Endless Thread

Hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson dig into the internet's vast and curious ecosystem of online communities to find untold histories, unsolved mysteries, and other jaw-dropping stories online and IRL.

https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 28m. Bisher sind 322 Folge(n) erschienen. Jede Woche gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 9 hours 34 minutes

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In the second part of our investigation into a ubiquitous online piano academy, we dig into why some people think it's a front to recruit students to the Church of Scientology and track down the man behind the piano himself.


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The Music Man, Part 1


He says he'll turn you into a virtuoso. Critics say he'll make you a Scientologist.


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Encore: Getting home


Endless Thread's Amory Sivertson spent three years unraveling a cold-case murder. Her investigation starts here.


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Endless Thread: The Musical


As Shakespeare once said...all the internet is a stage, and all keyboard warriors merely players. In this episode of Endless Thread, the members of the Nashville-based musical improv group Cherry Bomb stage an homage to their very active neighborhood Facebook group, and put some posts inspired by the Endless Thread subreddit to song.


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 February 23, 2024  24m
 
 

Dinner and a (Slide) Show


Instead of a typical first-date conversation, he presented 29 slides about his favorite movie. The internet loved it. But did his date?


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 February 16, 2024  27m
 
 

Recess Therapy's Julian Shapiro-Barnum is skeptical of kids becoming social media stars


The point of Julian Shapiro-Barnum's Recess Therapy, a video series where he interviews kids about life's bigger questions, was never to make the kids social media superstars. But with one video in the summer of 2022, that's exactly what happened.


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 February 9, 2024  23m
 
 

Half a million eyes are on TikTok's "tunnel girl"


In 2022, a TikTok creator who identifies herself as "Kala" began digging. What followed was a viral series of TikToks chronicling the efforts of Kala, who the internet dubbed as "tunnel girl". Her almost half-million followers weighed in with support, suggestions and at times, concern. That is until a stop-work order halted the project in its tracks late last year.


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 February 2, 2024  27m
 
 

The schism at the end of the tunnel


The discovery of a secret tunnel attached to a Brooklyn synagogue earlier this month quickly went viral, fueling antisemitic conspiracy theories that long predate the internet. Endless Thread host Ben Brock Johnson and producer Grace Tatter dig into why a group of yeshiva students in Brooklyn actually got into extracurricular excavation. 


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 January 26, 2024  22m
 
 

Encore: The Faker


New Hampshire officials are investigating political robocalls as deepfakes. But as manipulated media gets easier to make, could anyone become a target?


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 January 24, 2024  39m