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Here are links to things we mentioned:

• DashCon
• Call back to our Quibi episode
• Chan boards
• Rage Comics
• Wojak Comics 
• Call back to our cottagecore episode
• NPC and its politicization
• Reply All episode on the origins of QAnon
• Call back to our Karens episode
• Call back to our memes episode with Steamed Hams
• Tumblr heritage posts 
  • Bohemian Rhapsody in rage comics from 2011
  • Tumblr vs Facebook from 2012
  • Map of Tumblr from 2012
• Call back to our episode mentioning the Onceler fandom
• Cringetober
• Inktober creator controversy 
• Oppa Homeless Style
• If you’re wondering what Jon is shouting at the end, it’s this.

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• The Shared Mic: Conversations for the Ages
• Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well Endowed Podcast, especially Episode 79

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community supported.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show

Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.

This episode will sort of make sense on its own, but it will be even more satisfying if you first listen to Part 1.

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Steal Like an Artist
• For a refresher on praxis, listen to Episode 20
• Examples of meme accounts and bots bringing one platform to another:
  • @luigi_atthedisco — pretty personality-heavy and advertises infrequently or never
  • @textpostgiant — a very commercial-seeming meme account on Instagram
  • Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens — a Twitter meme account run by a person
  • Am I the A**hole? — a Twitter Reddit-post account run by a mod
  • me_irl — a Twitter Reddit-post account run by a bot (also a good example of reposting and cross-posting) 
  • Moldy Memes — a subreddit Jon wanted us to share
• The Lincoln Project is accused of stealing memes 
• Beverley Theresa’s post about being on Twitter just to screenshot for Insta
• @_citizen_dane’s super-long Instagram captions about heritage buildings in Edmonton
• Definition of desire path 
• Elizabeth has two poems in the Edmonton Youth Anthology, Volume 1, from Ink Movement. Here’s the book launch video (Elizabeth reads her poem at 12:18).
• Salute to Mack Male, my business partner at Taproot Publishing and a blogger since 2003!

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Unbelts — Use the offer code APN to get a free mini laundry bag with your cloth masks.
• Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show

Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Tom Eastman’s tweet that perfectly encapsulates what this episode is about
• How the blogosphere used to work
• This new rating thing YouTube seems to be trying out
• Video on Worlds Online, an early chat room with avatars
• What we mean by walled garden
• Anil Dash: The Web We Lost and Rebuilding the Web We Lost
• That Jurassic Park quote
• Harold Innis on the “bias of communications”
• GeoCities
• If you like hearing us talk about lost media, there’s more in Episode 21
• Episode 46 of Let’s Find Out: Marriage and Murder at the Mirama
• The deep web
• Internet Archive
• Wayback Machine
• Adobe Flash Player is dying
• The Ragtag Squad That Saved 38,000 Flash Games from Oblivion 
• BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint
• Heritage Posts on Tumblr
• Sarah Z on Onceler x Onceler, we’re so, so sorry.
• Fallen Titans
• Sarah Z on Dashcon
• Internet Historian and Whang!
• Down the Rabbit Hole

Stay tuned for Part 2, coming out Sept. 7-ish.

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Unbelts, maker of the best stretch belts around and our favourite cloth masks
• Edmonton Community Foundation, maker of The Well Endowed Podcast and presenting sponsor of YEGPodfest

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community supported.

You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show

Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.

Here are links to the things we mentioned, plus some extras that were in our heart:

• Article about the moon incident
• Wikipedia, a reliable resource for research
• The Twitter thread in question
• Urban dictionary entries for speedcore, nightcore and hardcore
• Don’t forget mumblecore (Karen didn’t)
• The kidcore aesthetic 
• The cottagecore aesthetic
• The witchcore aesthetic 
• Urban dictionary discusses goth, punk, scene, emo and hipster
• The Articles of Interest episode on punk style
• Jana Pruden’s obit for Mr. Chi Pig
• Mal Blum
• On Nostalgia by David Berry
• Goths by the Mountain Goats
• Worst Year Ever podcast on furries fighting the alt-right
• YouTube documentary on furries
• “Fly Me to the Moon” parody
• Our lost media episode
• That dark academia quiz 
• Fun dark academia activities to do
• Article with the Alison Bechdel quote and the picture 
• That moth meme.
• Cottagecore TikToks!
  • Dead Girl’s Guide to Surviving Cottagecore
  • Sapphic Waffle House (Cottagecore)
  • Sapphic Waffle House (Dark Academia)
  • WLW Jamba Juice
  • And here’s some masc lesbian content!
  • Is she... you know?
• WitchTok on gatekeeping
• WitchTok on appropriation
• Kat Blaque on YouTube
• Reply All on appropriated ball culture (starts at about 17:55)

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Straight from the CPA’s Mouth from the CPA Education Foundation and the Hesje CPA Knowledge Centre
• Putting It Together, which had Karen on to talk about Who’s That Woman? from Follies.

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You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show

Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• The kids were not into celebrity grad ceremonies.
• Elizabeth got Jon to read American Gods.
• We read Frankenstein out loud after reading Welcome to Night Vale.
• Alberta Ballet’s Frankenstein was really good.
• There is a movement afoot to rename the Oliver neighbourhood due to Frank Oliver’s racist harm. Find more at #UncoverOliver.
• Let’s Find Out did an episode on the KKK in Edmonton and an update.
• We talked about school resource officers, or SROs, who have been stationed at some Edmonton schools since 1979. Lots has happened on this file, and the story is evolving. Some background:
  • CBC: School board to reconsider school resource officer motion following trustee resignation
  • Edmonton Journal: Edmonton Public School Board chair pushing for re-vote on suspending the SRO program
  • Bashir Mohamed’s SRO research and commentary is compiled in his Edmonton Anti-Black Racism Toolkit.
  • Speaking Municipally discussed the issue in Episode 90.
• Recommended reading and watching for Pride Month:
  • Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques
  • Punderworld by Linda Sejic
  • The Sea in You by Jessi Sheron
  • Peritale/Life of Melody by Mari Costa
  • Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu
  • Jessica Kellgren-Fozard on YouTube

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• World on Fire from CBC Edmonton
• Straight from the CPA’s Mouth from the CPA Education Foundation and the Hesje CPA Knowledge Centre

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network: Locally grown. Community supported.

You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show

Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Bite 1: Quibi
  • Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start (NYT)
  • Some More News on Quibi
  • Peter Kafka’s interview with Katzenberg on Recode Media
• Bite 2 (9:46): Some Good News
  • Equals 3 (we said Less Than 3), Cute Win Fail, Philip DeFranco 
  • John Krasinski explains why he sold ‘Some Good News’ after receiving backlash (Global News)
  • Facebook’s Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive (WSJ)
  • Sarah Z’s OK Doomer
  • Mia Mulder’s Apathy and Democracy
• Bite 3 (22:35): Social media as… media
  • Coverage of George Floyd’s death in police custody, the ensuing protests and the police reaction (WaPo)
  • Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers covers many of the tips shared by Elizabeth, and more
  • Things To Do Instead Of Calling The Cops, Part 1 and Part 2, from @tapioca_starch
  • Anti-racism resources shared by Brittany Packett
  • Shareable Anti-racism Resource Guide compiled by Tasha K. Ryals
  • Unicorn Riot live video from Minneapolis
• Bite 4 (44:05): Language coding and internet prestige
  • Hank Green on reaction images
  • Rare Pepe
  • Rawr XD
  • r/woooosh (the subreddit for people who miss the joke)
  • Thanks for the Gold Kind Stranger!
  • Mocking SpongeBob
  • It Is Wednesday My Dudes

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Storylines (particularly Episode 8) from Women in Film and Television - Alberta
• Inventures Unbound, happening online on June 3 and 4, 2020.

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You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show, and to Jon Spencer for editing assistance.

Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Sour Grapes (the wine fraud movie Elizabeth mentions)
• For a refresher on praxis, see Episode 20
• John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight  
• David Letterman and Johnny Carson
• Elizabeth’s Letterman knowledge has not grown
• Some More News  
• Big Joel’s tweet about John Oliver minus an audience
• Garfield minus Garfield
• Saturday Night Live At Home
• Paul Matwychuk’s tweet about telephone jokes in vaudeville
• Brad Pitt as Fauci > Kate McKinnon as Hilary singing Hallelujah, says Elizabeth
• The Greatest American Hero
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine > Big Bang Theory
• Decoder Ring episode on the laugh track
• Why M*A*S*H had a laugh track
• Peter Brown shares thoughts about communal laughter on I Don’t Get It
• Punching up and punching sideways, as seen in various lgbt tiktoks
• That Amy Schumer skit on women and compliments 
• The Underdogs of Comedy by Sally Poulsen and Jeff Samsonow
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal web comic
• TikToks that use gay/bisexual coding
• Left at London’s “relatable” Vine
• Lindsay Ellis on reactions to accusations of cultural appropriation
• “It’s just a joke” is a bad defence, says Thought Slime 
• For more on standup, listen to Lars Callieou on Don’t Call Me a Guru
• RuPaul’s Drag Race and Bianca Del Rio
• Bo Burnham’s Left Brain, Right Brain and Country Song
• John Mulaney’s There’s a Horse in the Hospital and Street Smarts 
• Inside Shelley Berman
• Nestor Pistor (we warned you)
• Bill Cosby - Himself (sorry)
• Kids in the Hall, who are reuniting
• Four on the Floor (but Karen was actually thinking of The Frantics)
• SCTV (recently memorialized in Edmonton)
• Random moustaches
• YouTube Poop
• Michael Rosen in his nice, unadulterated form
• Foo Fighters vs The Foo

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• The Well Endowed Podcast (particularly Episode 69) from the Edmonton Community Foundation
• Pod Power, courtesy of ATB, to the Alberta Queer Calendar Project

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.  

You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show, and to Jon Spencer for editing assistance.

Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Remember when we were going to see Hamilton in San Francisco? Yeah, about that…
• Elizabeth’s intro is a homage to Sawbones.
• School was not cancelled, then it was cancelled, and now it’s going to be from home.
• If you’re in Edmonton Public Schools, get your SchoolZone login.
• More resources for supporting learning at home:
  • Student learning during the COVID-19 from the Alberta government
  • Edmonton Public Schools resources
  • Calgary Board of Education resources
  • University of Alberta MOOCs that cover K-12 curriculum
• Go for a walk if you’re not sick.
• Support local business. 
• Spin Linda Hoang’s wheel of local.
• The kids made a Mii with an elaborate backstory.
• Animal Crossing
• Speed Dating for Ghosts
• Cribbage
• Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
• How to help artists
• Kanopy — it’s free with your library card!
• Unraveled
  • Elizabeth recommends We made all 78 Breath of the Wild recipes in one day.
• Monster Factory
• Todd in the Shadows
  • In particular, Trainwreckords and One Hit Wonderland
• Chris Fleming, a modern-day Weird Al
  • Karen recommends (?) Polyamorous
• Jon Bois on SBNation
  • Elizabeth looks forward to The History of the Seattle Mariners.
• Ask a Mortician
  • Elizabeth recommends The Lake That Never Gives Up Her Dead.
• hbomberguy
  • Elizabeth recommends Pathologic is Genius, and Here’s Why and Outsiders: How To Adapt H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st Century.
• BuzzFeed Unsolved
  • Elizabeth recommends The Unbelievable Horrors of the Old City Jail.
• Record a podcast! Transistor tells you how. 
  • Or don’t. That’s OK, too.
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Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• The Loop from CBC Edmonton
• Taproot Edmonton
  • COVID-19 site

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.  

You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show, and to Jon Spencer for editing assistance.

Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• We won the 2020 Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Series
• Other Alberta Podcast Network winners
  • Sports: Tight Ends
  • Technology: Press Start to Join
  • News and Current Affairs: The Daveberta Podcast
  • Television and Film: Emily Missed Out
  • Music: Putting It Together
• Full list of winners
• Hamilton
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda at the White House
  • The fandom on Tumblr
  • Fan-fiction on Wattpad
• Show Boat
• The Color Purple at the Citadel
• Heathers
  • Playing at J. Percy Page from March 4 to 7
• Six
  • Karen talking about Six on I Don’t Get It
• High School Musical
• Encore! — the show about going back to high school to re-stage a musical
• Dear Evan Hansen
• Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton
  • The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare 
  • Vigilante
• Neil Patrick Harris’s It’s Not Just For Gays Anymore
• The Prom
• Falsettos
• Fun Home, Changing My Major to Joan
• The Louder We Get at Theatre Calgary
• Kyle Marshall of Putting It Together
  • Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • Into the Woods
  • Citadel Theatre Students Club
  • The Producers
  • Wicked
• Our appearance on Putting It Together
• Legally Blonde at Ross Sheppard High School (May 6-9, 2020 — save the date!)

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• SkirtsAfire Festival, happening until March 8
  • Use the offer code panelfive to get $5 off the regular ticket price for The Blue Hour.
  • Listen to Unpacking The Blue Hour on I Don’t Get It
• Taproot Edmonton
  • Subscribe to the Arts and Music Roundups for free
  • Become a Taproot Member for as many roundups as you like

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.  

You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show, and to Unit B for use of the recording studio. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Putting It Together — he’s now in the middle of Company, and it’s so good!
• Canadian Podcast Awards
  • Putting It Together is nominated in Arts and Music
  • That’s a Thing?! is nominated in Kids & Family
  • Find all of the Alberta Podcast Network nominees
• Our recent appearance on I Don’t Get It
• Winter Shakespeare Festival
• Kyle’s show notes from our episode
• Episode 23, in which we talked about this copyright mess
  • More info from Access Copyright
  • Many thanks to Matt Bowes of Bollywood is For Lovers

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• SkirtsAfire Festival, happening Feb. 27 to March 8
  • Use the offer code panelfive to get $5 off the regular ticket price for The Blue Hour.
  • Attend Unpacking The Blue Hour on March 1
• Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes at Telus World of Science Edmonton until Feb. 17

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.  

You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show, and to Jon Spencer for editing, and to Unit B for the studio in which we recorded with Kyle. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.