Summary
This weeks podcast Chris hears something about TEDx, while we learned what the deal with the fitted sheet in Wellington was all about.
A kiwi gets busted with drugs in Thailand in a dumb way, while dire wolves have been brought back to life after extinction.
We have a kickstart or dropkick for you. We talk about a car parking problem that sounds like it’s been going on for far too long and much more.
Links
Folded sheet event in Wellington
Kiwi Gets Arrested Trying to Smuggle Drugs
Dire Wolf is now alive
Kickstarter or Dropkick – Pocket Cloud
Woman scammer caught out again due to Netflix Doco
Corleo Kawasaki Announced
Problem with robo car park
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 526 of the Chris and Sam podcast. And for some reason, this audio was missing, so I’ve just added it in.
Chris [00:00:29]:
I’ll tell you something that has has happened, this week that that I wasn’t expecting. So I told you that I hadn’t heard anything about the, TEDx University of Hawaii.
Sam [00:00:41]:
Yes. We thought they may have, gapped it or something like that.
Chris [00:00:44]:
I figured it was off. I figured either they weren’t gonna do it again
Sam [00:00:47]:
Oh, hang on.
Chris [00:00:48]:
Or they just didn’t need me. Yes. So because I’d I’d emailed them early in because I wanted to book my plan my Yeah. No. All that
Sam [00:00:56]:
sort of stuff.
Chris [00:00:56]:
I I got Are
Sam [00:00:57]:
you gonna be real busy real soon?
Chris [00:00:59]:
In February and said, well, no. This is what’s happened, so I still don’t know.
Sam [00:01:04]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:01:04]:
The answer. But, I I’d emailed the vice chancellor of research who, organized it last time and and said, oh, so so are we going ahead this year? Got an ideas roughly? Where we’re gonna we’re gonna catch up and have a meeting about it? Whatever.
Sam [00:01:18]:
That would be good.
Chris [00:01:19]:
Blank. Dead air. No response at all. So I’m like, okay. He knows where I am. He can get ahold of me. There’s been nothing. Okay.
Chris [00:01:28]:
I’m assuming that’s that’s it. Then, one morning this week, I forget what say two Wednesday, Thursday morning
Sam [00:01:36]:
Yep.
Chris [00:01:37]:
There’s a a text message on my phone when I wake up. Like, it it’s on snooze at night or whatever. Yeah.
Sam [00:01:44]:
Yeah. Okay. Wake me up at night.
Chris [00:01:45]:
But it was it was there in the morning when I went up. And I’m looking at it. I was like, what? And it’s a picture of a TED stage. Yep. And I’m like, what’s happening? What
Sam [00:01:53]:
what? Why? Who’s sending me TED stuff?
Chris [00:01:55]:
Who’s sending me TED stuff? And, actually, I should should have brought this up earlier so I can read it to you, but I’ll I’ll grab it now. There it is. And it’s he says, hi, Chris. I’m here making it happen, exclamation mark. Very cool, exclamation mark. And it’s Oh, has
Sam [00:02:13]:
he gone to the overseas thing?
Chris [00:02:15]:
He’s gone to Vancouver to the Oh, the Vancouver? Yeah. The the the actual TED.
Sam [00:02:19]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:02:20]:
So it’s, reimagining humanity is the The thing. The theme. Okay. This one. And so yeah. So he’s there. So I’m going, oh, now for those that don’t know, what happens is if you’re running a TED event, you cannot run a full TED event until you have attended one of the major ones around the world. And that’s usually the the Vancouver One, which is TED or TEDGlobal, which, happens in a different major city around the world every year.
Chris [00:02:50]:
Okay. So Quentin that ran TEDxRukuru went to Geneva
Sam [00:02:53]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:02:54]:
TEDGlobal, many years ago. And, it’s not cheap. I think the tickets were, like, $4 or something.
Sam [00:03:02]:
The ticket?
Chris [00:03:03]:
Just the ticket. Let alone
Sam [00:03:05]:
the tram and
Chris [00:03:06]:
and and all the rest of it. But, of course, if the university is paying for it, like, it’s still free.
Sam [00:03:11]:
Yeah. Good. Get the university paying for everything.
Chris [00:03:13]:
Yeah. Of course. So, but yeah. And I might be wrong with the $4, but that’s what I understand it to be. So yeah.
Sam [00:03:21]:
It’s gonna be a pricey ticket, let’s say. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it seems like moving forward, this is a good sign because he could not have gone and just wrapped it all up. So So
Chris [00:03:31]:
it sounds like he they’re serious about doing it Good. Ongoing. And he let me know, which means I’m still involved in some way.
Sam [00:03:39]:
Of course. Of course you are.
Chris [00:03:40]:
Because Well, you know what I mean. Like, I because I just thought, okay. They haven’t got a hold of me about anything. So, yeah, so maybe I will be busier this this year, or it might be that they’re just like, oh, I’m not doing this year. We’ll start for next year. I I have no idea.
Sam [00:03:53]:
Yeah. I’m sure you’ll be able to figure it out.
Chris [00:03:54]:
You’ll you’ll hear you’ll know when I I just don’t know when I’ll know.
Sam [00:04:01]:
That’s right. Talking about exciting events, did you see about the sheet event in Wellington?
Chris [00:04:07]:
Yeah. I I just read about that. I didn’t write it down, but it looked great.
Sam [00:04:10]:
So, initially, I think it was an ad in the newspaper, and it said, gonna fold a sheet, Tuesday, 1PM outside Taco Bell. Fitted sheet, actually.
Chris [00:04:19]:
Fitted sheet.
Sam [00:04:20]:
Yep. And then, so that was all good. And there was He did quite a bit
Chris [00:04:24]:
of gorilla market, actually. So Yeah. An anonymous person put it on Reddit, which was him. Yeah. And then On anonymous, Instagram account started promoting it, which was him.
Sam [00:04:34]:
Yeah. Well, because on the day, there was a picture of it on the side of a bus stop.
Chris [00:04:39]:
Yeah. So he made some posters and stuff.
Sam [00:04:41]:
And I said and I sort of mentioned it to work some people at work because no one had heard of it. And I said, what’s happening today? Everyone on the Internet is really excited. Like, people in Wellington are, like, really excited. And I said, but I can’t figure out what the deal is. What’s the angle? There’s something going on. It’s a performance artist type guy Yeah. In the end, which is good. But leading up to it, I was like, I don’t know what the thing was because someone goes, who’s there? And these people were sharing photos and videos, and it was this huge crowd estimated to be was it 707
Chris [00:05:09]:
is what I heard. Yeah.
Sam [00:05:10]:
And, people couldn’t see anything, but the people were just cheering.
Chris [00:05:13]:
Hold on a sheet.
Sam [00:05:14]:
Hold on a sheet. So, anyway, I think he wanted to bring a little bit of joy, was it, or something like that? So Or is it leading into something else?
Chris [00:05:21]:
It’s leading into something. So he is a comedian. He
Sam [00:05:24]:
Okay.
Chris [00:05:25]:
He performs in Edinburgh, the time, and he lives there.
Sam [00:05:28]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:05:29]:
There at the moment. And so he flew over for this, but he is Wellingtonian. He’s from Wellington. And so, like, he he’s I think he he, you know, popped in to see his mom didn’t know she didn’t know who’s here or anything sort of thing.
Sam [00:05:40]:
Oh, cool.
Chris [00:05:40]:
That sort of stuff. But, yeah, he said he was still jet lagged when he did the whole thing, but he had this whole idea. He worked out this whole so it’s a routine. This it’s a comic routine. Yeah. Yeah. He’d been working on for three or four months
Sam [00:05:53]:
Okay.
Chris [00:05:53]:
Put it together. That’s cool. And so I think it’s pretty impressive, but I think he’s doing a
Sam [00:05:57]:
tour.
Chris [00:05:57]:
So this is the kickoff to the tour, which is a great way to get your,
Sam [00:06:01]:
Oh, he did good. He did very well, and we’re now going to see some poorly made imitations of this, no doubt, from larger, companies. Yeah. They’ll someone will go, oh, remember that sheep thing? Oh, we should do that. And it’ll be like Oh my god. Yeah. I’m gonna eat 20 McNuggets.
Chris [00:06:18]:
Yeah. I’d I’d love to see his actual acts, though, because it sounds pretty interesting because he’s very much, the story is that the the tour and the stuff he’s doing is is more about how did he say it? Most stand up comedians, are blokes that talk about being a bloke or having broken up, and now they’re looking for for dating roles.
Sam [00:06:37]:
There is a lot of that.
Chris [00:06:38]:
His his thing’s more about where why we how how do you say it? Why men are so much better off having women around sort of thing. I’m I’m I’m mucking that up, but it’s that sort of thing. It sounds really cool.
Sam [00:06:53]:
The kiwi got arrested smuggling cocaine. What? It was into Thailand, I think it was, and smuggling is a loose term. It was zero point I’m going off memory here. Zero point, like, one eight grams, like, little tiny baggie of it. Now you’re smuggling cocaine into Thailand, Chris. I don’t know if you know that Thailand has strict rules around this. They’re not, fond of it. How do you smuggle in a little tiny bag of cocaine?
Chris [00:07:17]:
Probably in my pocket because I’m a dumbass. I don’t know.
Sam [00:07:19]:
This guy had it in his passport.
Chris [00:07:33]:
Well, I know. I’m never gonna lose it there if I put it in my passport
Sam [00:07:37]:
because I
Chris [00:07:37]:
don’t it’s so special. I don’t wanna lose my passport. I don’t wanna lose my coke.
Sam [00:07:41]:
So people online were like God. That is the dumbest
Chris [00:07:44]:
thing I ever.
Sam [00:07:47]:
Yeah. They’re just looking through it. I would love to know what the conversation was. Anyway, they said that, online, some commenters said that, the the the authorities in Thailand do understand the difference between a full blown drug smuggler and a complete retard, so he’d probably just get a little tiny prison sentence and then be sent on his way. Very good. Obviously, big news this week, hey, Chris, with the dire wolf. Yes.
Chris [00:08:13]:
Being You you you know more about that than me probably because I I wrote it down because it was interesting, but I hadn’t got a lot of details about it.
Sam [00:08:21]:
So the company we were talking about the other day, I’m sure it’s the one main big company that’s doing all of this. They were potentially thinking about bringing back the moa, hasth eagle, and anything else that’s been extinct in the world, it seems. These guys took a 13,000 year old tooth and a 73,000 year old skull, And from that, they could make some puppies. And they’ve got him, and they’re making this little whine, and they said this is the first time anyone’s ever heard it for ten thousand years. And for some reason, George, Martin’s all involved in this because, obviously, he’s all over it. And people
Chris [00:08:56]:
they got to him. They were they approached him and said, we’re we’re bringing back the direwolves.
Sam [00:09:01]:
Well
Chris [00:09:02]:
These are called direwolves. Peter Jackson
Sam [00:09:04]:
rang George r r Martin
Chris [00:09:06]:
Yeah. That’s
Sam [00:09:06]:
right. Said this guy is doing some stuff, talk to him, and then somehow connected them. George r Martin’s like, this is amazing. And the people roasting the crap out of him online, they were like, it’s taken ten thousand years. It’s probably quicker than you finishing your last book. Because I think the general
Chris [00:09:26]:
because he started off the we’ve got a big announcement. And, no, before you ask, it’s not the next book.
Sam [00:09:31]:
No. Because it because they said, they think that he’s just, like, a full blown celebrity now, and he’s just forgotten about this book. And they were like some people were like, this is the best book I started reading, and now you’ve just destroyed all my hopes and dreams. But, anyway, they’ve managed to bring back these dire wolves back from extinction, which is pretty cool. Like, it’s cool in one way, but I don’t know. Some people are a bit upset, I think, because you are changing potentially the ecosystem if they were all breeding it out in the wild.
Chris [00:10:02]:
Yeah. But they’re not gonna breed them out in the wild, are they? No. Because I can’t see how they would. And the other thing that gets me is it’s not a complete, well, as I understand it, I I’m guessing. It it’s not it won’t be a complete, what do you call it, DNA equivalent of the original? Because they would have used other splice DNA to make it happen.
Sam [00:10:27]:
I’m trying to figure it out here. They found yeah. They use an alternate gene found in modern gray wolves, which produce the desired fur trait without the undesired side effect, whatever that is. Oh, because they’ve got a nonzero chance of making the pups blind deaf or both because yeah. So, basically, they are just editing genes. So they’ve made the best version, I think.
Chris [00:10:51]:
So the it’s a Franken dire wolf.
Sam [00:10:54]:
Yeah. Yeah. They say it’s distinct from the type of genetic magic on display in Jurassic Park. Good.
Chris [00:11:01]:
Yeah. Because these are not cold blooded.
Sam [00:11:05]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:11:06]:
Imagine that. That’s the difference. We decided not to go with lizards and frogs because those frogs can change their sex all the time.
Sam [00:11:15]:
They’ve got three yes. They they’ve got three of them, and what the female is named Khaleesi. They live together in a special secure 2,000 acre ecological preserve.
Chris [00:11:25]:
I it is cool. I I I I think it’s cool, and it’s interesting. Now I know people go, well, what’s why are we spending money on this? But you get scientific breakthroughs from doing these random fringe things.
Sam [00:11:41]:
Yeah. Yeah. Totally.
Chris [00:11:42]:
So much from doing them. So I I don’t have a problem
Sam [00:11:47]:
with that. Six months old. They’re already four feet long, eighty pounds, and can grow up to six feet and a hundred and fifty pounds in weight.
Chris [00:11:55]:
Adam Adam will have some idea of how big that is because I have no idea how big that is in terms of,
Sam [00:12:03]:
a great yeah. Great Dane.
Chris [00:12:04]:
Oh, so Adam’s got a great Dane. I I tell you this. I’m sure Adam will be listening to this. He won’t mind me saying. You say that now. He says he’s bit worried because a dog has been getting onto his property, another dog. And so Oh, okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:12:20]:
So and he can’t figure out where Yeah. How it’s getting on Yeah. Because his dog can’t get out. No. Freya can’t get out. So Freya is a Great Dane who is, I’m going to say, under two, I think.
Sam [00:12:34]:
Yeah. Puppy still. Yeah.
Chris [00:12:35]:
Yeah. But a a full dog sized puppy at at this point. And what I didn’t realize so he I was like, so a dog’s not he goes, oh, well, I think Freya’s getting into heat for the first time.
Sam [00:12:47]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:12:49]:
And I go, oh, yeah. So that might be a problem. He goes, no. That’s a huge problem. Because, apparently, because the Great Dane’s from a breeder, there’s a clause that if she gets pregnant
Sam [00:13:01]:
Oh, that goes to the breeder?
Chris [00:13:03]:
She goes directly to the breeder, and the breeder, you know, Adam gives forfeits the dog.
Sam [00:13:09]:
Oh, right.
Chris [00:13:09]:
And, all the puppies are destroyed.
Sam [00:13:12]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:13:13]:
And it’s like, okay. And he said what did he say? He says, oh, you can get these things called bitches britches. Just look it up on the Internet. I’m like, no. I am not looking up on the Internet, but apparently, it’s to stop, or or slow down the fornication of
Sam [00:13:34]:
dogs Well, hopefully
Chris [00:13:35]:
this exact problem.
Sam [00:13:36]:
Okay. Well, hopefully, he figures out where this random dog’s coming from.
Chris [00:13:39]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:13:40]:
Because he’s not like he’s out in the, like, countryside.
Chris [00:13:44]:
He’s out in the countryside. Yeah. Yeah. And and finds the hole in the fence or whatever it is or how the dog’s getting in. What was the other thing I was gonna say? Oh, yeah. And and shout out too. So Adam went to his first tournament the other day. He wasn’t fighting, but he did compete in the Carter and got a trophy.
Sam [00:14:03]:
Oh, cool.
Chris [00:14:04]:
Second place trophy. So congratulations. He’s got one more trophy than I’ve ever got. I got certificates for winning tournament.
Sam [00:14:12]:
No. It’s not the same you’re looking at.
Chris [00:14:13]:
They didn’t give me I’ve never got a trophy, I don’t think. So, yeah, well done, Adam. That’s cool. And and his and Ben did really well. I saw a video of his fight, so that was pretty cool. Very good. Do you
Sam [00:14:26]:
wanna kick start or drop kick? They’ve got this thing called PocketCloud, the portable NAS that back backs up your world on the go. And, usually, if you’ve got one at home, you’ve got multiple hard drives and are sort of making redundant copies.
Chris [00:14:41]:
Plug and play, You plug it in, pull it out.
Sam [00:14:43]:
Well, you don’t normally have to plug them in, pull them out. It just sits there. But if you wanna change your ad Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So these guys have made a portable one.
Sam [00:14:51]:
So it’s like a little gray box that sort of looks like a, sort of the size of Nintendo Switch.
Chris [00:14:59]:
So what’s the difference between that and just a portable hard drive, though?
Sam [00:15:02]:
Well, this one yeah. Good question. This one can easily connect to all your devices, and you can put the SD cards from your photos or whatever you want into this straightaway in the field. You press a button, it does the copy automatically. So you’ve automatically got two copies.
Chris [00:15:17]:
Oh, so you attach it to the device, hit the magic button, and it copies anything on that drive?
Sam [00:15:21]:
Yep. Then when you get home, there’s a dock, and it goes into a dock. So it looks very much like a Nintendo Switch, goes into the dock, then it does a backup again on your hard drive as well as this thing and maybe in the cloud all at the same
Chris [00:15:34]:
time. That’d be great for film.
Sam [00:15:36]:
Potentially. So these guys have done a couple of other campaigns where they’ve built, like, little, Raspberry Pi type computer boards.
Chris [00:15:44]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:15:44]:
So they sort of know what they’re doing, in that regard. Yeah. It seems pretty interesting. It’s modular. You can add up to it. Apparently, it has six hours of battery in it, so you can just go wherever you want. And, you know, it is targeting the people that photographers and stuff don’t yeah. Videographers, I guess.
Sam [00:16:04]:
So, anyway, how much would you expect to pay for one of those things?
Chris [00:16:07]:
So just for one of Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:16:09]:
Hang on. I’ll tell you how much they want.
Chris [00:16:10]:
Just for one of those things? I I reckon that that that’ll be 400, 5 hundred bucks, New Zealand.
Sam [00:16:17]:
Yeah. So that Or more even. This is one of those ones where they’ve only asked for, like, this New Zealand dollars. So about $7,000 is all they wanted
Chris [00:16:27]:
For the whole lot. Yeah.
Sam [00:16:28]:
Is is what they want to start this Kickstarter project. So they started quite low. Let’s have a look. Let’s see if it comes you can get one for $345. Yeah.
Chris [00:16:39]:
You don’t get the The main.
Sam [00:16:42]:
SSD card. You gotta insert your own one.
Chris [00:16:44]:
Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:16:44]:
That’s easy enough. This is the trick. $3.45 is without the dock. You just get the thing.
Chris [00:16:50]:
That’s what I was thinking.
Sam [00:16:51]:
Okay. With the dock, 500.
Chris [00:16:53]:
Well, that’s not bad because I thought the dock would be quite a lot more.
Sam [00:16:56]:
Well, I thought yeah. Yeah. So, anyway, that’s all pretty good. They only won about 7,000, and they’ve already raised 316,000. Wow. Thirty three days to go.
Chris [00:17:07]:
Rob, if you’re listening or if anybody knows, sound guy Rob, he should check it out.
Sam [00:17:12]:
Maybe. Yeah. I don’t yeah. I I don’t know. The concept’s really good. There’s been things out there previously that do this, sort of, but I don’t know how it fits into a professional’s workflow.
Chris [00:17:24]:
Exactly. Exactly. Actually, David, forgotten his surname, that does our videography. Yeah. He he that because he does, his day job now is videographer for, real estate.
Sam [00:17:39]:
Are you still doing real estate?
Chris [00:17:40]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you’d imagine that sort of thing would be ideal for them.
Sam [00:17:44]:
And then the other thing I found was a it was like a fancy salt and pepper grinder, but there it it had 54 different little I think it holds 10 at a time. There’s 54 capsules of herbs, and you slot them in. And then on the top is a screen, and you can go one half a teaspoon of this one, and it rotates around. It goes, does all of that. Seems very technical. Looks like a million things that could break with it. Yeah. And you’d have to keep it charged.
Sam [00:18:13]:
And now I can’t find it because I can’t remember what it was called. Like, what would you call it?
Chris [00:18:20]:
A mill. It’ll be a something mill, spice mill. But this is
Sam [00:18:24]:
the thing. Like, I can’t find it. I did look at it this morning. So, anyway, that thing’s out there, and, I think it wanted some silly amount of money. And I think it had met its goal, but I can’t remember how much it was. So sorry about that.
Chris [00:18:36]:
Good story, Brian.
Sam [00:18:37]:
I know. That’s
Chris [00:18:39]:
what you usually say to me. Okay. So I’m gonna tell you about the the the the darker side of fame. Or or is it? I’m not sure. For who? For for this person. So, this person, she’s 84 year old, British woman, and she ended up being in a net Netflix, documentary Yeah. Con Mom.
Sam [00:19:05]:
Oh, I’ve seen it come up. I haven’t watched
Chris [00:19:07]:
it yet. Oh, have you?
Sam [00:19:08]:
No. No. I haven’t watched it. Yeah. But it comes up on Netflix. I’m like, I’m gonna watch it next.
Chris [00:19:12]:
So it’s a crime documentary about a chef whose life is upended when a jet setting, champagne sipping, hotel hopping woman claims to be his mother. Yes.
Sam [00:19:21]:
Exactly. That’s what it says on the screen. Yeah. Okay. Go.
Chris [00:19:23]:
And, so she, she’s in this Netflix thing, and all these people get hold of the local police in Singapore because she’s been going around. She’s got this scam going on where she has, got in touch with these people and and basically said, hey. Look. I’ve got this I’ve got all this money. I’m gonna die soon because I’ve got cancer or some
Sam [00:19:49]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:19:49]:
Okay. So, I’m I’m I’m here’s my will. I’m signing it to you, but I need some money to tide me over towards cancer
Sam [00:19:57]:
with me. Okay.
Chris [00:19:58]:
So she’s getting all this money. And How convincing do
Sam [00:20:01]:
you have to be for this?
Chris [00:20:03]:
She must be good. And, there’s several people who watched that and went, but she’s the she’s the person who’s giving her her inheritance. And and so she got arrested, and she’s facing twenty years.
Sam [00:20:20]:
Unrelated to the original doco, which I don’t even I don’t
Chris [00:20:23]:
even doco, I think.
Sam [00:20:24]:
I don’t even know what the result of that was.
Chris [00:20:26]:
Yeah. I don’t know anything. It doesn’t say anything about that. Yeah. So, I and I say, you know, tongue in cheek, you know, the allure of fame. I’m sure she wasn’t, like, planning on getting filmed for the doco either, but, yeah. Yeah. She’s just got just got yeah.
Chris [00:20:44]:
So the woman originally promised the victims they would be reimbursed through her inheritance. The victims, believing the opportunities and the inheritance were genuine, made several transfers to her. The victims only realized that they’d been cheated after the woman was found to be featured as a scammer in that documentary.
Sam [00:21:01]:
Okay. So up until that documentary
Chris [00:21:04]:
They they were like, we’re we’re gonna we’re gonna be rich. And so she was, arrested on March 28. Preliminary investigations and revealed that women is believed to be involved in at least five cases of cheating with losses amounting to more than 200,000 US. Oh, a hundred 59 a hundred and 49 US. Hundred 40 9 thousand US, 2 hundred thousand Singapore. Should be charged in court on Saturday, and, yeah, the offense carries up to twenty years in prison. I just wouldn’t eighty four. So you know.
Sam [00:21:38]:
I wouldn’t believe I just wouldn’t believe anybody if they came up to me and, like, hey. I’ve got some money. Go away. Yeah. I just I I don’t know. I’m just like, no. I yeah,
Chris [00:21:49]:
I know. Although, I was reading I haven’t got any notes on it here, but I was reading about the guy, the richest, what do they call them? Mega church owner. He’s a Brazilian dude. Oh, right. He his net worth is 1,800,000,000.0, so he’s
Sam [00:22:05]:
a little
Chris [00:22:05]:
bit more than the Kardashian the Kim Kardashian. Yep. He’s selling off some stuff because he’s getting some hot water on him and stuff. But just reading about this condo he’s selling in Miami, which has, a car elevator for your car to bring it up to your apartment
Sam [00:22:23]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:22:23]:
For every like, it was just insane. And I’m just going, the the the difference between the lifestyle I live here and the lifestyle these guys live is just unfathomable unfathomable to me. Like I know.
Speaker A [00:22:42]:
Holy
Sam [00:22:43]:
crap. I like to think about the tradespeople in these scenarios. Like, you know there’s some you you want a car lift in your apartment? You gotta go to Craig. He’s the car lift guy. And he’s like and he has to do, like, two jobs a year, and he’s like, you what? Oh.
Chris [00:22:56]:
It reminds me of that, that movie, Eric Sandler, Sandler. Adam Sandler. Okay. You got there. I got there. Where is the cable guy? Who knows the president? I forget what you get. Yeah. It’s the same thing, hey? Because he’s just hanging out with the rest of us.
Chris [00:23:13]:
I’m just a IT dude, cable guy, whatever it is.
Sam [00:23:16]:
You’ve got this thing here. I don’t know what the name of it was, but I assume this is it. You’ve got Corleo Oh, yeah. It’s Kawasaki. Now is this the robotic horse? Yes. Good. Yes. Good.
Sam [00:23:28]:
I like it.
Chris [00:23:29]:
Yes. So, I didn’t know if you’d you’d come across that. So this cordeo, you will definitely see these. The videos are rampant all over the Internet right now. But only renders? There’s only renders. I think there I thought there was one video of an actual prototype.
Sam [00:23:46]:
No. They I I think it said they haven’t Or
Chris [00:23:48]:
have a photo of Yeah.
Sam [00:23:49]:
I don’t think they’ve fully got oh, they go stand in this one, though.
Chris [00:23:52]:
Yeah. I think there’s a photo of a prototype. I don’t know if the prototype’s working.
Sam [00:23:56]:
No. Like, you know hydrogen powered.
Chris [00:23:58]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, basically, it’s a quadruped, vehicle. So imagine sitting on an ATV, but instead of four big wheels, it’s got four legs.
Sam [00:24:09]:
I know. It’s gonna be so cool. I don’t think it’s gonna happen in our lifetime, but I just really wanna see everybody wandering around, old people just riding their horse thing.
Chris [00:24:17]:
I that’s what I said. I’m not gonna look at my hip. I’m just gonna get a Corleo.
Sam [00:24:22]:
I mean, look at this shot. This dude’s jumping one. That’s like
Chris [00:24:26]:
I I wouldn’t trust that. No. I wouldn’t trust
Sam [00:24:29]:
that either. It looks a little bit awkward, but it can go anywhere.
Chris [00:24:34]:
That’s the idea. And it does sort of make sense. I just again, you you gotta worry about that range thing. You know? Like, horses have good range because they eat grass. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Like, although if it’s hydrogen powered, I presume you could, ultimately get it to a point where you just pour water in. So every time you come to a stream or something, you can pour some water in, and it could, get it going again.
Chris [00:25:03]:
But, yeah, that sounds very science fictiony.
Sam [00:25:06]:
So it has a, yeah, a 50 cc hydrogen engine, which generates electricity to power it and emits, obviously, only water vapor. It predicts what’s happening because it’s got an AI copilot. What could go wrong? Oh, man. There’s gonna be some claim on there when it just jumps off a cliff with an old person on their back. Oh, you steer with your hips, obviously, and put sensors like a horse you sort of lean.
Chris [00:25:28]:
It’s very much like a a motorbike in that regard.
Sam [00:25:31]:
Yeah. So there’s 60 public hydrogen stations in The US, mostly in California. Didn’t even know that, but that’s cool.
Chris [00:25:39]:
They were thinking that they could use it for, firefighters, to haul gear where they can’t go. And and so after Trump’s ruined the, economy over there and the potholes aren’t being fixed or anything and they have no more roads, everybody won’t need roads because they won’t have wheels because they’ll have horse cars.
Sam [00:25:59]:
It says here yeah. That’s right. It says here they wanna target $20.50 for the launch of this
Chris [00:26:05]:
Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:26:06]:
For market readiness, but they said don’t hold your breath. The legs are mechanically complex, really expensive, and hydrogen needs a miracle. And then it goes, yet BMW self balancing tech seemed far fetched until it wasn’t.
Chris [00:26:18]:
Yeah. Exactly. Those motorbikes that just follow you around while you’re walking and just stop
Sam [00:26:24]:
Yep.
Chris [00:26:24]:
And and stably stand up. Like, it that’s insane when you look at it. You because you just look at it and go, that’s not real, and it is. So, yeah, things will and with AI helping with the engineering, you’d be surprised how quick you could, move things forward. Actually, I’m gonna tie the last two stories together a bit
Sam [00:26:45]:
Okay. Let’s go.
Chris [00:26:46]:
With, a story from the BBC, which tickled me a little bit. I find this amusing. I don’t know whether you will, but this poor guy, so these owners of a full small family run business, they’re in, London. Right? Yeah. Co owner of HCS furniture. So they have a little Vauxhall van furniture van that they do do their deliveries. It’s electric. Okay.
Chris [00:27:09]:
And they parked, at Rathbone Square Car Park near Oxford Street in December 2022. Now, it’s one of those mechanical parks. You know?
Sam [00:27:22]:
Oh, they We’ve got one in cubes. We’ve got one in town.
Chris [00:27:25]:
Yeah. Yeah. This This one’s a little bit bigger than that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot a lot bigger than that. But yeah.
Chris [00:27:31]:
So he parks
Sam [00:27:32]:
and he gets crushed.
Chris [00:27:33]:
Stuff, and then he goes back, and he goes, oh, can you get my my van back? And he goes, oh, I’m sorry. We can’t. There’s been a mechanical malfunction.
Sam [00:27:42]:
Oh, no.
Chris [00:27:44]:
Alright. It was six here we go. It was about 06:00 in the that evening. Went back to the concierge and said, can we have the van back? To which he said, we’re very sorry, but you can’t because the stacking system has malfunctioned. Yeah. Mister Lucas was reassured his van would soon be returned, so he and his company, co owner Steve Davies, decided to temporarily hire another van at the cost of 800 a month, 8 hundred pounds a month. And so we’re told it’s just a bit further away, so we carried on renting, expecting to get the van back, but it never did.
Sam [00:28:14]:
Hang on. How long were they renting another van for?
Chris [00:28:17]:
We’d get the occasional update, but we call them constantly to say, what’s the news? What’s happening? And we got little or no response.
Sam [00:28:23]:
Okay. This is weird.
Chris [00:28:25]:
So they’re now £40,000 out of pocket.
Sam [00:28:29]:
So after
Chris [00:28:29]:
a couple of years of renting, we decided we can’t afford to do this anymore. So we gave the hire van back and took out another loan to buy a sick and van. In total, I estimate we’re at about 40,000 out of pocket. What? Still haven’t got that.
Sam [00:28:43]:
No. This doesn’t sound
Chris [00:28:44]:
legit. The delays that appears was blamed on engineers needing new parts. In January 2023, the head concierge at Rathbone said it would take forty weeks. A year later, the methodologist was told
Sam [00:28:56]:
to be
Chris [00:28:57]:
were unlikely to take place before May 2024, but any losses will be recoverable from the party found to have the overall responsibility for this incident. However, until this happens, the business owners are unable to claim back any money through insurance. How many cars are traveling? Only six months old. Oh. And we’ve had no access to it. We’ve had no communication.
Sam [00:29:20]:
I’m I No. This is stupid. This is stupid. You’re annoying me now with your story.
Chris [00:29:30]:
I love the name of the company, though. Double parking system.
Sam [00:29:35]:
You know what? They’ve got they’ve got that one expert that’s traveling the world trying to fix them.
Chris [00:29:39]:
Double Parking Systems, which maintains and repairs the car park, said it could not publicly comment as it’s been signed a nondisclosure agreement. Yeah. We’re trying to grow the business. We can’t because we have all this money tied up. How can you plan for anything when you don’t know what’s gonna happen in the near future? So if you’re going to use one of those mechanical car parks, be aware that Oh. You might not get a car back. Mind you, I suppose you could say that anywhere you park anywhere, somebody could blow your car up or something.
Sam [00:30:10]:
Thought you were gonna tell me that the van got squished.
Chris [00:30:12]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:30:13]:
No. Just stuck in the thing for multiple months. Years now. Okay. If we ever
Chris [00:30:19]:
what are we gonna do? There’s a dead body of No.
Sam [00:30:25]:
No.
Chris [00:30:27]:
Oh god. It could be a movie. That’s awesome. I like that. That tickled me.
Sam [00:30:31]:
That brings us to the end of the podcast.
Chris [00:30:33]:
Alright. What are you gonna going this week?
Sam [00:30:35]:
I don’t know. Oh, Misty Flix submissions are open now. Already had two. If you’re listening to this and you’re a filmmaker, have a look at Misty Flix on Film Freeway or check out our website. That’d be great. Yep.
Chris [00:30:46]:
We will be announcing the rules for the challenge.
Sam [00:30:50]:
I know. I’ve already had people asking me about that. I was like, calm down. Yep. We’re getting we’re getting someone onto it.
Chris [00:30:55]:
It’ll be a month away.
Sam [00:30:56]:
Okay. Cool.
Chris [00:30:57]:
Apparently. Yeah. It’s just over two weeks, and we’re having a meeting on it. So we’ll we’ll find out. Very good. Yeah. Because I know Adam’s been asking me about that.
Sam [00:31:07]:
So Okay. Good.
Chris [00:31:08]:
Just start making the film. Change it to the rules later. Easy.
Sam [00:31:12]:
Do it in post.
Chris [00:31:14]:
Fix it in post.
Sam [00:31:15]:
And with that, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:31:17]:
I’m Chris. See you. Bye.
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