Summary
This week we find out who Chris has been catching up with, how a drunk Lime scooter ride went and how his Karate class went.
Jeep has brought out an innovation that is a bit crap, a New York Record is broken, we talk about the proper Destiny Church petition people should sign and so much more.
Links
New York 30 Year Record Broken
Destiny Church petition
Backlash to Jeeps “Innovation”
Woman sued by Tesla
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 519 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:27]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:28]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life. And, yeah, that’s it. All wrapped wrapped up in a very short sentence. Not the podcast. It’s all about.
Chris [00:00:39]:
That’s what it’s all about.
Sam [00:00:40]:
I know. Not the podcast. We’re here for the next thirty minutes to entertain, educate, and, maybe drive you to drink. I’m not sure.
Chris [00:00:47]:
Blow your mind. Occasionally. Occasionally. That’s a gong.
Sam [00:00:53]:
Actually, it is. Yeah. I think so. Because we we do cover so much interesting stuff.
Chris [00:00:58]:
Yeah. So what have you been up to this week?
Sam [00:01:01]:
I have been super busy. I’ve just found out I’m going on a course in a week and a half in Wellington for four days. So, we will see how that podcast goes for that week. I’m not sure. Yeah. But, yeah, just super busy.
Chris [00:01:14]:
Cool. Cool.
Sam [00:01:16]:
I will tell you something, though, and I’m sure you have experienced this. I’m calling it the reply all dilemma.
Chris [00:01:24]:
Okay.
Sam [00:01:25]:
So one of the computer systems at work is having trouble. They keep emailing us all in your computer off at 09:00 tonight. We’re doing an update. Something else broke. We’ve got a team working on it. It’s just constant emails. And it’s been happening for about a week. And today, they had the, I don’t know if it’s a great idea or not.
Sam [00:01:44]:
They said, hey. If you wanna stop getting these updates about the system, just report it should know better. And I think this is a great like, people that hit reply all to, I don’t know, a thousand people. I don’t know. Whatever. They should just be fired, I think. Just get rid of them.
Chris [00:02:01]:
No. No. There should be the equivalent of a swear jar or something.
Sam [00:02:05]:
So
Chris [00:02:05]:
And it just goes to some fund. Actually, they should absolutely pay.
Sam [00:02:09]:
They should just take the money from their account. Yeah. So these people are going unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe. Then you’ve got the people going, please stop replying all to reply all to everyone. I know. And then someone goes unsubscribe, and then a couple of minutes later, please resubscribe me. And then somebody
Chris [00:02:25]:
goes give a piss, though.
Sam [00:02:26]:
No. I don’t I don’t know because I always think of doing it, but I don’t wanna. And then and then someone else goes, for the love of God, please stop replying to all, and then had this picture of this woman, like, looking terrified. And then, randomly, I had to go get a cable from our, IT department upstairs, and I was talking to them. And they said, how’s it going? They said, that bloody email. Because she said the email originates from them. That’s what people think. So she goes, we’ve just had people complaining to us all day getting these emails all raging out about the reply all.
Sam [00:03:01]:
I think it stopped maybe. We’ll find out tomorrow if I have more.
Chris [00:03:04]:
It’s great. It it’s happened before at telecom back in the day, and and and it’s just like you just you bite your tongue. You’re just like, goddamn. How stupid are these people? But I judge these people so much. Me too. See anybody on that list that I deal with, that there’s that black mark against their name forevermore.
Sam [00:03:25]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:03:26]:
That’s right. Black mark forever. So there you go. Be very aware of the reply all. But I think yeah. It’s just crazy. It’s just crazy.
Sam [00:03:34]:
It’s crazy.
Chris [00:03:35]:
And that’s that’s what you’ve been up to. So I I’ve had a couple of things. I, I had a catch up on so that was Morton. In Hamilton.
Sam [00:03:42]:
Okay. Sorry. And then you connect to a few more buddy less then. Yep. And is this
Chris [00:03:48]:
That’s got nothing to do with this. This is a
Sam [00:03:50]:
Another catch up. Another
Chris [00:03:51]:
separate catch up, which was actually organized. I was like, oh, I might be able to make it. So every it’s it’s two years since we did it last.
Sam [00:03:59]:
Okay.
Chris [00:04:00]:
Every six months to a year to two years, apparently, we get together. It’s a bunch of old karate guys because, you know, people we’re getting old. People start dying. There’s all of that happening.
Sam [00:04:12]:
None of these guys were in Wellington? No. Okay. So you could update them and Yeah. Whatever happened down there.
Chris [00:04:17]:
I had my Wellington, nationals T shirt on, and, yeah, it was telling stories. So there was a lot of stories. So went in. I bought a jug. It’s at Tarah Patel. So I used to work at the Tarah Patel.
Sam [00:04:29]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:29]:
And Carl, who organizes this, is a regular of the Tarapat Tavern. Yeah. Right? So, that’s it’s always he’s the one that organizes it. He’s always at Tarapat Tavern. So we’re in there. I end up with
Sam [00:04:42]:
Now would they give you a drink if you’d finished, you know, that stupid rule at the casino? Oh, yeah. They don’t care, do they?
Chris [00:04:49]:
They don’t care there. There’s there’s none of that.
Sam [00:04:51]:
Just checking.
Chris [00:04:53]:
So, anyway, I, I bought a jug, drinking, telling stories, bought another jug, drinking, telling stories, went to the loo. Somebody else had bought me a jug, and then the the whiskeys came out. So this is, fairly typical, particularly with Carl. Now it used to be Glenfiddichs. He’d do rounds of Glenfiddich, which is cool. I like whiskey, so I’m I’m good with that. But this they had this, and I’ve got a photo of it, which will add to the, show notes. Yeah.
Chris [00:05:20]:
But it’s, it’s a peanut butter whiskey.
Sam [00:05:25]:
Oh, okay. Okay.
Chris [00:05:26]:
It’s called Sheepdog and Sheepdog. I I know. Random ass. Gave my phone to the barmaid and and beer whiskies in at this point.
Sam [00:05:36]:
Yeah. So you’re you’re firing an old cylinder. Take you’re like, take my phone.
Chris [00:05:41]:
Yeah. So I I give the the waitress, the, the phone and said, can or go up to the bar. It’s like, can you take a photo of that peanut butter? She just looks at me like, give me the phone. She was she didn’t look impressed with me at all, but, I was very cheerful. When people give me that that sort of snap snappy snarky stuff, I can’t help but but be really extra nice and happy about it. Yeah. I think it’s just to piss them off more.
Sam [00:06:09]:
So I think oh, I don’t know if this is the actual people. Anyway, $69 for about a liter of it.
Chris [00:06:16]:
It is so smooth.
Sam [00:06:18]:
35%.
Chris [00:06:19]:
Because some of the other guys at the table, because he’s buying rounds for the table, they’re not whiskey people, and they all were drinking the site. Oh, yeah. I’ll I’ll have another one. I’m like Yeah.
Sam [00:06:29]:
Yeah. This this website I’m reading, the the comments are just like, yeah. If you like peanut butter, give it a go. It’s really nice and smooth.
Chris [00:06:36]:
Yeah. It’s amazing. Because he said I was pee peanut butter whiskey, and I’m like, whatever. And then I drank it and went, holy crap. That is really good.
Sam [00:06:44]:
The funny thing is I’m trying to websites that are selling it, so I’m not sure. I can’t even find, like, a like a
Chris [00:06:51]:
Manufacturers website.
Sam [00:06:53]:
Seem like it.
Chris [00:06:54]:
Yeah. And all I’ve got to go on is that photo. So, anyway, so that was cool. So ended up three three jugs, to the lime scooter. Not quite, but,
Sam [00:07:06]:
Hang on. So there’s gonna be a lime scooter story?
Chris [00:07:09]:
This is this is this is a this is a epic epic, story. So from there, I was like, because I got the bus into, Tarapa Tavern. Right? Yeah. So I’m not gonna get on the bus, rolling around like I am at this point. I’m not I wasn’t, like, totally, smashed or anything, but, I’m sure it had an effect. So, anyway, Carl goes, oh, how are you getting home? I’m like, oh, I’m I’m going to a friend’s birthday because it’s Kyle’s birthday this week. Yeah. And so he was, having drinks, on Friday or Saturday.
Chris [00:07:40]:
So so I got a list list there. Had a stories telling stories. I didn’t have another drink while I was at Kyle’s because I didn’t need anymore.
Sam [00:07:49]:
Of course not.
Chris [00:07:50]:
And so I was there for a couple of hours, and then I I was like, I’m gonna walk home. So I started walking home. That was cool. And I walked past some guy was fiddling with his phone. What he’s doing? Oh, he’s picking up that lime scooter. Oh, There’s another LimeScooter right next to
Sam [00:08:04]:
it. Okay.
Chris [00:08:05]:
I’ll grab that. Do you have the Lime app? I had it because we had that discussion where I had a problem getting the Yes. That’s right. Okay. K. So I had got it working, but I’d never used it.
Sam [00:08:15]:
Oh, okay. So you’re like, now is my time to shine. What could go wrong? ACC, here I come. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty
Chris [00:08:23]:
much. Bam. No worries. Got it going. Jumped on it. Those things are pretty quick.
Sam [00:08:29]:
I think they’re speed limited when you get into town.
Chris [00:08:32]:
Right. So I Maybe. I I know they’re speed limited when you get certain places. I’ll tell you about that next. But yeah. So I was zipping down the the road. I forget which road it is, but it’s it’s like a dead end type thing. So I was in the middle of the road, like, woohoo.
Chris [00:08:50]:
Hurling down there, then went under Wairiri Drive to Ruakura. Yep. Yep. And then I was gonna cut through Ruakura, which is sort of a longish way around, but it’s quite nice, and there’s not a lot of traffic and stuff like that. Yeah. But Ruakura has a, gate that’s locked, and so you just jump over the the wall there. Yeah. You know? Yeah.
Chris [00:09:11]:
That’s right. Okay. As a pedestrian. That’s that’s the way I go to camp But
Sam [00:09:14]:
not the scooter.
Chris [00:09:15]:
I’m than I expected.
Sam [00:09:16]:
Yeah. They’re pretty decent. Hey. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:17]:
A bit a bit munty. So I get over, and I start going
Sam [00:09:22]:
and stop. Did you go out of zone? Because it’s too
Chris [00:09:25]:
far out that way. No. They have blocked Rourke off. It’s a red zone.
Sam [00:09:30]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:09:30]:
And I’m like because I got it onto the street that led to Rourke. If I got the, scooter before that, I might have gone a different way. Yep. But the only way would have been Does it slow down
Sam [00:09:42]:
or does it is it It just stopped. Oh.
Chris [00:09:44]:
And so I’m like, what’s going on? And then I look at my phone, and it’s this big red block over.
Sam [00:09:49]:
Oh, wow. So I
Chris [00:09:50]:
had to push it all the way because I’m not going back. I had to push it all the way through to the other side, finally get back to there’s a cycle lane on
Sam [00:09:58]:
the other side. There is. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:59]:
Hit on that and got back home, with no damage to me, which is actually quite surprising.
Sam [00:10:08]:
Yeah. Very surprising. Could have been very problematic.
Chris [00:10:11]:
And I’m like, $12. Freaking $12. I had to push it through freaking. If it’s based on time, the reason it took so long is because you bastards couldn’t let me write through a. That’s annoying.
Sam [00:10:28]:
Well, send send them a complaint letter.
Chris [00:10:33]:
Consider this podcast more your complaint letter.
Sam [00:10:37]:
Dear Lyme.
Chris [00:10:39]:
Oh, it’s Uber, isn’t it? Because Uber owns it.
Sam [00:10:42]:
Yeah. I yeah. Yeah. I think so.
Chris [00:10:44]:
Yeah. But anyway anyway, that’s my, story. Three jugs, four peanut butter whiskies, and a lime scooter, weekend done. Legendary.
Sam [00:10:53]:
How how bad did you feel the following day?
Chris [00:10:55]:
I was I was so I go for the next day. It was terrible, and I had work to do as well because I worked Saturday and Sunday with with stuff. I had to get, video and
Sam [00:11:05]:
I’m I’m sure. I just like to imagine you all hung over trying to do that up later.
Chris [00:11:10]:
Oh, no. I did alright work. I did alright work, but, yeah, I wasn’t probably wasn’t very quick on it.
Sam [00:11:18]:
I’ve got no information about this, and I can’t remember what country it was in, but I thought it was an interesting idea. You’ve got a drone, and it’s a big ass drone. How do you recharge it midair? Because apparently they’ve built one or a couple, and they can charge midair so they can fly for way longer.
Chris [00:11:37]:
Well, you’d think it would I just want good point. Because I immediately think of the fighter jets and how they midair refuel.
Sam [00:11:45]:
Oh, yeah. No. No. No.
Chris [00:11:46]:
But it’s like, you can’t do that with electricity. No. I don’t know.
Sam [00:11:51]:
So I think they are being used to inspect power lines, and it latches onto the power line when it needs to be charged, and it can
Chris [00:12:00]:
Power vampires.
Sam [00:12:01]:
Yeah. It must have, like, a huge inverter converter or whatever because yeah. But, yeah, apparently, they made it work, and, it can just hook on when it needs to and, charge up. So it’s interesting.
Chris [00:12:14]:
Yeah. And for those big power lines, it it barely noticed the
Sam [00:12:18]:
Oh, no. They wouldn’t notice anymore.
Chris [00:12:19]:
Yeah. Oh, that’s pretty cool. Hey. Did you hear about the backlash to Jeep’s new, innovation? I wanna call it an innovation.
Sam [00:12:30]:
No. I don’t think so.
Chris [00:12:32]:
So Jeep owners are now furious because, you know, all the cars these days, and you’ve got being you told us last week that you were driving the BYD. I’m assuming it’s got a decent sized screen.
Sam [00:12:41]:
Oh, it’s the the screen is, like, ridiculous when you think about the first TVs were 14 inch or whatever we got. When we were younger, this thing’s bigger than that. This is bolted to the front. But yes.
Chris [00:12:52]:
So all of the cars have got them. So Jeep owners are now furious because the when it stops at, at the lights and stuff, they play ads.
Sam [00:13:02]:
No. No. No.
Chris [00:13:03]:
They play ads No. Every time the car stops.
Sam [00:13:09]:
Far out.
Chris [00:13:10]:
This is obviously in The States. So digital advertising now permeates nearly every aspect of daily life, and the automotive industry has now become the latest frontier.
Sam [00:13:21]:
Because one was it BMW was gonna have, like, a monthly subscription to unlock some features back in the day?
Chris [00:13:27]:
Yeah. Yeah. So, you have to pay monthly if you wanted to get the heated seats Heated seats. Heated seats and some of the other little
Sam [00:13:34]:
Oh, it’s terrible.
Chris [00:13:34]:
Pieces. Oh, god. Yeah. So, anyway, in in dash advertising, they’re calling it?
Sam [00:13:42]:
No. Wouldn’t buy the car? No. Or rip the thing out?
Chris [00:13:45]:
I yeah. It I mean, do write off. But then it’s probably a subscription to to be ad free.
Sam [00:13:51]:
Yeah. Exactly. That’s terrible.
Chris [00:13:53]:
Until I’m out. This hammer also will make it ad free ad free shit.
Sam [00:13:57]:
But then you probably can’t operate the car.
Chris [00:13:59]:
Yeah. Probably not. But yeah. You know?
Sam [00:14:01]:
Did you hear the the little victory, I guess, New York Times had the other day? Oh, no. They went five days without any shooting victims for the first time in thirty years. In New York? Yeah. Wow. Well, reported shootings, I guess. But, yeah, it’s a pretty crazy stat, isn’t it? I like to think they’ve got a chart on the wall in the police stations, and it goes days since the shooting, and they only ever get to four. Oh, no. There’s another one.
Chris [00:14:34]:
Yeah. I, I’m just thinking it must be because of the total despair about what Trump’s doing at the moment.
Sam [00:14:41]:
Oh, no. It’s
Chris [00:14:42]:
Trump People killing people. Right?
Sam [00:14:43]:
It’s Trump time.
Chris [00:14:44]:
Well, no. I I do have this thing about Tesla, though. I’ll I’ll mention because Musk is the new Trump, really. But did you see he’s, he’s getting a bit of flack in China. So this woman, sued him.
Sam [00:15:03]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:05]:
Zheng Zhao. This so this is a Chinese woman in China who bought a Tesla in China, or I think it might be her parents’ Tesla, was sitting in the passenger seat of her of her Tesla model three when she said that she heard her father’s panicked voice. The brakes don’t work
Sam [00:15:22]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:23]:
As they were approaching a red light. Her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier. Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating, airbag in front of her. She could never imagine what was to come because she tried to sue, Tesla or whatever.
Sam [00:15:45]:
I’m assuming they just turned around and said it’s your fault for not
Chris [00:15:47]:
Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes. Oh, so so she didn’t sue them. She just told the story about what happened.
Sam [00:15:57]:
Oh, right. So she’s even sued her.
Chris [00:15:58]:
Oh my gosh. And the and won. And the Chinese court ordered her to pay more than 23,000 What? And damages and public apologies to the $1,100,000,000,000 company. What? Desmiseul. Their piece of crap car. Yeah. Damaged it. Anyway, so at the moment, Tesla cars Yeah.
Chris [00:16:20]:
Are, one seventy times their PE in terms of earnings, like, with Tesla, the the automotive Yeah. Which is ridiculous. There’s no way it is worth what the share price is. Like, it just isn’t worth it. Yeah. It’s just it it it’s mind boggling. It’s it it’s annoying the hell out of me.
Sam [00:16:41]:
Guy and Harley had a podcast. They haven’t done one for about three months. Oh, yeah. And, this one went for a little bit, a while, and they pretty they they were borderline getting into an argument about Trump and his motives, and it went on for way too long.
Chris [00:16:53]:
I’m not
Sam [00:16:54]:
I should watch it. It was, like, forty five minutes or maybe of them ranting to each other about the the motives of Trump, of, Musk. I see, some other woman’s come out of the woodwork and reckon she’s had his thirteenth baby now.
Chris [00:17:09]:
I I saw the headline. I went, I don’t care.
Sam [00:17:12]:
No. No. I don’t care either, but I forget the numbers that high.
Chris [00:17:15]:
Yeah. Yeah. I know. It’s ridiculous.
Sam [00:17:17]:
But he’s just so ridiculous.
Chris [00:17:19]:
See he took, his kid to, Trump’s Yeah. I know his office. Yeah. It’s crazy. I I didn’t watch the whole thing because I don’t want to. But the whole idea was Trump was pissed off because Musk got that, Time magazine cover. You you saw that. Right? Yeah.
Chris [00:17:36]:
So he had Musk at the at the at the desk. So Trump hadn’t done a, press conference for a while and he hadn’t done one in the Oval Office. He goes, we’re gonna do one in the Oval Office, and I’ll sit at the desk, and we’ll see who’s in charge. And this thing happens. They asked Trump one question. All the other questions were talked asked to Musk. He’s standing there, the only person not in dress.
Sam [00:18:02]:
Yeah. I know. He’s just random ass.
Chris [00:18:03]:
Yeah. Which is a statement in itself with a kid because you know how much Trump hates kids. Yeah. And Trump just looks so powerless and pathetic.
Sam [00:18:15]:
Yeah. Yeah. I know. It’s it’s not good.
Chris [00:18:16]:
Totally good.
Sam [00:18:17]:
Because there was oh, I don’t know what the question was, but there was when Musk couldn’t answer it properly. And he was just like, oh, yeah. Like, he because he seems a bit, you know, out of his brain on something.
Chris [00:18:28]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:18:29]:
And he’s saying something, and Trump’s just sitting there going, like, looking.
Chris [00:18:33]:
Oh, yeah. Because, that that’s right. Because they’re like oh, the only the reason I can only fire 10,000 people per month is because it takes ninety days to get the records because the paper records from Iron Mountain, because the lift only moves so quickly. Alright. And Trump’s going, really? Is that it? And, apparently, that’s it. So that’s the only reason he’s only firing 10,000 people a month
Sam [00:19:00]:
because he’s
Chris [00:19:01]:
got that hard limit because of the speed of the lift.
Sam [00:19:03]:
Seeing as we’re talking about that’s mental. Seeing as we’re talking about Trump and Musk, did you see the photo where Musk, Trump’s at his desk? I don’t know what it is. Big meeting. They’re all there. And you can see the photo that he’s got on the wall. In the background, apparently, it’s real, through a doorway and there’s the hallway, he’s got the photo of his mug shot on the wall in the White House, and it’s slightly crooked. And it’s just you just sort of notice it’s a bit weird. Oh my god.
Sam [00:19:34]:
Yeah. And then the other thing was I’m gonna check this thing. Sorry.
Chris [00:19:40]:
For the record, Sam is bringing out the Trump stuff.
Sam [00:19:43]:
Yeah. I am. I just I’m just and the other thing was Musk was talking about they’ve got people in Social Security that are aged, what, a hundred and 50 nine or something? Have you seen that?
Chris [00:19:57]:
No. I didn’t.
Sam [00:19:57]:
So he’s gone in doge, which is the department of
Chris [00:20:00]:
Government efficiency. Yep. They’ve gone in It’s doggy. Doggy. Or or you can call them doge bags.
Sam [00:20:06]:
Doge bags. Okay. You heard that here. Definitely. Yeah. But they’re looking at the records, and he’s come out, I think, and see it, oh, there’s all these ghost people. So there’s a hundred whatever the figures are is massive, but he said there’s these people, getting Social Security that don’t exist, and some of them, according to the dates, were are 59 years old. And, apparently, he came out and said this.
Sam [00:20:30]:
And I saw this tweet thread, and this guy goes, it just blows my mind. I would never have thought this would come up in the world. So there’s a programming language that banks use. It’s very, very hard to learn, and if you know how to do it, you can make a ton of money in the world because I know somebody that sort of did it. I think it’s called COBOL.
Chris [00:20:51]:
Yeah. I know COBOL. Yeah. Well, I mean, I don’t know.
Sam [00:20:53]:
You know Ovid?
Chris [00:20:53]:
I know Ovid. I was like, yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:20:55]:
So COBOL, apparently, according to this programmer, doesn’t have dates in it. It uses something else, like a mathematical formula or some random thing. So it looks like a date to you, but it’s not. And they’ve read that as whatever a hundred fifty nine years ago, and he’s just cracking up. He goes, this is the dumbest thing in the world. This just shows how little these people know about anything.
Chris [00:21:18]:
Oh, that’s that is funny. Because that whole thing about Musk going, oh, we’ve spent a million dollars sending condoms to Hamas. Because you heard about that? No. Oh, so he goes, this is why we’re closing down USAID.
Sam [00:21:32]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:21:32]:
So that’s The US, US AID, Agency for, International Development.
Sam [00:21:40]:
Okay.
Chris [00:21:41]:
US international agency for international development. And and it’s it’s truly appalling what he’s done. So he’s cut financing to them. Hundreds of children have died already. Yeah. Thousands will die in the next
Sam [00:21:55]:
That okay. Who cares? Yeah.
Chris [00:21:56]:
Yeah. Good. So it’s there’s some horrific stories coming out about it. But, yeah, he doesn’t give us crap. Given that it’s it’s $40,000,000,000, I think, which sounds like a lot. Yeah. But when the as a percentage of the actual thing that they’re trying to do, as a percentage of the budget, is point 1% of the budget. Yeah.
Chris [00:22:22]:
So why not focus on something bigger where the waste really will be there like Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know. The military, you know, which is like a trillion, you know, whatever. I’m sure they could find some waste there, but, no, he’s just shut this down. But one of his reasons was he said, oh, we we spent a USA AID spent a million dollars supplying Hamas with condoms.
Sam [00:22:44]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:45]:
Maybe we don’t want them to breed. I don’t know. But, no. Actually, those condoms went to Mozambique. It was about the, the AIDS Yeah. Yeah. Epidemic or whatever. Nothing like, it was all just debunked.
Chris [00:22:58]:
And at that, press conference, the one in the Oval Office, he goes, oh, yeah. Every now and again, I’m gonna get something wrong.
Sam [00:23:04]:
Yeah. I know.
Chris [00:23:04]:
That’s He’s
Sam [00:23:06]:
so random. He’s just
Chris [00:23:07]:
an idiot. He’s just an idiot. So
Sam [00:23:09]:
you went to karate class this week?
Chris [00:23:10]:
I went last night. Before we talk about that, because we might end on that
Sam [00:23:14]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:23:15]:
Have you seen this thing about Destiny Church? Yeah. So there’s been this change org thing. I I shared it on Facebook. I sort of wish I hadn’t actually, but there’s a change org
Sam [00:23:25]:
why have people come out?
Chris [00:23:26]:
Petition. Oh, no. Actually,
Sam [00:23:29]:
I did get a random call from somebody I used
Chris [00:23:31]:
to know who now lives in Australia and is, is a well, he’s on the doll, and he obviously has nothing better to do than to, ring me up and ask me why I like gays so much. Anyway
Sam [00:23:44]:
Oh my gosh.
Chris [00:23:46]:
Yeah. It was that conversation. Anyway, that’s not really the reason. It’s because I don’t really like doing those change org things that much. Like, I I just don’t I think it’s pointless. Right?
Sam [00:23:57]:
Yeah. Yeah. Like, it’s you you’re just saying, you know, I support this thing.
Chris [00:24:00]:
I was like, yeah. This is this is something that needs some some eyes on it. So I I shared it, and my friend Peter Lambrikson, you might have met him. He was, from innovation, telecom one innovation unconference. He went there a couple of times.
Sam [00:24:15]:
Probably recognize him.
Chris [00:24:16]:
That’s where I met him anyway. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He he he sent through, the link to there is an actual parliamentary
Sam [00:24:24]:
Oh, yeah. Nice.
Chris [00:24:25]:
Thing. So I just wanted to do a public service announcement and say if you think Destiny Church should have their, charity status revoked
Sam [00:24:35]:
Yep.
Chris [00:24:36]:
We will put share a link in the, show notes of how you can get the government to or the parliament to,
Sam [00:24:42]:
post the on Thursday, there’s eight days left for the parliamentary, one Right. Petition, and 30,000 people have signed it.
Chris [00:24:52]:
Yeah. We need more because I think the, the change.org is 80,000, but that doesn’t matter for anything. So if you’ve done the changeorg one, go do the parliamentary one. Yeah. Do that. Anyway, that was my pub public service announcement. So, yeah, I went to karate yesterday. First time in, I’m gonna say, a decade, probably,
Sam [00:25:13]:
give or take. More, wouldn’t it?
Chris [00:25:14]:
Well, no. I trained trained with, how long ago was it that was at Health two thousand? Because I trained with, with the time there.
Sam [00:25:22]:
I don’t remember this. I’m sure you haven’t done any karate since we did the podcast, but maybe I’m wrong. And we’ve been doing the podcast ten years.
Chris [00:25:29]:
Okay.
Sam [00:25:29]:
Yeah. Were at Health two thousand at some point during the podcast, I think. So maybe yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:25:35]:
I was at Health two thousand when I was training with Kevin. Okay. But, anyway, because do you remember I broke my hand? And that’s why I stopped. No? Okay. Alright. Anyway No. I Anyway, so around a decade, let’s say.
Sam [00:25:46]:
Okay.
Chris [00:25:47]:
So, yeah, I went to last night. So I I should have known it would be tough when it hurt to ride my bike to the dojo.
Sam [00:25:56]:
Hang on. So you’re in pain riding to this thing?
Chris [00:25:59]:
Yeah. I I never came over a bump. Oh, no. This doesn’t bode well.
Sam [00:26:07]:
That’s not a good sign.
Chris [00:26:08]:
So, but it was good. It was really good. So I managed to get the the belt on because it’s, shrunk. It doesn’t go around as as as far as it used to. It used to hang down quite a lot, and it doesn’t anymore. No. It’s a design fault. So that was alright.
Chris [00:26:25]:
Got there. Yeah. It was good to see the old routine. There’s a thing they yell in in karate, and it’s called a kiai. Yeah. Yeah. And it’s good to know I naturally am still the loudest person. I mean And and
Sam [00:26:41]:
I I don’t I haven’t met anybody that’s louder than you. How many people were this at
Chris [00:26:47]:
the It wasn’t a lot. It’s quite a small class. They had four new people that day.
Sam [00:26:52]:
Oh, wow. That’s good.
Chris [00:26:53]:
So I was one of the four. And New old. Yeah. Yeah. And then, yeah. So there’s probably only another five or six Okay. People there.
Sam [00:27:02]:
Sounds good.
Chris [00:27:03]:
And they had people off as well. They because they’ve just had a tournament or a grading or something like that, and they set a few people away. But, yeah, it was really, really good. I’m not good with sprints. I’m not good with, press ups on my knuckles. I’d forgotten all about that stuff. Turns out I’m not as good with the as I thought I was
Sam [00:27:21]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:27:22]:
Because I’ve just forgotten things. And, and then I went to do low kicks, and I really am that was a humbling experience.
Sam [00:27:31]:
Well, that well, it
Chris [00:27:31]:
because my mobility is actually quite quite
Sam [00:27:34]:
because you’ve got
Chris [00:27:35]:
a bang hip. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I I’m really gonna work on this. So I’ve got a meeting with, an online consultation with a movement specialist on Saturday. So
Sam [00:27:44]:
How’d you jack that up?
Chris [00:27:46]:
I don’t go there
Sam [00:27:47]:
because you’re just gonna be gonna be grief about my spending money all
Chris [00:27:50]:
the time and, falling for every
Sam [00:27:53]:
Good. I lifter in the world. I I look forward to hearing hearing about this in a minute after I press stop. Yes. So that’s about it. Coming up, probably just gonna be busy as with work, probably for both of us. And, yeah, I that’s about it, really. Just it’s just it’s just a daily grind of trying to get people to fill out application forms.
Sam [00:28:19]:
I’ve actually revert I’ve I’ve actually started texting these people now, which seems to work a lot better, I think. Eventually, it will. Because no one checks their email. But if they get text message, they seem to, like, ring me back or text back.
Chris [00:28:32]:
This is for your work? Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:28:34]:
Yeah. So we’ll see.
Chris [00:28:35]:
Yeah. Yeah. I don’t think I’ve got anything too exciting on. I’m going back to Friday, so it’s gonna be twice a week.
Sam [00:28:42]:
What day is then? Friday and
Chris [00:28:44]:
Wednesday and Friday.
Sam [00:28:45]:
That seems like a lot for you,
Chris [00:28:47]:
potentially. Potentially. Because And
Sam [00:28:49]:
is that what most people are normally doing?
Chris [00:28:51]:
Yeah. Yeah. You you really need to be doing at least two a week. Because if you only do once a week, it’s actually prolongs the pain.
Sam [00:29:00]:
You
Chris [00:29:01]:
only get better if you’re doing two or more a week. It’s for any, like, gym session or or anything.
Sam [00:29:05]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:29:06]:
You you don’t wanna do anything once a week.
Sam [00:29:08]:
No. That’s true. It’s not it’s not good for your body. So yeah. Okay. Well, I look forward to hearing more about that and visiting you in hospital. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:29:18]:
I’m Chris. See you. Bye.
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