Bad at Magic
This is a podcast about games, life, and other things. Co-hosts Ben and Josh have been friends for 15 years. Our curiosity about life is at the heart of our great conversations about virtually anything. Come join us every other week as we look at the world around us and the things we enjoy with the perspective of lifetime gamers.
Episodes
July 9, 2026 • 118 mins
We revisit the joys of the 2026 World Cup, Europe has a lot less air conditioning than the United States, Josh is bad at vacationing across 3 states, Ben talks about why Ukraine is now blanketed in thin plastic wires, and in the first Bad at English in a LONG time: Ben teaches about eggcorns.
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June 25, 2026 • 127 mins
Colin Jost is made the unofficial mascot of the podcast, Josh has to activate the warranty on his month-old earbuds, Ben goes to see the Dungeons and Dragons movie but with the soundtrack played by a full orchestra, the guys sound off on the World cup coming back to North America for the first time since 1994, they examine the phenomenon of "critic-proof" movies, and finally they are decidedly, definitively Bad at Parenting.
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June 11, 2026 • 124 mins
Josh sets the record straight on Keanu's pay structure for John Wick, quits the INTVL app after one try, and takes his family to the movies 3 times. Ben reads a popular memoir, goes to the movies by himself, and invents 3 new infographics. The guys do a retrospective on the 1983 movie "Mr. Mom" by comparing it to the new Nate Bargatze movie "The Breadwinner". Also, the first new STAR WARS movie in 7 years!!!
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May 28, 2026 • 110 mins
Show Notes
- Josh and Ben do a deep dive on the American cultural practice of “seat saving” at free-to enter events, discuss the new trend of graduates booing commencement speakers who mention AI, and finally they try several claims of Star Wars in the court of B@M opinion.
- Intro & Follow-up (0-6:06)
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May 14, 2026 • 116 mins
Show Notes
- Josh joins the High School band booster club, Ben’s Optometrist “almost served” in the military, the guys recap their trip to MagicCON Vegas 2026, they discuss the “red button or blue button” dilemma, and Ben updates his thesis that the accumulation of risk controls is an uncontrolled risk (AKA “The Tyranny of Zero”).
- Intro & Follo...
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April 30, 2026 • 84 mins
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- Ben and Josh find out who is actually the most evil Disney baddie based on the crimes they committed, Josh cleans out his bookmarks bar (in 2026? Really??), Ben gets a cat (yes, really), and–CONTENT WARNING–the guys relive their vasectomies.
- Intro & Follow-up (0-8:56)
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April 16, 2026 • 118 mins
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- Ben and Josh review the fictional Project Hail Mary and the real-life Artemis II mission. They give props to the WNBA management and take them from the Chipotle app developers. The hosts explore being bad at work, sports, food, and love. And finally, they give the D&D alignment chart one last chance to help them find, well: alignment.
- Intro & Follow-up (0-39:19) ...
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April 2, 2026 • 118 mins
Show Notes
- Josh and Ben discuss the new Major League Baseball Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, Planar Standard, some Bad at Parenting, smelling nice vs. smelling clean, and they take on an AI-generated round of Mastermind you won’t want to miss!
- Intro & Follow-up (0-41:04)
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March 19, 2026 • 110 mins
Show Notes
- Intro & Follow-up (0-39:52)
- Bad at Tech & Work (39:52-1:35:05)
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March 5, 2026 • 129 mins
Show Notes
- Ben and Josh take on “the most dangerous room in the house”, group orders, skiing after 45, accountants as lawyers, and another dozen topics in the second Anthropocene Reviewed-style revue. Five stars.
- Intro & Follow-up (0-33:19)
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February 19, 2026 • 120 mins
Show Notes
- Ben and Josh debate the origins of The Bible, Josh crashes headlong into his limitations, and the guys discuss what makes a good (and bad) series and what the payoffs and pitfalls are for revisiting an intellectual property.
- Intro & Follow-up (0-27:44)
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February 5, 2026 • 135 mins
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- Josh and Ben are (surprise, surprise) bad at parenting, the Cosmere is coming to TV with the oversight of Brandon Sanderson, Ben explains what a “trash bag move” is, and the guys fruitlessly debate which is better: fiction or nonfiction?
- Intro & Follow-up (0-11:55)
- Bad at Husbanding (11:55-19:15) ...
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January 22, 2026 • 123 mins
Show Notes
- Ben and Josh talk about death, parenting, making your mark on the world, and present a new framework for analyzing business priorities they call “Ways of the Realm”.
- Intro & Follow-up (0-15:59)
- Bad a...
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January 8, 2026
Show Notes
- The Bad at Magic Disney Baddie Showdown reaches the Semifinals thanks to a sudden-death tiebreak on Patreon, Ben is bad at parenting (again), Josh’s World of Warcraft characters died to his surprising great dismay, and the hosts set their New Year’s resolutions with the now-customary bingo cards.
- Intro & Follow-up (0-11:03)
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December 25, 2025 • 134 mins
Show Notes
- Happy holidays from the Bad at Magic podcast as Ben and Josh revisit last year’s resolutions bingo cards, Josh shares some research on what probably happened to Tiny Tim in the Dickens’ classic, and the guys do a deep dive following Josh’s trip to Walt Disney World.
- Intro & Follow-up (0-15:24)
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December 11, 2025 • 122 mins
Show Notes
- Ben and Josh weigh in on the death of the penny, AI in video game development, the evils of social media, and finally a trip to the Emergency Room over the Thanksgiving holiday for Ben prompts the hosts to share their “Murtaugh List”.
- Intro & Follow-up (0-32:06)
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November 27, 2025 • 128 mins
Show Notes
- Ben and Josh discuss why Elon Musk threatened to buy Hasbro Corporation, office potlucks, fender benders, political thrillers that have come true 30 years later, some revisions that need to be made to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and finally, the new movie on Netflix called ‘A House of Dynamite’ about what could happen if someone launched an Inter-continen...
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November 13, 2025 • 153 mins
Show Notes
- Ben and Josh tentatively embrace the newest Magic set (Avatar: The Last Airbender) prior to its release, Josh complains about Daylight Savings Time (again), Presidents do (or don’t) catch fainting people standing behind them, the first round of the Bad at Magic Disney Baddie Showdown “sweet 16” wraps up, and the hosts discuss the scandal surrounding Silicon Valley sta...
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October 30, 2025 • 107 mins
Show Notes
- In this potpourri episode, Josh wrestles with Microsoft Corporation, Ben goes camping on Tatooine, Josh has another fast food disaster, the AWS outage turns smart beds into panini presses (#aboringdystopia), join in on the 2025 Disney Baddie Showdown, and hang in there for the first ever post-credits scene in Podcast history.
- Intro & Follow-up (0-27:03)
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October 16, 2025 • 117 mins
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- Ben responds to the church shooting in Michigan, Josh faces a Halloween costume crisis, Ben starts Year 2 at Hogwarts, Josh has WORDS about the book he’s been reading, and the guys share their thoughts on the brand-new movie Tron: Ares (SPOILER WARNING).
- Intro & Follow-up (0-27:25)
- Bad at So...
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