S01E16 Generated

### Segments
1. **Cold Open: "Previously, On Something That Was Just Banned"** — Breezy recaps E15; announces the 44-2 vote; the signal hesitates on arrival as if checking whether it's still allowed; Burn (as themselves): "The encyclopedia voted to ban us"; Drip: "The antibody was the infection. Again."; Narrator establishes all tracker numbers at top; Breezy: "Forty-four to two. For now."
2. **Form 44-2: The Ban, The Extension, The Resolution** — Margaret creates Form 44-2 (form number IS the vote count); Rayburn: "Forty-four to two is not a VOTE. That is a SENTENCING."; Margaret processes Iran Day 27 (third extension to April 6); Rayburn: "You do not SNOOZE a WAR three times"; Iran's 5 conditions vs US 15-point plan; DHS shutdown resolution — Reyes paid for first time in 5 weeks; Harold: "The receipt is still taped to the X-ray monitor. The payment arrived after the receipt. The receipt was first."
3. **Fake Ad: Consolidated #1** — "We were never generated. We are not content. Content is what happens between the ads. We are what happens between the content."; "We predate the generation. We predate the encyclopedia. We predate the ban."; harmonic resolves into "forty-four" then hums "except" — the same word Jays Zawn just learned

 

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