Bonus Episode - BIG Quiz - MSP Podcast Crossover Event

Hey and welcome to a very special episode of the Evolve Radio podcast. The episode today is something a little different. You may have seen me and some podcast friends promoting the MSP podcast crossover event. You have the chance to win $1,000 cash. You just need to post on your social media account of choice using the hashtag MSP podcast crossover. That will enter you into a draw to win the cash. If you post on your social media account within the next 24 hours of the episode going live. So the episode today is a fun game show style event where myself and some other MSP industry experts are answering some surprisingly difficult retro tech questions. It's a fun event and you can play along with us as you listen, and then at the end you'll hear each of us tease a bit about our own podcasts. And by all means, you can go check out those other podcasts and add them to your podcast platform of choice. So it's a fun episode. I hope you enjoy and let's go. The ultimate MSP podcast crossover. Big quiz. Hello and welcome to the MSP podcast crossover. We are at the end of an amazing month helping you to find cool new MSP podcasts to listen to on whichever is your favorite podcast platform. In this show, we're here just to have a little bit of fun. We've got together a whole bunch of friends, all of whom have some great podcasts and we'll tell you about those towards the end of the show, but let's have some fun in the next 20 minutes or so. Now, we also have of course, have some money for you to win. We have $1,000 to be won as part of our competition and the end to the way to enter this competition is so simple. All you need to do, and you can do it now, is get onto LinkedIn or Facebook or whichever is your favorite social platform and just write something about this MSP podcast crossover. And then all you need to do is just make sure you add the hashtag #MSPPodcastCrossover. What we'll do is we will pull someone at random in the next, I think it's about the next 24 hours or so. We'll pull someone at random who's done that hashtag MSP podcast crossover and that person will win $1,000 of cash. So, let's crack on with this show and let's get our guests to introduce themselves. Hi, my name is Ian Luckett from the IT Experts podcast over here in the UK. And my name is Skip Ziggler. I co-host the Humanized IT podcast and we are a bit of a global company but generally based in North America, the United States. Hi, I'm Richard Tub. I am the host of Tub Talk, the podcast for IT consultants and I'm coming to you live and in living color from the studio garage in Newcastle upon Tyne in the northeast of England. Hey everyone, I'm Todd Kane, I'm the host of Evolved Radio podcast and coming from Vancouver Island in West Coast of Canada. Thank you very much, gentlemen, and welcome to our podcast crossover. Now we are going to be having some fun with a kind of like a quiz, kind of like an MSP game show tonight. And I've actually split you into two teams, so we have team Atari and we have team Commodor. Now, uh Ian Luckett, you are lucky enough to be the captain of team Atari. And tonight, I know, I'm going to give you your team member and that will be Skip. So if you two would like to sort of virtually shake hands, even though you're 4,000 miles apart, that would be wonderful. And Richard Tub, you are the team captain of team Commodor and of course you'll be playing with Todd. Now, the rules of the game are very, very simple. We have three rounds of questions and they're all kind of they're questions which are not too techy but they are related to technology and to computing. And in fact, if you wanted to play along at home as we're going along, you could see if you could beat our experts. We've got a total of 260 points in total that you could win. So as we're going along, I will give you the correct answers and let's see if you can beat any of our teams. Gentlemen, are you ready for round one? Yes. Ready. as we have Listen to the high levels of enthusiasm there. Let's let's do that again. This is right out of my wheelhouse. I'm excited. Are you ready for round one? Yes. Yes. The ultimate MSP podcast crossover. Big quiz. Okay, here we go. Right, this round is called the technology test. So remember to shout out your team name, not just the answer. Question number one, what year was the first ever USB released? Atari. Um, I'm going to say 1989. 1989. Okay. Team Commodor. Go on, Richard. 1991. Oh, okay. So you're closer, but we're not quite there. So I'm not going to give any points there. Uh we're going to um uh we get the actual answer is 1996. Uh that was the answer. By the way, uh we've got producer James is lurking in the background. James, would you mind keeping score for me? That would be that would be great. You shouldn't be a difficult job for you. You can you can get a cup of tea, James. I don't think there's going to be much to do. I do have a bonus follow-up question though and this should really be for for the winner. But since we don't have a winner on that question, this is open to everyone. How many connector types are there on USB currently? Commodor, four. is totally incorrect. Sorry, how many how many let me let me rephrase the question. How many connector types have there been since the introduction of of USB? That's what I meant to say. Oh, Atari, seven. Okay, still wrong. And nowhere near. This is going to be a nightmare, isn't it? If Rich went four and he's like looking to the sky trying to recall information, I'm thinking I'm just going to have a bang at this and just see what happens. And I'm in a bit of an advantage here, it's got to be said. I'm looking around. I've got most of those USB connectors in the room with me now, but I can't place them all. Skip, do you want to have a guess? I'm going to go seven didn't seem right. I'm going to go 14. We'll just double it. Oh, and there we go, straight on the money. That's the answer. 10 points to Atari then. Okay, second second question is this this is much easier this one. Should have started with this one. Which university did Bill Gates drop out of? Atari. Commodor. Uh, so let's go with Atari. And I think it was MIT. Oh no. Was it MIT? It wasn't MIT, so Todd, what's the correct answer? Harvard. He's correct. Now, Todd, because you got that right, you get to answer the bonus question. So no shouting out shouting out for this one, unless Todd gets it wrong. For a bonus 10 points, Todd, what was Bill Gates studying? Now he was actually studying three things at Harvard, so I'll give you these points if you get any one of those three things. Uh, we'll go with the obvious business and uh computer science. Computer science is correct. He was actually studying law. He was majoring in law with with maths and computer science, which is which is good. Okay, here we go. It's open to the whole group again. Your question is this, what was the first thing ever sold on eBay? Commodor. Richard Tub. Teddy bear. It wasn't a teddy bear. There are there are MSPs on the planet right now with their their head in their hands. Uh, it wasn't a watch. No. I'll give you a clue. It was something that was broken. So the creator of eBay, uh Pierre Omidor, I think his name is. Uh he created eBay and he thought, what can I sell? I've got this I've built this platform and he saw something on his desk which had been broken. He'd been meaning to fix it and instead he put it on eBay and it became he was very surprised when it was sold just a few days later. Atari, was it a mug? It wasn't a mug. I was a mug for suggesting this idea. I'm glad if one good thing comes out of tonight, Paul, is your realization of your ideas. I've read this story. I just can't remember what it was. It was something it wasn't what you would think a normal eBay item would be. It's yeah, I it was something you'd kind of put to the curb, uh but he instead put it on eBay and it sold rather surprisingly to his credit, I believe. Exactly, exactly that. So that's the the founding story and the answer is a broken laser pointer. Which I guess back in the back in the mid 90s was something that you you could fix. Okay, for the bonus then, no one's going to get this. I don't know why I'm even bothering with this because this is this is a harder question. The most expensive item ever sold on eBay was a yacht. And that was bought by Roman Abramovich, who is one of these Russian oligarchs, is how you say it. And he he owns the Chelsea Football Club here in the UK. Uh uh how much did he spend buying this yacht on eBay? Commodor, 35 million pounds. Uh that's a good guess, not quite there. Let's see if we can get nearer to the correct guess. Atari. Atari, 50, 50, 50 million. 50 million. It was actually $85 million buying a yacht. I'm not going to give any points on that one. I'm trying to do the dollars to pounds conversions in my head. Um it was yeah, so it was bought I I forget when it when this was, but that was actually just the deposit. Uh so he he spent $85 million on the deposit on eBay and the the total cost of the yacht was $168 million. Imagine the fees on that. His PayPal fees would be enormous. Um this this next question is a uh is a bit of a bit of a sci-fi one, but it's also a tech one. What unit of length is equal to around about 5.8 trillion miles? Commodor. Uh a parsec. It's not a parsec. It's a very Star Trek answer, but we need a much simpler Star Trek answer than that. Atari. Is it an AU? It's not an AU. I don't know what an AU is. Let's not let's not get let's not go down that rabbit hole. You saw. One more one more guess. We'll take one more guess. Commodor, a light year. Yes, Richard Tub. Finally, someone gets some points. That's what I was going to say. 10 points for you, Richard Tub. Right, now your follow-up question, this is just for Richard. And the bonus question is, uh, uh, this is actually about the film Lightyear, which is the recent Disney Pixar film, which is frankly one of the worst Pixar films ever made. I was so bored, I slept through half of it. Uh but who, Richard, your question is for 10 more bonus points. Who played Buzz Lightyear in the most recent film? And I'll give you I'll give you a clue. Can I can I not defer to um to my colleague Todd here? You can, if he knows. Todd, as a clue for you, it wasn't the person who who voiced Buzz Lightyear in the original Toy Story film. Uh, so yeah, it was Tim Allen before, was it Chris Pratt? Not Chris Pratt, but you're you're right, it's it wasn't Chris, it was Chris Evans, as in Captain America, Chris Evans. So no, let's give let's give Todd and Todd and Richard five bonus points there because someone needs to earn some points. Um right, one more one more question in the technology test round. Uh, open to everyone. If you don't get this, this is just pathetic. Uh, what is the name of the classic 1972 arcade game based on table tennis? Commodor, Pong. Yes, Richard Tub there, the Mr Mr Retro technology. And I've got I've got one here as well. Have you? Have you? Okay. Well, did you know that Pong actually wasn't the first arcade game? There was one other game released just before it in 1971. If you know the name, Richard, we will give you another 10 points. I'm going to say it's Space War. Uh, it's not Space War, it was computer space, although that may be the same thing. And you're you're probably going to Google it and find out that they were the same thing. So let's give you the points anyway. Oh, that was fun. That was fun. We've only got two more rounds to go. Um, producer James, tell us, I think we all know, but tell us what's the point situation at the end of round one? Well, it is it is painfully close, not Atari are on 10, Commodor on 65. This is the adjudicators need to come in on this. We're coming in we're coming in a close second, Ian. The ultimate MSP podcast crossover. Big quiz. So this this second round uh is called acronym annoyance. And we've got a whole series of technology acronyms that you hear them every day, but do you know what they stand for? So everyone's back, there are no bonus questions in this, it's just a a rapid fire round. Everyone's back in the game. First one is, what does this acronym stand for? PDF. Commodor. Richard. Portable document format. What a hero. Absolutely straight in there. Second question, and everyone should know this, what does SAS stand for? SAS. Atari. Commodor. That was that was Skip for Atari. Software as a service. Correct. What does IP stand for? Commodor. That was Richard. We can go with a number of different things, but I'm going to say internet protocol. Correct. Yes, and the other one of course would be intellectual property. Give us a point for that. Come on. Yes. No. Uh what does what does URL stand for? Commodor. Richard again. Universal resource locator. I'm sorry, you actually got one of those words wrong. So I'll open that up to the Atari team. So resource locator is correct, but it's not universal. It is. Skip, you got any idea? I guess I thought. No, Atari then. Is it unified resource? It's not unified, it's uniform. That's it. Same thing. You can you can argue all you want, but you're not going to get the points. Um, so five five points to Commodor there. Uh, there is a company called LG Electronics. What does LG stand for? Commodor. Lucky Goldstar. Correct, Richard. Are you Googling these, Richard, as we go along? Or have you got Alexa in your ear? I'll answer the next question like this. Okay. Um, final question on this round. You will be surprised to know, or you may be surprised to know that the word laser is an acronym. What does it stand for? I'll give you this one, Ian. That's why I'm keeping quiet. Yeah, cheers. Cheers. Cheers, Richard. Really appreciate. I'm trying to think of something funny that's not rude. So I've been told not to swear. I'll give you a starter with the first word. It the first word is is light. Light and sound accentuating radar. You're just making it up now. I am, you're absolutely right. It's light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Who knew? Who knew? Okay, end of round two. Producer James, what are the scores on the doors? Well, including one pity point, uh 21 to Atari and to Commodor, it's 105. Very good, very good. I like the idea of pity points. The ultimate MSP podcast crossover. Big quiz. So we are at the final round, gentlemen, you need to bring your A game to this because Atari, the opportunity is there for you to win, but you're going to have to really go for it. We have, I think it's about 10 questions. This and Richard Tub, you're going to love this because this is your world. You're literally sat amongst this. This is the retro computing rapid fire round. I'm just laughing at Ian. I didn't do this deliberately. Ian, the the marketing round is next year. We'll we'll do that in next year's quiz, which based on the success of this year's quiz, there isn't going to be another quiz next year. So, uh, here we go. Question number one, what was the name of the portable storage disk used to transfer files between computers in the old days? Commodor. That was Richard. Floppy disk. Correct. Uh in the Tandy TRS 80, which coincidentally, that was the first computer my family ever owned. What did the initials TRS stand for? Commodor. Richard. Tandy Radio System. Uh incorrect. You you were there with the first two words, but the final word was wrong. And I'm going to give a clue to Atari. It was the name and you don't say it, Richard. It was the name of the shops these were sold in. So I think I might have it. And if I have it, I'm going to be really delighted, but I might be wrong. I think I think this was a US only chain, so uh uh Skip, you might know the answer to this. It's Tandy Radio Shack. Correct. Very good. Right, next question, what was the very first computer with a no listen to the wording of this. Not was what was the first home computer, but what was the very first computer with a graphical user interface? Commodor. Oh, wait. No. Uh, was it the Lisa? It wasn't the Lisa. That was the uh that was the first uh one available to the public. Atari. Skip. I believe it was the Amiga. It wasn't the Amiga. That's that's a few years after this. Uh okay, it was it was oh, Richard. The very first available computer, not very first home computer, yeah? Uh the very first available, the first ever computer with a graphical user interface. I think it was was it a Xerox Park? Uh, you know what, you can get five points for that because Xerox Park were the developers of it. It was the Alto, ALTO, that was the very first one. And the very first uh gooey computer for the public was of course the Apple Lisa. Of which about seven uh seven of those were sold. Next question, in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, what were the keys made out of? Commodor. Richard. Rubber. Rubber is the answer. Uh question for for Skip and Todd. In America, did you call that the ZX Spectrum? I I I'm I'm drawing a complete blank on this one. Maybe that was just a UK computer. I've got I've got one here. Can I show it to? They were they were pretty cool. They were pretty cool. Um next question, in 1996, which games console did the Nintendo you have actually got one. You're actually joking. Right, Richard, if you if you if you want to get your Nintendo collection ready because this this next question's about Nintendo. In um what's what's impressive is how quickly you sourced that. That's that is actually quite an impressive thing. Um, in in 1996, what console did the Nintendo 64 replace? Commodor. The Nintendo entertainment system. Uh technically incorrect. So I'm going to pass that to Atari. Was it the Commodor? It was the Nintendo entertainment system, but there's no, it's not. I'm just going to give you a clue, Ian, before you jump into another pit of no points. Um, the Nintendo entertainment system, which was part of it, but there's a word missing at the beginning. I got it. I got it. Todd. Can I can I go for points? Hang on, you're you're on you're on the wrong team. This is this is an Atari question now. So Skip or Ian. Todd, can you tell Skip? Please. Look, Richard's actually got one. Richard, just tell us, just put us out of our misery. It's the Super Nintendo. That's right. It was the Super Nintendo, the SNES. Richard will know the answer to this as well. Um and and this is pretty much Richard and Todd have got this victory in the cam now. But in which game did Mario make his first ever appearance? Atari. He was actually in Donkey Kong, wasn't it? You got some points. Yeah. Very good. We're down to our final three questions. Uh what year did the first IBM PC come out? Atari. Go for it, Skip. 1982. Oh, so close. Uh you know what, just for the for the hell of it, I'm going to give you another another chance. You're going to go higher or lower. It's you are one year out. I'll go just a little bit more. 50/50 chance. I'll go 1983. I went the wrong way. Wrong way. The answer was 1981. Let's see if you can get this one. This is for everyone again, what year did the first version of Windows come out? I was there. I just can't remember it. Commodor. Oh, let's go, Richard. 1987. Two years out. which which I've just given the answer away. Atari, say 1985 and you get the points. 1989. No. Did you say 89? I thought you were pointing at us. Oh no. Okay. No, nil, no points for anyone in that one. Okay. The the final question should be an easy one. Uh, there is a very famous TV advert which uh came out back in the day. It was based on a very famous novel called 1984 and it was used to launch which computer? Atari. Let's go for it, Skip. The Macintosh. It was the Apple Mac. Amazing. Right. Gentlemen, thank you very much. That was a Super Bowl commercial, so you know, I got I got a US advantage on that one. Yes, you did. Although I think it's it's it's world famous. Producer James, what are our final scores on the doors and who is our winner today? Well, it's been very entertaining listening and watching you guys. Um, however, there's been nothing to laugh about in terms of the scores. Ending up Atari on 51 in the massive lead, Commodor with 130. Very good, very good. Congratulations. Thank you very much, everyone. That has been some fun. Of course, the purpose of us being here is to tell every MSP on the planet about all of our great podcasts. Because podcasts are a great way to learn and to find out new stuff and to improve your business. So, if you would like to take the final word starting with you, Ian, just to tell us briefly about your podcast and especially tell us which is the best episode to get started with on your podcast. So you would be delighted to know that our podcast is non-technical. So in terms of everything to do with growing an MSP, we can help you with the other things like the sales and the marketing and the leadership and all of that great stuff. So tune into the IT Experts podcast where you hear myself and my business partner, Stuart Warwick, um help you learn how to build a uh seven-figure MSP. And if you're already there, help you to get to five and go faster. And our best show, the the one that I think is is the most relevant right now is episode 99. And it's where Stuart and I talk about the MSP journey and it where we talk about the different parts, the different stages, the different gaps, the different process and the and the head space that you go through as an MSP business owner. So I'd love you to check it out, um and thank you ever so much, Paul, for letting us be absolutely annihilated by um Richard Tub, um once again. Our podcast is Humanized IT, uh with the co-founder Adam Walter of Humanized IT. And our goal is really to engage MSPs in the business conversation. Adam and I are both very techy guys. Uh we really enjoy jumping into that, but we realize that technology is great, but businesses don't buy technology because it's great. They they buy technology because it helps their business out. So, our conversation is a mix of uh business owners and and technical uh professionals who are really looking to engage and empower technology to drive and support organizations. I think uh one of the more entertaining uh podcasts that we have is how how to fire your MSP. Uh and it's an interesting conversation because it also leads in how to hire one as well. But what are you really looking for? You're you're getting a resource to help your organization be more successful. You need technology, what are the really important elements? And so we look at uh some of the bad ones, uh because those are good indicators that you need to move on. And those are really good indicators of who you need to engage with to make your organization more successful. So, I'm the host of Tub Talk, the podcast for IT consultants where I speak to the smartest, most successful people in the IT industry who give freely of their time and experience, ideas, tips and techniques to help you to grow your MSP business. My personal favorite episode of the past few years was episode 50 when I spoke to David Allen, who is the Godfather of modern productivity, the author behind the very, very famous book, Million Selling book, Getting Things Done. And in the episode, David shares a lot of tips for getting things done. Surprisingly or not getting stuff done, enabling you to grow your IT business and get all that stuff done that you keep saying you'll get around to and never do. I'm Todd Kane and I host the Evolved Radio podcast and it's a bit of a mix. Uh it's not all MSP content. The the content lately has been very MSPcentric, but there's a a pretty good archive. I think we're on episode 90 and you can go all the way back. It's really just the intersection of business and technology. And quite often the MSP space comes up in that, but uh there's also some just fun weird, interesting, nerdy topics that I enjoy like nuclear technology and drones and all kinds of other sort of interesting fascinating stuff. So lots to pick through. Probably a good entry point would be episode 75 where I do I think a six-part series on MSP insights where I interview MSP owners and operators just to get their insights of what have you learned in growing your starting and growing your business. So it'd definitely be relevant for this audience and it's a it's a good sort of six-part series to kind of work work through. Uh but there's uh tons of other content to check out as well on all kinds of cool and interesting topics. Those are great podcasts and there's mine as well to throw into the mix. It's called Paul Green's MSP marketing podcast. And every Tuesday on your favorite podcast platform, we talk about MSP marketing. And business growth is always tons of ideas and some amazing guests. In fact, everyone on our crossover today has been a guest on the podcast at some point. All we're doing is talking about how you can grow your MSP and make more money by improving your marketing. So thank you very much for being with us on this crossover. Don't forget, you've just got a few hours left to win $1,000. If you've enjoyed what we've been talking about here, go and write something about it on LinkedIn. And make sure you use this hashtag #MSPPodcastCrossover. And that's all you have to do to get in that draw to win $1,000. We might be back next year doing this. I think based on the performance of the quiz, it certainly won't be a technology quiz. It might be on something else, but thank you for listening to us. Thank you for watching us if you've been on YouTube watching this and maybe we'll see you again next year. Bye. See you later. See you all. Ta ta for now. Bye. The ultimate MSP podcast crossover.