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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Winslow and Steve are back in the United States and we're working on a fresh batch of episodes, so here's an episode from behind the Patreon paywall.A Trekkie's Tale is a product of pre-internet fand…
We're revamping the minisode format! Winslow and Jay talk about the Get Out Frog, the little stuffed frog who captured the hearts of the goons and then the internet at large. We also chat about the w…
Steve is on the other side of the world making music out of glacier noises (link below!) so here's Jay doing some housekeeping and reading a small post that wound up having very big consequences for …
In which people who take drugs to win fights at the gym lose fights on the internet in spectacular fashion.
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Last week we only scratched the surface of the world of performance enhancing drugs.This week: drugs that will permanently alter your eyesight, cook you alive with your own body heat, and leave pools…
Bigger. Stronger. Worse than ever. In the follow-up to DA JOOSE, we return to The Crackhead Clubhouse to explore a new category of mind-altering illicit substances: steroids! Buckle up for a whopping…
Magic is the art of illusion and sleight of hand. Magick (pronounced "muh-gick") is the term for discussing real world sorcery among those whose know The Art. Today's episode falls squarely in the la…
Resuming from Part One, Tales of Game's has raised over $120,000 for a sequel to their cult hit freeware b-ball-themed comedy roleplaying game. Now to take a decade-long sip of coffee and see how The…
This episode is canon. When crowdfunding blew up in the early 2010s, it seemed like a new golden age of media was upon us: dormant franchises were given long-awaited spiritual successors and small cr…
Resuming from last episode, the ostracizing of the Ponygoons is underway as the Brony phenomenon continues to grow outside of Something Awful.
This week we're joined by Mike Carrozza
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My Little Pony. Three little words that can have wildly different connotations across the internet thanks to wildly unexpected popularity and fandom of 2010's My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. In …
Dogs are great! But not every dog is right for every person, and nothing illustrates that better than The Maremma Scenario. Don't worry, nothing bad happens to the dog but I can't say the same for ev…
It's been a long wait, and we return bearing a terrible secret. The secret pheromone extraction method may not actually help you attract FEMALES but it does make for a fascinating case study in how m…
Jay here, we're starting to work on new episodes and people have been asking if the show was coming back so I wanted to make it official and put something on the feed.
The bad news, it's going to be j…
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 t…
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…
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 lig…
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 …
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 h…