The Chris and Sam Podcast

Summary This week Chris has been busy and has a retreat coming up. While Sam tried to deal with a rat he instead got a giant hedgehog. One of us saw the Kanye West doco and give a rundown of it. Richard Branson is being sued and NASA is opening up some 50 year old samples from the moon. The creator of the GIF dies. And we talk about Bruce Willis and his memory supposed memory loss. Chris fondly re...

Summary We're back this week. Find out how Covid has been for Sam. We talk about the Russians a bit. Chris gives an update of the wedding he attended last week. Shoutout to Liam the groom. Congratulations. We talk about some science stuff. And right about now my energy levels have dropped. So Make sure you are listening to get all the details. Links Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Summary Sam's feeling average this week. Could it be Covid? And Chris has some new work hours. We're happy the Wellington protest is over and we have some stories that have come out of the Ukraine. Scientists have been busy lately. From magpies to dolphins and even venus fly traps. Find out what exactly they have been up to. We have a Kickstarter this week. A motorised camera dolly. Chris is impre...

Summary Chris caught up on the Tinder Swindler and really like the Air NZ ad they put out. We have an update on the Wellington protestors. As well as NZ's richest person helping out Tonga. We talk about Hamilton startup Saveboard which is recycling plastic into building products, which we think is a great idea. An old woman falls over and blames free fruit and wants it banned. We learn that adults...

Summary This week Chris went along to the Misty Flicks film showcase. Find out how it went and who got on the microphone. Chris had to get another phone this week, find out how that's going and if he likes the backup he's been using. Apple created Air Tag's for people to help find their stuff. Some creepy people are using them for other reasons. The Wellington protesters get a mention. GO HOME. Th...

Summary This week Chris is sweaty and not because of all the humidity. Find out what he got on the Oculus to get his heartrate going. Sam's fallen down the rabbit hole of NFT and now owns some. Find out what he's got and what we think about it. The Tinder Swindler is out now on Netflix. Have you seen it yet? Back to NFT's a NZ company is combining this online trend with planting trees. We talk abo...

Summary This week everyone is in for a shock as Sam shaved off all his facial hair. Why did he do this and how does he feel about it? We have a couple of golf related Kickstarters this week. What do you do if you have large amount of cigarette butts messing up your city? Well you get some birds to help you out. We talk about the Irish fisherman who isn't going to let some pesky Russians and their...

Summary We've been up some fresh stuff this week. Come find out. Is an alcohol free bar really a bar? What's a dumb way to get some dead person's pension/ We learn about expanding foam and what to not use it for. A bunch of monkeys were all found after a crash, or were they? Google is working on some cool new tech, are haptic gloves any good and so much more. Come check it out and share it with a...

Summary In this week's episode, we kick things off by talking about the upcoming Omicron outbreak that is sure to spread rapidly across NZ. Are we ready as a nation for this? Chris covers a bunch of biotech breakthroughs that will make our lives no doubt better in the future. Wellington has a new sign. Chris thinks it is a great idea for the cost, Sam isn't so sure. What do you think? There's a lo...

Summary Find out how Chris has been getting along with his bike this week. We have an update on what we've been watching recently. We've got an update on some Trump stuff. Who died this week in the world of entertainment and our favourite rat died as well. There was a problem for car owners at The Base shopping centre this week, and problems for a man that crashed his plane in the US. KFC is rolli...

Summary Welcome to the first episode of 2022. Sam told Chris to watch the Netflix film. Don't look up. What did he think of it? NASA is hiring priests so they can explain aliens to people. Is this some sort of giant cover up we don't know about? Scientists have been busy lately. One lot has been making a giant black box to record the end of times when it happens. Another lot has worked out how to...

Summary The Christmas Bumper edition is here. Find out what we are up to. How Chris injured himself. You will never guess what he did. Sam has an update on some pumpkin related stuff and Chris has been looking into charities lately. We have a couple of random websites for you. These include: scan of the month, nuke map, an emoji to scale. We find out what problem astronauts have been having with t...

Summary This week we are so busy we've had to dust off the backup episode. Don't worry, it's full of randomness, technology and life. We talk about a bunch of questionable movies we've watched. Canon is getting sued because of their dodgy printer practices. There is a sleep bus for insomniacs now, we learn about the world's best preserved mummy. Scientists make some wood strong as steel. And you'l...

Summary In this weeks show, we find out why Chris was so sweaty, the interaction he had with some protesters, and what he brought himself as an early Christmas present. A woman wouldn't stop breast feeding her cat on an airplane, sounds about right. We discover a way to stop someone that is escaping on an electric scooter, we think there are better ways to do it. A CEO lays off 900 people at once,...

Summary This week on the show we find out just how much Chris has immersed himself into the Metaverse. Will he ever come back? Sam got a bit of PTSD from another podcast, and has been putting up Christmas lights just to see how much he can blind the neighbours. After mentioning Armageddon last week, we heard from them this week. Will we be going this year? Chris busts out some facts about the Haas...

Summary This week we start with something visual which we know you all love. It's the super skinny waste of time Yellow Pages. Sam talks about his recent visit to Hamilton Zoo and who he managed to bump into there. Find out how all of that went. Chris “celebrated” a birthday this week, not sure how old he really is now. In the field of space, we're trying to hit a small moon of an astroid, is this...

Is Chris a new man this week? Sam got a great deal for $1 this week, what exactly did he get and how did the pickup go? RIP to John Whittaker Who is this person that keeps stating they are human to Sam. Is there going to be problems with windows 11 and the browser you use with it? This leads Sam to start talking about MacBook Pros and just how powerful they are now. Sam's started to deal with Guin...

Summary Chris has just been on a retreat, will it make him a new person? We'll find out next week just how it went. He's also doing some work with Impact Hub. We have a listener shout out to Jamie, welcome to the podcast. In Covid talk we cover the African startup that is wanting to crack the Covid vaccine, and we cover the dumb protests happening in New Zealand currently. Peter Jackson sells the...

What do dairy sheep have to do with Covid19? And who drinks sheep's milk, we ponder these questions and more. Like what is the deal with Zuckerberg and the BBQ sauce bottle, did a Brazilian man actually die from a piranha attack. Joe Rogan got confused about an ad that mentioned him, Trump keeps changing some figures. We also find out where the cheapest house in NZ is, just how much Lego can someo...

Summary We're back Find out what kept Sam busy this week, and what almost happened to him at work. Diego, everyone's favourite Brazilian moved out this week also. Trumps trying to make a new social media network, and being as predictable as he is, it's already a shambles before it's even started. We have a great discussion about Alec Baldwin killing the DOP on the set of the movie Rust, who was at...

William Shatner went into space this week on Jeff Bezo's rocket. How did it go and how much of it was a publicity stunt. We have the run down this week of what has been happening with COVID here in New Zealand, and talk about Super Saturday. A thief has to surrender the gold he had on him while robbing other places as he didn't have a good enough reason to have it, very strange story. There are me...

Summary We have the latest with the Covid news and how it is affecting us. Facebook and related properties went down this week, is this a good thing? How often do drunk people end up in their own search when they go missing? More than you think is our guess. Scam emails seem to have got more sophisticated for once, find out what almost caught Chris out this week. Chris gives a movie review, we fin...

Summary We catch up in person this week, which makes for a better podcast recording. Find out what Sam has been doing with pumpkin planning this week, and how many times Chris made it to the gym. We finally sit down and watch the amazing piece of film that is Samurai Cop. Find out what we thought about it and what we learned about the making of it. The french are upset about the Australians gettin...

Summary Since the last podcast we've been nominated for the NZ Podcast Awards, not really sure what category or what we need to do if we make it to the next round, or who nominated us, but we're nominated. Sam encountered a drive-in movie theater the other night. Find out what happened. Just how many car crashes happen because of wild boars in Rome? The number might surprise you. Herding sheep int...

Summary Sam had to deal with someone on their secure phone line for a refund this week. We discuss everyone's favourite Auckland couple that had to go to Wanaka recently. We also talk about what Florida man has been up to on your birthday. Australia is going to get some nuclear submarines, but the weapons won't be nuclear. And a man with an interesting name hands himself in after 30 years. We talk...