Hahaha, that happened to me as well, although nobody followed me. I ended up in the marathon race, for which I hadn’t trained, so after 30 km (!) I had to finally give up and ride back in shame in the car they had at that station together with the others that didn’t made it.

I did run the marathon a few years later.

I was in a TV commercial for an online second-hand store that was broadcast on national cable TV and people recognized me for like a year after.

I’ve heard it said that 420 referred to the time 4:20 pm, when a group would come together to smoke, but that sounds contrived.

420 can also refer to the birth date of Adolf Hitler, which makes 420 a bit darker than just “haha, smoke.”

42 is from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. They built an enormous computer called Deep Thought that was the most powerful ever built to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The computer, after 75 million years of processing, came up with 42. The confused crowd that gathered to hear the answer did not understand. Turns out, 42 is the correct answer, but what is the question?

So after that, they decide to build another computer, which is planet Earth, to figure out the question.

It was still calculating when it was destroyed by the Vogons to make space for a hyperspace bypass.

But what is the question?

Which one? I used to listen to a couple of them in the car, but not so much lately! I figure it’s probably The Steam Deck Podcast.