Smart Nonsense

Hosted by Dylan Jardon &amp; Henry Belcaster

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348

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Nov 2025

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We make nerdy stuff cool.

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November 11, 202535 min

We’re trying to launch this f*cking app | Smart Nonsense #360

Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/Join the waitlist for our new app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://clipt.co/Timestamps:(0:00) Intro(3:09) The American Flag Snuggie(9:23) The absurd hockey gear exam bet(11:27) The $150k app and why software is so hard(20:50) We need a hot mic(23:14) Rematching for 3 hours a day(25:24) Building Xbox Live for studying(30:25) The family business and the backend engineer girlfriendHenry:🎥 Henry's Vlog: : https://youtu.be/k6vHpBUfbb8?t=128🎥 Henry's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/henrybelcaster/🎥 Henry's Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@henrybelcasterDerd:🎉 Derd's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dummy.derd/#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcasterRecorded October 30, 2025

September 20, 202556 min

My Bike Got Stolen Again.. | Smart Nonsense #359

Newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/SAT app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://www.clipt.co🕘Timestamps:(0:00) Intro(1:05) Reading Atlas Shrugged in the park(9:53) A suspicious guy on a bike(14:49) "Where is my knife?"(16:09) The bloodshot eye(19:15) The cool cucumber(20:50) Wiping fingerprints off the backpack(22:30) Pursuing the thief(24:40) Pursue!(26:42) The $25-for-medications story(30:03) The $100 bill get-out-of-jail-free card(31:21) Finding a cop, but it's a traffic cop(34:55) Oh no, a precinct jump(37:46) The police come in hot(40:29) Giving the police the phone(43:24) AirTags aren't real-time(44:40) The bike is recovered, but he's gone(46:27) The cop needs his lunch(47:50) Texting from the back of the squad car(49:00) All roads lead to chess(52:23) Now there are cops in the park(54:10) They're rolling up(55:20) Ratting on your friends(56:11) He's going to prisonRecorded September 11, 2025#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcaster

September 19, 202528 min

I went to the south of France | Smart Nonsense #358

Newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/SAT app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://www.clipt.co🕘Timestamps:(0:00) Intro(2:09) The piano is for happiness, not for show(3:09) Let's be jingle guys!(3:56) You can't put a piano in a belt loop(4:47) Recorder or creative writing?(5:28) An absolute trip fiasco(6:17) The buddy of a Twitter buddy(7:42) The definition of sunk cost(8:53) Deciding not to go on a trip the morning of(10:44) "I already lost respect for you"(11:34) Wildcard friend gets deported(12:28) Arriving in France with no housing(13:02) Crazy Avis(15:00) French customer service don't give a f...(16:15) We got to call the time!(17:40) The south of France is hot(18:27) Learning to drive a stick shift(19:51) The Zamboni yips(21:26) Cliff diving in France(23:43) Rosé is cheap(24:52) Pizza girl in a bougie town(26:33) Trying to flirt in French(27:36) Oh god...Recorded August 23, 2025#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcaster

September 18, 202531 min

How do heat seeking missiles heat seek?? | Smart Nonsense #357

Newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/SAT app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://www.clipt.co🕘Timestamps:(0:00) Intro(2:05) The episode that was banished(3:06) His mom watched the unlisted pod(3:35) The friend who found the unlisted episode(5:08) A catch-22 in a new relationship(7:24) I now fully understand racism(7:55) The loud Africans at the movie in the park(9:53) The one thing a white lady hates(10:48) Banished from the five-star hotel beach(11:09) The new self-driving car thread(13:28) Full self-driving vs. the total fear(15:16) Self-driving missiles(16:07) The gamification of war(17:33) Me flying vs. the IG reels(19:04) What is smut?(19:39) How a heat-seeking missile works(22:31) Evasive maneuvers against a missile(23:33) Lemur 3: The new pilot(24:09) How to dodge a missile(27:11) What happens when a missile misses?(28:18) The final resting place of missiles(29:56) Using flares to fool a missileRecorded August 8, 2025#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcaster

August 10, 202533 min

Should You Have an Arranged Marriage? | Smart Nonsense #356

Newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/SAT app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://www.clipt.co🕘Timestamps:(0:00) Intro(0:47) Part II of the love and marriage saga(1:25) 7 hours a day on marital research(2:08) Tim ferris is a serious goose, not a silly goose(2:44) Getting adults to arrange things is impossible(3:25) The book of answers (our new bible)(3:55) The isosceles we have: Competing vs. slugging(6:05) The joe rogan jiu-jitsu analogy(6:45) Our approach to marriage is wrong(8:23) The case for arranged marriages(11:59) We marry families, not people(15:15) The enlightenment and romantic love(18:35) How the lower class started dating (19:21) Hollywood propagating romantic love(21:05) America is a bunch of rebellious teenagers(23:09) The girlfriend's grandma on the lips(25:44) Marrying for passion vs. values(30:52) Why we should be more family-centered(32:23) How arranged marriage was portrayed as evilRecorded August 5, 2025#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcaster

August 9, 202552 min

Should You Live Together Before Marriage?? | Smart Nonsense #355

Newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/SAT app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://www.clipt.co🕘Timestamps:(0:00) The Pod Was Doomed From the Start(0:15) Yesterday's episode was a dumpster fire(0:46) "Jump out the window" moments(1:23) When a joke goes wrong(1:49) My skin was Bible paper thin(2:06) Paper thin skin and company finances(2:42) The downsides of profit sharing(4:08) Changing our company's value system in a week(4:48) Our "bastard child business"(5:59) A man is only as big as the things that make him angry(6:30) Why did I cuff my shorts like that?!(7:29) Bringing back the old Smart Nonsense(9:11) The podcast might change forever(10:24) Living together before marriage?(13:12) Why we're trying to find religion(15:16) We're doing things historically we wouldn't do(16:45) 5 reasons living together before marriage is a bad idea(17:46) The Spaniard vs. Church(26:40) Everything is figure outable(27:47) Cohabitating focuses on the wrong things(33:29) Easy to break up, hard to get divorced(42:45) Everyone's ugly when they're 60(47:50) You don't get ready, you just figure it out(51:54) The importance of "we'll figure it out"Recorded July 31, 2025#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcaster

August 8, 202519 min

My Suspicious Massage | Smart Nonsense #354

Newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/SAT app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://www.clipt.co🕘Timestamps:(0:00) The "Lost" Fourth of July Episode(0:49) Cashing in a "Make-A-Wish" for an Ad Read(1:28) Hating Acting & The Ad Read Meltdown(2:44) The Roundabout Plan to Become Tom Cruise(3:40) The Navy vs. Air Force Flight Squadron Debate(5:49) Getting Blue Angels Clout for YouTube(6:36) The Time I Puked All Over Myself on a Plane(8:04) Flying Blue Angels: Joystick or Weapon?(9:36) The Glorious Sound of the A10 Warthog(10:42) The Naked Massage Experience(12:02) My Butt Was Clenched "Real Tight"(15:10) Boys Weekend & Why Golf Is a Ponzi Scheme(17:03) Getting Drunk & Mastering the Six-Iron(18:43) Breaking 100 with a Single Club(19:07) Getting Grounded & Taking Your Shoes OffRecorded July 19, 2025#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcaster

June 28, 202521 min

I Met an A-List Actor | Smart Nonsense #351

Newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/SAT app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://www.clipt.co🕘Timestamps:(0:00) Siesta: my secret work-avoidance hack(1:09) Lake meetings: executive therapy for us(1:53) My weird memory vs. chess prodigies(2:47) Tiger Woods' golf vs. my brain fog(3:40) I land planes. You can't.(4:54) My heart's expanding (with... something?)(5:10) Warning: current dates, DO NOT LISTEN.(6:22) Shocking: girls can be funny!(8:23) Friends who are girls = dating chaos engine(9:31) Matchmaking: it's "lindy," so it's ancient.(11:28) Dating pools: hers shrinks, mine explodes.(12:30) Guys don't approach? I'm busy dancing.(13:37) That time we saw "Matthew McConaughey" playing tennis(15:52) My celebrity magnet: a random tennis court(17:27) I'm a "phenomenal" tennis coach (stuck on basics)(18:48) My terrible batting form, now on a tennis court(20:25) My D1 tennis player dating phase (RIP)(20:51) Friendship: low reward, high risk.(21:18) Tennis addiction: my love language.Recorded June 24, 2025#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcaster

June 27, 202527 min

We Figure Out How to Make a Viral Game | Smart Nonsense #350

Newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/SAT app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://www.clipt.co🕘Timestamps:(0:00) I'm a mega-influencer now (and I use the toilet for Twitter)(0:58) My sacred Twitter time on the toilet(1:35) Munchkins vs. healthy wraps (I swear it was health)(1:59) Our friend just discovered Geoguessr five years late(2:53) The boys booted up Geoguessr at 1 AM(3:50) Geoguessr's game design: totally clueless(4:07) Playing Geoguessr with friends makes me happy(4:54) Geoguessr's flaw: no multipliers for my dominance(5:46) Geoguessr's fuzzy scoring system is just... bad(6:59) Geoguessr's mysteries: miles, kilometers, or just vibes?(7:24) Geoguessr's sound design: chef's kiss(8:16) Geoguessr makes millions, even with terrible multiplayer(12:45) Geoguessr's secret weapon: "monkey brain" addiction(13:34) Dropped in a Romanian forest alley: Geoguessr's worst nightmare(14:37) Brain Blast's perfect ramp: from easy to "challenge question"(16:15) Our app launch goal: minimum viable profitability!(17:18) Why I'm terrible at Brain Blast (it's not me, it's the game)(17:47) Hunter's "ethnoguessr" strategy: just look at the people(19:10) Geoguessr's simple pricing: pay to play, suckers!(21:09) Brain Blast pricing: pay to feel like a god(24:09) "Just copy what works!" - podcasting's ultimate wisdom(26:27) Our main metric: how many hours you lose to our appRecorded June 19, 2025#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcaster

June 22, 202522 min

I’m a Caveman That Learned Calculus | Smart Nonsense #349

Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.smartnonsense.com/Join the waitlist for our new app: https://www.brainblast.com/Hire a video editor: https://clipt.co/Timestamps:(0:00) Intro(0:34) Dylan's GrubHub credit card hacks(0:58) Why I should cancel my Amex Platinum card(2:58) Winning three championships (I'm kind of a big deal)(3:42) Soccer vs. Hockey shifts: a chaotic debate(4:59) Dylan the "banshee" on the soccer field(7:39) Obsessing over tennis game design(9:06) Tennis scoring is secretly brilliant(11:00) Why football's Hail Mary is peak game design(12:53) KO comebacks and Black Swan KOs(14:50) How hockey fixed its boring overtime(17:01) Are penalty kicks better than shootouts?(17:48) Making our game fairer than the SAT(19:57) Why Desmos's UI/UX is so bad(21:35) The mystery of the "y=x" graph(22:37) My buddy's to-do list app paradoxHenry:🎥 Henry's Vlog: : https://youtu.be/k6vHpBUfbb8?t=128🎥 Henry's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/henrybelcaster/🎥 Henry's Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@henrybelcasterDerd:🎉 Derd's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dummy.derd/#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcasterRecorded June18, 2025