Hello and welcome to Dear Hagen John. Or as I like to call it, Dear Alex and Hank.

It's a comedy podcast for two brothers and sometimes a special guest like today, Alice

Goldman of Reply All. Answer your questions, give you dubious advice and bring you all

the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. How are you Alex? I am great. I'm great, thank

you for asking. Yeah, good. So Alex, you do a podcast. It's on the podcast places. All of

them. And very popular and very good and interesting. It's called Reply All. And I really

appreciate you hanging out with me here on Dear Hagen John. I assume now that I will have

to be a guest on Reply All. We'll let where I will talk about my obsession with I don't

know, like early internet, animutations. What is it? All your basses are belong to us.

That stuff. I don't know. What? Yes. Yes. What? Did you ask what an animutation is? Yes.

How could I know something about the internet that you don't know? What is it? And like, so

like you remember they were like these flash animations that were done back in the day. Like

very losodium and neocessoriga and like they did one for yata. You know, these things.

You know, I'm talking. So I just, you know, I loved that. And I love that. I love that

those things have had an impact on the modern internet that no one understands. So like

the sort of like like wave of influence is so far past being influenced by that. One

of the things that's nice. Still there. It's still hidden inside of the subculture of

the internet. One of the things that's nice about the internet that doesn't feel the

same way in the larger culture is that the internet is still relatively young enough that,

you know, you can sort of see the butterfly wings fluttering and watch the, you know,

the massive change that came from that thing. Like you can trace a lot of things back to their

origins in a very interesting way. That's totally true. Yeah. And and and makes your podcast

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