Brave Dot Com

How a misfit polka band scored a premium spot on the World Wide Web in 1995.

0:35 - "The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011 to examine how technology will change life in the future for a massive mainstream audience." (The Verge)

4:05 - More Brave Combo accolades are on their Wikipedia page

4:11 - Bob Dylan's version of Brave Combo's polka arrangement of "Must Be Santa" (YouTube)

6:53 - Domain Name Journal

8:11 - What Brave.com/bo looked like in 1998 (Wayback Machine)

11:23 - Appropos of nothing, here's a figurine of Carl Finch for sale on Etsy. He also has his own Wikipedia page

13:01 - Beer Barrel Polka by Diet Polka (Soundcloud)

13:50 - Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Polka, from Brave Combo album Polkasonic

14:18 - Brave Combo performs the Chicken Dance at a live show (YouTube)

Brave Combo songs in this episode (Spotify playlist):

"Do Something Different"

"The Simpsons Theme"

"In Heaven, There Is No Beer"

"Ice Machine in the Desert"

"Crazy Serbian Butcher's Dance"

"Purple Haze (Polka Version)"

"The Chicken Dance"