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Endless Thread

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Untold histories, unsolved mysteries, and other jaw-dropping stories online and IRL. Hosted by Ben Brock Johnson & Amory Sivertson.

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  • 27 episodes
  • weekly
  • Avg 28 min
  • English

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  • May 5 · 21 min

    Endless Thread presents "The Midnight Rebellion"

    Lost in a watery wasteland, Joule must find her way home. She needs YOUR help. The Midnight Rebellion, a new podcast from WBUR, Boston’s NPR. Follow to find out when episodes drop.

  • May 1 · 28 min

    Extraordinary vs. Extra Ordinary

    Hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson take a hike with producer Grace Tatter, following the digital trail of  "Ridiculoubs" — a mysterious climber who traverses the world's peaks in striking footwear. Then, Amory celebrates the beauty of daily life with the Dull Women's Club, a Facebook group with nearly 1.6 million members.

  • April 24 · 32 min

    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 astronomer and Reddit MVP Yvette Cendes, aka, Andromeda321. Then, producer Kalyani Saxena takes Ben down the metaphorical black hole of Saturn's hexagonal storm, a vortex twice the width of the Earth that's inspired internet conspiracy theories.

  • April 17 · 27 min

    A Beige New World

    The world is bright and colorful, but online beige reigns supreme. Neutrals have taken over the internet — from minimalist coffee shops, to influencer home aesthetics, to beige kids' clothing. Hosts Ben and Amory ask Hayley DeRoche, a librarian and writer known as SadBeige, where all the color went.

  • April 10 · 20 min

    How Afroman turned lemons into lemon pound cake

    Afroman made his name in the early 2000s with the hit song "Because I Got High." More than two decades later, he's having another break out moment. Host Ben Brock Johnson and Producer Grace Tatter dig into how Afroman turned a police raid and defamation trial into internet virality.

  • April 3 · 28 min

    Rewind: Digging Deep with TikTok's "tunnel girl"

    A TikTok creator known as "tunnel girl" online excavated and constructed a tunnel system under her suburban home in 2024. Two years later, we have some updates on the story.

  • March 27 · 29 min

    Beautiful, Terrible Internet

    Hosts Ben and Amory explore how viral clips of DOGE staffers' video depositions found a new life online after a judge temporarily ordered them removed. They also dabble in a Reddit thought exercise with a potentially dubious origin.

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