We continue to work the registers with Tobiah Panshin, going to places both weirdly metaphysical and painfully mundane.
First, Mike thinks it might actually be preferable to live in a hypothetical computer simulation than a “real” universe. What is real, anyways? Does that make our programmers gods? Is the act of creation inherently selfish — and if it is, does that even matter?
Then, we look at a recently unearthed-on-YouTube reality show, Airline, about ticket agents and flight attendants weathering often-drunken customer abuse and demands. It triggers all sorts of all-too-familiar customer service flashbacks. Plus, Mike remembers that one time he almost got into a fight at the airport.
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“A game nobody survives. But Schwarzenegger has yet to play.”