SimplyPodLogical

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben debate trolley problems and argue about besties, second cousins, robots, thrill-seeking behaviour and living on loop.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben react to unpopular opinions (Halloween edition) about overrated candy, flexing with full-sized chocolate bars, children watching horror movies, and failing kids on halloween.

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On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Ben and Cristine talk about Ben's favourite things and he's not happy about it.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben answer fan questions about anything: Oprah, dating shorter men, TikTok, aliens, Love Island, education, the nail art community and people who are still asking Cristine if she wants to have a baby.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben debate trolley problems and argue about utilitarianism, good samaritan laws, shoplifting, judicial discretion, and ask you to consider the lobster.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at posts on the popular subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss bathroom monitoring, checking your partner's security footage, annoying family traditions, wearing designer, and breaking up with boys who didn't like Barbie.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben review the new films Barbie and Oppenheimer after an IRL movie theatre experience.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about Holo Taco's four year anniversary and answer audience questions about bad business advice, mood boards, using data in decisions, customer feedback, and hints for our big upcoming anniversary launch.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about the Colleen Ballinger situation, how creators can develop inappropriate relationships with their fans, and if it's possible for creators to be "friends" with their followers.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about their trip to Raleigh, North Carolina for the Holo Taco x Safiya truck event, and discuss icebreakers or how to start a conversation with somebody.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about seeing Taylor Swift live in concert for her Eras Tour at the MetLife Stadium in NJ on May 26, 2023.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at vacation themed posts on the popular subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss traveling alone, babies on planes, airport security, beach chair etiquette, and bringing your boyfriend on vacation.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben play 'Get a Million dollars but...' and discuss hypothetical scenarios they would entertain in exchange for millions of dollars.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben are back from vacation to the Dominican Republic and share stories (with a slideshow) from their trip, including: golf cart riding, private villas, Ben hustling an upgrade, island cats, and how people thought Ben was going to propose during dinner on the beach.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at posts on the popular subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss blowing your nose in public, inheritances, nepo-babies, private islands, ruining proposals, smelly lunches, and bad first impressions.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben react to Ethan Klein of the H3 Podcast alleging that their Multi-Channel Network BBTV stole over $600,000 of revenue from their channel memberships. Ben and Cristine discuss poorly worded contracts, their own experience with MCN's and creditor protection, and how this is basically the same plot as the recent Apple TV movie Tetris.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben take an alignment quiz to find out whether they lean more Jock, Nerd, Prep or Goth, or fall smack in the middle as a Normie. They discuss traditional male gender roles, rejecting social norms, mental toughness and dressing to impress.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben react to unpopular opinions on long concerts, fishing pictures in dating profiles, sleeping on the floor, dramatic introverts, being naked in front of your pets, spaghetti, and Ryan Reynolds.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben discuss the first season of The Last Of Us, a show based on a fan-favourite video game of the same name. We talk how the show compares to the video game, who's protecting who, Joel's final act and consequence, and Pedro Pascal likes painted nails.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben discuss the conclusion of the Alex Murdaugh criminal case and verdict, take a "juror attitudes" questionnaire designed to assess prosecution bias, and discuss the adversarial justice system more generally.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben discuss the Netflix series "The Ultimatum" where one partner in a couple issues an ultimatum to get married or break-up. We consider the rationale behind marriage, emotional manipulation, social influences, and our own view on marriage.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben administer a Cat IQ test for their two cats Menchie and Zyler to determine whether their fluffy children rank high in feline intelligence or score low like a lovable cuddly idiots.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben react to unpopular opinions on sleeping, vinyl music, McDonalds, toxicity in online gaming, animals over humans and business hotels. It is what it is.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben play Guess The Recipe, where one of us shares only the ingredients to a recipe and the other person has to guess which food or dish it makes.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben review & answer magazine quizzes written for teenage girls in the late 1990's to early 2000's.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben share their picks for the best music, series, movie, online content, video games, and nail polish of 2022.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at C(h)ristmas themed posts on the popular subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss Cristmas cookies, banning alcohol, Cristmas cards from babies, and suing family members. Happy Holodays!

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at some unread e-mails in Cristine's inbox and talk about unsolicited business offers, Established Titles, cryptocurrency, industry jargon, and shoppable online content.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben present the SimplyPodLogical 2022 Holoday gift guide and give you some gift giving ideas for the types of people in your lives.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben react to unpopular opinions on soup, the death penalty, bbq chicken pizza, Taylor Swift, graveyards, and hating children.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben discuss what the heck is happening with twitter, Elon Musk's takeover, social media, verification, and monetizing tweets.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben review the new film 'Don't Worry Darling', Directed by Olivia Wilde starring Florence Pugh & Harry Styles, and discuss feminism, plot holes, and Ben reveals his favourite bad movie.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about Taylor Swift's new album 'Midnights', the controversy over "fat-phobia" in her music video for Anti-Hero, and the stay-at-home girlfriend trend on TikTok.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at posts on the popular subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss halloween, candy, scaring people, holding babies, and finish the episode with a Halloween candy fantasy draft.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine has turned 30 years old for the 4th time, and Cristine and Ben answer questions from the audience about birthdays, sharing celebrations, swapping gifts, lavish parties and ranking birthday cakes.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Ben and Cristine's sister Jen review five horror movies: Midsommar, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Witch, Men, and Cube.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about gambling influencers, Twitch paying top creators less, big streamers moving from Twitch to YouTube, Taylor Swift, cheating in chess, and Drake.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben play a game of would you rather (this or that) and talk about their celebrity crush, cleaning ladies, grey's anatomy, the monarch, and how long human beings have been on Earth.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben review school themed r/amitheasshole posts and give their hot takes about bragging about getting into college, cheating on an exam, failing a course and sneezing in class.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben answers audience submitted questions about how YouTube has changed, travelling to the US, Holo Taco, sociology, working together as a couple and more.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben are joined by Safiya and Tyler and they talk about how they met, YouTube, social media, Ottawa, and cats.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben react to unpopular opinions on texting etiquette, warm toilet seats, gun safety and children, bragging about having and not having kids, and garbage bowl superiority.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben take turns describing television shows and guessing if the show is real or if the other person made it up.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about Cristine being bad at video games, comments she's received, bad criticism versus constructive criticism, and gatekeeping gaming.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at posts on the popular subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss sharing drinks, strangers in wedding photos, waking up your spouse, garden gnomes, slurping spaghetti, and puppet themed weddings.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben celebrate three years of Holo Taco and answer questions from the audience about Cristine's nail polish brand.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben react to weird Canadian laws about scaring children, skinny dipping, noise complaints, witchcraft, and falsely advertising maple syrup.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben react to audience-submitted comments on what feeling "old" is like if you're over 30, and what you wish you knew when you were in your twenties.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben see if they can guess the YouTube creator based on the title of their first video, title of their most viewed video, and a random fun fact.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about a Google Engineer who thinks the Google has created an artificial intelligence that has become sentient, and the ethics of androids becoming self aware based on Cristine's play-through of Detroit: Become Human.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben read podcast audience submitted "Am I The A**hole" posts and offer their opinions.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben discuss Bill C-11, a proposed law in Canada that would regulate streaming platforms and compel them to promote "Canadian Content".

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben play 'Would You Rather' and react to fan submitted scenarios.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben discuss Dan Howell's recent video 'Why I Quit YouTube', and Cristine shares her thoughts on the mental health implications of being an online figure.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Ben is joined by Derek the Financial Advisor to look at financially themed posts on r/amitheasshole.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben give their thoughts on the public defamation trial involving Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, and then take a narcissistic personality quiz.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine attempts to describe the plot of four movies to Ben to see if he recognizes them.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Ben shares that he recently retired from his day job as a crime statistics analyst for the Canadian government and Cristine shares her thoughts on her multiple careers.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Ben and Cristine talk about the new Netflix documentary 'Bad Vegan' and the trend of documentaries about women being defrauded by loser men.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Ben explains the plot of popular movies while Cristine tries to guess the name of the movie.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben discuss the ongoing protests, referred to as the "Freedom Convoy 2022", that began with a small group of truckers and turned into an 11-day-thus-far occupation of most of downtown Ottawa, the city where they live in Canada.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben take a Canadian Slang quiz and a British-Irish Dialect Quiz.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben—who are Canadian—take an American dialect quiz that analyzes your language and pronunciation to guess which region in the US you're from.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at popular posts on the subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss the politics of Christmas dinners, gift giving, and mothers-in-law.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben answer a questionnaire to determine if their cats have psychopathic tendencies.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine designs a pop culture quiz and puts Ben's knowledge to the test.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben discuss YouTube removing the public dislike counter and consider the biggest dislikes (and a couple likes) of 2021.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine takes a pop culture quiz to see if she knows anything about popular culture.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben react to unpopular opinions on eating tea, speed limits, finding a rich man, messy snacks, taking candy away from children, and eating dessert before dinner.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about Cristine's new scholarship at Carleton University, how it works, and reflect on why creating this scholarship was important to her.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at posts on the popular subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss birthday parties, deceptive gift giving, food allergies, and deleting wedding photos.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about the Netflix series Squid Game, personal responsibility and social structure, capitalism and social inequality, schoolyard games, fan theories, season 2, and which player they would be in Squid Game.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben are joined by a Certified Financial Planner to answer questions from the audience about debt, financial literacy, planning for retirement, taxes, and how tf to save money.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben discuss the new documentary LuLaRich about the multi-level marketing company Lularoe, pyramid schemes, cults, and #girlboss feminism.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben answer your most burning questions: the worst parts of being internet famous, the Met Gala, wanting privacy, the Frenemies drama, quitting YouTube, and coffee vs. tea.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Ben is joined by his brother Matt to talk about brotherhood, their childhood, dating, grad school, tax shelters, Taylor Swift and travel.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben guess the price of random objects and see if they know the cost of household items, fighter jets, historical artifacts and more.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at posts on the popular subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss skipping grades, gifted kids, old people at weddings, wearing shorts around your mom, and do you know what toppings your partner gets on a burrito?

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and her sister Jen talk about sister rivalries, sibling comparisons, hating each other vs. finding some common ground, and girl stuff. Apologies to Ben, we didn't have enough time to have him on this episode.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about luxury brands, consumerism, brand vs art value, fake jewelry, Fiji water, and expensive nail polish.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about Cristine's nail polish brand Holo Taco now 2 years in, the second anniversary Remix collection, the best and worst parts about releasing nail polish, product costs, sponsoring nail artists and influencers as a brand, naming polishes, and what's coming for the rest of 2021.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at posts on the popular subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss locking freezers, fake baby showers, paying artists, and four hour-long baths.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben take the DND moral alignment test and talk about Dungeons and Dragons, libertarians, families and loyalty, authority and governance, and who is more chaotic.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben give a life update and talk about the vaccine, leaving the house, travelling, and seeing people again, Twitch streamers, and what Cristine thinks about going live on the internet.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about YouTube Original Shows and pitch their ideas for original YouTube programming.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben look at posts on the popular subreddit r/amitheasshole and discuss bathroom etiquette, selfish husbands, nude drawings, selling sandwiches, and letting your kids use their cell phones.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about their earliest childhood memories, worst injuries as a kid, grade school, and embarrassing stories.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about Dream, Minecraft, cheating at video games, fandoms and the unintended consequences, and how Cristine feels about some of her own fanbase.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben go through the Simply Nailogical business email inbox and reflect on the types of unsolicited emails and business offers Cristine receives.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben give unsolicited relationship advice to posters on reddit (r/relationships) about proposals, engagement rings, Godzilla, joke theft, arguing with family and whether all babies look the same.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about how the mainstream media covers YouTubers, whether journalists understand social media, articles about Mr. Beast and James Charles, and employment law.

On this episode of SimplyPodLogical, Cristine and Ben talk about the difference between Millennials and Gen Z, the TikTok wars, who is the worst generation, and whether they understand zoomer culture or if they are cheugy.