Summary
We catch up this week after not needing to record last week. Chris has been busy with the Waikato Uni TEDx, Improv Sunday and being at an awards ceremony.
Sam saw a free movie this week.
We have an update from our 500th episode. We talk about crazy Russians, a woman who allegedly stole a lot of mayo.
What’s the deal with the floating bomb.
There’s a new world record for the largest Haka and we talk about the origami of death.
All this and much more. Come check it out.
Links
Speak no evil
Crazy Russians
Woman stealing Mayo
Boat Floating
New world record for world’s largest Haka
Origami of death
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
back. Hello, and welcome to episode 501 of the Chris and Sam podcast. I’m Chris. And I’m Sam. Welcome along to weekly fix of randoms technology and life, and we broke that 500 barrier. And, we didn’t record last week because we had the 500th episode come out, but I was bloody busy editing that.
Chris [00:00:40]:
Yeah. Yeah. It’s 2 hours long.
Sam [00:00:42]:
I don’t want to edit 2 hour stuff again.
Chris [00:00:46]:
Well, you’ve got another 10 years till we do our 1,000th, and you can worry about it then.
Sam [00:00:51]:
Well, I mean, we had the interviews with the cool people. We had the stuff that we recorded in front of a live audience, but I had to chop some of that out. Yeah.
Chris [00:01:02]:
It was a bit repetitive. Yeah. If you weren’t there, it wouldn’t have made much sense. Exactly.
Sam [00:01:08]:
So, it came together in the end.
Chris [00:01:11]:
Yeah. I thought it was pretty good. I listened to it the other day. So, well done. Well done, Sam.
Sam [00:01:15]:
People are still probably, getting through that, because 2 hours of us could be a lot.
Chris [00:01:23]:
We’ll see what people think about that. But, yeah, that means we basically got a bit of a, like like, 2 weeks to catch up. Because I I did freak out the other week because I was like, oh my god. Oh my god. You got? I I’m gonna have to record a podcast, and they’re like, oh, no. The 500th’s coming out. I don’t have to record a podcast. No.
Chris [00:01:40]:
Well because I was so it was so busy. I was so stressed. So, that week, we had, TEDx, University of Waikato, which went really, really well. So I don’t know if I mentioned to you, I because or on the podcast, rather, but the Friday before so the TEDx University of Waikato was a Wednesday 25th Yeah. In the evening. Okay. And the Friday before, I got one of the guys one of the speakers rang me up and said, and this guy had been a bit sick and been traveling and all that. He goes, I haven’t started writing it yet.
Chris [00:02:14]:
Is there any way I can get out of this? I said, no. No. Post was out. Too too late. Everything’s done. You you’re in. Sorry. Yeah.
Chris [00:02:24]:
He goes, oh, no. I said, right. Well, let’s catch up on the weekend. So we caught up on Sunday.
Sam [00:02:28]:
How did he go then?
Chris [00:02:29]:
And I hacked it. So I and I’ve actually done a course on this since with, because I had to do a micro learning course with, Epic. Yeah. And so I used this. How how to hack a TEDx talk.
Sam [00:02:41]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:02:42]:
So, yeah. So I I used not my preferred way of doing things, but we used a very specific way to hack a TEDx talk.
Sam [00:02:51]:
Oh.
Chris [00:02:51]:
And, Sounds good. On the Wednesday afternoon, we did a run through, and it was terrible. I was like, oh my god. I I asked you to do 2 things. Remember 2 things, and you didn’t even remember either of them. So here we go. Let’s do this again. So I went through it again with him
Sam [00:03:08]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:08]:
And he nailed it on the night.
Sam [00:03:10]:
Woah. That’s
Chris [00:03:10]:
cool. So, I mean, you know, I it could have been better, I would say, but it it was enough good enough to to stand up with all the others.
Sam [00:03:19]:
So it went really well. Yes. Did you network like crazy at some point?
Chris [00:03:22]:
I did quite a bit of networking. I met all these people. I didn’t know they were apparently, they’re all, like, bigwigs at the university. Yeah. Yeah. Some of them didn’t look like they were. Some of them did look like they were, but a couple
Sam [00:03:35]:
of these guys
Chris [00:03:36]:
matter. Yeah. And, it went so well. I think that we will have I think they’ve it it’s a given that we’re gonna be doing it again. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:03:45]:
But they’re gonna they weren’t. And
Chris [00:03:47]:
they’re gonna send well, because one of the thing is they have to send, Gary to Vancouver for a week at $1,000 a day plus accommodation, for the, TED to go to TED in order to get the You can’t
Sam [00:04:00]:
get in on that somehow? You’re like, hey, Gary. You can pay me $200 a day, and I’ll just come pay for the trip. I’ll buy my own food. A sack of noodles.
Chris [00:04:14]:
Yeah. I wish. But no. So that’d be pretty good. So that means next year, I that they were happy with me. I got a bit of a shout out, both on online and, on the night.
Sam [00:04:25]:
Imagine if they just went radio silent, and they were just like, yeah. It went well. Cool.
Chris [00:04:30]:
Yeah. It’s funny because, my, University of Waikato, email address Yeah. The the, the IT guys have gone. Your contract is up. Your email address will be deleted in 4 days’ time. And I’m like, oh.
Sam [00:04:46]:
You’re like, I don’t check email anymore. I don’t care.
Chris [00:04:48]:
I know. I check that a bit. So I I got ahold of Gary and was like, if you want us to keep doing this next year, maybe you wanna jump. And he he he said back, yep. On it. So I’m like,
Sam [00:05:00]:
okay. Excellent.
Chris [00:05:01]:
Anyway, we’ll see. So will you That was good.
Sam [00:05:03]:
Will you be doing anything with them between now and the next event, or they don’t really look at
Chris [00:05:08]:
We wanna do a bit of a debrief. We talked about that. We sort of did, but we’ll see how how much because he’s a busy guy, and we’ll see, how how we go with that. And there are a few things we wanna do differently, and I’d like to get more I’d like to get a couple of students in. I’m sure an international student could do a good talk as well.
Sam [00:05:26]:
Yes. Because moving forward, they can branch out from not the faculty to whoever. Yeah. Is that the gist?
Chris [00:05:33]:
Yeah. So this one was a bit of a celebration for the 60th anniversary of the university, so they they wanted to stick with researchers. So, anyway, that was it. Yeah. Then the the following morning, I, went up to Auckland on the train with, Cal. We stayed at a hotel, the Waipuna conference center or something.
Sam [00:05:57]:
Yep. Sounds good.
Chris [00:05:57]:
It was it was pretty cool. So we were sharing a room. Yeah. Oh, so we went out. We got something to eat. We grabbed some, long whites to take back to the room to preload before this events dinner.
Sam [00:06:13]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:13]:
So there’s an events dinner, and then the following day, there was a workshop, which is backwards. Right? Because everybody goes, why do you do the workshop first and the events dinner afterwards? But it’s way cheaper to do it this way, like, way, way, way cheaper.
Sam [00:06:26]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:06:27]:
So anyway
Sam [00:06:28]:
So the Sunday is the event
Chris [00:06:31]:
the workshop? Thursday night was the
Sam [00:06:33]:
Oh, sorry. Yep.
Chris [00:06:34]:
Thing, and Friday was the workshop. Okay.
Sam [00:06:36]:
Okay.
Chris [00:06:37]:
Yep. So we go up there. We, we we got some food. We got some booze and stuff, and he goes, right. We we sort of just hang out, and then he goes, right. I’ll I’ll jump in the shower now, and then, yeah, and then I’ll jump in the shower, and we’ll get ready. And so Nat knocks on the door. Yeah.
Chris [00:06:55]:
So Cal’s in the shower. Nat’s on I I opened the door, and I said, oh, yeah. Come in. Cal’s in the shower. And she goes, yeah, I know. Because I text him, and he adds the phone. I’m like, who takes the phone into the shower with them? So anyway
Sam [00:07:09]:
Carl does.
Chris [00:07:10]:
Carl does, apparently.
Sam [00:07:11]:
I thought you were gonna say he just walks on out.
Chris [00:07:13]:
No. Yeah. So he was he was okay. I was like, okay. Alright. So, she goes, you got some drinks here somewhere. I’m like, oh, yeah. We haven’t opened the meter.
Chris [00:07:20]:
So I opened the fridge, and we can go drink each. So I’m drinking away, and Cal comes out. He’s just, like, real smart soup.
Sam [00:07:27]:
Yeah. Yeah. I saw I saw her in a photo online.
Chris [00:07:29]:
Yeah. Yeah. So I’m like, sweet, sweet. I’ll go in and Yeah. Shower. So I walk in there, and there’s a crumpled bath towel in the bath. And then there’s a bath towel spread out because he goes, oh, yeah. I said oh, because when he came out, I was like, you take your phone in the shower.
Chris [00:07:47]:
He goes, yeah. I I had it in there because just in case Nat called me, because she was gonna meet us at the hotel, I’d let her know. Yeah. And he goes, yeah. No. I got out of the shower and just got water everywhere. I’m like, oh, yeah. Whatever.
Chris [00:07:58]:
And then I walk in, so there’s a used bath towel in the bath Yeah. And then a bath towel
Sam [00:08:04]:
On the floor.
Chris [00:08:05]:
On the floor to mop up
Sam [00:08:06]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:08:07]:
The splashes or whatever. And then there’s a hand towel that’s been used, and then there’s one folded towel in
Sam [00:08:14]:
the rail Which is the little
Chris [00:08:15]:
And I open it up, and it’s the little bath mat.
Sam [00:08:18]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:08:18]:
I’m like goddamn it. You goober. Anyway, so I have a shower in the shower, and then I get out, and I’m like, I don’t believe this. So I dry myself with the bath Yep. Bath mat.
Sam [00:08:34]:
Okay. Good.
Chris [00:08:35]:
And I’m like, I’m gonna have a go at him. So and I get dressed, and then I walk out and and and Natickala having some drinks there. And I’m like, you goober. And he goes, what? I said, the towel on the floor. And he goes, what are you talking about? And I put it out. I’m like, I had to dry myself with this. And he goes, what about the other towels under the sink? And I went back in there and went, oh, did look there? So I was the goober.
Sam [00:09:09]:
I was pretty I was pretty much in my head. I was like, I know where this is going. It’s a classic you story. Yeah. So, anyway, Epic Learning won this award.
Chris [00:09:20]:
Yeah. So we won, so there were 3 we were nominated for 3 awards, and we won the best skills practice award. So it’s, best physical skills in an online learning. Something like that. Yeah. And it was the first of the night. Like, it was the first award that they did on the night. So, you know, we hadn’t got into the rhythm of it yet, and and we were up first.
Chris [00:09:45]:
And Did
Sam [00:09:45]:
you get pissed afterwards?
Chris [00:09:47]:
I’m not
Sam [00:09:47]:
really you’re good?
Chris [00:09:49]:
I I had a few, and we were the last to leave. Okay. But not as much as Carl.
Sam [00:09:55]:
Oh, did he?
Chris [00:09:56]:
Carl was Okay. Draining every bottle of wine that was on the table.
Sam [00:10:01]:
How was he then did he go to the thing that
Chris [00:10:03]:
she’s saying? Presenting the next day.
Sam [00:10:05]:
Cool. Cool. Cool. I will say, though, I’ve been to that, the one unconferenced telecom spark, whatever it’s called, unconferenced with him before. And, yeah, he’s fine the next day because he seems exactly the same as normal.
Chris [00:10:18]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was pretty he was pretty out there, rambunctious, whatever. Met met some cool thing people. There’s, The Real Learning Company. I have to shout out to Zoe, Charlie, and Chloe.
Sam [00:10:30]:
Okay.
Chris [00:10:31]:
The oh, no. No. Zoe, Heidi, and Charlie. Okay. The 3 girls. They were yeah. They were pretty cool. But yeah.
Chris [00:10:39]:
No. So that was good. And then the next day, we went to this workshop. Cal was okay, but he did his his presentation was way, more energized than anybody else’s.
Sam [00:10:51]:
That’s good, though. His memory. Yeah. Absolutely. And, And he’s really good at talking.
Chris [00:10:55]:
He he he his was the most interesting. Yeah. Actually, some of them were downright. I’m I’m sorry I bothered going. And then, then I went the next night, stayed with Karen, kept caught up with her. She just come back from her Greek Islands cruise. And then, then I came back to Hamilton time to do the improv. So I was on improv at the Meteo on the next 4 weeks.
Chris [00:11:21]:
Yeah. It was good. It was good.
Sam [00:11:22]:
Yeah. What day is that? What time?
Chris [00:11:24]:
Every Sunday, 6, 7 o’clock start. I forget what it is.
Sam [00:11:28]:
6 or 7?
Chris [00:11:29]:
7 o’clock start. 7 o’clock start. 6 o’clock for us to Oh, yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. That’s right. Very good. And yeah.
Chris [00:11:35]:
Yeah. So that was cool.
Sam [00:11:37]:
Since I’ve seen you last time, whenever that was, 2 weeks ago, 3 weeks ago. I don’t know.
Chris [00:11:41]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:11:42]:
Sarah won some tickets to a movie called speak no evil.
Chris [00:11:47]:
Oh.
Sam [00:11:47]:
So we went along. We went to Metro, and they’re like, we’ve only got recliner chairs, so you gotta pay $3.50 each for that. Okay. So it costs us $7 to see this movie, even though we’ve got free tickets. And, so the movie’s got
Chris [00:12:04]:
Yeah. You can order for that.
Sam [00:12:05]:
Yeah. Exactly. James McAvoy is on it, and I thought he was really good in it.
Chris [00:12:08]:
He’s cool.
Sam [00:12:09]:
Yeah. So here’s the gist of the movie. A family is invited to spend a whole weekend in a lonely home in the countryside, but as the weekend progresses, they realize that a dark side lies within the family who invited them. Okay? It just goes on normal for so long before anything happens. You can guess pretty much everything that is going to happen. No big surprises. It’s pretty good. Back to me watching the film.
Sam [00:12:35]:
We’re in metro cinema 7, which is upstairs. It’s very long.
Chris [00:12:39]:
It’s a little one,
Sam [00:12:40]:
It’s one of the little ones. I don’t know. Yeah. Yeah. And their screens look seems like it’s miles away, and there’s a big empty space at the front, which is good for whatever. I don’t know. Anyway, cool. So we’re sitting there.
Sam [00:12:55]:
There’s probably 12 people in the whole cinema. We’re in the very back row, and there’s only, I don’t know, 20 something seats in the whole thing. It’s whatever. Because I’ll recliners. And these people come up, and they sit next to us in the corner and, there, and they come in sort of through the second trailer, I think it is, and they’re sitting there, and they’re watching everything. Everything’s good. They get 30 seconds into the movie, and they both, like, up bolt upright.
Chris [00:13:22]:
I’m so sorry. We have to go.
Sam [00:13:26]:
I gotta sit at the front. Okay. And they sat right at the front, staring at the screen, which is still miles away. I’m assuming they couldn’t see it properly, but it took him all these trailers and then 30 seconds since the actual film to commit to getting up.
Chris [00:13:44]:
Yeah. You do that in the trailers, surely. You’d think well, maybe they were waiting to see if somebody had those seats, and they were just waiting to for it to stop. But still, that’s really dumb.
Sam [00:13:54]:
Hey. We’ve got a update for, from the 500th podcast episode. Mhmm. You’re gonna love it. Momo modular moa update.
Chris [00:14:01]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:02]:
Remember that dude? On the 5 I had to figure this out because I had to listen to the podcast. I was the editing it anyway. When we did the 500th episode,
Chris [00:14:10]:
I like $65 a week.
Sam [00:14:12]:
That’s what I said. Now it’s 17. Oh. Yeah. Then hang on. Then he did a final update. Really? It’s clear I need more traction and more funding for a successful Kickstarter campaign. There are boosters and super boosters and all sorts of necessities in today’s crowdfunding arena, and I’m a disabled vet trying to recover from years of poverty.
Sam [00:14:39]:
I’ll never stop developing the Momo and other ideas. I’ve continued to work on various technologies, even when living in cars, storage areas, and foxholes.
Chris [00:14:59]:
And I knew like that. Oh, with this German marine spoon.
Sam [00:15:04]:
Okay. Sorry. Hang on. So even when living in cars, storage areas, and foxholes, and will continue to do until my last breath. Thanks for those of you who gave me advice and expressed interest in the Momo.
Chris [00:15:17]:
Yeah. Good grief. Good grief. Okay. Alright. Alright. I I came across this story, and I thought I was like, oh, yeah. Americans aren’t the most aren’t the only crazy people out there.
Chris [00:15:32]:
Those Russians are pretty crazy too.
Sam [00:15:34]:
Okay. Well, they mean
Chris [00:15:35]:
yeah. They are. They are. So this was a couple of weeks ago now, I guess, but the premises were evacuated at the what was it called? I wrote it down here. Oh, Wildberries Wild Berries, which is Russia’s largest online store. So think Amazon. Okay. Amazon for for Russia Okay.
Chris [00:15:51]:
Type thing. Right? Yep. And Russia’s richest woman, the founder and owner of, Wild Berries, right, is is, you know so that chick’s the the the Russia’s richest woman. Anyway, so pre producers are evacuating because they had a shooting at the company’s headquarters. Oh, wow. Oh my god. What what’s happening? What’s happening? Yeah. Well, it turns out that the, husband and wife are having a divorce.
Chris [00:16:17]:
Oh, okay. And they’ve both hired their own security services. Her security services are sort of Putin aligned Yeah. And his were, Chechens.
Sam [00:16:29]:
Okay. Good. What could go wrong?
Chris [00:16:32]:
Him and his security came to the company HQ to speed the divorce along. I I don’t know what that means. Like, killer’s Wi Fi. I’m not quite sure how this works. And and the 2 security services started shooting at each other. Meanwhile, you’ve got all these employees just, like, licking it out of the building.
Sam [00:16:53]:
This sounds like an episode out of Barry.
Chris [00:16:57]:
It does. It just sucks.
Sam [00:16:59]:
There, Ryanair.
Chris [00:17:01]:
So, yeah, the 2 security groups exchanged fire at the still open place of business resulting in the evacuation. I don’t think anyone was hurt. Well, it was Although, possibly, they don’t count the security guys if they get killed. I don’t think probably not. Yeah. So I don’t know. Russians are nuts.
Sam [00:17:23]:
Hey. Back in episode 288, I had a story about that guy that grabbed all the blocks of Whitaker’s chocolate. And he put him in a shopping trolley and then tried walking out
Chris [00:17:32]:
Yes.
Sam [00:17:32]:
And they stopped him. Right? And we were like, that’s a bit weird just to steal one thing. Like, because it stands out so much that you’re like, what are you doing? Especially when you’re clearing off a whole shelf. Right?
Chris [00:17:46]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:17:47]:
So last week, this woman was arrested after allegedly
Chris [00:17:52]:
So a different person?
Sam [00:17:54]:
Yeah. Completely different person. Yep. How do you feel about a woman going into a supermarket with a suitcase, and she grabs $200 worth of best food mayonnaise?
Chris [00:18:06]:
Okay.
Sam [00:18:07]:
And then she wanders out, and the store, like, ring the cops, and they’ve got a really good description. Although, I’m assuming the cops are just driving around. They they find her at a bus stop. So they arrest her. She’s appearing in court, next week. And there’s no explanation at all of why you would steal mayo. Like, chocolate has more
Chris [00:18:34]:
A 3 year?
Sam [00:18:35]:
Street value?
Chris [00:18:35]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:18:36]:
Yeah. Like, like, 50
Chris [00:18:40]:
It’s almost like best mayo paid her to do this as some sort of stunt.
Sam [00:18:45]:
I didn’t think of that.
Chris [00:18:46]:
That’s the only thing I could think of.
Sam [00:18:48]:
That’s a weird
Chris [00:18:49]:
Otherwise, she’s just a mental case. Like, there’s there’s some some mental health issues there.
Sam [00:18:55]:
So yeah. So this happens, and obviously, the police media team are like, oh, this is Oh, really? Gold that closed the lid on the thief and relished the opportunity.
Chris [00:19:05]:
Oh, no. N zed Police with the puns. Yeah. I have you heard about I’m going back to Russia again, sort of. Have you heard about the MV Ruby? MV is the name of the vessel. You know how they have the MV instead of I
Sam [00:19:22]:
believe you.
Chris [00:19:23]:
Alright. The Ruby, so it’s, it’s a Maltese flagged ship Okay. Which is going through the English Channel, I believe, right now. Yeah. This is the question. It was bound I don’t actually know where it was bound for, but it loaded up in Russia with 2 20,000 kilos of, what is it called again? Ammonium nitrate? The fertilizer. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:51]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. Yeah.
Sam [00:19:53]:
Because it’s like, how much do you need to blow up something? And this is like.
Chris [00:19:57]:
So this is 10 times the size of that Beirut warehouse
Sam [00:20:00]:
Yeah. That’s it.
Chris [00:20:01]:
That blew up, in in 4 years ago
Sam [00:20:03]:
in 2023. Drifting around, isn’t it?
Chris [00:20:05]:
Yeah. So it it it got into trouble. It got into a storm, and it’s been damaged. The hull is damaged. Okay. The propeller’s damaged, and the rudder is damaged.
Sam [00:20:15]:
Apart from that, it’s all good.
Chris [00:20:17]:
So it said, oh, can we go into the port in Norway to get fixed? And, of course, this is standard maritime law. If a ship’s in in in need of repairs, it can go into a port. Until the port found out what was on board and went
Sam [00:20:33]:
Oh, so they’re like, no. No. No. No. You can’t get quiet. What are you carrying?
Chris [00:20:38]:
Some stuff. Yeah. No. You can’t you can’t come into this port with that.
Sam [00:20:42]:
Yeah. Fair enough.
Chris [00:20:43]:
And it’s tried to get into half a dozen different ports, and they’ve all turned it turned it around and said, no. You can’t come in. Offload your cargo, and you can come in. And so
Sam [00:20:55]:
Normally, it if it wasn’t damaged, it would be offloaded.
Chris [00:21:01]:
There’s yeah. That’s part of it. So they’re worried that it’s not going to be able to navigate properly.
Sam [00:21:08]:
No. No. Yeah. Totally understandable.
Chris [00:21:10]:
So You’ve
Sam [00:21:10]:
got missing all those bits, and it’s broken.
Chris [00:21:12]:
Yeah. And so if it hits something and it doesn’t take a lot of accelerant to spark this sort of stuff off apparently. No. So, it’s like they’re like, no. Keep clear. And so it’s going through the English Channel, which the English can’t stop it. The English and French can’t stop it because of the treaties that are involved there, but they’re like, if it’s even if because the the hull is apparently damaged, if it’s leaking Ammonium Nitrate Yeah. It’s a it’s an ecological disaster waiting to happen.
Chris [00:21:43]:
It’s a busy shipping lane, and if it can’t keep course well, it’s gonna be a problem. It because it turned down pilots at somewhere or other. I forget where now. Why? I just everything about this sounds dodgy. Now they don’t think it’s a Russian thing going to try and blow someone up.
Sam [00:22:05]:
No. It’s just incompetence.
Chris [00:22:06]:
They do think
Sam [00:22:07]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:08]:
It’s the it’s because of the way it’s been acting, it’s so odd. And the choices it’s made are so weird. It’s like the Russians are testing Oh. To see who would talk to who and what would get happen and which ones would take it, which ones won’t. Okay. So yeah. So apparently, it’s going to Malta, which because it’s Maltese flagged, and but the Maltese have said, well, yeah, we’ll only take you in once you’ve offloaded it. So I don’t know where they’re gonna offload this.
Sam [00:22:38]:
I wonder how they offload it and what they do it with or
Chris [00:22:41]:
Yeah. I did listen to 1, one one guy from the, Mariners Union or something they were interviewing, and he said, well, there are protocols to to offload this. It has to be. And, you know, and it’s, you know, it’s very strict protocols for for anything hazardous, and this is hazardous materials. The problem is it’s almost like a catch 22. Because the ship is in such bad Shape. Yeah. Shape, it’s like most of the places that have those protocols, it doesn’t fit the protocols to be in the place to offload.
Chris [00:23:15]:
So it’s probably gonna go to somewhere like Somalia to offload, hand offload probably Probably. And then, and then try and get fixed. But, anyway, I I didn’t know if you’d heard about it because,
Sam [00:23:28]:
I vaguely remember hearing something about the amount on the ship.
Chris [00:23:31]:
But, yeah, the cassette was a crazy blast. We saw a number of those images of that, what do you call it pressure wave in Beirut, and it was crazy. And this is 10 times that that amount, which is just insane.
Sam [00:23:46]:
Last week, did you hear about the world’s largest haka?
Chris [00:23:51]:
Vaguely heard something.
Sam [00:23:52]:
Okay. So who do you think was holding the record for the world’s largest haka?
Chris [00:23:57]:
No idea. The French.
Sam [00:24:01]:
4000 over just over 4000 people. Right?
Chris [00:24:04]:
Okay. Maybe I didn’t hear that.
Sam [00:24:05]:
In 2017, I think it was. So these organizers got together, and they got they they organized or whoever wanted to come along, they had to get a ticket. It was free. And it was at Eden Park.
Chris [00:24:18]:
And Okay. So they had to get a ticket so that they could have a number.
Sam [00:24:22]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Basically. And, so stuff was streaming it live on their website.
Chris [00:24:28]:
Okay.
Sam [00:24:29]:
Yeah. And they had, like, this musical thing at the start, and they had these people that were teaching everybody how to do the haka and it was all pretty cool and then they did it and the, Guinness World Record adjudicator was there and he said yep it’s 6,531 people. You know, New Zealand now holds the record for the world’s largest haka. And I was like, oh, okay. That’s pretty cool. Like, it was interesting and Yeah.
Chris [00:24:51]:
How long is that gonna last?
Sam [00:24:53]:
I don’t know. Like, I don’t know. And it was weird because I was like, I didn’t really hear anything about it because why would I? And that’s all good. But do you know who was there? Conan O’Brien. Oh, really? Yeah. He was there with Taika Waititi. And he goes, oh, New Zealand’s really turned it on for me. Because he’s doing the 2nd season of his HBO show, which I can’t remember the name of, but he visits fans that he’s spoken to on his podcast, and, yeah, he’s in New Zealand right now.
Chris [00:25:22]:
Oh, that’s cool.
Sam [00:25:23]:
So I don’t know how long or anything. They didn’t talk to him about anything to do with this podcast. They just said he was here. But he was there, like, doing it. Like, he was in the crowd.
Chris [00:25:33]:
I don’t know. Oh, yeah. No. So hopefully If you’re travelling and that sort of shits on, you’d be like, oh, yeah. I’ve gotta be there. Yeah. Get the producers. Get me there.
Sam [00:25:41]:
So I’m hoping they’ve shot I’m I’m hoping they were filming, and it’d be silly if they were.
Chris [00:25:45]:
They would’ve they would’ve filmed that. Yeah. They would’ve filmed that.
Sam [00:25:47]:
That was pretty cool.
Chris [00:25:48]:
Gonna be part of his show. That’d be cool. Yeah. No. I like like him because, Adam went to see Iron Maiden the other day too.
Sam [00:25:55]:
Oh, yeah?
Chris [00:25:56]:
And I I forgot to ask him how it was because I remember I was talking to him before he left.
Sam [00:26:00]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:26:00]:
I was like, I didn’t click that he would be an Iron Maiden fan.
Sam [00:26:04]:
I wouldn’t have a clue what his musical tastes were.
Chris [00:26:07]:
Yeah. But I I ended up listening so do you know Ryan, Ryan Holiday? He does
Sam [00:26:14]:
I’ve heard the name. Yes.
Chris [00:26:15]:
Yes. So I I’ve read I’ve got a few of his books, and he he talks about the Daily Starks. Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. So I get his newsletter, and he sends one out, and these are the things I learned from Iron Maiden. It’s a long article, and he’s a huge Iron Maiden fan.
Sam [00:26:28]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:26:29]:
But what I did there was a few a lot of things I didn’t realize. And one of so they’re they’ve been going for nearly 50 years
Sam [00:26:35]:
now. Yep.
Chris [00:26:36]:
Yep. Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer Yeah. Right, he’s got a lot of range, he says, but not just in his singing. So He’s a Yeah. He’s a pilot. Yeah. Yeah. So he flies, every he flies.
Chris [00:26:48]:
One, the the big Is
Sam [00:26:50]:
it astrophysicist or something else?
Chris [00:26:52]:
No. No. That’s I think you think of Brian May from Queen. Alright. But yeah. He almost got into the Olympics as a fencer. Oh, wow. Okay.
Chris [00:27:01]:
He’s he’s, you know, a world class fencer.
Sam [00:27:04]:
Okay. That’s cool.
Chris [00:27:05]:
And there was one other thing, and I’ve forgotten what it is now. But, yeah, it was just it was just like, oh my god.
Sam [00:27:10]:
Just another lever away. And he’s like, I’m gonna do the music thing.
Chris [00:27:15]:
Oh, he he he wrote children’s books. Oh, yeah. Written a bunch of children’s books.
Sam [00:27:19]:
Yeah. That’s cool.
Chris [00:27:20]:
So, yeah, anyway, that was a random thing that you just reminded me of. No. That’s good. Have you,
Sam [00:27:26]:
You’ve got, like, a minute Okay. To enthrall me with a story.
Chris [00:27:29]:
Talk talk to you about the origami of death. Have you heard about the origami of death?
Sam [00:27:33]:
I don’t know. Sometimes when you tell me a title, it makes no sense, but then when you talk, I’m like, maybe.
Chris [00:27:38]:
Yeah. So this is actually the nickname for this thing. So Is this this capsule thing? No. This is a a drone supplier for, for, Ukraine. So they sell these drones.
Sam [00:27:52]:
Now
Chris [00:27:53]:
originally, these drones, the the they’re cardboard. Well, they’re not cardboard. That’s sort of classified what they actually are, but that’s they’re a paper plane. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Flat pack them, and they send them off.
Sam [00:28:05]:
Man, that’s cool.
Chris [00:28:06]:
And they sell them, the you know, it’s a couple of grand, I think, a plane. It works out. They can
Sam [00:28:12]:
That’s not military pricing. There should be more.
Chris [00:28:15]:
They can fly, 70, 80 times. Oh, wow. Okay.
Sam [00:28:19]:
That’s pretty good. And And they just do a recon?
Chris [00:28:23]:
So yeah. So, originally, they’re made for delivery. Yeah. So they they have a a cargo space, and they deliver things.
Sam [00:28:30]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:28:31]:
But they’ve been using them for recon over there. Yeah. They’re putting cameras in them. And because they’re paper, not metal, they’re they’re really hard to they don’t pick up on radar. No. So they’ve been doing all this stuff, and, it’s another Australian company that doesn’t
Sam [00:28:47]:
Yeah. I know. We were talking about that. Like
Chris [00:28:49]:
because, the other one was the was it wasn’t it?
Sam [00:28:52]:
They were tracking, when they’re doing the satellite they were tracking trash, and then they went from that
Chris [00:29:00]:
to To the the gun that shot down Yeah. That’s right. Drone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I forgot what it was called. It was quite a cool name.
Chris [00:29:05]:
It wasn’t the the shredder or the shredder or something
Sam [00:29:08]:
like that. Yeah.
Chris [00:29:09]:
But, yeah, anyway so, yeah, this thing, and they’ve been calling them the origami of death Oh, okay. Is their nickname for it. But, yeah, it’s fascinating. I I watched a video on it, and, I’ll I’ll put the link we’ll put the link in the, show notes.
Sam [00:29:24]:
Yeah. I read a comment that were, like, America and all these other places are super excited about this war because they get to test all their toys. Yeah. I saw one the other day, and it was a Boston Dynamics dog spot, I think it was, and it was folded up under a drone. And I don’t and they were speculating what it was actually gonna do. They were like, we’re not sure if that c 4 on the back of it and it’s running into things and just blowing itself up or if it’s actually just carrying in supplies, but the drone was delivering it. Like, it picked it up, flew off with Yeah. And they’ve got multiple versions of that.
Chris [00:30:03]:
Yeah. So this one’s a plane. It can come with a launcher or you can just chuck it. How big is it? It it’s pretty big. It’s a a meter or 2 meters, wingspan, and, they can go quite high. It can handle rain, but not, like, stormy Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:30:22]:
Fixed wing.
Sam [00:30:23]:
So it’s some sort of composite material.
Chris [00:30:25]:
Yeah. Yeah. And it’s it’s very, robust, and they have been loading them with bombs and dropping them on, you know, dive bombing people as well. So there’s a whole bunch of different ways they’re using it. But, yeah, there’s a a lot of back and forth between the, you know, Ukrainian army and this company and the redeveloping it, like, on the fly. So yeah. Interesting, anyway.
Sam [00:30:50]:
Yes. Very interesting. Random technology in life. That’s us. Episode 501 in the can. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:57]:
I’m Chris.
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