Summary
Another famous person scammer, this time it is Brad Pitt. Chris encounters a strange rule at a bar, which makes us wonder what is going on.
We learn about an auto catcher Pokemon keyring, a man attempting a new record when it comes to the Te Araroa Trail, and Chris has an encounter at the Uni.
Another week of randomness, technology and life. Come have a listen.
Links
Brad Pitt Scams woman
Maketu pies was sold
Pokemon Keyring auto catcher
Record attempt of running the Te Araroa Trail
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 514 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life. Shout out to Kaylee if you’re listening. Why not? Hey. The other week, maybe last week, we were talking about that woman that got scammed from Keanu Reeves.
Chris [00:00:40]:
Yes.
Sam [00:00:40]:
And she was warning the people not to be scammed by the person, and then the original then the real Keanu Reeves then scammed her, but turned out to be a scammer.
Chris [00:00:50]:
Yeah. It wasn’t the real Keanu Reeves that scammed her. Just so if anyone’s confused at this point.
Sam [00:00:56]:
Okay. So I must have told this story to a few people just in passing because I thought it was great, and people were captivated by it. You know? So when the story comes out that a French woman was scammed out of €830,000 because she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt, everybody sent me the link. Like, 4 people, I think.
Chris [00:01:21]:
Have you seen this? No. So Sam is the catfishing man. If you
Sam [00:01:26]:
So the scammy here, right, used AI Oh. To make pictures of Brad Pitt sick in hospital. Oh, wow. And she believed it until she saw something on TV where he was at an event with his new girlfriend. But this person was like, I’m Brad Pitt. I’m sick in hospital.
Chris [00:01:50]:
She’s never met Brad Pitt.
Sam [00:01:52]:
Nope. None of these people have met anybody. You just send a message, and you’re like, hey. It’s Brad Pitt here. I’m I’m in hospital.
Chris [00:02:00]:
You know that time we didn’t meet at that event you weren’t at? Well, I couldn’t help but think about you since then. It makes no sense. I I I will go back to my point from last episode. I don’t get it when it’s a famous person.
Sam [00:02:17]:
Yeah. If it was a rando, somehow you weasel your way in, and you’re like, hey. We’ve got the shared Bob. Oh, yeah. We’ve got the shared hobby or whatever. I like this photo or whatever. My name’s Bob. Oh, no.
Sam [00:02:30]:
I’m stuck in a hospital bed. That’s way more believable to me than, hey. I’m a, you know, a list celebrity that’s got so much money and, somehow I’ve fallen on hard times. €830,000.
Chris [00:02:45]:
That’s
Sam [00:02:45]:
There’s no link to this story. I can’t find the actual story, so I don’t know how long it took. That’s the other thing.
Chris [00:02:52]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:02:53]:
It’s usually a couple of years.
Chris [00:02:54]:
Yeah. It it’s
Sam [00:02:55]:
usually a lot
Chris [00:02:56]:
of people.
Sam [00:02:56]:
From our experience of, running scams. I mean, talking about them.
Chris [00:03:01]:
Yeah. Yeah. Reporting on them, I think, is the term you mean to use. Okay. Cool.
Sam [00:03:06]:
Did I tell you that mac someone brought Macatou Pies?
Chris [00:03:09]:
Yes. You’d oh, no. No. You told me that they were closing down. You didn’t tell
Sam [00:03:13]:
me They were closing down. It was a institution, been around 30 something years. Half the town worked there. And, because
Chris [00:03:21]:
I asked you, I said, somebody should buy it.
Sam [00:03:24]:
Apparently, Montana Catering has brought it.
Chris [00:03:27]:
Oh, dear.
Sam [00:03:30]:
I wonder what your reaction was gonna be there. So I don’t know what the plan is, or I honestly have no idea. It seems like a very weird investment on their part.
Chris [00:03:40]:
No. They got more money than they can deal with.
Sam [00:03:43]:
So Yeah. I know that.
Chris [00:03:44]:
But investment. Yeah. But are they still got all the gear. Right? So the worst case, they’ll strip it and take all the gear, but, hopefully, they’ll continue the
Sam [00:03:54]:
I have no idea. But, because they’ve got all those random contracts with all the,
Chris [00:04:00]:
University and
Sam [00:04:00]:
council properties Yeah. Or Hamilton places. Yeah. Yep. So, anyway, I just thought I’d let you know that.
Chris [00:04:06]:
Oh, that’s good. Good. Good. Good. Good update. Good update. Last Friday, I caught up with, Adam McFall, Carl, Scott Smiley, and Deep. So Deep was back over from he lives in Melbourne, I think.
Sam [00:04:24]:
Oh, okay. Cool.
Chris [00:04:25]:
Over. So we we we got together for a beer, and they said, I’ll meet us at the bar in the casino. So I went up to The Zone
Sam [00:04:34]:
Yep. Okay.
Chris [00:04:34]:
And it is closed. But, apparently, it’s been closed for 2 years. Yes. It was open after pandemic, but then they closed it. And they’ve just left it closed.
Sam [00:04:44]:
Is there nothing in there?
Chris [00:04:45]:
It’s still the pub. It’s it looks the same. I was Okay. Okay. Yeah. So I pulled the door open, and it just went open. Okay. So yeah.
Chris [00:04:51]:
So we we were actually catching up in the amuse bar, which is actually in the casino, literally in the
Sam [00:04:58]:
Is that the one where you walk in the front door? It’s straight
Chris [00:05:00]:
ahead of you. Yeah. Okay. So I hadn’t been to the casino, for a beer or whatever for god knows how long. Like, it 20 years, maybe.
Sam [00:05:11]:
Good. That that’s probably a good thing.
Chris [00:05:12]:
Yeah. It is. It is. So, anyway, we were in there having some beers. And I’m I’m mentioning it because we had a great time. We had a good chat and stuff, but it it is do not go to the Amuse Bar. Okay. Here we are.
Chris [00:05:26]:
Will never be going back there again.
Sam [00:05:28]:
Public notice from the Christmas Sam podcast because the reason I say this is because the transcript of this gets written, so, that will be Google, Google searchable later. Yep. Yep. And so I will say, do not go to The Amuse Bar at Sky City Casino in Hamilton.
Chris [00:05:44]:
Yeah. Now why? So, it it looks quite nice, and and they have the veranda because Carl goes, oh, he’s gonna get us some seats out in veranda, but, of course, you can’t go out there. I’m like, why not? And I looked through the window. It was like, oh, they’ve got outside pokies. All these pokies are outside of the brand. Yeah. Because people are sitting there smoking at the pokies because they’re outside.
Sam [00:06:03]:
Hey. That’s genius, though. No. Seriously. Like I would
Chris [00:06:05]:
say it is.
Sam [00:06:06]:
That’s terrible. But, obviously, there’s people that wanna smoke and play the pokies. So there we go. Is it enclosed a little bit? Like No. Do you think that somehow water can get on it, or is the render that big?
Chris [00:06:18]:
Well, no. Because I think there’s render above it, so it’s tiered thing. And I think they’ve got a little bit of a down thing, there.
Sam [00:06:26]:
Oh, okay. Okay.
Chris [00:06:27]:
Interesting. I didn’t go outside, but I think they’ve got extra glass on it to stop the tint, the the sun tint.
Sam [00:06:33]:
I mean, I’m assuming those machines are having a harder life than others.
Chris [00:06:37]:
Possibly. Possibly.
Sam [00:06:38]:
Okay.
Chris [00:06:39]:
But, anyway
Sam [00:06:39]:
So you can’t go
Chris [00:06:40]:
out there? Getting terrible service. Like, so we we get the we get there. I go up to the oh, I see the guys because I’d gone to the wrong place, and I see the guys Yeah. And I go to the bar, and and Kyle weighs me over. He’s already bought me a drink. Alright. That’s cool. And Adam Mickfall had hadn’t got there by then.
Sam [00:06:55]:
Oh,
Chris [00:06:55]:
yeah. So, we had a beer, and as we’re finishing, I bought the next round. So I get up and buy a round. It’s 14, $15 a a pint or something
Sam [00:07:05]:
stupid like that. Terrible. Like, you’re broke by this point.
Chris [00:07:08]:
Even with, Scott’s card, because he’s a gold club Sky City guy
Sam [00:07:13]:
Of course he is.
Chris [00:07:14]:
20% off, like, Yep. So that’s cool. So I get I get a round of drinks. Scott was still had a bit in his, but I got a round of drinks. I mentioned that Yeah. For a reason. Okay. And then, we’re drinking those, and I think that’s about when, Adam turns up.
Chris [00:07:33]:
He buys his own drink because we’ve all got pretty much full drinks.
Sam [00:07:36]:
So
Chris [00:07:36]:
he he comes in, probably, almost his own drink, drinking away, and then, Carl says, I’ll get around.
Sam [00:07:44]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:07:44]:
So Carl and I have finished, and I think Deep’s finished. And then, Scotty and and Adam still got a bit in their drink. Yeah. So Carl goes up, grabs Scott’s car, goes up, comes back with drinks for me and Carl and Deep Yeah. But not Scotty and Faith. Okay. But they’ve only got a little bit in there. Yeah.
Chris [00:08:06]:
And he’s he’s fuming.
Sam [00:08:07]:
Who’s this, Carl? Carl.
Chris [00:08:08]:
Yeah. You should get, sure. Serve me. I can’t buy you guys drinks because you haven’t finished what you’ve already got in glass. I’m like, is that a freaking thing?
Sam [00:08:17]:
Is that a thing?
Chris [00:08:18]:
I don’t think it’s a thing. It’s never been a thing. And and when I went up, Scott still had my drink. You know? Yeah. He’s not a quick drinker, and I just bought her around. So and and he because Katie told me to her, I I just wanna buy around. And she goes, yeah. Well, I can’t serve you the ones they’ve they’ve still got drinks there.
Chris [00:08:37]:
Meanwhile, these beers are the empties are stacking up because nobody comes around to clear this.
Sam [00:08:42]:
Of course not.
Chris [00:08:42]:
And when you when you, do your swipey Yeah. It asks you if you want to give a tip No. On top of the 13, $15, pint. It’s like, no. No. We do not.
Sam [00:08:55]:
So if the woman can’t tell how much is left in a bottle for what it like, because she has to see it. Hey.
Chris [00:09:01]:
Well, these are pints. They’re all all all glasses.
Sam [00:09:03]:
Yeah. I know. But, like, if she for whatever reason, somebody’s in front of her.
Chris [00:09:08]:
That’s what, Deep said. He goes, well, if we’re around the corner, what would she do then? Like, what is no. It’s the dumbest thing. I’m I’m glad. I’m glad you think it’s dumb. It’s just, like and do
Sam [00:09:19]:
you think this is who I mean, who cares? Like, this is doing my head now. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:25]:
Yeah. Because they got security there. Right? If we were being obnoxious and stupid, and I was laughing quite loudly. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that’s you.
Sam [00:09:34]:
But no. But, like, it they could just go, we’re gonna refuse to serve you because we think you’re intoxicated. Yeah. Like, you’re above the limit, whatever. We’re not gonna serve you anymore.
Chris [00:09:43]:
Not a problem. Or 3rd or second. But that guy over there,
Sam [00:09:47]:
he’s got 3 mouthfuls to go, and we’re not gonna charge you the $15 special price until he swallows all that beer because we don’t wanna waste the beer even though we’ve charged you for it. And you’re like, yeah. You know what? That does make sense.
Chris [00:10:06]:
Like Okay. Don’t go to
Sam [00:10:07]:
the amusement park at the casino. I don’t know what this rule is. I doubt it’s a rule anywhere else.
Chris [00:10:13]:
I’ve never heard of it before.
Sam [00:10:14]:
Because you in this is doing it even more. So I want to know I want to know what your comments are on this. If you’re listening to this, let us know if this happens anywhere else because I’m thinking, like, I don’t drink often, but I have in the past. You’d you’d go somewhere and you could be, like, I want 5 jokes or 5 handles or whatever, and I’m taking it and they don’t go where are you going with it? Who’s it for? You just take it over to a table. Yeah. And you could potentially be buying drinks for people that just haven’t turned up yet. Yeah. And the point of when there’s a problem is when you’re drunk, and they’ll be like, no more service or they kick you out.
Chris [00:10:58]:
Yeah. I mean, the only only time I’ve seen
Sam [00:11:01]:
that do this at the Chiropa Tavern?
Chris [00:11:03]:
No. But when I was at the Manor House in London
Sam [00:11:07]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:11:09]:
There was a real problem with Gippos Gypsies.
Sam [00:11:12]:
Do you think there’s a Gippo problem at Sky City Hamilton?
Chris [00:11:15]:
No. No. They wouldn’t get in there, to be honest. But, yeah, that’s what the gypsies would do. They’d come in, and they’d all buy, and they’d be selling loads of it. And then they just have tables stacked to beer. Yeah. And they just get absolutely trashed and then trash the place, basically.
Sam [00:11:30]:
We did that once for a work party at a old work, I used to work for. We were at the, Waikato stadium, and they they just we were just bring bring the drinks out bring the drinks out. I think they ended up bringing the boxes out because it was quicker for them just to leave boxes of Waikato on the table, and we ran out of alcohol for the Christmas party. Like, they they didn’t have any more, but they just kept giving it to us because we’d paid for it.
Chris [00:11:57]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It it’s it’s just insane. It’s insane. Because the gypsy thing, I remember this. It was quite funny because it was, like, a Sunday afternoon or something. So it was generally a quiet day, and I’m like, oh, the boss will be happy.
Chris [00:12:08]:
All these people have come in and, you know, they’re buying all this beer and stuff. And he comes in, and he goes, Chris, what the hell are you doing?
Sam [00:12:15]:
Stop serving.
Chris [00:12:16]:
Stop serving these gypsies. I’m like, what gypsies? Because they don’t walk around with turbans and No. No. Crystal balls. They just they wear tracksuit pants, basically. Tracksuit or shell suits, whatever they call them. LAG styles. And Yeah.
Chris [00:12:30]:
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, that
Sam [00:12:32]:
was So this put a dampener on your night out catching up with the guys?
Chris [00:12:36]:
Well, it was just afternoon.
Sam [00:12:37]:
Oh, afternoon. But still
Chris [00:12:38]:
Yeah. We caught up just 3 o’clock, 2 o’clock, 3 o’clock. But, yeah, Carl did show me this. He was most proud of this. Do you wanna describe that?
Sam [00:12:47]:
It’s a key ring, and then it’s looks like a leather contraption with a, I don’t know, plastic or something circle in it with a dot. And it looks reasonably small. It’s not much bigger than the keyring it’s attached to. Yeah.
Chris [00:13:00]:
So it’s a normal sized keyring. It’s Yeah. Yeah. It’s nothing amazing.
Sam [00:13:04]:
What is it? So Here we go. Is it Wi Fi connected to the AI?
Chris [00:13:07]:
Too lazy to to play because that’s that dot in the middle, that’s the Pokemon, symbol.
Sam [00:13:14]:
Would never have picked that in my life. Good.
Chris [00:13:16]:
I I was pretty pleased with myself because he put it on there, and I went, is that
Sam [00:13:20]:
Pokemon? Really?
Chris [00:13:21]:
I don’t
Sam [00:13:22]:
know. Really I’d how do you know that?
Chris [00:13:24]:
I don’t know how
Sam [00:13:25]:
to do that. Got Pokemon logo on this little thing.
Chris [00:13:28]:
Yep. That yep. So he goes, yeah. No. I’ve just splurged a little bit, and, I’ve got this. So I’m like, what what are you talking about? He goes, you know how Pokemon works? I’m like, vaguely.
Sam [00:13:39]:
Is this the game on the phone?
Chris [00:13:42]:
The app. Yeah. Okay. To his phone. Oh. And so he goes, yeah. While I’m here sitting drinking beer, I’m actually playing Pokemon. And the freaking keyring runs the app and catches Pokemon in the room that he’s in without him doing anything.
Chris [00:13:59]:
So he can be chatting to us and getting the sweet, sweet Pokemons.
Sam [00:14:04]:
Oh, okay. Did not know that was a thing.
Chris [00:14:07]:
No. No. Nobody knows. Why would you cheat a Pokemon?
Sam [00:14:13]:
Well, I don’t think you’re cheating. It’s just an accessory add on thing, isn’t it?
Chris [00:14:16]:
Well
Sam [00:14:16]:
Is it?
Chris [00:14:17]:
It’s it’s it’s like having a bot doing that.
Sam [00:14:20]:
Pretty much. So is this a mainstream thing, or is this some AliExpress, Chinese thing?
Chris [00:14:24]:
Oh, so hang on. Where did he get it from again? I think I wrote it in my notes because I was like, I’ve gotta write this down. Oh, JB Hi Fi. So he he’s he’s he’s going, oh, I’ve gotta go I’ve gotta do more Pokemon, but I don’t wanna do the work. But there’s stuff. And he and he looks at the thing. He’s, he’s looking on online or something, and he comes across this keyring.
Sam [00:14:46]:
Okay.
Chris [00:14:46]:
It said JBifi sells them.
Sam [00:14:48]:
Oh, incredible. God.
Chris [00:14:49]:
And they’re only a $100. Oh my god. I need Okay. Need one of these. And he’s like, I can’t be bothered going all the way. Oh, they deliver for just $10 or 12 bucks or whatever. So he he’s so lazy. Not only has he he doesn’t have to do the Pokemon, he’s so lazy.
Chris [00:15:07]:
He got JB Hi Fi to deliver it to him so that he doesn’t have to get up.
Sam [00:15:12]:
But you put here you put here Uber delivered it. Now
Chris [00:15:16]:
Uber Yeah. Yeah. Because,
Sam [00:15:18]:
yeah, Uber does p b tech as well. They do a whole bunch of stuff now.
Chris [00:15:21]:
Oh, yeah. Maybe it was Uber that he did it. Yeah. It wasn’t JB Hi Fi that and that’s where he got it from. Yeah.
Sam [00:15:25]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:15:25]:
Uber delivered it.
Sam [00:15:26]:
You you the way you were talking, it was just like normal delivery, but it’s not. Someone goes and gets it within 2 hours or something. Yeah.
Chris [00:15:31]:
Yeah. He said it was, like, in no time. It was so quick.
Sam [00:15:35]:
That’s interesting. I did not know that was a thing.
Chris [00:15:38]:
So, yeah, that’s his, I called it the drunk Pokemon catcher.
Sam [00:15:42]:
So it just sort of sits there in the background operating.
Chris [00:15:45]:
He’s got it on the table, and he’s like, I’m sure in the back of his head, he’s just chuckling away because I’m catching all those super sweet Pokemons while I’m just Well, the caught with my vessels here talking shit.
Sam [00:15:57]:
I think I think the Pokemon game, like, works on your location a lot of the time, so you gotta be in my cousin got really into it. I don’t know if she still does it, but you’ve gotta move around to get certain Pokemon and stuff. But I think if you’re just walking around day to day, if you had it open or using this key ring thing, it would be capturing things randomly, I guess. I don’t know. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:16:23]:
I thought I thought that was worth mentioning the podcast because I might truck breaking up.
Sam [00:16:27]:
I’m still I’m still annoyed about this drink thing, to be honest.
Chris [00:16:32]:
How much time have we got?
Sam [00:16:33]:
You’ve got a you’ve got, like, 14 minutes. You’ve gotta catch us up with this uni thing. What happened?
Chris [00:16:38]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:16:39]:
So because you I saw an update on Facebook, and you’re like, the the the dude spoke to me about something rather or have an update this week on the podcast.
Chris [00:16:49]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I was thinking to finish with that, but I’ll I’ll I’ll talk about it now. So so I live near the uni, and I go every morning, what, 4 mornings a week to do my, pre dawn workout thing.
Sam [00:17:00]:
He films it just for himself, nobody else, but it’s at how much faster is it then? Is it 2 times speed?
Chris [00:17:07]:
It’s 500 millisecond thing right on the camera or something, so I don’t know what that means.
Sam [00:17:12]:
In Chinese, we don’t know what that means. Now just a side story, what happened this morning?
Chris [00:17:18]:
Oh, this morning.
Sam [00:17:19]:
The camera didn’t work? Or did it go battery or what?
Chris [00:17:21]:
I think I hit it twice. And so I I hit it. I remember seeing it. It had the red dot, and when I put it down
Sam [00:17:27]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:17:27]:
I must have hit the Turned
Sam [00:17:28]:
it off again.
Chris [00:17:29]:
Turned it off. And I did the whole workout, got home, put the thing in, and went, how come that thing’s so
Sam [00:17:35]:
How beneficial is it to you to have this video? Because, like, I get it, but it’s just so much fluffing around, isn’t it? Like, it’s an extra couple of steps.
Chris [00:17:45]:
It it really isn’t. In terms of I get there, I just Yeah. I know that. But depressed.
Sam [00:17:50]:
I’d rather not do that and just do the workout.
Chris [00:17:52]:
Yeah. I don’t know. I it’s keeping me going. Yeah. Yeah. So it’s it’s totally psychological. Anyway, so 4 mornings a week, I do that. And almost every day of the week, I I walk around the the fields there.
Sam [00:18:03]:
What’s that distance around the field?
Chris [00:18:06]:
If I do I do, sort of a lap around the field, around the lake, and then back around the field, and back here, it’s around 3 and a half 1000 steps. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. So So
Sam [00:18:18]:
it’s about
Chris [00:18:19]:
It’s a decent amount. Because I’m trying to do 5,000 steps a day. You know?
Sam [00:18:23]:
Yeah. I’m doing 10,000 at the moment.
Chris [00:18:25]:
Yeah. And some most days, I’m over the 5,000, but some days, I Yeah.
Sam [00:18:29]:
Because I’m at 9,000 right now if anyone’s wondering. So, I normally go for a walk in the evening as well. I know exactly what 3 kilometers is from around my house.
Chris [00:18:38]:
I’m at 5,300 at the moment.
Sam [00:18:40]:
And and I know what 5 kilometers is, and I’ve been doing 3 kilometer runs. Anyway, you’re at the uni. You saw this pre
Chris [00:18:46]:
dawn morning.
Sam [00:18:47]:
Yeah. Sunday morning.
Chris [00:18:48]:
Sunday morning. So I’m it’s not a pre dawn. Oh. It it was actually I think it it was quite early. It was 7:30, but it was like this. It was like Yeah.
Sam [00:18:56]:
Yeah. So you’re not lurking in the dark No. No. With weird contraptions.
Chris [00:18:59]:
I I got up sort of early. I didn’t realize it was that early when I went out. Okay. Yeah. So I went out, probably 7 o’clock or whatever, and I did a a a circuit around. As I’m going around the first time, there’s this woman Do
Sam [00:19:13]:
you have all your gear with you? No. No. Just a walk.
Chris [00:19:16]:
Me walk.
Sam [00:19:16]:
Sorry. Carry on. So I
Chris [00:19:17]:
got my phone in my pocket and and, my little earphone.
Sam [00:19:20]:
I just, for some reason, thought you’re going for a walk, but you’ve got a backpack full of rubber bands and stuff.
Chris [00:19:26]:
No. No. No. Just just, hat and sunglasses Yep. And phone in my hand and earplugs and listen to a podcast or an audiobook or whatever I’m listening to. And so I walk around, and I go, there’s this woman in a with a like a quilt
Sam [00:19:43]:
Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:19:43]:
Like, a duvet Yeah. Yeah. In the field. And she’s just she walks into the field. She’s walking across into the field, and she just sits down in the field.
Sam [00:19:51]:
I’m like,
Chris [00:19:52]:
okay. I I I didn’t really think much of it.
Sam [00:19:54]:
No.
Chris [00:19:54]:
No. So I kept going around. I went around the lakes, and then I started coming back. So I’m coming back back past it the other way, and there’s a guy with her. Okay. So that’s cool. And as I get closer, just so I’d I see that from a distance. And then as I get closer, I’m pretty close to her, and I don’t know what I I I I didn’t hear anything.
Chris [00:20:15]:
I saw it, I think, out of the corner. And I looked up, and this guy gets up, and he’s kicking the, quilt. And at the moment, at the at the beginning, I thought, oh, he’s kicking the quilt. Now Oh, wow. The quilt’s not going anywhere. That’s that’s a girl.
Sam [00:20:28]:
Yeah. Yeah. She’s
Chris [00:20:29]:
she’s in there. And I just really loud. Do you know I can Yeah.
Sam [00:20:34]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I’ll Yeah.
Chris [00:20:36]:
And I, you know, veered off the the path I was walking on straight to it towards him. Yeah. Oi, what the do you think you’re doing? Yeah. And he looks up, and he is pretty angry. And he comes storming towards me, and I stop.
Sam [00:20:50]:
How big is this dude compared to you?
Chris [00:20:52]:
Well, that’s funny. I stop, so he’s gotta come to me. Yeah. And it, creates more distance between the victim.
Sam [00:21:00]:
Right? Are you playing out scenarios in your head at this point?
Chris [00:21:02]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, I I didn’t play I didn’t play out scenarios before I spoke. Like, it was instinctive.
Sam [00:21:11]:
It was
Chris [00:21:11]:
just like, boom. And then he starts coming to me, and I’m like, alright. I’ll stop. That creates more distance between him and the victim, and I can deal with whatever comes up. Yeah. Yeah. So he’s he’s
Sam [00:21:24]:
Barreling. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:25]:
Barreling in. I was pretty I was pretty sure I had a 80%, 90% chance he was gonna take a swing as he was coming up.
Sam [00:21:34]:
Alright. Okay.
Chris [00:21:35]:
But, as he got closer and he realizes a bit bigger, so he would have been 5 658. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He’s a young guy, a Maori guy, tattoos on his neck and stuff.
Sam [00:21:50]:
Oh, yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:21:52]:
When I say young, I mean, could be anywhere between Yeah. We we
Sam [00:21:56]:
25 to I know. You you’re you’re you’re,
Chris [00:22:00]:
historically terrible at guessing ages. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:22:02]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:22:02]:
He’s younger than you. Yeah. Okay. So, anyway, I said, yeah. What what’s going on? He goes, and then he starts
Sam [00:22:09]:
getting this big
Chris [00:22:09]:
soft drink. No. Okay. No. No. He wasn’t at all, actually, or or that I could tell. And he didn’t seem to be on anything. But, apparently, she’s just told him that she’s been having an affair, which is the reaction.
Chris [00:22:23]:
I said, that’s no reason to Yeah. You know? I I did say, I’ve got a podcast. I said, where do you feel you’re taking that out on her? Find the guy. Take it out.
Sam [00:22:38]:
Yeah. I mean, she’s Yeah.
Chris [00:22:40]:
Yeah. It’s probably not the best thing to say, but that’s what I said anyway. And, yeah, I I was just being I was just, like, staring at him. Like, you know, not budging at all, and, and I wasn’t I wasn’t escalating. I was making sure we’re not escalating anything. And yeah. And he he calmed down. He calmed down.
Sam [00:23:04]:
Okay.
Chris [00:23:05]:
And then, it got to the point where he actually shook hands.
Sam [00:23:08]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:23:09]:
And he said, right. Well, you know, because, you know, if if she’s doing this, I don’t know why you’re worried. Just walk away. Just walk away. She’s if that’s the problem, walk away. So he goes, yeah. You’re right. So he shook hands.
Chris [00:23:23]:
He starts down the path, and I start after him. I’m about 3 or 4 feet behind. And the woman yells out because I haven’t even gone over to
Sam [00:23:30]:
her.
Chris [00:23:30]:
I I didn’t want to go over to her because that would escalate things again, I think. Okay. And my experience, and I’ve had way too much experience in this sort of stuff, is if you go over, then he intervenes because I’m talking to her.
Sam [00:23:43]:
He wants to say his side of the story?
Chris [00:23:45]:
He takes a swing then. She’s on his side, and they’re both beaten on me. That’s what normally happens in these domestic things. So I wasn’t gonna go near her. So, anyway, I’m following him up the path. She yells out, give me my wallet back. So he pulls puts Santa’s pocket or something and flings a a wallet, like, without even looking in the general direction, which is fine. And my vape pen.
Chris [00:24:10]:
Yeah. And he ignores that and just keeps walking. I don’t know. Fair enough. And we get to the part where it, sort of peels off, you know, 2 2 paths, split off. And I’m I’m still behind him, you know, a couple of feet back or whatever, and he sort of turns and goes, I will. Have a good day. Enjoy the rest of your day.
Chris [00:24:33]:
And I’m like, you too. Keep out of trouble. Yeah. And he took takes off, out to the car park thing. And I started walking further, and I went, I turned around and walked back to because just there, they have, by the basketball court, they have a Phone call? Security. Yeah. Yeah. Security thing.
Sam [00:24:49]:
With the blue light. Yeah.
Chris [00:24:50]:
Yeah. So you press the button, and there’s a camera there. I don’t know if the camera’s Yeah. You’re like, hey. Or or whatever.
Sam [00:24:55]:
It’s Chris from the podcast.
Chris [00:24:57]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I I told them that, you know, they’ve been assault, and I didn’t leave. And, I said, can you send one somebody to check the woman? She hadn’t moved.
Sam [00:25:08]:
Oh, yeah. I was
Chris [00:25:08]:
looking over. She’s just sitting there in the field. Go and check on her. I’m not going over there. And I’m I’m not really I don’t think she I didn’t think she was hurt, but I’m like, I I’m somewhat worried that he’ll come back when I leave type thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:25:23]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:25:23]:
Yeah. Makes sense.
Chris [00:25:24]:
So yeah. So I I headed back, and then I didn’t the next morning, I got to the, workout Monday morning.
Sam [00:25:32]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:25:33]:
They’d already opened the gates to the security guy because I was gonna talk security guys and see what happened. So I missed then, because I got there at quarter past 5, and they must have already done it. And then Tuesday morning, I got there about 4:30 or something. Yeah. Yeah. And when the guy came over, I I to open the gate, I went and had a chat to him. And I said, oh, yeah. What’s going on? So he said that the chick was fine.
Chris [00:25:57]:
Yep. She didn’t want to the police called, which I was pretty sure. Yeah. Yeah. She said it’d just make things worse. And, yeah, he sort of thanked me for for getting in touch with him, and he goes, it’s the second assault we’ve had here in the week. Woah. Yeah.
Chris [00:26:12]:
There was one at another gate. I I didn’t get any details. I didn’t ask. But, yeah.
Sam [00:26:17]:
So do you because she had the duvet, she’s wandering around, do you think she’s not at the uni, but came from somewhere else?
Chris [00:26:25]:
Or was I don’t think she’s from the uni. I think she came from well, he was coming from the Silverdale direction. Oh, okay. Or that that
Sam [00:26:33]:
So he may have just been wandering around Fort Eraza.
Chris [00:26:35]:
Yeah. Yeah. And and you’re right. They might have been partying all night and been at a party Yeah. Yeah. The yeah. Sunday morning, they’re on their way home sort of thing. And, yeah, they might have been quite drunk, but he didn’t look, like, out of it or anything.
Sam [00:26:49]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:49]:
But, anyway, that so it wasn’t that exciting a story, but, yeah, a little bit of adrenaline. I think I would have handled myself fine.
Sam [00:26:57]:
Yeah. Yeah. I’m sure you would have. I’m just trying to find this thing.
Chris [00:27:02]:
While you’re finding that
Sam [00:27:03]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:27:03]:
Have you ever heard of Quitter’s Day? Who? Quitter’s Day. The 2nd Friday of January.
Sam [00:27:10]:
Oh, that’s just when everybody,
Chris [00:27:12]:
Yeah. It marks when most people give up on their New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never heard of it before, and somebody’s talking about Quitters Day. I was like, it’s quite funny. I would have mentioned it.
Sam [00:27:21]:
Yeah. It’s pretty crazy. I’m mentioning this because Lauren at works mentioned it to me, like, three times. But don’t listen to your podcast, but this should be a story. What? She goes, it sounds like something you’d wanna talk about because you keep telling me random stories. I can’t find the link, but there’s a dude
Chris [00:27:41]:
that I don’t know why
Sam [00:27:43]:
I can’t find this link. I don’t know where I saw it before. There’s a dude coming to he’s already in New Zealand, and he’s running the length of New Zealand down the Teahrawa to whatever the trail’s called. The New Zealand, you know
Chris [00:27:58]:
Right. Great
Sam [00:27:59]:
great walk of New Zealand, is that what it’s called? Okay. Yeah. For some reason, it’s really hard to find the story. I don’t know why. It was hard when she told me as well. I I don’t know. He’s, he came here 12 years ago, and I think he walked the length of the country. He wants to smash the record for this trail.
Chris [00:28:17]:
He’s I didn’t even know there was a one trail that did the whole length of the country.
Sam [00:28:21]:
Yeah. There is. You can go from
Chris [00:28:22]:
How how long ago did that become a thing? Quite a
Sam [00:28:27]:
few years ago.
Chris [00:28:28]:
Okay.
Sam [00:28:28]:
There’s about 50 people a year that complete it.
Chris [00:28:31]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:28:32]:
Because there was a article talking about the stats on it after reading this article about this guy. And, like, Google search, whatever, is just leading I think Google search and all that has just turned to custard in general. Like, it just shows you the dumbest results now because I think it’s trying to AI write everything for you. Let me just see if I can find it because you can live track him if you can find it. There’s like a little thing, but he wants to the current record was something like 38 days set by a woman. This guy wants to smash it. He smashed all these other records around the world doing all sorts of stuff. He’s a dentist from France, I think.
Sam [00:29:10]:
I may just be grasping at straws here, but I’m sure that’s what he does. He wants to run I think he’s gonna run, like, a 100 kilometers every day, a 100 plus kilometers every day to achieve this. He’s got friends everywhere to help him, and they had this thing about, like, the numbers. So they said 50 people on average complete it every year, completely because some people only do, like, little sections. Yeah. There’s a Facebook group to help people with this walk so that you can say, hey. I’m stuck. I need help.
Sam [00:29:38]:
Or can I stay in your backyard or I need a shower or whatever and people do that, there’s a 100 and something dock huts on the way that you can stay at there’s a special discount that you can pay for I think it’s $800, to get to stay at all these places cheap and it had a figure average amount of money someone pays to do the whole track that includes all your food, transport, like ferry costs, clothing, footwear, whatever? What do you think that figure is with your general knowledge? Because I thought this was a lot more than what I thought it was gonna be.
Chris [00:30:15]:
I would say 5 grand.
Sam [00:30:17]:
$12,000, they reckon according to this article. Holy They may have just made that figure up.
Chris [00:30:23]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:30:23]:
But I’m not sure.
Chris [00:30:25]:
I I yeah. And and and, like I’m
Sam [00:30:27]:
sure you can do it.
Chris [00:30:28]:
6 grand was actually what I had in my head, and I was like, I had no idea where I’m coming up with that.
Sam [00:30:33]:
I’m sure you could do it for a lot cheaper. The initial outlay is probably a lot just to make sure you’ve got the right gear a little bit. I don’t know. Anyway, I by the time this comes out, I will have found the link. It’ll be in our show notes at the christmasandpodcast.com. And, you can follow this guy. It shows on the map where he’s gone so far.
Chris [00:30:52]:
Yeah. And if anyone’s done a part of that walk or anything, please, reach out to us on Facebook and let us know what you’ve done and what what your experience was with it because I’m I’m curious. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:31:05]:
Well, that brings us to the end of the podcast. So it’s good times for us. It’s getting a bit hot here.
Chris [00:31:12]:
Yeah. No. It’s been great. It’s been great. Although, the dawn thing isn’t working so much. Dawny.
Sam [00:31:17]:
It’s getting cooler, isn’t it?
Chris [00:31:19]:
When those sun’s not coming up before I’ve finished, which is, pretty dawn weather.
Sam [00:31:23]:
You like lurking around in the dark, so you’ll be fine. Yeah. I’m fine. And with that, that brings us to the end. Go check us out on the socials. Check out our website, the Chris and Sam podcast dot com, and we will see you again next week. Until then, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:31:35]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:31:36]:
See you. Bye.
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