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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(145)

Brigador (Part Three)

The conclusion to the Brigador saga. Yes this is not the usual Wednesday upload date, but Steve is understandably occupied with saying goodbye to his beloved cat Shrodinger (RIP) so Jay had to edit th...

25 Sep 20231h 47min

Minisode: The Flash Has Pants Made of Goes Fast

This summer's The Flash movie is maybe one of the biggest bombs of the entire superhero movie era, so what better time to revisit Something Awful's comic book subforum for some classic 2000s internet ...

30 Aug 202346min

Brigador (Part Two)

Last we left off, the developers of Brigador were left scrambling after one of their co-founders was outed as a bigot. In this episode, we cover the fallout and bring some more fun revelations to ligh...

9 Aug 202345min

Brigador (Part One)

The Your Console Sucks subforum of Something Awful was kind of like the Velvet Underground of late-00s video game shitposting communities: Not a lot of people posted there, but the ones who did went o...

2 Aug 20231h 6min

Hulk Hogan Meat Shoes (with Gary Butterfield)

Hulk Hogan Meat Shoes. For decades, it was just a really funny shitpost from the days before the term "shitposting" existed. But thanks to recent developments in the world of lost media, we finally ha...

5 Jul 20231h 51min

Special Bonus: Jay and Winslow on Manawatu Peoples Radio New Zealand

We got broadcast over the air in New Zealand, baby! That means the radio waves containing our voices will continue to echo through the cosmos long after our sun has extinguished, all because a year ag...

1 Jul 202357min

Phenazepam, aka DA JOOSE (Part Two)

CONTENT WARNING: This episode deals with drug addiction, abuse, and death. If that's going to ruin your day, maybe pass on this one because this is a real human trainwreck of an episode.Continuing fro...

21 Jun 20231h 23min