Summary
Chris gears up for improv comedy while Sam and his team go all-in on an ET-themed quiz night.
We hear about radioactive shrimp recalls, a Kiwi scammer with an impressively convoluted scheme, and the jaw-dropping tale of an astronaut oxygen scam.
There’s a look at presidential birthdays, viral yacht disasters, and the never-ending saga of unlucky falls and broken bones.
All this plus everyday carry gadgets you probably shouldn’t trust with fire—don’t miss this week’s episode!
Links
Chris is taking part in Improv Combat the Jokes on You
US Lawyer Mark Zuckerberg
Radioactive refrigerated shrimp
Coffee Machine Scammer
Oxygen for Astronaut Scam
The Ultimate EDC USB Cable
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 547 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 randoms, technology and life. And we like sharing all the stuff that’s happening locally, but more importantly, what we’re up to. And by we, I mean Chris.
Chris [00:00:37]:
So, yes, before I forget, because I do always forget these things next weekend from when this drops. So the 14th, Sunday, the 14th, is improv. Combat the jokes on you. I will be there at the Meteor Theater performing and making people laugh. Laughing with me or at me? Who knows? Probably more at me than with me.
Sam [00:01:03]:
I read the blurb of that, so I must have saw something or you shared it. You shared it. And it’s a bit different this time. There’s a game show element or something.
Chris [00:01:12]:
So last year was very much a sports focus, and this year it’s like a game show.
Sam [00:01:17]:
Okay.
Chris [00:01:18]:
So the teams aren’t. So last year we had teams that were the same team every week. This time it’s like the team’s been picked from the group of comedians for the night. So it’s like a game show that’s got that feel. So, yeah. So there’s four of these shows. It’s fortnightly. The first one will be the 14th.
Chris [00:01:39]:
Sunday the 14th.
Sam [00:01:40]:
$15 at the door.
Chris [00:01:42]:
$15 at the door. I think you can book him beforehand at the Meteor Theater, which is not a bad idea because it’s limited. There’s probably about 30. 30 to 40 seats.
Sam [00:01:53]:
Yeah. Yeah. I thought there’d be a few more seats, to be honest.
Chris [00:01:56]:
But we’re not using the big box inside. We’re doing it in the. In the lobby way, which we’ve done in the past.
Sam [00:02:01]:
That’s the bit to your right, sort of when you.
Chris [00:02:03]:
It looks like an. It looks like an art gallery.
Sam [00:02:05]:
It does look like.
Chris [00:02:08]:
How come? Because it’s too big in the black theater. It’s just too, too, too.
Sam [00:02:15]:
Okay, well, there you go. I know they’ve got a new cafe there, and I have to go deal with that in my day job. Unrelated to that.
Chris [00:02:23]:
Unrelated. But there you go. So, yeah. Anyway, come along. It’ll be a lot of fun.
Sam [00:02:28]:
So if you’re listening to this as well and you want something to do, keep an eye out for the 48 hours heat. The Hamilton ones are done and dusted. I don’t think you can see them anymore. But there’s still more happening because there’s.
Chris [00:02:38]:
Around the country.
Sam [00:02:39]:
Yeah. There’s so many different locations. We had Hamilton on the Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. Thank you to everyone that came along. Listen to me waffle for about 30 seconds at the start. Do you know what the main thing I had to do was? I tell you.
Chris [00:02:52]:
Fire escapes. No, I don’t know.
Sam [00:02:53]:
Nah, I don’t care about that. I leave that up to the theatre to deal with. They sort of said to me, hey, at the end of each film, the voting audience favourite is only open for 30 minutes and then it closes off, so you have to get them to do it. I said, yep, not a problem. Understand that. But on the last slide we’ve got this rather long web address. It’s like 48 hours Co NZ RegionalHeatvoting hyphen slash something else, right?
Chris [00:03:23]:
Yeah. With a QR code next to it so people can just take a photo. Because that would be the normal thing to do.
Sam [00:03:27]:
No, there’s no QR code and the thing wasn’t on the screen long enough for some people to type it in. So I have to tell them, go to the website, go to 48 Hours and just scroll down and there’s a big button. So I had to do that. Real mixed bag of movies. Amazing what people can do in 48 hours. And you always have to remember that because some of the stuff you’re looking at, I’m just like, I’ve seen worse. Month long, short film shoots.
Chris [00:03:54]:
Yeah. And that’s the thing too. And it wouldn’t be. I didn’t see any of these this year, but I’ve seen them in the past where part of the film looks exquisite and the rest of film’s a bit rushed, which you can totally understand. Right.
Sam [00:04:09]:
I will come back to, though, like, if you have really good sound, you can get away with crappy image.
Chris [00:04:15]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:16]:
Going the other way, not as good.
Chris [00:04:18]:
Yeah, yeah. Our sound was so bad on that Carmageddon.
Sam [00:04:21]:
Wow. School teams. The sound goes out the window with school teams. So that happens. Busy as this week with other things. And tomorrow my works quiz night is happening.
Chris [00:04:35]:
Woohoo.
Sam [00:04:35]:
And this is the biggest night of the year for the social club. I didn’t go last year. You need a team of six. You come up with your own name and it’s encouraged.
Chris [00:04:46]:
Is it fancy dress?
Sam [00:04:47]:
It’s encouraged that you dress up.
Chris [00:04:49]:
Right, yeah, yeah. Because I got some friends in Auckland that used to go all the time to those things and they always had the fancy dress and it was really.
Sam [00:04:58]:
Even just for like a normal.
Chris [00:05:00]:
I don’t think they did a weekly. I think it was a monthly thing, so it’s a little bit more special. But, yeah, you come to work the next day and there’ll be photos from the quiz team’s fancy dress the night before.
Sam [00:05:12]:
So I don’t even know how we came up with the team name. There was some voting on teams and somehow we ended up with ET Phone home and then in brackets for the answers.
Chris [00:05:27]:
Okay, that’s cool.
Sam [00:05:28]:
So it’s ET themed. So I have a small ET toy plush toy thing. So from the 80s. So that’s part of it now. Thinking about, like, I had to look at this movie and try and figure out. Because we’re trying to figure out costumes, right?
Chris [00:05:44]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:05:45]:
So we’ve got one person dressed up as Elliot, red hoodie, gonna have a bike, gonna have a basket with this ET wrapped up in the front.
Chris [00:05:55]:
Nice.
Sam [00:05:55]:
Yeah, thought that seems to work. We’ve got another person who is pulling off, dressing up as Drew Barrymore with pigtails, stripey shirt, overall things. And we’ll look very close to that. We’ve got another person that has decided to dress up as ET Dressing up as the woman with the old clothes on.
Chris [00:06:15]:
Oh, right.
Sam [00:06:16]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that. And then the rest of us, which includes me, is dressing up in basically Hazmat suits.
Chris [00:06:24]:
I was gonna say that’d be the thing.
Sam [00:06:25]:
The scientist Hazmat suits or lab coats. Yeah, yeah. So it’s looking at it. It’s. Well, we’ve got the disposable. Not painters one. They are like actual has ones.
Chris [00:06:36]:
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Sam [00:06:37]:
But you can’t quite get the hood right. So in the movie, they’ve got really big hoods.
Chris [00:06:42]:
Yeah. They’re like the.
Sam [00:06:45]:
They’re very hard to find or cost a lot. I spent $9.66 on my overall thing.
Chris [00:06:52]:
Yeah, nice.
Sam [00:06:53]:
So anyway, that’s happening. I don’t know what’s going to be like. I have heard that a few people not on our floor. I think in other teams get a bit over the top with stuff.
Chris [00:07:04]:
So anyway, with the Hazmat thing, I think you just leave the hood down and you. Because you’re off duty, you’re a Hazmat off duty and you’re having a drink.
Sam [00:07:12]:
No, no. Yeah, I’m going to have it on in goggles and a mask and gloves for the photo. When we all arrive, we get like professional photographer takes our photos and I think there’s a photo booth as well, maybe.
Chris [00:07:22]:
Oh, my God.
Sam [00:07:22]:
It’s a whole thing anyway that’s happening tomorrow and I cannot. What’s the word? I’m so tired. I can’t explain just how tired I am this week because there’s been so much stuff happening.
Chris [00:07:35]:
Yeah, I know about that. So on Tuesday I had to get up at 1am for.
Sam [00:07:42]:
Did you have to?
Chris [00:07:43]:
Yeah, well, it was this thing I was. And I got up at 1am and I went through to about 5 and then I slept for a bit and then I did work and then I went to bed early and then I got up the following morning at 3am for something but fortunately that was off. So I managed to sleep again. But.
Sam [00:07:59]:
Yeah, but why are you awake at one in the morning?
Chris [00:08:01]:
I was a two days in a row was the one in the morning thing. And it was amplify. It was a virtual seminar thing.
Sam [00:08:08]:
Okay. Was it good?
Chris [00:08:09]:
Yeah, it was based. The chick doing it was in Valencia in Spain. It was cool. It was good. It was good. I’m sort of glad I did it. But yeah, I ended up my. I was a little bit brain dead at work.
Sam [00:08:19]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:08:19]:
Okay. As you can imagine. Anyway, what do we got today? I wanted to talk about. Well, we got to talk a little bit about Trump.
Sam [00:08:30]:
Well, he was quiet for a while. Some people thought he was dead. Have you seen the people sharing videos of champagne and wine and whiskey? No, but happening on my feed these. They’re like, once I hear the news, gonna crack open this bad boy. And that’s all they say. And it’s. They’re waiting. They’re waiting it dance Watch.
Sam [00:08:49]:
Yeah. And I think it’s something like there’s a joke and I can’t remember exactly what it is, but someone keeps buying a paper and they’re like, what are you doing? And they’re like, oh, I want to see the obituaries. And they go, yeah, but they’re like in the back page. And they’re like, no, no, not the one I’m looking for.
Chris [00:09:05]:
Yeah, there was a pretty good AI thing I saw, you may have seen. I’m sure there’s plenty going around.
Sam [00:09:11]:
Oh sure.
Chris [00:09:11]:
And it’s the pearly gates and some Peter’s coming out, putting his stand up, opening the gate and Trump comes up and St. Peter looks at him and just hands him the Epstein files. And as he grabs them, he gets sucked down to hell and his mum and dad are waiting for him there. It’s so funny. It’s pretty good. But what I was going to mention was this thing I heard it’s an observation that some writer did, but he said, do you know that the president we had in 1997.
Sam [00:09:44]:
Yes.
Chris [00:09:44]:
The president we had in 2000.
Sam [00:09:46]:
I think I know where this is going. Yeah.
Chris [00:09:47]:
The President we had in 2017 and the president we will have in 2027.
Sam [00:09:52]:
Yep.
Chris [00:09:52]:
With. Unless he dies. We’re all born in the same year.
Sam [00:09:56]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:09:57]:
Yeah. So that same year, it’s like we’ve been stuck in that generation of people ruling the U.S. that’s crazy. It’s not a day. So that’s like three decades. Somebody in the same year has been.
Sam [00:10:12]:
Because I think I saw something and I haven’t fact checked this, but Clinton now is still younger than Trump.
Chris [00:10:19]:
Yeah, yeah. Something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can believe that. It’s crazy. It’s crazy. Old people, eh?
Sam [00:10:25]:
Do you know what I like about social media and it just pops up every now and then is seeing something that just happened, like they’re sharing something that’s just happened like that day or the day before. Because previously A, you’d never know about it, B, you might find out about it on the news, whatever. So this video popped up and like two days ago.
Chris [00:10:47]:
It’s a very flash looking super yacht.
Sam [00:10:49]:
Yeah. Yeah. It’s a $1 million yacht and it sank 15 minutes after being launched.
Chris [00:10:56]:
Oh my God.
Sam [00:10:57]:
Due to stabilization issues. They just launched it into the water in Turkey and then it just barrel rocks. I don’t know. I just love it.
Chris [00:11:08]:
That’s. That’s not a million dollars. They have way more than a million dollars.
Sam [00:11:12]:
I think so. Yeah.
Chris [00:11:13]:
That’s. That looks much bigger than that. Hey, I, I’m going to talk about this story just because you said social media and I was looking at this and laughing about it and it’s, it’s. I guess it’s not that big a deal, but it just tickled me a little bit. So this Indiana attorney, he’s suing Meta because he’s getting pissed off because his name is. This attorney’s name is Mark Zuckerberg.
Sam [00:11:36]:
Oh, what, Hang on. Do you think, do you think early on though, he’s trying to capitalize on it?
Chris [00:11:43]:
No, I think he, I think because he’s been in business for 38 years. So the problem is he, he spends a lot of money on advertising. Advertising on Facebook because he’s a lawyer. And that’s what they do apparently over there and now. But they keep taking his money for the advertising and then cutting off his.
Sam [00:11:59]:
Site because he thinks he’s a scammer.
Chris [00:12:02]:
Like you’re Mark Zuckerberg, it’s. You can’t. So he’s finally filed a lawsuit saying. On behalf of the bankruptcy. He’s a bankruptcy attorney, accusing Facebook’s parent company Meta, of negligence of breach of contract for continuously deactivating and suspending his social media accounts for unjust and improper reasons. So they see Mark Zuckerberg and they just keep deleting it. And he goes, it’s been reopened so many times and then deleted so many times. Like, surely, surely they’ve got flag it on the other side.
Sam [00:12:35]:
Put a note on their end.
Chris [00:12:37]:
Yeah. On their end and go, this guy is legit. He was born a lot before Mark. Mark. Yeah. And happens to have the same name. So. Yeah.
Chris [00:12:49]:
So it’s the ninth time it’s been. His professional or personal account has been shut down for allegedly impersonating the Meta CEO. And. And then reading on further, it’s like, oh, yeah, back in 2020, he was mistakenly sued by the State of Washington Department of Social Health Services for allegedly financial exploitation under the abuse of vulnerable adults. Because it was the sued him instead of the real Mark or the, you know, Metamark. His firm secretary is constantly feeling calls from Facebook users complaining about issues with their accounts. I’m like, would you want to change your name? Like you’d want to, but you’d be like, screw you. I’m not going to do, like, that’s a tough one.
Chris [00:13:37]:
I’m.
Sam [00:13:37]:
Yeah, imagine. Imagine being, like, going for that job as secretary. Look, you’re gonna have to answer some phone calls, do some filing and stuff. But I do have to warn you, if you haven’t. If you haven’t noticed, my name is the same as somebody else. And you’re gonna have to deal with some crazy Facebook people who don’t understand.
Chris [00:13:57]:
How things work, how names work, how people work.
Sam [00:14:01]:
I wonder if he changed his name to, like, Mark Zuck. Like, I don’t know, at some point you think you would change it?
Chris [00:14:09]:
I don’t know. Yeah. You just get sick of it.
Sam [00:14:12]:
I’ve got a story for you. It’s happened over the last, I don’t know, months. Someone that works with someone I know. That’s all I’ll say. Had a bung shoulder and they went to a doctor, unlike you, with your hip, but that’s a different story.
Chris [00:14:27]:
Yeah. We won’t go there.
Sam [00:14:28]:
They got shoulder surgery. Right. And I don’t know too much about it, but they’re out for a while.
Chris [00:14:35]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:14:36]:
And the motion isn’t right. Quite there. It takes a lot of rehab you know, I guess it takes a while, so that’s okay. So that person’s partner is helping them with all sorts of day to day tasks.
Chris [00:14:49]:
Yeah, as you would.
Sam [00:14:50]:
And that person goes to a retail shop and somehow trips on a piece of concrete. And then.
Chris [00:14:58]:
So, so not. Not the person with sore shoulder. No, the. The.
Sam [00:15:02]:
The good one. The good one trips on a piece of concrete and slams head first into a wall. I guess what passes out, gets knocked out.
Chris [00:15:12]:
Holy.
Sam [00:15:13]:
Hits the ground and then breaks both their arms.
Chris [00:15:16]:
Oh, geez.
Sam [00:15:18]:
And not in a good way. No, no, no. Like not just snaps like absolutely destroyed hands and.
Chris [00:15:24]:
Holy crap.
Sam [00:15:26]:
Yeah. And so I assume they woke. I assume they came around screaming. I’m not sure it was five hours of surgery to fix them up. One arm or hand or wrist seems to be okay. And I think they’re quite happy with that one. The other one, I think they’re rebuilding it or got plates, got all sorts of stuff in it. Lots of, lots of hardware.
Sam [00:15:48]:
And not 100% sure if they’re in traction or how their arms are working. But I don’t think they can do stuff for themselves now. So they’re in this predicament. And this person, I think was in good health and was perfectly fine.
Chris [00:16:06]:
It is amazing what a fall can do.
Sam [00:16:09]:
Yes.
Chris [00:16:10]:
Like holy crap.
Sam [00:16:12]:
So anyway. Yeah, that happened.
Chris [00:16:16]:
God damn, that’s horrific.
Sam [00:16:18]:
Be careful out there, people. And if in trouble, wrap yourself in bubble wrap.
Chris [00:16:22]:
So I think I’ve mentioned Carl a few times on the podcast. He visited the podcast once he was on there.
Sam [00:16:27]:
I know. And then he ghosted us.
Chris [00:16:29]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:16:30]:
For multiple years. Many, many years. Because apparently he’s busy running his own company.
Chris [00:16:35]:
That. And we still owe him 20 cents or something. I can’t remember what it was.
Sam [00:16:39]:
Don’t remind him. Stupid McDonald.
Chris [00:16:43]:
Wherever. Wherever he went when we were working together, like this is 15 or more years ago.
Sam [00:16:50]:
Okay.
Chris [00:16:51]:
He would trip over anything. He was so accident prone.
Sam [00:16:55]:
Really.
Chris [00:16:56]:
Every time we went across the road, somebody would be looking at him in the gutter, ready to catch him. It felt like that anyway. He was.
Sam [00:17:04]:
Is he still like that or.
Chris [00:17:07]:
Don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t hang out with him as. As much. But no, I don’t think he is as bad. But he used to. Although he did. He did break his hand in co.
Chris [00:17:16]:
He broke his half in Covid. Because he slipped down the steps. But he saved his taco because he was holding a taco but broke his arm landing on the hand.
Sam [00:17:26]:
No, that.
Chris [00:17:27]:
No back steps.
Sam [00:17:28]:
That has that better have been the best taco you’ve ever had in your life, because if you’re saving that. I thought you were going to say tablet.
Chris [00:17:37]:
No, no, I think it was a. No, it was some food or something. I think it was taco something.
Sam [00:17:42]:
That’s so silly. I’m sorry. It’s so silly.
Chris [00:17:46]:
Yeah, but that was like the first week of COVID lockdown.
Sam [00:17:50]:
Oh, my God.
Chris [00:17:53]:
Well, yeah, anyway. Anyway, as far as I know. Anyway, we talked about the radioactive wasps a few years ago.
Sam [00:18:02]:
Yeah, that’s right.
Chris [00:18:03]:
So they have a. A recall notice.
Sam [00:18:07]:
Yep.
Chris [00:18:09]:
So it’s 26,000 packages of refrigerated cocktail shrimp sold at Walmart stores in 27 states between 31st of July and 16th of August. So Aquastar is recalling that. The company is also recalling about 18,000 bags of Kroger beef branded, cooked, medium, peel, tail off shrimp.
Sam [00:18:33]:
Yep.
Chris [00:18:34]:
Sold. Blah, blah, blah. Because they may be radioactive. Okay, so any questions?
Sam [00:18:43]:
I like the maybe bit. Well, it’s sort of like when they say there may be metal filings in this.
Chris [00:18:49]:
Oh, yeah. So at the same time, H and M Group, a wholesale seafood distributor in Vernon, California, is recalling more than 17,000 thousand cases of frozen shrimp sold to grocery stores. So the products have been pulled because they may be contaminated with Cesium 137, a radioactive isotope that is a byproduct of nuclear reactions.
Sam [00:19:12]:
Yes.
Chris [00:19:13]:
The risk appears to be small, but the shrimp could pose a, quote, potential health concern for people exposed to low levels of cesium 137 over time. So, you know, like, if you eat a lot of shrimp, maybe.
Sam [00:19:27]:
I don’t know if.
Chris [00:19:27]:
What is it? If you hang out in strip bars in the States, I think that’s where all the shrimp go, according to popular.
Sam [00:19:36]:
No. Isn’t it Las Vegas buffets?
Chris [00:19:38]:
Yeah, that and shrimp.
Sam [00:19:39]:
They’re struggling, though. Las Vegas. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:42]:
Anyway, so these things all came from Indonesia.
Sam [00:19:46]:
Oh.
Chris [00:19:47]:
And for some reason. Let me just get here. Cesium 137 was detected in shipping containers from the company sent to US Ports and then the sample of frozen breaded shrimp. So it remains unclear how the containers or the shrimp became contaminated.
Sam [00:20:06]:
They’ll never know, which is weird. They’re probably smuggling something else.
Chris [00:20:09]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, so another reason not to eat shrimp at a. At a strip club, apparently.
Sam [00:20:17]:
I got a scammer story for you. And I don’t want to glorify scammers or anything like that, but I do want to give this scammer a round of applause.
Chris [00:20:27]:
Oh, okay. All Right.
Sam [00:20:28]:
This is in New Zealand too. So there’s a man and he wants to buy, I think it was a $4,900 coffee machine. Oh yeah, he’s been thinking about it. He loves coffee. He saved up, he found a model on Trade Me. It was like it was at a discount, but it wasn’t crazy cheap. Yeah, you know, within the realm of possibility.
Chris [00:20:51]:
Realistically.
Sam [00:20:52]:
Yeah, realistically. And he looks at the Trade Me account and it’s had over a hundred positive reviews.
Chris [00:20:59]:
Okay.
Sam [00:20:59]:
It’s verified and it seems to be active. So he goes, okay, cool. So he says, I’m gonna buy this coffee machine. And he pays for this coffee machine or he wins the auction and he says to the person, hey, I need your details. And I’m like, sweet, here’s my bank account details. Put the money in there. So he does the transfer. That’s okay.
Sam [00:21:22]:
The scammer goes, here is the tracking information for this coffee machine. Cool. The next day, Trade Me contacts him and says, hey, that’s a scam. And he goes, well, the West Pack, the bank verified the bank account. Your thing says that they’ve verified and they’ve done transactions. I can see that. Where’s the scam? Well, what happened is the scammer, at the same time all this is happening, he contacts some guy in Auckland in like a different city I think, and he says, oh, you’re selling bitcoin? I want to buy $4,900 worth of Bitcoin from you. And that guy goes, yes, let’s do that trade.
Sam [00:22:06]:
Here’s my bank account details. Those bank account details get given to the trade me guy. The trade me guy pays the bitcoin guy and the bitcoin guy gives the bitcoin to the scammer and the scammer disappears. Quite clean and tidy for scammers. And they withheld some information from that news story as to not tell people how it was done. Yeah, I don’t know what they withheld. That was the whole story.
Chris [00:22:33]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:22:34]:
But basically scammers now are hacking into trade accounts. People that haven’t used them for a couple of years that have got average crappy passwords.
Chris [00:22:44]:
I’m immediately thinking to dad, but I think his is locked up so tight.
Sam [00:22:48]:
They will know soon as he starts.
Chris [00:22:50]:
No, no, not by him, by trademark. He’s not allowed on there.
Sam [00:22:54]:
No, exactly. They have blocked him. So that’s happened. And then I just found out about a woman got scammed in Japan. It was a remote, a romance scammer, of course.
Chris [00:23:07]:
Oh yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:23:08]:
She’s 80 years old and she got scammed into buying an astronaut stuck in space some more oxygen.
Chris [00:23:20]:
I shouldn’t laugh, but that’s so funny.
Sam [00:23:22]:
$6,000. She met this guy online through social media. He said, hey, I’m an astronaut. And then he says, guess what? I’m in space right now and I’m under attack and I’m running out of oxygen. And he somehow convinced her to send an electronic payment through convenience stores in the city, eventually adding up to US$6,700. She only told her family once she realized it was a scam. Yeah, so he. This would help.
Sam [00:23:52]:
No, he needs to. He needs to help to purchase his oxygen supplies.
Chris [00:23:58]:
How. How were they going to send the oxygen to him?
Sam [00:24:01]:
Like, he goes, I’m in a spaceship right now and I need the oxygen to be sent up to me. This is the only way.
Chris [00:24:15]:
I need to pay the guy to turn the tap on down at the bottom so the oxygen flows at the top.
Sam [00:24:22]:
I don’t know.
Chris [00:24:23]:
It’s the dumbest.
Sam [00:24:25]:
I don’t even.
Chris [00:24:25]:
That is awesome, though.
Sam [00:24:26]:
I don’t. I hope it’s true, but I don’t know.
Chris [00:24:29]:
I. Yeah, I don’t know. That’s.
Sam [00:24:32]:
I have a mind.
Chris [00:24:32]:
You talking about things that are true, and you just go, what the. Have you heard about the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the US? No, what he said this week.
Sam [00:24:45]:
No, I don’t even know who that is. I don’t care who you.
Chris [00:24:48]:
You know this guy?
Sam [00:24:49]:
Oh, it’s our main. Isn’t it?
Chris [00:24:50]:
It’s our mate. Worm brains.
Sam [00:24:52]:
Worm brains. Whale killer. Yeah, Beer hider.
Chris [00:24:56]:
So he’s on camera and you can watch this on YouTube or hear it like it’s on the news or whatever. He basically said he can. I’ll quote what he said.
Sam [00:25:07]:
Okay. Now if anyone does rfk.
Chris [00:25:10]:
Yeah, yeah, rfk. I’m wondering if I could do the voice. I’m looking at kids as a walk through the airports today, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges. Inflammation. You can tell from their faces, movements, lack of social connection. I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look. So apparently, just by walking through an airport, he can diagnose mitochondrial freaking disease in children. And it’s like, yeah, okay, so this is the guy that is, like, running so.
Chris [00:25:50]:
Because, you know, he’s. He’s axed everybody from the cdc.
Sam [00:25:53]:
Of course, you don’t need that.
Chris [00:25:54]:
All the doctors. There’s been loads. I’ve been watching a Bunch of this on, on American stuff. All these doctors, like we don’t go to CDC anymore for information. We go to the. They have like medical bodies and stuff.
Sam [00:26:07]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:26:08]:
You know, like they. Private things, not government things. Because they tell us the truth. Because he’s linked all this autism and mitochondrial dysfunction. Yeah, it’s, it’s all, what do you call it, conspiracy theory stuff. And this guy has no medical experience at all. I mean, he was an environmental lawyer. That’s how he got famous.
Sam [00:26:29]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:26:30]:
Other than the fact his family’s famous, but.
Sam [00:26:32]:
Well, there we go. I’ve got one thing to finish off this podcast, right? It’s, it’s, it’s a drop kick or it’s a Kickstarter drop kick. But I’ve only got the one. Normally have two.
Chris [00:26:43]:
Okay.
Sam [00:26:44]:
I’ve been advertised this. I don’t know what happens with these algorithms and stuff. How up to play are you with the EDC movement and stuff? Do you know what that means?
Chris [00:26:56]:
I don’t know what EDC is.
Sam [00:26:58]:
Everyday carry.
Chris [00:26:59]:
Oh, is that so guns and stuff?
Sam [00:27:00]:
No, no, just everyday carry. Could be gadgets or anything really. So people will be like, I’m carrying this pocket knife and this watch and this phone and maybe a gun. And people share the EDC every day. And some people will go, I’ve got everything in green, I’ve got a pen in green, I’ve got a knife, whatever. And it’s just a. I don’t know, it’s a weird, it’s like a marketing ploy that pulls people in and people always looking for little gimmicky things or multi purpose tools.
Chris [00:27:28]:
Yeah. I mean I. When I was a kid, the Swiss army knife was the coolest thing.
Sam [00:27:31]:
Yeah, exactly. They’re tapping into that and a lot of people will have one of those knives in their ETF. EDC.
Chris [00:27:37]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:27:38]:
So anyway, how do you feel about a 3 in 1 titanium EDC cable? So this is a USB charging type cable, probably type C. Type C, whatever. What do you think it includes? You got three things. One of them is the cable which does charging. So you’ve got to pick two other things.
Chris [00:27:57]:
Screwdriver?
Sam [00:27:57]:
No.
Chris [00:27:59]:
Bottle opener.
Sam [00:28:00]:
No.
Chris [00:28:01]:
Okay. I don’t know.
Sam [00:28:03]:
A hidden titanium alloy blade for cutting things.
Chris [00:28:08]:
Okay.
Sam [00:28:09]:
And an instant ceramic lighter for lighting things on fire. It’s all you need to survive in the wilderness anyway.
Chris [00:28:22]:
So. All right, so what is this titanium amazing thing go for if you want to buy one?
Sam [00:28:29]:
Great question. I’m just going to scroll through. So many photos. Oh my gosh. So if you want the super early bird, which may have closed, it’s US$39 or 69. So it sort of looks like that. And somehow they’ve put a blade and a lighter in it. Probably catch on fire in your pocket while you’re using it.
Sam [00:28:49]:
So that’s good.
Chris [00:28:50]:
And for those not looking, it looks like the shape of a flux capacitor.
Sam [00:28:55]:
Well, they sort of have it folded up. All right, so I think this is. Anyway they wanted US$5,000 to help fund and build this contraption.
Chris [00:29:04]:
Oh, no, they’ll get that.
Sam [00:29:06]:
There’s 12 days to go at time of recording too.
Chris [00:29:09]:
Okay, so. And it’s. They must be almost there. Must be around 100 grand.
Sam [00:29:15]:
$124,000.
Chris [00:29:17]:
You are getting good at this.
Sam [00:29:18]:
I know you are. Yeah. So it’s got some charging ability. It’s lightweight as keychain. It’s got a USB powered fire anywhere. Where’s the picture of the stupid little knife? It’s got a little knife that comes out somehow. And it’s ceramic, so it doesn’t set off metal detectors.
Chris [00:29:41]:
But it’s titanium.
Sam [00:29:42]:
Oh, did I say titanium? What’s ceramic?
Chris [00:29:45]:
Ceramic is not metal. No, titanium’s a missile. I’m pretty sure. I don’t know. Titanium might get through metal detectors. I don’t actually know.
Sam [00:29:54]:
I don’t know.
Chris [00:29:55]:
I would assume not because I think they still get people with titanium. Hips keep setting them off and stuff.
Sam [00:30:01]:
It’s the least of your worries because you’ve got fuel in it and it’s gonna. Maybe it’s fuel now. I’m wondering, but I don’t know how it works. One click. Ignition powered anywhere. Look at this guy. He’s just setting stuff on fire.
Chris [00:30:15]:
I want one.
Sam [00:30:18]:
It’s USB powered. Oh, so it’s just like a heating coil, I guess.
Chris [00:30:23]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:30:23]:
Yeah, but I wouldn’t trust it plugged into a computer. Like just doing. Look at it.
Chris [00:30:28]:
You plug it into computer, your computer lights on fire.
Sam [00:30:33]:
Yeah, that’s right.
Chris [00:30:36]:
What could go wrong?
Sam [00:30:37]:
It’s medical grade titanium alloy. Because I’m going to be doing some medical stuff with that anyway. If you want one, the link will be in our show notes tcas.com make sure you head along to Chris’s improv night, whatever the title of that was.
Chris [00:30:50]:
The improv. The joke’s on you.
Sam [00:30:53]:
There we go. We’ll have a link to that as well. And until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:30:57]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:30:58]:
See ya.
Chris [00:30:58]:
Bye.
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