This wasn’t supposed to be the episode. But it happened, we recorded it, and now it’s canon.

Episode XI starts with some low-grade chaos: voice tests, pharmaceutical tangents, a show that may or may not exist. Then Ryan calls in. And we spend the next hour and a half trying to figure out whether we’re friends, coworkers, or just people who keep accidentally podcasting together.

It’s not dramatic, exactly. But it’s definitely… not nothing.

No lore this week. No planned bits. Just a long, strange conversation about apologies, performance, and whether anything means anything.

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We finally hit double digits... so naturally, we switched to Roman numerals instead. The only thing scarier than Episode Ten is the commitment to continuing. So we rebranded — X is cool, X is timeless, X has no expectations. It's a numeral now. Deal with it.

We’re doing paperwork with Mississippi while Sailor Moon scissoring her way into queer canon.

In this episode, the crew breaks down the internal logic of Dispatch — a split-tower, multi-floor nightmare of bureaucracy where revolutions are buried under form 9B. Cheyenne is filing prisoner reports and hosting astrology-themed intern rituals. Mr. Green is climbing the social ladder. The Captain would prefer not to talk to anyone.

Somewhere between Monsters Inc. and a workplace seance, we uncover what makes each crew member tick — and why the Nothing Corporation would absolutely mislabel the stars just to ruin Cheyenne’s horoscope.

Then, after the hour mark, the pod launches into a wild tailspin of:

• 🧠 The rise of AI influencers

• 🏫 Local library supremacy

• 🧹 JK Rowling’s crimes against narrative and humanity

• 💥 She-Hulk vs. Deadpool vs. the woke-industrial complex

• 🍻 Butterbeer addiction

• 😬 Mike Allen, the rainbow behind the Moses fan

And we ask: if the Nothing Corporation says Pluto is a floor tile, is it?

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In this episode of The Economy of Nothing, the crew descends into full Dispatch chaos: empathy overloads, elevator jingles, and a leaderboard system that runs on trinkets, trauma, and vibes.

Captain Tracy nearly punches out a She-Joe Rogan. Mr. Green bribes an elevator operator with a Tamagotchi. And Cheyenne… well, Cheyenne has reached the upper limits of emotional labor inside a bureaucratic surveillance tower that believes in feelings—but only as policy.

We unpack the evolution of the Dispatch, why the most “non-Facebook” thing became the most Facebook thing, and how rogue podcasting formats might be the only way to fight back.

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