Nameless Podcast EP.1: Analog Horror

This is a podcast episode discussing the genre of analog horror. The hosts talk about the cultural impact of analog horror and mention web series such as No Thru Road, Local 58, Gemini Home Entertainment, and Marble Hornets 2. They discuss how analog horror uses elements of old technology, like box TVs and VHS tapes, to create a sense of fear and nostalgia. They also talk about Local 58 and its unsettling broadcasts, including one that targets children. The hosts touch on the theme of trust in analog horror and how it plays a role in creating fear. Overall, they highlight the unique and impactful nature of analog horror as a genre. 🎵 Okay, before we get started, here is our first sponsor of the day, Crab Warrior. The wonderful YouTuber and occasional idiot, go find their streams on YouTube or Twitch.tv. Here is a little message from the creators themselves. So, I play a lot of Five Nights at Freddy's. I really, really like Five Nights at Freddy's. 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I am here with my lovely friend, Char. Introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Char. I really like Analog Horror. That's why I'm here. I used to find all of the series for my friends and stuff back, like, a few years ago. And, I mean, even still now, I'm finding new series. That's about it. Yeah. No, because, like, Analog Horror is really quite something. But, you know, maybe a lot of our audience will not know what we're talking about, which is why we're going to start with the good stuff here. So, just for a brief explanation to those who don't know what we're talking about, Analog Horror is a sub-genre of horror fiction and an offshoot of the found-footage film genre, said to have originated online during the late 2000s and early 2010s with web series such as No Thru Road, Local 58, Gemini Home Entertainment, and Marble Hornets 2, which we will be looking at today. And so, just another, I guess, insight onto the Analog Horror is the elements that just make it so scary, you know? Yeah. I was actually going to say, when you mentioned No Thru Road, I got chills, because that used to scare me, like, so bad when I was young that I still, like, even after I re-watched it, because me and Corey had the same, like, fear of that video, even though we've watched it a few times after, and it's just not scary. But that just shows how impactful this genre of horror can be. I think it's really, like, a reflection of the way we grew up with things like creepypastas, like, lost episodes and stuff. That just makes me think about the dumb, ooh, lost SpongeBob episode. I never watched No Thru Road, though. It's a, like, two-episode series, but I've only ever watched the first one. It's, like, looking back on it, it's not as scary as it felt to watch, and I think that's why Analog Horror is so good, because it feels real. And a thing that's interesting is, in, like, the file you sent me with the information of Local 58, it says it's an offshoot of what I think is based on a creepypasta. I think it's the, like, the Candle Co. creepypasta. That's what it says it's, like, based on. And that was, like, basically the premise of Analog Horror, which is just something is wrong with the TV. Something isn't how it's supposed to be. A lot of the beauty of Analog Horror is the fact that there's fear within the media you're watching, because we're just surrounded by television all the time. But I will say Analog Horror is more specific to early TV, when it just started to become a thing. The stereotypical box TVs with the antenna and you're watching a VHS tape, that's really where the audience is really geared towards. It's not towards modern media, which gives another nice scare factor, because you're taking something that's been so, not so outdated, but something that's in the past, and you think retrospectively back on it and put a little creepy element to it. Like Local 58 specifically, yeah. But I do want to say I think that the reason it works so well with, like, older TVs and stuff especially is because our generation grew up just at, like, the tail end of a lot of those things. So I definitely had, like, a big box TV. I definitely had stuff that worked, like, I had, like, a landline for a while. But the fact it works so effectively with us because we don't remember them well enough to make sense, so this is, like, even more believable, even if we know it's fiction. Sort of like how it kind of messes with our childhood memories. Yeah. Like it's not clear memory. So we can think of things as uncanny and, like, scary memory. Like one thing I can remember, when I would go to my grandmother's house, she had a box TV in this little offset bedroom that has brick floors and it's always cold. And the mattress, not even a mattress, it was a couch. It was a really, really terrible couch I hated to sleep on. But she had a giant box of VHS tapes of old Disney movies. And I would watch specifically Fox and the Hound and Snow White on repeat. But, you know, there were those nights where I'd be watching it and, you know, the house itself made some pretty, like, creaky noises. Yeah. Because sometimes, like, my grandmother would get up in the middle of the night to go take care of my grandfather. And it's kind of an older house, so it's got the creeks and, like, the air vents that are running really weirdly. And she has that stereotypical grandfather clock that's so loud and you hear it ticking ever so slightly in the background. And then when, of course, it strikes 12, it's do-do-do-do. And it's, like, it really just adds to that fear factor. So these series take on those kinds of childhood, like, mysteries of, oh, my goodness, what's under my bed, or, you know, what's past the curtain, or what's in the other room that makes you want to just stay in your bed or mattress or couch that you're sleeping on. Like, you want to go to the bathroom, but you can't even get up because you're afraid that something's going to get you in the hallway. That's what these series do really well. Yeah. We mentioned it a few times, but we never really went into detail on Local 58. So I think we should do, like, a quick little rundown of it. Basically, most of the episodes are from, like, they're all on the channel Local 58. And they're all just, like, late-night broadcasts. And sometimes they aren't even late-night. Sometimes they're during the day. But they all are just odd in their own way. And they're especially scary because they're targeting everyone. Like, no one's safe. They targeted children in one episode. It's literally called Children's Broadcast. And, like, it's very nerve-wracking to watch all of them. They basically – the story is kind of unclear. But the best we have to go off of is that it's an alien invasion, and they hijacked this broadcasting channel to try to get people not only to kill themselves but also to be subservient to them. And they come from the moon. And they come from the moon. Sorry, I didn't know how to set it up. I just remembered at the end that, yeah, they're from the moon. It's very important that they're from the moon. It's not really. It is, actually, very important that they come from the moon. Just to give a little background for the audience, I have the wiki definition here. Local 58 is a horror web series created by cartoonist Chris Strobe. This series is a spin-off of his Candle Cove Creepypasta. It's currently hosted on the YouTube channel, as Char said, Local58TV. You don't, like, you can't tell that it really has a creator. It's literally made to be some sort of YouTube channel that a news broadcast set up, sort of like how ABC News or NBC or Fox News has their own YouTube channel, and they put their broadcasts and episodes up there. Each video in the series is presented as footage of a fictional public access television channel located specifically in Mason County, West Virginia. And it has the callsign WCLV-TV, which was, you know, in the lore, created in the late 1930s. And, as Char said again, continuously hijacked with a lot of weird broadcasts by these aliens that literally come from the moon. Contingency Plan, the episode of Local 58 that we just mentioned, displays another very big aspect of analog horror. It's trust. The broadcast looks very, like, very real, like it's genuinely from the U.S. government, saying that the premise of the episode is that the U.S. has fallen to the Soviets, and in order to keep the pride of the nation alive, basically, in their defeat, is that all the people will go outside and shoot themselves in the head, and if they don't comply, then the government will come round the rest of the people up in order to not surrender or lose to the Soviets. And that, at the end of the episode, it's revealed that that was a hijacked broadcast, but, like I said, it just shows how important trust is, and Gemini Home Entertainment is a very good example of where trust is just, you can't. You can't trust anything in that series. I really like how it makes you fear basic American values of honor, of, like, just dying for your country, really. That's just, like, when you look back in history, that brought a bunch of honor to you, like how a lot of other countries do it. I really like how you touched down on the trust aspect, where the government, you know, they give out these really severe warnings, like you got Amber Alerts, I'm not going to be as severe as, like, a national emergency, and the government's literally saying, it's really eerie. It doesn't set up originally like a kill yourself. They set it up where it's like, we are not going to die to our enemies today. We will die with honor. They will never take our pride away. And it also connects with how, you know, kill your children too. Before you kill yourself, you got to end them or else they'll be scared. And you got to, oh my God, what is it, the face up on the lawn thing? Oh my goodness. Specifically? Oh, man, I just, the wording. Man, the wording is really specific. Okay, so background here. So the episode takes the form of an emergency broadcast message that details the government instructions to the citizens of the United States. It starts with the schedule listing that dictates the end of the station broadcast day at 3 a.m., which is about to begin. So it's literally the middle of the day. They're not even targeting you at night. This is just a regular middle of the day. 3 a.m. or 3 p.m. Oh, okay, not middle of the day, guys. I got a.m. and p.m. mixed up. I, oops. Okay, okay, let's change this. I think that's even scarier, to be honest. Let's imagine, honestly, yeah. Because then, like, imagine, like, your TV's blaring the national alarm system when you're, like, sleeping, and you wake up to this message. The feed is suddenly interrupted by a contingency message created by the U.S. Department for the Preservation of American Dignity. That's not a thing. I had to look it up because I was scared it was real. I'm not going to lie. It would be funny if we were feeding lies to our audience. Guys, the U.S. Department for the Preservation of American Dignity is not real. Please report them. Chat, please report them. But, yeah, as an instrumental of the Star Spangled Banner plays against the backdrop of a waving American flag, a message signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson begins scrolling across the screen. It claims that the United States has been forced to surrender to an unnamed enemy force in spite of military efforts. And it calls upon the American public to act, preserve the memory of the United States clear and bright, untarnished and uncompromised. See, that's such a misleading message. Like, you're thinking, oh, man, how can I help my country? And this is back then during Lyndon B. Johnson's time. So, you know, we're not that wary of TV yet. We're not that wary of what the government has to say about us yet, although this was right after Nixon, so maybe we are a little bit wary. But we're going to look at that message and think, oh, man, really? An attack on the United States? You know, and you want to do everything you can to help, you know, preserve the memory of the United States clear and bright. And so, you know, it states that President Johnson has, quote, unquote, already taken action along with his family and encourages all Americans of all ages to do their part as well. Interestingly, around this point, the music briefly changes at the beginning of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony before changing back to the Star-Spangled Banner. So you can see a little bit of the corruption that's going on within the broadcast itself, but at the same time, it's still not evidence that it's been hijacked. I was just thinking, like, just imagine if you were in that situation, right? Yeah, I would be confused more than anything, but the fact that, like, at the very end of the episode, they're basically outright threatening you to force you to go through with it, with, like, the local authorities have been given their orders or whatever. I don't remember the exact wording. That is basically it. Near the end. So, and, you know, at the very end of this message, it says, this message will repeat until there is none to read it. That's a really chilling line. Literally, it's telling everybody in the entire country to go through with a, quote-unquote, honorable suicide so we don't have to surrender ourselves to an unknown enemy. Like, they don't even know the enemy. They're not saying it's a specific country. That's just what makes it even more eerie. The message recommends using a gun by firing up into the roof of one's house and to assume the victory position, the lying-in-front-of-the-lawn-faced-up-with-feet-together. That's what I was talking about earlier. I just couldn't remember specifics, really. And the fact that it encourages parents to kill their children before, and their pets. Gotta include the pets. Like, we don't want them being taken by the unknown forces of the enemy, do we? Yeah. Just imagine your YouTube cats just floating up towards the moon. The world's smallest patriots. We need to don them in the stereotypical The Minuteman outfit from Fallout 4. Hand them muskets, they're ready. Like, we just want you guys to know that, okay, well, first of all, you should totally watch the Contingency episode of Local 58. You should also watch the entirety of Local 58. It's really scary. Okay, yes, that. But Contingency is probably my favorite video from the Local 58 series. So, yeah, it's just, the impact that Local 58, and specifically the Contingency episode, is by, I'd say it's just letting the audiences know that, I mean, obviously, alien moon things coming down to hijack our broadcast systems is not the most realistic, but just imagine an enemy country. We're in the midst of a war coming up, if you really think about it. Just imagine if, I don't know, Putin hacked our systems, and that we should all kill ourselves, or else we'd die by nuclear weapons or something like that. Thankfully, we have the security where our technology would hopefully not be overrun with messages like that. But it just makes you think, you know, makes you realize you can't really trust what you see on TV, even your trusted local broadcasting sources and stuff like that. Yeah, and speaking of the impact of Local 58, I think the series that best exemplifies its impact is definitely Gemini Home Entertainment. From the main villain of that series, or not even necessarily villain, because it's such a powerful force, it's more of just a force of nature, so I would consider it more of an antagonist, to the way that it's set up as, although it's not the public broadcast like Local 58 is, it's still all set up as individual tapes, but this time it's from private companies, and that makes the trust even more dubious, at best. Just to give our audiences a little background on Part 2, the wiki here says, Gemini Home Entertainment is a horror anthology web series created by Remy Abode and periodically released on a YouTube channel of the same name, Gemini Home Entertainment. It is regarded as a foundational analog horror series, just as Local 58 is. The main series is also known as Full Box Set and is ongoing. Further videos have also been released since as part of the spin-off series, The Library. The series, taking place in the 1980s and 90s, is presented as a collection of clips from VHS tapes produced by a number of fictional companies, like Char said, and distributed by the... I don't know that word. Eponymous. Do you like me to try? Eponymous? I don't know. Eponymous. I think you're seeing things, because I don't get it. That's fine. Man, it's the cosmic horror getting to me. Man, we're talking about Gemini Home Entertainment. Like, it combines elements of cosmic horror, surrealism, body horror, and Native American mythology. The clips tell an overarching story of... extraterrestrial invasion and an impending apocalyptic event. I found the word. Eponymous. I think you're right with that one. I'm so right to read words like that. Eponymous Company. But this is the one with the aliens that have flashing lights to them, right? I'm just making sure. Well, there's, like, look out to the field. Not flashing lights. If you see the lights return to your bunker. Yes. Yes, yeah. That's... Also originated... Oh! Our favorite. Help! Help! So being an American, we have our folk tales of the mountains, our goat men, our scary stuff, but nothing really tops the horror of Skinwalkers. The idea of someone taking over a body of a person you know, but it's not them, but they look just like them and they can even have the same voice. That's a piece of horror that's definitely harped on a lot in Gemini. There's a disease in the series known as deep root disease that comes from the aliens, and if you're infected with it for too long, they can take over your body, and while you're still alive, by the way, you become, like, a pile of nerves that can still watch things happening. The aliens will use your body as bait for other people, and that's what I was referencing when I was screaming help. That was what they used to lure people in. Help! Help me! Help! It's just crazy how they can just straight up just take every single part of your body away that starts your nervous system, and it just sits there. It's so funny-looking. It's really creepy. It's funny-looking, but it's creepy, but you can't take it seriously because, like, we'll get it. It's a pile of red spaghetti noodles, really, and two eyeballs. But, yeah, so Char basically said the gist of what the series is. Again, like, another imagination scenario. Like, you're just sitting in your room, and you hear your mom screaming for help, and you go out there, and then... I forgot! They're smart enough to at least have some realistic body movement. They don't just stand there and stare at you like some skinwalkers. They're trying to learn. So if you remember in the first episode, they have really rigid, robotic movements, almost, because they're trying to learn how to move like people. There's the scene where it's a close-up of the skinwalker moving his jaw around, trying to make speech look realistic, and the guy that's screaming help in the field is standing with his arms out to the side. Right. Right. And he's, like, wobbling while he's walking. Well, I mean, I really liked Gemini Home Entertainment for just this, like it said in the description, it's an impending doom. It's an apocalypse that you can't even fight. It's something that the human mind cannot comprehend. We don't even know how to fight against this thing. We have some sort of defensive technology, like the little basement with the dome thing. So is that trustworthy? Oh, wait, unless that's actually Local 58. No, you're right. You're right, but is that trustworthy? Oh, okay, okay. Remember, all the companies, some of them are even working with the aliens trying to get their spot to not be killed. Oh, right. Wait, hold on. I forgot if that was one of the backgrounds. Well, okay. See, both Local 58 and Gemini Home Entertainment use the cosmic horror type background to world build their series. Gemini Home Entertainment is the one where the Eye of Jupiter is getting weird. Yeah, the iris. Right, okay, the iris. And it's things coming out of it, like solar flare looking things. Okay, yeah. So just, like imagine like, I know they're imagination series, I'm gonna throw a lot of these at our poor audience today, that you are someone working at NASA or even just like some sort of home astronomer and you're looking through your telescope. I don't even know if you can see Jupiter from a home telescope. Let's just say you have an industrial-sized scientific telescope, and you suddenly see the little eye within Jupiter just, stuff comes out of it. Like, what do you even do at that point? And then they're coming towards Earth, but they're also infecting the other planets, too. Like, you're done for, buddy. You know there's nothing you can do. How can humanity even fight that? Like, Gemini Home Entertainment is one of those series where it makes you realize how little and insignificant humanity is against such a big force of power. And that they have no sympathy, that they only know what they know to survive and to populate and to spread their dominion over other planets. This thing that steals the skin of your loved ones and can render you to literal red spaghetti with eyes, which is, I love it. I love it. It looks really funny. There's that one frame where it's just a spaghetti guy in a chair. Like, you don't even have to be in a pile. You can be in the shape of whatever shape you were before dying. Well, you're not even dead, per se. Yeah, no, you're still alive. You can still sense. You're just, you're nerves. You can't even say you're brain-dead. You can still, do you think, I think they can still sense. I mean, he looked around. He looked at Mark, question mark? Jack. Jack. His name is Jack. Is that his name? I think it's Jack and Mary. Jack and Mary. That sounds familiar. Oh, man, wait. Wait, wait, wait. That sounds familiar. I'm thinking of that broadcast where they're talking about Jack and Mary going over their... Yeah, that was the AI. It was the artificial intelligence. So, speaking of skinwalkers, or just people imitating people, and speaking of impending doom, let's go to what is probably my favorite series of all time, the Mandela Catalog. Where do I start with this series, to be honest? So, picture me, riddle me this, Batman. Imagine you're religious, which you probably don't have to imagine. I know the audience of this podcast right now. Okay. But you know the story of Adam and Eve, and even before that, you know the story of Satan trying to overthrow God. So, what if Satan won? What if Satan successfully overthrew God and has led humanity astray for the past 2,000 years, or whatever the Bible timeline is. I don't know the exact distance, but imagine it's Satan in control, running everything. Imagine that with the advent of television, the demons that now take control of the world have very easy access to everyone's home. And now imagine that they can imitate people and then replace them. That's the basic premise of Mandela Catalog, and that's why it's one of the scariest series on the Internet for me, because I grew up religious, so the idea that it's like a shadow of itself is really scary. Man, I... If we did a podcast, honestly, we could have higher episodes on the Mandela Catalog, especially with the biblical references and the amount of horror it brings to the viewers and the amount of horror it brings to the characters within the series. To give the wiki definition, sorry. Mandela Catalog is an analog horror web series created by American YouTuber Alex Kuster in 2021, so this is a very recent analog horror piece of media. It is set in the fictional Mandela County, Wisconsin, which is invaded by alternate, otherworldly beings that use various forms of psychological torture on their victims with the ultimate goal of assuming their identity as doppelgängers. The series became popular online through analysis of its story and reaction videos from Internet users. So... Okay, okay. So... Okay. I want to first open up, when it comes to Mandela Catalog, on the, not first canonical episode, but technically the first canonical episode, canonical episode, where it shows the biblical background of how Satan was able to deceive God. And what I really find scary is it references the Bible. It says that it snuck on the other animals on Noah's Ark and took over in place of Jesus and has been bullying the shepherds ever since. There's that part of the episode where the angel Gabriel comes down to Mary and... comes down to Mary and... Oh, are we... Oh, God, okay. Okay, okay. The angel Gabriel comes down to Mary and, you know, traditionally tells her that she's going to have the child that is Jesus Christ, the Savior, of all of humanity from their sins, but instead it's this deceiver that... I mean, I kind of forgot what goes on, but it whispers in her ear. Yeah, no, I think it's... No, it either whispers or it's binary. I think it's binary, though. Oh, it might have been binary to her, but whispers to Joseph. Oh, yeah, no. He also goes down to Joseph that night. He whispers to Joseph, I have fooled the shepherds. Oh, right, right, right. Wake up, Joseph. Joseph, wake up. Oh, and this is on top of having one of the scariest text-to-speech voices ever. I hate the text-to-speech voice. It's very unnerving. No, it's so crazy. I know what you dread. I know. Yeah, no, oh, my God. We can't even imitate it because we're not robots. Again, you've got to go watch these series to really be encapsulated by the horror that Alex Keister was able to just, I don't know where his brain even came up with all these concepts, and, you know, he definitely has a religious background to back up all of this world-building. Aw, man, what's the final message at the end? It shows the old, like an overlook of Bethlehem. It's an overlook of Bethlehem. My feet are chained to heavy stones, something like that. I'm doomed to walk the desert forever. If there is a God, please help me. It's something like that. It's something like that, or, like, if there is no God, something says, hold on, I'm pulling up the script right now. It's such a scary message that people need to listen to, or not listen to. I don't know if it's copyright to include clips, you know, do you think? Oh, Overthrown, the episode name is Overthrown. That's also the beauty of this episode. It's literally Satan overthrowing Christ's position. Oh, goodness, why am I watching this at night? This is late night when we're recording, by the way. It's just at 2 a.m. I want to say, like, how Mandela, I think Mandela catalog really opened the floodgates to make analog horror such a broader piece of media and more accessible to audiences. It is the series people talk about when you mention analog horror. By far the scariest series. I will not take any other options for an answer. This one is the only one that has given me nightmares. No, this one is genuinely, oh, my goodness, terrifying. I have scared Char by just, what did I do? Oh, man, I was just referencing it, but I was trying to, like, mess, it was late at night, and it referred back to the scene. There's a scene where an alternate follows Mark home. Mark's laying in bed, he starts recording the door, and he hears a knocking on the door, he hears, open the door, Mark, I have a surprise. I have a gift for you, you, you. Oh, God, oh, no. It's a glitchy voice. Imagine in real life hearing someone's voice glitch out, like you're hearing a microphone lag, and it's choppy, but you're hearing it in real life, someone behind the door, someone that's trying to get you, someone that followed you home. And that's, like, not the beauty, it's the absolute terror that these monsters within the universe bring. They are literally there to psychologically torture you. That's how they get their victims. They don't do anything, well, they do do things physically, but they can drive their victims. Not often, they would rather resort to attacking from afar rather than being up close. Time? We have plenty of time. And the thing about the story between Caesar and Mark, right? Yeah. I still think the first episode of that series is probably my favorite. I have theories about what happened and who was an alternate at what time. Because who asks their freaking friend to come and turn on security cameras? Who the hell does that? Exactly. It was probably an alternate then. And, oh, man, we can't even talk about Adam. Oh, my goodness. And the fact that Adam is even a name, is even a character with a name, Jonah who ran from Adam. Oh, my gosh. It's so good. Jonah who ran from Adam. It's so good. Oh, I might have just thought of something. So you know Dave? Yes. Like, you remember Dave, David? He went to go fight the biggest alternate, David and Goliath. Yes. But instead it's reversed and David dies. So it's another biblical overturn of what we expect. That's my guess. Really good guess, honestly. Like, that's another theory to put in the book. But either way, it's not really important, but it would be an interesting little reference just in general. There's so many good references in the Mandela Catalog. But, yeah, these creatures are just absolutely terrifying because they don't have to resort to physical violence in order to get to their victims. They're able to just absolutely hijack, we're bringing that word back, hijack the emotional turbulence and turmoil. Like, oh, my goodness. Literally the mom of Adam, like, okay, so context here. This mother hung herself. She saw something on the TV with her child and it prompted her to kill herself. I forgot what she saw. No, her child was killed. Oh, the face! The man in the TV took her child. Oh! I'm so wrong, guys. Don't listen to my remembering of the lore. Which is even scarier! Just imagine your child just disappearing after watching TV and they were taken by a man in the TV. And you can't even think about that in real life because you think that's so ridiculous. But this is a world where the devil has taken over and everything that makes sense is turned upside down on its nose so that nothing is real anymore. You can't trust anything, you can't trust anybody, you can't even trust the police. Within the Mandela County series, there's an episode where there's police protocol and what to do when there's an alternate and someone's calling 911. The police is not supposed to send any help over and the teenagers are supposed to be confidential. Yes, the operators have to say, oh, we're sending help, knowing dang well that the person on the other side of the line... But to be fair, you can't really do anything against an alternate. There's a whole procedure that the Mandela County tells you to do but it won't ever work. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah. Or else they'll harp on it. And isn't that... Well, I mean, that's what the... Or that the alternate's hijacked into it or is that the actual message? I forgot. No, I think it's a real message because it says... That's before it says nothing is worth the risk. It says do not speak too long. Oh, I love that line. But these... It's not what I was even going to say, honestly. It's just... The thing about the Mandela Catalog is it touches upon cosmic horror. It touches upon religious horror. I don't really know how to talk about that. But even if you're not religious, it just makes you fear, you know, what could become of our universe. I mean, it's obviously not going to happen. But just imagine that you're in the universe. You know? And I love that Mandela Catalog. Yeah. Here, closing words. What do you... How do you think Mandela Catalog has impacted internet culture? I mean, that's what we were supposed to cover, but oh well. I mean, I think that it's had, like, enormous impact. There was a whole trend based on a single line from Mandela Catalog. And there's, like... Even just common terminology, like, changed. Hearing the word doppelganger into something scary. Even scarier than it was, because it's always been kind of unnerving. But, like, I think that Mandela Catalog has had a very big effect on internet culture. But I would say that Local 58 and Gemini have had a more overarching impact on it because they influenced Mandela Catalog itself. Right. Keith Kirstenson said that you're going on the Fastest Route episode. He was inspired by that. He wanted to put that sort of type of chase scene... Or not chase, but I guess... Yeah. Well, okay, for context for the audience. You're on the Fastest Route depicts a person who's using their GPS to go somewhere, but their GPS is hijacked and leads them into the woods, and they are eventually killed by an unknown monster. And it just goes to show, also, you shouldn't trust your GPS either. Honestly, I don't trust my GPS now. Like, it brings me to... Oh, take a left turn here, and it's actually a right turn. It's the worst thing ever. Like, it's not reliable technology. Maybe it's also scary in the way that we have become so reliant on technology that without it, we would just be sacks of nothing, because honestly, we are kind of sacks of nothing. If you think about it in the grand scheme of things, sure, we have intelligence, but what will we do against something that's even more powerful than we can ever imagine? There's nothing we can do. Yeah. But, yeah. Oh, man. You know what? The second sponsor and third sponsor. We're just going to do them all at once. The second sponsor of this podcast is G Fuel, the number one drink for your monster-fighting needs. Whenever you need to avoid an alternate, a doppelganger, a skinwalker, a cosmic or being that's going to take your soul and turn you into spaghetti and herbs. 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