Summary
This week we have all the bases covered. From Trump, to Kickstart or Dropkick, an extraordinary Kiwi and a bunch of films we’ve seen.
All this and much more. Come have a listen and tell a friend.
Links
Trumps New fragrance launched
Trump Man of the Year
New Zealander wins Spanish Scrabble Champs
Cheddar cheese thief caught
Kickstart or Dropkick this week:
Kickstarter – Zefiro
Kickstarter – Cardyedron
Sam has a movie wrap up and mentions:
Get out
On the Line
Hot Frosty
Wounds
The Open House
The Swarm
Wicked
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:23]:
Hello, and welcome to episode 510 of the Chris and Sam podcast. I’m Chris. And I’m Sam. Welcome along to weekly fix of randomness technology in life, and it does not matter if you missed an episode, 10 episodes, 20 episodes, whatever. We’ll still be here.
Chris [00:00:38]:
We’re doing a little bit of of seasoning of Trump. Seasoning of Trump? I’ve gotta start off with a bit
Sam [00:00:45]:
of stuff. Brought out seasoning?
Chris [00:00:46]:
No. Oh my gosh. That’s good, though.
Sam [00:00:49]:
I thought you were gonna say he’s brought out freedom fries seasoning.
Chris [00:00:52]:
I wouldn’t be surprised. So but it’s almost as funny as that. So first of all, a a correction. I wanna make a correction. Oh, no. A Chris correction.
Sam [00:01:00]:
Okay.
Chris [00:01:01]:
So I had talked about the other week, couple of weeks ago, Trump, was being sued by Gibson Gachas. Yeah. Yes. It did. I didn’t quite get it right. Okay. K. Which is shocking.
Sam [00:01:13]:
Shocking. Absolutely mind blowing that this could have happened.
Chris [00:01:17]:
Because I thought he used a Gibson Guitars.
Sam [00:01:19]:
Gonna have to fire our interns. Carry
Chris [00:01:20]:
on. But, I guess in in in my own defense, it was because it looked exactly like a Gibson guitar. Okay. But it’s one he made in China or where I
Sam [00:01:35]:
knew it. I think I said that.
Chris [00:01:37]:
But, yeah, Gibson sued him because it looks like a Gibson guitar. I just thought it was. I actually
Sam [00:01:46]:
But and because I I I did mention that story to someone, and they were like, but couldn’t he just buy Gibson guitars Gibson guitars and sell those?
Chris [00:01:54]:
Well, because that’s what I thought he did. I thought he bought a Gibson guitar and started signing them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that’s what I thought was happening. Okay. But, no.
Chris [00:02:02]:
He he made his own guitars or somebody made the guitars looking exactly like a Gibson
Sam [00:02:07]:
Of course.
Chris [00:02:08]:
So so
Sam [00:02:09]:
I think it’s fair to say us here right now and whoever’s listening to this episode, whenever it is, can sleep a lot easier at night knowing that.
Chris [00:02:18]:
Alright. So what’s happening more recently this last week?
Sam [00:02:21]:
With Trump.
Chris [00:02:22]:
With Trump?
Sam [00:02:22]:
I I have not actually seen anything. He he seems very quiet in my timeline.
Chris [00:02:27]:
Launched his, new fragrance, Fight Fight Fight cologne.
Sam [00:02:33]:
Okay. Does it seem like hang on. Hang on. You can tell me in a sec. But does it seem like he ordered this and tried planning this before the election, and it was delayed? And now he’s got shipping containers full of this fragrance with that on it, and he’s now selling it, or is it for something else? Why is it called that?
Chris [00:02:53]:
Well, no. Fight fight fight was after he got assassinated and got up with or the assassination attempt, I should say. And he got up and shook his fist in the air.
Sam [00:03:02]:
Is that what he’s And he sort
Chris [00:03:04]:
of goes fight fight fight, and everything’s fight fight fight now. Those Trump watches, I’m pretty sure it had fight fight fight on the back of them or something.
Sam [00:03:11]:
Oh, okay. Okay. So this is his branding. This is This is his catchphrase or whatever. Phrase.
Chris [00:03:15]:
Yeah. But you’re right. A lot of people are like, yeah. Pretty sure this was put into motion before the election was called, and now he’s got to flog the crap.
Sam [00:03:26]:
That’s what it seems like.
Chris [00:03:27]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because he’s he’s president-elect. He’s gonna be president shortly, you know, like, in 20, 35 days or whatever it is, and he’s, he’s flogging cologne. 5 5 5. But I have to say, marketing genius. I don’t know whether someone on his team or whether it’s him.
Sam [00:03:49]:
You mean in general or just for this one product?
Chris [00:03:51]:
Just one thing. I’ve gotta tell you. So he flew to Paris for the Notre Dame
Sam [00:03:58]:
Cathedral opening. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Saw that a little bit.
Chris [00:04:02]:
Do you know who else flew to, to that event?
Sam [00:04:06]:
Oh, Ukraine president.
Chris [00:04:10]:
No. Okay. Or maybe he did, but No.
Sam [00:04:12]:
I don’t know.
Chris [00:04:13]:
Jill Biden. So Joe Biden go. Jill Biden went.
Sam [00:04:16]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:04:17]:
And they sat Trump next to Jill Biden Mhmm. Okay. In the pews at you know, like, in these churches
Sam [00:04:24]:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Front. Right? Okay.
Chris [00:04:25]:
And somebody took a photo of it, like, you know, a photographer took a photo of it. And Trump’s grabbed it and turned it into an ad, him next to Biden going, fight, fight, fight, clone. So good. Even your enemies can’t resist you.
Sam [00:04:40]:
Oh my gosh. Okay.
Chris [00:04:42]:
And I gotta hand it to him. That’s pretty good. That’s pretty sleazy, but it’s pretty good.
Sam [00:04:48]:
They’re just waiting for anything to
Chris [00:04:50]:
Yeah. And then help them. I just found out just now, just before you arrived, he’s he’s made the the cover of Time Magazine as the 2024 man of the year for Time Magazine.
Sam [00:05:02]:
I think at this point in time, that cover is junk. It doesn’t matter. Well, I suppose you could, honestly, you could look at it because
Chris [00:05:11]:
No. He he made fake time covers
Sam [00:05:15]:
for him on the too.
Chris [00:05:16]:
Back in the day. So I’m wondering whether he’s gonna, like, pull those down on the wall or just add this one to the collection on 5050. He probably believes they’re all real now by now. You know? Like, he’s he’s hypnotized himself into believing they’re real. Anyway, that is all the Trump stuff out of my system. Thank you.
Sam [00:05:35]:
Okay. I’ve got this thing here, and I think you’ve got the same thing, but yours is just called legendary but peculiar Kiwi. Let’s see if, this is the same story. The scrabble champ. He’s done it again.
Chris [00:05:47]:
Yes. It is. It
Sam [00:05:48]:
is. Okay. Excellent. So,
Chris [00:05:51]:
And I didn’t put the, link down here because I actually wanna read that link out because it was so I was gonna read the story, because it was so well written.
Sam [00:06:02]:
Oh, I’ve got I’ve got the story here. I don’t know why I don’t link to it, but I’ve got this other thing that I’ll show you later. It’s really cool.
Chris [00:06:09]:
That was my phone.
Sam [00:06:10]:
Okay. Cool. I have no I couldn’t tell where that was coming from. That was good. So the cool thing here, right, when you’re a longtime listener of the Chris of Sam podcast, we keep you up to date with everything. July 26, 2015, we were podcasting. It’s episode 41. We talk about this dude called Nigel Richards.
Sam [00:06:28]:
Yeah. He’s a he’s a bearded, bald head, bald hair cutted dude, and he wins the, French scrabble championships. Not knowing any Not doesn’t French. Doesn’t need
Chris [00:06:42]:
to know that. And and the way he did that so he doesn’t know how to speak French. He gets the French scrabble dictionary
Sam [00:06:49]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:06:50]:
Which has 400,000 words in it, and he just memorizes them. He he doesn’t even have to read them all. He looks at the page, and they download it to his mind.
Sam [00:07:02]:
Yep. So I can’t remember what we spoke about in episode 41. Go find it at the Christmas sand podcast.
Chris [00:07:08]:
What we spoke about in episode 508.
Sam [00:07:13]:
Don’t worry about that. But I’ve got a funny feeling, and I I have no idea this could be completely made up. I’m sure he was really high up in something else. I wanna say maths or something because he is like a genius, but I don’t think he’s using it for the betterment of the world. No. Okay.
Chris [00:07:34]:
So he’s done definitely special in some way.
Sam [00:07:36]:
Yo. He’s on the spectrum, and he maybe this is the only thing he focuses on 24 hours of the day. I don’t know.
Chris [00:07:41]:
I I had this thought too because I was like, I’m glad he’s chosen scrabble and not, you know, serial murder or
Sam [00:07:49]:
something. Yeah. That’s right. That’s right.
Chris [00:07:51]:
I mean That could yeah. It could be a lot worse.
Sam [00:07:53]:
He does look like a great serial killer in the TV series.
Chris [00:07:56]:
Yeah. It does actually have.
Sam [00:07:58]:
But he’s done it again, and he’s won the Spanish scrabble championships.
Chris [00:08:02]:
And it’s Spanish speaking. There’s people from, like, 20 countries. 22. 22 countries. Yeah. Argentina and I don’t know. All those
Sam [00:08:11]:
Oh, no. No. Sorry. Countries. Sorry. The 22 is he won 22 consecutive games. Oh, right. Like yeah.
Sam [00:08:18]:
Yeah. So, but you were right. 145 opponents across, across the world. Argentina, Venezuela, Spain, and Colombia are the main ones. Yeah. Okay. And, yeah. He’s widely known as the Tiger Woods of Scrabble.
Sam [00:08:34]:
I I’m gonna say he’s got groupies. I don’t know what they’re like, but that’s out there.
Chris [00:08:43]:
The square
Sam [00:08:44]:
tiles. So he spent only 9 weeks memorizing the French scrabble dictionary like you said 400,000 plus words almost
Chris [00:08:52]:
Oh this is Spanish or French?
Sam [00:08:54]:
Sorry French so it was 9 weeks doing the French one Right. And this person said he yeah. He he he’s just wired differently. He doesn’t actually study them like a normal person. Like you said, he just absorbs them. He joined the Christchurch scrabble club in 1996 and he got he he was playing with his mum because she got sick of him beating her at cards oh my gosh he’d be so good at counting cards for blake jack
Chris [00:09:20]:
yeah yeah yeah yeah he’ll
Sam [00:09:20]:
just look at it and he’ll know
Chris [00:09:22]:
yeah the odds and poker
Sam [00:09:23]:
and and yeah and he hardly ever gives interviews he’s characterized as a recluse He uses complex words even in foreign language. Someone online said the really cool thing about him is the way his brain works is he’s analyzing his opponent’s next five moves, and he’s starting to block them from doing their words. He doesn’t I guess he doesn’t really have to think about his words. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah.
Chris [00:09:48]:
Because because, the last line of that post was something I didn’t quite get it, but I think that’s what you’re talking about there is that they he said, somebody said about him, he doesn’t use the obvious thing that the computer would tell you. This is the word you should use.
Sam [00:10:03]:
No. That’s right.
Chris [00:10:04]:
He uses, like, something totally random, and it probably is like you just said because he’s not worried about what he’s gonna do. He’s worried about what somebody else is gonna be blocking it.
Sam [00:10:13]:
So he’s the rain he’s the rain man of scrabble. Yeah. Welcome to Nigel Richards. If you wanna be on the podcast, hit us up.
Chris [00:10:20]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:10:21]:
I have no idea how that conversation would go, but we could wing it.
Chris [00:10:26]:
We’ll bring a dictionary so we know what he’s talking about. No. No. No. It says he uses big words.
Sam [00:10:33]:
Oh, yeah. I’m sure you could have a conversation with him. We would be, like, sloths to him and probably boring as, maybe, but I don’t know. I still think you could have an interesting conversation Oh,
Chris [00:10:44]:
yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:10:44]:
In general with this guy if you could get it. Maybe we could break that interview. Oh.
Chris [00:10:50]:
Yes. Okay. So how’s your week been anyway? I just jumped straight into the Trump stuff, so I forgot. Yeah.
Sam [00:10:57]:
Oh, it’s been busy. There was some sort of, I I work for 2 entities as the same thing. It’s really weird.
Chris [00:11:08]:
Wow job. Two bosses. Boom. Boom. Boom.
Sam [00:11:11]:
No. Not 2 no. It’s yeah. Not even that. It’s like one boss, but we’re under another thing working for anyway.
Chris [00:11:18]:
We had the same thing with telecom. We had so Alcatel ran the
Sam [00:11:22]:
Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. That’s thing
Chris [00:11:23]:
and and would they were employees of telecom, but the paycheck came from Alcatel or something like that.
Sam [00:11:31]:
Yeah. Very similar. So we had a a meeting and then staff awards, and 2 people within my bigger group got 2 awards of the 4, which was really cool. And then they seemed to list out after the fact, and nobody told me, but I’d actually been nominated for an award. I don’t know what for or who buy or anything, but that was pretty cool. And then,
Chris [00:11:52]:
yeah, just been busy as So we actually have a a a Christmas lunch next week.
Sam [00:11:58]:
You’re actually catching up with people in real life. In Auckland. Yeah?
Chris [00:12:01]:
So I have to go up to Auckland. We’ve got a client meeting up there, and so she Nat’s booked, lunch with so 8 of us are going for lunch, 8 of us from Epic. Yeah. So there’d be a couple of people I’ve never met before that I’ve been working with the last 2 years that I’ve never met in person. Yeah.
Sam [00:12:19]:
You’ve seen them on a screen.
Chris [00:12:20]:
On a screen.
Sam [00:12:21]:
There’s no one that’s, like, hidden behind the avatar, is there? No. No. No. Okay. That’s good.
Chris [00:12:25]:
No. So so it’s gonna be cool. I’m looking forward to that. But, yeah, we got, under a bit of a pressure at the moment, so we’re doing a lot of work. I gotta get back and and do a bunch today and tomorrow. But Sunday, I am off to Tokoro to do some filming.
Sam [00:12:42]:
I got a voucher just randomly. Are you taking that car?
Chris [00:12:47]:
The Mevo? Yep. I don’t know yet.
Sam [00:12:50]:
I’ve got a voucher.
Chris [00:12:52]:
Was that from the AA?
Sam [00:12:54]:
Nope. I don’t know.
Chris [00:12:55]:
Is it? I got I got a letter from the AA. I’m like, I didn’t pay my dues last year because, I
Sam [00:13:00]:
Oh, if you put in the code summer with Mevo, you get a $20 account credit, but you’ve gotta use it within 30 days.
Chris [00:13:07]:
Oh, yeah. I might be I might do that.
Sam [00:13:09]:
I just I forgot I was gonna
Chris [00:13:10]:
have with Mevo?
Sam [00:13:12]:
Someone Mevo. Hey. There’s a
Chris [00:13:13]:
Text it to me. Oh, message me. Yeah.
Sam [00:13:15]:
Yeah. I’ll forget. He’s already forgotten. Yeah. Oh, that’s cool. Catch up with everyone.
Chris [00:13:19]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that that’s gonna be good. But, yeah, the the filming this Sunday should be interesting too. So I’m a little bit of trepidation about that.
Sam [00:13:28]:
You’re the producer on the short film?
Chris [00:13:30]:
Yep. And we use that term very, very vaguely. Very vaguely.
Sam [00:13:36]:
I think you need to lean into it more. And, I I I I Because if something hits and it goes off, you wanna be the producer.
Chris [00:13:45]:
Well, I do on on on some projects. This project, I’m not sure I wanna be the producer on. That’s the question.
Sam [00:13:52]:
You’re just like, just leave my name off all the credits.
Chris [00:13:54]:
Yeah. Yeah. It’s a little bit like that, to be honest. Like, not saying it’s a bad project. It’s just that I’m not putting a lot into it, because I’m just been busy with other things, and there’s been problems. And I’ve just been solving problems as well, but I guess that’s all a producer does anyway.
Sam [00:14:12]:
So That’s right. Early November, I didn’t hear the story. I’ve just found out about it recently. Did you hear about the guy that got arrested where an impostor stole about £300,000 of cheese in dollar value?
Chris [00:14:28]:
In the UK.
Sam [00:14:29]:
Yeah. In the UK. So they arrested the 63 year old man with tens of 1,000 of pounds of high value cheddar. Yeah. They got him in custody. He was, like, fraudulently representing a company and saying, oh, yeah. We need the stuff. And for whatever reason, they were, like, shipping to him, but without waiting for payment, I guess.
Chris [00:14:52]:
So many pounds.
Sam [00:14:54]:
Yeah. I know. I know. It’s going through my head. So it’s this very fit Do
Chris [00:14:57]:
they think they got the big cheese? Is he gonna rat anyone in?
Sam [00:15:01]:
Yeah. So he posed as a legitimate wholesale distributor for a major French retailer, and it all got delivered to him before they discovered, and it’s a very fancy cloth bound cheddar cheese. 22 metric tons of cheese, is what this guy took and they came from 8 different artisan suppliers but all to one company and he was ripping off the one company so it’s a whole thing they’ve won all these awards and all this sort of stuff and it’s gonna take them something like 5 years to recover from this. And then for some reason, Jamie Oliver did a post about it saying, have you come across some really good cheese? Cheat. It’s probably stolen. Be careful.
Chris [00:15:49]:
Yeah. It’s, it’s interesting because I think that’s the easiest sorry. I think that’s the easiest crime to do is when you’re doing a lot of shipping stuff.
Sam [00:16:02]:
I think so.
Chris [00:16:03]:
So, yeah, my, my ex wife, when I first met her, was that’s what she did with shipping logistics. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So all the Maersk, containers and
Sam [00:16:15]:
all that
Chris [00:16:16]:
sort of crap. And because they think in such bulk you know, container loads, basically. Exactly. When you’re dealing at that level, you only have to pull off 102, and you’re rolling in it, you know, depending what’s in it.
Sam [00:16:31]:
Yeah. So, anyway So that happened. I’ve got a kick start or drop kick for you. It’s the end of the year almost, and we’d like to keep up with tradition around here.
Chris [00:16:43]:
Cool. Because I want to, follow that with the dodgy Aussie thing.
Sam [00:16:46]:
Yep. Okay. So if you’re wondering what?
Chris [00:16:48]:
I’m gonna move on the Swiss ball that I’m sitting on it.
Sam [00:16:51]:
I didn’t realize you were on one, and then I was like, what is this weird sound? So instead of sitting on a chair, he’s sitting on a Swiss ball. Yeah. Probably one of the worst things for a podcast, but we’ll see. So it’s all good. So there’s 2 things, and I will tell you the names, and you tell which one you wanna go with first. The Z Firo or the Cardihedron?
Chris [00:17:15]:
Oh, let’s go start with the z, whatever it was.
Sam [00:17:19]:
Okay. So have you ever what what was that little saxophone thing that you wanted one time? Kazoo. Not actual because no. Not kazoo. It was like a
Chris [00:17:31]:
oh, right. Yes. You
Sam [00:17:32]:
know what I mean? Remember. We talked about this
Chris [00:17:34]:
years ago. A hybrid between a clarinet and a and a and a saxophone, and it was a electric thing, and it looks cool.
Sam [00:17:47]:
Yes. So it’s called the Zefiro, zedefiro.
Chris [00:17:52]:
F I r o. Zefiro? Zefiro?
Sam [00:17:55]:
I don’t know. I’m saying that. Whatever. Now have you ever thought about having a woodwind type instrument, but easy to play using your phone? Okay. Yes. You did. I can tell you’re excited. What? So you get this plastic thing that plugs into a USB connection on your phone, and you blow into your phone.
Sam [00:18:17]:
Look at them go. And the keys are on your, screen, and you can play it wherever you want.
Chris [00:18:23]:
So it looks like a pan flute except you’re blowing
Sam [00:18:26]:
it to your phone. It looks it looks like a
Chris [00:18:28]:
little vape. Look. It looks like a vape. Yes. You’re right.
Sam [00:18:31]:
Plugged into the bottom of your phone, and then you’re blowing into that thing. Right? It’s got a sensitive mouth sensor breath sensor. Sorry. It’s got a bite sensor, and it’s got accelerometers so it
Chris [00:18:41]:
knows what you’re doing with
Sam [00:18:42]:
your fingers, I guess. It’s all rather exciting. It’s small, lightweight. You can take it anywhere. This dude does look like he’s just getting stoned off his phone. But, anyway, that’s a different story.
Chris [00:18:54]:
No. Don’t suck, dude. Don’t suck. Yeah. That is the dumbest thing I think you’ve seen you’ve ever showed us.
Sam [00:19:01]:
Do you think
Chris [00:19:02]:
I think that might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.
Sam [00:19:05]:
Hang on. Hang on. The pro there’s a pro version too. There’s a pro version.
Chris [00:19:09]:
So the actual mouthpiece is very small. It’s about the size of a a USB stick.
Sam [00:19:15]:
Yeah. It’s like yeah. Actually, that’s what it looks like more so. So plug a USB stick in the bottom of your phone and blow into it.
Chris [00:19:20]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Sam [00:19:20]:
Yeah. Yes. You want it. Okay. €2929 for a basic model, €39 for the pro one, and the pro one has got the accelerometer built in. That’s the difference.
Chris [00:19:32]:
Like, pretty much double New Zealand dollars?
Sam [00:19:34]:
Yeah. Let’s just say double. So okay. Here we go. This is the bit that we all like.
Chris [00:19:41]:
How much? It’s
Sam [00:19:42]:
just it’s just closed today. Oh, so So you can’t
Chris [00:19:45]:
So this was, 30 days? Usually is.
Sam [00:19:49]:
Let’s just say 30 days. Whatever. We’re gonna talk New Zealand dollars here because that’s what it’s showing him he has. They wanted to raise $9,000. They met their goal. I’ll tell you that.
Chris [00:20:01]:
Okay. Alright. So that tells me that they have some friends who went, oh, yes, Johnny. That’s a good idea. I’ll give you a $1,000 on your Kickstarter. So I’m I reckon they got about 15,000.
Sam [00:20:15]:
Okay. You’re wrong. 186,000.
Chris [00:20:19]:
What the? Excellent. You love it. No. No. No. No. That’s not that’s not fair. $186,000.
Chris [00:20:29]:
Jesus.
Sam [00:20:30]:
Okay. This one you’ll actually quite like. Can I look at it? Are you?
Chris [00:20:35]:
What was it called again? There’s other Cardi Hadron. Cardi Hadron.
Sam [00:20:39]:
It’s a sleek all in one spinning dice solution for a d 4 to a d 20 dice. Oh, nice. Designed for gamers on the go. Now I’ve actually seen the ad for this or something super similar. I think it’s this, and it’s a card with a bunch of wheels and numbers on it, and you click down on the middle and it spins to give you the number. Right.
Chris [00:21:00]:
Yep. And and when you click on or in the middle of each dial
Sam [00:21:03]:
I think that’s how it works. Right. Yep. Or you can spin it, I guess. Maybe you just spin it.
Chris [00:21:08]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:21:09]:
Anyway, it stops and you get a number and it’s like it’s like a little metal card that hopefully is machined quite well. It looks quite nice, and it has a purpose for people that do gaming.
Chris [00:21:19]:
Yeah. It’s it’s alright. It’s not as
Sam [00:21:22]:
Like, you could probably just carry some dye with you.
Chris [00:21:24]:
Yeah. The there’s a certain tactile beauty of using dye.
Sam [00:21:29]:
There is. There is. And this I you know, I don’t know. You have to look we have a link to this on our website so you can actually look at it, check it out. This has got 19 days to go. So if you’re listening to this right now as this episode comes out, you’ve got time. Okay.
Chris [00:21:45]:
They How much are they?
Sam [00:21:46]:
They wanted, 6,935, whatever.
Chris [00:21:50]:
How much is it for a unit?
Sam [00:21:51]:
Oh, okay. Hang on. Hang on. Great question. Comes in a whole bunch of colors. There’s different rewards, and you get some little, you can get a leather pouch for it. Okay. Early bird’s gone.
Sam [00:22:04]:
Let’s not worry about that. $40.
Chris [00:22:07]:
US. Yep.
Sam [00:22:08]:
Yep. $80 for double. 121 for
Chris [00:22:13]:
That that that’ll that’ll do really well, I think. There there’s been a lot of dice thing there. I even though I again, I think the other dice so have you seen some of the other dice they have on Kickstarter?
Sam [00:22:24]:
No. I haven’t really looked it up. But
Chris [00:22:26]:
like, they’ve made a glass dragon eye and then created it into dice. Okay. You know, like, real arty Yeah. Crafty type things. And those have done really well. I’ve seen before because I quite like some
Sam [00:22:37]:
There is a lot of tabletop gaming stuff on Kickstarter, and it seems to do quite well.
Chris [00:22:41]:
Huge, huge, audience for that.
Sam [00:22:45]:
Like Yeah. Yeah. It seems to be
Chris [00:22:47]:
so I I reckon this would go really well.
Sam [00:22:49]:
Okay. 6,900 is what they wanted. In New Zealand dollars, I don’t know what they’ve converted from, but whatever. How much have they made with 19 days to go in New Zealand dollars?
Chris [00:23:00]:
I I reckon they would have beaten the other one on this. So that’d be over 200,000. 331,000. Good on them. Good on
Sam [00:23:08]:
them. 4,780% funded.
Chris [00:23:12]:
Nice. And I’ve okay. No. That’s because I can see the benefit of it. It’s not my favorite thing to do, but it’d be quite handy to have. And the gaming tabletop gaming crowd have got a bit of disposable cash.
Sam [00:23:28]:
I think so. Yeah.
Chris [00:23:29]:
Yeah. They’re the sort of people that generally do. So, yeah, they’ll be like, oh, may never use this, but I’ll buy one anyway.
Sam [00:23:36]:
Yeah. I keep forgetting to tell you about all the movies I’ve watched recently.
Chris [00:23:40]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:23:41]:
So this is my movie wrap up, and, well, it’s a mixed bag, really. I watched Get Out, which was recommended by you. Yeah. That was pretty cool.
Chris [00:23:49]:
Yeah. Did you like that ending? Like, the twist that the whole thing? Yeah.
Sam [00:23:52]:
It was a bit different. I wasn’t
Chris [00:23:53]:
It was not what I expected. No. Because Adam had been telling me for ages that you gotta watch it, and I thought I knew what it was, and it was not at all what I thought it was.
Sam [00:24:01]:
Yeah. So I’ve got a movie that has a different ending to what you’re expecting as well, but not horror. It’s called On the Line. It’s got Mel Gibson in it, and it’s in the last couple of years. It was on Netflix. I just press play. Mel Gibson is like a shock jock, and he does the midnight to 6 AM slot.
Chris [00:24:22]:
Okay.
Sam [00:24:22]:
And he goes in, and he’s got all these people around him, and, some stuff happens, and you’re like, okay. This is a bit weird. And then they change it up at the end. You yeah. That’s all I’ll say.
Chris [00:24:33]:
Yeah. He’s, he’s having a bit of resurgence, old Mel Gibson.
Sam [00:24:37]:
I guess so. Then, there’s a whole slew of random Christmas movies out there. One of them is called Hot Frosty. Hot Frosty. This woman lives Doge. Yep. This woman, lives in a small town as they all do. She’s a struggling restaurant, owner, and she stares at this, snowman that looks like a buff dude, puts a scarf around it for some reason, and the next day he comes to life, and he’s a very buff dude, who a lot of old women quite like.
Sam [00:25:08]:
And the weird thing is, this guy seems to not really know anything because he was a snowman, but he also knows how to do home repair and cooking from watching TV in one day and also starts buying stuff online and then becomes a real human at the end.
Chris [00:25:28]:
Anyway out Nigel, you might have some some competition for your scrabble. Yep. Yep.
Sam [00:25:35]:
There was a movie I watched called wounds, w o u n d s, wounds. I’ll read the blurb. Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar. It’s rated 4.1 out of 10 on IMDB, and, it just had a crap end yep and and like one of the reviews was did I miss something what was going on but don’t worry I’ve got even a worser film in the psychological horror thriller genre because sometimes we watch those it’s called The Open House this thing is rated oh here we go a teenager and his mother find themselves besieged by threatening forces or by threatening forces when they move into a new house right yeah 3.3 out of 10 this one I just went into this blind let’s see all the reviews I’ll just give you a couple here the whole concept of the film is interesting and I haven’t seen something similar but there was no story at all not even the classic horror story that someone dies and becomes a ghost or how someone becomes a killer it’s a original Netflix movie by the way most of the one star reviews articulate the problem really well but if you’re still unclear let me oh this is great. Let me communicate it in another way. Imagine you walked into your living room and you saw Frank Sinatra playing World of Warcraft, then your neighbor comes around several times and says some weird stuff to you, then your cat takes a dump in your bed and moos at you, then you start singing the lyrics to y m c a while Eiffel 65 is playing on blue in the background, so you must be asking yourself what was the relevance of Sinatra and why World of Warcraft? Why did my neighbor come around and what did they say? Why did your cat moo and why sing YMCA to a different tune? The truth is no reason at all, none of it related to anything, pointless, no connection, nothing and,
Chris [00:27:38]:
Do you agree with that?
Sam [00:27:40]:
It there’s they’re just one star reviews of very angry people because, like, they they at one point, the neighbor comes over and she’s talking normally and then you realize she might have dementia, that doesn’t go anywhere. There’s just all this stuff they throw at you, and it makes no sense. Oh my god.
Chris [00:27:57]:
Anyway Actually, I watched a a series on, 3, oh, no. Actually, TVNZ now Yeah. On demand. Whatever. Yeah. One of them. Of them. I think it was on that one.
Chris [00:28:08]:
Yeah. It was The Swarm.
Sam [00:28:10]:
Okay. Okay.
Chris [00:28:11]:
I thought it was interesting because I saw an ad for it watching something else, and I because I watched the movie The Revenant Yeah. Which I’d seen in movies, but I hadn’t seen it for ages. And I thought, that’s so good there. I I forgot how good that was. But, anyway, in the in the ads, because you got ads when you watch it on TMZ, they had the swarm thing. So I ended up watching the whole season. There’s only been 1 season.
Sam [00:28:34]:
Okay.
Chris [00:28:35]:
And it’s interesting. It’s like something in the ocean is getting back at humanity and attacking humanity in really weird ways. So it’s a sci fi. And I was just intrigued at the production level, because there’s quite a bit of production level there, but it’s not quite a.
Sam [00:28:58]:
Okay.
Chris [00:28:58]:
You know what I mean? Well, these And it fascinates me then.
Sam [00:29:01]:
Well, these Netflix films, they’ve got the budget to film everything really well. It’s just the story is something some dude scribbled on the back of a napkin, and they’re like, let’s make it.
Chris [00:29:10]:
Yeah. And I’m I’m pretty sure this is adapted from a book. I did because it did mention I can’t remember who the book was. Because I was like, oh, I wonder if I’d read that because it’d be interesting to see how the difference between the the story and the book. But, yeah, it’s pretty good, and it got to the end. And it kept me through the whole season, 9 9 episodes, I think. And, and they ended on a cliffhanger for the 2nd season. I was like, yeah.
Chris [00:29:34]:
I think I watched the 2nd season.
Sam [00:29:35]:
Very good.
Chris [00:29:36]:
Not brilliant, but pretty good.
Sam [00:29:39]:
Okay. That actually brings us to the end of the podcast. We’ve given you a lot of suggestions of things to buy online for Christmas, things to watch with your family, or things to watch by yourself so you can scream at the TV.
Chris [00:29:50]:
Or or go out and buy a a Time Magazine with Trump on the cover.
Sam [00:29:55]:
And I went and saw Wicked at the movies.
Chris [00:29:57]:
Oh, did you?
Sam [00:29:57]:
Forgot about that.
Chris [00:29:58]:
Yeah. I don’t know anything about that.
Sam [00:30:00]:
It’s a it’s a movie that’s based on the stage show. So it’s it’s not a movie by itself, but it’s similar to how they would do the stage show.
Chris [00:30:10]:
The stage show is a musical? The stage show
Sam [00:30:12]:
is a musical. This film’s a musical. This isn’t yeah. So but it’s a film. It’s not a video of the stage show.
Chris [00:30:21]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it’s like Little Shop of Horrors. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris [00:30:24]:
There we go. The old
Sam [00:30:25]:
Yep. Yep.
Chris [00:30:26]:
Yep. Yeah.
Sam [00:30:26]:
Yep. Yeah. Pretty cool. Has a good
Chris [00:30:28]:
So is it like Snow White or something like that?
Sam [00:30:30]:
Is it Oh, no. Wicked is, the story of the, evil witch or whatever from, wizard of Oz. Alright. Yeah. Yeah. So there’s Glenda the good witch who’s played by, Ari Ariana Grande, whatever her name is, and then they show the green witch, whatever.
Chris [00:30:46]:
The bad witch.
Sam [00:30:47]:
The bad witch. Yeah. And how she gets started and all that sort of stuff. It’s almost 3 hours long, long film, and this is part 1. So we will see.
Chris [00:30:55]:
Okay. So it was worth looking watching?
Sam [00:30:57]:
Yeah. It was fine. It’s just I was pretty tired at the time and I I I powered through. I almost nodded off, but, that’s just me, not the film. So
Chris [00:31:07]:
Yeah. Understandable. Anyway, that’s us.
Sam [00:31:09]:
Until next time. I’m Sam. I’m Chris. See you.
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