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• Josh fails the Swedish border shibboleth on his way back to LEGOLAND. Ben and Josh discuss the merits and morality of adopting a religion (or not) to help your children live a happy life.  
• Intro (0-21:05) 
  • Sjuttiosju (seventy-seven, in Swedish) 
• Feature (21:05-end) 
  • Episode 42: The Answer 
  • Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie 
  • Ben’s Unified Parenting Theory (Episode 2, skip to 54:19) 
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  • Our next book review (probably in Ep. 79): 
    • Super Better by Jane McGonigal “A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient – Powered by the Science of Games” 
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Show Notes 

• Ben and Josh discuss some of their motivations behind recent gaming choices, what kinds of life lessons you can learn from the games you play, and give their thoughts on The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+. 
• Intro & follow-up (0-24:09) 
  • Elden Ring Overview Trailer 
  • Play: Papers Please 
• Bad at Logic (24:09-26:23) 
  • Black or white 
• Bad at English (26:23-31:09) 
  • Cheeky: adj. sassy, impudent, insolent 
  • Mary Poppins, “Cheeky!” 
  • Mike Myers as Simon on SNL 
• Bad at Magic (31:09-54:44) 
  • Mark Rosewater on single set blocks 
• The Disney+ Star Wars TV shows (54:44-end) 
  • Sanderson’s Laws of Magic 
  • Pitch Meeting: Mandalorian 
  • Grogu on Etsy 
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Show Notes 

• Josh is bad at reading social cues (or is he??), Ben gets fired by his auto insurance company, and we both take on YOUR questions about life, games, and other things in our second-ever Q&A episode.  
• Intro (0-21:44) 
  • Listen to the full version of the show’s new music: Cascading by Ammon Rich 
  • Magic 30: Las Vegas, Oct 28-30, 2022 
• Bad at Social Cues (21:44-36:45) 
• Bad at Parenting (36:45-46:25) 
• Bad at Logic (46:25-57:30) 
  • The bystander effect 
• Bad at English (57:30-59:12) 
  • Interview without coffee: British Army euphemism for a severe reprimand by a senior officer 
• Feature: Listener Q&A #2 (59:12-end) 
  • Magic Head Designer Mark Rosewater’s ‘Drive to Work’ podcast episode #942: “Making New Magic Mechanics” 
  • Cave of the Winds Mountain Park 
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• Ben and Josh take on cool tech innovations like orbital attack satellites and dubious ones like pneumatic tires. They follow up on Ben’s F2P mobile gaming habit from Episode 22, Josh mocks Ben for yet another wrecked minivan, and they use the Magic: the Gathering color pie to analyze random things like government agencies, superheroes, pets, cooking shows, snacks, cereal mascots, and auto manufacturers.  
• Intro & follow-up (0-43:46) 
  • Project Thor: “Rods from God” 
  • Top Gun (1986), opening scene 
• Bad at Technology (43:46-1:10:43) 
  • Why airless tires suck 
  • 1958 Firebird 3 (prototype) 
  • 1963 Chrysler Turbine (production) 
• Bad at Husbanding (1:10:43-1:18:00) 
  • Episode 22: Descent into madness (re: Ben’s mobile gaming binge, start @ 40:57) 
• Bad at Logic (1:18:00-1:19:54) 
  • Genetic fallacy 
• Bad at English (1:19:54-1:25:26) 
  • “Gob in the pisser.” (Spit in the urinal.) 
• Feature: Applying the Magic: the Gathering color pie IRL (1:25:26-end) 
  • Let’s Talk Color Pie by Mark Rosewater 
  • The secret phrase Guy Fieri uses when he hates food 
  • Turtle hates black shoes 
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• Ben and Josh get serious about gun violence in America even if they can’t agree what to do about it. Then they depart reality and talk about their favorite movies from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s and make a few recommendations for some great ones you may have missed. 
• Intro & Follow-up (0-37:57) 
  • The State of Gun Violence in America (May 2022) 
  • Australia did it, we can too! 
• Bad at Logic (37:57-43:09) 
  • The placebo effect 
• Bad at English (43:09-46:04) 
  • Land of Hope and Glory at the BBC Proms 2009 
• Feature (46:04-end) 
  • Are there more wheels or doors? (Breaking Bad “deleted” scene) 
  • If you think you want to watch Robot Jox (1989), watch this first 
  • Die Hard With a Vengeance “Don’t drop this.” 
  • Star Wars SC 38 Reimagined 
  • “The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.” 
  • Michael Jackson – Will You Be There (Free Willy) 
  • Bump the lamp (Roger Rabbit) 
  • Death Blossom (Last Starfighter) 
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• Ben becomes a grandfather on Mother’s Day and was WAY wrong about the crowd-sourced investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing. He also gets nervous about his upcoming physical fitness test. Josh loses yet another game to his son and has trouble talking about religion. Together they explore the harrowing memoir ‘Trejo: my life of crime, redemption, and Hollywood’ by actor Danny Trejo. 
• Intro & Follow-up (0-46:53) 
  • The rule of 72 
  • Compound interest (Futurama) 
  • The Reddit Boston Bombing debacle  
  • You Were Right About COVID, and Then You Weren’t 
  • New Air Force choose-your-own PT test 
  • Has “the office” become a thing of the past? 
  • Apple’s chief of machine learning quits over return-to-office policy 
• Bad at Socializing (46:53-56:35) 
• Bad at Logic & Bad at English (56:35-1:00:26) 
  • The Texas sharpshooter 
  • If Google was a Guy: “climate change is not real” 
• Board game survivor (1:00:26-1:10:40) 
  • Star Wars: X-Wing 
    • Ewan McGregor Recalls Watching His Uncle In Original Star Wars As A Kid 
  • Bang! The dice game  
    • Verdict: keep 
• Book review: Trejo (1:10:40-end) 
  • Trejo: my life of crime, redemption, and Hollywood  
    by Danny Trejo 
  • The American Me Murders 
  • No two Steves 
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• Ben and Josh commit the cardinal sin of being wrong on the internet about web browsers, and comic book movie rights. Ben talks about how to be a better husband by telling yourself the good story. Josh reveals, to the surprise of no one, that he chooses to live by negativity bias. Finally they give their vision for what wonders the future may hold…in the year 2000! 
• Intro & follow-up (0-53:31) 
  • The most popular web browser 1993-2020 (!) 
  • Web browsers for Linux 
  • The Reddit Boston Bombing debacle 
  • A visual guide to Marvel character rights 
  • Contactless payments 
• Bad at Husbanding (53:31-1:05:29) 
  • An Hermeneutics of Generosity (An H of G) 
• Bad at Logic (1:05:29-1:08:02) 
  • Negativity bias 
• Bad at English (1:08:02-1:09:03) 
  • Peckish: adj. feeling somewhat hungry (but not starving) 
• Board game survivor (1:09:03-1:19:29) 
  • The Streets of New Capenna 
• Feature (1:19:29-end) 
  • In the year 2000 (Conan O’Brien aired Oct 2003)  
  • The speech that made us proud to be human 
  • The Kardashev Scale (“Type 1 Civilization”) 
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  • Book review: Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood 
  • CONTENT WARNING!!! Danny Trejo has had a rough life and has the @*&^%$# vocabulary to match 
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• Josh levels up on his path towards “MAXIMUM DAD”, Ben tries to figure out why you plateau when you’re trying to get better at something, and Spider-Man: No Way Home gets the full Bad at Magic Podcast treatment. 
• Intro & Follow-up (0-36:57) 
  • How long does Copyright last? 
  • Patrick Stewart vs. James Corden (played out just like Josh said) 
  • Reddit’s r/place 2022 animated 
  • The Magic: the Gathering Reserve List 
• Bad at Parenting (36:57-48:27) 
  • Maximum Dad [jokes] 
• Bad at Technology (48:27-56:39) 
  • What is the best web browser? 
• Bad at Logic (56:39-1:07:48) 
  • Ambiguity 
• Bad at English (1:07:48-1:10:09) 
  • Dodgy: adj. dishonest or unreliable 
• Feature (1:10:09-end) 
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home 
  • Underoos! 
  • Tom Holland goes undercover to experience High School 
  • Andrew Garfield lying about Spider-Man: No Way Home for 4 minutes 
  • How Spider-Man: No Way Home should have ended 
  • All the Spider-Man: No Way Home references to previous movies 
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  • Trejo: My life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood 
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• Ben and Josh weigh in on “the slap heard round the world” talk about what in the heck r/place is, deal with the childhood trauma of COVID-19, figure out how to give kids allowance in a way that teaches them about good financial management, and finally delve into the rules of online gaming economies. 
• Intro & Follow-up (0-37:36) 
  • How do radio stations know how many listeners they have?  
  • Roseanne becomes a Nielsen Family 
  • The slap heard round the world [LANGUAGE WARNING] 
  • What should Chris Rock’s first joke be following the Oscars? 
  • Reddit’s 2nd go at /r/place 
  • All Bad at Magic back-catalog episodes are now on YouTube! 
• Bad at Parenting (37:36-58:01) 
  • CDC COVID-19 County Tracker 
  • Teaching children sound financial management principles 
• Board Game Survivor (58:01-1:02:56) 
  • A La Carte: a cooking sim board game for 2-4 players 
    • Verdict: keep (not great, but still fun) 
• Bad at Logic (1:02:56-1:04:54) 
  • Bias: The Barnum Effect 
• Bad at English (1:04:54-1:08:10) 
  • Have a “ding-dong” (i.e. a fierce argument) 
• Online Gaming Economies (1:08:10-end) 
  • Wizards of the Coast on the MTG Arena economy in 2022 
  • How to turn digital cards into real-world cards on Magic Online 
  • Tolarian Community College: is buying a Standard deck worth it? 
  • John “Johnny Magic” Finkle nominated for Hasbro Board 
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• Ben rants about the change to Daylight Savings Time (again) and Josh rubs it in that Arizona doesn’t do that (again), they discuss the newest Disney|Pixar film: Turning Red, Ben takes crap (rightfully) for naming his daughter “Russia”, Josh takes on the man so he can have hot water again, and Josh (an agnostic) interviews Ben (a Christian) on what it means to be a seminary teacher for a class of 10 teenagers.  
• Intro & Follow-up (0-38:00) 
  • Ben steals $10 from Josh in a Vintage Cube draft on MTGO 
  • smorescout.com 
  • Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary 
  • The notorious Zappos $1,000 quitting bonus (not $10K like Ben said) 
  • The Extremely Shady Death of Artesian Builds 
  • The US Senate votes unanimously (!) to end Daylight Savings Time 
  • Disney Pixar’s newest animated feature Turning Red 
• Bad at Parenting (38:00-43:21) 
  • Ben named his daughter “Russia” 
• Bad at Husbanding (43:21-54:46) 
  • Qualitative vs. quantitative cleanness  
• Josh vs. Bureaucracy (54:46-1:12:10) 
  • Faulty Gas Valves Plague 2018-2020 Rheem Water Heaters 
• Bad at Logic (1:12:10-1:13:14) 
  • Burden of proof 
• Bad at English (1:13:14-1:15:29) 
  • Bun fight 
• Ben the Seminary Teacher (1:15:29-end) 
  • 100 Years of Seminary (1912-2012) 
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