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• Herbie goes bananas, Ben goes to the movies, Josh loves the Oxford Comma, and Ben has an epic battle with the Board of Education. 
• Intro and follow-up (0-23:58)
  • Herbie goes bananas
  • Scarlett Johansson sues Disney
  • Free Guy
  • Seinfeld Finale …aaaaand the credits scene because it’s excellent
  • If you build it, they will come
  • MLB Field of Dreams Game 2021 (skip to 8:10 for climax)
• Bad at Husbanding (23:58-38:48)
  • The $10 million comma
  • Classic grammar argument from Finding Forrester
  • The Great Vowel Shift
  • You and all your silly English Knnnnnigits!
• Board Game Survivor (38:48-47:57)
  • Mouse (see photos in the Ep. 53 album on our Facebook page)
  • Barbarossa
• Bad at Logic (47:57-54:47)
  • Belief bias
  • The First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urges members to get vaccinated
• Bad at English (54:47-58:23)
  • Know your onions
• Feature (58:23-end)
  • UK General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE)
  • Scent of a Woman speech (where was Al Pacino when I needed him?)
  • Ben’s speech to the School Board
  • State attorney general letter
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• Ben and Josh celebrate 2 uninterrupted years of podcasting (!) by reliving Josh’s disastrous vacation into Arizona’s mountains and plumbing the depth of Ben’s hatred for s’mores-flavored snacks. Then they pretty much save all of humanity forever by giving answers to all of the likely and less-likely existential threats of the future. 
• Intro (0-5:04)
  • Watch Firefly
  • Halcyon Starcruiser price revealed
• Follow-up (5:04-27:24)
  • Barney banned from laser tag
• Board Game Survivor (27:24-31:54)
  • Codenames
    • Verdict: keep
• Good things that have come out of the pandemic (31:54-46:36)
  • S’Mores-flavored snacks are terrible
• Bad at Logic (46:36-49:43)
  • Logical fallacy: slippery slope
• Bad at English (49:43-52:17)
  • Knackered: adj. tired, exhausted
• Ben and Josh save the world (52:17-end)
  • Contagion
  • Waterworld is underrated
  • Future book review: World War Z
  • The Fermi Paradox
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• Ben blows up several drive-thru queues in his post-move fast food binge, Josh buys an electric car and installs yet more bling in his tricked-out custom PC, Ben confronts the woes of moving, and they both reflect on how the Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien is really just a bedtime story wrapped in a good Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
• Intro & Follow-up (0-19:30)
  • Area 51 is a real thing, but it’s boring
  • Minecraft is actually the 2nd best-selling game of all time
  • The 11th thing every game needs (brought to you by Bad at Magic):
    • Minimized downtime
      • If you’re sitting around doing nothing for too much time it gets, well, boring. Your game needs to have a way for non-active players to remain engaged other than just watching you play. 
      • Examples include: short turns, rapid gameplay, simultaneous actions, planning your next turn, etc. 
• Ben vs. Bureaucracy (19:30-51:22)
  • Everything you need to know about the VW diesel emissions scandal
  • Who among you has the power to censor the censor?
• Bad at Logic (51:22-54:50)
  • Self-serving bias
• Bad at English (54:50-56:24)
  • “Done and dusted“: completely finished, a reference to putting powder on what you’ve just written with your quill. US: “signed, sealed, delivered”.
• Feature (56:24-end)
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien – Read by Andy Serkis (Gollum)
  • J.R.R. Tolkien’s relationship with C.S. Lewis
  • Stranger than Fiction
  • 11 times The Hobbit is Just like D&D
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• Ben and Josh discuss the ‘Ten things every game needs’ by Mark Rosewater and a whole bunch of good and bad examples. 
• Intro/follow-up (0-22:43)
  • Disc Golf World Championship 2021 FINAL HOLE MADNESS
  • Assume spherical cow of uniform density
  • Watch: Black Widow NOT: WW84
• Bad at Husbanding & Josh vs. bureaucracy (22:43-41:34)
  • To Be Honest by Michael Leviton
  • Why pull forward in the drive thru?
  • Refusers to pull forward UNITE!
• Bad at Magic (41:34-55:43)
  • MTGA Mirror Mirror event
  • Eye of Judgement for Playstation 3
  • Poker Terminology in Magic – an article by Ben Rich
• Bad at Logic (55:43-58:25)
  • Logical Fallacy: Appeal to Emotion
• Bad at English (58:25-1:01:05)
  • Swings and Roundabouts: n. gains and losses that offset each other
• The 10 things every game needs by Mark Rosewater (1:01:05-end)
  • The source article(s) by Mark Rosewater
  • Josh’s article on ‘How to introduce board games’ to your friends
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  • For Episode 51 we’ll be reviewing The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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• Josh settles on this year’s Halloween costume them just in the nick of time, Ben has a blowout summer vacation in Utah and Idaho, and they both rant about media bias, the future of humanity, Chesterton’s Fence, and dishonesty in the military.
• Intro (0-33:38)
  • Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix
  • Josh after passing the CPA Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR) exam
  • Ben’s friend in Hollywood visual effects and animation
  • Games to play:
    • Happy Salmon
    • 7 Wonders Duel
    • Splendor
    • Scythe
• Bad at Logic (33:38-40:29)
  • Today’s Bias: Curse of Knowledge
• Bad at Husbanding (40:29-52:53)
  • See the Halloween costumes in question on our Facebook page
• Bad at English (52:53-54:09)
  • Chuffed: adj. very pleased
  • Chuffing: gerund of chuff, but used as “very”
• Feature: some rants (54:09-end)
  • Josh: 
    • Media Bias Chart
    • Al Jazeera America
    • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
    • The Giving Pledge
    • China’s CO2 levels almost surpass the G7
    • How American’s became convinced their Halloween candy was poisoned
    • Why age?
  • Ben:
    • Chesterton’s Fence
    • Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession
    • Air Force Reduces Ancillary Training Requirements (Nov 2016)
    • Malmstrom AFB Cheating Scandal (2014)
• Next book review: 
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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• Ben drives 1,400 miles to Utah, Josh’s children are forbidden from chanting, and Ben’s eldest son gets married making him officially old.
• Intro (0:00-5:16)
  • 48 degree experience
• Bad at Parenting (5:16-26:39)
  • Games Ben is playing:
    • Jamaica
    • Alhambra
    • Point Salad
    • Disc Golf
    • Magic: the Gathering
• Bad at Logic (26:39-32:23)
  • Begging the question
  • Trial of the Chicago 7
• Bad at English (32:23-34:58)
  • Bang on
    • Adj./Adv. (1943): with absolute accuracy; U.S.: “spot on”
    • Verb (1979): talk too much
• Feature (34:58-end)
  • The wedding venue: The Bright Building, Provo, Utah
  • Marriage in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • I’m afraid the correct answer was mormon
  • LDS divorce rate
  • Charles Coulson Rich
  • Polygyny and the rate or population growth
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• Why it doesn’t matter if you drop the Maltese Falcon, how unlikely it is to win the Newegg Shuffle™, Josh’s son sleepwalks and Ben raises his children like a psychologist. 
• Follow-up (0:00-41:29)
  • Ben said the Sesame Street Private Eye was Kermit…it was Grover
  • Josh’s article on his computer upgrade and subsequent video
  • Winning the NewEgg Shuffle is quite unlikely
  • Bitcoin blockchain visualisation at University College London
  • Frank Abagnale Jr. didn’t cheat on the Bar exam in Lousiana
• Bad at Parenting (41:29-51:20)
  • The Willoughbys on Netflix: worse parents than you
  • Is it dangerous to wake a sleepwalker?
• Bad at Logic (51:20-55:55)
  • Bias: declinism
  • Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
• Bad at English (55:55-57:16)
  • Clear as chips i.e. “clear as mud”
• Feature (57:16-end)
  • Pigeon-powered guided weapons!
  • Operant conditioning and reinforcement schedules
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• Josh rebuilds his already-excellent computer, Ben gets in some last-minute consternation before Coronavirus peters out, and the hosts examine some of their favorite examples time travel in fiction. 
• Intro & Follow-up (0:00-30:38)
  • Josh’s computer rebuild video
  • Video card shortage explained
  • Bitcoin explained
  • Crypto miners could soon flood eBay with cheap CPUs, motherboards and SSDs acquired via GPU bundle purchases
• News (30:38-49:39)
  • New CDC guidelines for “When You’ve been Fully Vaccinated”
  • Halcyon Starcruiser: coming in 2022!
  • Secret Cinema
• Bad at Logic (49:39-52:58)
  • the fallacy fallacy
    • You presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong
• Bad at English (52:58-55:26)
  • “All-singing, all-dancing“
    • Full-featured; i.e. “all the bells and whistles”
  • The Broadway Melody, won the 1929 academy award for Best Picture (tap ballet?!?)
• Feature (55:26-end)
  • Time Travel in Fiction Rundown (minutephysics on YouTube)
  • Josh’s top 3:
    • Back to the Future
    • Rick and Morty
      • Rattlestar Riclactica
      • A Rickle in Time
        • See also: Bad at Magic Episode 28: The Darkest Timeline (starts @ 42:49)
    • Star Trek: Voyager
  • Ben’s top 3:
    • Terminator 2: Judgement Day
    • Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
    • Groundhog Day
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• Ben summarizes his time on the US Central Command (CENTCOM) staff, Josh rants about why we don’t own anything we buy anymore, and they give the full Bad at Magic™ treatment to the excellent sci-fi film noir, Minority Report (2002).
• Intro (0:00-20:51)
  • Biden’s speech declaring withdraw of troops from Afghanistan
  • US Troop withdrawal from Afghanistan has begun
  • Visit Tampa Bay
  • **Josh’s Computer Setup Article on badatmagic.live**
• Bad at parenting (20:51-37:04)
  • Why kids lie and what to do about it
• We don’t own anything that we buy anymore (37:04-58:34)
  • Tesla wants you to pay $100 a month for its self-driving features
  • Pepsi Ad: I Fought the Law
  • Visualizing the Length of the Fine Print (EULAs)
• Minority Report (2002) (58:34-end)
  • Minority Report original short story by Philip K. Dick (1956)
  • 18 minutes, 50 seconds of Tom Cruise running
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• Ben and Josh discuss what the COVID-19 has revealed about Education in America and how we can keep the good changes as things start to return to normal. Also: Door Dash, kid missionaries, nose honkers, lock picking, and why school curriculum is like a Magic deck. 
• Intro & Follow-up (0:00-22:42)
  • 2LT Caron Nazario gets pepper sprayed
  • Brandolini’s Law and Hitchin’s Razor
• B@M Glossary and Josh’s odd hobbies (22:42-31:41)
  • Bad at Magic Glossary
• Kid Proselytizing, COVID Vaccines, and Door Dash (31:41-52:09)
  • My 7-Year-Old’s Best Friend Won’t Stop Proselytizing – Can I tell him to stop?
• Bad at Logic and nose honkers (52:09-1:04:46)
  • Negativity Bias
• Bad at English (1:04:46-1:08:11)
  • “Sponsored by Nike”: don’t be a sell-out
• COVID-19 and Education in America (1:08:11-end)
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy
  • Why has COVID-19 been especially harmful for working women?
  • PIMA ep. 22: Sal Kahn interview with Steven Leavitt
    • Sal’s TED talk
  • The 1892 National Education Association (NEA) Committee of Ten
  • Lego Brick Experiment Channel on YouTube!
  • Khan Academy – Learn online for free!
• Next time: Minority Report
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