In real life, a funny face was probably the first thing you ever laughed at. Things weren't much different on the early internet. A college student named Eric Wu achieved international stardom making faces for the internet, and has been living the hell out of life in the almost two decades since emotioneric.com last updated.

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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".

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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.

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Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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The chickencheese thread is sent away from its culinary homeland to learn the ways of animal husbandry and firearm maintenance.

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Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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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.

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Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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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.

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Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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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/

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Jason also voices Stephen King on Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals https://www.midnightpals.com/

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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/

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Jason also voices Stephen King on Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals https://www.midnightpals.com/

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Steve Brown - inktr.ee/killhamster

Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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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/kthorjensen

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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/kthorjensen

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Jay Brandstetter - linktr.ee/jaybrandstetter

Produced and Edited by:

Steve Brown - inktr.ee/killhamster

Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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