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Ben and J discuss: long car trips, only going to the beach once on their beach trip, dancing at weddings and middle school socials, basketball, ridiculously cheap inflatable things, waterbeds, bounce house stories, photo albums, and deleting apps.

Show Notes: 

Alibaba - https://www.alibaba.com/ 

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Attic Scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1j1DUfWlq8  

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Alternate Titles: 

GPS Purgatory

Jostley McJostleson

Make It Take It: Recess Law

Cool Points are Flying

Maybe You Need a Waterbed 

Is It Inflatable?

Gives Me the HEEBS

Bounce House Stories

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Ben and J discuss: tie-dye, fake dating profile, Ben’s brain Roulette wheel, treasure, Olympic medals, Atomic Habits, incremental change, reflecting on social media impact, bathing suits, 30 minutes of fun, and the Roanoke Times Twitter.

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Snoke is Lincoln - https://www.businessinsider.com/star-wars-snoke-inspired-by-lincoln-2016-1#:~:text=Supreme%20Leader%20Snoke%20appears%20to,and%20he's%20definitely%20a%20hologram. 

Price of Silver - https://www.monex.com/silver-prices/ 

Makeup of Olympic Medals- https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/olympics/news/what-are-olympic-medals-made-of/ojnyfhcxxvhqrsaz2lljhdac 

Price associated with winning Olympic Medals - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/how-much-athletes-at-beijing-olympics-get-for-winning-medals.html#:~:text=The%20data%20showed%20the%20U.S.,silver%20and%20%2415%2C000%20for%20bronze. 

Atomic Habits - https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits 

The Roanoke Times’ Twitter Account (don’t follow) - https://twitter.com/roanoketimes?lang=en 

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Alternate Titles: 

We Should Tie-Dye Some Stuff

The Office and Ranch Dressing

Oozing the Whimsy 

Custom Made King Sized Dinosaur Sheets

Well Respected Foes

Do I Even Want a Bathing Suit?

Car Wash Ragers

The Mystery of the Roanoke Times

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Ben and J discuss: the Lost Colony of Roanoke, doing their first (sort of) live show, strange Uber endeavors, frustrating customer service, Universal roller coasters, their wicks of the peek, owning a luxury movie theater and carnival games. 

Show Notes: 

The Roost Tour -  https://www.rtxevent.com/normal-pod-tour/ 

Sonic the Hedgehog 1 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3794354/ 

Logan’s Candy Company - https://www.tiktok.com/@loganscandies?lang=en 

Ben’s Wick of the Peek: Project Hail Mary - https://www.audible.com/pd/Project-Hail-Mary-Audiobook/B08G9PRS1K 

J’s Wick of the Peek: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12412888/ 

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Alternate Titles: 

I’m Not Nervous, I’m FREEZING

Strange Uber Endeavors 

Pamela’s Got Your Back

Mercury Was in Retrograde in Orlando

I’m in on Watermelons

The Movies and Coke Go Together  

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Ben and J discuss: The Immortal, living in the present, flour fight, performing fun, social media sign off, algorithms, life updates, automatic responses, enemies of sunflowers, and banana water.

Show Notes:

Turns out there’s an entire website just for books about Abraham Lincoln… here’s the page for his comic books: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/abraham-lincoln/comic/  

Invincible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_(TV_series) 

The Wisdom of Insecurity: https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjOqKSb4-v3AhUDiMgKHa0mDHgYABAQGgJxdQ&ae=2&sig=AOD64_3ahkgcuwG5J6Npb_s3ght14RKZEA&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwiMmpmb4-v3AhVIgnIEHf9uDlgQ0Qx6BAgEEAE 

Guess How Much I Love You: https://www.amazon.com/Guess-How-Much-Love-You/dp/0763642649 

Ben’s Wick of the Peek - Flour fights/ Living in the moment

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Alternate Titles: 

Would Immortality Change You?

Living for the Now

Performing Fun

Undoing Learned Behaviors

Computers vs. Brains

Enemies on all Fronts

Bazooka the Rabbit 

Banana Water

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Ben and J discuss: car washing, their super awesome Halo LAN party, Beth’s Mother’s Day present, some numbers, text communication, conflict resolution, Kim Kardashian’s surprising height, things Abe Lincoln survived, a character personality quiz,, twitter and snapchat. 

Show Notes:

LAN Party - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN_party 

Peloton Treadmill - https://www.onepeloton.com/shop/tread 

Kim Kardashian is actually 5’2” not 5’1”- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kardashian  

J’s Video about NC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-0VV1PM7-o 

Personality quiz - https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/characters/ 

John Green TikTok - yeah, he deleted that

Tweet Delete - https://tweetdelete.net/ 

Dunning-Kruger Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect 

 

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Alternate Titles: 

There Was No Mountain Dew

Sometimes You Need A Few Numbers In Your Day

Haha

I Don’t Want Google to Know

Lying about North Carolina

Indestructible Abe 

Ben is Ted Lasso Confirmed 

Maybe I Finally Get Snapchat

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Ben and J discuss: Roanoker updates, billboards, motivation after completing big goals, more Abe Lincoln Fun Facts, the recognizability of Harry Houdini, and J’s secret love of magic tricks. 

Show Notes:

Accepted- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accepted 

Lincoln Fact Source - https://www.lincolncollection.org/collection/categories/item/?cat=14&item=56805&page=18 

Harry Houdini (in case you don’t know) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini 

Collective Wick of the Peek (don’t actually look at this though) - The Prestige: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film) 

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Alternate Titles: 

Platinum Level Experience 

WE’RE ON A BILLBOARD! 

Move to Roanoke - Be on a Billboard

What Comes After Everest?

Lincoln Owned a Liquor Store

Magic is Cool Man

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Ben and J discuss: plant echo chambers, not bending over, yoga, appliances not working, the Car Paradox, fashion and confidence, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, prohibition, the history of powdered wine, Ben’s new 3-D printer, Lincoln’s vineyard, niche interests, and a throwback to our bad cocktail idea.

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Show Notes:

Houndsy Kibble Dispenser - https://www.houndsy.com/ 

Tai Chi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_chi 

Book that talks about The Car Paradox - https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Money-Timeless-Lessons-Happiness/dp/B08D9WJ9G8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1651242729&sr=8-1

Plato’s Cave Tik Tok - https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd4Nw9tm/ 

Reddit Post about Wine Bricks - https://www.reddit.com/r/PopcornCulture/comments/u4fopp/there_is_also_a_distillery_that_exists_to_just/  

Series of Unfortunate Events - https://www.amazon.com/Unfortunate-Collection-Beginning-Miserable-Penultimate/dp/B00NHYPQQO 

Pop Episode 31 where we invent Wurdle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CzoHH3haUo 

J’s Wick of the Peek: The Plant Sprayer - https://amzn.to/3KgN0Al 

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Alternate Titles: 

The Nature of Plants

The Wrong Way to Think About Yoga

Time to Change My Entire Life Again

There’s No Right Way to Own a Cool Car

Am I the One in the Cave?

Brick of Wine

Lego - Prohibition on Toys

Anticipation of the Magic

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Ben and J discuss: more health challenge updates, veins (skip to 09:15 if that freaks you out), dopamine hits, motivational sayings, woodworking, our generations retirement hobbies, toys, rocks and gemstones. 

Show Notes

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/0743269519 

Dopamine Nation - https://www.amazon.com/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indulgence/dp/152474672X 

The Fault in Our Stars - https://www.amazon.com/Fault-Our-Stars-John-Green/dp/014242417X 

Cars - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cars_(film) 

Wall-E - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E 

Erosion machine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_discharge_machining 

Snow White - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film) 

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Alternate Titles: 

I Will NOT Lose My Streak  

Gotta Show Everyone the Pythons

You Can Do Hard Things 

You’ll Think of Something 

The 7 Dwarfs ACTUALLY Own the Kingdom

It Always Comes Back to Treasure

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Ben and J discuss: the differences among pastas, fitness challenge updates, social media, flip phones for kids, Luke’s imagination, corn based powered wine aka bourbon, a 4 day work week (with a twist!), and swimming pools.

Show Notes

Dopamine Nation - https://www.amazon.com/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indulgence/dp/152474672X 

J’s Vlog from last week - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJK_bUJLU4 

Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon 23 year - https://www.oldripvanwinkle.com/whiskey/family-reserve-23-year/ 

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Alternate Titles: 

The Speggi and Meatballs Diet

Don’t Get Me Started on Penne

UGH, a Housephone?!

This Is Not What J Meant

Can You Powder Alcohol?

The Pop Signal > The Bat Signal

Errands Day

Now That I’m Off Social Media… 

Will It Pool?

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Ben and J discuss: J’s new look, a Star Wars theory, eye prescriptions, Year One SCB schedule, changes and structure, surveys, echo chambers, Base Set Chansey, the Kadabra lore, Ben’s first massage and the concept of Severance.

Show Notes: 

Star Wars: Rebels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Rebels 

The Mandalorian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandalorian 

Peloton - https://www.onepeloton.com/ 

Nielsen Ratings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings 

The Chansey Pokemon Card - https://www.amazon.com/Pokemon-Base-Shadowless-Holofoil-Chansey/dp/B00R6719VE 

Ben’s Wick of the Peek: getting a massage

J’s Wick of the Peek: Severance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series) 

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Alternate Titles: 

The Light Saber

Incremental Changes

The Immediacy of Tomorrow

Triangles are Stronger

Why Is No One on Twitter?!

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