Summary
Chris gets a cane and shares his hospital saga, Sam catches a “disease” at IKEA, and the hosts discuss Homegrown, butter-churning while running, Girl Scouts at dispensaries, and brain cells playing Doom.
Links
Homegrown
Pokemon Trap
Tough Cops in US
Entrepreneurial Girl Scouts
Running for Butter
Brain Computing
Mechanical Rhino for Sale
Half Marathon Chaos
Man Dies in the Exact Same Spot as Wife
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 571 of the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:27]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to Weekly Fix of Randoms, Technology, and Life. I am feeling under the weather, so I feel flat, sound flat, and hopefully— and grumpy.
Chris [00:00:37]:
You sound grumpy.
Sam [00:00:38]:
No, no.
Chris [00:00:40]:
Do you want to see grumpy? I’ve got it. This is a visual gag for an audio podcast because it’s always good. Young whippersnapper. So this is my cane. I am now using a cane after my hospital visit this week, so I can, I can shake my, my cane and go, young whippersnapper, at the young people I see in the street.
Sam [00:01:04]:
It’s not even, yeah, it’s not even a cool looking cane. It’s like an orthopedic version of a cane.
Chris [00:01:10]:
I got it from the chemist warehouse. What do you expect?
Sam [00:01:13]:
Is it helping?
Chris [00:01:15]:
Um, yeah, yeah, it does help. It takes a little bit of getting used to, um, to use it, but yeah, yeah, it’s not as easy as crutches. Crutches is easy.
Sam [00:01:25]:
Ah, I would have never thought of a cane, to be honest, with you hobbling around. Didn’t even think about it.
Chris [00:01:29]:
I’ll tell you the story. I’ll tell you the story. So I go into the, I go into the, the, the orthopedic, um, what is it? Orthopedic osteoorthopedic, uh, assessment. That’s basically what it is. Physiotherapy assessment. And so I go in there, I’m going in the second day because the first day, just as I was about to leave, they said, oh, somebody’s sick. Don’t come in. And then they rang a little bit later and said, we’ve organized something for tomorrow.
Chris [00:01:56]:
We’ve got covered for tomorrow. So that’s okay. Cause it’s supposed to be Monday morning. It was Tuesday. Tuesday morning. So I go in, I get in there and I find the waiting area and then he comes over with a thing and says, fill out these forms, I’ll be back to grab you in a bit. And there’s these questionnaires. So I’m filling them out and he comes back pretty quick actually.
Chris [00:02:15]:
And he goes, actually, you don’t need to see me. You can just go.
Sam [00:02:18]:
And I’m like, hmm, you can go where? Just like leave. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:02:24]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:02:25]:
What, not to be seen?
Chris [00:02:27]:
Not to be seen. I’m like, so what, what, what’s happening? Why? And he goes, oh no, cause, um, when I went back to the doctors, uh, a couple of weeks ago, 3 months after I’d been there the first time and got referred. And I said, yeah, nobody’s got in touch with me from the hospital. So they sent the referral again. He said, when they sent the referral again, some surgeon looked at it for some reason and said, oh no, this needs to go to surgery now. So he said, oh, so you jumped into it. Yeah. He says, you’re seeing me to do that.
Chris [00:02:58]:
I’ve already, they’ve already done it. I just looked at your file and they’ve already done it.
Sam [00:03:02]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:03:03]:
That’s cool. But I still want to talk to you because I don’t know what’s going on. Nobody’s told me shit.
Sam [00:03:11]:
Yeah, fair enough.
Chris [00:03:12]:
He was really good. So he took, we went into the room and he, he showed me the X-ray, which was cool. Nobody showed me that.
Sam [00:03:18]:
No.
Chris [00:03:18]:
He explained what osteoarthritis of the hip is, cuz I had no freaking clue.
Sam [00:03:23]:
Yeah, why would you? Yeah.
Chris [00:03:25]:
Yeah. So basically you’ve got a, a hip joint, which is like a fist inside a, or a ball inside a socket, right?
Sam [00:03:33]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:33]:
And he says, what’s happening is normally bones grow on the inside and then go out like, like how your skin grows. Your skin grows on the inside and then the dead cells break off at the outside type of thing. But with osteoarthritis, what’s happening is it’s growing on the outside and it’s making it bigger. So my, um, my ball is bigger than my socket and it’s pushing my hip right out.
Sam [00:03:55]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:03:56]:
And he showed me the X-ray and it’s like, he goes, see how that’s not even in the socket anymore? That’s why you’re having trouble walking. Do you feel unstable? I’m like, yes. He goes, that’s why you’re unstable. He says, that needs surgery. I’m like, ah. Bollocks. And then he says to me, oh, so I said, well, I’ve been doing some exercise. He says, what have you been doing? I said, I’ve been doing this Asian squat thing.
Chris [00:04:22]:
He goes, okay, show me. And I did it. He’s Asian, by the way. And I did it. And then he goes, why are you doing that? And I’m like, I don’t know. I looked it up on the internet. Nobody’s told me anything. What the hell do you expect of me?
Sam [00:04:35]:
Perfect.
Chris [00:04:38]:
So then I showed him a couple of exercises. He goes, right. So first of all, you shouldn’t be walking. Said, don’t walk.
Sam [00:04:45]:
He goes, don’t do anything.
Chris [00:04:47]:
Don’t walk. He says, if you want to exercise, you can do, uh, what do you say, says you can cycle or you can, um, do aqua, aqua jogging, that sort of stuff. He said, that’ll be good, but walking’s actually just going to aggravate it. You won’t build up strength by walking, you just make it worse. Which is so amusing because when I first got this problem with ACC and I went to the physio, they said, Whatever you do, don’t cycle. Just do lots of walking. Like, brilliant. MF is pretty much what I said under my breath.
Chris [00:05:19]:
I didn’t say that to him. So then he says, oh, so what you should do, because you’re doing a bit of walking, like, so I’m like, I haven’t got a car, so I walk to the bus and walk wherever. He goes, right, get a cane. And I’m like, okay, I’m going to ask you a couple of stupid questions now. First is, where do you buy a cane? Like, because I’ve never bought a cane. You do not have a cane shop.
Sam [00:05:38]:
Yeah, you don’t have a cane shop. You don’t have a cane guy. What’s wrong with you?
Chris [00:05:42]:
So he’s like, chemist warehouse down the road. Right. Sweet. Cool. That’s good. Second question. How do you use a freaking cane? Like, I’m sure I can grab a cane. I can lean on it, but I don’t know how I’m using it.
Chris [00:05:53]:
And he goes, nope, that’s a good question. You set the handle height so it’s at your hip height.
Sam [00:05:59]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:06:00]:
So yeah, cause it’s got one of those, you know, Adjustable, adjustable height. And then, um, and then you use it the opposite side of your bad leg. So you, it’s like you’re on crutches, but it’s your bad leg and your cane going forward at the same time.
Sam [00:06:18]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:06:18]:
And then your good leg and yeah. So yeah, so that’s, that’s, uh, my exciting trip to the hospital this week.
Sam [00:06:26]:
You’re lucky you work from home, eh?
Chris [00:06:29]:
I’m so lucky. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:31]:
Yeah. That’s good. I think I got my cold flu allergy. Depends who you are. Depends who’s asking me what’s wrong with me. Cause I was at work all week. We went to Auckland last weekend and part of that I went to IKEA. So I think, I think I caught a disease there.
Chris [00:06:48]:
Um, did you have a hot dog? Is it a hot dog? Meatball?
Sam [00:06:51]:
Meatball? No, both.
Chris [00:06:52]:
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:53]:
Known for meatballs. They do have a hot dog. You are thinking of Costco’s got the hot dog. Is what they’re known for.
Chris [00:06:58]:
But yeah, I, yeah, I, yeah, I couldn’t remember.
Sam [00:07:02]:
Yeah. Uh, yeah, the size of the place is just next level. Yeah, it’s massive. Massive. Oh, really? Okay. Uh, one floor. Yeah. I’m, I’m just, if you’ve been there, this is nothing new, but one floor is all the showrooms and you’re just walking from room to room to room and there’s stuff everywhere and there’s tags on everything to tell you what the prices are.
Sam [00:07:23]:
Uh, which is fine. And then at the end of all of that is a restaurant and that’s where you get meatballs and fish if you want or whatever. Um, and then the floor below is what they call the marketplace. Just think of that as a giant Briscoe’s. So every single thing you can buy is on that floor. Cause they give you a trolley. They’re like, do you want a trolley or do you want to keep struggling with that little bag that you’ve got? We recommend you have a trolley. The woman was saying, I said, oh, do you?
Chris [00:07:50]:
Actually, the doctor recommends I have a trolley when I go shopping.
Sam [00:07:53]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:07:54]:
Lean on the trolley. I’m like, but I always carry it. I carry it all in a basket normally.
Sam [00:07:59]:
You’re crazy for that though. I’ve seen you carry probably like, you could carry like 30 kilos in a basket and you like committed to just the basket. Well, even though it’s overflowing.
Chris [00:08:10]:
The logic is if I’m walking home, then I’ve got to use the basket so I know how much I can walk home with.
Sam [00:08:16]:
That’s true. That’s true.
Chris [00:08:17]:
So anyway, there’s the, the, the, the mad logic, but now I’ll use a trolley. But yeah, no, sorry, carry on. Uh, so on that first floor, you said there was things with prices on them. Are the, is that just like showroom and you note down what the thing is and you get it? Oh, right. So you don’t like grab something off the shelf there.
Sam [00:08:35]:
It’s just, they’ve got the odd thing that looks like you can grab it. Like sometimes I’ll have like a table of like 5 or 6 things. It will specifically tell you if you can’t, um, or they do not sell it because there’s the odd thing that they’ve got for display purposes only. But whatever you do find on that floor is on the other floor, the marketplace floor. And that’s got a little— they call it a bistro, but it’s like a counter where you can get a hot dog and ice cream or, uh, something else. And it’s the palest looking hot dog you’ve seen in your life. Somehow It’s super pale and not appetizing looking at all and still hot.
Chris [00:09:16]:
Okay. All right. All right.
Sam [00:09:19]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:09:20]:
Did you, so what’d you buy?
Sam [00:09:22]:
We got, um, a tabletop ironing board because we don’t have one of them randomly. So it’s like a little ironing board.
Chris [00:09:30]:
Yeah. Okay. So it’s like a little, yeah.
Sam [00:09:34]:
So explain me to me what that is because we don’t have a full-size ironing board. Yeah, and I don’t need a full-size ironing board because I’m not ironing stuff all the time, but you can get a little one that just is like half the length but it sits on top of a table, so it’s just a little bit raised.
Chris [00:09:51]:
So yeah, it’s still got the edge and stuff, right?
Sam [00:09:53]:
Okay, that was like $12.
Chris [00:09:54]:
All right, oh, that’s pretty good.
Sam [00:09:57]:
Um, and some little bowls and some storage containers and stuff.
Chris [00:10:01]:
Um, sweet.
Sam [00:10:01]:
And the bit that—
Chris [00:10:03]:
so the storage containers, is that an IKEA brand or the just selling somebody else?
Sam [00:10:07]:
No, no, everything’s IKEA.
Chris [00:10:09]:
Right. Okay.
Sam [00:10:10]:
Uh, but the, the bit where you go, so after all of that and you get to the checkouts, you can see the warehouse bit where you go and get the flat pack stuff.
Chris [00:10:19]:
Right.
Sam [00:10:20]:
And that’s impressive on just due to size, like how much storage they’ve got.
Chris [00:10:25]:
So in terms of like Gilmour’s Hamilton, cause that’s quite big itself.
Sam [00:10:30]:
How, Um, probably 8 times bigger.
Chris [00:10:34]:
Holy crap.
Sam [00:10:35]:
10 times bigger.
Chris [00:10:36]:
And that’s like, just to give me some—
Sam [00:10:38]:
Yeah, no, no, no, no. Gilmore’s is nothing.
Chris [00:10:42]:
Right. Okay. All right. Shit. Okay. Well, you’ve been to Costco as well.
Sam [00:10:47]:
No.
Chris [00:10:48]:
Okay.
Sam [00:10:48]:
So Costco, you have to pay $60 for your fee to get in.
Chris [00:10:53]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:10:53]:
And I’m not going to pay $60 unless I’m going to spend a lot of money because I don’t want to keep going back there.
Chris [00:10:59]:
Yeah. So I’ve got a friend who’s got a membership and she goes, oh, when you want to go to Costco, let me know.
Sam [00:11:04]:
I’m like, yeah, you’ll have to take a little buggy or something. Mobility scooter for you.
Chris [00:11:10]:
Oh God. Yeah. I’ve got to sort that something out for her.
Sam [00:11:14]:
Although who knows, you knowing you, they might have a slot for surgery next week and somehow get you in there.
Chris [00:11:21]:
Who knows? Who knows? We’ll see. Yeah. So anyway, moving on. Things that are happening. So today Homegrown is on, or this weekend, I think Homegrown’s on.
Sam [00:11:30]:
No, just today.
Chris [00:11:32]:
Is it just today? Yep.
Sam [00:11:33]:
Yep.
Chris [00:11:33]:
Just so I saw these, I put these notes in here, which I actually got from Hello Hamilton the other week, cause I thought it was interesting. So it says they’re expecting 30,000 people, which is impressive.
Sam [00:11:47]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:11:47]:
It’s 205 rugby fields worth of space. Yeah, I didn’t realize it was that big. They used 220 truckloads of equipment, 146 tons of scaffolding, 322 speakers, 750 stage lights, and there’s 654 toilets.
Sam [00:12:10]:
Good.
Chris [00:12:11]:
Holy crap. That’s a big event. I, that just blew my mind. Like I was just like, holy crap. I didn’t think it was that big there either.
Sam [00:12:19]:
No, I’ve seen a couple of photos from earlier today, and it’s interesting seeing where it is in relation to everything.
Chris [00:12:27]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:12:28]:
Uh, in orientation, but there’s 7 stages, I believe, and I’ve only seen the one so far.
Chris [00:12:33]:
Right.
Sam [00:12:34]:
Work colleagues going to it, and I’m sure a whole bunch of other people are as well. But, um, yeah, should be pretty good.
Chris [00:12:42]:
Yeah, I’m surprised there’s nobody from, uh, my work because they’re all— there’s quite a few of them that go to all these concerts and all the events and stuff, and I don’t think anyone’s going to that, but—
Sam [00:12:51]:
Oh, okay. Well, it’ll be interesting to see how it goes, what the feedback is. I think they’ve got a mini event happening on Cawthorn’s Bridge. Sounds like they shut that down, and they’ve got a whole bunch of, uh, things for people to do that aren’t going to Homegrown but is loosely based on it, I guess.
Chris [00:13:08]:
Yeah, well, because that makes sense. So one of the best things about the Sevens in Wellington was you’d go to, uh, Courtney Place And then you’d just do the, um, bar run from bar to bar all the way to the, the, the thing. And it’s the same sort of idea is that it was good for, um, the Sevens because it kept all the drunken people off the main street. They just walked down the wharf. So they’re away from all the businesses and stuff like that for, for Friday and Saturday. And so, yeah, it worked for that. And I think it’d be the same for this. It’s like a.
Chris [00:13:45]:
A funnel to get them to and from, uh, Claudelands easy enough.
Sam [00:13:49]:
Just maybe. I wonder how much translates from Claudelands into town. Cause it starts at, I think it’s 12:30 to 11 tonight. So it’s a decent chunk of time. You’re going to see a lot of bands. You’re going to buy all your booze there. I wonder what demographic of people are like, let’s keep going.
Chris [00:14:09]:
Yeah, there’d be some, I’m sure.
Sam [00:14:11]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will. I no doubt they’ll have a story about it or stats or something.
Chris [00:14:15]:
Yeah, it’d be interesting. So anyway, I hope that does go well for Hamilton because that’s the one that moved from Wellington, eh?
Sam [00:14:21]:
Yeah, it was on the waterfront.
Chris [00:14:23]:
Cool, cool. Talking about traps, that’s a great segue right there. This cracked me up. This cracked me up because I just think there’s a joke there somewhere, but I just couldn’t come up with a tasteful joke, so I just tell you a story. Do you know the, you know, Pokémon, Pokémon Go, all that sort of stuff?
Sam [00:14:43]:
They’ve just celebrated some sort of anniversary.
Chris [00:14:46]:
No, they removed a PokéStop that appeared on Epstein’s island.
Sam [00:14:52]:
Oh no, the forbidden, the forbidden PokéStop.
Chris [00:14:55]:
And I’m like, I’m sure we can— I’m sure there’s a joke in there about Epstein making sure that there’s a PokéStop on his island just to attract kids to the island. But anyway, I thought it was randomly amusing, maybe a little sick, whatever.
Sam [00:15:10]:
I’m sure we’ve had something like this in the past. I can’t remember what it was though, but there’s a website called propstoreauction.com and they sell— yeah, they sell props from, um, the entertainment business, right? So from the, um, uh, Planet Hollywood collection, they have the Ace Ventura screen-matched oversized mechanical butt-birth rhino. Does that mean anything to you?
Chris [00:15:39]:
I remember the rhino bit scene, yes.
Sam [00:15:41]:
Well, you could buy it if you want. And I’ll send you this link because it’s pretty cool. It’s got some cool photos. It has a seat in it and it has the butt that you can come out of. And I think it’s going for around $20,000 now. After 27 bids.
Chris [00:16:02]:
So is this the actual one that was used in that?
Sam [00:16:07]:
Um, or is this a screen match? So I don’t know if, um, oh, this one was for the exterior shots. The interior shots on the film was on a soundstage. So they did use this and this is the external one. Um, the latex, most importantly, the latex butt skin was replaced. Yeah, and I’ve done a few touch-ups of the paint job, but, uh, I, I was actually just surprised that this thing was still around more than anything.
Chris [00:16:40]:
Yeah, because it’s an old film, really.
Sam [00:16:42]:
1995, back in the 1900s.
Chris [00:16:45]:
Um, don’t say it like that.
Sam [00:16:46]:
Jesus, I like— I say that all the time at work now. Back in the 1900s, we didn’t have that thing.
Chris [00:16:53]:
Last century. Yeah. Yeah. This, this cracked me up a little bit. Well, I shouldn’t, I always say this cracks me up and then I tell you something horrible.
Sam [00:17:06]:
That does seem to be a theme of yours.
Chris [00:17:08]:
Sorry. Okay. The first line of the story is a man who was shot by police and later died had to wait an extra 10 minutes for an ambulance after the officer having a mild anxiety attack, presumably the guy that shot him, took the first ambulance that arrived on the scene.
Sam [00:17:25]:
Oh no, no. Like, okay, I get that maybe it was traumatic for you because you haven’t been out shooting people all the time.
Chris [00:17:34]:
But yeah, take the second ambulance. Daishan Best, 39, was shot in the back last year as he fled from offices. So it’s not like, yep, but this is how tough the American police are. I’ll shoot him in the back and then when the ambulance comes for the gunshot victim, I’ll go, oh no, I’m having a panic attack. Can you take me to the hospital?
Sam [00:17:56]:
Maybe. Also in America, in Colorado, this dude had been, um, petitioning for a traffic light because there was an intersection where his wife died in, uh, 2024. And, um, he’s 82 and he’s just recently died at the same intersection, um, in the exact same circumstance. So, um, yeah, maybe they’re going to put the traffic lights there. It doesn’t say that. It’s still under evaluation.
Chris [00:18:27]:
Um, well, all the people that have been moaning about it are dead, so we’re not worried anymore.
Sam [00:18:31]:
Maybe that’s the way they’ll look at it. They’ll be like, you know what? It’s okay.
Chris [00:18:36]:
It’s all not all bad in the US. So this one, I quite, um, quite tickled my fancy. Um, The Girl Scouts are pretty unimpressed with the New Jersey troop who teamed up with a local cannabis dispensary to sell their cookies. What? To me, that just sounds entrepreneurial. Well, who do you think will want their Girl Scout cookies the most? The ones who are smoking or eating cannabis. But were they— They’ve got the munchies.
Sam [00:19:07]:
What? Were they just giving it to the, like, the store itself and they were selling them?
Chris [00:19:12]:
I think they were selling them through the store. They were saying, you use cannabis, you get the munchies, Cassidy told. I think there’s a connection between snacks and cannabis and the fact that we don’t have to pretend that doesn’t exist anymore is really awesome. So the Girl Scouts of Central South New Jersey turned down the idea. Oh, anyway, so I think they’re letting Girl Scouts sell cookies outside the door of a dispensary. I think that’s what it’s doing. Cause there’s a picture of this Troop 20201 outside the, on the street outside and they’re selling cookies. So, oh, that’s good to me.
Chris [00:19:51]:
I think it’s, I think it’s, I don’t see the problem.
Sam [00:19:53]:
Do you want the money or not?
Chris [00:19:56]:
Exactly.
Sam [00:19:57]:
Um, yeah, that’s all right. Oh, they had these guys do this half marathon in the US in Atlanta.
Chris [00:20:04]:
Yep.
Sam [00:20:05]:
And they got pointed in the wrong direction. And I was like, oh, okay. So it was less than 2 miles to go in the women’s race and the guide vehicle took off and led them the wrong way. Now that happened and I was like, okay, cool. Uh, she, the, the, the winner who then lost because of this random detour, uh, missed out on $20,000 worth of prize money. And that happened. Did you see the other one that’s just happened recently with the two guys?
Chris [00:20:36]:
No, no.
Sam [00:20:37]:
Uh, also in America and, um, guy’s running and he’s almost at the finish line and then the second place just beats him by like 10th of a second, which is sort of like, you know, that can happen, whatever. But they too also followed a car that was like their lead car and the lead car sort of went off to park before the finish line, I guess. And they just, they followed it for a little bit and these fans jumped in front of them and said, no, go back that way and run down the road. But I think they’ve been running so long, their brain’s not functioning properly because it was quite obvious. Anyway, that’s how that guy caught the other guy. ‘Cause they did that cock up.
Chris [00:21:27]:
Oh, that sucks. Um, actually I had a running one. I was gonna, I’m a bit iffy about this because I just think it’s dumb.
Sam [00:21:34]:
I know, I read this. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:36]:
The churn, the churning butter. So this, the person is a TikToker. That’s the whole point, I think.
Sam [00:21:44]:
Oh, there you go. You just answered your own question.
Chris [00:21:46]:
Yeah. So, um, Libby Cope, 30, and Oregon-based outdoor and running content creator.
Sam [00:21:53]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:54]:
She does TikTok and Instagram. So she decides one day, because they really like, she’s vegan but likes dairy, so she’s not freaking vegan. She likes butter and stuff and she got this really good milk, local milk thing and went, “Oh, the cream’s really good. Well, I wonder if you could,” ‘Run and make butter with this.’ So they started putting the cream and salt into double-bag Ziplocs and put them inside their running vests and run, and it would make butter. And it makes butter, and it’s the most—
Sam [00:22:33]:
Unappealing butter?
Chris [00:22:35]:
Well, it doesn’t look amazing, I don’t think, but it’s the most popular of all her videos, which just goes to show how shit the internet is. I mean, You know, like, I mean, obviously apart from, you know, the Chris and Sam podcast, which you’ve obviously found on the internet, but yeah, it is shit. Um, I don’t know.
Sam [00:22:55]:
It’s, but it just, it worked. We’re talking about it.
Chris [00:22:59]:
It works. And that’s the thing. That’s what gets me. That’s why I was like, it’s sort of worth mentioning because it’s so dumb.
Sam [00:23:07]:
It’s just so dumb, but that’s all you need these days is to do that.
Chris [00:23:12]:
Yeah. Yeah. Well, there’s hope for us is all I can say.
Sam [00:23:14]:
Ours would be, um, you know, you can do a good podcast interview while you’re doing something completely unrelated. I don’t know what that would be, but yeah.
Chris [00:23:24]:
So talking dumb and it’s got to be mentioned. So there’s a war in Iran. That’s dumb. Yeah. Uh, it’s really dumb because evidently the, uh, brilliant people in the Trump administration never considered what might happen if they started a war.
Sam [00:23:42]:
Like, but he knows when it’s going to end because he’s going to feel it in his bones.
Chris [00:23:46]:
He’s going to stop and he just expects everyone else to stop. But no, actually, I saw something with Peter Zion, who’s a really good futurist type dude on a geopolitical scale. And he said that there was going to be a collapse of the global economic system between 2025 and 2035. And he said that 20 years ago. Oh, well, so and he goes, man, it looks like Trump’s just upped the timeline on my prediction. He’s just rapidly made it because he goes, because the guy had asked him, the guy that was interviewing sort of said, oh, so if he stops now, is it good? And they’re like, he goes, no, it’s screwed. It’s never going back to what it is. It’s like after 9/11.
Chris [00:24:31]:
And air flights are never considered the same. You know, you’ve got all that TSA crap that they have in America and all that. This will never change because there’s so many people that they’ve screwed in these countries that every country is going to be going for a nuclear bomb now because it’s the only way that they can keep the Americans at bay.
Sam [00:24:51]:
Yep.
Chris [00:24:52]:
So, yeah, good times. But what I was going to say, did you hear the latest about Higgs?
Sam [00:24:58]:
Uh, not really. What’s he up to?
Chris [00:25:02]:
So, uh, apparently some of these media— the media— these photographers took some unflattering photos, and so he’s banned them. He’s banned photographers from this thing because they got unflattering. This is the guy that spent whatever it was, $40 grand or whatever, we talked about it before, to put a makeup room in the Pentagon. Did he? So, uh, yeah, yeah. Because he needs his makeup room. And, uh, yeah, he’s got some unflattering photos of him yelling at people. And so, uh, terrible, terrible thing. Oh, oh, and there’s a war on.
Chris [00:25:40]:
But no, let’s talk about the photos of me.
Sam [00:25:43]:
Can you just imagine if these thin-skinned people who were just comfortable in their own skin and just didn’t, like, If he just goes, you know what, I’m this, I’m that, fully embrace it, let’s do it. He wouldn’t be doing all this crap. Like they all seem to be compensating for something.
Chris [00:26:01]:
Absolutely. 100%. I think you’re right.
Sam [00:26:03]:
Do we know if the unflattering photos are out there?
Chris [00:26:08]:
Uh, I saw one. It wasn’t that bad. It was just him yelling. It didn’t look great, but it didn’t look terrible.
Sam [00:26:15]:
Oh.
Chris [00:26:15]:
Um, but yeah, I mean, Trump’s of, so Trump had this big thing where he, um, What do they call it? A dignified, uh, transfer. I think that’s what they call it. Dignified transfer is when the bodies come back from Iran. So I had those.
Sam [00:26:29]:
Oh, is that when he had his cap on?
Chris [00:26:31]:
He had his cap on. And, and the reason he had his cap on is that he, he hates with an extreme passion wind because it blows his hair.
Sam [00:26:41]:
His candy floss hair.
Chris [00:26:43]:
His candy floss hair. And he’s had all these really bad hair transplant operations. And so his scalp’s all guard up. So he will not go out in the rain. That’s why he didn’t go to that Normandy thing a few years ago, or last time he was president.
Sam [00:26:58]:
So crazy.
Chris [00:26:59]:
So because it was wet and windy and he’s like, I can’t go. And so in this one, he wears his hat. So yeah, they’re just so vain. It’s just nobody gives a shit about the way you look, man. And honestly, Trump, I don’t know if you could make yourself look any worse than packing on orange makeup on your face or everything. Yeah.
Sam [00:27:21]:
Um, so did he get shoes for someone? One of those other guys? Is that a thing?
Chris [00:27:28]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:27:28]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:27:28]:
Yeah. I just heard about that last night, actually.
Sam [00:27:30]:
I saw a photo.
Chris [00:27:32]:
So Rubio, um, he goes, I’m going to get, I’m going to increase the loyalty of my, my people by buying them shoes.
Sam [00:27:43]:
Yeah, that, that, that’s stupid. That’s so stupid.
Chris [00:27:46]:
They bought these Florsheim shoes for Rubio and Rubio wore them the next day. But there’s photos of him and he’s got these little stick legs and these big fricking shoes.
Sam [00:27:59]:
It’s like a kid wearing adults’ shoes.
Chris [00:28:01]:
There’s like an inch at the back of the shoe between the edge of the shoe and the back of his leg. And, um, Yeah. And it’s like, you just go, dude, they don’t fit. And you don’t wear them. You don’t go, yes, sir, I will wear them and clomp around like a kid in his mum’s shoes. So anyway, uh, yeah, that’s, um, that’s, uh, that’s, uh, the brain drain. Actually, I’ll tell you something about brain.
Sam [00:28:32]:
Okay. This is it.
Chris [00:28:34]:
This is the end of the podcast. This is a serious thing. So you’ve heard about Elon’s Neuralink, which is putting a chip in a brain.
Sam [00:28:39]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:28:40]:
Critical Labs has done the opposite.
Sam [00:28:43]:
Do they put one in a jar?
Chris [00:28:45]:
They, yeah, they are using brains in computers. So they’ve, their device, the CL-1, grows roughly 200,000 living human neurons. So living brain cells on a microchip.
Sam [00:29:00]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:29:01]:
And these neurons receive electrical signals, they fire in response, their firing patterns get translated into real-world actions. So in the test case they’ve done, and they were showing the paper was on, is it’s the old 3D maze Doom, and they’re shooting enemies, and they’ve taught the brain chips to kill the demons in Doom.
Sam [00:29:28]:
Ah, okay. I saw the headline, I didn’t know what it was about. That makes sense. Okay.
Chris [00:29:31]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah. So when an enemy appears on the left side of the screen, the electrodes simulate neurons on the left, stimulate neurons on the left, I should say, and the neurons fire and those firing patterns get decoded as movement, turning, or shooting. The whole thing runs in real time with the neurons effectively seeing and reacting. This— and here’s the best part. Once the API infrastructure was built, an independent researcher got Doom running on the platform in less than a week, which apparently is pretty cool, getting it going in less than a week. It does say now, to be fair, the neurons aren’t exactly speedrunning.
Sam [00:30:10]:
No.
Chris [00:30:11]:
Cortical Labs described the performance as similar to a beginner player who has never used a computer before. The neurons die frequently, they miss shots, and they get lost in the maze. But they do show signs of learning, such as responding to feedback and adapting behavior over time. So it’s interesting. So, hey, AI, take that. We’re coming back at you, bro. We’ve got human brains in our computers now.
Sam [00:30:41]:
With that exciting development, we’re going to leave you and we will be back next week. Hopefully I’ll be more onto it and check us out.
Chris [00:30:52]:
Yeah, I’m away next week. So I’m off my mate Jeff’s 50th birthday in Whangamata.
Sam [00:30:57]:
I look forward to hearing about stories about that.
Chris [00:31:01]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:31:01]:
And your, uh, mobility issues is probably—
Chris [00:31:04]:
Yeah. Taking the cane on the dance floor. Oh yeah.
Sam [00:31:09]:
I’m going to laugh if somehow people are attracted to that. Anyway, that’s something to think about. Until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:31:16]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:31:17]:
See ya.
Chris [00:31:18]:
Bye.
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