In our most chaotic (and somehow also deepest?) episode yet, we celebrate Mike Allen’s birthday while unraveling the character of Captain Tracy — war vet, space trucker, wannabe legend. Does he deserve to be the protagonist of The Economy of Nothing? Or is he just the loudest guy in the room?

Along the way, we debate birthdays, bathroom logic, what a protagonist actually is, and the cosmic importance of Waffle House.

Also: Cheyenne’s new Codex page is live. And yes, she absolutely would weaponize her interns.

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0:00 – Happy Birthday Mike Allen (??)
3:00 – Are Birthdays the Same as Handwashing?
6:30 – The Captain’s Bathroom Doctrine
10:00 – Who's the Protagonist Anyway?
16:00 – The Cheyenne Codex Page Breakdown
26:00 – The Robo-Human Wars and the Rise of the Nothing Corporation
33:00 – Everyone’s Wrong Until Something Works
42:00 – Katniss, Coin, and the Captain's Arc
52:00 – Mr. Green’s Chachki Collection and Personal Capitalism
59:00 – The Captain’s Flawed Need to Be Remembered
1:07:00 – The Intergalactic House Waffle's is Real
1:18:00 – The Rangers Deserve Better
1:24:00 – A Cozy Penguin Narrator?
1:30:00 – Final Thoughts, Saturn Blood, and Birthday Wrap-Up