Summary
This week, Sam returns from Christchurch with tales of super-bright phone screens, three-wheeled scooters, and a speedy penny farthing sighting, while Chris issues an apology after getting fact-checked about the next James Bond.
We hear about wild “run it” sports, a Trump watch mishap, robots kickboxing, and the wild world of shopping cart repo businesses.
There’s Red Bull lawnmower racing, leaky leaker news, and the latest oddities in Harvard and Trumpland.
All this and much more in this week’s episode.
Links
3 Wheeled Scooters
Bond Story Wrong
Trump Watch problem
Runit Events
Redbull Lawn Mower Racing
Public Service warning about leaks of information leaked
Humanoid robots fighting
Company Finds Missing Shopping Carts
Harvard medical school morgue manager gets busted
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 533 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 brought to you from Hamilton, New Zealand. It’s a treat, isn’t it?
Chris [00:00:34]:
Where everything happens.
Sam [00:00:36]:
You know what? I just I’m gonna go straight into it. You know what doesn’t happen in Hamilton, Chris? What? We don’t get the fancy electric scooters.
Speaker A [00:00:44]:
What? What? What?
Sam [00:00:45]:
There’s these fancy electric scooters in Christchurch. They’re called Alio scooters and they got three wheels and you can’t tip them over. You can fall off them apparently because my work colleague told me that. But, the scooter itself doesn’t fall over itself.
Chris [00:00:59]:
So two wheels at the front. One wheel at the back. One wheel at the back.
Sam [00:01:02]:
We’re not allowed nice things here in Hamilton because we got rid of most the most lime scooters anywhere in New Zealand because we keep throwing them in the river. Yeah. So I think, you know, new people are like, should we try a new thing in Hamilton? And they’re like, no.
Chris [00:01:19]:
No. No. Don’t try it in Hamilton.
Sam [00:01:21]:
Don’t try it here. Have you tried that? No. I stood on it and wobbled the crap out of it. And then I was like, I can’t be bothered downloading an app and adding my credit card to it.
Chris [00:01:31]:
Do you do you use the, the ones here?
Sam [00:01:35]:
No. I just walk everywhere. But these, I brought up the map of these. These were, well, everywhere as much as a LimeScooter. Cool.
Chris [00:01:43]:
Okay. Yeah. No. Because yeah. I’ve been using LimeScooters quite a bit.
Speaker A [00:01:48]:
It’s because you can’t walk.
Chris [00:01:49]:
Yeah. Well, that’s true. Okay. So I I wanna start off by, apologizing, first of all. Good. What did you get wrong? For being me. So Adam got hold of me, not long after the last episode
Sam [00:02:04]:
came out. I love Adam fact checking us. I actually, I love anybody fact checking us. And by us, I mean you. But no. Like, what it’s obviously is it film related? Yeah. What is it?
Chris [00:02:16]:
Well, I I made a big deal about the Henry Cavill, being a James Bond.
Sam [00:02:21]:
Yes.
Chris [00:02:21]:
And he goes, do you wanna check your sources on that? Because that’s not happening. And I was like, no. No. No. It’s definitely happening. So I I I I because he’s chatting. He’s messaging me on WhatsApp or whatever. And I was at my computer working.
Chris [00:02:37]:
So I was like, oh, yeah. No. It’s definitely happened. So I grabbed the IMDB, which is where I got the story. Now I forget where I got that. Like, I think it I think it got emailed out with the IMDB newsletter, and I saw it on that. Like, I get email from
Sam [00:02:50]:
it every
Chris [00:02:50]:
now and again. Yeah. Or it might have been on social media. I saw the IMDB and then clicked on it and Yes.
Sam [00:02:56]:
And read
Chris [00:02:56]:
the thing. So most of the article so that article is an IMDB, but it links to another article.
Sam [00:03:03]:
Okay.
Speaker A [00:03:03]:
So
Sam [00:03:04]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:04]:
You know, IMDB has the little summary piece, and then I clicked through and I read the other article. And it was accurate when I read it on air. When he said this through, I went, no. No. This is it here. And I looked to that, and the title is the same on IMDB. But then when you click on the article it came from
Sam [00:03:27]:
Okay.
Chris [00:03:28]:
It, instead of saying he is the new James Bond
Sam [00:03:33]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:34]:
It says he’s been he’s gotten a p a role in a film that, was the what James Bond was based on, the character James Bond was based on. Okay. I’m like, but that’s not a that’s totally not what the article said before. And then there’s this, update. After careful consideration, we have updated this article. I mean, what? Because you lied the first time.
Sam [00:04:01]:
When you did mention it, I thought it was strange because usually on social media or whatever, I see articles about James Bond and the the new James Bond or who it could be is usually multiple stories. Huge news. And I was expecting to see something even after you told me. Yeah. Yeah. And I didn’t. And I was like, I don’t know. But I didn’t feel the need to look it up.
Sam [00:04:25]:
Thanks, Adam.
Chris [00:04:26]:
Yeah. And and Adam’s very much into the James Bond world and he wanted he he was all over that stuff and he follows up all the potential stories. And so he was absolutely like, you are talking crap.
Sam [00:04:40]:
Good. I like that we have somebody for that, like, super specific topic.
Chris [00:04:45]:
I will say too though, I did this is from The Guardian, so I trust this. There’s, a a Dubai based property developer is challenging the trademark registrations for James Bond. Bond. James Bond. You know, saying that. And double o seven.
Sam [00:05:02]:
Okay. Why?
Chris [00:05:03]:
Because they haven’t used it for five years.
Sam [00:05:05]:
Don’t worry about it.
Chris [00:05:06]:
That’s a a rule. And so he’s gone. You guys haven’t used it for five years? I’m now using it for my property development. What how you use that in property development? I have no freaking idea, but I
Sam [00:05:16]:
Who goes? You know what? I’m gonna go with this guy because he’s called it James Bond Investments or whatever. James Bond Properties. You know it’s good. Yeah.
Chris [00:05:25]:
It’s w seven units. I don’t know. What is stupid stupid idea? I just thought that was that’s silly. I just put that in so that you’d forget that I screwed up.
Sam [00:05:36]:
That’ll trick. So I was in Christchurch on the weekend. The flight down, this guy across the aisle from me had some sort of phone that had the brightest screen in the world. Why it was turned up so bright, nobody will ever know.
Chris [00:05:55]:
So what what is this a night flight? Is it quite dark in the cabin?
Sam [00:05:58]:
No. The lights come on after we take off. He’s holding this phone and his face is glowing. He’s playing a game. Like, the battery on this phone the battery on this phone could not have lasted much longer than this flight. But he’s playing this game and every now and then he’d like look around or something and he’d tilt the the phone in my direction and I’m getting hit by this like floodlight of pure blinding light. And I’m just looking at this phone and I’m like I don’t know what that setting’s for. Why? And I’m and then I’m like Max
Chris [00:06:32]:
UV setting. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:35]:
He’s getting a tan. And then I’m like, oh, maybe my phone is really dark. And I looked down and I’m like, no. I can see everything perfectly fine. I’m happy with the brightness of my phone. Not this bloody torch thing that he’s got masquerading as a phone. It was really intense. But it was
Chris [00:06:54]:
That would that would do my headache because my phone, if when I go to bed at night, I I have to turn it down because my phone’s my alarm clock. And when it wakes me up, I don’t want it to be that bright. So I usually turn it right down. And the only time I turn it up is when I’m outside and go, oh, shit. I can’t see that properly now.
Sam [00:07:11]:
Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Particularly with But this was just this was ridiculously bright. Yeah. And then on Sunday, I think, we went to a place called Scarborough, which is really nice. And it’s, sort of heading towards I’m gonna get this completely wrong. Heading semi towards Littleton.
Sam [00:07:29]:
Jeremy Housen, correct me if I’m wrong. Anyway, really nice and it was a beautiful day and there’s people everywhere. And in Christchurch, that just means there’s people on bikes for everywhere because the place is dead flat. There’s people everywhere. There’s people walking and every third person has an amazing looking dog. But as we’re going in the car down the road, my eye catches onto something and I’m like, what the hell? Wind the window down. Wind the window down. Because people just do because
Chris [00:07:53]:
you’re mental like that. Yeah.
Sam [00:07:54]:
Yeah. Yeah. Well, because well, you know me. I noticed we’d shit. And then where’s the photo? This dude is absolutely caning it and going to town, like, going as fast as he can on this penny farthing bike.
Chris [00:08:09]:
Oh, jeez.
Sam [00:08:10]:
And he’s not young.
Chris [00:08:12]:
He’s not young. But that penny farthing, like, if I was standing next to it, I wanna say that the front wheel is my shoulder height,
Sam [00:08:18]:
which is It’s a it’s a well, it’s a full size one, I think.
Chris [00:08:21]:
But Yeah. That’s
Sam [00:08:22]:
so he’s going down this road at, like I don’t know. He’s pedaling hard too. Like, he’s going so fast. And, so I got the photo of this dude. He looks a bit like Stephen King.
Chris [00:08:33]:
Oh, he does too.
Sam [00:08:35]:
I don’t know. Anyway God.
Chris [00:08:37]:
He’s Falling off that would be so painful.
Sam [00:08:39]:
And his own well, his only protective gear is he’s got some little gloves on
Chris [00:08:44]:
Need that.
Sam [00:08:45]:
And a hat. And he’s got shorts and a t shirt.
Chris [00:08:48]:
Yeah. Well, a helmet. Yeah.
Sam [00:08:49]:
And Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:08:50]:
Shorts and t shirt. Yeah. Yeah. So either way like he’s got Lycra gear. I don’t think he’s gonna be going fast enough for Lycra shorts. Like
Sam [00:08:57]:
He was going quick. And I was like, I don’t know how you’re gonna stop, fast. There’s no
Chris [00:09:02]:
gears on those things, though, aren’t they?
Sam [00:09:03]:
I don’t think so. I think it’s just signal
Chris [00:09:05]:
straight to the Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:09:07]:
So that was fun. The only other thing that I saw in my whole trip, which I just thought was interesting you’ve probably seen them. You hang out at bars and things. I went to the local RSA and it was their they were having a big bingo thing in the other room for, breast cancer awareness or whatever. So heaps of people there. They have a grocery grab? Have you seen those? So this RSA has got a cupboard in the corner, like glass two glass doors, and it’s just full of random groceries. And you get to buy this raffle ticket, and most people buy two numbers, for $4. Yeah.
Sam [00:09:41]:
And if they pull your number out, you go out, and they’re like, you’re allowed seven items. And it’s just random stuff, like baked beans, spaghetti, toilet paper.
Chris [00:09:49]:
So it’s just a a change on the old meat pack.
Sam [00:09:52]:
No. No. There’s still a meat pack raffle as well. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:55]:
But yes. Yeah.
Sam [00:09:56]:
Yeah. So there’s another one. And they said, like, they said, oh, it’s a pain because when they draw the numbers, some time so this one guy got both numbers. You can go get 14 and then they check it all off. It’s random ass. But, in the RSA, they had
Chris [00:10:12]:
one See, I’d do that because I wouldn’t buy the meat pack
Sam [00:10:14]:
raffle. Exactly. They had a charging station for your phone. So it’s this big tall contraption. Yeah. And it’s got little tiny lockers that a phone can fit with all the different charging cables. And you pick your locker and you put a PIN code in and then you lock your phone in this random locker. And, you charge them up.
Sam [00:10:32]:
Like, we could never have this in Hamilton, probably. Someone would steal something.
Chris [00:10:37]:
Oh, okay. I think those things are, there are companies that do that, and they rent them out.
Sam [00:10:43]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:10:43]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:10:44]:
Yeah. Anyway, thought it was pretty cool. It helped, charge up one of our
Chris [00:10:47]:
phones. That’s pretty good. That’s pretty good. I’m gonna talk a little bit. Don’t don’t don’t get worried about this. This is Trump thing, but it’s a Trump watch update.
Sam [00:10:57]:
It it has been a while. I think Jamie Oxley is hanging out for this.
Chris [00:11:02]:
Alright. And I I’m not talking about Trump really, but Oh. And this is this Trump watches. We we talked about this a while ago. Right? He had those those watches. They had, like, the
Sam [00:11:11]:
$600 watch. Sorry. The actual watch you could buy The
Chris [00:11:14]:
watch you could buy. Fight fight fight on
Sam [00:11:16]:
the back of it
Chris [00:11:17]:
or around the edge of it.
Sam [00:11:18]:
And it’s gone so well.
Chris [00:11:19]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it’s been hitting the news recently because, some middle aged freaking Trump fan person bought his lady friend a Trump watch.
Sam [00:11:32]:
No.
Chris [00:11:33]:
So he ordered the Trump watch and and he’s like they’re interviewing him because, well, because it’s the president, you know. You know you’re getting quality No.
Sam [00:11:40]:
You know. No. It’s it’s the cheapest Chinasium you can get Yeah. That can still hold a form.
Chris [00:11:48]:
Yeah. So that’s basically what it is. But he goes, we we got it. And, and it I love the styling and it’s sort of pink faced one with a pink hedge one because it’s for his missus.
Sam [00:11:59]:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:12:00]:
And and and she liked the styling. And so I I I bought it and, you know, I splashed out 650 Of course. US dollars, whatever it is.
Sam [00:12:07]:
Well done.
Chris [00:12:07]:
You know? And she noticed straight away. There’s something missing on the front.
Sam [00:12:15]:
The watch hands?
Chris [00:12:17]:
The the name is in in the on the on the dial. On the face? It’s missing the t at the front. It just says rump.
Sam [00:12:27]:
Yeah. Good.
Chris [00:12:28]:
I got a rump watch. I’m not really happy about it.
Sam [00:12:35]:
Well done. Well done, you Chinese workers, bringing joy around the world. Well done.
Chris [00:12:43]:
Yes. Yes. Trump, rump, what’s the difference?
Sam [00:12:45]:
Have you seen any of this run it sport thing bollocks?
Chris [00:12:50]:
I don’t know what you’re talking about. So no.
Sam [00:12:52]:
I don’t know how it started, but, a week ago, there was a story about these people in Auckland running this thing called Run It. And they’re saying it’s a sport, and basically, two guys run at each other. I think one might be holding rugby ball, but they just run at each other, and they try and bowl the other one over.
Chris [00:13:14]:
So it’s like chicken on feet.
Sam [00:13:17]:
Yeah. Sort of yeah. It’s like a mixture of that and a little bit of bull rush, I guess, but you’re just it’s sort of like their their argument is they do that in rugby. Some of the event the locations I think they might have been council run and said, no. You can’t do this. There was $20,000 prize up Holy shit. For the top whoever, and these big guys are running at each other. And one of them just, you know, just gets knocked out on the ground.
Sam [00:13:40]:
And everyone’s like, sure. You know, all good. So that there’s that story. Then, over the weekend, there’s a 19 year old at a twenty first party, I think it was. And early in the morning, after a lot of drinking, they decide to do it and he’s dead. He’s, hit his head or something like that and died. So anyway
Chris [00:14:02]:
I’m I’m surprised more problems haven’t happened with those slap fight.
Sam [00:14:06]:
Well, yeah. But we don’t hear about it. Like, I I think that’s the thing. I don’t I think because Dana White’s involved in that. Yeah. And I think And it’s dangerous as hell. Yeah. Either a, we’re not getting told when something happens or it’s happening delayed after the fact and then you never see that person because you’re not following it.
Sam [00:14:26]:
Like, who’s your number one slap fighter that
Chris [00:14:28]:
you buy? Yeah. No no idea. Exactly. So, apparently, they’ve made one for the martial arts community in the style of slaps, but it’s low kicks. So you just take turns at low kicking each other. Now this is the sort of thing I used to do Yeah. More in training Yeah. For for the tournament.
Chris [00:14:46]:
And I’m not saying that this is much better to go.
Sam [00:14:48]:
When you say low kick, is it, like, below the knee?
Chris [00:14:50]:
No. It’s above yeah. Like on the thigh.
Sam [00:14:52]:
On the thigh. Okay. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:14:54]:
Low kick because it’s below the belt. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:55]:
Yeah. Yeah. I can picture that. I’ve seen that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:14:58]:
Yeah. And, when you do it right and there is a lot of technique to doing it right, you like, you totally give somebody a dead leg, but you can give do much worse damage
Sam [00:15:08]:
than that. Now does the other person tap out and go, I’ve had enough or they just drop to the ground or
Chris [00:15:14]:
I haven’t seen any of it.
Sam [00:15:15]:
I don’t know. But how heard about that. But when you were doing it?
Chris [00:15:17]:
Yeah. When we’re doing it, usually what happens is you go you you hit somebody really hard and they go, And then they try and step and they you’re falling full underneath the air at the ground. So it’s it’s like a delayed reaction. It’s it’s until you try try to move your leg, you go, oh, actually, I’m hobbling now.
Sam [00:15:35]:
Oh.
Chris [00:15:36]:
Yeah. How it would how it tends to work as I recall. I have seen people break their legs in bits and pieces, but, I mean, that’s pretty unusual. But, again, these are martial artists that practice and train for that. So we used to do a thousand squats at a time to build up our muscles around that part of the leg
Sam [00:15:56]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:15:57]:
Because we knew we’re gonna get hit. If we fought a TaeKwonGo guy go TaeKwonDo guy who hadn’t done any of that, he’d get hit twice and he’d be like, I’m out. You know? So it it’s what you’re used to.
Sam [00:16:11]:
I was randomly talking to someone at work, like, two days ago Mhmm. About Red Bull. Now there’s a couple of things. It’s it’s all happening at once. So, it’s funny how these things happen. I had a random conversation about Red Bull and their weird sports at work. And then, yesterday, I saw this tweet, and it says the Red Bull marketing strategy, the Red Bull story is incredible when you think about it. A 40 year old marketing manager goes to Thailand for a work trip, drinks some weird drink that energizes him like nothing else, gets rid of his jet lag.
Sam [00:16:45]:
He decides to carbonate it, bring it to the West. Thousand Milligrams of taurine, caffeine, inositol, cane sugar. There’s nothing like it. Proceeds to claim it gives you wings. Designs a nice tall skinny can so it stands out amongst the fat cans. Buys a football team. Pays mercenaries to do outrageous life threatening stunts as marketing. Buys a formula one team.
Sam [00:17:09]:
Refuses to sell anything else. Never sold a single share. No IPO. Dude even hated borrowing money from the banks. Works until the day he dies. Sun now continues the legacy. Insane. Wow.
Chris [00:17:21]:
I didn’t know any of that. Well, most of that.
Sam [00:17:23]:
So anyway, that’s all happening. I had the random conversation the day before with the guy at work. That’s all good. And then guess what? Red Bull Cut It Lawnmower Racing is coming to field days. What a random sport. I mean, it fits in.
Chris [00:17:36]:
Oh, it totally fits in. But because they Red Bull do the, soapbox races, didn’t they?
Sam [00:17:40]:
They did that again this year in Auckland. Red Stag won it for the second time after winning it. The last time it was run, we talked about that. Yeah. They do, the airplane one. I keep seeing videos of the crazy free diving of cliffs, cliff diving. That’s a Red Bull sport.
Chris [00:17:55]:
So we used to do in Wellington on the wharf. We used to do it wasn’t Red Bull back then because I don’t think it existed, but we used to do the what do you you make up a plane or glider and you
Sam [00:18:06]:
run up a Wharf? No. No. Yeah.
Chris [00:18:07]:
What’s that called?
Sam [00:18:08]:
That’s a Red Bull event. Yeah.
Chris [00:18:09]:
And that’s a Red Bull event. Now we used to do that before.
Sam [00:18:12]:
But, so the competition is actually happening on the Saturday and they’re having activations on the other days. So I don’t know if there’s a big community already doing this sort of stuff and they’ve just tapped into it. They’re bringing people over from overseas. Because it seems like a very short window to quickly get a racing lawnmower together if you’ve never done it before.
Chris [00:18:33]:
Yeah. I I think you and I need to organize something and then get the, Red Bull to sponsor us. I I’m thinking, you know, a pump can regatta with with motors in there.
Sam [00:18:46]:
Oh, no. But it has to be no. It won’t work because you can’t have there’s not enough people that can do that.
Chris [00:18:51]:
True. True. True.
Sam [00:18:52]:
I think we should talk to them maybe and get some free Red Bull. We’ll need it. We’re going to field days if you didn’t know, hopefully.
Chris [00:18:59]:
Yes. Yes. That’ll be cool. I I got a story here that that I I just think it’s funny. I I’ve called it, you know, leaky leakers keep leaking.
Sam [00:19:07]:
Excellent.
Chris [00:19:07]:
There’s a crackdown on public service leaking information, which has now been revealed in an email leaked to the media.
Sam [00:19:15]:
Is this in New Zealand or America or somewhere else?
Chris [00:19:18]:
I just assumed it was America, but it is it’s New Zealand. And I’m like, what what is going on? Because yeah. So they leaked it to Radio New Zealand. Has seen a copy of the email sent by the department head to staff outlining public service commissioners, sir Brian Roche’s warning against leaks of information. He’s reminding us that all of our responsibility as public services servants that leaking information goes against the core values of the public service and must stop if individuals within our employment feel strongly on issues. There are mechanisms they can use, but leaking of information isn’t one of them. And then somebody just basically leaked this, which I think is fair because if you don’t want people leaking, don’t do stupid bad shit is what I’m gonna say.
Sam [00:20:09]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:20:10]:
Like, I think this should I know we don’t have it in New Zealand. It’s called the Fifth Fifth Amendment, where you can say whatever the hell you like, and not be put in jail for it. I think that’s fine. I mean, it’s different if you’re leaking, you know, war plans or espionage type stuff. That’s a different thing.
Sam [00:20:29]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:20:29]:
But yeah. I what what do you think about this? I was just curious.
Sam [00:20:33]:
There’s always a risk. Like, the biggest problem with anything is human. The human factor. Like, just, you know, people talk about all sorts of random stuff. Could be anywhere. Let yeah. I’m I don’t know.
Chris [00:20:45]:
I think part of the reason is people, particularly politicians and stuff like that, they’ll go, this is the way we’re gonna do it without any check to the people that are doing the work.
Sam [00:20:56]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:20:57]:
And if the people doing the work go, oh my god. This is never gonna work because of this, this, and this, And they don’t understand that because they just politician Johnny come lately, new on the scene, never done this before.
Sam [00:21:08]:
CEO of Air New Zealand maybe.
Chris [00:21:09]:
And and they go through the mechanism, and the mechanism is send me a letter. You don’t know what you’re talking about or I don’t care or whatever, then, yeah, I think leaking is makes perfect sense, and I would rather want to know as a citizen than not know. Anyway, that’s my
Sam [00:21:28]:
That’s right. Hey. The other week, we were talking about the the humanoid robots running a half marathon.
Chris [00:21:34]:
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:21:34]:
And they’re, like, struggling. Now we’ve got the humanoid robots fighting a Chinese kickboxing competition.
Chris [00:21:41]:
I did see a a video of a robot doing some, oh Oh, they’re kicking each other. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:21:49]:
Yeah. They’re two robots fighting. And for some reason, it creeps me out that they’re, like, child sized, like, teenager sized. They’re not full adult sized, which is probably good. You don’t want them going you don’t want them going rogue.
Chris [00:22:02]:
So they’ve got, they’ve got boxing gloves on and they’ve got headgear on, which is quite amusing.
Sam [00:22:08]:
Oh, look at that one. He fell over.
Chris [00:22:10]:
Yeah. But, yeah, I I saw, one I think it was probably the same sort of robot, but it was just against a guy who was doing a spin kick and it was hitting pads and stuff.
Sam [00:22:20]:
And it
Chris [00:22:20]:
was pretty impressive. I was
Sam [00:22:22]:
like because it’d be quite consistent, I’m concerned.
Chris [00:22:23]:
Because I’m like, I can’t do that. I used to be able maybe to do that, but I got it. Consistently as this
Sam [00:22:29]:
robot was. It was pretty good. We’ll have a link to that in our show notes at the christmasandpodcast.com. Or I just remembered. Tcasp. T c a s p Com. That’s all you need. Share that.
Sam [00:22:43]:
Tcasp.com. That’ll take you to our website. It’s exciting times.
Chris [00:22:47]:
So you don’t have to write out the Chris and Sam podcast. I know. You just put in the first letter of each of those words.
Sam [00:22:52]:
Exactly. And there you go. Technology.
Chris [00:22:54]:
All our Caspers will be doing that.
Sam [00:22:56]:
Oh, I still don’t know about that. Yes.
Chris [00:23:00]:
Here’s a business idea for you. I don’t know if it’s a genius thing or a stupid thing, so you can tell me.
Sam [00:23:06]:
Okay.
Chris [00:23:06]:
This is in Tulsa. They, in in The States, the city of Tulsa paid a hundred thousand dollars to find and collect abandoned shopping carts because people kept stealing shopping carts.
Sam [00:23:19]:
Hang on. They paid that to go find them. Yeah. And so, obviously, that was worthwhile.
Chris [00:23:24]:
Yeah. So, basically, there’s a company now called Cart Repo.
Sam [00:23:27]:
Of course, you can risk.
Chris [00:23:28]:
Charging charging this. And what they do is it’s it costs something like, according to this, hundred and $50 to get a a car, a brand new car. So they’re finding them from wherever they are, bringing them back and saying you can buy it for 15 to $20 depending on how many they got. If they if they find 20, they’ll
Sam [00:23:47]:
set it for
Chris [00:23:47]:
$15. Yeah. They’ll bring it back to that store. And and a lot of the times where they’re still repowering them from
Sam [00:23:54]:
Homeless.
Chris [00:23:54]:
Are other stores.
Sam [00:23:56]:
Oh, man.
Chris [00:23:57]:
Which is surprising, which surprised me. So they, you know, they go and find them. They take them back to the actual store, and they sell them 15 to dollars to $20 a cart, which sort of makes sense. But then you’ve got the whole
Sam [00:24:12]:
Who owns it?
Chris [00:24:13]:
Yeah. No. You’ve got the whole well, who’s to say these guys aren’t stealing them from
Sam [00:24:18]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:24:18]:
In the first place. You know? Like, I wouldn’t I if if there was a place in Hamilton doing that, I’d be like, you guys are just stealing the trolleys.
Sam [00:24:29]:
We’re we’re just not that big in New Zealand that we could have these random businesses doing this random stuff.
Chris [00:24:35]:
True. True.
Sam [00:24:36]:
Like, we it’s not I mean, we do have trolleys go all wandering all over the place.
Chris [00:24:40]:
Oh, you see trolleys around here all the time.
Sam [00:24:43]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:24:44]:
Around where my my neighborhood is not a very nice neighborhood.
Sam [00:24:47]:
You live in the hood?
Chris [00:24:48]:
I’m in the hood. And, yeah, you get a lot of those warehouse trolleys, all over the place. Yeah. Because people just like, I’m not carrying this.
Sam [00:24:57]:
Yeah. I’m gonna bring all the bring it home with me.
Chris [00:24:59]:
Yeah. Because it
Sam [00:25:00]:
won’t fit on the lime scooter.
Chris [00:25:01]:
That’s why. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:25:04]:
This guy, was the medical school morgue manager at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and he just plead guilty to stealing, body parts. So these people have been donating their bodies to science at Harvard. You think you’re doing good? And then the shady morgue manager’s like, I’ll take that. And then he’s selling it to, like, random people on the Internet for very I don’t know why. Who knows? Probably a fetish. A bit weird.
Chris [00:25:31]:
Well, he’s not gonna get a pardon. So Trump has been pardoning everybody hard out right now.
Sam [00:25:37]:
Again.
Chris [00:25:38]:
Yeah. So, there was, a sheriff who’s just pardoned, who was just about to go in for his ten year stint. He made and then he was like, oh, no. No. No. There was this guy who he’s an employer. He gets the Medicaid from his, staff. Like, we get our taxes and then you pay the IRD.
Chris [00:26:03]:
Instead of paying the the insurance, he just bought a yacht and Yeah. All that sort of stuff.
Sam [00:26:09]:
But he’s all good now.
Chris [00:26:10]:
And, him and his wife got, prosecuted. He’s got ten years. She got six years or some something. I can’t remember. And, of course, but their mother or their daughter, one way or the other, paid a million dollars to have dinner with Trump at one of his million dollar, plate things. And three weeks later, they’re, oh, they are
Sam [00:26:34]:
How much talking do you think you have to do at one of those dinners? Or do you just have to, like, grease up to him?
Chris [00:26:40]:
I’m sure there’s a wish list that you’ve just filled out when you pay for it.
Sam [00:26:44]:
Maybe. What’s the wish?
Chris [00:26:46]:
I wish my mom and dad get pardoned for this thing. It’s not really corruption. They only did what Trump did. Oh, that’s fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:26:55]:
So Maybe.
Chris [00:26:56]:
Anyway, but the other thing, I did have something about Harvard because I think that’s hilarious at the moment. So you know the story about Harvard right now?
Sam [00:27:05]:
Not not really. You mentioned it the other week on a offhanded comment, and I was just like, don’t really know what you mean by that.
Chris [00:27:13]:
Oh, so okay. So the longest story is that Harvard, there was a bunch of Palestinian protesters, if you wanna call them that. They’re like, Palestinians have rights, and we shouldn’t be conducting a genocide on them. And then all the, right wing people are going, you’re anti Semitic. You guys should all be sent back to Palestine or whatever. And it’s like, no. We’re not saying that Hamas is good. We’re saying Hamas is bad.
Chris [00:27:40]:
We’re just saying the citizens of Palestine shouldn’t be bombed Yeah.
Sam [00:27:44]:
Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:27:45]:
Which is fair. Trump has said, because Harvard’s anti Semitic, they should let the government determine the head of, facilities and should determine who goes there and who doesn’t go there and, like, all this control stuff.
Sam [00:28:01]:
And and
Chris [00:28:01]:
Harvard went, nah, neff off. We’ll take you to court. And so all this stuff has started happening. So he stopped funding them. He’s pulled 3,000,000,000 in funding. And most of that funding is for, like, cancer research and all that. Oh my gosh. That goes through
Sam [00:28:14]:
Not important at all. No. No. Not important at all. Well done. Alright.
Chris [00:28:17]:
And and he’s going, no. We’re gonna send that to trade schools. So which is, like, okay. I but they just pulled funding from trade schools before they did that anyway. So, like, I don’t that’s a mixed message right there. Anyway, and then they’ve got, this 20,000, I want to say. I might be making that number up. 20,000 foreign students at Harvard.
Chris [00:28:40]:
Right? And he said, right. They’re all getting deported. They’re not getting visas for, staying at Harvard because you should be training American people,
Sam [00:28:50]:
not Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:28:50]:
Yeah. Overseas people. And and it’s like but these are postgraduate studies. That they’ve already graduated. They’re people that have gone to Oxford or whatever and they’re coming here to do a specialized thing that is actually good for the country and all that sort of stuff is the argument. But nope. Nope. We’re getting rid of them.
Chris [00:29:07]:
So Hong Kong University, I forget what it’s called now, Hong Kong University.
Sam [00:29:11]:
They’re gonna pick everyone up.
Chris [00:29:12]:
They they’ve just been going, hey. If you can’t get into if you’re a international student and you’re getting, chucked out of Harvard, we’ll put you up for free here or or some you know, putting some real big good deal together. And I’m like, that’s how you do it. If we had a really good university here, that would be good, but I don’t think we’ve got one to that level. But yeah. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense to me to to do that. But how dumb is that?
Sam [00:29:37]:
Everything’s dumb, he’s done.
Chris [00:29:39]:
So Trump.
Sam [00:29:40]:
So Trump. That brings us to the end of this podcast.
Chris [00:29:43]:
Alright. Okay. So I did sneak some Trump stuff in the end there.
Sam [00:29:47]:
It’s not too bad. I’ve I’ve I’ve gone through worse. So check us out the chrisasampodcast.com or remember tcast.com.
Chris [00:29:56]:
Oh, yeah. Before before we go, shout out to, Maddie who, had the tavern show premiere this this week. Neither of us saw it, but I’m just gonna say shout out because we’re done.
Sam [00:30:07]:
We need to do better with these shout outs and not put at the end of a podcast.
Chris [00:30:10]:
Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, I’m trying to remember.
Sam [00:30:12]:
No. No. No. You’re doing good. You’re doing good. Okay. Until next week. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:15]:
I’m Chris. See you. Bye.
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