Summary
We chat about the fancy new Waikato Regional Theatre, take a look at stone skimming champs and a French tourist picking up rubbish across NZ, and dive into weird scam emails and even a company offering moon hotel bookings.
There’s also some questionable Kickstarter gadgets and a classic dose of randomness along the way. All this and heaps more in this week’s episode!
Links
BNZ Theatre
NZ Stone Skimming Champs
Adventurer Carrying Rubbish Across NZ
Moon Hotel
Kickstart or Dropkick – Ethylokey
Kickstart or Dropkick – Oversleeper
David Rush and the Balloon World Record
Creepylink Link Shortener
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 564 of the Chris & Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. This is your weekly folks of randomness, technology and life. And it’s the only podcast you actually need and want to listen to. Actually check us out on TikTok. We’re there. The Chris and Sam Podcast. I’ve been posting reels for the last couple of episodes and people seem to be liking it. I don’t know, but it is translating to more listens.
Sam [00:00:45]:
So I think our listenership is growing. If that’s a thing awesome. Or people are like, what did I just waste my time doing?
Chris [00:00:54]:
They’re on TikTok. They don’t think that way.
Sam [00:00:58]:
Probably not.
Chris [00:01:00]:
I wasn’t going to start with this, but it’s just popped into my head. So I, I caught up with dad today. So I give him a call twice a week.
Sam [00:01:06]:
Good.
Chris [00:01:07]:
And so it really.
Sam [00:01:08]:
Does he have any more IT issues?
Chris [00:01:10]:
No, but it really is a matter of. It’s like a discussion. Old men bitching, basically. Old men grumbling because I’m, you know, he’s older than me obviously, but I’m an old person now and I, we’re in the same, in the same thing. So he was talking about having to get his prescription. The guy, the girl behind the counter, not knowing anything, didn’t know how any of the system works, screwed her all up and all the rest of it. He’s like, why can’t they train these people? Why did they have to unleash them on. And he was self aware enough to go, because I’m going to spiral when all this stuff goes wrong.
Chris [00:01:46]:
And I don’t know what to do because he gets all wound up about it. And I was like, yeah, same thing happened to me the other night. I went out to the regional council, which was regional. Regional theater rather that we’ll talk about in a second, I said. But on the way there I said I was early. So I went, oh, stop at the bank and get a beer. Because I, I just didn’t know where to stop. I hadn’t gone for a beer in town for ages.
Chris [00:02:08]:
No, stop at the bank, get a Murphy’s. There’s this young guy, I’m gonna say anywhere between 20, 24, something like that young guy behind the bar. Like not baby faced young, but definitely young. Yeah, I would say he’s new because he kept looking around to get people to help him with either the till or something.
Sam [00:02:27]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:28]:
For a Murphy’s and he just poured this Murphy’s. Now if you’ve ever had a Murphy’s or a Guinness, it’s supposed to have a white head on it. It’s black and white head. You’re supposed to three quarter fill it, leave it, let it settle, then top it off.
Sam [00:02:43]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:44]:
That’s how you do a Guinness and Murphy’s. The same thing.
Sam [00:02:47]:
Nope.
Chris [00:02:48]:
Just poured it all the way up till it’s overflowing over the top of the glass. Plonks it in front of me. $13.50. Thanks. Tasted like absolute crap. No head. I was absolutely disgusted. I should have complained.
Chris [00:03:00]:
I didn’t. I sat there and drank it and left, vowing never to go back to The Bank again. And promising I would tell all our listeners, don’t go to the Bank Bar and Brasserie in Hamilton.
Sam [00:03:14]:
First world problems, but good getting the word out there to help our fellow listeners.
Chris [00:03:20]:
But yeah, that’s me being an old dude. But yeah. So we went to the regional theatre. You want to say a little bit about that?
Sam [00:03:26]:
Yeah. So got tickets to the BNZ Theatre is what they’re calling it. Most people are just calling it.
Chris [00:03:33]:
I still think it should be the BNZ Waikato Regional Theatre.
Sam [00:03:36]:
Yes. I think whoever. Yep, they’ve stuffed up there. Most people are just calling it the Waikato Regional Theatre. It’s a brand new theater to replace Founders Theatre in Hamilton. Cause way back in the day, over 10 years now, I think it was Mary Poppins is the thing that set it off. Mary Poppins was going to play the international version of it was gonna play at Founders. And they came in and said, oh, the fly rig or whatever you call it in the roof.
Sam [00:04:03]:
No, no, that’s gonna collapse and probably kill someone. And then they shut that theater down. Some people tried to save it for a long, long, long time. They came up with a plan. The guy, the head, the chair guy of the whole thing. When he was talking, he had a good point. A lot of people think it’s council run. It’s not.
Chris [00:04:22]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:22]:
It just happens to be in Hamilton. They help out with a bit of maintenance I think, going forward. Yeah, but it was a lot of private funders. Yeah, most of them. I think it was.
Chris [00:04:31]:
I was surprised at the price. 80 million is what they reckon they spent on that. And I mentioned that to dad when we were having our grumble session earlier. He goes, that’s ridiculous. I’m like, yeah. But he goes, did they over spec it? I was like, no, they didn’t do. I mean, it’s nice and stuff, but they haven’t spent a ridiculous amount on the internals. And I remember going to Michael Fowler center when that was new, I guess.
Chris [00:04:55]:
When was that? That was the late 80s.
Sam [00:04:58]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:58]:
I think when that came out and I was like, dude, dad, you know the Michael Fowler center, if that was built today, there’d be well over 100 million.
Sam [00:05:05]:
Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:05:06]:
You know, because it’s much more architectural. Whereas people have already complained that this one’s a box from the outside. But I mean, who cares about what it looks like from the outside?
Sam [00:05:16]:
Exactly. As long as it doesn’t leak.
Chris [00:05:18]:
Yeah, as long as it doesn’t leak.
Sam [00:05:19]:
I’m sure it won’t.
Chris [00:05:20]:
But I do want to say we go in from the ground floor. This is what got my head. Did my head in. We go in from the ground floor. We didn’t take the stairs, we took the lift. Because I’m a cripple.
Sam [00:05:32]:
Hang on. Did you see the lift guy when we came out?
Chris [00:05:35]:
No.
Sam [00:05:36]:
The lift engineer guy was there and his overalls just walking around, just staring at the lifts.
Chris [00:05:40]:
Oh, no, I didn’t.
Sam [00:05:41]:
So I don’t know if he was just making sure it was going okay or what he was up to.
Chris [00:05:45]:
Anyway, so we get in, we go up one floor. Only one floor.
Sam [00:05:49]:
That’s right.
Chris [00:05:49]:
And we go through to the, you know, the door, like, which is like a gate in the. A theater, sorry, arena or something. It’s fine. And we go in and immediately I’m going, okay, where’s the seats? Where’s the seats? We’re on row F. So I’m looking down, looking at. Oh, row F. There we go. And I’m looking at the seats and we’re walking around this.
Chris [00:06:07]:
Because we’re in the balcony. Walking around. Oh, seat 28 or whatever I was in. Pop the seat down, turn around, sit down and go. Because suddenly we’re like four or five stories above the stage. Yeah, because ground level is lower. Balcony level, I guess.
Sam [00:06:27]:
Must be. Yeah.
Chris [00:06:28]:
And. And then the stall level or floor level is a floor below that. So it really was. It was almost a vertigo moment. Like, because I hadn’t even looked down to the right and there.
Sam [00:06:42]:
People reacting too.
Chris [00:06:42]:
Yeah, yeah. We weren’t there. I wasn’t the only one. It was like, whoa. And you just almost feel dizzy because you do feel like you’re looking off the edge of a four story building. But it was good once, once it got going, it was, it was pretty cool.
Sam [00:06:56]:
So we Got tickets because my partner Sarah was performing an orchestra. Jeremy Mayall, who’s a big name in creativity and music and things like that in the Waikato region and no doubt New Zealand. He’s the head of Creative Waikato, and he put together the show and he basically put it out to every creative type community organization who wanted to take part. So dancers, singers, actors, whatever, and they all pulled them together and they made this show. And it was only for three nights. And the first night was for all the meal people and all the fancy people. Second night was for all the people that helped build the theater. And then the third night was for friends and family.
Sam [00:07:35]:
That’s where we come in. And they did very well at putting it together because I don’t know how else you would do it.
Chris [00:07:41]:
Yeah. So there’s two. There was two things that he’s trying to do. One is to showcase all the t. Various talent.
Sam [00:07:48]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:07:49]:
In the. The Waikato. And the other thing is to show off all the different things that this theater. Theater can do. So the light shows, they had the fly thing as well. Somebody shot off into the sky when he died. Yeah. And stuff like that.
Chris [00:08:05]:
So it really was really, really well done. It really did show how versatile it could be and how all of that worked. And I mean, I’ve never before heard a Waiata a Mori song with bagpipes in the. In the back of it.
Sam [00:08:21]:
No, they just made an appearance, so it was good. Got a shoehorn them in somewhere.
Chris [00:08:28]:
Bagpipes made it a couple of times, actually.
Sam [00:08:31]:
They did, they did.
Chris [00:08:32]:
It was good. It’s very, very good.
Sam [00:08:34]:
So one thing they didn’t tell us, but Sarah told me the roof can come down. The whole roof of the theater can come down. I think it’s that wooden thing that was around the edge. If they have a full blown orchestra on the stage, they can change the acoustics to match it. Oh. She said apparently the whole roof can come down or I don’t know if it’s the whole roof or that wooden structure.
Chris [00:08:54]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:08:54]:
But she said, yeah, that’s a big feature of that theater because when orchestras play, like, properly, they want to make sure the sound’s good. Wow. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:09:05]:
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. So it’d be like an inside cap thing that can. Oh, yeah. Okay. That’s cool. That’s really good. So, yeah, anyway, great, great new thing in the. In the Waikato.
Sam [00:09:17]:
Yeah. Lots of people and. Yeah. Good time. I’m just excited. I’m excited.
Chris [00:09:22]:
Hey.
Sam [00:09:23]:
Episode 549 we mentioned the world champ cheating scandal with the skimming. Oh, yes, people that were skimming. Well, the New Zealand champs are coming, so I don’t know if you’ve seen this. They’re gonna host the first national stone skimming championships. We could be the podcast for this.
Chris [00:09:38]:
So hang on, just remind me, it was. He used metal instead of stone, Eh? Was that what the scandal was?
Sam [00:09:45]:
That’s what I thought in my head and I went back and I looked at the article from back then. So this is in Scotland, World Championships and people were turning up with pre shaped skimming stones. But I think there was another one that had metal.
Chris [00:10:04]:
Yeah, okay.
Sam [00:10:05]:
But anyway, people were doing stuff that’s a bit weird. So this is going to happen down I Wanaka Lake, Hawiwa station. The tourism manager down there, Richie Lamming, seems to be the guy behind it. They reckon they’re going to have about 150 entrants and 100 spectators are expected. It’s going to benefit Malanoma, New Zealand. All proceeds from the entries and activities is going to go there, pending sponsorships, apparently. And there’s a dedicated task force skim crew that’s going to ensure fairness and stone selection. So they’re basically going to have a bunch of stones in one area and go.
Sam [00:10:43]:
This is where you have to pick from.
Chris [00:10:44]:
Yeah, cool. So who do we know down that way? Jez is a wee way away from him.
Sam [00:10:49]:
He’s the closest. Go do it.
Chris [00:10:51]:
Yeah, go do it. And you can be our roving correspondent.
Sam [00:10:54]:
If someone wants to fund us to go. I’d be good. So apparently the sport has had a recent burst of global interest. That stone tampering scandal had over 100,000 views on YouTube and obviously they want to have it, you know, legit as it’s happening in May because it’s a low wind conditions, apparently down there. Tickets have been on sale for two weeks and more than half are already sold. I don’t know how much the tickets are, sorry. So you better get onto that. Just do a quick Google.
Sam [00:11:21]:
We’ll have a link as well on tcasp.com the dude, this guy Richie learned about the Scottish one and it sounds like he’s spoken to the Scottish one and they’re going to allow the championship of this to enter that. Ooh, I guess you’ve got to pay your own way there.
Chris [00:11:42]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:11:44]:
So anyway, that’s happening, I think. The manu champs. Oh, no, not manu champs, the manu heats, regional heats are happening this weekend, are they? Apparently.
Chris [00:11:54]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:11:55]:
So if you want to go along, they’ve got two sessions.
Chris [00:11:57]:
Wait, where are they?
Sam [00:11:58]:
Waterworld. They’ve got two sessions where you can just join in for free and just have a go. It’s pretty. I don’t know, it’s pretty big.
Chris [00:12:04]:
So doing it off the dive boards. Yeah, dive boards are scary.
Sam [00:12:08]:
Oh, I don’t think it’s a really, really high one.
Chris [00:12:10]:
I know, but yeah. Okay, cool.
Sam [00:12:12]:
Oh, have you got a phobia of any dive?
Chris [00:12:14]:
Oh, nah, yeah, not. I’m not real keen on it. Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:12:22]:
A French tourist talking about people doing crazy stuff. He’s decided to walk the length of New Zealand and he’s going to pick up all the rubbish he finds. Then he is going to then go across on his hydro speed board. So it’s got one of those boards with just, you know, bouncing down. Anyway, he’s going to try and go across the cook straight on that, but with his sack of rubbish.
Chris [00:12:48]:
Okay.
Sam [00:12:49]:
Even if it becomes 200 kilos, he’s going to keep it. Now that’s great idea and it’s great for publicity. I think he is underestimating how much actual rubbish there is and I get the feeling, I get the feeling he’s going to pick and choose.
Chris [00:13:05]:
Yeah, I’m not taking that.
Sam [00:13:09]:
Oh, he’s also. But he is avoiding popular tourist routes and he’s going through remote coastal and rural areas to minimize the amount. He doesn’t say that’s what it is. We’re reading between the lines.
Chris [00:13:21]:
We know. Hey, I. I got a really good. What do you call it? Invitation the other day. Okay, I’ve got this email. I’m going to read the email out because I. I thought this was. I’m so lucky.
Chris [00:13:34]:
So. Illuminati Initiation Center Greetings. Join the Illuminati today, no matter where you are in the world.
Sam [00:13:46]:
Good.
Chris [00:13:47]:
Whether you’re a business person employed in an organization, self employed, married or unmarried, this is an opportunity for anyone who desires wealth, success, recognition and the fulfilment of life’s goals. If you are looking to excel in your business and achieve your dreams without stress, this invitation is for you. The Illuminati is widely known across the world and has made significant impact in the lives of thousands of individuals. A large percentage of prosperous and successful global companies are supported by the great Illuminati. Influential leaders who shape the world are well known members of this organization. With the United States having one of the largest pop culture highest populations of members, you can become greater and better. Our first payment to newly Initiated members is just $148,656,000.
Sam [00:14:45]:
Hang on, you say $56, that makes all the difference.
Chris [00:14:50]:
I’ll say that again. $148,656,000.
Sam [00:14:56]:
Who are they targeting with this?
Chris [00:14:58]:
I don’t know. I guess new potential members that would like an extra 148 mil, you know. So this is the initial benefit granted upon initiator. What? Please note, there are no human sacrifices or blood rituals. That’s in bold, because that’s the problem. Everybody’s like, oh, I want the 150 million. I want. Oh, shit, do I have to sacrifice somebody?
Sam [00:15:28]:
I’m not into those blood rituals.
Chris [00:15:31]:
The Illuminati is an organization founded on peace, unity and love. If you’re interested in becoming a member, please contact us via email. Email illuminatiinitiationcenter666mail.com we look forward to hearing from you. And then I looked at it. I went, where does this sent from? It wasn’t sent from Illuminati initiator sent to 666mail. It was sent PK pp mccartermail.com.
Sam [00:16:02]:
Nah, too dodgy. Too dodgy for me talking about.
Chris [00:16:05]:
But I could be missing out on $148 million initiation.
Sam [00:16:10]:
You could be.
Chris [00:16:11]:
It’s so. It’s so weird because it’s well written, which probably is just AI, but, you know, but. And so stupid at the same time. Like, you know, it’s so I’m out of whack. I thought it was worth reading out here.
Sam [00:16:28]:
Would you have. Would the scammers have better luck if they just wrote something that sort of sounded normal and said, hey, we’ll give you 50 bucks.
Chris [00:16:36]:
Yeah, if they had 50 bucks in there, I think they’d get a way more bites. You know, chance to win five grand is.
Sam [00:16:45]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:16:46]:
Believable, you know.
Sam [00:16:48]:
But anyway, if you want to mess with scammers or anybody in your life. I found a tool online called CreepyLink.com. It’s a link shortening service. So you put in the website link that you want and this shortens it, but it shortens it down to a weird name. It looks like a file. It could be dodgy. You have no idea. So it’ll be like, well, let’s do one.
Sam [00:17:09]:
I’ll do the Christ and Sam Podcast. I don’t even know how I found this. Some guy made it. So let’s do that. And I’ll tell you what it gives me. It just does a random link. Yeah. So now it’s gone to update HF25U link.
Sam [00:17:25]:
Sometimes it’s a exe file, so that’s cool.
Chris [00:17:28]:
Oh my gosh.
Sam [00:17:30]:
And you could just complain, like if no one clicks on it, you’re like, I can send you the link. Why don’t you open it? Podcast favorite. Because I keep talking about him. For some reason. David Rush is at it again. He’s the dude that does the Guinness World Records and he can’t seem to give up. He has the most concurrent Guinness World Records ever. And it’s a slippery slope that he cannot give up.
Sam [00:17:51]:
He may be addicted to it. That’s my words, not his. He’s the guy in episode 548 of our podcast. He bounced the most table tennis balls against the wall with his mouth in 30 seconds. Then he wore the most T shirts while doing a half marathon in episode 560 for 1373. And now he’s done this one. And I swear they’re getting dumber and dumber.
Chris [00:18:14]:
I thought the T shirt was pretty dumb.
Sam [00:18:17]:
And I’ve seen him talking about this. So he’s on a video. He’s got his own channel, I’ve learned.
Chris [00:18:22]:
I figured you were subscribed at this stage.
Sam [00:18:25]:
No, I might too. Just to keep track of this guy, might have a little segment for him. The Rush segment. No, he’s talking and he said when you’re doing a group one, so you bring in other people and you’re trying to get a world record, it’s very tough because he has to rely on these other people. So at a tech industry event, he got 12 person team to keep 25 balloons in the air for one minute.
Chris [00:18:52]:
Is that it?
Sam [00:18:53]:
Yeah, that’s the record. So all these people are just going like, pushing. Yeah, pushing. But when they start, I think someone drops one straight away, they’re like, no. Yeah, that was almost. That one almost seems doable.
Chris [00:19:09]:
That does seem very doable. That seems like the Kristen Sam podcast should organize to beat that.
Sam [00:19:16]:
So I don’t know.
Chris [00:19:16]:
Lame ass record.
Sam [00:19:17]:
So I don’t know if it’s the amount of people or the amount of.
Chris [00:19:21]:
Balloons or the ratio between them.
Sam [00:19:23]:
Yes. But yeah, so anyway, he did that.
Chris [00:19:28]:
I watched a couple of talks on Davos. So you don’t have to. I watched Mark Carney. So Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada.
Sam [00:19:42]:
What’s Davos?
Chris [00:19:43]:
Oh, so Davos is a.
Sam [00:19:45]:
It sounds like. Sounds like something from Game of Thrones.
Chris [00:19:47]:
Davos is a. A village in Switzerland.
Sam [00:19:50]:
Okay, good.
Chris [00:19:51]:
And it is the host of the World Economic Forum. And all the billionaires go there once a year to talk about how they want to dice up the world and all that sort of.
Sam [00:20:03]:
And deal with Illuminati meets them.
Chris [00:20:04]:
There really is that Illuminati thing again. But. So Matt Carney was there, who’s the Prime Minister of Canada. He did 15 minutes speech and got a standing ovation after it, which is not what they do there usually.
Sam [00:20:21]:
Were you impressed with the speech?
Chris [00:20:22]:
It was actually. It was pretty, pretty interesting. It was very well put together, really hard hitting. Apparently he wrote it himself like it wasn’t a staff written speech. And it was very useful. Useful from our point of view, from New Zealanders point of view. Because he’s saying, you know, we’ve got these superpowers, but the middle countries and I guess we’re a smaller country, but. Yeah, yeah, the middle countries.
Chris [00:20:47]:
We either. If we try and be supplicants, all we’re doing is subjugation. We need to band together.
Sam [00:20:53]:
Okay, yeah.
Chris [00:20:54]:
And, and do things ourselves. Which is why they’ve got new trading agreements with China and new trade agreements with EU and all that sort of stuff. So it was really good. It was a great speech. And then they sat down and they interview him, ask him questions about the speech for 15 minutes, which is sort of what they do. They have the guy up, speaks 15 minutes, sits down, interview for 15 minutes mostly around what he meant in the talk. And then they move on. Then Trump.
Sam [00:21:22]:
Oh, was he there?
Chris [00:21:23]:
I watched Trump. So the only president from the United States ever, ever has been Trump. And this is his third visit good as president.
Sam [00:21:32]:
Well, he’s full of information.
Chris [00:21:34]:
Well, because billionaires are the people that he cares does. It’s the only ones. But his. How long was his talk following the same format?
Sam [00:21:46]:
I don’t know, 30 minutes, 75 minutes.
Chris [00:21:50]:
So based on the extra hour just on there, do you think that’d be.
Sam [00:21:54]:
Entertaining to watch if you’re in person?
Chris [00:21:56]:
I watched it.
Sam [00:21:57]:
No, like just crazy. I assume it’s crazy.
Chris [00:21:59]:
I got halfway through and I was like, I’ve got a one and a half speed. This shit. It was so, so mental, so waffly. He talked about Joe Biden, he talked about windmills and how China doesn’t even use windmills. They’re wind turbines for starters. But I’m using his words. China doesn’t use windmills. He just.
Chris [00:22:21]:
They sells them to stupid people. All the stupid people buy the stupid windmills and it’s just a big rip. And then he goes off on that tangent there. He goes off he was all over the place. And then he went on about Greenland for quite a bit.
Sam [00:22:36]:
Good.
Chris [00:22:36]:
I wasn’t going to talk about Greenland, but I realized if I don’t talk about it, everybody get upset about it. So here we go.
Sam [00:22:41]:
This is about who’s getting upset about him not talking about it.
Chris [00:22:44]:
Well, you know, the point was apparently he said, I’m not, I’m. I’m not going to, you know, take Greenland by force.
Sam [00:22:54]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:22:54]:
So that calmed the markets down. I don’t know why that calms anyone down. Because the guy is demented as all. Everything All. Yeah. And then he did the 15 minute interview afterwards. But so I watched it. So you don’t.
Chris [00:23:08]:
But honestly, that guy is just nuts.
Sam [00:23:12]:
Excellent. Do you want to kickstart and drop kick? Yeah, go or drop kick. Good. I got two. One of them is called the ethylo key. I think that’s how you say it. Ethylo key. It’s the world’s first touch based alcohol detector.
Chris [00:23:29]:
Ethyl okey. Ethyl.
Sam [00:23:31]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:23:32]:
Ethyl alcohol.
Sam [00:23:33]:
Yeah. Okay, There we go. Ethyl okey. Yeah, yeah, good. You just touch it to check it. It’s just a round little device. Almost looks like a little key ring.
Chris [00:23:45]:
Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:23:46]:
And it changes color. And when it changes color. There it is. When it changes color, you know if you can drink or not or you have to think about what your plans are. I don’t know how legit this tech is.
Chris [00:23:56]:
So you know if you can drive or not.
Sam [00:23:58]:
Well, they’ve got sort of like somewhere on here it says what the limits are.
Chris [00:24:03]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:24:03]:
So it says green. Yeah. Green, you’re under 0.2 grams per liter. Orange, proceed with caution. Red, do not drive. And if you go aqua color, it’s invalid.
Chris [00:24:16]:
You’re probably on the floor. So hang on, there’s so many questions. Are we talking to you lick your finger and put it on or you just put your thumb on and it’s just like you just touch it, finger.
Sam [00:24:29]:
On it and it takes a couple of seconds.
Chris [00:24:31]:
How does it work?
Sam [00:24:32]:
Magic. I don’t know. There’s some YouTube clips that I have not watched. I’ve got no time for that. But they seem to think that this technology works. I don’t know, it seems a bit gimmicky to me. Yeah, definitely comes with a little app that can track things. Of course.
Sam [00:24:51]:
You get over 100 tests on a single charge and then you wireless charge it.
Chris [00:24:57]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:24:58]:
Yeah. And you just carry it around with you. Now, how much does this thing cost? Let’s Have a look. We are talking. Oh, New Zealand dollars. Here we go. How much do you think for this little gizmo?
Chris [00:25:11]:
I mean, I could see myself spending. Not that I’m in that sort of. I’m not in the market, but if I was in the market, I see myself easily spending 25 bucks. I’m imagining it’s gonna cost way more than that. So I’m going to say 100 bucks.
Sam [00:25:24]:
$258 for early. Hang on. Special early bird deal.
Chris [00:25:30]:
For one?
Sam [00:25:31]:
Yeah, of course it’s for one.
Chris [00:25:32]:
Oh, my God.
Sam [00:25:33]:
But do you want to buy more? You can get five for 500 bucks. You get two for $1200 and get five. Anyway.
Chris [00:25:41]:
What would be the purchase reason for getting five? Oh, I have some stuff and they’re all alcoholics and I don’t want the. I don’t get it.
Sam [00:25:50]:
At the time of recording, there’s 16 days to go. It’s being made in France, if that’s important to you. They wanted to raise about 20,000 New Zealand dollars. What are they at? $7,245,000.
Chris [00:26:05]:
Who’s buying this?
Sam [00:26:07]:
I don’t know. There’s a market for it, but there must be.
Chris [00:26:09]:
Yeah. Which is because it’s the whole point of Kickstarter and Dropkick is, is there a market for it? And they’ve found a market.
Sam [00:26:17]:
I know. Now I’ve got this alarm clock called Oversleeper. You’ll never snooze again.
Chris [00:26:24]:
Right, so the electrodes in the bed.
Sam [00:26:27]:
No, it’s just like an alarm clock. And it’s this dude. It’s this young guy who may or may not be a serial killer.
Chris [00:26:35]:
I’m not sure, but based on his photo or.
Sam [00:26:38]:
Yeah, him talking, it’s the worst.
Chris [00:26:40]:
It’s.
Sam [00:26:42]:
What? I’ll just throw it out. Hang on, I’ll show you a little clip of the dude. His whole video is this. And again and again. You know the problem traditionally, Is he.
Chris [00:26:52]:
French or something as well? You go to a French?
Sam [00:26:56]:
No, he’s. He’s German. Okay, I’ll let you know. He’s in Germany. Anyway, he’s made a prototype and he’s got this little alarm clock and it’s not explained 100%. Hey, he does explain it well. It’s just I switched off, but he basically was so boring.
Chris [00:27:12]:
I switched off. But then I thought, I’ll share it on the podcast.
Sam [00:27:17]:
We’re all about inclusivity. So the alarm clock goes off, but to switch it off, you have to use an NFT chip. Now I think the NFT chip is in the alarm clock and you have to take that to your bathroom or somewhere else. It’s from what I understand, because I was reading the FAQs and I think they were like, do I need NFT on the phone? He goes, no, it’s built into the clock.
Chris [00:27:43]:
So it might have a base unit that you screw into another room and you gotta go there to.
Sam [00:27:47]:
No, not even that. I think you tap it against the NFT chip or. I really don’t know. Okay. He hasn’t even built one. It’s 24 days to go. How much do you reckon, one of.
Chris [00:27:59]:
These, how much is it worth each one?
Sam [00:28:01]:
It’s about a hundred. 100 New Zealand dollars is what he’s thinking for this alarm clock.
Chris [00:28:07]:
Because I was going to say this is way more useful than the other one. Like, I can see it. A lot of people going, yeah, no, I need that. Yeah, yeah, 100 bucks. I’m not so sure, but mind you, 100 bucks New Zealand, that’s not that much in Germany, probably. So.
Sam [00:28:24]:
He wants $10,000 to get this.
Chris [00:28:26]:
Project he’s blown past. Or how long has it been going?
Sam [00:28:29]:
He’s got 24 days to go, so.
Chris [00:28:31]:
So 20 days in, did you say?
Sam [00:28:33]:
Don’t know.
Chris [00:28:34]:
Something like that.
Sam [00:28:34]:
Something like that, whatever.
Chris [00:28:35]:
Oh, yeah. So, yeah, no, he’s blown past that. He would be. He’d be over the hundred thousand.
Sam [00:28:40]:
So he wants $10,000 and he’s made $598.
Chris [00:28:45]:
Oh, geez. Okay, I’m bad at this.
Sam [00:28:48]:
He’ll only ship it to European Union.
Chris [00:28:52]:
Okay, he’s bad at this too. He is, yeah.
Sam [00:29:00]:
That brings us to the end of the podcast already. See how much fun and excitement we had? Kickstarters that no one wants to bat.
Chris [00:29:06]:
I want to end on this because this is your opportunity. If you’re not biting on the opportunity for the Illuminati, this one’s a real opportunity.
Sam [00:29:16]:
Are you just reading spam emails?
Chris [00:29:19]:
This is a website, I’ll have you know. It might be a spam website, but anyway, this is from a Californian startup and it’s. You can now reserve your vacation on the moon.
Sam [00:29:33]:
Couldn’t you buy pieces of the moon anyway?
Chris [00:29:35]:
No, no, this is to spend a night in the moon Hotel. The hotel on the moon.
Sam [00:29:40]:
I’m shaking my head yes. How much does this cost?
Chris [00:29:43]:
It’s such a disgusted look. While space colonization is still widely considered a science fiction pipe dream, one California company is getting ahead of the game in the hopes of being the first to make a profit. Galactic Resource Utilization Space. No, it’s their name, also known as GRU Space is a tech startup that hopes to build habitable dwellings on the surface of the moon. Their multi phase plan includes testing inflatable structures in 2031 and eventually making hotels by 2032. Because it only takes a year to blow them up.
Sam [00:30:17]:
I don’t know, this is a long con.
Chris [00:30:19]:
Anyway, according to to their plan, these hotels will be built on earth and delivered by heavy lander. Would be suitable to house up to four people for multi day stays. Designed to operate for 10 years, the hotel offers views of the lunar landscape. Blah blah, blah, blah blah. But the key point was you can now reserve a hotel. Stay on the moon in the first batch and it’ll cost you only $1 million.
Sam [00:30:44]:
Bargain.
Chris [00:30:44]:
Deposit.
Sam [00:30:45]:
Yeah, deposit. Good. Good. No, that’s crazy. Good on them for getting in the news. Scamming some people.
Chris [00:30:52]:
Oh yeah. You know the best way to scam people is to go, but it’s real. Cause that’s how Trump does it. It’s real. And then.
Sam [00:31:02]:
You know what is real, Chris? The back catalog. @tcast.com we’ve been doing this a long time. You want to go listen to something and bring some joy to your life, that’s where you go. You can find us on all the best podcasting apps and probably some terrible ones too. If you just Google us or go to tcast.com you’ll find us everywhere.
Chris [00:31:19]:
Yeah, and if, if you’re in one of those apps like Apple or Spotify and you can leave a review, do please do that. We don’t look at them, but we really would appreciate it if you did that. The reason we don’t look at them is I don’t have Apple, I don’t have Spotify, so I wouldn’t be able to see it.
Sam [00:31:35]:
He’s too old. Anyway. Till next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:31:38]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:31:39]:
See ya.
Chris [00:31:40]:
Bye.
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