Show Notes: 

• 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 
• Next time we’ll discuss: 
  • The Mandalorian on Disney+ 
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Show Notes 

• 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 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.

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.

Show Notes 

• 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.

Show Notes 

• 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) 
• For next time: 
  • Nominate your favorite Christmas movies before Christmas for discussion on Ep. 36 
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Ben and Josh discuss dead presidents, polluting the atmosphere to save the world, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, and more iterations of the trolley problem than you can shake a gauntlet at. It's like chalk and cheese!

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).