The Chris and Sam Podcast

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...

Summary This week we were on a short film shoot, we discuss how that went and what we got up to in regards to that. A big welcome to our new listeners who have been downloading episodes like crazy. What do you do if you don’t want your 4 you old and you live in China? Well apparently you send him out into the world with a bag of clothes and a balloon. Mark Wahlberg has come out with his crazy trai...

Summary This week Sam has an update on how his Dad is doing and came across some weird stuff across the road when he went to Rotorua. Chris explains his word of the day this week, find out about an interesting part in Japanese history. Sam got angry about newspapers, and it’s not what you think. Hamilton is the first city to trial new bluetooth dog tags which work in conjunction with an app to hel...

Summary Hello and welcome to episode 195, this week we get the rundown on TEDx Ruakura 2018, find out what went wrong on the day and what made it better than the previous year. Sam went and checked out the circus this week, find out how he got involved in it, while he was doing that, Chris managed to see The Happytime Murders, he gives his expert Chris review on it. NZ Post have upset some people...

This week we talk a bit about the Nevis Catapult we mentioned last week and it’s name choice. What is the story behind one of China’s most popular TV dramas? The UK has some strange ideas of how they want to defend the country and it involves strapping guns to pretty much anything that moves. Chris brings us the latest facts around the mobile phone markets, who is the top companies and what is the...

Summary This week we tried out the Heineken 0.0% beer, find out what we thought about that, also the we are feeling better and just have a stupid cough at the moment. Chris remembered a story from the gym he had to tell. Sam went to the Kids for Kids concert this week, it took him a while to find his child and he caught up with an old workmate from way back in the day. Is Sir Billy Connolly losing...

Summary We are back this week, still sick but we managed to work up the strength to put together this podcast episode. We learn how to diagnose a stroke, as Chris has a higher than normal chance of having one unless he changes his lifestyle, find out how his trip to the doctor went the other week. Chris finally gets around to talking about the towing story from his workmate Aaron. We talk about on...

Summary Chris is getting through the Canadian Club this week as he is off to the Dr’s on Tuesday for a possible health scare, find out more next week. Sam came across an intense gym workout where the person involved didn’t even know what they were doing after it. Chris has something that is now 50% less sugar, find out what this is and why it so confusing. If you were after the large amount of egg...

Summary Find out what we got fixed in the podcast studio this week, what we managed to get rid of and what we are still wanting to get rid of. Apparently according to Chris the US or parts of the US have now allowed 3D guns to be legally printed, what could go wrong in the future??? Another week another Trump story, find out what he has been lying about for the last 20 or so years. A tale about ho...

Summary This week we hit the ground running as Chris has the accept that his Trump prediction he talked about last week was completely wrong, what is happening with Trump and Russia? Who really knows? How much stranger can all of this get? We find out what bee paper is and how it plans to help save the world, hopefully Chris remembers what it is about as he has had it on our podcast list the last...

Summary Another week, another podcast. Find out what we have been up to this week and see what nuggets of useful information we have dug up, which includes the following. Chris has some teen confessions, or wants to talk about a TED talk about teens that confess, it’s hard to tell where this story will lead to. Who is Van Moody, why are the following us on Twitter and which one of the hosts put th...

Summary We are back to normal this week, as much as we can be, Chris was super sick last week. Turned out he couldn’t do his interviews at a TEDx Rukura Salon, so he roped Sam into doing it, find out how that went. We talk about the Kiwi who got shot in the US after traveling there to meet a 14 year old girl he started talking to online. We are now on Spotify which is exciting, just search for us...

Summary This week we’ve had to bust out our back up episode we had stashed away. Sam is busy this weekend and can’t do much editing etc, and Chris has a bad case of man flu and makes less sense than normal and keeps coughing. We watch episode 3 of lost in space, find out if it’s getting any better with our expert feedback as we watch it. Back to a normal episode next week. Links Lost in Space &nbs...

Summary This week 50% of the podcast hosts have come up with topics to talk about. All of our Fieldays interviews are up on the website, thanks for all the downloads, we appreciate them. A man stole some toes this week from the Body Worlds Vital and it made us wonder if it was pre meditated, or just a spur of the moment kind of thing. Chris has picked out a headline in the newspaper that has pique...