Summary
Chris gets his tooth pulled and Sam battles “mummy thumb” in this week’s episode, as we dive into a marathon runner’s tragic end and a Guinness World Record jigsaw collection.
We hear about a creepy teddy bear art prank that sparks police action, mysterious Amazon brush scams, and the biggest piece of Mars found on Earth is up for aucion.
Plus: Kickstarters, a Commodore 64 comeback, and the curious world of Uno clubs in Vegas.
All this and much more in this week’s episode!
Links
Woman beats world record for amount of jigsaw puzzles
Creepy teddy bear causing problems
Biggest piece of Mars up for auction
McDonalds AI hiring tool security flaw
Unwanted packages being delivered
The Turbaned Torpedo
UNO is going to Las Vegas
Dropkick or Kickstarter – Dead Lucky Game
Commodore 64 Re-done
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:09]:
Welcome to the Chris and Sam Podcast. Pull up a bar stool and join us for a random conversation guaranteed to make you think or your money back. Hello and welcome to episode 540 of the Chris and Sam Podcast.
Chris [00:00:28]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:29]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fixer. Randomist, technology and life brought to you us by us. Can’t even get that out properly. I thought I was going. Doing good. Brought to. It’s been a long day.
Chris [00:00:41]:
We’ll just leave it. We’ll leave it with that 540. Because I was like, is it. I thought it was 5:35, 39.
Sam [00:00:48]:
But you’re right, it’s 540 is crazy. Like, I don’t. I don’t know. I don’t know. This numbering thing.
Chris [00:00:55]:
A.
Sam [00:00:55]:
That’s a lot.
Chris [00:00:56]:
Yeah. Because. Yeah, I. I had Ben Woodbridge get back to me from the Hamilton hello, Hamilton newsletter and he goes, 539 episodes. That’s amazing. So, yeah, well, that was the last one. Yeah, obviously. So, yeah, we’re gonna organize to have a coffee next week.
Chris [00:01:15]:
Excellent. Looks like that’s cool.
Sam [00:01:17]:
As he listens to these episodes. Big shout out, Ben. If you listen to this one, I think most people only listen to whatever the latest one is. I can. No, like, if you talk to them about it, then.
Chris [00:01:29]:
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. They’re not going to go back and listen to 500 other. No, no.
Sam [00:01:33]:
But they’re not going to like cherry pick one either, usually.
Chris [00:01:36]:
No.
Sam [00:01:36]:
So I can’t guarantee if this is going to be good or not, but shout out to all the field days interview people. Everybody. Actually, I think almost everybody came back to us and said, thanks heaps. Sounds great. Love it.
Chris [00:01:47]:
Nice.
Sam [00:01:47]:
So it was pretty cool. I think they’ve been sharing them around. Kiwi Eco Net, I think has the most downloads out of all of those. Interesting. And we had fun doing that.
Chris [00:01:57]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it’s cool. So I have had a busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy week.
Sam [00:02:04]:
Have you been trying to get us to talk to other people or sign us up for stuff?
Chris [00:02:09]:
No, other than that one thing.
Sam [00:02:11]:
Just checking. Sometimes I don’t know what you’re up to.
Chris [00:02:14]:
No, I. On Saturday I had a karate seminar.
Sam [00:02:19]:
Yes.
Chris [00:02:20]:
With Dwayne and Penida, who I trained with when I first came up to Hamilton and worked at as 27 years since we trained together and they’ve been.
Sam [00:02:32]:
Going strong the whole way through. Or do they have a break?
Chris [00:02:35]:
They’ve had just a year off, so they kept running the club here. They’re not in Hamilton anymore. They’re in, I think the Napier.
Sam [00:02:42]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:02:42]:
Cool, cool. And they’ve been running the club there. And then the. They’ve. They’ve dropped out for like a year. I think they’ve just come back from a break for a year.
Sam [00:02:50]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:51]:
So the first time they haven’t been running club for 20 odd years. So yeah, so they said they needed a break, but they’re back into running things and stuff. So that was really cool. So I felt pretty good about that. But yeah, they kept pointing to me as the old fella in the room.
Sam [00:03:07]:
They’re not wrong.
Chris [00:03:07]:
It was pretty obvious every time we had to get on our knees and get up because I’m very slow getting up off my knees.
Sam [00:03:13]:
You want like extra help just rolling around. Now when you say seminar.
Chris [00:03:18]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:03:19]:
What does that entail?
Chris [00:03:21]:
So it was a few hours long. There was a lot more talking and it’s just. Yeah, it’s like any other seminar except.
Sam [00:03:28]:
But what are they talking about in the karate sense?
Chris [00:03:31]:
Like different ways of doing fighting. Fighting stuff. So, yeah, a bunch of fighting stuff and there was a bunch of other Dojo Khan stuff. Hard to explain.
Sam [00:03:41]:
Okay.
Chris [00:03:41]:
But yeah, it’s a little bit more cerebral than just a session.
Sam [00:03:45]:
Okay.
Chris [00:03:45]:
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, it’s very much like a class or a seminar. Yeah, it’s a seminar, but okay. Yeah.
Sam [00:03:52]:
And then on Sunday we saw each other because we’re at the Misty Flicks meeting, AGM catch up thing.
Chris [00:03:57]:
So that was cool. And then Sunday night we had the improv, which was really fun. That was probably the most laughs I’ve had at improv for a while. This is the social improv. So there’s no real audience. No, no plus playing around. But that was really cool. Yeah.
Chris [00:04:13]:
And then Tuesday, this is the highlight of my week.
Sam [00:04:17]:
Okay.
Chris [00:04:17]:
Well, the low light of my week, I should say.
Sam [00:04:20]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:21]:
I had a tooth taken out.
Sam [00:04:22]:
Oh, that’s where it’s fun.
Chris [00:04:23]:
Oh my God. I don’t think I. I had another tooth taken out down here, which broke 10 years ago. And that, that was fine because it was broken. Like I needed to get this out. Now. I bit down on a. I think it was an olive stone in a, in an omelette.
Chris [00:04:40]:
Like, what is an olive stone doing in an omelette?
Sam [00:04:42]:
Who knows?
Chris [00:04:43]:
And, and like crack the, the molar right down the center. Like it was two halves. It was not good. And it came out really easily because it was in two halves. This thing did not want to come out. And I was taking this out for preventative reasons. Now I’m thinking they just sold me and taking this tooth out because it was real hard and you know. Yeah.
Chris [00:05:06]:
So I’m still a little sore. I’m on some meds and.
Sam [00:05:12]:
Good, you need more meds.
Chris [00:05:13]:
And I had coffee for the first time this afternoon after two days of not drinking coffee.
Sam [00:05:18]:
Hot liquids, eh?
Chris [00:05:19]:
Yeah, hot liquids. And somebody’s like. Cuz I’m. Apparently I’ve been a bit grumpy at work. And they’re like, you should have some coffee. It’s 48 hours. You’re allowed to have some hot drinks, have a coffee and shut up.
Sam [00:05:36]:
Excellent. I’m glad you’ve had coffee before this hand update time for me.
Chris [00:05:42]:
Yep.
Sam [00:05:43]:
When I saw my doctor.
Chris [00:05:44]:
Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:05:44]:
And he confirmed that I have mummy thumb.
Chris [00:05:49]:
Mummy thumb, yeah.
Sam [00:05:50]:
It’s also.
Chris [00:05:51]:
Is that a thing?
Sam [00:05:53]:
Yeah. So mums get it because they’ve been lifting their children up. That’s the motion. So it’s sort of like. That hurts a lot. And that’s the strain that I’m getting. I think I’m getting it from left to right movement using a mouse.
Chris [00:06:07]:
All right.
Sam [00:06:08]:
Or keyboard.
Chris [00:06:09]:
Yeah, that makes sense.
Sam [00:06:10]:
And it’s.
Chris [00:06:11]:
Are you gonna use one of those roller keyboards? Roller mouse things?
Sam [00:06:15]:
No, I think I’m getting a vertical, vertical mouse. Oh, De Quivain tenocenovitis is what I’ve got. It’s quite common. Hurts a lot. The doctor’s like yanking my hand around. And he goes, oh, well, you can either go to hand physio and that’s like four to six weeks or whatever maybe. And he goes, or we can just do a cortisone injection. And he goes.
Sam [00:06:41]:
A lot of people get this. And he goes. Normally they’re like, oh, yeah, I think I can feel it. Oh, that’s sort of a bit tender. And he goes, you’re not like next level. Because he moved my hand and I pretty much swore at him. A lot of pain.
Chris [00:06:54]:
Well, at least you didn’t punch him.
Sam [00:06:55]:
No, no, because that’s my hand.
Chris [00:06:57]:
No, I, I punched the, the, the orderly with the other hand. Apparently when they did that.
Sam [00:07:02]:
All right.
Chris [00:07:03]:
I just come off a motorbike and I’d broken that wrist and I was still in shock. And I don’t, I don’t, I still don’t to this day remember. But apparently the orderly had to be called because when somebody might have been a nurse, I have no idea. Went to a check my hand, which I was holding up to my. I didn’t even know it was Broken? Yeah, I was holding up to my chest or whatever, and apparently it hurt so much I tried to punch somebody.
Sam [00:07:27]:
But the doctor goes, okay, we’ll go. Cortisone injection. Here’s your referral. And he goes, oh, I forgot to put what hand it is. I gotta do that. So they do the right hand. I was like, yeah, it makes sense. So he writes on it and he goes left.
Sam [00:07:42]:
And I was like, that’s wrong. It’s my right hand. And for some, he looked at the worst thing ever. I’ve never seen him laugh. And he cracked up at himself. Anyway, that was all good. And then he.
Chris [00:07:53]:
He’s been taking too many of those drugs.
Sam [00:07:55]:
I think so, yeah. Actually, now that you mention it. So he gave me a doctor’s note for work.
Chris [00:08:03]:
Right. So they can sort your standing desk.
Sam [00:08:06]:
Yeah, hopefully. I did fill out some forms and stuff today, but they want to assess it, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they try and get out of it. But I’ll definitely get this mouse thing. But on that form it says my left hand. So I was like, oh, man. So I rang him up and I said, you’ve got the wrong. It’s supposed to be right. And they’re like, yes.
Sam [00:08:21]:
Sweet as. Now, people can’t deal with an email address that’s different from something that they know. So when it’s not at gmail dot com, she rings me up and she goes, hey, we’ve tried sending it to this address. It’s not working. It’s bounced back. Is this the email address? I said, yes, that is correct. And it does end with that. Oh, okay.
Sam [00:08:44]:
Sweet. As if it doesn’t send. Ring them in the morning. I’m off. But ring reception. Okay. No email. So I ring reception this morning.
Sam [00:08:51]:
I said, I haven’t got this email. And she goes, oh, okay. And she goes, is it this? I said, yes. She goes, okay, I’m gonna send it to you right now. It may have been the person that was having trouble. Got it instantly. Is it good? Ring him back. Hey, you know how you gave me that thing? Yep.
Sam [00:09:06]:
There’s no signature on it. And work probably needs that signature. Oh, okay. I have to track down the doctor and sort that out. So that’s where I’m at. But cortisone can’t get it till next month.
Chris [00:09:20]:
Oh.
Sam [00:09:20]:
Because that’s how booked up they are. I think the doctor thought I was getting it this week. How much do you think my medical insurance is paying for all of this? How much do you think cortisone injection is with a ultrasound.
Chris [00:09:32]:
I have no idea.
Sam [00:09:33]:
And I don’t know if I should.
Chris [00:09:33]:
I was going to say 50 bucks. I have no idea.
Sam [00:09:37]:
We laughed and laughed and it’s one of those things where the doctor says, oh, you should go here. These are pretty good. Like he had a little selection and he ticked one and I was like, yep, I’ve heard of them. I don’t know why I would doubt him. So I don’t know if you should really shop around with this sort of stuff. Anyway, $650.
Chris [00:09:54]:
Holy snot.
Sam [00:09:55]:
Doctor thought it was gonna be between 4 and 500 is what he told me. So I was like, okay, he’s in the ballpark. Good times.
Chris [00:10:04]:
Holy snot. Anyway, so I just do rehab like I am for my hip in the back in the hall.
Sam [00:10:12]:
That’s not working at all with your bone on. Bone grinding.
Chris [00:10:14]:
It’s getting there.
Sam [00:10:15]:
No, no, it’s not. It’s wearing away.
Chris [00:10:19]:
Honestly, we’ve had this discussion.
Sam [00:10:21]:
It’s scary.
Chris [00:10:22]:
So. Yeah. So anyway, my face still hurts a little bit.
Sam [00:10:28]:
Okay.
Chris [00:10:28]:
But.
Sam [00:10:29]:
And if you hear that sound in the background, it says, the little heat is kicking in.
Chris [00:10:33]:
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don’t think you hear that, do you?
Sam [00:10:36]:
How many puzzles do you think it takes to beat the world record of having the most jigsaw puzzles?
Chris [00:10:43]:
Oh, that’d be thousands now.
Sam [00:10:45]:
Now the man that used to have the record in 2023 had 2022. This woman decided. This 46 year old woman decided to do it in 2019. And then for some reason she went batshit, I don’t know why. And she’s collected them and she said she could easily carpet her house with puzzles if she kept all the puzzles she completed in a year. So that’s just the one she’s done. How many do you think she beat this guy by?
Chris [00:11:22]:
He had 22.
Sam [00:11:24]:
2022?
Chris [00:11:25]:
Yeah. She’s got to be five grand.
Sam [00:11:28]:
4060.
Chris [00:11:29]:
Oh, close.
Sam [00:11:30]:
And she really likes the ones from Ravensburger, so she seems to have. I’d mention that too if I was collecting something. So they could probably send you more. I don’t know. What a weird. I don’t know. People collect all sorts of stuff.
Chris [00:11:46]:
I. I like this one. This was from last week. Sheriff’s deputy. Sheriff’s deputies arrested an alleged prankster on Monday and accused him of planting a creepy teddy bear that looked like it was made of bloody human tissue.
Sam [00:12:00]:
What?
Chris [00:12:02]:
So anyway, is there a photo? Yes, yes, there’s a video here.
Sam [00:12:06]:
Okay, carry on.
Chris [00:12:08]:
So these. This guy makes These creepy bears. And they are. They look like something off a horror film.
Sam [00:12:14]:
They look like they’re made from skin, human skin stitched into the shape of a teddy bear.
Chris [00:12:18]:
And when this is a video, when you. This one’s turned around, the back of it has a nose on it.
Sam [00:12:24]:
Yes.
Chris [00:12:25]:
It’s awesome. So it looks great. So this guy isn’t quote, unquote artist.
Sam [00:12:30]:
Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:12:31]:
That makes these things. He didn’t do the prank, he just sells them online. Somebody bought it, thought it would be funny. But this is the funniest thing. In a bus stop in the middle of nowhere, 85 miles from anywhere, the bus stops and there’s nothing there but I guess a toilet, maybe a cafe or something. And there’s a bench with these bears on it. And people freaked out and called the cops and the person had put them there as a prank just to scare people from coming out in the middle of nowhere. I don’t know.
Chris [00:13:06]:
I think it’s great. I think, I think he’s a genius. I think it’s awesome.
Sam [00:13:10]:
So the dude says that he’s made dozens of the teddy bears over two decades. Does it say what it’s made out of?
Chris [00:13:17]:
It doesn’t. I would, I think it looked like pig skin or something, but.
Sam [00:13:20]:
So he said he’s been putting skin on everything from guitars and teddy bears to couches. And his primary clients are haunted attractions. Did you know that? Have you.
Chris [00:13:30]:
Yeah. Because this is exactly the sort of thing you’d find in, in spookers if, if they could get it. This is perfect for spookers.
Sam [00:13:36]:
Yeah. Oh, we use latex live casting, so we take live castings of actual human models, which adds to the reality of the item.
Chris [00:13:44]:
Now that’s so synthetic.
Sam [00:13:46]:
Yeah. Good on him. I’m sure they sell for. I don’t even know how much they sell for, but they’ll be worth a bit. But there’s a convention for the horror attractions in America.
Chris [00:13:56]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:13:57]:
It’s so cool because you see them. I follow a couple of people that.
Chris [00:14:00]:
I think you’ve shown it to me because I know I’ve seen it.
Sam [00:14:02]:
Yeah, I follow a couple of people in the Halloween space, I guess, and, and they go there and some of the animatronics and you could just buy it. Like, if you had the cash. You can have a guy sitting inside an electric chair getting electrocuted, and then he sort of stands up and tries to grab you.
Chris [00:14:20]:
Oh, that’s awesome.
Sam [00:14:21]:
Anyway, that’s pretty cool. I like that.
Chris [00:14:24]:
I, I, I don’t think the guy needs to go to jail for it. But I think that’s an overreaction. But I do, I do. I sort of get where the police are coming from. Like, you’re wasting our time. Like. Yeah, he’s not wasting your time. That Karen from the bus is wasting your time.
Chris [00:14:41]:
What was she gonna do? Ring up and go, oh, there’s human skin teddy bear sitting in.
Sam [00:14:46]:
Yeah, I know. Like, but you’re in America, so you’d be like, is this a real serial killer thing? Yeah, who knows?
Chris [00:14:53]:
Oh, yeah, I’d be creeped out. But I wouldn’t probably call the police, I don’t think.
Sam [00:14:58]:
Sotheby’s, the world famous auction house.
Chris [00:15:00]:
Yep.
Sam [00:15:01]:
Has the biggest piece of Mars found on Earth going up for auction. So it’s a.
Chris [00:15:08]:
Okay. How did pieces of Mars appear on Earth exactly?
Sam [00:15:11]:
I don’t know. It’s a 25 kilo piece of meteorite which is believed to have been blown off the surface of Mars.
Chris [00:15:22]:
Right.
Sam [00:15:22]:
So somehow they must have worked it out. 25 kilos. It was found in 2023 and now they’re selling it. How much do you reckon? Well, I don’t the estimated price. Have a guess. Like, it’s a weird thing to have. I don’t know.
Chris [00:15:37]:
Yeah, I know. There’s a market for meteorites and they often sell between 20,000 and 100,000, $200,000, depending on what they’re made of. And all this sort of thing that size of. Exactly, exactly would be like a million dollar thing.
Sam [00:15:52]:
I would say they think about 2 to 4 million.
Chris [00:15:55]:
Okay.
Sam [00:15:56]:
So I’m sure they’ll sell it for way more than that. There’ll be some excited people there. They reckon that out of the 77,000 officially recognized meteorites that have hit Earth, only around 400 are from Martian meteorites. Makes it a lot.
Chris [00:16:15]:
See, I reckon Elon Musk will grab it and just put a flag on it now.
Sam [00:16:21]:
Oh, yeah, maybe.
Chris [00:16:22]:
Maybe he can afford it.
Sam [00:16:24]:
Yeah, true.
Chris [00:16:25]:
Yeah, cool, cool. Oh, I just wanted this as more of a callback to one of the stories you told.
Sam [00:16:32]:
Okay.
Chris [00:16:33]:
About your quest to get the. The Biscoff milkshake.
Sam [00:16:37]:
Yes.
Chris [00:16:38]:
Now, do you remember what happened when he charged your card? And then he goes, oh, I need to reverse the charge.
Sam [00:16:47]:
It froze up before that.
Chris [00:16:48]:
How. How big was the. The password issue on that?
Sam [00:16:53]:
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it seemed to be a lot. Yeah, that’s right. He was typing away on the screen for ages.
Chris [00:16:57]:
Yeah. It was mental. Right? Yeah. So the McDonald’s AI hiring tool apparently doesn’t have those issues. So they. They protect the. The till from the staff at McDonald’s. But a security floor in Mac Higher.
Chris [00:17:15]:
Okay. I don’t know if that’s literally what the thing. Probably just saying it. Mac Higher allowed access to sensitive applicant data. So it’s the recruitment agency for McDonald’s.
Sam [00:17:28]:
Okay.
Chris [00:17:28]:
Via default admin credentials and a vulnerable API. So what was the password? Do you think? McDonald’s 123456 was the password? And as many 64 million job seekers details were in behind that firewall, quote, unquote. Firewall. Because if the password’s 123456, it’s not a firewall.
Sam [00:17:52]:
Did they get. Did they actually get stolen or did they just find.
Chris [00:17:56]:
I think they. It got spotted. Yeah. It was patched swiftly after disclosure, so I think somebody found it.
Sam [00:18:04]:
Three Big Macs for that man or for life? Yeah, I reckon you’d hope so. Eh?
Chris [00:18:10]:
But, yeah, no, like. But they just cracked me up. Like, after you telling me how much password security went into them, like, just reversing a charge which ended up freezing the machine. And they had to give you cash. Yeah. They’re hiring with 64 million applicants, had a password of 123456. Crank me up.
Sam [00:18:30]:
How would you feel if you just keep getting unwanted packages from Amazon for a whole year, and then you find out that every package just contains fake leather car seat covers? And then you find out that it’s a Chinese Amazon seller, but they’re really crap quality, and this is the return address they put. And it’s your Random House, and they just keep piling up. This woman. My God, this woman in California. This is what’s been happening. This crappy online seller, which I can’t even pronounce the name, has all these negative reviews, and for some reason, it put this woman’s address down. The company has turned up to remove the boxes, but it’s not isolated. In 2022, this dude got dozens of unwanted packages which was suspected to be part of a brushing scam, and I’ve never heard of that term before.
Chris [00:19:27]:
So we don’t know what a rushing scam is.
Sam [00:19:29]:
Well, it involves sellers sending packages to random addresses to artificially inflate their positive reviews. So it’s just cheaper for them to send it to randos. It’s weird. A. In 2023, this other person ended up with over a thousand condoms. She never was, never ordered. She was charged $500 and likely a victim of a brushing scam. Do they just go, we’ll send this Random thing to this person.
Sam [00:19:55]:
We’ll charge them and when they get it, they’ll give us a positive review. I don’t know.
Chris [00:20:00]:
I don’t know who’s getting scammed there. The scammers seem pretty scam.
Sam [00:20:04]:
And then in 2023, this other dude in America as well received over a hundred unordered packages. So Amazon investigated it and the vendor was using random addresses to clear out unsold merchandise from fulfillment centers. How is that better than just selling it cheap somewhere else? It’s bizarre. Eh, they must. I don’t know. Imagine that. Get the random addresses, send it out, don’t need to worry about it anymore.
Chris [00:20:33]:
I. Okay, I don’t. I don’t. Well, I’ve got a drop kickstart. A couple of kickstarts and drop kicks. Before I do that, I want to talk about the Turbaned. The Turbaned Torpedo. I just love that.
Chris [00:20:46]:
That’s the Turbine Torpedo there as an image.
Sam [00:20:49]:
So it’s an Indian man with a big beard wearing a turban.
Chris [00:20:52]:
Yes. The world’s oldest marathon runner, Fuja Singh, 114. Well, he was until he got hit by a car and killed this week.
Sam [00:21:03]:
Okay, okay, 114.
Chris [00:21:07]:
Yeah. But local media India reported that Singh sustained severe head injuries in a hit and run accident on Monday while he was crossing the road at his native village. He was taken to the hospital where later he died. His London based running club and charity Sex in the City confirmed his death.
Sam [00:21:26]:
That’s a great name.
Chris [00:21:27]:
I know.
Sam [00:21:28]:
Oh, man.
Chris [00:21:28]:
Even the Prime Minister paid tribute to Singh saying it was an extraordinary because of his unique Persona and the manner in which he inspired the youth of India on very important topic of fitness. So he became the oldest man to run a Full Marathon in 200 in 2011 at the age of 100 in Toronto.
Sam [00:21:47]:
Okay.
Chris [00:21:48]:
And his accomplishment was not recognized by Guinness World Records because he did not have a birth certificate.
Sam [00:21:54]:
They never have a birth certificate when they’re that old. Ever.
Chris [00:21:58]:
He had a. A British passport that showed his date of birth as April 1, 1911, while an A letter from Indian government officials stated that his birth records were not kept in 1911. So.
Sam [00:22:13]:
So he’s at least that old.
Chris [00:22:14]:
Yeah, maybe so. He was a torch bearer in the 20202012 London Olympic Games. He took up running at the age of 89 as a way to get over depression after his wife and son had died.
Sam [00:22:28]:
Oh, okay, so he’s like a late. Oh, there’s hope for us yet.
Chris [00:22:31]:
Yeah, yeah. He took up the age of running at 89. I mean, he took up running at the age of 89. I’d be happy to be walking at 89.
Sam [00:22:40]:
I think you’ll be, you’ll be, you’ll be lucky to do that in five years. Do you want to go to Las Vegas to play Uno?
Chris [00:22:51]:
No. Hang on. What’s Uno again?
Sam [00:22:53]:
The card game, the colorful one. And it’s got numbers and colors and you match them.
Chris [00:22:59]:
Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever played it. I think I’ve seen it. No, I would.
Sam [00:23:02]:
How would you never played Uno.
Chris [00:23:04]:
I’ve never played Uno.
Sam [00:23:06]:
Okay. I thought it might have come up at some point in one of your random stories. Anyway, so Uno is like a family friendly kid game, right. That’s painting the picture. And Mattel, who owns it, are launching Uno social clubs in Las Vegas. And it’s a Uno themed suite designed for playing the game. They got decor that’s inspired by the colors, private bowling alley, some game tables stocked with different versions of the game and a dedicated Uno game host. Now it’s tied.
Sam [00:23:40]:
The launch of this was tied to a tick tock contest with someone won a trip. But there’s no talk of if gambling is going to be somehow involved with this. But they are going to roll out nationwide and they’re going to have these places where you can go play Uno with other people.
Chris [00:23:58]:
Okay.
Sam [00:23:59]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:24:00]:
All right. I’ve got a couple of drop kicking.
Sam [00:24:04]:
Yes.
Chris [00:24:04]:
Drop kick or kickstarts.
Sam [00:24:05]:
This is where we find.
Chris [00:24:07]:
I’m not great at this. You, you’re the one that comes up with the cool ones. And I’ve just gone, oh, I like that.
Sam [00:24:13]:
I’ve got. I’ve. I haven’t. Yeah, I haven’t done one in a while.
Chris [00:24:17]:
My bad.
Sam [00:24:17]:
Chris is going to do it. And then once you’ve done your two, I’ve got this other one I keep seeing ads for.
Chris [00:24:21]:
All right, so Dead Lucky, okay. It’s a party game of sabotage and fate.
Sam [00:24:27]:
Do we poison people with beef Wellingtons with weird mushrooms in them?
Chris [00:24:30]:
Yeah, it’s.
Sam [00:24:32]:
I love how you said. Yeah.
Chris [00:24:34]:
Dead Lucky is a fast paced card game of chance and elimination brought to you by Boozy Games. And the games has a zone.
Sam [00:24:42]:
Of course. Good.
Chris [00:24:43]:
Yeah. So I don’t know. It’s only got nine days to go. Yeah, it’s. It was looking for 28,000 New Zealand dollars.
Sam [00:24:56]:
Okay. My guess is 150,000 board games are real popular.
Chris [00:25:01]:
What does it. What is it? What do you pay? Hang on.
Sam [00:25:04]:
I know. See, this is what happens when. Where we reverse These roles and you just end up scrolling going, where is it?
Chris [00:25:10]:
Yeah. The simple set is $22. The full game is 38. The simple and the scheming spirits. I don’t know what that is. Is 35. The full and scheming spirits is 44. So guesses on how much money they’ve made?
Sam [00:25:26]:
120,000.
Chris [00:25:27]:
1,107 New Zealand dollars.
Sam [00:25:30]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:25:31]:
Nine days left to go. That’s. That’s dead and unlucky.
Sam [00:25:35]:
Okay. Okay. People don’t like it for whatever reason or to be honest, it’ll be their marketing and they probably don’t have a user base. Who knows?
Chris [00:25:43]:
I like the. The graphics on it look good and stuff like that.
Sam [00:25:46]:
Okay.
Chris [00:25:47]:
It’s just a drinking game. That’s the thing. I just don’t know.
Sam [00:25:51]:
That’s not a. There’s less young people drinking.
Chris [00:25:54]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:25:54]:
Like we used to.
Chris [00:25:55]:
It’s definitely not in the.
Sam [00:25:58]:
What’s your number two for a Kickstarter drop kick?
Chris [00:26:01]:
The number two. This isn’t actually on a Kickstarter.
Sam [00:26:06]:
Doesn’t matter.
Chris [00:26:06]:
It’s on its own.
Sam [00:26:07]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:08]:
But it is. The old Commodore 64 is coming back.
Sam [00:26:13]:
Okay.
Chris [00:26:15]:
They have. It’s it. It will take how Many? Compatible with 10,000 plus original retro games, cartridges, peripherals and more RAM, 48 MHz Turbo Boost, Sid Sound chip. But there’s different levels and one of them has an in a reactive color changing case and keyboard.
Sam [00:26:38]:
That’s what you want.
Chris [00:26:39]:
WI fi game transfer and USB cassette bursting with classic new games. So world’s first transparent keyboard circuit board to let the tech speak for itself. Okay, the. No matter which level you buy, the original C64 creator autographs are etched forever into the main copper.
Sam [00:27:02]:
Okay.
Chris [00:27:03]:
It has a spiral bound manual glossy classic box. Whether you grew up with a Commodore or had never heard of one, this is for you. A simple distraction, free computing experience. A chance to learn how computers really work. A fun, inviting way to introduce your kids to basic coding. And for the kids still within C64 ultimate isn’t tech that controls you. It invites you. Ready for player two.
Sam [00:27:35]:
There you go. How much does one of them go for?
Chris [00:27:38]:
So the lowest one is 299. And I assume this is US dollars.
Sam [00:27:44]:
Yeah, let’s always assume it’s US dollars.
Chris [00:27:46]:
Yep. Oh, actually it’s turned it into New Zealand dollars for me.
Sam [00:27:50]:
Cool.
Chris [00:27:51]:
So the lowest one. 64 Commodore 64 Ultimate Basic Beige. It’s $503 New Zealand.
Sam [00:27:59]:
Okay.
Chris [00:28:00]:
The Commodore 64 Ultimate Founders Edition. That’s yeah. A Goldie looking one is 839. The Starlight Edition is 587.
Sam [00:28:14]:
Oh.
Chris [00:28:14]:
The 64 XPC is 923. And then there’s things like a funky looking joystick and, and lots of accessories and stuff. Accessories and pieces even got the merch.
Sam [00:28:28]:
I wonder what the market is for that. Like I don’t know.
Chris [00:28:32]:
Nostalgia market is huge and. But then nostalgia people generally. Not me because I’m broke but have money.
Sam [00:28:39]:
Yeah. But then the die hard people would be like I want an original one. Maybe. I don’t know.
Chris [00:28:45]:
But it works with all the originals. I don’t know. I, I quite like it. I’m. I’m. If that had been a, a ZX Spectrum. I’m tempted.
Sam [00:28:54]:
Who’s to say they don’t do that in a different. After this one.
Chris [00:28:58]:
Yeah, I know. And, and I’m tempted because I’ve still got a box full of all the games.
Sam [00:29:01]:
Of course you do. You’re a hoarder.
Chris [00:29:03]:
I am a hoarder.
Sam [00:29:04]:
I will cover the thing I found last week and I’ll find something else to go with it. Okay, how’s that? Because we come to the end of the podcast right now, of course. Check out tcaf.com. that’s where you can find us on the Internet. That’s our main page, I guess.
Chris [00:29:20]:
Website tcasp.
Sam [00:29:22]:
Yep. That’s all you need to do. Make sure to share that around. Tell the people you like, the people you don’t like. We don’t care. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:29:30]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:29:31]:
See ya.
Chris [00:29:31]:
Bye.
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