Episode 59 – The Holiday Season, Part 1

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Show Notes 

• A listener gives a great alternate fan theory for interpreting You’ve Got Mail, Ben visits vintage computer mecca Computer Reset in Dallas, Josh attempts to sell $4,000 worth of collectible gaming mini-figures, and both talk about why they love Halloween and Thanksgiving. 
• Intro (0:00-1:51) 
  • The RST (Readability – Strength – Tone) system for amateur radio operators 
• Follow-up (1:51-24:41) 
  • You’ve Got Mail: Katherine’s insight 
  • Generation names in the western world 
  • 17-year-olds dial a rotary phone 
  • YouTuber LGR explores Computer Reset 
  • RECORDER: The Marion Stokes Project 
• Bad at Parenting (24:41-34:07) 
• Josh vs. Bureaucracy (34:07-49:13) 
  • Warmachine & Warhammer 40K Listing on Craigslist 
• Bad at Husbanding (49:13-55:40) 
• Magic is Life (55:40-1:10:45) 
  • Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules, 19 Nov 2021 
  • Piggybacking (security) 
• Bad at Logic (1:10:45-1:13:49) 
  • Bias: the availability heueristic 
• Bad at English & Bad at Gaming (1:13:49-1:22:51) 
  • Bank holiday 
  • Chasing the Dragon 
• The Holiday Season, Part 1 [Halloween and Thanksgiving] (1:22:51-end) 
  • Why the Detroit Lions always play on Thanksgiving 
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