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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 master poster Dril, examine the discovery and ruination of Chris-Chan, and recount the day when the despised owner of the website, Richard “Lowtax“ Kyanka fought the disgraced filmmaker Uwe Boll in a boxing match, and more. We’re diving into the archives so you don’t have to.

Winslow Dumaine is a comedian and illustrator out of Chicago. He’s opened for Kyle Kinane, Dave Ross, and Sam Tallent, and toured with Derek Sheen. His debut work of fiction is The Tarot Restless, a hand illustrated deck of tarot cards and a book of short stories. His next work is a cooperative tabletop card game called RESTLESS, the discord for which is available here.

Jay Brandstetter is an internet historian and online content creator out of his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. In addition to a lifetime of firsthand research on the Something Awful forums and elsewhere, he created the popular Twitter account "crazy ass moments in Something Awful history", has over 100,000 views on YouTube, and over 3 million on TikTok. His ongoing work is The Greymuzzle Archives, a series of long-form interviews of elder members of the furry fandom.

This program is not affiliated with or sponsored by Something Awful LLC or Jeffrey of YOSPOS.

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Episoder(156)

Hockey Scores

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://t...

22 Feb 20231h 14min

Winslow Presents: THE TRUCKER

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 ...

17 Feb 202335min

Samadhi Village, Part Two

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 wo...

8 Feb 20231h 37min

Samadhi Village, Part One

1 Feb 20231h 1min

Grab Bag - Goons and Sex Circa 2007

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 misa...

25 Jan 20231h 17min

Low-Carb Goons

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 t...

18 Jan 20231h 13min

The BoxMystery.com Scam

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...

11 Jan 202353min

Discovering and Restoring the Workprint of 'Manos: the Hands of Fate' (Part Two)

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 restorati...

4 Jan 202351min