About this episode
Jeremiah Johnson (Infinite Scroll) and host Thomas Emerick time travel to an inflection point for both college football and terminally online posting. January 2022. They take an IndyGo bus from their La Quinta on the edge of downtown Indianapolis to guide the listener through the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship between the Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama Crimson Tide. Not much luck for millennial UGA fans like Jeremiah to this date, but we’ll see how it goes for these SEC teams battling in Big 10 country for the 2021-2022 season finale.
Jeremiah Johnson is creator of the Infinite Scroll Substack newsletter on the politics and dynamics of the social internet, along with the Center for New Liberalism and corresponding show The New Liberal Podcast. Folks may have come across his annual worst tweets bracket that comes out every December.
Thomas Emerick is the showrunner and host of Remember That Game.
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These topics are weaved into the background and moments from the game, culminating with the Keelee Ringo pick six. Jeremiah’s reaction at home may have mirrored Kirby Smart’s on the sideline for that long run with the sudden escort by an elite Georgia defense.
Shaping of Jeremiah’s University of Georgia fandom. Why UGA over Gators, Bama, Clemson, even Georgia Tech better in the ‘90s
Bulldogs hired Kirby Smart but were still struggling to get over the hump against old boss Nick Saban
Beating Michigan in semis, were you a snob for SEC football at this point? Big 10 skeptic? Changing balance of power in recent years.
The trending topics on Jan. 10, 2022
In the annual worst tweets bracket, Jeremiah illuminates the four most prevalent categories of brain rot in the year that was, and people vote on those brackets as they funnel to a Final Four.
Was 2021-2022 the peak of social media brain poisoning, or how close was it to the peak.
And is terminally online posting on the up
