Summary
We dive into the packed Misty Flicks Film Festival weekend (with all its unexpected hiccups), talk about a front door left wide open on Halloween, review some standout Kiwi films, and share stories about collecting Settlers of Catan memorabilia. Listen for laughs, real-life chaos, and unique insights from the world of movies, events, and tech!
Links
Misty Flicks Rundown
TedX Rundown
Netflix has rights to Settlers of Catan
NZ Man has World Record for the Most Settlers of Catan Items
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 555 of the Chris and Sam podcast.
Chris [00:00:26]:
All the fives. Five, five, five. I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:29]:
I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life. Did you miss us?
Chris [00:00:35]:
I know at least one person did.
Sam [00:00:37]:
Oh nice.
Chris [00:00:38]:
And I said, oh no, we, Sam put out a message saying that we weren’t going to be on. And he goes, no, no, I didn’t see it.
Sam [00:00:44]:
It’s on Facebook and so. And Instagram. Not, not in the feed. There’s no time for that.
Chris [00:00:50]:
But yeah, yeah. So obviously we skipped last week. We were both flat out with Misty Flicks Film Festival first off.
Sam [00:01:00]:
Misty Flicks, Yeah.
Chris [00:01:02]:
So. Well, to be honest, Thursday we were going to be recording it, but Thursday was the last day that I had to get this project done.
Sam [00:01:10]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:01:11]:
And I was working till 8:50 that night getting this project done for work which is about, must have been about 11 month project because we started December last year.
Sam [00:01:22]:
Oh wow.
Chris [00:01:23]:
So yeah, so I, I got hold of Sam and went, we’re doing the podcast now, we’ll have to squeeze it in. I think I can give you half an hour. And he’s like, I’ve, I’ve got too much to do as well. So we just left it.
Sam [00:01:36]:
I, my concern was the, the edit. I was like, I don’t know when I would edit this.
Chris [00:01:42]:
Yeah. Because we wouldn’t have time to do anything.
Sam [00:01:44]:
And then even after the event, which we’ll talk about in a second, I was just stuffed.
Chris [00:01:49]:
Yeah. So what I’m saying is I was stuffed before we started the event.
Sam [00:01:53]:
Yeah, yeah, that’s right.
Chris [00:01:54]:
And then it’s been a huge week. But which, which we’ll get into now, I guess.
Sam [00:02:01]:
Misty Flicks Film festivals on the weekend. Overall it went quite well. There was a few technical hiccups. Yes, we know how to fix that next year. That’s pretty much that.
Chris [00:02:12]:
But so yeah, so let’s. Everyone had blow by blows first thing. There was a fatal accident on the way in.
Sam [00:02:20]:
Oh yeah, forgot about that.
Chris [00:02:21]:
Friday. And so, you know, we’ve got all the gear, we’ve got all the people in the car, we’re going to set up plenty of time. And then because Te awamutu is what, 20 minutes away from Hamilton.
Sam [00:02:33]:
Yeah, something like that.
Chris [00:02:34]:
It took an extra hour to get there because we had to be detoured with all this other traffic because of this fatal accident. Which is.
Sam [00:02:42]:
Was, you know, these things happen and I’m glad we weren’t leaving a bit later.
Chris [00:02:48]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If it was a last minute thing, we would have been stuffed. Yeah. Although we. I can laugh at the moment. Yeah, now I can laugh. I was bitching about it all weekend though, at our volunteer Waikato photographer that turned up who was supposed to take. What do they call them? Vox pops, which is not.
Sam [00:03:07]:
Not. Hang on, a volunteer from wintech.
Chris [00:03:12]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:03:12]:
Not. Yeah. Just. Just to clarify that you said volunteer and then you said Waikato and I don’t want to combine them for another volunteer.
Chris [00:03:19]:
Waikato.
Sam [00:03:20]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don’t want to besmirch the name of an actual organization, but we had this dude that was supposed to help us out and do vox pops. And vox pops are those little talky things that you’ll see on red carpets and things where they talk to someone really quickly and put something together and he turned up with no camera.
Chris [00:03:39]:
It’s like you have one job, like, what are you going to do? He’s a student. He was only a young guy, so I’m a.
Sam [00:03:44]:
Just leave it at that.
Chris [00:03:45]:
It was dumb anyway, so there’s that. So. Yeah. No, Friday night though, went well. The, the films were well received. The networking afterwards was. Was good. We got home about 11.
Sam [00:03:59]:
Yeah. Oh, you hang on. When on Friday. I’m picking up people, I’m picking up gear. I come pick you up from here. Your house.
Chris [00:04:08]:
Oh, yes, I forgot.
Sam [00:04:09]:
And he loads up the car with some sandbags. It’s all good. And then he. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:04:14]:
I get out of the car with my DOD here, don’t worry about that. And they go, bring out six sandbags. Nobody’s going to give you a hand. Just do it yourself. So I went, I stagger out.
Sam [00:04:25]:
I know you did.
Chris [00:04:25]:
Well, put them in the boot of the car. They’re all sitting in there. And then I get in the car and then we go and we’re in the.
Sam [00:04:32]:
You wandered off at some. But you sort of put the stuff in the car and then you walked a little bit in front of the car. So I think in our minds you had gone to shut your door or something. I don’t know what you were doing.
Chris [00:04:43]:
I, I don’t remember that.
Sam [00:04:45]:
And then you left. We left. And we’re halfway, Halfway there.
Chris [00:04:48]:
Yeah. So it was just before we got to the road, the, the traffic thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I said, oh man, I think I’ve forgot to front shut the front door.
Sam [00:04:57]:
And there’s no Time to go back.
Chris [00:04:58]:
And we’re like, no, no, no. Like I. Because I’ve done this once before, I went to the shops and came back and the door was a jar. Okay, all right. So I’m like, no, I think I left the door open. Yeah. And I. Too bad.
Chris [00:05:10]:
Just deal with it. So anyway, get back at 11, 11 o’ clock they drop me off. And the door is not just like it is wide open. My front door is wide open. And the building that I’m in, I’m in the lower front flat. So everybody pretty much half the, the, the units, Tenants.
Sam [00:05:29]:
Yeah, tenants walked past my front door and nobody cared.
Chris [00:05:34]:
Nobody cared. There doesn’t seem to be anything missing.
Sam [00:05:36]:
No, no. You would know if there’s something missing. Easy.
Chris [00:05:39]:
There was nothing.
Sam [00:05:40]:
So you’re pretty lucky in that respect. But I think you said the thing that saved you is you have a lamp that has automatic timer that comes on.
Chris [00:05:46]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:05:46]:
It’s your globe that lights up.
Chris [00:05:48]:
Yeah, yeah. And I think it turned off about 10, 10:30 or something.
Sam [00:05:51]:
So that was pretty good. And it was Halloween night, so there was people all over the place.
Chris [00:05:57]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:05:58]:
So it wasn’t even like a normal night. There was more people, but nobody wanted to risk going into here and finding you dead. It’s probably, it’s probably what it really was, really. Possibly they’re like. Or.
Chris [00:06:13]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:06:14]:
So we showed five feature films, 20 short films, a whole bunch of youth and four challenge films.
Chris [00:06:21]:
Over the weekend.
Sam [00:06:22]:
Over the weekend.
Chris [00:06:24]:
Plus we had a producer pitch the producer program and we had two panel discussion things.
Sam [00:06:30]:
Yeah, it was very good. It will be interesting to do the scheduling for next year. Cause maybe less is more. I think, I think that is the path we had to choose.
Chris [00:06:41]:
Yeah, we had it pretty packed out for a. Well, it’s two and a half days, so Saturday, Sunday and then Friday night. It was a little bit too tightly packed, to be honest.
Sam [00:06:53]:
Yeah, we need a bit more breathing space. Yeah, the filmmakers and the people that come to see them want to do that.
Chris [00:06:58]:
Although one of the highlights was, which you didn’t mention was the breakfast, which initially was just going to be for the crew to have breakfast, but then we went, oh, we’ll just let the filmmakers come. And that was. I think that was one of the highlights for a lot of the attendees that had the festival.
Sam [00:07:12]:
They were always going to get access to that. That was part of their deal with the. That was misty flick pass.
Chris [00:07:16]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:07:18]:
Cuz they all got one if that entered. Yeah, no, that was cool. Really cool. Meeting people that I’ve been emailing.
Chris [00:07:25]:
Yeah, yeah. So they like.
Sam [00:07:26]:
So that was. That was good. And we saw some interesting films and one feature film that was a bit questionable. We talked about it a lot. I’m not even gonna. I’m not. I’m not gonna mention it took me.
Chris [00:07:37]:
Out which one it was, but. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Sam [00:07:41]:
No, it fills you with confidence, though, because someone somewhere gave these people money and they made this film. Admittedly, we were watching a version that was two versions old.
Chris [00:07:53]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:07:54]:
But there was still some classic moments in it.
Chris [00:07:58]:
Yes. Yeah. It’s one of those, like, velocipasta or whatever that it’s just wrong. And maybe, you know, you can love it because it’s just wrong.
Sam [00:08:08]:
Maybe.
Chris [00:08:08]:
I don’t know. Yeah. Although I will say I was very impressed. Shout out to Matt Hicks for the Tavern, which neither of us had seen.
Sam [00:08:18]:
No.
Chris [00:08:19]:
I had heard some.
Sam [00:08:22]:
Mixed reviews.
Chris [00:08:22]:
Mixed reviews. That’s a good way of putting it. Not really. No one’s been really horribly critical of it, but people going, oh, could be better, or whatever I saw, I was like, damn, that’s way better than I expected.
Sam [00:08:34]:
He does get very anxious when filmmakers are watching it because there’s no. There’s sound. There’s a sound problem or no sound or no. I don’t know what it was. There’s no sound mix behind dialogue. I’m not really sure what that was because I did not notice anything. And I think there was one scene that the focus wasn’t quite right on one actress for like a scene. Like a very short headshot.
Chris [00:08:58]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:08:58]:
That’s the only thing I noticed. Very good. I quite liked it.
Chris [00:09:01]:
Yeah. And the story. I thought the story was great.
Sam [00:09:03]:
I put together.
Chris [00:09:04]:
Right.
Sam [00:09:05]:
Yes. Yeah. And I’m.
Chris [00:09:07]:
As opposed to the other one we were talking about earlier.
Sam [00:09:09]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:09:10]:
Had a tighter story.
Sam [00:09:12]:
So if you haven’t seen the Tavern, go find it. I hope it does get some good distribution. Yeah. Somewhere. Because I do think that. I don’t know.
Chris [00:09:20]:
Very Kiwi film.
Sam [00:09:21]:
It’s a very Kiwi film and I could see people all over liking it.
Chris [00:09:25]:
Yeah. And the Red Admiral, I quite like that too. It was a bit. It was a bit out there, but wacky. I mean, it’s supposed to be more of an Alice in Wonderland vibe.
Sam [00:09:36]:
Yeah. Alice in Wonderland. In the Bush.
Chris [00:09:38]:
Yeah. New Zealand. Yeah.
Sam [00:09:40]:
Very, very. Yeah. Very interesting. So both of these films, first time feature films for both of the directors.
Chris [00:09:47]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:09:47]:
Thought they did exceptionally well. And I said to Matt after his one. Cause I was actually, you know, blown Away with it. And I said to him this, no matter what you think personally. Cause he’s still like worried about some things and whatnot. And he’s still touring it around. And word on the street is it is actually going to Auckland at some point because he was very adamant not doing that. But his marketing’s like just next level.
Sam [00:10:10]:
I said to him, this has to be a good thing to show people for whatever your next project is.
Chris [00:10:18]:
Well, that’s the point.
Sam [00:10:19]:
Yeah. And I don’t know if he’s got anything in the works or not because he’s a busy man.
Chris [00:10:23]:
But. Yeah, because I was looking at somebody. Some ad on Facebook or something the other day and it was effectively that, you know, it was basically saying, this is what all the old dudes did, Tarantino and Revegas and all that is they made a big budget, budget, budget feature film. But it’s not how much budget you’ve got, it’s what you do with it, how you can put the story together and you get projects out of doing that.
Sam [00:10:51]:
Yes.
Chris [00:10:52]:
So if you want to do something in film, that’s what you should be doing. And he’s done it. He’s done it. Right.
Sam [00:10:56]:
And the funny thing is, like, the networking thing is really, really cool because honestly, if anyone wanted to do something now, there’s a whole bunch of people that could help out on it.
Chris [00:11:07]:
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:11:08]:
So, yes. Interesting to see how everything goes for them. Interesting to see what people are going to enter next year for the challenge.
Chris [00:11:16]:
Yeah. So we’ve already got more entries booked in for next year than we had for last year. So it’s good. Or for this year, I should say. I do want to give a call out to Philadel as well.
Sam [00:11:29]:
A good Kunst K U N S.
Chris [00:11:31]:
T. I was going to say that, but just in case somebody thought I was lisping. That was their premiere. I didn’t realize it was their premiere of the short film. And it was great because there was a. A bunch of ladies come down from. Well, from where? Out of town. Out of town, yeah.
Chris [00:11:47]:
Dressed up in the furs and everything. They were great on the red.
Sam [00:11:50]:
So that’s a documentary.
Chris [00:11:52]:
Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:11:53]:
It’s about a group of women.
Chris [00:11:55]:
Art collective.
Sam [00:11:56]:
Art collective. Been collecting art for, we think, 13 years with 15 people. They eventually decide to sell that collection. They’re going to do a good Kunst 2 group of.
Chris [00:12:08]:
Already in the second year of it.
Sam [00:12:09]:
Oh, cool. There we go. Yeah. Because that’s right. We got a lot more answers out of her after the fact yeah, yeah, yeah. But that’s okay. But that’s an interesting one too, because I wonder if they could just use that as a marketing thing for this art collective. I don’t know who would use it, but somebody could go, hey, she was.
Chris [00:12:28]:
Using that as a marketing thing for online. She’s. I saw, I saw her fill it up. If you’re interested in doing them, contact me on this email.
Sam [00:12:37]:
Okay, good.
Chris [00:12:38]:
Or whatever. It was something like that. Yeah. So they’re definitely doing that. But the, the second one is going to be a feature documentary following the full journey for the 10 years.
Sam [00:12:48]:
I don’t know how I feel about a full feature.
Chris [00:12:51]:
Yeah, I don’t know. I think it could be good. But that’s the thing with documentaries. You don’t know where they’re gonna go until you do them.
Sam [00:12:58]:
Let’s talk about a documentary that we had no idea where it was going. Suburban Fury. There’s a guy called Bob Fink. He’s a producer. He helped make this film. He’s American. He studied at wintech. We’ve met him before, years ago.
Sam [00:13:10]:
He knows our old flatmate, Diego, the best buds. And he came over to bring this feature length doco over.
Chris [00:13:18]:
Yeah. And it is good.
Sam [00:13:20]:
Yeah. And it’s. I think it just says, suburban housewife wants to ghost, tries to assassinate a president.
Chris [00:13:27]:
Yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:13:28]:
In 1975.
Chris [00:13:30]:
So it’s a historic piece. It’s got over a thousand pieces of archival footage in that document.
Sam [00:13:37]:
And that’s what they’ve won a lot of awards for or.
Chris [00:13:42]:
Yeah, yeah. So they’ve actually interviewed the assassin when she came out of. Or the wannabe assassin. Cause she didn’t kill him. Right. When she came out of prison. And so it’s interviews with her. But what we didn’t realize was the whole FBI angle.
Chris [00:13:59]:
Right, yeah. So she was an informant for the FBI through all these random things that were happening. And the president she tried to assassinate was Gerald Ford. Yeah. And every night she was writing a report to the FBI and she kept all the reports. So when they interviewed her, she goes, well, on this day, I did this, this, this and this. And she could tell you exactly what she did because she’d written a report on it.
Sam [00:14:25]:
Yes, very interesting.
Chris [00:14:27]:
Mental.
Sam [00:14:27]:
I forgot to say, after that clip, did you like the bit where the President’s just swimming around in his pool? There’s like, he’s like the crew, like, you can’t do that these days, can you?
Chris [00:14:40]:
Well, you can’t because it’s been paved over.
Sam [00:14:43]:
Couple of things with your Best bait, Trump. I see there’s big signs being put up around the White House. Like outside. They’ve put these big, like, printed signs, I think, before they put proper ones up. And it says the Oval Office. And the general consensus online is that is the first thing you do when somebody has dementia. You put signs up everywhere. So when they’re outside, inside, wherever, they know and they can read it.
Sam [00:15:08]:
Oh.
Chris [00:15:08]:
So they. Where they’re going.
Sam [00:15:12]:
And then the other thing, I’m just gonna try and find this thing. A health official who was talking about something called rather about new health thing was in the Oval Office and he said, oh, we’re all good. We’re gonna do some stuff. He actually collapsed in the White House.
Chris [00:15:33]:
And the official did.
Sam [00:15:35]:
Yeah, the official did. And all these people ran to help him, but Trump didn’t know what to do. So he just stands there in front of everyone, just like a robot, just glitching out. I don’t think he knew where he was. This photo looks absolutely terrible.
Chris [00:15:50]:
Can you imagine if Luxon was that old? I mean, he’s bad enough as he is.
Sam [00:15:56]:
There’s the photo. Oh, he just.
Chris [00:16:00]:
He does. He looks like a humanoid robot that’s been powered down in the corner.
Sam [00:16:06]:
Yep.
Chris [00:16:07]:
He’s. He’s not looking at what’s happening. It’s off to the side.
Sam [00:16:11]:
Well, because the attention’s not on him. So anyway, who knows what’s going on? Hey, talking about humanoid robots, see that new one that China’s brought out? They’ve got this one that comes out on stage and it’s a female body form, and it comes out and it just walks so well. And honestly, it looks like somebody in a suit. Not like that one I shared a link to you with. Yeah, but actually, I think it’s controlling itself. And they had to get the. They invited the press to come up and they opened its back so you could see no one was in it, and they pulled its leg, covering up so you could see the inside of its leg. And holy crap, it’s.
Sam [00:16:48]:
We’re like one step away from Terminator.
Chris [00:16:51]:
Oh, honestly, have you seen the $20,000 one that you can get for your house? And it does the dishes in. It’ll. It’ll load the dishwasher.
Sam [00:17:00]:
I sent you the link to that.
Chris [00:17:01]:
Oh, you. You did send me the link.
Sam [00:17:03]:
That’s what I was talking about.
Chris [00:17:04]:
All right. Yeah. I couldn’t remember who. Where I got that.
Sam [00:17:07]:
And then. And then it turns out it’s not doing it by itself. There’s someone controlling it.
Chris [00:17:12]:
Another Room in the house with a VR headset on the controller.
Sam [00:17:15]:
I would not invest in that company.
Chris [00:17:17]:
Mental actually. So just before we get on to other things, I’ll mention the TEDx. So we had TEDx. So I went from.
Sam [00:17:24]:
You had Teddy. I. I was still recovering from misty flicks and rolling around on the floor at home.
Chris [00:17:28]:
Yeah, yeah. So I, I went from finishing this project me mentally freaking. We spe. I. I worked out. I think we spent 35 hours on, on Misty Flicks over the weekend.
Sam [00:17:40]:
42.
Chris [00:17:41]:
42. Okay. Yeah, I think I was being generous.
Sam [00:17:44]:
You were being generous.
Chris [00:17:46]:
And then, and then I had TEDx this week. I had two TEDx events.
Sam [00:17:51]:
You seem to be handling that pretty good with the work project which is just finished. But you’d been doing TEDx as well in the lead up.
Chris [00:18:00]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:18:00]:
Misty flicks, then TedX.
Chris [00:18:01]:
Yeah. So TedX was a three month project effectively as well. So. Yeah. So that finished this week. So Tuesday night we had seven speakers at. At. In Hamilton here at the.
Chris [00:18:14]:
What is it called? Gallagher’s Academy of Performing Arts. Yeah, Gapper. And that went really, really well. Very pleased with the. The people there. There was a little bit of an attendance issue. 40% no shows on the ticket.
Sam [00:18:30]:
Really.
Chris [00:18:32]:
Well, when I tell you that the tickets were free, you will be now unsurprised that people just didn’t bother turning.
Sam [00:18:37]:
Hey, don’t put that. What’s the word? They don’t have the skin in the game because there’s no money involved.
Chris [00:18:43]:
Exactly.
Sam [00:18:44]:
So I’ve said they could change though, eh.
Chris [00:18:46]:
They could and I thought they were going to, but I’m so removed from the organization. I, I didn’t know they were not. They were free until I was trying to find tickets for Gloria and Pamela.
Sam [00:18:56]:
Yes.
Chris [00:18:56]:
So anyway, and, and the problem was they had waiting list and I had people on that waiting list and want to go along and they couldn’t go along. And then we’ve got 40% of the seats are empty.
Sam [00:19:05]:
Yeah. Okay.
Chris [00:19:06]:
It was very frustrating. I have said next year they should pay charge 25 bucks. Even if it’s just 25 and you get a free beer in halftime people will turn up their $25 beer. You know what I mean? So yeah. Anyway, so that was that. That worked out really well. Went. Went well.
Chris [00:19:24]:
Very pleased with that. We had one speaker that I was a bit concerned with. He did okay. There was another speaker that was very nervous. We knew she was nervous and she spun out a little bit but pulled it together and it in the end and she was the most excited of all our speakers. She’s like, if, if, if somebody can’t make it on, on in Tauranga on Thursday, I’ll do it mine, I’ll do it again. I’ll come down and do it again. I want to do this talk again.
Chris [00:19:53]:
So we’re going to make sure that we find a venue for her to, to do her talk again because she, she’ll go better and better at it. They took us down to Tauranga and we stayed at a hotel, which I’ll talk about in a second. And we, we had that there at the Tauranga campus. And the other seven speakers, different seven speakers. And that again, really, really good.
Sam [00:20:18]:
So this isn’t normal for a TEDx, but it’s because they’ve got two campuses.
Chris [00:20:22]:
Yeah. And technically I don’t know whether the license allows it.
Sam [00:20:26]:
We just will figure that out later.
Chris [00:20:29]:
Yeah, better to ask for forgiveness than permission. So I want to show you, I’m going to show Sam a photo. We’ll see if we can put this in the show notes. But you can describe it for people.
Sam [00:20:40]:
It’s a cylindrical clock face type thing From X to 9 or above a door handle. So I’m assuming it’s a pin code system and for some reason they’ve made it in a circle. Yeah.
Chris [00:20:54]:
So it’s a circular pin code.
Sam [00:20:56]:
Yeah, that’s a circular pin code with.
Chris [00:20:58]:
A tick in the middle.
Sam [00:20:59]:
Yeah, Good.
Chris [00:20:59]:
And you get this, your normal sort of card Y thing. Right. And you, you book in and you go, oh, okay. Chris, Your room is 325 and they.
Sam [00:21:09]:
Give you a pin and they, yeah.
Chris [00:21:11]:
They give you this card. So how big do you think, how long is the pin?
Sam [00:21:15]:
Oh, okay. The way you just said that, I guess they can reset it whenever they want. So what, four? Because four, four to six. Because I’m thinking of a EFTPOS card. Most people know how to do four. Add on an extra two. Okay. It’s only seven.
Chris [00:21:34]:
It’s only seven digits, which is bad enough. And I was like, yeah, I did that. Okay. But then when we’re walking back for was it the next day or later on that day? We had a shower and stuff. And then we’re going back to the event. So we did our rehearsal, we went to the hotel, had a shower on that and we’re going back to the event. We were talking about it and they go, oh, the pin’s a pain in the butt. And one of the girls.
Chris [00:21:58]:
No, not really. No, because they got four digits Me and Nick got seven digit pins and these other girls got four digit pins. And I’m like, what the hell? So I asked the guy at the.
Sam [00:22:10]:
Desk, oh, yeah, good, yeah. What’s the deal with the pin?
Chris [00:22:13]:
We were walking past, I went, hang on a sec, hold the lift. I went back and always like, how come some of these PIN numbers are really long and some of them short? He goes, he looks around and he goes, because the company that we are doing this with, he’d mentioned the name of the company. I can’t remember it now. He says, they’re dicks. And when we went, they’re auto generated. Yeah, they auto generate them. He goes, sometimes they’re really long for no reason. Oh.
Chris [00:22:38]:
So everybody got four four digit pins except me and Nick. We had seven digits.
Sam [00:22:44]:
Okay.
Chris [00:22:44]:
For no particular reason. But anyway. But you can scan your Google play, put your PIN into your phone and then you just skip. Put your phone next to it and the phone will open it in future.
Sam [00:22:56]:
Oh.
Chris [00:22:57]:
Which would be all right if you’re there for a week.
Sam [00:22:59]:
Can you imagine trying to explain this to old people? They just want the card.
Chris [00:23:04]:
I know, I know. Just having a card that go beep is so much easier, though.
Sam [00:23:10]:
When I was in Wellington last, the woman was like freaking out and she says, whatever you do, do not keep the card next to your phone. Do not put the card next to the phone. And she just kept saying it because she goes, it will potentially wipe the card, the magnet and the phone and the speaker. Don’t do it because you just have to come back. And I think the cards were the bane of her existence because I remember.
Chris [00:23:34]:
The very first time I had one of those cards where you bleep to go in and then you’ve got no power in the room unless you slide the card in. Shows you there. Which makes sense because it’s like, you know, you know where the card is when you go to leave.
Sam [00:23:48]:
Yeah, I mean, that’s amateur hour. You jam in a rando card. It’s just. It’s a sw. You do. You just put a library card in powers on all the time. Keep that room cold.
Chris [00:24:00]:
There’s all these rooms, hotels everywhere, with Chris and Sam, podcast business cards stuck in.
Sam [00:24:06]:
Yeah, whatever. Yeah, it’s great.
Chris [00:24:10]:
I like it. Right? So that’s. That. That really was my TEDx story, I guess. Six of us went down in the van and two of us came back up. But people got different messages with different. Different rides with different.
Sam [00:24:23]:
Yes, it sounds. It’s not like Running man. And some people Died?
Chris [00:24:27]:
No, no. But, yeah, no, it went really, really well. So I’m pretty stoked with that. So I am going to be pushing for these people to do some case studies, testimonial case studies. So you’ve.
Sam [00:24:43]:
We’ve got a story here which we’ll end with, because I heard about another story today that’s sort of interconnected. Netflix have got the rights for Settlers of Catan. It sounds like they can make series, movies, whatever they want. I don’t know.
Chris [00:24:57]:
I don’t know how that would work. I’m a bit iffy on the whole thing. I was gonna ask you. Cause I’ve played it a couple of times with Kim and her kids.
Sam [00:25:05]:
Yeah. So they’ve got plans to produce content based on it. Films, television, series, who knows? They get rights to all sorts. I’m sure there’s a Monopoly thing in the works. There’s all these random games and all of that sort of stuff. But I read today a guy in Whanganui. That’ll do. He just got the world record for the most amount of catan items, like collectors items, just collecting different things.
Sam [00:25:36]:
So this is very much like that woman that had all those jigsaw puzzles. Whereas this guy’s just spent a bunch of money and collected all the stuff from whatever he got. I think it was about 1300 items. He had to list them individually and then go around and video it all and submit it to Guinness. And he’s just found out that he’s got the world record. Since then, he’s added another 300 pieces to his collection. And the guy that created the game has congratulated him on the Internet. And one of the best things that he has in his collection is he’s got the prototype game, like the development game, that before they even published it, somehow he saw his hands on that.
Sam [00:26:19]:
He did say, though, interestingly enough, like, oh. Because he started in 2017, I think, seriously. And he was just sourcing stuff, I guess, and buying it. And he said the biggest thing is 65% of his money that he spent on this is postage because it’s so expensive to send stuff here.
Chris [00:26:40]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:26:40]:
He said he can buy like a $5 pin and it costs $30 to send it. So I don’t know what he does for a job. He’s got a bit of disposable income, it seems like it. Or he’s living a basic lifestyle and everyone in his family is struggling. But he’s got this really large collection. That’s the main thing.
Chris [00:27:00]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s like being a filmmaker, really, isn’t it?
Sam [00:27:04]:
Very similar. So we’re back. We’re back into it. We will be back next week. I am going away during Christmas, so we’ll figure that out later. And. Yeah, until then, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:27:17]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:27:18]:
See ya. Bye.
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