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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

society & culture history

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59:36

Horse eBooks (Part Two)

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2025/11/07

Welcome to the world of podcasting, where FMV means Funny With my Voice! We're going back to 2013, where FMV means "oops we forgot to tell a joke".Get over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpodYou can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at https://tinyurl.com/IFTIpodHorseeBooksSubmit episode concepts at https://tinyurl.com/IFTIpodIdeasFor inquiries, contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.comCreated and Hosted byWinslow Dumaine -

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1:13:19

Horse eBooks (Part One)

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2025/10/29

After a year of teasing, we're finally going beyond the Something Awful forums to talk about all the rest of the old internet. Horse eBooks was a Twitter spambot in the early 2010s that developed a following due to the hilariously nonsensical fragments of text it would post. Behind the scenes, a creative director at Buzzfeed was seeing the opportunity to promote himself by destroying something beautiful.Get over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpodYou can review

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51:16

Chickencheese (Part Two)

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2025/10/22

The chickencheese thread is sent away from its culinary homeland to learn the ways of animal husbandry and firearm maintenance.Get over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpodYou can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at https://tinyurl.com/IFTIpodChickencheeseSubmit episode concepts at https://tinyurl.com/IFTIpodIdeasFor inquiries, contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.comCreated and Hosted byWinslow Dumaine - www.winslowdumaine.com/Jay

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1:25:33

UNLOCKED: The Angel Quiz (Patreon Bonus #34)

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2025/10/15

A new content recognition algorithm has rolled out, and in completely unrelated news we're currently in the process of re-editing our back catalogue to take out the music. So while we wrap that up, enjoy a bonus from the Patreon where Jay and Winslow play through the bonkers Christian web game The Angel Quiz. Super online listeners might recognize Cougar Interactive as the creators of 2007's Zoo Race, the Noah's Ark themed racing game.Get over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at

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1:02:15

Chickencheese (Part One)

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2025/10/08

Despite what online recipes would have you believe, most meals don't have a particular interesting story behind them.This one starts from a mundane place: chicken, cheese, heat, embarrassing affected voice. But the cooks at Goons With Spoons rise to the occasion in celebrating the humble chickencheese. Get over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpodYou can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at https://tinyurl.com/IFTIUweBollPodDocSubmit

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1:17:46

Lowtax vs Uwe Boll (Part Two)(with 48 Minutes of Dogs...

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2025/10/01

The year is 2006. After some fiddling, you've got the stream loaded up in Windows Media Player. You're about to watch the guy who owns your favorite forum get beat up by a large German man in front of cheering crowds. He literally signed up for this.This week we are joined by Jason and Bryan from fellow internet history podcast 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking https://48-minutes-of-dogs-barking.podcastpage.io/Check out Bryan's photography portfolio at https://www.assholemusicphotographer.com/indexJason

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1:41:04

Lowtax vs Uwe Boll (Part One)(with 48 Minutes of Dogs...

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2025/09/24

We've gotten to know Richard Kyanka, before we step into the ring we need to get to know Uwe Boll.This week we are joined by Jason and Bryan from fellow internet history podcast 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking https://48-minutes-of-dogs-barking.podcastpage.io/Check out Bryan's photography portfolio at https://www.assholemusicphotographer.com/indexJason also voices Stephen King on Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals https://www.midnightpals.com/Get over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at

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1:02:37

Todd Goldman Is Stupid, Throw Rocks At Him (Part Two)...

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2025/09/18

Todd Goldman is willing to reluctantly admit fault when his bottom line is threatened, but there's no negotiating with the march of time.This week we are joined by t-shirt expert and living internet history K. Thor Jensen. Check out his website at https://shortandhappy.com/ and buy his shirts at https://www.teepublic.com/user/kthorjensenGet over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpodYou can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at

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1:10:13

Todd Goldman Is Stupid, Throw Rocks At Him (Part One)...

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2025/09/10

Your shirt says "You laugh at me because I'm different" but we're clearly laughing at you because you're a shameless plagiarist.This week we are joined by t-shirt expert and living internet history K. Thor Jensen. Check out his website at https://shortandhappy.com/ and buy his shirts at https://www.teepublic.com/user/kthorjensenGet over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpodYou can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at

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1:08:23

Lowtax vs eBaum's World (Part Two)

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2025/09/03

Eric Bauman is poised to cross over into television, but he stole from the wrong forums.Get over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpodYou can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at https://tinyurl.com/IFTIPodEbaumsWorldDocFor inquiries, contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.comBumper MusicLemon Demon - Ebaum's World Dot ComJane's Addiction - Been Caught StealingNirvana - Return of the RatPink Floyd - MoneyAlex Reed - Hit 'Em

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54:28

Lowtax vs eBaum's World (Part One)

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2025/08/27

Hard to believe, but there used to be a time on the internet when content theft was broadly frowned upon. One such thief was Eric Bauman, a high school student whose personal website grew to a vast and profitable content aggregator on the backs of many uncredited and uncompensated artists and comedians. Next week you'll learn all about misplaced Yiddish Cups and his failed television pilot, for now you'll get to see just why almost every funny person online in 2006 hated this dude. Get over 40 bonus

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47:17

RIPline: A Machine To Kill Children (Part Two) (with...

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2025/08/20

Giant catcher's mitts and garage door springs have failed us. Unbelievably, they did manage to find a way to turn things around! Eventually.This week we are joined by comedy expert Kyle Kinane. You can check out some of his standup on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDAukC261mCbmA3Ft9mLUoQGet over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpodYou can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at

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1:13:06

RIPline: A Machine To Kill Children (Part One) (with...

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2025/08/13

Force equals mass times acceleration. Many tragedies could have been prevented if the people involved remembered this simple secondary school equation. This is one of them.A summer camp building a zipline for their campers accidentally creates a Nothing But Trouble-esque bonestripping machine. Now they need to fix it, but they don't have a lot of money left over. Lives are hanging/zipping on the unqualified crowdfunded engineering advice of the Something Awful forums.This week we are joined by

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1:07:07

Lowtax vs Paypal

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2025/08/06

Being mad at payment processors has been a constant of the online experience. 20 years ago, the owner of Something Awful butted heads with Paypal over $30,000 in charitable donations to the Red Cross being held captive.Get over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpodYou can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at https://tinyurl.com/IFTIPodLowtaxVsPaypalFor inquiries, contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.comBumper MusicAC/DC -

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1:21:04

The First Lowtax

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2025/07/30

It can be hard to remember that there used to be a time before usernames. When figures in pop culture were named Kurt and Bill instead of MrBeast and Big Balls. This week, we go back to that time to learn where Richard Kyanka got the name Lowtax from and revel in the dramatic irony.Kickstarter for The Restless: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/winslowdumaine/the-restless-a-hand-drawn-cooperative-tabletop-horror-gameGet nearly 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 a month at

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56:31

The Life and Times of Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka (Part...

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2025/07/23

A leased sports car. A strip mall office. Mangosteen juice. This Scarface-esque montage of glamor and success is tragically cut short by the hammer-like punches of German filmmaker Uwe Boll and the decade of bad business and life decisions that followed. The ending is a bummer, but there's light to be found in a community coming together to right the wrongs of its founder.This week we are joined by combat journalism expert Robert Evans, host of the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen

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58:00

The Life and Times of Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka (Part...

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2025/07/16

We've been holding off on covering the founder of Something Awful, but with Winslow's Kickstarter in full swing it's the perfect time to rip off that bandage! We'll have some more focused narrative episodes featuring Lowtax in the future, but for now we're introducing the man with a classic chronological biography. We begin with the rise of a Vanderbilt engineering dropout into an outsized figure of power and influence on the early internet, back when messengers used numbers instead of usernames and

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58:39

The Fred Durst Society Of The Humanities And Arts...

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2025/07/09

Fred Durst takes being the butt of a joke very well and the city of Austin deals with an unexpected amount of participation in local civics.This week by are joined by Adam Bumas, internet expert and Head of Research at Garbage Day.https://www.garbageday.email/https://bsky.app/profile/bumas.bsky.socialhttps://x.com/adambumasGet nearly 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpodYou can review and comment on the document for expanded show topics at

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1:17:25

The Fred Durst Society Of The Humanities And Arts...

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2025/07/02

We're almost a decade out from Boaty McBoatface, but there used to be a time when online polls getting brigaded was still novel. In 2011, a city of over 800,000 people let the internet vote on what to name their sanitation department. Tthe Something Awful forums decided the funniest outcome would be to memorialize the 1999 chart-topping nu metal icon Fred Durst.This week by are joined by Adam Bumas, internet expert and Head of Research at Garbage

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1:32:22

Let's Get A Goon A Date

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2025/06/25

If trolling 4chan is pissing into an ocean of piss, then trolling PlentyOfFish is pissing into your own mouth: even if you succeed, nothing good comes of it. In 2014, a group of posters from the Something Awful forums learned this hard way.You can review and comment on the document for expanded show topics at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p-tyrzJOXF0m4lIrL49EW-1jIveX-4j2y14UNrnYG_Y/edit?tab=t.0You can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at

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