Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracked Podcast.

The podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm the head of podcasting here at Cracked.

I'm also known as Shmidi the Clam.

I'm also known as Shmidi the Champ and I am also also thinking about German agricultural

board games.

I know, I know it's an obviously sexy topic.

I'm just like clickbaiting you into listening with German agricultural board games.

But I bring them up because for one thing you may know of some of them, like settlers

of Catan, you're really gathering resources in generals.

You're also a minor and a lumberjack and stuff, I guess.

But there's that game.

There's also Agra Cola, which is one of my favorite board games where you are a medieval

farmer with crops and animals and fences and stuff.

And these are games where you are managing resources and you turn the resources into points

that are often represented by pictures of coins or some other sort of money shaped

insignia, which means that these German agricultural board games are basically just like a working

life, right?

Like you're just playing a game where you do a job.

And the thing is there's a few ways to rack up the points in these games.

But here's the big, big difference between those board games and life, which is that those

board games have rules.

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