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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