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If it exists, there's probably a huge Internet community obsessed with it. In their quest to follow the Web's deepest wormholes, comedians Alli Goldberg and Lindsey Ford have hilarious and humanizing conversations with furries, geocachers, video game archeologists, TikTok witches, professional comment trolls, VR sex workers, and much more. They also explore the social, legal, and ethical ramifications of modern social media with experts and journalists. You can't un-hear this!
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205 That Time Alli and Lindsey Saw Each Other Naked from 2022-02-28T08:00
Alli and "Lil' Santa" attempt to record a podcast without Matt and it quickly goes off the rails. Also, why TikTok is like a toxic relationship, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEN!Support 2G1P on Patreon! htt...
Listen204 How SuperBam Returned $10 Million to Internet Creators from 2022-02-21T08:00
Making a living on the Internet is hard enough. But when you finally make something popular (a YouTube video, a TikTok) it's almost certain that someone will steal it and re-upload it somewhere els...
Listen203 Alli Went to the "Reptile Super Show" and Lived to Tell About It from 2022-02-14T08:00
Alli and Matt chat about why TikTok is so amazing and terrifying, and that time Alli went to the "Reptile Super Show" in LA, because why not? Support 2G1P on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/2G1PJo...
Listen202 The Open Insulin Project from 2022-02-07T08:00
When life-saving medication costs more than rent, you know there's a problem with the system. The cost of insulin — the blood sugar regulator relied on by diabetic patients around the world — has s...
Listen201 Disney Bounders from 2022-01-31T14:55:01
We already know that Disney theme parks aren't just for kids, and there are communities of grown-ups who take having fun a Disney Land very seriously! Disney Bounders are all about dressing up as t...
Listen200 Study Streamers from 2022-01-24T08:00
Studying, writing, and remote work can be a lonely time. Add in a dose of global pandemic, and the endless isolation can be overwhelming. It's no surprise to see the growth of streaming communities...
Listen199 Aisle of Shame (ALDI Supermarket Fandom) from 2022-01-17T08:00
There's an aisle at your local ALDI supermarket that contains random stuff that rotates on a weekly basis, often without rhyme or reason. So naturally, there's a Facebook group with 1 million peopl...
Listen198 Bricks in Motion: LEGO Animation Community from 2022-01-10T08:00
It should come as no surprise that LEGO is big on the Internet, but one LEGO filmmaking community has been thriving online since 2000, long before YouTube was even a thing. This week, Alli and Lind...
Listen197 Douglas Rushkoff: How Should We Redesign the Internet? from 2022-01-03T08:00
The Internet and the World Wide Web began as an open, inter-operable commons with limitless potential and creativity. So how did everything get so corporate? Author and media theorist Douglas Rushk...
Listen[Encore] 93 Macrophilia (July 22, 2019) from 2021-12-27T08:00
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all who celebrate! We're taking some time off this week for travel and family fun, but looking forward to sharing new episodes soon. For now, a watershed momen...
Listen196 Santa's Little Helpers from 2021-12-20T08:00
r/SantasLittleHelpers is the subreddit that fulfills the holiday wishes of kids in need. Alli and Lindsey talk with BackpackWayne, the creator/moderator of Santa's Little Helpers, which has been co...
Listen195 Why Internet Accessibility Is More Important Than Ever from 2021-12-13T08:00
The Internet is a place for everyone to have a voice, but we often take the tools and apps we use to access it for granted. Software engineer Ather Sharif became acutely aware of this about 8 years...
Listen194 @BachelorData from 2021-12-06T05:00
The only thing bigger than "Bachelor Nation" is "Bachelor Instagram." That's usually where the contestants, stars, villains, and conversations around the Bachelor and Bachelorette franchises go dur...
Listen[Encore Episode] 134 WeRateDogs (@dog_rates / Matt Nelson) from 2021-11-29T08:00
We hope you're having a fantastic Thanksgiving! We are thankful for YOU, our listeners. Lots of great interviews to come, but for now, please enjoy this hilarious conversation with the genius creat...
Listen193 NaNoWriMo from 2021-11-22T08:00
National Novel Writing Month has been operating online since 1999! Alli and Lindsey talk with program director Tim Kim about NaNoWriMo's non-profit mission to help writers collaborate and overcome ...
Listen192 Going to Camp With Donald Glover from 2021-11-15T08:00
Today we learned that Lindsey went to summer camp with Lando Calrissian. Also, Alli went to Panama to take anal photos and swim in trash water. How are you? Support 2G1P on Patreon! https://www.pat...
Listen191 Xtrades: Stock Trading Communities of Discord from 2021-11-08T08:00
The finance world can seem buttoned-up, even intimidating. But journalist Omar Gallaga found an unlikely (but entirely logical) place for armchair stock market tycoons to share tips and make big pl...
Listen190 Doximity: Why "LinkedIn for Doctors" Is Full of Medical Misinformation from 2021-11-01T07:00
You'd think a social network only for professional doctors would be a bastion of reason and scientific discussion. Unfortunately as Dr. Paul Malarik points out, doctors are human, too: Full of bias...
Listen189 Occult and Witchcraft Communities from 2021-10-25T07:00
Which witch should you follow on WitchTok? Georgina Rose is a prolific creator of occult and witchcraft content, deeply informed by historical research. Despite how witches are depicted in popular ...
Listen[Encore Episode] 96 Why Is There So Much Sonic the Hedgehog Porn? (August 12, 2019) from 2021-10-18T07:00
We've got the week off, but wanted to re-share one of our favorite episodes from back in the day. Enjoy, and we'll see you next week! -Original Show Notes from August 12, 2019-There's plenty of sex...
Listen188 Delivery Workers of Facebook from 2021-10-11T14:34:17
If you live in a big city like New York, you know that delivery workers on bikes are vital for moving food and other resources from place to place, especially during the pandemic. But workers using...
Listen187 Online Farmers Markets from 2021-10-04T07:00
Most things in the online world are meant to scale big, and reach as many people as possible all over the world. But for locally-grown food, not so much. So when the pandemic accelerated the need f...
Listen186 Geocachers from 2021-09-27T07:00
There are little treasures hidden all over your neighborhood, and throughout the world. You just need a GPS app (and some sleuthing skills) to find them. That's the fun of geocaching, a global phen...
Listen185 Dead Internet Theory: What If Everything Online Is Fake? from 2021-09-20T07:00
After noting cyclical patterns in the news and online discourse, combined with the rise of bots and overwhelming presence of advertising, some skeptical thinkers have proposed the "Dead Internet Th...
Listen[Encore Episode] 137 Second Life Sex Workers (June 22, 2020) from 2021-09-13T14:08:19
Here's a look back at one of our favorite episodes about sex work inside the still-thriving virtual world of Second Life. We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did, and we'll talk with you next ...
Listen184 Cereal (with Dan Goubert of The Empty Bowl) from 2021-09-06T07:00
We shouldn't be surprised to find huge, passionate online communities about something as mundane as breakfast cereal. Dan Goubert has been sharing his love of cereal and tapping into the fandom for...
Listen183 Hot Goss, Our "Do Nothing" Group, and Your Emails from 2021-08-30T07:00
How's your summer going? We're checking in and sharing some of your amazing emails and voicemails. Join our new "Do Nothing" group, and get a sneak peek of what's to come on 2G1P. Support 2G1P on P...
Listen182 Welcome to The Omegaverse from 2021-08-23T07:00
We've all read sexy fanfiction from time to time, but a huge community of collaborative writers (and TikTokers) have taken it to a new level over the last decade. Enter: The Omegaverse, a complex, ...
Listen[Encore Episode] 160 How the Internet Is Changing Language (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) - Originally Published January 18, 2021 from 2021-08-16T07:00
We're working out some scheduling snafus this week, but we'll be back again with fresh tales from the depths of the Internet. For now, we have an encore episode about a really fascinating topic we ...
Listen181 IKEA Hackers from 2021-08-09T12:03
IKEA furniture is cheap, modular, and everywhere. So it's no surprise that thousands of people on the Internet love to show off their Frankenfurniture on social media. Whether it's upgrading to fan...
Listen180 Sneakerheads from 2021-08-02T07:00
Everyone loves a good pair of sneakers. But some people *REALLY* love a good pair of sneakers. And when they meet online, a lot can pop off. This week, Lindsey and Alli talk with Josh Luber, the co...
Listen179 The Psychology of Online Sex Work from 2021-07-26T07:00
The Internet has removed gatekeepers for most forms of media, porn certainly among them. The rise of Only Fans and direct-to-consumer sex work has empowered millions of adult creators (mostly women...
Listen[Encore Episode] 170 #FreeBritney (April 12, 2021) from 2021-07-19T07:00
We are recording some excellent episodes this week and figuring out summer schedules.. In the meantime, we thought it would be useful to revisit the #FreeBritney movement and community, as Britney ...
Listen178 Otherkin from 2021-07-05T07:00
Science and society have established that gender and sexuality are fluid. And fetishes can certainly cross into some furry territory. But what about species? A large community of people identify no...
Listen177 Enterprising Furries Are Unlocking the Future of Cybersex in VR from 2021-06-28T07:00
It's common knowledge that pornography pushes technology forward, so it's no surprise that the future of cybersex is being hacked together today by VR enthusiasts. Tactile wearables and teledildoni...
Listen176 NEW GIRL 1 PODCAST from 2021-06-21T07:00
We have some big news from the 2G1P Cinematic Universe... Support 2G1P on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/2G1PJoin the 2G1P Discord community: http://discord.gg/2g1p Join the 2G1P Facebook Group: ...
ListenIntroducing "Green Eggs&Dan" from 2021-06-07T07:00
We're taking the week off, but we're excited to share another fantastic show on the Podglomerate network called Green Eggs&Dan, where comedian/writer/restaurateur Dan Ahdoot talks to some fascinati...
Listen174 LARPing from 2021-05-24T07:00
People have been role-playing on the Internet since...the very birth of the Internet itself. And out of the tabletop and digital versions sprang LARP: Live Action Role-Playing. Social media like Fa...
Listen173 The Satanic Temple (with co-founder Lucien Greaves) from 2021-05-17T07:00
Any mention of "Satan" is sure to elicit pearl-clutching from the religious right. But The Satanic Temple, a purely secular and non-theistic organization has been using the dogmatic baggage of that...
Listen[Encore Episode] 121 Gone Wild Audio (February 24, 2020) from 2021-05-10T07:00
Due to scheduling conflicts, we've got an encore for you this week, and it's one of our most popular episodes of all time! Enjoy, or re-enjoy! Original NotesNearly 400,000 listeners subscribe to r/...
Listen172 Video Game Speedrunners (with world-record holder Niftski) from 2021-05-03T07:00
For years, 4 minutes and 55 seconds was the fastest a human being could beat "Super Mario Bros." for the NES. After every technique, glitch, and warp had been analyzed for decades, the "55 barrier"...
ListenJoin us in the 2G1P Facebook Group! from 2021-04-19T07:00
Our show is about Internet communities, but it's also a community of its own! Our listeners help us make the show, and we're expanding the discussion to an official 2G1P Facebook Group, where you c...
Listen170 #FreeBritney from 2021-04-12T07:00
In 2007, Britney Spears was placed under a conservatorship, relinquishing control of her finances to her father. This legal arrangement is typically constructed for elderly people with significant ...
ListenIntroducing "Table Flipping" from 2021-04-05T07:00
We're taking this week off, but we wanted to check in and share an episode of another great podcast on our network called Table Flipping. Table Flipping shamelessly celebrates “guilty pleasure” TV ...
Listen169 Why the Creator of Nyan Cat Could Have Made Millions, But Didn't from 2021-03-29T07:00
In 2011, Chris Torres drew a pixelated cat with a Pop Tart body and a rainbow shooting out of its butt. It raised $100 for a charity in Texas. 10 years later, it's not only one of the Internet's mo...
Listen168 Dogecoin and the Decentralized Dance Party from 2021-03-22T07:00
Since 2013, The Doge meme has made us laugh, cry, and stare longingly into the beautiful eyes of a Shiba Inu. Like most memes, it’s an image put into new contexts again and again. And in late 2013,...
Listen167 Ships of the Northern Fleet from 2021-03-15T07:00
The cult steampunk adventure book series "Ships of the Northern Fleet" has inspired a TV show, graphic novels, and even a breakfast cereal. But the influential show has fallen off the pop culture r...
Listen166 How 'Blaseball' Fans Help Create the Game They Love from 2021-03-08T08:00
Bored during the pandemic? Maybe you should try betting fake money on a league of simulated baseball teams where imaginary players like Jessica Telephone and Jaylen Hotdogfingers are regularly inci...
Listen165 Consensus-Based Reality: How Blockchain Communities Could Change the World from 2021-03-01T08:00
When people talk about Bitcoin and blockchain tech, the conversation typically moves to the price of commodities and the hype around trading them. But the actual blockchain movement is about so muc...
Listen164 Why Disinformation Spreads So Quickly in Online Communities from 2021-02-22T08:00
While we love Internet communities, it's clear that some can seed and spread weaponized information at breakneck speeds. Platforms facilitate this, but social dynamics are also at work here. And if...
Listen163 The_Donald from 2021-02-15T08:00
Here on 2 GIRLS 1 PODCAST, we typically cover online communities that make a positive impact on the internet through their creativity or inclusivity. But not all digital watercoolers are a force fo...
Listen[Encore Episode] 111 @MugJerry and the Quest for Instagram Justice (December 8, 2019) from 2021-02-08T08:00
We've got some great new episodes in the pipeline for you, but while we wait, here's an encore of one of our favorites, originally published on December 8, 2019. -Original Notes-The Instagram accou...
Listen162 Something Awful from 2021-02-01T08:00
Since 1999, the website Something Awful has been an Internet culture tastemaker, and this closed community is still going strong two decades later — a rarity for online platforms. Many modern memes...
Listen161 Buy Nothing from 2021-01-25T08:00
Want to save money, help your neighbors, and create less waste all at the same time? The Internet can help. Specifically, the "Buy Nothing" communities that have sprouted up in thousands of cities ...
Listen160 How the Internet Is Changing Language (with Linguist Gretchen McCulloch) from 2021-01-18T08:00
If you're concerned that LOLspeak and text messages are ruining language, fear not, grammar nerds! This week, Alli and Jen speak with linguist, author, and fellow podcaster Gretchen McCulloch, who ...
Listen159 Blasphemy Fetishes from 2021-01-11T08:00
It won't shock most psychologists (armchair or professional) that figures of authority and oppression in early childhood can lead to kinks in adulthood. Look no further than blasphemy porn to bear ...
Listen158 COVID Long Haulers from 2021-01-04T08:00
The media tends to present 2 kinds of COVID-19 patients: Those who make a full recovery, and those who die. But there's a massive group of people who suffer long term symptoms like months-long feve...
ListenYour Response to Our 4chan Episode from 2020-12-28T08:00
Our interview about 4chan culture elicited the most listener response in the shortest period of time, so we want to share a lot of it. Alli, Jen and Matt discuss the 2G1P approach to primary source...
Listen157 Reddit Gifts (Internet Secret Santa) from 2020-12-21T08:00
If you'd like the brighten the day of an Internet stranger, look no further than Reddit Gifts, the yearly online celebration where more than 100,000 Secret Santas swap gifts around the world. Alli ...
Listen[Encore Episode] 113 ClausNet: The Social Network for Santas (December 22, 2019) from 2020-12-14T08:00
It's been a busy week, so we're sharing one of our favorites to get you in the holiday spirit. We'll be back next week with more fun! -Originally Published December 22, 2019-Portraying Santa Claus ...
Listen156 4chan: The Birthplace of All Memes from 2020-12-07T08:00
4chan is often maligned by the media and mainstream culture as a hive of hate speech and hackers, but it's far more complex. 4chan culture is unique for its anonymity, ephemeral content, and un-cha...
Listen[Encore Episode] 94 Sweepers (Originally Published July 2019) from 2020-11-30T08:00
Happy Thanksgiving! We're taking a breather this week and re-sharing another one of our favorites, this one originally published in July of 2019. We hope you enjoy! -Original Notes-Tom has been to ...
Listen155 Modern Families Are Easier to Make Thanks to the Internet from 2020-11-23T08:00
21st century families come in all shapes and sizes. And while dating apps have helped people from all different backgrounds and locations get together, there hasn't been an online system in place f...
Listen154 Financial Domination (Allie Eve Knox Returns!) from 2020-11-16T08:00
Professional dominatrix and cam model Allie Eve Knox returns to discuss her particular area of expertise, Financial Domination (aka FinDom), the fetish where clients want to be told what to do with...
Listen153 OnlyFans Culture (with Allie Eve Knox) from 2020-11-09T08:00
Adult video entertainment used to involve film crews and distribution companies. These days, performers can log in, create personalized videos for their fans, and get paid well for their wares. Onl...
Listen152 Political Humiliation with Empress Delfina from 2020-11-02T08:00
Domination and humiliation aren't new in the world of fetishes, but one online sex worker has found a particularly compelling niche: Shaming and belittling Trump supporters to change their votes to...
Listen151 Why Tech Companies Won't Let You Fix Your Own Stuff (Steve Porter, TronicsFix) from 2020-10-26T07:00
Back in the day, if your computer or an appliance broke down, you could pop open the case, unscrew the faulty part, and order a replacement from the manufacturer for a few dollars. But increasingly...
Listen150 Virtual Funeral Services (Gathering Us) from 2020-10-19T07:00
Grief is never easy, but it's especially hard if you can't be with your loved ones in person. COVID-19 has made funerals incredibly complicated in recent months, but the online service Gathering Us...
Listen149 QAnon Casualties: How to Save a Loved One From Conspiracy Cults from 2020-10-12T07:00
The Internet empowers everyone to find a like-minded community online. It also facilitates misinformation and conspiracy thinking at breakneck speeds. QAnon, the belief that government insiders hav...
Listen[Encore Episode] 55 How Composer Kevin MacLeod Makes a Living Giving All His Music Away For Free (Originally Published October 22, 2018) from 2020-10-05T07:00
We're working on something big for next week, so here's another one of our favorite encore episodes from back in the day. Original Notes:If you've ever sought a soundtrack for your home movies that...
Listen148 Unnecessary Inventions from 2020-09-28T07:00
Matty Benedetto is a product designer by training, but his sense of humor led him to a life of hilarious content creation instead. Benedetto builds Unnecessary Inventions, ingenious products that s...
Listen147 One In an ARMY (BTS / K-Pop Fandom Charity) from 2020-09-21T07:00
Global K-pop music sensation BTS’ charity efforts with Unicef and other foundations has empowered fans to make positive change in the world. The BTS fandom is known as an “ARMY,” and the global vol...
Listen146 Solo Female Traveler Network from 2020-09-14T07:00
While traveling alone in Mexico, Amanda Black was robbed. She felt violated, scared, and didn't know where to turn in a foreign county with no friends or family. That's when she realized the need f...
Listen145 Get a Pen Pal from 2020-09-07T07:00
Email, texting, and social media have made our world smaller. But have we lost something in the age of instant messages? Maksim Jovovic created the website Get A Pen Pal, a place to match with some...
Listen144 What Makes a Great Online Community? from 2020-08-31T07:00
Online communities (sometimes the only communities we have during a pandemic) can be magical places. Friendships forged, insights shared, and fun had by all. They can also become toxic, shouty cess...
Listen[Encore Episode] 46 The Women Editing Thousands of Wikipedia Articles in a Quest for Gender Parity (Originally Published Aug 20, 2018) from 2020-08-24T07:00
This episode was originally published on August 20, 2018 (2 years ago, whoa!) For countless historical and social reasons, most of the people editing Wikipedia are white men. This has led to broad ...
Listen143 The space cemetery in 'EVE Online' from 2020-08-17T07:00
Alli and Jen speak with Jason Marshall, a veteran player of the MMO 'EVE Online' about the game's 15-year-old player-run space graveyard. The Molea cemetery has been operating since 2004, and not o...
Listen142 How Does Wikipedia Actually Work? from 2020-08-10T07:00
We all use Wikipedia on a daily basis, but do you really know how humanity’s largest organized body of knowledge gets made? Alli and Jen talk with Bill Beutler, a longtime Wikipedia editor and the ...
Listen141 The Church of Universal Suffrage from 2020-08-03T07:00
Alli and Jen speak with Tim Jacobs, the founding minister of The Church of Universal Suffrage, a legally recognized religion that hosts “weekly meditation on the nature of voter suppression,” and o...
Listen140 Flea Market Flippers (With Rob&Melissa Stephenson) from 2020-07-27T07:00
eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Mercari, Craigslist ... there's no shortage of apps to buy and sell random stuff. But if you live and breathe these marketplaces, you can identify opportunities to buy l...
Listen139 "Darknet Diaries" with Jack Rhysider from 2020-07-20T07:00
Alli and Jen talk with Jack Rhysider, the creator and host of the hit podcast Darknet Diaries which tells “true stories from the dark side of the Internet.” Or as Matt likes to call it, This Americ...
Listen138 "Animal Talking" with Gary Whitta from 2020-07-13T07:00
Screenwriter and games journalist Gary Whitta joins Alli and Jen to talk about his experimental late night celebrity talk show "Animal Talking," which is live-streamed entirely inside of Nintendo's...
Listen[Encore Episode] 54 TayZonday (Originally Published October 15, 2018) from 2020-07-06T07:00
Matt is still on vacation, but we have a great encore episode for you. How Tay Zonday survived being 'Patient Zero' of viral YouTube. Originally Published: October 15, 2018Way back in 2007 Tay Zond...
Listen[Encore Episode] 87 Birds of North America (Originally Published June 10, 2019) from 2020-06-29T07:00
Matt is on vacation this week, so we're re-sharing one of our favorites from last year. Enjoy! Bird watching probably conjures images of an old, retired guy sporting binoculars behind his country h...
Listen137 Second Life Sex Workers from 2020-06-22T07:00
Cybersex is as old as the Internet itself. But as virtual spaces become more sophisticated, so too has sex work. Second Life is more of a "technology playground" than a video game -- a place where ...
Listen136 THE 2ND-GREATEST PRANK IN PODCAST HISTORY!!!!1!! from 2020-06-15T07:00
Two bad people play a joke on one good and beautiful person. Support 2G1P on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/2G1PTalk to the hosts (and each other!) in our secret Discord: discord.gg/2g1p Email us...
Listen135 Cheap Old Houses from 2020-06-08T07:00
Alli and Jen talk with Elizabeth Finkelstein, a preservation expert and the creator of Cheap Old Houses, a wildly popular Instagram account that shows the dream of home ownership may not be as hard...
Listen134 WeRateDogs (@dog_rates / Matt Nelson) from 2020-06-01T07:00
With more than 14 million followers across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, WeRateDogs is on a mission that everyone on planet Earth can get behind: Rating cute doggos from the internet on a (dubio...
Listen133 A Group Where We All Pretend to Be Ants in an Ant Colony from 2020-05-25T07:00
On the Internet, nobody knows if you're a dog. Or, an ant for that matter. And there are nearly 2 million people, all working together, pretending to be ants in a giant ant colony, in one special F...
Listen132 Online Standup Comedy With Josh Gondelman from 2020-05-18T07:00
There's a lot to laugh at on the Internet, but standup comedy — a distinctly in-person art form — is facing challenges in a time of self-isolation. But "virtual" comedy clubs, powered by Zoom, Twit...
Listen131 Dating in 'Animal Crossing' from 2020-05-11T07:00
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has taken over the world in self-isolation, and become a virtual place of normalcy, even for non-gamers. But what if you’re single and dating, but can’t leave the hous...
Listen130 Building College Campuses in Minecraft from 2020-05-04T07:00
College classes and graduations around the world are being canceled or administered remotely, but many enterprising students have taken to the virtual spaces of Minecraft to painstakingly recreate ...
Listen129 Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens from 2020-04-27T07:00
More than 600,000 people (mostly college students) are using a Facebook group to come together and bond over how bad taking classes on Zoom is. This week, Alli and Jen talk to Zana Rashid, a modera...
Listen128 Medical Fetishes (MedFet) from 2020-04-20T07:00
Amid worldwide shortages of personal protective equipment (medical PPE), someone at the UK's National Health Service reached out to the medical fetish retailer MedFetUK, hoping to find a stock of m...
Listen127 The Spot: 1995's Online Reality Show from 2020-04-13T07:00
In 1995, at the height of cultural mania around 90210, Melrose Place, and MTV's The Real World, the Internet as we know it today was just getting started. But if you had a connection and thirsted f...
Listen126 Self-Isolation Checkin from 2020-04-06T07:00
So...how's everybody holding up? Please call us: (347) 871-6548 Follow Alli on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/alligoldSupport 2G1P on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/2G1P Join us on Discord: discor...
Listen125 Chris Dancy, The Mindful Cyborg from 2020-03-30T07:00
In 2008, database engineer Chris Dancy weighed 320 pounds, smoked two packs and drank 36 cans of Diet Coke every day. He was being paid a lot of money to be — in his words — “a real pile of shit.” ...
Listen124 Biohackers from 2020-03-23T07:00
There are two types of "biohackers" in this world: People who are optimizing their bodies for peak performance, and...cyborgs. The cyborgs are putting microchips, magnets, and even full, working co...
Listen123 What If YouTube Had Failed in 2006? from 2020-03-16T07:00
An entire generation has grown up in a world where uploading hours of 4K video to the Internet is not only common, but expected. But, what if the legal and technological barriers that killed Napste...
Listen[Encore Episode] 51 The Birth of Online Dating (September 24, 2018) from 2020-03-09T07:00
We're proud to share this encore episode of #2G1P featuring Gary Kremen, the inventor of online dating. Learn how a fateful purchase order in the '90s lead to the creation of Match.com, and ultimat...
Listen122 Civ Battle Royale from 2020-03-02T08:00
Sid Meier’s Civilization is a storied video game franchise built on an epic premise: Build a civilization to stand the test of time. Typically, a player will control a historic civ — like China, Fr...
Listen121 Gone Wild Audio from 2020-02-24T08:00
Porn on Reddit should come as no surprise. But nearly 400,000 listeners subscribe to r/GoneWildAudio, a community for high quality, audio-only erotic vignettes. Creators there use high-end micropho...
Listen120 Genyus Network is a safe social space for stroke survivors from 2020-02-17T08:00
Caleb Rixon was a 24-year-old musical theater actor in his prime, who had just landed a major role in a production of Chicago. He hit the gym to prepare for a long tour of song and dance, when he f...
Listen119 How one woman hacked online dating to find the perfect partner from 2020-02-10T08:00
Quantitative futurist Amy Webb was fed up with online dating in 2005. The questionnaires and algorithms on sites like Match and OKcupid that were supposed to connect like-minded people and form las...
Listen118 Sign Language Is Rapidly Evolving in VR from 2020-02-03T08:00
Deaf users of immersive social platforms like VRchat can face a tough time communicating. Unlike other social media, VR spaces rely on verbal and physical communication rather than text. And sign l...
Listen117 Urban Exploring from 2020-01-27T08:00
Sneaking into abandoned buildings and filming urban decay may not be the newest trend, but obsession with so-called “urban exploring” and “abandon porn” has skyrocketed alongside the widespread acc...
Listen116 The man who sold shares of himself on the Internet from 2020-01-20T08:00
In 2008, Mike Merrill divided himself into 100,000 shares and offered them to the Internet for $1 a pop. After the initial wave of friends and family bought in, online strangers began to acquire sh...
Listen115 Lissa Explains it All from 2020-01-13T08:00
In 1997, an 11-year-old girl set up a website with HTML tutorials and guides for Neopets. Within a few years, "Lissa Explains it All" was serving 500,000 monthly visitors, its forums hosted 75.,000...
Listen114 Smart Bitches, Trashy Books from 2020-01-06T08:00
Romance novels get a bad rap, probably due to a history of stereotypical characters, plots, gender roles, and an all-around "trashy" look on supermarket and drug store shelves. But the genre has ch...
Listen[Encore Episode] 42 Bronies from 2019-12-30T08:00
Happy New Year from 2G1P! We're taking a break this week, but wanted to re-share another one of our favorite episodes: Bronies! Enjoy and we'll see you in 2020. Original publish date: July 23, 2018...
Listen113 ClausNet: The Social Network for Santas from 2019-12-23T08:00
Portraying Santa Claus in the modern era takes a village. What's the best way to whiten your eyebrows? Growing a beard, or applying one? How jolly is too jolly? That's where ClausNet comes in. It's...
Listen112 The Cottage Industry of Custom VR Sex Avatars from 2019-12-16T08:00
The rise of powerful, free 3D modeling software has emboldened a cottage industry of VR enthusiasts to create custom sex avatars for virtual porn. But what happens when members of this community st...
Listen111 @MugJerry and the Quest for Instagram Justice from 2019-12-09T08:00
The Instagram account turned multi-million dollar media company @FuckJerry is notorious for stealing funny tweets, memes, and other content from creators, and posting them — without credit or compe...
Listen[Encored Episode] 82 God from 2019-12-02T08:00
We're taking the week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, but we hope you enjoy one of our favorite episodes. Sit back, relax, and enjoy a conversation with a very popular social media influencer: Go...
Listen110 THE GREATEST PRANK IN PODCAST HISTORY from 2019-11-25T08:00
This week, we prank Jen, when her boyfriend Adam pretends to be an adult baby who knows a little too much about her personal life. Get ready for some epic 2G1P hi-jinks. Support 2G1P on Patreon! ht...
Listen109 The Teens of TikTok from 2019-11-18T08:00
TikTok came on the social media scene relatively recently (2016), and teens have flocked to it. The Chinese-made lip-syncing video app boasts 500 million users, most of them young. TikTok has devel...
Listen108 Virtual Reality Therapy Sessions from 2019-11-11T08:00
The anonymity of the Internet has long made it a place for confessions and bonding with strangers you'll never meet IRL. Virtual reality kicks it up a notch. Social spaces like VRchat allow strange...
Listen107 'World of Warcraft' Reunions from 2019-11-04T08:00
When World of Warcraft came on the scene in 2004, it redefined the potential for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. Players not only spent daily hours grinding for loot and gear, but sociali...
Listen106 Deepfakes (with Sham00k) from 2019-10-28T07:00
Deep fakes, a process that uses AI and machine learning to place someone’s face on another’s body with Hollywood-level results, have been entertaining and terrifying the Internet for the last few y...
Listen[Encore Episode] 01 Is 'Furry' a Sexual Orientation? (Published Oct 2, 2017) from 2019-10-21T07:00
We're taking the week off due to unforeseen scheduling mishaps, but wanted to share one of our favorite classic episodes that longtime listeners and new fans may not have heard. It's our very first...
Listen105 Virtual Reality: Sex, Marriage, and the Future of Relationships from 2019-10-14T07:00
Virtual reality might still be for early adopters, but as headsets get smaller and social norms evolve, more people are meeting, hanging out, having sex, and even getting married in virtual spaces....
Listen104 One Red Paperclip (Kyle MacDonald) from 2019-10-07T07:00
In 2005, Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald traded a red paperclip for a fish-shaped pen. From there, he wanted to see how many times he could "trade up" for something bigger and better. After one yea...
Listen103 Selling $80 Used Tissues on the Internet from 2019-09-30T07:00
Stand-up comedian Mekki Leeper wanted to see if he could convince the Internet to buy a fake wellness product. With some slick branding, fake Instagram followers, and the perfect media outrage hook...
Listen102 Reborns from 2019-09-23T07:00
Reborns are baby dolls with hyper-realistic features. So real, in fact, that bringing them out in public will often fool strangers into thinking they're flesh and blood, even upon close examination...
Listen101 How to Make Real Money With Amazon's Mechanical Turk from 2019-09-16T07:00
Amazon's Mechanical Turk service has a mixed reputation. Some see it as a way to turn found time into easy spending money. Others view it as crowd-sourced slave labor. While the majority of Mecha...
Listen100 Years of 2 GIRLS 1 PODCAST!!!!!1!!! from 2019-09-09T07:00
Can you believe we've been podcasting for a CENTURY? Thanks for sticking with us on this journey of discovery and Internet magic. Here's a look back at our favorite moments. Your comments, calls, s...
Listen99 International Dating Apps from 2019-09-02T07:00
Anyone in a long distance relationship will tell you how hard it can be. And dating or marrying across countries comes with a huge list of expenses and immigration headaches. While people from diff...
Listen98 ASK YOU ANYTHING with Gibi ASMR from 2019-08-26T07:00
Welcome to a new episode format we like to call: ASK YOU ANYTHING, where we ask Internet-famous people awkward questions in a sad attempt to embarrass them for your entertainment! (Don't worry, we'...
Listen97 Crowdsourcing Mental Healthcare with 7 Cups from 2019-08-19T07:00
More than 300,000 volunteers are standing by right now, 24/7, ready to listen if you need to talk to about depression, anxiety, self-harm, or just need to vent about a rough day. Texting with a lis...
Listen96 Why is there so much Sonic the Hedgehog porn? from 2019-08-12T07:00
There's plenty of sexy fan art for any movie, show, or game imaginable, thanks to Rule 34. But there's something about Sonic the Hedgehog that lends the character to very specific and often extreme...
Listen95 Fake Facebook Events from 2019-08-05T07:00
It's become clear that nearly all information you come across on Facebook (or any social media for that matter) should be consumed with skepticism. But there's something about the trouble of organi...
Listen94 Sweepers from 2019-07-29T07:00
Tom has been to the Super Bowl multiple times. He goes on free cruises yearly, has ridden on the Daytona 500 track at 200 miles per hour, traveled with the U.S. soccer team, and devoted a room of h...
Listen93 Macrophilia from 2019-07-22T07:00
Macrophilia is a surprisingly popular fetish involving sexual fantasies about giants — specifically, giant women. Being at the mercy of giants, or being coddled or crushed by them are staples of th...
Listen92 Unicorn Moms from 2019-07-15T07:00
Perfect moms and unicorns have one thing in common: They don't exist. That mantra has brought together a huge community of women who are sick of the judgmental bickering that plagues typical "mommy...
Listen91 Murderinos from 2019-07-08T07:00
The true crime explosion ignited by podcasts like Serial and Netflix series Making a Murderer has spawned a massive ecosystem of murdery content. One of the biggest and most passionate fandoms on t...
Listen90 If you think dating is hard, try doing it at 60 from 2019-07-01T07:00
There's no shortage of dating horror stories on social media. But dating in your later years — after a divorce, death, or other major life change — can be especially daunting. And while apps and se...
Listen89 Subverse: The porn video game that took Kickstarter by storm from 2019-06-24T07:00
Adult content in video games is nothing new. Big budget franchises like Mass Effect and The Witcher series are noted for their character romances and sexy scenes. But in those games, sex is not the...
Listen88 The 8-Bit Guy from 2019-06-17T07:00
David Murray is known to millions of fans as "The 8-Bit Guy." His YouTube channel covers the gamut of computers, consumer electronics, and gaming consoles from the golden age of pixel art and comma...
Listen87 Birds of North America from 2019-06-10T07:00
Bird watching probably conjures images of an old, retired guy sporting binoculars behind his country home. But Jason Ward is rapidly dispelling that stereotype. He's been an avid birder since his c...
Listen86 Death Cafe from 2019-06-03T07:00
Death is a difficult topic no matter how you slice it, but cultivating a healthier outlook on end-of-life issues can have profound effects on families when they encounter loss. That's the mission o...
Listen85 r/AskOldPeople from 2019-05-27T07:00
In an age where nearly all information is a Google or Wiki search away, it's easy to forget that real, first-hand experiences of what the world used to be like are right in our own families and com...
Listen84 Best of Nextdoor from 2019-05-20T07:00
Nextdoor is the social network that connects people based on neighborhoods, rather than friend networks or common interests. Getting to know your IRL neighbors sure seems like a good idea. But at t...
Listen83 Searching for the Hidden Treasure of Forrest Fenn from 2019-05-13T04:00
There's a box of treasure worth millions somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, and a global online (and IRL) community is devoted to the search. The treasure was hidden by Forrest Fenn, a collector of ...
Listen81 How Linguist David J. Peterson Created the Dothraki and Valyrian Languages for 'Game of Thrones' from 2019-04-29T07:00
When fantasy TV shows need an alien or elf to speak a fictional language, most writers make up a few foreign-sounding words to pad the script and move on. But that won't cut it when it comes to Gam...
Listen80 Feminist Memes Are a Banner of Social Change on Instagram from 2019-04-22T07:00
We don't always think of Internet memes as a force for serious social change. But the humor behind image macros and mashup content can be leveraged in the fight against toxic masculinity — with the...
Listen79 How Could Anyone Really Believe the Earth is Flat? from 2019-04-15T07:00
A growing number of people believe that world governments and other shadow organizations are hiding the truth: that the Earth is not a globe, but a flat disc with a dome of stars above it. Despite ...
Listen78 Can Instagram save independent book stores? from 2019-04-08T07:00
While it may feel like books face an existential crisis in the shadow of digital media, reading communities are alive and well in an unlikely social media sphere: Instagram. Showing off what you're...
Listen77 April Fools: 3 Chrome Extensions to Prank Your Friends from 2019-04-01T07:00
On the list of "Things The Internet Is Useful For," lulz rank pretty highly (second only to porn, of course). Online pranks are as old as the ARPANET itself. This April Fools' Day, 2G1P is celebrat...
Listen76 Musketeers: The Global Elon Musk Super Fan Network from 2019-03-25T07:00
Worldwide and obsessive fandom is nothing new, but it's usually reserved for pop stars, actors, YouTubers, and video games. It's rare for tech CEOs to command such loyalty, but Elon Musk's journey ...
Listen75 The Power of Parasocial Relationships in the Age of Loneliness from 2019-03-18T07:00
When TV and radio brought the voices and images of public figures into our very homes, we began to feel kinship with people we've never actually met. But these one-sided "parasocial" relationships ...
Listen74 Transhumanism and the Next Phase of Human Evolution from 2019-03-11T07:00
As we become ever more physically entwined with our technology, and medicine extends our lives beyond anything our ancestors could imagine, we may not be too far away from implanting or genetically...
Listen73 Hire This Tinder Ghostwriter If You Suck at Online Dating from 2019-03-04T08:00
Some people are great at taking flattering selfies and writing witty Tinder taglines. Others, not so much. That's where Meredith Golden comes in. For a fee, she'll take over your profile, learn you...
Listen72 The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster from 2019-02-25T08:00
In 2005, Bobby Henderson wrote a letter to the Kansas board of education suggesting that if Christian creationism is taught in schools, so should his theistic view: that a Flying Spaghetti Monster ...
Listen71 Subtle Asian Dating from 2019-02-18T08:00
If data-driven matchmaking platforms like Tinder have you down, consider an "old school" online dating method where your friends auction you off in a Facebook group with 300,000 singles who are rea...
Listen70 This Couple Fell In Love on MySpace and Now Make Their Living Being Adorable on the Internet from 2019-02-11T08:00
Before Tinder, Grindr, J-Date and Christian Mingle, most of us just had a MySpace page and the dream of finding true love in a sea of extremely emo profile pics. Megan (from the U.S.) and Whitney (...
Listen69 How Facebook Helped a Woman With a Rare Disease Find the Freedom to Be Herself from 2019-02-04T08:00
Most of the tales that come out of Facebook these days are about the attention sucking qualities that make it terrible for mental health and democracy. But there are shining beacons of hope where t...
Listen68 Everything you'll ever say, think, and write is already in this online library from 2019-01-28T08:00
If you do enough math, you can generate every combination of letters and numbers possible. Most of the results will be gibberish, but they will also contain Shakespeare, Harry Potter, the unpublish...
Listen67 This "scientist" learned what women find attractive by A/B testing his beard on Tinder from 2019-01-21T08:00
Apps like Tinder know a lot about you, but why should they horde all your dating data? In order to settle an argument, one man conducted an exhaustive experiment on the platform to determine if he ...
Listen66 What the '90s Web Can Teach Us About the Future of the Internet from 2019-01-14T08:00
The History of the Web is a weekly newsletter that began as a place for coders to reminisce about CSS and Bulletin Board software. But it quickly evolved into a definitive timeline of our shared o...
Listen65 How the transgender community found a safe haven on Discord from 2019-01-07T08:00
Has the internet made things easier for the transgender community? That may depend on which corners of the web you hang out in. For Luna Baker (who transitioned from male-at-birth to female), a var...
Listen64 This Couple Quit the Internet for 1 Month and Lived to Vlog About It from 2018-12-24T08:00
Craig Benzine (better known as WheezyWaiter on YouTube) has been making online videos for a living since 2007. That's a long time to be living and working on the Internet, and when he felt social ...
Listen63 Getting Plastic Surgery to Match Your Filtered, Perfect Selfies from 2018-12-17T08:00
As media has shifted from broadcast to social, so too have our perceptions of beauty and self-confidence. Plastic surgeons are seeing their patients get younger, and who aspire to look more like th...
Listen62 The 'Universal Language' of Esperanto Is Thriving on the Internet from 2018-12-10T08:00
Esperanto is a language invented 130 years ago with the goal of uniting the world under a simplified common tongue and creating everlasting peace. Spoiler alert: That never happened. But the Intern...
Listen61 How 3D Printing Is Transforming the Board Game Industry from 2018-12-03T08:00
What if you could 3D print that new lamp, designed by an Internet stranger for free, rather than ordering it from Amazon? When 3D printing tech goes mainstream, it will almost certainly revolutioni...
Listen60 How One Guy Tricked the Internet Into Thinking His Shed Was London's Best Restaurant from 2018-11-26T08:00
When Oobah Butler was hard-up for cash, he found a gig writing fake reviews for London restaurants he'd never been to. He fell into an abyss of forgeries on TripAdvisor that gave him an idea. What ...
Listen59 Creepypasta and the Evolution of Internet Horror Storytelling from 2018-11-19T08:00
Ghost stories around the campfire are as old as humanity itself, but spooky tales became memes unto themselves as the Web matured. Creepypasta (a derivative of "copypasta" which is derivative of "c...
Listen58 Meet the unlikely duo fighting Facebook's rampant romance scams from 2018-11-12T08:00
When Bryan Denny, a retired 26-year U.S. army veteran, started getting marriage proposals from strangers on Facebook, he knew something was up. Thousands of scammers were using stolen pictures of h...
Listen57 Will Sex Robots Ever Replace Your Human Partner? (Probably.) from 2018-11-05T08:00
Sex dolls have been around since at least the 17th century, but advances in AI and robotics are bringing them ever closer to meaningful companionship. Alli and Jen speak with Susan Pirzchalski, the...
Listen56 Inside the terrifying rabbit hole of messed-up YouTube videos for kids from 2018-10-29T07:00
If you leave a toddler alone with an iPad long enough, YouTube's algorithms will guide her down a deep, dark rabbit hole of strange, low-quality, and often disturbing videos manufactured for kid co...
Listen55 Composer Kevin MacLeod Somehow Makes a Living by Giving All His Music Away for Free from 2018-10-22T07:00
If you've ever sought a soundtrack for your home movies that wouldn't get removed by YouTube, chances are you've come across Kevin MacLeod's music. He's composed thousands of original tracks, in ev...
Listen54 How Tay Zonday survived being 'Patient Zero' of viral YouTube from 2018-10-15T07:00
Way back in 2007 Tay Zonday uploaded the original song "Chocolate Rain" to YouTube, and nothing happened. Then Digg and 4chan found it. And then Zonday was on CNN and Jimmy Kimmel trying to explain...
Listen53 Botnik's Algorithms Create TV Shows and Harry Potter Books Too Hilarious to Ignore from 2018-10-08T07:00
Robots have a long way to go before they replace artists and writers...but they're getting closer. A collective known as Botnik is using algorithms, predictive text, and machine learning to challen...
Listen52 Bad Dragon: The Marriage of High Fantasy Art and Sex Toys from 2018-10-01T07:00
Rule 34 is alive and well on the Internet, but the enterprising sex toy company Bad Dragon has taken it even further with their epic dildo designs that imagine what kind of heat our favorite high f...
Listen51 The Birth of Online Dating from 2018-09-24T07:00
Kids today have it easy, with their "swiping right" and their "J-dates." Back in the early '90s, you could barely send a profile pic to your crush. Gary Kremen wanted to change that. He co-founded ...
Listen50 Re-inventing porn for women is more complicated than you think from 2018-09-17T07:00
Porn is typically made by men for men, but women have needs, too -- and traditional porn doesn't always meet them. Alli and Jen talk with Michelle Shnaidman, founder of Bellesa.co, which creates po...
Listen49 This guy ate 100,000 calories in 4 days and lived to vlog about it from 2018-09-10T07:00
Move over, food porn. Competitive eating is about slamming as many calories as possible, and there's a massive YouTube community around it. Erik the Electric's food challenge videos have been viewe...
Listen48 Where Do Emoji Come From? from 2018-09-03T07:00
Most people think of emoji as trivial text message pictures. But creating them is a complex process debated by a consortium of tech giants. And as emoji become more widespread, so too does their cu...
Listen47 YouTube's Survivalist Community Is Prepping for the Worst - and You Should, Too from 2018-08-27T07:00
Thousands of "Preppers" are amassing food, water, tools, batteries, and other essentials in their basements and bunkers. But for what? Alli and Jen speak with Todd Reynolds, AKA The Dynamic Prepper...
Listen46 The Women Editing Thousands of Wikipedia Articles in a Quest for Gender Parity from 2018-08-20T07:00
For countless historical and social reasons, most of the people editing Wikipedia are white men. This has led to broad bias across the world's de facto repository of online knowledge. But a loose a...
Listen45 Twitter Is the Last Social Network Left for Nudists from 2018-08-13T07:00
Most social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube have firm restrictions on nudity. Twitter is much more lax, making it a digital haven for the nudist community. Taylor Lorenz, a journali...
Listen44 The Grandma Guildmaster of Ultima Online from 2018-08-06T07:00
The multiplayer RPG "Ultima Online" came on the scene in 1997, and it remains a thriving, persistent world to this day, two decades later. Those who prefer the "classic" version host private server...
Listen43 Rise of the Airbnb Superhost from 2018-07-30T07:00
Airbnb has completely revolutionized tourism, but the legal and regulatory battles around whom you can rent your room to rage on. Alli and Jen speak with Evelyn Badia, an Airbnb "Superhost" who mak...
Listen42 Bronies: Combating toxic masculinity, one Little Pony at a time from 2018-07-23T07:00
The reboot of "My Little Pony" has reached fans far beyond the "little girls" demographic. Thousands of adult men self-identify as Bronies: Dudes who love the stories, characters and themes of the ...
Listen41 Bug Facebook: The Unlikely Social Media Home for Insect Lovers from 2018-07-16T07:00
There are Facebook groups for everything -- even jumping spiders. Alli and Jen talk with bug enthusiast and writer Melissa McEwan about the passionate communities that form around insects, insect r...
Listen40 Ecosexuality: Because Mother Earth is the hottest MILF of all from 2018-07-09T07:00
Most people love the Earth. But some people really LOVE the Earth. You know, in *that* way. Alli and Jen speak with Jennifer Reed, a PhD studying the rise of ecosexuality -- from performance art to...
Listen39 Who is Chuck Tingle? Meet the charming king of self-published gay erotica from 2018-07-02T07:00
Erotic author and online sensation Chuck Tingle joins us for a candid conversation about his inspiration for "Pounded In the Butt by My Own Butt" and "Space Raptor Butt Invasion," the idiocy of the...
Listen38 The psychological price we pay for social media from 2018-06-25T07:00
Even while you're sleeping, your social media persona is engaging with the world. This "always on" mentality is shaping the psychology of a generation. Alli and Jen talk to Dr. Leora Trub, a psycho...
Listen37 Jediism: A Star Wars religion for your real spiritual life from 2018-06-18T07:00
Small collectives of Star Wars fans all over the world follow the spiritual path of the Jedi. But this isn't about fandom or cosplay. They live, train, and work by the Jedi Code. And while this phi...
Listen36 Ten facts about internet history you probably don't know from 2018-06-11T07:00
Matt cancels this week's guest and challenges Alli and Jen to the ultimate fan-requested trivia showdown. The stakes could not be higher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listen35 This AI-hosted podcast is here to kill us all from 2018-06-04T07:00
Procedural generation is no stranger to media like video games, but it's especially compelling (and creepy) in podcast form. Alli and Jen talk to PhD programmer James Ryan, the creator of Sheldon C...
Listen34 Who snopes Snopes? from 2018-05-28T07:00
Snopes.com has been debunking urban legends and internet rumors since the mid '90s. But in an age of unprecedented disinformation coming from the highest authorities and most ubiquitous online plat...
Listen33 Reviewing airport carpets is the highest form of artistic criticism from 2018-05-21T07:00
Carpets for Airports is a website and community devoted to critiquing the largest art form ever devised -- the sprawling fabric underfoot when you're rushing to catch a flight. Do airport carpets h...
Listen32 The hidden cost of the exploding "Gig Economy" from 2018-05-14T07:00
Freelancing is on the rise, thanks in large part to technology. The modern internet allows people to work from anywhere, and access short-term gigs on the regular. Silicon Valley is saving us all f...
Listen31 We got your emails VOLUME 2 from 2018-05-07T07:00
A terrifying number of people have told us they listen to 2G1P to learn English. Please. THIS IS NOT AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listen30 Know Your Meme: Cataloging 10 years of internet culture from 2018-04-30T07:00
Memes can be as trivial as a waffle falling over or as powerful as a social movement. But defining them, tracking their origins, mutations, and meanings is a tough job. Fortunately, the brave souls...
Listen29 The story of Reddit's "Ask Me Anything" from 2018-04-23T07:00
From its humble beginnings on "Ask Reddit" to the day Obama dropped by, r/IAmA has been the place where anyone on the internet can talk directly to public figures, celebrities, and people with inte...
Listen28 The most terrifying questions people ask on 'Is It Normal?' from 2018-04-16T07:00
Is It Normal? is a website where people anonymously share their uncertain proclivities about behavior, feelings, sex, and more, so strangers can vote on them. But what started as an experimental me...
Listen27 Grandma Party Hotline from 2018-04-09T07:00
Telephone party hotlines are a relic of pre-internet teenage shenanigans. But if you post a phone number on the web and ask a lovable grandma to record the outgoing voicemail ... lots of people wil...
Listen26 A dating network for conspiracy theorists from 2018-04-02T07:00
If you believe 9/11 was an inside job, or that the cure for cancer is hidden by drug companies, it might be hard to broach these topics with a new date -- let alone reconcile these deep ideological...
Listen25 We got your emails VOLUME 1 from 2018-03-26T07:00
Thanks for your tweets, emails, and voicemails! We love hearing from you, and wanted to respond to a few of our favorite electronic mail messages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....
Listen24 Sugar Dating: Young women seeking men with money from 2018-03-19T07:00
Young, attractive women dating older men with means is nothing new, but there is an online cottage industry that connects "Sugar Babies" with their prospective "Sugar Daddies." Alli and Jen intervi...
Listen23 Thousands of men on the internet really want to get pregnant from 2018-03-12T07:00
The fight for gender equality must never rest, but there's one important thing women have that men will never experience: the joy (and excruciating pain!) of childbirth. But there are thousands of ...
Listen22 Bros before JNCOs: Where dudes help dudes master their look from 2018-03-05T08:00
Women are exposed to fashion media at an early age, for better or worse. But where should men turn to refine their style for a new job or a first date? Alli and Jen talk to Brad Webster, a moderato...
Listen21 The Passions Network has every dating site you could imagine from 2018-02-26T08:00
If you're tired of swiping on looks and clever pickup lines, why not go a niche as possible? The Passions Network connects singles based on extremely focused interests, like driving trucks, The Wal...
Listen20 Adult babies and diaper lovers from 2018-02-19T08:00
Age play (role playing as a child or baby) can be about comfort, re-connecting with your own childhood, or a fetish. Alli and Jen interview "Todd," the founder of Tykables, an online retailer and c...
Listen19 Why are "Birds With Arms" so damn funny? from 2018-02-12T08:00
There are subreddits for all sorts of important issues and online communities. And then there's r/BirdsWithArms, where the Internet's most talented Photoshoppers replace bird wings with human arms ...
Listen18 The history of "shipping" in fan fiction from 2018-02-05T08:00
Writing fanfic about your favorite fictional characters kissing goes back long before the internet. Alli and Jen interview Amanda Brennan, a meme librarian whose expertise in "shipping" (writing ab...
Listen17 Inside the plastic world of Living Dolls from 2018-01-29T08:00
The extreme makeup, fashion, and body modification of the Living Doll community is a sight to behold. Alli and Jen interview Vixie, who moderates numerous living doll forums where members swap pics...
Listen16 Doing real archaeology inside video game worlds from 2018-01-22T08:00
As we spend more and more time inside digital worlds, documenting human behavior in virtual spaces has become an exciting new field of research. Alli and Jen talk to gaming archaeologist Andrew Rei...
Listen15 What your Google search history really says about you from 2018-01-15T08:00
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz studied data from Google, Pornhub, and other online platforms. He found that overt racism is alive and well in America, porn preferences are not what you'd expect, and many...
Listen14 Inside the secret chat room where lawyers bitch about their clients from 2018-01-08T08:00
Turns out attorneys are humans, too. Alli and Jen talk to Keith Lee, who created Lawyer Slack -- a private, lawyers-only chat room where attorneys can speak freely about ongoing cases, modern legal...
Listen13 The Fry Up Police from 2017-12-18T08:00
A Facebook group with 50,000 members is all about posting pictures of British breakfast food so people can curse at you. Alli and Jen get the scoop behind one of the most hilarious and bizarre Face...
Listen12 How Reddit brings real science to millions from 2017-12-11T08:00
In the era of fake news, climate deniers, and anti-vaxxers, productive discussion about peer-reviewed science can be hard to come by on the internet. Fortunately, the subreddit r/science (with 17 m...
Listen11 This dating app matches people on things they hate from 2017-12-04T08:00
Most dating apps pair people based on looks or shared interests. Hater matches couples based on things they hate: Slow walkers, the Super Bowl, tall dudes at concerts. Does having a "hate" in commo...
Listen10 ASMR: This episode will make you tingly from 2017-11-27T08:00
Autonomous sensory meridian response (known as ASMR) is that tingly sensation on the back of your neck when you hear certain quiet sounds, like whispering or tapping. There's a huge community devot...
Listen09 Interview with a (real?) vampire from 2017-11-20T08:00
Thousands of people identify as "vampires" online, but the term is more complicated (and metaphorical) than horror movie stereotypes. Alli and Jen talk to self-identified vampire Anshar Seraphim ab...
Listen08 Today I F@*#ked Up from 2017-11-13T08:00
Today I F@*#ked Up (or r/TIFU) is a place where people anonymously share their most terrible or embarrassing stories. It's also one of the most popular communities on Reddit. Alli and Jen ask a mod...
Listen07 Professional cuddling could be the next yoga from 2017-11-06T08:00
Making an appointment to be cuddled by a stranger might seem odd, but Adam Lippin -- the founder of Cuddlist.com -- believes therapeutic touch will be as common as yoga in the next few years. Learn...
Listen06 How to teach a preschool class for adults from 2017-10-30T07:00
Ever wish you could go back in time and enjoy the innocence of being four years old? Alli and Jen talk to Michelle Joni, who teaches letters, shapes and show&tell to adults at a preschool in Brookl...
Listen05 They quit their jobs to sell balloon sex toys from 2017-10-23T07:00
Jan and Maggie are the founders of Looners United, a community and online store for balloon fetishists. They tell Alli and Jen about poppers, non-poppers, and their journey of acceptance as a coupl...
Listen04 What if we were all created by aliens? from 2017-10-16T07:00
Did intelligent aliens design us in their own image thousands of years ago? That's what Raëlians believe. Alli and Jen speak with Felix Clairvoyant, a guide of the Raëlian movement, about ETs, the ...
Listen03 The hairy truth behind "Tinder for beards" from 2017-10-09T07:00
Alli and Jen get the lowdown on Bristlr, a dating app where you can find the bearded man of your dreams. John Kershaw builds app frameworks that connect beard lovers, new moms, and cow inseminators...
Listen02 Inside the touching world of online tickling from 2017-10-02T13:37
Alli and Jen speak with Richard Ivey, the creator of "My Friend's Feet," one of the first websites and online communities for tickling fetishists. Also: We are REALLY scared of aliens. Learn more a...
ListenIntroducing 2 Girls 1 Podcast from 2017-09-15T14:05:33
Two actors who perform the weird Internet on stage dive into the deepest web wormholes with members of fringe online communities. Alli Goldberg and Jen Jamula have hilarious and humanizing conversa...
ListenIntroducing 2 Girls 1 Podcast from 2017-09-15T14:05:33
Two actors who perform the weird Internet on stage dive into the deepest web wormholes with members of fringe online communities. Alli Goldberg and Jen Jamula have hilarious and humanizing conversa...
ListenIntroducing 2 Girls 1 Podcast from 2017-09-15T14:05:33
Two actors who perform the weird Internet on stage dive into the deepest web wormholes with members of fringe online communities. Alli Goldberg and Jen Jamula have hilarious and humanizing conversa...
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