Summary
This week we talk about the LA fires raging in the US. Trump gets a mention because his speech was weird, again.
NZ”s only convicted saboteur has been released from jail, while a 9 year old gets 3 world records when it comes to frisbee.
We learn of a bomb on a scooter taking out a general, and a woman gets scammed after warning others about the scam.
All of this and more in your weekly fix of randomness, technology and life.
Links
LA fires
Trump and his crazy speech
Christchurch 9 Year Old Gets 3rd World Record for Frisbee
NZ’s only convicted saboteur has been released from prison
General killed in interesting way
Warning about social media scam, then gets the woman warning people
Bear kills man from falling out of a tree
Show Transcript
This transcript was generated by an AI and may not be 100% accurate. If you have questions about any of the information found here, please reach out to us This week it thought everything said was Chris, silly AI.
Sam [00:00:04]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 513 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:35]:
Hi. I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:35]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life and trying to get back into that work mode.
Chris [00:00:41]:
Oh, wow.
Sam [00:00:42]:
It’s a tough one. It’s a tough one. And, like, I didn’t do much for the holidays, so maybe that was the problem. Maybe I needed to go balls out during the holidays, every single day, doing something, keeping super, super busy, like, crazy busy. It wasn’t like I wasn’t doing anything. And then when I get back to work, it feels like I’ve had a break.
Chris [00:01:02]:
Yeah. I yeah. And that might be the same because I did bugger all. I had a whole lot of things that I was going to get done, which I didn’t quite get done Yeah. As in I did bugger all. So, but, yeah, I it’s been full on, and I I might I am a little bit brain dead today as we’re recording this just because I’ve been working so, so hard.
Chris [00:01:24]:
So hard. So hard. Apparently.
Chris [00:01:26]:
But, anyway, we can’t help it. We have to sort of pretty much kick this off.
Chris [00:01:32]:
Oh, actually, I know what you wanna say, but should we just say, hey, big, hope hope everyone’s doing okay on those massive fires overseas.
Chris [00:01:39]:
What fires? Oh my gosh.
Chris [00:01:43]:
A 100000 people have been evacuated of LA.
Chris [00:01:46]:
Actually, I did see
Chris [00:01:47]:
something much, thousands of homes have just been burnt to the ground, like movie star homes, fancy homes. There’s 3 huge fires all happening at once. The wind is perfect. They’ve got hurricane condition winds that’s just pushing the embers forward and catching everything on fire. They’ve got, right now as we record
Chris [00:02:05]:
This is their winter too, isn’t it?
Chris [00:02:07]:
Yep. Yeah. Must be yeah. But it’s super warm and dry this way. Hollywood, Hollywood.
Chris [00:02:11]:
Nearer the Yeah. The equator.
Chris [00:02:13]:
So, 5 people confirmed dead currently, but that’s gotta go up once they find all the bodies.
Chris [00:02:20]:
I yeah. Damn. I did see, I did see, yeah, a few things about Hollywood homes being or LA homes being evacuated.
Chris [00:02:29]:
And you’re just like,
Chris [00:02:30]:
oh, it’s a riot. It’s No. No. No. I figured it was wildfires, but they have wildfires every freaking year, so I didn’t
Chris [00:02:36]:
think it was one was completely unexpected Yeah. And just weren’t expecting it. Like, I think, I mean, the only famous person like, they, was it Mark? Oh, Marky Mark. What’s his face? They moved him out. Wahlberg. Yeah. Wahlberg.
Chris [00:02:51]:
Wahlberg.
Chris [00:02:52]:
I think Paris Hilton’s mansion got burnt to the ground. Yeah. It’s crazy. It’s crazy because there’s so many people displaced currently.
Chris [00:03:00]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:03:01]:
There’s a whole Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whole old folks home burnt down. All these, yeah. There’s gonna be crazy, the aftermath. They think the winds are gonna ease up on Friday a bit. They’ve had a little break, and they’ve got the helicopters and airplanes up trying to dump stuff.
Chris [00:03:16]:
Yeah. Jimmy Kimmel said something about it on his show, but it didn’t make it sound that ridiculously bad.
Chris [00:03:21]:
No. I think it’s only ramped up in the last, like, 3 hours.
Chris [00:03:26]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:03:27]:
Like, I think it’s such a yeah. Fire big fires like that are crazy because it’s super heating everything in front of it. Yeah. And if it gets that push with the wind, then everything else just catches on fire and explodes.
Chris [00:03:39]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it’s
Chris [00:03:40]:
So I think it’s
Chris [00:03:41]:
like a a fire avalanche because it just builds and builds momentum.
Chris [00:03:45]:
Is hang on. Isn’t it I’m sure there’s Firenado. Isn’t that one? Is that one?
Chris [00:03:49]:
That is a Firenado is something that’s
Chris [00:03:52]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So latest up to date, much of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood is gone. That’s all gone. Everything you could imagine. Community centers, parks, gas stations, coffee shops, banks.
Chris [00:04:02]:
So this is, like, as bad as Honolulu or more worse or Possibly.
Chris [00:04:07]:
So there was 23,000 people in that area and pretty much that town’s gone.
Chris [00:04:13]:
Holy crap.
Chris [00:04:13]:
There’s some crazy photos, and there’s if you look at the map, the Hollywood Hills are here, and that looks reasonably close to that. So I wouldn’t be surprised if all that goes. Anyway
Chris [00:04:23]:
Okay. That that took the wind out of
Chris [00:04:25]:
No.
Chris [00:04:25]:
No. I didn’t wanna was gonna say.
Chris [00:04:26]:
I didn’t wanna distract from your, from your story, but
Chris [00:04:29]:
No. No. No. No. No. That’s good. Well, yeah. Obviously, yeah.
Chris [00:04:32]:
Thoughts out to those guys.
Chris [00:04:34]:
Because something like 50% or something of our listeners are from the US. I actually I I just thought of something that we didn’t mention last year. Hey. It’s a new year. If you are listening to us anywhere in the world, go tell a friend, go share a post that we’ve got on Instagram or Facebook. That would be great and very helpful. Thank you very much.
Chris [00:04:54]:
Yeah. It’d be great if if, we can get it
Chris [00:04:56]:
to the app. Apparently, we’ve got people listening or something’s listening. I think it might be AI chatbots. I’m not sure. But
Chris [00:05:03]:
It’s Elon Musk wanting to make sure a free speech is not too free.
Chris [00:05:08]:
But but that that rolls into our next thing. He’s too busy, isn’t he? Because he’s living with Trump, is he?
Chris [00:05:13]:
He he’s he’s What’s going on? Got a he’s got a cottage at Mar a Lago paying $2,000 a night, which, Trump is very happily to tell people. He’s paying $2,000 a night.
Chris [00:05:24]:
Trump tells people all sorts of random stuff because Yeah.
Chris [00:05:26]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:26]:
I can’t tell if he’s losing the plot or
Chris [00:05:28]:
what’s going on. He did this amazing, amazing, press conference the other day, and I’m sure everybody’s heard about it No. By the time I’ve seen this. No no one Although, to be honest
Chris [00:05:40]:
sees this stuff.
Chris [00:05:41]:
I had stopped watching all this stuff. I’m I’m not doing any Trump stuff, not doing any Trump stuff. And then I saw something sort of on the humor side that made me go, oh, what’s this about? And then I saw I I ended up looking at it, and then I went everywhere. I haven’t watched the actual press conference. I was going to, but I’m like, I don’t wanna do this. Did you Yeah. I’ve I’ve just seen clips from it. Yeah.
Chris [00:06:02]:
But yeah. So he’s basically if though if you have not heard, he’s basically said that in recent days, he’s he’s said something along the lines of, oh, yeah. We wanna bring the Panama Canal back because the Japanese are are controlling it now, and, we want to, it’s really important for our national security that we control Greenland, and we should do that. And, oh, by the way, we should probably make Canada the 51st state.
Chris [00:06:33]:
Yeah. Yeah. Of course.
Chris [00:06:34]:
And then there was this press conference. And so a reporter basically said, look. You’ve talked in recent days about this Panama Canal and Greenland. Are you ruling out the fact you know, ruling out, using military force to, control these territories? And he goes, no. I can’t rule that out. I can’t rule that out. So this is the guy that’s ran on the policy of I’m bringing peace to the world, and we’ve got to get out of forever wars saying, let’s let’s, commit war on on Denmark effectively, and Greenland. So Greenland has just a a political, lecture for people that don’t know.
Chris [00:07:19]:
Greenland has its own parliament. Yeah. It was, it is now what do they call it? Protectorate of, Denmark. Okay. It used to be, you know, colonized by Denmark, but they’ve sort of given them their own thing. And since 2009, there was a treaty that’s basically written in and says, at any time, Denmark can have a vote and decide to go independent. Oh, okay. Be independent.
Chris [00:07:44]:
But until then, Denmark will continue to do the, foreign policy for it, do all the, armed forces and defense stuff and all that sort of stuff. So that’s where it’s at at the moment.
Chris [00:07:56]:
I didn’t realize it was that set up, to
Chris [00:07:59]:
be honest. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. I didn’t either. So the interesting thing is that there’s an election due, later this year, presidential prime minister or whatever they call it over there in Greenland, and they have talked about, should we do a referendum on this becoming independent or not? Yeah. Now do you know what the population of Greenland is?
Chris [00:08:22]:
It’s isn’t is it Greenland that has to have the special app, dating app, to tell you if you’re, related related to the person you might hook up with? Because the population’s so small.
Chris [00:08:34]:
That I don’t know. I’ve heard that before, but I don’t know if it was Greenland, but it could well be because it’s 600,000 for the whole country.
Chris [00:08:43]:
That’s crazy.
Chris [00:08:43]:
When you look at the size of the Yeah.
Chris [00:08:45]:
It’s a good land for you. Print. Yeah. Yeah. But then a lot of the land’s not usable?
Chris [00:08:49]:
I think I think not. Yeah. I think you’re right. So, anyway, 600,000. So they’re going to do this vote. Yeah. Now somebody is basically has been muted or or people have been saying Elon could pretty much put some money in the pockets of 600,000 voters to, swing the election to whatever election he wants. Of course.
Chris [00:09:12]:
Get
Chris [00:09:12]:
a, independent and then get them to vote to have American America is the thing. But the point is why? Why? I mean, I understand the importance of Greenland in terms of as the ice caps melt in the northern hemisphere, there are more trade potential trade passages through the ice that used to be ice bound.
Chris [00:09:37]:
Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:09:38]:
And so there’s quite a lot of, shipping costs that can be saved by going through there Right. You know, which is a great reason to accelerate global warming, which is probably what Trump’s plan is. But I I as far as I know, there’s no, resources that Greenland has that you want? Like, it it’s not
Chris [00:10:02]:
I don’t think it’s mineral rich, is it? Or maybe
Chris [00:10:05]:
I don’t know. So I don’t know. But, anyway, it’s a big deal because he he sent, Don Junior over
Chris [00:10:10]:
Oh, jeez.
Chris [00:10:11]:
In Trump Force 1, you know, the Trump plane, so that they could do the big photo op, and they’ve they’ve had all this propaganda coming from there. They’ve got all these Inuit, people or, you know, indigenous people in a in a pub, and they’re all talking to him and got Trump on the camera talking to them and all this. Oh, you wanna do this. Right? You wanna sell it to us. Say and somebody said it’s it’s it’s like going back in time when the Dutch bought Manhattan Island for, a bag of beads off the Indians. So anyway, so there was that. But yeah. So he wants to, invade those, and then he wants to get Canada to to be the 51st state, which is just mental.
Chris [00:10:59]:
And then he and he wants Wayne Gretzky in as prime minister.
Chris [00:11:02]:
Because he’s the only Canadian he knows.
Chris [00:11:04]:
I think so. Yeah.
Chris [00:11:06]:
But yeah. I mean, it’s just mental. Anyway, just by this by the way, so I think French is a national language of Canada. Right?
Chris [00:11:19]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:11:20]:
Yeah. So does that mean all the Americans need to learn French if they it becomes a state? No.
Chris [00:11:26]:
America’s great. No. So I think they’ve already had the French government already pushed back on a few things and, some other, Danish government, I guess. Yeah. I don’t know. They’ve they’ve also said, no. Calm down, Trump.
Chris [00:11:39]:
Yeah. And then, do you see Elon’s now been, putting his muddy footprints all over British politics?
Chris [00:11:47]:
Oh, oh, yeah. He was saying random stuff about I don’t know who the prime minister is there.
Chris [00:11:53]:
Kierst Kiersturmer. Oh, yeah. Oh, shut up.
Chris [00:11:57]:
Look at you being all popular. Yeah. Someone’s like, hey.
Chris [00:12:01]:
What are
Chris [00:12:01]:
you up to?
Chris [00:12:02]:
It’s Cal. I, emailed him a, AI thing.
Chris [00:12:06]:
Okay.
Chris [00:12:07]:
So, yeah. So, Keir Starmer, because Elon’s gone totally right wing. He’s got he’s in with the AfD party of of, Germany, which is basically the neo Nazi party.
Chris [00:12:21]:
Alright. Of course.
Chris [00:12:23]:
And he’s he had said that Nigel Farage is the man he’s the man. He’s the guy that started Brexit and all that sort of stuff. He’s a dickhead. And, and then something happened in the weekend. There was a bit of argument. He goes, Nigel Farage is useless. He’s gotta be out. We’re gonna get rid of him.
Chris [00:12:41]:
Yeah. Like, so Yeah. Anyway, politics. It’s all mental. Hi. Any any Am I boring you now?
Chris [00:12:47]:
No. I I no. I’m just zoning out in general. Any any any more on that? No?
Chris [00:12:51]:
No. I’m gonna leave it at that.
Chris [00:12:53]:
Okay. This Christchurch girl, 9 year old, has broken her 3rd Frisbee throwing world record.
Chris [00:13:02]:
Is that 3 different records or one record three times?
Chris [00:13:06]:
Yep. She’s the 3 different, no. 3 different distance records. Right. She’s the 1st girl ever under the age of 10 to throw a Frisbee over a 100 meters.
Chris [00:13:19]:
Okay. So I’m trying to think of how how far a 100 meters is that rugby field. Rugby field.
Chris [00:13:23]:
Yeah. Yeah. So in 20, she started off at 62 and then 86, which were the records for under 89, so she got those. And she said, oh, it’s pretty fun. And, they made sure all the rules were adhered to and all this sort of stuff.
Chris [00:13:39]:
And we’re about to say cross
Chris [00:13:42]:
church. Yeah. You gotta have 3 camera angles, and you gotta have 2 field judges as well, and, she’s got a I haven’t seen the video, but she’s got a unique 360 degree throwing technique. So that means she spins around in a circle like a discus thrower?
Chris [00:13:58]:
Yeah. Sounds like it.
Chris [00:13:59]:
But touring pros of disc golf have said and contacted their the family and said it’s probably the best form they’ve ever seen. It’s one way you can generate a lot of torque and a lot of power but it can also go completely wrong but she seems to have amazing core strength which allows her to throw it the way she does yeah It’s putting her on a course for hopefully the world champs, and she’s gonna go to the US to contest 2 major titles, the US women’s disc golf championship and world juniors.
Chris [00:14:33]:
What if she did gymnastics?
Chris [00:14:36]:
She plays netball, basketball, hip hop, jazz, and gymnastics.
Chris [00:14:39]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I can imagine the gymnastics. There’s a, a a guy on Facebook that does a lot of videos. I don’t jump on Facebook normally, but now I go every almost every day to upload my workout.
Chris [00:14:54]:
Amazing workout video. If you wanna follow along, follow Chris on Facebook, and you can
Chris [00:14:58]:
watch him in the dark. Or myself.
Chris [00:15:01]:
I know. I know.
Chris [00:15:01]:
But, anyway, so I get on there, and there’s this guy, Niall Wilson. Have you seen him? No. He’s I I I wanna say Irish.
Chris [00:15:09]:
With a name like Niall, he’s Irish. Yeah.
Chris [00:15:10]:
Yeah. He’s got, a tattoo on his back of the, Olympic rings. So he he’s a gymnast. And him and his buddies do some they’ll get a video of some female gymnastic person or or any gymnastic person or something.
Chris [00:15:25]:
A routine.
Chris [00:15:25]:
Something, and they’ll go, right. And they’ll all try and do it? Can they do it?
Chris [00:15:30]:
Like, they’re physically able to.
Chris [00:15:31]:
They’re very good, but there are things that they can’t do. Yeah. They one of the challenges they did was they were doing standing back flips Okay.
Chris [00:15:39]:
But they
Chris [00:15:39]:
had to put different things on their feet. And so they had
Chris [00:15:42]:
Oh my god.
Chris [00:15:42]:
Flippers, jandals, high heels,
Chris [00:15:45]:
gutter boots. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Chris [00:15:48]:
It’s it makes for great video.
Chris [00:15:50]:
That’s all that matters.
Chris [00:15:51]:
It’s quite fun. So and he seems like a cool dude too.
Chris [00:15:54]:
Every time I open Instagram, it wants to show me videos from only one channel right?
Chris [00:16:00]:
Oh really?
Chris [00:16:01]:
Well just it always shows me the latest ones. Yeah. So there’s a channel called smartest worker smartest dot worker right? And it’s some person, I assume it’s a guy in India and he goes in to these horrible looking factories and he shows you the process of how something’s made. There’s no talking, no nothing. It’s just shot after shot after shot of all these Indian people making stuff. So one of them was paint cans. They’re making paint cans from scratch, start to finish, and they’re only, like, 60 seconds long, and that’s it. Has quite a few followers and stuff.
Chris [00:16:38]:
And the other thing though just every anything you can imagine like phone, like phone packaging for some stuff and it’s just all but they all look like the exact same factory but they’re not they’re just all in the same state. There’s no safety requirements whatsoever. It’s either really deadly chemicals, deadly looking machinery, combination of both, or small children doing stuff that they probably shouldn’t be doing. It’s great. It’s just interesting to see how this stuff’s made, and every single video the comments are either one of 2 things one is where’s health and safety there there’s no glasses on those people you know okay whatever boomer and then the other one what’s that piece of machinery
Chris [00:17:22]:
We’re gonna buy it. Like, who? Who’s
Chris [00:17:26]:
on there going? Where’s that? Yeah. I don’t know.
Chris [00:17:30]:
Yeah. Because, when I worked in the, construction industry in 1991, I think, I wanna say. And
Chris [00:17:39]:
I was 9.
Chris [00:17:40]:
In Spain. Yes. Or I was in Gibraltar. But we had, a Spanish company, huge company, Taylor’s Construction. Like, a be like, Vansil. Yeah.
Chris [00:17:50]:
You mean, so
Chris [00:17:52]:
Big, big company. But, international. And they used to get all these, Filipino
Chris [00:17:58]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:17:58]:
Welders and stuff like that. And they travel around the world with the you know, send them around because they’re paying them bugger all. Right?
Chris [00:18:05]:
But to them, it’s
Chris [00:18:06]:
But to them, it’s a lot. But, yeah, one of the guys who had been, forget which country. I think it I wanna say it was one of the Arab Arab Emirates or something.
Chris [00:18:15]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:18:16]:
They had all these Minoan work ins there. And he goes, the problem was they had all these welders, but they didn’t give them any any of them welding masks.
Chris [00:18:24]:
Woah.
Chris [00:18:24]:
And so they were just going blind Yeah. Over time. And they they Safety squint. Yeah. Safety squint. And yeah. And so and they also knew that if they lost too much vision, they’d just fall off the, the scaffolding because they didn’t have, like, barriers and stuff. Wow.
Chris [00:18:40]:
You know, it you know, people died every day. You said you’d see bodies.
Chris [00:18:44]:
So it’s like numbers game?
Chris [00:18:45]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:18:46]:
Oh, it’s terrible.
Chris [00:18:47]:
Yeah. Anyway That’s terrible. We we had no when I did scaffolding there, we had no safety rules. No. No. Just try not to hurt anyone. That was so that Yeah. But, yeah.
Chris [00:18:56]:
Anyway, moving off.
Chris [00:18:59]:
New Zealand’s first and only saboteur has been released from prison. Do you know who that guy is? No. Okay. His name’s Graham Phillip. He looks like a complete dropkick. He served his whole term with no parole. So in 2021, he decided to attack the national power grid. This guy and it’s interesting because I was like I don’t know if he knows how power systems work and switch gear and things or if he was just doing stuff he caused $1,250,000 worth of damage and they said, I don’t know if they stopped him or what or systems kicked in to stop things I’m not sure but he was pretty close to bringing down the whole North Island power grid.
Chris [00:19:47]:
Damn. Yeah. And he was campaigning against the COVID 19, vaccination regime, which makes sense when you think about it.
Chris [00:19:55]:
Perfect. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:56]:
They’re perfect. So he’s got some conditions. He didn’t do any counseling in prison. He didn’t admit anything, and, they’re just like, your time’s running out. So he gets 6 months.
Chris [00:20:08]:
How how long was he in for?
Chris [00:20:10]:
Well, from 20 3? 3 years and 1 month. There you go. He got 7 charges of sabotage, this guy.
Chris [00:20:19]:
I would have thought you’d get more than 3 years for sabotage.
Chris [00:20:22]:
I don’t know. I don’t I mean, the first guy ever been done for it. So but tough. But, he’s getting, electronic monitoring for 6 months. He’s banned to use any Internet cable
Chris [00:20:33]:
If he’s not allowed to have power in his house, that would be awesome.
Chris [00:20:36]:
I know. It would be a
Chris [00:20:37]:
freaking brilliant.
Chris [00:20:42]:
He, oh, he was a former IT professional. There he is.
Chris [00:20:46]:
Oh my god. That is the most loser looking person I think I’ve ever seen.
Chris [00:20:51]:
The word was dropkick I used earlier. He’s not allowed any Internet capable device without permission and having a suitable adult present, I think it said. They turned him down a couple of times for parole anyway and all of that. And then the psychologist noted he has a strong dislike and distrust of government agencies and associated professionals. There’s been no rehabilitation and no safety plan oversight. Yeah. Oh, there’s a free Graham Phillip Facebook page, which had 3 and a 3,400 followers. They quite liked him being released.
Chris [00:21:24]:
And, is it on this story? There’s a it’s something like you’ve caused tremendous harm to the community. You’ve put your wife and your family and kids through a whole lot of stuff because that surprised me that he was married. And, I think the wife said something in one of the articles was like, he just does stupid stuff. Like, it’s just so stupid. Like, I think she’s over it. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:52]:
I wanna another sort of serious well, it’s serious, mate.
Chris [00:21:58]:
Have you still feel serious.
Chris [00:21:59]:
Serious, serious. Name, Eddie. Ukraine war thing. So, general Igor Kirillov was assassinated a week ago. Okay.
Chris [00:22:10]:
Did he fall out of window?
Chris [00:22:11]:
In no. Okay. Did he By the Ukrainians. He did. By the Putins.
Chris [00:22:16]:
Oh, and is he there In is he there?
Chris [00:22:18]:
Moscow.
Chris [00:22:19]:
Oh, I see.
Chris [00:22:19]:
He’s in Moscow. Okay. How they did it, I thought was pretty clever. And then as I got the more details, and I was like, oh, okay. Maybe it wasn’t
Chris [00:22:28]:
as clear
Chris [00:22:29]:
as it
Chris [00:22:29]:
It’s not that spiked missile to the brain. No. No. It’s not
Chris [00:22:32]:
not the blade missile thing. No. But it’s something so ubiquitous that I was, like, genius, but it’ll never be able to be used again.
Chris [00:22:44]:
Okay. What?
Chris [00:22:46]:
Their version of a lime scooter.
Chris [00:22:48]:
Oh, did they just stop it?
Chris [00:22:50]:
No. They just had lime scooters lying around or whatever they call them over there.
Chris [00:22:53]:
And they blew up?
Chris [00:22:54]:
And and one of them was rigged with a bomb, and they just, were watching either remotely through a camera or or somebody was Yeah. Yeah. There. And when he walked out, walked past the thing, clicked it. Boom. But you but you just don’t see them. They’re invisible because they’re so common.
Chris [00:23:10]:
Okay.
Chris [00:23:10]:
What was interesting about this so I just figured, oh, they just put the bomb where the battery is?
Chris [00:23:15]:
Yeah. That’s what I would’ve thought.
Chris [00:23:16]:
That’s what I would’ve thought. But, no, apparently, they strapped the bomb to the handlebars, so it looked like a a a carrier on this Yeah. Exactly. Which wouldn’t be normal. But then I suppose you still wouldn’t pay too much.
Chris [00:23:29]:
You wouldn’t pay too much. To
Chris [00:23:30]:
And but the point was I
Chris [00:23:31]:
will now for
Chris [00:23:32]:
the rest
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of my life.
Chris [00:23:33]:
Exactly. Because it was at that waist height. It was the perfect
Chris [00:23:37]:
Yeah. True
Chris [00:23:38]:
true. Just, yeah. But it was like, he’s he’s the highest ranking, person from Russia that’s been killed. Woah. Yeah. So far.
Chris [00:23:49]:
So that means that they had some people deep cover whatever in in Moscow in terms of something?
Chris [00:23:56]:
Yeah. Sympathizers or Yeah. Or or operatives. Yeah. Yeah. But, Yeah. That was interesting. I just thought it was interesting that they used the, you know, the scooter because I I was like, that’s genius, but now you you’ll never get away with that again.
Chris [00:24:10]:
Like, that won’t happen again.
Chris [00:24:11]:
No. No. Probably not. Yeah. I got this story. I don’t know if you saw this headline. This woman who warned social media not to fall for the Keanu Reeves romance scam becomes homeless after falling for the Keanu Reeves romance scam.
Chris [00:24:31]:
What do you no. Sorry. You have to unpack that for me because
Chris [00:24:37]:
So this woman in 2022 in America, this is on the LA Times, She once warned people back in the day of the Keanu Reeves romance scam, has now become a victim herself.
Chris [00:24:50]:
So so what is the romance scam? You you gotta tell me what that is.
Chris [00:24:54]:
She was convinced to send a $500 gift card to the fake Reeves to prove she wasn’t interested in his money. That’s a good one. She realized it was a scam and blocked him, and then she posted a warning about it. And then another profile reached her pretending to be Reeves. They claimed they were attempting to console her about the previous scam attempt. I don’t even that’s so stupid. That’s so stupid. Oh, hang on.
Chris [00:25:21]:
The woman fell for it and eventually felt the 2 of them were in love. He wanted to marry me Goodson said she’s now homeless living in her car she shared her store publicly to raise awareness of the scam
Chris [00:25:34]:
how much did she give her?
Chris [00:25:36]:
How I don’t know did she have a home? Oh, hang on. She ended up sending bitcoin, gift cards, and wire transfers to the imposter over a 2 year period believing she was helping Keanu Reeves with supposed financial issues. I was lonely, she admits.
Chris [00:25:56]:
Lonely and delusional.
Chris [00:25:58]:
She she continues to try try to make sense of her choices and urges others not to fall for a similar scam.
Chris [00:26:07]:
I tell you what, though. I we can laugh all you want, but I am sure that anybody, any sane person with a decent intelligence, if you get them on the right moment, the right emotion, the right thing, they’ll do something stupid. I know I will.
Chris [00:26:28]:
You probably already have, knowing you. But I
Chris [00:26:30]:
have, but I’m not gonna tell you about it. Not a romance scam. Like No. But it Usually buying something off our express or app soon.
Chris [00:26:42]:
But it’s but it’s Wake
Chris [00:26:43]:
up the next morning going, what did I buy? What did I buy?
Chris [00:26:48]:
But it’s the famous people bit that I don’t get.
Chris [00:26:51]:
I know. I yeah. Like, it’s like How would they know who I am? Why would they care? Common logic.
Chris [00:27:00]:
Yeah. But it’s like if it was just a random person yeah. I can see that happening Yeah.
Chris [00:27:05]:
The the random catfishing type thing. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe.
Chris [00:27:09]:
Hey. It’s Christopher Luxon here. I need some money for the country. And the boomers are just like, okay. I need some Apple Itunes cards to prove that you know I’m not in it for the money. We’ve got it worked out.
Chris [00:27:28]:
And Chris and Sam podcast, how to scam segment. Okay. So what did I have here? This is actually a while ago, so let me
Chris [00:27:37]:
You gotta end on something. What do you gotta end on?
Chris [00:27:40]:
Oh, I’m gonna end on. Okay. Let me go back, actually. I’m not gonna end on that. I’m gonna end on my lack of empathy for answers because this cracked me up laughing, and I’m like, should I be laughing at this? And maybe I shouldn’t, but it just made me laugh so hard. And this was a while ago too. So a Virginia man died. They were hunting, and they were hunting a bear?
Chris [00:28:03]:
Yep. Okay.
Chris [00:28:04]:
So Didn’t run over in a car. Ran up a tree.
Chris [00:28:07]:
Didn’t didn’t run over in a car and then put on a bicycle. Okay.
Chris [00:28:12]:
And, the bizarre accidental death occurred 9th December in Londonburg County, which is between Richmond and Danville, Virginia’s Department of Wildlife Resources said in a statement, a hunting a hunting group was following the bear Okay. When it ran up a tree. I didn’t know you could hunt bears, but, okay, apparently, you can.
Chris [00:28:31]:
Yeah. Why not? You can’t hunt anything. Yeah.
Chris [00:28:32]:
Well, it’s America. The department said as the group retreated from the tree, a hunter shot the bear, and the animal fell onto another hunter.
Chris [00:28:44]:
You gotta be so dumb to be under a bear, like, just in general. And you hang on. You don’t even need to be that far away from the tree to be in a safe spot.
Chris [00:28:56]:
Then well, I don’t know. It could be a branch that’s gone out, but still, even so Oh, come on. Fill out,
Chris [00:29:03]:
and
Chris [00:29:03]:
they still fell out Yeah. Hunt hunt shot hunter shot the bear. The animal fell onto another hunter who was standing about 10 feet from the bottom of the tree. Okay. So however.
Chris [00:29:12]:
But it could have been quite a fluid situation where the the guy that died
Chris [00:29:16]:
written No. The guy down the hill a bit for him or I don’t know.
Chris [00:29:19]:
I’m thinking they’re just like, oh, there’s the beer. It’s up the tree, and they’re like, oh, yeah. Cool. Look at the beer up the tree. And then the guy with the gun’s like, boom, boom, boom, boom, pow, pow, pow. And the rest of them were like, what? Oh, I don’t know you’re gonna do that. Like, straight away.
Chris [00:29:30]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:29:31]:
Yeah. Maybe. I don’t
Chris [00:29:31]:
know. So a member of the group rendered first aid before Harvey was rushed to 2 different hospitals. I wonder what why it’s 2 different hospitals. I bet you he went to the first one. They said, are you insured? And he said, no. Problem. Bugger off.
Chris [00:29:46]:
Maybe.
Chris [00:29:48]:
And, he died from his injuries. Married father of 5 with 8 grandchildren.
Chris [00:29:54]:
Man.
Chris [00:29:55]:
Well, there you go.
Chris [00:29:57]:
What a way to end a podcast.
Chris [00:30:00]:
I’m sorry. I just don’t have that. No. It’s the no. These guys That’s fine. Shoot a bear out of it.
Chris [00:30:07]:
Thanks for listening. Remember to tell a friend?
Chris [00:30:09]:
Yeah. Tell a friend, check us out.
Chris [00:30:11]:
The best thing to do the best thing to do is just to grab whatever episode you want and just get them to listen to it. Yep. Don’t try and explain this podcast because I’ve learned just recently I can’t tell AI what this is to get it to make me content to share. It’s a bit weird.
Chris [00:30:29]:
Yeah. So the most podcast, apps will allow you to share an episode.
Chris [00:30:34]:
Yeah. Do that.
Chris [00:30:35]:
So press the share button, put your friend’s email address or whatever it is
Chris [00:30:38]:
in there. And go, hey. You should listen to this. No context. It’s the best. Yeah. Okay. Until next time.
Chris [00:30:44]:
I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:44]:
I’m Chris. See you. Bye.
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