Episode 67 - Economy

After a refreshing holiday respite, Ben is back with his amazing autistic friend Andrew to talk about his latest creative endeavor.  Andrew shares the deets on the contents of and inspiration behind his latest zine, “An Actually Autistic Window on Economics.”  After the definition formalities have concluded, the masters of “stream of consciousness” type conversation, Ben and Andrew, talk about EVs, the perils of Twitter, the building blocks of accounting, child labor, instant coffee, TicketMaster, Lucas Pope’s game “Papers Please,” and and the John Hughes classic “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”  They close the show by discussing weather or not the video games industry is recession-proof.

00:00:21 - Chairs, Stools, and the Poang twins start the show!
00:03:03 - Pandemic globalization stories and which word is scarier, economy or economics?
00:06:40 - The definition of this week’s word, and marketing brushless power master cars
00:10:00 - Etymology, ecology, economics, exactly the same amount of cool, and autism 
00:12:52 - The economics of social media, billionaires making trouble, and Weird Al
00:16:15 - Reddit for people with short attention spans, and Andrew’s inspiration for the zine
00:19:09 - The discipline of accounting, recognizing your own value, and Scrooge McDuck 

FUN FACT: Allen F. Morgenstern coined the phrase “work smarter not harder” in the 1930s.

00:23:11 - Newsies, holding stuff, intangible assets, good will, and humanity
00:28:04 - How things move and flow, emotional racketeering, girl scouts, and mayonnaise.
00:31:04 - Andrew thinks Folgers bought Seattle’s Best, and Ben’s question about the zine
00:34:41 - According to the accounting equation you can have positive equity or Kanye West
00:39:02 - Twitter celebrity stories, the good part of social media, and prayers to the algorithm 
00:42:25 - Taylor Swift tickets, owning the “mechanicals,” leverage, and Bob Dylan
00:45:26 - Southwest Airlines, efficiency, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - CME scene @39:23
00:47:24 - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and timing the path of the movie
00:50:14 - A judgement on Daffy Duck’s personality and back to “the Merc”
00:53:26 - Pork-bellies, soy, Andrew’s new sticker idea, and Ferris Bueller’s wisdom

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Ferris’ Beatles monologue @05:21
00:55:47 - Favorite -isms, Andrew’s communism example, and missing supplies
00:59:51 - Large scale corruption, the trouble with consolidated dictatorships, and FIFA
01:03:49 - Ben explains the game Papers, Please (created by Lucas Pope) to Andrew

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Ben Stein’s second scene  @10:44
01:06:35 - Ben Stein’s (not Jimmy Kimmel’s) money and accrual basis accounting
01:10:01 - Andrew has a message for the listeners, and remembering John Hughes movies
01:12:49 - Prepare yourself for Ben’s dramatic reading, too much live, and the deadest pan

01:14:57 - Andrew’s suggestion, and Ben asks, “are video games recession-proof?”
01:18:29 - Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon versus Jon Bauman, and closing the show

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