Episode 114 – Bad at Artifacts

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Show Notes 

• Ben and Josh finalize their holiday shopping mistakes, explore the superstitions surrounding wishing someone luck (in 3 languages), upgrade the ceiling fan in Josh’s game room to full rainbow LED, and discuss the significance of artifacts in history, gaming, and storytelling.  
• Intro & Follow-up (0-18:26)
  • Tom Stanton 3D prints a hand-crank generator 
• Bad at Parenting (18:26-34:55) 
• Bad at Italian (34:55-39:25)
  • In bocca al lupo 
  • The urbane Irish nationalist Robert Wilson Lynd published an article, “A Defence of Superstition”, in the 1 October 1921 edition of the New Statesman, a British liberal political and cultural magazine, regarding the theatre as the second-most superstitious institution in England, after horse racing.  
• What I’m Reading (39:25-45:03)
  • Josh:
    • The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time #4) by Robert Jordan 
  • Ben:
    • Hidden Potential: the Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant 
    • The Fallen from Paradise (Paradise Planets #1) by Shaun Barrowes
      • The Ninja Kids performing Shaun’s song Being Awesome! (455M views on YouTube) 
• Board Game Survivor & Bad at parenting, reprise (45:03-54:15-1:04:53)
  • Nerts (3 min how-to-play video) 
  • Tetris 99 
  • Josh’s Game Room with THREE (3) rainbow LED light bulbs 
• Feature (1:04:53-end)
  • Marauder’s Map Easter Egg (Prisoner of Azkaban end credits) 
  • Nicol Bolas’ Grand Scheme (War of the Spark) 
  • Quel’Serrar the High Blade (World of Warcraft) 
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  • Transition music by Jarus Rich 
  • Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich