Summary
In this weeks episode Chris catches us up on the film project he’s been working on. We talk about the movie Twisters and what they removed.
A Tesla truck caught on fire, a man crashed his lawnmower in an uncommon way. We talk about dancing with the stars and learn Pizza Hut is helping people find a job in a unique way.
Cows attacking people get a mention, why did someone get fined over as million dollars and what trend is causing cucumber shortages in Iceland?
All this and more. Come check it out and tell a friend.
Links
Tesla Truck Fire
Lawmaker Crashes Ride on lawnmower into empty pool
Dancing with the stars contestant
Pizza Hut helping people with finding a job
Million dollar ticket freaks out speedster
Iceland and their love of cucumbers
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 499 of the Chris and Sam podcast. I’m Chris. And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life, and, gosh, it’s been busy with life. We are this is a note for a couple of the people I’ve been in touch with. You know who you are. I’m sending you some stuff. I haven’t done it yet.
Sam [00:00:43]:
I’ve been very busy, and I forgot that the, paper plus in town hasn’t had a post shop for many years. So good one, New Zealand Post. Makes it very awkward to send stuff.
Chris [00:00:59]:
Oh, good. Okay. Oh, is that oh, that the one in the center place?
Sam [00:01:03]:
Yeah. Alright. Right. Right. Which is right next door to my work, and it would have been super handy to send stuff at any time. Yeah.
Chris [00:01:09]:
I’ve I’ve forgot about that because I’ve I’ve mailed stuff from there, but obviously not for a while. No. Cool. Cool. Ise, what have you been up to this week?
Sam [00:01:18]:
Work, a little bit of filming some pumpkin stuff, organizing Misty Flix because we’re only 2 months away from that. And I know you know all about that because you’re doing your part with the,
Chris [00:01:29]:
yep. I’m doing my part. Yes. I am. Yes. I am.
Sam [00:01:34]:
So quick update about the story last week about the princess from Norway, was it? Yeah. The shaman.
Chris [00:01:41]:
Yep. Okay. Not shaman. Not Sharaman. Shaman.
Sam [00:01:45]:
Shaman?
Chris [00:01:46]:
The shaman and the princess.
Sam [00:01:47]:
Ah, what a Do
Chris [00:01:48]:
you know what a shaman is? It’s like a a
Sam [00:01:51]:
Religious. Sort of like voodoo like a Yeah.
Chris [00:01:53]:
Voodoo witch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:01:54]:
Yeah. Okay. Anyway, she’s actually 52.
Chris [00:01:58]:
Oh, is she? Yes. Didn’t realize she was there.
Sam [00:02:00]:
And there is a Netflix doco in the works because they were there for the wedding filming.
Chris [00:02:04]:
Oh, right. Okay. Cool.
Sam [00:02:05]:
So there we go.
Chris [00:02:06]:
Because I listened to that, as we drove back from Rotorua.
Sam [00:02:10]:
Thought you might. I had to make sure that was published.
Chris [00:02:13]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:02:14]:
I wasn’t sure if you’re gonna listen to it on the way there.
Chris [00:02:16]:
Yeah. No. No. Well, we went up on Saturday. So came back on Sunday. So it wasn’t there on Saturday.
Sam [00:02:21]:
Oh, sorry. I didn’t I didn’t know you went on Saturday.
Chris [00:02:24]:
Yeah. So, I went away for the weekend on for filming. So Saturday, we went up we went up Saturday so that Saturday night, we could set up the store for the filming the next day. So there’s a we’re using a a a store there to, do a fight scene in a, robbery at a dairy, effectively, is the scene. So we had, 4 stunt guys, 5 stunt guys.
Sam [00:02:50]:
Yep. Beating each other up.
Chris [00:02:52]:
Yeah. It went really well, actually. These guys are pretty good. They were couple of them had their Time Bandits gear on. Okay. So they’ve they were in those films and stuff. And, yeah, I was pretty pleased with the way things worked. So it went really, really well.
Chris [00:03:10]:
And we got a little bit more done than we expected because we had some issues come up, and we’ve got some delays coming up. So hopefully, we got a little bit more done than we expected in the fight scenes, and then we’ll catch that’ll keep us in instead with the new
Sam [00:03:25]:
Did Adam have a good time?
Chris [00:03:27]:
I think so. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Excellent. And he told us a couple of stories, in the car. So I thought I I’d share a couple of those.
Sam [00:03:35]:
Are you are you just Are you allowed to share these? I I don’t know.
Chris [00:03:40]:
This is the dad joke of all time.
Sam [00:03:42]:
Okay.
Chris [00:03:43]:
And he goes, so he said to his son, Ben, like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Can you go and get that thing out of the fridge or whatever? Yeah. But be careful. There’s a serious leak at the fridge. And he’d got a big leak out of the Yeah. Thing and drawn a a frowny face on him. Nice.
Chris [00:04:00]:
I see. Nice. I thought that was hilarious. I don’t know why I thought that was hilarious, but that’s great. Also, he was talking about Twisters.
Sam [00:04:09]:
Okay.
Chris [00:04:09]:
And have you seen it? No. No. I I I download I haven’t watched it yet, but, it’s not quite a remake of the old Twister, but it’s the same sort of thing. Yeah. And I I said something, and he goes, no. No. No. No.
Chris [00:04:23]:
No. They don’t mention climate change.
Sam [00:04:26]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:04:26]:
Because, like, Twisters, there’s lots of them because of climate change. And he goes, no. No. No. No. No. They because they’re in the Midwest, and they went through and they deleted any because there was mentions of climate change in there, and they deleted anything to do with climate change.
Sam [00:04:40]:
Oh, after the fact?
Chris [00:04:41]:
Yeah. Oh, like You know, before before they filmed it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because it’s like,
Sam [00:04:46]:
Upsets people.
Chris [00:04:46]:
Yeah. They don’t wanna upset the Midwestern. No. And I was like, what are you saying? That people in Midwest America are just stupid then? Probably.
Sam [00:04:56]:
Probably.
Chris [00:04:56]:
They just cracked me up. I just didn’t get it.
Sam [00:04:58]:
So There’s a few signs pointing to that. If you’re from if you’re from the Midwest and listening to us, hi. Somewhat we we got a question coming up in the 500th episode about where our listeners are from, the top three countries, and I honestly don’t know. Like, we know who’s listening here in New Zealand. Right?
Chris [00:05:20]:
Roughly. A lot of
Sam [00:05:21]:
them. Yeah. Okay. But let’s double that. There’s that many people apparently in America. Yeah. Or bots or something’s downloading us. Yeah.
Sam [00:05:30]:
And we don’t hear from anyone from America. So if you’re from America and you’re listening to this, hit us up on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. Let me know.
Chris [00:05:39]:
Yeah. Please do. Please do.
Sam [00:05:41]:
Hey, a Tesla truck caught on fire recently.
Chris [00:05:46]:
In New Zealand
Sam [00:05:47]:
or overseas? I don’t think Tesla trucks are here.
Chris [00:05:49]:
No. True. True. True. Well, they’re
Sam [00:05:51]:
not being sold here. I don’t know if anyone’s brought
Chris [00:05:52]:
When you say truck, are you not talking about a cyber Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A cyber truck. Yeah.
Sam [00:05:56]:
Yeah. Tesla truck. Cybertruck. Yeah. Same thing. Interchangeable. Yeah.
Chris [00:06:00]:
I didn’t know if they were doing truck trucks yet because I know that was
Sam [00:06:03]:
a sub brand. I I’ve come straight from work. My brain is mush. Yes. It it must it must be it act it is a semi truck. Yes. You are correct.
Chris [00:06:12]:
Okay. Alright.
Sam [00:06:12]:
Sorry. Right. Right. Right. Tesla truck is a semi truck and the cyber truck is the ute.
Chris [00:06:16]:
Yeah. The ute thing. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:17]:
We’re all caught
Chris [00:06:18]:
up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:18]:
And by all of us, I mean me. It’s fine. After this, I’m going to another thing. It should be fine. Well, anyway, it caught on fire. I think it’s the first one catching on fire. And the big problem is with the cars as well, which we do know about, when they catch on fire, it’s very, very hard to put out the batteries.
Chris [00:06:41]:
Yeah. And and that’s not just a Tesla. That’s any battery car car. Any electric car. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:47]:
Yeah. How many liters of water do you think it took to extinguish this blaze?
Chris [00:06:51]:
I don’t I just I thought they weren’t supposed to use water on them.
Sam [00:06:56]:
I think oh. They’re supposed to
Chris [00:06:57]:
use foam or something, aren’t they?
Sam [00:06:59]:
Well, it doesn’t really say much. Yeah. I think they’re supposed to use foam, but a lot of this was to help stop forest fire from starting from where
Chris [00:07:07]:
it was. Okay. Fair fair fair call. No idea.
Sam [00:07:13]:
A 190,000 liters of water What? And an airplane.
Chris [00:07:21]:
Is there a bushfire? No. There’s a Tesla on fire.
Sam [00:07:25]:
It was just yeah. Stop the bushfire starting. So they had to, like, bring in a plane, phone it up, and they’re like, yep. Sweet. We’ll come in with that fire retardant stuff and just dump it.
Chris [00:07:34]:
Man.
Sam [00:07:34]:
So it’s pretty crazy, actually. They closed it for about 15 hours while firefighters were working on it, and it took them that long before they could get the batteries to a safe temperature to recover the vehicle.
Chris [00:07:47]:
Okay. Well, I got a bit of a story here. I I don’t know. I you tell me if you find this interesting because I have questions.
Sam [00:07:56]:
Okay. Right? We all do.
Chris [00:07:58]:
A Kentucky lawmaker was critically injured. Yeah. When the lawn mower mower, the lawn mower he was riding
Sam [00:08:08]:
Okay.
Chris [00:08:09]:
Plunged into an empty swimming pool at his home.
Sam [00:08:12]:
I saw the title. Don’t remember it being empty. I thought it was full of water, but no. You’re right.
Chris [00:08:19]:
It didn’t say it didn’t say that in the title, to be fair.
Sam [00:08:22]:
Oh, okay. K k k.
Chris [00:08:23]:
And that’s all I know. Right. So is he drunk? Couple of things here.
Sam [00:08:27]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:27]:
First of all, you’re at your home mowing your lawn. Yeah. You would think you know that there’s a swimming pool there. Yeah.
Sam [00:08:37]:
Yeah. Secondly,
Chris [00:08:41]:
what the hell? Critically injured?
Sam [00:08:44]:
Oh, yeah. Critically injured. Yeah. Because the lawnmower would have landed on him.
Chris [00:08:47]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:08:48]:
They’re heavy. Or he would have got chopped up.
Chris [00:08:50]:
And and so the biggest question I have then is Yeah. Do they not have laws about fencing and swimming pools in the states?
Sam [00:08:57]:
I don’t know. Probably not.
Chris [00:08:59]:
That state?
Sam [00:08:59]:
Probably not in that state. Did it say anything else? Like, what the cause, or they don’t know? He just sent it?
Chris [00:09:03]:
No. He he drove his, mower into deep end of the pool. Authorities received 911 call shortly before 8 PM. So it shouldn’t be it’ll still be quite light.
Sam [00:09:14]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:15]:
8 PM in summer. It was, taken to University UT Medical Center, wherever that is. Yeah. No. It just said it and it was in a critical but stable condition. Yeah. University of Tennessee Medical Center.
Sam [00:09:30]:
I would say that I don’t think that’s a common accident. No. I’ve never heard of it. To be honest, actually, now I think about it, he could have had a medical event and had, like, a heart attack because they but now they always have weird car
Chris [00:09:43]:
and he had a bit of a heat stroke.
Sam [00:09:45]:
They always have weird car crashes, and you’re like, how did that old person because there was a
Chris [00:09:49]:
Good. Cool. Good. Cool.
Sam [00:09:50]:
You know, there was a car that ended up in the lake over the university, a couple of months
Chris [00:09:54]:
ago? Yeah.
Sam [00:09:55]:
Yeah. Some person just old person gunned it or something went I don’t know. It was right in the middle of the lake.
Chris [00:10:02]:
Those lakes Someone had to sit right there. Yeah.
Sam [00:10:04]:
At the university. Someone had to dive in and pull this old person out, And it was like it’s surrounded by, like, all the stuff. I don’t know where they came from, but they went straight through everything into the no.
Chris [00:10:15]:
No. I didn’t know that. I I walked by there, like, almost every day.
Sam [00:10:19]:
But you missed you missed that one.
Chris [00:10:21]:
I missed that.
Sam [00:10:21]:
You must have been busy that day or the next day. I think it was there for 2 days.
Chris [00:10:25]:
Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:10:27]:
Oh, you’ve got the con you got from the con to Dancing with the Stars. Right? Yeah. So you tell me about that, but do you know who else is on Dancing with the Stars? Okay. So you wanna tell me that Anna Sorokin, is that
Chris [00:10:39]:
how you
Sam [00:10:40]:
say it? She’s the woman that they had the Netflix show where she sort of pretended she was Aerys. That’s where I saw it.
Chris [00:10:46]:
Because I’m like, I’ve
Sam [00:10:48]:
Oh, did you not know?
Chris [00:10:48]:
I’ve heard it. No. I I I remember the story. I’m like, was that on a podcast? Or was it a No.
Sam [00:10:53]:
It was
Chris [00:10:54]:
a TV thing? I remember fascinating. I thought it was fascinating anyway, and I thought she was pretty cool.
Sam [00:11:00]:
That actress nailed the real person.
Chris [00:11:03]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:11:03]:
So because it wasn’t doco. It was recreation.
Chris [00:11:07]:
Yeah. And Actually, I don’t think I did watch it. I think I did listen to it on a podcast.
Sam [00:11:11]:
Oh, okay. If you watch Netflix, it’s really crazy because she had, like, just this rando backstory where she had money, and then she was going to all the fashion things, and she set up a multibillion dollar company and was gonna do all the stuff, and then that sort of unraveled, and they put her in prison.
Chris [00:11:25]:
Yeah. And she just acted the part of one of these socialites, and everybody believed her. And she said she was a a a princess or an heiress of some huge family.
Sam [00:11:34]:
Yeah. Yeah. From Russia or somewhere over the door. Anyway, So do you know how who else they’ve roped in? The specialist from the gymnastics, the USAs team.
Chris [00:11:46]:
Oh, the the one guy
Sam [00:11:47]:
that can only do one thing.
Chris [00:11:49]:
Is he gonna be breakdancing? Because I didn’t think his legs were up too much. I think he just did everything on his side.
Sam [00:11:55]:
He’s he’s built, so he could do whatever he wants. He just has to walk out, and he’s probably, like, got half the points.
Chris [00:12:00]:
Yeah. Because she’s she has a a, ankle monitor because she’s Yeah. Yeah. Thing. Yeah. And they’ve made it sparkly.
Sam [00:12:08]:
That’s nice. They’ve You can do that.
Chris [00:12:10]:
Yep. Glitched up her ankle monitor so that, it works for how low are they scraping the barrel? Although, I don’t think No. They’re not. I don’t think the guy is a is a scraping barrel.
Sam [00:12:21]:
No. But they they will get whoever is as interesting to people as possible. If they could get somebody that murdered somebody high profile, they’d do that. Mhmm. You know? Yeah. Like, back in right
Chris [00:12:34]:
back in
Sam [00:12:34]:
the day, they would have had OJ Simpson in between his stuff. God. I’ve lost my train
Chris [00:12:42]:
of sad.
Sam [00:12:43]:
I’ve lost my train of
Chris [00:12:44]:
just a sad indictment on where we are as a society.
Sam [00:12:47]:
Are you bringing up Trump and the assassination attempt again? Oh, no. I hadn’t
Chris [00:12:51]:
thought about that. I’m not going to.
Sam [00:12:52]:
Good. What about the pages exploding in Lebanon and then the walkie talkies?
Chris [00:12:56]:
The what?
Sam [00:12:57]:
Oh, keep up. So in Lebanon, right Yeah. They use pages to communicate with each other, and there’s video footage of them in a market, and they just start exploding.
Chris [00:13:08]:
And they killed 14 people. All these different pages?
Sam [00:13:12]:
Yep. And the question is so I think it’s Mossad’s involved, and they don’t know at what point they got these pages and modified them. So, they think this might start a pretty big war, actually. They don’t know if it was at the supply chain level, in a store, somewhere else, but they are stories that they did have a bit of explosive pact in there somehow.
Chris [00:13:37]:
Yeah. They’d have to because someone didn’t
Sam [00:13:39]:
So quickly, they all moved to walkie talkies, and now the walkie talkies are exploding and killing them, these, people. So it’s a full blown whatever you wanna call it.
Chris [00:13:50]:
That whole Gaza thing makes me so angry, I’ve gotta say.
Sam [00:13:54]:
I can tell. And you’re normally, you’re all happy go lucky, but when he’s down, you know it’s Gaza.
Chris [00:13:59]:
I get so angry because, it’s not a separate country. No. It’s a strip. Israel was not in invaded by Gaza because the Gaza guys don’t have a passport. They’re not a separate country. They are Israel. They’re just the 2nd class Israelis that they stick in there and call them Arabs and stick them into one place and say, you you 2nd class citizens. If freaking South Africa went NATO on freaking, black people back in the eighties and started throwing having missiles at them Yeah.
Chris [00:14:35]:
The rest of the world wouldn’t have been going, oh, let’s give us give you some more missiles, shall we? Yeah. It’s a lot of bull crap. Anyway.
Sam [00:14:42]:
Chris is feeling better. That’s off his chest now. I know. Good. Good. Alright.
Chris [00:14:49]:
I I I I came across this idea, and I don’t know whether you think this is good or not.
Sam [00:14:53]:
A lot of a lot of the stuff you’re talking about, I’ve got somewhere else.
Chris [00:14:57]:
Yeah. You probably have.
Sam [00:14:58]:
I’ve seen any of this. No. No. Go.
Chris [00:15:00]:
So it’s an advertising for your resume for getting a job. You have seen this. Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. Yeah. So Pizza Hut’s going to be putting resumes on pizza boxes to help you get a job, and it’s a great use of the space.
Chris [00:15:22]:
I don’t know if it’s what I would put a resume on.
Sam [00:15:26]:
That’s the question I think.
Chris [00:15:28]:
Advertising would be useful, but yeah. I don’t know. So
Sam [00:15:33]:
how many if you go, I want my resume on a pizza box. Are they making 1 pizza box, or are they making 20, 50, 100?
Chris [00:15:42]:
I would assume it’s a run of pizza boxes, and it’d be, like, in batches of,
Sam [00:15:46]:
let’s say, 100. Potentially get hammered from even, like, 1 pizza box turns up at a house and there’s 5 people. There’s 5 potential people there that may get your contact details somehow. I don’t know what the mechanism is of them contacting you. I saw someone online say, I’m not sure if I want to be contacted by somebody that’s buying a Pizza Hut pizza. Yeah. I I think it’s
Chris [00:16:10]:
I think it’s a great way to, advertise if those are the people that you want to advertise to. And I don’t think the resume thinks the right one. I’d like the job
Sam [00:16:21]:
I think it’s a great marketing ploy, so podcasters in New Zealand that have done 500 episodes talks about it.
Chris [00:16:28]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There is that.
Sam [00:16:29]:
But you’re right. It is a weird because it is an interesting space. Yeah. But I don’t know what else you could use it for.
Chris [00:16:35]:
I think it would have to be events type thing.
Sam [00:16:38]:
You have to
Chris [00:16:39]:
sell something like an upcoming event. You know, Armageddon’s coming up. That would be Pizza People
Sam [00:16:45]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:16:46]:
Or an upcoming movie even, that sort of thing, I think it would be a good advertising forum for. But
Sam [00:16:53]:
yeah. No. This
Chris [00:16:53]:
Jobs. Nah.
Sam [00:16:54]:
No. This has to be a marketing thing because the economy of scales of the boxes, you don’t wanna be changing your boxes all the time and doing small runs even though they could afford it. Because how many pizza boxes do you think they order at a time? Like Domino’s and Pizza Hut.
Chris [00:17:08]:
Yeah. But they don’t have to be a a a box. They could be a label. Yeah. True true. True. Side label and just slap them on as they as they do them, and and that would be easy enough.
Sam [00:17:19]:
They should be able to sell that space to people that wanna market things.
Chris [00:17:22]:
Exactly. That’s what I’m saying.
Sam [00:17:24]:
Yeah. Okay. Good.
Chris [00:17:25]:
Anyway, that’s I don’t know. We’ve solved
Sam [00:17:28]:
the world’s problems. We’re gonna have some marketing.
Chris [00:17:32]:
How come I’ve got you said you’ve got all this stuff that you got to all
Sam [00:17:35]:
square out. Put it here. Uh-huh. I’ve been very busy.
Chris [00:17:38]:
Right.
Sam [00:17:38]:
I had very limited time during the day. I’ve got you know this. Yes. I can’t just do whatever I want all the time.
Chris [00:17:48]:
Did you know that the bird of the year had been done?
Sam [00:17:51]:
Because I had not heard about it until I saw the title rare smelly penguin wins New Zealand bird of the year contest.
Chris [00:17:59]:
Exactly. So we were all over it last year mainly because John with the help of John Oliver, the whole world was all over it last year. But I think we mentioned it a couple of times in previous years as well.
Sam [00:18:11]:
I think so.
Chris [00:18:11]:
Yeah. So, I just I I just hadn’t heard anything coming up to this. But the which means noise shouter, triumphed in a year free from the usual scandals surrounding the bird of the year competition. And it’s one of the world’s rarest penguins. Good. But, yeah, it’s I don’t know why they say it’s smelly.
Sam [00:18:37]:
I mean
Sam [00:18:37]:
It’s just a little smelly penguin.
Chris [00:18:39]:
Has a yeah. Has a has has well, I don’t think any of them smell great, would they?
Sam [00:18:44]:
No. They don’t. It’s just a random title. In 2021, a bat won. So you know. That was controversy.
Chris [00:18:50]:
Oh, that was controversy. Yeah. It’s a mammal. What the hell? Is it a mammal? What is it? Yeah. A marsupial.
Sam [00:18:57]:
No. It’s a mammal. Mammal. Yeah. It is
Chris [00:18:58]:
a mammal.
Sam [00:18:58]:
So they had to build they built that new bridge that I was talking about last episode, and through there because you got New Zealand native bat, you can go find the bat, say, do you know that? No. Okay. We got New Zealand. Okay. Because didn’t we have a guy talk at something, the Batman guy?
Chris [00:19:13]:
Do you remember him? Vaguely, now that you mentioned. He was
Sam [00:19:17]:
some his his hobby or part time thing was something to do with bats, but he was involved in something else, and I’m sure he spoke at something we went to. Vegas, that’s as far deep as we’ll go. But you could potentially sometimes go out with them, and they’ve got, like, a bat locating thing that picks up their sonar.
Chris [00:19:37]:
It gives them off a bat signal.
Sam [00:19:39]:
Yeah. Yeah. That’s right.
Chris [00:19:41]:
Yeah. As you will. But
Sam [00:19:42]:
but when they built this new bridge, they were going to potentially damage that to a spat study. Every time they build something like a road around here, they go do a bat study, and then they have to build, I think, bat homes or figure out yeah. So what I’d like to see is under that bridge
Chris [00:19:58]:
Bat caves.
Sam [00:19:59]:
Is yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You’re right. Are all these bats that’s what Hamilton should be known for.
Chris [00:20:05]:
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They no. Oh, gosh. Okay.
Chris [00:20:12]:
You you you come up with something because I, I could keep talking because otherwise
Sam [00:20:17]:
You can keep talking. I will I will just reply to you
Chris [00:20:19]:
and say, no. This is dumb. This one, I looked to that I looked to the, title and went, nah. And then I read it, and I was like, I’m I’m such a townie that I just don’t know these things. Right?
Sam [00:20:33]:
Okay.
Chris [00:20:33]:
So I’ll give you a headline.
Sam [00:20:34]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:35]:
The hell and horror of cow attacks. And then in quotes, I told my husband to leave me to die. Woah. And I’m like, whatever. Yep. But I’m gonna read this out because it this is in the UK. It’s Stockport, which is a place I’ve visited before.
Sam [00:20:52]:
Okay. They remember you well. Yep. Yeah. There’s little statues somewhere.
Chris [00:20:55]:
Going going around the village on the surfing the top of a van like a the teen wolf standing on the top of a van.
Sam [00:21:03]:
I don’t know how you I don’t know how you’ve survived to be 73.
Chris [00:21:09]:
Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Alright. So I’m gonna read this out. I remember feeling I was about to die, says Jill Gilmore. She and her husband Mark were work walking their dog, Finnegan, in the Stockport area and had just climbed over a stall on a public footpath. Jill was slightly ahead with Finnegan on a short lead when a group of cows appeared.
Chris [00:21:27]:
It was just instant, she said. The herd of 20 or 30 cows attacked her, butting her to the ground. She doesn’t remember the details, just snippets, who’s coming down on her and acceptance that she was dying. I had kind of relaxed. Then Mark came up to me and just absolutely shouted me to get up. He helped me, got my arms around his neck, and then they they dragged under a a gap in the fence so that they, conscious of the cows could attack again.
Sam [00:21:55]:
Yep.
Chris [00:21:56]:
And I was like, oh, okay. And then but this is the damage. Yeah. The cows had broken both sides of Gilmore’s pelvis, 12 ribs, 2 bones in her neck, her arm, her lungs were damaged, and she had head and ankle injuries. She went underwent 3 days of surgery and spent 2 weeks in intensive care.
Sam [00:22:14]:
Woah.
Chris [00:22:14]:
For 10 days, she was on a ventilator, and then 3 months of, hospital rehab. Damn. I I I was just like, I don’t know. I I thought running the bulls was bad, like, you
Sam [00:22:30]:
know, we had
Chris [00:22:31]:
a bit of that in Spain, but Yeah.
Sam [00:22:33]:
I don’t know. Depend like, who knows what these cows are like? I think in general, they’re mostly okay. They’re not a they’re not like a hippo status where they’re gonna kill everyone, but I don’t know if we talked about it. There was that old couple that both died from that bull. Yeah. The but, you know, I don’t know It
Chris [00:22:51]:
reminded me of that, but these the that I figured that was because they were just really old and tipped them over, and they couldn’t get up type thing.
Sam [00:23:00]:
I know. I think they had I think they had massive injuries. They had they had trouble identifying them or something. It was real bad. But it’s interesting, like, it’s one of these stories where I’d love to know a bit more about it. Like, how many were there exactly? What age or size they were? What was going on? Yeah. Why were
Chris [00:23:18]:
they on a public footpath?
Sam [00:23:20]:
Well, I I don’t think it’s a public footpath. It would have been
Chris [00:23:23]:
because you can walk anywhere in the UK. Yeah.
Sam [00:23:26]:
In theory. So they might have just gone into the site. But if you started screaming and yelling, wouldn’t that be enough to get the cows away usually? Yeah.
Chris [00:23:35]:
And I’m thinking maybe they they just did well, I’m I’m worried that I’d do as a townie. You just go, oh, get away from me.
Sam [00:23:43]:
Yeah. You really gotta be loud.
Chris [00:23:44]:
And then they they just keep coming, and then you realize too late, oh, I’m in some trouble here. Like, I wouldn’t even think about it.
Sam [00:23:52]:
I wonder if they did knock you down. They’d just sort of walk on you.
Chris [00:23:56]:
Yeah. I don’t think it’s like, they’re not, like, jumping up and down.
Sam [00:24:00]:
It’s not a cocaine beer situation.
Chris [00:24:03]:
I still haven’t watched that film. What?
Sam [00:24:06]:
Oh, it’s so good. I got
Chris [00:24:08]:
it ready to watch. No. I haven’t I haven’t watched it. What is
Sam [00:24:10]:
wrong with you? Okay. This guy in Savannah, Georgia, he was given a $1,400,000 speeding ticket after they caught him driving 90 in a 55 mile per hour zone, and the local authorities were like, oh, the ticket was just a placeholder. Yeah. Because he freaks out like you would. Like, he gets a
Chris [00:24:32]:
letter that says, what a
Sam [00:24:33]:
weird placeholder. Yeah. Would it just be dashes or kisses?
Chris [00:24:37]:
Apparently, the the, fine limit the the most they are able to give him is $1,000. Yeah. Yeah. But But what can you imagine getting a letter going 1,400,000? I’m surprised because if that happened in the States, you just assume people go, I can’t afford 1,400,000. I’m gonna go to prison for the rest of my life. Yeah. Oh, I might as well go out and start killing people, and I’ll just go to supermarket and start shooting everybody. See.
Sam [00:25:04]:
Don’t you know? Quick. But you could just imagine, like, it’s probably not even automated. Somebody’s gotta type in those figures, and they’re just like, send. I can imagine it now.
Chris [00:25:17]:
Yeah. It it that’s weird. I don’t know how that 1.4 thing came out. That that’s crazy. Have you heard about this TikTok craze?
Sam [00:25:25]:
The latest one. I don’t know.
Chris [00:25:26]:
The cucumber 1.
Sam [00:25:28]:
Is it with cats? No. Okay. No. No. No. So cats, apparently, according to TikTok, absolutely freak out by a cucumber because they have a built in fear or something of thinking it’s a predator.
Chris [00:25:42]:
Yeah. They think it’s a snake or something.
Sam [00:25:44]:
Yeah. Yeah. Even though they’ve never seen a snake before. So they just throw it, and these cats just jump out of the way and jump out of
Chris [00:25:49]:
the way. Yeah. Or if they turn around and you’ve put it behind them because I’ve seen a lot of those videos.
Sam [00:25:53]:
Okay.
Chris [00:25:53]:
Now this one, What do
Sam [00:25:54]:
I have to do?
Chris [00:25:55]:
I’ll read it out. You’ll need one large plastic container, one slice cucumber, and some cream cheese. God. I’m gonna try and speak properly.
Sam [00:26:03]:
Good.
Chris [00:26:04]:
Use scissors to cut up some smoked salmon, then slice a red onion. What okay. Dump in some salad dressing.
Sam [00:26:12]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:13]:
Chuck in some capers still dripping from the jar. Yep. Add lemon juice Okay. Bagel seasoning
Sam [00:26:19]:
Mhmm.
Chris [00:26:20]:
And a heap of flavor enhancing MSG. Yeah. And then what? Before everything starts spilling over the edges, slap on the leg, shake super well, and voila. The result, as Canadian TikToker, Logan Moffett, assures us, is so insanely delicious. You won’t get enough of it. And his 6,000,000 followers seem to agree.
Sam [00:26:43]:
So this guy has come up with a recipe?
Chris [00:26:46]:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So he does these videos on platform, and he shares various cucumber salad recipes that have been viewed up to 30,000,000 times. But you know why I’m mentioning all of this? Go. Why? Well, because Iceland’s in serious trouble because of this, dude. Because you just cannot get a cucumber there now. They’ve run out of cucumbers in Iceland.
Sam [00:27:11]:
I’m assuming they’re enforcing him from somewhere. Come on.
Chris [00:27:14]:
It’s a good 8 hours by plane and 4,000 kilometers northeast, from from where he is. Moffat’s videos have been causing somewhat a problem. Iceland’s usually known for its active volcanoes, blah blah blah blah blah blah. A somewhat lesser known fact is that nearly 400,000 inhabitants are quite fond of cucumbers. So fond that each of them eats around 15 a year.
Sam [00:27:38]:
Before they even saw this dude.
Chris [00:27:40]:
Before they saw this dude. I didn’t know this. A year. Because I’m like, I don’t remember the last time I ate a cucumber. I’m sure I’ve I might have eaten one this year.
Sam [00:27:50]:
I may have eaten. Yeah. I may have had one in the last 12 months. And by one, I mean some slices.
Chris [00:27:54]:
Yeah. Exactly. Enough slices to make up a whole one.
Sam [00:27:57]:
That’s a made
Chris [00:27:58]:
up fact. No. Farmers in Iceland typically produce around 6,000,000 cucumbers annually. But thanks to Moffett’s viral recipes, which several Icelandic influencers has started sharing, they’ve been struggling to keep up with demand. Cucumbers are hard to come by these days in local supermarkets. Instead, the small Nordic country is obliged to imports fresh stock from the Netherlands. I see, when I started reading this, I didn’t even know that Iceland grew cucumbers or that they already ate them.
Sam [00:28:27]:
Nobody did. And if you are saying you did know, you’re lying.
Chris [00:28:33]:
Anyway, I thought that was I I that’s mental.
Sam [00:28:37]:
And with that crazy fact, that brings us to the end of the podcast. I’m still digesting that. There’s too many. Anyway, until next time. I’m Sam. I’m Chris. See you.
Chris [00:28:50]:
Bye.
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