Bad at Magic

By Bad at Magic

This is a podcast about games, life, and other things. Co-hosts Ben and Josh have been friends for 15 years. Our curiosity about life is at the heart of our great conversations about virtually anythin... more

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May 04, 2023Episode 97 – Little House on Nevarro
Show Notes
How many pieces of candy can you take from a candy dish before it becomes rude? Do you need aftermarket security software on your phone? Josh talks Ben through two recent suicides among his friends. Finally, Josh and Ben do a full, completely spoilery, review of ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3.
Intro & follow-up (0-35:07)
They even took the kitchen sink!!
Submit your Questions for episode 100 here
TV Trope: Clip Show
BONUS EPISODE: How much is too much? (available to Patrons on patreon.com)
Bad at Friendship (35:07-54:40)
HBO Original Movie: Taking Chance starring Kevin Bacon
Bad at Etiquette (54:40-1:05:57)
How many napkins are free?
Bad at Technology & Rhetoric (1:05:57-1:15:57)
Do I need aftermarket security on my phone?
The “Branches” of Oratory
What I’m reading right now & BGS (1:15:57-1:32:59)
Josh: Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
Ben: Generation Kill by Evan Wright (CONTENT WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE, CRUDE SITUATIONS, and more)
Recommended games:
The Red Dragon Inn
Ticket to Ride
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 Review (1:32:59-end)
**SPOILERS FOR STAR WARS** (duh)
Official Trailer
Reused Disney Animation
Hot Ones: Pedro Pascal Cries Eating Spicy Wings
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Credits:
Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich
Transition music by Jarus Rich
Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich
...more
2h 14min
April 20, 2023Episode 96 – What’s your Ikigai?
Show Notes
Ben teaches about the dozens of conspiracy theories surrounding “the hum”. Josh tells the story of how ChatGPT defeated a robot-filtering gate to accomplish its task. The hosts give a mostly spoiler-free review of ‘Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves’ but set in the context of bad parenting decisions. Finally, they examine the Japanese concept of “ikigai” (life’s purpose).
Intro & Follow-up (0-27:09)
Clinically Valid Online hearing test (!)
Baby wears glasses, sees parents for first time
Ingenious way to determine glasses without a prescription
Bryan Cranston trying to escape “the hum” in the X-Files S6E2 (1998)
“Garth. That was a haiku.”
The 2-2 Blues by brentalfloss
KHAN!!! The Musical!
Bad at Technology (27:09-41:11)
ChatGPT hires a human to get past a captcha test
AskSage – ChatGPT for government
Nicolas M. Chaillan on LinkedIn
Bad at Parenting (41:11-1:26:13)
Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves (CAUTION: more spoilers in this trailer than Ben and Josh did in the podcast)
Ahsoka escaping Order 66
Bad at Rhetoric & What I’m reading right now (1:26:13-1:34:24)
Encompassing Terms (kairos, audience, decorum)
Ben: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Josh: Before they are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
What’s your ikigai? (1:34:24-end)
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Joyful Life
The diagram Ben and Josh are talking about (on our Facebook page)
@videogamedunkey reviews Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
AJR – Way Less Sad
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Credits:
Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich
Transition music by Jarus Rich
Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich
...more
2h 12min
April 06, 2023Episode 95 – Why did the SEC fine the Mormon Church $5M?
Show Notes
Josh finally officially becomes a Certified Public Accountant (YES!) and the hosts set the record straight on Digital Nomad at Sea. Ben recounts the tale of the Native American invasion of Alcatraz in 1969 and spoils Star Wars in a whole new way. Josh asks why do we wear flashy headphones and hide our hearing aids? And finally, the hosts engage in a debate on separation of church and state in the context of the $5M fine levied by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in February 2023.
Intro & follow-up (0-20:18)
Digital Nomad at Sea: $30K/yr
The 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island by Native Americans
CGP Grey rates the 50 state flags (DON’T MISS!)
Bad at Technology (20:18-36:42)
Orthodontia by mail
Bad at Rhetoric & What I’m reading (36:42-51:02)
Persuasive appeal: LOGOS (logic)
Josh: Before They are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
Ben: The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
The February 2023 SEC ruling against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (51:02-end)
SEC Press Release
Church Press Release
IRS Publication 1828 (Rev. 8-2015) 40pgs
How Church Donations are Used
Church Finances and a Growing Global Faith (2018)
[clip] South Park: “The Mormons were the correct answer.”
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Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich
Transition music by Jarus Rich
Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich
...more
1h 59min
March 23, 2023Episode 94 – TikTok and The Pentagon Wars
Show Notes
Ben and Josh take on evil zoos, Disney’s handling of Treasure Planet, and Josh’s rapid-onset adoption of TikTok and all the implications of that time-consuming social media platform. Finally they review ‘The Pentagon Wars’ (HBO Films, 1998) starring Cary Elwes and Kelsey Grammer while trying not to trigger their bureaucracy-induced PTSD.
Intro & follow-up (0-39:42)
F-22 Raptor IDL Incident (2007)
Digital Nomad at Sea?
National World War II museum in New Orleans (NYT Review, 2013)
Audobon Zoo in conservation mode
Bad at Technology (39:42-1:10:38)
For the boys (TikTok)
The Jar that represents your life
Bad at Rhetoric & “What I’m Reading” (1:10:38-1:20:19)
Persuasive appeals
Pathos
Ethos
Logos
Why Treasure Planet Flopped
BGS (1:20:19-1:30:56)
How to play ‘Star Wars: Villainous’
Feature: The Pentagon Wars (1:30:56-end)
DoD Acquisitions Flow-Chart (TRIGGER WARNING)
The Bradley Development Sequence (WARNING: SCOPE CREEP)
What Pentagon Wars got right on YouTube
Sheep Specifications
“I want to be an Airborne Ranger!”
Inspector General report regarding the death of Pat Tillman (85 pgs)
Vanguard epaulet shaper
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Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich
Transition music by Jarus Rich
Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich
...more
2h 25min
March 09, 2023Episode 93 – Tax Burnout and the MLB Pitch Clock
Show Notes
Josh explains “The Gig Economy” and why he is currently experiencing burnout in his job. Ben almost gets arrested and insults his orthopedic surgeon. They discuss the 2023 changes to Major League Baseball rules and what’s gone wrong with constructed Magic: the Gathering at Local Game Stores.
Intro (0-58:35)
United 93
IRS Publication 505 – Tax Withholding and Estimated Tax
What is “The Gig Economy”?
Rocky Mountain Cyber Symposium 2023
The 10th Dentist
Where is the evidence for the effectiveness of acromioplasty
Bad at Sports (58:35-1:24:52)
Major League Baseball’s 2023 Rule Changes
1968 baseball mound height lowered to give batters a chance
Houston Astros Sign Stealing Scandal (video) & wiki
Mark Rober stealing baseball signs with high-tech
The Pitchcom System
Bad at Technology (1:24:52-1:42:01)
Is Bing Search AI evil?
Will Apple launch ‘Made for iPhone’ (MPI)?
Bad at Husbanding & Magic (1:42:01-end)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
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Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich
Transition music by Jarus Rich
Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich
...more
2h 5min
February 23, 2023Episode 92 – Truth is Always Strange
Show Notes
Ben recounts his first Mardi Gras experience in Louisiana, Josh denounces Ben for using Microsoft Edge, and they review the 2006 film ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ starring Will Ferrell.
Intro & Follow-up (0-26:43)
The Official Website of the Republic of Molossia
Chain fountain
Bad at technology (26:43-41:10)
Edge vs. Chrome
Josh vs. Bureaucracy (41:10-49:30)
English fossil words
Skeuomorphs
Bad at Rhetoric & What I’m Reading Right Now (49:30-58:11)
Interrogatio
Ben is reading:
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 by Joseph Loconte
Josh is reading:
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Feature (58:11-end)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Akinator will read your mind…
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Transition music by Jarus Rich
Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich
...more
2h 3min
February 09, 2023Episode 91 – Dead Channels and the Principality of Sealand
Show Notes
Ben and Josh reminisce about some of their favorite websites, YouTube channels, and podcasts that seem to have stopped producing new content and explore the story of a UK Army Major who is now the patron saint of “versus bureaucracy” on the Bad at Magic podcast because when he got sick of the government, he STARTED HIS OWN COUNTRY.
Intro & follow-up (0-27:15)
2021 US coins in circulation
The entirely automated McDonalds
I love you Waymo on Revisionist History
Dead channels & listening ecosystems (27:15-1:04:34)
VGCats
Homestarrunner
BaratsandBereta
CGPGrey
Hello Internet
Wind Waker Unplugged (Freddegredde)
Bad at Magic, Parenting, Husbanding and Rhetoric (1:04:34-1:44:14)
Phyrexia All Will Be One
Custom good morning greetings
Categoria (ka-te-go’-ri-a)- Opening the secret wickedness of one’s adversary before his face.
The Principality of Sealand (1:44:14-end)
Official Website of Sealand
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Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich
Transition music by Jarus Rich
Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich
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2h 2min
January 26, 2023Episode 90 – Warbreaker Accumulatio
Show Notes
Ben and Josh review Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson and leave no stone unturned: the world, magic system, politics, economy, ideas, and characters… But first they rant about the Dungeons & Dragons Open-Gaming License controversy, discuss listening ecosystems, and trying to figure out where the closed-mouth words we use in verbal communication came from.
Intro & Follow-up (0-39:43)
Dungeons & Dragons Open-Gaming License (OGL) 1.1 (DRAFT) controversy
“Economic Nexus” (internet sales tax) Explained
What’s your listening ecosystem?
Bad at English (39:43-45:51)
Mouth-closed words: you know what they are
Bad at Rhetoric (45:51-49:36)
Accumulatio
The Independence Day (1996) President Whitmore’s address to US Fighter Pilots movie speech by Bill Pullman
All about that Bass with no treble
The Replacements – I Will Survive (imagine it without the background music)
Bad Blood – Taylor Swift (#withoutmusic LOL)
Board Game Survivor (49:36-54:59)
Scotland Yard
Feature (54:59-end)
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
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Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich
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2h 19min
January 12, 2023Episode 89 – ChatGPT was WRONG
Show Notes
Tuaca and apple cider, basis accounting as a way to make etiquette decisions about defective Christmas gifts, embracing reasonable accommodations for those who need them at work, digital nomad visas, children playing unsupervised outside, and a blowout on Artificial Intelligence starting with ChatGPT by OpenAI.
Intro & follow-up (0-39:00)
Bad at working (39:00-40:47)
Digital nomad visas
Bad at parenting (40:47-56:18)
Relevant hyperlinks
Bad at Rhetoric (56:18-1:02:23)
Today’s function: euphemismus
From the Greek euphemia which means “words of good omen” also “good rumor” or “to speak fair”
Substituting a more favorable for a pejorative or socially delicate term
ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligences (1:02:23-end)
ChatGPT by OpenAI
How Machines Learn by CGP Grey
False Rumor of Explosion at White House Causes Stocks to Briefly Plunge; AP Confirms Its Twitter Feed Was Hacked
Next time:
The usual nonsense AND a review of Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
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Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich
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2h 11min
December 29, 2022Episode 88 – Spoilers for Star Wars Andor
Show Notes
Can you use science to design the perfect Christmas song? How can a traditional/contemporary couple agree on names for their fraternal twins? What do Americans call foods the British use gross names for? And finally: WHAT DID BEN AND JOSH THINK OF STAR WARS ANDOR? (spoilers, for Star Wars, obv.)
Intro & Follow-up (0-32:37)
Berklee college Christmas musicology study (2017)
Security Forces detaining gate runner
Bad at Technology (32:37-37:45)
babyname-app
Bad at Logic (37:45-40:01)
The fallacy fallacy
Ad Hominem
The Gambler’s fallacy
Stinkoman at work
Bad at English (40:01-48:08)
Full-fat Milk: is just what Americans call “Whole Milk”
Board Game Survivor (48:08-53:36)
Space Base
Terraforming Mars
Josh’s Article on: How to Introduce Board Games
Star Wars: ANDOR (53:36-end)
Darth Mom?
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Intro brought to you by ChatGPT
Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich
Transition music by Jarus Rich
Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich
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2h 7min

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