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20k Leagues Under the Internet
by Bird Bar Inc.
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…
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Good Luck Out There
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Salt Bae
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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...
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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…
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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.
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Waffle House Wendy
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#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...
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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...
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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…
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Mr. Beast
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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.
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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;...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.…
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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"...
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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...
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Welcome to 20k Leagues
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Ep.110 – eLaughter - The Evolution of LOL
We all laugh online, but each "haha" or "lolol" might have different underlying meaning depending on the individual and the recipient. But have you ever thought about the origins of online laughter? Well, it wasn't just the phonetic spelling or onomatopoeia of the sound a laugh makes. It dates…
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Ep.109 – Bite Labs - Eat Celebrity Meat
On the surface, Bite Labs sounds relatively innocent. Maybe a start-up that wants to disrupt the restaurant industry or make a food based dating app. But no, it's much more disgusting, confusing, and reprehensible than that. Bite Labs says they want to make salami out of 30% in-vitro human tissue...
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Ep.108 – The Right Stuff, Morbin Time, & Chaotic Sandwich Man
It's always a busy week on the internet and there's a lot to cover today. Conservatives created a dating app for men to meet tradwives called The Right Stuff, but unfortunately, most women want to be treated like human beings and also users data was immediately leaked. Morbin' time began as a…
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Ep.107 – Schmoyoho
The Gregory Brothers have been YouTube pioneers for over a decade making parody songs with the use of auto-tune to alter political debates, newscasts, movies and more. Better known as Schmoyoho, the brothers have written songs for the Academy Awards and TV shows such as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt....
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Ep.106 – Fat Bear Week
It's finally upon us; FAT BEAR WEEK. We've missed previous years, but not this time. We go through all the draft picks for the fattest bear at Katmai National Park. Returning champs, rookies, and dynasties are all in the running for who can gobble up the most fish. Some interesting techniques are...
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Ep.105 – Shrek Rave, Kia Boyz, & Christian Walker
Shrek is back in a big way or maybe it never left. This week Kyle is still gone, so we do a round up of the week. Jon saw a Shrek Rave and Harland Googled disgusting Shrek costumes. We discuss the obvious outcome of Christian Walker moving to Florida from Los Angeles, Spain made a grotesque…
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Ep.104 – Shart Tank - Making a Cheese App
With Kyle out of town Jon and Harland try something a little different this week by expanding on our sh*tty shark tank bit and renaming it Shart Tank. We riff for a half hour using a random word generator in an attempt to come up with the internet's next big social media app. We also discuss the...
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Ep.103 – Mummy Juice
Let us drink the juice! In 2018 archaeologists discovered an ancient sarcophagus that they suspected held the remains of Alexander The Great. It didn't, but what it did contain was a delicious french onion bone stew whose scent brought men to their knees. The visual of the red sludge drove some…
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Ep.102 – BeReal
Another new social media app, another way to mess up your kids. BeReal says its goal is to create "an alternative to addictive social networks" that focus on amassing influence and that it gives users a "chance to show your friends who you really are." But by participating in the creation of yet...
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Ep.101 – Chronically Online Behavior
We all know someone who spends too much of their time online and begins speaking in internet slang and parroting talking points from their favorite creator. This is all well and good until they begin expressing shock around the mundane or not recognizing what they are describing are every day...
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Ep.100 – Glizzy's, The Adpocalypse, Birds Aren't Real
100 episodes, can you believe it?! We thought to celebrate this a special occasion we would take a look back at previous topics and see if new developments have... developed. Kyle tackles the newest in glizzy guzzling, quite literally, as we review a certain cinematic suction system on baseball...
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Ep.99 – Primitive Technology
This week we discuss a scam. A content scam. This isn't something new as people steal jokes, designs, and all manner of intellectual property all the time all throughout history. This is just the most recent example and one were the perpetrators have filmed the evidence themselves with timestamps...
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Ep.98 – Bored Ape Nazi Club
This week we take a look deeper into the NFT marketplace, specifically that of Yuga Labs' Bored Ape Yacht Club. Recently there has been a discussion of whether or not the NFT's are riddled with Nazi, racist, and anti-semetic imagery and ciphers. While there seems to be many coincidences or…
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Ep.97 – How to Get Bullied Online
Kyle is absent this week so we thought we'd do something a little different; we clean out our notes apps of all the small internet related stories that just don't justify their own episode. With that being said, we cover a lot of news that's happened recently and from far in the past. We address...
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Ep.96 – Horny Brand Twitter
We've all seen brands flirting with their audiences and each other over the years from Wendy's to Duolingo to Pedialyte. Oftentimes the brands doing the flirting make no sense and have no business being horny on main and leads to many awkward moments and slip-ups. It was all fun and games…
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Ep.95 – Worlds.com -Jimbly
We need to talk about Jimbly. We continue our cliffhanger episode and uncover more cult-like behavior that has gone on for more than a decade. Worlds.com, once again, is a virtual world much like Second Life that is kept alive by patent troll Ron Kidron, and there is still a diehard player base...
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Ep.94 – Worlds.com - Cult of Saturn & Nexialist
This week we explore yet another old school MMO that has some suspect activity going on; Worlds.com, basically an early version of Second Life. It only still exists as a way for a patent troll to make some passive income but had better intention thanks to both Steven Spielberg and David Bowie....
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Ep.93 – Dall-E 2 - More AI Generated Art
Y'all love A.I. episodes and there's a lot of A.I. out there. You also seem to love A.I. generated images that are absurd and easily meme-able. Dall-E mini and Dall-E 2 have swept across the internet like wildfire with people sharing their bizarre prompts with things like, "a delicious cinnamon…
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Ep.92 – The Rise of RPG Actual Plays
This week Harland and Kyle discuss something good and fun that they both enjoy very much about the internet; the rise in popularity of RPG actual plays. What is an actual play you may be asking yourself. Actual plays are role playing game broadcasts. Typically played using Dungeons & Dragons,...
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