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

This week, Mike's out and the remaining crew spirals through the process of trying to write a fake TV show—live, on mic, with no plan.

It starts with a discussion of how the podcast itself *is* the pitch, and quickly devolves into segment chaos, Dispatch bureaucracy, and an attempt to build the Nothing Corporation's propaganda machine around Cheyenne. Also, The Accountant 2 gets rebooted again for some reason.

Expect: production rants, anime modeling notes, fake commercials for surveillance drones, and a completely earnest breakdown of how (not) to structure a show.

Welcome to the Economy of Nothing.

🔹 Segment Highlights:
– Cheyenne becomes the face of Nothing Corp™
– Dispatch motivationally cuts Medicaid
– How we (don’t) structure episodes
– Segment Survivor is born
– The Accountant 2: still a problem
– Visual Radio vs Podcast breakdown

💌 Patreon: https://patreon.com/economyofnothing
🌐 Web: https://economyofnothing.com
📺 Visual Radio version on YouTube (@economyofnothing)

In this episode of The Economy of Nothing, the crew tests the limits of what counts as a good idea.
Ryan (aka Training Unit D1-CK) pitches from above a shark tank.
Mike Allen analyzes fame, narcissism, and banner quality.
The Captain just wants the podcast to stay on track.

Along the way, they invent the Hollowoods Content Feedback Loop™, crown a new podcast king, and argue about mermaids—again.

Recorded live across the studio, the truck, and deep within the Moonshine.

🔗 Early access + lore: patreon.com/economyofnothing

Episode 012 – The Economy of Nothing Podcast

What happens when you explain it over and over… and nobody listens? The Captain's losing patience, Mr. Green’s spiraling about paperwork and waffles, and the Nothing Corporation quietly continues its galactic HR violations.

In this episode:
– The Moonshine Crew debates waffles vs. whiskey
– Mike & Mike try to improvise… and lose their minds
– Lore deep-dives on Mars, the cowboy planet, and dragon egg heists
– Visual Radio plans for the animated show
– Batman discourse gets completely out of hand

It’s all nonsense. But it’s our nonsense.
The Economy of Nothing™—now with slightly more structure and slightly less hope.

👕 Merch: tee.pub/lic/ipQ-CAPEMfg
🎧 More episodes at economyofnothing.com

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.

🎧 economyofnothing.com

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?

Call to Action:
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