Bad at Magic

Show Notes 

• Ben and Josh review some games they love (and you will too!) and wrap their minds around the PayPal/Honey Influencer controversy. Josh gets visited by the box fairy and is too matchy with his wife. Ben finishes the Russian Gulag book and endangers his marriage by unpacking the kitchen. Finally, they reflect on 2024 and build their 2025 resolution bingo cards.



• Intro & Follow-up (0-15:48)
  
  
  
  • Ben recommends:
    
    
    
    • The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough, a great book
    
    
    
    • Flow Free, mobile game, draw non-intersecting paths between dots
    
    
    
    • IHUE, mobile game, color matching
    
    
    
    • ROOT a game of woodland might and right, multiplayer boardgame with asymmetric gameplay
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • Josh recommends:
    
    
    
    • Balatro (gameplay video w/ Markiplier), a crazy mobile game twist on Poker
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  



• Bad at Tech (15:48-34:44)
  
  
  
  • Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam – MegaLag
  
  
  
  • The lawsuit – LegalEagle
  
  
  
  • Better off Ted – Lie Detector
  
  
  
  



• Bad at Italian & Bad at Husbanding (34:44-54:48)
  
  
  
  • Buon Capodanno!
  
  
  
  • Traditional Polar Plunge on NYD into the Tiber River in Rome
  
  
  
  • The Magic Coffee Table
  
  
  
  



• What I’m reading (54:48-1:07:48)
  
  
  
  • Ben: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1957 by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
  
  
  
  • Josh: Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson
  
  
  
  



• Feature: New Year’s Bingo (1:07:48-end)
  
  
  
  • Make your own New Year’s Bingo Card
  
  
  
  



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• Credits:
  
  
  
  • Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich
  
  
  
  • Transition music by Jarus Rich
  
  
  
  • Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich