Summary
Chris pitches his improv comedy night (and shares tales of on-stage embarrassment), while Sam uncovers the saga of blue garden bags mysteriously appearing all over Hamilton.
We discuss questionable marketing tactics, the world’s highest bridge opening in China, and local happenings from night markets to live-action role-playing. There’s listener feedback, some wild Kickstarter finds, and a bank robber who just wanted some peace and quiet. All this and much more in this week’s episode!
Links
Improv combat update
Blue Garden Bag Marketing
World’s Highest Bridge Opens
Hamilton Night Market on the Move
Kickstarter – Snapmaker U1 Color 3d Printer
Kickstarter – Reekon T1R range
Presidential Walk of Fame
Bank Robber Stays in Bank
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:22]:
Hello and welcome to episode 551 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 in life. We can guarantee you’re not getting that anywhere else because we’re the only ones dumb enough to be doing this.
Chris [00:00:39]:
Yeah, that’s one way to put it. Yeah.
Sam [00:00:40]:
Oh, sorry. Motivated and excited to be here. You get to start with a story because last week I babbled on about the caravan and motorhome show and no power.
Chris [00:00:51]:
Well, I mean, I don’t know how. How exciting this is. So I did want to make a pitch for Improv Combat again. So last weekend was the second of four of the Improv Combat. And I’ll tell you a little bit about that in a second. But before I tell you about that, you might want to be looking up on your computer to see if you can buy tickets to next week’s Improv Combat. So that.
Sam [00:01:16]:
What’s the web address? Do you know? Just look up Improv Combat.
Chris [00:01:21]:
No. Google Meteor Theater.
Sam [00:01:23]:
Meteor Theater is where it’s happening. It’s going down there.
Chris [00:01:25]:
That’s where it’s happening. And that’s. You can buy the tickets from Media Theater. So that. That’s where that’s at. That’s the 12th. October 12th is the third. So, yeah, last one was really good.
Chris [00:01:36]:
I. I was. I was. I was picked for the first thing of the night.
Sam [00:01:43]:
Okay.
Chris [00:01:44]:
And we. Well, there’s a few of us. This game is called Gibberish Whispers. So basically a bunch of people go out of the room so they don’t know what’s going on. The audience gives you a. A famous person a way that they died, how they died.
Sam [00:02:01]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:01]:
And where they died. And none of them need to be related, right?
Sam [00:02:05]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:02:06]:
But the whole point is they’re not related. And so that was. Okay. And I was the first person, so I get the actual stuff from the crowd, and then I mime it to the next person who mimes it to the next person who mimes it to the next person. And then we all go up and. And say what. Who we thought it is and all that. And it.
Chris [00:02:25]:
It’s quite funny.
Sam [00:02:26]:
It sounds. It sounds funny.
Chris [00:02:28]:
It is. It’s. It’s actually hilarious. And it’s one of my favorite games, but my God. So they went Michael Jackson. Okay. That was pretty easy. You can’t do much better than that.
Chris [00:02:40]:
I did the moonwalk, everybody else. Which went. Huh? And grand.
Sam [00:02:43]:
Yeah. Sorry. For some reason, I thought you couldn’t talk.
Chris [00:02:46]:
Yeah, yeah, you can make noises and stuff. You can’t speak English, but, yeah, yeah. And so, yeah, that was the easiest one ever. He fell in a hole in the ice.
Sam [00:02:57]:
Right. Tricky, tricky. So you gotta.
Chris [00:03:00]:
That one. I got that. I nailed that. Everybody nailed that.
Sam [00:03:03]:
Okay.
Chris [00:03:04]:
All the way through on the Starship Enterprise. Oh, my God, I was lost on that one. And I’m grabbing the guy next to me and going, we’re all falling to the left. We’re all falling to the right.
Sam [00:03:18]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:20]:
And all this sort of thing. And they. They obviously, like, okay, the one guy said at the very end, he goes, hang on, Starship Enterprise. Did nobody do, you know, the longer process sign with their hand? And I’m like, oh, if I’d done that, everybody would have got it. But no, I didn’t think of that. So I went all the way to the end and. And of course, with no frame of reference, what each one’s miming for the next person just gets old.
Sam [00:03:49]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:03:51]:
So they thought it was a WWE or something like this. And. But the guy that I did it to, he worked it out. By the time it got. By the time he was guessing, he goes, I think it was a Starship Enterprise. Yes, vindicated. But anyway, so it was the opening, and then near the end, I think it was. Yeah, it’s not quite the last one.
Chris [00:04:12]:
It’s close to the last one. I was doing something Romeo. And so the ask was play from somewhere. And so it’s Romeo, Juliet and Steve. Romeo, Juliet and Steve.
Sam [00:04:24]:
Yeah, okay.
Chris [00:04:26]:
And so Juliet, who’s this dude? Harry? He just starts picking on me with this story I told him in. I told a few of them a few weeks ago. Have I ever told you about the time I got rolled by the two Swedish. Swedish twins in Spain? Have I told you that story?
Sam [00:04:47]:
I don’t know at this point.
Chris [00:04:49]:
No.
Sam [00:04:49]:
We’re 11 years into this podcast and I honestly can’t remember. I don’t think so.
Chris [00:04:54]:
I don’t think I have. Anyway, I told these guys and they just embarrassed the. The hell out of me. I went bright red on stage. Like. Yeah, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen me go red.
Sam [00:05:05]:
No, because you normally don’t care about anything.
Chris [00:05:08]:
I know. I went. I was bright red. It was hilarious. They were apologizing afterwards. It’s all good. It’s funny as I just didn’t expect to. Yeah.
Chris [00:05:20]:
Go absolutely bright red. So Anyway, that was hilarious. So, yeah, come along next week and see me debase myself for your entertainment. Yay.
Sam [00:05:30]:
Or go along to see a wide variety of people there to entertain you, not just Chris.
Chris [00:05:37]:
Yeah, no, no, actually. And there’s a lot of much funnier people than me there, to be fair.
Sam [00:05:42]:
Hey, in your travels in the last couple of days, have you seen blue, Blue sacks everywhere?
Chris [00:05:48]:
Oh, I’ve got a blue sack just inside my door at the moment.
Sam [00:05:51]:
Okay. Did you get the promotional material with it? Have you opened it?
Chris [00:05:55]:
Yes.
Sam [00:05:56]:
Okay. So here in Hamilton, and I don’t know anywhere else in the country, a company that has garden bins and garden sacks has dropped off a blue sack. And it appears every single household in Hamilton, people that don’t have gardens, people that do have gardens, they don’t care. So a company did this a couple of years ago and got in serious trouble with the Commerce Commission.
Chris [00:06:22]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:06:23]:
Yes, because they basically said, well, you’ve accepted it. And then they charged everybody an admin fee for a thing that nobody asked for. Okay.
Chris [00:06:33]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:06:33]:
Now, if you look at the piece of junk mail that came with it, somewhere on there there’s a circle and it says, this bag is completely free and it’s, you can do whatever you want with it. So if you do not contact them, they will not come and pick up this bag. It’s 600 liters. It’s a large garden bag. These things are brand new. They’ve delivered them to multiple peoples. They’re everywhere in Hamilton. They’re being blown around.
Sam [00:07:00]:
They’ve been thrown in the rubbish straight away. And it’s caused a lot of problems, I think, with people thinking they’ve come from the council.
Chris [00:07:09]:
What I thought from the council at.
Sam [00:07:11]:
First, it looks like something like, it.
Chris [00:07:12]:
Really looks like it in the, the.
Sam [00:07:14]:
Mail, but it does specifically say, you can do whatever you want with this bag. So some people are chopping them up and using those boot liners for their cars.
Chris [00:07:23]:
Yeah, I, I grabbed it because I thought, I, I’m sure I can find a use. Because I, I read the thing. I was like, I’m not paying for. We, we have somebody do the lawns here. I know, yeah.
Sam [00:07:34]:
So, so what do you think of this marketing strategy, if that’s what you want to call it? Because I can’t think. I, I, I just don’t think it’s a good idea.
Chris [00:07:44]:
Well, we’ll find. They’ll find out, like, how many return. I mean, I would have thought they would have picked certain suburbs and done.
Sam [00:07:53]:
It first, you know, I thought, yes. I thought they would have targeted their audience a little bit better and rolled.
Chris [00:07:59]:
It out in a more controlled environment. Yeah. Limited range so that they could. Oh yeah, it worked there. Then we’ll roll it out further.
Sam [00:08:09]:
But because you’ve got the problem of a People are throwing them away and never using it for their intended purpose. You’ve got people that already have a service and can’t be bothered. If I filled up this sack with all the stuff out the back of my house, I can’t get it to the front so it’s useless. That’s why I’ve got a bin, a wheelie bin. I just, I think they’re just gonna lose so much money. I don’t know. I don’t think they’re gonna recoup their costs by doing this weird stunt.
Chris [00:08:36]:
I wonder how many, how much it cost them. They must have got them for cents each.
Sam [00:08:42]:
Yep. But still it adds up. And then you’ve got the printing and the promo. I was talking to someone at work and I was like, I think they should have done the pamphlet and gone, hey, we’ve got this free bag, literally. We’ll give it to you and we’ll give you a good deal on picking it up. Even if it’s just a one off thing to try and get these people like to interact. And then you’ve got sort of like a. More of a hot lead, I guess.
Chris [00:09:07]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:09:08]:
I don’t know, I just thought it was strange and that. Honestly, you just drive around, you see them everywhere, they’re jammed into places, rubbish mints are blowing around. I’ve got three of them. So that’s good.
Chris [00:09:18]:
That’s crazy.
Sam [00:09:20]:
That’s good. I’m glad that you saw that. I was waiting for you to go. I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Chris [00:09:24]:
Oh no, no, because I, I saw them first. I, because they were under my letter box and I was like, I’m not expecting any because it looked like a package from, from, you know, from my window. Yeah, I’m not expecting a package, I thought. So I wandered out there, I was like, what are these? And then of course they had all the letters there. So I grabbed one. Well, actually I left it there. I came back, read the letter, went, I’m going to grab that anyway.
Sam [00:09:45]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:09:46]:
Because I’ll find a use for it. Even if it’s just when I’m moving to put shit in like, you know. But yeah, and I think the rest are still out there. So I might, if nobody else is gonna grab Them. I might grab them this week.
Sam [00:09:59]:
Why not? Why not? You could literally go anywhere and grab them. They’re everywhere. Did you see that? The world’s highest bridge opened this week.
Chris [00:10:08]:
No.
Sam [00:10:10]:
In China. It’s good.
Chris [00:10:12]:
Oh, okay. And because it used to be front. Was that the one in France that used to held that record? I remember Top Gear going over this bridge in France and it was above the clouds or some. Some crap.
Sam [00:10:25]:
I’m relying on my memory right now, but I’m gonna say yes. But this thing, this one is almost double the height of whatever the previous record was.
Chris [00:10:32]:
Holy crap.
Sam [00:10:33]:
It’s 625 meters above the ground.
Chris [00:10:37]:
That’s just scary.
Sam [00:10:39]:
And.
Chris [00:10:39]:
Yeah, and it’s over half a kilometer up. Oh, my God.
Sam [00:10:43]:
Yeah. It weighs 22,000 tons, which is about three times three Eiffel Towers. It only took him three and a half years. Apparently. Anywhere else it would take you about seven.
Chris [00:10:55]:
See, that doesn’t fill me with confidence, though.
Sam [00:10:58]:
Oh, no, I’ve got something that’ll fill you with confidence. You know how you have the giant upright structure to hold a suspension bridge?
Chris [00:11:07]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:11:07]:
So think of the Golden Gate Bridge, but this is just bigger.
Chris [00:11:09]:
Yeah. You’ve got the big pylons in the.
Sam [00:11:11]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that thing, they’ve put a restaurant on the top of that so you can get to the top of that. So you can get higher than the actual bridge.
Chris [00:11:20]:
It’s like another hundred metres or something.
Sam [00:11:21]:
Yeah, exactly, exactly. It’s good. It’s twice as tall as London’s Shard, if you know what that looks like. Now, it used to take between an hour or two to get from point A to B. This bridge takes you a minute. That’s how much time you’re saving.
Chris [00:11:39]:
Well, that’s impressive.
Sam [00:11:41]:
When they’re building it, they have to do a five day structural integrity assessment. And this is before the public get on it.
Chris [00:11:51]:
Yep.
Sam [00:11:52]:
How do you do that, do you.
Chris [00:11:54]:
Think, drive a load of trucks back and forth?
Sam [00:11:57]:
Well, you have 96 trucks parked across it at different intervals, and then you see if it can handle it.
Chris [00:12:05]:
Well, because one of the. One of the things with bridges, not that I’m a freaking architect, obviously, but was that whole resonance thing.
Sam [00:12:14]:
Yes.
Chris [00:12:15]:
Of the. The. As the movement and the. But the noise and all the rest of it, creating those resonances, particularly with all the cables and stuff. And it was that famous bridge in America, if I can’t remember where it was, that just absolutely pulled itself to bits.
Sam [00:12:32]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:12:32]:
Oh, and there’s old black and white photos of it. Just bouncing back and forth like it’s just. It looked crazy because of the wind. I want to. I want to say San Francisco, but only because it looked like the Golden Gate Bridge. But I think it was in the Midwest somewhere actually. But yeah. Anyway.
Chris [00:12:51]:
Hey, I. I will tell you something that I am up on that is local.
Sam [00:12:55]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:12:56]:
Only because of our friends at hello Hamilton. I read the newsletter today. Have you ever been to the night market? Hamilton Night Market.
Sam [00:13:07]:
I’ve driven past it and there’s basically two. So.
Chris [00:13:12]:
Okay, but.
Sam [00:13:12]:
But one, one’s at Chartwell and I don’t know if that’s called the Hamilton Night Market or not, but that’s on Sundays. And then the other one used to be underneath Kmart when Kmart was in town on a different setup. And then that one’s moved a couple of times and it’s in a stupid car park where the Les Mills used to be.
Chris [00:13:29]:
That’s. Yeah, that’s the one. I think we’re talking about the, the Friday Hamilton.
Sam [00:13:33]:
That’s the one. And it sort of. It seemed to slowly die because you never heard anyone talk about that one.
Chris [00:13:37]:
Well, it’s moved again. It’s right next to my place, Gate 2B of the Knighton Road University of Waikato car park there.
Sam [00:13:48]:
Hang on now, I know they say that, but I have seen a picture and it looks like it’s set up in front of the cafe thing around the lake.
Chris [00:13:57]:
Really? Cuz I’m not sure.
Sam [00:13:59]:
No, I saw an artist impression and it looked like it was on the village green or whatever they call it.
Chris [00:14:03]:
Because it might be. That might be where they park. You park 2B and then they go into that. Around that. Cuz I did wonder that. Cuz I was wondering at very first. Oh, they’d be on the green, which again is like two minutes from my place.
Sam [00:14:19]:
You’ll be.
Chris [00:14:19]:
So when I get back. When I get back from karate on a. A Friday night, which would be about 8, 8 o’ clock and can go over and get some dinner. It starts this week, well before this podcast comes out actually, so I let.
Sam [00:14:35]:
Us know how it goes. Talking about that car park. I ended up in it the other day, as you do on a weekend on a Saturday for the second time in about two months. Did you know there’s like a laughing group that run around in the forest and they’re like flying, fighting hard out.
Chris [00:14:50]:
I’ve seen them fighting out there. Yes.
Sam [00:14:54]:
Well, this time. Yes, this is the second time I’ve seen them. There was a wide variety of people Taking part. It was good to see some females in there brandishing some weapons. And then there was some old Father Christmas type guy wearing a high vis. Who was the ref or judge or. I don’t know what the term is. But yeah, it looked pretty cool.
Sam [00:15:12]:
Interesting.
Chris [00:15:13]:
Pretty full on, eh?
Sam [00:15:14]:
Yeah, yeah. Like they just go for it and I assume there’s some rules around it.
Chris [00:15:20]:
I think so. But yeah, I don’t. I don’t know much about it that. I did have one friend, friend of a friend did it. So he borrowed some of the armor because he went along because he’s a bit of a Neanderthal. He’s way bigger than me and he. He fought a bit and then he lent me some pauldrons and bits and pieces which I used as armor that I wore for the. What was it called? Star Wars Outcasts.
Chris [00:15:49]:
Outcasts that we filmed back in the day.
Sam [00:15:52]:
Back in the day at the uni as well.
Chris [00:15:54]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:15:54]:
It was before I actually knew you.
Chris [00:15:57]:
Oh, did we do that? Was that before?
Sam [00:15:59]:
Yeah, I had nothing to do with that. I didn’t even know about that.
Chris [00:16:02]:
Okay. All right.
Sam [00:16:03]:
But I’m remembering it well. Hey, we’ve got a bit of a listener shout out, I think.
Chris [00:16:08]:
Yep.
Sam [00:16:09]:
Elizabeth Rogers commented on one of our. I think the last post on social media, on Facebook.
Chris [00:16:14]:
Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:16:15]:
And this was to do with the Trump Epstein statue that was put outside the White House that we were talking about. And she said that to her, it looked like it was modelled off Morecambe and Wise. They have a statue that looks very similar. The latter two were comedians. But there’s nothing funny about the other two, which we will all agree with.
Chris [00:16:33]:
So it was funny because I mentioned Morecambe and Wise at the. Not. Not while I was on stage. But at that event I was like, you know who Morcom and Wise is, right. And they’re like just total blank looks. I’m like, God damn, I grew up watching Morecambe and Wise.
Sam [00:16:51]:
Excellent. I have some Kickstarter drop kicks for you this week.
Chris [00:16:55]:
Oh, go for it.
Sam [00:16:56]:
One of them has closed, but you can still purchase it. But there’s a couple of interesting things about it, so. And the other one is a hybrid thing. So you’ve got the hybrid tape measure, which called the T1R range. Or we can start with the Snapmaker U1 colour 3D printer.
Chris [00:17:15]:
Let’s look at this colour 3D printer. Have you bought one yet?
Sam [00:17:19]:
No, I’m so broke anyway. No. So when you have a 3D printer, there’s various models and you can get a thing which has auto filament system and you can have four colors coming into the print head and the printer will change colors automatically and you can have different parts, different colours and it’s pretty cool. Like it’s a good innovation. The problem is most current 3D printers only have the one head and for them to change color it has to purge all the color that’s in the line, squirt it out the back, then get the new color. So you’re wasting quite a bit. This crowd called Snap Maker who I know nothing about have made a 3D printer that has four heads and each one has its own color, just like a normal printer, I guess. And five times more speed, five times less waste is their claim.
Sam [00:18:20]:
Makes sense, right?
Chris [00:18:21]:
Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:18:22]:
So that’s all good. And it finished about a month ago. They’re shipping now. They’ve got a lot of YouTube reviews from 3D print people. I haven’t watched any of them. I don’t know if it’s any good but if you were to believe their marketing people are quite impressed by it. Now you can buy one for 849 New Zealand dollars, right? Oh, sorry, 849American dollars.
Chris [00:18:48]:
I was going to say that, yeah. $8.49 New Zealand sounds pretty reasonable to be honest.
Sam [00:18:53]:
Yeah. No, so it’s about 1500 New Zealand dollars plus shipping. You can buy that right now. Not a problem. The interesting thing with this, they’ve got 20,000 backers. The goal is $100,000 and that’s American. 100,000American dollars to get this to the stage where they could ship it. How much do you think they’ve raised?
Chris [00:19:16]:
Oh, I reckon they’d gone over 100,000. Yeah, I’d say double it. 200,000.
Sam [00:19:21]:
20 million.
Chris [00:19:22]:
Hot. Duh. What?
Sam [00:19:26]:
I know. That’s the thing that caught my eye when I saw it pop up.
Chris [00:19:29]:
It’s 10 times more than I thought. That’s a hundred times more than I thought.
Sam [00:19:34]:
I know. You’re doing great there. Yeah.
Chris [00:19:36]:
100 times more than I thought. Holy crap. Yeah, so I, I would say hold off on that. They’ll be coming down in price or there’ll be some second hand ones coming out soon.
Sam [00:19:48]:
I don’t know that it Sundays they’ve made three other projects. I don’t know. What? What? Hang on, let’s have a quick look. They made a modular 3D printer, like a little baby one. They made a all metal 3D printer in 2017 and it’s not showing me what the third thing is, so, I don’t know, they had pretty decent funding.
Chris [00:20:12]:
Yeah. Well, if they’ve already made a couple of 3D printers, then you would think that their, their manufacturing side of things is pretty well nailed down. I mean, 20 million, though, that’s a crapload of orders. And sometimes that’s more of a problem than a benefit, if you know what I mean.
Sam [00:20:34]:
I think so.
Chris [00:20:35]:
Good on them. Holy crap. 20 million. Jeez.
Sam [00:20:38]:
They, they made. It’s 2283 funded. And then the other thing that I saw, not as exciting, I, I, it.
Chris [00:20:50]:
Would be rough, tough to beat the 20 million.
Sam [00:20:54]:
So there’s a crowd. I’m sure I’ve seen these guys before. It’s called Recon. R E E K O with the UMLA and N Recon. And I think their whole thing is they make tape measures. I’ve seen something like this before. Now this one, they’ve decided to jam a whole bunch of stuff into one thing. So it’s got a, it’s got a leveling a level on it and a gyro.
Sam [00:21:19]:
It’s got a digital tape measure on the screen with a physical tape measure and then a laser distance measure. I don’t know if this is overkill.
Chris [00:21:30]:
I was just gonna say sounds like trousers with belt and suspenders. Like, yeah, you don’t need everything, bro.
Sam [00:21:39]:
So you can pick one of these up right now for 219 US dollars. They wanted, they only wanted 1500 dollars and they’ve already raised 300,000.
Chris [00:21:56]:
I was going to say they do pretty well with it because it’s a real niche thing and people that want it, want it. And 219 is probably not that bad. A, like, there’s no way I’d buy that. But for the right person, it’s, I don’t think it’s.
Sam [00:22:12]:
If it works and it’s as accurate as they say, you got 21 days to go at the time of this recording, so go check that out. We’ll have the link on our show [email protected].
Chris [00:22:21]:
Good call. Good. Cool. Hey, I, I have to. God, I hate saying this.
Sam [00:22:26]:
You love it.
Chris [00:22:28]:
I have to give Trump some kudos because I think he’s hilarious.
Sam [00:22:31]:
Okay, well, I don’t know where this is going.
Chris [00:22:34]:
So the, the Presidential Walk of Fame, they’ve just. What is that unveiled this Presidential Walk of Fame.
Sam [00:22:43]:
Oh, I know what this is.
Chris [00:22:45]:
A few days ago.
Sam [00:22:46]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:22:47]:
The photos in gold frames, of course.
Sam [00:22:50]:
Was this not a thing before?
Chris [00:22:52]:
No, it wasn’t.
Sam [00:22:53]:
All right. No, like, there was no Photos at all?
Chris [00:22:56]:
No photos at all.
Sam [00:22:57]:
Okay. I thought there would be. And he’s just reframed stuff.
Chris [00:22:59]:
No, there’s photos around, but this is the walk. And they’re in chronological order, so as you go. Yeah. Seeing all the presidents from past to future.
Sam [00:23:08]:
Yeah, that makes sense.
Chris [00:23:09]:
Right? Which is cool. And they’re all in these gaudy gold.
Sam [00:23:13]:
Frames, so it’s so terrible.
Chris [00:23:15]:
And so he’s the 47th president, so there’s like 47 of these portraits, right?
Sam [00:23:20]:
Yes.
Chris [00:23:21]:
But the funniest thing. Well, I think it is funny. I mean, I. I know people. Some people have got really upset about this. I just think it’s a good troll. It’s like, oh, so you’ve got Obama, you know, all these portraits moving up. And you got Obama’s portrait, then you got Trump’s portrait, then you’ve got a photo of an auto pen signing Biden.
Sam [00:23:46]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:47]:
And then you got Trump’s portrait again on the other side of it. I think that’s the best troll ever. I mean, it’s dumb, it’s stupid, but actually it makes me laugh. That’s funny.
Sam [00:24:01]:
I think there’s a lot of people that live rent free in his head.
Chris [00:24:06]:
Oh, yeah. Excuse my language, but yes, absolutely.
Sam [00:24:10]:
He’s. Oh, my God. It’s just nuts.
Chris [00:24:15]:
Yeah. I mean, I don’t know whether it’s worth talking about the Tylenol drama that he started or the military drama that went on this week. In fact, probably don’t do that because I’ll get all upset, but.
Sam [00:24:27]:
No, don’t, don’t.
Chris [00:24:29]:
The guy is losing the plot, honestly.
Sam [00:24:32]:
But he’s doing, like, you know, he’s going to help, what, take over some cities, fix them up? It’s crazy. It’s. It’s a weird timeline to be living through.
Chris [00:24:41]:
I got a fun story, though.
Sam [00:24:43]:
Okay, let’s end with this.
Chris [00:24:44]:
I. I think this is a fun.
Sam [00:24:45]:
Okay, we’re going to end with this.
Chris [00:24:47]:
Okay. So this pensioner robbed a bank.
Sam [00:24:52]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:24:54]:
So Kansas man who he. Lawrence John Ripple, 70, walked into the bank of labor just down the street from police headquarters in Kansas City with a note demanding money and that he had a gun. And then he sat down in the foyer and waited for the cops to arrest him.
Sam [00:25:16]:
Did. Oh, was he one of those guys that wanted to get back to prison?
Chris [00:25:20]:
Not exactly. Basically, he goes. He’d written the note at home in front of his wife after telling her he’d rather be in jail than with her at home. And there’s a. There’s a video that I saw where the newspaper guys went and talked to her, and she refused to be on camera, but she answered them through the door. And basically she said, I was just telling him the dryer hadn’t been fixed. And I said, this dryer isn’t going to fix itself. You need to fix yourself.
Chris [00:25:50]:
So he grabbed this piece of paper, he wrote a note and goes, I’d rather be in jail than with you at home. And he went and robbed a bank and then sat down and got arrested. The kicker, though, okay, the. The teller handed him $3,000 in cash and he just waited for the lobby for police to arrive. He went to court and they sentenced him to home detention.
Sam [00:26:17]:
That’s the worst possible thing.
Chris [00:26:19]:
That’s a judge with a sense of humor right there.
Sam [00:26:22]:
Oh, my gosh. And he’s never gonna hear the end of it.
Chris [00:26:27]:
Is that dryer fixed yet? Is that dryer fixed? You’ve gotta fix the dryer. And while you’re here, you may as well mow the lawn.
Sam [00:26:35]:
Oh, no, that’s crazy. Poor dude. Is it? I don’t know.
Chris [00:26:38]:
Maybe not, but you’re gonna laugh. That’s awesome.
Sam [00:26:41]:
Okay, that brings us to the end of this podcast. Big shout out to everybody that listens, everybody that likes comments and tells other people about this randomness and technology and life thing that we’ve been putting together.
Chris [00:26:53]:
And if you have any randomness, if you know of something we should talk about that we’ve missed, particularly like Elizabeth is on the other side of the world, let us know and maybe we’ll put it in. And last thing, Sam, do you want to say a few things about Misty flicks coming up before we shut up?
Sam [00:27:10]:
Oh, yeah. Mistyflix.co.nz Come check. Check it out. Individual ticket sales are on now. You can still get the Misty Flick Pass Festival pass as well. Bunch of amazing films. Cool people. It’s a great weekend and we’re looking forward to it.
Chris [00:27:28]:
Cool.
Sam [00:27:29]:
Okay, until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:27:31]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:27:32]:
See ya.
Chris [00:27:33]:
Bye.
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