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Hello Internet is a {{podcast}} created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, flags, life, plane crashes, and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project, but after that, the hosts decided to continue it. After the second season of 10 episodes, they stopped dividing into seasons. There are no major differences between "seasons" and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme, though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander (a lot).]]

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Hello Internet is a {{podcast}} created by educational youtuber youtubers [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, flags, life, plane crashes, and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project, but after that, the hosts decided to continue it. After the second season of 10 episodes, they stopped dividing into seasons. There are no major differences between "seasons" Aside from a growing list of recurring topics and running gags, the format has remained consistent. consistent since about episode 4. Each episode usually contains an opening followup section and occasionally some sort of theme, though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander (a lot).]]


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* ForcedMeme: Brady's forte. It even works some of the time. The Mighty Black Stump and Freebooting are the most notable examples. That and his endless need to find "The Official X of Hello Internet", which the fandom enables like crazy.

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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, flags, life, plane crashes, and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project, but after that, the hosts decided to continue it. After the second season of 10 episodes, they stopped dividing into seasons. There are no major differences between "seasons" and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme, though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander (a lot).]]

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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] {{podcast}} created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, flags, life, plane crashes, and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project, but after that, the hosts decided to continue it. After the second season of 10 episodes, they stopped dividing into seasons. There are no major differences between "seasons" and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme, though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander (a lot).]]
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* DeletedScene: Not "scenes" per se but cut out bits are occasionally uploaded to the [[https://www.youtube.com/user/HelloInternetPodcast Hello Internet Youtube channel]]
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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, flags, life, plane crashes, and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4th,5th and an ongoing 6th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the first Christmas special was very all over the place) though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander (a lot).]]

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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, flags, life, plane crashes, and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project project, but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4th,5th and an ongoing 6th after that, the hosts decided to continue it. After the second season each consisting of 10 episodes. episodes, they stopped dividing into seasons. There are no major differences between seasons "seasons" and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the first Christmas special was very all over the place) theme, though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander (a lot).]]

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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, life, plane crashes and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4th,5th and an ongoing 6th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the first christmas special was very all over the place) though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander (a lot).]]

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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, flags, life, plane crashes crashes, and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4th,5th and an ongoing 6th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the first christmas Christmas special was very all over the place) though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander (a lot).]]



* DeceptivelySillyTitle: Not really deliberately but even episodes with really dark discussions have really weird titles like any other episode

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* DeceptivelySillyTitle: Not really deliberately but even episodes with really dark discussions have really weird titles like any other episodeepisode.



* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few episodes are a lot more focused on a theme and shorter. The format has remained consistent since around episode 4 as "2 hours of two dudes rambling about things and way too much followup"

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few episodes are a lot more focused on a theme and shorter. The format has remained consistent since around episode 4 as "2 hours of two dudes rambling about things and way too much followup"followup."



* SoundEffectBleep: Regular swears are censored with these (Grey has said that this is for comic effect more than anything else) but they have also been used for comic effect with the word [[RunningGag "naughty"]] especially in the (aptly named) [[http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast/43 "The Naughty Episode"]]


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* SoundEffectBleep: Regular swears are censored with these (Grey has said that this is for comic effect more than anything else) but they have also been used for comic effect with the word [[RunningGag "naughty"]] especially in the (aptly named) [[http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast/43 "The Naughty Episode"]].
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** This is a major theme of Episode 52, where Grey seems to have reversed his position on the matter.
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* DeletedScene: Not "scenes" per se but cut out bits are occasionally uploaded to the [[https://www.youtube.com/user/HelloInternetPodcast Hello Internet Youtube channel]]
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* SoundEffectBleep: Regular swears are censored with these (Grey has said that this is for comic effect more than anything else) but they have also been used for comic effect with the word [[RunningGag "naughty"]] especially in the (aptly named) [[http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast/43 "The Naughty Episode"]]
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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, life, plane crashes and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4th,5th and an ongoing 6th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the christmas special was very all over the place) though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander (a lot).]]

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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, life, plane crashes and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4th,5th and an ongoing 6th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the first christmas special was very all over the place) though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander (a lot).]]
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* DeceptivelySillyTitle: Not really deliberately but even episodes with really dark discussions have really weird titles like any other episode
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few episodes are a lot more focused on a theme and shorter. The format has remained consistent since around episode 4 as "2 hours of two dudes rambling about things and way too much followup"
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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, life, plane crashes and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and ongoing 5th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the christmas special was very all over the place) though the discussions tend to wander.

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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, life, plane crashes and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4th 4th,5th and an ongoing 5th 6th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the christmas special was very all over the place) though the [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny discussions tend to wander.
wander (a lot).]]
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* CallBack: SO MANY. At this point Hello Internet is like "Callbacks: The Podcast". Discusssions of past topics is common and hell the beginning of every episode is followup and feedback from the last one.
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* GoshDangItToHeck: Brady NEVER (ever) swears (except for "ass" if you consider that a swear).

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* GoshDangItToHeck: Brady NEVER (ever) swears (except for "ass" if you consider that a swear). This is not for any real moral reason but solely because he has a streak going of never having said any swears that he doesn't want to break.
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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, life, plane crashes and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4rth and ongoing 5th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the christmas special was very all over the place) though the discussions tend to wander.

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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, life, plane crashes and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4rth 4th and ongoing 5th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the christmas special was very all over the place) though the discussions tend to wander.

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* AIIsACrapshoot Grey does not like this trope and is an advocate against "computer racism"
* ChildHater "It's easy to whinge about kids, because they're like little monsters" - CGPGrey
* DeadpanSnarker Often the role of Grey and the reaction to many stupid things and lame jokes Brady says
* DeceptivelyHumanRobots a theory of Brady's about Grey that has since been made a [[RunningGag running gag]] and popular joke within the fandom.
* GoshDangItToHeck Brady NEVER (ever) swears (except for "ass" if you consider that a swear)
* ItMakesSenseInContext The animated series running on the podcast [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwez9XDNV_wS0WNDZteXjgw Youtube channel]] often takes sound clips out of context in hilarious ways and adds animation that gives it a much different one (can you say voodoo witchcraft summoning ritual?)
* OddCouple Grey and Brady show a lot of this. Grey is focused, driven by routine and likes his environment empty. Brady jumps from thing to thing and has shit lying around everywhere. Of course this is often a point of discussion.
* PrecisionFStrike Grey doesn't properly swear very often, but when he does...

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\n* AIIsACrapshoot AIIsACrapshoot: Grey does not like this trope and is an advocate against "computer racism"
racism".
* ChildHater ChildHater: "It's easy to whinge about kids, because they're like little monsters" monsters." - CGPGrey
* DeadpanSnarker DeadpanSnarker: Often the role of Grey and the reaction to many stupid things and lame jokes Brady says
says.
* DeceptivelyHumanRobots a DeceptivelyHumanRobots: A theory of Brady's about Grey that has since been made a [[RunningGag running gag]] and popular joke within the fandom.
* GoshDangItToHeck GoshDangItToHeck: Brady NEVER (ever) swears (except for "ass" if you consider that a swear)
swear).
* ItMakesSenseInContext ItMakesSenseInContext: The animated series running on the podcast [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwez9XDNV_wS0WNDZteXjgw Youtube channel]] often takes sound clips out of context in hilarious ways and adds animation that gives it a much different one (can you say voodoo witchcraft summoning ritual?)
* OddCouple OddCouple: Grey and Brady show a lot of this. Grey is focused, driven by routine and likes his environment empty. Brady jumps from thing to thing and has shit lying around everywhere. Of course this is often a point of discussion.
* PrecisionFStrike PrecisionFStrike: Grey doesn't properly swear very often, but when he does...



* RunningGag Brady has an endless variety of ways to say "Derek from Veritasium" wrong.
* SimulationGame Grey is a big fan of these and has had a [[PrisonArchitect Prison Architect]] kick going for a while
* SoUnfunnyItsFunny Brady's humor is almost always this
* TheStinger Often after a ''very'' long period of silence at the end of each episode.
* SuckinessIsPainful Often Grey's reaction to Brady's jokes. The "inspired by a divine being" discussion and subsequent lame joke by Brady comes to mind. It's a part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ7_vbNEDEk this]] Hello Internet Animated episode

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* RunningGag RunningGag: Brady has an endless variety of ways to say "Derek from Veritasium" wrong.
* SimulationGame SimulationGame: Grey is a big fan of these and has had a [[PrisonArchitect Prison Architect]] PrisonArchitect kick going for a while
while.
* SoUnfunnyItsFunny SoUnfunnyItsFunny: Brady's humor is almost always this
this.
* TheStinger TheStinger: Often after a ''very'' long period of silence at the end of each episode.
* SuckinessIsPainful SuckinessIsPainful: Often Grey's reaction to Brady's jokes. The "inspired by a divine being" discussion and subsequent lame joke by Brady comes to mind. It's a part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ7_vbNEDEk this]] Hello Internet Animated episodeepisode.

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* AIisacrapshoot Grey does not like this trope and is an advocate against "computer racism"

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* AIisacrapshoot AIIsACrapshoot Grey does not like this trope and is an advocate against "computer racism"


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* PrecisionFStrike Grey doesn't properly swear very often, but when he does...
-->''"You could fix this! You could fix this WITH A F[=[=][[SoundEffectBleep BLEEP]][=]=]ING SIGN!"''
* RunningGag Brady has an endless variety of ways to say "Derek from Veritasium" wrong.


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* TheStinger Often after a ''very'' long period of silence at the end of each episode.
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* SuckinessIsPainful Often Grey's reaction to Brady's jokes. The "inspired by a divine being" discussion and subsequent lame joke by Brady comes to mind

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* SuckinessIsPainful Often Grey's reaction to Brady's jokes. The "inspired by a divine being" discussion and subsequent lame joke by Brady comes to mindmind. It's a part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ7_vbNEDEk this]] Hello Internet Animated episode
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* SoUnfunnyItsFunny Brady's humor is almost always this

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* SoUnfunnyItsFunny Brady's humor is almost always thisthis
* SuckinessIsPainful Often Grey's reaction to Brady's jokes. The "inspired by a divine being" discussion and subsequent lame joke by Brady comes to mind
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* SimulationGame Grey is a big fan of these and has had a [[PrisonArchitect Prison Architect]] kick going for a while

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* SimulationGame Grey is a big fan of these and has had a [[PrisonArchitect Prison Architect]] kick going for a whilewhile
* SoUnfunnyItsFunny Brady's humor is almost always this
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* DeadpanSnarker Often the role of Grey and the reaction to many stupid things and lame jokes Brady says
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* GoshDangItToHeck Brady NEVER (ever) swears (except for "ass" if you consider that a swear)
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* ItMakesSenseInContext The animated series running on the podcast [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwez9XDNV_wS0WNDZteXjgw Youtube channel]] often takes sound clips out of context in hilarious ways and adds animation that gives it a much different one (can you say voodoo witchcraft summoning ritual?)

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* DeceptivelyHumanRobots a theory of Brady's about Grey that has since been made a [[RunningGag running gag]] and popular joke within the fandom.



* DeceptivelyHumanRobots a theory of Brady's about Grey that has since been made a [[RunningGag running gag]] and popular joke within the fandom.

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* DeceptivelyHumanRobots a theory of Brady's about SimulationGame Grey that is a big fan of these and has since been made had a [[RunningGag running gag]] and popular joke within the fandom.[[PrisonArchitect Prison Architect]] kick going for a while
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* ChildHater "It's easy to whinge about kids, because they're like little monsters" - CGPGrey
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* AIisacrapshoot Grey does not like this trope and is an advocate against "computer racism"
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* OddCouple Grey and Brady show a lot of this. Grey is focused, driven by routine and likes his environment empty. Brady jumps from thing to thing and has shit lying around everywhere. Of course this is often a point of discussion.

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* OddCouple Grey and Brady show a lot of this. Grey is focused, driven by routine and likes his environment empty. Brady jumps from thing to thing and has shit lying around everywhere. Of course this is often a point of discussion.discussion.
* DeceptivelyHumanRobots a theory of Brady's about Grey that has since been made a [[RunningGag running gag]] and popular joke within the fandom.
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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, life, plane crashes and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4rth and ongoing 5th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the christmas special was very all over the place) though the discussions tend to wander.

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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, life, plane crashes and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4rth and ongoing 5th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the christmas special was very all over the place) though the discussions tend to wander.wander.

!!''Hello Internet'' contains examples of the following tropes:

*OddCouple Grey and Brady show a lot of this. Grey is focused, driven by routine and likes his environment empty. Brady jumps from thing to thing and has shit lying around everywhere. Of course this is often a point of discussion.
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Hello Internet is a [[PodCast podcast]] created by educational youtuber [[CGPGrey CGPGrey]] and Brady Haran of Numberphile fame. It consists of the two friends discussing a range of topics including technology, productivity, life, plane crashes and just about whatever catches their interest. It originally began as a 10-episode project but has since had a 2nd, 3rd, 4rth and ongoing 5th season each consisting of 10 episodes. There are no major differences between seasons and the format has remained consistent. Each episode usually contains followup and occasionally some sort of theme (oddly the christmas special was very all over the place) though the discussions tend to wander.

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