Cat Flavoured Dog Pie

Summary

This episode is filled to the brim with stories. From a Cat flavoured Dog pie, to unique flooding protection, a bookshop move, the world’s most bitter compound and Chris being weird.

More on the stolen golden toilet, a Kiwi woman gets a brain implant, a new colour has been found, what’s up with Fyre Festival 2 and so much more.

Show Transcript

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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 528 of the Chris and Sam podcast.

Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.

Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life. You’re welcome.

Chris [00:00:31]:
On a long weekend. Another long weekend. Two long weekends in a row. It’s great.

Sam [00:00:36]:
Two short weeks. Yes. Getting used to it and then they just kick you in the teeth and say no.

Chris [00:00:41]:
Oh, Monday. You have to work. What? What?

Sam [00:00:43]:
You have to do five days now.

Chris [00:00:45]:
I have to start off by saying, apologizing.

Sam [00:00:50]:
Are you gonna say you’re a dumbass?

Chris [00:00:51]:
Yeah. Pretty much. Because I got fact checked on Saturday and Sunday. So, Saturday, Sam was editing the podcast or whatever before publishing it and emails me and goes, the USS Musk thing was in April fools. And then first thing, Sunday morning or after it went out, Quentin makes messaged just me. You should have checked. USC’s Musk is April Fools. I’m like, yeah.

Chris [00:01:19]:
Alright. To be fair, they got me. They got me good.

Sam [00:01:23]:
This isn’t the first time this has happened to you.

Chris [00:01:25]:
Oh, no. I’ve been got by April Fools things before. I didn’t get got by the New Zealand Football One this year, but I didn’t get it straight away either.

Sam [00:01:36]:
Okay.

Chris [00:01:37]:
It said we’re doing a big rebrand

Sam [00:01:39]:
Oh, yeah. Okay.

Chris [00:01:40]:
To New Zealand soccer. Alright. I was like, I don’t get it. And then I had to have somebody point that out. And they go, oh, I

Sam [00:01:48]:
wasn’t that’s not

Chris [00:01:49]:
They’ve used the s word before. They get so freaking nuts about the s word.

Sam [00:01:55]:
I mean, from a branding point of view, they should stick with football. But if anyone mentions soccer, they should be like, you’re talking about the same thing.

Chris [00:02:01]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I agree. I agree.

Sam [00:02:04]:
What have you been up to this week? Anything?

Chris [00:02:07]:
Just work. Just just working pretty much. Just working. But I’ve got a bunch of stuff here. Oh, I’ve got a surprise for you.

Sam [00:02:15]:
Okay. He’s pulled out some shot glasses. He’s pulled out sheepdog whiskey.

Chris [00:02:24]:
So you got the peanut butter whiskey that it talked about, a couple of weeks ago?

Sam [00:02:29]:
Gonna smell it. I’m not gonna drink it.

Chris [00:02:31]:
Oh, you have a little bit. Have a little bit.

Sam [00:02:33]:
I’m not really keen.

Chris [00:02:35]:
I’ve I’ve put it poured him a half a shot.

Sam [00:02:40]:
I don’t know if I’d be able to tell it was peanut butter, to be honest. I reckon it’s puree. Yeah. I don’t know what it would be. May maple syrup’s the wrong term. Yeah. I don’t know what that would be.

Chris [00:02:51]:
It reminds me of something else, and I can’t remember what it is.

Sam [00:02:54]:
It does.

Chris [00:02:54]:
Another,

Sam [00:02:55]:
It’s pretty good. I just don’t know. Yeah. Anyway, that works really well for an audio podcast.

Chris [00:03:02]:
I I, I well, I thought I’d get a a reaction out of you, but he’s just stuck his tongue into it and then that’s

Sam [00:03:09]:
Pretty much. Just don’t feel like drinking whiskey at whatever time of the day it is today. But talking about dogs and cats, there’s a cat flavored dog pie that’s come out.

Chris [00:03:20]:
What the hell? So it’s a pie for dogs? Yes. So it’s dog food in the shape of a pie or in the style of a pie.

Sam [00:03:29]:
Well, Muzz’s Pies in Auckland, apparently, they make some good pies, and they’ve marketing marketed it as having cat flavors, but it’s for dogs. This has upset some people. It’s a little bit of fun and tongue in cheek, and, they used AI to help formulate the recipe. And they said cat flavor for humorous effect. But in it, it does say here somewhere or maybe not. Oh, I thought it did. Anyway, it’s got food in it that dogs like and they’ve made a little dog sized replica of the bakery outside the real bakery. And, you can go buy them for your dog.

Sam [00:04:09]:
And 10% of all the money goes to, the chained dog rehabilitation and rehoming Organization. So, you know, they thought through. They got some marketing.

Chris [00:04:21]:
Yeah. No. It’s a good marketing ploy. I don’t see anybody having a I don’t know why anyone would have a a a major meltdown about the cat flavored. Like, because obviously, cats taste like chicken.

Sam [00:04:32]:
One resident state yeah. One resident said they would boycott the shop. It almost feels like they found the one or two people that we’re complaining.

Chris [00:04:39]:
Yeah. Oh, no doubt. No doubt. Hey. I I came across this a couple of weeks back, and I now I’m gonna be like, oh, I hope it wasn’t a new, April Fools’.

Sam [00:04:49]:
Could be.

Chris [00:04:51]:
But it was it was pretty I thought it was sorta clever, but also ballsy. So, anyway, it’s a Kentucky restaurant. They they’ve got flooding happening.

Sam [00:05:00]:
Oh, yeah.

Chris [00:05:00]:
It’s it’s it was plan not planned. Forecast. It was forecast. Yes. So what they did was they got their restaurant and they, moved everything they could out there, filled all the, blocked all the drains, and filled it up with fresh water.

Sam [00:05:17]:
I think I saw a video of this.

Chris [00:05:19]:
Yeah. I’ve got it’s got a video in this.

Sam [00:05:20]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:05:21]:
And they’ve filled up with fresh water to keep up to, I think, six foot deep.

Sam [00:05:26]:
Oh, yeah.

Chris [00:05:27]:
The it’s a you know, got a it’s got, like, polished concrete floors, so they’re not, you know, it’s it’s glass and concrete floors and stuff like that. So they’re not, like, ruining anything. But it the whole idea was to stop the dirty flood water from coming in. Yes. So you’ve got the fresh water in that keeps the dirty as long as it didn’t go over six foot, they were right. Yeah. And I don’t know how it worked out in the end because, that was before.

Sam [00:05:51]:
But even if just I wonder what the, how long it would take or how much it would cost to just clean up your clean water. Yeah. Because you’d have to have a little bit of

Chris [00:06:00]:
I mean, it would be a problem if it was carpeted and all that sort of stuff.

Sam [00:06:03]:
No. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I don’t know. Interesting concept. Yeah. I’ve worked with them.

Sam [00:06:08]:
Talking about interesting things, there’s this I don’t know if you’ve seen this little video online, on April in Michigan. This Serendipity bookstore had to move and they had, like, 9,000 books. They were moving down the road to a larger location. And they were like, man, that’s gonna be pain in the ass. So they put out a call and they’re a community based type of place. And they said, hey. Can you help us move books? So they just made it like a human book chain.

Chris [00:06:35]:
I saw a video of that. I think on Facebook or something. Yeah. I just saw it as I was scrolling through. I was like, what are they doing? And I just went past it. I didn’t know.

Sam [00:06:42]:
So 300 people, human convey about, move 9,000 books in a couple hours.

Chris [00:06:47]:
That’s pretty cool.

Sam [00:06:48]:
That’s pretty cool. Yeah. Like, that’s pretty good.

Chris [00:06:50]:
I like that. I like that.

Sam [00:06:51]:
Oh, and they transferred the whole inventory in alphabetical order. So I guess they knew where everything was going at the other end.

Chris [00:06:57]:
Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense.

Sam [00:07:00]:
You You could only do that in a really good community because some of your books have disappeared or I don’t know.

Chris [00:07:07]:
Yeah. Yeah. And then nobody wants to buy it because it’s got fingerprints all over it.

Sam [00:07:13]:
Maybe. He’d be like, there’s one grubby guy. I just just flick through this book real quick.

Chris [00:07:19]:
Yeah. What what book? So I I don’t know. This cracked me up a little bit, and I shouldn’t say it like that. The pope died this this this week. Right?

Sam [00:07:32]:
Just before he died, two or three days, Sarah said to me something like, oh, it it was a news article on the radio, I think, when we got stuck in that traffic, I think it was. And they were like, oh, they they wheeled the pope out in his wheelchair or something. I said, oh, they’re weakened at burning him. He’s not really alive right now. And then, like, a day later, he died and she messaged me. He goes,

Chris [00:07:51]:
look. Yeah. I think

Sam [00:07:52]:
you might be right.

Chris [00:07:53]:
Well, because the the funny thing was that JD Vance spoke to him, like, hours before he died. Right? So he got to meet him. And there’s been some good memes. I don’t know if you’ve seen a few of them.

Sam [00:08:03]:
I saw a couple.

Chris [00:08:04]:
I I live love the one because Vance then went to India and there was that meme that the Dalai Lama has canceled his meeting with Vance. I thought it was hilarious. But also, Marjorie Taylor Greene, you know who that is, MTG. The,

Sam [00:08:21]:
You’ve already lost almost the whole audience, Chris. This is not a fan favorite.

Chris [00:08:25]:
Okay. So she tweeted out, today there were major shifts in global leadership. Evil is being defeated by the hand of God. Because she thought the pope was Satan. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, I thought that was, alright. Not of interest to anyone.

Chris [00:08:43]:
Cool.

Sam [00:08:43]:
In other news, Palmerston, the celebrated former chief mouser of the UK foreign office, has come out of retirement.

Chris [00:08:51]:
They got they got mice in the records.

Sam [00:08:54]:
No. He retired to the countryside over four years ago, but he’s decided to come back because basically, he’s now the newly appointed, he’s gonna be the feline relations consultant to the newly appointed governor of Bermuda. He’s the guy that originally had the cat, I think, in parliament or originally found the cat. So, he’s just working part time at the moment, but they’ll take him. Scientists have been really busy lately. And sometimes, yet again, I don’t know why they’re doing some stuff. They found the world’s most bitter compound, and it’s on a mushroom. They think that it’s not toxic, but, it lights up more bitter taste receptors in your mouth than anything known to mankind so far.

Sam [00:09:50]:
One gram to 16,000 liters of water dilution, it’s still bitter.

Chris [00:09:58]:
Good god. Because do you like those, sweet and sour lollies or the sour sour, you know, the one Young

Sam [00:10:04]:
when I was younger, I did because it was a whole thing.

Chris [00:10:07]:
I really like the sour.

Sam [00:10:08]:
Yeah. And it’s this discovery that the founders challenging the linking of bitterness to toxicity because this thing’s not toxic. It’s just super bitter.

Chris [00:10:19]:
Yeah. But it’s the same deal. Right? It’s like camouflaging the taste for would be, predators of the mushroom or whatever. So they taste that and go, oh, it must be poisonous, and they don’t.

Sam [00:10:31]:
Maybe, the deadly death cap has a pleasant nutty taste. So that’s good to know.

Chris [00:10:37]:
So it tastes good, but it’s little bitter, scaly bits on it don’t.

Sam [00:10:42]:
Well, no. Different different mushroom. But anyway, they’ve also unlocked a new color recently. It’s called o l o, olo, I guess.

Chris [00:10:51]:
What do you mean new color?

Sam [00:10:52]:
Well, it’s a color that humans have not been able to see before, but it’s apparently been there. Like I said, scientists are doing stuff that scientists do, and we get these stories. It opens up exciting possibilities for vision research and things like that. And it’s to do with the cones in our eyes and how we see light. And, apparently, this is just outside our normal spectrum. I think I read somewhere that they they’ve found, like, five people that can see this color, like, naturally.

Chris [00:11:24]:
Yeah. I’d be wondering I wonder if, like, you have something LSD or something like that and you can see it. Like, you know, like, that’s one of the reasons why weird stuff happen.

Sam [00:11:34]:
Yeah. So there’s a whole bunch of stuff around eye disease and things like that that could work. They said it could be brought into things like TVs and smartphones and lasers and optics. There’s a wide range of stuff. Currently, you can only see it, like, peripherally on the side because it’s difficulty targeting the cones at the center of the retina. And it says that the color is sort of like a greeny blue. But you wouldn’t know. Like, if I could see an extra color to you right now

Chris [00:12:07]:
You wouldn’t know.

Sam [00:12:08]:
You wouldn’t know. And then also describing shades of color because it’s a stupid, was it golden blue, that dress? Whatever that you know? It was like, well, you know, some people swore it was blue or gold or whatever.

Chris [00:12:20]:
And you did you ever see both?

Sam [00:12:24]:
I can’t remember. It was a a while

Chris [00:12:25]:
ago, probably. I I do remember looking at it once and going, oh, you know, it’s

Sam [00:12:28]:
Oh, yes. Yes. Yes.

Chris [00:12:29]:
Looking at it again later. I’m like, is that a different picture? Because now I can see the gold. And I think I swear it’s just what you’ve been looking at beforehand.

Sam [00:12:37]:
Probably.

Chris [00:12:38]:
You know what I mean? Yeah.

Sam [00:12:39]:
And then it comes down to things like computer screens. That, like, when you change a color on something and you go, oh, this is this. And then somebody goes, oh, it looks like this on the phone. Oh, oh my gosh. What’s that?

Chris [00:12:49]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:12:50]:
Anyway, that’s been happening. So that’s good.

Chris [00:12:53]:
Would you would you wanna be a US citizen?

Sam [00:12:56]:
Probably not.

Chris [00:12:57]:
No. I I definitely would not be wanna be. But there’s a new thing. If you really want to be, they’re putting together a,

Sam [00:13:04]:
Don’t you just have to pay some money?

Chris [00:13:06]:
Oh, you other than the the the Special. 5,000,000 gold Trump card.

Sam [00:13:11]:
Oh, yeah. Okay. What’s the other thing?

Chris [00:13:13]:
The senator I think senator Langford is he’s a pro deportation. He’s said so on his podcast. He’s said he’d like to see all male undocumented migrants in The US deported. He also proposed that female undocumented migrant immigrants should be able to should be given a year to consider marrying a Californian incel to avoid deportation. So if you’re if you’re female and you really wanna stay on the

Sam [00:13:41]:
You have a year though as well.

Chris [00:13:44]:
You can.

Sam [00:13:44]:
I think he’s married. No. Why only a Californian one?

Chris [00:13:49]:
I have no idea.

Sam [00:13:51]:
I think he’s an incel.

Chris [00:13:52]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:13:53]:
This Kiwi woman, apparently, we’ve got, you know, these we have big breakthrough things happening in New Zealand sometimes. And, this Kiwi woman, she’s had a sensor implanted in her brain in a world first surgery.

Chris [00:14:09]:
Oh, wow.

Sam [00:14:09]:
And, apparently, they do the surgery here or the company came up with it. She’s got a condition called hydrocephalus, and it’s inflammation of the brain.

Chris [00:14:20]:
I was just gonna say.

Sam [00:14:21]:
And the implant the brain. Yeah. It tells how bad the pressure’s getting and whether she needs to go to the hospital. And that’s pretty much it. And she does it herself. She’s got, like, a wand. That’s the thing in her brain. And she waves this wand over her head.

Sam [00:14:36]:
And for some reason, Patty Gower spoke to her and was doing it.

Chris [00:14:40]:
Of course, he did. Because he he’s like a little precond that just appears everywhere

Sam [00:14:44]:
he goes. He does look like the he

Chris [00:14:46]:
does look like the

Sam [00:14:49]:
so 12 New Zealanders have got this. It was invented by a bioengineer called Simon Melplas in Auckland. And she’s a trainee nurse and she just said it’s reduced her anxiety. She waves the wand and she just knows. Boop. It sounds pretty simple.

Chris [00:15:04]:
Is there something she can do about it though? Like, she goes, oh, no. It’s getting high. I’m going to pass out shortly or something and

Sam [00:15:10]:
Go to the hospital. Go to hospital. I guess before that, you have a seizure or something happens.

Chris [00:15:16]:
Before you know. Yeah. I guess.

Sam [00:15:18]:
But then here’s the thing. That sensor really should be hopefully paired to a phone and just alert you because if you forget to wave the wand like, what’s the frequency of wavewanting you should be doing?

Chris [00:15:32]:
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway yeah. Yeah. I because I, I’m still not used to that, and it’s quite normal now. So,

Sam [00:15:40]:
I’m Not used to what? Waving wand over people’s heads?

Chris [00:15:43]:
You will know, that sort of thing. That cyborg issue, whatever you wanna call it. So, Martin is, in the structure at the creative club.

Sam [00:15:51]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:15:51]:
And we finished the juniors and the seniors about to start type thing. And he goes and picks this thing. I thought it was a cell phone, but he just puts it on his shoulder and goes, boop, and checks it. And I realized he’s checking his diabetes.

Sam [00:16:04]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So that’s fully funded now. So they’ve just changed that recently. Yeah. And that’s made a big difference. But, yeah, my, niece does that.

Chris [00:16:11]:
Yeah. Yeah. And I I just had never seen it. I knew it was a thing, but I’d never seen somebody just, you know, boop. And it’s like, that is so much better than I think pricking your finger, putting a blood on a thing, waiting for it, You know?

Sam [00:16:24]:
I think my niece’s one is communicating to her phone, and then all that data is shared to her parents. They just open their phone, and they can see if she’s high or low. And then when it goes low, all these alarms go off on the phone and stuff. But she’s got a, the pump. So it’s all connected to that. So that

Chris [00:16:42]:
so we So it’ll do it itself?

Sam [00:16:44]:
Yes. It’s doing the, dosing by itself. And then, if she does more activity or something she knows coming up, she can tap, like, sports mode or something. I think it is. And it it it gives a bit more yeah. Yeah. That’s all pretty cool.

Chris [00:16:55]:
It’s pretty cool. It it’s it’s amazing what you can do these days. Right?

Sam [00:16:58]:
One thing that you can’t do well, maybe you could, but you’re gonna deny it, is, this 40 year old from London has denied stealing a toilet. You you heard about this? No. Okay. So in 02/2019, an 18 karat gold toilet was stolen from Blenheim Palace.

Chris [00:17:17]:
Didn’t we talk about that

Sam [00:17:19]:
I don’t. All the time?

Chris [00:17:20]:
I I think because we laughed a lot about how do you walk out with a toilet.

Sam [00:17:24]:
I’m not sure. I can’t remember. But this guy has just, I think, been caught or tied up in it somehow. He’s been charged with conspiring to transfer criminal property.

Chris [00:17:36]:
I know. I’m just picturing him sitting on the loo when they break the door down. With the gutted it. You’re on you’re on stolen profession. Well, I’m Sorry. Anyway, carry on.

Sam [00:17:48]:
Well, maybe he was trying to sell it. I don’t know. It was £4,800,000, this toilet. That’s how much it cost. But it flooded the eighteenth century Blenheim Palace as well. The trial oh, this is a little bit old. The trial should have just happened in February. So we’ll see.

Sam [00:18:04]:
I might have to find out what’s happened there. Four of them though because but you could just imagine it being like a Guy Ritchie plot, We’re gonna break into this place. We’re gonna steal the toilet or the throne as I like to call it.

Chris [00:18:17]:
Yeah. I don’t know. You got the toilet? We’re actually wanting you to steal the throne. By throne in a palace, I meant the throne, but not the toilet.

Sam [00:18:27]:
But they accidentally take this art installation which is worth more than the throne. I was writing itself.

Chris [00:18:36]:
I I saw this video, and I’ve got a link to it so we might post it on Facebook or something later. And it’s not the greatest of videos to be fair, but it was a Guinness World Record, attempt.

Sam [00:18:47]:
Do you get them coming up on your Facebook feed? I do. And that’s so random. They must have a show sometimes.

Chris [00:18:53]:
And they’ve

Sam [00:18:54]:
got, like, an audience. I’m not sure. And they’ll just have people doing the dumbest stuff. But it’s usually a lot of the one thing.

Chris [00:19:01]:
So this is a Cypriot, glass dancer. So they do this dance and he has so the guy’s bald. He’s got, like, a flannel or something across his head. Yeah. Then there’s a glass of water, around tumbler, normal tumbler type of glass. It’s got water in it. I don’t know if that means anything or is there any reason for that. And then it’s got a tray on top of that.

Sam [00:19:22]:
So he’s balancing this on his head?

Chris [00:19:24]:
Yeah. Balancing on his head. With a tray on top of that, a quite around circular tray about 60 centimeters Okay. Diameter roughly, I’m guessing, full of wine glasses. Now I don’t know how many wine glasses they fit on there.

Sam [00:19:37]:
And now they double stack drills at one layer?

Chris [00:19:39]:
It’s one layer. Okay. I’m trying to away. Yep. And then they he goes to the side, and they put another stack on it, and he dances away.

Sam [00:19:46]:
Okay. Okay.

Chris [00:19:46]:
And they go away. And then they finally it it skips forward to the putting like, I I didn’t count the layers. It’s got, you know, 478 is what he got up to, I think. Glasses in total. Glasses in total. Okay. And it’s not really dancing at that point because it’s freaking heavy by the looks of it, and he’s barely moving. And he’s trying to balance it, and he’s doing some stuff with his arms.

Chris [00:20:09]:
So it looks like he might be dancing a little bit.

Sam [00:20:11]:
He’s got a neck fracture.

Chris [00:20:12]:
But, of course, it ends when the whole lot Drop. Fall off and go smash. Yes. So I I assume four seventy eight is the tray level before that ultimate one where it all fell off. Yeah. I’m assuming that’s how that works.

Sam [00:20:28]:
Some of these records, I just love, like like, he is he smashing glasses five days a week? Or has he got special, like, practice ones and then his family’s getting sick of him going, hey. One more time. One more time. Put him on my

Chris [00:20:40]:
head. I’m sure in is it Italy where they smash glasses in the fireplace as part of their wedding settlement? Oh, it might be Greece. I think it’s Greece.

Sam [00:20:48]:
I think it’s Greece. Okay. It’s Greece. Wonderful.

Chris [00:20:50]:
Whatever. I’m sure they make, like, shit glasses. Yeah.

Sam [00:20:54]:
Yeah. Yeah. I’m sure.

Chris [00:20:54]:
Okay. And and they, they they scrape up the broken glasses and send it back for, like, an actual refund because they make more glasses out of it. Okay. Yeah.

Sam [00:21:05]:
In this week’s episode, I trawled Kickstarter again for a Kickstarter dropkick.

Chris [00:21:11]:
Oh, yeah.

Sam [00:21:12]:
The first one is not anything at all really, but it just shows that people just post anything in the hope that someone’s gonna pay you some money. So this is Faith Apparel inspiring through faith with fashion. I don’t have a problem with that. Not a problem. But they just sort of say, hey. Our clothing is designed to make you feel good, look good, and maybe even start a conversation about the good book and bring awareness. I’m like, okay. Cool.

Chris [00:21:39]:
See, that sounds to me more like an Etsy thing than a Kickstarter.

Sam [00:21:43]:
Well, this is more of somebody’s losing the plot and wants to make some money somehow. So this guy spent like, literally, it’s just a little blurb. That’s the whole thing. That’s it.

Chris [00:21:53]:
Oh, yeah. Okay. It’s like that guy with the We should start a new one called Gryphstart. Maybe.

Sam [00:22:01]:
This is very similar or I get the same vibe as that, lawn mowing dude from our five hundredth episode.

Chris [00:22:07]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Sam [00:22:08]:
Who sort of just goes, please give me money. I need somewhere to live. Ten years of automotive industry. Towards the end, he got burnt out, lost his passion, found Christ, all that good stuff. And then, our goal is to help other people. All contributions go towards purchasing the machines to make the clothing and designs. They also go towards acquiring inventory and then being able to sell this to customers. It goes towards purchasing different samples to make sure each clothing is handpicked to provide the best product possible.

Sam [00:22:37]:
The only tier is giving this guy $500. And then with that $500, you get some merch, maybe.

Chris [00:22:44]:
That is the dumbest. Some people just don’t get how this works. But I

Sam [00:22:48]:
mean No. They they must they must hear

Chris [00:22:50]:
They must hear I

Sam [00:22:51]:
think they hear good stories from podcasts like the Christmas Ann podcast, of course. And yeah. So I do have a proper one for you though. This is called Stigmag’s Dubs with zed’s. Stress support at your fingertips. The next evolution of our best selling therapeutic fidget tool. Seamless support for your anxiety and focus. I don’t know what they made in the past.

Sam [00:23:14]:
I had no time to look that up. So at the moment, I’ll describe it to you and I’ll show you a picture. But imagine a stick that’s probably 10 centimeters long, two centimeters wide. Yep. And at at the end is two magnets. Oh. You know how I like magnets? And, you get, like, six of these sticks, and there’s two side by side, and then it’s three long. And you can just bend it and flip it into a little fidgety toy.

Chris [00:23:42]:
Right.

Sam [00:23:43]:
That’s pretty much it. And this is for adults, apparently. And you can play with it and just keep folding it around and, you know, this this next evolution. And I’m just using magnets and some random stick looking things. Like, the design is a bit strange, but whatevs. You wanna back this project, don’t you, Chris?

Chris [00:24:02]:
How much is it per unit? Like, what’s what’s your

Sam [00:24:04]:
74 New Zealand dollars gives you one set of six clicky Stigmags dubs.

Chris [00:24:12]:
Sounds a bit extravagant.

Sam [00:24:14]:
Well, what you’ll do is you just wait and Kmart will bring out a $5 version of this, which probably already has because they’ve got random fidget stuff there all the time. Anyway, you can get, oh, and then so that’s the normal one, and then there’s a quiet set. I don’t know what makes them quiet because it just sticks with magnets in it.

Chris [00:24:34]:
Probably probably has a bit of plastic over the end or rubber over the end so that they would

Sam [00:24:38]:
Yeah. Probably. Yeah. So who knows? So that’s all good. That’s what they wanna do.

Chris [00:24:44]:
So yeah. Okay. And how far in are we?

Sam [00:24:47]:
They want 20,000 New Zealand dollars. There’s fourteen days to go, so you can still go get those.

Chris [00:24:53]:
Halfway through.

Sam [00:24:55]:
Your guess of how much they’ve made?

Chris [00:24:56]:
I’m gonna guess $5.

Sam [00:24:58]:
2 hundred and 40 3 thousand dollars.

Chris [00:25:01]:
What the hell?

Sam [00:25:02]:
So they’ve definitely made something in the past that people liked.

Chris [00:25:07]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Sam [00:25:08]:
Yeah. Which helps, I think.

Chris [00:25:09]:
That that well, I think it’s more than helps. I think that’s the ball game, man.

Sam [00:25:13]:
I mean, this guy is named Cody, and I make fidget tools. That’s all I need to know. He’s got four created and oh, okay. Oh, he he’s he’s got three other products that look exactly the same. That one and that one or two other products, and then he’s got this weird hand grip looking tool. So anyway, yeah, check it out. We’ll have a link in the show notes. As always, Kickstarter Dropkick.

Sam [00:25:38]:
Let us know. Oh, it just popped in my head. Big congratulations to Jamie Oxley. He’s just moving into his house this weekend. He got a new house. Hey. He’s got a new house with 12 acres in the middle of nowhere, and I think he’s rounding up dirt bikes for all the kids because he needs some more. Yeah.

Sam [00:25:54]:
I’m sure. And he’s thinking of making a YouTube channel. Do it. He is. I think he was asking for names. I can’t remember what the name is. But once we know about it, once he’s doing some stuff, we will let everyone know.

Chris [00:26:04]:
Yeah. I haven’t been on Facebook or anything for ages. So

Sam [00:26:07]:
You’re not missing anything? It’s just the piles.

Chris [00:26:09]:
I just have to say happy birthday to my sister today and my mother the other day. So yeah.

Sam [00:26:14]:
Happy birthday to everyone.

Chris [00:26:16]:
Yeah. That’s the only thing I’ve

Sam [00:26:17]:
Happy birthday to my niece. It was her birthday yesterday. Yeah. Did it. We covered all bases.

Chris [00:26:23]:
I’ve got a an amazing investment opportunity for you.

Sam [00:26:27]:
Okay. Well, we can almost round the episode out with this.

Chris [00:26:29]:
No. We’ll round it out with one more thing.

Sam [00:26:31]:
Okay. Okay.

Chris [00:26:31]:
But, Billy McFarland?

Sam [00:26:34]:
Oh, yes. He’s no. It’s all rubbish.

Chris [00:26:37]:
So he’s he’s, he’s, postponed the next Fyre Festival too. It was supposed to be between thirtieth May to June 2. It’s been indefinitely postponed with ticket holders informed that they have been issued refunds. But yeah. And now he’s selling the brand. The brand is up for sale. You can buy the festival the fire festival brand. Why would he wouldn’t wanna buy that? I I don’t get it.

Chris [00:27:10]:
Why would you wanna buy that?

Sam [00:27:11]:
So did you see the Coffeezilla interview? No. So the day before he announced that it was for sale, he got interviewed by Coffeezilla

Speaker A [00:27:21]:
Oh, damn.

Sam [00:27:22]:
And said, everything’s good. Unfortunately, the permit people, even though it was all good, have said it’s not all good. They there’s bad publicity they’ve pulled out. Someone else has pulled out. Everything’s good. We’re sorting it out. It’s gonna be a smaller scale venue, smaller everything. Everything’s good.

Sam [00:27:40]:
Coffeezilla said, okay. Cool. And then there was a talk about official I’ll show you the official documents and Coffeezilla said, sweet. I’ll link them in the show notes. Once you send them in, there’s nothing there. And then the next day is when he’s like, oh, it’s all for sale now. He’s such a grifter. They are filming this as a documentary part two for the Netflix, I think.

Chris [00:28:02]:
And, I wonder he’s probably just making money out of that.

Sam [00:28:06]:
He must be. But they said once he got done for the first one, it turned to chaos and everything. I think he was on was he on My First Million or were they talking about him? I can’t remember.

Chris [00:28:16]:
I don’t remember them talking about it.

Sam [00:28:17]:
He was on something and they said he could do whatever he wants. This is what he should do. Not do another event because he doesn’t know how to do that. But here we go. Yeah.

Chris [00:28:28]:
I think yeah. I think that My first million guys said that. I vaguely that that rings a bell.

Sam [00:28:34]:
Anyway.

Chris [00:28:34]:
Anyway, finish up. So I went to the dawn parade this morning because it’s, we’re recording this on Friday, Anzac Friday. So that was cool. So I got up, you know, 04:30, whatever. Normal sort of time. It’s all good. I had some breakfast. Lime skirted down there.

Sam [00:28:50]:
Good. Was there a lot of people around as you’re lime skirting around?

Chris [00:28:53]:
It was, not as I was lime skirting, but when I got because I got there actually early because I was originally gonna walk in there. Oh. Lime skirting.

Sam [00:28:59]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:28:59]:
Yeah. So that was cool. So I got there early, got a good place, standing there, good service and all the rest of it. I think I’m a bit of a weirdo. So

Sam [00:29:09]:
Hang on. Are you officially declaring this? Because, man, this is this is a growth. Carry on. No.

Chris [00:29:18]:
I’ve done this before, and and I used to be a lot worse than I am now.

Sam [00:29:22]:
I don’t know where this is

Chris [00:29:24]:
going. K. I’m so paranoid. So I’m just I’m there by myself, so I’m paying attention to everything going on around me like I normally do. And there’s this one dude. He’s got a a cap on

Sam [00:29:35]:
Okay.

Chris [00:29:35]:
And he’s just he’s right at the barrier. So you’ve got the, like, rope around

Sam [00:29:40]:
Yep.

Chris [00:29:40]:
That we’re all standing behind. All the public is standing behind. And then later, the, veterans are in front of it. They they march and then they stand there in front of them. So this one guy, and he’s just standing there with his cap on, just not expressionless.

Sam [00:29:58]:
Okay. And you’re thinking And

Chris [00:29:59]:
I’m thinking suicide bomber.

Sam [00:30:01]:
Yep. Yeah. That’s what it

Chris [00:30:02]:
has to be it

Sam [00:30:03]:
has to

Chris [00:30:03]:
be a suicide bomber.

Sam [00:30:04]:
And you’re like, should I’m right next

Chris [00:30:06]:
next to him? I’m like, should I get closer? Should I get closer?

Sam [00:30:08]:
I’ll take him out.

Chris [00:30:09]:
I was yeah. Literally, I was I no. I wasn’t gonna take him out. I was going to start a conversation with him to see if he was Yeah. Yeah. Off his nuts

Sam [00:30:18]:
or not. Okay.

Chris [00:30:20]:
But I I didn’t because I don’t know. And I was like, should I? Should I? Fricking the whole service, I’m thinking this. Yeah. And then then because it’s pretty dark.

Sam [00:30:28]:
It was pre dawn. Okay.

Chris [00:30:29]:
Then dawn comes to

Sam [00:30:31]:
Yep. Who was it?

Chris [00:30:32]:
He’s in uniform. He’s a

Sam [00:30:33]:
cop. He’s a cop?

Chris [00:30:34]:
No. No. It it was actually in a cadet’s uniform, which is what threw me because everybody with a uniform was on the other

Sam [00:30:40]:
side of

Chris [00:30:41]:
the thing. And, it look what looked like a cap was not a a baseball cap that I thought it was. It was a proper thing. And I was like, if I had gone over, I would have seen the uniform when I got close.

Sam [00:30:52]:
And you would have been the old creepy man talking to a younger person.

Chris [00:30:56]:
Yeah. I I yeah. Anyway. So then then I scooted back home. It was good. I was the only old guy on a on a lime scooter. It was great.

Sam [00:31:05]:
That’s right. Well, that’s exciting. Good good good for you. It brings us to the end of the podcast. If you’re new, check out the chrisandsampodcast.com. We got all the show notes and links and things there. Follow us on the socials. It’s always nice.

Sam [00:31:19]:
And, I randomly logged in to, Spotify the other day. They’ve got, like, different stats. There’s some random downloads that from countries. We don’t hear from anyone. So I don’t really know what’s going on.

Chris [00:31:34]:
What was it? France was our third?

Sam [00:31:36]:
Yeah. Not for Spotify. That’s for the actual podcast hosting. The other ones like US and I don’t know. Some random spot. Yeah. So I hope we’re helping people learn English because I think that’s what’s happening. I don’t know.

Sam [00:31:50]:
Because we haven’t heard from anyone.

Chris [00:31:51]:
Yeah. So, yeah. Drop us a line on socials.

Sam [00:31:54]:
So until next time, I’m Sam.

Chris [00:31:55]:
I’m Chris.

Sam [00:31:56]:
See you.

Chris [00:31:57]:
Bye.

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