We've been holding off on covering the founder of Something Awful, but with Winslow's Kickstarter in full swing it's the perfect time to rip off that bandage! We'll have some more focused narrative episodes featuring Lowtax in the future, but for now we're introducing the man with a classic chronological biography. We begin with the rise of a Vanderbilt engineering dropout into an outsized figure of power and influence on the early internet, back when messengers used numbers instead of usernames and 56k warnings were in style.

This week we are joined by combat journalism expert Robert Evans, host of the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here.

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Jakob Bienenhalm - LOL, Internet

Machines of Loving Grace - Richest Junkie Still Alive (Sank Remix)

The Laziest Men on Mars - Invasion Of The Gabber Robots

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Fred Durst takes being the butt of a joke very well and the city of Austin deals with an unexpected amount of participation in local civics.

This week by are joined by Adam Bumas, internet expert and Head of Research at Garbage Day.

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Limp Bizkit - Indigo Flow

Limp Bizkit - My Way

Limp Bizkit - Everything

Limp Bizkit - Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)

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We're almost a decade out from Boaty McBoatface, but there used to be a time when online polls getting brigaded was still novel. In 2011, a city of over 800,000 people let the internet vote on what to name their sanitation department. The Something Awful forums decided the funniest outcome would be to memorialize the 1999 chart-topping nu metal icon Fred Durst.

This week by are joined by Adam Bumas, internet expert and Head of Research at Garbage Day.

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Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff

Limp Bizkit - My Generation

Limp Bizkit - Rearranged (RBM's Completely Rearranged Dub)

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If trolling 4chan is pissing into an ocean of piss, then trolling PlentyOfFish is pissing into your own mouth: even if you succeed, nothing good comes of it. In 2014, a group of posters from the Something Awful forums learned this hard way.

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John Siegler and John Loeffler - Pokémon Theme

Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels

Limp Bizkit - Counterfeit

Darude - Sandstorm

Beck - Loser

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This has a happier ending than you might expect, but you have to step over a lot of soft spots in the floor to get there.

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Ministry - Filth Pig

The Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away

Paul McCartney - Junk

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Kaneda

Chicago - Feelin' Stronger Every Day

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Oh so when George Costanza eats out of the trashcan it's comedy gold, but when I eat pizza off the floor it's "unsanitary"? You're just jealous I'm being served a goblet full of cough syrup by my r/hottiesfortrump wife.

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System of a Down - Chic 'n' Stu

Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild

Godsmack - Whatever

Type O Negative - We Hate Everyone

Butthole Surfers - Cough Syrup

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Grab your coal shovels and power up your whimsical steampunk flying machines, we're going back to the SA-Mart to talk about doing arts and crafts for fun and profit.

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The Beatles - Octopus's Garden

Nine Inch Nails - Ringfinger

Reginald Pikedevant - Just Glue Some Gears On It (And Call It Steampunk)

Rollins Band - Liar

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Months of living out of the library is starting to wear on Centripetal Horse, but with support from the forums he might be getting a new career for Christmas.

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Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise

Pearl Jam - Even Flow

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