Well, we've got ourselves another Mo-Mo incident in Times Square...

Needlessly picking up right from the smoldering wreckage of Liv freeing herself from her captor William Lewis by way of bludgeoning her captor with an iron bar, we get a stark ripped-from-the-headlines episode delving into the infamous Ariel Castro case. Kidnapping victims are held in cages in the basement and raped for decades, and Liv's PTSD is still very real. This episode dwells in darkness. That doesn’t mean the Munchie Boys have to, though, as the discussion veers into off-brand Muppets knockoffs, the ineptitude of the Cleveland Police Department, where Cassidy ranks on Benson’s loves of her life, and the hazards of dialogue directed at people named “Buddy” reading in different ways.

Sources:

How Ariel Castro Remained at Liberty in Cleveland All These Years - Michael Daly, The Daily Beast - https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-ariel-castro-remained-at-liberty-in-cleveland-all-these-years

Michelle Knight’s ‘normal teenage life,’ plagued by troubles in years before disappearance - Leila Atassi, Cleveland Plain Dealer - https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2013/05/michelle_knight_plagued_by_tro.html

Psychic on The Montel Williams Show said Amanda Berry was dead. She wasn’t. - Emily Senger, Maclean’s - https://www.macleans.ca/general/psychic-on-the-montel-williams-show-said-amanda-berry-was-dead/

Ariel Castro sentencing memorandum filed by prosecutors - Peter Krouse, Cleveland Plain Dealer - https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2013/07/ariel_castro_sentencing_memo_r.html

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

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