Frog Fractions 2/Train Hot Dog

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Jim Crawford's podcast (THD) contains many clues. It is available on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy5JGFfB4yEmIajXWgD17Ag , in downloadable MP3 at http://trainhotdog.cool/ , and has it's own Wiki at http://trainhotdog.wikia.com .

Premise

The original premise was that Jim Crawford would look up a random topic on his phone, while catching the train home from recording Video Game Hotdog. He narrates the experience and reads out some of the web pages he comes across.

Later episodes have varied from this premise, with a monthly 'GDC Hot Dog', recorded by Jim Crawford, Rachel Sala and Justin Bortnick as they drove to and from the Game Developer's Conference in March 2015, and several one-off specials.

Jim also admitted on the 'How was work' podcast that recent episodes have not actually been recorded on a train, and that he has been editing in the train noises.

Rider Mail

Each episode generally opens with a segment called "Rider Mail" where listeners can call or write in, usually by phone at (469) BEARDS-4 or (469) CEASE-PI]. It is also possible to leave a rider mail by posting a youtube comment on a THD episode. Rider Mail may contain clues, but my also contain copious red herrings, because it is impossible to know whether or not an individual message was written as part of the ARG, or sent in by a random listener.

Episodes

No.	Title	Subtitle on Wiki	Solved Clues	Unsolved/Potential Clues
1	Dorf on Golf	[This episode transcript is a work in progress, but less of a work in progress than it was a while ago.]		The first letter of this episode, when combined with that of the next two, spells out DNA.
2	Nintendo Nepotism	[This episode transcript is not yet finished]
3	A History of Username Decoration	[This episode transcript is under construction]
4	XOOX	[This episode transcript is incomplete]		This title is often considered a divider - If there is a DNA related clue, hidden in the titles, it is assumed it stats from the next episode.
5	Groovy Adult Master	[This episode transcript has some issues.]
6	Drabtz	[This episode transcript isn't perfect.]
7	Keyboard Kato	[This episode transcript needs your help!]
8	Touch Inference	[This episode transcript needs work.]
9	Hot Dog Time Machine	[This episode transcript is flawed]		Pixel Strips in Youtube Thumbnail
10	Steam Hot Dog	[This episode transcript is.]	Borg King of Spades visible in spectrum.
11	Sedona Party Clowns	[This episode transcript will be a real boy some day.]		Pixel Strips in Youtube Thumbnail
12	Stay On Your Toast	[This episode transcript is missing important information]	Encoded Message leads to time-travel.club. Audio slowed down says "I have a message for/from Jim Crawford"	Pixel Strips in Youtube Thumbnail
13	Butt Folk	[This episode transcript has nothing to prove.]	Spectrogram contains gadsby/password123.	Pixel Strips in Youtube Thumbnail
14	Discharge	[This episode transcript is wanting.]	Contains a Ridermail from Tunisia discussing time travel. There are Quotation marks in spectrogram around this section.
15	Water Reckoning	[This episode transcript is disappointing.]		Pixel Strips in Youtube Thumbnail
16	A Trip Through the Graphics Pipeline	[This episode transcript is a little off]
17	Kitten Gains/Decay Truth	[This episode transcript is more like a synopsis]	Youtube image shows the title 'Decay Truth' upside down. The wiki page was initially labled 'Kitten Gains', but was edited to 'Decay Truth' by a user named Gustav Klimt.	Missing from YouTube playlist.
18	Nightcore Night Court	[This episode transcript will feel better next week.]		Around 23 minutes into the podcast you can hear the train conductor voice say, "Attention Passengers: Don't believe his lies. Find the truth about the decay. Thank you." Jim reads the stack trace error incorrectly
19	Dog Holding a Bucket
20	BART Noise Reduction Plugin	[beep]		Pixel Strips in Youtube Thumbnail
21	Shark Lips	[This episode transcript is shark lips.]	Contains slowed-down speech that is found to be a line from Myst mentioning 'Red Pages'. Jim reads a Ridermail that mentions 'Herbie Screams'
22	Ashen Stools	[This]		Referenced to on a plane February 3, 19- Possibilities are;The day the music died, 1984; Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger; 1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
23	Accessory Bolt Holes for Camel	[This episode transcript is perfect and should not be changed.]	Braille in spectrogram contains the GPS coordinates for Indiecade
24	Flirting in Traffic	[Only you can improve this episode transcript.]
25	YouTube Videos I Like	[Youtub.]
26	Extrinsic Blood Coagulation Cascade	[This episode transcript leaves much to be desired.]
27	Enhance Any Dining Experience	[This episode transcript enhances no dining experiences.]
28	The Fifth Most Important Cereal Crop Grown In The World	[This episode transcript is rated T for Troubled]
29	Bumper Sandwich Booger Lips	[This episode transcript is the best one.]	Contains a Slow Scan TV signal, decodes to operation gobbledop picture by using a program called MMSSTV. You just play the audio while the program is running and it automatically recognizes the format and decodes the image. This was most likely meant a Happy Thanksgiving message from the developers.
30	Mobius Face Meeting Itself	[]		Arcade noise in the background are this http://arcadecontrols.com/files/Audio/arcade86.mp3
31	Krampusloaf	[Kroafuslamp]		id3v2 tag info for thd31.mp3: COMM (Comments): ()[eng]: "We're in space, and space is the place," Began the Champ, pallid utterly; "The madness is running wild, and so shall you."
32	Blini	[This episode transcript is delicious.]		Jim just says Blini for 2 minutes. He also tweeted "Train Hot Dog, with its most recent episode, has achieved 32-bit fidelity".
33	Bagophily	[This episode transcript knows what it likes.]
34	The Brown Devil Inside	[This episode transcript is sick of your shit.]
35	No-Han Pics	[This episode transcript is shorter than usual.]		Jim talks about the "Biger Luke Theory". Suspiciously, Jim read from a page on the wiki that was created only days before the release of the podcast. There was only one reference found to any Bigger Luke theory before the ARG started.
36	Gunmetal and Tennis Balls
37	Top Ten Citrus Fruits		The MP3 version contains a thumbnail of the Museum of Jurassic Technology's logo.
38	Odonym			Missing on trainhotdog.cool. Only available on youtube.com
39	The Invisible World of Urine
40	GopherVr
41	The Noisy Organs
42	Ultem Glasses Airplane			This episode title has an abnormally large number of anagrams. One of note, due to it's release proximity to the propaganda posters is "line up all art messages". As we have been unable to figure out how we should line up the art messages, this is generally considered to be a coincidence.
43	Desolate Clovis			Jim talks about DST, which would seem to reference the camelCasing in the metadata of the Propaganda Posters
44	GDC March Dog		The first of a monthly episode recorded by Jim, Justin and Rachel, on their drive to and from the 2016 Game Developer's Conference.
45	Poop Dreads			The first in a run of episodes in which the G of Dog, the word 'episode' and number, and the first letter of the episode title, (P, in this case)are in a different font to the rest of the title card on Youtube). This lasts until episode 60.
46	Poison Oak Place			Several audio glitches surrounding Jim saying the word 'oak'. In some, it sounds like it is being screamed, possibly by someone else.
47	GDC April Dog			Appears as 'April GDC Dog' on the Youtube title card, meaning the A is in a different font, rather that the G.
48	Happy Tooth, North Carolina
49	Modern Day Desk Sentence
50	Cronenburger
51	GDC May Dog			Transcript by Quaxo http://trainhotdog.wikia.com/wiki/GDC_May_Dog
52	Unicode Disaster
53	Waffles Are For Pubic Lice_ Pancakes Are For Head Lice
54	Nictitating Membrane
55	GDC June Dog
56	Numerous Usurpers
57	A More Glabrous Body
58	Beef Despair
59	GDC July Dog
60	Let Me Show You Them
61	Likes: Standing Up Against Tyranny			From this episode, the unusual font changes that began in episode 45 have returned to normal.
62	Pineapple Hot Dog
63	The One Where Jim Doesn't Talk			Hosted by Justin, rather than Jim. He reads out a list of events that occurred in 1901, tying into his recent references to this era. Many of the facts are inaccurate, including Abraham Lincoln being exhumed and becoming the first Cyborg, and Alfred Nobel inventing antimatter. Annie Taylor going over Niagara Falls in a barrel is also mentioned, which he also brought up in a previous podcast.
64	GDC August Dog
65	The Other One Where Jim Doesn't Talk		This episode was recorded by user Terkim Fethrog, who sent it to Jim to upload. At the 6 minute mark there is a message in morse code that has been translated to; "Terkim Fethrog is with you. Stay Safe. Frog got your back."	There are several incidents of backwards speech. When played reversedthey say "Let's keep this time loop" and "I wonder if I can escape this time loop".
66	Mom Dream		Jim googles shit in front of (Frog Fractions 2 sound designer) Ryan Ike.