Summary
We watched a bunch of movies this week, while Sam sorted out the stupid parking ticket. We learn about a raccoon with a meth pipe, a long lost sausage dog is found and a weird guy keeps setting fire to his house.
Just the usual really. Come have a listen
Links
The People We Love Movie
Micky 17
The Long Walk
NZ gets defense money
Homegrown comes to Hamilton
Raccoon with Meth Pipe
Valerie the dog found after 540 days
π0.5
Man sets fire to house multiple time to see firefighters
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 530 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life brought to you from the Waikato Hamilton here in New Zealand.
Chris [00:00:33]:
South Pasquale, planet Earth. Southern Hemisphere.
Sam [00:00:36]:
We’re doing it. Yep. That’s us. That’s us. So it’s the weather’s got chilly. Yes. What a yes. Is there more to that?
Chris [00:00:45]:
No. Not really.
Sam [00:00:45]:
Okay. Let’s carry on to
Chris [00:00:46]:
the banter bit.
Sam [00:00:48]:
I think because I’ve got a feeling that, they said somewhere when you talk to people that aren’t good conversationalists, they go straight to the weather. True. But you’re not normally like that, so I was a bit surprised. I was waiting for you to say, it got cold and then you fell over or something. No. Not yet. Okay. So this past week, we’ve seen a couple of movies.
Sam [00:01:07]:
Yep. Which one do you wanna start with?
Chris [00:01:10]:
Well, let’s start with The Reach, because that was pretty that that blew me away. So, shout out to Matty Taylor. It was his little project. I know he’d been doing it for a few years. What I’d heard, because we talked about it a bit, when we were filming Surgical Precision. Oh, yeah. I know that it was based on a short story by Stephen King Yes. And that he had licensed the rights under a, you know, for a dollar or something under a ring.
Sam [00:01:35]:
I can’t remember what that scheme was called. But, anyway
Chris [00:01:38]:
Yeah. Under some scheme. Yeah. Which I thought was really cool, and it meant that he can’t, like, make a big profit out of it. Can’t make
Sam [00:01:43]:
any profit.
Chris [00:01:44]:
Or any pro well, at the time, I thought it was yeah. Big profit out of it or anything. And, yeah. And and so that was cool, but I had no idea. I knew it was animated Yeah. But I didn’t I didn’t click that he wasn’t animating it with digitally. I just assumed he was gonna animate it digitally.
Sam [00:02:02]:
Yes. I didn’t know either. I just animation comes in all sorts of forms. Yeah. Yeah. And in this form, he was drawing every single frame, scanning it in. By hand? Yeah. Clever dude.
Chris [00:02:13]:
So a forty five minute run time, forty three minutes, I think it was.
Sam [00:02:17]:
Forty three. Yeah.
Chris [00:02:18]:
Took him four years pretty much to do.
Sam [00:02:20]:
Well, the first year was that storyboard. Yeah. Every single shot mapped out. Yeah. So he knew exactly what was gonna go on. Yeah. I was like, that’s pretty cool.
Chris [00:02:32]:
Yeah. So, the the the film itself is really good, and but I think the the the piece de resistance was the, actually, the doco that followed it because it really showed what went into making that.
Sam [00:02:46]:
Like Oh, yeah. Totally.
Chris [00:02:47]:
Without that, the first part wouldn’t have, I wouldn’t have the appreciation I had for it.
Sam [00:02:53]:
I think that’s with any film, though.
Chris [00:02:55]:
Possibly. Well yeah. No. True. I guess I have a feeling for a lot of other films because we’ve made films.
Sam [00:03:02]:
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:03]:
So we go, I know what went into that. But in terms of animation, I had no freaking clue.
Sam [00:03:08]:
No. Fair enough. That makes sense.
Chris [00:03:09]:
Reckon if you stacked all that paper up because he showed in the doco all these things, they if you stack them in, you know, that those people in a pole, they were taller than him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. It was that’s mental. It’s totally mental. Anyway, so that was really good.
Chris [00:03:26]:
And I was sitting between you and Ben, and I mentioned Yes. The Long Walk because he go yeah. I said, there’s a short story by, Stephen King that I really, really liked. It was in, Backman. I was looking for the book, and I’ve lent the book out to somebody.
Sam [00:03:42]:
So if I lent
Chris [00:03:43]:
it to you and you’re listening, I want my book back. It’s Backman books, and it had four, short stories. And one of them is The Long Walk, and I’ve read it many times. I recommend it to loads of people.
Sam [00:03:52]:
You’ve mentioned it before on this podcast too. Have I? Okay. Yes.
Chris [00:03:56]:
So, anyway, I don’t know that I didn’t know that you looked it up or anything like that.
Sam [00:04:01]:
I didn’t look it up. Facebook’s listening. In Facebook, I was just scrolling, and I came across this thing, and it had a picture, and it says The Long Walk. And it had a little blurb about it, and I was like, oh my gosh. This is the film you were all about.
Chris [00:04:12]:
Yeah. Because, Ben messaged it to me, that link.
Sam [00:04:15]:
I I well, I tagged you on Facebook, and that was my mistake.
Chris [00:04:19]:
Yeah. I’m not going back on that piece of crap.
Sam [00:04:22]:
But it’s interesting, Like Yeah.
Chris [00:04:24]:
No. And it was funny because so Mark Hamill was is the the piece that I read, I think it was Rolling Stone or something, was interested you know, said, yes. He was, cast as the villain in it. Yeah. That was sort of the angle of the story, but I was like, how random is that that I just mentioned it as one of the favorite films that I’d like to see made into a film.
Sam [00:04:45]:
And you also said, I think, I quote, I’m not sure how they would do it.
Chris [00:04:49]:
Yeah. I So Yeah. And it was fascinating to read about that. So, anyway, The Long Walk, when that comes out later this year, I am so looking forward to seeing that.
Sam [00:04:58]:
Yes. And then before The Reach on the Friday, we watch something called The People We Love
Chris [00:05:04]:
Oh, yes.
Sam [00:05:05]:
Which is a New Zealand film, directed by no. Sorry. Written and directed by Mike Smith.
Chris [00:05:12]:
Mike Smith. Nice guy. Really nice.
Sam [00:05:13]:
Yeah. Real nice guy. Funny stories. This is the gist of the movie. The movie follows Maddie, a young writer struggling to find her voice who retreats to her family’s beach house after a series of personal setbacks. As she writes about the people closest to her, she uncovers family tensions and the possibility of love and forgiveness.
Chris [00:05:31]:
So not the sort of film I would normally go to see. No. But you were
Sam [00:05:36]:
doing a q and a afterwards.
Chris [00:05:37]:
So so I didn’t have much choice. No. It it it was good. I’m glad I went I I’m glad I watched it. I think I thought it was better than you thought it was.
Sam [00:05:46]:
There is a so on IMDb, right, the the movie’s on IMDb, but I don’t know who set it up because there’s no description, no nothing. I had to go somewhere else to find that blurb. Right? Right. Which is funny. Now a day, or two after we saw it, but maybe from the Auckland screening, somebody set up a brand new account on IMDB to leave a scathing review of that film. Oh. So, I don’t know what that was about. But
Chris [00:06:15]:
he did say that it got a really poor reception in I don’t know if you were there because we might have been talking about this at the pub afterwards, but he said that, Auckland got a really poor reception whereas
Sam [00:06:29]:
He no. He’s he he mentioned it on q and a. Oh, he did mention it on q and a. He said we were a lot better at receiving it.
Chris [00:06:34]:
Yeah. Here and oh, I mentioned somewhere else that was really quite good as well. But, Auckland
Sam [00:06:39]:
because I think it was didn’t
Chris [00:06:40]:
get it.
Sam [00:06:41]:
We were the third screening, so there was one down in Wellington or somewhere where they shot it down there, Auckland and then Hamilton. Sorry. Tell me what you mean.
Chris [00:06:49]:
Matt Hicks. Did you see his press conference video?
Sam [00:06:52]:
I just think he’s killing it. He’s absolutely killing it with his social media. I think,
Chris [00:06:56]:
He’s he’s so good.
Sam [00:06:57]:
As as far as I’m aware, Nathan’s involved in a lot of it. Well, Nathan told me that, but I’m not sure.
Chris [00:07:02]:
Yeah. So Matt Hicks did a film, The Tavern, which is coming out, shortly, May 26, I wanna say. Something like that.
Sam [00:07:10]:
That’s the Hamilton
Chris [00:07:11]:
screening. Screening. And, apparently, I I’m guessing they just didn’t get anyone in Auckland to to get put the film on. Oh, I think mocked up this press conference going, we’re not gonna show it in Auckland. We’ve we’ve thought long and hard about it, but there’s too many Aucklanders there, and they drink too much coffee. It’s too expensive or something like that. It’s really funny. So it’s well done.
Chris [00:07:34]:
But I think
Sam [00:07:35]:
it’s but I think it’s building upon everything, and and he’ll he’ll get to Auckland.
Chris [00:07:39]:
Oh, a %. It it was it’s genius. It was really good. It’s very clever. It was very funny. So, yeah. So a lot happening in the movie world, and I was talking to Paige today about the Netflix challenge. So we’ll have some news about that one of these podcasts.
Chris [00:07:54]:
So there you go.
Sam [00:07:55]:
Sooner the better, man. Sooner the better. I saw the movie Mickey 17.
Chris [00:08:00]:
I actually watched that not so long ago too.
Sam [00:08:03]:
I thought it was okay. I didn’t really know what it was about. I just know there was a lot of random, like, clips or something beef when it was coming out.
Chris [00:08:10]:
I saw the ads a lot. Why did I see that? It must have been on TV. Like, it was free.
Sam [00:08:15]:
Yeah. That’s right. They were pushing hard.
Chris [00:08:17]:
Yeah. So I yeah. I watched it. I yeah. I liked it. I I quite liked it.
Sam [00:08:23]:
Yeah. Yeah. I liked it. That was cool. Yeah. That’s a little film. My parking ticket from pack and save is now sorted.
Chris [00:08:28]:
Alright.
Sam [00:08:29]:
We have you What did that take? Just a couple of oh, what did it take for me to sort out? Yeah. Oh, I realized that we had a parking ticket from the Knox Street Car Park Building because the car had been there earlier, for Casera to jury duty that day.
Chris [00:08:45]:
And then Oh, so between the the first day and the second day, it was at
Sam [00:08:49]:
It was sort of yeah. In between those, and then I had the receipts the bank invoices from Pack and Save to say we’d brought stuff there. And I went to the bank and said I need time stamps for that, so they gave me those. And then I was like, oh, I’ve got security footage at home of the car leaving and going and sitting on the driveway, so I just send him a whole bunch of that. But you can’t send them video? So I just took these screenshots with the date and time on it, and I said, if you want the video, let me know because I can sort that. And and I said, as you can see, the car is here and not where you think that we were. And they were like, we’re, what is it? On this occasion, we’ve decided to waive it because, whatever. Because we’re idiots.
Sam [00:09:30]:
Yes. Something else that happened this week, new debit card fun. I got a new debit card at the start of the month. Right? Yeah. And I just technology in general, I think, has just held together with hopes and dreams and some duct tape.
Chris [00:09:46]:
Yeah. That sounds like my day.
Sam [00:09:48]:
Yeah. My week, really. So so so three years ago, right, you buy something online from some random website in some weird country. I don’t know. Doesn’t matter. Right? It’s coming up to your card expiring, and they email you. It’s the first email you’ve had in two and a half years from this random whatever it is. Doesn’t matter what it is.
Sam [00:10:08]:
And they’re like, hey, Sam. Hey. We’ve just realized your credit card’s about to expire. It’d be real cool if you just update your details. So if you want to, you know, update your payment details for whatever.
Chris [00:10:20]:
That has never happened to me.
Sam [00:10:21]:
Oh, okay. I got, like, a whole bunch. Right? Okay. Not a problem.
Chris [00:10:25]:
Right? So are these subscriptions? No. They’re just One off purchases from a while back.
Sam [00:10:30]:
They’re either one off purchases or maybe a subscription coming up or whatever. It doesn’t matter. That’s not the point. The point is the bloody power company, which you’ve used every month for God knows how long, somehow sends your last bill, and it goes to spam so you never see it. And then two weeks later, they don’t even care if your car’s updated or not. They’re like, hey. They send you a text message. Hey.
Sam [00:10:55]:
We tried doing the payment, but it didn’t work. Like, two weeks after the fact, not even add when they did it, do you wanna sort that out for us? That’d be great. I’m like, what are you on about?
Chris [00:11:07]:
Man, I get those those those emails I get every every month.
Sam [00:11:11]:
Yeah. Well, that’s different.
Chris [00:11:12]:
Paid bill. Oh, no. Yeah. Well, I’m getting there. I’m getting there. Hold on.
Sam [00:11:15]:
Hold on. For the money.
Chris [00:11:16]:
I’m waiting for the money.
Sam [00:11:18]:
Anyway yeah. Did that.
Chris [00:11:20]:
Cool. Cool. So I I haven’t got much on this. I just was curious. I just wanna get your opinion. New Zealand, is looking to double its defense budget. So in the budget, this is over a period of, a few years. Yeah.
Chris [00:11:38]:
But, they’re they’re getting more stuff from Australia so that we have more interoperability with Australia. Yeah. So they’re gonna get rid of the unimogs and replace them with Bushmasters from Australia
Sam [00:11:49]:
Yep.
Chris [00:11:49]:
And a few other things like that. They’re getting, an a few helicopters because the ones we got are held together with hopes and dreams as well.
Sam [00:11:58]:
But, apparently, the I read online, the ones we’ve got are better suited to New Zealand conditions, and we didn’t we went with stock standard whatever helicopters, and they’ve lasted way longer than the ones the Australians have had. Because I think that’s what the Australians crashed and a few people died a year ago or something like that.
Chris [00:12:21]:
Yeah. Yeah. Don’t know about that.
Sam [00:12:22]:
Because they haven’t seen what model we’re getting yet, I don’t think. And people online are speculating between the two.
Chris [00:12:28]:
I don’t think I don’t think they mentioned the model. Although they are talking about whatever we get, we’re try gonna try and go as close to Aussie as possible so we can have it it it, what do you call it? Our pool of spare parts suddenly gets a lot bigger and stuff like that. So I
Sam [00:12:45]:
and I think someone I think they said online, the problem with the Australian one, I think, or something the Australians have got can’t land on one of our ships. So we have to get a very specific model or a variation. There’s a
Chris [00:12:58]:
Yeah. Because we’re looking at getting two I think I I I wanna say two frigates. I can’t remember. It was one or three. One to three. Two let’s save two frigates.
Sam [00:13:06]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:13:07]:
But the the point of that is the Aussies are getting frigates too. So if we add our order to theirs, the price comes down
Sam [00:13:13]:
from a
Chris [00:13:13]:
lot of That makes sense. Sense.
Sam [00:13:15]:
Unless we change our minds because
Chris [00:13:16]:
because national. Yeah. No. But
Sam [00:13:21]:
all
Chris [00:13:21]:
of that is, I think, is a good thing. I was curious what you think.
Sam [00:13:25]:
Oh, I think it’s a good thing. It’s just the breakdown of some of the maintenance of, like, barracks and stuff, Oiru and that, they were like it sounds like it’s really, really good, but it may not be enough money potentially to fix all their problems. How do you feel about the pay parity thing all being canceled?
Chris [00:13:45]:
Don’t know what that is.
Sam [00:13:46]:
Okay. So there’s 33 groups in New Zealand going for pay parity. Sarah was in one of those groups, and that was because the last pay parity was four years ago, I think it was. And since then
Chris [00:13:57]:
Do you wanna explain what pay parity is. Sorry.
Sam [00:14:00]:
Yeah. So females in workplaces that are predominantly females, got pay parity. It slipped down, and they’re now 17% behind their male counterparts even though they’re doing most of the work. Think nurses, teachers, teacher aids, things like that.
Chris [00:14:16]:
Jeez.
Sam [00:14:17]:
So what we’ve done is we’ve got the act finance lady to come out and say, oh, under urgency, on, what day are we today? Thursday. On Monday or Tuesday, we’ve given them the stuff to read on the afternoon, and we’re pushing it through to cancel it because we’re gonna need that money for the budget because we’ve gotta give it to the landlords. They didn’t say that, but that’s where it’s going.
Chris [00:14:40]:
Yeah. I know. Yeah. You’re triggering me, though. As soon as you say the landlords get it, it’s
Sam [00:14:44]:
triggering a lot of people. Yeah. And rightly so because it’s just utter crap. So what they’ve said is, there’s too many groups. We’re gonna make it more streamlined. Wawawaw. Winnie came out and said a few words, and, we need more things like we need 65 or 70% of that work force all have to do the job more than so long. And so it’s really weird parameters where it’s just like they’re doing the job.
Chris [00:15:14]:
They should just make it that, people over 60 just get paid less as well.
Sam [00:15:20]:
Well, that’s some well, no. But some places do that with their, means tested type of, soup Yeah. If you’ve got millions and millions of dollars. And the funny thing is these a lot of people are happy to do that. They’re like, yes. It makes sense. Yeah. It makes sense.
Chris [00:15:36]:
Yeah. Anyway, I sent because I was gonna say just on that n z f n z d f thing before we we went off it, we’re not doing anything about jets. There’s nothing in there about it.
Sam [00:15:47]:
No. No. No.
Chris [00:15:48]:
I don’t think we need jets. We need helicopters for because they’re versatile. Rescue missions is a whole bunch of stuff. Yeah. But jets, I think we’re way better spending money on drones these days than buying jets.
Sam [00:16:00]:
Yeah. I mean yeah. Because that And speaking
Chris [00:16:02]:
of that, did you hear a, Ukrainian sea drone shot down a a a Russian fighter jet this week?
Sam [00:16:10]:
What so did was the drone equipped with weapons?
Chris [00:16:14]:
Yeah. Yeah. They have this new sea drone. So the old ones were just kamikaze sea drones, so it was going to
Sam [00:16:19]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then once you have It’s funny because when you say drones, I always think of things with props, like four props.
Chris [00:16:25]:
This is like a It’s a boat. Yeah. It’s a boat. And, this one’s got or I know they have got ones with, machine rotary machine, gut gatling gun type thing, what we call them. And they also have ones with rockets. And I haven’t I haven’t gone to detail yet, but I fit I am assuming it shot off a rocket.
Sam [00:16:44]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:16:44]:
And it shot down a fight fighter jet, which is, you know, that’s a a million dollar boat, maybe $4,000,000 boat maybe because those ones are pretty pretty, advanced, and a $30,000,000 jet. Like, that they’re pretty ridiculous, aren’t they? Or maybe
Sam [00:16:59]:
But they’re I don’t know. How old are they? You think the jet would
Chris [00:17:01]:
be able to just didn’t expect it. Didn’t expect it.
Sam [00:17:06]:
I see you’ve put homegrown’s coming to Hamilton. Yes.
Chris [00:17:10]:
So you heard about that?
Sam [00:17:11]:
Yes. More comments online about that. It’s all great. People whinging.
Chris [00:17:15]:
People not happy about it. So I wasn’t a big I’m not a big musical fest music festival dude.
Sam [00:17:22]:
Right? Neither.
Chris [00:17:23]:
So, what’s interesting so Homegrown Festival is a is a festival of New Zealand music in New Zealand, and it actually started in Hamilton as part of something else that was going on here.
Sam [00:17:35]:
Oh, I didn’t know that. Yeah.
Chris [00:17:36]:
And then it moved down to Wellington and grew.
Sam [00:17:38]:
I know the promoters from Hamilton.
Chris [00:17:40]:
Yeah. Yeah. So he he was part of it when it was here. I, in the story, it sort of says what it was originally. I forget what it was now. But, we’re down to Wellington so I could grow, but now it’s grown as much as it pretty much can there.
Sam [00:17:54]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:17:54]:
But now the Hamilton, Cleveland’s Oval can seat way more people, like 50,000. The other one, it was limited to 23,000. So
Sam [00:18:05]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:18:06]:
So coming up here, it will actually grow. And that’s huge. I think that’s a huge thing, a huge get for Hamilton. You know? So Yeah.
Sam [00:18:14]:
It was between us and Dunedin.
Chris [00:18:16]:
Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Makes us come here than Dunedin.
Sam [00:18:21]:
Well, no. A lot of the South Island people are not happy because they yeah. Coming to Hamilton’s quite expensive. Or you got a camping. Accommodation was brought up a lot, but people were like, you have a hundred and 20,000 plus people here for field days. Shouldn’t be a problem. Yeah. They may be able to get, because I don’t I think they sometimes have headline acts from overseas coming.
Sam [00:18:42]:
They said they probably could do more of that. I know Riley at work who I work with. She’s already bought tickets. Hun she goes hundred and $26, I think she said.
Chris [00:18:51]:
And there’s a lot of places that you can get here for in a day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You can come to Auckland down from Auckland or from Rotorua or even the coast, you know, from We’re
Sam [00:19:01]:
a hour away from anywhere interesting. Remember that. Yeah. So yeah. Talking about interesting, did you hear about the woman with the raccoon? No. Okay. So they do a routine traffic stop in Springfield, Ohio. Okay? Yeah.
Sam [00:19:17]:
And there’s this middle there’s this woman in the car, and she’s 55 years old. And they’re, like, pulling her over because she’s got a suspended license. So they’re out of the car. Yeah. Now there’s body cam footage of this. So this is the cool thing. And, anyway, in the passenger seat, there’s a raccoon, and it’s just sitting there. It’s her pet, and it’s called Chewy.
Sam [00:19:38]:
So Chewy the raccoon’s sitting there, and they look over, and it’s holding a meth pipe. And they’re like, what what’s going on? So, anyway, they check her car, and she’s got crack cocaine in there and a bunch of meth.
Chris [00:19:54]:
She I could just imagine her watching Guardians of I know. Off their face and going, rocket. Nah. It’s rocket.
Sam [00:20:04]:
So the the actual raccoon does belong to her because you can legally own it when you’ve got a permitted ex exotic license thing. And there’s a whole bunch you can have, and she’s got it. And they’re like, we’re unsure if it’s gonna be returned to her care after they process her and stuff. But she must have just been like, the raccoon’s there. It’s fine. I’ve got all the you know, I’ve got the license for it. It’s all good. And then next thing you know, I was like, oh, shit.
Sam [00:20:27]:
He’s found my meth pipe.
Chris [00:20:28]:
I was like it’s so funny. That just reminds me. I I watched Josh Josh Johnson, video the other day, and I I have to watch this this series because he talks about it a lot.
Sam [00:20:41]:
Okay.
Chris [00:20:41]:
Oh, and you might have heard have you heard this big argument about could a hundred guys take on a gorilla? Is this a a thing? It must be a thing in The States.
Sam [00:20:50]:
Oh, I heard wait. No. I didn’t hear a hundred, but I heard something where they were like, oh, I could take on I I think I’ve seen the title, but I didn’t look into it.
Chris [00:20:58]:
Yeah. Okay. So, anyway, apparently, this is a big thing in The States. So he did a a comedy routine, but he goes, this new documentary series, and I’ve gotta look it up because it sounds hilarious, is called, Chimp Crazy. I think that’s what it’s called. Chimp Crazy.
Sam [00:21:12]:
Are these the people that have him as pets?
Chris [00:21:14]:
Has them as pets. And he’s like, they’re all women.
Sam [00:21:18]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:18]:
And they all start off and say, just like a baby. And at one and one year old, they’re they’re feeding the bottle, holding them like a baby. At two years old, they they get a little bit rambunctious and but you can sort of talk to them sternly, and they do what they’re told. They hit five years old, and they
Sam [00:21:35]:
go face off.
Chris [00:21:36]:
And they go, I’m the strongest one here. Why do I have to listen to you? And he I I it’s a I don’t wanna give away the punchline as such, but he does say, it’s so funny. All these women in this doco, or this series, they’re all like, you can’t get rid of him. You can’t take him. It’s my baby. It’s my baby. And then it has a mental breakdown in the house, and they’re like and the women are all like, without a fail, they’re all like, shoot it. Shoot it.
Chris [00:22:04]:
Shoot it. So I’ve got to look that up. I’m pretty sure it’s called chimp crazy. Yeah.
Sam [00:22:12]:
Talking about animals, not so wild this one. A little dog called Valerie, a little Dachshund sausage dog
Chris [00:22:17]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:22:18]:
Was missing for over five hundred and forty days. Holy
Chris [00:22:22]:
crap. What is yeah. Okay. Couple of years almost.
Sam [00:22:24]:
Yeah. Yeah. So it’s on Kangaroo Island in Australia, and they went camping in 02/2023, and it went missing. And, they tried finding it. People were seeing it all the time. They had set up cameras and traps and all sorts trying to catch this dog, and the dog’s like, nope. And, apparently, it was running around, and I think it said it was hanging out with, like, penguins and stuff. I don’t know.
Sam [00:22:49]:
But, anyway, they’ve managed to catch it finally, and they they they’ve they’re transporting it back to its home, which is quite a way away. And, she’s stockier and stronger and healthier now, so its little harness it had on didn’t really fit it. And, it says here that when it goes home, it’s gotta, like, reunite with its first siblings, a cat, Lucy, a red heeler, Mason, and meet the family’s new dachshund, Dorothy. So they already replaced it because it was dead, and they’re taking it to a dog behaviorist to help it
Chris [00:23:25]:
They had to transition back to home life. Dog PTSD, bro. It’s a it’s a thing.
Sam [00:23:31]:
Yeah. And this is what the owner said. If the smallest sausage dog can survive five hundred and twenty nine days in the bush, you too can survive whatever life throws at you.
Chris [00:23:41]:
Oh, that’s cool. Have you heard of PI 0.5? Or I think it’s called PI point five. No. What is it? It’s a robot. Now I’m gonna show you a bit of a video. Good. What’s So that’s the robot. The whole point of that is it’s a housebound helping robot thing.
Sam [00:23:57]:
I want one.
Chris [00:23:58]:
How do I get it? The key is that it doesn’t look humanoid. It has wheels. It has arms. It has a camera on a stand. It’s just a column.
Sam [00:24:07]:
It sort of looks like a water cooler with arms
Chris [00:24:09]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:24:10]:
Yeah. Without the bottle.
Chris [00:24:11]:
Yeah. And it’s, and it the whole point of this is California startup. It says, why are we trying to go the difficult way of making things with arms and leg? You know? Humanoid. Because these arms are very much robot arms, not like humanoid arms.
Sam [00:24:28]:
I was doing dishes in the video you just showed me, and I want it.
Chris [00:24:31]:
Yeah. And it’s it’s got, clip grips rather than yeah. It’s not got fingers.
Sam [00:24:37]:
No. But it And
Chris [00:24:38]:
and yeah. So so from that point of view, it’s really good. The only negative people are going, well, what if I wanted to clean up steps? Do we have to build houses with No.
Sam [00:24:45]:
I mean, that’s
Chris [00:24:47]:
But I’m sure they can work something out for that. But But at least
Sam [00:24:49]:
I know where that robot is. Like, if I’m upstairs or downstairs, that thing can’t come up, whereas the humanoid one’s just, like, staring at me going, what the plug me in? Yeah.
Chris [00:24:59]:
Well, no. Creepy ass. Because you
Sam [00:25:02]:
know you’re gonna get a creepy one. They’ll be like %. Thing where it’s gonna monitor your health while you sleep, and it’s just like Staring
Chris [00:25:09]:
at the bottom of the bed staring at you all night. It’s like a soft glow from its eyes. Yeah. It’s gonna be like, don’t just go to sleep naturally.
Sam [00:25:19]:
Don’t worry about it. What are you doing? Nothing. Scanning you. Anyway, I look forward to it. But I guess the real trick there is, you know, early adoption and then hopefully we must be at the point where these things are getting affordable for rich people. Because you get robot vacuum cleaners now that range from 2 and a half thousand dollars down to a hundred and 50 at Kmart or something.
Chris [00:25:43]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where where are these robots? Well, there’s I think there’s still a way away because that video is sped up four times that you saw. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So the speed at which it does the dishes is pretty slow.
Chris [00:25:57]:
It’s funny because in the video, the there’s humans in there at the same time, and they always have the humans reading.
Sam [00:26:05]:
Yeah. Don’t move.
Chris [00:26:06]:
Party. Just read. And then it it looks up, and then there’s no voice. And I wondered why there wasn’t any voice. It’s captioned, but because it’s four times speed. Yeah. It’s like, oh, don’t forget to wipe the spill and, you know, like, and the robot wipes it back. It must take a while.
Chris [00:26:21]:
I I I don’t know. I I think it’s good. I think it makes sense. I’ve got another one here. How much time have we got?
Sam [00:26:28]:
You’ve got three and a half minutes to enroll me.
Chris [00:26:32]:
This is how obsessed do you have to be to do this? Right? So this dude and I think it’s in the oh, yes. UK. Okay. 26 year old. Yeah, I will show you a photo of him too. I was gonna I I was like, I’ve gotta show you the photo.
Sam [00:26:48]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:49]:
He’s been convicted after admitting setting fire to his own house twice in the same night just so he can see firefighters in actions.
Sam [00:26:57]:
No. But that’s that’s what people do. The the, the people that, what do you call them? Pyromaniacs.
Chris [00:27:03]:
Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:27:04]:
They stand and watch. And when they go to a fire, you just try and find the randos that’s standing there.
Chris [00:27:10]:
So James Brown is more captivated by firefighters than the flames itself. So he’s not exactly a pyromatic maniac in that way.
Sam [00:27:18]:
Okay. He likes the firefighting aspect.
Chris [00:27:20]:
So, when when admiring firefighters from a distance making dozens of non emergency calls wasn’t enough
Sam [00:27:27]:
Oh, he’s escalated.
Chris [00:27:28]:
He then set fire to his own home.
Sam [00:27:30]:
And they have to turn up for that.
Chris [00:27:32]:
And they turned up, and he watched them, and it was real good. And they they came and extinguished the fire, and they even turned off the electricity supply for safety. They returned just ninety minutes later after Brown had reported yet another fire that involved bedding. But this time, his excuse fell flat because the electricity had already been turned off.
Sam [00:27:53]:
Oh, I know.
Chris [00:27:55]:
And the action from him, which looked suspicious, prompted the firefighters to begin their act investigation. Now imagine yourself, in your head, imagine a pyromaniac Englishman Yep. 26 year old.
Sam [00:28:09]:
Oh, 26 year old. Okay.
Chris [00:28:10]:
Yep. Yep. Does this match the description in your head?
Sam [00:28:14]:
Not really.
Chris [00:28:15]:
Oh, really? No. I was like, oh, that’s just so epitome.
Sam [00:28:18]:
He’s quite baby faced sort of, like
Chris [00:28:21]:
Oh, is
Sam [00:28:21]:
it? No. I thought he was more gonna be more, methy. No. Well, I I don’t know why.
Chris [00:28:26]:
He was The States, I reckon methy. But The UK, I don’t know. Oh. UK, I just think more dopey.
Sam [00:28:32]:
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It does look dopey, actually.
Chris [00:28:34]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:28:35]:
Well, that’s exciting for him, isn’t it? Does it say what he got charged with or not yet?
Chris [00:28:41]:
During sentencing. So he’s been sentenced.
Sam [00:28:44]:
Okay.
Chris [00:28:44]:
You’ve said in an ideal world, you would be a firefighter, and you have a long standing interest in the fire service. It’s clearly an obsession, the judge remarked. But your primary interest seems to be in contact of fire service rather than setting fires. You waste the resource of fire brigade, blah blah blah blah blah. He got eight months suspended sentence. Oh, okay. Probation
Sam [00:29:03]:
He’s gonna
Chris [00:29:04]:
fifty hours of unpaid work or whatever they call it.
Sam [00:29:07]:
Yep.
Chris [00:29:08]:
Yep.
Sam [00:29:09]:
Well, that’s exciting, and that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast. Cool. So what
Chris [00:29:14]:
do you got going on?
Sam [00:29:15]:
Oh, I don’t know. Work?
Chris [00:29:17]:
I forgot last week to mention the fact that I had a talk this week, which is it’s not yet happened while we’re recording this, but it will have happened by the time we publish it.
Sam [00:29:29]:
So We’ll find out about it next week.
Chris [00:29:31]:
Yeah. Yeah. That’d be interesting.
Sam [00:29:33]:
But yeah. Otherwise, lots of work. Yes. Yeah. I’m the same. Alright. Yeah. Lots of work.
Sam [00:29:40]:
Good. Lots of work because I bloody we have so many meetings. And then on Monday, we went on a field trip to wastewater treatment plants, which is really good, but my whole day was just going to look at that. Yeah. So it’s like this weird balancing act of yeah. Yeah. Which is good because I know some places don’t do that at all. So can’t complain.
Sam [00:29:58]:
Loving it.
Chris [00:29:59]:
Living the dream.
Sam [00:30:00]:
I’d say that quite a bit of work. Alright. Until then, I’m Sam. I’m Chris. See you. Bye.
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