📚 References & Lore
- The Mystery Box — J.J. Abrams' Favorite Trick. Still Unopened, Still Unpaid For.
- The Midas Touch — And Its Opposite, As Demonstrated At Length This Episode.
- Idiocracy — Required Viewing, According to Everyone on This Podcast.
- Trailer Park Boys — Proof That a Show Can Just Look Real.
- Michael Scott — Misquoted, Misunderstood, Never Booked for This Podcast.
- Elden Ring — The Last Original Video Game, Allegedly.
- Captain Hindsight (South Park) — Knows Exactly What You Should Have Done.
- Thomas Paine — Invoked Re: Senators Nobody Can Confirm Are Alive.
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This week: a no-armed negotiator, an accidental off switch, and the opposite of the Midas touch.
Skulk gets sent down to retrieve the JJ Abrams mystery box from a stranger who can't decide if he's a cowboy, a sheriff, a marshal, or a postman named Bobberts — mustache included, arms not included. The handoff goes sideways fast: the box gets locked in a car, the "henchman" turns out to be the remote, and Skulk finds an off switch he probably shouldn't have touched. The box's fate is, once again, to be continued.
Back at the Dispatch, Cap and Greenie spiral through Idiocracy, why leveraged ETFs were invented four days ago, Elden Ring as the last original video game, an 84-year-old Senate nobody can confirm is alive, and why everything Donald Trump touches turns to the opposite of gold.
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