Episode 507 - We Created the CRAZIEST Magic Systems
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It’s time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug and Justin answer the question, if aliens landed tomorrow and asked you to show them around Earth, what would you show them first? Doug would immediately take them to his hometown in Missouri, but not for the reason you might think. Justin, on the other hand, is buying them all a round of Malört. The dorks then dive into their main topic of creating the craziest magic systems they can think of. A few of the systems that are pitched include Bureaucracy Bending, Mixology, Nostalgia Nudging, and Carpentarcana. Things are wrapped up...
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Episode 506 - Would you survive this scenario?
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It’s time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Justin is joined by Mind Gap All-Star, Seth Trammell as Doug takes some well deserved downtime. Justin and Seth kick things off by reflecting on the last time Seth co-hosted the podcast, exactly 100 episodes ago. At the time, Doug and Seth talked about the fact that AI was getting dumber. This time, Seth gives his updated take on AI and how he believes it’s all a bubble that is about ready to burst. After a slew of hot takes, the dorks settle into their main topic: would they survive real and fictional survival scenarios? The conversation...
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Episode 505 - What If Normal Objects Had an AI Brain?
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It’s time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug and Justin ponder the question, if their lives had a 'skip intro' button, what mundane, repetitive part would they skip every single time? Doug mentions skipping small talk and this leads the guys into discussing fun, new ways Doug should handle door-to-door sales people moving forward. Our dorks then move into the main topic; inspired by the game Patch Notes Real Life Edition, they decided to do an entire episode focused on the horrors that would come from giving normal objects AI Brains. They discuss everything from couches to...
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Episode 504 - The Dark Side of Order: Exploring Lawful Evil Characters
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It’s time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug and Justin explore the concept of personality types through the lens of food, discussing what type of food they would be and why. The dorks then shift to their main topic, using the D&D alignment chart, they explore the moral complexities of characters like Darth Vader, Dolores Umbridge, Magneto, the Operative from Serenity, Javert from Les Misérables, Agent Smith from The Matrix, and many more to determine which fictional villains are truly Lawful Evil. Things are wrapped up with another round of the movie clip guessing...
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Episode 503 - Ranking the Most Traumatizing Kids’ Movie Scenes
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It’s time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug and Justin explore the weirdest food combinations they secretly love and some of their less savory eating habits. The dorks then delve into their main topic of discussing the most traumatizing scenes from kids’ movies. Some of the films discussed are The Neverending Story, The Lion King, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Watership Down, E.T., and My Girl. By the end, our guys finally start to figure out why they’re carrying around so much emotional baggage! Things are wrapped up with another round of Patch Notes: Real Life...
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Episode 502 - Why Exit Interviews Would Be TERRIFYING For Fictional Characters
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It’s time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug is joined by his wonderful wife, Jill, as they consider which fictional universe they’d live in for a year with no consequences. Next, the nerds dive into the whimsical world of fictional exit interviews. From Frodo Baggins' perilous journey to Jason Bourne's identity crisis, they explore what it would be like if these iconic characters sat down for a candid chat about their 'work' experiences. Things are wrapped up with a new game designed just for Jill: Quote or Not - WNBA edition. Jill has to figure out whether or not...
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Episode 501 - HR Gone Wild: Workplace Relationships in Fictional Universes
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It’s time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug and Justin reminisce about the most ridiculous things they believed as kids, the most universal belief being the existence of basement monsters. They then pivot to their main topic, workplace relationships in fictional universes, which was inspired by recent events at a Coldplay concert. The dorks sift through some of the most well known but problematic workplace romances in media, offer ideas for mandatory HR training in different fictional universes, and craft a custom official workplace romance policy for the MCU. Things are...
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Episode 500 - We Survived the Hot Wing Challenge
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It’s time for a very special Mind Gap Podcast; IT’S OUR 500TH EPISODE! This week, Doug and Justin cede control of the show to Mind Gap All-Star, Noah Reno, as the dorks hop into the guest seat. With everyone together, in person at Skelletones in Grand Rapids, Noah takes the guys on a ride that can only be described as a Hot One. Through the course of 10 increasingly spicy chicken nuggets, Noah asks questions and reminisces with our heroes about the last decade of nerdy debates, hot takes, and fart jokes. What seemed like a good idea leading up to recording proved to be a nightmare on our...
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Episode 499 - Fictional Sports We’d Be Champions At (or Die Trying)
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It’s time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug and Justin debate if they’d rather have a time machine or a teleportation device. With as much as they drag time travel on the show, it should be pretty easy to guess which way they lean. The dorks tease the 500th episode and Doug shares some unfortunate news - don’t worry, everyone is alright. Our heroes then dive into the main topic of fictional sports they’d be champions at…or die trying. The guys go over sports such as Quidditch, podracing, various games from the Tron universe, robot fighting, pro-bending, BASEketball, and...
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Episode 498 - Who Are YOU in the Multiverse?
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It’s time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug and Justin figure out what their kryptonite would be if they were superheroes. Spoiler, spiders and onions are absolutely brought up. The dorks then turn their attention to their main topic: what do their multiverse selves look like? Our hosts dive into how small changes in life choices most definitely resulted in other versions of themselves living very different lives. The guys then review Discord submissions from the Mind Gap community about their own multiverse-selves before diving into a speed round of multiverse-inspired “what...
info_outlineIt’s time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug and Justin figure out which fictional gadget they’d want if they could have one. Justin foolishly picked the Iron Man suit and Doug promptly talked him out of it, likely saving his life in the process. It was a heroic move on Doug’s part. The dorks then shift into the main topic of which side characters in film and TV stole the show. The guys talk about Tormund Giantsbane from Game of Thrones, Luis from Ant-Man, Han Solo, Samwise Gamgee, Garth Algar from Wayne’s World, and a bunch more.
Things are wrapped up with another round of the movie clip guessing game, where Doug plays clips from different movies and Justin does his best to guess which films they’re from.
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