Your nerd champions are getting older and they have to explain that to 3rd graders. The 3rd graders suggest making a viral tiktok.

Plus for no extra cost:

Links:

• Mat Fraser Turning Around at the End of the Course — The bird flip is at 0:22
• X of Swords
• The Chess Game discussed

More root beer seltzer #content than you knew you needed.

The boys transition this from a podcast where they talk about not having jobs to instead talking about having jobs. Complementary discussions on language, programming, and music get thrown in there.

All kinds of gaming talk: fantasy football, Arkham Horror, chess, and League of Legends.

Plus, some books have been quit while others have been read.

Music excerpts from Symphony No.3 'Scottish', Op.56 by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. See more at https://musopen.org/music/282-symphony-no-3-scottish-op-56/

Links:

• Buy Alex a Coffee
• Buy Danny Some Root Beer Seltzers
• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2) by Hank Green
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel — by Emily St. John Mandel
• Among Us on Steam
• Celeste on Steam

First your hosts grapple with getting old and how birthdays are to be handled. Before they go into the deep end of nerd-dom. MMOs! X-Men! Marvel and DC!

But ultimately it's not content, is it?

Music excerpts from Symphony No.3 'Scottish', Op.56 by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. See more at https://musopen.org/music/282-symphony-no-3-scottish-op-56/

Links:

• Alex on TikTok for White Buffalo Training Systems
• Baader–Meinhof phenomenon
• Bullet Journal
• FF14 Titania Extreme Trial Guide
• Felicia Day - IMDb
• The Guild
• X-Men: First Class (2011) - IMDb
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - IMDb
• MAT FRASER’S WORLD RECORD FRIENDLY FRAN - YouTube
• CrossFit: The Butterfly Pull-Up
• CrossFit: The Kipping Pull-Up
• GothamChess - YouTube
• Useless Box

Monoprice doesn't actually sponsor us, we just make use of their products and can't help but talk about it.

Alex wants an audience, but really just needs a microphone.

Our hosts speak optimistically of the new Dune movie whose trailer is now available.

Danny teaches Alex about League of Legends.

Inevitably, chess and fitness make an appearance as well. Football and nascar sneak in there.

And aliens! The flying saucer in question does, in fact, sponsor us.

Music excerpts from Symphony No.3 'Scottish', Op.56 by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. See more at https://musopen.org/music/282-symphony-no-3-scottish-op-56/

Excerpt from "Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer" performed by Ella Fitzgerald obtained from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWaUACHYhx8 , provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group.

Conductor: Sy Oliver

Links:

• DUNE Trailer Debut Event Conversation / Twitter — Stephen Colbert interviewing the cast of Dune, ending with the trailer.
• Dune (2020) trailer
• Dune (2020) - IMDb
• Tenet (2020) - IMDb
• Dunkirk (2017) - IMDb
• Chess: Peterson vs backrow1720 - 268337614 - Chess.com — Where Alex blows it all for lack of trying
• League of Legends Championship Series - Wikipedia
• Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer - YouTube

Birds and their influence on gaming.

Danny is rocking it in Japanese Duolingo. Alex is deluded about leaderboards.

Books were read and fitness was achieved.

Danny will play e4 someday. Someday.

Music is too loud. But both hosts want a piano real bad. Real bad. It's too bad Alex hates music.

"Intelligibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition. While repetition without variation can easily produce monotony, juxtaposition of distantly related elements can easily degenerate into nonsense, especially if unifying elements are omitted. Only so much variation as character, length and tempo required should be admitted: the coherence of motive-forms should be emphasized." - Arnold Schoenberg, Fundamentals of Musical Composition

Music excerpts from Symphony No.3 'Scottish', Op.56 by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. See more at https://musopen.org/music/282-symphony-no-3-scottish-op-56/

Links:

• Hatoful Boyfriend - Wikipedia
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Wikipedia
• Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness by J.C. Herz
• How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
• Elizabeth Spiegel (@elizspiegel) / Twitter — Chess Educator mentioned in How Children Succeed
• Levy Rozman | GothamChess - YouTube
• Jacob Collier - With The Love In My Heart - YouTube
• Jacob Collier - Running Outta Love (feat. Tori Kelly) - YouTube
• Jacob Collier - All I Need (with Mahalia & Ty Dolla $ign) - YouTube
• Taylor Swift – exile (feat. Bon Iver) (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube
• Sammy Rae - "Kick It To Me" (Official Audio) - YouTube
• Tedeschi Trucks Band - Wikipedia
• The Phosphorescent Blues - Wikipedia
• 8-bit Music Theory Atmosphere and Motivic Development in Hollow Knight's Soundtrack - YouTube
• 8-bit Music Theory | Final Fantasy VI Analysis Series PART 1: Development of Melodic Ideas - YouTube
• 12tone - YouTube

Keanu Reeves is on our minds today.

Followup:

A conspicuously large amount of sports are discussed! Basketball, Hockey... Crossfit... Race Walking! It gets a little weird.

Danny plays some pro-level D&D and reads a pro-level book.

Music excerpts from Symphony No.3 'Scottish', Op.56 by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. See more at https://musopen.org/music/282-symphony-no-3-scottish-op-56/

Alex wants to know who won the 2016 Crossfit Games.

Danny finished Dune by Frank Herbert, and both hosts have some #opinions .

Really big swords are compared.

Alex's Reading check-in includes Watchmen and "Talent is Overrated" by Geoffrey Colvin.

Duolingo may not be as skillful as it seems.

Alex was not a good person in high school. He proves it with a story.

Music excerpts from Symphony No.3 'Scottish', Op.56 by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. See more at https://musopen.org/music/282-symphony-no-3-scottish-op-56/

Links:

• Levy Rozman | GothamChess - YouTube

Life is good. Even for introverts who need their space.

Media catchup on Hamilton, The Mandalorian, Dark, The Witcher, Tiger King, and X-Men.

Alex is not a runner, but is now running. Danny is less interested in participating.

Music theory via podcasts and youtube rings all the bells of our hosts. Music in person is more and more likely.

Alex is strangely in a good mood.

Music excerpts from Symphony No.3 'Scottish', Op.56 by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. See more at https://musopen.org/music/282-symphony-no-3-scottish-op-56/

For sale: child's pool, very cold.

Our hosts discuss their ongoing experience with Duo, the owl mascot of Duolingo. Danny puts up with Alex's fascination with the world of Crossfit. New dice have entered their lives, and new books and television are begun.

Music excerpts from Symphony No.3 'Scottish', Op.56 by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. See more at https://musopen.org/music/282-symphony-no-3-scottish-op-56/

Our hosts embrace their destinies as they discuss regretful chess playing, growing up with poor internet decisions, the X-Men, minor feats of physical fitness, video games, and even a possible return to work.

Music excerpts from Symphony No.3 'Scottish', Op.56 by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. See more at https://musopen.org/music/282-symphony-no-3-scottish-op-56/