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Jeremy Rellosa used to watch TV shows and movies from the '90s and revel in how the characters walked around untethered to a smartphone, with no expe…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Church of Speedrun!
Try reading this description as fast as you can: Ben and Amory zoom through two internet stories connected to speed running, including a look at a my…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Endless Egg
Some Internet trends are temporary, but eggs are forever. Today, host Ben Brock Johnson serves up a story about a recipe that, according to the peopl…
5 months ago
Manifesting an online rom-com existence
Of all the internet communities in all the world, you walked into ours.
Hosts Ben and Amory pay homage to the magic of chance encounters with produce…
5 months, 1 week ago
Ben Palmer's Brain
Comedian Ben Palmer set up a fake tip line for reporting immigrants in the United States suspected of not having legal status. He recorded the conver…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Endless Thread presents "The Midnight Rebellion"
Introducing The Midnight Rebellion, a new climate fiction podcast from WBUR — a rollicking adventure to a flooded, robot-infested world where you cho…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Extraordinary vs. Extra Ordinary
Ben and Amory take a hike with producer Grace, following the digital trail of "Ridiculoubs" — a mysterious climber who traverses the world's peaks i…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Close Encounters of the Hexagonal Kind
Endless Thread goes to space! First, host Ben Brock Johnson goes deep on radio signals of unknown origin, with an assist from real-life radio astrono…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
A Beige New World
What's your favorite color? If you ask the algorithm, the answer is probably beige. The internet loves neutrals. Aesthetic coffee shop videos featur…
6 months ago
How Afroman turned lemons into lemon pound cake
When you think of rapper Afroman, chances are his early 2000s hit song "Because I Got High" is already playing in your mind. More than two decades la…
6 months, 1 week ago