Summary
This week we learn about the creepy little covers Chris brought to cover his headphone ear cups.
We also hear about Sam’s cruise, so buckle in as he talks a lot about it in this episode.
RFK has another batshit story about animals, and some Kiwi guys invent a great coffee bean roaster that is being sold around the world.
All this and more.
Links
RFK Whale Head Story
Kiwis Invent at Home Coffee Roaster
Show Transcript
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Chris [00:00:26]:
Hi, I’m Chris.
Chris [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life. One of us came back from a cruise. The other one has little head net things on his headphones that don’t look creepy at all. It’s like a serial killer does not want their DNA to get onto these headphones. So they brought a pack of how many?
Chris [00:00:46]:
20 20 ear condoms.
Sam [00:00:48]:
20. From China, where all the good stuff comes from.
Chris [00:00:52]:
Yeah, well, I could. I couldn’t justify getting 100.
Sam [00:00:56]:
I don’t know why you justified 20, to be honest.
Chris [00:01:00]:
It was 100 or 20 or two. And I thought, nah, 20 is good, because no doubt, no, not gonna last long.
Sam [00:01:08]:
So, basically, the gist is the headphones that Chris has, they’re pretty old, and the ear muff bit that goes around your ear is wearing away, and you end up.
Chris [00:01:18]:
Pleather. Yes.
Sam [00:01:20]:
That’s what we’re calling it. The, um. I think it’s called, like, pu leather. Because they, like, hide that. It’s called pleather. Anyway.
Chris [00:01:26]:
Yes, plastic leather.
Sam [00:01:27]:
Exactly. But, uh, you end up with all.
Chris [00:01:29]:
This random stuff, black stuff all over my ears. And I’m not going to buy new. New headphones because they work fine. Actually, I’ve got two pair of these. Uh, well, one pair is Chrisson, one pair is mine. But I’ve been using both of them.
Sam [00:01:43]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:01:43]:
And they’re both in the Chrise state. Both put big black marks down my face, and I’m like, I’m not buying any new ones. I’m going to do this live show. So I need ear condoms for the live show.
Sam [00:01:55]:
So if you’re listening to this and you come into the 500th live recording, which is next week, when you. When this comes out, you can.
Chris [00:02:04]:
Yeah, mid week.
Sam [00:02:05]:
Mid week.
Chris [00:02:05]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:02:05]:
You can experience these things.
Chris [00:02:12]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that’s cool. Anyway, let’s get to the important news. How was the cruise? Did you get seasick?
Sam [00:02:19]:
No, not really. So.
Chris [00:02:23]:
So just context. You’ve never been on a cruise before, have you? No. No, I haven’t.
Sam [00:02:27]:
Okay. You’d love it.
Chris [00:02:28]:
Yeah, I think I would. Yeah, you would. I’ve been.
Sam [00:02:31]:
I was thinking, I’ll get to it. But there’s.
Chris [00:02:33]:
I know my uncle got really into it, and he went on quite a few.
Sam [00:02:36]:
Okay, I can see. Yeah. There’s one thing that I think you’d have to deal with, and some people wouldn’t like it. I’ll get to that later. So you turn up, you go through the. Whatever, onboarding thing, and they take you through this warehouse, and the ship’s right there, and you go for. You walk all over the place for miles, you drop your bags off, and.
Chris [00:02:57]:
Sort of, like you do with an airplane. Drop your bags at a. Yeah. Ticketing thingy.
Sam [00:03:04]:
Sort of, yeah, you just sort of drop it, and you leave a tag on it, and you hope to see your bag later because they bring it to your room, you see?
Chris [00:03:11]:
Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:03:12]:
Like, and then there’s all these people. Like, 20 people rode up at this huge desk, and they’ve all got numbers, and they’re holding them up. It looks like they’re running a raffle or something. The whole numbers are like this. And then there’s people at the front. Like, number nine’s free. Go to number nine. So you go to number nine and you give them your ticket, and they’re okay, and they’re like.
Sam [00:03:30]:
And they’re going through hundreds and hundreds of id cards.
Chris [00:03:33]:
Do you know how many people are on this boat?
Sam [00:03:36]:
Between 802,000.
Chris [00:03:38]:
Holy crap.
Sam [00:03:38]:
Yes.
Chris [00:03:39]:
Okay.
Sam [00:03:39]:
Yeah, yeah. Depends who you listen to. Like, they said these random numbers all the time anyway, so they give you your pass id card thing, and it’s got your barcode and your name and your room number and all that. So you’re all good.
Chris [00:03:49]:
And that’s, like, swipey in door thing in the door.
Sam [00:03:53]:
And anything that you want to pay for on the ship, you just use that, pull that out, and it’s preloaded with some money that I already put on it as well. So it’s all good. Go through x ray machines, make sure you’re not going on with stuff, and then you’re on the ship, and you’re just, like, roaming around. You can go to the room first, which we did. We’re right in the center with no rooms, no window. Sorry. It was just a box. It was all right.
Sam [00:04:17]:
It was pretty good. And then you can go around. But the first day and the last day, if you can’t deal with a lot of people in a small area, that is the only thing I think would really put people off cruising. And it’s not all the time. It’s just sometimes depends what’s happening. So, in this ship, they’ve got the pantry.
Chris [00:04:44]:
What was the name of the ship?
Sam [00:04:45]:
Oh, Pacific explorer.
Chris [00:04:47]:
Okay, cool.
Sam [00:04:48]:
So in this ship, they’ve got the pantry is their big, but it’s on the 14th floor. So the top floor right at the front. 14th, yeah. Yeah, we’re on. We’re sleeping on eight and bars and two of the stages and stuff are on seven, so we’re always going up and down. The pantry has. It’s like a buffet, but they’ve got stations that are themed, I guess, so there’s people there just serving food all the time.
Chris [00:05:17]:
Are there lifts or do you just use the stairs?
Sam [00:05:19]:
No, there’s lifts. There’s lifts and everywhere’s waiting for lifts because no one wants to walk upstairs. So you’re waiting ten minutes, I think was 1015 minutes you waited for lifts? Yeah, because that’s the pro. Like, I don’t get seasickness, but. Oh, I didn’t this time. But walking up and down the stairs while the boat is in motion really sucks.
Chris [00:05:41]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:05:41]:
Walking corridors and that. Not a problem. Stairs sucks. Balls. Really, really weird feeling. Yeah. So. But there’s like six or seven lifts.
Sam [00:05:50]:
Anyway, the pantry’s got these stations. They’ve got all the workers there. I will say a couple of times, a couple of these workers saw an engineering dude. They could be henchmen for Bond villains at one point. Yeah. So. And then. So what happens is you get some food and stuff and you do all that and then you’re in your room.
Sam [00:06:15]:
Or maybe the room thing happens first. I think you gotta go to your room first. And they’re like, you go in and there’s a sheet of paper on the bed and I’m supposed to be going from Auckland to Picton and back again. And they’re like, the weather forecast is so rough, we don’t think we can get out of Picton and back to Auckland. So we’re not going there anymore. We are going to the Bay of Islands instead. Okay, cool. But we’re going to have to do a muster first, so we have to pretend like there’s an emergency and we have to tell you where to go and on your back.
Chris [00:06:48]:
So it’s like a fire alarm practice drill thing?
Sam [00:06:52]:
Yeah, yeah. For dumb people. Yeah, for idiots. On the back of your door it says you were in Musta, a master section, a 7th floor, and it’s in a bar is this one. But you don’t really know where anything is. So the alarm goes off, all the doors open. You’re wandering around amazing corridors because you know there’s hundreds of rooms. You don’t know where you’re going.
Sam [00:07:12]:
They’re trying to direct you. And the old woman in front of us has got a walker and her daughter’s yeah. And her daughter’s trying to get her to go and to get you where you need to go, they sort of take you to the crew areas. So inside the normal areas, it’s all nice. Looks like a fancy hotel. But then you go through a door and you’re in the bows of the ship, and it’s just white steel and random rails that some guy’s varnishing for some reason on, you know, Thursday night. And then. But she can’t.
Sam [00:07:44]:
She barely gets through the door. And then they’re like, you gotta go down these three flights of stairs. And she goes, I can’t do that. So they’ve got to turn around the old woman, send her back to her room by herself, but everyone’s behind her in this little tiny corridor. So that’s a pain in the ass. So then, yeah, so then we go to this holding thing, and then they take us into the big theater, and we’re all sitting there and. But they have to scan everybody, and there’s nobody at the door doing it. So you’re like.
Sam [00:08:17]:
And then finally somebody turns up, like it’s the worst, you know, ticketing thing in the world.
Chris [00:08:22]:
But you’d think they’d do it every time they leave port. You’d think they’d be onto it.
Sam [00:08:27]:
You would think so anyway, so. But this guy just keeps going on and on about, we have to scan you. Put your hand up if you haven’t been scanned. But people are impatient. So the south african guy behind me goes, oh, this is bullshit. He just. Him and his wife were not happy. And I was like, bro, we’ve been here, like, half an hour.
Sam [00:08:45]:
This is mental. Anyway, a couple of bond villains lurking around. This one guy appeared out of a doorway, and he’s in white, crisp white overalls with p and O on it. And he’s one of the engineers. Only time I saw an engineer on this whole trip, and for some reason, he’s standing there looking at a piece of paper. He didn’t seem to know what he was doing. He was just there. And one of these people said, oh, how do we get to level? Blah, blah? And he goes, oh, go down here.
Sam [00:09:15]:
Go do this. I swear, he looked like one of the henchmen from die hard two at the airport. You know the airport, the german guys, the brother. Yeah, yeah, it was one of them. And I was like, what’s this guy up to? And then he disappeared somewhere. I was like, okay, cool. Keep that in mind. And then one of the guys serving us, he looked like he was on an origin story arc of hating everyone and was gonna blow up something.
Chris [00:09:42]:
So I love the crews. Spot the terrorist crews.
Sam [00:09:46]:
Yeah. So all the staff have a name badge that tells you where they’re from. Almost every single person, waiter serving and all that. All Filipino and almost all the people doing the cooking and giving you the food. A majority of them were Indiana. Real, like, massive. Yeah. The logistics of this thing just blew me away.
Sam [00:10:08]:
So first night on the ship, second night at Bay of Islands, and then Saturday, Sunday at sea, it wasn’t broken up like it was supposed to be the other way.
Chris [00:10:19]:
Bay of islands. You’re on the ship, though. You’re still staying on the ship?
Sam [00:10:22]:
No, no, you get off. Sorry.
Chris [00:10:24]:
But, you know, you sleep on the ship.
Sam [00:10:26]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:10:27]:
Okay.
Sam [00:10:28]:
Yeah. We’re only there for the day. It’s a day trip.
Chris [00:10:29]:
A day trip.
Sam [00:10:31]:
And then the captain, who must be lonely, comes on board. So he imagine a really lonely guy that’s got a terrible podcast, but he’s got to tell you random information. But he goes on and on and on about something. So he’s like, oh, isn’t a captain here? The weather’s this, and starts talking about the weather forecast forever. And then he starts talking about something else or something else, something else. And I’m just like, don’t know what you’re going on about. He just keep going on and on and on. And he’s like, he goes, oh, we’re going to the Bay of Islands tomorrow.
Sam [00:10:59]:
And then in the morning, he’s doing another announcement and he says, oh, so we’ve Bay of islands now. We’ve got the port authority, I think it was. They’re coming on board. They have to check everything. They have to give us the green light to allow us. We’ve got charter boats coming to pick you up, is what he tells us, literally, he says this. We’ve got charter boats that are coming. We’ve organized that, and some of them are real speedy, like jet boats.
Sam [00:11:25]:
And I’m like, what is he on about? Because I can’t imagine in my head how this works. Right? So that’s all good. And previously, the night before, we’d wandered around on the deck and above you on the deck are these giant looking. Well, they are like boats above your head.
Chris [00:11:41]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:11:41]:
And they’re orange.
Chris [00:11:42]:
Right.
Sam [00:11:43]:
Cool.
Chris [00:11:43]:
That’s your lifeboat type thing?
Sam [00:11:45]:
No, presumably not at all. That’s what I thought. These are the tender things that take us wherever we want to go. Bay of islands. So the life rafts are in these capsule things.
Chris [00:11:56]:
Yeah, yeah, I know. The capsule.
Sam [00:11:57]:
They’re all stacked up. These things just come out on a crane, and then they lower them in the water. And we have to go down to level five, into the bowels of the ship, and just pop out on a door onto a ramp and get onto this little random tender thing piloted by a little indonesian man who’s sitting, like 3 meters above you just so you can see what he’s doing. But there’s, like, probably eight of them going backwards and forwards all the time.
Chris [00:12:24]:
And how many does it fit? Like 20 or something like 50. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:12:28]:
But they’ve got probably maybe 20 of these tenders on the boat. And we only used about half.
Chris [00:12:33]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:12:34]:
And that was on one side, I think they must be on. Anyway, Russell’s really cool. Didn’t see Waitangi because now you got to pay to get in there to have a look around.
Chris [00:12:42]:
But, like, Hamilton Gardens will be.
Sam [00:12:44]:
Pretty much went over to Russell, looked at PI here, jumped back on this thing, so. And then two of buses are running every ten minutes to pick us up and drop us back to the boat. It’s pretty cool. Saw some cool shows. There’s some musical ones. We saw a adult themed magic show called the Purple Rabbit. Really batshit. We had to.
Sam [00:13:07]:
We had to pay for this. We had to pay for this.
Chris [00:13:09]:
This was on the ship.
Sam [00:13:11]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We had to pay for it. Real batshit. This guy comes out and he goes, I’m the. I’m the bear. Moisture. I think it was. He’s like.
Sam [00:13:19]:
And he goes, oh, here’s a. You know, here’s this fanta. You’ve seen this trick before. I’m gonna turn it into coke. Look. And he goes, shh. And his little bag of white powder throws it out, says to the audience, don’t sniff that. Anyway, really random.
Sam [00:13:33]:
Really good. What else? Food was really good. Lots of food. So much food. And the amount of drink that people drunk.
Chris [00:13:41]:
Holy shit.
Sam [00:13:43]:
Next level. So you can only get the drinks package with alcohol if it’s seven days or more. This was four days. So you got to pay for every single drink. And I think it was like $10 a beer. And these people, because there’s, like, there’s parties at nighttime and all this sort of stuff. And in the morning, get in the lift, and there’s some guy struggling to hold himself up, trying to drink water, going, like, you know, trying not to throw up. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:11]:
So it’s pretty cool. There’s lots of stuff to see and do. We did trivia game shows, random game shows. Bingo was a bit weird. So they were doing bingo, which is a big thing. They did four jackpotted on the last bingo session. So some dude won $5,700.
Chris [00:14:26]:
Damn.
Sam [00:14:27]:
And they’re like, oh, you can. Here’s your bingo cards with your dobba thing, like normal. Or we’ve got these tablets, and you can pay 30, 40 or $50. And if you pay $50, you’re playing like 100 cards at once with this tablet. And everybody had these tablets because you could pay for them really early and just have this tablet for, like, most of the day. And some people must not have gotten back to their room, so they’re just carrying this tablet around. Now, this tablet can’t do anything apart from bingo, right? And the tablet’s made by the people that make poke machines. So the first time we used a card, and then the second one, I was like, I’m going to get one of these tablet things.
Sam [00:15:09]:
You literally just sit there and watch the tablet. So they draw the number and this.
Chris [00:15:15]:
Thing goes and they answer it and it just comes up with a cross.
Sam [00:15:18]:
Yeah. And it tells you. Yeah, and it tells you how many. How many you’ve got left and how many cards are, like, in the running for bingo or whatever they do in that round. And I was like, this is so stupid. You’re just watching this. Yeah, but you can, you can play way more cards. And the guy’s like, this is the best value.
Sam [00:15:36]:
It’s the best value. And obviously you’ve got the other thing. You know what cracks me up? Bloody. The photographers on board.
Chris [00:15:44]:
Oh, right. I never thought of on board.
Sam [00:15:46]:
Photographers everywhere. Photo. When you get on board. Photo at the. Because the first.
Chris [00:15:51]:
And you pay for these.
Sam [00:15:53]:
Yeah, it’s. It’s $100 for six photos, I think. No, $300 for six. $300 for ten photos. Anyway, they’ve got a section. Yeah. So they’re trying to take photos. When we got on board, there was a party on the first night.
Chris [00:16:06]:
If you wanted to go to all dressed in white. There was another party when you get off the boat. When we got off at Bay of Islands, there was two of them dressed as pirates. Come get a photo with us. I’m like, no, no, no. A, you’re wasting my time. B, I’m never gonna buy these photos. Who cares? So they’ve got this route, like this huge corridor, old Chris the Grinch.
Sam [00:16:31]:
I can just. Yeah, I can take a photo with my phone and be happy. Cause some. These photos were just.
Chris [00:16:38]:
Yeah, yeah, no, it’s like when you go to a theme park.
Sam [00:16:42]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:16:42]:
And you.
Chris [00:16:42]:
This is next level, though, because they’ve got this huge corridor, like, longer than this on the ship. And it’s all. At night, it’s all closed up, but during the day, they flip them all out. And there’s hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of photos of all the people. And all these people are looking at it. And you have to get your. You have to buy your photos if you want them before you get off the ship, before it docks. And they’ve got stacks of photos of just the Chrise people.
Sam [00:17:09]:
So every time they take your photo, they’re taking, like, ten photos, and then they’re there. And then there’s a. In the app that you’ve got that does everything, tells you what’s happening, because, remember, there’s no Internet, but this app connects to their wifi. There’s a selfie mode. And I think you’re supposed to take a photo of your face, and then their facial recognition can pick the photos out and show you what they’ve got of you. Anyway, that’s.
Chris [00:17:34]:
That’s interesting. That’s intriguing.
Sam [00:17:36]:
But logistics just crazy. Get back to Auckland, wherever I unloading, and they’ve just got forklifts going everywhere. Telehandlers unloading, you know, shipping containers, just jamming it on the boat.
Chris [00:17:47]:
And presumably when you get off, the Chrise thing. You’re not walking off with your baggage.
Sam [00:17:53]:
No, they’ve taken it the night before.
Chris [00:17:55]:
Yeah. Because you can see how that would just clog up all the. And your little old lady with a walker and a suitcase would just. Wouldn’t work.
Sam [00:18:03]:
But you need to have some sort of empty bag with you for whatever’s left in your room. Like, you have to think about it. And I was like, oh, okay, sweet. But you could. We didn’t spend too much money, and you don’t have to spend money on the food. There’s, like, three restaurants I think you could pay for. Everything else was free, and two of them you had to book, and then you had this pantry thing. But after a while, it’s like, we’ll just eat a little bit later, and hardly anyone’s there.
Chris [00:18:30]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:18:30]:
And it’s really. It’s good, I think. Yeah, you’re really good.
Chris [00:18:33]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:18:34]:
And some of these people on this.
Chris [00:18:35]:
Boat, if you don’t mind asking, what did it cost you?
Sam [00:18:39]:
Uh.
Chris [00:18:40]:
Cause you paid for it, like, a year ago.
Sam [00:18:42]:
I think it was $1600 for two of us, right? Yeah.
Chris [00:18:48]:
$800 each for four nights.
Sam [00:18:51]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:18:51]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:18:52]:
And that was almost all the entertainment, all the food and you don’t have to think about anything.
Chris [00:18:56]:
Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:18:57]:
You just wander around and you’re like, and a lot of it’s just scheduling. You’re just like, ah. Cause sometimes there’s crossover of different things. That was right. It was good.
Chris [00:19:04]:
Cool, cool.
Sam [00:19:05]:
I suggest, yeah, you’d like it. Like some of the people I don’t think would have remembered that whole trip, they just, they would have gone on the boat and then they would have remembered coming off the boat. Cause just so much like, yeah, I’d love to. I really wanna know how much stuff they bring on, like how much food there is.
Chris [00:19:25]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:19:25]:
And how much alcohol. Cause I can’t run out of. And we had to get back because soon as we got off, they had an eight hour turnaround and then it was going to Fiji for the next cruise.
Chris [00:19:34]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:19:35]:
So that’s why I had to be there on that Monday.
Chris [00:19:39]:
Wow.
Sam [00:19:40]:
Anyway, that’s enough of my podcast.
Chris [00:19:42]:
You just reminded me of a little story that happened today. Actually, it was quite funny. One of the people who show remained nameless at work popped into our little chat. So on Zoom. So we’re working on Zoom at the Chrise time, just giggling away. And I was like, what’s going on? She goes, look at this, look at this website. I’m doing some work for these guys. And she goes, I just had to do something for this.
Chris [00:20:07]:
But I asked AI a question and AI has just abused me. I’m like, okay, now you got to explain what’s going on. And she goes, look at these guys. And so it’s the people in this company that they’re doing some stuff for. And there’s, I think five guys. Yeah, they’re all the executives and there’s a photo of them and who they are and stuff.
Sam [00:20:26]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:26]:
And they’re all white, of course, they’re all bald.
Sam [00:20:29]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:30]:
And these are five guys. And then she goes, and below there’s one guy who’s the HR and health officer and he’s got here, oh. And she goes, apparently she said something on AI, like, how do I, in amusing way, point out to them that the only one with hair is the HR guy. Yeah, it’s all about health and what can I say? And AI is just like, that would be rude. I’m not going to give you this information. Dadadadada went on and on. I thought it was hilarious. But anyway, just look at these, just look at these guys photos.
Chris [00:21:11]:
Was, was funny as hell.
Sam [00:21:12]:
Oh, that’s good.
Chris [00:21:13]:
So I have got a story for, from RFK. Another RFK junior story.
Sam [00:21:20]:
He stepped down a.
Chris [00:21:21]:
He’s gone.
Sam [00:21:21]:
Okay, well, he’s endorsed Trump.
Chris [00:21:24]:
Endorsed Trump and says, I’m out and Trump may make him his health minister or whatever.
Sam [00:21:29]:
Yeah, hang on. So that’s what we need. We they or not, we, they need somebody that’s got brain worms and has a batshit story about killing a beer cub or finding a beer cub.
Chris [00:21:39]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:21:40]:
And then staging it in a weird way.
Chris [00:21:42]:
Central park.
Sam [00:21:43]:
If you don’t know what we’re talking about, check out the back [email protected].
Chris [00:21:47]:
Yeah. And there’s been a few other little things we never mentioned. Things like him denying that he ever ate a dog, but people not believing him for some reason.
Sam [00:21:57]:
Hang on, was that overseas, though, him.
Chris [00:21:59]:
Having a no in America and having a freezer full of roadkill? Had a freezer for.
Sam [00:22:05]:
Oh, no, I think he’s. Yeah, that’s right. He does. He loves picking it up. It’s free meat.
Chris [00:22:09]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, this latest one has just come out. This came out a couple of weeks ago, but I’d written it down before and we recorded last one weeks one a little early because of the cruise. Anyway, so this came out in a book or something that his daughter was retelling the story.
Sam [00:22:32]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:22:33]:
So a bit younger. They go out to the beach and there’s a whale, a dead whale, beached on the whale.
Sam [00:22:39]:
He would have been so excited.
Chris [00:22:41]:
He was so excited.
Sam [00:22:42]:
He’s not trying to get. What’s the. He’s not trying to get the expensive stuff that they make perfume out of.
Chris [00:22:46]:
No, not the oil or whatever.
Sam [00:22:48]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:22:49]:
No, he gets a chainsaw and chainsaws off its head and then sticks it on the roof of the car with bungees, which I’m assuming the way they’ve done it is they’ve gone through the windows of the car back over the whale head.
Sam [00:23:04]:
It’s the only thing I can make sense of. It makes sense. Yeah.
Chris [00:23:06]:
Well, the reason I mentioned that is because this is important to the story. The windows had to remain open.
Sam [00:23:12]:
Yeah. With the rotting carcass on the roof.
Chris [00:23:14]:
With the rotting head on the roof. And it’s a five hour journey back home.
Sam [00:23:19]:
What? This guy has a menace.
Chris [00:23:23]:
So she says, we’re driving home every time we accelerate or decelerate, whale juices flooding through its open windows.
Sam [00:23:34]:
No, we’ve all got plastic bags over.
Chris [00:23:36]:
Our heads with holes cut out for our mouths so we can breathe. And people are driving past, flipping us off because we got the whale head, snake the river. What can I.
Sam [00:23:50]:
What’s his plan with this whale?
Chris [00:23:52]:
He wants it to take it home to study it.
Sam [00:23:57]:
Normal heirs, I. I’m really questioning how many deer animals this guy actually comes across. Why is he coming across a dead bear cub? Like, what is going on?
Chris [00:24:12]:
Some people are just lucky, Chris. In the right place at the right time.
Sam [00:24:18]:
He’s just driving around non stop, hoping he’s gonna. If I was him, he’d have a little checklist. Okay, I’ve got the bear cub and I found a whale.
Chris [00:24:27]:
Well, maybe that’s his bingo card. He’s got a tablet somewhere with all these animals. Yeah. Okay, cool.
Sam [00:24:38]:
These kiwi guys, these guys are from Crusher, I think. And they started off, they’re in their sixties and they’ve turned a home coffee roasting machine from a popcorn maker into a multi million dollar business.
Chris [00:24:55]:
Hang on. So they seen a popcorn make and went, oh, I reckon I could roast coffee beans.
Sam [00:25:00]:
Well, apparently home people or home brewers or whatever, coffee people have been doing that for a while, but it doesn’t give you a consistent roast.
Chris [00:25:12]:
Roast? Yeah. No, because it would be localized because popcorn moves naturally while you’re heating it, because it’s light and it pops. Right.
Sam [00:25:22]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:25:23]:
The coffee beans won’t move, so you’ll get something really hot at the bottom.
Sam [00:25:28]:
So he said some days it was beautiful, other days they were burnt. It was terrible. He’s a software engineering with a background in robotics, and he starts building this little cube thing that looks like a popcorn machine, and so it can perfectly roast it. And his friends are really impressed. And they said, you should manufacture this thing. I think people will buy it. And he’s got a business partner who’s this?
Chris [00:25:50]:
He didn’t kick start it.
Sam [00:25:52]:
Yeah, he did, actually, but he didn’t kick start it. He went to, I think it was Indiegogo, or one of the other ones. Yeah, so he did. Sorry. Yeah. First they went to pledge me, and it was to make the first hundred. This thing’s called a nano seven machine, and this is 2018. And his business partner was involved in coffee and said, this is the missing link for people at home.
Sam [00:26:14]:
They’ve got the machines that make the coffee, they’ve got all the stuff, but they can’t roast at home easily. So they built this machine and it was going pretty well, and it can make it really good without any experience. They sold 200 of these things at $1,550 each.
Chris [00:26:34]:
Jesus. Okay, that’s impressive.
Sam [00:26:36]:
Yep. They’ve got a design package so presumably.
Chris [00:26:39]:
That 15, 500, whatever it was, is because pretty much that’s what it’s going to cost them to make it. Plus a little bit on top, I’d say.
Sam [00:26:47]:
So, yeah. In 2020 they launched actual Kickstarter. That’s when they actually did Kickstarter. And they had inquiries coming in all from around the world. In the first couple of hours they made $100,000. In a couple of months they hit nearly $1 million in sales they’ve made or. Sorry. They’ve sold 10,000 of these things around the world, 16 countries in all.
Sam [00:27:12]:
And this year they expect to sell 7000 of them. And you know what’s really cool? They were like, we’re going to make them in New Zealand. So they moved to Dunedin and they’ve got this factory down there and they’ve got 25 staff building these things.
Chris [00:27:27]:
Awesome. That’s great.
Sam [00:27:29]:
That’s the inside guts of what I’m just showing Chris.
Chris [00:27:31]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:27:32]:
And then the actual thing is just that little cube. They’re hoping to make a slightly cheaper model. About $700 price point I think it was. And it won’t have all the brains in it because that’s where a lot of the money goes, apparently.
Chris [00:27:45]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:27:46]:
But they want to go to the mass market and they said some of the best coffees in the world sell hundreds of dollars of a kilo. And I. You’ll never see that coffee in New Zealand. We want to change that. Pretty cool.
Chris [00:27:57]:
That’s cool. And it looks like a good, clean, finished product. It looks like something you’d have on the bench of a very flash looking house.
Sam [00:28:05]:
That’s right. That’s why there’s not one here, unfortunately. That’s because you didn’t know about it and you haven’t quite got the money from your kayak sale yet.
Chris [00:28:14]:
Yeah, that is true.
Sam [00:28:16]:
Where you look like you’ve stolen it.
Chris [00:28:19]:
Yeah. We might end up sharing that. Oh no, I’ve already shared it on the Chris of Chris podcast.
Sam [00:28:25]:
Yes. Check out the Facebook page and you will see Chris trying to sell a kayak. And the photos on the ground looks really good. Like it looks like somebody selling a kayak. Then there’s a photo of you modeling how you hold it with the harness. Yeah.
Chris [00:28:38]:
And there was the point to show that.
Sam [00:28:39]:
But you look like you’re being caught on a security camera.
Chris [00:28:43]:
It’s funny because to do that, I tried to figure out a. Take a photo with the delay.
Sam [00:28:48]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:28:48]:
It just wasn’t working. So I just put it on film and then I’m grading in front of it, and then I took a slip off the.
Sam [00:28:54]:
Okay, I see what you did.
Chris [00:28:55]:
So, yeah, probably does look like that.
Sam [00:28:59]:
We’re almost at the end of the podcast already.
Chris [00:29:01]:
Oh, okay. Well, I’m gonna go through.
Sam [00:29:03]:
Give me a real quick story. Go.
Chris [00:29:05]:
Zuck. Have you.
Sam [00:29:07]:
What’s he up to?
Chris [00:29:08]:
So. Oh, well, in his new coffee table book, saving America, this is Trump.
Sam [00:29:17]:
Oh, good.
Chris [00:29:17]:
Trump.
Sam [00:29:18]:
Yeah, sorry.
Chris [00:29:18]:
Has the following caption for a photo of him and Zuck in the Oval office. Okay, are you ready for this? I’ve got a screenshot here of the actual book with the actual caption. Now we’re just talking about caption under a photo, right?
Sam [00:29:34]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:29:34]:
So the. Zucker and I’ve cut the. The actual photo off on the thing, but.
Sam [00:29:41]:
Okay.
Chris [00:29:41]:
Okay.
Sam [00:29:42]:
Use your imagination.
Chris [00:29:43]:
Yeah. Zucker and Trump on there. But this is what it says. Mark Zuckerberg would come to the Oval Office to see me. He would bring his very nice wife to dinner. Be nice as anyone. Be nice as anyone could be. While always plotting to install shameful lockboxes in a true all caps plot against the president.
Sam [00:30:09]:
What is going on with this nutjob?
Chris [00:30:11]:
Okay, he told me that there was nobody like Trump on Facebook, but at the Chrise time, and for whatever reason, steered it against me. We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time, he will spend the rest of his life in prison, as will others who cheat in the 2024 presidential election.
Sam [00:30:38]:
This is the. This is the best caption they could go with.
Chris [00:30:43]:
Imagine the other after the editors.
Sam [00:30:46]:
We’ve had to go through and tidy this up a little bit. What? Okay. Okay. So this whole book is batshit.
Chris [00:30:55]:
I could be the president. Oh, my God. This cracks me up. I was like, nobody’s gonna believe this. Which is why I’ve screenshot it. I didn’t wanna write it out. I just thought I’d screenshot and read that.
Sam [00:31:08]:
Okay.
Chris [00:31:08]:
It’s insane.
Sam [00:31:09]:
Just. Just so much. So much batshit coming from one man.
Chris [00:31:13]:
No, he’s made a career of batshit.
Sam [00:31:16]:
But you couldn’t have. There’s no way. Back in the day when he was Trump Towers and he did some cameos in movies like home alone, whatever.
Chris [00:31:24]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:31:25]:
There’s no way anybody could have foreseen this.
Chris [00:31:28]:
No, no. And people joked about it.
Sam [00:31:31]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:31:32]:
So I don’t know. I don’t know any. Cause they joked about Arnold Schwarzenegger being president. Like that demolition man. Yeah, the Arnold Schwarzenegger presidential Library. And everybody knew he’s from not Americans. Can’t be a president, but he became governor.
Sam [00:31:49]:
Yep.
Chris [00:31:49]:
Which is pretty impressive. So anyway. Yeah, so Wednesday.
Sam [00:31:54]:
Wednesday. It’s all going down. We’re gonna have some stuff organized by then.
Chris [00:31:58]:
Yep. Nothing like a little bit of work.
Sam [00:32:00]:
Good. I have not seen it and I haven’t done anything.
Chris [00:32:03]:
When I say a little bit, I mean a little bit.
Sam [00:32:05]:
No, that’s all good. I’ve got an idea for you. I’ll let you know after this. So until then, or maybe next episode, we will catch you whenever.
Chris [00:32:13]:
Yeah. Just so everybody knows, we are recording it this Wednesday. It’s not the episode that will drop next weekend.
Sam [00:32:21]:
No, no, no. It’s three weekends away or something. Whatever. You work out the map.
Chris [00:32:25]:
It will be the 500th episode. But we’re not there yet. So just so people know, because we’ve got some editing to do and bits and pieces in between.
Sam [00:32:33]:
Okay. Until then, I’m Chris.
Chris [00:32:34]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:32:35]:
See ya.
Chris [00:32:35]:
Bye.
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