Bad At Magic

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• Josh is also bad at staying alive, Ben sticks it to the man in St. Pete; and Josh tells the curious story surrounding his courtship and marriage. 
• Intro (0:00-13:58)
  • Bad at numbers: Josh’s heart murmur and scorpion encounter
• Magic: the Gathering (13:58-33:19)
  • Which Strixhaven college are you?? (think: Hogwarts sorting hat)
  • Play Magic on your computer or device:
    • Magic the Gathering Arena (new, good place to start for new players)
    • Magic the Gathering Online (old, most comprehensive Magic experience)
• Bad at Logic (33:19-36:16)
  • Today’s Fallacy: False Cause
• Bad at Husbanding (36:16-49:02)
• Ben vs. Bureaucracy (49:02-1:07:35)
  • City of St. Pete sidewalk repair complete!
• Bad at English (1:07:35-1:12:05)
  • Pete Tong: Cockney Rhyming slang for “wrong”
    • BBC Radio 1 DJ from the 1980s
    • It’s all gone Pete Tong (2004 British/Canadian mocumentary) = It’s all gone a bit wrong
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Weezer: Playing my Piano (COVID-19 quarantine song?)
  • Ferris Bueller: the key to faking out the parents
• Josh’s Marriage (1:12:05-end)
  • Sandals Royal Bahamian
• Next time:
  • PIMA ep. 22: Sal Kahn interview with Steven Leavitt
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• Ben takes an unexpected trip to the ER, Josh spends way too much on a new mouse, and the hosts of the Bad at Magic Podcast unravel the secrets of the universe. 
• Intro/Follow-up (0:00-15:05)
  • 31 Foods You’re Eating That Contain Sawdust
  • PopChartLab’s Omnibus of Superpowers
• Bad at Logic (15:05-24:11)
  • Today’s Bias: The Backfire Effect
  • Freakonomics ep. 455: Are you ready for a fresh start?
• Bad at Husbanding (24:11-40:32)
  • Josh’s computer build video
  • Razr Deathadder v2 Pro Wireless
  • Hip Hip Hooray for Annie McRae! by Brad Wilcox
• Bad at Rollerblading (40:32-1:07:11)
• Bad at English (1:07:11-1:10:13)
  • Advertisement: British vs. American pronounciation
• Feature (1:10:13-end)
  • Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie
  • Blind spot optical illusions
  • The World’s Bananas Are Clones—and They Are in Imminent Danger
  • CHECK OUT THIS GREAT WEBSITE for an even-handed approach to political issues:
    • A Starting Point (.com)
      • A Starting Point is a video-based civic engagement platform created by Chris Evans…to create a bipartisan channel of communication and connectivity between Americans and their elected officials with the goal of creating a more informed electorate.
  • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet **MUST SEE**
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• Ben marks several major life achievements–some joyous, some dubious. Josh geeks out on comic books in a way that would make Sheldon Cooper blush. Both highly recommend WandaVision on Disney+.
• Intro (0:00-8:55)
  • Scrubs homage to Hitchcock’s North by Northwest
• Follow-up (8:55-48:42)
  • The Pareto Principle
  • The Peter Principle
  • Navin R. Johnson made the phone book (warning: language)
  • I can’t recommend online auto buying from Vroom yet
  • Remote test proctoring is a privacy invasion and apparently racially biased 
  • Robocop ED-209 malfunction (warning: graphic violence)
• Good @ thinking (48:42-54:27)
  • Logical fallacy: Strawman
  • CGP Grey on always being right (trick: be willing to change your mind)
• Bad at English (54:27-56:50)
  • Dummy: nipple-shaped plastic/rubber prosthesis for soothing a baby
    • Also: pacifier, plug
• WandaVision Review (56:50-end)
  • Mise-en-scène
  • TV Tropes: Unresolved Sexual Tension (UST)
  • Gaslighting
  • Does Even Peters being recast as Pietro Maximoff from the MCU mean the Marvel and X-Men universes are now merged??
  • The mystery of the flaming skiier (Malcolm in the Middle)
  • DON’T MISS: AGATHA ALL ALONG!
  • The metaphysical thought exercise: The Ship of Theseus
  • Book review for Episode 42: 
    • Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie
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• Josh roasts the USA for still using Fahrenheit, Ben talks about convertible design, and they both do the washing up on the rest of their dirty jobs.
• Intro (0:00-40:07)
  • Why America still uses Fahrenheit
  • Convertible design by Ken Nagle
  • Josh and Nichole’s Ninja turtles reenactment 
  • Mr. Iglesias on Netflix
• Bad at English (40:07-47:36)
  • Washing up: v. the act of doing the dishes; or n. the dishes that need to be done
• Dirty Jobs with Ben and Josh, part 2 (47-36-end)
  • Minuteman-III ICBM launch sequence
  • The 2007 “Minot Incident”
  • Lieutenant Colonel J.D. Loftis “Afghanistan lost its best friend”
  • Pool Notes: the best online/mobile pool professional software
  • The 80/20 rule
  • Go vote on Reddit for our next book review!
    • To Be Honest by Michael Leviton
    • Virus of the Mind by Richard Brodie
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• Ben and Josh discuss safety standards, debate the existence of Wyoming, apologize for someone else chewing loudly, and praise the newest Norse Mythology-themed Magic set. They also talk about jobs they’ve had from childhood into their early twenties and how it has shaped them into who they are today. 
• Intro (0:00-30:08)
  • 39 original signers of the US constitution
  • CEO Mary Barra reduces General Motors’ 10-page dress code to two words: Dress appropriately.
  • US Air Force PT Uniform
  • NIOSH Hierarchy of Controls
  • Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network
  • Wyoming Doesn’t Exist
• Bad at Husbanding (30:08-34:17)
  • Do you think you could crunch any louder?
• Kaldheim (34:17-47:23)
  • Magic’s newest set based on Norse mythology
  • MTG Arena mobile for Andriod
  • Freakonomics: People I (Mostly) Admire
  • Veratasium: The Logistic Map
• Bad at English (47:23-49:07)
  • Slopey shoulder(ed): “when a person delegates anything given to them or slides it straight off their work load onto someone else out of laziness”
• Jobs I’ve had (49:07-end)
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Show Notes:

• Let’s not kid ourselves here, Josh and Ben both Love ‘The Mandalorian’ on Disney+. They also talk about the Korean War, COVID safety, dress codes, retirement plans, and online grocery service–just an average episode. 
• Random stuff (0:00-49:58)
  • The 38th Parallel
  • Kevin Smith: a fascinating human
  • Duke Brothers (from Trading Places) cameo in Coming to America
  • CEO Mary Barra reduces General Motors’ 10-page dress code to two words: Dress appropriately.
  • The US Air Force Dress Code: Air Force Instruction 36-2903
  • Ben’s next assignment: Air Force Global Strike Command
  • Which retirement system is right for you? (Department of Defense)
  • The NIOSH ‘Hierarchy of Controls’ (as used for COVID safety)
  • Why is there an aluminum can shortage? COVID
• Bad at English (49:58-52:43)
  • Naughts and Crosses (US: Tic-tac-toe)
  • Wargames: Tic-tac-toe
• The Mandalorian (52:43-end)
  • The Mandalorian on Disney+
  • The ‘young prodigy’ and the ‘late bloomer’
  • Show, don’t tell
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• America goes crazy, Ben gets Coronavirus, Josh gives up free-to-play mobile gaming, and they both trash on Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline while enjoying it in spite of themselves.
• Intro (0:00-3:05)
• Bad at English (3:05-4:12)
  • Trot on as normal i.e. pretend everything’s ok
• January 6, 2021 (4:12-23:11)
  • An hour-by-hour timeline of what happened in the Capitol Riot
  • Images from the U.S. Capitol on that day
• Ben gets Coronavirus (23:11-36:35)
• Bad at parenting (36:35-42:08)
• WW84 (*deep sigh*) and Mobile gaming (42:08-52:22)
  • Wonder Woman 1984 (WW84)
  • The player psychographics
• Ready Player Two book review (52:22-end)
  • Ready Player One (Book and Film)
  • Ready Player Two (Book only)
  • Oculus Quest 2
  • Rotary phone stumps two teenage boys
  • The Trouble With Transporters by CGP Grey
  • Roy: A Life Well Lived | Rick and Morty
  • Jay and Silent Bob on John Hughes and Schermer, Illinois (WARNING: LANGUAGE)
  • Kevin Smith on unreleased Prince documentary, 10-min excerpt (WARNING: LANGUAGE)
  • John Mulaney on famous people, Mick Jagger in this instance (WARNING: LANGUAGE)
  • Audio books narrated by Zachary Quinto
• Next time we’ll discuss:
  • The Mandalorian on Disney+
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• Ben and Josh figure out White Christmas was a Holiday Inn remake, deal with some first world Christmas problems, and rate the magic systems of some classic Christmas movies. 
• Intro (0:00-6:57)
  • Fred Astaire says it with firecrackers!
• Christmas Problems (6:57-22:01)
  • How to surprise someone you share an Amazon account with
  • Mark Rober’s Glitter Bomb 3.0
• Bad at English (22:01-25:02)
  • Posh: elegant, fashionable
• Bad at Parenting (25:02-38:54)
  • What to do when you really have a favorite child
• Christmas Movie Review (38:54-)
  • Sanderson’s Laws of Magc
  • List of movies we reviewed
    • Arthur Christmas
    • Nightmare Before Christmas
    • The Santa Clause
    • The Polar Express
    • Muppet Christmas Carol
• Book review for Episode 37 (if you want to read along)
  • Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
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• Ben and Josh talk about why you shouldn’t second-guess your mulligans, some lesser-known COVID shortages, and what returning your shopping cart to the corral says about you.
• Intro (0:00-22:36)
  • Air Force suspends ‘waist measurement’ portion of fitness test
  • The chapter on blind orchestra auditions is actually in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink
• Christmas Movies and Lights (22:36-38:21)
  • For B@M review in Episode 36:
    • Nightmare Before Christmas (stop-motion animation) 1:16
    • Polar Express (motion capture CGI) 1:40
    • Muppets Christmas Carol (puppets) 1:29
    • Arthur Christmas (animated) 1:40
    • The Santa Clause (live-action) 1:47
  • Crazy Tampa Christmas Lights House
• All I really need to know I learned from playing Magic: the Gathering (38:21-48:50)
  • Ben: Don’t second-guess your mulligans
  • Josh: Learn to play your opponent’s hand
• Other lesser-known Coronavirus (COVID-19) shortages (48:50-1:08:21)
  • Bike Shortages Will Likely Last Until Next Year, and Possibly into 2022
  • The Great Tortilla Shortage of 2020
  • Dry yeast flew off shelves during coronavirus pantry stocking
  • Report: Coronavirus Sending Motherboard and GPU Shipments to Record Low
  • Covid-19 Leaves Less Change in Our Pockets, Literally
  • DEATH TO PENNIES (C.G.P. Grey)
• Bad at English (1:08:21-1:14:14)
  • It does exactly “what it says on the tin” i.e. “as advertised”
  • Where’s the beef?
• The Shopping Cart Problem (1:14:14-)
  • Discussion on our Subreddit
  • Nominate our next fiction book review for Ep. 37!
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Show Notes

• The hosts of the Bad at Magic podcast unanimously endorse Disney Pixar’s ‘The Incredibles’ and yet shamelessly question the existence and purpose of minions in film.
• Intro (0:00-19:02)
  • Watch Disc Golf on YouTube!
• The Incredibles is Incredible (19:02-1:04:37)
  • Mise-en-scène
  • Why The Incredibles is the BEST Superhero Movie of All Time
  • Where is my super suit?!
  • No capes!
• Transition (1:04:37-1:09:58)
  • Ken Jeong as a security guard reading Terminal Breach in Avengers: Endgame
  • Ben does not recommend Terminal Breach by Steve Bradshaw
  • Lou Ferrigno cameo in Hulk (2003)
• Bad at Parenting (1:09:58-1:25:13)
  • The Kitchen is DANGEROUS…and messy
  • Ben’s Unified Parenting Theory
    • Phase 1: Obedience – Child says, “Yes Mama/Daddy,” and does it.
    • Phase 2: Commitment/awareness – Child says, “What else can I do to help?”
    • Phase 3: Responsibility/initiative – You say (or don’t have to say), “Find something that needs to be done and do it,” and then they do!
    • Phase 4: Self-determination – They make their own choices based on their own goals.
• Minions (1:25:13-end)
  • Storm troopers remember the death star explosion (CollegeHumor)
  • Storm trooper target practice (The Mandalorian)
  • Redshirt doesn’t want to go ashore (Galaxy Quest)
  • Movie Body Counts (website)
  • Rambo (Weird Al Parody)
• For next time:
  • Nominate your favorite Christmas movies before Christmas for discussion on Ep. 36
  • Submit your best Bad at Parenting stories on Reddit by 11 Dec 2020 to win a free MasterClass™ subscription! Winner will be announced on Ep. 35. 
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