Bad at Magic

Episode 41 – WandaVision


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Show Notes 

  • Ben marks several major life achievements–some joyous, some dubious. Josh geeks out on comic books in a way that would make Sheldon Cooper blush. Both highly recommend WandaVision on Disney+. 
  • Intro (0:00-8:55) 
    • Scrubs homage to Hitchcock’s North by Northwest 
  • Follow-up (8:55-48:42) 
    • The Pareto Principle 
    • The Peter Principle 
    • Navin R. Johnson made the phone book (warning: language) 
    • I can’t recommend online auto buying from Vroom yet 
    • Remote test proctoring is a privacy invasion and apparently racially biased  
    • Robocop ED-209 malfunction (warning: graphic violence) 
  • Good @ thinking (48:42-54:27) 
    • Logical fallacy: Strawman 
    • CGP Grey on always being right (trick: be willing to change your mind) 
  • Bad at English (54:27-56:50) 
    • Dummy: nipple-shaped plastic/rubber prosthesis for soothing a baby 
      • Also: pacifier, plug 
  • WandaVision Review (56:50-end) 
    • Mise-en-scène 
    • TV Tropes: Unresolved Sexual Tension (UST) 
    • Gaslighting 
    • Does Even Peters being recast as Pietro Maximoff from the MCU mean the Marvel and X-Men universes are now merged?? 
    • The mystery of the flaming skiier (Malcolm in the Middle) 
    • DON’T MISS: AGATHA ALL ALONG
    • The metaphysical thought exercise: The Ship of Theseus 
    • Book review for Episode 42:  
      • Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie 
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