Episode 57 – Business vs Government: Don’t Spit Out Your Dummy

Show Notes  Josh was 25% right about the death of Google Fiber and Ben isn’t exactly bad at magic, but let’s not rename the podcast just yet. The real reason the guys are here is to argue the fundamental purposes and motivations behind business and government–TO THE DEATH!! $49.95 only on pay-per-view!   Intro & Follow-up …

Episode 55 – World War Z : Utterly Redders

Show Notes  Perhaps we’re all part of a singular galactic intelligence called *THE ONE*. If you name your cars, what do you call them and why? Josh takes on his kid’s school after a delayed COVID exposure notification. Ben and Josh discuss their preferred streaming music services. Josh assigns his kids chores and they mutiny. …

Episode 54 – Josh and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Show Notes  Ben and Josh reflect on their time in Afghanistan, Josh remodels his bathroom, Ben falls asleep at the DMV, and Josh takes us all along for the ride on his journey of faith.  Intro/follow-up (0-50:20)  Last American military members depart Afghanistan  Worst PowerPoint slide ever  Ben vs. bureaucracy (50:20-59:37)  A typical day at …

Episode 53 – Ben vs. Board of Education

Show Notes  Herbie goes bananas, Ben goes to the movies, Josh loves the Oxford Comma, and Ben has an epic battle with the Board of Education.   Intro and follow-up (0-23:58)  Herbie goes bananas  Scarlett Johansson sues Disney  Free Guy  Seinfeld Finale …aaaaand the credits scene because it’s excellent  If you build it, they will come  MLB Field of …

Episode 52 – Ben & Josh Save the World

Show Notes  Ben and Josh celebrate 2 uninterrupted years of podcasting (!) by reliving Josh’s disastrous vacation into Arizona’s mountains and plumbing the depth of Ben’s hatred for s’mores-flavored snacks. Then they pretty much save all of humanity forever by giving answers to all of the likely and less-likely existential threats of the future.   Intro …

Episode 50 – Ten Things Every Game Needs

Show Notes  Ben and Josh discuss the ‘Ten things every game needs’ by Mark Rosewater and a whole bunch of good and bad examples.   Intro/follow-up (0-22:43)  Disc Golf World Championship 2021 FINAL HOLE MADNESS  Assume spherical cow of uniform density  Watch: Black Widow NOT: WW84  Bad at Husbanding & Josh vs. bureaucracy (22:43-41:34)  To Be Honest by Michael …

Episode 49 – Chuffed about Lying in the Military

Show Notes  Josh settles on this year’s Halloween costume just in the nick of time, Ben has a blowout summer vacation in Utah and Idaho, and they both rant about media bias, the future of humanity, Chesterton’s Fence, and dishonesty in the military.  Intro (0-33:38)  Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix  Josh after passing the …

Episode 48 – Begging the Question on Marriage

Show Notes  Ben drives 1,400 miles to Utah, Josh’s children are forbidden from chanting, and Ben’s eldest son gets married making him officially old.  Intro (0:00-5:16)  48 degree experience  Bad at Parenting (5:16-26:39)  Games Ben is playing:  Jamaica  Alhambra  Point Salad  Disc Golf  Magic: the Gathering  Bad at Logic (26:39-32:23)  Begging the question  Trial of …