Episode 87: Badger With A Tooth Cake

Original air date: February 13, 2019

Episode overview

Bingo spends his game points, rolls a four, and wins Danny’s temporary agreeableness while addressing new listeners and Dayton podcasters; the Counting Cars article is a nested calming interruption. Bingo recommends Russian Doll, compares it to Groundhog Day, and discusses Natasha Lyonne and American Pie as a generational reference point. Bingo debuts Thin Ice, returns after a Counting Crows derailment, criticizes repetitive cheese puns, and jokingly sends their users to the slammer. The first Game Corner occurrence covers Bingo’s early Final Fantasy XIV experience, character, free company, progression, social features, and enthusiasm before an explicit close and produced break. After the break the hosts explicitly resume Game Corner, continuing through Final Fantasy XIV free-company, wedding, systems, lore, characters, and broader Final Fantasy discussion before another explicit close. The post-show Toy Tub: Burial at Sea framing contains Ian Hinden’s branching-adventure voicemail, its blue-wire outcome and new choices, host reaction, and Ian’s bucket-dad coda. Ian’s nested voicemail resolves the blue-wire branch safely, leaves three crystals, and offers reset-spike or coffin routes; his dropped-card pause remains inside one uninterrupted playback file.

Segments

• **From Dusk Till Bingo** — 0:08:42 · citation pending — Bingo spends his game points, rolls a four, and wins Danny’s temporary agreeableness while addressing new listeners and Dayton podcasters; the Counting Cars article is a nested calming interruption.
• **Netflips** — 0:19:31 · citation pending — Bingo recommends Russian Doll, compares it to Groundhog Day, and discusses Natasha Lyonne and American Pie as a generational reference point.
• **Thin Ice** — 0:24:36 · citation pending — Bingo debuts Thin Ice, returns after a Counting Crows derailment, criticizes repetitive cheese puns, and jokingly sends their users to the slammer.
• **Second First Annual Official Philip J. Reed Memorial Give Us Money Fundraiser Marathon Show** — 0:36:05 · citation pending — The hosts revive a proposed fundraiser marathon to finance a Blobfest trip, but settle no donation mechanism, budget, binding goal, funds raised, or completed trip.
• **Game Corner** — 0:44:53 · citation pending — The first Game Corner occurrence covers Bingo’s early Final Fantasy XIV experience, character, free company, progression, social features, and enthusiasm before an explicit close and produced break.
• **Game Corner** — 1:00:59 · citation pending — After the break the hosts explicitly resume Game Corner, continuing through Final Fantasy XIV free-company, wedding, systems, lore, characters, and broader Final Fantasy discussion before another explicit close.
• **Toy Tub: Burial at Sea** — 1:25:35 · citation pending — The post-show Toy Tub: Burial at Sea framing contains Ian Hinden’s branching-adventure voicemail, its blue-wire outcome and new choices, host reaction, and Ian’s bucket-dad coda.
• **Ian Hinden’s Pick Your Own Adventure Voicemail** — 1:26:42 · citation pending — Ian’s nested voicemail resolves the blue-wire branch safely, leaves three crystals, and offers reset-spike or coffin routes; his dropped-card pause remains inside one uninterrupted playback file.

Verified episode facts

• **From dusk till Bingo outcome**: Bingo rolls a four and wins Danny’s temporary agreeableness for the remainder of the segment; no physical prize exists.
• **Netflips verdict**: Bingo recommends Russian Doll as very good and compares its premise to Groundhog Day; no score, winner, or prize is involved.
• **Thin ice debut outcome**: The first completed Thin Ice case targets repetitive cheese puns and ends with an imaginary slammer judgment, not verified punishment.
• **Fundraiser status**: The Blobfest fundraiser is proposed and debated, but no donation mechanism, collected amount, donor, binding goal, or completed trip is established; the $7,000 estimate is immediately disputed.
• **Game corner scope**: Game Corner explicitly closes for a produced break and explicitly resumes afterward, creating two occurrences under one canonical segment name; neither contains ranking, drawing, voting, a winner, or a prize.
• **Adventure voicemail outcome**: Ian’s blue-wire branch stops the bomb with three seconds remaining, leaves three crystals, and presents reset-spike or coffin routes; the dropped-card pause is not a playback restart.
• **Bucket dad status**: The hosts call Ian the current reigning bucket dad of halfwayokay; this is an on-show comedic title, not an external status.