This is gonna be AMAZING. I want it to be out right now.

Lynda Barry is funk queen of here, there, and everywhere

I think when she was fussing over it, she might be telling herself it was about getting everything perfect, but the real reason was her guilt over knowing how Jimmy played Chuck. She's sublimating her moral doubts about where she's at right now into this neurotic back-and-forth with the semicolon.

Between this and the premiere of The Americans, prestige cable this season is making me feel like I'm watching Space Ghost follow the ant

On the battlefield. Hitler is said to have not used them on the *battlefield.* Spicer decided to pull that already-questionably-helpful argument out when the subject was Assad gassing civilians in his own country, and when given the…opportunity to clarify about Hitler, instead of going "I meant on the battlefield," he…

Yeah, Stan's an idiot. But this is how he *thinks* he's gonna fix it.

It's not even the FBI that he's leaning on, they have no jurisdiction; he's going to the Deputy Attorney General with this to try to get him to call the CIA off. Which is really to say he's trying to get him to get the Attorney General (to get the President) to call the CIA off.

It had somebody's (Gaad's?) old buddies from the CIA involved, probably to give more plausibility to the idea that a bunch of FBI agents would go bump off a foreign diplomat.

"When Aderholt finishes the story with 'We blackmailed the shit out of him, and everybody wound up happy,' you can actually pinpoint the second Stan’s heart rips in half."

But he doesn't have the thing on his forehead!

I'm listening.

Stan told his son about Martha, and that seems like it would be more of a secret than telling him he's investigating a murder…

This had a great buildup but I'm not sure about the denouement

"The Vietnam war wasn't a proxy expansion of Chinese communism."

We got into Vietnam because we didn't understand Vietnam and were convinced that an indigenous civil war was really a proxy for Chinese communist expansion. (And trying to fight the previous war instead of understand the present one.) I found this, the opening chapter of "The Wrong War," really helpful in trying to…

It's *very* confusing, and watching the beginning of this season not long after going to a rally against the Trump refugee ban—you know, that extremely current political issue based in fearmongering about refugees being secretly anti-American infiltrators—and hearing real live Vietnamese refugees say pretty much what…

When will the FBI open an investigation into the Late Night At The Office Killer? This is a pattern, people! *points to map with a bunch of pushpins and string on it*

Okay, that definitely needed to be said more clearly on the show because it seems like basically *all* of us who didn't listen to the podcast have been so friggin confused.

MANDY!

A couple corrections on Philip's kill count: Afghani, not Iraqi; the guy he killed on the bus was an airport security guard, not a driver.