111 - Slender Man and Marble Hornets
Added 2023-11-01 09:00:10 +0000 UTCAnne Huston (Caveat NYC) joins Brian and Josh to do battle with the Slender Man and other monsters from 2009’s viral YouTube horror series Marble Hornets. Their journey takes them from semi-incoherent college memories to the content cornucopia of the Something Awful Forums, Reddit, and early YouTube: reminders of an internet where people could create freely without extreme commercial pressure. They also talk a lot about something called Ong’s Hat. Hope you had a happy Halloween!
Anne Huston is the General Manager at Caveat, a cabaret comedy theatre located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Marble Hornets Season 1 dir. Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage (independent, 2009). Full playlist on YouTube
- The Blair Witch Project dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez (Artisan Entertainment, 1999). BoxOfficeMojo // Letterboxd // TMDB
- Ted’s Caving Page on angelfire.com
- “Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real” by Jed Oelbaum. Gizmodo, February 21, 2019.
- The Wyoming Incident Original Upload on YouTube
- The "Wyoming Incident" discussion thread on the Something Awful Forums
- Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident on YouTube
- Create Paranormal Images thread on the Something Awful Forums
Comments
josh's system of a down reference around 47:40 was criminally underappreciated tbh
Robert Heilman
2024-11-07 00:11:13 +0000 UTCI had a stint of homelessness, and free entertainment can be hard to come by. I remember using a firefox plugin to download the entire marblehornets playlist at a friends place to watch on a small netbook i had. I probably watched it a few times and had really enjoyed it.
Camoose
2024-07-23 01:41:11 +0000 UTCI really appreciated the Ong-going bit in this podcast
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-07-13 14:50:44 +0000 UTCAs someone who comes from a family of weirdo Dutchmen, extended discussion of SInterklaas and his clearly unproblematic assistant makes me feel Seen, and also Heard
Adam
2023-11-06 00:26:15 +0000 UTCtake a picture of the sign and send it to us!
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-11-04 21:56:06 +0000 UTCThis episode hits too close to home, like literally. i'm currently camping along the batona trail near ongs hat
titus virginia
2023-11-04 21:44:09 +0000 UTCY'all did not adequately prepare me for this peak content. 11/10
Nathan Woods
2023-11-02 23:38:41 +0000 UTCPretty sure the martyr St. Nikolaus was greek or something adjacent Myra lies in modern Turkey. Not sure where you're getting the idea Santa Claus was German. Or do you mean culturally?
Wilko
2023-11-02 23:20:16 +0000 UTCToday we learned that Josh doesn't know how gays do missionary.
Leo Curtis
2023-11-02 10:14:30 +0000 UTCthat interstitial took me straight back to Badvertising (now-cancelled podcast) where they had a whole ongoing subplot about the hosts hating each other and all being manipulated by a higher power that was right about to hit its apex when the podcast ended due to the hosts splitting up. similar sudden deaths keep happening to media i like, strangely. pls don't get cancelled
BrianAlflordIsGoodActually
2023-11-02 04:24:22 +0000 UTCThe Virgin choking bit might be the funniest thing you've ever done
Yura
2023-11-02 01:14:18 +0000 UTCi gotta say that segue tying the tangent about the santa video back into what makes marble hornets effective was one for the ages. smoother than a twitter maoist's brain
Elah
2023-11-01 22:33:37 +0000 UTCI‘ve remained silent for too long
Josiah Sutton of the Fruitless Podcast
2023-11-01 20:13:20 +0000 UTCIt's about damn time you did
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-11-01 20:05:30 +0000 UTCOh wow! They're not Swedish, but that's really interesting
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-11-01 18:48:53 +0000 UTCVery important supplementary reading: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5858939/1/My-Encounter-with-Totheark
Anne Huston
2023-11-01 18:47:39 +0000 UTCI am not! Irish/German on that side. Really have no idea where this tradition got started for us. I think it was mainly my Grandma wanting to make a big to-do.
Anne Huston
2023-11-01 18:46:08 +0000 UTCi denounce zwarte piet
Josiah Sutton of the Fruitless Podcast
2023-11-01 18:02:11 +0000 UTCIs Anne also Swedish? Because hiring someone to play Santa at your family Christmas is absolutely a thing we do. Unlike in the English-speaking tradition, you expect to see him in person on Christmas Eve, usually after dinner, and receive one present per person (or sometimes just all of them) out of his hand. I think the most common way to do this is to have a family member pretend to step out and then come back dressed up, but having a stranger do it is definitely a thing that happens and a thing that’s been done multiple times in my family.
Max Johansson
2023-11-01 17:48:38 +0000 UTCSlender man?! I don't even know her man!
Dergon
2023-11-01 16:42:36 +0000 UTC
