And the fact that he was in on the joke from the beginning makes some of the caricatures that the internet has tried to paint of him over the ensuing decades ring especially untrue. In particular, the portrayal of him as bitter in the unaired 1984 Hour 25 radio show. But I’ll get to that in a minute. First, let’s try to fill in what happened between EoA’s publication and when it became a cultural phenomenon. 24/