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Episode 83: The Butterfly Effect Effect
Original air date: January 16, 2019
Episode overview
The hosts revisit Bingo’s prior guilty finding, review listener punishment proposals without selecting one, reject the matching tattoo, and report qualified restitution before explicitly returning to the normal show. Two fictional three-person choice rounds select Edward Joel Kowalczyk as Bingo’s hypothetical best man and Bronson Pinchot as the person not saved; Danny’s fictional resolution leaves only Shigeru Miyamoto alive.
Segments
- **Blood Court** — 0:11:36 · citation pending — The hosts revisit Bingo’s prior guilty finding, review listener punishment proposals without selecting one, reject the matching tattoo, and report qualified restitution before explicitly returning to the normal show.
- **Whojachu** — 0:19:45 · citation pending — Two fictional three-person choice rounds select Edward Joel Kowalczyk as Bingo’s hypothetical best man and Bronson Pinchot as the person not saved; Danny’s fictional resolution leaves only Shigeru Miyamoto alive.
Verified episode facts
- **Blood court punishment outcome**: The listener proposals produce no selected punishment; Bingo rejects the matching tattoo and says he repaid Danny $10.65 plus court costs and will cover Philip’s remaining need, but off-air fulfillment is not independently verified.
- **Whojachu best man outcome**: Bingo selects Edward Joel Kowalczyk for the hypothetical best-man role; the role is fictional segment framing, not a physical prize or verified appointment.
- **Whojachu murder outcome**: Bingo chooses Bronson Pinchot as the fictional person not saved, after which Danny’s fictional resolution leaves only Shigeru Miyamoto alive; no real death, winner, or prize is established.
- **Film recommendations**: The hosts recommend Howard the Duck despite criticizing aspects of it, and Bingo recommends Casual Sex? without a numeric score.
- **Masked singer recommendation**: The hosts enthusiastically recommend The Masked Singer while criticizing its panel and production; the discussion is not a formal segment or independently verified program outcome.
- **Obra dinn recommendation**: Bingo strongly recommends Return of the Obra Dinn and reports finishing in about sixteen hours versus a coworker’s reported eight hours and twenty-one minutes; the times are attributed accounts, not verified telemetry.
- **Four swords invitation**: Bingo seeks a local player for The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, but no participant accepts and no game session occurs in Episode 83.