Weird Simulators

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
To get the big Nebraska package. It's the eleven dollars.
So if you just wanted to drive truck and just Nebraska,
Iowa was released recently as well. So for my Iowa people,
maybe you want to do the American Truck Driving simulator.
American Truck Simulator is what it's called. And uh, yeah,
so Nebraska was released. It talked about Nebraska and then yeah,

(00:23):
and then Iowa is there too. What are you laughing at?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
What I'm just thinking. I'm just thinking about a guy who,
you know, the stereotype. He sits in his parents' basement,
drives truck for not a living, maybe, then heads down
to the local truck stop and talks about his exploits.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
You know, he's like his total poser. You can get
a CDL, but he drives truck in the video game. Yeah,
and how long would it take for the real truckers
to catch on? That's what I know. I really want
to know that answer, Like how long could he fake it?
It's like it's like somebody who plays college football twenty
five like I do, helping Colorado State win national championships.

(01:11):
We're winning Natties in Fort Collins these days. However, if
I actually went and started talking about the actual Colorado
State playbook with their coaches right now, they'd probably be like,
you said, what's in our playbook? Did you think is
in our playbook? We'll be talking about mesh concepts and
inside zone handoffs and they're just going to be like, sir,
we haven't run the ball since two thousand and six.

(01:33):
By the way, do you see Colorado State in their
first game? Who did they play? They played somebody good
Colorado State football. Yeah, they played Texas. Let's see. They
played down there in Austin, lost fifty two to nothing.
So I hate to say this, Jaye Noorvel and Colorado State,

(01:54):
but that wouldn't be happening under my regime. You're just
throwing that out there.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Maybe that's how you get yourself in there.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
As like a real like the real head coach. Yeah,
they don't have to like work my way up. It's
like the truck driver not getting his CDL. You just hey,
I want a Natty with Colorado State. Do you think
there so there's e sports? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Do you think that there's an esports you know league,
that's the word of league.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah. Do you think there's an esports league? For trucking simulators.
What would I guess what would be the how would
you be? Because there are esports leagues for all all
sorts of games. I mean, you can, like it's crazy
what you can do online these days, so like college
football twenty five, because I play that, I'll tell you
like how it works. If you are able to play online,
which costs like I don't know, nine bucks a month

(02:45):
or something, it's not that much. If you like to play,
you can be in leagues with your friends. So like
you meet and saddle Meyer and Jim Rose and Scott
Vorhee's and Lucy Chapman and anybody else who wants to
play PS five college football twenty five, we all could
be in a dynesty together and play games like once
or twice a week, however fast we decide, and we

(03:07):
may not play each other that much. You know, if
I'm playing as Colorado State and you're playing as Nebraska,
we wouldn't unless we agreed to schedule each other, which
you can do. You can mess with a non conference
schedule just like they do. I mean, we won't have
any reason to play each other until the collor football
playoff if we get there, you know, what I mean,
But we're still in the same universe, right, Like there

(03:28):
are leagues that have that, there are leagues where you
can play as a single player in like basketball. I
would just wonder, though, because it's easy to figure out
who wins and loses in the sports games, how do
you win at truck driving? Maybe a truck driver could
call in and answer this, like, how would you like
if we designed this to be in a league of
like sixteen guys and gals driving in the American Truck

(03:51):
Simulator across Iowa Nebraska, which are now something you can do.
You can be driving around in Omaha and Lincoln and
Des Moines. They have released that this year this summer. Well,
I mean, like, how do you how many miles a day?
It feels like Nascar and that doesn't that doesn't make
any sense. How do you win? Is it efficiency? Is

(04:13):
it how many jobs you can get done? Is there
a strategy to like taking local jobs versus you know,
because in the videos I'm watching here previewing the Nebraska
and Iowa, you know, software drops there's a lot of
ag I mean, you could get you could do an
awful lot of hauling for some farmers if you'd like to.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
So you're saying I could just be a day trucker
with a side dumper. That's what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is that? Is that a thing? A side dumber? I
hope so otherwise I sounded stupid right there. Last time
I knew a side dumper, it was not a pretty
side I tell you.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
What I'm talking trucker lingo. Okay, oh was that right?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Uh? Anyway, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. There's
a bunch of different packs like you. They have European
Truck Simulator. We we I don't know if that's a
different game that you have to though, because that makes
no sense in the American truck Simulator. Oh no, it's
a different game. It's called euro Truck Simulator. But I'm
sure it works about the same. I mean, how to scale?

(05:10):
Is this?

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Are we talking? People are going down in their computers
and they're just driving around Nebraska on I eighty for
hours and hours.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, I'm sure that's what it is. But you're not
just driving to drive. You're driving to get a job done. Matt, right,
like there's jobs. It's the top comment on the Nebraska
Drop says I'm almost seventy years old. I've been on
American Trucker Simulator since the launch of the game. I've
logged more than six thousand hours. But I fear I

(05:38):
will be dead before the end of the entire map.
Is that a compliment or is that?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Like I don't know, you know how people say that
nineteen eighty four is becoming true because we're letting it.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, which part.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Like we're monitoring ourselves, like we were making that decision, Yeah,
monitor ourself.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, I mean, so there's there's quite a bit of
positives to doing that. But I mean, I guess people
will will debate you on that.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Sure, fair enough, But this to me is kind of
like the matrix is becoming a documentary and we're deciding
to let that happen.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Like is this not but but this this seventy year
old says that he's been more than six thousand hours
playing American Trucker Simulator. Six thousand hours, Like that's not nothing,
you know? How many? Like like, what's six thousand hours
in like a year. Let's do let's do the math here,
how many? How many? There's three hundred and sixty five

(06:33):
days in a typical year, right, right, So three sixty
five divided by twenty four hours in a day. Times
it's it's fifteen point two. I don't I don't know
why I did that. That doesn't make any sense. I think
you want to multiply. Oh yeah, that's right. What am
I doing wrong here? Eight seven hundred and sixty. This
man has almost he's spent seventy five percent or so

(06:57):
of a year playing this game. Adjusted sleep, he's seventy, Like, yeah, exactly,
Like how many hours of him being awake? He's seventy,
So I'm guessing he's into retirement.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
He's put a couple of years of a full time
job at least.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
But he's he's like he's thinking to himself, right, like,
you know, I love this and I can't wait for
more stuff to drop. And now he's gonna spend I'm
sure all summer long. This guy is, This seventy year
old's just been driving around to you know, virtual Nebraska.
Good for him, right, Like, I just don't know how
you would How do you win that?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Like?

Speaker 1 (07:29):
What's the competition here?

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Right?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
As soon as you get done with your last load,
then there's a whole new one waiting for you, is it?
How many loads that you get done. Is it how
many jobs that you complete in a certain time frame
or is it the money that you make, because there
should be some reward for doing a longer drop job,
right like you got you gotta have you have to
haul something from Omaha to Grand Island for the fair

(07:52):
or something. Let's say, I don't know how it worse.
I haven't played the game, but people are going crazy.
They're going crazy about how awesome this is, and I
just feel like I'm missing out. I kind of want
to get up, download this on my laptop and be like,
you know what, I don't care.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
I'm a drive I'm a drive truck. I feel like
it'd be a lot more fun if you had a
steering wheel like they do than they eat the NASCAR
simulator people. Right, Unfortunately, that's a little bit too much
money for my wife to probably enjoy me spending. However,
if you want to play American they haven't paid me
to do this, they should have, But American Truck Simulator,

(08:29):
go find that looks like a lot of fun. I
just if you're a trucker, how do you how do
you win at trucking? Because then we can at least
organize a league and have people, you know, compete. Maybe
there should be one. I'm sure there's a way, right,
get yeah, I get you guys out there, KFAB team
what start a trucking league. I'd be a team owner.

(08:50):
I couldn't I had I would not. Man when we
had to drive the U haul just to like move,
I avoided that thing like the plague. So I'm sure
that makes me some sort of pansy to some people.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
But last time I drove a U haul, I had
at least a dollar of about seventy five SPF sunscreen
just right inside my eyeball the whole time driving that thing.
You couldn't see a thing. Yeah, I was driving that
puppy into Omaha, thinking I'm fine, let's see how this goes.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
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Speaker 4 (09:29):
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Speaker 1 (09:35):
I can see why people would just like want to
drive a truck around Nebraska and see all this stuff.
It looks accurate. Yeah, like the like the highways in
and around Omaha. I don't know if you can go
into town. I don't like how long would it take
to like load up all of those cities, right, they
were showing Youglala and Alma. I don't even know where
that is Ogalala? Yeah that not even that Almah. I

(09:59):
don't know where Alma is.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Is that out west?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
I don't know. You're asking the wrong guy, but it's cool.
They put it like they said, they have twelve full
cities including Lincoln and Omaha in the game in Grand Island.
And then I'm guessing you just like when you get
on the highway, you're just on the highway and there's
truck stops and stuff that you know in the real
places they would be. You have to fill up your
gas tank and stuff. This is a game. It's not

(10:22):
even real life at the game. Well, Dave's on the
phone line of four h two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
Hey Dave, what's on your mind about this?

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Good afternoon and Amory. I'm just home cleaning house for
my wife and watching my Golden retriever sleep on with
the day off today. But anyway, I don't have the
trucking simulator, but I've had one for years and now
I'm kind of a railroad geek, so I got one
it's called Train Dispatcher three point five, and I think
originally it was designed for the actual railroads to train

(10:51):
people on. And if it doesn't have the scenery and stuff,
all you do is sit in front of a black
screen with a track stematic. But they have a Facebook
group and there's guys writing programs for basically all the
United States railroad trackage. You can throw signals, throw switches
and change signals, and you get scored on points by
how fast you can get trains over the line. And

(11:12):
these simulators actually have actual train symbols. You have your
high priority trains of course with the containers, and then
you have coal trains, so if you let them sit
in sightings too long, you get dock points. There's also
you can set it up to have track maintenance call
in and shut down different sections at track. But years ago,
when I first got it, I'd get up at like

(11:34):
four in the morning, put coffee on, and waste about
two hours before work just sitting there. So it's kind
of cool. I mean, it's really some neat.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, I got to tell you, Dave, this makes me
happy that we're talking about this now, because I'm glad
there are other people out there that at least get
it right. I haven't played this, but like I can,
I feel like I could understand. Once I started playing it,
I'd be like, oh, well, I better get my truck
today and you know, like get across Colorado or whatever.
So there's it. Sounds like they already have a built
in scoring system for the trains. How how could we

(12:06):
score people and create like a competitive league in the
truck simulator? How do you think?

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Oh, I don't know. I suppose that you could have
You could have people that break check or put in
front of you and you lose points for getting little
aggressive with them. I think it'd be I think it'd
be uh taking the you know, the best route there.
But also I'm guessing they have backing up skills to
go to a dock and stuff. Yeah, and and things
like that too.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, that's good stuff, Dave. I'm really appreciative that you
called in today. Have a great rest of your labor
day and enjoy that golden tree before me, I think, yeah, yeah,
all right, So there's a guy who gets it. He
would wake up early in the morning, it's spent a
couple of hours on a train, simulator before he goes
to work. I'm telling you what, there's something here man. Now,
now there there might be a bit of dystopianness. That's

(12:55):
the word in this, the fact that we're rather you know,
we like to live virtually. But let's be honest, you
and I are never getting our CDL and driving truck.
Be kind of fun to know what that's like. And
we can do it for twenty bucks on this video game,
plus buying the packages for the locales that you'd like
to drive in. But I mean, there's like nothing. It

(13:15):
costs nothing compared to like, you know, how much I
had to pay for College Football twenty five up front,
like sixty seventy. Now see, I'm getting a ton of
time in it. I'm enjoying myself playing it. I'm having
a lot of fun. They had to put work into it.
There were people that paid one hundred dollars to have
it three days early. They're paying like ten additional dollars

(13:36):
a day to get it on early release day that
was like four days before I got mine. What it
makes me wonder, like, what are some of the other
jobs you'd want to simulate it for? Ooh, that's a
good question. I like where he's going with, like how
efficiently can you back up? You know what I mean?
Like that that's a good way to like how quickly
can you like dock and like have your load removed

(13:59):
or whatever, whether you're carrying farm equipment or agriculture stuff,
you know. And I don't even know how do you
get jobs in this game? Like does the game just
like hey, it's like a grand theft auto where it's
just like, hey, this guy wants to talk to you,
and then you have to get on your phone and
call him, and then he tells you what you need
to do, and then you have a mission to accomplish.
Is that how it works? The thing about a truck, though,

(14:20):
is you actually have to take the truck physically to
the place to be able to haul it the cargo
from point A to point B. But I like his
thought too. It's like, is there a way that you
can efficiently, you know, on the map, go the best
route in the most amount of like the quickest time.
There's something to be said for that.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'd also like to protect the identity of who wants
to ask this question, But what sort of mayhem can
you create?

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Hmmm, well, we do know based on how we started
this conversation that you can drive into a lake because
the guy whose girlfriend asked him to drive it to
a lake, he drove it into a lake and then
fished out the truck with the crane, right, so I
know you can do that. I'm sure you know. Like
he said, the first thing he tried was to drive

(15:10):
into a uh, drive into the gas station really fast
and run through you know, gas tanks and see if
they'd explode. And they didn't, So I guess I don't know.
Like the game is meant to be a legitimate simulator,
not necessarily Grand Theft Auto. I think if you want
to create Mayhem, I think you need to get I
mean the next Grand Theft Auto is coming out, like
what next year? Okay, maybe maybe you just need to

(15:33):
wait for that because because you can do all sorts
of stuff in that game.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
You tell that guy who whose identity will be protected
that might have to wait for for GTA six? Is
that do we have a date on that? Didn't they
don't they have a date on that?

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Where where is it going to be? What do you
mean don't they always have a location?

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Well?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
They they they they mask the location. They kind of
name it, like, uh like Vice City, wasn't Vice City?
Wasn't that Miami ban?

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah it looked like my yeah, San Andreas was La,
wasn't it right? Yeah? All right, here we go. Oh.
Apparently there's a new new trailer for GTA six that
dropped in the last day or two. It is Let's
see here. It is set in the fictional open world
state of Leonida, based on the state of Florida, and

(16:22):
it's Miami inspired Vice City. So Vice City's making a
comeback as part of Leonida, which is Florida, and it's
expected to follow the criminal duel of Lucia and her
her male partner. It is scheduled to be released late
twenty twenty five. It's a long time to wait. Maybe
maybe spend your twenty bucks on the truck simulator and
start seeing how much mayhem you can create. I don't

(16:44):
think you do very well in our league unless there's
like a mod that you can get. I'm sure there's
like a mod that you can get where you could
like race them, you could raise trucks in like Demo Derby. Yeah,
sounds expensive. I don't know how much costs. If you
like wreck your truck. I don't know how much virtual
currency it costs to repair your truck. Do you have to,
like somehow get it towed to the mechanic to get

(17:06):
your truck fixed? Or do you just buy a new truck?
Those are things you'll have to think about when you
wreck your truck. An American truck simulator. Well, I'm glad
we talked about this me too. Think about the other
random things in life that you would like. A legitimate
realistic simulator.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
For standing in line at the DMV, But you gotta
wait for the expansion pack. It really changes it. We'll
talk about that next. We're having fun. It's Labor Day.
Who cares? News Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Emri Sunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Do you can literally just drive a truck through all
sorts of parts of the country. There's even a European
one and people are like, wow, Yeah, this is an
awesome game they just released this year. By the way,
Nebraska and Iowa maps into the game. And it got
us to think, and what would be the simulator that
you would like? What would be a fun simulator that

(18:02):
you would play a video game for, like a regular
real life thing. Chuck's on our phone line of four
h two five five, eight eleven ten. Hey, Chuck, what's
going on today?

Speaker 3 (18:10):
A good day? Yeah? A couple of years ago, I'm
I'm a retired programmer. A couple of years ago I
started working on developing a Iditarod musher simulator. Oh sweet,
you know, taking care of the dogs and check points
and you know, navigating and dealing with terrain and all
kinds of things. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
So, like, I guess what was the what was the
inspiration for that specifically?

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Well, I I got introduced to that about ten years
ago on a trip to Alaska and became a little
bit enamored with how much, you know, different than it
was than I thought it was, and just yeah, I
just thought it would be an interesting thing to, you know,
to show what the mushers are doing all those hours

(18:59):
down the trail. Ultimately, though, I think I decided not
to do it because you know, it's eight all hours
between checkpoints, and how many people are really going to
be interested in going that long?

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Right right?

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Right? And you know, so then you start asking yourself,
you know, then do I need to compress it down
into you know, fast forward through certain parts or and
it just kind of ultimately decided not to do it,
but your topic made me think of it.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, well it's really cool man, And you're right. I
think the idea of some of this stuff is that
it's a sim. It's really a sim. It's supposed to
be the same amount of time, right, Like, that's kind
of the whole juxtaposition, right, Like, if I play this game,
I want to drive, like the truck game, I wanted
to drive from Omaha to Lincoln to be fifty minutes,

(19:50):
right Like, I wanted to feel like I drove from
Omaha to Lincoln and I saw a bunch of stuff. Right, Uh,
it just feel a little cheap, if you know, you
just skipped right from the outskirts of Omaha and all
of a sudden you're in life, you know what I
mean exactly?

Speaker 3 (20:01):
And the Iditarod mushing involves a lot of sleep deprivation
over a long period of time, and most people wouldn't
do that.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
No, no, Well, and on top of that, on top
of that whole thing, right, you have like eight or
nine other living beings you're trying to take care of
throughout the process, right, and us.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
A monitor on a constant basis yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, And it's just like, you know, it wouldn't have
the same effect if you were able to, you know,
simulate an entire day's worth of racing in an hour,
you know.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
What I mean precisely. Yeah, Nor would it indicate that,
you know, show how tired they are at the end
of the day having gone through that entire you know,
you wouldn't have the same experience, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Absolutely, and it makes a lot of sense. Actually, Chuck,
thanks for calling and share. That's such a cool deal.
And if we're ever talking video games or programming or
anything like that, please feel free to call in and
help us out.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Thanks, it was an interesting topic.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, thank you. How about that? Who knows? You never
know who's listening. You never know who's listening. All right.
I found some that are actually real life games right
now that I'm looking through and I'm trying to figure
out if the I mean, it's this is some this
is some interesting stuff. So if you if you have

(21:13):
a thought, please call us at four oh two five
five eight eleven ten. Four oh two five five eight
eleven ten. And I'm trying to to to Okay, so,
like I kind of want sports games to be on
the wayside, right, because at the same time, like, like
I guess, technically, Matt Me being the head coach of

(21:34):
Colorado State feels like a sim right, but it's really not,
because I can literally play or simulate through games in
my my weeks. Right, Like here's an example, if you
haven't played the college football game, then you're not going
to know exactly what that means. But they give you
a certain number of hours per week. Okay, for instance,

(21:55):
depending on like how fast my next game is usually
it's Saturday to Saturday. Right, Well, they'll give me like
one hundred and ninety hours in a week between me
and my staff to be recruiting players. And it takes
a certain number of hours allotted per week or for
the entirety of a season, right where you have to

(22:20):
spend a bunch of time recruiting somebody. So like you
know how many hours it takes to end quotes send
the house at a recruit?

Speaker 2 (22:28):
How many fifty?

Speaker 1 (22:30):
So they give you like five hundred hours to start
the season, and you have to allot that over the
entirety of like however many recruits you're trying to land,
and if you want to send the house, which is
the most you can do. That's fifty hours that you
are spending on one kid. You got to think about
that in real life. That's a lot of hours. Well,
guess what, I'm not spending that much time at all.

(22:53):
I just have to figure out, Okay, this is a
four star recruit that can play wide receiver. I want
him on my team. We're not messing around. I'm sending
the house and that means fifty hours of my season
is spent on that guy. You know how fast that
takes me to do, Like thirty seconds. It's like, oh,
I've identified this guy as a guy. I don't even
need this. I don't even need a scout him. I
just want I just want him on my team. It's

(23:15):
not the same as a true sim I can get
through an entire usually like in one sitting. I'll play
like three or four games. In my games five minute quarters, right,
I get a lot of plays in that five minute quarters.
But it's not like a three hour football game like
a real coach is going through right, right, you know
what I mean. And then I'm not watching film or
anything like that. I can scout if I want, but
I don't have to spend that much time. You know

(23:36):
how many practices guys usually have, like three or four
a week at least sometimes five. You know how many
times I practice in between my games? Most of the
time zero unless there's a couple of new plays that
I want to work into my regimen. Usually I don't
practice at all. So it's not a true sim That's
why I don't want to count it. In this conversation,
Sam is on our phone line of four or two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten, Sam,

(23:59):
you got an idea for a simulation here? Hey, Sam,
are you there?

Speaker 5 (24:08):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah? Yeah, what's up?

Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Are you talking to me?

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Sam? Sam, you're you're you're on the air. You're on
the radio right now?

Speaker 6 (24:17):
Alrighty, I can barely interfused.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
I'm driving.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
So you were talking about simulators or doing like a
game simulation or something. Yeah, okay, So I have an idea.
But it might be a stress okay. So it would
be an equine sport that's again in the Olympics. So
it would be the sport of driffage, yes, or working
quotation okay, either one and so one test would last

(24:48):
less than probably seven minutes. Sure, Okay, Now, if it
were in the working quotation. The tests are going to
take probably place that long, right, so, but I don't know.
I think it could be kind of cold. There may
be people that would be interested in seeing what it's like,

(25:08):
especially equestrian.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah no, well, run through.

Speaker 6 (25:13):
A Drozge test or a working applications, right.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
And then like like in between your tests, like you
could just train with your horse, right, Like you could
just like be with your horse and train a bunch
of different things. I'd be in an a right, like
I get to ride a virtual horse.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Yeah, so yeah, like a virtual ride.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Oh I love that. I actually love this idea. Sam.
You're onto something, you're onto something, usually you do.

Speaker 6 (25:37):
At least a twenty minute warm up beforehand, you know,
and then a cool down at the end.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah, and then of.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
Course there's all the grooming and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
But now this is what I'm talking about. Now, this
needs to be a game right now, Like I would
play this now?

Speaker 4 (25:52):
Oh cool?

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah I had a idea, yes, Sam. Now we just
need a programmer and we need money to pay the
program to make an actual game out of this, because
if this was real, I would play it in a heartbeat.
I love the idea. Of virtual horses in like getting
to ride horses and doing it for my couch. I
think that's a great idea. Thanks for calling us, you

(26:15):
bet taking my call? Absolutely call again at sometime. That's
what I'm talking about. Now, that's a video game. Where's
that game at? I have a list of ones that
are actually already made. I have to tell you some
of these. I'll tell you some of these sim games
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Speaker 4 (26:32):
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Speaker 1 (26:37):
That's an easy way to learn how like some of
the stuff on an airplane would work without halvingn actually
like be in the air and try to land all
that stuff. Isn't that weird? Isn't it? Isn't it weird
to train that way? But probably also useful and a
lot safer.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yes, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
I have a bunch of other ones, Okay. Car Mechanics
Simulator twenty twenty one one real game. You start a
garage business, you invest in junk cars, you fix and
flip to expand your facilities and make money, and then
work under the hood of over seventy different cars and
four thousand unique parts. So like if you just like

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fixing cars instead of like needing to fix real ones,
you can do it virtually here with Car Mechanic twenty
twenty one. That's pretty I mean that's something, isn't it.
Don't you think it's something. Here's one B simulator B simulator,
which you can play actually on the PS four. I
don't know if it's available on PS five right now.

(27:38):
Usually PS four games are you can play PS four
games on the PS five. I was able to transfer
all my PS four games onto the PS five, which.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Was nice backwards compatibility. Correct, it's nice to have that
B simulator.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
You are a B. You pollinate, make honey. You live
with other bs and hives. You try to make your
B family grow and you get to be close to
other bees. The whole game.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Now, this one I can get behind. That's an experience
I will never get on this earth. It's a simulator
that's of a different kind, am I?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Right? How about house Flipper? So it's a simulator where
you can fix up a house that's a you know,
of a variety of types. You know, like you don't
need to do much or you need to completely like
rebuild a house and then you flip it, you sell
it to somebody else. So if you like architecture, you
like houses, then there you go. That's a real game.
And apparently that one's really well reviewed. House Flipper. Would

(28:33):
you play that one?

Speaker 2 (28:34):
I think that could be very satisfying to take a
real ugly house and to flip it into something nice.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
This one is very well reviewed as well. Power wash simulator. Ah,
so you are out powerwashing different things and you have
that satisfaction of washing something.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
One of the most satisfying days of my life. I
used to work in a produce department for a grocery
store and we had to take all all the produce
out and powerwash the coolers. That was such a satisfying day.
I did good work on that day.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
You know.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
I went home that day and I thought, you know
what I worked today? I did something?

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah. Yeah. My wife powerwashed our deck one day and
I offered a help and she said no. She was like,
I'm actually really into this, right, So whatever that means.
This one, called Not for Broadcast, is a full motion
propaganda simulator. The idea is that you're in an unnamed
European country which resembles the UK in the eighties, and

(29:34):
a new populist socialist political party named Advance has won
a surprise landslide election victory and is beginning to handle
the country in an increasingly authoritarian dystopian fashion, forcing redistribution
of wealth. The player takes the role of Alex Winston,
a studio director in a national television station, having to

(29:54):
produce a live broadcast, play advertisements, since or swear words,
and avoid interference and an effort to keep viewership high.
Ever wanted to be in somebody who creates propaganda? There
you go? How about that? Yeah? Interested?

Speaker 2 (30:10):
That would hits a little too close to home, man,
what's going on there?

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Obviously there's a ton of farming simulators, So if you're
ever interested in learning how to farm or farming a
virtual farm, then there's that. A couple others that caught
my eye here that I haven't already talked about. Thief Simulator.
You have to pretend to be a thief. That's how

(30:36):
you get on a list. By the way, Thief Simulator.
You go find Thief Simulator and try to be a
good thief. It's a video game. What are they going
to do to you? And then Prison Architect, where you're
a private prison construction business and a management simulator, so
like you can like build the prison and then you're

(30:58):
also managing the prison. Sure, I mean, come on, sounds
like a lot of fun, doesn't it. And then eventually
you're in the print, Oh, we're having a lot of
fun simulation games. If there's something you'd be interested in,
go ahead and send in emails. Yeah, Emery ad Campa'd
be like, I've got a couple of funny ones here

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and I don't know if I could read them on
the air, that's how funny they are. Also, you can
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