Giant catcher's mitts and garage door springs have failed us. Unbelievably, they did manage to find a way to turn things around! Eventually.

This week we are joined by comedy expert Kyle Kinane. You can check out some of his standup on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDAukC261mCbmA3Ft9mLUoQ

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Bush - Speed Kills

ZZ Top - Legs

Motörhead - Speedfreak

Rob Zombie - Demon Speeding

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Force equals mass times acceleration. Many tragedies could have been prevented if the people involved remembered this simple secondary school equation. This is one of them.

A summer camp building a zipline for their campers accidentally creates a Nothing But Trouble-esque bonestripping machine. Now they need to fix it, but they don't have a lot of money left over. Lives are hanging/zipping on the unqualified crowdfunded engineering advice of the Something Awful forums.

This week we are joined by comedy expert Kyle Kinane. You can check out some of his standup on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDAukC261mCbmA3Ft9mLUoQ

Get over 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpod

You can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at https://tinyurl.com/IFTIPodRIPlineDoc

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Bumper Music

Bush - Speed Kills

ZZ Top - Legs

Motörhead - Speedfreak

Rob Zombie - Demon Speeding

Created and Hosted by

Winslow Dumaine - www.winslowdumaine.com/

Jay Brandstetter - linktr.ee/jaybrandstetter

Produced and Edited by:

Steve Brown - inktr.ee/killhamster

Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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Being mad at payment processors has been a constant of the online experience. 20 years ago, the owner of Something Awful butted heads with Paypal over $30,000 in charitable donations to the Red Cross being held captive.

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AC/DC - Moneytalks

Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane

Legendary K.O. - George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People

Steve Miller Band - Take The Money And Run

Days of the New - Enemy

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Jay Brandstetter - linktr.ee/jaybrandstetter

Produced and Edited by:

Steve Brown - linktr.ee/killhamster

Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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It can be hard to remember that there used to be a time before usernames. When figures in pop culture were named Kurt and Bill instead of MrBeast and Big Balls. This week, we go back to that time to learn where Richard Kyanka got the name Lowtax from and revel in the dramatic irony.

Kickstarter for The Restless: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/winslowdumaine/the-restless-a-hand-drawn-cooperative-tabletop-horror-game

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Created and Hosted by

Winslow Dumaine - www.winslowdumaine.com/

Jay Brandstetter - linktr.ee/jaybrandstetter

Produced and Edited by:

Steve Brown - linktr.ee/killhamster

Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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A leased sports car. A strip mall office. Mangosteen juice. This Scarface-esque montage of glamor and success is tragically cut short by the hammer-like punches of German filmmaker Uwe Boll and the decade of bad business and life decisions that followed. The ending is a bummer, but there's light to be found in a community coming together to right the wrongs of its founder.

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

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/

https://x.com/IwriteOK

Kickstarter for The Restless: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/winslowdumaine/the-restless-a-hand-drawn-cooperative-tabletop-horror-game

Get nearly 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpod

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Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

Metallica - The Unforgiven

Alice in Chains - Junkhead

Faith No More - Falling To Pieces

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Created and Hosted by

Winslow Dumaine - www.winslowdumaine.com/

Jay Brandstetter - linktr.ee/jaybrandstetter

Produced and Edited by:

Steve Brown - linktr.ee/killhamster

Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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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.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/

https://x.com/IwriteOK

Kickstarter for The Restless: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/winslowdumaine/the-restless-a-hand-drawn-cooperative-tabletop-horror-game

Get nearly 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpod

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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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Winslow Dumaine - www.winslowdumaine.com/

Jay Brandstetter - linktr.ee/jaybrandstetter

Produced and Edited by:

Steve Brown - linktr.ee/killhamster

Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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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.

https://www.garbageday.email/

https://bsky.app/profile/bumas.bsky.social

https://x.com/adambumas

Get nearly 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpod

You can review and comment on the document for expanded show topics at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p-tyrzJOXF0m4lIrL49EW-1jIveX-4j2y14UNrnYG_Y/edit?tab=t.0

You can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at https://tinyurl.com/IFTIpodFreDurstSHArtsDoc

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Limp Bizkit - Indigo Flow

Limp Bizkit - My Way

Limp Bizkit - Everything

Limp Bizkit - Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)

Created and Hosted by

Winslow Dumaine - www.winslowdumaine.com/

Jay Brandstetter - linktr.ee/jaybrandstetter

Produced and Edited by:

Steve Brown - linktr.ee/killhamster

Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

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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.

https://www.garbageday.email/

https://bsky.app/profile/bumas.bsky.social

https://x.com/adambumas

Get nearly 40 bonus episodes of IFTI for just $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/IFTIpod

You can review and comment on the document for expanded show topics at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p-tyrzJOXF0m4lIrL49EW-1jIveX-4j2y14UNrnYG_Y/edit?tab=t.0

You can review this episode's document with sources (and pictures) at https://tinyurl.com/IFTIpodFreDurstSHArtsDoc

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Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff

Limp Bizkit - My Generation

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

Created and Hosted by

Winslow Dumaine - www.winslowdumaine.com/

Jay Brandstetter - linktr.ee/jaybrandstetter

Produced and Edited by:

Steve Brown - linktr.ee/killhamster

Intro and Outro music is "in failure" by steveisbroke off of their album "steve and his week of wonders", used with permission. https://steveisbroke.bandcamp.com/album/steve-and-his-week-of-wonders

This program is not affiliated with or sponsored by Something Awful LLC or Jeffrey of YOSPOS.

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