In 2004 Rockstar Games shoved an explicit minigame into a locked digital closet and shipped Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas anyway. This episode explains how Sam Houser's ambition for adult content ran into warnings from executives Jennifer Kolbe and Terry Donovan that an Adults Only rating would be a retail death sentence, and why, weeks from manufacturing, the team severed the control pointers instead of deleting code that was deeply intertwined with the game engine.

The hosts follow Dutch modder Patrick Wildenborg's transatlantic effort to obtain the PC files, rebuild the severed pointers with a hex editor, and release the Hot Coffee mod on June 9, 2005, which was downloaded over a million times in a month. They then cover Rockstar's claim that hackers fabricated the content, Leland Yee's push for state laws and Hillary Clinton's Family En ...