Bad At Magic

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• Ben mourns the retirement of the greatest sumo wrestler of all time, Hakuho, then sumo SLAMS 4,287 legos onto a tile floor from 10 feet in the air. Ben and Josh apply Bad at Logic to some tweets by Nicki Minaj. Then they discuss the brands they love (and hate) and the reasons behind their (dis)-loyalty.
• Intro & Follow-up (0-36:52)
  • 56 different types of olfactory receptors
  • A Starting Point on Net Neutrality
  • Hakuho Sho, greatest sumo wrestler of all time (warning: METAL)
    • Hakuho retirement ceremony (warning: BORING)
  • Javelin world record that may never be broken
• Air Force CSO Resigns & Ben takes on the triad (36:52-58:13)
  • Nicholas Chaillan’s mic drop on LinkedIn
  • Sandia National Labs
• Bad at Husbanding (58:13-1:12:05)
  • London bridge is actually in Arizona?!
  • Photo of the Lego Tower Bridge disaster 
• Bad at Logic, Bad at English, & Board game survivor (1:12:05-1:37:14)
  • Fallacy: tu quoque
    • Nicki Minaj and the Death of Responsibility
  • British phrase: Tickety boo (adj., informal): everything is good, everything is fine
  • Board game: Dobble (AKA ‘Spot it!’) (verdict: keep)
• The products we love [and hate] (1:37:14-end)
  • Ben’s UNDYING love for the Nike Air Max 95
  • Sideways: I’m not drinking Merlot (warning: LANGUAGE)
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• Perhaps we’re all part of a singular galactic intelligence called *THE ONE*. If you name your cars, what do you call them and why? Josh takes on his kid’s school after a delayed COVID exposure notification. Ben and Josh discuss their preferred streaming music services. Josh assigns his kids chores and they mutiny. They review the magic system of the book World War Z: an Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks.
• Intro & Follow-up (0-39:06)
  • The Egg – A Short Story
  • What is Net Neutrality?
  • The Long Tail, explained
  • Ralph dominates the attention economy
  • 15 million merits (Black Mirror) [CONTENT WARNING]
• Bad at Parenting (39:06-50:03)
  • A nice family dinner
• Bad at Logic, Bad at English, & Board game survivor (50:03-1:01:21)
  • Bias: Anchoring
  • British phrase: Utterly redders – Adj., very hot (as in weather)
  • Board game: The 5-Second Rule (verdict: keep)
• Feature: World War Z Book Review (1:01:21-end)
  • Don’t watch the mediocre (and nothing like the book): World War Z the movie starring Brad Pitt
  • Listen to the excellent audiobook with an ensemble cast: World War Z the Complete Edition
  • DON’T MISS! Re: Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton
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• Ben and Josh reflect on their time in Afghanistan, Josh remodels his bathroom, Ben falls asleep at the DMV, and Josh takes us all along for the ride on his journey of faith.
• Intro/follow-up (0-50:20)
  • Last American military members depart Afghanistan
  • Worst PowerPoint slide ever
• Ben vs. bureaucracy (50:20-59:37)
  • A typical day at the DMV
• Bad at Logic (59:37-1:01:21)
  • Ad hominem
  • Short people
• Bad at English (1:01:21-1:10:18)
  • Bully: adj. very good, excellent
• Feature (1:10:18-end)
  • US Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel
  • Jacks Valley March Back
  • Jesus Take the Wheel, by Carrie Underwood
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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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• 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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