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Brett Payne of Street Fight Radio, the #1 Anarcho-Comedy show on any station across the nation, was nice enough to sit down with us to discuss his long career of making genuine, authentic comedy and building an incredibly loyal audience online. Brett and his co-host Bryan Quinby have mastered the art of being online without turning into an asshole, and Brett shares some of his insights into keeping it together while posting.

You can follow Brett on Twitter @BrettPain, find Street Fight @StreetFightWCRS, and get the podcast wherever you hear your podcasts.

Tony from Minion Death Cult joins us as Mr.X returns to take us on a strange and terrible journey through the worst memes he saw as a Facebook content moderator. Then, Jacob shows us some of the weirdest targeted ads he's gotten on Facebook.

NOTE: Mr. X masked his voice to protect his identity and avoid being sued, that's why he sounds Like That.

We talk to Ross Hurt of the Instagram and Facebook accounts Rigs of Dad. Ross crafts elaborate tributes to fictional dads living out their dreams and shredding fat riffs in their later years, and the results are very, very funny. Ross tells us how he developed the idea for the page and how it's grown into an entire expanded universe of Pudgemont County over time.

You can follow Rigs of Dad on Instagram @rigsofdad, be sure to check out the new Rigs of Dad podcast here: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/rigs-of-dad-prodcast/

We attempt to arrange our thoughts about Coronavirus and how it's completely warped and heightened our relationship with the internet overnight.

The Jerry Saltz article we mentioned is by Dan Ozzi and can be found here: https://danozzi.substack.com/p/the-worlds-most-insane-coffee-drinker

Matt Farley has taken the new frontier of Spotify streaming to its absolute limits, with over 20,000 songs and counting released online.

You can find Matt's massive web of musical projects at: https://moternmedia.com/

Some good examples of Matt's musical genius can be found at the following links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaiqrn7vxMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JNf3w4kzvw&list=PLRHYePb9iS0PsBN5YKePZF4eE6-HThSRP

An excellent short interview about his spotify quest from Pandodaily:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Nuz5rBWD4

A former Facebook content moderator shares the secrets of the depraved content constantly pummeling the Zucc's big big website.

During the conversation of this episode, you may hear us mention a handful of Verge articles, here they are:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

This was the first major article to launch investigations into the working conditions of moderators.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderator-interviews-video-trauma-ptsd-cognizant-tampa

This was a follow up months later that detailed further psychological abuse by emploers.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/30/20940956/cognizant-facebook-content-moderation-exit-business-conditions-investigation

This goes into even further detail about the working conditions.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/20/21188356/facebook-content-moderator-lawsuit-class-action-settlement

This is the latest update to the whole saga for mods.

We sat down with author/comedian/professional infiltrator Harmon Leon to discuss some of the highlights thus far of his career, including hanging out with canadian Cult leaders, protecting american's privacy in a digital police state, and filming a reality show with OJ Simpson, post-trial.

You can find his work online at Harmonleon.com

Some suggested readings for this piece:

https://www.harmonleon.com/applebees/

Harmon's piece about infiltrating a white supremacist meeting at a local Applebee's

http://www.harmonleon.com/repoman/

Harmon's tale of hanging out with a repo man for a day.

https://youtu.be/6m7_UvKaayQ

Harmon's Infiltration of Penn and Teller's Bullshit

https://youtu.be/eYL_LJG5qgE

Harmon's infiltration of christian stand up

We were very fortunate to be joined by internet folk hero Jason Scott, we discussed his decades spent on the internet and his monumental efforts to preserve data before it disappears entirely. We also get a chance to ask him about the time he broke Myspace with a very specific image.

Here's Jason's very own excellent writeup on the whole situation: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011

You can find Jason on Twitter @textfiles

We interview comedian, actor, and filmmaker Andre Hyland about his storied career of making YouTube videos for over ten years.

Some great examples of Andre's character include his Jesse Miller character, who represents a kind of unrestrained masculinity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdrJwa2b5Gk

Tim Hutchins who represents a specific kind of middle aged male type:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCCOnXT0g6w

Phil Gower which again represents a completely different facet of masculine tropes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-EbA7OInDc

We interview comedian Gregg Gethard about his character Karl G, a man who wrote in-depth Yelp reviews to get through a messy divorce. We learn a lot about how Gregg developed the character and the surprising real life responses he received as his reviews got massively popular.

You can read all the Karl G reviews here: https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=r8GpBm9dbvBpciwnafPqmw

See Gregg performing as Karl here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYB5InIQNtk&fbclid=IwAR3KtjWXKDD3Sf8WAgzXfWjYOtxZP7EOUMy6-ejFi-HJwgu8iC0KxPaZ6dM

If you want to connect with Gregg, you can add him on Facebook.

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