Zero Context 19: sadboy570

Content warning: this episode briefly mentions alcoholism and suicidal ideation

After escaping from a eerily familiar shower game, Axe and Nathalie stand before the exit ready to emerge into the humid Nevada air. Instead, they are treated to incoherent asides about alien mouths, tournament statistics, and the existential weight of many worlds. In another reality, they trudge through the worst rec room puzzle yet, bearing witness to a particularly pathetic and angry Junpei, who is just as confused about this new pacifist Akane. Just as the numbers align and freedom appears in sight, something grabs our podcasters and pulls them back in. The show’s not over yet.

This episode covers the fragments
- [D Team] -> First Come, First Save
- [C Team] -> First Come, First Save
- [C Team] -> Anthropic Principle

Next time on Zero Context
- Choose [C Team] -> Play the [team standing in front of a red poster] fragment -> Play all outcomes
- Choose [Q Team] -> Play the [Eric staring at the camera next to someone in a tube] fragment -> Play all outcomes

Things Discussed
- Voice actor corner: Junpei (JP: Tatsuhisa Suzuki; EN: Evan Smith)
- Mother (as in mommy)
- Zero Reverse Theorem
- Alien hand syndrome
- Secret Agent Junpei
- Carlos the gay sis-con American Hedgehog
- Cat people brain worms
- Getting owned by a dice puzzle, again
- Divorce coded Akane
- How cool the American flag is
- Red River “admiring each other’s guns”
- The anthropic principle
- Existing in the universe God abandoned

Intro: “Ustulate Pathos -Record-” by Shinji Hosoe
Outro: “Morphogenetic Sorrow” by Shinji Hosoe

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