This story is the first in a series of posts about a lawsuit. Everything in the ensuing videos and accompanying text is publicly available in public documents.

The story starts with me, a midwest lawyer and listener of The Dick Show, learning about a lawsuit filed by Maddox, the internet dinosaur, against his former friend and co-host, Dick Masterson. The story of their former podcast and breakup isn’t mine to tell, but when I learned about the lawsuit I decided to take a look at the documents. After reading about 10 pages, I stopped.

The lawsuit seemed to be drafted by a complete idiot (this would prove prophetic) so I decided to record myself doing a virgin read through and post it to the Dick Show Facebook group for fun. I had no experience recording videos or creating content, no editing experience. I loaded up the Microsoft camera app, poured a glass of scotch, and started reading.

The video culminates in my own incompetence, but the story continues shortly after.