Summary
In this weeks episode we cover Trump, and all the craziness that’s been going on since he became President again.
We talk about UBCO a NZ company that went into receivership and give out hot take on failing businesses.
A fat cat caused a school lock down as it was mistaken as a mountain lion. Which leads to a cat story from Chris.
Sam found out about Hello Hamilton, a new email newsletter to tell you what is happening in Hamilton.
Global Game Jam is on this weekend and it sounds epic, and we finish things off by talking about a German man who clung to a high speed train.
All this and more.
Links
TikTok ban led to increase in learning Chinese
Trump is back in, we cover some of it
Trumps Meme Coin
UBCO goes into receivership
Fat cat caused a scare
Hello Hamilton Newsletter
Global Game Jam
High Speed Train Ride
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 515 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
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. Let’s be real. It’s the only podcast you need. What’s going on? Let’s get into it. Wait. What point are you gonna mention you, mate?
Chris [00:00:36]:
Oh,
Chris [00:00:36]:
hang on. It’s gonna be early on, but,
Sam [00:00:38]:
I’ve got an update for a couple of things.
Chris [00:00:41]:
Do the updates.
Sam [00:00:42]:
Okay. The person that was getting scammed by Kanye Reeves? Yep. And then the Brad Pitt scam?
Chris [00:00:47]:
Yep.
Sam [00:00:47]:
Yep. Brad Pitt had to respond. He came out and publicly said, I’m really sorry that you got scammed by AI version of me. I had nothing to do with it. Yeah. Okay. Cool.
Chris [00:00:58]:
It really wasn’t me. I haven’t been in a hospital, and I have still got money.
Sam [00:01:02]:
Yeah. Pretty much.
Chris [00:01:03]:
Giving it to
Sam [00:01:03]:
you. Pretty much. Yeah. And, I thought I had another update from last week, but maybe I don’t. So let’s get into it.
Chris [00:01:14]:
Okay. Well, I’m gonna start with slightly different thing. I thought I’d start off with the TikTok. Oh. So you heard about all of this?
Sam [00:01:22]:
TikTok shutting down for a second?
Chris [00:01:24]:
Yeah. Yes. So, it was due to shut down on the 20th, which was the inauguration day or whatever it was. I’m pretty sure it’s 20th. But, of course, their time frame was different or whatever, so they did it in at, Chinese
Sam [00:01:43]:
time, not Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:01:43]:
American time. So it was a bit earlier than everybody expected.
Sam [00:01:47]:
And that message do you see the message, a?
Chris [00:01:50]:
Yeah. I did
Sam [00:01:51]:
see it.
Chris [00:01:51]:
I can’t remember what
Sam [00:01:52]:
it did. Said, you know, we’re shutting down because of whatever blah blah blah. And then, hey, Trump. Please, reinstate us or something. Yeah. Just a yeah.
Chris [00:02:00]:
So there were 41,000 shares on social within hours. Yeah. Hashtag TikTok refugee.
Sam [00:02:08]:
But, apparently, it was a nice quiet time with all without the Americans on TikTok.
Chris [00:02:13]:
Apparently. Well, that that’s interesting. So there’s a couple of things. First of all, I I, Duolingo reported a 216% spike in US users What? Learning Chinese year on year because I like this thing. Okay. No. Seriously. Because so many of them went to Redbook.
Chris [00:02:33]:
Have you heard of this? No. So Redbook is another Chinese app. And and before I tell you about Redbook
Sam [00:02:41]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:42]:
In the court, or the congressional hearings or the court case or whatever it was, I think it was court case, the the lawyer is a last ditch attempt. This is earlier in the week, last week. Yeah. Went, hey. It’s not just us. You know? What about Timu? What about guys, they’re all take scraping as much data as we are.
Sam [00:03:04]:
Yeah. I think Timu is probably doing worse, to be honest. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:07]:
Yeah. Okay. So that came up. And then so all these people can’t get into TikTok now, and they’re like, oh, we’ll jump on Red Book. Okay. So Red Book is a Chinese, social media app. Good. But all it appears to be is propaganda.
Chris [00:03:24]:
It’s just propaganda. Yeah. Of course. And so it’s like a
Sam [00:03:27]:
Well, that’s isn’t that what Red Book was?
Chris [00:03:29]:
Yeah. Exactly. Mao Zedong’s little red book. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That that’s what it is.
Chris [00:03:34]:
And so all these these all these clips of these Americans have been going, man, do you know how little you know, 98% of Chinese people own homes. It’s the way to go. And then there’s people, did you see their grocery hauls? They’ve got videos of them coming home with groceries, and they’re only paying cents for eggs, and they’re only paying a little bit of money for there’s so much wealth in China. China’s the way to go. And and so so all these all these TikTok refugees are getting red pill by freaking the Red Book app. And
Sam [00:04:11]:
It’s just
Chris [00:04:12]:
it’s just cracking me up. I just think it’s awesome. But, of course, Trump’s in, which we’ll talk about in a second, and he has extended the, time to cut it down. He’s suggested the US government by half of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, he has billionaires lining up to buy the other half.
Sam [00:04:31]:
Well, all the tech bros were there at the inauguration. He didn’t have anyone else. He had all the tech bros.
Chris [00:04:37]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because, so that he didn’t have to defend the size of his crowd, he moved to indoors. Yep. And seating was at a premium. Yep. Actually, loads of people bought tickets over his quarters. And, oh, it’s indoors now, and we haven’t got seats for you.
Chris [00:04:54]:
So No. And so the seats that he gave the billionaires would normally be for governors and
Sam [00:05:02]:
Yep. That’s right.
Chris [00:05:03]:
Senators, I think, or something
Sam [00:05:05]:
like that.
Chris [00:05:06]:
But they gave them to these unaffiliated
Sam [00:05:09]:
All the top
Chris [00:05:10]:
rich dudes.
Sam [00:05:10]:
Tech people.
Chris [00:05:11]:
The oligarchs. The oligarchs.
Sam [00:05:13]:
Mental. So, I did like John Stewart’s video about it all. Do you see that one?
Chris [00:05:18]:
Yeah. I did I did.
Sam [00:05:19]:
The bit where he tries Melania Trump is dressed like spy versus spy. 1 of the spies. Right? Black spy. Yep. Or comments I don’t know. She’s this she’s got this weird ass hat on, and I think, literally, from that John Stewart clip, it’s to block Trump from kissing her because he went in for a kiss.
Chris [00:05:37]:
Everybody said that. Like, 100%. I’ve seen, like, at least 5 people that differently say
Sam [00:05:44]:
John Oliver clip made me I laughed out loud, like, 3 times in there. Like, it just cracked
Chris [00:05:50]:
me. Stewart.
Sam [00:05:50]:
Oh, sorry. John Stewart. John Stewart. Yeah. Three times on that one. Cracked me up. For another doubt there, that’s just a just a random handwave thing. Oh, oh, he’s turned around.
Chris [00:06:00]:
Yeah. He’s done it again. Yeah. The guys at the back. So let’s talk about that. So if you don’t know what’s happening, which I’d be surprised, you have seen the image somewhere. You should have. Elon Elon’s, my heart goes out to you, with a Nazi looking salute.
Sam [00:06:14]:
Very Nazi looking salute.
Chris [00:06:16]:
Nazi looking salute. And it’s not like and John John does it really well. It’s not a a soft Yeah. Yeah. Gesture from the heart out. It’s a a seg hale looking
Sam [00:06:27]:
Woah. It’s the chest pump.
Chris [00:06:29]:
It’s yeah. Yeah. So, I don’t think there’s any doubt that that’s what that was. Like because in context of everything he said recently, it just fits. And what’s more telling is that all these people, all these, white supremacists believe that’s what it was. Like, these all these comments, like, I don’t know whether he meant to do that, but I’m loving the tears.
Sam [00:06:54]:
Oh, it’s it’s cray it’s just so much batshit going on. We can’t even cover it all here, but I just I I just words escape me for some of the stuff.
Chris [00:07:04]:
But I do wanna I do wanna talk about the main coins. Okay. That’s a big thing.
Sam [00:07:08]:
Okay. So two things about the Musk thing. There’s a theory online that when he got with Grimes, they did so much drugs that has affected his brain, and, apparently, it’s very noticeable. He gets with her, and it affects her as well. Like, she’s had meltdowns after the fact, and
Chris [00:07:32]:
it’s Is she the basketball player? No.
Sam [00:07:34]:
No. She’s a DJ. Okay. She’s like a world famous DJ, apparently. He’s had 1 or 2 kids. Had that her kids are the ones with the weird names with symbols and shit.
Chris [00:07:43]:
X and Yeah. Whatever. Anyway,
Sam [00:07:46]:
apparently that. Now, talking about that, his little salutty thing, have you heard of the UK, team called Led by Monkeys? Team? Yeah. The political projectionists.
Chris [00:08:04]:
Oh, okay. No.
Sam [00:08:05]:
It’s like Gigafactory in Berlin.
Chris [00:08:09]:
It says, hail Tesla. And I assume the Tesla is the actual Yeah.
Sam [00:08:14]:
Tesla’s the actual
Chris [00:08:15]:
wording on the building, but the hail hail or however you say it is in the same font or very close to the same font.
Sam [00:08:21]:
So these guys apparently, do this stuff all the time. They did something for the Ukraine, and the guards were trying to outshine it with their torches, which didn’t do anything. It’s very hard apparently for them to pinpoint where that’s been from. Oh, wow. I’d love to know their setup
Chris [00:08:38]:
because it’s
Sam [00:08:39]:
and it’s crystal clear.
Chris [00:08:40]:
Yes. Yes.
Sam [00:08:41]:
So it’s a hell of a Like,
Chris [00:08:43]:
it doesn’t look like it looks so good that it doesn’t look real.
Sam [00:08:46]:
Yes. And that’s what some of the comments say, and they said, no. Here’s the, behind the scenes stuff of it.
Chris [00:08:51]:
Yeah. So Oh, that’s that’s cool. I like that. I like that protest. So I wanted to talk about the meme coin. Of course, I was wanting to talk about this before
Sam [00:08:59]:
A while ago?
Chris [00:09:00]:
He released it 2 days before inauguration.
Sam [00:09:03]:
Okay. Okay. Yep.
Chris [00:09:04]:
That sounds about right. Which is insane. Like, literally insane. Like, it was driving because I so Coffeezilla, I saw his very first, video on it when it happened because he was like because I saw it on Twitter first. Yep. I saw a a thing about it on Twitter. And it was like, Coffeezilla is going, somebody’s hacked this account. Oh, okay.
Chris [00:09:26]:
It looks like he’s dropping a coin. It can’t be real. Yep. And then he does a video, like, a couple of hours later going, please tell me this is not real. Everything looks like it’s real, but it can’t be. He can’t be dropping a meme coin, you know, 2 days out from being president, but he did. And so it’s, dollar sign Trump or if you’re a coder, string Trump. Okay.
Chris [00:09:52]:
So it’s a strump, I guess. Oh. It looks like a strump. He the way it’s set up now I’m not big on these meme coins and how that’s done. Okay. But Coffeezilla goes into it in detail. But the way it’s set up, he just goes, it’s 80% vested in him and his people. Now the only time you 80% vest the thing is when you’ve got a lot of, production cost because you’re building something that’s gonna do something.
Chris [00:10:20]:
Yeah. And then you’ve you’ve got all that because that’s paying for the production. Alright. But this is just a meme coin. There’s no production. Normally, people would keep 20%, but Trump’s kept 80%. So it launches. Yeah.
Chris [00:10:35]:
It jumps up at at top value. What do you think the peak value was?
Sam [00:10:40]:
Oh, it’s something silly, wasn’t it? Wasn’t it real expensive? Yeah. But has it come down?
Chris [00:10:45]:
It it’s crashed down again.
Sam [00:10:46]:
Okay.
Chris [00:10:47]:
And I’ll tell you one of the reasons why in a minute, but, what do you just
Sam [00:10:52]:
3000. 30,000.
Chris [00:10:54]:
No. No. It’s in the billions. How much is, total worth?
Sam [00:10:58]:
Oh, yeah. 10,000,000,000.
Chris [00:11:01]:
$74,000,000,000 is where it peaked. 72 or 74, 1 or the other. Not for long, but that was the peak it got to, which would have made him worth 50,000,000,000 or something just on that alone. But, I mean, to give you a concept of what that is, Walmart no. Target. Target in the States is a big, chain. Retailer stores. Yeah.
Chris [00:11:23]:
That’s 72,000,000,000. Oh, wow. And that has like, if this crap coin on Bitcoin fill it on at one point, it eclipsed it. Now loads of people have made loads of money on it.
Sam [00:11:34]:
Yeah. But you have not pretty quick. Okay?
Chris [00:11:36]:
Oh, yeah. You gotta be quick. They were in there, they bought it, and then they sold it as soon as all the public found out about it and started buying it Yeah. Making half a1000000 each. Nice. Because, Melania’s one came out the next day. Oh. Melania? Yes.
Chris [00:11:53]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. With this. Oh, did she make
Sam [00:11:55]:
did they make a ton of money?
Chris [00:11:58]:
Very much less than his one. Yeah. And it vests differently as like a, we’ll do one for the missus as well. And it’s it’s it’s very much a minor one, but a lot of people jumped out of trim Trump’s one to jump into her one to catch that wave. Yeah. So there was a big crash, went down 30,000,000,000 in in a very short period of time. Under, if it’s not just a ploy, but, hey. If you are a foreign government and you want to, get some policies done Yeah.
Chris [00:12:33]:
Okay. If you own some Strump or Somalia, it’ll probably be helpful.
Sam [00:12:40]:
Probably. There’s just, so much crap in there.
Chris [00:12:44]:
Whole whole new level of grift.
Sam [00:12:46]:
Like Every day is just gonna be something more batshit.
Chris [00:12:50]:
Yeah. And and that’s the other thing. Normally so the, the hot tour girl. Do you you remember the hot movie?
Sam [00:12:58]:
Vaguely. Does she owe people money now
Chris [00:13:00]:
or something? So what happens was she did one of these calls. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it went up and crashed. Yeah. And so people are suing her.
Sam [00:13:07]:
Yeah. Good.
Chris [00:13:09]:
But he’s present. He cannot be sued.
Sam [00:13:12]:
Of course not.
Chris [00:13:12]:
This is the whole point.
Sam [00:13:13]:
Of course not.
Chris [00:13:14]:
Yeah. So that’s that’s one of the things.
Sam [00:13:15]:
Oh, what about the presidential pardons? Dread Pirate Roberts is out.
Chris [00:13:20]:
That’s good. Who’s Dread Pirate Roberts?
Sam [00:13:23]:
Dread Dread Robert Pirate Dread whatever.
Chris [00:13:26]:
Dread Pirate Roberts is the, from from the princess bride.
Sam [00:13:30]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So this guy is, Ross, Albright, whatever his name is.
Chris [00:13:35]:
Oh, the one eye the guy with the one eye?
Sam [00:13:37]:
Nope. This is Silk Road. Oh. He’s out.
Chris [00:13:40]:
Oh, who who pardoned him? Trump. Really?
Sam [00:13:44]:
Because the people that were helping out him were supporters of Trump, and Trump said 6 months ago, if I get in, I’ll pardon him. So once he did the other 1500 people, they released him. He’s out. Yeah.
Chris [00:14:00]:
Because he released all the Jan 6 Yep. 6 riders. Yep. Doesn’t matter who they were, including Rhodes is who I was thinking of. Rhodes is the dude with the eye patch Yep. That, yeah, was one of the main guys, and he got 20 years, but he’s been released.
Sam [00:14:17]:
Yeah. They’ve all been released. It’s all good on them. Anyway, moving on to something else.
Chris [00:14:21]:
Crazy. Crazy. Well but I’m curious just to what you think. Biden, in the last minutes, pardoned his family. Yeah. Preemptive pardoned.
Sam [00:14:31]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:14:31]:
They haven’t done anything wrong, but I’m pardoning them. And a whole bunch of people that were in the Jan 6 committee and, Anthony Fauci, and some other people. And and there’s a lot of toing and froing about that. Like, I get why they would try to protect people like Anthony Fauci. Like, the dude did his best. Right?
Sam [00:14:54]:
And Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:14:55]:
You know? But they wanna put him in prison, and it’s just it’s crazy.
Sam [00:15:00]:
It’s mental.
Chris [00:15:01]:
But it’s a bad precedent because now every president is just gonna do pardons before they leave, pardons as soon as they arrive. I
Sam [00:15:08]:
know. It’s mental. It’s whenever they want. It’s the whole thing. Hey.
Chris [00:15:11]:
If you just wanna knock that dude off for me, I’ll pardon you before I leave. Yeah.
Sam [00:15:18]:
Yeah. It it’s it’s also hang on. Just I know I I don’t wanna talk about this too much, but what’s with the dude with shorts? What’s his name?
Chris [00:15:26]:
Oh, Federman. What
Sam [00:15:28]:
what’s his deal? He’s just like, this is what I wear all the time?
Chris [00:15:31]:
That’s what he wears all
Sam [00:15:33]:
the time. Good old.
Chris [00:15:33]:
Committed to it.
Sam [00:15:34]:
Committed to it.
Chris [00:15:35]:
He’s committed to it.
Sam [00:15:36]:
Committed to it.
Chris [00:15:37]:
It does look funny in there, because
Sam [00:15:41]:
there I don’t know. I don’t really know anything about him.
Chris [00:15:43]:
He had a stroke. He got elected to congress Okay. And he suffered a stroke
Sam [00:15:49]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:15:49]:
Just as the election thing was going. Oh. And they still got him in.
Sam [00:15:53]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:53]:
And he and he’s pretty good now. He he had a time where he had to use something to read while you were talking. Like, it was transcribing at
Sam [00:16:01]:
that time
Chris [00:16:02]:
because Yeah. He was having trouble. Okay. But I I think he’s pretty good now.
Sam [00:16:04]:
Anyway, good on him for tuning up in his, shorts.
Chris [00:16:07]:
Yeah. So that that’s all the political news. Sorry. I had to get that out of the way, but it’s been a lot. It was really It’s
Sam [00:16:13]:
too much. There’s still too much.
Chris [00:16:14]:
I know.
Sam [00:16:15]:
We haven’t talked about him bringing back his diet Coke button, the only 2 sexes, the military going to the border.
Chris [00:16:23]:
Greenland oh, whoops. Yeah. Greenland. It’s Panama.
Sam [00:16:26]:
Pan yeah. The Gulf of Mexico.
Chris [00:16:27]:
Hillary Clinton. He actually did that.
Sam [00:16:30]:
He did that. And Hillary Clinton’s laughing in the background.
Chris [00:16:33]:
It’s just like, are you kidding me?
Sam [00:16:35]:
And George Bush is just there going along for the ride. He’s just, like, looking crazy. And Elon Musk has a photo of if do you see the video of him all twitchy? It looks and and it was like someone wrote, oh, Elon’s not used to the human skin. He’s trying to get out of it. But I think it strikes.
Chris [00:16:51]:
Yeah. Well, did you see when he goes, and we’re gonna plant the the flag on Mars? And Elon got all so excited.
Sam [00:16:59]:
Chubbed up.
Chris [00:16:59]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He his rocket already left. That’s right.
Sam [00:17:05]:
If I said UBCO, UBCO, UBCO, do you know what that is?
Chris [00:17:09]:
It does sound familiar.
Sam [00:17:10]:
I don’t know why. So this is the New Zealand.
Chris [00:17:12]:
I wanna think I’m thinking of the aluminum company, which is different.
Sam [00:17:15]:
No. So this is the New Zealand company that builds the little electric 2 by 2 22 wheel bikes.
Chris [00:17:21]:
Right. Yeah. That’s what Steve wrote something on it on LinkedIn the other day. Oh, did he? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:17:27]:
So,
Sam [00:17:27]:
anyway, yeah, they’ve basically collapsed because they’re idiots is the underlying thing. They had, like
Chris [00:17:37]:
That’s not what Steve said.
Sam [00:17:38]:
I don’t I don’t read what Steve read, but I’m gonna tell you. Because, like, they Domino’s had 60 bikes. They’ve got 6,000 customers. They were pushing into the American market. They had distributors there. They had them here. I think they’re up to the generation 5. They just signed a contract with Australia Post to have a trial of, like, a 100 of these bikes over there.
Sam [00:18:01]:
There was talks with New Zealand Post to possibly use these to replace the Packstar buggy things that they’ve got now. So there’s a lot of stuff going on that, in theory, should be good.
Chris [00:18:12]:
Yeah. So these are electric bikes for for people that don’t know what’s happening. Yeah. Yeah. Homegrown electric bikes.
Sam [00:18:18]:
Yeah. Farmers like them.
Chris [00:18:20]:
Yeah. And they were featured the reasons we talked about Steve, Steve’s from Field Days. Yeah. They were featured as one of their innovations, I wanna say, in 2014. So it’s 10 years ago.
Sam [00:18:32]:
Yeah. 2014, 2015, 1 of the 2. The receivers are not responding. These customers wondering what they’re gonna do if they need repairs or things. It’s a Tauranga based company. I didn’t know that, which was interesting. So they raised a bunch of money, but they’ve laid everyone off, like, instantly. They said don’t come in.
Sam [00:18:48]:
Basically, we’re shutting down. They’ve going to still honor the Australian postal service contract from what I understand. They’re gonna try and figure that out. They were really squeamish about going into defense contracts, and the workers there said we should have done that. Like, they didn’t wanna do that.
Chris [00:19:08]:
So so why are they going out of business? What what’s been the problem?
Sam [00:19:12]:
Well, because they decided to spend where’s the money? They decided to spend all their money, almost 14,000,000, I think, on a quad bike. They never came to fruition, and there was another model. And the workers said we should have just stuck to the thing we knew and really
Chris [00:19:31]:
worked on that. They just spent all their money on r and d for a new thing. Yeah. Goddamn.
Sam [00:19:35]:
And they had a rolling mall that says of overlapping capital raises, which made it real dick real difficult to ascertain how much it had raised, because they were always asking for money. And it’s large because they started building them here in New Zealand and then they went to Taiwan, I think it was, and their biggest shareholder was their manufacturing partner. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, that’s gone under probably. If you’ve got one, don’t know what you can do about that. Good luck. Now did we talk about the Manta 5 failing? No.
Chris [00:20:09]:
Because I saw that you wrote that and went, what? And I wanted to find out, but I was like, no. I’ll I’ll leave
Sam [00:20:13]:
it. It said at the bottom of that article, there’s a whole bunch of these businesses that are raising money and doing all the stuff, and, this was in May last year. Yeah. It just failed, which, you know, I’m gonna say was to be expected because it was a random vehicle for rich people.
Chris [00:20:30]:
I don’t see why that’s a fails, though. I I still can’t I you can you don’t have to sell a lot of them. Like, they don’t sell a lot of Rolexes or Lamborghinis. You know what I mean?
Sam [00:20:41]:
They owed somewhere north of $1,000,000, so maybe they weren’t handling their money properly. Anyway, yeah. So it was like a hydrofoil ebike, I guess.
Chris [00:20:53]:
Yeah. Yeah. We we featured it at TEDxRicura. There’s a great talk if you wanna look at,
Sam [00:20:58]:
Jason used to work there for 5 minutes.
Chris [00:21:00]:
Yeah. Yeah. Maybe he left guy Howard Willis is the,
Sam [00:21:05]:
the actual one.
Chris [00:21:06]:
That started it off. It’s a good talk. You can find it on YouTube, TEDx Talks TEDxRicura.
Sam [00:21:13]:
So they said even though it fails, this is, Callahan, said, look, we all learn stuff from it. It’s a start up, and, you know, these things happen.
Chris [00:21:20]:
It had been going for quite a while, though.
Sam [00:21:23]:
Yeah. I think so. It’s a bit of a build up to get to it. So the question I guess is, you know, were they not handling their finances properly? Was marketing, like, you know, if they went I don’t know. Maybe marketing wasn’t as good as it could be. Because you don’t wanna be marketing here in New Zealand. No.
Chris [00:21:38]:
I they were selling it to superyachts and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. That’s the market.
Sam [00:21:42]:
That makes sense.
Chris [00:21:43]:
That’s who they should’ve been selling it to. And, yeah, I I think yeah. I I don’t know what they would’ve been spending money on.
Sam [00:21:53]:
Goff Elementary School in Moses Lake, Washington. They went viral this week. They had a wildlife scare, Chris. There
Chris [00:22:00]:
was fell out of a tree.
Sam [00:22:02]:
No. Pretty close. There was reports of a mountain lion near the school. So officials are imposing an immediate lockdown to protect the students and staff. You don’t want that to happen?
Chris [00:22:12]:
Well, it can’t be that bad. It doesn’t have a gun.
Sam [00:22:14]:
It turned out, in the end, it was just a fat cat feasting on a rat. So, you know, it just look at the fat cat. So they got it.
Chris [00:22:28]:
Fat cat.
Sam [00:22:29]:
My mom and dad’s cat’s that big. My mom was messaging today about it going, I’ve I’ve gotta figure out how to help it lose weight, but only when
Chris [00:22:35]:
I talked to you about Oscar. Right?
Sam [00:22:37]:
Only when it wakes up. What’s that? What’s Oscar?
Chris [00:22:39]:
Oscar was, my friend Glenn’s, cat. So I’ll catch up with Glenn hopefully next weekend, actually. And Glenn was a flatmate of mine 30, 40 years ago. 40 30 yeah. Almost 40 years ago. And so, we as teenagers, what do you do in the weekend when you’re hungry? You generally take you and your mates go around to one of your one of your parents’ places and raid their fridge. Right? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:23:06]:
Yeah. That’s what you do. You go, we’ll go around my mom’s place, or we’ll go around your mom’s place or whatever. So we go around to his mom’s place to, you know, barbecue or something I think was on or something like that. We go around, and we walk around this corner, and the biggest cat I’ve ever seen in my life is sitting there just looking at me. Yeah. The thing’s the size of a Doberman. Like, it was a big cat.
Sam [00:23:29]:
Okay.
Chris [00:23:30]:
And I froze because I come around the corner, and there’s this this thing You’ve
Sam [00:23:35]:
never seen a cat this big?
Chris [00:23:36]:
It just didn’t make sense. My brain just froze.
Sam [00:23:39]:
Now was it fat, or is it just giant?
Chris [00:23:40]:
No. It was it was a big muscular cat.
Sam [00:23:43]:
Okay. It was, it was, a mancoon?
Chris [00:23:45]:
It was a mancoon. Yep. I’d never even heard of that. Okay. Cool. Yeah.
Sam [00:23:48]:
They’re pretty scary, but
Chris [00:23:49]:
Yeah. It was and I was just like, what is that? And he goes, it’s Oscar. I’m pretty sure that I’ve got the name right.
Sam [00:23:56]:
I believe you.
Chris [00:23:57]:
And, yeah, it just freaked me out. So if you’ve ever come across a cat and had that sort of experience, you’d know what I mean. It’s all well and good watching seeing them on a photo, but when you walk around the corner, it’s staring you in the face, and it’s at groin height, like, sitting down in its head at groin height, you just go, what the Yep. Anyway
Sam [00:24:17]:
This week, I signed up to a newsletter, Chris. It’s called Hello Hamilton.
Chris [00:24:21]:
Now I
Sam [00:24:21]:
had the idea of doing something similar to us in the past, but I just honestly couldn’t be bothered. So this guy called Ben, there’s a little photo. He’s using Beehive, which we like here, and every week, he just posts what’s on in the tron, and it’s going out to just over 2 and a half 1000 Hamiltonians at the moment. I think it’s quite new. I think we’ll have a link to it, but I think you could just find him on Facebook. Must be how I saw it. And he’s just got all this interesting stuff that’s happening, and, honestly, this is way better than Facebook, events or anything else because this has already told me stuff that I didn’t even know was happening.
Chris [00:24:57]:
Right. I’m gonna I’m gonna sign up for that, and I recommend if you’re in Hamilton, do the same. And if you’re not in Hamilton, start one for your town. Yes. Because 2 and a half 1000 people, subscribers in a fairly short
Sam [00:25:11]:
amount of
Chris [00:25:11]:
time, I I would imagine. You can do quite well out of a newsletter of that site.
Sam [00:25:16]:
He has said at the bottom if there’s any businesses that wanna, like, help Advertise. Yeah.
Chris [00:25:21]:
Yeah. So Yeah. Did you
Sam [00:25:23]:
know the global game jam is on this weekend?
Chris [00:25:27]:
I don’t know what that is.
Sam [00:25:28]:
Exactly. So this is, in a game jam. This is a worldwide event. Participants form teams to make video games or board games around a theme announced at the start of the jam. The goal is to complete a playable game developed over a limited time period. I think it’s 48 hours.
Chris [00:25:47]:
So like a hackathon or a 48 hour film type Exactly. Scenario. Yeah.
Sam [00:25:50]:
It’s at the university.
Chris [00:25:52]:
Oh, it’s just around the corner.
Sam [00:25:53]:
Yep. Yep. The games tend to be innovative and experimental, which you could imagine. You get breakfast, lunch, and dinner, a t shirt, you’re allowed to take your own rig, hook into their system, they’ll give you admin rights, and allow you to access or download, like, software that you may need if you’re doing the computer side of stuff. They’ll help you with ideas and working all the stuff out.
Chris [00:26:18]:
If you got a teenager, you should absolutely get them along to
Sam [00:26:21]:
How much do you think all of that cost you, Chris? $150. $25.
Chris [00:26:25]:
Holy snot. You get a t shirt, which is $25. Yeah.
Sam [00:26:31]:
I know. So it’s global game jam.org.nz. Find them on Facebook or, yeah, 24th till 26th January, this weekend. Never heard of it before in my life. Sounds like a sweaty, hot, stinky mess, but it’s fun.
Chris [00:26:47]:
Yeah. This will be coming out halfway through that.
Sam [00:26:54]:
If you’re if you’re if you’re using the Chris and Sam podcast to find out about events that’s happening on your weekend, I’m sorry. We’re we’re not the best for that. But that’s okay. That’s okay. Because this dude’s got hello Hamilton newsletter, and,
Chris [00:27:10]:
in future, you’ll be sorted. And we and we put you on there.
Sam [00:27:13]:
We talk about stuff in general or after the fact or because we didn’t know it existed. That’s our that’s our jam. That’s our crown and glory.
Chris [00:27:24]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. That’s cool.
Sam [00:27:26]:
I’ve got a story to end with.
Chris [00:27:28]:
Right. Okay. Let’s do that.
Sam [00:27:30]:
This man survives a high speed ride clinging to a German train. So this Hungarian man, he’s 40 years old. He sort of holds on to the exterior, but I think he’s actually between the carriages.
Chris [00:27:43]:
Right.
Sam [00:27:43]:
Right. The train goes up to 280 kilometers an hour.
Chris [00:27:47]:
So so was he, like like, a stowaway trying to get on the you know what I mean?
Sam [00:27:52]:
No. The the train doors closed, prompting the man to jump onto the bracket connecting the 2 carriages. He made the decision to jump because his luggage was on board, and it was going from Munich to Lekbirch.
Chris [00:28:07]:
Oh, so he’s like, oh, I missed the doors. I’ll
Sam [00:28:09]:
jump on the He’s having his his cigarette, and then it start close. So he clung onto the cables for 32 kilometers.
Chris [00:28:19]:
To the next stop.
Sam [00:28:21]:
Yeah. So they were investigating him for financial misconduct now, because he did not have a valid ticket and for actions that disrupted train operations. The police have strongly urged the public to avoid such life threatening nonsense.
Chris [00:28:37]:
That that’s dumb. Like, in in Wellington, it was a thing. A lot of people did was,
Sam [00:28:42]:
jump
Chris [00:28:42]:
on the right on the roof of the train.
Sam [00:28:45]:
No. It’s that would scare me too much because of the tunnels.
Chris [00:28:47]:
Oh, and it’s electric trains.
Sam [00:28:49]:
Oh, yeah. That too.
Chris [00:28:50]:
That was the bigger thing.
Sam [00:28:51]:
Yeah. That’s right.
Chris [00:28:52]:
Big electric power lines above you that the things Yeah. Yeah. And and people died all the time when I was young.
Sam [00:29:00]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:29:01]:
So, you know, in the seventies eighties.
Sam [00:29:03]:
Craziness.
Chris [00:29:04]:
Yeah. So, yeah, don’t do that. But I I didn’t live that end of town, so I didn’t go near to
Sam [00:29:10]:
Otherwise, he’d be all over it.
Chris [00:29:12]:
Yeah. I did dumb snakes.
Sam [00:29:14]:
Anyway, that brings us to the end of this episode. Thank you so much for listening. We hope you’ve gained some sort of knowledge, had a laugh.
Chris [00:29:22]:
Yeah. I will mention that last week, I randomly, put together a little clip and animated it. Was it
Sam [00:29:30]:
last night? Likes the clip.
Chris [00:29:32]:
Nobody likes the clips. Well, no. I won’t say nobody. I’ll just say the people that have responded all dislike the clip. There might have been thousands of people that love the clip. They’re just insane.
Sam [00:29:44]:
I hope the people that dislike the clip are laughing at you right now. Are you trying to bring the clip back again? I’m I’m You mentioned it last week.
Chris [00:29:52]:
I did mean. Did I?
Sam [00:29:53]:
Yeah. You said if there’s something oh, maybe you spoke to me afterwards.
Chris [00:29:56]:
I think I spoke to you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I spoke to you.
Sam [00:29:58]:
He’s real keen on doing this animation thing.
Chris [00:30:01]:
Well, I I’ve actually sold some animation elsewhere, so I’m gonna get do get to do that anyway. But I would be interested to see if anybody else did like it.
Sam [00:30:09]:
If you wanna know what he’s talking about, go to the Facebook page, the Chris and Sam podcast. Scroll back a couple. You’ll see this animation, and the the likeness, like, does look like us. I will give you that. So, good job on that.
Chris [00:30:23]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:30:23]:
So until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:25]:
I’m Chris. See you. Bye.
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