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Hosted by Chris Hanlon & Sam Elton-Walters · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 679 episodes
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Randomness, technology and life brought to you each week in a 30 min podcast by two guys from New Zealand named Chris and Sam. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chris Hanlon & Sam Elton-Walters hosts The Chris and Sam Podcast, a society show with 679 episodes published.
Summary Chris has been binging a Paris-based spy show, while Sam is battling the winter bugs. The conversation touches on the billion-dollar Italian cheese economy, with climate change threatening cheese banks and blockc
Summary We have shoutouts to loyal listeners and a rundown of the world’s highest-paid podcasters (spoiler: they didn’t make the list). There’s a TEDx deal in the works, mysterious medical Zoom calls, and some eyebrow-ra
Summary This week, there’s chaos with robot bans on flights, and a New York school’s AI teacher gets canceled for looking a bit too human. We discover Google’s earthquake alert system, hear about a wild Katy Perry concer
Summary Chris is worried he might be getting scammed by a Nigerian contact, while we hear about a heart surgeon’s game, a tech battery that lasts 5,000 years, and a drone that takes out mosquitoes. There’s news on AI gir
Summary Jurassic Park memories resurface and Sam Neill gets a heartfelt send-off, while tech randomness brings nuking asteroids and orbiting space mirrors into the mix. There’s a wild story of a looksmax influencer injec
Summary This week, all the Field Days interviews are out, and there's a big uptick in podcast traffic. Physical media gets the axe as Sony goes digital-only, while Germany’s massive game archive suddenly shuts down. Disc
Summary From AI replacing — then rehiring — human workers to luxury wool wall coverings, solar-powered aircraft, and the curious fate of digital movie ownership. Plus, the latest in quirky Kickstarters and tech nostalgia
Summary From Fieldays 2026 Sam chats with Jacob from the UK delegation about HiFe Plants and their high iron, high zinc crops that could change how we feed people and animals. There’s talk of long nights in the lab, GM v
Summary At Fieldays 2026 Sam catch up with Ali from Mid Wales, who's part of a global incubator program supported by Innovate UK and Sprout. We dive into spray drying, microencapsulation, and turning agricultural and ani
Summary From Fieldays 2026 Sam chats with Marcus from Gyroplant about their innovative reusable root zone architecture for growing plants without single-use substrates.\ There’s talk of growing food for space missions, g
Summary It’s a sunny day in Hamilton as discussion turns from the Chiefs rugby game and New Zealand’s run in the Football World Cup to wild Aussie chants and America’s awkward attempts at football fandom. There’s talk of
Summary A creative shed at Field Days becomes the backdrop for a look into the legacy of David Henshaw, the cartoonist behind the rural favourite "Jock". There’s talk of iconic farming cartoons, the famous calendars, and
Summary This week, there’s a wild group interview at the BNZ Theatre, field days adventures including a run-in with the unofficial podcast sponsor Golden State Coffee, and a surprise golden coin scam that ends with choco
Summary This episode it's all about New Zealand lawn mower racing from Fieldays, where custom-built ride-ons are tearing up the paddock and the Red Bull Cut it event adds an epic jump and serious style points. We dive in
Summary We catch up after Fieldays, swapping stories about lost phones, near misses with golf carts, and what we saw while we were there. There's a crazy ride with a non-English speaking driver, a Bluetooth speaker that
Summary In this chat, Chris sits down with Mick from Forever Harvest to explore a new frontier in food production. They dive into the science of growing fruit and nuts without trees, the rise of lab-made ingredients, and
Summary It’s Fieldays 2026 and there’s a new electric farm bike on the scene—the GalvBike. The conversation focused on why this tough, no-nonsense machine isn’t in the innovation tent, what sets it apart for dairy farmer
Summary Sam is onsite at Fieldays 2026, chatting with Harry from PostMate about their clever invention that makes fence post removal safer and faster. We hear the backstory of how a Kiwi farmer turned a simple idea into
Summary From our Fieldays 2026 coverage Sam talks to Elisa about her journey to make a biodegradable plant pot here in New Zealand. Discover how a teenage fundraiser became a full-time eco-entrepreneur, why dirty pots ar
Summary This week, Chris gears up for field days while plotting an unusual Auckland road trip with a mystery driver, and Sam sets off 24 days of birthday surprises with the help of a 24-sided die. There's talk of AI stea
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The Chris and Sam Podcast is hosted by Chris Hanlon & Sam Elton-Walters. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 679 episodes.
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