MEMES, Bonus: The yearbook photo

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🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

For being the internet's poster boy for bad luck, Kyle Craven thinks he sure got lucky. In this bonus episode of our meme series, Ben and Amory chat with Craven, better known as the face of the Bad Luck Brian meme that has circulated the web since 2012. Now a 31-year-old husband and father of two, Craven is frozen in time online as a pimply, brace-faced teenager. Despite the unflattering photo, he says meme stardom has brought nothing but good luck.

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0:00.0	WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let
0:11.5	mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season 3, out now.
0:16.2	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:20.7	Released by the iLap at WBWR Boston.
0:29.6	This week on Thanksgiving we're taking a buy from our usual episodes in giving you a meme
0:35.4	series bonus.
0:37.7	But it is a family oriented bonus.
0:40.0	My name is Kyle Craven.
0:41.3	I am 31 years old.
0:43.0	I am an internet meme.
0:46.7	I live in Akron, Ohio and I have a family, two kids, and it's pretty much it.
0:53.3	Kyle's got a family now at the age of 31, but this story starts with him and some of his
0:57.9	buddies in high school.
1:00.0	They were pranksters.
1:01.8	You know, we'd go to the classics where, you know, in a busy hallway you would put down
1:08.0	a banana pill at the right point and, you know, people would actually slip on banana
1:12.3	pills, which you never realize, but that's a real thing.
1:15.4	And they would be so funny watching people just bust down and fall on the ground and,
1:20.2	you know, or, you know, you take somebody's locker and you stack all the books on that
1:24.2	top shelf just right.
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