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I"M FROM THE INTERNET

Winslow Dumaine & Jay Brandstetter

SomethingAwful.com is one of the foundational websites of modern internet culture: the earliest memes, inside jokes, and modes of communication that grace and plague the internet today can trace their roots back to the sprawling forums of this illustrious website.Hosted by Jay Brandstetter and Winslow Dumaine, this podcast dredges up the most notable threads from the depths of the forums. We delve into the absurd architecture of Groverhaus, explore the very beginning of 4Chan, the early days of

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1:08:37

Minisode: The God in the Machine (Nathan Park)

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2023/03/29

Steve's vacation continues. Jay tries to pass the time by explaining recent moderator drama on the Something Awful forums, a piece of fiction that was a part of said drama, and his own recent personal struggles with autism.All of this taking place within Riven: The Sequel to Myst. I love the internet!The full text of Background - The God in the Machine (Nathan Park) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iqACiju_RoJtYaluMgI1ZSOzkZOtlT-AcX4KrtD0EW8/edit?usp=sharingFor inquiries, contact the show

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8:53

Miniosode: I Run Slowly

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2023/03/22

Steve on vacation abroad for the new few weeks so full episodes will resume when he returns. While he's away we're going to be putting out some smaller self-contained mini episodes so each week you can still get a small bite of Something Awful content. Jay''s apartment flooded and he's this close to throwing his laptop through the window and running away like the end of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest so please pardon the lack of usual editing bells and whistles as well as the relative brevity.For

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51:53

BIO-APOCALYPSE (Part Three)

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2023/03/15

It's the finale of this sixth-grader's hand-drawn sci-fi horror epic, see the thrilling conclusion of the saga as well as the Goon reactions!You can buy the official physical version of BIO-APOCALYPSE at https://www.indyplanet.com/bio-apocalypse?product=76932A free digital version is also available via The Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080920202716/http://hillridge.net/SA/Bio%20Apocalypse.pdfThe doc for today's episode can be viewed at https://tinyurl.com/Bio-ApocalypsePodDocFor

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50:36

BIO-APOCALYPSE (Part Two)

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2023/03/09

Continuing where we last left off in this sixth-grader's hand-drawn sci-fi horror epic, the last surviving humans have launched their last desperate attack on the giant organism that had assimilated all life on Earth. Next week will see the thrilling conclusion of the saga as well as the Goon reactions!This episode is broken up into parts and I fully encourage you to read the comic itself if possible in the downtime between episodes, because what a treat. The whole thing is hosted at archive.org

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54:50

BIO-APOCALYPSE (Part 1)

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2023/03/03

Do you ever look at your old drawings from when you were a kid and wonder "how the hell did I come up with that"? Well, a Something Awful poster with a name that I am unwilling to print in the show notes did that, and thankfully scanned and shared it with the Goons so they could as well. Buckle up because pain is the curse of consciousness and planet Earth is in for a world of hurt.This episode is broken up into parts and I fully encourage you to read the comic itself if possible in the downtime

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1:14:26

Hockey Scores

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2023/02/22

The year is 2008. Canada needs a new theme song for Hockey Night and they're holding a contest. This is the story of one of those contest entries.The doc for today's episode can be viewed at https://tinyurl.com/HockeyScoresPodDocThe Hockey Scores remix package is rehosted at https://www.dropbox.com/s/0dbpltti474emwj/Scores_RemixKit.rarFor inquiries, contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.comCreated and Hosted by:Winslow Dumaine - http://www.winslowdumaine.com/Jay Brandstetter -

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35:51

Winslow Presents: THE TRUCKER

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2023/02/17

Sorry for the late upload, life has been pretty hectic here at IFTI so our next full episode had to be pushed back a week. Luckily Winslow stepped up and we have our first Winslow Presents episode of the show, where we take a break from talking about Something Awful and the Goons to read something from his archives. Today he's reading a rambling, pages-long run-on paragraph from a trucker's manifest explaining why they are no longer allowed to deliver to Walmart. Jay also discusses some of current

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1:39:14

Samadhi Village, Part Two

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2023/02/08

Special guest Kole Ross from Duckfeed.tv joins us for an exploration of that time a goon bought a bunch of land in Hawaii and then convinced a bunch of other goons to fly over on their own dime and work the land. Watch dreams of escaping the rat race turn into the intimidating reality of attempting agriculture on a patch of land that is cartoonishly unwelcoming and hostile.You can review the Google Doc of this episode for sources and documentation.at https://tinyurl.com/SamadhiVillagePodDocKole Ross

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1:02:48

Samadhi Village, Part One

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2023/02/01

Special guest Kole Ross from Duckfeed.tv joins us for an exploration of that time a goon bought a bunch of land in Hawaii and then convinced a bunch of other goons to fly over on their own dime and work the land. Watch dreams of escaping the rat race turn into the intimidating reality of attempting agriculture on a patch of land that is cartoonishly unwelcoming and hostile.You can review the Google Doc of this episode for sources and documentation.at https://tinyurl.com/SamadhiVillagePodDocKole Ross

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1:18:49

Grab Bag - Goons and Sex Circa 2007

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2023/01/25

A break from format, instead of one continuous saga we read a grab bag of funny and weird posts with commentary and discussion in between. This grab bag is themed around goons talking about their misadventures in relationships, dating, and sex so this is definitely an IFTI After Dark episode. Come for the goal-oriented sandwich, stay for the cum bunny.You can review the Google Doc of this episode for sources and documentation.at https://tinyurl.com/GrabBag1PodDocFor inquiries, contact the show

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1:14:12

Low-Carb Goons

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2023/01/18

In summer of 2011, Something Awful's fitness subforum hosted a thread obsessed with the concept of a diet low in carbohydrates not only as a way of losing weight but as a miracle cure for everything that ailed them. Then in fall of 2011, a previously healthy 21 year-old goon was prescribed statins by his doctor due to eating nothing but peanut butter, eggs, bacon, and hot dogs for weeks at the encouragement of the low-carb thread.This episode is not an attack on the concept of a low-carb diet, it is

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53:48

The BoxMystery.com Scam

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2023/01/11

The deceptive allure of the mystery box is something everyone has to learn to innoculate themselves from at one point or another. For most of us it is a metaphorical mystery box that confounds. like a TV show that keep stringing you along season after season without providing answer. But for an unfortunate few goons in the summer of 2010 it was a literal mystery box that was dangled in front of them like Lucy holding the football in front of Charlie Brown and assuring him that this time she would

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52:30

Discovering and Restoring the Workprint of 'Manos:...

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2023/01/04

Resuming from last episode, Ben Solovey's restoration of Manos: The Hands of Fate is underway but the nefarious Rupert Munch continues to use legal threats and alleged subterfuge to keep the restoration of Manos: The Hands of Fate from eclipsing his own project. Will he succeed? Will the backers receive their Blu-Rays? Why did Super Hornio Brothers come up? All this and more in the exciting conclusion!You can review the Google Doc of this episode at the link below for sources and

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1:02:11

Discovering and Restoring the Workprint of 'Manos:...

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2022/12/21

In 1966, an El Paso fertilizer salesman named Harold P. Warren created a movie called Manos: The Hands of Fate.In 1993, the comedy program Mystery Science Theater 3000 released an episode dedicated to Manos that enshrined it in the pantheon of bad movies and created generations of fans.Then in 2011, a Something Awful poster named Ben Solo found the pristine workprint of Manos: The Hands of Fate at an estate sale and kicked off a years-long odyssey of trying to get the film the restoration and

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1:02:52

Muerte's Long Quarter-Life Crisis Walk (Part Two)

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2022/12/14

Muerte is about to start his hike across America. How far will he go? Will he survive? Is this all a grift? All these questions and more may be answered on this week's episode of I'M FROM THE INTERNET!You can review the Google Doc of this episode at the link below for sources and documentation.https://tinyurl.com/MuerteMarchPodDocYou can contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.comCreated and Hosted by:Winslow Dumaine - http://www.winslowdumaine.com/Jay Brandstetter -

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53:56

Muerte's Long Quarter-Life Crisis Walk (Part One)

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2022/12/07

For our first real episode, we discuss one of the most-requested stories from the Twitter account: The story of a bored mid-20s Californian who decided the cure for his mental illnesses and the ennui of comfortable middle-class life was quitting his job and walking across America coast-to-coast in the middle of summer with little preparation and ignoring the guidance of experienced backpackers telling him that he was ill-equipped and the route would likely kill even an experienced long-distance

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1:48:03

An Overview of the Something Awful Forums (and Your...

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2022/11/26

In our inaugural episode, hosts Winslow Dumaine and Jay Brandstetter introduce themselves and their internet bona fides. Jay gives a broad overview of the Something Awful forums, their historical significance, some baseline knowledge of the forum's culture and inner-workings, and a breakdown of each of the major subforums with some teaser of stories to look forward to in future episode.The show's typical format is going to have each episode focus on a particular story or saga from the history of the

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