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Hello Internet
Hello Internet Logo
Presentation
Hosted by
GenreDiscussion
LanguageEnglish
Length90—170 minutes
Production
Audio formatMP3
No. of episodes63
Publication
Original release31 January 2014
Related
Related showsCortex
Websitewww.hellointernet.fm

Hello Internet is an audio podcast by CGP Grey and Brady Haran.[1] It debuted in 2014 and currently has 63 episodes and 1 bonus episode.[2][3] The podcast peaked as the #1 iTunes podcast in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Canada, and Australia in February 2014[4] and was selected as one of Apple's best new podcasts of 2014.[5][6] The podcast is also known for coining the term "freebooting" to describe copyright infringing content rehosting.[7][8][9] Episodes usually last from 1.5 to 2 hours.[10]

Flag[edit]

At the end of 2015, the podcast held a referendum to decide on the official flag of Hello Internet. The referendum was conducted by postal vote using a preferential voting system.[11] The Nail & Gear flag, pictured, was announced as the winning flag on December 16th, 2015.[12][13] Other candidates were Club & Claws, White Cross, Flaggy Flag, and H.I. Logo.[11]

Results of the Hello Internet flag referendum[14]
Option First preference Second iteration Third iteration
Votes % Votes % Votes %
Nail & Gear 1812 47.6 1888 49.7 2027 53.6
Flagg Flag 801 21.1 838 22.1 958 25.3
Club & Claws 710 18.7 754 19.9 797 21.1
White Cross 306 8 316 8.3
H.I. Logo 175 4.6
Total 3804 - 3796 - 3782 -


List of episodes[edit]

Episode Title Date
1"H.I. #1: Being Wrong on The Internet"January 31, 2014 (2014-01-31)
2"H.I. #2: Copyright Not Intended"February 7, 2014 (2014-02-07)
3"H.I. #3: Four Light Bulbs"February 11, 2014 (2014-02-11)
4"H.I. #4: Feedback on Feedback"February 18, 2014 (2014-02-18)
5"H.I. #5: Freebooting"February 26, 2014 (2014-02-26)
6"H.I. #6: Delete, Flag, Delete, Reply"March 10, 2014 (2014-03-10)
7"H.I. #7: Sorry, Language Teachers"March 17, 2014 (2014-03-17)
8"H.I. #8: First World YouTuber Problems"March 31, 2014 (2014-03-31)
9"H.I. #9: Kids in a Box"April 15, 2014 (2014-04-15)
10"H.I. #10: Two Dudes Talking"April 23, 2014 (2014-04-23)
11"H.I. #11: Stream of Irrelevancy"April 30, 2014 (2014-04-30)
12"H.I. #12: Hamburgers in the Pipes"May 13, 2014 (2014-05-13)
13"H.I. #13: Nobody Owns the Facts"May 28, 2014 (2014-05-28)
14"H.I. #14: How Humans Work"June 10, 2014 (2014-06-10)
15"H.I. #15: Books Made of Paper"June 24, 2014 (2014-06-24)
16"H.I. #16: The Worst Topic for a Podcast"July 15, 2014 (2014-07-15)
17"H.I. #17: Mister Phoenix"July 22, 2014 (2014-07-22)
18"H.I. #18: Monkey Copyright"August 12, 2014 (2014-08-12)
19"H.I. #19: Pit of Doom"August 18, 2014 (2014-08-18)
20"H.I. #20: Reverse Finger Trap"September 8, 2014 (2014-09-08)
21"H.I. #21: Cave Troll in Your Pocket"September 20, 2014 (2014-09-20)
22"H.I. #22: 16-hour Search for Wallpaper"October 10, 2014 (2014-10-10)
23"H.I. #23: Call of the Postbox "October 28, 2014 (2014-10-28)
24"H.I. #24: Mr Complainy Pants"November 2, 2014 (2014-11-02)
25"H.I. #25: Fantasy Stage"November 24, 2014 (2014-11-24)
26"H.I. #26: Brady Had Dinner With Darth Vader"December 12, 2014 (2014-12-12)
27"H.I. #27 Bumper Christmas Special"December 25, 2014 (2014-12-25)
28"H.I. #28: Randomness in a Box"January 5, 2015 (2015-01-05)
29"H.I. #29: Courses for Horses"January 19, 2015 (2015-01-19)
30"H.I. #30: Fibonacci Dog Years"February 2, 2015 (2015-02-02)
31"H.I. #31: An Enigma Wrapped in an Egg McMuffin"February 16, 2015 (2015-02-16)
32"H.I. #32: YouTube Half-Assery"March 2, 2015 (2015-03-02)
33"H.I. #33: Mission to Mars"March 16, 2015 (2015-03-16)
34"H.I. #34: Line in the Sand"March 30, 2015 (2015-03-30)
35"H.I. #35: Are My Teeth Real?"April 13, 2015 (2015-04-13)
36"H.I. #36: Bear O'Clock"April 28, 2015 (2015-04-28)
37"H.I. #37: Penguins and Politics"May 14, 2015 (2015-05-14)
38"H.I. #38: The F-Word"May 25, 2015 (2015-05-25)
39"H.I. #39: Getting Things Done"June 9, 2015 (2015-06-09)
40"H.I. #40: The Oval Office of Science"June 17, 2015 (2015-06-17)
41"H.I. #41: Some Kind of Freak"June 24, 2015 (2015-06-24)
42"H.I. #42: Never and Always"July 7, 2015 (2015-07-07)
43"H.I. #43: The Naughty Episode"July 17, 2015 (2015-07-17)
44"H.I. #44: Cursed Tickets"August 11, 2015 (2015-08-11)
45"H.I. #45: Technobabble"August 22, 2015 (2015-08-22)
46"H.I. #46: Superbowl of Flags"August 31, 2015 (2015-08-31)
47"H.I. #47: Charismatic Megafauna"September 22, 2015 (2015-09-22)
48"H.I. #48: Grumpy About Art"September 29, 2015 (2015-09-29)
49"H.I. #49: Rabble-Rousing"October 19, 2015 (2015-10-19)
50"H.I. #50: Queen of Spades"November 6, 2015 (2015-11-06)
51"H.I. #51: Appropriately Thinking It"November 16, 2015 (2015-11-16)
52"H.I. #52: 20,000 Years of Torment"November 30, 2015 (2015-11-30)
53"H.I. #53: Two Dudes Counting"December 16, 2015 (2015-12-16)
54"H.I. #54: Star Wars Christmas Special"December 25, 2015 (2015-12-25)
55"H.I. #55: Element Zod"January 13, 2016 (2016-01-13)
56"H.I. #56: Guns, Germs, and Steel"January 29, 2016 (2016-01-29)
57"H.I. #57: Podcasters React"February 17, 2016 (2016-02-17)
58"H.I. #58: Hawk & Mouse"February 29, 2016 (2016-02-29)
59"H.I. #59: Consumed by Donkey Kong"March 23, 2016 (2016-03-23)
60"H.I. #60: The Beautiful Game"March 30, 2016 (2016-03-30)
61"H.I. #61: Tesla and King Tut"April 20, 2016 (2016-04-20)
Episode Title Date
N–A"The Shortlist (BONUS EPISODE)"October 21, 2015 (2015-10-21)

Hello Internet Animated[edit]

On 5 September 2014, the first episode of Hello Internet Animated was released on YouTube.[15] Their production are almost entirely done by animator fan "Dovsky". Dovsky takes short and memorable audio clips from various episodes and loosely animates them with Brady and Grey caricatures. Length ranges from about 1-3 minutes. They are sparsely released, with a current total of 9 episodes.

Hello Internet Culture[edit]

Tims[edit]

The audience as a collective (or singular or subgroup) are given the name Tim. "Tim likes to talk to other Tims on Reddit after listening to a new episode." The origin of this trend came from the 'calling out' and 'talking to' of a person named Tim[citation needed]. With an audience large enough, someone listening was bound to be named Tim.

Cultural exposition[edit]

Freebooting[edit]

Episode #5

Hotstoppers[edit]

HI#49, 43 minutes 30 seconds

In one of his rants about how things should work and talking about the small conveniences of America, Grey complained about the failure of UK Starbucks' have the stick contraption they designed to obstruct the cap-hole of coffee drinks and act as a stirrer. For lack of a better word, Brady coined the term "hotstopper" and Grey agreed it was a good name or "let [it] pass" given the lack of a proper name[16].The term "hotstopper" is based on its functionality of 'stopping the `hot` from coming out of the cup'. After the show, Grey asked @StarBucksUK on Twitter to have them in all Starbucks in the United Kingdom. The hosts eventually turned it into a structured campaign to raise awareness about the issue of hot drink spillages, more specifically their nefarious effects for small children. On October 19 2015, Brady Haran blogged about this initiative and the creation of a fundraising campaign in favour of the Children's Burn Trust.

Adoption of "CGP Grey the penguin"[edit]

Brady had the opportunity to have a dinner at Bristol Zoo with David Prowse(the actor that played Darth Vader) for a charity fund supporting african penguin conservation. Brady was able to organize an event in which tickets to watch Star Wars with Prowse, Brady, and Grey were sold to the HI audience and proceeds donated to the fund.[11] A chick (A20583) was born on March 22, 2015, and named "CGP Grey" by the zoo in thanks to the podcast for helping fundraise. The zoo also made Brady the official adopter of CGP Grey the penguin. They were presented the two certificates the night of the event. Later, it was determined the penguin is female.[17]

Vexillology[edit]

On many podcast episodes ([citation needed]), Brady and Grey have been discussing flags. Despite not being experts in vexillology.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "15 Podcasts for Extremely Specific Kinds of Nerds". Mental Floss. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  2. ^ "Hello Internet". iTunes. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  3. ^ "Hello Internet". Podcast Chart. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
  4. ^ "CGP Grey & Brady Haran - 'Hello Internet' American iTunes Chart Performance". iTunesCharts.net. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  5. ^ Haran, Brady; Grey, CGP (2014-12-25). "Bumper Christmas Special". Hello Internet (Podcast). No. 27. Hellointernet.fm. 46:30 minutes in. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
  6. ^ @HelloInternetFM (December 8, 2014). "Hello Internet made Apple's 'Best Podcasts of 2014' list :D" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. ^ Oremus, Will (8 July 2015). "Facebook's Piracy Problem". Slate. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  8. ^ Foxx, Chris. "Facebook announces new tools to tackle video theft — BBC News". BBC News. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  9. ^ Nayar, Varun (31 August 2015). "Facebook Has A Video Piracy Problem". Tech Times.
  10. ^ Adajos (2015-12-31). "Top 3 Podcasts You Must Listen To In 2016". Intention Deficit. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  11. ^ a b c SDM, Author (2015-11-23). "Hello, Hello Internet!". Portland Flag Association. Retrieved 2016-05-23. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  12. ^ Simon M. Joseph (6 January 2016). "Vexillogicast 020a". vexillogicast.com (Podcast). Event occurs at 3:10. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  13. ^ Hello Internet (2015-12-16), H.I. #53: Two Dudes Counting, retrieved 2016-05-23
  14. ^ "Brady Haran on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  15. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1EcAoyOIXk
  16. ^ Haran, Brady; Grey, CGP (2015-09-22). "Charismatic Megafauna". Hello Internet (Podcast). No. 47, 00:40. Hellointernet.fm. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  17. ^ "CGP Grey the Penguin". Brady Haran. Retrieved 2016-04-22.

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