Episode 52 - Pin from The Two Vague Podcast

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Episode 52 - Pin

1 hour 9 minutes Posted Jul 11, 2022 at 8:15 pm.

Seasonal fruits, fascinating cloth, plugs, and sockets

The word pin in chess, Adam the chess oracle, and playing games with the family

Ben wins toilet paper at church, a Venn diagram, and a paper of pins

Personal Identification Numbers, pin cushions, and Montague Redgrave

Norah explains what is a pin table is, and discussing tactile interactions in games

Ben almost gets a 300 in bowling club, and grandma beats Tom and Norah

The bowling congress, don’t stab your baby, and the safety pin

Ben talks about punk rock, the song “Needles and Pins,” and “slacktivism”

Holding hats and hair with pins, and getting pinned by your partner in college

Collecting pins at PAX, the value of Disney pins, and pinup girls

The social media pinning mistake, and why are they called rolling pins?

Quiet enough to hear a (rolling) pin drop, pinstriped things, and pinwheels

Pin the tail on the donkey, and the pinhole camera

Why it’s called pinball, and playing pinball video games for nostalgic purposes

A video game stretch from Norah, and Ben’s PopCap beta testing experiences

The Lupin the 3rd connection to the laserdisc game Cliffhanger

The World Ends With You, the Nintendo DS, NEO: TWEWY, and “80s pins”

Neku learns the power of friendship, and Sho Minamimoto uses many math quotes

Not a breakfast from Denny’s, the noise, TGI Fridays, and Tower Records

Closing the show with an uncomfortable phrase from Norah

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Norah joins Ben this week to talk about the word pin! It’s a fastener! It’s a connector! It’s a target! It holds things in place! Is there anything “pin” can’t do? Topics include: chess, pin phrases, bowling, punk rock, pin collections, pinball, laserdisc games, and the TWEWY franchise

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