Episode 129: Dead Man’s Hand

No Story Is Sacred

After a long hiatus that we totally planned and wasn’t us failing to successfully arrange the schedules of four adults with lives, we return with an episode discussing an original story idea by Alex! Another in his series of Space Ace Detective stories.

Content warnings for strong language, bad casino puns, a passing reference to grief, bad New England accents, and us loudly talking about how we’re in season two now and that’s why we were on such a long hiatus.

We reference or spoil: No Story is Sacred episode “George of the Jungle”, Tarzan, general heist tropes, “Shots!” by LMAFO, “Banned from Argo” by Leslie Fish, No Story is Sacred episode “A Body in the Void”, Prosopagnosia, No Story is Sacred episode “Presibitchitation”, 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Superfight, No Story is Sacred episode “The Orphaned Light”, Mystic Seaport, No Story is Sacred episode “Night at the Orbital Museum”, Max Headroom, “Sometime Around Midnight” by The Airborne Toxic Event, The Emu War, Kathy Bates, Kathryn Hahn, Saw, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ChatGPT, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parks and Rec, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Sailor Moon, The three-body problem (math), The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin, two body problem, Good Will Hunting, Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty, play fair mystery, Ocean’s Eleven, Steven Soderbergh, Cowboy Bebop, Penn and Teller, electromagnetic pulse, The Magic Castle, hand of glory, Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, and Readercon.

Kat’s teaching writing again this fall; find out more on their website.

Brendan is performing improv with his group Select Start at the Arcade Comedy Theater.

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The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.