Summary
Sam returns from a Lower Hutt conference with tales of old hotel birds, dodgy bars, and delicious Malaysian food, while Chris has been hunched over his computer with a sore hand.
We learn about Putin’s poo suitcase, cortisone injections, political river perks, and some wild Kickstarter gadgets that catch the guys’ attention.
Chris shares the incredible story of a woman who regained her sight using a tooth in her eye, and the duo dives into bizarre AI scams, true crime, and the fallout from Chimp Crazy. All this and much more in this week’s episode!
Links
Putin’s Pooping Suitcase
River perks for vice president
Kickstart or Dropkick – G’AMI’E
Kickstart or Dropkick – Radiant II
Gained Eyesight With Tooth
Crowded House Releases Statement
Chimp Crazy Lady Sentenced
Homeless woman organ donation problem
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello and welcome to episode 544 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:27]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fixarandoms, Technology and life and man, we’ve been busy this week.
Chris [00:00:32]:
Yes, we have. But you’ve been doing some travel, so you’re busy is much more exciting than my. I have been sitting hunched over a computer, typing away. Busy.
Sam [00:00:43]:
Yeah, I was at a conference down Lower Hut three days. So that was very good. Very passionate people. Travel was good.
Chris [00:00:50]:
Hey.
Sam [00:00:51]:
We stayed at a place called the Angus Hotel, I think it’s called. They have a cockatoo in a cage in the reception area, and it’s 42 years old.
Chris [00:01:01]:
Oh, wow.
Sam [00:01:02]:
And it’s called Pickles, and Pickles can say hello and goodbye. And that’s it. And that depressed me a little bit. And the restaurant attached to the hotel is called Pickles Perch.
Chris [00:01:13]:
Oh, that’s pretty cool. That’s pretty cool. I like that.
Sam [00:01:15]:
But for some reason, the restaurant was half broken while we were there, because I’m assuming their guest wasn’t working, something wasn’t working in the kitchen, and all they could make was sort of pizzas or something. And we went there one night and the people were like. You could tell they didn’t want to do anything, and they didn’t really want to make us a pizza, but they were real friendly about it. And then one of my colleagues said, oh, is there a pub nearby? And they’re like, yeah, yeah, just go straight down the road to this random. I can’t remember the name of it now. Bush something or other. Go there and. Oh, it was such a dive.
Sam [00:01:49]:
So we walked because nothing’s open. This is Tuesday night, you go. And so we went in and there was a bunch of people playing pokies in this little tiny room. There were some people outside smoking, and that was it. And I was like. Because the woman at the restaurant rang their reception and said, hey, does Blah blah bar, wherever it’s called, do food? And she said, yes, they do. So we walked in, I said to the guy, do you do food here? And he’s like, yes, there it is. And it’s this little blackboard with, like, chips, nuggets, and their top meal was nachos for $12.
Sam [00:02:27]:
So it was like the legal requirement to have some food, the alcohol. And we were like, no, I’m not gonna do that. So we left there and wandered Around a little bit aimlessly, which is fine because there’s nothing really there. But we did actually find a really cool. I’m trying to find the name to do it some justice. Oh, Mid Valley Malaysian Restaurant.
Chris [00:02:53]:
Mid Valley Malaysian rate it. Actually there was some Malaysian restaurants I used to go to when I was in Wellington, where I lived in Wellington. It’s amazing.
Sam [00:03:00]:
Yeah, this one was great. It was like a real nice atmosphere, massive meal, food was great. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:07]:
Yeah. First time I ever had a deep fried ice cream was at a Malaysian restaurant.
Sam [00:03:11]:
Oh, not many places do that, eh? So I had deep fried ice cream drunk in Tauranga once down from a BP at a takeaway shop, I think. Yeah. So nothing else really from the trip? I think it was just, it was good. We all had a good time.
Chris [00:03:28]:
People passionate about trade. Waste.
Sam [00:03:31]:
Yeah. Industrial waste. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:34]:
Speaking of waste, I’m going to go straight into this.
Sam [00:03:37]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:37]:
Because this is happening as we’re recording this, I believe. Yeah. Putin is apparently in Alaska, which we’re not sure, but Alaska may be part of America, maybe part of Russia. It’s. It’s unclear at this point in time. There’s a lot of unclear, but I laughed at this story and I thought, oh, I just assumed this was the case. But apparently it’s news to some people. And it’s about Putin’s poo suitcase.
Sam [00:04:04]:
Yes.
Chris [00:04:05]:
Have you heard about this?
Sam [00:04:06]:
I saw that and then I just saw the comments where they were just like, yeah, that’s normal. Yeah.
Chris [00:04:11]:
I was going to say that’s pretty.
Sam [00:04:12]:
They’ve been doing it since Bush because if they get a president or someone’s waste.
Chris [00:04:20]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:20]:
They can, well, they can test for a lot of stuff and say, oh, actually that person’s really sick.
Chris [00:04:24]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:25]:
And so I. But it’s the. What’s the word? The mechanics of how that works. Like is there special toilets with like. Or are they all going on like travel toilets?
Chris [00:04:37]:
I’m guessing it’s some sort of travel toilet thing. But yeah. Putin takes his fecal matter home with him to Russia.
Sam [00:04:43]:
Yeah. Yeah. Someone’s gotta look after that.
Chris [00:04:45]:
A bigger part of that now nowadays with the CRISPR and all that, is that you can make assassination, drugs, poisons, whatever, that will only work for that one person. So you put it in the food, everybody eats it. Everybody. But the one guy who’s it’s targeting will be fine and that one guy will die. So your food tasters are no longer any use, you know, sort of thing. So. But you know, Putin’s a war criminal. So I Don’t know what he’s.
Chris [00:05:17]:
Why he’s getting away with going to Alaska, but that’s.
Sam [00:05:20]:
Don’t worry. Trump’s a sex offender, so, you know.
Chris [00:05:22]:
Yeah, well, true, true, true, true.
Sam [00:05:25]:
This week I did get a cortisone injection into my wrist.
Chris [00:05:28]:
Ooh.
Sam [00:05:29]:
So have you had a cortisone injection?
Chris [00:05:31]:
Never.
Sam [00:05:31]:
Okay.
Chris [00:05:32]:
So I should say not yet, maybe.
Sam [00:05:35]:
No, you’re beyond that. It was interesting because I went there. There was this woman that I saw walking around who I thought was a random patient, but no, she worked there. She was completely out of place, and she’s like, follow me. We’ll do the ultrasound thingy. I’ll just go get the doctor. So they wheel in some clean shaven Colonel Sanders type dude, or trimmed Colonel Sanders type dude. And he must have been 70, pushing it, but he was good.
Sam [00:06:08]:
And he goes, oh, yep, should be able to do that. Just gonna jam that needle in there. You’re going to feel some pressure. And I was like, yep, that is the best way of describing that, as it was sort of pushing from the center of the saw bit out.
Chris [00:06:23]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:06:23]:
And then he was like, oh, let’s see if it pops. I want to see if it pops. I was like, what? And he goes, oh, I can get it to pop through the other side. That’ll be quite good. Nah, not gonna happen. He goes, it’ll work its way around. Okay. And then he just basically pulls down.
Sam [00:06:38]:
He goes, there you go.
Chris [00:06:39]:
See you later.
Sam [00:06:40]:
Off he went like, okay. So I don’t know if I. How well of. I don’t know if. You don’t know. You don’t know.
Chris [00:06:47]:
I don’t know. Does it feel better?
Sam [00:06:52]:
Yes, it’s. It’s sore now, though, but it is better. And the next day. It was great. Takes 24 hours for it to work properly. I’m not allowed to lift anything heavier than a kilo for a week on that hand.
Chris [00:07:04]:
Yeah. Because I. I’m just looking at your hand wrap because I’ve been wearing one the same on my right hand because I’ve been doing so much typing and mouse stuff that my thumb and stuff. It’s really sore.
Sam [00:07:15]:
I think that’s what’s caused mine. Mine was the mouse movement doing that. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:07:19]:
So I. Yeah, I had a hand wrap already in the drawer, so I pulled that out and I’ve been wearing it most this week. So, yeah, it’s good. Okay.
Sam [00:07:26]:
It’s fun getting old.
Chris [00:07:27]:
Before we get off the US Political thing, I do want to talk. Did you hear about this river perks thing.
Sam [00:07:34]:
What is a river? No.
Chris [00:07:35]:
Okay, so J.D. vance, it came, came out this week. J.D. vance, you know, vice President. Vice President of the United States.
Sam [00:07:45]:
I always forget that he is.
Chris [00:07:47]:
Yeah, yeah, because nobody, nobody cares. Everybody prefers Mike Pence, except my Pence. So he basically, he’s got his birthday and he takes his kids. What are they not white water rafting, like river rafting?
Sam [00:08:04]:
Yeah, yeah, they’ve got those like Colorado.
Chris [00:08:06]:
Somewhere, I think it was. I wanted to say the Ohio river, but I might, might be wrong with that because I didn’t. Save the story. Good one. But anyway, so what he, what he did though was he got hold of the local authority and got them to do a lake release to raise the level of the water for his family outing for that day. Oh, and this is not something that’s normally done. No, you, you can’t ring up and just go, hey, can you release a couple of million gallons of water into the river so that the, the, the thing’s higher. But he justified it because he said, well, you know, Secret Service needed more, more water in there to, to properly be able to navigate safely.
Sam [00:08:47]:
Apparently they have done this before.
Chris [00:08:49]:
They have. They do do it for different things. They do it for emergency training. So they do emergency training. So there’s some training type things. And they’ve done it for a couple of other big events.
Sam [00:09:01]:
They’ve done a higher profile event, say.
Chris [00:09:03]:
Yeah, but not for a family.
Sam [00:09:04]:
No, no, no.
Chris [00:09:07]:
And I’m just like, yeah, these guys. Yeah, they’re just the everyday common man, you know, with his gold toilet or Trump’s gold toilets. And J.D. vance is. Yeah, just up the river for me. Yeah. Anyway, easy.
Sam [00:09:24]:
Well, that’s good. It’s one of those perks they probably didn’t even know about. And somebody said to him, hey, I don’t know, I’ve got Kickstarter drop kick for you.
Chris [00:09:34]:
Cool, cool.
Sam [00:09:35]:
This one is called G apostrophe A, I M apostrophe E. So I think it’s like gamy.
Chris [00:09:42]:
Okay.
Sam [00:09:43]:
I don’t know. You’re like older than a lot of stuff. So you’re like Commodore 64 or Atari or whatever.
Chris [00:09:50]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:51]:
Probably missed a chunk of stuff and then caught up more recently because he got VR and stuff like that. So do you remember Time Crisis?
Chris [00:10:00]:
Was that in the arcades?
Sam [00:10:01]:
Yeah, it was in the arcades. And that’s the shooting one.
Chris [00:10:04]:
Yeah, I do vaguely remember that because it was like Time Cop. Was it Time.
Sam [00:10:09]:
Time Crisis? I don’t know. But Time Crisis was pretty big at the time because it had a foot pedal and you could press it and he could hide and reload behind something. And when you let go, you come.
Chris [00:10:17]:
I have played that. Yep, I have. I remember that.
Sam [00:10:19]:
So Game Me, which is owned by a Chinese company which has built, I think they said they’ve done over 100,000 or 10 million or something. Lots of officially licensed products in the gaming space. So it’s not a startup, but they’ve got the rights to Time Crisis and the light gun for modern TVs and this is for casual gamers. So you can just buy this thing and the.
Chris [00:10:47]:
Well, plug it into your TV and away you go.
Sam [00:10:49]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:10:49]:
Oh, nice.
Sam [00:10:50]:
I, and I, I, I don’t know how good the graphics are. I don’t know if it’s the exact same graphics or they’ve tweaked a little bit, but they’ve got different versions. So the basic one is only 167 New Zealand dollars. You get the little mini console, a light gun and Time Crisis, you got.
Chris [00:11:11]:
One gun that two people share.
Sam [00:11:12]:
Or Time Crisis is only a single player game. Ah, okay, yes. But if you keep going up in the levels you can get, you get the pedal, you get Steel Gunner one and two, Point Blank. Now Point Blank is a game that I played on PlayStation with a gun many, many hours. I think I was the only person I knew that had that.
Chris [00:11:34]:
Never heard of it yet.
Sam [00:11:35]:
It’s like target shooting with these weird little characters and stuff and there’s just heaps and heaps of stuff. But that’s two player, so you can do all of that. So the ultimate package is where you get two guns, all the games, blah blah, blah. It’s like 341 New Zealand dollars all up.
Chris [00:11:50]:
I think that’ll go like.
Sam [00:11:52]:
Well, that’s pretty good. You can’t upgrade it and you can’t add a game. So if you buy the BASIC package, it only can do Time Crisis. Yeah, because I’ve just made it as a plug and play standalone thing.
Chris [00:12:04]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:12:05]:
So it’s pretty good. They wanted 80,000 New Zealand dollars is the goal. It runs out by the time you’re listening to this on Sunday. I think you’ve got about six more days to go. They’re hoping to ship in November. 80,000 is what they want. What do you think they’ve gone to so far?
Chris [00:12:24]:
They’ve got to be quarter of a million or more.
Sam [00:12:26]:
Very close. $678,000.
Chris [00:12:29]:
That’s more than quarter of a million. That’s almost three quarters of a Million.
Sam [00:12:35]:
Oh, yeah, sorry. Yes. But still pretty close for you. So it’s AI driven, camera based, which eliminates the however they used to work with the old CRT monitors.
Chris [00:12:50]:
Right.
Sam [00:12:51]:
And it’s got auto calibration so it already knows where everything is. No expansion planned. There’s a black variant, so global version is like a blue gun with little bits of orange. Looks like an arcade gun.
Chris [00:13:03]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:13:03]:
And for whatever reason in Japan I don’t think they’re allowed that it’s all black. Looks like an actual gun. It’s very weird.
Chris [00:13:11]:
You would have thought it’d be the other way around where it’s not allowed to look like a real gun. It’s gotta be orange or some stupid thing.
Sam [00:13:19]:
So anyway, that’s pretty cool. Check out gamy.
Chris [00:13:22]:
No, it sounds good.
Sam [00:13:23]:
I think it. Because it’s such a big company behind it, I think it’s one of those ones that you probably will see on a shelf.
Chris [00:13:30]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:13:30]:
Not just on Kickstarter.
Chris [00:13:32]:
I don’t know if it’s saleable on a shelf because it’s so limited. Like if you had, you know, the little things that you can plug a new game in and.
Sam [00:13:42]:
Well, they brought out the mini PlayStation and the mini NES and that had like 10 or 12 games built in. I’ve got to one each of those. That’s all right. I don’t know. We’ll see. I do have another Kickstarter drop kick for you. Radiant 2.
Chris [00:13:57]:
Radiant 2. Should I know what that is?
Sam [00:14:00]:
Not at all. It just got stupid names.
Chris [00:14:03]:
Don’t try to. Okay. Coat, coat, coat.
Sam [00:14:05]:
It’s a satch. It’s a crossbody bag. Bum bag.
Chris [00:14:10]:
Oh, that’s the sort of thing I like.
Sam [00:14:12]:
So this one’s pretty cool. So these guys.
Chris [00:14:14]:
My little Asian purse thing that I bought that I thought was a messenger’s satchel and it’s only little. I’ve been using that a bit because I’ve been.
Sam [00:14:24]:
Why? Where? How?
Chris [00:14:26]:
Because I’m riding my bike.
Sam [00:14:27]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:14:28]:
And it’s like. So this one perfect size to put little stuff in.
Sam [00:14:32]:
Okay.
Chris [00:14:32]:
Oh yeah.
Sam [00:14:33]:
So these guys, obviously this is version two of this thing. They’ve. They made heaps of money the first time round. And this one, the only thing that I thought was quite good. It’s sort of like a cross body satchel bag thing.
Chris [00:14:50]:
Yep.
Sam [00:14:51]:
And then it’s got another little clip on bag. It’s hard to explain. You have to look at it. We’ll have a link in our show notes. They’ve got this little bag that clips to it, which is like a little tiny bum bag, I guess, bag. So. And. Yeah, so that’s pretty good.
Chris [00:15:06]:
So I’ve got a crossbody bag a bit like that. And I really like it.
Sam [00:15:09]:
Yes.
Chris [00:15:10]:
And it was given to us through telecom. It was some thing they did with their health and wellness. But the stupidest thing about this bag is it had it. So it’s triangular, right. This crossbody bag. And you got a zip for the main pocket, and then you go zip for the front pocket.
Sam [00:15:26]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:27]:
And then they embroidered on it this logo. They embroidered through the front pocket.
Sam [00:15:34]:
Oh.
Chris [00:15:35]:
So you zip the front pocket and you can’t get in there because they’ve embroidered it to the middle. It’s like the dumbest thing ever. It’s just like, what were you thinking?
Sam [00:15:45]:
Uh, these guys only wanted 5,000 New Zealand dollars to start this Kickstarter, which is. I. That. That is.
Chris [00:15:52]:
Do you know where they’re based?
Sam [00:15:54]:
Uh, it says it’s U E friendly. I don’t know. They’re doing. They’re doing everything in US dollars. So, yeah, could be anywhere. But quarter of a million is dollar. Quarter of a million is what they’ve funded.
Chris [00:16:07]:
Wow.
Sam [00:16:08]:
The early bird tier is only like $115 New Zealand dollars. So it’s sort of.
Chris [00:16:15]:
That’s reasonable, I guess.
Sam [00:16:16]:
It’s not. It is for. Yeah. There’s some expensive stuff out there at the moment.
Chris [00:16:19]:
That’s true. That’s true. I want to talk about this. This is. I’ve put this down as bizarre but brilliant. And I have to read some of this story because it was. Okay. The headline that caught my attention was a decade after losing her sight.
Chris [00:16:39]:
So she’s been blind for a decade. A B.C. woman from Canada can see again.
Sam [00:16:45]:
Okay.
Chris [00:16:46]:
Through her tooth.
Sam [00:16:48]:
Okay, you’ve got me there.
Chris [00:16:50]:
So after 10 years without sight, this woman saw her partner’s face and her dog’s tail wagging this year, for the very first time in 10 years, thanks to a tooth surgically implanted into her eye socket.
Sam [00:17:04]:
What?
Chris [00:17:05]:
So this is an operation, a surgery, whatever you call it. Procedure, I think, is the word that has been around for a while, but it sounds so bizarre, but it’s so cool. So this woman’s 75 years old. Right. And one of three Canadians undergo the rare tooth and eye surgery technically called osteo keratoprosthesis.
Sam [00:17:30]:
Of course.
Chris [00:17:31]:
Yeah. So she lost her eyesight 10 years ago to an autoimmune disease. Um, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Let me get to the interesting stuff. When they did it first you could see light, and then she could see movement and the tail wagging. Now she can see pretty much everything.
Sam [00:17:46]:
What?
Chris [00:17:46]:
Um, she goes. I see lots of colors. And see outside now, the trees and the grass and flowers. It’s wonderful. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So. And she met her partner after she lost her sight.
Sam [00:17:57]:
So what?
Chris [00:17:58]:
It’s the first time she’s seen him Anyway.
Sam [00:18:00]:
Hang on. Okay. All right.
Chris [00:18:03]:
So how does this work?
Sam [00:18:04]:
Yes.
Chris [00:18:04]:
While the surgery has been done in other parts of the world, this is the first time it’s been done in Canada with these three patients or whatever it is. It’s a complex and strange operation.
Sam [00:18:15]:
No.
Chris [00:18:15]:
Really? Yeah.
Sam [00:18:16]:
I’m not. I’m not a medical professional, but I am surprised.
Chris [00:18:19]:
But it basically involves replacing the cornea. The surgery begins by removing a tooth from the patient’s mouth.
Sam [00:18:26]:
Who figures this out?
Chris [00:18:28]:
I know somebody’s on mushrooms somewhere.
Sam [00:18:31]:
Like, really? Hang on. So you remove a tooth.
Chris [00:18:33]:
Hey, listen to this. It. The tooth is then implanted into their cheek for several months.
Sam [00:18:39]:
Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:18:41]:
Where it grows an eye. No, sorry. For several months until it is encompassed in a strong connective tissue.
Sam [00:18:50]:
Yep.
Chris [00:18:51]:
Both the tooth and the connective tissue are then removed. Like, you’re right. Who thinks this up? And a plastic focusing telescope or lens is inserted into it. So the tooth gets a whole bored through it and a. A lens put through it.
Sam [00:19:06]:
Of course. Carry on.
Chris [00:19:08]:
Focusing telescope or lenses inserted into it using the connective tissue as an anchor. And the tooth in the new lens are sutured into the patient’s eye socket. And we have a photo of a tooth, eye camera, whatever you want to call it there.
Sam [00:19:24]:
What?
Chris [00:19:26]:
We’ll put that photo in the show notes.
Sam [00:19:28]:
I still don’t know what’s going on. Is there a picture of it in the eye socket?
Chris [00:19:32]:
No. There’s pictures of this woman, but none of it. Like, on her eye. If you saw somebody. And what does that mean, tooth in their eye? I don’t know. It’s crazy. Yeah. So anyway, so the reason they use a tooth, we need a structure that is strong enough to hold onto the plastic focusing telescope, but is not going to be rejected by the body.
Chris [00:19:54]:
That’s why they use a tooth.
Sam [00:19:57]:
Okay. I would have thought if you figured out how to do all of that, you would take a chunk of cheek tissue and grow it in a dish and then jam it in.
Chris [00:20:09]:
But no, you need something stronger to hold the lens, apparently.
Sam [00:20:13]:
Okay.
Chris [00:20:13]:
Okay. So it might have been bone. I guess they might have thought of bone.
Sam [00:20:17]:
But it’s easy to grab a Tooth, I guess.
Chris [00:20:20]:
Lane said the surgeries and recovery were uncomfortable but not painful. It’s been a long, long, long wait. Well, 10 years, but well worth it. She was most excited to have her independence back because you can imagine if you. Blind. Blind.
Sam [00:20:36]:
So how often have they done this? If they’re the only three in Canada, maybe.
Chris [00:20:40]:
But it’s been. Apparently this has been around for quite a long time and I haven’t done the research, so I don’t know. But it’s the way it sounds. Like this is the first time it’s done in Canada, but it’s been around for a while.
Sam [00:20:51]:
Yeah, Okay. I still would have. Okay.
Chris [00:20:54]:
It’s like I said, that’s why I said it’s bizarre but freaking brilliant. Like. Like, that’s amazing.
Sam [00:21:02]:
Yep. I still, I don’t know because I.
Chris [00:21:07]:
I must admit, because I’m like, okay, you’ve got the lens, but how does that work with the nerve endings? And where’s the retina, like in all of this? I don’t, I don’t get that part of it. Because you’ve got to have the. The light. The lens focuses onto what? And how does the brain.
Sam [00:21:23]:
You have to be a very. I don’t know, but I’m guessing you have to be a very. You have to have a very specific set of problems. Problems. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:32]:
And I think, I think it might be. I think because they did say cornea, so maybe the rest of the eyeball is there.
Sam [00:21:40]:
Yeah, it’s okay. I don’t know, but it’s interesting. That’s cool.
Chris [00:21:44]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:21:45]:
New Zealand. Famous New Zealand band Crowded House has to. Had to come out and release an unusual statement because there’s.
Chris [00:21:55]:
They weren’t on the Epstein Island. No, sorry.
Sam [00:21:57]:
No.
Chris [00:21:59]:
Sorry.
Sam [00:22:00]:
People have got nothing better to do with their time and create AI fake videos with Neil Finn struggling, saying he’s struggling with erectile dysfunction because they suggested that the front man needs something so strong to maintain it. It’s framed like a news broadcast and the clip depicts him.
Chris [00:22:21]:
It’s a joke. That’s hilarious. I think that was probably one of his brothers.
Sam [00:22:28]:
It’s a three minute long video clip of him talking to TVNZ journalist Simon Dallow about his problem. And then he promotes a mysterious formula without pills, without surgery, without side effects. So it’s sort of like an advertising thing. Dr. Lance O’, Sullivan, a former New Zealander of the year, also appears to deliver a speech about the pharmaceutical mafia. So the band had to humorously deny the claims. We’re not sure where this came from. Neil’s never had trouble with that.
Sam [00:23:01]:
It also said that at 67, he’d also become a father again, which is not true. He’s got two sons, Liam and Elroy. Never heard of Elroy before in my Life. But the 41 and 35.
Chris [00:23:13]:
Cool.
Sam [00:23:14]:
But I could see. What did I say the other day? I saw an AI. It’s the news ones. It was. It was definitely fake. And it was because there was too many of them. So it was this reporter talking to someone after a natural disaster, I think it was. And I think if there was only the one person they were talking to and you weren’t really paying attention, you would think that was real.
Sam [00:23:42]:
But when there was four of them, and I think one of them did something a bit weird. No, there was something happening in the background that was weird. But it’s getting pretty crazy.
Chris [00:23:50]:
As you know, I’ve been coaching somebody on their talk, and we said, we’ll throw something visual in there. I said, look up the YouTube video of 2023 versus 2. 2025. Will Smith eating spaghetti.
Sam [00:24:04]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:24:04]:
And it’s just mind blowing what had happened in two years. Like. So the other thing out of the news with that. With that carrying on with what you were saying was Andrew Cuomo or Chris Cuomo, one of the two Cuomo brothers that are going for mayor or something. One of the two of them had a big thing on Twitter about aoc, because you can’t talk about this on. On, you know, in Congress and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was an AI fake.
Sam [00:24:38]:
Oh, they didn’t know.
Chris [00:24:39]:
Yeah, he thought it was real. She’s swearing her head off.
Sam [00:24:42]:
Oh, yeah.
Chris [00:24:43]:
And it’s like, dude, it’s not real. Like, but that is how good they are. You know, it looked pretty. Pretty realistic. If you. If you put it on silent and didn’t listen to what she was actually saying, you’d probably believe it. But what she was saying was just insane. It was like, no, that’s not real.
Chris [00:25:03]:
Hey, we both watched and enjoyed I will say Chimp Crazy. Yes.
Sam [00:25:10]:
Yeah, it was good.
Chris [00:25:11]:
It was. It was an experience. And in fact, I was talking to somebody the other day and she. What are we talking about? I was like, she says, I hate. I, I love. She was talking about body horror. It was Monique, actually. She likes body horror movies.
Chris [00:25:24]:
And I’m like, you should watch Chimp Crazy because that woman gives me body horror vibes anyway. Just because. How long could your eyelashes should they be? And how often should you get Botox and all that stuff? Anyway, that star of Chimp Crazy, Tonya Haddix, has been sentenced now in court after pleading guilty to charges relating to faking the death of her penchimp, Tonka, who she refused to hand over to Peter. So she has been given four years. Oh, okay, 46 months in prison. So not quite four years after faking her pet ape’s death.
Sam [00:26:03]:
Yes, that’s right. That was the big spoiler alert. If you haven’t seen that yet.
Chris [00:26:09]:
Oh, yeah. Damn. Sorry.
Sam [00:26:12]:
It’s still interesting to watch.
Chris [00:26:14]:
Oh, it’s still.
Sam [00:26:15]:
Because the way they’ve put it together.
Chris [00:26:16]:
So worth watching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every episode. There’s only four episodes.
Sam [00:26:22]:
Five episodes, maybe three.
Chris [00:26:24]:
I think there’s only a few episodes and every episode finishes on a cliffhanger. Like, what the. Anyway, it’s definitely worth checking out Chimp Crazy. If you haven’t. We talked about it before. I don’t know how to feel about this one. This is weird. So this woman, I read the header and went, oh, yeah, I’ll have a look at that.
Chris [00:26:43]:
But it’s like we already live in a dystopian society. So this chick, this woman, I should say in 2022. Danella Galagos.
Sam [00:26:56]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:57]:
A 38 year old homeless woman.
Sam [00:26:59]:
Okay.
Chris [00:27:00]:
Fell into a coma following an unspecified medical emergency at the Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Doctors informed her family that she was unlikely to recover, leading them to agree to organ donation through New New Mexican Donor Services. Right. So they go, okay, she’s toast. She’s toast, but she can do some good in the world.
Sam [00:27:26]:
Yeah, okay.
Chris [00:27:27]:
As preparations for the organ retrieval surgery began, Ms. Gallagher’s family noticed tears in her eyes, which donation coordinators dismissed as mere reflexes. On the day of the procedure, one of her sisters observed movement and A doctor asked Ms. Gallagher to blink, which she did, indicating she was still alive and with us. Ah. Despite this, donor coordinators allegedly pressured the hospital staff to proceed.
Sam [00:27:53]:
Can you imagine that?
Chris [00:27:54]:
We’ve been paid for this. We want those kidneys or whatever it was. It doesn’t say. But suggesting if. If you give her morphine, she won’t blink anymore. Fortunately, the doctors refused and stopped the surgery, a decision that saved Ms. Galagos’s life as she went on to make a full recovery.
Sam [00:28:14]:
Man, that’s crazy.
Chris [00:28:15]:
She later filed a complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services, prompting an investigation into the incident. Presbyterian Hospital stated that New Mexican Donor Services was responsible for the donation process, while the organization denied interfering with medical decisions. But it’s like, how dystopian is that?
Sam [00:28:34]:
It’s got to be happening all the.
Chris [00:28:35]:
Time, you know, but they’re only. It’s only a homeless woman, you know, her kidneys are worth more than she is.
Sam [00:28:42]:
I know. It’s scary, scary, scary.
Chris [00:28:44]:
Yeah, it’s horrible. Anyway, so update. Tickets are on sale for 15 bucks for the improv combat. The joke’s on you. The poster is out. I think I’ve shared it on social media. Yes, and we’ll share it.
Sam [00:28:59]:
Did you make that poster?
Chris [00:29:00]:
No, I didn’t.
Sam [00:29:01]:
Okay.
Chris [00:29:01]:
It does look.
Sam [00:29:02]:
It looks something. It did look like you had a hand. Nothing like you had a hand in that poster.
Chris [00:29:09]:
Nothing to do with it.
Sam [00:29:10]:
Okay.
Chris [00:29:11]:
It’s limited tickets because limited settings. They’re only going to be 30 tickets per show. There’s four shows. Matt from the Karate Club has been promoting it to all the Karate Club. I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Sam [00:29:28]:
It’s. It’s weird when your different worlds collide a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:29:32]:
Like, okay, all right, cool. You’ll see a different side of me there. Yeah. So that’s cool. But yeah, if you are interested, check it out. It’s the ticketing through the meteor. Only 15 bucks would be a good night.
Sam [00:29:43]:
Very good. Sounds good. That wraps us up. I’ve got nothing on, so until next week. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:29:50]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:29:50]:
See ya. Bye.
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