Things I Found Online Podcast

What do lips in a jar, corn on a drill and vodka in your eyeball have in common? They are all associated with virral video challenges which may be foretelling the end of days. We are exploring these ill advised choices with Paul Resnikoff from Digital Music News, comedian Tom Becker and voice over great Jack Daniel. We're delving into the histories of the internet's most popular challenges and asking the universal question, WHY?!! And even more pressing, why do we watch?!!  Plus, PSL season is upon us and we’ve got Starbucks Inside Barista Secrets!

Things I Found Online 48 - We are talking trailers with Jimmy & Ted from the Trailer Junkies Podcast and with voice over legends Joe Cipriano and Jack Daniel! We're exploring what makes a trailer great, how the internet has inspired and influenced film advertising and how to execute the perfect movie trailer voice over read. All that plus #What'sTwitterTrending? Facebook Feedtime and The Number One List of the Week: Top Ten Movie Trailers!

How is your selfie esteem? We're talking about SnapChat Dysmorphia, a harmful side effect of social media obsession. HuffPost reporter Julia Brucculieri joins us to discuss a trend where people are requesting surgeries that would replicate SnapChat and Face Tune filters. (Bunny ears not included.) Filmmaker Bill Filipiak and actor Tara Bianco join the conversation as we explore our perpetual aspiration to meet impossible beauty standards, societal pressures and judgements and the use of appearance manipulation throughout the history of media.  So, yes, we are talking Doris Day.

If you have not seen your son this summer it may  be that he has succumbed to Fortnite Fever. This video game is the opioid of masses of young people who CAN NOT STOP PLAYING. We want to know why and so we we have amassed a squad of kids and parents along with Wall Street Journal Technology Reporter Sarah E. Needleman. We are armed with more than a pickax and ready for answers.

David Rodwin is touring the nation with his one man smash F*ck Tinder, inspired by the 120 women he found online and dated. We are thrilled to be number 121. David’s journey brought him love, heartbreak, confusion, sex and absolutely no consensual understanding of how to date. He joins the podcast to help us seek meaning in online dating as we explore Tinder alternatives such as Coffee Meets Bagel, Hinge and Tastebuds. Have these apps created the gamification of dating? Swipe left if you dislike that question. All this plus T-posing and Theybies!

Pack plenty of sardonic irony. We are journeying into The Leftbook Facebook underground.  Also, at what level of fake does news get pulled by Mark Zuckerberg? Has the internet forgiven James Gunn for offensive nine year old sins and what, for the love of gender ambiguity is a theybie? Plus the top one list, What's Twitter Trending, Facebook Feedtime and Larry Morgan Live from the Podcast Movement convention in Philadelphia.

Gaming culture is a microcosm of humanity with all of its joy and kindness, racism and misogyny. We are exploring all of the above and answering the questions, “Why are so many games marketed to men and boys?” Is gaming culture toxic? and “Did the hyper-masculine sexist, racist trash talk of online gaming give rise to Trumpism?” Youtube Gamer Fractions of a Penny and Comedian Dana Eagle join the conversation.

We are exploring digital tribes. Are online affiliations bonding us more strongly than are national or religious ties? Is digital tribalism leading to a decline in reason? MOTH Story Slam Champion David Rodwin is here to illuminate the many shades of Polyamory, Swinging, sex and love. We are also delving into Internet subcultures like Bronies, Afrofuturists, Casuals & Cosplayers. All that and 2nd Civil War Tweets!? With Dana Eagle, Lauri Roggenkamp, Brett Gilbert, Aaron Linker, Merckx Dascomb and Ryan Tabb.

We're exploring our obsession with conspiracy theories. Or so the government would have you believe. We are  delving into PizzaGate, The Kennedy Assassinations, Area 51, Bigfoot and Is Stevie Wonder Really Blind? The truth is in here, with David Race, Ian Broyles, Paul Paradiso, Ryan Tabb and Aaron Linker.

Can Tinder really start a romantic fire? We've got tips, hints, thoughts, opinions, ideas, dos and definitely don'ts. Also Pick Up Line Theater, and heart-warming success stories. Plus Political Kiss, Marry or Kill. And, Happy Juneteenth!