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You’re listening to 20,000 Leagues Under the Internet. A podcast where three friends explore online communities of the weird and strange phenomena from the deepest depths of the internet.
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New Podcast Announcement

Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/3d92Nkfgpauwshitmx9Ucl You WIll Yet Die is out on most platforms except Google Podcasts at the moment. You WIll Yet Die is a podcast dedicated to playing deadly TTRPGs where character death is a likely occurrence. GM: Kyle Luck PCs: Tyler Blomstrom-Moore, Jon Carr, and Harland Spinks Original Score written and performed by the players Guitar/Bass: Kyle Luck Strings/Synth/Choirs/Percussion: Tyler Blomstrom-Moore Drums: Jon Carr Vocals: Kyle Luck, Tyler ...

Sep 19, 20232 min

Good Luck Out There

Thanks for the laughs, everyone. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

Jun 09, 20231 hr 10 min

Salt Bae

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Jun 02, 202352 min

Replika

Everyone gets a little lonely now and again so of course there's an app for that. Luka designed an AI chatbot to keep you company with the intent on creating something akin to the plot of Her but ended up closer to Ex Machina. 6 Million users ended up in hyper-sexual relationships while using Replika, many of whom did not ask for their 3D avatars to hit on them. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast ....

May 26, 20231 hr 4 min

Chris Chan

We initially outlawed discussing Chris Chan, but because we are loyal to our patrons who have requested an episode about their deep dark past, we reluctantly did it. This is a long one as there is a LOT of Chris Chan lore, but we also got sidetracked, purposefully or not. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast ....

May 19, 20231 hr 1 min

Wheel of the Web pt. 3

It's returned. Kyle had a go at finding some godforsaken products from across the internet that made us question existence itself. We finally landed on the very popular VAT OF LUBE. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

May 12, 202355 min

Waffle House Wendy

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May 05, 202348 min

#WaterTok

If you don't like doing something, make it fun! Add 6 pumps of sucralose to your 40oz of water in your Stanley Quencher and boom. Drinking water is fun now. #watertok has taken off and a whole community of beverage girlies has flocked to get their stainless steel mugs and syrup bars and made it their whole personality. The worrying part is the delusion that these "sugar free" Skinny Mix syrup combinations, like Mermaid Juice and Unicorn Blood, are healthier than just drinking a soda. The main in...

Apr 28, 202358 min

Spongmonkeys - Deranged Quiznos Rats

In 2003, Joel Veitch got drunk and wrote a song about how much he and his brother loved the moon. They animated it with two homunculus rodents made up of seven different animals and shoved in on the internet. Shortly after it went viral, Ty Harper, a marketing director stumble across it on Rathergood who thought the psychotic varmints would be the perfect spokes-things to sell Quizno's sandwiches. It did not go well.[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powere...

Apr 21, 20231 hr

Grindcore Goat

You've never seen a goat eat trash and cigarettes like Biquette! After being adopted by a punk in France, Biquette (which just means 'goat' in French) became a local legend. She befriended the grindcore band Wormrot, would often sleep next to the speakers during shows, and eat cigarettes right out of peoples hands. She loved paint and the leftover backwash of old booze and obviously died at 10, half as long as most normal goats live to. Biquette is a legend, right up there alongside Hendrix and ...

Apr 14, 202353 min

Mr. Beast

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Apr 07, 20231 hr 9 min

Wheel of the Web: Amazon Edition

The Wheel has returned from the depths with a new way to torture us. This time with the most disturbing products Amazon has to offer, many of which make us question all that we knew about e-commerce and trade. Eight items have been placed on the wheel which is spun thrice. We must then delve into the product images and user reviews and accompanying media in an attempt to understand why they exist at all. We Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast ....

Mar 31, 202350 min

Fake Spotify Artists

t's hard being an artist. Musicians have to tour in beat up old vans and play shows at Denny's just to break even. But upon Spotify's launch, it seemed musicians had a real opportunity to take advantage of the internet and streaming to finally make a living. Until Spotify decided they'd just hire their own musicians to make music on their behalf and take 100% of the revenue which is definitely not embezzling. Other "artists" have come up with their own ingenius ways to exploit the streaming plat...

Mar 24, 20231 hr 2 min

Wheel of the Web

This week we spin a wheel of internet relics and reminisce.Harland was absent so Jon and Kyle made a game show of sorts. There are no points, and Kyle is often wrong. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

Mar 10, 202349 min

Flappy Bird

This week we explore Dong Nguyen and his personally and publicly reviled mobile game, Flappy Bird. A talented independent game developer, his innovative game eventually consumed and destroyed him and he could not bring himself to realize a kind of fame and fortune the average person can only dream of achieving. Flappy Bird took the world by storm and became one of the most popular games of all time. But the overwhelming success ultimately proved too much to handle, and Dong made the difficult de...

Mar 03, 20231 hr 3 min

TikTok Psyop E-Girls

We forget sometimes that the internet isn't used by civilians alone for memes and forums, but also government agencies. We use it to do our taxes and tweet at the President our dissatisfaction as if he's actually gonna read it. The government also uses it to recruit young people into the military. Normally it was with video montages encouraging you to "Be all you can be", but with the proliferation of memes as a language of their own, they have shifted tactics and implored the help of streamers ...

Feb 24, 20231 hr 3 min

HQ Trivia

With a new documentary coming out next month from CNN about HQ Trivia, we thought we'd look into exactly what happened. Thanks to Sarah Pribis, one of the original hosts during the companies beta, we have some details about what actually happened. Infighting, greed, drugs, mutiny, and general mismanagement plagued the company almost from the start and HQ folded only three years after launch. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast ....

Feb 17, 20231 hr 8 min

The Pricemaster

Pantalone, an art collective, and Dungeons & Dragons. Kyle has found another obscure internet relic of a man in a golden devil mask ominously shouting random prices for what is ostensibly junk at a yard sale in Denton, Texas. So what is going on here? Well, the Good/Bad Art Collective in the early 2000's did many bizarre and similar "stunts" or I suppose since they're artists they might call them "installations". None of the previous "installations" were recorded and were never meant to be, ...

Feb 10, 202356 min

Disney Adults

It's okay to have hobbies and interests until they become compulsive obsessions that ruin you financially. It's not really okay to ignore all the awful things corporations do in order to live out some bizarre childhood fantasy as a way to not deal with the ones own personal issues. Disney Adults have been accused of forfeiting their own mental and physical well being so they can get a look at Gaston's pecks, or in some cases straight up grope them. So where did they come from and are all Millenn...

Feb 03, 20231 hr 9 min

Titanic Tiktok Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theories are more popular than ever thanks to the rise in popularity of Tiktok where misinformation spreads like wildfire. One conspiracy in particular gained traction recently about how the Titanic didn't actually sink, probably due to James Cameron being in the news regarding Avatar 2 and his connection to the Titanic with his 1997 film called, you guessed it, Titanic. Anyway, none of them are real and they are all very stupid and easily debunked. Linktree Find out more at http://20...

Jan 27, 202351 min

We let ChatGPT steal our jobs

Harland was out this week so Jon and Kyle took the week off from researching a topic and outsourced that job to ChatGPT. It was somewhat successful until it started incorporating cheese into the script. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

Jan 20, 202339 min

Big Chungus - It's whatever you want it to be, baby

We all know Big Chungus, a screengrab of Bugs Bunny mocking Elmer Fudd from the Merry Melodies episode, "Wabbit Twouble". But what is chungus beyond mere celluloid and ink? Chungus is many things, comes in many forms, and represents many emotions. One being something coined in this episode; horrorful. Join us as we uncover all of the complexity and depth that is Big Chungus.[body] Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast ....

Jan 13, 20231 hr

Loab - The First AI Cryptid

Loab can't hurt you... YET. For now it can only haunt you while you sleep. Labeled the "worlds first AI cryptid", Loab is the newest quirk of AI art that we're still not sure how it came to be. Perhaps it's just a glitch in the latent space of the AI negative prompt weights. Or it's like that woman from The Ring; a paranormal anomaly that wants to eat your soul. Discovered by Steph Swanson, AKA Supercomposite on Twitter, Loab is the result of trying to recreate Marlon Brando from negative prompt...

Jan 06, 202357 min

Chubby Checker

Kyle found ONE article about a weird lawsuit over a genitalia measuring app named after musical legend Chubby Checker and had to see if there were more apps like it. The answer was, of course there are, the names of which I can't put into words here. So just watch the episode about novelty Johnson measuring apps. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast ....

Dec 30, 20221 hr 10 min

Peepy, an ItemLabel Nightmare

Peepy is just a plushie. It can't hurt you... physically. Psychologically? Who's to say. Kyle was served a bizarre ad for a bovine/Furby hybrid "collectible" called Peepy. The theme song is almost unintelligible and horror movie creepy. So he did what any normal person would and began investigating. Is this a joke? Is it a government psyop? Is it a cult initiation video? We're still not sure of Peepy's intent, but it's lore and history points to Peepy having a "disrespectful" past where they hav...

Dec 23, 2022

Chat GPT

Chat.GPT has taken the internet by storm. Videos of people using it to write lease agreements, college essays, marketing strategies and more have been impossible to avoid. Unless you're Kyle who avoids social media like the plague. People have been testing out how far they can push Chat.GPT to varying results. We asked it if it can do crime which it can't and then immediately reported us to the FBI. Chat.GPT is still in its infancy and is learning the more we use it, so it's hard to say just how...

Dec 16, 202254 min

Democracy Manifest

The internet is full of mysteries. Most of them go unsolved or lack any real interest to investigate. But the man who proclaimed "this is democracy manifest" as he is forcibly arrested while attempting to eat a succulent chinese meal has a roller coaster of a history; mistaken identity, chess masters, judo practitioners, mind-control, balding politicians, and a punk band. Democracy Manifest has touched what seems like every corner of the cultural spectrum in it's 31 year history. We won't spoil ...

Dec 09, 202258 min

Japan's Net Cafe Refugees

Episode 113 When you think of an internet cafe you probably imagine clunky, grey computers running Windows 95, green laminated tables, mismatched chairs, and day old coffee and donuts. They're a thing of the past with computers being almost imperceptibly thin and wifi in every building and home. No longer must we venture out into public to access the Net when we have miniaturized computers in our pockets. With the world economy in the late stages of capitalisms glory days, these relics of the pa...

Dec 02, 202258 min

Conservapedia, the Right Wing Wiki

With so much misinformation out there, it's hard to tell what's true and what isn't. For years Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias have been referred to as "not a reliable source of information". But, may I introduce you to Conservapedia? Described as a "complete disaster" and "instant fail" that is heavily influenced by fundamentalist Christian beliefs such as: gravity is an unproven theory, Einstein's General Relativity "has nothing to do with physics", only followers of Christianity are ...

Nov 25, 20221 hr 4 min

Hide the Pain Harold

What would you do if you became a meme? For Andras Arato it almost ruined his life. But acceptance and more importantly, monetization, is a good way to get over it and have the internet embrace you as a "meme hero". At least, that's how Arato puts it. Although, becoming a meme around 2011 wasn't the first time he gained a bit of notoriety, that came in 1996 when he appeared on the Hungarian Mindent vagy semmit! (All or nothing!), a Jeopardy type game show. Since his brush with fame and meme stat...

Nov 18, 202247 min
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