Summary
After a week off we are back. We talk about the ant climatic fight that was Tyson VS Paul.
We debrief about Misty Flicks Film Festival that we were part of this weekend.
Trump’s latest grift is selling guitars he’s not licensed to, a former nurse in Australia has been ordered to hand back an inheritance they got and we get onto the topic of smugglers.
All this and much more.
Links
Tyson VS Paul fight
Misty Flicks Film Festival
Trump selling guitars
Former Australian Nurse to Return Inheritance
Over 300 tarantulas strapped to smuggler
Show Transcript
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Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness, technology and life and other things.
Chris [00:00:31]:
And the week off. And the week off? Effectively. We had a week off from the podcast.
Sam [00:00:37]:
Oh, yes. I completely forgot about that. The it’s been a blur. I’ve been sick. I’m still not a 100% right. I’ve just got gunk in my throat, which is terrible. It was your birthday on the weekend. Happy 60th.
Chris [00:00:49]:
Yeah. That was good. Whatever.
Sam [00:00:51]:
It was great. Everyone was impressed.
Chris [00:00:52]:
Oh, oh, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. So we okay. We missed we missed the week Yeah.
Sam [00:00:58]:
We did.
Chris [00:00:58]:
Which is cool. But I do want to talk a little bit about the Tyson and Paul
Sam [00:01:03]:
Which to new listeners happens once or twice a year. Yeah. Yeah. Because sometimes life gets in the way, and there’s not any time to do a podcast. We’ll get to that, but I don’t know if I could have fitted that in on that weekend even if I was feeling good.
Chris [00:01:18]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. You yeah. Because you yeah.
Sam [00:01:20]:
Although Sunday morning, we started late. But anyway, let’s talk about Tyson and, Logan Paul. Look,
Chris [00:01:26]:
Jake Paul. Jake Paul. Look. Oh, yeah. Sorry.
Sam [00:01:28]:
Logan’s the brother.
Chris [00:01:29]:
Get them mixed up. No. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:01:31]:
Yeah. They are slightly different. Yeah. One’s big. No. No. No. I think I think Jake, who was doing the fight, is the better brother in general,
Chris [00:01:40]:
I think. From an ethics standpoint.
Sam [00:01:43]:
And as a human being perspective, maybe.
Chris [00:01:46]:
Yeah. Okay. Alright.
Sam [00:01:47]:
Yeah. We’ll see. You’re probably gonna change my mind.
Chris [00:01:49]:
Oh, no. I don’t know. I I just wanted to talk talk about the fight a little bit. Well, I because I was really keen to talk about it a week ago.
Sam [00:01:57]:
But that’s the thing. Like, that fight, in the lead up, it was, it was okay. It wasn’t, like, as groundbreaking as some things, but this seems very much like the Game of Thrones thing where nobody’s discussing it really now.
Chris [00:02:12]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:02:13]:
Like, it’s just okay. Cool.
Chris [00:02:14]:
It’s over, it’s over. And it’s over.
Sam [00:02:15]:
But there wasn’t
Chris [00:02:16]:
a lot to discuss afterwards. So there’s much more talk about and I should have wrote written down their names. Amanda Santona The
Sam [00:02:26]:
woman that fought before them.
Chris [00:02:28]:
And yeah. And Kelly, is it, was the Irish girl. Yeah. Yeah. I cannot believe that Kelly won. No. Because she kept head button Yeah. The other one, Amanda.
Chris [00:02:38]:
And, yeah, that that was but, anyway, I saw a one of those horrible, what do you call them, clickbaity titles. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Because you get them on your phone with the Google. You get all those clickbaity things they keep putting on.
Sam [00:02:56]:
On on on the Samsung, they do. They have
Chris [00:02:57]:
a whole page of just clickbaity
Sam [00:02:59]:
Oh, yeah. My work my work phone does that. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:01]:
Yeah. It’s so annoying. And I accidentally flick across to every now and again, and I saw this, oh, they’re gonna take a title off her. I’m like, oh, they it was yeah. But it’s nothing to do with that. She has so many belts, and she hasn’t fought to defend them for so many years. They’re like, nah. We’re putting this one up for
Sam [00:03:21]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:03:22]:
Yeah. For, other people to go for because it hasn’t been,
Sam [00:03:26]:
interesting.
Chris [00:03:27]:
Yeah. Contended. But, yeah, I I so that was a much better fight. Yeah. It it was closer. I a lot of people agree with me that the wrong person won.
Sam [00:03:38]:
I think so.
Chris [00:03:38]:
And but it it was pretty brutal. And did you see the cut over
Sam [00:03:42]:
that cheek’s eye? Wrestle. Epic.
Chris [00:03:45]:
Yeah. And then to have that. So it was a really good undercard fight for the big fight.
Sam [00:03:51]:
Yeah. Totally.
Chris [00:03:52]:
And then, yeah, Tyson just
Sam [00:03:56]:
Was old.
Chris [00:03:57]:
Was old and didn’t do anything.
Sam [00:03:59]:
So in the lead up, he had some training videos where he looked absolutely brutal. Yeah. And when you watch the replays, or clips of it after the fact, you could see them pull like, holding back punches. I think both were doing it, because there’s a couple of times where Tyson could have just knocked them, and it comes down to money. Yeah. They wanted the money. They went the full distance. I think they paid Tyson some extra or something.
Sam [00:04:24]:
I’m sure there’s some weird deal because there was a clip of them doing something, like, a week later and hanging out like they’re best friends.
Chris [00:04:30]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:30]:
So it’s all, like it was all it was almost an exhibition match. It really was
Chris [00:04:35]:
an exhibition in that match.
Sam [00:04:36]:
And there was points where Jake What
Chris [00:04:37]:
do you think about, oh, sorry. He can’t
Sam [00:04:39]:
Oh, no. There there was just points where Jake punched a little bit, and he could’ve quickly done another one, and then he’s like you could see him thinking it through, I think. I I know. Yeah. And then dance around a bit more. Yeah. And he did that weird bow thing at the end. Like Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:04:52]:
To show his respect or whatever that thing was.
Chris [00:04:55]:
It was weird. Yeah. Because what did you think of the Netflix thing?
Sam [00:05:01]:
It was good.
Chris [00:05:02]:
Oh, so we had loads of trouble with Netflix. So I was at the pub.
Sam [00:05:05]:
Now there’s your problem. I was sitting at home.
Chris [00:05:07]:
No. It was fine. I was at the Hillcrest pub
Sam [00:05:09]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:10]:
And there’s there were 2 TVs, well, relatively close to me, but I was in the corner. So I could see one over the bar Yeah. And then there was one around the corner that most of the others were looking at the bigger one around the corner. But I was happy where I was just looking across at the bar. But it kept freezing, and then they restart it, and then it was out of sync. So my one was 4 to 6 seconds behind the other one, and the sound was on the other one. And so things would happen. I wonder if go, hey.
Chris [00:05:39]:
And then I’d see what happened about
Sam [00:05:41]:
I wonder if that depends on what software was on the TVs or however they were running it.
Chris [00:05:46]:
Yeah. Yeah. Because it’s a streaming platform, not a live platform. True. You know what I mean?
Sam [00:05:54]:
But So yeah. This is whatever the teething problems were because there were people raging out on the Internet. Like, I think in America, there was people that couldn’t see it. Whatever. This is going to solve their teething problems because they’ve got NFL games coming to Netflix which is big, and WWE Oh, wow. Is going to Netflix in the New Year, I think. And people are like, they better have this sorted by then.
Chris [00:06:18]:
Yeah. So it was good because it was a good tester for that from that point of view. But I did wanna say this too. The last Tyson fight, I’m pretty sure it was Tyson fight.
Sam [00:06:28]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:29]:
I remember, I was working at Tarapa Tavern. Okay. So I think, oh, that’s so I remember watching Tyson when I was a teenager when I was doing karate. You know, we watched a lot of his fights. Yeah. He he was a teenager. He was young. But then there was this Tyson fight when I worked throughout the tavern, which would have been around 20 years ago now, I think.
Chris [00:06:54]:
Yep. But that’s still a 20 year career for him at that point. And I’m like, oh, it wasn’t that long ago Tarapa Tavern, but then I was like, oh, yeah. I was working. It was the old Tarapa Tavern. It was packed, and the amount of smoke in the room Yeah. Because everybody smoked indoors then. The good old times.
Chris [00:07:17]:
Felt like I needed to burn my clothes Yeah.
Sam [00:07:19]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:07:20]:
When we got out of there because it just reeked.
Sam [00:07:23]:
Because you guys you and Tyson are very close in age, I think.
Chris [00:07:26]:
Yeah. I’m a cup he he’s a year older than me or something. Yeah. That’s right. Something like that.
Sam [00:07:31]:
Not 61?
Chris [00:07:33]:
No. No. I’m not that old. Quite. Not quite. But yeah. So, yeah. Anyway, I thought that was interesting.
Chris [00:07:40]:
It’s just like it wasn’t it to me, it doesn’t seem that long ago that you used to smoke in in pubs. Mind you, I remember when you smoked at work, so government departments all smoked in the office.
Sam [00:07:52]:
Time moves differently for you, I think, because you, you quote things randomly, and it’s like, no. No. No. No.
Chris [00:07:59]:
Yes. Skyrockets. That’s still a thing, aren’t they?
Sam [00:08:02]:
That’s what
Chris [00:08:02]:
I was thinking. Yeah. Anyway No. So yeah. So, let’s talk a little bit about Misty Flix because, that was other than your cold, that was the reason you being sick, that was the reason we didn’t really manage to get anything out in there last week because we were flat out. I was buggered by the end of that.
Sam [00:08:20]:
So, yeah, we were talking about Misty Flix for a couple of weeks, trying to get people to come along, and, it was our 2nd year as a film festival, 6th year as an event, I guess. Yep. It went really well.
Chris [00:08:31]:
Yeah. It was first year as as Sam running it.
Sam [00:08:36]:
Well, running, it’s a loose term. So
Chris [00:08:40]:
Coordinating, maybe?
Sam [00:08:41]:
Well, I was down as coordinator. And to be fair, I didn’t feel like I did enough. But when I did sign up for this, I was at my old job where I had all the time in the world. Yes. And I’ve had a change. I’m very busy, and, I like I’ve been doing stuff for the festival, but there’s a a limited amount of bandwidth, and we know what areas we we we basically need comms people. That’s what we need.
Chris [00:09:05]:
Yeah. So if anybody’s into social media marketing, any something along those lines, let us know if you wanna help out with on a voluntary basis with, a a film festival.
Sam [00:09:17]:
So we did still have the slight problem of some people that helped that are filmmakers that were wanting to watch the stuff or wander off Yeah. Which is fine. So we need people that are keen on the broader sense of the thing. So I think, ideally, we need a comms person that is really keen and passionate about helping out a local event. Doesn’t matter what the hell the event is.
Chris [00:09:41]:
Yeah. Yeah. No one
Sam [00:09:42]:
I’m too tied up in the event. So it was all good. Chasing down the footage, haven’t got that yet. So I think that’s getting dropped off tomorrow. I don’t know how much of that there was because Ash took video of everything. Shout out to Jamie’s cousin. I don’t know which one’s the cousin, but it’s Toby that made the film, the teenage film, and his mom called Chris. And they said they’re gonna say hi to you.
Sam [00:10:07]:
Yeah. Jamie Oxy in Australia.
Chris [00:10:08]:
Jamie. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:10:09]:
His, cousin’s son, I think, is what that is.
Chris [00:10:13]:
Right. Yeah. I don’t know. Yeah.
Sam [00:10:14]:
Real cool dude, actually, because he came home and was yakking to me. And it was Yeah.
Chris [00:10:18]:
You had quite a chat. I I’d briefly said hello as I was passing. I was off doing something, but
Sam [00:10:23]:
I saw him a couple of times and didn’t really click who it was. I don’t know who was a filmmaker. Yeah. Yeah. And, shout out to Adam McFall who bumped into me on the street.
Chris [00:10:32]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What’s And I’m sorry. I didn’t see I I saw him there, but I was talking to somebody, and I was like, oh, I’m gonna see Adam in a minute. Because I assumed he’d come for the festival.
Sam [00:10:41]:
Yeah. Me too, actually. That’s what I thought he was doing.
Chris [00:10:43]:
And then he I’m like, oh, where’d he go? Oh, he’s gone.
Sam [00:10:46]:
No. It’s pretty cool. Everyone seemed to have a really good time. Had some good comments from some of the filmmakers, especially the out of town ones. Yeah.
Chris [00:10:52]:
The
Sam [00:10:52]:
Like, they were like, it’s worth it. They were like, oh my gosh. It’s really cool.
Chris [00:10:56]:
Yeah. So it was really good. The pitching went really well. I thought, we’ve we’ve got some good, judges there from around the country who really know this stuff, producers and whatnot. So shout out to Harley for coming down and doing some some work with us. That was really good. And, and I’m I am going to pitch next year. I’m going to give it a go.
Chris [00:11:18]:
So that’s cool.
Sam [00:11:19]:
It’s on the podcast?
Chris [00:11:20]:
Yes. I have to I have to live up to it now. And the other thing I want to mention, actually, because I was so impressed with it, was the film kafif kafafai
Sam [00:11:32]:
Tano.
Chris [00:11:32]:
Yeah. I was I I have to say a couple of times before I get it right.
Sam [00:11:35]:
Yeah. Me too. To. I’ve gotta see it.
Chris [00:11:37]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, really good film. If you get the chance to see it, I I think it’s the biggest news selling New Zealand film of 2024, apparently. But if you get a chance to watch it, absolutely watch it. It’s brilliant. I actually wanna see it again.
Chris [00:11:54]:
You know? It’s one of those that once you’ve finished it, you go, oh, yeah. I could handle watching that again.
Sam [00:11:59]:
You can if you go to the Waikato screen screening. It’s, like, 4:30 on a Monday on the next month sometime. And I got q and a. They’ve got one of the actresses. Is it Mirna Smith? Anyway so that’s pretty cool. And the director and the producer again.
Chris [00:12:23]:
Let’s let me get my, nominal, Trump mention in here.
Sam [00:12:27]:
I haven’t heard about Trump, but over the whole weekend, you didn’t say anything about Trump. So I don’t even know what’s going on.
Chris [00:12:32]:
I have been actually keeping a bit of a distance, but this I just thought was hilarious.
Sam [00:12:37]:
Okay.
Chris [00:12:38]:
So I I don’t think I mentioned this. I yeah. Because I think it happened just before we had the, the week off
Sam [00:12:45]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:12:45]:
Was, Trump was signing and selling guitars. You know how he’s does these ads, and he sold sneakers, and he sold whatever.
Sam [00:12:54]:
He’s he’s Does he literally is there anything he won’t put his name on?
Chris [00:12:57]:
I no. I don’t think I don’t think there is. I’m sure he’d sell gold wallets.
Sam [00:13:02]:
So someone somewhere or him himself was like, I’ll sign this guitar and then sell it.
Chris [00:13:08]:
He he’s selling them he did an ad. It’s like a TV ad.
Sam [00:13:12]:
Oh.
Chris [00:13:13]:
Order this guitar, and it was signed by Trump blah blah blah blah blah.
Sam [00:13:17]:
Okay.
Chris [00:13:17]:
Which is okay. What do you you would think he would have permission to do that?
Sam [00:13:23]:
I thought he might have been getting a random guitar made for $12 and then selling it for
Chris [00:13:29]:
Apparently, he’s been sued by Gibson because he was signing less Paul giz Gibson guitars. Wow. I don’t know what he’s doing. He’s, like, buying them at wholesale or something and then selling them. Like and so,
Sam [00:13:43]:
I wanna see him. Guitars is
Chris [00:13:44]:
I I need to see the ad again because
Sam [00:13:46]:
I wanna see him play a guitar.
Chris [00:13:48]:
I can’t play the No.
Sam [00:13:49]:
I know. But I wanna see him play and just pretend.
Chris [00:13:52]:
I could imagine him air guitar ing because he he air drives trucks and he air Oh, yeah. That’s right. I mean, he pretends to do so much stuff badly, like he pretends to dance on stage. Anyway, I thought that was funny.
Sam [00:14:07]:
So if he gets sued, will it actually end up anywhere? Or what happens?
Chris [00:14:11]:
Is this He might, because as a as a president, he will still be liable if he get he can be sued, for this because it happened before he took office, and it’s a private matter. It’s got nothing
Sam [00:14:25]:
to do
Chris [00:14:25]:
with government.
Sam [00:14:26]:
So We’ll we’ll we’ll see
Chris [00:14:28]:
if that happens. Oh, yeah. The other thing, we do you wanna mention the storyteller breakfast at all?
Sam [00:14:34]:
We went out for breakfast. It was average. Is
Chris [00:14:38]:
that inexpensive. If you want an egg, it costs $5.
Sam [00:14:42]:
Yep. Probably won’t mention it. At at at I like the other place, though. We went for lunch. That was nice.
Chris [00:14:49]:
On Sunday. Pub.
Sam [00:14:49]:
The pub. Yeah.
Chris [00:14:50]:
Yeah. The pub was really good. Definitely, is what is that called?
Sam [00:14:53]:
Is Redoubt.
Chris [00:14:55]:
Yep. That’s right.
Sam [00:14:56]:
Yep. The Readout. Readout.
Chris [00:14:58]:
Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So if you get a chance to go there, definitely.
Sam [00:15:03]:
Jeremy Housen bumped into the dude that I interviewed, the Armageddon with the pumpkin spider, whose episode I forgot about and haven’t published.
Chris [00:15:12]:
Oh, really? Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:15:13]:
Don’t worry. I’ve forgotten a lot of stuff. That’s all I’ll say on that. And, yeah. He, he he he says, oh, I heard about you from the Chris and Sam podcast. And the guy goes, oh, yeah. And he brought 1.
Chris [00:15:27]:
Oh, nice. Good on you, Jeremy. Yep. Support local spider makers. I don’t That’s right.
Sam [00:15:33]:
Local local 3 d printers,
Chris [00:15:36]:
creators. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. No. I’m not gonna say anything
Sam [00:15:41]:
about it. Good. I knew you. Yeah.
Chris [00:15:42]:
You know exactly what I was gonna say. Hey. I I so I’ve got a a random story about a dodgy Aussie nurse.
Sam [00:15:49]:
No.
Chris [00:15:50]:
I’m gonna read this out because I just like the way it’s written. Okay. In a shocking case of suspected exploitation, former nurse Abba Anuradha Kumar has been ordered by the Australian Supreme Court to return a significant inheritance she received Oh. From a 92 year old patient
Sam [00:16:16]:
That’s old track.
Chris [00:16:17]:
That she knew for just 24 days.
Sam [00:16:21]:
That’s impressive. Oh, though, if they’re like a dementia and old and crazy and don’t know who you are, but so
Chris [00:16:25]:
So, it was $550,000.
Sam [00:16:28]:
I mean, impressive on a very sad scale and, yeah. So are they gonna do one of those stories where it’s like, I would give it back, but I’ve spent it all. Don’t know?
Chris [00:16:40]:
No. I think she’s gonna get it all back, but, he had no apparent close relatives or anything and all the rest of it. And she was made probate of his estate and all the rest of it. And yeah. So very sad, but more than a little dodgy, I think. Because they even said the manner of his death was a little con concerning, perhaps.
Sam [00:17:05]:
Oh, no. But then really old too.
Chris [00:17:08]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he he died of pneumonia, but there was elements to that.
Sam [00:17:13]:
If you were gonna smuggle stuff on purpose and not be tricked into it like you may have almost been in the past Yeah. Would you just might as well just go you might as well just go full retard, do you reckon? Like, what’s like, if you if you’re strapping stuff to your body, do you just stop at a small number, or do you do a big number?
Chris [00:17:30]:
You do a big number.
Sam [00:17:31]:
Exactly. South Korean national was stopped in, Peru. He was trying to leave the country. Now after I tell you this, think about the logistics of this. He had 320 tarantulas strapped to him somehow. A 110 centipedes and 9 bullet ants. They were inside clear plastic containers and strapped around the guy’s stomach. Jeez.
Sam [00:18:02]:
That’s a lot, isn’t it? So don’t they fight each other? So would they be an individual Hundreds of insects were packed inside ziplock bags and then strapped to him. They said that his stomach area looked bulky. He would’ve looked so freaking weird.
Chris [00:18:22]:
I I think I’ve told this story before, but I I went through customs in in Gibraltar. So I lived in Spain and worked in Gibraltar. So I crossed the border every day. Couple times, you know, to work and home.
Sam [00:18:38]:
And and the border itself, is it just quite low key?
Chris [00:18:41]:
Yeah. It’s I mean, it’s a line. There’s yeah. And and, you know, you sort of get to a it’s very much like a traffic, problem because it’s like, oh, we don’t wanna be too late or we’re gonna hit the hit the rush hour, and it’s gonna take ages. And and it’s like a Disneyland freaking long Yeah. Winding thing. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:00]:
Okay. For cars. But we I was walking through. Walking’s quicker. And so we’re going from Jib into Spain, shuffling through, shuffling through. They they barely talk to you most of the time. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:12]:
It’s they just eyeball you. And there’s a little old Spanish lady in front of us, you know, sort of hunched over with a, shawl on and stuff like that. You know? Not quite a hijab, but that sort of thing. Yeah. And, so we went around, and we went through and went past, and she popped into this bus stop. And I was talking to Gary, and I was like, oh, what are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? And I turned back.
Sam [00:19:39]:
Gary that
Chris [00:19:39]:
And this
Sam [00:19:40]:
Famous Gary.
Chris [00:19:41]:
Yeah. Famous Gary. Gary is my was my old flatmate. He’s a psycho, from Oldham. And, this woman had taken off her dress
Sam [00:19:52]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:19:52]:
In the bus stop Okay. Because the bus stop’s facing away from the Border. The border. Yeah. And she has this she was young and fit Yeah. And just dressed in lyca lycra
Sam [00:20:04]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:20:05]:
With cartons of cigarettes taped to her body. Oh, wow. And she was just pulling them off. So So she’d come
Sam [00:20:12]:
she’d made it through, or she was taking it through before? Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:20:15]:
She’d gone through, and she’s taken them off, and she was gonna put them in a shopping cart and, yeah, get picked up, I guess. But, you know, you know what a cart and a cigarettes is like. She had, I think, like, 20 cart. It’s mental. And I’m like, how did you do that and look normal? Right?
Sam [00:20:32]:
Still looking normal. Yeah.
Chris [00:20:33]:
I know. Because I just saw it as a little old lady. Yeah. Yeah. That which is obviously why she had the hoodie type thing. You know, the shawl thing. Yeah. That’s got Yeah.
Chris [00:20:43]:
Yeah. So she couldn’t see, how young
Sam [00:20:45]:
This website is giving me crazy other bloody things now. What? About what? So this happened, at the start of November. A man arrested at LAX because he was checking in suitcases filled with over £70 of meth caked clothing. So they pull out a meth meth soaked cow onesie, and the guy was trying to fly to Sydney. Yeah. All his clothes were just, like, soaked in meth.
Chris [00:21:17]:
I saw, I saw in that, random, story thing that I said before, that clickbait story thing Yeah. That there was wasn’t fentanyl. I don’t think it was meth, but it it was one of those sort of drugs, and it was just a gnome. They’d made a gnome out of it, and that’s what they were trying.
Sam [00:21:38]:
Okay. Well, a for effort. They got caught, though.
Chris [00:21:43]:
So yeah. It’s, Macquarie Dictionary. Is it Macquarie? Is that how you pronounce that?
Sam [00:21:51]:
Yep. Sounds good to me. Never heard of this thing in before. Yeah. It’s just like the Collins Australian’s version.
Chris [00:21:57]:
Oh, yeah. I have heard of it before. Okay. Yeah. Macquarie Macquarie Macquarie, whatever, dictionary. Yeah. It’s got its pick for word for 2024.
Sam [00:22:10]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Good. Good. Good. We should come up
Chris [00:22:12]:
with 1. The most Australian word ever. Okay. You ready? Yeah. Go. Enshitification.
Sam [00:22:21]:
Nice. And what what’s their description? What are they
Chris [00:22:25]:
I I didn’t even look at the story. I just scrapped that.
Sam [00:22:28]:
Come on. You can’t leave us hanging.
Chris [00:22:30]:
Australia’s medical dictionary picks, and shitification is the word of 2024. You’re absolutely right. Why didn’t I look that up? I just I just Okay.
Sam [00:22:40]:
Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. This is from Wikipedia. Insurification is the systematic decline in online platform quality. It’s also known as crepification and platform decay. So this is
Chris [00:22:56]:
Platform decay is so boring.
Sam [00:22:58]:
You know? Initially, people will create a high quality offering to attract users, and then they degrade it so it gets crappier and crappier. I don’t know if there’s examples. X. The American Dialect Society picked that word for 2,023 word of the year for them. So it’s one of these words. It’s like a film festival film. It’s doing the rounds.
Chris [00:23:22]:
Yeah. Yep. And they’re like, yeah.
Sam [00:23:24]:
That’s it. Examples. Here we go. Airbnb. It’s just crap now. Amazon. It’s on the on the radar. It should’ve vacation.
Sam [00:23:33]:
Facebook. Yeah. I believe in that. Google search. Yeah. There’s no real competitor to it, but Yeah. Because they keep changing it. Because now it’s not continuous scroll anymore.
Sam [00:23:42]:
It’s the page thing. So so anyway. Netflix, is up there, of course. We talked about that earlier. Twitter, well, it’s gone off the rails. Everybody’s on blue sky. Apparently, it’s gone absolutely gangbusters in the last couple of weeks.
Chris [00:23:52]:
Yeah. I a lot after that election Yeah. The US election really took turned people off, x. Yeah.
Sam [00:24:00]:
So, anyway, all rather exciting.
Chris [00:24:02]:
Yeah. No.
Sam [00:24:03]:
I just I
Chris [00:24:03]:
just like that in shitification. I hadn’t heard that term before.
Sam [00:24:06]:
Nothing to do with us here at the Chris and Sam podcast. If anything, we are opposite of that. We’re just amazing. Yeah. Whatever.
Chris [00:24:17]:
Okay. We what time have we got? Have we got one left?
Sam [00:24:21]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But one last time You’ve got 5 minutes of that.
Chris [00:24:23]:
Okay. Or this is not a whole 5 minutes, but we’ll see what we’ve got. So I just like this because just imagine yourself in this, situation.
Sam [00:24:36]:
Okay. So, paint that. A picture with your words.
Chris [00:24:41]:
So, 3 doctors are under investigation. Oh, god.
Sam [00:24:46]:
For doing something. Good.
Chris [00:24:48]:
Consent. The Times Malta is trying to get me to accept.
Sam [00:24:54]:
Life’s a struggle sometimes. It’s not Chris.
Chris [00:24:56]:
An Indian man awake on a funeral pyre moments before it was to be set on fire. So that’s it. You you’ve you’ve been sick. So Rohitash Kumar, another Kumar, 25, who had speaking and hearing difficulties, had fallen sick and was taken to hospital in in western state of Rajasthan on Thursday. Yeah. Indian media reported he’d had an epileptic seizure, and a doctor declared him dead on arrival at the hospital. But instead of the required postmortem to as ascertain the cause of death, doctors sent him to the mortuary and then to be burned according to Hindu rights. Yeah.
Chris [00:25:40]:
And then he,
Sam [00:25:41]:
Woke up.
Chris [00:25:42]:
Shortly before the pyre was to be lit, Rohitosh’s body started movements. He was alive and breathing. He was rushed to hospital for a second time, but was confirmed dead on Friday. What? It sounds like
Sam [00:25:56]:
they killed him to make sure he didn’t do anything.
Chris [00:26:01]:
But authorities have suspended the services of 3 doctors, and the police have launched an investigation. What what does it mean when it says they’ve, suspended the services of 3 doctors? It doesn’t mean You can you can go home and or you can practice outside of the hospital. We don’t practice in here.
Sam [00:26:18]:
I dread to think what it means. I if they did a post mortem, I don’t think they would have realized, and he would have still been dead. And then they didn’t even say how he died from the second time. No. I So he woke up,
Chris [00:26:34]:
and they’re like, oh, okay. So it seems he was moving, and they I don’t think he was fully, like, awake because I think a woke up is doing a lot of heavy lifting. He moved, and they went, oh, he’s still breathing. So they sent him back to hospital. I don’t know if he ever, quote, unquote, woke up. You know?
Sam [00:26:51]:
I get the feeling after doing this podcast for what seems like a lifetime, 500 plus episodes, 10 years. Every time we have a story about some Indian thing, it’s really vague, and I think it’s all invalid. I think he just twitched or something or some gas came out, and they’re like, oh. And then, I don’t know. I don’t believe some of these stories. There was the one about the snake. There’s all sorts of random stories we’ve covered, and they’re all as vague as this one.
Chris [00:27:22]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:27:23]:
So there’s a theme going on that I don’t know if it’s crappy journalism or if it’s just a cool story they’re trying
Chris [00:27:29]:
to spread. Oh, and it could even be as as mundane as translation issues.
Sam [00:27:35]:
Yeah. It could be. Like, I don’t even know where they pick up half this stuff. We find it to tell you, And this is what we do.
Chris [00:27:41]:
Yeah. This is the Times Malta, which is half a world away from India anyway. Like
Sam [00:27:48]:
Yeah. It was that whole, you know, ecosystem spreading stuff.
Chris [00:27:51]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:27:52]:
But I will say that in the last year, let’s say, I seem to find a lot more, there’s the, what’s the TV show that used to be on here at 7 o’clock on 3? The and there’s the Australian version. And The project. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. The project Australia, that’s 1, and a lot of radio stations all seem to cover the same stuff we talk about. And sometimes we beat them to it, and sometimes they beat us to it. But it seems to be a winning formula that we clicked on to 10 plus years ago.
Chris [00:28:26]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. And on that note,
Sam [00:28:32]:
it brings us to the end of the podcast. Yep. I don’t know what’s coming up. I’m going bowling tomorrow for work. It’s a meeting, apparently. They have to tell us some something to say it’s a meeting to allow all of us to go bowling. Oh, and they’re feeding us too.
Chris [00:28:48]:
Oh, yeah. Really feeding you this time. Not like today’s,
Sam [00:28:51]:
today. Was just no. No. That’s no. Someone did tell me, though, it’s very hit and miss. You never quite they never quite know how to do the food Yeah. For some reason. It’s weird, though, because there was only 300 of us at this, thing today.
Chris [00:29:09]:
That’s a lot, though. Yeah.
Sam [00:29:12]:
But they’ve got 1300 workers that could have come. True. So, you know anyway, what are you up to?
Chris [00:29:21]:
I am going to get so I’ve got a new microphone, which I’m using now.
Sam [00:29:25]:
It sounds really good. Pretty good.
Chris [00:29:27]:
Yep. And, hopefully, the arm arrives
Sam [00:29:30]:
Oh, yeah. I’m keen to see that.
Chris [00:29:31]:
Tomorrow. I’m
Sam [00:29:32]:
keen to see that.
Chris [00:29:32]:
I was hoping it would arrive today, but it hasn’t. So, hopefully, tomorrow. And then I’m gonna attach the to the desk. And this weekend, I think I will be doing some videos for YouTube and whatnot.
Sam [00:29:44]:
Excellent. Planner. If you want life advice from Chris, he’s gonna do it for you. Maybe we’ll add it to the life of Chris, Chris Sam podcast YouTube playlist to join the other great ones of, weekbooks or whatever you were making with weekbooks one time. I think the time we went no. I don’t think that’s on that video. There’s some other random video you did, but, anyway, look for us on YouTube. There’s some stuff there.
Sam [00:30:09]:
Okay. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:11]:
I’m Chris. See you. Bye.
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