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Hello.

Hey, nice shirt, PJ.

Did you also buy this on Amazon?

I did.

Are we wearing the same shirt?

I think we're wearing the same shirt. We got a discount because the sleeve monster ate our sleeves. Yeah. Well, I just, I'm done with sleeves, you know? I'm done. This is not the part of Zahmer where sleeves are working for me. There's not, I don't have very good AC here. And it's not that I think that everyone's just, like, whistling at my biceps as I walk down the street.

I'm just, like, I've thrown in the towel on anything but comfort.

Yeah, I think that's smart.

Okay, so why don't you introduce yourself?

Sure.

My name is Ryan Broderick.

I write a newsletter called Garbage Day, and I host a podcast called Panic World.

And what you do in both of your projects and your entire professional life is you survey, explore, and catalog,

the internet, but particularly of an affinity for, like,

like, if you were a Star Wars movie,

it's like the outer rim far away from the empire.

Like you like the places where things are weirder, darker, stranger, the marginal edges of the internet.

I do.

But I also have like a grand fascination with where culture comes from, which typically is from the outer rim, you know, and it kind of makes its way in.

But I feel like I never really understand what's going on.

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