Summary
The episode kicks off with podcast plans going awry and listener messages for the big 600th milestone.
We dive into stylish grave digging competitions in Hungary, wild AI-powered gadgets, bizarre search keywords, and the challenges of senior assassin games.
There’s robot fighting, public art in Hamilton, inflatable obstacle courses, and a chat about an American mall shootout.
All this randomness and much more in this week’s episode.
Links
USA Insanity Over Shootout
Gravedigging Competition
City of Wonder
Megaland is Coming
Human VS robot Fight
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 599 of the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. This is your weekly fix of randomness, technology, and life. And this week I have nothing for you. I feel like I do not have enough time in the day and it’s stressing me out a little bit. I almost lost the plot yesterday, but I’m okay now. Also, last week’s podcast episode is coming out late because as we’re recording this, I still haven’t done it yet, but I’m halfway through it. Hey, but you know what? We’ve had somebody leave us a comment for our 600th podcast episode already. They went to tcasp.com and they found the little link at the top and they’ve left us one of the nicest, I’m not even going to say who it is.
Sam [00:01:07]:
They’ve left us one of the nicest messages ever.
Chris [00:01:11]:
I was going to say, is it not Adam? Because I did tell him to do that the other day.
Sam [00:01:14]:
I’m not saying anything because I haven’t checked it in the last couple of days.
Chris [00:01:18]:
All right.
Sam [00:01:18]:
But we have got one so far and it’s, it’s very nice. I’m looking forward to playing that. Now we really need the weird random people that are stalking us. Leave a message. Because the regulars are doing it because they’re the best. But I want to hear from somebody from my past, Chris’s past, someone I don’t know, whoever, just do it. Because there’s a, the stats keep saying we’re getting downloads.
Chris [00:01:47]:
Yeah, there’s a bunch of people listening to this or pretending to listen to this or lots of bots listening to this.
Sam [00:01:51]:
Or the apps are just downloading stuff.
Chris [00:01:52]:
We have trained half of AI at this stage.
Sam [00:01:56]:
We will never know the impact that we’ve had.
Chris [00:02:00]:
On humanity.
Sam [00:02:02]:
On humanity. Um, oh, I do have something. Hang on. Uh, where’s it gone? I know it’s just turning to dust.
Chris [00:02:10]:
Oh, Seth looks really excited right now.
Sam [00:02:12]:
Oh, where’d it go? Who’s this person? Oh, keep going. I’ll find it in a sec.
Chris [00:02:19]:
All right. So just because we started talking about this, um, have you heard about this human versus robot fight?
Sam [00:02:28]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the dude is, um, what’s his name?
Chris [00:02:31]:
Something Pena? Pena? Pena?
Sam [00:02:33]:
Yeah. So, uh, I can’t remember what his first name is. He’s the guy with the big butt.
Chris [00:02:37]:
Oh, I know the one.
Sam [00:02:39]:
Yes. And he’s always just wearing like a tank top thing and shorts and it looks, and he reckons his butt is real. No implants. That’s his giant butt. And his backstory is something like he was a car YouTube influencer or something.
Chris [00:02:54]:
Frankie LaPena.
Sam [00:02:54]:
There we go. Frankie. And he’s the guy that for during COVID and that he was like riding, he’d be doing something with a green screen behind him as he’s on a team or a Zoom call.
Chris [00:03:04]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:03:04]:
So he’s like, I’m on a motocross bike and like, what’s happening in this meeting? And he’s like flying through the air. And he’s very cool because he had a video that you can find where he breaks down how he makes these viral things. And he does all sorts of random stuff. There was ones where he was running around and he had like 20 bodyguards going with him. And he said like, you have to know what’s going on or something within like the first 2 seconds. And he’s very mindful of that. And he’s done some random stuff and he’s fallen off things and crashed. And he’s just like an interesting character.
Sam [00:03:38]:
And I know he fought a robot and that robot looked cool.
Chris [00:03:42]:
Yeah, the robot looked cool. They definitely modeled it after, or the head is modeled after the T—
Sam [00:03:48]:
T-1000.
Chris [00:03:49]:
T-1000. This is called a T-800 actually.
Sam [00:03:52]:
Oh, maybe T-800. I don’t know.
Chris [00:03:54]:
It’s made by REC, R-E-K, which is, I believe, a Japanese company. And I wonder whose idea it was. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was REC’s. REC came to him and said, we’ll pay a bunch of money.
Sam [00:04:10]:
Yeah, yeah, totally. Totally.
Chris [00:04:12]:
Because he got a bit stuffed up. Yeah. Well, I don’t know. So they’ve released one clip, but the clip is cut and it’s like 30 seconds long. I’ve got a link to it in the thing. So we’ll put the link in the show notes. And they haven’t released the And people are saying, well, it looks like he gets kicked across the ring in this thing by this robot, but he is a bit of an entertainer. So how much of it’s like him?
Sam [00:04:37]:
Oh no, I saw a video where he held up his arm and he goes, I’m stuffed under the rib. And they show that where it kicked him. It just sort of grazed. I think he had a vest on or something, eh?
Chris [00:04:46]:
Yeah, because he had a pads thing on.
Sam [00:04:48]:
I think it grazed the edge of that and that’s when it pushed, it kicked him right down. And the robot, I believe, was doing its own thing for the first bit, and then near the end, someone had to take over for some reason to remote control.
Chris [00:05:02]:
From what I wrote on, what I read on this, they said that it was under human control the whole time, but, but this was not, I don’t know how accurate.
Sam [00:05:11]:
Oh, I think the kick, I think the kicking was automated at the start, but they were telling it where to go or something. There’s some weird thing, but anyway, like it’s a good robot.
Chris [00:05:21]:
Yeah, the robot is an Engine AI T800.
Sam [00:05:24]:
Yeah, it is.
Chris [00:05:26]:
Yeah. Uh, Engine AI is the company that makes them.
Sam [00:05:29]:
Oh, good.
Chris [00:05:30]:
T-800. So anyway, I, it was interesting.
Sam [00:05:34]:
Um, I like it.
Chris [00:05:35]:
I still think I could take one. I may not right now.
Sam [00:05:37]:
Don’t, before you say you want, you’re going to take, no, I can’t stand up. You’re going to take one of those little Chinese child-sized ones because you just got to push him quick.
Chris [00:05:48]:
I couldn’t, couldn’t keep up with one of those, but, um, yeah. Uh, yeah. Anyway. All right. In my dreams, I could take one. I’m going to have to get used to saying that. I’m getting older. Yeah.
Chris [00:05:58]:
Anyway, so I thought it was cool. We’ll put the little video in the show notes. But yeah, I don’t know. I’m curious to see how much power that robot had when it hit him, because I can’t— I don’t think it’s that powerful.
Sam [00:06:14]:
You don’t think?
Chris [00:06:15]:
I wouldn’t think it would be because of the articulated joints, right? If it was a piston-type thing, No. Straight in and out.
Sam [00:06:23]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:23]:
Those articulated joints. I just don’t—
Sam [00:06:25]:
No, I disagree. ‘Cause I reckon they can do heaps. Those Boston Dynamics ones that run around and jumping off stuff.
Chris [00:06:32]:
Yeah. I mean, yeah, I don’t think they’d do that much damage, but anyway, it’s, but I don’t think he can do that much damage to it.
Sam [00:06:39]:
Oh no, he, no, he, he can’t.
Chris [00:06:41]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:06:42]:
No, no, he can’t. He, yeah.
Chris [00:06:43]:
Exactly. You know, like he can get it off balance maybe.
Sam [00:06:47]:
If he’s lucky.
Chris [00:06:48]:
Yeah, if he’s lucky. But he can’t— yeah, I don’t think he can do much to it. He might be able to knock its head off. I mean, a proper boxer might be able to knock its head off given a few hits in the right place. But yeah, anyway, that was fascinating. I thought that was interesting. Okay, so that was my opening thing. Have you looked at this, or you would see more of this than me in town here, the City of Wonder?
Sam [00:07:17]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:07:17]:
The cow, the 20 walks.
Sam [00:07:20]:
Um, 40.
Chris [00:07:21]:
Oh, there was 20 is what I got written down.
Sam [00:07:24]:
I think it’s 40 now. So yeah, so it’s interesting. Did you read the email explaining all about it? Like who did it and stuff, what it’s about?
Chris [00:07:33]:
I’ve read it, a link in a, in an email, but it’s not that. It wasn’t all about that. It was, I read it in Hello Hamilton. Yeah.
Sam [00:07:41]:
Well, they sent out an email before that one. That sort of said, so in, in town, I did see that. Yeah. Yeah. In town on the corner opposite that game shop, there’s Hadrad, I think it’s called. And it’s the rug place right on the corner. Uh, one of their co-owners is behind all of this and they were like, Hamilton doesn’t have a really good exhibition space and we’ve seen some cool stuff overseas. We’re going to do this for the very first time.
Sam [00:08:05]:
And the, the, the City of Wonders sign, which is a little purplish egg thing or pinkish egg that was popping up a while ago and they had it in their shop for ages. And I was like, I don’t know what this is. I assume it’s happened, but it hasn’t. And, uh, they’ve spent about $20,000 to get this sorted. There’s different art on, um, buildings in town right now. Uh, I can show you a couple actually.
Chris [00:08:30]:
Yeah, I’ve seen a couple of things and I was like, but don’t, didn’t we already have something? Oh, that’s really cool.
Sam [00:08:36]:
We have the Boone Street Art, which is when they put more murals around the place.
Chris [00:08:41]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:08:42]:
And that’s slightly different. This is just for, uh, one week or so, but the old Wintec Media building up from David’s Emporium.
Chris [00:08:50]:
Yep.
Sam [00:08:50]:
That’s been empty for ages. They’re in there and the whole space is empty and they’re just putting in all these random exhibits and stuff on the walls. Oh, that’s cool. I saw them loading stuff in the other day. So that kicked off on the 24th today. And you can walk around and there’s a program and what’s the link?
Chris [00:09:09]:
Uh, well, the event link it gave me was, uh, Event Finder.
Sam [00:09:13]:
Oh, okay. It’s called, um, uh, like City of Wonder or Cow or—
Chris [00:09:18]:
Yeah. Cow City of Wonder is the thing.
Sam [00:09:21]:
Yeah, I think it’s that. Look that up. It’d probably be over by the time you hear this podcast, but, um, I’m hoping to go check out some of it either on the weekend. Or, uh, next week. Because they said, like, they really want people to be able to just see some art or an exhibit on their way home from work without having to go somewhere. Next year, they’re hoping that this is successful this year. And it seems to be like they’re doing good things, but they’re hoping to, um, potentially pay the artists next year. So this year they’re not.
Chris [00:09:54]:
Yeah, because I remember seeing something like this back in 1991, ’92.
Sam [00:10:01]:
In Hamilton?
Chris [00:10:02]:
In Marrakesh in Morocco.
Sam [00:10:03]:
Oh, there we go.
Chris [00:10:05]:
But yeah, I mean, Marrakesh is not a big place, or it wasn’t then. Don’t think it’s bigger than Hamilton. I think it would’ve been way smaller than Hamilton. But yeah, and it was pretty cool and it was good seeing it there.
Sam [00:10:18]:
Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:10:19]:
And yeah, so yeah, no, I’m really pleased. I just thought we already had something, but I guess I’m thinking more of the Festival of the Arts where it’s more like the comedy and the busking and stuff like that?
Sam [00:10:32]:
Oh yes, that’s the Hamilton Arts Festival. It used to be the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival, but I think they changed it. Yeah, that’s more performance-based.
Chris [00:10:40]:
Yeah, that’s more performance-based.
Sam [00:10:41]:
Yeah, so that, but this City of Wonder thing does have workshops and talking things and space. I think there’s, um, like, uh, what do you call it? Coworking spaces if you’re working on something to head along to. And it might, might, might all be in that big building.
Chris [00:10:56]:
I could see it taking off.
Sam [00:10:57]:
Yeah, I think so. I think so. It’d be pretty cool.
Chris [00:10:59]:
It’d be good to see how much Hamilton supports it.
Sam [00:11:02]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:11:03]:
I, yeah, you know, yeah, our, our, uh, thing about Hamilton, our hometown not being, uh, that, um, supportive of people.
Sam [00:11:11]:
Hey, I just found the thing that I got excited about that I remembered that I read over a week ago in my brain. So some crowd, some woman from some place called Pod— SEO emailed us and she says, hey, the Chris and Sam podcast, the number one, what is it? Lifestyle podcast in New Zealand no one’s heard of, came up in our podcast search crawler where you rank right now. Now, where do we rank on number 1, number 4, and number 10? Now I will say, I do not think they’ve done much research, but you be the judge. If you said number 1, leather innovations, you’d be correct. Number 4, Swiss lakes.
Chris [00:11:55]:
What?
Sam [00:11:56]:
And number 10, forensics broadcasters. They know us so well.
Chris [00:12:04]:
If that isn’t randomness, technology, and life, I don’t know what is.
Sam [00:12:08]:
They then, yeah, they then did say the keywords for your audience searches, and they’ve got no figures, I’m assuming they want us to pay for the actual figures, but we apparently come up in experimental podcast, podcast life, podcast technology news, crypto podcast, random ideas podcast, art podcast, which is good because we were just talking about that, and creative podcasts.
Chris [00:12:30]:
Woohoo, go us!
Sam [00:12:31]:
Leather innovations. We’re all about it here at the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:12:34]:
And all I can think of is that, um, that fruit leather thing that we did then. Oh, maybe. Interview for. That’s the only thing I could think. That’s what that is. Okay.
Sam [00:12:44]:
That makes sense.
Chris [00:12:45]:
Yeah. We did the interview with, um, Field Day.
Sam [00:12:48]:
Swiss lakes though? No, I don’t know.
Chris [00:12:50]:
No idea about Swiss lakes.
Sam [00:12:50]:
We’re almost at 600 episodes. We’ve been doing this for about 12 years now.
Chris [00:12:54]:
Like next week.
Sam [00:12:55]:
Yeah. Don’t worry about that.
Chris [00:12:57]:
Just a fraction.
Sam [00:12:58]:
Plans are getting thrown out the window. Um, but no, but we’ve been doing this 12 years and we’ve talked about so much random stuff because we are not We don’t have a niche, so we could have talked about anything, uh, which is great, but, um, we have no idea what’s going on.
Chris [00:13:15]:
Yeah, it makes it hard to, hard to nail things down. Actually, speaking of that and, and sort of tying up to something we were talking about before we started a little bit.
Sam [00:13:25]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:13:26]:
There is a competition for everything. There really is.
Sam [00:13:30]:
Yep. Okay.
Chris [00:13:31]:
So I was quite impressed with this one. in Hungary. It’s the competitors— this is the title of the AP News thing— competitors dig deep in Hungarian grave digging competitions. So they’re in pairs and they dig graves in a Hungarian cemetery.
Sam [00:13:54]:
Yeah. We were talking about grave digging before we recorded this podcast.
Chris [00:13:57]:
That’s right.
Sam [00:13:58]:
And I’m not going to tell you why. Yeah.
Chris [00:14:02]:
So anyway, dry summer baked soil, Nagy Súfalál in northern Hungary. Yeah. 19 2-man teams.
Sam [00:14:12]:
I was going, that’s a decent amount.
Chris [00:14:14]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:14:15]:
Okay.
Chris [00:14:16]:
And they race for the title of quickest dug and most stylish grave.
Sam [00:14:21]:
I get the first one.
Chris [00:14:22]:
Speed is the main thing here, not the beauty, said Robert Nagy, the victor, with his teammate, László Kiss.
Sam [00:14:28]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:14:29]:
When you have to dig a grave for a funeral, you have to be very careful about the exact dimensions and make sure that it is beautifully carved, which I mean—
Sam [00:14:38]:
Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:14:38]:
Straight, I imagine.
Sam [00:14:39]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:14:40]:
Their winning time was 1 hour, 21 minutes digging to contest specifications of graves, which is 1.6 meters deep, 2 meters long, and 0.8 meters wide.
Sam [00:14:52]:
Now, I assume they do this for a day job.
Chris [00:14:55]:
And I’m going to assume so too, because I don’t know. They shared a cash prize of 200,000 Hungarian forints.
Sam [00:15:04]:
Okay.
Chris [00:15:05]:
Which is about $640.
Sam [00:15:06]:
Hey, that’s not too bad.
Chris [00:15:08]:
Which I assume is American.
Sam [00:15:09]:
I bet those guys are ripped as too.
Chris [00:15:12]:
Uh, yeah, I, there’s a bit of a video there and they are puffing and it’s a hot, it’s summer over there, right? They are—
Sam [00:15:19]:
I know. That’s crazy.
Chris [00:15:22]:
It’s pretty cool. But, uh, there’s a sort of image of them.
Sam [00:15:25]:
Yeah, look at them go.
Chris [00:15:27]:
Hardcore into it.
Sam [00:15:28]:
That ground is so dry looking. Yeah, there’s nothing. There’s no grass. It’s just a pile of dirt.
Chris [00:15:32]:
Yeah, I think that is brown grass actually.
Sam [00:15:35]:
It is, yeah.
Chris [00:15:35]:
Yeah, no, it is brown grass, yeah.
Sam [00:15:36]:
And you’d have to pace yourself.
Chris [00:15:38]:
Yeah, 1 hour 20 minutes.
Sam [00:15:40]:
I think—
Chris [00:15:40]:
and that’s a winning team.
Sam [00:15:41]:
Yes. I think the world gold panning competition has just happened or is about to happen in the South Island at the moment too. They were having it here in New Zealand. It’s televised as well. Like it’s a whole thing. It’s random.
Chris [00:15:54]:
That’s pretty cool.
Sam [00:15:54]:
I saw this story on Reddit, and I assume this is true, so take it with a grain of salt.
Chris [00:16:01]:
It’s on the internet, it must be true.
Sam [00:16:03]:
Well, and you might have—
Chris [00:16:06]:
It’s on the Chris and Sam podcast, it must be true.
Sam [00:16:09]:
That’s right. You’ve been around a long time, so you’ve probably heard of an old version of this. But this person goes, I’ve been out a couple of times now. And there’s some teenagers or females in their early 20s. One was in a supermarket and one was in a restaurant and they had swim goggles on. What the hell’s going on? Like, that’s the question. And they’re like, oh yeah, nah, it’s Senior Assassin is what they’re playing. Year 13 high school students.
Sam [00:16:39]:
And he goes, this other person goes, my 17-year-old cousin has been wearing water wings to family events now for months. Right? So basically, students download an app and it gives you another student as their target, and you’ve got to shoot them with a water gun and to film it to prove the elimination. But they can wear goggles to protect themselves from getting out. Usually the prize is money because you’ve got to pay to enter this game. So that’s why they’re all just running around with goggles on at all times, just in case. I love it. And obviously there’s people saying, oh, back in the day there was things at uni and simpler versions of it without an app. But, um, yeah, weird, eh?
Chris [00:17:20]:
Yeah. No, I would have loved to do that when I was a kid. We didn’t, that wasn’t a thing.
Sam [00:17:25]:
We barely, we didn’t do anything.
Chris [00:17:26]:
Yeah. Other than, you know, drinking Goldfish, there was nothing interesting happening when I was a kid.
Sam [00:17:31]:
Of course.
Chris [00:17:32]:
Of course. Okay. So this, I just will never understand Americans. like the whole American thing. So there’s this one—
Sam [00:17:41]:
Do you want to narrow it down?
Chris [00:17:43]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will. So this is this situation and I’m like, don’t get me wrong, I don’t know who’s right and who’s wrong in this. I really just don’t know. But there’s this 19-year-old who went to the mall and a fight broke out in the mall.
Sam [00:18:04]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:18:04]:
And one of the guys in the fight, when you say fight in America, that’s a gunfight really. Okay. So these people start arguing, this guy pulls out a gun and kills somebody.
Sam [00:18:15]:
Yep.
Chris [00:18:15]:
With a gun.
Sam [00:18:16]:
Okay. Frowned upon, but yeah, it happens.
Chris [00:18:18]:
Frowned upon. This 19-year-old pulls his gun out and kills the murderer in self-defense.
Sam [00:18:25]:
Yeah. ‘Cause yeah. Okay. That makes sense.
Chris [00:18:27]:
He’s just gone to jail for having a gun in the mall.
Sam [00:18:30]:
Good. So, but was he legally allowed to be carrying a weapon?
Chris [00:18:36]:
Let me see.
Sam [00:18:36]:
I’m assuming not.
Chris [00:18:37]:
And he had it through the backstory. Uh, the shooting happened 3rd July. Um, the chaotic scene played out at the mall, leaving 3 shot and 2 dead after a fight escalated. The man that Long shot, um, the, the, the 19-year-old shot, the man that Long shot and killed, Cameron Watkins, had gotten into a fight with and then shot and killed Keontae Seaborn. Watkins then shot another person during the struggle and continued to shoot his gun recklessly in the mall. So he starts shooting everywhere and then Long basically killed him.
Sam [00:19:14]:
Okay. But, okay.
Chris [00:19:15]:
So Long fatally shot Watkins, ending the threat, but did not have a concealed carry permit.
Sam [00:19:21]:
There we go.
Chris [00:19:21]:
Weapon.
Sam [00:19:22]:
There we go. That’s why he’s got to go to jail, prison, wherever he’s gone.
Chris [00:19:24]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:19:26]:
How long did they say? How long he’s gone away for? Well, or is he waiting for sentencing?
Chris [00:19:30]:
He’s black, so he’s going to go away for a long, long time.
Sam [00:19:33]:
Maybe, maybe.
Chris [00:19:35]:
If he was white, they would have put a medal on him by now, but no, he’s black, so he’s going to prison. Uh, yeah, that’s it. I don’t know. It’s mental. The whole thing’s mental.
Sam [00:19:44]:
It’s crazy. Don’t try not to think about it. What you can think about, I don’t know if you’ve seen these things. There’s a lot of, there’s a couple of AI tools now, and I’ve got a Kickstart or Dropkick here for you. That’s one of them. where they’re helping with prompt fatigue and problems and all this crap. Uh, but the, the gist of it is these AI agents or the tools that you get now are always looking at your screen. So they always know what you’re doing.
Chris [00:20:09]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:20:09]:
So you don’t have to explain it, which is great because the last couple of days I’ve been sending stupid Gemini a whole bunch of screenshots every time because I got sick of explaining stuff, but I, Don’t want to give them access to my screen. I don’t know. Anyway, Kickstarter has got this thing and it’s a little, uh, product that you plug in and it’s called Vio— oh geez, what have they named it? VioLoop? VioLoop. And it’s a little tiny, like, plug-in tiny baby screen.
Chris [00:20:40]:
Yeah. Miniature screen thing.
Sam [00:20:41]:
What do you reckon the size of that is? Like about the size of a golf ball, but yeah. And you plug it in. And it’s got personal memory. It works proactively, local storage, got data security, helps you with prompt fatigue. You don’t get trapped in a chat box. The cool thing about these things, I saw a demo of a different one because it’s watching your screen when you’re in an app like Photoshop or DaVinci or whatever, it knows already what you’re in. And you can just go, hey, how do I do this? And the one—
Chris [00:21:11]:
Can you talk to it?
Sam [00:21:12]:
Um, great question.
Chris [00:21:14]:
Because I’d hope so, because that would make it so much better.
Sam [00:21:17]:
I, I believe you can. Yeah, voice input. But I, the one I saw, which was different to this one, I think it would, it can take control of your mouse basically and go, you need to click here and then do this and do that. And it knows. So anyway, that’s sort of this thing. So this is pretty, it seems Cool. I mean, probably creepy and it’s probably going to take over. I have been swearing at my AI bot quite a bit this week.
Sam [00:21:45]:
Um, I like, I like it to know.
Chris [00:21:47]:
Well, I, I had a problem today. I had, uh, I had some video scripts that I needed it to do. I worked in bed late this morning. So I was lying in bed, uh, talking into Lederle, doing all these videos that I’ve got to get done for this TEDx University of Waikato. Yep. That’s right. And Then I uploaded those and I was like, these are rambly, waffly, make them more succinct, do this, use my VoiceMD file from Claude. And I’m telling Claude this, Claude Cowork, and they go, I can’t access that.
Chris [00:22:21]:
I’m like, but it’s in Claude. And they’re, oh, Claude Code has that, not Claude Cowork. And I’m like, so I press the button that switches it to Claude Code.
Sam [00:22:30]:
And then it could do it.
Chris [00:22:31]:
And I went, where’s this file? And I went, there. So I got the link. I said, find this file. And I went back to Claude Cowork and I gave it the link and it went, I can’t access that. And I’m going, what? And then I went back in there and I had to open it with a notebook, copy all the contents, paste it into the same program in a different window to get it done. And I’m like, why is this doing this?
Sam [00:23:00]:
If it makes you feel better, start swearing at it and telling it how you Useless it is. I do that quite a bit. But this, okay, so this thing, they need $17,000. There’s 36 days to go to buy one. Super early bird, like you’re getting in first, $703 New Zealand, right? And then it goes up from there. I love how there’s a team pack. If you want to buy 10 of them, it’s $6,000, whatever. But you get these little, uh, Violoop things.
Sam [00:23:28]:
It’s the first plugin AI operator for any computer. It sees your screen, understands your workflow, and gets your tasks done across apps, uh, powered on device with this little thing, AI, local memory, and a physical confirmation key that keeps you in control. It’s got a little button on top that you can press, right?
Chris [00:23:47]:
Yep.
Sam [00:23:47]:
Got the figures. $17,700, whatever I said. How much have they raised? Um, Chris’s expert guess, like always.
Chris [00:23:59]:
$800,000.
Sam [00:24:01]:
$3 million.
Chris [00:24:02]:
Holy crap. I, I’m not surprised it would do well. I’m surprised it’s done that well that quick. Because you said this is really early, isn’t it?
Sam [00:24:09]:
36 days still to go.
Chris [00:24:11]:
Yeah. Oh, okay.
Sam [00:24:12]:
I don’t know if the people are, um, done other things or not.
Chris [00:24:18]:
Yeah. And that’s a big thing, but yeah, I mean, I could definitely see that taking off. You’ve slapped the name AI on anything and Carl still loves his, his, um, Grok and his, his Elon Musks, which, which totally just floors me, but yeah.
Sam [00:24:33]:
How, okay, how about something called CyboPal? And it’s the world’s first desktop robotic terminal. So it’s got adaptive—
Chris [00:24:44]:
I’m just looking at your face. No, carry on.
Sam [00:24:46]:
It’s got adaptive ergonomics, voice and gesture interaction, dedicated agent, 6-axis movement. And it’s a, basically it’s a 27-inch 4K display on an arm that can move.
Chris [00:25:01]:
Okay.
Sam [00:25:01]:
That’s what it is. What else do they say in this thing? They, uh, computers got smarter. Um, the way we use them don’t. So you, you can just move and the thing can match, move with you to—
Chris [00:25:15]:
Oh, so it’s just an arm holding the monitor, but the arm’s—
Sam [00:25:17]:
It’s got robots in it.
Chris [00:25:20]:
Robotic arm holding the monitor. Okay. Now I’m getting you. Yeah.
Sam [00:25:23]:
Yeah. So it’s one of those. Um, we’ve all wanted one of those. Um, if you want to buy one, we’ll start with that price. Super early bird price. Oh, what? Okay. It’s $2,800 New Zealand.
Chris [00:25:36]:
I’m not surprised because that’s a bit of, bit of work in there.
Sam [00:25:40]:
It’s got AI built in and you can yell at it, I guess. And then it’ll move around and imagine if we just keep going, what are you doing?
Chris [00:25:47]:
And it’s just $2,000.
Sam [00:25:48]:
$2,000 for a robotic arm with a monitor on it. Now, I don’t even know if the monitor’s any good, but I don’t know if the monitor’s included.
Chris [00:25:56]:
Do you put your own monitor on it?
Sam [00:25:57]:
No, no, the monitor’s all built in.
Chris [00:26:00]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:26:01]:
Yeah, that’s why it’s so, that’s why it’s so expensive. Look, you get the, um, you get the Cybopow One standard C-clamp mount cable. Yeah. So you’ll, you’ll, the, the Cybopow thing is the monitor, the screen, the whole thing.
Chris [00:26:15]:
Right. Okay. Okay.
Sam [00:26:17]:
Uh, $2,000, whatever I said, and they, 58 days to go. So this is really new.
Chris [00:26:24]:
really new because they were only 60 days. So it’s a couple of days in maybe. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:26:27]:
And they only want to raise $17,000 like the other crowd.
Chris [00:26:31]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:26:31]:
But how much have they made?
Chris [00:26:32]:
It’s only 8. They’ve got to sell 8 or isn’t it? 16. Yeah.
Sam [00:26:36]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:36]:
$17,000. Um, okay.
Sam [00:26:38]:
Uh, you’re an expert at this. You know what the answer is?
Chris [00:26:41]:
$20,000.
Sam [00:26:43]:
No, $718,000. There’s a lot of people out there with spare cash that need the gadgets.
Chris [00:26:50]:
I, I, I don’t know what to say. We are in the wrong game, my friend. We totally need to—
Sam [00:26:57]:
We are in the game of making a podcast that we don’t know who listens to it every week forever. Okay. And we’re doing it very well. And that’s the main thing. And you’ve got about a minute. There’s a minute left.
Chris [00:27:13]:
There are some times that you wish you had kids and this upcoming thing is one of them.
Sam [00:27:17]:
Okay.
Chris [00:27:17]:
Which is one of the very, very rare for me.
Sam [00:27:20]:
Yes.
Chris [00:27:20]:
Um, and, but then it would also be, I wish I had kids and I could walk, which would be the thing.
Sam [00:27:25]:
Yeah. I mean, that’s a winning combo that a lot of people achieve in life.
Chris [00:27:28]:
Yes. Yeah. But, um, have you heard about this Megaland?
Sam [00:27:32]:
No.
Chris [00:27:33]:
So it’s an inflatable obstacle course that’s going around the country.
Sam [00:27:37]:
Oh yeah.
Chris [00:27:37]:
It’s going out to, um, uh, Mystery Creek. Okay.
Sam [00:27:40]:
And it’s, um, it’s crazy big, eh?
Chris [00:27:43]:
It’s huge. Oh, hang on.
Sam [00:27:44]:
I saw a photo. I saw a photo of it.
Chris [00:27:47]:
Yeah. It’s a 345-meter-long course with 43 challenges. Yeah. And it’s basically this like ridiculously long obstacle course, blow-up bouncy castle, but like 4 of them and you go down one and across the other one and across the other one and across the other one. But it looks like I would’ve had so much fun, uh, with that.
Sam [00:28:12]:
There’s another one set up in, someone can correct me, but like Wanaka or Queenstown or somewhere, but it’s a floating one and it’s a woman and they’ve set it up.
Chris [00:28:23]:
Taupo would be a good place for that, wouldn’t it?
Sam [00:28:25]:
Maybe, but I don’t know. There’s some weird place this is set up. And I think they, they have influencers travel around the world to go to this one. And I think they’re just raking in money. But it’s only open for, the story must have been because it’s coming into summer. But just the logistics of getting it set up and then the blowers and even that one you’re talking about, like imagine, uh, you’d have to have backup generators and all sorts because if that just failed, it just folds in on itself.
Chris [00:28:56]:
Yeah, but it wouldn’t fold in that quickly.
Sam [00:28:58]:
I don’t know.
Chris [00:28:59]:
Well, you know how slow it is to get those balloons down when they do the balloons?
Sam [00:29:04]:
Um, I know it’s different. I think they collapse really quickly.
Chris [00:29:08]:
Oh, maybe, maybe. I don’t know.
Sam [00:29:10]:
I don’t know.
Chris [00:29:11]:
But anyway. Yeah, because the material’s heavier. Yeah, that’s true.
Sam [00:29:14]:
Yeah, slightly different. But, uh, yeah, that’s pretty cool. So that’s coming up. Check that out. I’ve got to—
Chris [00:29:18]:
Talk about the website. You were going to talk about the website.
Sam [00:29:20]:
No, we’ve run out of time. TCAS.com. Go there.
Chris [00:29:23]:
Yeah. But make sure that you go to the top where it says fans and you click on that and you go in and you Leave us a voice message.
Sam [00:29:31]:
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Sam [00:29:38]:
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Chris [00:29:42]:
I was going to say and, but okay. Or do that.
Sam [00:29:45]:
You can do both. We’d love it. Uh, yeah. So until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:29:50]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:29:50]:
See ya.
Chris [00:29:51]:
See ya on the 600th.
Sam [00:29:53]:
Hopefully. Bye. Bye. Hope you enjoyed the show.
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