Show Notes: 

• Intro and Leftovers from Episode 5 (0:00-11:51) 
  • Daylight Savings Time! 
  • CGP Grey on DST 
  • A Better Voting System? 
  • What would YOU do if you could change something in society that bugs you?? 
  • Mythbusters on Roundabouts 
  • Switching sides of the road in Sweden (Dagen H) 
  • Gun laws in Australia 
• How has Ben never heard the kid hanging off the balcony story? (11:51-15:12) 
  • Josh’s diaper bag? 
• Bad at English (15:12-20:01) 
  • Mob-handed, Adjective/adverb, British, informal 
    • in a large group, especially in a large, threatening group of people 
    • The term mob-handed has most likely been created by analogy with the adverb/adjective single-handed which means ‘done by one person without help from anyone else’. 
  • A wing staff meeting 
• What you teach the kids (20:01-34:07) 
  • Taekwondo vs. Karate 
  • Girls on the Run.org 
• Macroeconomics and Magic: the Gathering (34:07-49:02) 
  • Price history of Oko, Thief of Crowns 
  • Price history of Doubling Season 
  • Data visualization of Dual Lands price history 
• Halloween costumes (49:02-58:46) 
  • Josh’s Bleach Anime Family 
  • Ben’s Star Butterfly + Mabel & Dipper Pines 
  • Ben’s Fat Thor 
• Getting fit (58:46-1:30:08) 
  • Josh’s fitness tips 
    • Use a Calorie counting app to see where you’re at 
    • Cut out the empty calories 
    • Do a workout you like 
    • Friday is pizza day 
    • Do “a lot of the things you want and none of the things you don’t want” 
  • USAF Fitness Test 
  • 2019 Air Force PT Test Deaths 
• Blender technology (1:30:08-1:40-28) 
  • Vitamix Professional ($599!) 
  • Actual non-stick pan! 
• Teaser for next time and thank yous (1:40:28- 
  • Living With Yourself on Netflix 
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Show Notes:

Show Notes: 

• Intro and Leftovers from Episode 4 (0:00-8:49) 
  • Avril Lavigne is dead conspiracy 
  • Padme Amidala and Sabé 
  • Playing Magic with your kids: Do you let your kids win or teach them that life isn’t fair? 
• More on Parenting! (8:49-27:12) 
  • Being a parent changes you 
  • “One of the best parts of having kids is lying to them.” -Josh 
  • Flat earthers aren’t real 
• Bad at English (27:12-29:37) 
  • “Tossed(threw) his teddies (toys) out of the cot (crib)/pram (stroller)” 
    • Having a hissy [fossil word] fit 
    • Getting aggravated and throwing a tantrum like a baby 
• House Rules (29:37-1:26:44) 
  • Ben’s list: 
    • #1: don’t play with doors 
    • No pillows on the floor 
    • “Don’t forget: make good choices” 
    • Juice does not go in water bottles 
    • “No saying ‘Stop it!'” 
  • Josh’s List: 
    • No phones at the table 
    • No locking doors 
    • “You get what you get” challenge-response “…and you don’t throw a fit” 
    •  Chain of command – no doubt who’s in charge at our house (Mom) 
  • “The older you get, the further into the future you can predict.” -Josh 
  • Kid in the claw machine 
  • “Consistency is king.” -Ben 
  • “Do it right or do it twice.” -Josh’s Dad 
• Brigham Young University (BYU) Student Housing (1:26:44-1:33:55) 
  • 25% of students are married 
  • BYU Honor Code 
  • USAFA Honor Code 
  • BYU Superdate Urban Legend 
• Teasers for next time: 
  • What to focus on with kids development? 
  • Getting and staying fit? 
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Show Notes: 

• Intro and Leftovers (0:00-13:16) 
  • Ben gets 500 shares of ODP 
  • Bank accidentally deposits $120,000 in couple’s account; they spend most of it, then get charged with theft 
  • In the Year 2000… 
  • Is Josh “the life of the party” or an introvert? 
• Bad at English AKA British Word of the Day (13:16-15:21) 
  • “Crocodile nearest the canoe” 
• Magic: the Gathering and the player psychographics (15:21-24:21) 
  • Timmy, Johnny, and Spike by Mark Rosewater – March 2002 
    • The basics of the 3 player psychographic profiles 
  • Timmy, Johnny, and Spike Revisited by Mark Rosewater – March 2006 
    • Expanding the definitions and adding Vorthos 
• Kids and Cell Phones (24:21-33:53) 
  • South Park: Mr Biggles [WARNING: language] 
• Avril Lavigne vs. the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (33:53-49:18) 
  • Avril Lavigne says Lyme disease symptoms left her in bed for 2 years 
  • Review: Avril Lavigne, in Chicago on her first tour in five years, proved she is still pop’s punk princess 
  • The Chicago Theater & St. Louis’ Powell Hall 
  • Setlist.fm – the Setlist Wiki *MUST SEE* 
  • Review: An inspiring Mahler ‘Resurrection’ Symphony at Powell Hall 
• Scarcity: the new science of having less and how it defines our lives (49:24-1:42:50) 
  • Understanding the Mindset of Scarcity 
    • The Focus Dividend: the benefit of scarcity that helps you zero in on the important thing 
    • Tunneling: filtering out non-essential things to focus on the scarcity 
    • Bandwidth tax: things outside the tunnel that get neglected because of tunneling 
    • The University of Minnesota starvation experiment 
  • Understanding the Impact of Scarcity 
    • The Scarcity trap: having scarcity causes you to make bad decisions that perpetuates the scarcity 
    • Slack: an abundance that allows you to absorb unexpected shocks to the relevant resource 
    • Shock: something unexpected that stresses your resources and causes scarcity 
  • Applying the lessons of that Understanding 
    • Freakonomics was by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Ben 
    • The Strategic Cost of Cumulative Overhead, by Ben Rich on LinkedIn.com 
    • Ben’s Home vs. Deployed productivity pie chart from 2011 
    • Life is Chores, Highness 
• Wrap-Up (1:42:50-end) 
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Show Notes:

Show Notes: 

• Intro (0:00-0:19) 
• Fleshman Family Birthday Celebrations (0:19-22:36) 
  • Food Fight 
  • Dunk Tank 
  • Obstacle Course 
  • Jedi Training 
  • Home Demolition?!? 
  • Weird Al’s UHF: Stanley Spadowski’s Clubhouse 
• Levels of Nerd-ness (22:36-28:17) 
  • The nerd secret handshake: W00t 
    • Level 1: Console gamers 
    • Level 2: *serious* Board gamers 
    • Level 3: Role-Playing Games (RPGs) 
    • Level 4: LARP? 
• Russia’s morning commute (28:71-42:03) 
• British word of the day (42:03-44:10) 
  • “push the boat out” (American: splurge) 
    • Informal – British 
    • Be lavish in one’s spending or celebrations.  
• Ben & Josh’s Book Club – Mistborn: The Final Empire, book 1 of the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson (44:10-1:51:50) 
  • Subversion of expectations 
    • Kelsior is good at this from the start and Vin learns quickly (not the usual way for this sort of thing) 
  • Character focus – self-discovery & transformation theme throughout the series 
    • The characters feel like real people 
    • Vin’s central conflict is learning to trust people 
  • Hard vs. Soft Magic Systems 
  • “There’s always another secret” 
  • Sanderson’s 3 laws of magic 
    1. Sanderson’s First Law – An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic in a satisfying way is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic.[1] 
    2. Sanderson’s Second Law – Weaknesses (also Limits and Costs) are more interesting than powers[2] 
    3. Sanderson’s Third Law – Expand on what you have already, before you add something new. If you change one thing, you change the world.[3] 
  • “New ideas are like new tastes…the older you are, the harder they are to stomach.” -Menace 
  • “Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much.” -Kelsior 
  • “What is belief if you can’t continue it after failure?” -Sayzid 
  • Kelsier’s 11: 
    • George Clooney as Kelsier 
    • Matt Damon as Vin 
    • Julia Roberts as Elend Venture 
    • Brad Pitt as Sazed 
    • Andy Garcia as The Lord Ruler 
• For next time… (1:51:50-1:52:53) 
  • Ripped from the headlines story that actually happened to Ben 
  • Book club discussion for next time: 
    • Scarcity: Why having too little means so much by economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir