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Show Notes: Summary Intro (0:00-30:08) 39 original signers of the US constitution CEO Mary Barra reduces General Motors’ 10-page dress code to two words: Dress appropriately. US Air Force PT Uniform NIOSH Hierarchy of Controls Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network Wyoming Doesn’t Exist Bad at Husbanding (30:08-34:17) Do you think you could crunch any louder? …
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Show Notes: Let’s not kid ourselves here, Josh and Ben both Love ‘The Mandalorian’ on Disney+. They also talk about the Korean War, COVID safety, dress codes, retirement plans, and online grocery service–just an average episode. Random stuff (0:00-49:58) The 38th Parallel Kevin Smith: a fascinating human Duke Brothers (from Trading Places) cameo in Coming to …
Show Notes: America goes crazy, Ben gets Coronavirus, Josh gives up free-to-play mobile gaming, and they both trash on Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline while enjoying it in spite of themselves. Intro (0:00-3:05) Bad at English (3:05-4:12) Trot on as normal i.e. pretend everything’s ok January 6, 2021 (4:12-23:11) An hour-by-hour timeline of what …
Show Notes Ben and Josh figure out White Christmas was a Holiday Inn remake, deal with some first world Christmas problems, and rate the magic systems of some classic Christmas movies. Intro (0:00-6:57) Fred Astaire says it with firecrackers! Christmas Problems (6:57-22:01) How to surprise someone you share an Amazon account with Mark Rober’s Glitter …
Show Notes Ben and Josh talk about why you shouldn’t second-guess your mulligans, some lesser-known COVID shortages, and what returning your shopping cart to the corral says about you. Intro (0:00-22:36) Air Force suspends ‘waist measurement’ portion of fitness test The chapter on blind orchestra auditions is actually in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink Christmas Movies and …
Show Notes The hosts of the Bad at Magic podcast unanimously endorse Disney Pixar’s ‘The Incredibles’ and yet shamelessly question the existence and purpose of minions in film. Intro (0:00-19:02) Watch Disc Golf on YouTube! The Incredibles is Incredible (19:02-1:04:37) Mise-en-scène Why The Incredibles is the BEST Superhero Movie of All Time Where is my …
Show Notes Ben and Josh discuss dead presidents, polluting the atmosphere to save the world, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, and more iterations of the trolley problem than you can shake a gauntlet at. It’s like chalk and cheese! Intro (0:00-14:53) Harry S. Truman, 33rd U.S. President How to transfer your music from Google Play …
Show Notes Ben watches weird sports, Josh makes the wrong cookies, video games aren’t as hard as they used to be back when we walked to school barefoot in the snow. Plus: child car seats are as worthless as an ashtray on a motorbike, but never shake a baby (Superfreakonomics book review). Intro (0:00-7:18) Pac …
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Show Notes Josh waves the wand of dismissal, Ben fails to teach his teenager not to text and drive, Ben gets shot, Josh spoils The Empire Strikes Back, and Josh plays World of Warcraft, but not as much as he used to… Bad at Numbers (0:00-1:09) Bad at Parenting (1:09-30:46) Ben vs. Bureaucracy (30:46-1:06:04) Desert …
Show Notes Ben struggles with his 17-year-old daughter, Josh is jealous of his family’s World of Warcraft mounts, and each reveal which fictional government they’d most like to live under (hint: it’s not Star Wars). Intro (0:00-10:38) The 30th of February? The Dunning-Kruger Effect Bad at English (10:38-12:15) Fair/Good Shout Bad at Gaming (12:15-23:11) Leeeeeroy …