New Mineral Found

Summary

This week, the duo dive into the discovery of a rare mineral thanks to a decades-old letter, discuss NZ’s first smishing attack, and marvel at bananas taped to walls fetching millions.

There’s also talk of atmospheric water harvesters, board game accolades, movie piracy with a twist, and Coldplay’s kiss cam fallout. All this randomness and more in this week’s episode!

Show Transcript

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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello and welcome to episode 542 of the Chris and Sam Podcast.

Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.

Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness, technology and life. Sounds like I’ve had an energy drink, but I didn’t because the supermarket didn’t have the one I wanted.

Chris [00:00:36]:
So I’m just faking it till he makes.

Sam [00:00:38]:
Faking it till I make it or pass out. I don’t know. It’s very tiring. Hey, last week I forgot to tell you, Sarah was involved in a. Well, she wasn’t, but her car was involved in a car crash. So the back of her car got hit by some rando dropping off a child at the school that she works at.

Chris [00:00:56]:
Oh, so she was just packed there?

Sam [00:00:58]:
Yeah. This was like two hours into the school day. Oh, yeah.

Chris [00:01:01]:
So, yeah, she wasn’t in it or anything?

Sam [00:01:03]:
No, but he dropped off a kid and then he was on the street the wrong way and then he just slowly drives across the road at 4km an hour and then just drives into the back of the corner of her car. And then he sort of. They’ve got it all on camera and.

Chris [00:01:19]:
I was gonna say, yeah, okay.

Sam [00:01:21]:
And the community around her school is very good, so they know that the cars belong to teachers. A lot of the families just live across the road. So as this happens, everyone comes out and they’re sort of watching and then this person just dawdles off down the road, stops a little bit, looks at their car and then just drives off. And then a little bit later, they come back and went into the office and goes, oh, I’m sorry. I drove into someone’s car and I think they were stoned off their face. So it was a very slow. It sounds like was a slow motion thing. So.

Sam [00:01:55]:
Pain in the ass. The car’s got a cracked and dented.

Chris [00:01:59]:
What’s the car? Is it RAV4 or something, wasn’t it?

Sam [00:02:01]:
No, CRV.

Chris [00:02:02]:
CRV.

Sam [00:02:02]:
CRV, right. The Honda version, I guess. It’s got a cracked bumper and a dented side panel and it’s getting looked at tomorrow, so we’ll see. But it should be fine. No excess or anything with insurance. They. Because the guy had to give us details. Yeah, like he’s like, oh, here’s my details.

Sam [00:02:20]:
But I think he said it was like his sister’s car or some relative’s car. Anyway.

Chris [00:02:26]:
Okay, so updates. Matua is going, is good we’re wrapped on Matua, I think.

Sam [00:02:34]:
Look how happy he is.

Chris [00:02:35]:
So happy. So happy. So this is a film we’ve been working on for a year and a half that was supposed to be done at least six months ago. It should have been finished, but Adam’s got it all in editing, so. So last Sunday. So Saturday. Last Saturday, did some pickups in Rotorua. I didn’t go down for that.

Chris [00:02:52]:
It was cool. And then Sunday, we had our montage ending, and I took my bow staff. I was very pleased to take my bow staff.

Sam [00:03:01]:
The one that you got awarded. Given.

Chris [00:03:03]:
Given, yeah, at a. At a. At a karate seminar. So I haven’t really used it. So I went down in the sky. Hams is teaching Moraku, which is like the. With the taiha, how you use that. And so we set of four moves that we did in a row.

Chris [00:03:22]:
And then we had a couple of strikes that we did as well. And then the Tage he thing. Dance, where you flick your foot in and out and stuff. And so, yeah, so we did all that. And we just did the same thing over and over, different shots of it. Yeah. David’s going around getting all sorts of different shots. And then we had picnic and loads of shots of that.

Chris [00:03:43]:
Me laughing, apparently, was a feature of it, because I randomly was laughing.

Sam [00:03:48]:
If they liked it or not, it’s a feature.

Chris [00:03:52]:
So, yeah. So I’m pretty pleased that we got that done. And I’ve asked Adam to find some footage of me with a stick. Cause I want to keep it. I want to keep practicing that stuff that I learned.

Sam [00:04:01]:
They borrowed some tables from us. Adam did.

Chris [00:04:04]:
He brought them back.

Sam [00:04:05]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he said they featured prominently whatever they did.

Chris [00:04:08]:
Oh, they did. They do.

Sam [00:04:10]:
The tables are Sarah’s, and she’s like, I really hope we get a credit for the tables. I was like, don’t know what that means.

Chris [00:04:16]:
Oh, Adam, if you listen to this. Sarah, what’s his.

Sam [00:04:20]:
Well, I’ll tell him on a message.

Chris [00:04:22]:
Yeah. Fair, fair, fair.

Sam [00:04:23]:
This is a public podcast, Chris. It’s not just. I know you just think we’re talking in a room, but there’s microphones.

Chris [00:04:29]:
I understand. I know Adam listens. Oh, yeah. There’s other listeners. Okay.

Sam [00:04:34]:
We hope there’s more than one.

Chris [00:04:39]:
Speaking of which, I caught up with Ben Woodgate today. Yesterday. Yesterday, Day before.

Sam [00:04:45]:
Yes, the hello Hamilton guy.

Chris [00:04:47]:
The hello, Hamilton guy. So I went out to Gallagher and had a. Had a chat with him for an hour. It was pretty cool.

Sam [00:04:52]:
Does he work out there?

Chris [00:04:53]:
Yeah, he works at Gallagher’s head office. He’s in the comms team there.

Sam [00:04:58]:
Oh, right.

Chris [00:04:59]:
Yeah. No, nice guy. Really? He’s quite so young. He’s a young guy. Pretty cool. What I didn’t get. I didn’t realize because.

Sam [00:05:07]:
Hang on.

Chris [00:05:08]:
What?

Sam [00:05:09]:
No, sometimes when you say that, I’m just like, what’s he gonna say? Yeah, what’s he gonna say?

Chris [00:05:13]:
No, because. So he was celebrating that he’s recently hit 10,000 subscribers.

Sam [00:05:18]:
Yes, that’s right.

Chris [00:05:19]:
I didn’t realize the newsletter only started in February.

Sam [00:05:22]:
Yeah, it started when I told you about it. It was only going really short, like. Yeah, really short.

Chris [00:05:29]:
Yeah, because I just assumed it had been a slow burn for a year.

Sam [00:05:32]:
No, no, no, it was. I know.

Chris [00:05:34]:
And it started in February.

Sam [00:05:35]:
I’m like, what? Yeah, no, it’s good. That’s cool.

Chris [00:05:38]:
Yeah, I’m very impressed. So we have. I. I’ve asked him. We’re going to interview him on Zoom and do an episode interviewing him.

Sam [00:05:46]:
Okay, Sounds good. Look at you, jacking stuff up.

Chris [00:05:50]:
Cause nothing went wrong with the interview that I set up with the Chris and Sam, the podcast.

Sam [00:05:56]:
It’s fine. That was just a bit random. Yeah, more than you think. Well, it was good.

Chris [00:06:02]:
Yeah. Random’s what we do.

Sam [00:06:04]:
Random is what we do. You know how much I love art.

Chris [00:06:09]:
Okay.

Sam [00:06:09]:
You know how there’s that stupid banana stuck on the wall with duct tape? I reckon this is just publicity, to be honest, but some rando just went up and ate it.

Chris [00:06:18]:
Oh, he bought it and then he ate it.

Sam [00:06:20]:
What do you mean he brought it?

Chris [00:06:23]:
This billionaire crypto guy bought the banana on a wall, ripped the tape off and ate the banana.

Sam [00:06:30]:
Okay. This story just said someone was hungry and grabbed it because it’s $10.4 million worth. So I don’t know if it’s two stories.

Chris [00:06:40]:
That’s two stories. And to be fair, I don’t know if mine is accurate because.

Sam [00:06:45]:
Okay, so this one said the guy just ate it. And then security came and they said the artwork is perishable. They do know that, but they do have very specific instructions from the artist on how to replace it. I’m just shaking my head here.

Chris [00:07:02]:
Just the look of disgust.

Sam [00:07:04]:
Well, I just. Honestly, I thought it was a one and done thing. I didn’t even know it was on display. And they have to keep changing it out.

Chris [00:07:11]:
Got to keep changing the banana. It’s not worth 10.4 million if you don’t change the banana.

Sam [00:07:16]:
Sam, I thought it. No, I honestly thought if you do.

Chris [00:07:19]:
Change the banana, it’s worth 10.4 million. No, obviously.

Sam [00:07:23]:
Obviously, obviously, yeah. So stupid.

Chris [00:07:28]:
Anyway, for 10.4 million that they paid, do you know how much duct tape they’ve got sitting there?

Sam [00:07:35]:
Well, you know what? Yeah, well, you know how douchey the instructions will be. The banana must be between this and this and have a curvature of this with the color palette of this.

Chris [00:07:44]:
And the angle on the wall must be perpendicular to the floor.

Sam [00:07:47]:
And the duct tape can only be this length and it must be placed like this. And there’s probably a whole video. They’ve probably done a day’s worth of training for it. Someone in the world somewhere is going, oh, my gosh, I’m a banana tape expert. I just did the dumbest training at work. We’ve got fine art in the corner and this guy with this banana in his duct tape. You know what else he was thinking of doing? But someone had already done it. Two magnets and a piece of tape, but he was like, you know what? I’ll go with this banana.

Chris [00:08:16]:
And then he punks the whole art centre one day and tapes an orange to the wall.

Sam [00:08:25]:
Oh, no, don’t give these people ideas.

Chris [00:08:31]:
Okay.

Sam [00:08:31]:
New Zealand had its first smishing attack.

Chris [00:08:35]:
Smishing?

Sam [00:08:36]:
Yeah, last July. And the guy’s just been charged with it, actually, I think this young guy. So it’s an SMS blaster attack. So this young guy, international university student, didn’t really understand what he got himself into. When A stranger on WeChat says, hey, we’ll give you seven, several thousand dollars, drive around Auckland 10 hours a day with this electronic thing hooked up to your car. So if someone said that to you, I’ll give you five. Does this say $5,000? I’ll give you. And you had a car.

Sam [00:09:10]:
I’m gonna give you $5,000. Here’s this box. Hook it up to your car battery. Just drive around. We don’t care where you go, just drive around. What do you reckon?

Chris [00:09:20]:
I think I’d be calling the police and going, hey, guys.

Sam [00:09:24]:
Yeah. So it mimics cell towers and it’s basically sending out fake bank texts and things to that nature. They reckon it’s the first time it’s happened in New Zealand and you can sort of hijack phones for just long enough to send them a text using the same sort of numbers that banks use. So you’d be like, okay, this seems legit.

Chris [00:09:46]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:09:47]:
And I’m sure they were trying to harvest data and all sorts. They reckon that it was doing about 700 one night. These text messages, that’s how many it.

Chris [00:09:57]:
Could be doing 700 a night.

Sam [00:10:01]:
Yeah, just driving around.

Chris [00:10:05]:
Well.

Sam [00:10:08]:
Don’T accept money on the Internet from strangers unless you want to join our Patreon.

Chris [00:10:14]:
You’re not going to be accepting it if you join our Patreon. Just to be clear, we don’t have patrons join us and we pay them.

Sam [00:10:20]:
That’s not how it works. Not at all. We barely update it. I do sometimes, but I don’t hear back from anyone.

Chris [00:10:28]:
That’s funny. I came across this I thought was amusing and I know your love of museums and stuff. Not that this is really a museum story, but I just think it sort of fits and I’m filling in time while it loads. Okay, so a long lost letter has been tucked away for 75 years.

Sam [00:10:48]:
Okay.

Chris [00:10:49]:
Has led scientists in Germany to uncover one of the rarest minerals on Earth. Humboldt. Humboldtine.

Sam [00:10:58]:
I think I saw the headline for this. Humboldtine.

Chris [00:11:01]:
Humboldtine.

Sam [00:11:02]:
Humboldt Teen. Okay.

Chris [00:11:04]:
While digitizing extensive collection of rocks and minerals, the Bavarian Environment Agency lfu, which is obviously how it’s spelled in German, I guess. Yeah. Stumbled upon a forgotten envelope in the basement drawer. Inside was a handwritten letter from 1949 sent by a local coal mine operator who discovered an unusual yellow mineral in the Matthias coal mine near Schwandorf, Bavaria.

Sam [00:11:33]:
Okay.

Chris [00:11:34]:
So they checked it and revisited samples collected from that mine decades ago, and among them found the hazelnut sized piece of yellowish material labeled Humboldtine. Using monotechniques like X ray diffraction, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, they confirmed it indeed was the elusive substance mentioned in the letter. So this is like really, really hard to make and like naturally occur because it’s got to have all these factors in there.

Sam [00:12:02]:
Okay.

Chris [00:12:02]:
Unfortunately, that mine is now flooded and you can’t go back down there and check any of it. Like it’s, it’s. You can’t do anything. What did you say? Unfortunately, the Matthias mine where it was originally found has been closed and flooded since the 1960s, so scientists may never fully understand how the conditions came together to create it.

Sam [00:12:23]:
Cool. Can we do anything with it we don’t know?

Chris [00:12:26]:
It says. Still, the discovery is a major win for science and a testament to the value of archival research. And I’m like, yeah, the research should have been done when he gave you the letter. You should read the letter. Sounds like my email box, actually. You should read the letter.

Sam [00:12:43]:
Yeah, well, that’s the thing. You’re getting all these rando emails from random people and you’re like, whatever, put it in a pile.

Chris [00:12:50]:
Yeah, but that’s the thing. It’s like what else is in these archives? Like these archives all over the world.

Sam [00:12:57]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:12:58]:
That have all this stuff. So it’s fascinating.

Sam [00:13:00]:
So anyway, if you want to see a bunch of different minerals, I highly recommend going to the School of Mining in Thames. Very cool. They’ve got a whole room that thinking back on it seems to have very questionable security. Like I don’t. The door was barely held shut but they had whole hundreds and hundreds of samples of different stuff and some of the stuff was apparently quite rare, hard to get your hands on and I think some of it was from Australia. Like some of the stuff we don’t even mine here. So that was cool. Talking about science, I’ve called this thing passive water.

Sam [00:13:39]:
I don’t know what they’re calling it but MIT is coming up with a plan. These young guys. Did you know 2.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water?

Chris [00:13:49]:
No, I didn’t know.

Sam [00:13:50]:
With 46 million of that in the U.S. it’s nuts, eh?

Chris [00:13:56]:
Yeah, yeah. But those third world countries like the U.S. you know, you’ve got to be careful. Jesus.

Sam [00:14:04]:
I’m right on the edge talking about your mate. But there’s too much batshit going on so we might have to wait a bit.

Chris [00:14:09]:
Oh yeah.

Sam [00:14:11]:
So they’ve worked out how to make these young engineers an atmosphere atmospheric water harvester. And I’m sure they’ve. People have done this in the past, various methods and they made this thing to get the water vapor from the air, including in quite dry desert conditions and then it converts it to safe drinking water. So it’s like a black window sized vertical panel and it’s got hydrogel material in it. Yep. And it looks like black bubble wrap and yeah, it soaks up the water vapor, they swell and then that evaporates and then it cools down and goes into a glass chamber as got a. How they did it here, they could produce between 57-161 ML of drinking water per day in some of America’s driest regions.

Chris [00:15:03]:
Yeah. So even in the desert. Yeah, I did read that one because there’s been a few different versions of that. Like there’s been these big net looking things they did in Africa that do do a similar thing in a different way. But yeah, I did watch read the hydrogel one because that was quite interesting because when it evaporates out of the gel, it leaves any impurities in the gel. So it’s actually. You don’t need to filter it. It’s effectively being filtered by.

Sam [00:15:31]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:15:32]:
It’s separated in there.

Sam [00:15:33]:
Prevents the salt leakage. The water’s safe to drink. Not sure if we like. Like everything.

Chris [00:15:39]:
A.

Sam [00:15:39]:
The science thing’s not sure where it’s going to go from here.

Chris [00:15:42]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:15:42]:
Like, will you be. It’s a proof of concept. Yeah, but will someone be able to market it? Will you sell it? Will you be able to give it away? Help people? I’m not sure. Because people really just want to make the money.

Chris [00:15:53]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:15:54]:
And if you can just sell bottled.

Chris [00:15:55]:
Water in third world countries like America.

Sam [00:15:57]:
The third world country. America.

Chris [00:15:58]:
Because those guys in Flint, Michigan, right. They still haven’t got proper water. All their pipes are still lead.

Sam [00:16:05]:
Yeah, it’s fine. Don’t worry about them. Their illustrious leader was playing golf in Scotland. Cheating at that.

Chris [00:16:10]:
So let’s talk about him just for a second. What do you reckon about the Epstein files? What are your views on this Epstein files thing?

Sam [00:16:17]:
He’s. He’s just absolutely keeps cocking everything up with it.

Chris [00:16:21]:
Like he couldn’t shoot himself in the foot if he had a sniper rifle. Better, like.

Sam [00:16:27]:
No, he’s just stupid, like. Don’t release it. Release it. I’m in it. I’m not in it. I don’t know. I went there. I want to go to the Island.

Sam [00:16:33]:
I don’t go to the Island.

Chris [00:16:34]:
I love the things where he goes. It’s not real. It’s all made up and everybody in there is a Democrat and they should be indicted. Hang on. Which one is it? They should be indicted because it is real or they. It’s not real, so they shouldn’t be indicted or you. You’re telling me three different stories.

Sam [00:16:48]:
But that. Yeah, but his head. Lawyers now met with Delaine Ghislaine Maxwell giving them her. She was walking back into prison with a box full of stuff, which we assume is the stuff she’s got to memorise.

Chris [00:17:00]:
Either that or the stuff that she’s going to hang herself with.

Sam [00:17:04]:
I don’t know. No, they want her, I assume, to come out and go, oh, no, he was never mentioned. It’s all fake. I hope she just goes complete rogue. Imagine that. That’d be great. But then. Does anything ever happen?

Chris [00:17:15]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:17:16]:
Head of FBI was in Wellington yesterday. Our government was denying all of that. But today we announced that the FBI is setting up an office in Wellington. So that’s good. 4. I don’t know. They just need one. Okay, so.

Sam [00:17:28]:
Well, what’s his name? Who’s the FBI guy?

Chris [00:17:32]:
Keshe Patel.

Sam [00:17:33]:
Yeah, Keshe Patel. So he was seen in Parliament Yesterday.

Chris [00:17:35]:
Oh my God. And that’s a nut job.

Sam [00:17:37]:
Yep. And they asked and they were like, don’t know. And then our nut job, Nicola Willis goes. I saw a lot of people with guns and like security. I don’t know what they were doing. They were on level seven or whatever it was. So, yeah, he was here. Cause they worked out the plane, had whatever.

Sam [00:17:52]:
And then. Yeah. Today they said, FBI setting up an office in New Zealand. I think it’s to do with. Cause apparently they hear quite a lot when dignitaries come.

Chris [00:18:03]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:18:03]:
And I think they need an office. But it’s like, why aren’t you just hanging out at the embassy? I don’t know. Haven’t really looked much more into it, but.

Chris [00:18:11]:
So the FBI does work internationally and it does have offices all around the world. So I mean, I’ve got no real problem with that. Although I do worry about Cash Patel and Dono.

Sam [00:18:23]:
Oh, yeah.

Chris [00:18:25]:
Because those guys are. Well, they both were like podcasters.

Sam [00:18:30]:
Exactly.

Chris [00:18:31]:
And now elite law enforcement.

Sam [00:18:34]:
So what I’m hearing is there is a. There’s potential for us.

Chris [00:18:39]:
Yes. Yeah, yeah. It’s. It’s part of the. Yeah.

Sam [00:18:42]:
Career path of a podcast.

Chris [00:18:44]:
Of a podcast. To become, you know, FBI. Will. You know, we don’t have FBI. We have sis. Sis. So maybe we can get into.

Sam [00:18:53]:
And I would be okay if I wasn’t top level sis. And I’m saying that a lot because the transcription of this will end up on Google and someone somewhere is going to look into us.

Chris [00:19:04]:
Oh, what do you guys talk about? The sis. Yeah.

Sam [00:19:06]:
We love you. Love your work.

Chris [00:19:08]:
Don’t know what it is.

Sam [00:19:09]:
We know it’s mysterious, but good on you. Remember just thinking about that.

Chris [00:19:14]:
Do you remember it?

Sam [00:19:16]:
We went to an unconference a couple of times. I think at the time it was telecom or spark. I don’t know which one it was. And remember there was that spook guy there. They said that. I think Carl was with us. And they were talking about something and someone goes, oh, we could have government spooks in the room and you wouldn’t even know. We’re like, what? So it was heavily implied that there was some randos.

Chris [00:19:37]:
Yes.

Sam [00:19:38]:
Hanging out.

Chris [00:19:39]:
Yeah, I do remember that. I had edited that from my brain. To be fair.

Sam [00:19:45]:
I’m denial.

Chris [00:19:46]:
But yeah. But basically going back to the Trump thing, I think he is in there. I think there must be something on him that he’s really worried about. Cause he’s obviously really worried. Because otherwise he’d just go. Yeah. Cause he’s pretty bulletproof. Right.

Chris [00:20:02]:
Like anything else that people have lobbed at him, grab him by the pussy, whatever, it’s just bounces off him, I don’t know. So be something serious that he’s.

Sam [00:20:12]:
There’s a lot of serious stuff. If you go on Reddit and you look up any of the Trump stuff, there’s a bunch of people that are sharing this very long comment thread and it’s links to all the creepy stuff he’s done since the 70s. Very, very bad stuff.

Chris [00:20:28]:
Trump.

Sam [00:20:28]:
Yep, yep, yep. He’s.

Chris [00:20:32]:
He’s dodgy.

Sam [00:20:33]:
But will they get rid of. Anyway, enough of that. Let’s talk about a Kiwi that’s won a top board game award. Top board game award, sorry. This Canterbury board game creator, he won the Kinnerspiel Desh Horace award. That’s how I’m saying it.

Chris [00:20:49]:
That’s exactly how it’s pronounced. Yes.

Sam [00:20:51]:
So you might, if you’ve seen board games that are like next level up from Monopoly, you may see this little award thing that they get. And it’s this. And this is the most prestigious accolade and strategy board game that you can get. And he helped co create something called Endeavor Deep Sea, which recognizes excellence in complex board game design. And they’d been working on it for quite a while. It’s the second, a year and a half. Just designing a board game, like the mechanics of it and what you can do. And in this game you lead an Ocean Institute.

Sam [00:21:30]:
So if that’s your jam, I’m already hooked.

Chris [00:21:33]:
Yes.

Sam [00:21:33]:
Well, there’s so many random games out there and I saw some people commenting on this and they said the first time, like any game, it’s a bit much. A bit much. You’re trying to work your way through it and they’re like, after that first game, we’re hooked.

Chris [00:21:46]:
Once. That’s when you know a good game, when it’s. It’s a little bit of a barrier, but then it clicks.

Sam [00:21:53]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:21:53]:
And then you’re into it and yeah, those are the best games.

Sam [00:21:56]:
So he’s had a big significant spike in sales because he got this award. He has been looking and buying all the games that have won the awards in the past. And it sounds like he’s real heavily involved. This guy’s name’s Carl De Visser. That’s his name. So congratulations, Carl. Yeah, it’s pretty cool. But like some of the comments, like, it’s good if you’ve got the same crowd to always play games with.

Chris [00:22:20]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:22:20]:
But if you have to keep learning a new, training a new person.

Chris [00:22:23]:
Yeah.

Sam [00:22:24]:
It’s a bit tough.

Chris [00:22:25]:
Yeah, yeah. It’s all right teaching the odd new person, but if every time you want to play, you’ve got to do the learning cycle, that’s. That’s quite difficult.

Sam [00:22:35]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:22:35]:
Hey, do you. Have you heard or do you remember Freddie Wong?

Sam [00:22:39]:
He used to DO special effects.

Chris [00:22:41]:
YouTube special.

Sam [00:22:42]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Has his own studio or something.

Chris [00:22:45]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I guess he still makes movies and that sort of.

Sam [00:22:48]:
He does.

Chris [00:22:49]:
I didn’t realize it was him that I had written this about, so I’ve just noticed it was his name on it.

Sam [00:22:55]:
Okay.

Chris [00:22:56]:
So I pirated. Oh, we’re all going to die. And all I got was this lousy jpeg. So this is this thing. He’s. He’s uploaded this movie we’re all going to die. Okay, in HD to every streaming platform. Every, you know, torrent sharing platform there is.

Chris [00:23:18]:
And at the opening screen, apparently it’s got. I pirated. We’re all going to Die. And all I got was this lousy jpeg. And he’s put this on gumroad. And you can pay whatever you want. Your pirated. For your pirated copy of our movie, all funds go to supporting our future filmmaking endeavors.

Chris [00:23:34]:
It’s like 12 bucks normally, but you can pay whatever you like. Just to be clear, you probably already have the movie because we just put it on the things you’re paying for a digital download of the JPEG you see above.

Sam [00:23:47]:
Do you know how much he’s made from this or not actually.

Chris [00:23:51]:
Does it show that? I don’t know. No, I don’t. I didn’t think to look at that. No, I don’t. I just think it’s a good idea.

Sam [00:23:57]:
Rocket Jump is the channel, I think.

Chris [00:23:59]:
Yeah. Rocket Jump was one of his best videos.

Sam [00:24:02]:
So he’s done a bunch of. He’s done a couple of things with the corridor crew guys. Seen him there as well.

Chris [00:24:07]:
Yeah. Cause I used to follow everything Freddie Wong did for ages. I used to absolutely love his work. And then I just. I’d forgotten about him. I haven’t looked up in years.

Sam [00:24:18]:
There’s another guy and he popped up in a YouTube video the other day and he’s still doing the same sort of stuff, but he looked really different because now he’s 45 years old. But back in the day, in his 20s, I was watching him in his 20s and for the life of me, I cannot remember what the YouTube channel is. Maybe someone knows, let me know. But it was like budget special effects and movies and his name was Eric. I Think. And it was very cool and you probably come across it and if you saw it, you’d be good. But it was like, this is how you do a broken bone and all these random stuff. And it was always homemade stuff, like stuff you could actually do.

Sam [00:24:56]:
It’s pretty cool.

Chris [00:24:57]:
Oh, that’s cool. That’s cool. Anyway, I thought that was a good way of monetizing or, you know, funding.

Sam [00:25:03]:
Well, he’ll have a giant. Actually, there was a link there to their Patreon. Let’s just see if that had a. Let’s see if that’s got a mount of patrons, because I’m gonna say he’s got a few.

Chris [00:25:13]:
I would think Freddie would. No.

Sam [00:25:15]:
Yeah. Okay. Only 267 paid memberships. That’s way less than one.

Chris [00:25:20]:
Is that just for that movie, though, or is that for him?

Sam [00:25:23]:
No, that was for him. Rocket Jump.

Chris [00:25:25]:
Oh, okay. All right.

Sam [00:25:26]:
I don’t know. Anyway, they do have a link to actually get the normal digital download if you want. We’re all going to die. Movie.com. yeah. So you can get it on Google Play, YouTube movies and all of that. But also you can just pirate it. Excellent.

Chris [00:25:44]:
So I might pirate it later and have a look.

Sam [00:25:46]:
What’s the movie about? Do we even know?

Chris [00:25:48]:
I have no idea. Carl. Carl actually showed me this and said, hey, this is funny the way they’re doing this. And I was like, oh, that’s worth mentioning. So I didn’t look into it.

Sam [00:25:56]:
Okay. So it premiered in south by Southwest 2024 as the first feature film he’s done with himself and Matthew Arnold, co founders of Rocket Jump, co creators of classic series video game High School.

Chris [00:26:10]:
Oh, I love that video game High School.

Sam [00:26:12]:
And the podcast Dungeons and Daddies.

Chris [00:26:14]:
I haven’t seen the podcast or listened to the podcast or seen it or whatever.

Sam [00:26:18]:
Now the movie, once I get past all this stuff. In the near future, everyone’s gotten used to the 10,000 mile alien tentacle that materialised in the sky. And a struggling beekeeper and a grieving wanderer must join together and take a dangerous road trip to get their teleported stuff back. This is definitely an Adam film.

Chris [00:26:41]:
I definitely want to watch this now we’re all going to die.

Sam [00:26:46]:
And I saw a few more posts about the. What’s the Stephen King one that you like? The Long Mile. The Long Walk. The Long Walk.

Chris [00:26:53]:
I saw a trailer for that. I was pretty impressed. It looks pretty good.

Sam [00:26:56]:
I think most people were.

Chris [00:26:58]:
They were like, I love that short story so much. I wish I knew who I lent the book to. Because somebody’s got it. Anyway, do you remember the kiss cam thing?

Sam [00:27:13]:
How could we forget about it? We mentioned it last week. It brings me joy to this day.

Chris [00:27:18]:
Did you see what they did about this week? I don’t know.

Sam [00:27:20]:
I know the guy wants to sue Coldplay and he’s serious about it because he’s a complete idiot.

Chris [00:27:26]:
Yeah. So Astronomer.

Sam [00:27:27]:
Yes. The company they hired. Oh, I saw that. Yes.

Chris [00:27:31]:
Gwyneth Paltrow to do a. A blurb thing, like a PR thing. PR thing. And it’s genius. It’s absolutely.

Sam [00:27:39]:
Whoever that.

Chris [00:27:40]:
So she was the. I didn’t know that. She used to be the. She’s the ex of. The lead singer of Cold.

Sam [00:27:46]:
Yeah. Chris Martin, Coldplay.

Chris [00:27:48]:
Anyway, so that she’s perfectly cast. She goes in and she goes, you may have heard of Astronomer. And all, you know is hugging or something. I can’t. I did watch a part of it. I didn’t watch the whole thing.

Sam [00:27:58]:
Yeah.

Chris [00:27:58]:
But then she pivots and explains it and. And it’s like she’s just got 10 million, $20 million worth of advertising for this company for nothing. And. And if you looked at like their. So Astronomers are some AI company. If you looked at how well known they were, they wouldn’t even index two weeks ago. And now there must be 20% recognition, 40% recog states. So I just want to give a nice clap.

Chris [00:28:28]:
Round of applause. Round of applause to the marketers at Astronomer.

Sam [00:28:31]:
Well, I’m assuming it’s one of those, like, emergency PR firms.

Chris [00:28:35]:
Exactly.

Sam [00:28:35]:
Well, yeah, I assume. And they must.

Chris [00:28:37]:
All the internal guys are just onto it.

Sam [00:28:40]:
I don’t know, it’s hard to say. I reckon someone somewhere’s. There’ll be a story about that, I think, coming out soon.

Chris [00:28:46]:
Yeah. Yeah. But it’s a good move. Whatever. However they did it. Yeah.

Sam [00:28:50]:
I mean, yeah. And they had to do it that way because if it was just some random, like, I’m Steve, I’m the. Whatever.

Chris [00:28:56]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sam [00:28:56]:
No one cares.

Chris [00:28:57]:
Yeah, no, it was well, well played. Well played, Astronomer.

Sam [00:29:01]:
Anyway, that brings us to the end of this episode of the podcast. I know it’s sad times. You’re going to have to find something else to listen to for the rest of the hours that you’re awake. But don’t worry, we’ve got over 500 [email protected] tcasp.com yep.

Chris [00:29:16]:
What are you up to this week? Got anything exciting going on?

Sam [00:29:19]:
No, I can’t think. No, honestly, no. No.

Chris [00:29:23]:
I’m going down to Wellington for a family drama thing going on. So not a good news story, but not a terrible news story at the moment. But that may impact next week’s session. We’ll see how we go.

Sam [00:29:37]:
We’ll see how we go. I’m sure you’re going to have a random story.

Chris [00:29:41]:
Even the two overnight bus rides down to down there and back, if I get back in time, might elicit a story or two.

Sam [00:29:50]:
Very good. Look forward to that. Until next time. I’m Sam.

Chris [00:29:53]:
I’m Chris.

Sam [00:29:54]:
See ya. Bye.

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