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I Hate Everything

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**I Hate Everything** is a YouTube channel run by English film critic Alex Beltman. On the channel, Alex reviews both a litany of terrible movies, as well as some actually good movies to keep some semblance of emotional balance.

He is also a host of the Sardonicast and the JAR Media Podcast.

## Relation to the show

Aside from being a sought-after guest on The First Podcast, his video on Shark Exorcist inspired Lars to do a much longer review of it for an episode with Chelsea Sanders.

He watched the movie himself and, upon noticing just how bad it was, realized it needed a scene-by-scene critique; Alex's video was noted by him as very amusing, but not quite sufficient if a listener wanted to understand why *every* scene was bad.

Lars is an avid listener of the Sardonicast and catches episodes of JAR Media when time allows.
Flexstyle

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**Flexstyle**, real name Michael Birch, is an electronic music composer and aspiring Christian counselor.

## Appearances

Flexstyle was referred to the show by his colleague RoboRob; both of them had worked on the soundtrack for the Remix DLC of the game "Crypt of the Necrodancer". He regaled Lars and Joe with the tale of APEX 2015, which culminated in him playing to an empty room in a diner for four hours.

The episode gave rise to a particularly badass concept: the idea of a trained army of one million zombie wasps. This came about through a hypothetical question.

His episode marks the third in a chain. The hosts found out about Flexstyle when RoboRob discussed the Necrodancer project on his episode, whereas they found out about RoboRob when he came in to provide memes on Discord during the Chuck None episode.
List of early ideas for the show that, in retrospect, would have been a terrible idea

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The following is **a list of early ideas that the hosts had for the show which, looking back, are considered to have been of poor quality**. Many of these came from an era where guest episodes were not a focus, and as luck would have it, they were all brought up by Joe.

While some of them may seem exceedingly strange now, they existed in a highly experimental point in the show's history where the hosts were throwing things against the wall and seeing what stuck.

Appealing to the wisdom of hindsight being 20/20, the hosts have made a rule where they are allowed to quickly and bluntly stomp on ideas from one another that they immediately recognize as "a train that should not leave the station".

## Examples

* Having an episode where Joe rides his bike around and mentions things that he sees. Lars attempted (to no avail at first) to explain to him that, problems with the idea itself aside, there were insurmountable audio issues with this segment concept.
* Having some colleagues of Joe on who make "cat dubstep". Lars hesitatingly agreed to this, and the episode in question almost happened. EP40 contains audio remnants of what could have been; in what the hosts now see as a fortunate twist, the episode they were supposed to appear on simply did not show up, so they did an impromptu guestless episode instead.
* Having a magician on, who, due to the audio format, would be completely unable to perform his routine. Lars considered it for a while and almost agreed because he thought there would be a way to make that "the joke", but ultimately rejected the idea.
* Having a random coworker of Joe on for a brief segment in which he introduces himself, then says "wait, I have to go" with no explanation. Abandoned for obvious reasons, although a recording of this was made.
* Forcing guests to do beer reviews. It goes without saying why this did not pan out.
* Spending 70% of an episode with Joe playing and narrating his activities on a mobile game. This was actually attempted by Joe, but Lars nixed the entire segment in post, as it made for 40 minutes of hopelessly niche material.
* Utilizing brief improvised tracks Joe had recorded called "I Am a Robot" and "I Am a Bear", which Lars refuses to release for the sake of humanity.
Classic episodes

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**Classic episodes** of the show are remastered versions of old deleted episodes from the great purge.

## History

Episodes released in this format were previously main episodes of the show. After the great purge, Lars decided to trickle out remastered, curated selections of these episodes (or entire episodes, if good enough) for the patrons. They are released approximately once a month.

There is a limited pool to pull from for classic episodes, as only a couple dozen of them were removed. Thus, classic episodes will eventually end.
Luke

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**~~James~~ Luke** is a Canadian content creator who runs the channels NotMyFault and unusual videos. He was a guest on an early episode of The First Podcast.

## History

Lars originally found his channel NotMyFault while browsing YouTube late at night, finding a video to be particularly amusing, and reaching out to him on Twitter.

## Amusingly high length of time to schedule Luke's guest appearance

Luke expressed interest in making a guest appearance on the show after listening to a sample episode. Due to unforeseen complications for both parties, however, the episode in question was delayed numerous times over the course of several months.

During the episode the hosts noted, amusingly, that in the time it took to actually have him on the show, Luke had doubled in subscribers, and The First Podcast had interviewed literal state senators and the creator of The Elder Scrolls.

## Unawareness of Lars in regards to Luke's massively successful other channel

Lars discovered on-air that Luke additionally had a significantly larger channel, unusual videos. Joe noted that this account had amassed over 200,000 Twitter subscribers. Lars satirically remarked that they would rather discuss said channel "when they get the creator of unusual videos on".

## Name discrepancy

Lars introduced Luke on-air as "James", in reference to one of his videos; during the recording process for this video, the latter was called twice by a telemarketer. Both times she requested to speak with an unknown man named James, which (obviously) is not Luke's name.

Luke deliberated whether to include the calls on the video, as he was concerned about potentially coming across as too mean to the caller. Joe disagreed, stating that "if anything you weren't rude enough".

## Influence on the show

Lars has noted that a principle Luke adheres to on his videos about "trusting your first reaction" to a joke or gag has had a large influence on his editing style.
Shreds

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**Shreds** are comedic edits of music videos that people post on YouTube.

## History

A "shred" is an edited music video which is presented on the surface as an alleged terrible performance by a band.

In reality (and quite obviously to the viewer, after he or she has been introduced to the concept), the sound is heavily modified and occasionally the video clip is rearranged in order to purposefully make the finished product sound dreadful.

On an early episode of the show, Lars introduced Joe to this style of video edit. At first, he thought these were legitimately bad performances, but he found great amusement in learning that they were purposefully edited that way.

He stated that looking for more shreds was going to consume a large amount of his free time in the future.

## Host favorites

The following shreds are considered by the hosts to be top notch, and may be a good primer for this style of video:

* Beach Boys "I Get Around" (presented as clapping morons)
* Kings of Leon "Sex on Fire" (absurd sound issues from a pretentious lead singer)
* Drake "Hotline Bling" (postmodernist dorky guy deconstruction)
* The Mars Volta "Wax Simulacra" (absolute pisstake of the band)
* Radiohead "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" (chaotic nightmare)
* Earth, Wind & Fire "September" (only instruments in frame play sound)
Vinewrestle

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***Vinewrestle*** is a series of annual streams hosted by Joel that happen during the VinesauceIsHOPE streams. Set in modded versions of the annual *WWE* games on PC, *Vinewrestle* is a wrestling tournament featuring various streamers, memes, and other popular figures duking it out CPU-versus-CPU in the ring.

## Events

### Main Events

Each year there is a main Vinewrestle event. This consists of an eight-man tournament, leading up to a final championship bout for the prestigious VineBelt.

### Side Events

There are also other Vinewrestle events that are not the usual annual tournaments. These are sometimes just for fun without any VineBelt championship involved, such as the Vinewrestle: Summer Slaughters, or they are matches done to negate the victories of champions who Joel doesn't like.

 Vinewrestle 2018: Finale
 Vinewrestle 2019: 30-Man Rumble Special
 Vinewrestle 2019: Summer Slaughter

## Videos

Vinesauce Joel - Vinewrestle 2018 HIGHLIGHTS (Fan Made)Vinesauce Joel - Vinewrestle 2018 HIGHLIGHTS 2 (Fan Made)Vinesauce Joel - Vinewrestle 2019 Mini-CutVinesauce Joel - Vinewrestle 2019

## Trivia

* There have been multiple occasions where Joel sends a Vinewrestle champion into an unfair match to take away their VineBelt. They have been listed here:
	+ BBQ Pitboy was defeated by Joel, Rev, and Vinny in Vinewrestle 2018, losing the title.
	+ Jerma defeated Joel and Pantherk, followed by SimpleFlips in Vinewrestle 2019, keeping the title.
	+ Tongo was defeated by Joel, Jerma, and the Giant Rat in Vinewrestle 2020, losing the title.

## See also

* Template:Vinebooru

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Kayver

Kayver is a nation in the medieval realm Xeros. The nation is comprised of those who survived the destruction of Olympus. The nation is known for its savagery and the warlords who rule it. In the wake of their conquest no one is safe from harm.

**Member Towns:**

* Nyxia

**Other Territories:**

* Old Terrance
The Right Opinion

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**The Right Opinion**, real name James and "TRO" for short, is a YouTube content creator. His videos are usually long-form essays on a variety of topics, often deep dives into the controversies of fellow creators.

He was a British expat, studying in America for college. He has since returned to the United Kingdom.

## Appearances

The First Podcast initiated plans for TRO to appear as a guest back in February 2019. He was finally a guest in September 2019.

The episode was somewhat notable for its subdued tone due to a scheduling misunderstanding by Lars. He was under the impression that James was still in America, so he scheduled him for 7pm Pacific Time. Unfortunately, this was 3am in the United Kingdom.

Thanks to his kind words to j aubrey about the show, the latter would proceed to be a guest as well.
Miss Toto

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**Miss Toto**, real name Rock Evans, is a Miami drag queen and fitness instructor.

## History

Toto is a prominent member of the Miami drag queen scene, voted Best Miami Drag Queen in 2018. She is noted for having an unusually large and muscular physique for a drag queen, noting wanting to take up "as much physical space as possible".

While performing as Miss Toto, the individual uses female pronouns, a common (but not universal) practice for biologically male drag queens. When not performing, and when acting as a fitness instructor, the individual uses male pronouns.

Toto was a guest on The First Podcast in January 2019. The hosts noted great chemistry with this guest.
NICKtendo

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**NICKtendo**, real name Nick, is a YouTube content creator and host of the Sonic Movie Podcast with Saltydkdan, Robobuddies, and Nolan B.

## History

His channel name is mildly misleading, as Nick does cartoon reviews, not Nintendo or gaming-related content.

Nick was a guest on The First Podcast in August 2019.
EXOciety

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**EXOciety**, formerly Exordium, is a record label run by Rav.

## History and appearances

EXOciety started as a hip hop collective between Rav, Kill Bill: the Rapper, and a few other artists that they have picked up over the years.

Rav, Kill Bill, Airospace, and Scuare were guests on The First Podcast. This began on a whim when Lars sent a DM to Bill, one of his favorite hip hop artists, in the hopes of getting him on the show. The latter agreed later that afternoon.

Due to fan demand, there was a plan to get every member of EXO on the show, including Ashido Brown and Rekcahdam in the future. As time went by and the show drifted more toward YouTubers, these plans seemingly were abandoned; however, Bill has expressed interest in making a third appearance, again with Rav.

## Exomania 2019

FrankJavCee, a guest on The First Podcast, hosted "Exomania" in June 2019. Lars and Joe were in attendance, along with several other members of the Discord server.

Lars was lucky enough to obtain one of several fake Pokemon cards displaying Bill, Rav and LoveSadKid; he gave the third card to Joe since the latter was ostensibly able to procure him for a future interview, determining that he had "earned" it. The hosts also met several of the show's previous guests, including Frank, Bill and Rav, in person.

A last-minute venue change the night before forced the show into a somewhat nearby household backyard, and the show did not last as long as planned. Nonetheless, all the same artists were featured in almost the exact same order, with Bill and Rav closing the set.

Joe met Brittany while traveling to Exomania.
Hosts

Since mid-2018, **The First Podcast has been hosted by Lars and a series of other co-hosts**. Regime changes occurred in late 2018, fall 2020, the beginning of 2021, and summer 2021, ~~remaining stable since then~~.

## History

The show originally centered around the lives of main host Lars and his two co-hosts Ali and Alexis. After a few months, Alexis was an early drop-out due to a lack of spare time; Lars and Ali carried the podcast steadily for two years after that, with no changes.

In mid-2020, Ali decided to leave the show. Lars recruited several guest hosts in her place for the time being, eventually deciding on Amir (doplex) as her permanent replacement a few weeks later.

After having guest James (ManyKudos) on the podcast several times and finding him to be exceptionally compatible with the format, Lars and Amir brought him on board as the third co-host in January 2021.

As of June 2021, Amir and James have decided to leave The First Podcast to focus on their own endeavors. Lars meanwhile has entered into a deep hibernation.

## Current Roster

Editor
2018+ (on hiatus)
Video Editor
2020-2021

Former guest host
2020
2021

Former guest host
2020

## Previous Hosts

The show has had two former co-hosts that have since left the podcast.

2018-2020
2018

## Guest Hosts

Occasionally, the show will have a guest host fill in for someone, or join the episode when appropriate. These episodes are now few and far in between.

2020
2018-2019
2018
Birdman, birdman

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Lars and (formerly) Joe have made occasional references on the show to "**Birdman, birdman**", an incomprehensible Shaquille O'Neal idiosyncrasy.

## History

O'Neal has a bizarre habit of yelling out "Birdman, birdman!" to no one in particular during interviews, often accompanied by spinning around in his chair while flapping his arms, or even while wearing a bird-patterned headdress.

Lars finds this hopelessly strange and incredibly amusing.
The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You

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**The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You** is a guestless episode of The First Podcast which represented a vast departure from the usual episode style.

It has since been removed due to the great purge, but its unique qualities hinted at a now aborted arc for the show which would break the fourth wall.

## Unique qualities

* This was, at the time, the only episode without any intro or outro music.
* This is the only episode that is presented completely in medias res. Some other episodes begin at a seemingly arbitrary conversation point, but this episode begins in the middle of a sentence.
* While a proper spoken introduction of the episode was occasionally foregone or delayed significantly in earlier episodes, this is the first of the newer episodes to have absolutely no welcoming of the audience.
* This is the only episode presented as “found footage”.
Bill Murray Ghostbuster

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**Bill Murray Ghostbuster** was a character that appeared and was subsequently retconned in Part 14.

Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and writer. The Meme House version of Murray is based on his portrayal of Peter Venkman, a member of the Ghostbusters, a group dedicated to hunting and exterminating ghosts.

## History

### Retcon II: Dio's Premonition

During Part 14, the Bogan Household called Bill Murray while he was eating in his appartement in Moscow to deal with the invasive ghosts of "Madeline" and Bonzi Buddy.

When Bill Murray arrived, however, he got distracted by the GameCube and Breadsticks and was extremely ineffective. He tried to use a flamethrower to get rid of a ghost, to no effect, and he suddenly got turned into a Pickle, he's **Pickle Bill Murray**, funniest shit ever seen.

Anakin Skywalker then barged into the house and set the place ablaze, killing Bill.

It was then revealed that this series of events was a premonition by DIO, and Bill Murray nor the other Ghostbusters never existed canonically in the first place.

## Trivia

* Joel has said that if he does bring Bill Murray back, he'll also create the remaining Ghostbusters alongside him.
Lizzie Bilbrey

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She's kinds like that, yeah lol

**Lizzie Bilbrey** is an art student and YouTube content creator who specializes in "stylistically shitty" videos. Her delivery and editing choices can be compared to acts such as Tim & Eric, h3h3productions, and Pyrocynical.

## History

There were originally plans to have Lizzie on as a guest. It would have included a reading of My Immortal.
Canadian beavers are bulletproof

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The concept of Canadian beavers being bulletproof is a meme from the show.

## History

This "factoid" was suggested by JackEL on his guest appearance. Though technically blatherskite, Lars and Joe found it very amusing and decided they would start to spread this misinformation to the world from now on.
Asterios Kokkinos

**Asterios Kokkinos** is a comedian and host of The Loudest Podcast, who has appeared multiple times as a guest on The First Podcast. He was also a patron.

## The lolsuit

The lolsuit was a lawsuit filed in 2017 on behalf of Maddox. In this lawsuit, Maddox sued Asterios Kokkinos, Dick Masterson, a variety of other associates, Patreon, and a clerk who works at Patreon, for $20 million.

There was a great deal of complexity to the lawsuit, but the involvement of Asterios can be summed up by the fact that he made fun of Maddox on a Christmas album he recorded.

All claims were dismissed as frivolous and/or extremely disorganized by the judge.

## Appearances

Asterios first appeared as a guest in February 2019. He notably got along with Joe, considering him at first to be the "cool" one, much to the latter's delight. Halfway through the episode, however, he conceded that it was fun to make fun of Joe.

He returned to the podcast in November 2019, alongside Sirancha. On this episode, he continually shat on Joe for his terrible questions, but became a patron after being impressed with the quality of the ad reads.

Both Asterios and Sirancha have been invited back for a third (or in Sirancha's case, second) guest appearance. Asterios is tentatively slated to make a July 2020 return, with Lars finding renewed interest in having him on again after listening through The Biggest Problem in the Universe: Uncucked.

## External Links

### Show

* iTunes
* Google Play
* Stitcher
* Spotify
* YouTube
* RSS Feed
* patreon.com/asterios

### Social Media

* Twitter
* Instagram
Joe's sexuality

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A running gag on The First Podcast during Joe's tenure was an obstinate attempt by Lars, as well, as several guests, to question **the sexual orientation of Joe**.

## Evidence in favor of heterosexuality

* Joe was previously engaged to a woman.
* Joe has exclusively discussed dates with women on air.
* Joe claims he is straight, and while one could argue the whole Game of Thrones "no one who calls himself a king is a king" thing, it would be more reasonable to take him at his word.

## Evidence in favor of non-heterosexuality

* Rather than rolling with the joke, Joe initially vehemently shut down any attempt to call him gay on air.
* The topic of his ambiguous sexuality seems to come up a lot, without provocation.
* Several instances of Joe saying "I'm gay!" on air exist.
* Eventually, Joe stopped denying that he was not straight.
* Joe has made various remarks that would indicate sexual ambiguity.

## Evidence in favor of luggagesexuality

* Joe would frequently ask guests about their luggage preferences, with a sort of odd fervor and passion that Lars has described as containing undercurrents of fetishism.
* A clip of Joe describing different types of luggage has surfaced.

## The irony here

> *"If there is a God, I think that when he made me, he got 75% of the way through in making just this absolute flaming gay guy, and then said, 'Fuck it. Let's make him completely straight and see how that works out.'"*
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If anyone were to suspect one of the hosts as being gay, it would obviously be Lars. A good 25% of the population seems to assume he is homosexual when they first meet him. Joe was the one who acted like a more stereotypical "straight guy".

What allowed this gag to work was Joe's fervent attempts to quell any aspersions. When called gay himself, Lars will either nonchalantly brush it off or fully embrace the joke. It is impossible to pull one over on him in this regard, because he already makes fun of himself.
IG-88

"All hail the boar god, ride the boar and pay gratitude to our hairy master above"

## "Lore"

**IG-88** is a T1Podcast Discord server moderator and former Soviet Freedom Priest of The Latter Day Joes

they joined the Discord server during the Brendaniel Episode on Sept 11th, 2019 and spoke the wise words *"Just do a sick backflip and run" in the recording chat.*

According to star wars lore, some droids have their memories wiped from time to time. As a result wild, unhinged theorizing might be necessary to add to this article.
Pokémon Gun

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**Pokémon Gun** is a hypothetical "enhanced definitive version" of the upcoming games Pokémon Sword and Shield.

## History

The idea for this game originated from guest RoboRob. While Game Freak is extraordinarily unlikely to use the name "Gun" in the kid-friendly Pokémon series, the tradition of a third (and sometimes fourth) game acting as the "definitive" edition of a current iteration batch is ongoing since Pokémon Yellow.

A similar suggestion was made by a member of the Discord server, rokkshell, of "Pokémon Fork".
Refreshingly Unique Domain

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**Refreshingly Unique Domain** is an odd, seemingly incomprehensible image that Alexis shared with Lars and Joe on an episode. The image features a distraught, crying child, and the words "Refreshingly Unique Domain". Presumably, this is an ill-placed ad for a domain name service.
Jeff

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**Jeffalgar "Jeff"** is Joe's brother. As of September 2020, he lives with Joe in a questionable apartment.

## History

Joe very frequently brought up his brother Jeff on the show, leading Lars to suspect that the former was attempting to subtly shoehorn him into the podcast. On earlier episodes, Lars would emphatically interrupt any attempts by Joe to bring him up by shouting, "Stop trying to make Jeff happen on the podcast!"

Jeff's voice has been described as "Joe with a frog in his throat". He apparently showed no interest in the podcast, but accepted his brother's commitment to it and left him to record in peace once a week until his departure.

In late 2019, Joe and Jeff got an apartment together.
J aubrey

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Jonathan Aubrey, known professionally as **j aubrey**, is a YouTube commentator.

## History

Aubrey's style is similar to that of The Right Opinion, who was also on the show, and they are close friends. However, he got his start as AubreyStudios82, a (believe it or not) stop-motion Lego short film channel.

Jonathan was a guest on The First Podcast in October 2019. Lars appreciated the episode, as Aubrey had a Huggbees-style sense to engage heavily in the show's banter.

YouTuber and eventual new podcast co-host DOPLEX (Amir) made a surprise cameo appearance on this episode, having planned for a week behind the scenes. Jonathan did not discuss the unconfirmed reports that he only has one testicle.

Jonathan returned as a guest, alongside Amir, in summer 2020.
Vivi

Vivi is the Sunshine Yellow 💛 of Aidoru Sozai.

## Trivia

* **Hobbies & Interests:** Drawing and Painting, Studying and Making reviewers, Discovering underground idol groups, Learning languages (thai, vietnamese and japanese!), Watching documentaries
* **Favorite Food:** Sinigang, Okonomiyaki, Miswa
* **Favorite Idols:** meltia, LunaFilles, Keyakizaka46, =LOVE, tenkoushoujo kagekidan, uryaoi!JAPAN, CRUiSE, Yanakotosotto Mute, iketeru hearts, BNK48, Hanakotoba wa Inosensu, 963
* **Other Artists:** Hanatan, ALDV-1, kokone, Anon&Kanon, Wotamin, Soraru, Lon, Mii-chan, Reol, Hatsune Miku (lmao)
* **Fun fact:**The longest time I walked my dog, named Sunshine, was 64 minutes and 23 seconds!
* **Describe yourself in three words:**Optimistic, Responsible, Intelligent
* **Why do you want to be an idol?**I want to perform the same way my idols do. I want to see how it looks like in their perspective. I want to experience the same things they do, the experiences that make them feel alive. Maybe it'd bring the same feeling to me too.
Randy

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**Randy**, also known as **Randy the Racist**,was a metafictional co-host of the show who was created in the imagination of Lars and Alexis on-the-spot on an early, deleted episode.

Randy displayed problematic behavior on each episode he "appeared", leading to repeated interventions. None of the hosts endorsed his antics. His status as a co-host was perpetually on thin ice.

His audio track currently cannot be heard, as Lars has seemingly "had trouble mixing in his audio" on Adobe Audition. Listeners must thus infer what he has said based on the context of the other hosts' interactions.

Randy is a good example of an early gag from a more quaint era of the show, being amusing at the time, but having little modern relevance.

A later guestless episode in October 2019 can be seen as something of a "spiritual successor" to the Randy gag, in which Joe and Lars pretended that they were interviewing a professional fisherman with unfortunately extremist beliefs. Lars spliced in highly filtered clips of Ohan talking to act as his "audio".

## Appearances

In his first episode appearance (noted above), Randy dropped a "hard R" and was forced to leave.

In another, Randy shared a microphone and an earphone with Alexis. He started grabbing her butt without asking, and defined the term "crookshanks" as being "people hate Mexicans". He was quickly chastised and kicked off again.

## Cultural references

* When referencing him, Lars cries "Randy!..." in the same manner as Peter Griffin toward Randy Fulcher in the show *Family Guy.*

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b71yUmWMQto
Fat earth theory

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The **fat earth theory** is a satirical theory proposed by Lars.

## Theory

The theory exists in contrast to the real-world flat earth theory, which is a hypothesis that the earth is not a spheroid, but rather a flat disc of some sort. Lars jokingly started a meme about Tiege being a flat earth conspiracy theorist.

According to Lars, the earth is currently in danger of "falling out of the sky". He hypothesizes that this is due to the international increase in obesity in recent years.
Bros Night

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**Bros Night** refers to an episode format on The First Podcast, initially planned as a roughly "fortnightly experience" (twice per month) but in practice occurring only a few times thus far, where Lars, Joe, Ohan and Richard would sit down to discuss a variety of nerdy topics with no particular agenda.

## History

The framework for Bros Night first came about on an early episode, in which Richard was the featured guest. Lars made an executive decision to invite previous guest Ohan Ghazarian to sit in as a guest host, with Chris participating in the background as something of a moderator.

This turned out to be what Lars and Joe considered an exceptional format, with the four (and a half) participants all playing very well off of each other. This opinion was shared again on a later episode, where Richard and Ohan actually filled in for Joe during the first 45 minutes (after which Joe came into the call, followed shortly by Chris again).

Lars and Joe agreed to start featuring Ohan and Richard as regulars on this new episode format, which is something of an "evolution" of the old episode style (as in, the latter two would be considered guest hosts, not formal guests, and the discussion would be organic).

As the notability of guests went up, Bros Night episodes started becoming fewer and far between. While still happening, it has become more difficult to get all four people available at the same time (especially Lars and Joe).

Chris was quietly dropped as a requirement for these episodes, as he suffers from notoriously poor wireless internet, does not have a big enough following to justify the expense of an additional audio track, and largely had little to say on the episodes as it was. The other boys have wished him well and have expressed interest in re-introducing him if his situation changes.

## Possible spin-off?

Lars has occasionally noted that he could have seen this format of the show *being* the show if certain events had played out differently. There have been talks once in a while about doing a spin-off podcast with this format and these hosts, but the spare time to do so has all but evaporated in the modern era.
Lightning Round

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**Lightning Round** is an occasional segment on The First Podcast in which the hosts ask guests, or each other, rapid-fire questions. The answering person is instructed to answer off-the-cuff.

## History

Lars and Joe originally utilized question lists from existing websites for this segment. On a guestless episode in September 2019, they changed things up and took rapid-fire questions from the audience. Lars noted particularly enjoying this format.
The Minecraft server

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As of June 2020, there exists a Minecraft server endorsed by Lars and (formerly) Joe as **the official Minecraft server of The First Podcast**.

## How to join

Instructions for joining the server, which are occasionally updated, can be found on #minecraft-server in the show's Discord server. The specific channel can also be directly accessed at http://minecraft.t1podcast.com .

## History

Fan of the show Jakiki the Fridgigi decided to ask Lars in June 2020 if he could set up a Minecraft server which would act as the official server for the show. He gave the server his blessing that night, and the next day it went live.

The first two days of the server showed enormous progress, with Jakiki estimating that the server could continue for several years at this rate. On day one, massive sky ladders to absolutely nowhere were installed. On day two, a permanent logo fixture was established.

After some players were initially found to be using modified clients and using volatile slurs in the chat, filters and cheat protection plugins were installed.

In mid-2020, the server went down for several weeks for maintenance, leading to a wide outpouring of dismay on the Discord server the entire time.

Joe and, sometimes, Lars can be seen playing in the server here and there.

## 2022 Server Resurrection

After several rounds of server issues and crashes it eventually went down and was deleted by the server host around December of 2021.

Later that same year it was revived, upgraded and updated to version 1.18.2 by discord member Clef.

## Notable members

* Joe
* Lars
* Check the Fridge
* mrmeatman
Chelsea Sanders

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**Chelsea Sanders** is the host of The Stupid Sequels Podcast and a two-time guest on The First Podcast.

## Appearances

Chelsea first appeared on a very early episode to discuss the movie *Troll 2.* She made a return appearance to discuss the movie *Shark Exorcist*.

Lars and Joe appeared on an episode of Chelsea's podcast to discuss the movie *The Star Wars Holiday Special.* Lars was also the editor of this episode, having offered to do so for free in order to get practice for editing commissions.
Xeros (Medieval Realm)

Xeros is one of the many realms a Gate of Primordial leads to. There are many kingdoms and nations in this medieval era world. Clues as to Gransíth's origin may be contained here.

**Nations:**

* Federation of Balkshire
* The Reinforced Legion
* Republic of Olympus (Fallen)
* Kayver
* The Snake Province Empire (Fallen)
* The United Provinces

**Independent States:**

* Old Balkshire (Fallen)

**Stateless Entities:**

* The Black Order
Episodes

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Some **episodes** of The First Podcast are significant, uniquely interesting, or representatives of show milestones. For a listing of every episode in chronological order, view the podcast itself.

*If adding an article about an episode, please ensure that there is something unusual or seminal about it first. Many guest episodes are perhaps best represented as a note on an article for the guest in question.*
No more political episodes

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There is currently **an agreement between the hosts to not do anymore political episodes**. Likewise, they also tend to avoid talking about politics with guests, political or not.

## Explanation

During the early days of the show, The First Podcast had several political guests, such as Josh Newman and Hunter Hawes.

Lars and Joe have given numerous reasons for not continuing this trend:

* They did not want to go down the road of the show being political in nature
* Political discussions can be dry, lack comedy, and alienate listeners
* Political episodes can easily make the show some enemies

The hosts have stated that they would make an exception if an enormous guest who happened to be political wanted to be a guest.

Organic, surface-level discussions that are technically political in nature are sometimes allowed on Richard and Ohan episodes, since they have established themselves as being able to handle the subject without being wanky or divisive.
20 Pokemon at a Time

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In early episodes of the show, **Lars** **and Joe started going through the National Pokedex twenty at a time to debate which Pokemon would bring about the most devastation**.

The segment was ostensibly abandoned as it was too specific of a question for most guests; it would require said guest having extensive knowledge of many facts regarding a very specific video game franchise that is predominantly marketed toward children and young adults.

## Rules and Guidelines

* Each of the twenty Pokemon would exist in tandem.
* The Pokemon will exist in numbers, not just one.
* Types and weaknesses should be considered.
* Pokedex entries should be consulted for context.
* Mega evolutions are fair game.

## Winner

 21-40
 41-60

## Source

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List\_of\_Pok%C3%A9mon\_by\_National\_Pok%C3%A9dex\_number
The dinner party

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Alexis once expressed that she had not yet been invited to any dinner parties with Lars, Joe, and the latter's previous partner, while **Lars has been invited over for dinner parties at least once or twice**.

## Notable dinners

During one particular dinner party, Lars taught Joe how to cook chicken for the first time. The latter was in the second half of his twenties.
Huggbees

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Andrew Wagenheim, also known by the handle **Huggbees**, is a YouTuber and podcast host.

## History

Andrew’s notability on the internet comes twofold. He was originally known for his YouTube channel HuggbeesTV, a variety comedy channel, on which he continues to upload.

Several years later, he also began hosting The Official Podcast alongside Kaya Orsan, Jackson Clarke and Charlie White (known on YouTube as penguinz0/Cr1TiKaL).

## Appearances

Andrew made a guest appearance on The First Podcast in March 2019, after a very lengthy scheduling process.

Lars has noted a particular fondness for this episode, considering The Official Podcast was one of his inspirations for starting his own show.

It consistently remains in the top 3-5 listened to episodes of all time, according to Lars's analytics on Audioboom. It is also listed as an S-tier episode on the official playlists.
Mostly professional

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Occasionally, Lars and (formerly) Joe will refer to their interest in someone being "mostly professional", usually with a bit of extra mustard on the pronunciation.

## Explanation

The implication is that when an interest in someone is only mostly professional, there is another motive at play; the implication of this implication is that the other motive is sexual interest.
Moving on

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**"Moving on..."**, or sometimes "Alright, moving on..." is a phrase that Lars and (formerly) Joe use on the show to indicate their desire to transition to a new topic.

## Intentional overuse

While this is a common expression on other shows to some extent, Joe (and occasionally Lars) will often purposefully make an awkward remark, or ask a ridiculous or overly banal question to a guest, in order to induce a moment of cringe comedy which they hastily wish to move on from as quickly as possible.

As a hypothetical example:

> Joe: *Do you play sports?*
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> Guest: *No.*
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> *Joe: Alright, moving on.*
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## The luggage question

When Joe asked the luggage question to a guest, he generally concluded the mini-segment with "Moving on...", to which Lars responds with an emphatic "Please!"
Bidet to You

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**Bidet to You** is a "stupid meme" Lars came up with on the show for a dramatic exit.

## History

In a voice chat in the Discord server in September 2020, Lars made a promise to the listeners that the next time someone referenced bidets on a recording, he would say "Bidet to you" in a very dramatic fashion and leave the call.

On the James Miller episode, James brought up bidets and Lars stuck to his promise (though he returned a little while later).
The "Jeopardy music" gag

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**The "Jeopardy music" gag** is a late stage gag on The First Podcast, originally conceived in late 2019.

## Purpose

As with many absurdist post-production gags on the show, the goal of this gag is pure chaos. Comedic wrongness is in full force here.

## Explanation

At some point during an episode, when pensive thought is necessary or when the hosts ask the live listeners a question, Joe would tell Lars to "cue the Jeopardy music". On any other show, the actual Jeopardy music (or a royalty-free variant) would then play as a moment of light humor.

The hosts instead decided to insert extremely abrasive, disruptive music snippets instead. In contrast to the peaceful Jeopardy music, this sends the listener into a moment of disturbance.

Although Joe has left the show, ostensibly this gag can still live on with a new co-host.

## Examples of songs used

* Circle Takes the Square - "Same Shade as Concrete"
* SebastiAn - "Tough Games (Interlude)
* The Bloody Beetroots - "WARP 1977 Feat. Steve Aoki And Bobermann"
* The Mars Volta - "Inertiatic ESP"
* Sporty - o - "Let Me Hit It ( Audiostalkers Original Mix)"
* Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - "Awaken"
* My Bloody Valentine - "Only Shallow"
Sergeant Greasemixer

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**Sergeant Greasemixer**, real name Jacob, is a YouTube content creator and friend of the show.

## History

Jacob's content roughly resembles the answer to the question, "What if Filthy Frank was a fat Jewish man with daddy issues?"

Greasemixer has a Twitter account parodying Pyrocynical. He pretended to be Niall himself when the show accidentally DMed him attempting to contact Pyrocynical, leading to a joke on the Discord server that he was going to appear on the show. Lars quickly caught on to the ruse, admitted it was funny, and made friends with Greasemixer.

Joe would go on to collaborate with Greasemixer on his debut rap album.

Greasemixer was a guest host on The First Podcast in November 2019.
Extra Joe

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**"Extra Joe"** refers to moments, segments and episodes of the show in which Joe would go out of his way to be extra awkward or strange toward the guests (or Lars himself).

## History

Episodes with "extra Joe" happened randomly, with little to no warning. He would ask oddly specific questions, or outright struggle to ask one at all. He would also make jokes and puns considered lame by Lars. The former would often call him out for this and apologize to the guest, if there is one. Sometimes the guest would play along nicely, while other times they would engage in the roasting alongside Lars.

Lars and Joe have both agreed that the former is a stronger question asker, and so in later episodes during Joe's tenure they shifted the balance toward Lars asking the questions and Joe adding color commentary.
Efryo

Efryo,stylized as **efryo**, is a YouTube musician and beatboxer.

## History

Efryo joined the Discord server for The First Podcast around the time of the second Pogo episode. He was commissioned to create a remix of the show theme song in May 2020.

Efryo was a guest on a mini episode in 2020. He also crashed an episode on August 2020 with DaftPina, alongside mrmeatman, Ohan and Rusty Cage.
Alexandria Brown

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**Alexandria Brown** is a dominatrix, author and political activist who made a guest appearance on The First Podcast. She blogs on alexandriafanella.tumblr.com

## Notable work

Alexandria is the author of an exposé on fascist leader and Holocaust denier Augustus Sol Invictus (neé Austin Gillespie), a headline speaker at the Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally. This event led to the deaths of three people. As of December 2019, Augustus Sol Invictus is currently incarcerated in South Carolina pending trial. He is charged with high and aggravated domestic violence, possession of a firearm during commission of a violent crime, and violation of the terms of bond, facing a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.

The book, which is currently under revision, covers an acquaintanceship she had begun with him when he identified as a Libertarian and had not made his fascist views known to his associates (and the world). Augustus took advantage of her mental state, as she was at the time experiencing a reaction to a powerful psychotropic medication. Upon hearing his true beliefs, she cut contact with him and never saw him again.

## Appearances

The episode that features her as a guest is something of an anomaly for the show. Alexandria had a scheduled AMA on reddit the day following the release of said episode. Lars hustled to get it out so that she could include a link to it on the AMA. Subsequently, the podcast was utterly swarmed with a disproportionate amount of listeners.

As of January 2019, it reigned supreme as the most listened-to episode of The First Podcast, with over 1040 listens. It has since been overtaken by other episodes, but remains in the top ten.
Coffee Dad

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**Coffee Dad** is a novelty Twitter account that has been discussed on the show many times.

## Explanation

The account presents itself as a typical father with a relatable interest in coffee, as well as the procuring and processing of said drink. 99% of the tweets are simple phrases or sentences regarding his interest in coffee, sometimes with an extraneous hashtag or two.

However, once in a while the account will strongly shift gears to include morose or even menacing lamentations about the father's dead son.

According to Lars, this is his favorite Twitter account.
James Miller

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**James Miller** is a YouTube content creator and friend of the show.

## History

James was the first guest during Amir's tenture on the podcast in September 2020. His episode was also the first ever released on the YouTube channel.

James returned as a guest in November 2020 with ManyKudos. There are tentative plans to have James as a regular recurring guest.
Not For Human Consumption Podcast

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The **Not For Human Consumption Podcast** is a weekly podcast in which the hosts Matt, Jay, Dylan and Dave get drunk and talk about a variety of topics. Most of the show concerns making Matt laugh. Everything else is technically secondary.

Grant and Kevin from Thought Cops are their rival podcasters, though the relationship is very one-sided, as Thought Cops are beholden to their formula, and NFHC can do whatever they want. The better podcast is objectively evident.

Zwick is a huge joke on this podcast. I feel bad for him.

Berries n' Cream is suspected of various sex crimes and should not be trusted.

## History

There have been talks about the hosts of The First Podcast making an appearance on NFHC, or vice versa. Apparently these talks will be realized in August 2020.

### Show

* iTunes
* Spotify
* Stitcher
* YouTube
* Patreon
* Matt's Twitch (GrimwolfePrime)

### Social Media

* Twitter
* Instagram
* Facebook
* Discord
Extra mustard

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**Extra mustard** refers to a certain unnecessary and generally amusing additional emphasis that Lars or (formerly) Joe (or, occasionally, a guest) will put on specific words or phrases. There is no particular reason for this other than subtle humor.

## Examples

Often Joe would over-pronounce a word beginning with "wh" as if it was spelled beginning with "hw". While common until even relatively recently, said pronunciation would in 2019 be considered old-fashioned if not outright archaic. It can be heard mostly from adults three generations before the current one.

Likewise, Lars will generally pronounce the letter H as "haitch". This is a habit he picked up from watching several British content creators, and is virtually unheard of out of extremely specific regions of England.

On episodes with Richard Quiner, the hosts or Richard himself will humorously note that a way of pronouncing his full YouTube title "Game Master Richard Quiner" can make it sound more like "Gay Master Richard Quiner". This was the source of significant amusement when Lars first pointed this out to Richard on an earlier episode.
The McFinnigan Podcast

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**The McFinnigan Podcast** is an Irish comedy talk show, also known as The First Podcast.

## Actual explanation

Lars, presumably for the sake of absurdity, often claims that in Ireland, The First Podcast is incorrectly known as "The McFinnigan Podcast".

Initially, Joe would correct him by pointing out that this is not true, but in later episodes he would let him get away with it.