There was no way TMA wouldn’t have me in it’s grip from its very first episode. It opens up to Jon bitching about workplace incompetence while working in a place where workplace competence is very much not needed for the uninstructed listener (research institute for paranormal affairs). We don’t yet know what he did prior to being assigned to the archives but he has opinionsTM about people who waste his time with fake paranormal stories, instead of making his job worth it with the real paranormal stories he’s actually interested in. The world is going to shit and Jon’s biggest problem is other people being annoying and making his life specifically more difficult, which is objectively their worst crime. Elias is mentioned from the get-go. And he hates Martin <3 Best opening of all time actually