Bad at Magic

About Bad at Magic

A Podcast about games, life, and other things

Publisher

Bad at Magic

Category

kids & family · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Aug 2019

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

195 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Episode 187 – Murderbot

   Josh enlists ChatGPT as a board-game referee, Ben sits around wondering if Weezer is famous enough to make him wait this long, we finally finish our love-language deep dives (with a scoring system for hugs), and discuss Martha Wells’s All Systems Red (aka "Murderbot Diaries" #1).

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Episode 186 – AI-pogalypse

   Josh falls headfirst into the ChatGPT rabbit hole, Ben rages against bureaucracy (again), and the guys ask whether the latest predictions that AI will kill us all within a decade is actually different than all of the other times we've been told the world is about to end (i.e. nuclear war, the population bomb, Y2K, the ozone hole, pandemics, terrorism, et al).

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Episode 185 – What the Flock?

   Ben and Josh mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, argue about unfinished stories, discover the limits of corporate conflict-of-interest rules, and rage against bureaucracy (again). Also the guys finally discuss automated license plate readers (ALPRs), AI-enabled surveillance, and the uncomfortable question of what responsibility comes with the power of knowing too much about people's movements in public.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

4,368

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

84

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

82

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Books guests

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