Show Notes 

• 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.  
• Follow-up (0:00-41:29) 
  • Ben said the Sesame Street Private Eye was Kermit…it was Grover 
  • Josh’s article on his computer upgrade and subsequent video 
  • Winning the NewEgg Shuffle is quite unlikely 
  • Bitcoin blockchain visualisation at University College London 
  • Frank Abagnale Jr. didn’t cheat on the Bar exam in Lousiana 
• Bad at Parenting (41:29-51:20) 
  • The Willoughbys on Netflix: worse parents than you 
  • Is it dangerous to wake a sleepwalker? 
• Bad at Logic (51:20-55:55) 
  • Bias: declinism 
  • Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker 
• Bad at English (55:55-57:16) 
  • Clear as chips i.e. “clear as mud” 
• Feature (57:16-end) 
  • Pigeon-powered guided weapons! 
  • Operant conditioning and reinforcement schedules 
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Josh rebuilds his already-excellent computer, Ben gets in some last-minute consternation before Coronavirus peters out, and the hosts examine some of their favorite examples time travel in fiction.

Show Notes 

• Josh rebuilds his already-excellent computer, Ben gets in some last-minute consternation before Coronavirus peters out, and the hosts examine some of their favorite examples time travel in fiction.  
• Intro & Follow-up (0:00-30:38) 
  • Josh’s computer rebuild video 
  • Video card shortage explained 
  • Bitcoin explained 
  • Crypto miners could soon flood eBay with cheap CPUs, motherboards and SSDs acquired via GPU bundle purchases 
• News (30:38-49:39) 
  • New CDC guidelines for “When You’ve been Fully Vaccinated” 
  • Halcyon Starcruiser: coming in 2022! 
  • Secret Cinema 
• Bad at Logic (49:39-52:58) 
  • the fallacy fallacy 
    • You presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong 
• Bad at English (52:58-55:26) 
  • “All-singing, all-dancing” 
    • Full-featured; i.e. “all the bells and whistles” 
  • The Broadway Melody, won the 1929 academy award for Best Picture (tap ballet?!?) 
• Feature (55:26-end) 
  • Time Travel in Fiction Rundown (minutephysics on YouTube) 
  • Josh’s top 3: 
    • Back to the Future 
    • Rick and Morty 
      • Rattlestar Riclactica 
      • A Rickle in Time 
        • See also: Bad at Magic Episode 28: The Darkest Timeline (starts @ 42:49) 
    • Star Trek: Voyager 
  • Ben’s top 3: 
    • Terminator 2: Judgement Day 
    • Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure 
    • Groundhog Day 
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Ben summarizes his time on the US Central Command (CENTCOM) staff, Josh rants about why we don't own anything we buy anymore, and they give the full Bad at Magic™ treatment to the excellent sci-fi film noir, Minority Report (2002).

Show Notes 

• Ben summarizes his time on the US Central Command (CENTCOM) staff, Josh rants about why we don’t own anything we buy anymore, and they give the full Bad at Magic treatment to the excellent sci-fi film noir, Minority Report (2002). 
• Intro (0:00-20:51) 
  • Biden’s speech declaring withdraw of troops from Afghanistan 
  • US Troop withdrawal from Afghanistan has begun 
  • Visit Tampa Bay 
  • **Josh’s Computer Setup Article on badatmagic.live** 
• Bad at parenting (20:51-37:04) 
  • Why kids lie and what to do about it 
• We don’t own anything that we buy anymore (37:04-58:34) 
  • Tesla wants you to pay $100 a month for its self-driving features 
  • Pepsi Ad: I Fought the Law 
  • Visualizing the Length of the Fine Print (EULAs) 
• Minority Report (2002) (58:34-end) 
  • Minority Report original short story by Philip K. Dick (1956) 
  • 18 minutes, 50 seconds of Tom Cruise running 
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Ben and Josh discuss what the COVID-19 has revealed about Education in America and how we can keep the good changes as things start to return to normal. Also: Door Dash, kid missionaries, nose honkers, lock picking, and why school curriculum is like a Magic deck.

Show Notes 

• Ben and Josh discuss what the COVID-19 has revealed about Education in America and how we can keep the good changes as things start to return to normal. Also: Door Dash, kid missionaries, nose honkers, lock picking, and why school curriculum is like a Magic deck.  
• Intro & Follow-up (0:00-22:42) 
  • 2LT Caron Nazario gets pepper sprayed 
  • Brandolini’s Law and Hitchin’s Razor 
• B@M Glossary and Josh’s odd hobbies (22:42-31:41) 
  • Bad at Magic Glossary 
• Kid Proselytizing, COVID Vaccines, and Door Dash (31:41-52:09) 
  • My 7-Year-Old’s Best Friend Won’t Stop Proselytizing – Can I tell him to stop? 
• Bad at Logic and nose honkers (52:09-1:04:46) 
  • Negativity Bias 
• Bad at English (1:04:46-1:08:11) 
  • “Sponsored by Nike”: don’t be a sell-out 
• COVID-19 and Education in America (1:08:11-end) 
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy 
  • Why has COVID-19 been especially harmful for working women? 
  • PIMA ep. 22: Sal Kahn interview with Steven Leavitt 
    • Sal’s TED talk 
  • The 1892 National Education Association (NEA) Committee of Ten 
  • Lego Brick Experiment Channel on YouTube! 
  • Khan Academy – Learn online for free! 
• Next time: Minority Report 
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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.

Show Notes 

• 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 
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  • PIMA ep. 22: Sal Kahn interview with Steven Leavitt 
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    • What’s a military challenge coin? 
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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.