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Episode 288: A Dog Named Lucifer
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- The Mockingcast
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- Dec 22, 2025
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<p>Last episode of the year, in which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk Knives Out, self-checkout lines, optional futures, and how not to hate Christmas. Also, Sarah gets a Zippo while heaven and earth meet at an unlikely funeral. </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://mbird.com/film/knives-out-and-the-cinema-of-perpetual-grace/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Click here</a> to read Dave's review of <em>Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man</em> on Mbird</li> <li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/12/self-checkout-grocery-line-long/685125/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Click here</a> to read Valerie Trapp's piece in The Atlantic on "The One Line Americans (Weirdly) Choose to Wait In"</li> <li><a href="https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/from-option-to-obligation" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Click here</a> to "From Option to Obligation" by Paul Skallas in the Lindy Newsletter</li> <li><a href="https://mbird.com/holidays/christmas/no-more-flaccid-christmas-stockings/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Click here</a> to read Sarah's "No More Flaccid Christmas Stockings" on Mbird</li> <li><a href="https://mbird.com/holidays/christmas/how-to-not-hate-christmas/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Click here</a> to read David Clay's "How to Not Hate Christmas" on Mbird</li> <li><a href="https://mbird.com/suffering/faiths-long-december/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Click here</a> to read "Faith's Long December" by Kyle Wells on M…