Firaxis Games, home of legendary game designer Sid Meier and the creators of Civilization IV and other games, has introduced a podcast that provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to make video games.

In the first episode of The Official Firaxis Games Podcast, host Steve Ogden talks to the company’s Quality Assurance manager and finds out what it’s like to play video games all day.

The podcast also features a song that promises to be a new jazz standard, Sid’s Minute.