Summary
In this episode of the podcast we come to you from Fieldays 2023, well for half of the podcast. The second half we are recording as normal.
Either way we bring you the randomness, technology and life this week.
A dead man is mistaken as a movie prop. We talk about how the kids survived the plane crash in the Columbian jungle. Lawyers are in trouble, a family get trespassed from Dominos and we discuss the scientist that was underwater for a long time.
Plus we have storied of a funeral video, and was this old lady getting scammed this week?
All this and much more, so have a listen and tell a friend.
Links
Recording at Fieldays
Dead Man Mistaken for Movie Prop
Kids found in Columbian Plane Crash
Lawyers in trouble using ChatGPT
Family Trespassed from Dominos
Scientist gets new record for amount of time under water
United Nations Poo Sculpture
Tongan Eruption and it’s affect on the weather
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 434 of the Christmas Anne Podcast cast.
Chris [00:00:25]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life. And right now we are at Field Days. It may not sound like it because we have found probably the quietest spot in all of Field Days. We’re in a fancy rotunda.
Chris [00:00:38]:
Pergola.
Sam [00:00:39]:
Pergola.
Chris [00:00:39]:
I don’t know, it’s out on the little lake thing. There’s nobody around. We think we actually came here way too early. Like 2 hours before it opens, I think so, yeah, we actually came after.
Sam [00:00:53]:
They were going to let us in. Like, we turned up at 630 because we’re media, we’re allowed in.
Sam [00:00:57]:
It’s very quiet.
Chris [00:00:59]:
Yeah, but it’s day one, so it’s Wednesday as we’re recording this, so it’s always a little bit quieter on the first day. So anyway, let’s get into something.
Sam [00:01:07]:
We’re doing a normal podcast here and.
Sam [00:01:09]:
We can do it remotely anywhere.
Sam [00:01:10]:
We’re great.
Chris [00:01:11]:
Hey, so have you caught up with what happened with the kids in the jungle in Colombia is the word. It’s not Cambodia. Why is that stuck in my head? Colombia?
Sam [00:01:23]:
Yeah, it’s crazy. What about the dog?
Chris [00:01:26]:
Oh, yeah, they lost the dog.
Sam [00:01:27]:
The commando dog. They’re still trying to find it, haven’t they?
Chris [00:01:30]:
Yeah, no, they’re still finding looking for it. So a few things that I don’t know if you know, but I’ll go through it.
Sam [00:01:36]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:01:37]:
First of all, so the Cessna goes down. It’s got three adults and four children in it. The three adults, when they found the plane, were dead and there were no children there. What they found out later, obviously, is that the mother survived for four days and she told the kids they had to go and move. And those kids were an eleven month old girl, a four year old boy, a nine year old girl, and a 13 year old girl.
Sam [00:02:03]:
I know, it’s crazy.
Chris [00:02:05]:
And you and I in that jungle would be lucky to last three days, I think.
Sam [00:02:11]:
I’m thinking I’d be lucky to last 30 minutes.
Chris [00:02:16]:
No, I know. So this jungle is so bad. They built a prison there because if anyone escaped, they didn’t want to escape because the jungle was so bad.
Sam [00:02:26]:
Seriously, that’s a good spot to build a prison.
Chris [00:02:29]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:02:30]:
So the finally moved away from the wreckage to find a stream because all the kids learned to fish in their village at five years old. So they were looking for a stream. That’s pretty much what their mothers told them. And they knew what to eat, they knew what berries were good and what was bad. And every night they climbed a tree to avoid predators. And they slept very good. Amazing. Just blows my mind.
Sam [00:02:53]:
I heard that apparently they learned some stuff from a computer game. I don’t know how true that is.
Chris [00:03:00]:
Yeah, I hadn’t heard that.
Sam [00:03:01]:
Yeah, I got told that the other day and I was like, really? And they’re like, apparently well, this is what someone on the radio was saying, apparently. And you know how radio presenters just make stuff up sometimes?
Chris [00:03:11]:
No, we don’t. I mean, we’re podcast.
Sam [00:03:13]:
We’re a higher class shout out to.
Sam [00:03:15]:
All those radio professionals. Actually, we were set up in the media center just before next to Radio New Zealand, so I’m sure we might bump into them later.
Chris [00:03:23]:
Yeah, so that’s pretty much all I had on the jungle thing. It’s going to spawn some movies, and I think it’s a real big thing for Colombia right now. You know how that? Thailand. All those kids being saved a few years ago in Thailand.
Sam [00:03:36]:
Elon Musk’s cave children.
Chris [00:03:39]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:39]:
God, he was involved. Yeah, but that was such a big thing. And this is a big thing for Columbia, I think, at the moment.
Sam [00:03:46]:
Oh, yeah, totally.
Sam [00:03:47]:
The screenplay has already been written, if it has not been already, actually. You just put you know what you do?
Sam [00:03:52]:
You copy the story and just jam.
Sam [00:03:54]:
It into Chat GPT and go, right, write a story.
Chris [00:03:58]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:03:59]:
Speaking of that, did you hear about the lawyers that got in trouble on Chat GPT in the last week or last month?
Sam [00:04:07]:
Did they submit something and it was all bogus or something?
Chris [00:04:10]:
Yeah, so these lawyers, everybody was just cracking up. All the law people in a state were following this as it was going on, and they put in this case and what are you citations of cases. And Chat GPT just made up these citations, made up all these excerpts from the cases, and they just threw it in there and they put it to the judge, and the judge is like, okay, cool, okay. Can you just give me some more details on these citations? And the went in, oh, we can’t find them. What do you mean you can’t find them? And they got raked over the Colts like big time, sanctioned to hell crazy.
Sam [00:04:50]:
I’ve got a story for you. This is sort of we’re involved in this sort of not really. You know when you make a film and you have some gear and you have like this truck sometimes and or trailers or cars and there’s stuff everywhere, right? And when you put a corpse in the back of a truck on a horror set that you’ve hired the truck for, well, sometimes you just leave it.
Sam [00:05:12]:
In the truck, right?
Sam [00:05:13]:
And this is what happened in the UK.
Sam [00:05:16]:
This 35 year old was found in.
Sam [00:05:18]:
The vehicle in a compound, but the.
Sam [00:05:20]:
Witness didn’t report his death because when.
Sam [00:05:22]:
He saw it, he goes, oh, that’s.
Sam [00:05:23]:
A prop from the horror film.
Chris [00:05:25]:
So is it actually a dead body?
Sam [00:05:26]:
It was actual dead body.
Chris [00:05:28]:
So somebody just expired there.
Sam [00:05:30]:
The truck had been used previously on A film set for a horror film, and the guy went to check to see if the truck was still drivable for some reason. Don’t know why it says that. Doesn’t say it was damaged in any way. Sorry. The front of the truck had been smashed in the curtain. The side had been cut, and the engine wouldn’t start. When he looked in, he thought it was a dummy, but it was this dead guy, and he had been treated for anxiety and depression. So maybe he went into this truck. But apparently, yeah, he was in the truck.
Chris [00:06:03]:
God damn, that’s dark.
Sam [00:06:06]:
Oh, no. There was a note from the dude with an intention of he did want to end his life, so he chose to do it in the back of a truck.
Chris [00:06:16]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:16]:
Okay.
Chris [00:06:17]:
All right.
Sam [00:06:17]:
It is a bit depressing. More depressing when you think about that.
Chris [00:06:21]:
Yeah, speaking of depressing okay, I shouldn’t say it like that at all.
Chris [00:06:28]:
No.
Chris [00:06:28]:
We went to Adam’s birthday for a movie night.
Sam [00:06:32]:
I know.
Sam [00:06:33]:
I am so gutted I missed it.
Sam [00:06:34]:
I had the day off work.
Sam [00:06:36]:
I was already but I was still plagued with my pawnliness of whatever, my diseases that I’ve got. And I would have just been coughing the whole time. I’m better today. But you were going to fill me in on what you saw, I guess.
Chris [00:06:48]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:49]:
So we watched three movies. First one was called the FP. All the movies, I’ve just got to say, oh, no, second one wasn’t. But the first and the third were definitely bonkers.
Chris [00:07:00]:
They were bonkers.
Sam [00:07:01]:
I think that’s how he advertised it to me. He goes, I got some real weird films for you.
Chris [00:07:06]:
Yeah, totally. So the FP was good. I quite liked that. But it was the least of them, which was why it was first. That was cool. And it was only me, Sash and Adam there for that. And then we watched Censor. That’s pretty good. And that’s what remind me of, what you reminded me of when you were talking about this dead body thing. It’s about a movie censor who does the censorship stuff and becomes sort of embroiled in this actual horror. It’s pretty clever.
Chris [00:07:38]:
It’s pretty good.
Chris [00:07:39]:
It’s a little dark.
Sam [00:07:41]:
Is it American or UK or some other foreign country?
Chris [00:07:44]:
I think it was UK. Yes, UK.
Chris [00:07:46]:
Okay.
Chris [00:07:47]:
That was UK. And then the third one, The Pistol Rostongs of the Night was a French film, so subtitled. And it is the most bonkers film now. You know how many films I’ve seen at Adams? This is the most bonkers film I’ve ever seen, Adam.
Sam [00:08:05]:
And I know what sort of films he’s watching sometimes, too. Okay, so this is like next level, top tier.
Chris [00:08:10]:
Holy hell. It’s really good.
Chris [00:08:12]:
What’s it called?
Chris [00:08:12]:
It’s called smoking. Causes coughing.
Sam [00:08:15]:
Okay.
Chris [00:08:16]:
Which is obviously not the title in French. I don’t know what it is in French, but that’s what is the English translation of it. Definitely worth seeing if you can find it. It’s only a couple of years old, but damn.
Chris [00:08:29]:
Damn, it’s good.
Sam [00:08:30]:
Okay.
Sam [00:08:30]:
That’s a good film recommendation there. I’m going to have to track that down, hopefully. Hey, funerals, let’s talk about that. You’ve been to a couple in your time?
Chris [00:08:39]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:08:40]:
Okay. So where my mum and dad live, there’s a family that’s quite well off, I guess. And they’re quite involved in a bunch of things. And I think the wife may have been a trophy wife, now that I think about it. I think she’s a lot well, yeah, I think she’s a lot younger than the dude she married. But she’s like in her 60s now or something, I don’t know. So this family, their kids, I think when I was at primary school or when I left primary to go to high school, the kids were really little. They had a bunch of little kids, I think. Never had anything to do with them.
Sam [00:09:14]:
That’s fine.
Sam [00:09:14]:
Well, the dude died.
Sam [00:09:16]:
Now, this is a big deal.
Sam [00:09:17]:
So there’s a couple of people that have died where my parents live and when they die, it’s huge and they all go to a certain venue. I think it’s a hotel or something. For the funeral?
Chris [00:09:28]:
For the wake?
Sam [00:09:29]:
No, the actual funeral itself.
Chris [00:09:30]:
Funeral.
Chris [00:09:31]:
Okay.
Sam [00:09:31]:
It’s held in this place because they can have 1000 people or 2000 people.
Chris [00:09:35]:
Right?
Sam [00:09:35]:
Holy shit.
Sam [00:09:36]:
Everybody goes, right. So my mum says, you know what? This funeral is the nicest one I’ve been to. And the woman, she’s involved in every committee, everything and she’s always organizing stuff and she’s always like rings my mum up and says, hey, can you make a cake for this thing?
Chris [00:09:54]:
Right.
Sam [00:09:55]:
So that’s good.
Sam [00:09:56]:
So she said it was all very good. And when you go to a funeral, a lot of the time they’ll play a little video montage thing.
Chris [00:10:03]:
Yeah, I’ve created some of those in the past for funerals.
Chris [00:10:07]:
Now.
Sam [00:10:07]:
Have you created one with the dead.
Sam [00:10:09]:
Person going on a little tour of their farm?
Sam [00:10:12]:
No. So that’s what they did.
Sam [00:10:15]:
So he died, they had him in the coffin. Apparently. They took him after he’s dead. Yeah.
Chris [00:10:23]:
I thought you meant like beforehand. He’s taking them. Okay.
Sam [00:10:26]:
So they took him around. One last visit of the farm apparently was shot really well. My mum said they even used those flying camera machines, also known as a drone. I just really want to see it. I want to see what they shot, who was flying a drone, what they showed. And I don’t know. Anyway, she was telling me all about it and I was like, okay. And she guess it was very well done.
Chris [00:10:53]:
Very tastefully done.
Sam [00:10:55]:
Yeah, as tasteful as it can. Dudes on the back of a quad bike just being towed along in a little trailer. I don’t know.
Chris [00:11:03]:
Oh my God. Actually, we’re doing a lot of death this episode.
Sam [00:11:07]:
This is what happens when we come to Field Days. No, but we are at Field Days, so maybe we should keep an eye.
Sam [00:11:12]:
Out and see if there’s a little.
Sam [00:11:12]:
Coffin trailer here, maybe that’s a business. I’m kidding. The other year we spoke to that truly? Oh, that was a pet, dude. And he did things with pets. I think there should be something here for farmers. Farmers funerals, something along those lines.
Chris [00:11:29]:
Maybe there was a memorial tree thing.
Chris [00:11:33]:
You guys did something the other year, but yeah, I know. I can’t remember that.
Sam [00:11:36]:
This family has been trespassed from Domino’s pizza chain, and I think it said they’ve been trespassed from every Domino’s in the country. So how do you do that?
Chris [00:11:47]:
They’re scamming them.
Sam [00:11:48]:
Well, they’re trying to scam them.
Chris [00:11:50]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:11:50]:
They found a metal screw in a slice of pizza. There’s a picture there for you.
Chris [00:11:55]:
Okay.
Sam [00:11:55]:
It’s literally just a screw jammed into a pizza.
Sam [00:11:58]:
Pizza.
Sam [00:11:59]:
Of course, their child was eating it. As always, the police were called to point Chevrolet Road because the father returned to the store to speak to staff. He was given a refund, but he was still unhappy. He started becoming abusive to staff, and then the police turned up. They believed the screw had been put in the pizza after the cooking process.
Chris [00:12:19]:
Well, it looks like it from that photo.
Sam [00:12:21]:
It’s like the shiniest, brightest, brand new.
Chris [00:12:23]:
Screw you could ever find pushed thread down into a pizza. Because if you had a screw on a pizza, you’d expect it to be lying flat and the cheese on top, that sort of thing. Yeah.
Sam [00:12:35]:
So he got trespassed. Family members responded to social media, said that, yes, they did get a trespass order, and they’d been accused of putting the screw in the pizza themselves. Yeah, I don’t know.
Chris [00:12:47]:
It looks dodgy ass. Looks dodgy ass. What’s, this dude who spent a lot of time underwater?
Chris [00:12:53]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:12:54]:
So this American professor, he spent I’m pretty sure let me just confirm this. Don’t want to get you wrong, guys. 100 days underwater, it’s a record. He inhabited this thing now. So he’s in the jewels undersea lodge. He was 9.15 meters underneath the water. And basically the reason why this is so groundbreaking or I don’t know, is because it was without depressurization, so he.
Sam [00:13:27]:
Had to deal with that.
Sam [00:13:28]:
But he beat 73 days was the previous record. And he taught while he was under.
Sam [00:13:35]:
There, as well as a professor, and.
Sam [00:13:37]:
He, like, zoomed in and stuff. So he did a bunch of experiments and all sorts. He met with several thousand students from twelve countries, taught a USF course, and welcomed more than 60 visitors to the habitat.
Chris [00:13:49]:
So 9 meters down, that’s three atmospheres or something like that.
Sam [00:13:53]:
It doesn’t say, but I guess you’d get used to it. And the big thing is, when you.
Chris [00:13:59]:
Come back up, that’s the tough thing. That’s what gets me. Like he had to depressurize coming up?
Chris [00:14:05]:
Yes.
Sam [00:14:05]:
I assume so this story is very light on details. So we’re just going to make it up. Yeah, but a lot of it would.
Chris [00:14:11]:
Like, because one of my friends died that way, they came up too quick and got the bubbles. Got the bubbles and died on the spot.
Sam [00:14:19]:
Yeah, but I mean, the big thing with it, I guess, in my head when I first saw the headline, was like, oh, okay. Part of it would be isolation. No, this dude has 60 visitors and he’s teaching courses. He’s fine.
Chris [00:14:32]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:14:33]:
When you say 100 days, you’re like.
Chris [00:14:35]:
Oh, that’d be boring.
Chris [00:14:37]:
As but if you’re doing stuff every day exactly. And I think you’d have to keep exercising, too.
Sam [00:14:43]:
Yeah, I guess.
Sam [00:14:44]:
And it sounds like, I don’t know.
Chris [00:14:46]:
Because you’d probably be able to just swim out and swim back, do a bit of laps around or circles around the habitat and back in I don’t know.
Sam [00:14:55]:
Yeah, I guess so.
Sam [00:14:56]:
Hey, United Nations World Environment Day happened the other week. They decided to make a sculpture on Bondi Beach highlighting the plastic waste problem. So that’s all fun and games. They got a whole bunch of plastic. How big was it? That’s what I really want to know. It was the amount of plastic waste that is dumped in the world’s oceans every 30 seconds. So they made a giant poo.
Chris [00:15:22]:
It looks like the emoji emoticon poo.
Sam [00:15:25]:
A giant emoji poo. That’s what you want. That’s good.
Chris [00:15:32]:
That’s a real statement.
Sam [00:15:33]:
How much do you I really want to know who made it. And they’re like, you know what? It’s one of those things. Oh, don’t get me started. Bloody field days. Bloody you know what?
Chris [00:15:41]:
I saw the art thing.
Chris [00:15:42]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:15:43]:
I’ve got a plan for next year and I’m going to win the $7,000. Yeah, and it’s a good idea, too. It’s not a crappy idea, just a pile of rubbish in the corner. I’ve come up with an actual plan and a story behind it.
Chris [00:15:56]:
Nice.
Sam [00:15:57]:
Tell you about it after.
Chris [00:15:58]:
Yeah, we’ll keep that under wraps.
Sam [00:16:00]:
Do you want to end it here? We’re halfway through.
Chris [00:16:02]:
Well, let’s pause it here. We may come back after we’ve seen some of the life that might be happening in field days.
Sam [00:16:10]:
I might chop this out as well, so who knows?
Sam [00:16:12]:
All right, sweater. Hey, welcome back. This is the second part of episode 434, and we’re not at Field Days anymore due to the magic of time and being the next day and maybe us forgetting to actually finish the recording. Here we are.
Chris [00:16:29]:
Yeah, it sort of works out well, I guess because it was a long day, so I did over 20,000 steps in the day. I was so buggered when I got home, I went to bed and slept for a couple of hours and then got up and made dinner.
Sam [00:16:45]:
I know.
Chris [00:16:45]:
I didn’t get up and make dinner. I actually stopped at Dirty Old Singdar on the way home, to be honest.
Sam [00:16:52]:
That’s the way singdar. I haven’t had that in a while.
Chris [00:16:55]:
Singda takeaways. Yeah.
Sam [00:16:57]:
What did you think of field days?
Chris [00:16:59]:
It was great. It seemed quieter than we’ve had before. Although Wednesday is a quiet day, generally.
Chris [00:17:08]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:17:10]:
But yeah, no, I thought it was good. We came across some interesting people. My favorite will probably be the Hemp People, I would say.
Sam [00:17:19]:
Yes. Good old Tiger drops. By the time you listen to this, all the podcast episodes are out. They’re actually out right now. I’ve done them all. I’ve been working like a madman. I haven’t emailed everyone and I haven’t done the social media posts, but they’re all out there. But by the time you hear this on Sunday, you can listen to the.
Sam [00:17:38]:
Ten interviews, I think it was that we did.
Sam [00:17:40]:
And Chris is talking about the guys from Tiger Drops. And we never talked about this to him because we didn’t know this, but basically when you listen to that interview, I hope you do it’s very interesting. There’s a lot of claims about what these products can and can’t do and what he can legally say and can’t say, and you get that in that interview. But after we spoke to him, we went around the corner and there was another business. I have no idea what they were called. If you didn’t know what it was, it was set up like a bar, like a company selling alcohol. Looked very similar to one of them.
Chris [00:18:19]:
Yeah. I thought it was called Hemp Man, actually, something like that.
Sam [00:18:24]:
I have no idea. So I didn’t want to get anything wrong.
Sam [00:18:27]:
The now they had a product which from a layman’s point of view looked identical, but they were claiming that it could do everything.
Chris [00:18:36]:
Yeah, there were all sorts of claims there, plus the price was almost double.
Sam [00:18:42]:
Yeah. So I think I’m going to go with the people we spoke with because he has the social company that’s helping with this. He’s designed yeah, he’s designed a Year 13 curriculum for this type of stuff. And he’s the only one or the first one to come up with some sort of training for the doctors that the doctors accepted. If you go to the website, there’s a whole thing about it that’s pretty cool.
Chris [00:19:10]:
Oh, cool, because I haven’t done any of that, obviously.
Sam [00:19:13]:
Cool. So today they came out with the site awards for field days.
Chris [00:19:21]:
And they give the best exhibitor or the best exhibition site.
Chris [00:19:27]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:19:27]:
And there’s a bunch of different categories. Categories, that’s the word. The Supreme Site Award is power farming, wholesale, limited.
Chris [00:19:38]:
Yeah, I don’t recall them at all.
Sam [00:19:40]:
They were at the bottom of Gate too, apparently. And it’s all tractors and stuff, so that was okay. But the cool thing was they wanted good old because it’s a three generational family business. They had a whole site explaining that, which is really good. They wanted to have good old fashioned authentic hospitality was at the forefront of every decision when it came into that site. Build. Now, what they did, and I thought this was clever, they gave away 1000 tickets to certain guests to come check out the stand via the app. They get a notification every time one of those people goes through the gate, so they know they’re on site. So that was pretty cool.
Chris [00:20:27]:
Nice.
Sam [00:20:28]:
And there was a crowd who we probably should have spoken to. They were in the pantry. I think they were called pure by the barrel man. And they got the Commitment to Sustainability Award. They recycle wine barrels in their entirety to make platters, plant stands and furniture. I’m sure I’ve seen them before previous years. And any leftover materials are donated to local restaurants for use in their smokers.
Chris [00:20:59]:
Yeah, so a bit of behind the scenes for everyone listening. There’s a lot of sites after your days, we’re talking a lot. Do you not have a number?
Sam [00:21:14]:
Not off the top of my head.
Chris [00:21:15]:
See if you can look one up.
Chris [00:21:16]:
While I’m talking about this. But yeah, unfortunately it’s not as easy to find through the app as we would have liked to sort of skim through and go, oh, that one looks all right, that one looks all right. You can go through and you see a lot of names and the names don’t mean anything. And then if you click on them, some of them give quite a bit of information, which is quite cool. And some of them give like the most rudimentary information. Like I don’t know. So we had an idea of about I had about five or six, which isn’t many at all, that I knew I wanted to look at. And then we had a couple of people, mainly narrator, and Rachel suggested a few people we should go and see, which was really cool. So went and saw those. Next year. If there is anybody you know, at Field Days you want us to go and interview, let us know because that seemed to work out pretty good, actually.
Sam [00:22:16]:
Who do you think got the best indoor site? Now, I will narrow this down for you. Inside the pavilion. One no Dairy NZ Limited.
Chris [00:22:29]:
Really?
Sam [00:22:30]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:22:31]:
They were busy a lot.
Sam [00:22:32]:
They were.
Chris [00:22:34]:
I don’t know why.
Sam [00:22:36]:
Well, dairy farmers. That’s a big thing.
Chris [00:22:40]:
Yeah, because did you see the competition at the very end in the green? They had a big stand, milk one or something. Like, we’ll pay more than Fonterra. I don’t think it was Tatura.
Sam [00:22:59]:
No, it was the other one. Yeah, the other main competitor to Fonterra.
Chris [00:23:05]:
Okay.
Sam [00:23:06]:
But they’ve got like a quite big brand loyalty, so I don’t know how easy it is for a farmer to switch. Like, I’m sure there’s some breakage fee. I’m not sure how it works.
Chris [00:23:15]:
Yeah, I’m sure there is. And I think they only exist because Conterra manages to annoy piss somebody off. Where else am I going to go? Well, I’m going to go there now. That’s right. They’ll never overtake them.
Sam [00:23:32]:
I learnt while we’re at Field Days, the number one thing that people on social media like to see is my footlong. German sausage. We had random. Have you seen the people that like that? There was a few, like, super old flatmate that moved to Auckland.
Chris [00:23:48]:
Heather. Yeah.
Sam [00:23:49]:
Heather.
Chris [00:23:49]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:23:49]:
Heather liked that. So it was good. And Art, I think he was on there.
Chris [00:23:55]:
Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:23:57]:
Anyway, that was good. I had an idea. Next year, if I’ve got multiple days off, I am going to edit all these interviews while I’m at Field Days. That’s what I’m going to do, because then I won’t get distracted. I’m there. And we had a lot of people.
Sam [00:24:12]:
That wanted to possibly meet up with us today.
Chris [00:24:16]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:24:16]:
And we didn’t go. But if I’m there just fluffing around, we could catch up.
Chris [00:24:22]:
I think we could have organized it a little bit better because if we actually sat down for a while and did some editing and just got off our feet for a bit, it probably would have helped break it up a bit.
Chris [00:24:34]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:24:34]:
So I’ve got that and I’ve got another winning idea.
Chris [00:24:37]:
Chris.
Sam [00:24:37]:
This came to me about 2 hours ago in the car.
Chris [00:24:41]:
Nice.
Sam [00:24:42]:
We have a little sign. I don’t know how to make it. I don’t know what it’ll look like, but it’s something called like this. A four, maybe or whatever. And we’ll put it on the back of our bag or back of our shirt, whatever we’ve got on our back, and basically it’ll say, ever want to be on a podcast? Hit us up.
Chris [00:25:00]:
Nice.
Sam [00:25:01]:
Then we will have, and this will be called People of Field Days. So if there’s enough of them, they all become one episode. And we have a selection of four sets of questions and we go, what set of questions you want? One, two, three or four? Yep. And then we just go right out. What’s your most embarrassing story? Why are you at field days? What do you want to look at? Or whatever? We could do this for almost any event. We could do that armageddon, too.
Chris [00:25:28]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:25:29]:
Because we had people checking out our shirt at Field Days, which is cool.
Chris [00:25:33]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:25:34]:
Random people going, You’re Chris, you’re, Sam, like, sort of making a statement, but obviously 50 50 chance they got it right.
Sam [00:25:42]:
I know, but they felt confident enough to say something. Say something. So that was crazy. And that’s basically Field Days in terms.
Chris [00:25:53]:
Of the weather, that was possibly the best weather I’ve been to because although it was pretty chilly in the morning, we have been to Field Days when it’s quite hot.
Sam [00:26:05]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:05]:
Hot sucks and hot rain sucks. Well, so this was about perfect. It was about the best weather that we’ve ever had, I think.
Sam [00:26:14]:
Yeah, it worked out pretty good. I’m happy with who we spoke to, what we did.
Chris [00:26:20]:
Cool. Hey, I’ve got one story here that I might mention because it’s nothing to do with field days, it’s just something that I hadn’t talked about for ages.
Sam [00:26:29]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:32]:
It’s been on my list for ages and I just haven’t said anything about it. So, basically, did you know about the weather impact of the Tonga eruption?
Sam [00:26:46]:
When did the tongue and eruption happen?
Chris [00:26:49]:
Okay. January 15, the last year. Okay.
Sam [00:26:55]:
I thought I might have missed something, but no. Carry on.
Chris [00:26:58]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:26:58]:
So that scent, it says here the unprecedented amount of water vapor was hurled into the atmosphere.
Sam [00:27:10]:
Oh, cool.
Chris [00:27:11]:
And this link I’ve got is a NASA link and it’s a satellite image of the thing coming up from down below.
Chris [00:27:18]:
Yes.
Chris [00:27:19]:
Pretty effort. Epic. The hunger. Tonga Hungarpai volcano erupted on January 15. Sense a tsunami racing around the world set off sonic boom that circled the globe twice.
Sam [00:27:34]:
Oh, that’s pretty good.
Chris [00:27:36]:
The underwater eruption in the South Pacific also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere, enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic sized swimming pools.
Sam [00:27:48]:
Whoa.
Chris [00:27:49]:
The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature. We’ve never seen anything like it, an atmospheric scientist said. DA DA DA DA DA DA DA. He led a new study examining the amount of water vapor the Tonga volcano injected into the stratosphere the layer of the atmosphere between eight and 33 miles, twelve and 53 km above Earth’s surface. The eruption sent around 146 terrograms of water, which is a horrible measurement.
Sam [00:28:31]:
I know.
Sam [00:28:32]:
Is that 1000 tons?
Sam [00:28:35]:
No.
Chris [00:28:35]:
What?
Sam [00:28:35]:
I don’t know.
Chris [00:28:36]:
Yeah, I don’t know. Is it a billion kilograms?
Chris [00:28:43]:
It is.
Sam [00:28:44]:
Or you’re guessing.
Chris [00:28:45]:
I’m guessing billion kilograms would be 146,000,000,000 should say. Which is about four times the amount of water vapor that scientists estimate the 1991 mount from Philippines did. So anyway, they reckon that it’s going to last about ten years. Ten years? It’s going to be in the atmosphere. Fair to come down. That just blew my mind and I’m like, how come I didn’t know any of this?
Sam [00:29:22]:
Well, if you’re not in those circles and you’re normally reading up on that stuff, you probably wouldn’t.
Chris [00:29:27]:
No, but I will put the link in the show notes as well. But it’s just good watching that eruption thing from satellite. Just looks cool.
Sam [00:29:38]:
Looks cool. Hey, I was at the post shop down the road from me today and sending something and this old lady came in and she looked fancy.
Chris [00:29:50]:
Oh, a fancy lady.
Sam [00:29:52]:
Well, if she’s buying $400 worth of Apple itunes cards across 20 cards, do you think she’s getting scammed?
Chris [00:30:03]:
We talked about that once before and somebody bought loads and loads of cards. What was that?
Sam [00:30:08]:
Yeah, it’s a scam. That’s how they do it. They’re like, you have to pay us on these cards. And that old guy was doing it. And he paid heaps, I think was what we talked about in the past.
Chris [00:30:17]:
That’s right, yeah.
Sam [00:30:18]:
She seemed quite comfortable about it and she was so sorry. And the woman had to scan every single card to load the all up and I was like 50 50.
Sam [00:30:27]:
And if I should have said anything.
Sam [00:30:29]:
I was just like, I don’t know.
Chris [00:30:32]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:30:33]:
Just seemed weird.
Chris [00:30:35]:
I don’t know if it was nearer Christmas, I’d be more relaxed without it because you can imagine it’s like maybe a staff thing and each of the staff are getting a bonus and you’re doing that. That would make sense. But in June but it’s sort of.
Sam [00:30:52]:
Like it comes back to the retailer at the post shop. They’re just like the just don’t give a shit. They just want to process it when in reality they should go. That’s not a normal transaction.
Chris [00:31:04]:
Yeah, sure, it can’t be. Unless it is normal. Like they do it a lot and in which case it’s a problem as well.
Sam [00:31:13]:
There’s just lots of people getting scammed nonstop and they don’t know.
Chris [00:31:18]:
That’s crazy. That’s crazy.
Chris [00:31:20]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:31:21]:
So what’s next in events? Have we got an event coming up that we can have a crack at?
Sam [00:31:27]:
Not that we know.
Chris [00:31:28]:
Not other than the Fireside chat.
Sam [00:31:31]:
Yes. We’ll have more on that next week. If this is your very first episode of listening to the Chris Sam podcast while you’re in for a treat, we’ve got over 400 other bloody episodes. And if you want to listen to some really good ones, you want to look up the best beasting story in the world that’s on the front page of the website. Stories from Trev or Trev stories. The 100th episode, it gets a bit messy, but you can listen to us.
Chris [00:31:58]:
Yeah, I don’t recommend I was wasted.
Sam [00:32:05]:
And if you start from the start, apologies for the sound quality and me sounding like I’m a zombie, I don’t know what’s going on back then.
Chris [00:32:13]:
Yeah, it took us a little while to get into the stride, but yeah, that’s right.
Sam [00:32:20]:
Yeah. So this is us. This is everyone that we met. Or if you’re listening to this, hello.
Chris [00:32:26]:
Yeah. Okay, cool.
Sam [00:32:28]:
Well, until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:32:31]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:32:32]:
See ya.
Chris [00:32:32]:
Bye.
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