TRUCKS: Recent Episodes
Josh and Isaac
Everybody drives a truck.
Josh and Isaac discuss art and culture while driving a pretend truck across America (and sometimes Europe.) The effect is both informative and oddly soothing. The ideal way to listen to Talk Simulator is to pretend you are falling asleep in the back of the car while your two infinitely wise dads say word after word after word until the words coalesce into a pillow for your nodding head and you drift off into an informationally dense slumber.
For the full visual Trucks experience, check out our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtGOCWAgYlj1okU7J8FwuGA
It's the end of this season of Trucks. We will still be around doing other stuff - if you want to follow some of it, head over to our website, trux.horse . You can hear Isaac talking about SF on Wizards Vs Lesbians.
For over a decade Lucey's was a home away from home for the Trucks household. We pay tribute to a fallen bar.
We are back from our accidental hiatus with this roundtable discussion about making music - why we do it, how we do it, where we do it. Featuring Fabian, Dunk, Olive, and Rats. Check out the video description for more info about these guys, but here's some links:
TRUX:
https://hduck.bandcamp.com/album/whiskey-pete-loves-flying-j
https://hduck.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-truck-over-the-truck
FABIAN:
https://fbgtz.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/fabexclamationpointian/tracks
OLIVE: https://ninespottedmoth.bandcamp.com/releases
RATS: https://mother-panick.bandcamp.com/
ISAAC: https://hduck.bandcamp.com/album/postmeat-spellbook
JOSH: https://circularerrands.bandcamp.com
DUNK: https://essexchanel.bandcamp.com/album/vortex-studio-jam-4132022
This time it's the yaoi trux. We discuss all that is gay. Check out the youtube for the full credits....
Not exactly a new year's spectacular - what was spectacular about 2021? - but a new year's trucks nonetheless. Out with the old, in with the new, and we all must change in order to survive.
An experiment! We have convened a panel of experts from the discord to discuss Yuri manga, making this the first seven-person trucks. How did it go? What does Yuri mean to this diverse group of wlw, and why is it, for some, the shining thing? Find out!
In this episode we go to the grand canyon. After some airy persiflage we eventually settle into a discussion about identity and the temptation to settle into being the person you seem to be.
In this trucks we talk all kinds of brain drugs and how it's OK to hack your meat. Within reason.
I realize drug chat can be tedious to non-users but this one is heavier on practical advice than anything else. For a more wow man vibe, check out this month's bonus trucks!
Long-time truckos will remember that we would occasionally record an episode late at night after oozing back from a particular watering hole. Well, Josh works there now. What's that like?
Josh and Isaac follow the trend line of recent episodes and go deep on therapy and family. Sorry, dads!
We explore not being atheists, exactly, and the strange position that puts us in as internet tough guys.
Two tired truckers take on the big questions. Do we have to live in a culture that clings to the idea of eternal life and then decides, if it can't live forever, to burn everything down out of spite? Can we instead live in a world that believes in portion control? And what does Ganesh have to do with it?
We're in an OK mood for a change and this one gets downright cozy in places. Isaac talks about vtubers, Josh talks about monhun, and we encounter a giant horse.
We'd do a best-of, but "best" doesn't really apply - so, in lieu of that, a nice rambly trucks about 2020. Less depressing than one might expect!
In an attempt to get as far away as possible from instantly-obsolescing current events, we discuss some of our earliest memories.
This is a trucks about trends in recent sf that we decided not to use. It is presented here raw and real for dedicated trucks listeners.
A ramble trucks. We discuss drama in the world of youtube music theory videos and the persistence of Mario.
We decide to take a break from the intense reflection idiom and instead talk about art we like. An old-school ramble trucks.
In this Trucks Isaac talks about his hesitant identification as a person with autism and how the whole ADHD/autism melange makes it difficult to identify as anything.
Unfortunately there is now a lot more to talk about, so stay tuned for more talkin bout it. This, however, talks about went on during the month of April. Mostly it's Isaac talking about how there is no invisible socialist majority, and I insist that that was true, in April.
The first trucks recorded amidst the throes. We answer some leftover listener questions and talk generally about the times. Tune in next time for quite talkin bout it, presumably.
It's the Trucks Discord's third birthday! What an odd little community we have fostered, by accident. Today we hear from them.
Too much horror out there. Can't look at it. Can we find a couple of things that are OK to look at? Perhaps.
Isaac gives Josh an opportunity to complain about the Mountain Goats, thus suckering him into a conversation about cancel culture. It's 5D Chess on Trucks.
Isaac has a theory, and his theory is we're all meat. (By all means, change your meat if you'd like. But thereby change yourself.)
Previously on Trucks: Josh said "don't be a creep." But what is creep? And how do you not?
This is a mental health trucks. We talk about our struggles with our brains, the ways we have tried to deal with those struggles, and the adaptive and maladaptive ways in which those struggles have affected our friendship. Also Isaac apologizes to Josh, for neither the first nor the last time.
We are joined by Malo in the truck. Malo has read the Homestuck epilogue and we haven't. He explains it to us. Isaac becomes upset.
We did a surprise trucks with Malo and part of the surprise is the video didn't work. So here's this. We talk about Homestuck, Wittgenstein and the difficulties that come with saying words on the internet.
Josh and Isaac, who are not primarily movie people, discuss their favorite movies, along with a bunch of art films Isaac saw right before he started being a postal worker. Seeking out any or all of the movies mentioned is a guaranteed good time... if you're pure of heart.
A thing you should know about this conversation - recorded two months ago - is that a couple spells I've cast recently have worked so well that I am actively uncomfortable with the results
Isaac and Josh both make music now. They talk about what that feels like to do and what music means.
This guest intro jingle comes courtesy of Olive! In this trucks we discuss how the sausage gets made, and whether we want to know or not.
Josh and Isaac discuss the practicality of eating the rich. This was recorded almost two months ago and so please assume that we are both twice as angry now as we were then
We saw it! We discuss the movie, Boots Riley's take on the movie, Isaac's feelings about being minimally Jewish, and, somehow, anti-semitism in the Labour party.
Also the most heroic failed gas station coast since the last one.
We look back on the golden age of the Simpsons, at its highs and at its lows, and decide it was all pretty much equally OK.
This episode's intro theme by Soelt, interpreting Lana Del Rey.
In this episode Josh and Isaac have a discussion about what Trucks is, and come to some, if not all, conclusions.
On today's Trucks we talk about difficulty in video games AGAIN, focusing on Celeste, Getting Over It and Trials.
It's Trucks! Back and better than ever (?). In this the inaugural episode of our third season Josh and Isaac catch up on what they've been up to over the last few months. Josh saw an art, and Isaac can go to the bathroom by himself.