I'M FROM THE INTERNET

Part two of the Jurassic Jeep saga, Telltale Games offers their side of the story and the goons turn on Boomerjinks. This week's document can be found at tinyurl.com/JurassicJeepPodDoc For inquiries, contact the show directly at  IFTIpod@gmail.com Created and Hosted by: Winslow Dumaine -  www.winslowdumaine.com/ Jay Brandstetter -  linktr.ee/jaybrandstetter Produced and Edited by: S...

Fandom, car culture, and internet harassment campaigns all collide in this week's episode as we talk about Boomerjinks feuding with Telltale Games over damage done to his movie replica car. Who's at fault? Stay tuned to find out, this is a real twisty-turny one! This week's document can be found at https://tinyurl.com/JurassicJeepPodDoc For inquiries, contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.com...

We're back with the final of The Demon Rush and Dragoon Entertainment! This episode's document and sources: https://tinyurl.com/DemonRushPodDoc For inquiries, contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.com Created and Hosted by: Winslow Dumaine - http://www.winslowdumaine.com/ Jay Brandstetter - https://linktr.ee/jaybrandstetter Produced and Edited by: Steve Brown - https://linktr.ee/killhamster I...

The indie gaming world has exploded in the past decade, and many successful indie game developers have called the Something Awful forums their homes. Dragoon Entertainment is one of them, and while their degree of success is debatable it is undeniable that they made SOMETHING. This episode's document and sources: https://tinyurl.com/DemonRushPodDoc For inquiries, contact the show directly at IFTIp...

Living in the age of streaming video and wireless internet, it's easy to forget that not that long ago is was a relatively common occurrence for people to pirate cable television with physical cables. In 2006, poster Pimpsolo found one such cable running across his property and into his neighbor's house, and when the cable company refused to do anything about he took GOON JUSTICE into his own hand...

The Something Awful Forums may have a long and storied history of animosity towards one costuming-focused subculture, but Mermaid Shelly is here to show us that sometimes it really is better down where it's wetter. This episode's document and sources: https://tinyurl.com/ShellyPodDoc For inquiries, contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.com Created and Hosted by: Winslow Dumaine - http://www.w...

Martin Random was the handle of a well-known teller of tall tales in the early days of the Something Awful forums, and while I personally am not a fan of him or his writing a minisode seems like the perfect excuse to talk about one of his less scatological and more far-reaching stories. Today we talk about Martin Random's made-up stories about working as an agent in the Secret Service and witnessi...

People being mad about chili recipes on the internet is a long and storied tradition in the world of posting. This is a unique case, though, because regardless of your opinions on using onion soup mix and six whole squirts of tobasco sauce as seasoning for a pot of chili its the really tryhard edginess that pushes this one into the annals of goon history. Don't worry, even the goons aren't having...

Steve's vacation continues. Jay tries to pass the time by explaining recent moderator drama on the Something Awful forums, a piece of fiction that was a part of said drama, and his own recent personal struggles with autism. All of this taking place within Riven: The Sequel to Myst. I love the internet! The full text of Background - The God in the Machine (Nathan Park) - https://docs.google.com/doc...

Steve on vacation abroad for the new few weeks so full episodes will resume when he returns. While he's away we're going to be putting out some smaller self-contained mini episodes so each week you can still get a small bite of Something Awful content. Jay''s apartment flooded and he's this close to throwing his laptop through the window and running away like the end of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's...

It's the finale of this sixth-grader's hand-drawn sci-fi horror epic, see the thrilling conclusion of the saga as well as the Goon reactions! You can buy the official physical version of BIO-APOCALYPSE at https://www.indyplanet.com/bio-apocalypse?product=76932 A free digital version is also available via The Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080920202716/http://hillridge.net/SA/Bio%20...

Continuing where we last left off in this sixth-grader's hand-drawn sci-fi horror epic, the last surviving humans have launched their last desperate attack on the giant organism that had assimilated all life on Earth. Next week will see the thrilling conclusion of the saga as well as the Goon reactions! This episode is broken up into parts and I fully encourage you to read the comic itself if poss...

Do you ever look at your old drawings from when you were a kid and wonder "how the hell did I come up with that"? Well, a Something Awful poster with a name that I am unwilling to print in the show notes did that, and thankfully scanned and shared it with the Goons so they could as well. Buckle up because pain is the curse of consciousness and planet Earth is in for a world of hurt. This episode i...

The year is 2008. Canada needs a new theme song for Hockey Night and they're holding a contest. This is the story of one of those contest entries. The doc for today's episode can be viewed at https://tinyurl.com/HockeyScoresPodDoc The Hockey Scores remix package is rehosted at https://www.dropbox.com/s/0dbpltti474emwj/Scores_RemixKit.rar For inquiries, contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.co...

Sorry for the late upload, life has been pretty hectic here at IFTI so our next full episode had to be pushed back a week. Luckily Winslow stepped up and we have our first Winslow Presents episode of the show, where we take a break from talking about Something Awful and the Goons to read something from his archives. Today he's reading a rambling, pages-long run-on paragraph from a trucker's manife...

Special guest Kole Ross from Duckfeed.tv joins us for an exploration of that time a goon bought a bunch of land in Hawaii and then convinced a bunch of other goons to fly over on their own dime and work the land. Watch dreams of escaping the rat race turn into the intimidating reality of attempting agriculture on a patch of land that is cartoonishly unwelcoming and hostile. You can review the Goog...

Special guest Kole Ross from Duckfeed.tv joins us for an exploration of that time a goon bought a bunch of land in Hawaii and then convinced a bunch of other goons to fly over on their own dime and work the land. Watch dreams of escaping the rat race turn into the intimidating reality of attempting agriculture on a patch of land that is cartoonishly unwelcoming and hostile. You can review the Goog...

A break from format, instead of one continuous saga we read a grab bag of funny and weird posts with commentary and discussion in between. This grab bag is themed around goons talking about their misadventures in relationships, dating, and sex so this is definitely an IFTI After Dark episode. Come for the goal-oriented sandwich, stay for the cum bunny. You can review the Google Doc of this episode...

In summer of 2011, Something Awful's fitness subforum hosted a thread obsessed with the concept of a diet low in carbohydrates not only as a way of losing weight but as a miracle cure for everything that ailed them. Then in fall of 2011, a previously healthy 21 year-old goon was prescribed statins by his doctor due to eating nothing but peanut butter, eggs, bacon, and hot dogs for weeks at the enc...

The deceptive allure of the mystery box is something everyone has to learn to innoculate themselves from at one point or another. For most of us it is a metaphorical mystery box that confounds. like a TV show that keep stringing you along season after season without providing answer. But for an unfortunate few goons in the summer of 2010 it was a literal mystery box that was dangled in front of th...

Resuming from last episode, Ben Solovey's restoration of Manos: The Hands of Fate is underway but the nefarious Rupert Munch continues to use legal threats and alleged subterfuge to keep the restoration of Manos: The Hands of Fate from eclipsing his own project. Will he succeed? Will the backers receive their Blu-Rays? Why did Super Hornio Brothers come up? All this and more in the exciting conclu...

In 1966, an El Paso fertilizer salesman named Harold P. Warren created a movie called Manos: The Hands of Fate. In 1993, the comedy program Mystery Science Theater 3000 released an episode dedicated to Manos that enshrined it in the pantheon of bad movies and created generations of fans. Then in 2011, a Something Awful poster named Ben Solo found the pristine workprint of Manos: The Hands of Fate...

Muerte is about to start his hike across America. How far will he go? Will he survive? Is this all a grift? All these questions and more may be answered on this week's episode of I'M FROM THE INTERNET! You can review the Google Doc of this episode at the link below for sources and documentation. https://tinyurl.com/MuerteMarchPodDoc You can contact the show directly at IFTIpod@gmail.com Created an...

For our first real episode, we discuss one of the most-requested stories from the Twitter account: The story of a bored mid-20s Californian who decided the cure for his mental illnesses and the ennui of comfortable middle-class life was quitting his job and walking across America coast-to-coast in the middle of summer with little preparation and ignoring the guidance of experienced backpackers tel...

In our inaugural episode, hosts Winslow Dumaine and Jay Brandstetter introduce themselves and their internet bona fides. Jay gives a broad overview of the Something Awful forums, their historical significance, some baseline knowledge of the forum's culture and inner-workings, and a breakdown of each of the major subforums with some teaser of stories to look forward to in future episode. The show's...