Show Notes 

• 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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• Summary 
• 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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• 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 
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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) 
    • Polar Express (motion capture CGI) 
    • Muppets Christmas Carol (puppets) 
    • Arthur Christmas (animated) 
    • The Santa Clause (live-action) 
  • 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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• 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) 
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Show Notes 

• Ben watches weird sports, Josh makes the wrong cookies, video games aren’t as hard as they used to be back when we walked to school barefoot in the snow. Plus: child car seats are as worthless as an ashtray on a motorbike, but never shake a baby (Superfreakonomics book review). 
• Intro (0:00-7:18) 
  • Pac Man max score 
  • Learn about the addressing scheme of the internet (Internet Protocol) versions 4 and 6! 
• The Long Tail (7:18-42:02) 
  • Read the original article by Chris Anderson, October 2004 
  • Weird sports Ben watches: 
    1. Magic: The Gathering (obv.):  
    2. Marble racing: Jelle’s Marble Runs  
    3. Disc golf: Jomez Pro 
    4. Bouldering: International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) 
    5. Soap box racing: Red Bull Soapbox Race(s) 
    6. Japanese game shows: Slippery Stair Climbing 
    7. Sumo wrestling: Jason’s All Sumo Channel 
  • Software as a service 
  • Marty McFly finds out Western Union is reliable (it was 70 years, not 100) 
• Bad at Husbanding/Parenting (42:02-1:10:24) 
  • Among Us for Noobs 
• Bad at English (1:10:24-1:13:05) 
  • As useless as…an ashtray on a motorbike 
• Superfreakonomics book review (1:13:05-end) 
  • Freakonomics blog  
  • Freakonomics podcast 
  • D.A.R.E. didn’t work 
  • AFN: Never Shake Your Baby 
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