Chris is battling a lingering sickness while Sam’s busy hunting down tiny plastic ducks hidden around the house. This week, the guys talk Barbie and Oppenheimer, binge HBO’s Chimp Crazy, and discover the wild world of milking snails for ancient purple dye.

There’s tales of ocular cat bugs, a moon-bound nuclear plant courtesy of China and Russia, tourists snapping selfies via Chinese CCTV, and jailbirds with a flair for dramatic exits.

All this and much more in this week’s episode.

Barbie

Chimp Crazy

Milking snails

Harvard Had Another Win

Cat's causing problems with Toxoplasmosis

Tourist in China getting selfies a different way

Waste Management Team Leader in Trouble

Russia and China to Build nuclear power plant on the moon

Potential new TV show coming

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Chris has man flu this week, while Sam is back from the NZ Podcasting Summit.

We learn that the Russian spy whale died this week, while an inmate was lost and a suspect had a crap hiding spot.

In AI things, we learn someone is in a relationship with their AI partner, AI is causing problems for some while an AI victim impact statement is used in court.

We have listener feedback, and a rare NZ snail lays an egg.

All this and much more in this weeks episode.

Russia's spy whale found dead

Missing inmate finally found

Man's side hustle turns bad

AI Relationship

AI fueled spiritual fantasies

AI victim impact statement

Rare NZ snail, finally recorded laying an egg

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We watched a bunch of movies this week, while Sam sorted out the stupid parking ticket. We learn about a raccoon with a meth pipe, a long lost sausage dog is found and a weird guy keeps setting fire to his house.

Just the usual really. Come have a listen

The People We Love Movie

Micky 17

The Long Walk

NZ gets defense money

Homegrown comes to Hamilton

Raccoon with Meth Pipe

Valerie the dog found after 540 days

π0.5

Man sets fire to house multiple time to see firefighters

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Sam has beef this week with Pak N Save Clarence St this week with their crazy car parking ticket they gave him for 26 hours.

Chris has a shoutout this week to Ellen, not his ex wife Ellen, someone else it turns out.

Carnival with fart spray causes chaos. While a Turkish town decide to burn a lot of weed, and Saudi Arabia has made a thing called beacons of hope.

We talk about a dumbass who had to be rescued twice, while robots try and complete a half marathon. Plus we round out all of this with some tech news.

Fart spray causes chaos at a Carnival in the US

First humanoid robot half marathon held in Beijing

Turkish town Lice has a problem getting rid of drugs

Saudi Arabia has set up beacons of hope

Man gets rescued twice off of Mt Fuji in two days

Google Chrome to be sold off?

Play Xbox on LG TVs

Nike backed NFT project has a problem

Please and thank you costing OpenAI millions

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This episode is filled to the brim with stories. From a Cat flavoured Dog pie, to unique flooding protection, a bookshop move, the world's most bitter compound and Chris being weird.

More on the stolen golden toilet, a Kiwi woman gets a brain implant, a new colour has been found, what's up with Fyre Festival 2 and so much more.

Cat flavoured dog pie

Unique flooding prevention solution

Bookshop move

Palmerston the cat is back

The world's most bitter compound has been found

New colour has been found

New way to stay in the US

Kiwi woman has brain implant

Man denies stealing golden toilet

Weird Guinness world record

Kickstart or Dropkick -

Fyre Festival 2

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This weeks episode we cover a bunch of things, from Sam being stuck in Easter traffic and getting customer easter eggs.

To the renaming of an aircraft carrier, a wrestling Church and the chaos that is hte Minecraft movie.

What is going on with the naming of people by NZ Health? How did a first aid course go this week, and we spend way too much time talking about how weird Elon Musk is.

All this and more.

Aircraft carrier to be renamed Musk

Wrestling Church

7 Tigers seized

Minecraft movie chaos in theatres

Weird Health NZ directive

Musk Trolling in Palo Alto

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This weeks podcast Chris hears something about TEDx, while we learned what the deal with the fitted sheet in Wellington was all about.

A kiwi gets busted with drugs in Thailand in a dumb way, while dire wolves have been brought back to life after extinction.

We have a kickstart or dropkick for you. We talk about a car parking problem that sounds like it's been going on for far too long and much more.

Folded sheet event in Wellington

Kiwi Gets Arrested Trying to Smuggle Drugs

Dire Wolf is now alive

Kickstarter or Dropkick - Pocket Cloud

Woman scammer caught out again due to Netflix Doco

Corleo Kawasaki Announced

Problem with robo car park

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Chris has a hard time back at Karate and is getting his bike fixed this week. Sam was moving pumpkins, bumping into someone that knew him and experienced a weird thing with some lost keys.

We talk a bit about the SignalGate thing in the US and the Tarrifs

We also talk about the Mean Pies app for all the pie lovers in NZ.

SignalGate

Mean Pies App

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