Show Notes 

• 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.

Show Notes 

• 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, and they both reflect on how the Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien is really just a bedtime story wrapped in a bad 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.

Show Notes 

• 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.

Show Notes 

• Josh settles on this year’s Halloween costume 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) 
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  • 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.

Show Notes 

• 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.