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This episode we cover our visit to Central Florida Comic Con. We go over the book The Fellowship of the Ring. We cover the movies The Princess Bride and LEGO Movie II. We talk about using the Fantasy Grounds program to play Starfinder with friends in Australia. We review the board games Villainous and Space Marine Adventures: Labyrinth of the Necrons. We compare the sports miniatures games Boufbowl and Blitz Bowl with each other. We talk about the video games Little Dragons Cafe and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime. Finally we talk about our district chess tournament and the local Odyssey of the Mind tournament. Intro and Outro music is by melodysheep, licensed under creative commons share-alike license. Support his educational music and videos at www.symphonyofscience.com.
We talk to comedian Beth Appel about ODYSSEY OF THE MIND, the middle-and-high-school competition designed to encourage creative problem solving. What got Beth so obsessed? How is it not like a quiz bowl or a math team or other nerdy competitive things? What's with all the building things out of wood? We get into all that and MORE! Plus Will is into a teahouse he visited in Beijing and Anthony likes Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History.