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* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: Becky with the good yield, a junk bond for company assisting with offshore fossil fuels, is imagined as a pink dinosaur.
* [[The Infiltration]]: The episode ''[https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/1197959218/fbi-phone-company-anom How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells]'' covers the unique economic challenges of the FBI doing this to criminal organizations via a fake company.
* [[Intimidating Revenue Service]]: Discussed in Episode 390 when the hosts set up the off short company Unbelizable. The IRS isn’t able to pressure the company directly since it’s in [[Belize]], but it is mentioned they could get the American government to lean on the ''[[Belize|Government of Belize]]'', and ''they'' could take action.
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: One reporter visits [[Marvel Comics]] in person after they don’t get a response to more traditional requests to discuss Door Man.
* [[No Budget]]: A lack of funding leads the hosts to buy one of the cheapest and riskiest junk bonds they could find, rather than a less risky asset.
* [[Public Domain Character]]: Micro-Face is selected as their comic book character in part due to being in the public domain, after failing to buy the rights to ''Door Man'' from [[Marvel Comics]].
* [[Punny Name]]: The shell company ''Unbelizable''.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Becky with the good yield is one to [[Beyoncé|Becky with the good hair]].
* [[Swiss Bank Account]]: The hosts discuss this as an option with their contacts in [[Belize]] in episode 390.
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Discussed in episode 390 when going through shell company names, most notably finding one that was "Zurine". "It’s spelled like urine, but with a Z"
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