I like the idea of Summer School: Cyberpunk. But if Alasdair genuinely intends to be educational, it doesn’t help for him to make multiple references to characters from other stories in other media and expect his “student” listeners to recognize them. I didn’t recognize most of the references, and instead of feeling enlightened, I felt stupid and excluded. The same was true for the endcap to the Merc Finn Wolfmoor story in Episode 737.
If these had been normal endcaps, I would have sighed, or maybe looked up one or more of the names Alasdair had dropped, and gone about my business. But these mini-lectures are supposed to be teaching us something. And the use of the references is undercutting that purpose, at least for me.