Crazy Eights

Who would have thought of that? Let's do paper, rock, scissors.

Was it Crazy Eights? Was there a Crazy Eights? Yes.

Yeah.

Crazy Eights,

yeah.

I'm unlocking memories as we speak of most of my childhood.

Isa asked us about the secret history of playing cards, so this episode is for you.

Wait, playing cards? Like the ones we use for Go Fish or Crazy Eights? What's secret about them? I just thought they were pieces of paper with numbers on them.

Oh, you would be so surprised, Finn.

The history of playing cards is basically an ancient action movie.

So along that line, it basically liked card games, but that have a little bit of meat to them.

Something more than, you know, Crazy 8 or whatever of the such.

Yeah.

So I was, I was interested in playing this cause it has the cards, you know, you build roads, you have the settlements, you have the cities, it's got all that in cards and it got good reviews.

Tetris.

Yeah, or Crazy 8, you know.

[laughs]

Yeah.

You shake a little leg.

You do Crazy Eights, the classic improv warm-up game where you literally shake a leg.

And you kind of get it.

It's a little bit like Flight of the Conchords now that you mention it.

That's about it.

Yeah, we played Crazy Eights.

Crazy Eights was a big one, and then Gin later, but mostly.

Congratulations from our friends at Numerica Credit Union, proud sponsor of Dave's Cash Showdown.

Numerica Credit Union, they were invented in the same country where coin-operated slot machines were.

Not in thin air.

Not Crazy 8 style cards.

Yeah, they're huge cards.

This is like something you buy from Big Lots and like they're old made, but like they're cards that are just for old made.

There's so many platforms I could've really discussed what I was he- uh, feeling.

But it felt for me, someone who grew up very normal to have a tarot card or an oracle card, nothing out of the, um, range, where my neighbors were playing with, you know, Go Fish and Crazy Eights, I have these kind of unique cards, they felt.

And so it was very natural for me to create something like that.

And the world seemed to really resonate with it because in the last seven years, we're now in about 47 countries with these teachings.

Every Wednesday night and Sunday night after church, in the summers, we'd go play tennis.

If it was raining, we'd go play Crazy Eights.

We'd go to Pizza Hut.

You know, we...