In this first episode of the series, the typewriter is discussed, and listeners are introduced to host Bannon Backhus, along with guests J. Stewart, who is a brain in a jar; John “Mad Jack” Mytton, a British eccentric who died in the nineteenth century and who now manifests himself as an oversized mouth and mustache; and cosmonaut Stanislaw Kapustin. This episode features commercials for Triple L Sign Shop and Little Kaiser’s Pizza.