Released a day early to make up for last week being a day late. You know what they say, the early bird gets the cool flame decals!

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Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0

The (half an) hour of judgment is upon Stephen as The Overlord takes over! Who shall live? Who shall die? Find out!

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Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0

Stephen "It's All Staying In" O'Neil strikes again!

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Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0

Cascade Masquerade (Blitz Lunar) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

An alternate episode 20 fell through a dimensional rift! This will have no repercussions on future episodes, no matter what wishes any genies grant.

The podcast equivalent of the book of the television version of Game of Thrones.

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In this episode, Will Binns is captured and Stephen is forced to recap general plot elements for the listener. Who got the worse end of the deal? You decide! Also Stephen forgot to make a chess move but we added it back in smoothly.

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Getting It All Together (Rockit Maxx) / CC BY-NC 4.0

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was Freddy Krueger but actually just being a guy named Will? We'll show him what we think of that in THIS special returning guest installment of Check, Please!

Chess plays a factor.

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In this episode, we go... Undercover.

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Clichy Waltz (Dana Boulé) / CC BY-NC 4.0

Lampion (Pre) / BY-NC-SA 3.0

One man's trash is another man's treasure, but what about the trash of two men once it has been recovered from a third man's treasure vault? Why, it's a Check, Please! Also, a conspicuous lack of (canonical) chess!

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Stephen's Corner Theme: Cascade Masquerade (Blitz Lunar) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

The thrilling conclusion to the Tower Heist pempto-tertiary triptych. Will the hosts tie up their loose ends, or will they be on the losing end of their own tangled plot lines? Also, chess remains a pertinent factor?

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The wait is over! Our heroes finally storm Trump Tower! A golden episode. Plus: more chess?

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