Summary
It’s a sunny day in Hamilton as discussion turns from the Chiefs rugby game and New Zealand’s run in the Football World Cup to wild Aussie chants and America’s awkward attempts at football fandom.
There’s talk of robot mowers at Brisbane Airport, UV robot pest control, and Hamilton’s future $100 million skyscraper. Elsewhere, a record Aussie cocaine bust, crazy government apps, and the mind-blowing maths of becoming a trillionaire take centre stage.
There’s also a cautionary tale about massage guns and eye trauma, plus much more in this week’s episode.
Links
Hamilton’s First Skyscraper
All Whites FIFA world Cup
Tricrobotics
Reflecting Pool Problems
Government App Craziness
Massager on the Eye is a Bad Idea
Lots of Cocaine found in Australia
Mowers for Airport
Show Transcript
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Speaker B [00:00:07]:
Sam Podcast. Pull up a bar stool and join us for a random conversation guaranteed to make you think, earn your money back.
Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 586 of the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fixer, Animals, technology and life. It’s a sunny day here in Hamilton as we record. Might not be when you listen to it, but don’t worry about that.
Chris [00:00:35]:
No, it’s notably sunny because it’s been pretty crap for the last week or so. So that’s a useful point of view. Hey, before we get into it, I want to talk a little bit because I know your sport deficit like you don’t. Sport deficient.
Sam [00:00:54]:
Hang on. Let’s talk about the Chiefs. How amazing was that? Did you watch that?
Chris [00:00:58]:
I did.
Sam [00:00:58]:
Where’d you watch it from?
Chris [00:01:00]:
Home. 8:00 o’ clock till. No, 10:00 clock till midnight. Because I’m watching it on free to air.
Sam [00:01:05]:
It’s delayed. I was at the Auckland Casino.
Chris [00:01:07]:
All right.
Sam [00:01:08]:
And that was. It was a great environment. There was only a couple of supporters that weren’t Chiefs. They just got more and more depressed and it just got quiet. The chief supporters. Yeah, it got quieter and quieter and.
Chris [00:01:22]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:01:22]:
And at the end it was like, oh, well, there’s always next year.
Chris [00:01:26]:
Yeah. So I had mentioned it on the thing the other week that I’m from Wellington. I used to support the Hurricanes and now I support the Chiefs because I’m living in Hamilton and I wouldn’t care what the game was like. I lied. I cared. I cared because it was a crap game. If it was a tight game, I don’t care who would have won. But it was very one sided.
Sam [00:01:47]:
I liked when they said it’s half time now and we’re going to switch around and the wind will be behind the Chiefs like they were for the Hurricanes in the first half. That will no, no doubt help them.
Chris [00:01:59]:
No, didn’t help them at all. So. Yeah. But I was going to talk about the. The football World Cup.
Sam [00:02:06]:
Yes.
Chris [00:02:06]:
So first of all, I mentioned the first game. So we’re now out. New Zealand, I hope I’m not breaking news to you right now, but New Zealand’s now out of the world. We’re out.
Sam [00:02:17]:
We’re out.
Chris [00:02:17]:
The Iran game was the first game and it was really exciting. So I watched that live. That was two all and it was. New Zealand got the first goal and then. That’s right, Iran got the second. So we were leading most of the first half or a good part of the first half.
Sam [00:02:32]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:02:33]:
And then went into half time one all, but it looked good. And then we scored first in the second half. So we’re leading again to one. Yes. Yes, we can do this. And then ended up two. Will draw.
Sam [00:02:44]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:02:44]:
Okay. Everybody else in this. What do they call it? Group. Group G. Yeah, Drew. So everybody’s like equal points, effectively. And we were higher on the board because we actually got 2.2 goals. Right? Yeah.
Chris [00:02:58]:
So goal differential. Then we had the Egyptian game. Great first half. We were one nil up at the end of the first half. So we were like, yes, we’re finally going to win the first game that we’ve ever won in a World cup match because New Zealand’s never won a. A game in a World Cup.
Sam [00:03:15]:
Oh, okay. Okay.
Chris [00:03:16]:
Yeah. And no second half. Egyptians scored three. Go. It was a collapse. Like, New Zealand looked on top of it in the first half, like two different games. And second half had no idea what we were doing. And then New Zealand versus Belgium, which I watched yesterday as we’re recording this.
Chris [00:03:36]:
Yeah, that was disappointing. So on paper, we looked better than Belgium going into it because while we both had draws beforehand and we lost to the Egyptians, they had. Belgium had not scored any goals. The only. They’d scored one goal, which was an own goal. So you go, yeah, that sounds like ours. That sounds like us. We can.
Chris [00:04:03]:
We can beat these guys. Well, no, no, because Belgium were all over us, to be fair. Like, Belgium has been in pretty much every World Cup. In fact, they’ve got a world record for being the most qualif team that’s qualified the most and never got to the finals or something.
Sam [00:04:21]:
Oh, right. Okay. So they’re always in the mix.
Chris [00:04:23]:
So they’re always in the mix. So. Yeah, we lost five. Five one.
Sam [00:04:26]:
It makes you wonder if we don’t have the psychological headstrong to carry on, because I think we’ve got the skill set.
Chris [00:04:34]:
I think. I think we do. And we’ve got good players. We’ve got. And the ca. You know, Elijah just really stood out. I really rate Max Crocombe, who’s the goalkeeper, even though he let a few through, I. I think he does well.
Chris [00:04:50]:
I. I think we’ve got the good players. I don’t think they work enough together because they’re all in different clubs around the world all the time.
Sam [00:04:57]:
Okay.
Chris [00:04:57]:
Yeah. Which. Which they need to be because if they were playing here, they’d be crap. Right? They. They’ve got to be playing. And Elijah. Elijah just. He’s playing for some random team.
Chris [00:05:09]:
I yeah, they told me the team, I’ve never heard of them.
Sam [00:05:12]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:05:12]:
And they’re like, no, he scored three goals in the World Cup. He’s going to an A class team. Like he’s going to be picked. And he won player of the year for that league.
Sam [00:05:22]:
Oh, good.
Chris [00:05:22]:
Which was a B league, so in the uk, I think it was the uk, so. Or Scotland or something like that. So. Yeah. So anyway. So anyway, that’s my update. Oh, one more thing about this FIFA World Cup. So there’s been loads of social media on it and the Americans are loving it because there’s a lot of positive social media about people come to America and going, wolf, full house is the best thing I have ever seen.
Chris [00:05:47]:
Like, like all these Europeans trying stuff. American food for the first time.
Sam [00:05:52]:
Well, I did see though that the tipping things nuts.
Chris [00:05:55]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:05:56]:
So they, they’ll get a bill for like a, a, A jug of beer or something has got 18% tip added to it.
Chris [00:06:03]:
Oh, wow.
Sam [00:06:03]:
And so it’s like a $40 something doll drink.
Chris [00:06:08]:
Oh, no.
Sam [00:06:08]:
And they’re like, that would have cost €5 or €5.
Chris [00:06:12]:
Yeah. Well, because Boston, I think it was Boston ran out of beer.
Sam [00:06:19]:
Oh, really?
Chris [00:06:19]:
Because the Scottish were drinking there and they were started going to nearby cities to load up for beer. Like it was mental. But one of the things I loved here was the Aussie chants.
Sam [00:06:32]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:32]:
And one of the ones that came up and I saw an interview with this guy because it’s everywhere he goes. Yeah. We were just there and one guy started chanting it.
Sam [00:06:42]:
It.
Chris [00:06:42]:
So we just all joined in.
Sam [00:06:44]:
Oh, cool.
Chris [00:06:45]:
And. And it became like the default thing that’s just been done all the time. And it is, Aussie boys are on a bender. Donald Trump is a sex offender.
Sam [00:06:59]:
Perfect.
Chris [00:07:00]:
And then there was this official statement which from FIFA, which was absolutely not official, but this woman showed it on thing. I think it was a spoof and she fell for it.
Sam [00:07:11]:
Okay.
Chris [00:07:11]:
Okay. But it says, football supporters are reminded that politics and political statements are not allowed at FIFA World Cup 2026. Specifically, Australian fans must not sing. Aussie boys are an abandoned Donald Trump as a sex offender. It doesn’t matter if it’s true. We at FIFA, the arbitrators of what is good and proper, forbid it. So.
Sam [00:07:30]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:07:31]:
And then. So they started chanting. The other chant they had all the time at these football matches are, We’ve got free health care. We’ve got free health care. Yeah. I don’t know, it just tickled me. I thought it was really good. Oh.
Chris [00:07:48]:
And then America, the USA started trying to put some chants together. Yeah, they don’t get it. They don’t get it at all. And they are being mocked hard all across social media. It is the funniest shit. Like they’re over producing their chants and they’re too clever by half. And it’s so funny.
Sam [00:08:09]:
Anyway, talking about your mate, the White House app auto downloads to government phones and you cannot delete it. So federal employees have this app from the White House, it downloads itself, installs itself and that’s it. And they can’t remove it. And it just, I don’t know what else it’s got on there. Sort of propaganda probably, but it has a button on there, apparently, no lie, which says text President Trump. And when you click it, it auto fills to say greatest president ever.
Chris [00:08:39]:
Are you what? Oh my God. Actually, I’ve got a good one on that we gotta talk a little bit about.
Sam [00:08:46]:
It’s not a stupid pool, is it?
Chris [00:08:47]:
Yeah, the pool. And if you go in there you can look at some photos. But I’ll get to the first thing first. So there’s a former Olympian. I saw the interview with this guy and he’s like 65 or something, or maybe even older. I thought he was 10 years younger than me. And he’s 10 years older than me. Whatever.
Chris [00:09:05]:
It was something like that, right?
Sam [00:09:06]:
Yeah, I mean that’s not hard to believe. Anyway, hobble around.
Chris [00:09:10]:
He, he, he looked like baby faced. I, when they said he was Olympian, I thought, oh, he, he was in the last Olympics, like. No, no, but anyway, he just finished 100k bike ride or 120k bike ride or something. So obviously one of the reasons he looks young and he was like, oh, everybody’s talking about the. He lives in Washington, just finished this bike ride. Everyone’s talking about this pole. I’ll go and have a look and see for myself.
Sam [00:09:34]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:09:35]:
So he bowls over, you know, rides over there, drops his bike on the ground type thing, you know, on the grass, walks over to the pole, looks at it, it’s all green and he sees something floating. So bends over and picks it up and it’s a bit of the rubber lining floating in there. And these National Guard guys come over to him and say the, what do they call them something? Police, Capitol police, want to have a chat to you. They’re over there. And he goes, oh yeah, oh, okay, well we’ll just, we’ll go to them instead of waiting for them to come to us. I’ll just grab my bike. So Walk over the bike, pick it up, go over to the Capitol Police. He doesn’t know what’s going on.
Chris [00:10:09]:
And basically they arrest him. They handcuff him there and then and take him away and arrest him for. Because he sabotaged the pool.
Sam [00:10:17]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s what sabotaged it.
Chris [00:10:19]:
Yeah, yeah. But if you look at that thing, you’ll see these photos I saw. Somebody said, but they. Surely the fact that Donald Trump and his motorcade drove through the pool before they filled it would have had more effect on damaging the pool. And I’m like, that’s not real. There’s no way that’s real. So I did a search online and I found the ABC News doing a fact check, and it’s fact. And there’s all these photos.
Chris [00:10:47]:
I counted 11 cars.
Sam [00:10:48]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:10:49]:
And we’re not talking small cars. These are the beast things. It’s a whole motorcade with one golf cart. So 11 cars and one golf cart.
Sam [00:10:57]:
Oh, good.
Chris [00:10:57]:
And they. After the lining has been put on, before they filled it, they drove through it. I don’t know. Have you ever done, like, waterproofing? Dad used to re roof houses, and I used to help him when I was a kid. And it was like, don’t tread on it because you don’t want any unevenness and you don’t want to damage it. And, I mean, that’s a slightly different lining. I get it. But driving 11 cars through it is not going to be a good thing.
Chris [00:11:24]:
And meanwhile, Trump’s going, oh, no, it’s been sabotaged. Somebody’s walked into the pool. 350 meters of blade. Like, they’ve got a thing and they’ve walked through the pole and gashed it. And I’m like, first. Well, everybody’s like, first of all, there are more cameras in Washington than there is anywhere, like, on all these monuments. Where’s the footage of somebody walking, wading through the pool?
Sam [00:11:49]:
Oh, my God.
Chris [00:11:50]:
And isn’t it more likely just that you drove through it and you’ve done damaged. Anyway, there’s the. It’s just cracking me up. It’s the most ridiculous thing ever.
Sam [00:12:00]:
So stupid. And all he had to do was leave it alone, not get his. Because it was. How much was it? Was it 20 mil contract, 50 mil?
Chris [00:12:10]:
No, I think it was 15. 15, 15, 18.
Sam [00:12:13]:
But to, like, some dude that he knew, like, randomly, who looks like the dodgiest man ever. He looks like a.
Chris [00:12:19]:
And he’s a convicted felon as well.
Sam [00:12:20]:
Oh, cool.
Chris [00:12:21]:
That dude. Yeah, yeah, he the. The dude that did it. He was convict bribing officials in the past as well, so.
Sam [00:12:28]:
Ah, good.
Chris [00:12:29]:
Yeah. And he does look. He looks like a character. He looks like somebody who would have been on the Sopranos.
Sam [00:12:35]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:12:35]:
Like he does.
Sam [00:12:38]:
That’s exactly it. I was reading this story. Brisbane Airport is pretty onto it with some of their green initiatives apparently. And they’ve decided to roll out the first major airport trial in Australia for autonomous robot mowers. And I was like, oh, that sort of makes sense. Because if you’ve got human people mowing normally they can only do it in daylight hours.
Chris [00:13:03]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:13:04]:
These things can go 24, 7.
Chris [00:13:06]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:13:06]:
They have their own solar powered charging sheds.
Chris [00:13:10]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:13:11]:
And they’re really big. They’re quite big robot mowers. Bigger than anything we saw at field days.
Chris [00:13:16]:
Yeah. Okay.
Sam [00:13:16]:
Because they have to do 919 hectares of land. That’s how much land there is. And they’re just zero emissions, almost no operating costs, reduced herbicide costs. Safer because they can just work wherever the pilot’s currently underway.
Chris [00:13:33]:
You said this was an airfield.
Sam [00:13:35]:
This is Brisbane Airport.
Chris [00:13:36]:
Airport, yeah.
Sam [00:13:37]:
Yeah. They’ve done it to reduce diesel consumption, emissions disruptions from the mowing. And they don’t need as many herbicide and pesticides. Cause they can just keep going. They’ve got advanced navigation safety systems, sensors, geo fencing, so they can’t go where they’re not supposed to. And they can day or night, I think. And they’re always looking for smarter ways of doing things. This is what they’ve done for sustainability to some of it.
Sam [00:14:00]:
They’ve got a biodiversity zone around it. They established that. They got reduction in emissions. It’s the first Green Star communities rating. They got carbon accreditation. They got the first and largest electric bus fleet. They got 18,000 solar panels. AI trials at the moment to reduce energy use.
Sam [00:14:21]:
All electric refueler. They’ve got a fuel truck that’s fully electric. Got a bin assistant called Oscar.
Chris [00:14:27]:
AI.
Sam [00:14:27]:
I don’t know what that means.
Chris [00:14:30]:
Oscar. Good call. Oscar the Grouch. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:33]:
And they’ve got all this other stuff going on, so it’s pretty cool. Everything’s been electrified, blah, blah, blah. So, yeah, it’s pretty cool. I’m looking forward to seeing what Christchurch is rolling out. Cause they’re building that giant solar farm thing next door.
Chris [00:14:44]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:14:44]:
When I flew down last time.
Chris [00:14:46]:
It makes it. Yeah. I mean, solar’s the way to go. Actually. Talking about that. Cause trichrobotics, I. I think we’ve talked about this before, but I still think it’s so cool. I Saw this the other day and I just noted it down because basically it talks about.
Sam [00:15:03]:
Remind me what trichrobotics is.
Chris [00:15:05]:
I don’t think we talked about them specifically, but these are these agricultural robots and at night they go through the crops and just shine UV lights down. And it’s just to kill pissed. It’s pestified side free way of killing weeds. And. And is it UV or is it
Sam [00:15:29]:
the lasers when it’s.
Chris [00:15:30]:
No, no, this is uv. Oh, there’s a video for it. Oh, wow. Yeah. And although the video looks very AI video, not like somebody’s actually taken this video. So I’m a bit iffy on that. But. But yeah, it makes so much sense to use that light thing.
Chris [00:15:50]:
Yeah, no, we talked about the laser thing before and I’ve seen of that. That’s awesome. But this one uses UV to. To do that and kill parasites as well.
Sam [00:15:59]:
All right. Yeah, that makes sense. There’s a headline I saw which was interesting. This guy in the uk, the headline is something like, volunteer who cleaned up river is facing two years of jail time.
Chris [00:16:13]:
Okay.
Sam [00:16:15]:
And the Environmental Environment Agency is threatening to prosecute him.
Chris [00:16:20]:
Did he use bleach to clean it up? Did a Trump.
Sam [00:16:26]:
No, he did it without any. So he gets a bunch of volunteers together and he says, hey, we’re gonna clean up this area. They spend a thousand pounds doing it. And he didn’t get any sign off for the environmental permit or anything. Brings in a digger, somehow digs out half the bank for some reason and then leaves it with more rubbish there. Like he removed rubbish. But then they may have done dredging and then there was waste left within a floodplain. So it’s.
Sam [00:17:03]:
Yeah, he did 10 days worth of cleanup at the start of the year. They somehow found out about it. You don’t really want to mess with anything to do with water is what I’ve learned. Yeah, like you don’t want to just. You. No discharge to water, don’t change where it goes, don’t do anything because you’ll just get into a lot of trouble. So I think they’re still figuring out if they’re going to prosecute this guy. They did take away 200 bags of rubbish, branches and silt, but he didn’t have the proper environmental permits.
Chris [00:17:32]:
Yeah, I think that sort of thing. Maybe a slap on the wrist type thing or whatever, but it’s more a warning to everybody else because you think you’re doing a good job and you need to be aware of these things before you do them.
Sam [00:17:46]:
You sure do Talking about rivers, we’re getting a new skyscraper on the edge of ours.
Chris [00:17:51]:
Oh yeah, I’ve.
Sam [00:17:52]:
You’ve got. You put the notes there now.
Chris [00:17:53]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. I added the notes in.
Sam [00:17:56]:
Now what are your thoughts on this design?
Chris [00:17:59]:
I actually like it. I, I get the point of it. So it’s a series of steps facing the river so that there’s a series of balconies that can face the river. Basically it’s 25 story high, $100 million plus skyscraper. Victoria Street Tower. Yeah. I don’t know what it’ll look like from any other vantage point, although I have seen the image of the bottom of it. 200 room, five star hotel.
Sam [00:18:26]:
Because we’re lacking. I don’t know about the five star bit, but we’re lacking in rooms and it’s why a lot of things do not come to Hamilton. We now have the BNZ Theater. We’ve got this that they want to build and we’ve got the new Claudlens is huge. Yeah, that too. And we’ve got the new Pullman Hotel that’s currently being refitted out in center place.
Chris [00:18:45]:
Oh, is that what that is? Oh, okay.
Sam [00:18:47]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:18:48]:
So it’s going to have three levels of hospitality and dining, five food and beverage venues, rooftop sky bar, which would be cool looking. Overlooking the river. World class health, wellness and SPA facility and 27 service departments, 25 branded residences and two levels of underground parking. So I, I think it’s a good thing overall.
Sam [00:19:12]:
Some people have said who designed this? It looks like the Mormon Temple a little bit. But I, all I will say is though, and they don’t have to, but I would love to have seen other design ideas just to get an idea of because I just don’t know what designs you could make because I’m not a designer. I have no idea what I’m doing. What you could make that would fit in that area?
Chris [00:19:36]:
I think you could have made the, the, the front end rounded and the back end square would have looked all right.
Sam [00:19:43]:
Yeah, like, but like I, it because
Chris [00:19:45]:
it looked very, very blocky from what.
Sam [00:19:47]:
It does look very blocky. It looks like somebody’s built a Minecraft tower and just plonked it here.
Chris [00:19:51]:
Yeah, yeah. I was thinking of those. What do you think they call those units that you learn numbers when you’re
Sam [00:19:59]:
Quizzinine rods,
Chris [00:20:03]:
Cuisiner rods, Cuisine rods, something like that.
Sam [00:20:06]:
It does look like that.
Chris [00:20:07]:
Yep.
Sam [00:20:07]:
That’s an old school throwback for anyone as old as us. This was before we had technology. At school they’d pull out these plastic rods. Whoever was making those plastic rods, I
Chris [00:20:19]:
hope they must have made a fortune.
Sam [00:20:22]:
I hope they did because there was a million of them and they went missing all the time.
Chris [00:20:26]:
So many of them got eaten by the younger kids.
Sam [00:20:32]:
So things may be looking up for Hamilton. I don’t know. Does it say when they’re gonna start doing it?
Chris [00:20:39]:
I’ve got a bit of stuff written down here.
Sam [00:20:43]:
Oh, they reckon by 2030.
Chris [00:20:45]:
Yeah. Oh, no, sorry, they need the rooms by 2030.
Sam [00:20:48]:
It’s not gonna start until 2028, so who knows long. Anyway. Interesting. One day we might end up podcasting.
Chris [00:20:57]:
Yes. So just for context, Hamilton is the fourth biggest city in New Zealand and
Sam [00:21:04]:
the fastest growing city.
Chris [00:21:05]:
The fastest growing city, but is quite small by international standards.
Sam [00:21:10]:
Yeah, yeah, I guess so.
Chris [00:21:11]:
Yeah, yeah. So that. That’s sort of the size we are.
Sam [00:21:15]:
Unrelated to that, in Australia, they’ve just made the largest cocaine bust ever.
Chris [00:21:20]:
Okay.
Sam [00:21:21]:
They arrested two young men, 21 and 25. They’re at the scene. Underneath their house was an underground bunker system and there was three shipping containers down there. They found 2.7 tons of cocaine.
Chris [00:21:38]:
That. That’s a movie just there. Like, how do you get 2.7 tons underground? How do you put the bunker? How do you put the container? Like, oh, my God, I have so many questions.
Sam [00:21:52]:
An alleged organised crime group believed to have ordered the importation of this. There was a mother vessel detained in the Solomon Islands is what they’ve said. They reckon it would have been about $800 million worth street value. But yeah, they. So they launched this operation because they found a. They found 40 kilos earlier. And I bet they were like, that’s a lot.
Chris [00:22:20]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they found the mother load. Holy crap.
Sam [00:22:24]:
They’ve got six other people, they’ve done a whole bunch of stuff. And the police believe the cocaine was smuggled into Australia to supply the lucrative drug market.
Chris [00:22:35]:
No, no, no, it was for horses.
Sam [00:22:40]:
I heard that it’s an alternative for like plaster on walls.
Chris [00:22:46]:
Anyway, anyway, hey, I got something random. I. I just thought. So we’ve got this new trillionaire, right?
Sam [00:22:55]:
Musk.
Chris [00:22:55]:
Elon Musk. Now, a trillionaire, cool. So a lot of people being like, trillion. Is billions a bad enough number to get your brain around?
Sam [00:23:03]:
Yeah, trillions.
Chris [00:23:04]:
Trillion’s ridiculous. Okay. So I. I came across this example and I ran the map just to check it.
Sam [00:23:10]:
I’m like, oh, my God, I’m glad you ran the math. He’s there with a calculator.
Chris [00:23:14]:
I Did. I did. Because I’m like, oh my God, that’s. That blew me away. So anyway, this is the thing. If you were, the average New Zealander would dream about winning a million dollars in the lotto. So if you won a million dollars in lotto and you just put the whole million into the bank at 5% interest, you’re gonna get $50,000 for the year.
Sam [00:23:35]:
Okay, good.
Chris [00:23:36]:
That’s not really enough to live on. No, I mean it’ll cover your base, it’ll help a lot.
Sam [00:23:42]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:43]:
But you’d be pretty happy with that. Okay, so if you did the same with a trillion.
Sam [00:23:48]:
Oh, okay. At 5%.
Chris [00:23:50]:
At 5%, yeah. What do you think you’re getting?
Sam [00:23:53]:
Five, I don’t know, tons. If I was to say 50 million,
Chris [00:23:57]:
137 million per day.
Sam [00:24:02]:
Oh, per day.
Chris [00:24:03]:
That’s how much you’d be earning.
Sam [00:24:05]:
Holy crap. Yeah.
Chris [00:24:07]:
Breaks your brain, right?
Sam [00:24:09]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:24:09]:
So millions of 50,000 a year. A trillion’s 137 million a day.
Sam [00:24:15]:
That’s nuts.
Chris [00:24:16]:
It’s incredible. Right? And so that’s the big problem with this inequality thing that’s going on, is that when you’ve got 137 million a day coming in and you’ve got to put it to work, you end up buying all the assets that are there, like everything. So these guys will be owning everything soon.
Sam [00:24:33]:
Good.
Chris [00:24:34]:
But one of the other things about that is there’s anticipated, because of the IPOs of SpaceX and AI IPOs that are coming through anthropic and OpenAI, I think, are doing IPOs. Whatever. It’s anticipated, there’s going to be 12,000, I think that’s a conservative number. 12,000 new millionaires made by that. And these are all people that are in their early, late 20s, early 30s, who’ve worked really hard and never had much of a life and they’re suddenly going to be getting 20, 30 million dollars.
Sam [00:25:13]:
Nice.
Chris [00:25:14]:
So what, all of Europe is bracing for a flood of newly rich douchebags coming over.
Sam [00:25:22]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:25:23]:
And all the prices are going to go up because of supply and demand.
Sam [00:25:26]:
Good.
Chris [00:25:27]:
So all the high ticket, high, high cost restaurants and all that, there’ll be all these new money floating through and like, because there’ll be less seat, less room, all the prices are going to go up. So anyway, it’s, it’s crazy. It’s mental.
Sam [00:25:41]:
Yeah. Talking about mental, you’ve got a massage gun, eh?
Chris [00:25:46]:
Yeah, I’ve got it. It’s doesn’t work very well now because it’s AliExpress. And it’s getting older and it doesn’t.
Sam [00:25:53]:
That’s. All right. Where’s one area of your body that you should not use it if you were to guess?
Chris [00:26:00]:
I can think of several.
Sam [00:26:03]:
Which is the one that you want to say on the podcast?
Chris [00:26:05]:
The one I was saying on the podcast is my ear would be a dumb place to.
Sam [00:26:09]:
Well, a man in his 20s in Scotland has been using it around his eyes. And he has multiple retinal tears, multiple bruising, and a serious tear at the boundary of the retina often linked to blunt force trauma, like what boxers would get. He sought treatment after developing the symptoms over time.
Chris [00:26:31]:
Why would you do that?
Sam [00:26:32]:
I can’t imagine that feeling good either.
Chris [00:26:35]:
Only thing I can think of is if I get a really bad migraine, I will put my finger in that part of your eye. You know, eye socket. Cause you can really feel those bad migraines in there. Maybe he was suffering from migraines and trying to alleviate the pain there somehow.
Sam [00:26:54]:
It was to relieve eye strain and fatigue. And he was using it once a week for about three months before he had to get some help.
Chris [00:27:02]:
I would never have thought. I. Because it’s just the dumbest thing like that doesn’t. Yeah.
Sam [00:27:07]:
Doctors concluded the device was almost certainly responsible for the damage. So that’s just been reported in a medical journal. Don’t do that. You know what you should do, though? You should go to tcast.com and go listen to our back catalogue. There’s almost 12 years of audio there. We don’t know what was said in the past. Just bring it up in a random conversation when you see us. That’s the best.
Chris [00:27:29]:
Yes. And we’re only. What are we, 14 episodes away from the big.
Sam [00:27:34]:
Stop stressing me out.
Chris [00:27:35]:
600.
Sam [00:27:37]:
I haven’t started working on the thing. The secret thing. Yeah. That’s pretty exciting. We’ve still got three more field days interviews to come out.
Chris [00:27:45]:
All right.
Sam [00:27:46]:
Because I got sick and I wanted them all come out real soon. And yet here we are, like last year.
Chris [00:27:53]:
And I caught up with Alyssa Harley from nvo. Nvo. Is that the name of it?
Sam [00:27:59]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:28:00]:
An evo. I’m getting backwards in evo the other day. And, yeah, we had a good chat. I gave her some ideas for her next trade show she’s going on. So. Yeah.
Sam [00:28:10]:
Oh, look at you go.
Chris [00:28:12]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:28:12]:
Okay. That brings us to the end of this episode. Thank you so much for listening. Commenting. Liking Jamie Oxley sent me a photo of him using one of our pens.
Chris [00:28:21]:
Nice.
Sam [00:28:22]:
Somewhere. I don’t know I think he was in a truck signing something. And he goes, I’m using your pen, so well done. Yeah. Until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:28:31]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:28:32]:
See ya. Bye.
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