Episode 21: Mostly Miserable

Original air date: November 8, 2017

Episode overview

The hosts encourage iTunes reviews, describe an ongoing review-based contest, read exactly three five-star reviews from McGee II, Rekha Stan, and Chelsea, then continue word-of-mouth, voicemail, and prize promotion. Review reading ends at 2823900, while the full feature continues through the Star Wars figure prize clarification; Rekha Stan's real identity remains unresolved. Bingo explains Amiibo collecting and a missing eBay shipment of seven Animal Crossing figures routed between New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Dayton, says he filed a USPS request, and promises future podcast and Instagram updates under the late-spoken Amiibos Watch label. The package remains missing; seller, tracking, and postal identifiers are unobservable. The hosts quiz each other with impressions of known people and show figures. An inaccurate Richard Nixon impression loses seven Facebook contacts; the nested Lightning Round's Jarrod Johnson impression restores four; a Cat With Glasses or Ruth Vader Ginsburg impression follows before the hosts say the segment has run its course. Actual Facebook-account actions are unobservable.

Segments

• **Reviews** — 0:41:10 · citation pending — The hosts encourage iTunes reviews, describe an ongoing review-based contest, read exactly three five-star reviews from McGee II, Rekha Stan, and Chelsea, then continue word-of-mouth, voicemail, and prize promotion. Review reading ends at 2823900, while the full feature continues through the Star Wars figure prize clarification; Rekha Stan's real identity remains unresolved.
• **Amiibos Watch** — 0:48:11 · citation pending — Bingo explains Amiibo collecting and a missing eBay shipment of seven Animal Crossing figures routed between New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Dayton, says he filed a USPS request, and promises future podcast and Instagram updates under the late-spoken Amiibos Watch label. The package remains missing; seller, tracking, and postal identifiers are unobservable.
• **Making a Good Impression** — 1:06:23 · citation pending — The hosts quiz each other with impressions of known people and show figures. An inaccurate Richard Nixon impression loses seven Facebook contacts; the nested Lightning Round's Jarrod Johnson impression restores four; a Cat With Glasses or Ruth Vader Ginsburg impression follows before the hosts say the segment has run its course. Actual Facebook-account actions are unobservable.

Verified episode facts

• **Episode 21 source identity and podcast-only policy**: The authoritative RSS and database identify Episode 21: Mostly Miserable as episode row 296 and sole podcast source 314, GUID tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/352807709, duration 4361000 milliseconds. Canonical cues end at 4350040, leaving 10960 milliseconds untranscribed. Episode 221 is distinct, and no Episode 21 YouTube or Twitch source exists, so no public non-podcast timestamp may be fabricated.
• **Episode 21 structural and nonformal inventory**: The cold open and show intro 0-69960, sign-off 4319500-4338720, and probable garbled outro tail 4340460-4350040 are structural. What's Bothering Me? is a throwaway announced-segment joke without sustained content; the Halloween recap is an unframed conversational topic; and the retrospectively named news section lacks an in-the-moment open and close. None creates another canonical occurrence.
• **Episode 21 exact phone and prerecorded inventory**: Episode 21 has zero phone rows, live calls, outgoing calls, unanswered or attempted calls, mock or acted calls, narrated-prior calls, voicemail or other prerecorded contributor audio, logical prerecorded files, or replays. Tony on the phone is an explicitly abandoned technology joke; cold-call voicemail language is future solicitation; James Brubaker is a historical format reference; and Spooktacular Facebook clips lack clean playback bounds or file identity.
• **Episode 21 named-feature and platform limitations**: Episode 21 contains zero Name That Name, Rank'em Up Rodeo, Rank'em predecessor, Not the News, or performed All That occurrences. The unresolved review contest is distinct. Episode YouTube and Twitch sources, raw chat, Ice or Ice Cube signals, visuals, speaker attribution, and demonstrated YouTube playback are absent or historically unobservable; Spooktacular clips are described as Facebook-accessible only.
• **Episode 21 exact count and unknown inventory**: Episode 21 has exactly three formal occurrences across three families, zero phone rows, zero logical prerecorded files or replays, exactly three written review events, one unresolved audience contest, zero resolved contests or completed polls, zero audience winners or fulfilled prizes, zero Name That Name rounds, zero Rank'em recaps or predecessor, zero Not the News, and zero performed All That occurrences. Raw chat, Ice, visuals, speaker attribution, identities, contest mechanics, shipment records, external claims, garbled outro, and the final 10960 milliseconds remain unresolved or unobservable.
• **Episode 21 season and audience trend claims**: The show describes Episodes 21 through 30 as season three after two ten-episode seasons. Hosts also say listener or download numbers are down and speculate about causes. These are direct in-episode taxonomy and metric claims, but analytics and detailed retrospective history were not independently checked.
• **Episode 21 aborted and reference-only feature taxonomy**: What's Bothering Me? 134440-145840 is a throwaway announced segment without sustained content or close. All That or I Don't Know About That at 4286340-4292520 is a retrospective comparison only, with no Episode 21 rules, prompts, or round. Not the News is absent. None is persisted as an Episode 21 canonical occurrence.
• **Episode 21 halloween spooktacular claim**: Danny and Greg Nichols are said to produce an annual public-access Halloween Spooktacular; the 2017 edition was not yet online while a 2012 installment was available. This is host-reported production history, and external availability is not verified; the clips are discussed but not cleanly played into Episode 21.
• **Episode 21 canonical content occurrence inventory**: Episode 21 contains exactly three formal occurrences across three families: Reviews 2470560-2932720, Amiibos Watch 2891680-3543180, and Making a Good Impression 3983880-4268360 with nested Lightning Round 4120620-4268360. The Reviews promotional tail overlaps Amiibos Watch's interrupted topic start without creating another occurrence.
• **Episode 21 unresolved review contest**: The ongoing iTunes Review or Star Wars Figure contest uses leaving an iTunes review as the verified entry method, is expected to end in mid-February with year unstated, and offers a Star Wars action figure described as touched by a peepaw. Exact figure, deadline year, selection method, winner, award, and fulfillment are absent; optional Candlebox, halfway-home, and cold-call prompts are not forced as mandatory entry conditions.
• **Episode 21 exact review inventory**: Reviews reads exactly three five-star iTunes reviews: McGee II's interrupted Don't Talk, Just Listen review, Rekha Stan's review, and Chelsea's Good humor review. Rekha Stan's display-name rendering and real identity are unresolved and must not be merged with Reka or Rekha. Hosts also estimate roughly 20 total reviews, an unverified aggregate metric.
• **Episode 21 amiibos watch status**: A seven-figure Animal Crossing Amiibo package purchased on eBay is reported missing after multiple USPS routing updates, and Bingo says he submitted a postal search request. The late-spoken Amiibos Watch label plus promised podcast and Instagram updates support a medium-confidence named occurrence; seller, tracking, shipment, and case identifiers and eventual outcome are unobservable.
• **Episode 21 making a good impression outcomes**: Making a Good Impression's Richard Nixon round is lost with seven Facebook contacts owed for deletion; the nested Lightning Round's Jarrod Johnson impression restores four; and a Cat With Glasses or Ruth Vader Ginsburg impression is performed with less explicit adjudication. Actual Facebook actions are unobservable, and these are in-show results rather than an audience contest, winner, or prize.