Me. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.

Episode 8. Great. Why are you acting that way my wife Amanda and the game. Because

I hate my life in this game.

That's my wife Amanda and the game she's talking about is Papers Please.

And right about now, she has her hands in her face, covering face and she's cradling her head and I ask her why and

she just simply says after a brief pause I don't want to do this.

I, um, This is the second time she's played the game

and in the recording you're hearing

and it just fascinates me to know in.

This it's a this game is has old style graphics and when I say old

I mean like Commodore 64 you know 1987 graphics and it's so simple and on the outside it seems like it would be the most boring

game in the world.

You're a person in a booth at a border crossing looking at people's papers and deciding who does and who doesn't

get inside.

But it's amazing. So the screen says November 28th, 1982.

What are you about to do here, honey?

I'm about to go to work. I decide who can get into...

What is it called?

Ah, Stots?

A Stots.

A Stotska.

So you sit down and you prepare all of your materials for the day you you walk to work and then you go into your booth and then you open up the the shutters and this giant line, this endless line of immigrants comes to you and they

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