Summary
In this episode, Chris got some compliments while Sam missed out on some Facebook notifications.
We talk about people diving off of high things, and then we get into the weeds of talking about the USA and their dream of taking over Canada.
All this and maybe a little bit more.
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 522 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 random technology in life and just a little extra sprinkling of goodness. Not too much. We don’t wanna over season it. What’s been happening?
Chris [00:00:37]:
What? In the world? Always me. Wow. Yeah. I I I will say something. I’ll start off with something. So I got a, this made my day today, actually. So, I mentioned the other week that I did the Improviso, cinema Improviso
Sam [00:00:54]:
The movie thing. Movie thing.
Chris [00:00:55]:
Yep. And I talked about, Shannon, who I didn’t recognize her.
Sam [00:01:00]:
You could not recognize her.
Chris [00:01:01]:
Yeah. Anyway, so I left her a message on on Facebook Yeah. Because I knew her on Facebook and said, sorry for being the, you know, deer in the headlights or whatever it was. And she messaged me back today because she obviously doesn’t use Facebook very much,
Sam [00:01:14]:
which is
Chris [00:01:15]:
fair because if people message me on Facebook, I don’t
Sam [00:01:18]:
I so I’ve got a I’ve got a yeah. Well, let’s talk about I’ve got a Facebook story in a minute.
Chris [00:01:22]:
Okay. Yeah. So, anyway, she amongst other things she said, you had the best quips. I love the racing announcer and the no longer there fishnets joke, which I was pretty proud proud of that joke. The thing is that when you’re doing improv
Sam [00:01:38]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:01:39]:
You’re just letting stuff flow, and some of it will hit, and some of it will just sink like lead.
Sam [00:01:44]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:01:45]:
Of course. And and you don’t know. And and, hopefully, they forget all the lead ones because they remember the ones that floated well. And the the fishnets one did float well because who I told you, the cops all talked about fishnets, and I forget. There was two cops talking to each other, me and this other guy. Yeah. And he said something, and I’m like, you know what I really like with my fishnets? I like it when I’m, you know, a bit fat, a bit a bit pumped up, and they’re a bit they’re a bit tight.
Sam [00:02:16]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:17]:
Because I can take them off, and it looks like I’m still wearing them. They got a laugh.
Sam [00:02:24]:
Yep. Good. I guess you had to have been there really.
Chris [00:02:28]:
Yeah. Maybe you had to be there. But anyway, so that made my day. That was, the first thing I saw this morning, actually.
Sam [00:02:34]:
Good. Talking about Facebook, it’s the end of the giant pumpkin growing season here in New Zealand. If you don’t know, I’ll grow giant pumpkins. Check out giantpumpkins.co.nzed. Anyway, I chopped up my pumpkin the other day, and it was way heavier than I for some reason. I was like, this is weird. It had no cavity. It was just solid pumpkin.
Chris [00:02:52]:
Oh, wow.
Sam [00:02:52]:
So it’s about 45 to 50 kilos estimate, but I don’t know what it actually weighed. But, anyway, got some seeds out of it. They’re drying, and it had this cavity thing. And, I was like, this year because I haven’t been, I’ve been busy, so I’m not being traveling all over the place, going to all these events, basically, because I’ve got no money as well. But, anyway, I thought this season, I will go to the QMU A and P show. Been there a couple of times before. It’s quite a good event. There’s a pumpkin thing in the corner run by Harcourts.
Sam [00:03:24]:
I thought, yep.
Chris [00:03:25]:
This is it. How far away is QMU so people know?
Sam [00:03:28]:
Hour and twenty, I think, should drive. And, so I’m like, cool. I’m sure this is happening either real late March or, early April. Don’t need to check this out. Why would you? Anyway, I’m sitting there looking at this pumpkin, and then I look it up, and it was, of that last weekend. And I was like, damn it. Got it. So I don’t know if Facebook changed, but I know partly my fault, but I will definitely blame Facebook for this.
Sam [00:03:59]:
I think when you used to log into your standard personal Facebook account, it would show you all the notifications for all the pages you had. It might do that on the desktop, but on the phone or on my phone anyway, you don’t see those. You just see your personal ones, and you have to switch the to the page that you run, and then you can see the notifications. But nothing is getting pushed to my phone because I had that turned off because it can get quite annoying. So, anyway, a week before the Qumu a and p show, the Qumu a and p show commented on one of my posts and said, are you coming up to the pumpkin competition? It’d be great to see you again. So I completely missed that. They gave me free tickets a couple of years ago, so maybe I could have wangled a couple of passes. So, anyway, I’ve turned on the notifications.
Sam [00:04:46]:
Everything seems to be telling me all day, every day, all the time something’s happening on Facebook.
Chris [00:04:51]:
Either get too much, in which case you pay no attention to what’s coming in, or you get nothing, in which case you don’t know what’s coming in.
Sam [00:04:58]:
The thing I do like is it gets sent to my watch. I can look at my watch really quickly and just go yes or no if I need to actually look at my phone. But in other great news, they had the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth International Giant Pumpkin Growers Convention in Green Bay, Wisconsin over the weekend, which looked like a good event. One day I might go. They’ve updated the giant pumpkin weight tables, which is this printed sheet. They did it in 2017. They’ve now done it in 2025. It estimates pumpkin’s weights, just over 3,000 pounds because it looks like it you know, in theory, they could get to that weight.
Sam [00:05:36]:
But those, sheets is what I’ve put into my Giant Pumpkin weight estimation calculator on the website. The the best weight estimation calculator in the world.
Chris [00:05:47]:
In the world. Yep. Literally, people are saying that.
Sam [00:05:50]:
Yep. And the funny thing was, there was, like, this this post on Facebook, and somebody goes, the new weight chart’s come out on this American backyard giant pumpkin grower’s Facebook page. It’s one of the biggest ones. And somebody goes, oh, where can I get it from? And I just said, here’s the link. And then somebody goes, hey. Have you updated your website yet? And I was like, I don’t know who this person is. And now and I said, oh, I’ll do it in the next couple of days. Like, sweet.
Sam [00:06:14]:
You’re the only one that we use. It’s like, good. I just need these people to pay me some money. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If they all brought me a cup of coffee for $5 as a one off, I could probably make about $5.
Chris [00:06:27]:
We need to organize a documentary, and you may have to fly over there and do the pumpkin, festivals and and create a doco out of it. We’ll talk to, David Farrier about how to do that. Easy.
Sam [00:06:42]:
Easy. No worries. Easy. So, anyway, that’s what’s been happening with me and Facebook. It’s it’s a pain, but it’s a necessity, currently.
Chris [00:06:51]:
Cool. Well, I’ve got a whole bunch of random things that well, they’re probably not random. They’re more ranty. They’re random. Yes. So, I don’t know what yeah. Okay. So first of all, I’m gonna talk about these just in the order I wrote them down.
Sam [00:07:06]:
Go. Go.
Chris [00:07:07]:
Part this pardon attorney this is funny. I thought this was funny, but you’ll you’ll find out why. So this pardon attorney in The US has got fired. So the first question is, what the hell is a pardon attorney?
Sam [00:07:20]:
Do they work to try and get you pardoned? Effectively. Okay.
Chris [00:07:24]:
So they work for the DOJ, the part Department of Justice, and what they do is they, determine who will get a presidential pardon. They they there’s this whole process where
Sam [00:07:35]:
Okay.
Chris [00:07:36]:
Okay. They don’t work on, what do you call it, like celebrity cases. They don’t work on people with a profile because those guys don’t need it. They work on the average American person. Okay. They don’t need a a pardon. So there’s a lot of pardons. She goes, the majority of pardons anything that you have heard of is probably not something I’ve worked on because those are celebrity ones.
Chris [00:07:59]:
Ones I work on, nobody hears about.
Sam [00:08:01]:
How many are happening?
Chris [00:08:03]:
Evidently, quite a bit. She didn’t go into a lot of that because this was an interview I saw. But, basically, she gave this one example. Well, this is what happened recently that led to her getting fired. So she was given 95 Americans who had asked for relief for a pardon for relief so that they could buy firearms. Alright?
Sam [00:08:27]:
Okay.
Chris [00:08:27]:
Right. So these 95 Americans that they were, looking at so what they do is they do a huge deep background check and all the rest of it because if they give them a pardon, it’s got the potential to come back and bite the Yeah.
Sam [00:08:43]:
Okay. You know,
Chris [00:08:44]:
they so you gotta be bulletproof. Yeah. Bad choice of word, but you know what I mean. Bulletproof on these things. Right? So they had 95, American average Americans, all of which had nonviolent crime Yeah. All twenty years or more ago.
Sam [00:09:01]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:09:02]:
Okay. So, like, we’re not talking so so there was, like, shoplifting or there was, you know
Sam [00:09:07]:
Marijuana.
Chris [00:09:07]:
Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Nonviolent crime twenty years ago or more, and, and and it had been ineligible for for owning a gun for for, like, twenty years, whatever it is.
Sam [00:09:19]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:09:19]:
And they had all checked out as being fine, upstanding people running, you know, head with a family, with a job, all that sort
Sam [00:09:27]:
of stuff. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:09:28]:
So they they do the deeper background check from there, and they narrowed it down to nine. Okay. Yep. Okay. So these 95, we’re gonna give nine. Okay. So it gives you an idea of how deep they’re going with this thing. Right? So she then sends a memo or memorandum to, I think it was the DA or whatever And says and says, we’re gonna recommend these nine for, a pardon for this, you know Yeah.
Chris [00:09:54]:
So they can own a gun, which is the dumbest thing anyway because, like, who needs to own a gun? But, anyway, this is American.
Sam [00:10:00]:
But they’re getting pardoned from
Chris [00:10:03]:
It it’s a pardon just to say, we’re we’re wiping your record because when they go and try and buy a gun, they go, have you got a conviction? I’ve got a conviction. You can’t buy a gun.
Sam [00:10:12]:
Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. I’m weird now.
Chris [00:10:13]:
Yeah. So it wipes that conviction effectively. So it came back from, DA with a note. Please add Mel Gibson to the list and re, re reapply or resend this. And she goes, not adding Mel Gibson to the list. There’s no background check. He’s only five years ago that he got done for violent abuse domestic abuse. Yeah.
Sam [00:10:40]:
That’s right. Domestic abuse. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:10:41]:
Yeah. I think it was five years. So so it’s like, it hasn’t been enough time. It was a violent crime, and no. And so they fight her.
Sam [00:10:51]:
Okay.
Chris [00:10:52]:
She’d been on the job for three years before that. I just thought it was funny that, it was Mel Gibson. And because he hadn’t applied for this pardon He hadn’t? No. When when she got her list, he hadn’t applied. Yeah. But then somebody had been talking to them, and they said, oh, you should, do this. So, he got the lawyer to send, a letter to the DA, which is not the process it goes through.
Sam [00:11:16]:
Okay.
Chris [00:11:16]:
This is just me a friend of the president, so I think I should do that then.
Sam [00:11:21]:
Yeah. I suppose so.
Chris [00:11:22]:
Yeah. Well, you know, any dodgy actor is a friend of the president.
Sam [00:11:25]:
Any dodgy person that’s trying to sell an electric sell an electric car and have an advertisement on the White House front lawn.
Chris [00:11:32]:
That is crazy. That’s just nuts. And the thing is, Trump hasn’t driven a car for something like twenty years.
Sam [00:11:40]:
No. Why would he?
Chris [00:11:41]:
Exactly. So why would he And
Sam [00:11:43]:
that photo of that’s that photo of them both in the car and Trump’s just there. He’s I
Chris [00:11:47]:
I hadn’t seen that photo.
Sam [00:11:48]:
Oh, it’s just so greasy looking. He’s just and did you see the photo of the list with Trump with the prices? No. Oh, so he said, Tesla is amazing. We should, you know, back him. Any violence or stuff against Tesla is domestic terrorism, and that’s what we’re gonna now charge everyone with if you destroy anything or do anything. And you know what? I’m gonna buy a Tesla tomorrow. And he’s holding this list, and it’s handwritten, and it’s got all the prices of all the Tesla models. And someone goes, there’s no way he’s paying for a car.
Chris [00:12:22]:
No. And do you did hear this. I don’t know if we mentioned this, but the US government, one of the departments, bought, like, 48,000, 48,000 40 4,800, Cybertrucks.
Sam [00:12:39]:
Yes. For the you want the military departments, wasn’t it? Or something weird. And they were like, they can’t do anything. They can’t go anywhere.
Chris [00:12:46]:
Yeah. The the most useless thing if you watch anything on YouTube about how they try and test this
Sam [00:12:51]:
They don’t even have enough cargo space for anything. Anyway, it’s just I the the thing I saw something, and I was I can’t remember what the word was, but it was like, in the future, if we still have one. And, like like, in the history books, it’s like you’ve got this grifter dude with another grifter dude. One of them has real bad daddy issues and is somehow One of them?
Chris [00:13:16]:
I think both of them.
Sam [00:13:17]:
Yeah. Yeah. No. But it’s like yeah. If you look back at it and they were like, if if Hunter Biden or if Biden had got his son to endorse Lenovo laptops or something, they would have lost their absolute mind. But here we are, the president going, you should all buy a Tesla.
Chris [00:13:34]:
Yeah. I I know. I know. It it’s crazy. Yeah.
Sam [00:13:38]:
It’s just next level. You couldn’t even you couldn’t have imagined this four years ago, let alone ten years ago when the you know, there’s no way. Anyway, I’m sure it’s gonna work out.
Chris [00:13:50]:
Well, okay. Moving on from that.
Sam [00:13:52]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:13:52]:
So this is another one, similar vein. Okay. Education department. So have you heard what’s happening with that over there?
Sam [00:13:59]:
Didn’t they get rid of everyone?
Chris [00:14:01]:
The the yeah. They’ve just laid so there’s this particular area of the education department, I assume, has got 2,600 people.
Sam [00:14:09]:
Okay.
Chris [00:14:09]:
They’ve just laid 1,300 people off.
Sam [00:14:11]:
Good. Harvard. Alright. Doge.
Chris [00:14:13]:
So this interview with Linda McMahon Yeah. You know, the wrestling person
Sam [00:14:19]:
Okay.
Chris [00:14:19]:
Thing, who’s a billionaire, she’s the
Sam [00:14:22]:
That’s right. The head. So yeah. Of
Chris [00:14:24]:
course. Last time, it was the Amway check.
Sam [00:14:27]:
Oh, real?
Chris [00:14:28]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The, the Amway Amway person with the seven yachts or whatever she had. This time, they’ve got Linda McMahon. And she said, well, look. The goal is to dismantle the department.
Chris [00:14:40]:
That’s what Trump wants me to do, and we’ll do that. But we’re gonna start with some cuts. Because she goes, it will require a law change to get rid of the Department of Education. Yeah. So we can start with the cuts. It doesn’t require law. So they interviewed this one chick who had been laid off, and she goes, it’s interesting because I’ve gone through the list of everybody that was laid off Yeah. That was laid off.
Sam [00:15:06]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:07]:
And she goes, everyone, because she’s a union representative Yep. Everyone who was a union representative in that has been fired.
Sam [00:15:16]:
Of course.
Chris [00:15:16]:
Every one of them. Of the 1,300 fired, that consisted almost exclusively of female or colored employees.
Sam [00:15:27]:
Oh, how, though? Why? How? I don’t believe it.
Chris [00:15:30]:
It’s all straight white men that left in the education department. What? And she goes, don’t get me wrong. I work with these people. They’re my colleagues, and they’re all good.
Sam [00:15:41]:
Yeah. Yeah. Of course.
Chris [00:15:42]:
But it’s just interesting to see how they’ve chosen which ones are not good enough for the job because that’s how the woman said it. She goes, well, we’re just getting rid of the ones that aren’t good enough.
Sam [00:15:53]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:15:54]:
Still good enough.
Sam [00:15:55]:
Wow. It’s good.
Chris [00:15:56]:
So but what the reason I brought this up more than anything else is, like, why why would you get rid of an education department?
Sam [00:16:04]:
Like Because they don’t want people to educate it, and then they’re gonna do more random stuff. And Yeah. I mean You could see
Chris [00:16:10]:
You’re right. Maybe it is just because, oh, we just want dumb workers. Like I don’t know. That’s what we want.
Sam [00:16:16]:
But you can see where people were talking about the start of World War two and all that sort of stuff. And they were like, how do these people not see it coming? Because they were in it. Like Yeah. Because it was just incrementally happening. I think we’re in it.
Chris [00:16:28]:
Oh, okay. So this is the next thing. Okay. This is why we’re in it.
Sam [00:16:32]:
Okay.
Chris [00:16:32]:
Somebody posted this, and it may need fact checking. I think it’s I think a bunch of it’s right, but, I’m I’m gonna give that caveat.
Sam [00:16:42]:
Don’t quote us on this thing that he’s talking
Chris [00:16:45]:
about. Okay. So this is a timeline of what’s happened with Canada. It’s written by some Canadian people that, passed down and stuff like that.
Sam [00:16:54]:
Okay.
Chris [00:16:54]:
They’re going, you guys don’t understand why we’re all upset? This is why we’re all upset. So I’m I’m gonna go through this because most of this, I didn’t know. So it’s a timeline. So November 2018, the United States, Canada, and Mexico finalizes the trade agreement. Yep. That’s the, it was NAFTA and then made made the MCG or something or whatever it’s called. Right? So that’s cool. Trump personally negotiates the terms of science documents celebrating as the greatest trade agreement in history.
Sam [00:17:22]:
Yeah. Everything’s the greatest Trump. We get the gist.
Chris [00:17:25]:
And then twenty ninth of, November in 2024. So that’s 2018, so 2024. In a face to face meeting, Trump threatens the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, that he’ll be imposing 25% tariffs, and the and he wants to avoid that. It should join The US as a state.
Sam [00:17:43]:
Oh, okay. No.
Chris [00:17:45]:
Yeah. And thirtieth, the next day, Trump publicly calls our prime minister, government governor Trudeau. You’ve heard that,
Sam [00:17:52]:
I think so. Yeah.
Chris [00:17:53]:
Yeah. And instructs his staff to only address him as governor going forward. I didn’t know that. He again suggests Canada should join The USA. December Third, Trump remarks he would split Canada into two states once annexed.
Sam [00:18:08]:
You know one of the states is gonna be called his name. It’s gonna be like That’s right. Trumptopia or something.
Chris [00:18:13]:
That’s right.
Sam [00:18:14]:
Like, I’m not even kidding. He’ll have a map somewhere
Chris [00:18:17]:
that he’s The Gulf Of Trump.
Sam [00:18:19]:
Yeah. He’s already drawn on it.
Chris [00:18:23]:
December 10, Trump posts that the majority of Canadians support annexation despite public polling that says only 13% of Canadians would consider the idea. December 18, Trump again falsely states the majority of Canadians support annexation that one of his lapdogs, Wayne Gretzky, should have a leadership role in the new scenario.
Sam [00:18:43]:
That upset a lot of Canadians. I Oh, yeah. I don’t know what’s happening with Wayne because apparently normally, he’s the greatest Canadian on Earth.
Chris [00:18:51]:
Yeah. I thought so. Oh, well, I mean, I don’t know anything much about him. He’s, like, the only famous well, not the only, but yeah. He’s one of the first ones you think of when you’re a famous Canadian. Jan seventh, press conference, he says that he used economic force to destroy the con Canadian economy to annex it. January, Trump again claims that most Canadians want to be American despite the latest poll showing that it’s got dropped down to 10%. June 20 January 20 rather, his inaugural address, he says he will expand territory during a second term.
Chris [00:19:25]:
January 23, the World Economic Forum, he said Canada can avoid tariffs and economic collapse if it just joins The US. And he says that in front of representatives from around the world. Twenty fourth, he states publicly, Canada will become a state. Then Jan thirty first, he put the 25% impact, import tariffs on. He February 2, he refers to Canada as tariffs fifty first state, and then they do that one month delay. In a closed door meeting so this is new stuff. I didn’t know. February 7.
Chris [00:19:59]:
In a closed door meeting with his cabinet, so this is in Canada Yeah. Prime minister Trudeau is recorded without his knowledge Oh. Which got leaked, and I didn’t know anything about this because we don’t hear anything from Canada. No. Yeah. Telling everyone that he believes really strongly that Trump is serious, and he’s he has stated that his reason for annexation is Canada’s resources.
Sam [00:20:24]:
It’s all about the resources because he wants to share them with his buddy, Putin.
Chris [00:20:29]:
So, and then February 9, Super Bowl game, pregame, he says he’s serious about his threats. And he said Canada’s a viable consideration for expanding US territory. February 10, he announced initial 10 25% tariff. Twenty fourth, a Feb, public remarks. Whoever signed the MS, USMCA agreement is an idiot. He’s the one that signed it. Twenty seventh, reports of American spy planes and reconnaissance aircraft flying over Southern Alberta.
Sam [00:21:02]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:21:04]:
March, tariffs come into effect. Canada retaliates with its own. Yep. And then they’re sort of postponed again. And addressed to joint con session of congress, Trump states that US will own grim Greenland One way or another.
Sam [00:21:21]:
Oh my gosh.
Chris [00:21:22]:
March 5, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Luknick told Canadian finance minister Dominic LeBlanc that Trump had come to the realization that the relationship between The United States and Canada was governed by a governed by a slew of agreements and treaties that were easy to abandon.
Sam [00:21:43]:
Okay.
Chris [00:21:44]:
And then, this is the most iffy thing, 03/07/2025, unconfirmed memorandum and maps leaked on Twitter. No. Yeah.
Sam [00:21:55]:
Yeah. I wonder who leaked it on Twitter.
Chris [00:21:57]:
Well, reveal Trump is allegedly planning to annex the entirety of the Great Lakes in Southern Ontario, home to 13,000,000 Canadians, which amounts to 35.25 of Canada’s total population, includes its largest city Toronto, and this region accounts for 38% of the Canadian economy, and its loss would make Canada’s independence functionally impossible.
Sam [00:22:24]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:25]:
And yeah. And it just goes on. Yeah. And and then it’s in Trump’s own words, quote, the only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished fifty first state. This would make all the tariffs and everything else totally disappear. Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced. So will their welfare like their health care and all the rest of it.
Sam [00:22:48]:
Yeah. Yeah. It’s okay.
Chris [00:22:49]:
They will be more secure militarily and otherwise than ever before. There would no longer be a northern border problem and the greatest and most powerful nation in the world will be bigger, better, and stronger than ever and Canada will be a big part of that. The artificial line of separation drawn may many years ago will finally disappear and we will have the safest and most beautiful nation anywhere in the world. And your brilliant anthem, oh Canada, will continue to play, but now represent a great and powerful state within the greatest nation the world has ever seen, end quote. And the point of this whole tirade was, you wonder why their Canadians are so pissed right now?
Sam [00:23:32]:
Yeah. But Trump’s backed down because didn’t Canada do some Canada’s the largest provider of steel outside of America to America, and they were going to turn the power off. How much power do they provide to whatever the 38%
Chris [00:23:47]:
or something like that. Yeah. I think it was. Is is it No.
Sam [00:23:49]:
He’s reversed he’s reversed a whole bunch of his random ramblings.
Chris [00:23:52]:
I but if he if he owns Canada, then he gets a steal anyway. So I I don’t think it I don’t think he’s quit. I don’t think he gives up. He’s a tenacious MF. So yeah.
Sam [00:24:05]:
Nah. I I no. I don’t see it happening. He’s an idiot. If you’re still with us, well done. If if you zoned out, more than twice, you’re doing better than me. No. That’s good.
Sam [00:24:19]:
I’ve got this thing here. Have you heard of Dodds diving? It’s the d, the o with the thing. Oh, I don’t know. With the
Chris [00:24:26]:
Yep. Yep.
Sam [00:24:27]:
Yep. That’s right. Anyway, so this kiwi guy, called they call him a death diver. I don’t know. But his name’s, Flynn Chisholm Chisholm. He’s 20 years old, and he got into the extreme sport of dodge diving, and that’s jumping from very high places.
Chris [00:24:43]:
Like cliffs or whatever.
Sam [00:24:44]:
Yeah. And, it translates to death diving, originates in Norway, and you’re usually jumping between ten and fifteen meters into some water. And he wanted to do a big jump. And, you know, diving New Zealand has said, you know, stuff can go wrong. Of course, you know, rah rah rah. And we don’t want anyone going into, anything that’s not at least five meters deep. Blah blah blah. And, he said he’s got a support team with him.
Sam [00:25:13]:
They’re in the water. They’re above the water. They check everything. He’s got a whole deciding factor in a jump. He did his first one when he was 18. He now competes in extreme dives around the world.
Chris [00:25:24]:
Okay. So he’s he’s a real pro at it.
Sam [00:25:27]:
He’s not a Yeah.
Chris [00:25:28]:
No. Somebody who’s gone, yeah. I’ll give it a go.
Sam [00:25:30]:
So he wanted to get the Oceana record, and he said to try and find a 30 meter jumping platform in New Zealand, he had no success. And so he had to go with the Carapiro Dam, and it’s 35 meters tall. And he said it was a lot higher than what he wanted it to be. So that extra five meters makes a bit of difference.
Chris [00:25:56]:
I I yeah. I I I don’t think so. I, the the difference between the 30 and the 35, I don’t think I’d care. I do neither of
Sam [00:26:08]:
It sounds like it was more of a mental battle knowing that for him. He does strengthen and condition his body. He does a whole bunch of stuff, and, he’s studying psychology alongside sport, and it’s pretty good. He has to. Yeah. Yeah. He’s going to, he’s competing in the World Cups for speed climbing as well before hitting Europe in June for the Dodds diving world circuit. On the circuit, he’s gonna be competing in the professional competition alongside the best in the world.
Sam [00:26:39]:
And then he’s going to the Gaynor tour, which is the top cliff diving, through France and Spain. That’s the one you always see online, I think, where they just dive off those really nice looking cliffs. Have you got I
Chris [00:26:52]:
always thought that was in Italy or something.
Sam [00:26:54]:
Oh, I don’t know. Yeah. Probably. Yeah. And he’s trying to Or Greece or Greece. Yeah. He’s having he wants to run a Dods diving competition in New Zealand, hopefully, at the end of the year.
Chris [00:27:04]:
Would you be into that?
Sam [00:27:06]:
Hell no. Oh, to watch it or take part?
Chris [00:27:10]:
To take part.
Sam [00:27:10]:
Shit. My body’s not built for that. My my body’s not even built to be watching. No. But it’s scary, because, like yeah. It’ll be I
Chris [00:27:21]:
I don’t think I’d even wanna watch it, to be honest, because if it happen if it works, fine. Oh, there was a splash. Cool. Yeah. If it doesn’t work, fine. I don’t wanna watch that.
Sam [00:27:33]:
No. I think the Manu World Champs we spoke about a couple of weeks ago is the way better option.
Chris [00:27:38]:
Yeah. And that, you do have a body for.
Sam [00:27:42]:
Thanks, I think. I’ll take that. What do you got coming up this week?
Chris [00:27:50]:
We’ve got filming on Saturday. I’ve managed to beg my way off on Sunday because I’m probably gonna have to work. So, yeah, I I’ve just got work, work, work, and then a little bit of filming, which is not work. That’s sort of fun. Otherwise, workouts and karate. That’s nice.
Sam [00:28:07]:
I’ve got work and a bit more work. Yeah. It’s pretty busy at the moment.
Chris [00:28:14]:
How far away is field days?
Sam [00:28:16]:
It’s in June or July.
Chris [00:28:17]:
Oh, we got plenty of time. Okay. Alright. And I’ve got not this week, but the following week, I’m going to be catching up with our mate, Guy Pigdon, and doing some filming with him
Sam [00:28:28]:
Excellent.
Chris [00:28:28]:
Auckland. So that’d be cool.
Sam [00:28:29]:
So until next time. I’m Sam. I’m Chris. See you. Bye.
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