Show Notes

  • Josh advocates for sending signals through colored Trick-or-Treat buckets, Ben finishes reading “The New Jim Crow” and the hosts show why being Bad @ things is OK thanks to the lens of Amy Edmundson’s “Spectrum of Causes of Failures”.
  • Intro & Follow-up (0-27:25)
    • 109 IS a prime number
    • Dear Hank and John return after Hank’s cancer
    • Marvel Magic cards
  • Bad at social cues (27:25-40:52)
    • Colored Halloween Buckets
    • It’s Not OK to Police Co-Workers’ Pronouns
  • What I’m Reading (40:52-57:45)
    • Josh
      • The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
    • Ben
      • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
      • Making It So – A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
  • Feature – Bad at Failure (57:45-end)
    • How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death – Freakonomics Radio
    • Michael Scott being an Amazing Salesman supercut
    • Do your taxes for free on IRS.gov
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  • Credits:
    • Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich
    • Transition music by Jarus Rich
    • Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich