Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - SnowBikeMike Flies a (Real) Plane - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

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Madognik 96 in the chat says, I've been playing Chrono Trigger most of the day for the first time. I can't even imagine being you right now, Madagnik. That sounds like a dream to be able to replay that game for the first time. Congratulations. Take it all in. Soak in the sun. Cheryl Crow.

That's right. I'm going to tell everyone. We're on jump right to the chorus. Come on. Are we fucking singing. The Zos on Cheryl Crowe! What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Friday, September 20th, 2024.

Of course, I am your host, Tim Getty's. Today, I am joined by the beautifully voiced Greg Miller. Hello. We are also joined at this table by the Master of Hype, Snowbike Mike. Tim, nice to see you. I love that top on you. Thank you. Thank you very much. I like this vibe.

Yeah. New look for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been trying to get the, I like these nice, the shirts that match the chain. You don't know what I mean? You look like a jabonie that should go take a walk down the block and soak up the sun right now. I appreciate that. You know what I mean?

You know me well, Mike. You know me well. And rounding out the group remotely from beautiful sunny San Diego. It is Paris Lily. It's actually not sunny today, but very happy to be here. I can't imagine San Diego not being sunny. Like, anytime I've been there, it's always brutally hot. Thank God it's not because it has been ridiculous this summer.

But, yeah, it's TwitchCon too. So I'm headed to that this weekend. Oh, man, you're cool. That's so stupid. Not as cool as you, Mike. We're going to get into this shit today. My God. Everyone's strapped in.

It's a Mike episode, which at this point, are we kind of funny? Are we just snow bike Mike's YouTube channel? Just having him come out here. Exactly. We are so lucky to have you, Mike, because you just bring so much joy to our lives, to the audience's life. And clearly to the lives of every single person that you meet outside on all of your glorious adventures.

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but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's start with the topic of the show. Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Tos, Tos, Tos. Yeah. Blue. A real plane. A real ass. I'm actually called Pilot Mike now.

From the snow to the skies. Snowmike Mike taking you over the Grand Canyon and beyond today, Tim. Microsoft Flight Simulator 24 held an event at the Grand Canyon. All right. And they decided to fly out but intended, I guess. Let me sore.

Mike and Paris and many other of our friends. Oh, did Gary go? Just only one of my gaming dad's attended this way. That's a shame. Wait, Greg. Did you get the text I sent you last night? Get the text? I mean, I get a lot of things.

Just look at what I sent you. It was from Gary. Gary Witta texted Paris. Is that what I'm understanding here? Is the screen grab? Yes. The texted Paris. Just FYI.

If you get sent one of those 30th anniversary PS5 pros, I'm going to go on a fucking rampage. What time did he send that? I think I texted you immediately. So whatever time is on there, it had to be like 8 or 9 o'clock last night. At 6.04 p.m. last night, Gary Whitton texted me. You're going to get one, sent one of those 30th anniversary PS5 pros, aren't you? You motherfucker. How is he this?

Like what? If Paris is the positivity pedlar. Gary, go hang out with your children, Gary. Why are you hounding me in Paris? He wants it. I honestly, I respect the hate, you know? Like, Gary number one hater, and I respect it. Yeah, man, somebody has to be.

Somebody has to me. I just, I love Gary. I honestly, I just replied now. I was like, I love you, Gary. That's all you can do. Yeah. I said I better get one. You should.

Well, yeah, Tim, we had a lot of fun. We had an experience of a lifetime. And you know what? It's not just about me this time. It's me and Paris. Me and my gaming dad, we got to make a moment, a memory. Some would say together.

And, yeah, thanks to Xbox and Microsoft Flight Sim. We got to go preview Microsoft Flight Sim 24. We were the first people outside of the studio to actually play it as well. So we'll give you some hands-on coverage. We'll tell you all the deep dives. But we got to tell you about this experience. Did they make you play it in the Grand Canyon? Was there a section at a hotel ballroom where you played it?

Or was it all, there was a tent in a fucking game? It was a tent and a donkey. Struggling for the internet out there. Obviously, there's a lot of topic. We're going to talk about your thoughts on playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. But also, yeah, they flew you to the Grand Canyon. Mike, have you been to the Grand Canyon before? No, never, never.

Paris, have you been to the Grand Canyon? Yes, but like 15 years ago. Have you, Greg? No. Do you have any interest? If it was easy. Yeah, yeah. I think it would be our first dice when I was hosting my, when I was hosting my first dice, and that was also Jen's first dice with me, where it was just like, she's like, we're close to the game.

I'm like, like, hours away. I'm like, I'm no, I don't want to know. I'm good. I mean, I'll do it if you want to do it. Yeah. I'd like to see it. You know what I mean? You got to sense of scale. You have to. You got to. So you guys, you knew you were going to the Grand Canyon. So that's exciting, cool, whatever. But you did not know that you were going to fly a plane. Uh, no.

We did not know that we would fly a plane. And by fly, I mean like me and Paris put our hands on the stick and we flew the plane. No, no control. Nobody was like, oh, I got this. I'm your backup driver. It was like, grab a hold of that, Paris. Because he took us off the tarmac, Tim. Paris, Lily, not only flew a plane, he actually took us off of the runway.

The gentleman to our right said, hey, the actual captain. We'll call him Captain Brad. Captain Brad was like, you want to send this thing up into the sky? And Pear was just like, I got this. And we flew and Paris took us off right into the skies. It was beautiful bears. Fuck now. How?

Like real talk, Paris. Well, he had 15 minutes in flight sim before this. We had hours. How does that translate to you taking a plane off? Well, first and foremost, this is the Vision Jet, which they call the Tesla of the skies, right? That's a good name. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, well, maybe not these days. But the technology in this thing is freaking incredible. So, yeah, I powered up the throttle to speed it up and then you pull back on the joystick and literally I'm taking off in the plane. It's this plane can literally land itself. He explained all that too. If something were to happen to the pilot, there's like a button you can press. Yeah, there's Mike.

Oh, my glass is out of everything. Look at how many. I definitely don't like seeing the city beneath you that you've turned that. You're on that level of a degree. I do not like that at all. I'm like, why is this one held together with, oh,

it's the cable. I thought that was duct tape holding the thing together. Just, it's insane because on Monday, September 9th, um, I get a,

I text from Mike. A text from Mike, pretty rare. Yeah, I, it always warms my heart. Always makes me happy. But it's often him checking in on like some sponsorship or like,

oh, some scheduling thing or whatever. This just says there's an 85% chance I'm going to fly a plane today. Like a real ass plane. And I, I go, what the fuck? What does this mean? Did you bring your glasses?

And he goes, shit. I got my jabroney glasses, not the glasses. Fuck. And I go, ha, ha. What does this mean? Are you okay? But back to the room. Real point here.

And I said, stay safe. Have fun. And then he replies to the picture of him in the plane. And then he goes, I go, oh my God. I can't wait to hear about this. And then he just replies in all caps. Paris fucking took off. To go off the plane.

It's great. I love that. That's so good. Like, real talk, like I was sitting here. And like, as cool as this. is there was a level of like, who's responsible for this if they go down. You know what I mean? Like what's going on?

How is this just legal that people are like, yeah, we're going to put Mike up in a oceanic sub thought they were fine too. You know what I mean? I'm not like, I'm worried about these people. Were you scared, Mike? No, I've had a lot of top gun training in my day. Me and, of course, Nick Scarpino took Microsoft Flight Sim to mock 10 if you remember. So I felt confident behind the joystick.

and, you know, I had Captain Ron next to me, so I felt good about that. Brad or Ron? You know, I'm going to give them new names. Got it. Just don't worry about it. Great guy. Keep the narrative going. So I felt confident, Tim, especially as Paris describes this, right?

If we do talk about the Vision Jet, the Vision Jet is actually truly incredible. The plane that we got to ride has all of this cool features in it where almost anyone could fly this, right? And sure, you got to be certified, you got to be a real pilot. But it has a lot of features in there where I was able to grab a hold of this. that and a lot of the jet will do the things for me. So like at one point, I said, can I crank this thing sideways? And he said, why don't you try that? I'm going to show you what the jet will do.

And so sure enough, I took the joystick and I pushed it as hard to the right as I could to get that wing down and really get a sideways. I'm like that's handshap. Sure enough, the plane auto-corrected, similar to what your Tesla would do with lane detection, where it detected, hey, you are pulling on this too hard. Let me even you out. And so it actually brought us back to even and sat us down. And he was like, hey, the plane will detect certain things like that, right?

Another feature was, hey, let me nose dive this thing really quick. Let me see if I can get us going down straight. And sure enough, as Paris will tell you, it started to, the cabin started to freak out. You could tell that like, oh, it's not right. And he pressed a simple button and we just auto-leveled out right away. And everything felt smooth and calm again. It has so many cool features inside of this plane that, you know, Paris told you it can land by itself. There's a button above us at the top. So if there was an emergency, say, you know, Captain

Snowbike Mike has a heart attack. Paris could press this red button on the top. AI will actually reach out to the local airport that we would go land at. It would, uh, nerve, where can I crash? Where can I crash? It would notify emergency services and they would have emergency services there. It would plot out the landing course and actually land for you. So there's a lot of tech in this plane that we got to see live on display and take advantage of to have some. fun with. So Paris, you're in the, you're in the backseat of this plane with Mike driving. Were you more nervous when you with the pilot seat or being behind Mike in the pilot seat? I'm with Mike. I wasn't nervous at all at all flying this thing. I even have because I put like a video out on my channel.

The scenario Mike is talking about, I filmed that. So you can hear Mike talking about it. And we're all like, whoa, like I just had a shitty need run on my face the whole time. I was just smiling the whole time. I really was. It's, it felt very safe. It's surprisingly very roomy in the back. I think what if they said, Mike, you could put seven people on that jet. Yeah, you could put about it was four of us. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. No fear at all. It was, it was an amazing time. Really was. And you're flying over the Grand Canyon, dude. Yeah. It's amazing.

There was some footage there of like what looked like the formation of a storm in the Grand Canyon as you're like. This is epic. Like, there's no other word for it. Like, what the hell? this was one of the most beautiful sites I've ever seen and Parris will talk to you about it. We were flying over the Grand Canyon and not only is it a incredible

spectacular vision to see of this gigantic sweeping canyon and I always thought like, man, there would be a lot of earth tones to it, a lot of reds, a lot of oranges, a lot of browns, right? But there was a lot of green there, Paris will tell you.

There was just green tops everywhere from the live vegetation and then... Was that Xbox? Did they do that? Maybe Xbox influenced it. But it was just beautiful site of you're seeing the canyon how deep it goes and then these rocky hills to the side and then all of a sudden in the distance it was a beautiful sunny day but there was just one giant cloud over to our left that it started to open up and the rains were pouring down from the heavens and it was like this beautiful moment right and you could tell the pie was getting a little nervous he's like uh i don't like that and so we were gonna sweep through that and he's like hey it's like a real it's like a real cyber truck you can't get wet this is the moment mike's talking about right here where he did the thing and then he brings it back back up. Yeah, dude, it's incredible.

See, I dipped that as hard as I could. And so, yeah, it was just this beautiful incredible experience and the plane was awesome. We got really lucky to have the opportunity to fly it and yeah, made for a magical trip, made for a great experience. Absolutely insane. So did you guys have to

when you were switching, who was piloting it? Like, did you land and to take off again? No, we switched midair, man. No, yeah. Just like you would be doing that. Somebody get up in here, climb up in the Paris is humongous. How did you do it? That's where I'm worried about somebody elbow and Captain Donovan in the face and he's out and then you know, you hit red buttons. We press the button.

The only one that would do that would be me. I had a tough time squeezing in there, you know what I mean? I got a big gut lately. Too many and out. I was doing this, but we're in there. I think I have a couple of shots of us switching spots, but it was really cool of you can move this seat so far back. And he'd be like, all right, Parrish, that was your turn. Let's get, you know, me and Paris made a great friend.

I'll give out her Twitch name is. Cheeb's out there, Twitch.com. She's a lot of fun. She was really, really great from Tahoe as well. So shout out to her. We got to share some Tahoe memories. But yeah, it was cool. Back to the whole thing about Mike being too fat.

I do want to call it this text I got. Sunday night, 8.40 p.m. It does, this is out of the blue. Doesn't matter the state, the event, the day I will find it in and out. And it's a photo of the in and out drive-thru that he's in at that moment. Yes, Tim. And I tell a story. I got to tell a story.

Yeah. So, okay. So now the, the, the, way we traveled to this, right? We had to fly into Phoenix and then you drive up. So it's about three, three and a half hour drive up to the Grand Canyon, right? I got in early. So I was up there way ahead of time. So Mike's letting me know, hey, man, I landed. I was like, all right, let me know when you're coming in. You know, we'll hang out Sunday night. And then he's like, wait, we got a guy that, well, I don't know where he is. We're going to drive up later. Time's going by,

time's going by. I get a text about 8, 9 o'clock at night. He goes, man, we're at in and out. I ain't going to make it. I'm going to be there about midnight, 1 o'clock in the morning, good night. And that was it. And I didn't see Mike until the next day. It's insane. Mike, Tim, let me tell you about my weekend. Yeah, please you. I got to tell you about my weekend. Then I've dubbed a weekend in the skies. I just, I need clarification as well because I got the in and out text, like I said, at 840. Yeah. Then I got an 1130. DM from Kirk from good luck have fun.

Shout out. Who said me and Snowmike Mike just had a piss together by the side of the road under the stars. What the fuck happened on this trip? That was a beautiful time. Under the stars, Tim? Not a car around. Beautiful, no air pollution. Just two dudes taking a piss. You know what I mean? Beautiful stuff. We'll talk about that in a minute. So I dubbed the weekend, a weekend

in the skies. Of course, as you know, I've returned from D.C. We've gone back to work. And now I'm looking at this weekend trip where we're going on a Sunday. We're We go out for a Monday, then I come back Tuesday. And so I have this weird, like, I leave work Friday evening. What do I do with my Saturday?

And as you know, Tim, I bought pretty lights tickets quite some time ago. And I was going to go, I was going to go womp, wamp up in Tahoe. And then I said to myself, well, that's a tight turnaround, Mike. But then I realized, oh, snap, the great Reno hot air balloon races are this weekend at 5 a.m. And I called it my buddy, J.D. Neal. And I was like, JD, I think I'm going to skip everything. I don't got the juice. He said, Mike.

an adventure Knox, you've got to say yes. So I got in the car at midnight, Tim. I drove all the way up to Tahoe. I arrived at 3 a.m. I called it my boy, sad boy, Sean. I said you have 15 minutes to put on your pants. We're driving to Reno. Grab sad boy, Sean.

We drive to Reno. We arrive at 4 a.m. to walk in the pitch black darkness with all the kids to the hot air balloon races for the 5 a.m. Globe party. And Tim, Microsoft Flight, Sim. The cool part about this is how it ties in is there's hot air balloons.

Microsoft flight sim, right? Of course. So somehow I'm landing up the dream, the dream weekend, right? And so now we're in the fields right outside of UNR. And they got 75 air balloons. And the first six are going to light up the sky for the glow party. So they're all flashing their torches. It's this beautiful scene.

Please explain. Glow party. So, yeah, I mean, they're glowing up the night. They're lighting up the night because it's still pitch black at 5 a.m. Right. And so they're glowing, you know what I mean? The hot air balloons are glowing. And it's just beautiful scene.

We're celebrating the women of aviation. There's 13 women pilots there for the hot air balloon races. We're celebrating that. We're celebrating community. And it's like this fun time of watching that. And then at 7 a.m. is the mass ascension. We're 75 hot air balloons. There's got to be a better name than that.

Hey, hey, that's what it's called. You know what I mean? And so then 75 hot air balloons take to the skies over northern Nevada. And it was one of the most beautiful. sites I'd ever seen. I didn't think I was going to enjoy it as much as I did. I'll tell you what, it was awesome. We saw 75 hot air balloons fly up in the sky. Then Tim, you're saying, man, Mike, you're rallying. We drive back to Tahoe, jump in the lake, install a ring doorbell because I really want to ring doorbell. So I installed that at the house. And then that night, we go to pretty lights.

Pretty lights, you know, wamp, womd, DJ. It's been about 10 years since I had seen him. I think he came and went. He came back. Very mellowed now, Tim. I thought we were going to wamp. You know what I mean? It was a wiggle is what the kids called now. That's when you just kind of slide back and forth, you know? Sometimes he'd take it up to a light rock where you'd kind of rock with it, but it was a lot of wiggling. Didn't love that. Didn't love that about pretty lights, right? But Mike, I did not know that you photogenic. Thanks, Tommy. Thanks, Tomi. Thanks, Tommy. Put this on the dating profiles. Put this on the profile.

He says the day before he eats in and out at 9 p.m. and pisses on the side of the road. So for you, visual watchers out there, if you're an audio listener, this is photos of me at the great Reno air balloon race. And did you know that it is actually a competition? It is not just hot air balloons taken to the sky. It is actually a race. There's points. And at the end of the weekend, there will be a pilot of the weekend.

And so it's really interesting. They track where the hot air balloons go height-wise and then distance. And you're supposed to back in the day, they would drop beanbags to determine if you hit the target of where you were supposed to be. You know, they don't want to be dropping it on a thousand. kids anymore, you know, hitting somebody in the head. So they've moved it to now all digital where it can tell, oh, the hot air balloon

hit this elevation at this longitude and latitude, you got points. And it was really cool. I didn't know they were doing that. That's pretty, I mean, it looks sick as house. Yeah, yeah. And so Pretty Lights. I want to have one of these adventures with you one day. Oh, we're going to make a memory. And so Pretty Lights was pretty sick. I want. Right.

I walked out. I was doing the dance. Pretty lights ends at 1130. Tim. Now you're asking yourself, well, Snowbike, Mike, you have a plane ride at 3.30 p.m. out of SFO to the Grand Canyon. You got to get home. What are you going to do? You're going to sleep? You're going to drive? I slept till 4 a.m., boom, got in the car, drove back to San Francisco. So now I'm gearing up, getting ready. Now I fly to Arizona. Phoenix, first time ever being in Phoenix. Beautiful spot. Easy flight. I land. Did you go to Portillas?

No. No. Well, we didn't have much time there. I wish we did. So we land. It's like 730, Tim. And I'm thinking, I'm texting Paris. He's like, yo, Mike, it's a three-hour car ride to get up to the Grand Canyon, get ready. And I was like, ooh, will I make it for dinner with Paris, right? And so I walk down. I meet the lovely lady. We'll call her Rebecca, who has the sign for me in the group. And I'm talking with Rebecca. Rebecca, great backstory. Really love Rebecca. She, does she work for Microsoft? Does she work for Microsoft or she's just like the Lippo company? She actually does a lot of odd jobs. She actually does what Drew with the U does. She's a, um, she is a party promotion events planner around Phoenix, but she does odd jobs which she helps and works.

So she was helping the driver team this time around. You know what I'm talking with her. A lot of great jobs. She's doing commercials lately with her crew. Really loved what she was putting down. But I arrived to Rebecca. And I go, hi, Rebecca. I'm Mike.

She goes, great news. The other three guys, they're right behind you. They've all arrived. And I'm thinking, oh, the next sentence is going to be, we're ready to pack up and go. She goes, bad news. Another guy's flight got delayed. He'll be here in an hour. I go, okay, okay.

I'll go, I'll walk around. Maybe I'll find something to eat. You know what I mean? No big deal. So I come back. down an hour later. She goes, okay, great news. I got the three guys. I got you. I got him. I'm missing two dudes. I go, how are you missing two dudes? She goes, they were supposed to be here four hours ago. I've lost them. I go, I don't know if that's good, Rebecca. I don't know if

that's what we're supposed to do, Rebecca. And so somehow, out of nowhere, we find one of the boys from the UK. We find one guy. We don't know where the second guy is. So she's looking around, she's giving me the panic face, like, are we leaving this guy and we keeping him? What are we doing? I'll tell you what, Rebecca would have been calling another car for me. I'm not waiting a fucking hour in the goddamn Phoenix airport. I'm sitting there. It's now 8.30 a night. I'm adding up the hour.

It's like, oh, we're going to be there by like 11.30. This is tough. And all the kids that I'm with are from Spain, from the UK. They're from across the pond. So they're tired as hell, right? I got a lot of energy. I don't care of that. How's this going?

How's this introduction to America going for these jet-what? Europeans. So Rebecca's now worried about losing the British kid. And I speak on the United. Here's what's going to happen. We're just going to go. That's a great idea, Rebecca. I'm sure he'll be fine.

Don't worry about it, right? She stops us on the bus. And so we're on this nice dope sprinter, right? Real cool, got the mood lighting, right? And this bro, we'll call him Ted. Ted, the driver, is just a bro, right? He's got long, blonde hair, surfer, bro. He's like, what's up, bras?

Y'all hungry at all? The whole place dead silent. Because you know the boy's just positive. What is Mike say? What is Mike say? The whole boys just want to go home. And I'm like, you know what? I'm cool with that.

Like, I'm going to ride with the boys. It's no big deal. One kid raises his hand. I'm hungry. And the whole, that's the bus. Oh, you know what I mean? Just defeated because this guy's hungry. So I go, hey, Ted, bro.

Like, just pull off at some random McDonald's. Any fast food, it doesn't matter, right? Like, let's just get in and out for these guys. I'm the only one talking to them. Let's get in and out. Let's get the slowest drive through. I didn't need it out, and they're like, in and out. Oh, wow.

Yeah. I thought you were turned to surround. Well, out of nowhere, Ted must have read my mind because I looked up. He heard it out. He's like, ah. This dude is pulling into an in and out. And I text and I go, no matter where we go, we're getting in and out, right? So he opens the door and you know I got to crack a smile at these boys and go, y'all about to have the best burgers in America.

These people are like in a living. It's a horror movie for that. Like the downcast lighting. I got, you're about that the best movie. America. We've already lost one of your friends. Now come on in here. Ted, right.

Ed. Ted, bro, he gets us in and out. We all, we get back in the van. We're all eating. Everybody's passed out, except for me, of course. I'm listening to Chaparone. I'm just, I'm doing my own thing alone. I'm rocking, right?

Then out of nowhere, I'm, like, tracking us, right? Because we've got to go from Phoenix all the way to the southern tip of the Grand Canyon, which means we're going way up there, right? We're going past Flagstaff. We're driving. And so now we're in the middle of nowhere. And out of nowhere, Ted goes, uh-oh.

Oh, oh. Smoke billowing. I'm inside. Ted, Ted goes, anybody got to pee? Dead silence. I go,

I go, yeah, bro, let's pee. Let's pull over because, like, clearly Ted needs to pee. Like, I'm not going to tell Ted not to pee, right? So he pulls over. Me and. Kirk.

Kirk. G-L-H-F. Shout out to Kurt. He's incredible. We pull off. two bros walk outside you look up Tim it's just the black sky which is beautiful sparkling stars

and I look at him he looks at me and we nod and we just start peeing in the twinkling stars and I'm like this is a beautiful moment you know what I mean 1130 at night there's a couple of bros falling out the sprinter van taking a piss in the woods and it was just like this is it

this is it everybody is the trip is this also the moment that you decide to text Paris I mean I think I I can't Paris up the day throughout yeah Paris you me your side of it. So like I'm having trouble envision and you land. It's a long drive. You're going to the Grand Canyon.

Somebody who's never been there, is there like a tourist stretch or whatever? There's a town outside of the Grand Canyon. You're all staying in? Yeah, it's like a little town that you're in, a few hotels, some random sketchy steakhouses love it around and I went to one of them, you know, because I was

I was by myself. Was it a local or anything else there? Oh, it's local. All local stuff. There was a McDonald's. The locals there told me to not go to the McDonald's because it's the most expensive McDonald's in the country. Most expensive McDonald's in the country, y'all.

I should have gone. So I didn't go. So yeah, I went to one of the little sketchy steakhouses there by myself because I knew Mike wasn't going to be around. Nobody else had showed up yet. And yeah, he's just texting me. Paris, meanwhile, sounds like he's living

like an action film where he just walks into a sketchy steakhouse. Like the door, it is him all alone. Hulking Paris comes in. The entire place of locals looks at him. You know what I felt like? I felt like John Rambo in first blood. I was thinking like Reacher, right?

Like Jack. So. I mean, it was cool. I mean, you know, like I said, Mike, I knew he was delayed. So, yeah, I was just kind of hanging out the first night. There was like a bar at the hotel by the pool. So I just kind of cozyed up there. And then when Mike was like, I ain't making it, I was like, right,

guess I'm going to my room. I go to bed. And that was probably like 9 10 o'clock. So we arrive at 11.30, you know. And I know Paris mentioned to me, hey, Mike, we got an early morning at 6.30 a.m. Now, mind you, good thing that your boy, Mike checked his email, because the other kids were all scheduled for the following day. So they're looking at me like, oh, we go on Tuesday at 6.30.

I'm going, ooh, shit, that sounds nice. And I was like, that doesn't sound right to me because I believe I leave on Tuesday. So sure enough, I check my thing. It's now 12.30. I've showered. I'm in the hotel room. I'm trying to come down off the high that just was me and Kurt riding in the van, you know what I mean? The high of a three hour long pitch black bus ride.

You know, the excitement is high right now. And so then I look at my email. Sure enough, it's like, it's not like Mike, make sure you're ready to go, 6.30 a.m. And I immediately let out the ground. I'm like, oh, that's time. Why did I stop for the piss? Why did I get the burgers I didn't need?

In and out. And so I woke up 6.30. I see Paris slowly smiling face then. I'm like, you know what? We're going to have a great freaking time. And that was the start of our journey. Before I hear about the rest of this journey. Yep.

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I'm just stretching my legs. Popping in here. Calvin Perez says, I had a dream six months ago. I went to a Microsoft flight simulator event and was in a plane with Snowbike Mike and he slept the entire time. and then tried to lie to the Microsoft reps about sleeping through it. Can I ask a question really quick? You know me? I like to snore.

You know what I mean? You know everyone. It's true. If I sleep on a plane, people can hear me? Oh, yeah. We've talked about this before. When we flew to SGF, I heard you through noise cancelling headphones three rows away. Just so you know, in my mind, in my mind, I sleep because I'm straight up and I'm breathing

heavily through my notes because I'm mindful. I'm being mindful of very demure. Very demure. Yeah. That I don't snore on planes. You know what I'm putting that out. out there into the universe. Yeah, like, that is the opposite of true.

I have never heard someone snore louder than you ought to play. Like, to a point that I'm like, I feel like I need to intervene. Because I want you to know. It's going to be like, yeah, the pilot's going to turn around if we don't do so bad. Just needs you all to know that I will say this is for the end of the story. But at the end of the story, when I arrived at SFO, there were two people behind me that pointed at me for sure because the guy was like, how would your flight? And this woman immediately looked at me, Tim.

And she points at me And she definitely was like That guy was making too much noise For me to have a good flight It was a point And a mean face And I just want to go The flight attendant

Like asked how was your flight? This was an actual No no but who asked Oh yeah just like Someone was sitting next to it Like their friend Got it got it got it And she pointed right at me Tim

Just dead odd I was like Oh shit Because in my mind To say you know Very demure Very mindful Not snoring the whole time

Not accurate It's not accurate I can tell you with first and experience, but we love you. The Jordan Dunn says getting a tattoo right now, and this has been a fantastic distraction. Oh, that's a dope. That's dumb. And it's not over yet. During

commercial break, we said, oh, this is great. This is great. And Paris goes, we're not to the good parts. Can I interject right right now? I'm going to interject with this because we may not even get to this, the way this is going. So at one point, I messaged Greg and I just simply say,

give Mike a race. Just give this guy raise. And the reason being, everything that you are experiencing right now, this was Mike for 48 hours up in the Grand Canyon. Everyone he encountered, everything we did, he was full of energy, he was talking to people, shaking hands, everything. This is literally Mike all day, every day when we're at that event.

It was amazing to witness the energy this man has. And as you can tell, he didn't even sleep. I don't. You're the best. If you like Mike, if you like Mike and you want to see him get paid, and pick up that kind of funny membership. Ten-on-month membership.

That's how it feels working with Mike every day. Every day, Mike treats me like he's meeting me for the first time. Yes, accurate. Thank you, Paris. I love you. Yeah, really cool. Just to piggyback off of that. These past two weeks, it's cool events that I've gone to.

I've gotten to meet some incredible human beings, right? Call of Duty event, I get to meet all these people from around the globe, cod content creators, influencers. This time, it was a really cool, different group of people, right? Because they were all about flight sim games, and they were all about being a pilot, right? And it was like really interesting that I met one gentleman who just writes and lives all about helicopters.

He's like, oh, man, this is a really big deal because they're adding so many more helicopters into the game that, like, I'm excited to be here. I want to just go all on that. When we get to our own stations, this man had a special station set up for him that was just for the helicopter with a special, like, stick and everything.

Everybody else had like jet plane yokes and stuff. This guy, full out helicopter. It was amazing. That's right. It was so cool. So yeah, I got to meet some really cool human beings on this. All right, so let's start off the actual day. Yeah.

Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah, 6.30 in the morning. I forgot about that. You know, no Starbucks. You know, real tough for your boy, Mike. No Starbucks. I like Starbucks. And so we go down to the hotel lobby.

You know, shout out to the team at Microsoft Flight Sim and the Xbox Events team because they really did a great job. As you brought up, like, what town are you in? It reminded me of being back home and going up to like Estes Park. You're in this small little little. like right outside the park town where you know there's not many people. There's probably a lot of like seasonal employees that come in and help work. And so like you walk into this hotel and you're like, oh man, like this is just so small

and built in like the 1960s type vibe, you know. But they decked it out full of Microsoft Flight Sim stuff. We had a nice breakfast. I'm looking at Paris with this cool little DGI pocket and I'm going, man, I can't wait to use mine that Roger let me use, you know. And so I got my camera pointing in him. He's pointing to me. We're having a great time, right?

course. And then what did we do? Pertsville is stop number one. What the hell? We went to the Grand Canyon and the Humvee. That's that was the first thing. We just got to see those amazing that you're looking at it now. It is incredible to be there in person to see this stuff. These videos don't do it justice. Like to know that this is real is insane. I mean, it's one of the seven wonders of the world for a reason. But to know that this is just a natural thing that's out there in northern Arizona is it's incredible, man. If you, ever get the chance. You got to go. Yeah, this was one of those that like grab your orange juice Easter, eat your little breakfast burrito sandwich. We're going out. And it was like, oh, I'm not ready

yet, but they were like, you're going to get ready. And this was the perfect way. Wait, wait, was that just a guy painting or was that a Microsoft? I'm actually going to tell you about that. Yeah, that was a guy painting. So around the Grand Canyon, they were celebrating the Grand Canyon of art. They had 25 different painters around the Grand Canyon throughout this month, going to paint some of their favorite spots and then they would auction them off to help benefit the park. So it was really cool that we got to see him live. But no better way to start the day than a fun two-hour Humvee tour around the rim. And I'll tell you what, my guy, Big Rob, our truck driver pairs, he was fantastic.

Oh, yeah, he was amazing guy. He's a, he's a Grand Canyon man, okay? Him and his wife, they definitely hunting deer. They use that deer for all their meat over the year. Venison. Takes one. You know what I mean? That's all he was saying.

It only takes one. Great time, Tim. I was like, man, I'm tired. It's 6.30 in the morning. I don't know if I'm ready for this. The moment we got in that Humvee and it started rocking and we all got in it and we started driving, he's giving us the fun tourist facts. Like if you were on the river boat, it's like, oh, fantastic stuff, right?

He educated us on pine trees. Pine trees. Yeah, it was amazing. Learned about pine nuts and where they come from. Pretty dope. It's pretty dope. Where did they come from? From the tree?

From the tree. Pretty dope. He explained how wildfires are in necessity. Like how that actually helps the forest to grow, like all that stuff, man. It was great. Really good. And so if you're watching on YouTube,

you'll see Bear bring up some B-roll and stuff. I put together some of my B-roll, Paris has B-roll as well. Over on his YouTube channel, we can see 40 minutes of 4K footage with Paris Lily at the Microsoft Flight Sim event. So make sure to check that out. But I put some B-roll together just so Kevin and Bear could click on some. But we started our day with a top-of-the-rim tour in the Humvees.

And we got to go to three different points. We're at the central or the southern entrance of the Grand Canyon. You have the northern entrance and the southern entrance. And so we got to go there. Six million visitors a year. This one stays open 24-7, 365. The northern side will shut down due to snow and conditions. So it was very cool to go down on the southern side.

And we went to three different viewpoints. The first one, me and Paris soaking in it. And that was the moment of like, oh, this is grand. You know what I mean? This canyon is grand. This canyon is grand. You just, you kind of get swept away. way by the moment of like, oh my gosh, I didn't know that.

My toxic trait, just so you know, Greg, is I believe that I could do the rim-to-rim-rim trail at the Grand Canyon, no doubt about it. How long is it again? I mean, I believe it's like, I don't know, 12 miles across, so you got to, rip it, grip and rim. I can easily do that. Tim, what do you got against rim and? I just don't like it. I just don't like. I can go rim to rim to rim easily, just so you know, Chad. So we'll do that one day. At that time we went to MomoCon, shared a room. We went to room. The rails were in the room. And so then we went to the second stop.

where you saw the artist of the day out there painting. He had been there since five in the morning. And it was really cool of like, how do you get those colors? Like, what do you think of? He has to take a snapshot in his mind, Greg. My dad will always tell me, and you'll tell your kid one day.

He's like, go paint me that one day. You know what I mean? Take a snapshot in your mind, paint that for me. And so this guy took a snapshot and he started painting and he was getting these beautiful colors on the painting, the purples, the oranges, the creams in between. It was like, man, this is really, really cool.

And he was sitting there painting on a duck. on a rock. Oh. That we stopped that. Correct. There's a duck on a rock.

It was just a giant rock but they were like, it's a duck on the rock. I never, I never could visualize it. I couldn't figure it out. I'm gonna look it up. You got to visualize it.

We got to visualize that. And so beautiful stuff, we go and finish up the Humvee tour on the far side, getting to see the original hotel. That's still there. We got to see the donkeys.

Of course, the don't know. It looks like a duck right there. The duck on a rock. Do you remember the fun fact about the don't see the duck in that the bill looking right at us oh shit no I do

I took it more as like it there was a small duck on the rock but now that's a large duck on a rock where's the duck I'm having trouble here see you and now I can see it as the duck looking back at you and the bill and then you go down you can see it's legs as well and it's like it's straddling the rock it's riding the rock yeah you need a telestrator

yeah we need a telestrator in this office is right and so mine, Paris, you tell me some more about the donkeys, but mine was the donkeys when you do the donkey ride down into the canyon. They will walk on the very edge of the hiking trail. So you're afraid that it's going to fall off the side. But no, that's where they like to walk is the edge of the trail the whole time. It's terrifying. Yes.

That was my fun fact in that they walk on the edge. They've never had an accident. Never. What? The history of doing that. Never. Not one. Wow.

There is a pound limit, though. I'm too big. 200 pounds 200 pounds How they get you down Forklift What they do for you And so yeah

Pretty amazing We saw a deer on the side Of course They encouraged us That was an elk That was an elk I got a photo next to that elk I took a selfie

They're like Don't take a selfie with the elk I took a selfie with the elk It was too late I was mid selfie I couldn't do it You know what I'm mid selfie And so we talked about

You know Pulling off on the sides of roads You know that's me And the elk mid selfie. They were talking about like seeing wildlife and of course how that causes traffic backups and like, hey, try not to get close to that elk and or moose. It might run you over, you know what I mean? Some great stories from Big Ron.

Big Ron had seen someone get over run over by an elk. Pretty incredible. You know what I mean? If you get to see that in your life. Guy thought, hey, let me go take a selfie with the elk. Elk wasn't going to let that fly anytime soon. So he ran him over. And so Paris, the Humvee tours, anything else to add to that one?

No, I mean, like you said, Big Ron. he explained everything I forget her name the other guy that she was in the other Humvee but she was doing a lot of historical like oh this is the Colorado River and here's where this Indian tribe did like those kind of things are you know as well so it was it was very educational being a part of that tour really like I said yeah and oh and then we were leaving out they were showing us like where all the the employees live and it's just like you never leave that mountain everything they need is self-sustained while they're up there at the cany. And they got a school, too.

They got a K-through 12 schooled. They were just saying our graduating class was 12 kids. We're very proud of them. It's like, you got everything there. It's a beautiful life. It's a beautiful life. A beautiful life. Vast for miles.

I mean, just standing there at the rim, you could see it go on for miles. We saw the Colorado River. We saw a bridge. We saw some people in the river kayaking. It was like, oh, man, this is amazing. They're like, we're not done yet, Greg. We got so much more to do. but let's first go back to the hotel

and let's give you the big presentation about all the game team. I was going to say someone's going to play the fucking game at some point. So that was fun of like, like I said, they went above and beyond. I was like, I just had seen Activision go all out. What does Microsoft Flight Sim do? Especially in like a small hotel out in the Grand Canyon.

And they went above and beyond. We had this beautiful setup where we got to watch and listen to the team talk about this. And Tim, I'm blown away. I know Paris will talk about the interviews and more, but I'm blown away by how many people work on this game and help contribute to this game. It's not just one team. It is multiple teams and a large community that feed into this and make this as good as it is from the planes,

to all the details inside the planes, the pre-flight stuff. Like, it was really incredible to hear what the community has done to elevate this game and how they've all come together. It's really, really great. But on the feed that you're watching right now, if you're listening, I'm showing you the setup area that they had for us. us to go out and play. Everybody had their own personalized little stations with our name cards and everybody had their own flight sticks. I was using a Turtle Beets flight stick and I'll tell you,

hands down the best flight stick I had ever used. It was so awesome. Do you have a lot of experience using flight sticks? Yeah, we actually have the thrust master here in the office. Me and Nick used that to go mock 10 on that. So it was really, really sweet. But yeah, this one for some reason, they had done a great job and I actually got to work with one of the kids, you know, there's me, you know, getting ready for taking off. Gently lifting off. Why are you so precise in this video? You're taking your thing.

The other one, like, let me bake the real plane. Well, you know, it's a different, different thing over there. And so really awesome of, I got to, I had time because Paris did the interviews, and I had time where I sat back and I was alone in here

and I actually got to talk with different members of the team. I talked with the audio designer of the game. I also talked with one of the environment artists. I also got to talk with one of just the tech team. And actually he is a real life pilot and he loves this game. And so he and I sat down. We raced each other on a couple of the challenges. He explained how much he liked how in-depth this was. It was pretty cool to sit down with him. One of the QA testers as well. So he was pretty dope. So you were like kind of interviewing some of these people, right? Yeah, well, you know, some things happened. But Paris, you brought up that

there was some interview shenanigans. What went down? All right. Yeah. So let me give you from my perspective on on how all this went down and Mike can fill in the gaps. So they had interviews set up with us. You know, York Newman had a Microsoft flight simulator. I included the interview I did with him in that 40 minute video I have because him and I obviously have a long history with the stuff I've done with flight sim over the years. But I also got to talk to people from the Sobo. I got to talk to people from working title simulations and from Got Friends. These are the collaborating studios that help put Flight Sim together, right? So I go to the first interview.

Mike's not there. Okay. Let me text Mike. And, you know, the interviewee is staring at me, PR staring at me because I'm trying to delay going waiting on Mike thinking Mike is going to show up. Goes on and on and on. No Mike. I say, you know what? Let me just do the interview.

I got it. Let him cook. Let him cook. I do the first interview. So then I'm actually sitting down with the CEO of A Sobo, right? I actually really enjoyed this interview because we talk about a lot of technical stuff. on how they created flight sim. All of a sudden, in the middle of that interview,

I get a text from Mike out on my phone in front of me, but essentially Mike was like, Hey man, I'm still playing the game. You way better at this interview stuff than I am. You got it. See you later. And he was out. So I was like, all right, all right.

I'll do the rest of the interviews. Give him the lob. So I do all the rest of interviews. Now, the reason I bring this up is I actually didn't get a lot of time to play the game and I'm explaining why. Because Mike fucked you over with all these interviews. Pretty much. So I do all the interviews.

I'm finishing the interview with York because that was the last one that I had. All of a sudden, I got, hey, Paris, you're going to go fly the jet with Mike. You got to go now. So I had all like, okay. So then we did the whole jet thing. And then by the time I got back, that was it. So I only actually got to play, what, hour? Something like that.

Whereas Mike, I've played a lot. I've played a lot. You're riding donkey. Meanwhile, Mike Spudish is him all alone. There's not another soul in the room. But he's like, my police call me. It was so much fun than I wanted a lot more time with the game. Also, you know, there was some things that happened.

Winning took a little break, came back, door was locked, got a little panic. I was like, you know what, parents, you're going to do great. You're going to do great. Walk the way. Got lost for a minute. Step back down. Stap back down. Tim, Greg, I apologize.

You know, my dad, I'm going to apologize for that one. My bad. Interviews are good, though. I got a lot of information. It's a good, though. It's a great. Great job, Paris. Great job, Paris.

And so, yeah, then there was a conversation of, hey, we're going to fly you over the Grand Canyon in a helicopter tour, and everybody was going to experience this awesome moment of seeing it. He really encouraged them like, hey, go while you're playing Microsoft Flight Sim, fly over the Grand Canyon, see what it's like now that you're here and experiencing this awesome moment, right? And so, of course, I was flying over the Grand Canyon for a lot of my time, having some fun.

I also went out on one of their cool activities now where you can actually see wildlife in the game. And you can get out of the plane. You can land a plane, get out of it and get up next to these giraffes and take photos of them. It's a mission in the game, which is really cool.

And so when we're in the pre-interview, there was a conversation of, hey, everybody, we're going to end this. We're going to do gameplay. And then you all are going to go out to the local airport and we're going to put you in helicopters. But we have a cool opportunity. We got a jet. And everybody in the room

started like, oh, God, she's like, we got a jet. we're going to put six of you in the jet. And I was like, damn, this is crazy. And I was like, how many people were there? 22 people. Okay, thank you. 22 people.

And they were like, we're going to put some people in the jet. And I was like, this is going to be wild. And sure enough, they were like, the people going on the jet, Mike Howard, Paris Lilly. And I was like, oh, shit, we're on the jet. We're on the jet, y'all. And so. They're like, who deserves this the most?

Well, Paris did really good with the interview. Mike didn't show up. I was getting a lot of flight time, though. It's getting a lot of my fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got to be on the sticks. And so you'll see in the video, I'll give a fun little one of like,

I told y'all we were going to take a right and go to the helicopter, but we're taking the left because I got the need, the need for speed, baby. And I put on the glasses that I bought at the local gift shop for 1795 because you have to have the glasses just so you know. You don't.

You don't. You didn't need them. Boom, put them on. And me, Paris and M, we went out and we went out. we got on this jet and that is where we had an experience of a lifetime in the vision. Vision Pro is what I call it. Paris,

but it's a vision jet is right. It's a vision jet. I got a question for you because you filmed and I didn't. Do you have the message that we had for Gary? Is that ready? Do you have it? We might. I think at the end of me and me and Paris are mine,

there should be one. If you want to unmute it, you can probably do that. I didn't put any background noise. A lot of heavy breathing. A lot of heavy breathing, you know. Put that out there. Like, is that why you set the video to assets and said,

play this on mute. I didn't cook up in the kitchen with it. I didn't put like cool background track and I didn't really think about it. Just put B-roll together. I just to nail this in just of who Mike is as a person, right? Like we send them to this preview event to go play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. And usually when someone goes to a preview event, they come back with B-roll of the game that I can then show,

on the show where they preview the game. Last night I get a, you know, this video that might put together, no B-roll. Just, selfies without-no B-roll. You want to know when I got B-roll an hour ago and it's all 4K and it doesn't play well on our computer because I didn't have time to edit it. 4K is very special B-roll, very special.

I'm about to pull up this last like minute or so of this video. If you saw that though in the B-roll of me playing the game, I actually land a plane run up to a giraffe, take a photo of it. Pretty dope. Pretty dope. Pretty dope. They actually, where is it? The animals are from Planet Zoo. They teamed up with the team from Frontier for Planet Zoo, so that's pretty cool.

Paris, welcome back to land. Yes. I never wanted to come back. I didn't want to come back. No. Once you take to the skies, Paris. Bro. I don't want to go back.

We just piloted that thing. Yes. I took off. I'm the one that took off. We went into the sky. We went to the Grand Canyon. We will have a bunch of B-roll. But we just. flew up in the air in the brand new vision pro and this is what they called vision pro it's a vision jet you guys have too much fun the right then Tesla of this guy yes and it was that cool it was smart

it was intuitive the control you have so much control at such easy yeah moments right like going to autopilot auto level you can land in if you need to if you have an emergency it had law and you took off yes which is insane there and not and not like Oh, I'm just holding it. He literally had me power it up, gear it up to full power. I was the one holding the throttle, pulling back, take it off into the sky.

I'm mad, jealous. That was nuts. We felt the need for speed and we pursued it, maybe. We chased that. That was so dope, Paris. But, dude, the grand camp from the sky. Paris, we were flying over it, and you get to see the reds, that Mesa Red,

mixed with the green. I didn't know there was going to be so much green. It was so green. And then there's all these pots. of sunshine and then right to our left there was just that one pocket where Mother Nature was like I'm gonna make it rain right now and man that was cool to see that was cool and then remember he was warned about can't get too close for turbulence and then we got close enough you felt it he was like oh let's back a little bit yeah and I like man it's one joystick yeah and you can feel it's like you're fighting it a little bit and it's like no no no you're going too hard and it's just telling you hey bring it back a little bit because all it takes just a little bit of movement I can't wait to go now go back I can play flight sim. I know and do it. The Vision Jet and have some fun.

That's crazy. Hey, shout out to Xbox, Microsoft, Flight Sim. The whole thing, dude. Thank you. This was incredible. Hey, Gary, how'd you think? Oh, my. Ah, man, we love you, Gary.

We love you. Got him. Got him. We were thinking about him all the time. We were thinking about him, you know. God damn. And so, yeah, this plane is in the game. The plane is in the game.

You can fly. It is awesome. Everything that we did pre-flight, they will have in there. It's really, really cool to see in the game and in real life of how he was turning everything on, checking all of the maps and that. The maps, there's a lot of screens on this and he was going with different maps. It's got Wi-Fi. It's connected, man. It was really cool.

And then, of course, I had to ask him the big question that it's not everybody's minds. Can we bear a roll this thing? And if he didn't have the marketing camera in front of him, he would have looked at me and gone, hell yeah. But he couldn't. They had marketing. There was a lot of cameras in front of us. So he's like, not at this time. Not at this time.

Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Wow. Mike and Paris. So the game was good. Yeah. Yeah, if you want to go deep into the game, we can talk about the game. Well, yeah, I mean, just, yeah, like, give us a little bit more.

Like, what do you think about the actual video game here? I mean, Paris, I want you and I to jump off. I'll let you take the lead. But, like, for me, it was simple. What is Microsoft 2024? Right? Like, is this just a DLC? Is this an expansion?

Yeah. are we doing this now four years later? And they answered that question and more. This isn't just some DLC. This is a brand new vision of the game and so much more. Parents, you and I let's go back. It's a couple things on that in the interviews that I did that Mike didn't attend. I asked these questions.

And part of it is first from a technical standpoint, they literally could not just add all these careers and activities and the missions and things that are now a part of Flight Sim. They couldn't just go, oh, this is DLC that we're throwing into 2020. They already were doing, God, Mike, I'm forgetting the number. He said there's an insane amount of community created content. Oh, yeah. It's coming into that game every day, right, which the number was astronomical.

But because they've done a technical overhaul of the game, whereas they already were like doing Azure, using Azure cloud assets. But even what you downloaded was like 100 plus gigs of the game. Now, right? Now it's like 23 gigs. that you download, everything else is coming over Cloudstream via Azure to the game. So whatever assets that you need, they'll stream it into the game at that time.

So just because they were doing that to make the game more, more light and agile, they needed to overhaul it regardless. But adding in these careers that you have now, so now you can start off at any airport you want in the world. Because part of Flight Sim is it is a digital twin of planet Earth. I mean everything. Any place that you could think to go on planet Earth, you can go in flight sim, right?

So, you can do it. You can do it. Hey, the French Valley Airport right here in good old Temecula, California. That's what I did. And you can start a career from there. And then you'll have, there's 16 activities that you can do. But depending on where you're doing them in the world, they'll vary. You can be a firefighter.

You can run VIP plane trips, things like that as far as activities go. But now they're giving you things to do. Not to mention you can get out of the plane and you can walk around and explore in the photo mode. And there's various wildlife that you'll find. Getting out and walking in a flight sim game, is it janky? Is your avatar look weird or is it actually like? No, because you get you get to create what you look like. I mean, it's fine.

I mean, it's not weird. But it's like part of the tech versus 2020 to where you are now in 2024, the ground. the ground they didn't really care about. They only were caring about the skies. But then because of community feedback, people were more concerned with what you would see on the ground. So now it is a thousand times better than it was in 2020. They even showed us comparison to that to when you're on the ground, just graphically, everything that they're doing is a true representation of what you would expect to see when you're there.

Like they're showing us in Africa and stuff like it's just, it's nuts, man. again, from the technical stuff when I was talking to Sebastian, he's the CEO of Asobo, they will continue to have Flight Sim being on the bleeding edge of tech. They always want Flight Sim to be a visual showcase of what they can do with the tech that they have at Sobo to bring into life. And I mean, this thing is, I mean, you played it obviously, Mike, but you talk about something that's photo realistic that they're doing. It's nuts. Now, the PC specs have come out.

They're pretty beefy on what you're going to need. Your standard rig is going to be able to show it at its full fidelity. But I think you need like 64 gigs or RAM or whatever on PC. They did not talk about the console version because I did ask. I guess that's coming at a later date. So we'll see what it's going to look like visually on console. But if you got a high-end rig PC playing this thing, this, I mean, like I said, it's damn near photo realistic.

It's amazing what they're doing. Yeah, it's truly impressive. I mean, four years, 45 million players. Shout out to Game Pass, of course, for being a big driver of that. But also, like, the idea that 45 million people are willing to jump into a flight sim game that is such a small market in the gaming world and give it a try. Also, the commitment to the game, right? Since 2020, their goal was to give you updates, 49 months, 49 giant updates, right?

That's a lot of content coming your way. As Perez talked about, if you want to download everything in flight sim, it's two terabytes worth of stuff. Yeah. So it's really amazing that. Like we're streamlining that and we're really trying to find what you want, right? You pick what you want. You pick those community creations. You get it in your game and try to limit what you're really doing.

I think Paris nailed it, right? The big push for me was the activities and how do you make the ground feel better, right? Because when you look down in Microsoft 2020 or 2020 before a lot of the world updates, it was like, I mean, that doesn't look good, right? Those buildings are like not what I'm expecting. And sure, you're probably going to experience that now because it depends on your class. streaming what your internet looks like, right? How are you really doing this?

But it is a noticeable improvement of what I saw. When I was flying over local areas in Tahoe, San Francisco, the Grand Canyon, it's like, oh, wow, this looks way better. You can actually see it. So obviously, the game's gorgeous, and it seems like it's nailing the simulation aspect of all of it. I do not mean this negatively. I'm actually asking, is there fun in this game?

Like, is there something you're doing that's, like, actually like, an enjoyable thing beside, if you're not super into the flight sim side of it. So, so this is what York told me in the interview I didn't. You can go check that on my channel, by the way. What's that URL? Um, I don't know. You don't know the URL to your own YouTube channel. Get your fucking life together, Paris.

I'm an idiot. Um, but, going back to what I was saying as you try to distract me, ehle. Um, Marcelo 696. Thank you. There you go. You did it for me. I appreciate it. But no, you always.

York talked about this. There's 15 million active players in flight sim. And like the group we're with, Mike, you can attest to this. That was like the hardcore of the hardcore as far as the creators go. They got the big setups at the house and all of that. But the point that Yorg was making was most people that play it, they're digital tourists. So adding in these activities gives people things to do other than I'm just flying around in a helicopter or a jet because not everyone is going to want to go full of. on hardcore simulation as far as all the bells and whistles on how to legitimately fly an airplane in the game, people are going to take it more casual. So part of it is giving you these activities things for things to do in it, obviously the visuals, but you get to explore planet Earth. That was the way he was explained it to me. So there is something for the casual person like, hey, I want to go here. I want to check this out. Whatever you see in the game is a almost damn near one-to-one real representation of what it would be like

if you were there in real life. So that's where the fun can come from it. Obviously, you're going to have your hardcore people that love to play flight sim, but there's also something there for the casual audience as well. Give you something to do and obviously be able to explore the world.

Yeah, I think that's the big one. It's like digital tourists. I think we've all experienced that if you're watching and listening to this of like, oh, I jumped into Microsoft Flight Sim. I flew over my house three times, never played it again, right? I think that is the casual audience of this.

game of I jumped in, saw my local town, maybe flew over the Eiffel Tower twice, never went back to it, right? And this one, they were like, well, what do we give you? How do we make you want to jump in there and play? And the career mode, I think is a great start to it, right? Where it's like you get to start at whatever airport on planet Earth you want, right? And they're all talking to you and you gain licenses, just like in any other video game RPG of like, hey, you've done seven tasks on this plane. You've now approved and got that license. Let's step you up to a larger plane. Hey, what if you were to go put out a wildfire? What does that look like? in the aviation world.

How do you do that, right? Or, oh, you're going to go fly an advertisement banner. How do you do that? What does it look like? They have these fun ones of as well. That's really cool. That's a cool way to do it. And like a really big, robust career is going to be in this where you can get lost in that.

And then they also have the activities, right? Just like we saw when they added in Top Gun of, they're trying to find fun, unique ways for you to do it, right? So there's the low elevation flights that I took part in a lot of of, hey, it's all about speed and staying as low to the ground as possible. Go do this challenge. They take about three minutes. You knock it out.

There's a bunch of different locations and fun. But these new activities are where the fun is really going to be had. Like we're seeing right now, you're taking the plane and trying to put out a wildfire with that. Like finding the right altitude, the leverage, what elevation you should be at to drop this where the water will then make sure it lands in the right spot. They've added in a lot to make this a more,

hey, this is better than just flying over your own house. There will be a lot of activities to do, which is cool. Super cool. Very awesome. It is gorgeous for sure. Yeah. Well, any final thoughts on either your weekend in the skies or on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024? I made a memory with Paris Lily, my gaming dad, my homie, my best friend.

It was really, really dope to get to sit down and hang out with Paris. A couple of big shoutouts I want to give. Thank you to Xbox and the Microsoft Flight Sim for sending us out there allowing us to preview the game be one of the first people on Earth to get to play the game to the community, who all welcome to be in Paris with open arms, and allowed us to learn about what they do, what their passions are with the flight. Light Sims. I love getting to meet people around the globe and hear what they like. Finding out that people have YouTube channels all about the helicopter within Microsoft Flight Sim is a nuts thing. And I love it. I think it's awesome, right? Want to shout out, of course, the Grand Canyon community for allowing us to be there,

giving us great tours. That was really dope. And, I mean, the game is a lot of fun. This is a game for me. I'm a digital tourist. I jump to this. It's had a lot of fun. I found the challenge is really dope. I'm excited for this. And as someone, a Jabroni who just loves call of duty, it's crazy to be like, yo, I'm amped up and excited for Microsoft Fletting 2024. And so I'm excited to play this with my friends to take on the career and see if I can get

better, right? Because me and Paris actually got in the jet. It was crazy to be inside and to see the tech in it, to understand it, the pre-flight, everything you have to do to get up in the sky is so much. It was so cool to experience it. And my final shout out, I'll tell you what, Tim. We had a great weekend.

And we had so much fun. We had this nice little cocktail hour by the pool. Everybody's sitting there hanging out and I'm sitting down with Danny Rhee, Paris. We got the team there just having fun talking, right? And I stand up and you know me. I like to mix and mingle walk around. Got a mingle. And so I was like, you know what, I got to go get some water bottles. And I run into one man.

And this man always makes me smile. This guy, he's just got it. He's got the wavelength with me. And it's Aaron Greenberg in the hotel lobby. And he's surrounded by all the big wigs like he normally does. He's taking them out to a nice dinner. They're all going to talk about the big trip and stuff. and it's just like that guy looks at me

and it's just like two homies about to have a great time and we're sitting there chopping it up for 10 minutes talking about life. It's like Greenie, if you hear this, thanks for everything you do, Greenie. I love colliding with you, man. Barrett brings up the image

but that's actually his profile pick now. Eric Greenberg's profile pick is even snowmike. Mike right now. That's me and Greenie having a great time and it's just like, Greenie will introduce you to awesome people on this team that do such incredible work and then you get to hang out with him

and he's just a good dude, a fun jabrony to be around. So Greenie, I miss you. Love your. bro, bro. That was a lot of fun. That was great. Paris, what about you? Yeah, let me just say this one thing before we get out of here. And I don't know if Bear can find it on my profile. So what

prompted Aaron to even post that pick in the first place was a tweet I made yesterday. And it was me and Mike in the plane. And I just said, get you a friend likes no bike, Mike. Amen. He makes everything better, man. I mean, seriously. Look, it was awesome seeing the game. Of course, everything that we just talked about. The game's going to be amazing. I highly recommend people go check it out when it comes out in

November. but being able to hang out with Mike. Watching Mike in his element is so special. Just love it. Next time you take that three-hour car ride with Mirrish, a lot of blast. Did they ever find the one kid from the UK? We don't know about that.

Another fun one about that, just so you all know, is Chad the driver, bro, my bro. He had the AC cooking so hard that these kids were freezing to death at 11.30 night. I mean, kids were putting swingers to them. Rich every now and then would wake up. He'd fucking jostle up and he'd try to tap the AC to turn it up and the guy would just keep turning it down and I was having the best time watching that live

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I made that. So bike, Mike goes big. He's going mainstream with it. Mainstream with it. That's crazy. I wonder if you can't even watch the yet. Like, like, put a little tweet out to him. You know, a little tweet just, hey, you watch that DVD yet?

Let's just give it like a month. Let's just give it a full month. He's very busy. One day he might call you and say, oh shit, that was crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. Until next time, I love you all.

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