Summary
Sam and Chris reflect on end-of-year exhaustion, tech projects, and the excitement of networking at Christmas parties.
We learn why RAM prices are skyrocketing, and hear stories about a gold-hunting prospector discovering a billion-year-old meteorite, a man stealing a Canadian bus and doing a surprisingly good job, and police confusing a toy reindeer for a lost dog.
There’s talk of Pantone’s color of the year and some wild corruption sentencing in Turkey, plus a rundown of a controversial drone strike in US news.
All this and much more in this week’s episode.
Links
Abandoned Dog?
Expensive RAM
Meteorite Found
Stolen Bus
Turkey Strong on Corruption
Problem with USA Drone Strike
Colour of the Year
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 559 of The chris and sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
And I’m sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness. Technology in life, and life at the moment is very retiring. Don’t really want to talk about it, but it’s the end of the year.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness. Technology in life, and life at the moment is very retiring. Don’t really want to talk about it, but it’s the end of the year.
Chris [00:00:35]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you. You already switching off at work and stuff?
Sam [00:00:39]:
I can’t.
Chris [00:00:40]:
Yeah, no time to do that.
Sam [00:00:41]:
There’s no time to do that.
Chris [00:00:43]:
I shouldn’t either. I’ve got. Actually got a bit to do, but I already feel like really old age is kicking in. Yeah, no, I’ve got. Well, I just did some filming yesterday actually, for. For Auckland Council and so we caught up with friends of the podcast guy Pigdon. He did some filming with me. He.
Chris [00:01:05]:
He did all the camera work, all the. All the real work, put it that way. Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:01:08]:
You were just there.
Chris [00:01:09]:
I’m just there. And. Yeah, no, he. He’s doing well, so looking well. So that was good fun. But now I’ve got to do all the editing. He’s going, what do you use for editing? And then he starts talking technical. I’m like, yep.
Sam [00:01:23]:
Smile and wave, smile and wave.
Chris [00:01:28]:
So that should be cool. Although I did get up to a little bit this week. So we had the LinkedIn local Christmas party.
Sam [00:01:35]:
Where was that?
Chris [00:01:37]:
That was in the Union Square building on Hood Street.
Sam [00:01:42]:
That sounds really. Oh, yeah, Another one.
Chris [00:01:44]:
Yep, yep. Yeah, Right in the corner of the new sort of building there.
Sam [00:01:47]:
Yep.
Chris [00:01:47]:
It was Craig something. Either investment or a lawyer. Like, it was one of those offices.
Sam [00:01:53]:
One of those offices, yeah.
Chris [00:01:55]:
So we were up there. It wasn’t hugely busy, like Norma, there’s more there. But there was severe weather warnings.
Sam [00:02:01]:
Oh, was it?
Chris [00:02:02]:
That was on Wednesday. Yes. Because I. One of the person. One of the people came along, said I drove in from Cambridge and it was like, scary. It was just aquaplaning the whole way.
Sam [00:02:13]:
Good. Safety first.
Chris [00:02:14]:
I was like, I don’t want to spend money on an Uber. So I risked it on a bus and I was fine.
Sam [00:02:19]:
Good.
Chris [00:02:20]:
Both ways.
Sam [00:02:21]:
Who was the most interesting person there.
Chris [00:02:23]:
That you came across, other than myself?
Chris [00:02:28]:
I. I’ve got to catch up with Mark Bunting. So we’re going to have a chat about. Because he’s doing communications consulting and we were talking and he goes, yeah, the communications I do is different from what he does. And he goes, I don’t want to Teach people to speak on stage. So we should get together and I’ll give you some clients. That’ll be good because I don’t want to be doing that.
Sam [00:02:50]:
I saw him the other week and he sort of looked at me and clocked me and I don’t think he may have been trying to remember who I was. Yeah, but he rides a very nice high powered motorcycle.
Chris [00:03:01]:
Oh, really?
Sam [00:03:01]:
Yeah, he came out in all the, all the riding gear and I was like, oh. And there was this real nice. I don’t know what it was off the top of my head. Yeah, big Yamaha or something.
Chris [00:03:10]:
Yeah, yeah. No, he’s a nice guy. So he was interesting. Jj, Julia Jones. Pamela introduced me to her. She may be listening, so if you are. Hey, Julia.
Sam [00:03:21]:
Hi, Julia.
Chris [00:03:23]:
She started a podcast.
Sam [00:03:25]:
Everyone has.
Chris [00:03:26]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, but what’s it about? The podcast card. Come on. It’s around optimism and stuff like that. Excellent.
Sam [00:03:34]:
That sounds cool.
Chris [00:03:35]:
Yeah, yeah, it does sound pretty interesting. So I’ve got to get hold of her and because I was going to, I’ve got a resource for her where she can get some guests from and stuff. Yes, that’s the big thing when you’re doing a guest podcast. Unlike us, that’s the burnout factor. Trying to find a guest every week.
Sam [00:03:55]:
…but there’s like, hey, The chris and sam podcast really like what you do. Hey, have you thought about having a guest? Well, and they never really ever talk about the podcast because I’ve never ever listened to us. It’s all automated and they’re like, hey, I’ve got this guy and he’s a multi award winning physicist. I don’t know, it was just the weirdest person or marketing guru or some bloody thing.
Chris [00:04:33]:
No, I used to get it all the time. I don’t tell anybody that we have a podcast now because otherwise. Otherwise people pitch themselves, they get serious all the time, very excited and I’m. And then I say we don’t have guests and they blows their freaking minds.
Sam [00:04:48]:
It sure.
Chris [00:04:51]:
You said a podcast. Like yes, it’s a podcast. Yeah, but, but, but, but how can you have a podcast without guests?
Sam [00:04:56]:
And you’re just like, hey, you should listen and say, hey, we’ve been doing this for about 12 years now. Whatever it is. 11, 12 years. Just calm down. Yeah, Professionals.
Chris [00:05:04]:
Yeah. So anyway, so that was good. Yeah. There was. I met. Who do I meet? Trish was co. Yeah. Met a whole bunch of people.
Chris [00:05:13]:
And then I was surprised at how many people I actually knew because I haven’t been to one of these things for. Must be a couple of years. Right.
Sam [00:05:19]:
Yeah, of course. You know, it’s all a lot of the same people in the same circles trying.
Chris [00:05:23]:
Pamela was there, obviously. Monique from the Misty flicks. Oh, yeah, she was there. Steve Tritt, of course. So a lot of the. The standard people that met many times before. So. Yeah, no, it’s good.
Chris [00:05:39]:
I’m glad I went because I was. I was bit up in there about it and then it was, you know, severe weather warning. I’m like, do I really want to go out tonight? But I’m not going to be one of those people. I am going. So I did.
Sam [00:05:51]:
I think there’s a lot of benefits. And I’ve. I’ve spoken to some people at work and it’s like, what have you got to lose apart from maybe a bit of time?
Chris [00:05:59]:
Yeah, well, because you. That’s how you chris and sam met.
Sam [00:06:02]:
Exactly.
Chris [00:06:03]:
You know, social media club. Hamilton, I think. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:05]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:05]:
And we used to do. Well, I used to do things like that all the time. I think it was more going on or maybe I was invited to more then.
Sam [00:06:16]:
I don’t know about more. I don’t know. I do think it’s. It’s tapered off to how it used to be and it may be more very specific industries. Yeah. I’m not sure.
Chris [00:06:23]:
Yeah, yeah. Specific groups and what have you. Yeah. Anyway, so that was my big Christmas. That was my Christmas party for the year. Because I don’t think we might have a virtual Christmas party.
Sam [00:06:34]:
Virtual Christmas?
Chris [00:06:35]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:06:37]:
That’s just you drinking by yourself in front of a webcam.
Chris [00:06:39]:
Yeah, it’s like, bring your own beer at home.
Sam [00:06:42]:
Like, hang on, was it last year they sent you some for Christmas?
Chris [00:06:46]:
Oh, no, it was in the middle of that project.
Sam [00:06:48]:
Oh, that’s right. That’s what it was.
Chris [00:06:50]:
Yeah. Because we were working all sorts of hours, which was pretty good actually, for this one because it’s. Cal’s leaving due as well, so it’s on the 18th. Oh, okay. So having a December. I mean, we’re having a leaving, farewell virtual party. It’d be cool.
Sam [00:07:06]:
Cool. No doubt you’re excited that Pantone has chosen its color for 2026.
Chris [00:07:12]:
Okay.
Sam [00:07:13]:
You excited about that?
Chris [00:07:14]:
I can’t remember what last year’s one. Was it sandstone or something?
Sam [00:07:18]:
I don’t know. I really don’t know.
Chris [00:07:21]:
I’m pretty sure you told us last year.
Sam [00:07:23]:
Did I? I don’t know.
Chris [00:07:24]:
You did. Oh, well, because I didn’t know they did one until you told me about it.
Sam [00:07:28]:
Maybe, maybe. I don’t know. It’s hard to keep track.
Chris [00:07:33]:
You’re on the Pantone mailing list, my friend.
Sam [00:07:38]:
No, I’m not. But Pantone do describe themselves as a global color authority.
Chris [00:07:43]:
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
Sam [00:07:44]:
And a color standardization company. So this is if we talked about this last year. Same thing. It’s big business, apparently. Multi millions of dollars because corporations will use this information to then pick colors for uniforms and brands. And it’s. It’s strange.
Chris [00:08:04]:
So we did this year, we did 11 months of print workshop stuff. And so Pantones all over that. All through that is Pantones. Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:08:16]:
Okay, so they’ve gone with Cloud Dancer, which is basically white. It’s 11-4201 for all the Pantone freaks out there. But basically it’s the first time they’ve ever picked a white. Do you want to know what’s described.
Chris [00:08:32]:
As, well, Cloud Dancer? Yeah.
Sam [00:08:34]:
No, no, but it’s described as a billowy, balanced white with an aerated presence. You know.
Chris [00:08:41]:
You know that the person that came up with the words does so much. Gets paid way more than the person that had the color.
Sam [00:08:48]:
Yeah. Mocha Moose was last year’s one Mocker Moose. And before that, peach fuzz. So it involves a global team.
Sam [00:08:58]:
Imagine being. What’s your day job? I was just gonna look at colors, have some meetings online, talk about colors. Anyway, yeah, they’ve done that. They select it by a bunch of experts from the Pantone Color Institute. Like when you’re this speaking, just make up your own places. They probably have a university as well. I’m not sure. They examine new technology, social values, art collections and travel destinations.
Sam [00:09:24]:
Oh my gosh. You know there’s an expense account for this.
Chris [00:09:27]:
Yeah, 100%. They’re just printing money. Oh, my God. What a.
Sam [00:09:31]:
So the annual selections, I don’t know, it’s just like art. You have to fully believe in it.
Chris [00:09:37]:
Yeah, you believe in it and other people will believe in your. In your delusion. Come along for the ride.
Chris [00:09:46]:
Join my delusion train.
Sam [00:09:48]:
They’ve been doing this since 1999. Good on me.
Chris [00:09:53]:
Oh, really? I thought they were older than that.
Sam [00:09:55]:
I think there’s another one.
Chris [00:09:57]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:57]:
So Pantone’s the brand which gets referenced in all the print stuff. Yeah, but I think there’s a overarching color, something or other, maybe. Anyway, I’m not going to dwell on it too much, but I’ll sleep easier at night knowing what The color of the year is coming up.
Chris [00:10:15]:
Sky. Cloud dancer.
Sam [00:10:16]:
Cloud dancer.
Chris [00:10:17]:
Cloud dancer, yeah. Cool, cool, cool. Okay, I threatened this before we started, so I have to ask, have you heard this latest stuff from the US with Hexith being in trouble?
Sam [00:10:32]:
I will say for all the listeners, he hasn’t spoken about American politics for a while now. So you will either like this or not. I think you’re talking about the order to bomb that boat the second time.
Chris [00:10:44]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:10:44]:
Is that the just.
Chris [00:10:45]:
Yeah. So it was the first time they did the boat bombing or the first time. So this was, I want to say, second September, maybe fourth September, something like that. Early September. Early September, this thing happened. Yep. There’s 11 people in this boat. It’s a drug smuggling boat.
Chris [00:11:01]:
Open boat with a big motor full of drugs. It’s going across the water. It sees a drone circling.
Sam [00:11:07]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:11:07]:
So it turns back.
Sam [00:11:08]:
Yeah. Oh, okay.
Chris [00:11:09]:
And then they go light it up. They blow up the boat with like.
Sam [00:11:15]:
That was like 120. There’s a $150,000 missile or something.
Chris [00:11:19]:
Probably it was off a Reaper drone, so whatever that is. Yeah, it sounds about right. 150,000 would be a cheap one, pretty much, I think. Okay. So anyway, so that’s cool.
Chris [00:11:31]:
And Hexith’s all over it. He had a hard on. He was.
Sam [00:11:34]:
Yeah, I was going to say. I was just going to say be all chubbed up.
Chris [00:11:37]:
Yeah, he was sharing it on social media. Oh, really?
Sam [00:11:40]:
Yeah, he shared it, of course.
Chris [00:11:43]:
Well, he authorized it to be the press or whatever. But he was like. I was there for the whole thing. I was. I was in the. With the war fighters in the Situation room. Right. You know, because he always goes on about the war fighters.
Sam [00:11:57]:
What’s his background again? Isn’t he like a presenter? No.
Chris [00:11:59]:
Yeah, he’s a.
Chris [00:12:02]:
Weekend presenter for Fox News.
Sam [00:12:04]:
Yeah. Good, good, good. We got that.
Chris [00:12:06]:
Yeah, he was. Yeah, that’s his qualification. He was an E1, E2 in the. In the army.
Sam [00:12:14]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:12:15]:
So he did do a stunt. He did a little stunt, but he wasn’t very. He didn’t get very.
Sam [00:12:18]:
No, no.
Chris [00:12:19]:
Lieutenant or something. I don’t know. Didn’t get very far. And he’s a bit of a. He’s an idiot. He’s just a freaking idiot. Anyway, so the recent stuff is it comes out or somebody’s leaked it effectively because that’s what had to have happened. Washington Post this week put out a story that what happened is that boat.
Chris [00:12:40]:
A lot of people say that this can’t have been a drug boat because when you have a drug running boat.
Sam [00:12:46]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:12:47]:
You minimize the number of people on the boat and maximize the number of drugs.
Sam [00:12:51]:
Oh, okay. Yeah, true.
Chris [00:12:52]:
Because usually you have two people.
Sam [00:12:54]:
You’ll have other people at the other end.
Chris [00:12:56]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:12:56]:
To unload the drugs.
Chris [00:12:57]:
Yeah. You. You want to. If you’re going a drug run, you pack it as full of drugs as you can.
Sam [00:13:02]:
Yeah. Go for. Go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:13:04]:
You want to get as much in one run as you can. You don’t have 11 people on a boat.
Sam [00:13:09]:
And if you did, what are they doing? They’re not like they’re a chef.
Chris [00:13:12]:
No. So there’s probably human trafficking involved there.
Sam [00:13:15]:
Okay.
Chris [00:13:15]:
But that’s okay. You put them out of their misery. So that was good of you. Anyway, so apparently what happened is they blew the boat up.
Sam [00:13:22]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:13:23]:
And then the Reaper drone circling and it finds. Oh, there’s two people survived and they are clinging to the wreckage.
Sam [00:13:30]:
Yep.
Chris [00:13:31]:
You know, in the middle of the ocean there, you know, about to die. Anyway. Yeah. So the order was given to go in and kill them.
Sam [00:13:40]:
Finish it off.
Chris [00:13:40]:
Finish them off. Apparently the. So there’s a congressional hearing on it this week, and somebody. Or just the other day, and somebody was like, this is the most harrowing video I’ve ever seen.
Sam [00:13:52]:
All right.
Chris [00:13:53]:
And he’s trying to make it public because people should see what. What, you know, U.S. army is doing. But everybody’s like, this is either a war crime because in combat, if somebody surrenders or if the. What’s the word? Damage, so that they can’t continue that.
Sam [00:14:12]:
And there’s no further threat.
Chris [00:14:13]:
There’s no threat. Yeah, yeah. You are not allowed to kill them. So a lot of U boat commanders were executed in the trials after World War II.
Sam [00:14:24]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:14:24]:
Because the U boats would come up. There’s a few sailors hanging off the wreckage, and they get this. So the sailors on the boat to submachine gun them. And so we’ve. They’ve executed people for doing this in the past. Right. So that’s illegal. Or maybe it’s not illegal.
Chris [00:14:45]:
Maybe it’s not a war crime because they’re not at war with Venezuela. It’s just murder.
Sam [00:14:50]:
Oh, right, yeah. Okay. So all right. Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:14:54]:
You know, one or the other. So anyway, he’s called it Department of War. Everybody’s calling it Department of War Crimes now.
Sam [00:15:01]:
Excellent.
Chris [00:15:01]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:15:02]:
Anyway, I Look forward to nothing happening about it.
Chris [00:15:05]:
Yeah, exactly. With so many war criminals now, right now who’s a war criminal? And so is Putin.
Sam [00:15:12]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:15:13]:
And so is Hegseth. But oh, did you see he did this A press brief briefing. And when he realized this was all a problem, he was so subtly shift the blame he went. You know, I wasn’t there. I saw that first strike but Department of War is very busy and I can’t be hanging around all the time. So I got up and went off and did some. I had other work to do. So I didn’t hang around for the hour for wait for the smoke to clear or I didn’t know anything about the second strike.
Chris [00:15:46]:
That was his name, Admiral Byron or whatever his name is, Andrew Birdie or whatever it is. Byron I think you know, that he decided we needed to do. Which I back up by the way. I’m behind him all the way but. And he has full authority to make that decision which he made. But I back him up like oh yeah, throw him under the bus or under the boat as he’s an admiral.
Sam [00:16:12]:
But yeah, craziness.
Chris [00:16:14]:
Anyway. Okay, that’s my rent.
Sam [00:16:17]:
I saw this thing today. I don’t. I. And this explains something I saw a while ago. I didn’t realize computer RAM is really expensive now. And because someone was talking about some piece on PB Tech, like a piece of ram and they were like, oh yeah, all the prices are rising and people are putting stuff in their shopping basket from like a couple of weeks ago and it’s gone up quite a bit. So much so that Samsung Semiconductor has rejected internal orders from Samsung Electronics. So they’re not even going to give it to themselves, basically.
Chris [00:16:50]:
Holy crap.
Chris [00:16:54]:
What’s behind that?
Sam [00:16:56]:
Apparently the key demand drivers is the AI data centers.
Chris [00:17:02]:
Oh, right. So supply demand thing from the demand side. Right, Got you.
Sam [00:17:06]:
Yeah. So apparently Lenovo stockpiling memory at the moment, Raspberry PI has raised all its prices to like quite a lot compared to what it was. Yeah, it’s just a giant trend.
Chris [00:17:22]:
I’ve given you another hard drive for my new computer because I should have got two at the beginning. But I didn’t bother have a look.
Sam [00:17:28]:
At prices because it does seem to.
Chris [00:17:29]:
Be like, well yeah, the one in there is an ssd but that’ll be really expensive by the sounds of it. Whereas if I get a hard drive that’s a rotary one, it’s probably a lot cheaper maybe.
Sam [00:17:41]:
And you just for storage anyway.
Chris [00:17:43]:
Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:17:44]:
I don’t know. So I saw that consumers expected to see prices for Samsung phones and other mobile hardware. And.
Sam [00:17:53]:
Yeah, they said other finished electronics will probably go up, but not as much as the bare ram itself. Shop around, people.
Chris [00:18:01]:
Hmm. Okay. I came across this a wee while ago and I just cracked me up a little bit. It’s. It’s. We corruption, I think, is at an all time high throughout the world, but Turkey’s taking it very seriously. Okay, so they’ve. There was a popular Istanbul mayor who they’ve just done for corruption.
Chris [00:18:25]:
How long do you think they’ve sentenced him to?
Sam [00:18:31]:
Six months.
Chris [00:18:33]:
So 142 corruption offenses.
Sam [00:18:35]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:18:36]:
So you’re on the low side.
Sam [00:18:37]:
I know I’m going low.
Chris [00:18:39]:
Okay. The terms range from 828 to 2,352 years.
Sam [00:18:46]:
Hang on, what’s the low one? 800.
Chris [00:18:48]:
828 is at the low end.
Sam [00:18:49]:
Okay, good, good.
Chris [00:18:50]:
To 2,352. They’re thinking he’s going to get 2,000 years in jail.
Sam [00:18:56]:
Good, that’ll teach him. Imagine if they kept the body in a little cell.
Chris [00:19:02]:
Yeah, he’s in the stocks in the courtyard, they say.
Sam [00:19:06]:
Hang on.
Chris [00:19:08]:
Yeah, but the point is not so much that he’s corrupt. It’s more, I think that he was running campaign against Erdogan.
Sam [00:19:17]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:19:19]:
So in fact, that seems like corruption on the other side. But anyway, whatever. I mean, at least they’re taking it seriously.
Sam [00:19:25]:
Good.
Chris [00:19:27]:
And They’ve targeted another 401 people.
Chris [00:19:33]:
With these corruption charges.
Sam [00:19:36]:
Sounds legit to me.
Chris [00:19:39]:
Good.
Chris [00:19:41]:
Turkey, usa, Russia, they’re all the same.
Sam [00:19:44]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:19:47]:
I learned about a guy, I’ve just read the guy’s name, and I think this is great. This guy, he found a Rock in 2015. This is in Australia, just outside of Melbourne. And for some reason he thought that this rock contained a gold nugget. He’s a prospector. This is what he’s thinking. His name’s David Hull. So David Hull digs a hole, I guess finds the 17.
Chris [00:20:13]:
Finds a hole.
Sam [00:20:14]:
Yeah, finds a hole, digs up the 17 kilo rock. So it’s quite heavy. And he’s like, I think it’s got a gold nugget in it. Because of the weight of it and how his metal detector reacted.
Chris [00:20:27]:
Yeah. Okay, makes sense.
Sam [00:20:29]:
So over the years, he’s attempted to crack it open. Rock saw, angle grinder, drill, acid, sledgehammer. Nothing works. So I like to think.
Sam [00:20:43]:
I’m starting.
Chris [00:20:43]:
To think of a science fiction movie right now. Like maybe this does not. You do not want to open this thing.
Chris [00:20:52]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:20:52]:
So after three years of smashing at it. In 2018, he ends up taking it to Museums Victoria in Melbourne to get it id and they examine it and they said, oh, yep, looks like a sort of dimpled look. I’ve looked at a lot of rocks that people think are meteorites. And he goes, this is the only, only the second genuine one I’ve seen in 37 years.
Chris [00:21:23]:
Oh, wow.
Sam [00:21:24]:
If you saw a rock like this on earth and you picked it up, it should not be that heavy. So they managed to slice a bit off it and it’s now 15.9kg. They’ve gone through it. High iron content, highly meta, metaphorised chondrite. So obviously it was like melted as it came in and they gave it a year. 4.6 billion years old, this rock that this dude had.
Chris [00:21:53]:
So it’s worth way more than a nugget of gold, I would imagine.
Sam [00:21:57]:
Yeah, I don’t know, I wonder if you could sell it to people that collect this sort of stuff.
Chris [00:22:01]:
There’s got to be collectors.
Sam [00:22:02]:
But it has joined the museum’s Victoria collection, which holds over 400 meteorites. My prediction is in many years time that’s going to get switched out at some point with a fake one and they won’t realize.
Chris [00:22:16]:
Yeah, yeah. But the janitor Sam will.
Sam [00:22:22]:
Maybe you don’t know.
Chris [00:22:26]:
I cracked up when I saw this headline, but it says, man who took Hamilton bus on Joy Road did a great job driving. I no ding says police.
Sam [00:22:35]:
I read it too and I was like, it’s not our Hamilton.
Chris [00:22:38]:
No, it’s not our Hamilton. So it’s Hamilton in Canada, but it was a bus that was stolen. So some dude and I just. All I could think of was grand theft auto. This guy’s been playing too much Grand Theft Auto. He, the bus driver got off to maybe go to Lou, who knows? Whatever. This guy jumps on and he just starts driving the bus.
Sam [00:23:00]:
But it’s not even a normal bus.
Chris [00:23:01]:
It’S an accordion bus. It’s one of those double length buses, which is pretty impressive. Yeah, this is. Yeah, 11th of November, he stole this. But what cracks me up is that he started going down the road because he was just like. He’s not like there’s passengers on board. It’s not like he took it from a depot or something. There are passengers on board.
Chris [00:23:23]:
He stopped for passengers, he got more passengers. He rejected one passenger I think because he didn’t have the correct card or his card had expired.
Chris [00:23:34]:
This is a 36 year old man of no fixed address.
Sam [00:23:38]:
I wonder if he’s on Some sort of spectrum and he’s just. I want to be a bus driver.
Chris [00:23:41]:
Yeah. So he made. The man made several stops along the way, allowing passengers get on and off at bus stops at roughly any time. Ten passengers on the bus. At first, passengers didn’t realise the man wasn’t a bus driver, but when he started making some wrong turns, they. They started asking him questions and gave him directions to return to the scheduled route. He even went as far as to deny someone looking to board with an expired bus pass. That’s what I was thinking of.
Sam [00:24:10]:
What do you think the bus drivers wear over there? Is there a uniform? And this guy that has no fixed address, what does he look like?
Chris [00:24:18]:
Yeah, well, you, I, I think you’re right. I think they would. Would have had a uniform. I’m pretty sure they’d have a uniform.
Sam [00:24:24]:
But this guy that stolen it.
Chris [00:24:25]:
But then the uniforms aren’t that flat like. So I was on the trains again yesterday. We went up to Auckland and the uniforms for them is it’s just a blue and white shirt. Blue and white striped or checked shirt. And if you didn’t know, put it this way, if it wasn’t for the fact there were two train workers sitting next to each other wearing identical shirts, I wouldn’t have realized it was a uniform, you know, because I’m not on the trains often enough to see it. But yeah, I guess if you’re on the trains all the time, or on the bus in this case, all the time, you’d know what they expect them to think. But yeah, the, the officers worked with the Hamilton Street Railway. I guess that’s who runs the buses and accesses to the bus GPS and kept their sirens off and they didn’t want to spook it.
Sam [00:25:14]:
No, no, that’s the last thing you want to do.
Chris [00:25:16]:
You don’t want to. What’s the Keanu Reeves thing with the bus?
Sam [00:25:19]:
Speed. Speed.
Chris [00:25:20]:
You don’t want a speed scenario. So, yeah, yeah. He was taken into custody, was charged with theft over 5,000, possession. Over 5,000. Yeah.
Sam [00:25:33]:
We’re going to end this podcast with a Christmas story. Derbyshire police, they’ll be getting lots of phone calls about an abandoned dog by a roadside and they turned up to realize it was just a toy reindeer sitting there by itself.
Chris [00:25:46]:
When you say toy, do you mean an inanimate reindeer or a toy reindeer? Like a breed of reindeer that is small?
Sam [00:25:56]:
No, no, no, a fake reindeer.
Chris [00:25:59]:
Oh, okay. That’s definitely a fake reindeer. Yeah. You know what I mean though.
Sam [00:26:03]:
Yeah, sorry.
Chris [00:26:03]:
I know they’re called toydeer or something, I think. Yeah, yeah, okay. No, that’s sweet.
Sam [00:26:07]:
Yeah, so that happened. They said that they gave the reindeer some stern words about being seen in the middle of November because it happened then. And they then ended up leaving the fella to his break.
Sam [00:26:20]:
So it’s like. It makes me wonder if this was set up.
Chris [00:26:25]:
That’s a spec Stavers ad if ever.
Sam [00:26:27]:
I make it makes me wonder if it was set up just so they had some social media posts. I don’t know.
Chris [00:26:33]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, true, true. Anyway, yeah, so I hope everybody’s getting on towards a. A fabulous Christmas time with lots of parties coming up. We’ve got some travel in our schedules a little bit later on, so we’ll talk about.
Sam [00:26:51]:
Individually.
Chris [00:26:52]:
Yeah, individually. But for the Christmas holiday. So we will be off air for a bit in the future, but we’ll let you know about that next week. But yeah, stay safe out there. Going to all these Christmas parties and stuff.
Sam [00:27:06]:
Yes. So until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:27:08]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:27:08]:
See ya. Bye.
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