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June 13, 2024August 13, 2026

Episode 126 – Evermore Park & Memory of Light

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Show Notes

Ben and Josh discuss Evermore Park, the Utah NHL hockey team, Rich’s razor, puzzle nationals, perverted creators, Modern Horizons 3, and beating your high score.
Intro & Follow-up (0-48:03)
Bad at Parenting (48:03-1:03:24)
What I’m Reading (1:03:24-1:18:05)
- Josh: A Memory of Light (Wheel of Time Book #14) by Robert Jordan | Brandon Sanderson
  - Bill Cosby “Spanish Fly”
- Ben: The Paradise Planets: The Fallen From Paradise by Shaun Barrowes
Board Game Survivor (1:18:05-end)
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May 30, 2024August 13, 2026

Episode 125 – The Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

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Show Notes

Ben and Josh discuss High School Graduation(s) and the AI arms race. They both use ChatGPT to help with their work and wonder how long before it comes for the jobs (hint: it already is). And finally, the hosts take on the 4-hr video essay by Jenny Nicholson on the failure of the Star Wars Hotel.
Intro & Follow-up (0-28:18)
Bad at Parenting (28:18-40:35)
- The Sartov Approach (2013) — Full Movie on YouTube
What I’m Reading (40:35-54:53)
- Josh: Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time Book 12) by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
- Andre Agassi tennis hack against Boris Becker
- Ben: A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett
Why the Star Wars Hotel Failed (54:53-end)
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May 16, 2024August 13, 2026

Episode 124 – There’s no I in Team

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Show Notes

Ben and Josh discuss marijuana laws, gamer uprisings, decision hygiene, algorithms, and teamwork in today’s workplace.
Intro (0-27:42)
- Arizona marijuana sales surpass $1B in 2023
Bad at Parenting (27:42-41:08)
- The Dr. Laura Program
Bad at Gaming (41:08-52:58)
- Helldivers 2 Opening Cinematic
What I’m Reading (52:58-1:32:34)
- Josh: The Wheel of Time Book 12: The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan*
  * ‘s ghost
- Ben: Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
  - Harvard Business Review article by the author of the book
  - Waymo autonomous car fail?
Teamwork (1:32:34-end)
- Mark Rosewater’s Drive to Work Podcast ep. #1136 “Being a Team Lead”
Future book review
- A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
  - By Max Bennett
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May 2, 2024August 13, 2026

Episode 123 – The Cat’s Cat

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Show Notes

Josh and Ben’s teams have a showdown in the UFL (Showboats vs. Battlehawks), they try to instill culture and an appreciation for the arts in their children (to varying degrees of success), and they take a hard look at our relationship with animals–especially the ones we call “pets”.
Intro & Follow-up (0-18:12)
- Air Force Seeks Retirees to Come Back to Active Duty
- Read: I, Pencil by Leonard Read or listen to us talk about it on Episode 86 (start @ 47:43)
Bad at Parenting (18:12-46:10)
Bad at Magic (46:10-1:00:48)
Pets (1:00:48-end)
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April 18, 2024August 13, 2026

Episode 122 – The Noisy End of Tax Season

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Show Notes

The hosts decide what 3 questions they would ask the all-seeing oracle, Ben [briefly] revisits the gaming omnivore’s dilemma, and Josh tries not to replace every keyboard with a Keychron. Ben takes his sons to the Outlaws of Thunder Junction prerelease, and Josh can almost smell the hot dogs from the upcoming Diamondbacks game. Finally, with the end of tax season in sight, Josh has a lot to get off his chest.
Intro & Follow-up (0-38:30)
What I’m Reading (38:30-57:10)
- NerdForge binds all of the Wheel of Time into a single book
- Josh: Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time Book 10)
- Ben: Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
Bad at Magic (57:10-1:04:45)
- Outlaws at Thunder Junction Trailer
  - The Story
End of Tax Season Blowout (1:04:45-end)
- Airplane Facts With Max on IG
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April 4, 2024August 13, 2026

Episode 121 – The Gaming Omnivore’s Dilemma

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Show Notes

Josh gives some secret tax tips that you don’t need a new keyboard to take advantage of; Ben is wanted by the police…again, and the hosts explore The Gaming Omnivore’s Dilemma: when you can play any game you want, how do you decide what to play?
Intro & Follow-up (0-47:50)
- Josh’s article: “Spoiled for Choice – Keyboards”
- Keychron V6 MAX
Bad at English (47:50-1:03:58)
Bad at Bureaucracy (1:03:58-1:28:16)
- Is there really a warrant out for my husband’s arrest?
- WARNING: Jury Phone Scam
What I’m Reading (1:28:16-1:38:56)
- Josh: Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan
- Ben: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Gaming Omnivore’s Dilemma (1:38:56-end)
- Relevant hyperlinks
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March 21, 2024August 13, 2026

Episode 120 – Remaster, Remake, Reboot

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Show Notes

Ben and Josh disagree on the TikTok ban legislation and Josh invites you to adopt a UFL team. The hosts react to Dune: Part Two (new in theaters) and reflect on what it means to remake/reboot/remaster a movie or game.
Intro & Follow-up (0-49:27)
The United Football League and Acting Division Chief (49:27-1:04:02)
- XFL Rules Change to Kickoffs
- The UFL
Dune: Part Two and ‘What I’m Reading’ (1:04:02-1:36:55)
- Theatrical Trailer
- How DUNE Should Have Started
- What I’m Reading
  - Josh: Winter’s Heart (Wheel of Time Book 9) by Robert Jordan
  - Ben: Code Talker by Chester Nez
Remakes, Reboots, and Remasters (1:36:55-end)
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March 7, 2024August 13, 2026

Episode 119 – Burnout and Retirement

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Josh experiences a bit of burnout as a CPA in the heat of tax season and Ben reviews the proceedings surrounding his retirement from the United States Air Force.
Intro & Follow-up (0-4:43)
- ‘Sister Act’ using Rich’s Law
Combatting the Burnout Monster (4:43-27:46)
Books & Bad@Magic (27:46-46:29)
- What I’m reading:
  - Josh: Wheel of time Book 8, The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
  - Ben: In the Garden of Beasts: Love Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Guess Who but with VIBES ONLY
Main Segment: Ben’s Retirement Ceremony (46:29-end)
- Link to video of ceremony (Ben’s speech starts at about the 40 min mark)
- Ceremony photo album on Bad at Magic Facebook page (Like/Follow us!)
- Col Michael Black, USAF, Ret.; Vice President for Defense, AFCEA International
- The Quilt Ben’s wife Alicia made for the event
- CYBER.ORG Empowering Educators to Teach Cyber
Next Time:
- Remastered/reimagined Ips
  - STAR WARS: DARK FORCES Remaster
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February 22, 2024August 13, 2026

Episode 118 – Rich’s Law and the Arcane

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Show Notes

Ben and Josh recap the Super Bowl, take on the IRS, and gush about the masterpiece 2021 animation series Arcane: League of Legends. Also: Ben proposes a new law of the internet.
Intro & Follow-up (0-28:24)
Bad at Logic (28:24-39:01)
- Godwin’s Law
- (Ben) Rich’s Law:
  - As a discussion of something enjoyable grows longer, the probability of a comparison to sex approaches 1.
- ‘Sister Act’ using Rich’s Law
Bad at Taxes (39:01-1:01:16)
- CORRECTION: Historic Corporate Tax Rates (they were never 90%)
- 10 Strange But Legitimate Federal Tax Deductions
What I’m Reading (1:01:16-1:11:19)
- Josh:
  - A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time #7)
- Ben:
  - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  - Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
Arcane: League of Legends (1:11:19-end)
- K/DA – POP/STARS
- Welcome to LoL Esports
- Jinx’s Character Intro Video (predates movie by 10 years)
- The Art of Arcane
- Imagine Dragons x J.I.D – Enemy
- The Characters of Arcane (on Fandom)
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February 8, 2024August 13, 2026

Episode 117 – Stupid Traditions

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Show Notes

Ben finally concludes the Amazon.com 3D printer saga, Josh’s local game store he plays Magic at goes out of business (as he prophesied), and the co-hosts take on a bunch of those stupid, long-standing American traditions that should probably be abandoned.
Intro & follow-up (0-37:57)
Bad at parenting & gaming (37:57-56:19)
- DuoLingo: the free, fun, and effective way to learn a language
What I’m reading right now (56:19-1:18:03)
- Josh:
  - The Wheel of Time, Book 6: Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
- Ben:
  - Going Infinite: the rise and fall of a new tycoon by Michael Lewis
Bad at Magic (1:18:03-1:39:33)
- The Great Magic Freeze
Feature: Stupid traditions (1:39:33-end)
- How NASA lost a spacecraft from a metric math mistake
- First past the post voting: minority rule
Next time:
- ARCANE League of Legends on Netflix
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