This week, we broadcast directly from Yavin 4 to bring you the Star Wars Special—a rogue transmission of hot takes, nostalgic rewatches, and corporate-media despair. Mike B is joined by Brent and David for a full-scale nerd-out over Andor Season 2, the tragic brilliance of Rogue One, and whether Clone Wars ever really worked.

From Ewok basement parties to the bureaucracy of fascism, we ask the big questions:
📼 What makes Andor so good it breaks Star Wars?
🧮 Can any future Star Wars match it—or are we just optimizing content for the algorithm now?
📺 Does Resistance even exist?

Also discussed: Droids, Rebels, The Phantom Menace, Caravan of Courage, Tony Gilroy, the MCU problem, and the feeling of existential dread when you realize The Search for More SEO might be the last time this galaxy had anything worth saying.

Welcome to Episode 101 of The Economy of Nothing — the first official episode of the podcast reboot, where we start building a universe from the basement up. Literally. Join hosts Mike Allen (aka Mr. Green) and Mike Bedont as they draft the blueprints for Mr. Green’s man cave, dream up a parody of Wall Street inside a cartoon space truck, and argue over how much a Patreon tier should cost.

Also in this episode:

• Is The Economy of Nothing a parody of Spaceballs or Star Wars? Yes.

• Mr. Green’s La-Z-Boy, red-blue 3D glasses, and whip wall.

• “Don’t date your boss’s prostitute.” (Life lessons from Wall Street.)

• Visual Radio vs. Real Radio: what even is this show?

• Patreon tiers, leaderboard schemes, and audience participation capitalism.

👽 Visual Radio is coming.
🍿 Let’s all go to the man cave.
🎩 Mr. Green’s hat is real.
💸 $150/month = immortality on the Founders Wall.

🎙️ Podcast + Visual Radio + Shorts + Sketches
📼 Full archive at: https://economyofnothing.com
💰 Patreon: https://patreon.com/economyofnothing

Some times:

📄 Description:
Cheyenne’s taking PTO (Permanent Tactical Offloading), Mr. Green’s watching movies on the moon, and Captain Tracy is trying so hard to hold it all together. This week on The Economy of Nothing, we redefine rest, rage, and rant-based animation economy.

In this episode:

• Cheyenne Soapbox is pitched as a lightning-powered trading card animation

• Mr. Green's Silver Screen Critiques go full fart-cloud NFT

• The crew watches Squid Game Season 3 projected on a lunar surface

• We invent the Attention Span Meter™ and still forget what we were talking about

• Everyone argues about reading, data, capitalism, babies, and the philosophical implications of doing nothing

Also featuring:

• 📈 Ryan turning into Anime Pope

• 🐐 Mike shapeshifting into a fainting goat

• 🎥 Mr. Green’s film review of “Squid Game: Baby Edition”

📺 Visual Radio Cut:
Watch on YouTube

🌐 Episode Page:
https://economyofnothing.com/podcast/015-permanent-vacation