The Music Man, Part 2
In the second part of Endless Thread's 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 d...
22 Mar 202440min
The Music Man, Part 1
You may have seen this ad: A frenetic, wild-haired concert pianist says he can make any newbie a virtuoso in months. Just take his online course for $3,000. Too good to be true? Redditors thought so....
15 Mar 202428min
Endless Thread introduces "Beyond All Repair", Amory Sivertson's new podcast
Last week, you heard Endless Thread co-hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson re-introduce you to how Amory's new podcast, Beyond All Repair, began. This week, they introduce you to the first cha...
8 Mar 202425min
Encore: Getting home
Endless Thread co-host Amory Sivertson spent three years unraveling a cold-case murder. Her reporting eventually became the forthcoming podcast series Beyond All Repair. Every story has its beginning...
1 Mar 202437min
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...
23 Feb 202424min
Dinner and a (Slide) Show
Instead of a typical first date — dinner and light conversation, maybe — he presented 29 slides about one of his favorite movies. The internet loved it. But did his date? Credits: This episode was pr...
16 Feb 202427min
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 that's exactly what ...
9 Feb 202423min
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 an increasingly viral series of TikToks chronicling the efforts of Kala, who some on the internet dubbed "tu...
2 Feb 202427min
