The Chris and Sam Podcast

Summary Shout out to one of our fans, Jamie who along with his wife had welcomed a new podcast listener to this world. Chris has a functioning face this episode after not being able to move his top lip at all recently. We got our hands on some free tickets to go see the Kiwi romantic music Daffodils, find out what we thought about this film. Chris went and saw the film Alita this week as well, hea...

Summary This week has been a mixed bag of things happening, the big story is the mass shooting in Christchurch, all our thoughts are with the victims, their families and everyone else affected by this tragedy. Sam spoke to the Prime Minister briefly last weekend about the one thing that he is always talking about, giant pumpkins. The Waikato rover has now been fully mapped with Google Maps street...

Summary Chris went to the dental hygienist this week, find out how that went. We cover the whole bunch of famous people dying this week including the man that invented gaffa tape. A story that reminds us of checking your email came out this week, a man lost his rather large amount of air points. Find out what a really common email password is, and see if you have the same one. The bumbling Jihadi...

Summary This week finds Chris dealing with the biggest stuff up he has ever created at his work. We test out some new straws that are made entirely of sugar, we’ll let you know our thoughts on these alternatives to plastic straws. YouTube has decided to crack down on super creepy people by turning off comments on any videos that feature children, is this enough? And Chris went on what he calls “a...

Summary Chris is off to Wellington straight after we recorded this podcast to pick up all the stuff he left there the other week, he’s hoping to actually come back with his car this trip. Chris is surprised Sam didn’t hear about the Cook Straight swim by WIlliam Trubridge this week, Sam doesn’t really care about it to be honest. Bruno Gants passed away recently, and you might not know who he is, b...

Summary Last week we talked about the refridgerdating website, after a bit of research, Sam signed Chris up to it. Everyone’s favorite president to hate, Donald Trump has come up with a new plan for a celebration parade on the exact same day as another parade, has he lost his mind? Sam found himself agreeing with Mike Hosking this week over a employment relations authority decision and a crazy pay...

Summary After last weeks epic episode, Chris got a new car. Find out what he got and what he misses from about his old car. Sam watched the Ted Bundy Doco on Netflix recently. How good is giving a literacy award to a man being held in a detention center? We have a discussion around this. We learned about a 150 year old submarine located down in Otago, why are the Japanese elderly committing small...

Summary Chris is back from his epic trip to Wellington, when one of us on a trip there are always great stories, this trip might be the best one yet, with all the details of how Chris came back without his car. Thought to be extinct the very rare Ili Pika has been found again in China, and is the inspiration for Pikachu in Pokemon. We also received a couple of crappy automatic phone calls this wee...

Summary This week Chris is on a much needed holiday, how long can he last before he needs a drink? We’ve had a some people outside our house that we like to call the van dwellers, how long have they been there and what have they been up to? We learned about a home cure for a bad back, we never said it was a good cure, just something a seemingly dumb Irishman decided to come up with, find out how i...

Summary A big shout out to our new patrons this week, thanks so much for the support. If you’d like to find out more about what becoming a patreon patron means please click the link below. And if you love listening to podcasts as much as we do you will want to check out the website listennotes.com which lets you search a lot of podcasts for whatever topic you may be wanting to hear. Chris informs...

Summary This week Chris found out that he needs to check his emails better, as he missed an email mentioning the short film he is the producer of got an award. Why wont someone think of the plants, just how intelligent are they? A group of scientists have been trying to find out, and it seems like that plants may have some form of intelligence. Sam has some advice about what you should be posting...

Summary In this weeks podcast Sam heard about an app that is helping blind people around the world, he signed up for it. The Chinese have landed a probe on the far side of the moon, what does this mean for the future? Cathay Pacific is owning a mistake they made when some people managed to get an awesome deal on a flight. And talking about awesome deals, find out what Chris brought this week and m...

Summary The number one song in the UK this Christmas has Sausage Rolls in it which we think is great. Chris didn’t want a ham for some reason this Christmas, so he ended up with Tequila instead. Does anybody know what the hell Kevin Spacey is up to? He’s released a weird video just before Christmas which has left a lot of people wondering what is going on. An ex pat Kiwi decided to get married to...

Summary This week we went along to the Trees at the Meteor where Sam had helped enter a tree for the pumpkin Carnival, find out how it went, what we saw and how we got into this event. Sam went to MOTAT this week, find out what the highlight was from this trip, you;ll never believe what it was. We talk about the glitter device Mark Rober made to make package thieves lives more difficult, you can s...

Summary Chris starts the show off talking about his drunk replying on Facebook and how he wrote to a magazine back in the day and didn’t remember doing it. Charity auction lets people name the animals that have just been recently discovered. Sam went to the bank this week and heard a strange conversation and then later saw a man with no feet which was surprising. We heard a story about someone bei...

Summary We talk a little bit about the missionary that killed while visiting an unvisited tribe, even though our enthusiasm for this story has waned over the last week. Should we all just become Satanists? Chris breaks down a whole bunch of their moral beliefs and they are starting to sound reasonably good. This leads onto a talk about a 6 week long church service in the Netherlands. Tom Cruise ha...

Summary This week you will find out how Chris’s birthday went on the red carpet event he paid to go to. He catches up with Guy from the Guy and Harley podcast, and discovers what people will pay for things at an auction. Chris also talks about Britain’s most popular comedy of all time, which he doesn’t know the name of. Another informative piece of information this week. How far would you go for a...

Summary Another year and another year older for Chris, what has he been up to and how is life going for him? He’s decided to up his Rocket League skills and has decided to learn how to use a controller finally. We learn all about an ancient 3D language which is pretty epic. Wombats are the only animals that can do a poo that is a cube, we discuss how that happens. Prisoners are being used to fight...

Summary Welcome along to another week, another podcast, this week a crowd funding plan to help out the man who used his trolley in an attempt to stop the crazy person in Melbourne last week has reached crazy new heights. Another shooting, it must be a story from the US, find out what went wrong in this situation. Why are American cops so trigger happy? The top 10 most irritating office phrases for...

Summary This week Sam was selling giant pumpkin seedlings at the Scarecrow Festival, find out how that went and which fan of the show brought some seedlings. Chris went to Misty Flicks this week, a showcase of awesome films made by talented people right here in the Waikato, a lot of these people we actually know. Find out how it went and who surprised Chris by turning up. Great customer service by...

Summary We are both back from very different trips around the places, find out how they all went and how we survived. Sam came back from the School camp in Wellington where he was herding children most of the time, Chris came back from Australia where we caught up with a podcast fan, and was at the Noosa International Film Festival. Dickheads our out there, find out why one guy didn’t want to brea...

Summary This week we question why someone would tell Chris about an Asian karaoke game show, it might not be for his singing ability. Did we find a great news headline this week? You decide. The man behind Big Bird has decided to call it quits after 50 years in the big suit, talking about jobs we discuss if a local DOC job advert is one of the most unreasonable job offers around, find out if you w...

Summary This weeks episode is super special, we have reached the 200th episode which is crazy and awesome all at the same time. And a it is such a special occasion this episode is way longer than normal, 2 hours of goodness. Also we are unofficially sponsored by Mount Gay Rum, the best way to celebrate a podcast milestone. In this weeks packed episode, Chris went to a BBQ restaurant called Texas P...

Summary Chris is looking forward to his upcoming holiday, what will he be doing with his time away from work? Sam finally got around to picking up the giant rolls of stuff he managed to get for free fro the giant pumpkins, once he got hold of Chris at his work that is. He also has other updates on pumpkin stuff and find out what is humming in the podcast studio this week. We talk about two famous...

Summary This week Chris saw David Farrier talk about his experience with Netflix and his series Dark Tourist. Sam has just come back from Christchurch where he saw Les Mis, met someone that didn’t know where Hamilton was and got excited when he found a pancake making machine. We learn about a silly Indian rule called triple Talaq, and it might be under threat, find out about this crazy rule they h...