
Sam [00:18:49]:
I wonder how much, like, how what percentage of drugs these are lost or tossed away or whatever the reason is. Like Yeah.
Chris [00:18:56]:
Or, oh, I forgot where he dropped it. They
Sam [00:19:00]:
I was just started, I was like, it says storms and cocaine, and I was like, oh no. They could make a movie because there’s cocaine beer. They need like hurricane. Hurricane. And it’s just everybody Cocaine nado. Oh, that’s it. Everybody gets like just doused with cocaine and they do bat shit stuff, but in stormy conditions. Like, it doesn’t make any sense.
Sam [00:19:22]:
They don’t know what’s going on. And there’s people just flying around and you there’s a shot, like, door opens, person gets sucked out, but as they get sucked out, a stop sign comes by and rips their head off. You can picture it, can’t you?
Chris [00:19:36]:
Yeah. Somebody goes, wow. Did you see that? Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:19:40]:
Yeah. They’re off their face the whole time. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:41]:
Yeah. They’re off their face.
Sam [00:19:42]:
That’s good. That’s what we need. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:43]:
No. It sounds good. Actually, talking about nuts, well, I thought this was, quite amusingly stupid.
Sam [00:19:49]:
Okay. Nuts.
Chris [00:19:51]:
You’ve heard of Waymo? It’s like a driverless car
Sam [00:19:56]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They’re pretty creepy. This guy caught one I saw on Instagram. He just gets in and it just starts driving around. But it’s basically San Francisco type thing.
Chris [00:20:04]:
Yeah. San Francisco. So, they have some downtime with all these things. So they rented a car parking space. Like, it was just an open area.
Sam [00:20:14]:
Okay.
Chris [00:20:14]:
And they rented this for all the cars to sort of when it’s not busy for them to go there. So pretty much at night, late night in the morning, they go there and they’re sitting in this car park.
Sam [00:20:23]:
Well, that makes sense because you need
Chris [00:20:25]:
it. This little problem.
Sam [00:20:26]:
Okay.
Chris [00:20:27]:
And and there’s there’s there’s been a whole bunch of videos apparently of this. Yeah. Because Waymo, it’s a safety feature that when you’re going to change direction and there’s other vehicles around, they toot.
Sam [00:20:40]:
Oh, okay. So
Chris [00:20:41]:
They’ve got 50 or a 100 of these cars in these little car parks. Yeah. And as they’re backing in and all that, they’re tooting at each other all night long.
Sam [00:20:51]:
Oh, no.
Chris [00:20:52]:
And the residents in the flats all around them have been getting going nuts about this because there’s nobody too hard. Yeah, lad. Because there’s no drivers. Oh my gosh. That’s nuts. They’re just gee. So one of the women that’s just been filming it from her looking
Sam [00:21:08]:
down at
Chris [00:21:08]:
at this thing from her apartment and ended up getting loads of views online. And then Waymo finally fixed it. I think what they’ve I’m guessing what they did. I didn’t read it. But I’m guessing what they did is they they’ve made that a silent zone.
Sam [00:21:22]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:22]:
So when they go in there, they don’t toot at each other. You didn’t But it’s hilarious. They’re tooting each other. They’re all driverless. So why are you tooting?
Sam [00:21:31]:
That’s excellent.
Chris [00:21:32]:
That cricked me up.
Sam [00:21:33]:
I saw the story. Social media has found a Henry the 8th portrait. Oh, okay. So back in A portrait of him.
Chris [00:21:43]:
Yeah. A portrait by him.
Sam [00:21:44]:
No. That’s right. Yeah. So, dated back to the 15 nineties, there was a collection of all these 22 portraits and they went missing. And only a handful of them knew where it was.
Chris [00:21:55]:
Oh, so the all of them got went missing or just the one?
Sam [00:21:59]:
Sounds like a whole bunch of them went missing and they only found a couple. Right. And this person posted this random that’s the photo and it’s really hard to see but right in the background the painting is hanging and somebody noticed it and goes oh that’s I think that’s from this collection blah blah blah. Turns out it’s worth £200,000.
Chris [00:22:20]:
That’s not a flash house is it?
Sam [00:22:21]:
I didn’t No it was like a council building.
Chris [00:22:24]:
Oh right?
Sam [00:22:25]:
Yeah, it’s the drawing room of Warwick Old Shire Hall apparently whatever that means and, yeah in the background on the wall
Chris [00:22:36]:
by these guys. Oh, wow.
Sam [00:22:39]:
Yeah. And someone goes, I think that what was that photo? What’s that image? Anyway
Chris [00:22:44]:
That that’s that’s pretty cool. Have you heard much about this Ukraine thing recently?
Sam [00:22:50]:
I heard that they’ve pushed forward further into Russia. Yeah. And I saw a footage of all the Russian soldiers that they’ve captured that are all just rolled up with, cable ties.
Chris [00:23:02]:
Yes. They
Sam [00:23:03]:
they POWs, I guess now.
Chris [00:23:04]:
Yeah. Put a bunch in the back of a pickup truck and we’ll take them back to Ukraine or whatever.
Sam [00:23:09]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:23:10]:
So, yeah. No. But, yeah. So 7 days. I I didn’t think I’d seen a lot of news on it, to be honest. But, yeah, 7 days now, they they control around a 1000 square kilometers of Russian territory.
Sam [00:23:23]:
That’s pretty good.
Chris [00:23:25]:
The neighboring so that’s the Kursk province. The next province over, I kept not even gonna try and say the name. They they’ve started, evacuating their province. Oh, wow. So the Russians are are not looking good. And, it’s just cracking me up because it’s just like, it’s it’s a very ballsy move Mhmm. For the Ukrainians. But from a because they’re still getting pushed back, at the southern border
Sam [00:23:53]:
Mhmm. Okay.
Chris [00:23:54]:
From the occupied territories. But it really puts lights a fire under Putin because
Sam [00:24:00]:
Oh, I mean, who?
Chris [00:24:01]:
It’s the he’s the first person since World War 2 Yeah. To have, been invaded, you know, be president while they’ve been invaded. So it’s like and he’s a bit of a history buffered, Putin.
Sam [00:24:14]:
So Oh, he won’t won’t be liking it.
Chris [00:24:15]:
He he he will not be happy at all.
Sam [00:24:17]:
What was the deal? Did you see the video of the was it the MP? Who’s the Ukrainian guy? And he’s talking to the camera.
Chris [00:24:23]:
Yeah. Yeah. I I I
Sam [00:24:24]:
And he’s sort of, like, talking to his boss or something.
Chris [00:24:26]:
Grab grab the popcorn. We’ll just push him back.
Sam [00:24:28]:
Oh, no. He said something like I think they translated it. He’s probably the same guy, but he was like talking to his boss, and he goes, hey. I’ll put in the request for, travel when I get back or something. I’ve just gotta go on this little, meeting.
Chris [00:24:41]:
Oh, this is Ukrainian guy?
Sam [00:24:43]:
Ukrainian guy.
Chris [00:24:43]:
No. I’m sorry. I’m thinking of a Russian guy.
Sam [00:24:46]:
Oh, no. No. This guy was just about to head into Russia, and he goes, sorry. Didn’t fill out the paperwork. I’ll do it when I get back, basically.
Chris [00:24:53]:
That’s hilarious. Happy Wednesday. That that’s great. You know, there’s a Russian guy, and he’s, like, talking to camera pretty relaxed. And he’s like, grab your popcorn, sit down and watch this. We’re gonna kick these Ukrainians out of here. And that was, like, a week ago. And it’s like, yeah.
Chris [00:25:09]:
Alright. Actually, semi related. Well, it’s not related at all, but I’m gonna relate it.
Sam [00:25:14]:
Semi related in Chris’s head?
Chris [00:25:16]:
In in my head. Okay. It’s an iceberg in that was on news tonight, actually. Mhmm. And it’s in, broken off Antarctica.
Sam [00:25:25]:
Yes.
Chris [00:25:26]:
And it’s caught in a vortex, and it’s just spinning Oh. In one spot. Okay.
Sam [00:25:30]:
But
Chris [00:25:31]:
it’s the biggest iceberg in the world.
Sam [00:25:34]:
Yeah. It’s not the perfectly square one. Have you seen that?
Chris [00:25:37]:
Well, it looks quite square.
Sam [00:25:38]:
Okay.
Chris [00:25:38]:
Yeah. Because you can see it from space.
Sam [00:25:40]:
It’s that big. There’s one that’s absolutely square with right angles and everything. It looks like a like a giant rectangle.
Chris [00:25:47]:
Yeah. This all Ricochet. It
Sam [00:25:49]:
looks Okay.
Chris [00:25:50]:
Not quite square but but quite So
Sam [00:25:51]:
it’s just there floating around?
Chris [00:25:53]:
And yeah. No. It it does a rotation every 24 days.
Sam [00:25:57]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:25:58]:
And it is the size of the area that the Russia the the Ukrainians take over. It’s a 1,000 square kilometers roughly. Oh, okay. That’s why
Sam [00:26:06]:
Right now?
Chris [00:26:07]:
How I, connected that in there. Oh. But, yeah, that that’s that’s bizarre. But, they reckon it will be sitting there for years because it’s a year’s worth of melt. It would take that that’s how much would melt off the thing in a year. Yep. But they reckon it’ll probably sit there for a couple of years just sitting around.
Sam [00:26:27]:
Doing its thing.
Chris [00:26:29]:
I just love it.
Sam [00:26:30]:
You know how much I love art installations?
Chris [00:26:32]:
We may we may we
Sam [00:26:36]:
may talk about this
Chris [00:26:37]:
at our flight. Is this an angry one? I don’t know. You you tell me.
Sam [00:26:41]:
No. We may bring this up at the 500th episode. I’m not sure. No. It’s it’s okay. So in a park in London, there’s 2 metal graves. They look like coffins that are stuck in the ground.
Chris [00:26:55]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:26:56]:
And it’s titled An Invitation to Dance on the Grave. And as you dance on it, you hear this random musical sound. They celebrate the legacy of a famous English clown from 17/78 and a composer from 17/45. When you step on it, you get some chime musical notes, and they’re tuned to allow visitors to play hot coddlins, a song that was popularized by the, clown Grimaldi. I’m sure we’d recognize it if we could hear it.
Chris [00:27:31]:
I
Sam [00:27:32]:
There’s no link to it, but anyway, it’s a random I I don’t know. It it’s one of the better art installations. Yeah yeah. It’s not a trailer full of plastic pipe.
Chris [00:27:41]:
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Sam [00:27:44]:
Good. Good. I’ve got 3 trailers with some some blue piping on the back.
Chris [00:27:51]:
Oh, god. That’s hilarious. Yeah. Cool. No. That’s that’s a that’s a pretty good one, actually.
Sam [00:27:57]:
I like it when the art installation does something or you can interact with it, not look at a trailer. Yeah.
Chris [00:28:03]:
Yeah. And and it’s the Dancing on the Graves, it’s a bit of an interesting one, and and I I would have thought it would be cool if it lit up a little bit like that old eighties, dance dance
Sam [00:28:14]:
Revolution?
Chris [00:28:15]:
Revolution. Yeah. That’s what I’m thinking of.
Sam [00:28:17]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:28:17]:
Yeah. That would be funny, if if it made it, you know, like Yeah. Mix those 2 together.
Sam [00:28:22]:
And what have you got? Because we’re almost at the end of the podcast.
Chris [00:28:24]:
Cool. I I wanna talk about Alien Romulus, and I thought I’d leave this till last. Good. So if there will be spoilers. So if you don’t want the spoilers, you can come back and listen to this later after you’ve seen it.
Sam [00:28:37]:
Or stop it and never think about this episode again. Okay. So this is the latest movie in the Alien franchise. Yep. And that’s all I know.
Chris [00:28:48]:
Okay. Yeah. So I I went along.
Sam [00:28:50]:
I did ask you a question, and then you never replied to me.
Chris [00:28:52]:
I know. I I saw it, and I was like, I’ll I’ll tell you Okay. On this thing. So you the question you ask is where does it fit in the, the series.
Sam [00:28:59]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:28:59]:
And it’s basically between the first and the second.
Sam [00:29:02]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:29:03]:
Right. So it’s early on. Although argument could be made that this the Nostromo was sitting there for a long, long time and all this other thing. But, basically, it’s between the first and
Sam [00:29:14]:
the second. Probably. Now if you’re wrong, Adam will tell me Yeah. What the correct answer is.
Chris [00:29:17]:
Well, Adam. I’m pretty sure Adam said it was between the first
Sam [00:29:21]:
and second.
Chris [00:29:21]:
But, anyway, so it’s quite well done. It’s it’s a good film. It I jumped a couple of times, which is always a good thing. Like, it it was it was good. Acting’s great. Casting’s great. Scene, you know, the the sets and all that fantastic.
Sam [00:29:39]:
Okay.
Chris [00:29:39]:
And the filming’s fantastic. Alright. Couple of small problems I have.
Sam [00:29:45]:
Yeah. Okay. Go.
Chris [00:29:46]:
Well, you know, face hugger
Sam [00:29:49]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:29:50]:
Sticks a thing in the mouth. Yeah. Chest burst within 5 minutes.
Sam [00:29:56]:
Of course.
Chris [00:29:57]:
Fully grown alien within another 15 minutes.
Sam [00:29:59]:
Gotta gotta get him out there real quick.
Chris [00:30:01]:
Like, fully grown alien. Yeah. I’m like, no. You’ve just ruined it for me. Physics doesn’t work that way. It needs at least some, like, energy or fuel or something. Anyway, I might be getting a little, over the top of that, but I thought that was terrible. It was really annoying.
Sam [00:30:22]:
Okay.
Chris [00:30:23]:
And then, there’s there’s some good good pieces in there. Adam was not overly impressed with the number of references back to other other movies, like other alien movies. But that’s use the same lines and all that
Sam [00:30:41]:
sort of stuff. But that’s what you find or I think that a lot of these movies that they’re bringing out many years after the original set or whatever, they seem to do that to either remind you that it was part of this other series or whatever. It’s just a bit silly, really.
Chris [00:30:57]:
Yeah. Because, the the robot dude, he’s he’s usually a robot dude, an android dude. Yeah. Yeah. And it’s very well played. There’s there’s a lot of twists and turns to that, so it’s cool. And he does it really good. But at one point, he he saves a girl and shoots a sailor and he goes, leave her alone, bitch.
Chris [00:31:17]:
Oh. Like, there’s his odd pause, and he goes, bitch. And it’s like, different. Why would he say bitch? It’s not even a female alien. What the it’s just for the callback. Yeah. So that was pretty bad. But I did like because, I don’t know if you remember, Prometheus and stuff.
Chris [00:31:34]:
It is like the dumbest of all the alien films, because they, oh, this is a strange alien craft. Oh, we have all these protocols. Because they were going through all these protocols earlier, as I recall it. And then they they go in and they go, let’s just split up. Yeah. It’s just like Yeah. What are you freaking mental? Whereas this one, the, main protagonist, the main people are, on a mining colony. They’re getting hammered
Sam [00:32:01]:
Okay.
Chris [00:32:02]:
And they’re going to try and escape. So they it which sets it up perfectly for them to do some dumb shit because they’re desperate. They’re desperate to get out of there. So it was it was well done. So, anyway, all in all, worth watching worth watching the movies. Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:32:18]:
Sounds good. That wraps it up for this episode. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:32:22]:
I’m Chris, bye.
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