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.
Discover why wedding air is selling for $50,000, inside tales from a colonoscopy, a vigilante taping suspects to lampposts, and the mystery behind microwaving stainless steel.
Links
Trump Ruins World Cup
Dirty Russians
Mexican Vigilante
UV Light for Cars
Kelly Slater Wave Co
Gaming Problems in Germany
Kickstart or Dropkick – Sprout
Kickstart or Dropkick – Misenware
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 588 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomist technology and life. And I managed to get all the field days interviews out.
Chris [00:00:33]:
Woo hoo.
Sam [00:00:34]:
My goal was to get them out sooner than I’ve done in the past. That failed for a couple of them because I got real sick and got busy with other things. But we’re here now and the last three have dropped and it’s from the UK delegation from Innovate UK in partnership with Sprout, which is a great organization here in New Zealand. And really interesting talks I’ve with really interesting people and I have to catch
Chris [00:00:58]:
up and listen to those because I was not with you when you did those ones.
Sam [00:01:01]:
No, it was, it was a. It was a long day doing all those ones by myself. But yeah, you should check them out. They’re at the. Well, thechristandsampodcast.com or tcas.com whatever you prefer.
Chris [00:01:12]:
And you can click on field days at the top or events and then field.
Sam [00:01:15]:
No field days now. I changed it. Okay, so it’s field days and there’s over 60 interviews and for some reason, and I don’t know why, but we are getting a lot of traffic on our website at the moment. A nice big uptick.
Chris [00:01:29]:
Nice, nice, nice. Like that. I like that. I got some news today actually, that you’re old pretty much. Oh no, no, no. I’ve got an appointment for a telephone consultation with the orthopedic physio. So I don’t know if this is like a step towards.
Sam [00:01:51]:
Does that actual telephone or video call.
Chris [00:01:54]:
It’s a telephone call.
Sam [00:01:56]:
Well, okay, I know, I guess that’s something, I guess. But I’m guessing they’re reading the notes.
Chris [00:02:01]:
They’re ringing. Yeah, they’re ringing me, but they’re like. It’s just like on Tuesday the 12th or whatever it is, at 3pm we will call you.
Sam [00:02:11]:
Okay?
Chris [00:02:12]:
Okay.
Sam [00:02:12]:
Okay.
Chris [00:02:13]:
And then there’s a note. Due to certain circumstances, we may be late with our call.
Sam [00:02:17]:
Oh yeah, fair enough. Good, put that in there. Oh, since the last episode I had my colonoscopy.
Chris [00:02:21]:
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Sam [00:02:22]:
Great experience all round. So we’ a custom place that just does endoscopy, right. And it’s here in Hamilton.
Chris [00:02:32]:
So endoscopy is basically a camera on the end of a swively thing yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:02:38]:
And it’s either down. Yeah. Both entrances and exits, but yeah, but they. I was the first one up. Everything.
Chris [00:02:46]:
Because I do, you know, if they do like, put a hole in your gut and then push one in or do. Is it just natural entrances and.
Sam [00:02:55]:
Natural entrances, I think.
Chris [00:02:57]:
Yeah. I don’t know. I don’t know.
Sam [00:02:58]:
But it was funny because I was the first one up and it was all good. And they wheeled me into this operating room thing, or whatever they want to call it, and I was like looking at it and I said to the guy, you’re not going to try to sell me a tv, are you? The surgeon guy? He goes, what?
Chris [00:03:12]:
I said, I’ve never been in a
Sam [00:03:14]:
room with so many TVs that isn’t like a showroom. So on the wall, I think there was two 85 inch TVs which were the wall with mountain images on them. The two TVs that they were using as basically mon. Monitors, computer monitors, to look at what they had coming up and stuff. They must have been two 65 inch TVs mounted behind glass.
Chris [00:03:37]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:03:37]:
And then there was another couple of
Chris [00:03:38]:
minutes when you say, what’s coming up? Like scheduling and stuff.
Sam [00:03:41]:
Yeah, yeah. It was like giant calendars and stuff. I was like. And then there was a big monitor up top. For some reason, I don’t know what that was doing. And then there was another monitor where we could all see what was going on with my insides.
Chris [00:03:52]:
Nice.
Sam [00:03:53]:
I got great feedback on my prep. They quite like that. And they even put it in my little booklet. I forgot to bring my booklet because all the photos they took of my insides. They give it to you. Oh, really?
Chris [00:04:05]:
Okay, cool.
Sam [00:04:06]:
Anyway, all good? Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:04:08]:
Clean Billy Health. Oh, that’s cool. That’s the main thing. I caught up with Jamie too, on Sunday at. I went to.
Sam [00:04:16]:
You want to clarify? Not Jamie Oxley, our podcast fan in Australia, but Jamie, the real life guy that we bump into all the time,
Chris [00:04:23]:
who’s a podcast fan here. Yes. Because he said, oh, have you had much. Have you had much feedback about the Wednesday instead of Sunday? And I just looked at him blankly, shaking my head, going, what are you talking about?
Sam [00:04:34]:
We’ve had no feedback except for Jamie
Chris [00:04:37]:
telling us something and then he finally, finally clicks. I went, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, we haven’t had any feedback. He goes, ah, I just wondered. He goes. I said, well, it doesn’t really affect me at all. We record on the same day, like, yeah, that’s right. I said, but I think Sam finds It way better because there’s not as much pressure to get it done if
Sam [00:04:59]:
I’m busy on the weekend.
Chris [00:05:00]:
Yeah, yeah. So he goes, oh. I said, why? He goes, oh, every now and again I wake up on a Sunday morning, I go, oh, yes. And I’ll pick up the phone and go, oh,
Sam [00:05:12]:
he can wait until Sunday.
Chris [00:05:13]:
I said, well, you can still listen to it on Sundays. It’ll be like a week late.
Sam [00:05:17]:
But, you know, I’d love to know what Quentin thinks. I’m assuming he’s raging out because his process, I believe, was to wake up Sunday morning and listen to us. Sorry, we gotta try and streamline what’s going on here.
Chris [00:05:31]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:05:32]:
It took us 11 and a half years to get here.
Chris [00:05:34]:
That’s the first feedback I’ve had. So. But yeah, and Jamie says hello. So there you go.
Sam [00:05:39]:
Very cool. If you do have feedback, hit us up on our socials or wherever you want to get hold of us. We talked about Sony deleting a bunch of games last week because they lost the contract with Canal Studios. A lot of movies. Sorry, movies, sorry.
Chris [00:05:57]:
Yes, yes, yes.
Sam [00:05:58]:
And since then, Sony has now come out and said, hey, we’re going to get rid of physical media. We’re not doing any physical media in 2028. I think it is. It’s only gonna be digital downloads.
Chris [00:06:14]:
So what are you saying? A Sony PlayStation will not have a.
Sam [00:06:19]:
Well, there’s two disc. There’s two versions currently, I believe there’s a digital version. Xbox is the same. You can get a digital only version or one that can take discs.
Chris [00:06:28]:
Right.
Sam [00:06:29]:
So people are like, oh, but who
Chris [00:06:31]:
uses discs these days? Well, I’ve got a CD ROM player on my computer. Yeah. Have I actually, My new computer, actually, I don’t.
Sam [00:06:38]:
You wouldn’t know what you’ve got.
Chris [00:06:40]:
I don’t. So, yeah, obviously I don’t use it.
Sam [00:06:44]:
But the question is, like, these huge markets for trading games and things like that, physical media, and that’s gone. And now they’re going, well, who owns actually what? It’s a whole thing for the consoles. So that’s happening. But Germany had a project to preserve physical games. They had over 60,000 of them stored. It was the world’s largest game archive and it was entirely publicly available, apparently. And their 1.5 million euros dried up, so they just closed it down and they don’t know what’s going to happen with this stuff. And it includes cartridges, floppy disk CDs, DVDs and Blu Ray alongside manuals and packaging because that’s What a lot of people say when you used to get a physical thing, you would sometimes get really good packaging or other.
Chris [00:07:37]:
Oh yeah, they were artworks. Sabre Wolf Sabre Wulf box set in 1983. I think it came out.
Sam [00:07:45]:
I’m assuming somebody knows what you’re saying.
Chris [00:07:47]:
That was such a big event. Ultimate Play the Game was the. Was the main manufacturer of the label. But they were like music labels back then, you know?
Sam [00:07:58]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:07:58]:
All those guys. It was such a big thing when there was a release of a game and yeah, they spent so much in the artwork and stuff like that, that. And when you think this is a 16k game on a computer or a 48k, I should say, for Save Wolf’s 48k, you know, the. The graphics on the actual screen didn’t look anywhere near as good as the graphics on the box.
Sam [00:08:21]:
No, never, never. They duped us talking about music labels and big things. How excited were you that Taylor Swift got married?
Chris [00:08:31]:
I’d never noticed. I didn’t know. Has she?
Sam [00:08:33]:
How do you not know?
Chris [00:08:35]:
Nobody’s mentioned it.
Sam [00:08:36]:
So anyway, she.
Chris [00:08:37]:
I’ve seen it anywhere. Seriously. So she married that football player dude?
Sam [00:08:41]:
Yes.
Chris [00:08:41]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:08:42]:
So they get married in Madison Square Gardens. They shut off that whole area. It was a whole thing they shipped in celebrities. All the celebrities had to put their phones and special lockbox things so no one could take any photos or anything like that.
Chris [00:08:56]:
Yeah, fair enough.
Sam [00:08:56]:
And with your limited knowledge of Taylor Swift, I assume you’re not a swiftie and not listening to all her back catalog like someone I live with is currently doing. Who like. And he’s a footballer as well. And it was quite a. I think they had a small bridal party.
Chris [00:09:10]:
When we say football, we mean American football.
Sam [00:09:12]:
American football. Yeah. People know. I don’t need to explain that. Only to you. Who do you get to officiate them? Who’s the official person that.
Chris [00:09:20]:
Stephen Colbert. No, I know he officiates weddings. Yes, he is a celebrant. So that’s the only reason.
Sam [00:09:27]:
Okay, no, no, that’s fair enough. Fair enough.
Chris [00:09:29]:
I don’t know who.
Sam [00:09:30]:
Adam Sandler.
Chris [00:09:31]:
Oh really? That’s even better. That’s way better. That is so cool. I’m actually impressed with Taylor Swift now.
Sam [00:09:39]:
But yeah, somehow they got friendly and asked them, but if you couldn’t make it. You want to keepsake the New Zealand. Sorry. New York City garbage. It’s a website. They’re selling bits of trash and refuse that directly came from there. They’re about $25. But hang on.
Sam [00:09:59]:
What happens if You. No, I know what happens if you got $50,000 and a hole burning in your pocket and you want to buy something while a man on ebay, or sorry, a person, I should say on ebay, is offering a bag of air collected from outside Madison Square Gardens and it can be yours just for $50,000.
Chris [00:10:18]:
Oh, my God, that’s crazy. That’s mental. Dad’s fun, though. I think that’s fun. And I think it sounds like they did a better job than the whole Bezos thing, which just screwed everybody up, you know what I mean? Like that.
Sam [00:10:34]:
I mean, he went from a normal looking person to this hodgepodge of a woman that’s made up of Botox. Have you seen his new wife? Yeah, she’s so scary.
Chris [00:10:42]:
So it’s interesting because I listen to the Daily Beast a lot. I watch Daily Beast on YouTube and Joanna knows. What’s her name, his wife’s name. I’ve forget her name. I’ll remember it in a second. But she goes, when you talk to her, she’s quite intelligent. She’s. She’s quite nice.
Chris [00:11:02]:
Yeah, I’m sure she is, but she goes. And I. And she’s known her for years, before she got married, she goes. I just don’t understand why she’s coming across as a bimbo. Why has she embraced this bimbo? Look, all right, like she is totally coming across as a bimbo. But. But every time I’ve met her and I’ve talked to her, she’s warm, she’s nice, she’s intelligent, she’s interesting.
Sam [00:11:22]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:11:23]:
And then she looks like, you know, she’s spending money on daft of shit. Yeah. Anyway, I don’t, I don’t.
Sam [00:11:30]:
I saw a video this week and I decided to look into it because I found it quite interesting. Do you know who Kelly Slater is?
Chris [00:11:38]:
The name sounds familiar. It’s not nothing to do with the Ozzy Osbourne? Why am I thinking that?
Sam [00:11:46]:
No, that’s his daughter. Kelly Osbourne is.
Chris [00:11:48]:
Kelly is what I’m thinking of.
Sam [00:11:50]:
Okay. Now, Kelly Slater is a world pro surfer.
Chris [00:11:53]:
Oh, okay.
Sam [00:11:55]:
And he’s made something called the Kelly Slater Wave Co. I’m not sure where this is. Somewhere in America.
Chris [00:12:01]:
So like a wave pool.
Sam [00:12:03]:
It’s a wave machine and somehow they’ve got all these engineers involved and it’s a perfect wave that you can surf on and for up to a minute. It’s a huge pull thing. But what you can’t see in this video, which is in the other video, there’s something on the side Traveling along. It’s basically a giant train.
Chris [00:12:23]:
I’ve seen that sort of machine before and it sort of kills and it makes the wave happen.
Sam [00:12:29]:
And this one, his one is the only World Surf League approved site that you can actually go to. I think it’s $70,000 a day.
Chris [00:12:40]:
Jeez.
Sam [00:12:41]:
But they were saying they worked out how much that is and you share the cost with different people. But they said if you went there and you did not know how to surf, you can pick it up so much faster on the special wave machine thing. Cause it’s perfect every single time.
Chris [00:12:57]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:12:57]:
But this train thing, the engineering that goes into it, they talk about it on the website quite a bit. Like they’ve got. They’ve got scientists working on it just to make this wave.
Chris [00:13:10]:
So we’ll put the link to that in the show notes because I want to check it out later. Yeah, yeah, it’s crazy.
Sam [00:13:15]:
I just thought it was really interesting because I never would have thought that was a thing.
Chris [00:13:19]:
Yeah. Well, I know you don’t follow sports much, but I suppose you can’t have missed this story, which I wrote down as soon as it happened. Now, of course, it’s everywhere. Of course, that Trump ruining the World
Sam [00:13:32]:
cup, he’s just an idiot. He’s like such a baby.
Chris [00:13:35]:
It’s so ridiculous. And so a lot of the. So as you know, I watch way too much American news and all the rest of it. And a lot of people have been saying, oh, this World cup is really good. Everybody had been expecting it to be really crap.
Sam [00:13:51]:
It seems to be going really well.
Chris [00:13:54]:
Yeah, it had been going really well. So there were a few initial things that were really worrying. Like, you know, how they got. The Somali referee wasn’t allowed in the country. Certain captains were from different countries that were darker pigmentation, weren’t allowed in and stuff like that.
Sam [00:14:11]:
Okay.
Chris [00:14:12]:
And of course, they had a whole thing about Iran that was, that was appalling. You heard about that aid. So they, they made Iran go across the border because they didn’t want them to stay in America before and after games and stuff.
Sam [00:14:24]:
Oh, okay.
Chris [00:14:25]:
Like, you know, we’re going to temporarily deport you until your next game type thing. It was just, it’s like crap anyway. But yeah, so everybody knows now. He, he. The funny thing was he was like, three weeks ago, he was like, who’s this Baligan guy? He’s a naturalized American. We want to get rid of these birthright citizens. Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. Oh, no, he’s scoring goals he’s the best player we’ve got.
Chris [00:14:53]:
And then he gets a red card and he goes, oh, no, we, we need, we need him and rings old Infantino. Which, yeah, it’s unbelievable. They did that. But it’s. I feel sorry for the Americans. They’ve had a really good tournament. They’ve played really well.
Sam [00:15:10]:
Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:15:10]:
I haven’t seen any of the games, but I’ve heard they played really well. People were like, give them a lot of kudos. And the American tournament had been going well and then Trump comes in and does this ham handed, bloody Trump stuff. It’s.
Sam [00:15:28]:
Anyway, I know, it’s crazy. So we’ve still got up until the 19th, I think is the playing up until other.
Chris [00:15:35]:
The finals? Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:15:37]:
19th, 20th or something. Because I asked someone, I was like, this seems to be going on forever.
Chris [00:15:42]:
Yeah, no, I know. They’re into the knockouts. Yeah, yeah, they’re well into the knockout. So I, Yeah, I wasn’t sure when
Sam [00:15:49]:
it was finishing up because it’s funny a. Because they’ll play it at work on our lunchroom.
Chris [00:15:54]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:15:54]:
And you can have up to a whole bunch of people watching it. And I was like, if I was fully committed and I didn’t want to do anything, I could just come down and watch whatever.
Chris [00:16:04]:
Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, that’s. That’s a bit of. Yeah, it’s a bit crappy actually. I’ll tell you something as it was crappy and then you can cherish it with some better news. So Russians are not good people.
Sam [00:16:21]:
Okay.
Chris [00:16:22]:
Yeah. So they have been struggling so much. They’ve been bombing all over the place. Just indiscriminately. Bombing. Yeah, you know, citizens.
Sam [00:16:33]:
Why not?
Chris [00:16:33]:
You know, because they, because they’re so stressed, stretched. They can’t do anything else. They’re not winning, they’re losing ground on the front lines. Yeah.
Sam [00:16:42]:
And so they’re just bombing and they’ve got no petrol.
Chris [00:16:44]:
But you know what’s worse is they’re returning Ukraine’s war dead, like, so it’s a typical thing in war. We don’t think about much. But if you get the. Yeah. Opposition bodies and that, you send them back.
Sam [00:16:56]:
Yeah, yeah. Sort of like a. What do you call, rules of war sort of thing.
Chris [00:17:01]:
Yeah. Except the Russians are putting grenades in the people they’re sending back. Oh, no, they’re putting bombs in the bodies. Explosives, which is just. It’s probably just now they have to have police check every, every body bag coming back.
Sam [00:17:16]:
Probably just some weirdos doing it. I don’t know. Who knows? Have you seen them? Have you seen them lining up for petrol?
Chris [00:17:24]:
Yeah, I saw a couple of videos of lines of cars.
Sam [00:17:29]:
They’re lining up for kilometers, kilometers, kilometers. And then when they get there, they’re only allowed 20 liters.
Chris [00:17:33]:
And that’s in Russia itself, because Crimea, they don’t even have the rationings broken down because they haven’t got any gas at all.
Sam [00:17:40]:
Oh, man.
Chris [00:17:41]:
So Crimea’s a bit screwed. I had to look it up. Cause, like, what is the population of Crimea? And this is from Wikipedia, it was before the war, but it was 2 million.
Sam [00:17:50]:
Oh, wow.
Chris [00:17:50]:
Because I didn’t know how big Crimea was.
Sam [00:17:52]:
But, yeah, if you do have petrol or maybe an electric car and you’re driving around, have you thought about sanitizing it while you’re in the car? No. He’s looking at me confused.
Chris [00:18:01]:
I don’t know what you mean.
Sam [00:18:02]:
Well, Hyundai and Kia are developing an interior sanitising system. So you’re driving along and it’ll sanitize the car while you’re in it. Not keen. So, anyway.
Chris [00:18:16]:
No, I mean, it depends what that means. I’m just picturing, like, these little sprinklers appearing in the roof and going everywhere.
Sam [00:18:26]:
No, they reckon the first of its kind, it’s using a UV light system.
Chris [00:18:30]:
Oh, that’s all right.
Sam [00:18:31]:
So that’s what it is. So you’re probably. They’re using. It’s called Far UltraViolet C or UFC, sanitation hardware system for vehicle interiors. And it’s supposed to kill bacteria and viruses and possibly reduce odors, but they don’t know when it’s coming out. They’re just sort of working on this technology. It’s one of those things where the scientists have probably got chubbed up and got a demo thing where it’s like. It’s a big, bright purple light in your car.
Chris [00:19:03]:
Actually, I was watching a video earlier today on a. On a Chinese supercar.
Sam [00:19:08]:
Because you’re into those Chinese supercars?
Chris [00:19:11]:
No. Well, no, actually, it was because this guy I follow has. This was the. The video. He goes, one of these videos. Because I ended up clicking on a couple of them, can’t remember which one it was. He said one of these videos is the one that. That got him monetized.
Chris [00:19:25]:
So he had nothing, nothing, nothing. And he did one video and it went nuts. But this one video he did on this Chinese supercar, it’s mental. It’s set up and it’s a $230,000 car. Like, it’s a supercar and it looks nice and all the rest of it, it’s set up to jump in the air and jump over potholes. The suspension just retracts and the car’s in the air. And then it goes down again.
Sam [00:19:53]:
No problem.
Chris [00:19:54]:
Potholes. And I’m like, no. And then they show this demo thing of it going down this road and it goes over this pothole. Like a cut in the road. Yeah. And then it goes over cow trops. Like a meter square of cow trops. And it jumps.
Chris [00:20:10]:
And it’s got this slow, high speed camera, you know, slow motion thing of this car. It’s just mental. And then they just had chalk on the road just to show that the tires aren’t touching the chalk. And it goes over and you can see the chalk on dusting up because it’s going at speed and then. But no tire tracks.
Sam [00:20:28]:
It’s like, it seems like it could be a bit like the technology. Like it must be scanning the road ahead of it to do it.
Chris [00:20:37]:
I have no idea how it works. And they, it didn’t say it was very light on detail. It was just.
Sam [00:20:43]:
Okay, well, that’s a concept that we may not see.
Chris [00:20:46]:
But that’s the whole point with supercars, right, Is they’re trying different concepts out and then some level of that concept trickles down in real life.
Sam [00:20:54]:
Yeah, that’s true. Oh, we, we thought we talked about this last week. So we’ll mention now the Mexican vigilante. Well, I don’t even know if there’s an update.
Chris [00:21:02]:
No, no, I, I, I’m not so fussed about whether I wanted to talk about it now. But this dude.
Sam [00:21:10]:
So they’re calling him Batman. We do not know what he looks like.
Chris [00:21:15]:
So this Batman vigilante, wanted for chasing down suspect and suspected thieves and taping them to lampposts. So the police just find these guys looking battered, like they’re being set upon. And they’re taped with. Duct taped to a lamppost.
Sam [00:21:34]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:34]:
And in one case, there were two back to back. It can’t be one guy. You just think it’s a gang of people. And to be fair, the police are like, well, these guys are the victims. That lamppost, we’re not getting them. We’re after the, the Batman.
Sam [00:21:53]:
I don’t know. It seems like too many logistics to be doing that.
Chris [00:21:56]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:21:57]:
By yourself.
Chris [00:21:58]:
Yeah, yeah. One person. I don’t know how they do that.
Sam [00:22:02]:
Okay. Kickstarter. Drop kick time.
Chris [00:22:04]:
Nice.
Sam [00:22:05]:
Your favorite. You can get something called Sprout or Misinware.
Chris [00:22:09]:
Let’s start with Sprout, because Sprout was the name of the agricultural accelerator that we were talking about.
Sam [00:22:16]:
That’s right. This is a game about keeping houseplants alive.
Chris [00:22:22]:
Oh, I’d be shit at it.
Sam [00:22:24]:
Then adopt adorable houseplants. Collect nutrients to sprout them and give too many nutrients and you wilt them.
Chris [00:22:30]:
Okay. And so what is this played on? Is it like a tabletop game?
Sam [00:22:35]:
It’s a tabletop board game. It’s all colorful and looks pretty. So that’s the aesthetic. It’s pretty cool. And then you wanna. They wanted to, they wanted to raise 8,700 New Zealand dollars. So that’s what they wanted. And to back this project.
Sam [00:22:53]:
Let’s get that fact. Oh, if you. Oh my gosh. What? Oh, okay. So if you want the basic version, it’s 69 New Zealand dollars. If you want every single thing, it’s $222 and there’s ones in between.
Chris [00:23:05]:
So let’s say it’s a pretty typical price for.
Sam [00:23:08]:
For bull. $69. Not too bad.
Chris [00:23:10]:
Yeah, I think not bad.
Sam [00:23:12]:
12 days to go at the time of this recording.
Chris [00:23:15]:
So 3/4 of the way through. Well, they, they, they’re well past their 8, 000. I would say it’s. I think it’s in a popular thing for parents or grandparents to buy kids. Cause it’s not violent and stuff like that. Who wants to do a game about plants though? It just would bore the tits off me as a kid.
Sam [00:23:34]:
I do not think you are the target audience for this.
Chris [00:23:36]:
That’s. That’s the whole point. That’s the whole point. So I would say that they are
Sam [00:23:41]:
at 150,000, they’re at $320,000. And I think the target audience is young millennials. They play this stuff. Yeah, the 20 something year olds.
Chris [00:23:52]:
True.
Sam [00:23:52]:
Not parents and grandparents.
Chris [00:23:55]:
No, no, they buy it for the kids.
Sam [00:23:56]:
Yeah, I know.
Chris [00:23:57]:
Well, does it say what the age of the players would be? Because I’m assuming it was for kids, but maybe it’s.
Sam [00:24:03]:
No, it’s for anybody.
Chris [00:24:05]:
Yeah, like settled as a catan type thing you say.
Sam [00:24:11]:
You’re right.
Chris [00:24:11]:
I’ve played that.
Sam [00:24:12]:
I know the way you just said that though. It’s like, okay, it’s not a digital game. He’s not interested.
Chris [00:24:19]:
I like grass. Grass was good.
Sam [00:24:21]:
Now we’re okay showing your age over and over again.
Chris [00:24:26]:
Okay.
Sam [00:24:27]:
We’re going to be talking about missingware everything. Safe food containers.
Chris [00:24:31]:
Ooh, okay.
Sam [00:24:33]:
They universally stackable stainless steel containers.
Chris [00:24:37]:
Oh, stainless steel. All right.
Sam [00:24:39]:
You can grill oven, freezer, dishwasher and microwave Them and microwave. Yes. So these look like.
Chris [00:24:49]:
Okay, I don’t know that I trust that, but okay.
Sam [00:24:52]:
These look like something I’m sure you can get in commercial kitchens.
Chris [00:24:56]:
Right.
Sam [00:24:57]:
And I think in commercial kitchens they look very similar. They’re very nice stainless ones. They got a bunch of lids that fit on top.
Chris [00:25:03]:
Is that silver or. Cause that looks white to me.
Sam [00:25:06]:
Sorry. It is silver. And here’s a funny statement. Where does it say, by the way, nothing on this page is AI generated, including this photo. It costs us a lot more time and money, but this is literally what it looks like to use these in person. But some of the photos, like, they look like the AI.
Chris [00:25:25]:
They totally look AI.
Sam [00:25:26]:
I know. There’s the funny thing.
Chris [00:25:28]:
Yeah. I think it’s a filter on it.
Sam [00:25:30]:
Yeah, I know.
Chris [00:25:31]:
Makes it look like AI.
Sam [00:25:32]:
I know, I know. It’s crazy. So anyway, you can get those. They want $43,000 New Zealand.
Chris [00:25:40]:
Right.
Sam [00:25:41]:
Okay. And then to back it, let’s see what this costs. Do you want to go with a six piece set or do you want to go the full set?
Chris [00:25:49]:
Oh, it gives us the price for each.
Sam [00:25:50]:
Okay. If you want a six piece, they’re around $95 for sixes. And when I say six pieces, it’s three containers, three lids.
Chris [00:26:02]:
Okay.
Sam [00:26:02]:
If you want an eight. If you want 18 piece mix set, it’s about $287. Okay. 13 days to go. Now they said that the.
Chris [00:26:14]:
Well, it basically lasts forever though.
Sam [00:26:16]:
Yes. And they’ve got measurements on the inside and they’ve got heaps of nice little design features that they’ve put in. They do bust the myth of metal in the microwave. They said it only sparks metal when it has a sharp edge and the microwave beams bounce all over the place. Don’t know what to do. These guys have nice smooth round edges, so you can microwave them. No worries.
Chris [00:26:41]:
Oh, is that what that is?
Sam [00:26:42]:
Because I do remember, like forks always set it off. But I think a fork in something
Chris [00:26:46]:
doesn’t usually because my brother was worked. I think it was Cobb Co. When he was a teenager.
Sam [00:26:54]:
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:26:55]:
And if he wanted to have a bit of a smoke or something, he just put a. Something in the. A fork in the microwave till it blew up and then they’d all leave the kitchen. He’d get a smoke.
Sam [00:27:06]:
Okay. How many microwaves did Cobb and company go through? And they don’t know why?
Chris [00:27:11]:
A few.
Sam [00:27:11]:
Okay.
Chris [00:27:12]:
I later worked at Cobb and Co in Hamilton and I can understand his reasons for doing that. Anyway, moving on.
Sam [00:27:19]:
They want $43,000. 13 days to go. How much have they raised?
Chris [00:27:25]:
$14,000 was what they’re after.
Sam [00:27:26]:
Sorry. No, no, sorry. 43,000. 43,000 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:27:31]:
Oh, yeah. They’ll be in 200,000, $250,000 range, surely. Because people go nuts for cooking stuff. And this is. Once you buy it, you don’t need to buy it again.
Sam [00:27:43]:
No, no, that’s right. Lasts forever. $3.9 million.
Chris [00:27:47]:
Holy. It’s not okay.
Sam [00:27:51]:
It’s good. You like it?
Chris [00:27:52]:
That is good, though. That is good. I can. I mean, I wouldn’t spend it, obviously, but I can see why somebody would.
Sam [00:27:59]:
That’s right. Anyway, that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast. Exciting times. Tcast.com for all the show notes, including this episode. Plus we’ve got the whole back catalog. I was in the back of the website the other day sorting out something, and across field days and all our stuff, we’ve published 666 pieces of content. That’s a good sign.
Chris [00:28:25]:
Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yep, yep. No, that’s cool. I was going to say I had an idea of something we could do, but I’ll flesh that idea out before I share it.
Sam [00:28:37]:
Excellent. Until next time. I’m Sam.
Chris [00:28:38]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:28:39]:
See ya.
Chris [00:28:39]:
Bye.
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