Dune Boy

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Back in 2013, the sand dunes of Michigan City, Indiana swallowed a six-year-old boy. It took rescuers nearly 4 hours to dig him out of 12 feet of sand. It was a phenomenon that scientists hadn't studied in-depth. But Facebook recreational naturalists were on the case.

In this episode of Endless Thread, producer Grace Tatter and host Ben Brock Johnson go down an internet rabbit hole and bring bring us an explanation of what happened, the coexistence of miracles and science and even the including the six-year-old boy who's now an adult.

"We're pro-portal and we're pro- tree hole," Ben says. "Basically anywhere there's space, we want to explore it."

Transcript

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0:00.0	W-B-U-R podcasts, Boston.
0:10.0	Okay, Ben.
0:11.0	Okay, Grace.
0:12.0	Let's play some word association.
0:15.0	Mmm, my favorite. Let's go.
0:17.0	I'm going to describe a beach for you.
0:19.0	Okay, so close your eyes maybe.
0:21.0	Okay.
0:22.0	So can you picture like turquoise water
0:25.0	that turns into a deeper blue
0:27.0	where it meets the horizon.
0:28.0	Say it's a cloudless, sunny day.
0:31.0	Hey, Grace. Can you, um,
0:33.0	can you pass me the Pinot Colato?
0:35.0	Would you?
0:37.0	Gentle waves lapping onto a wide ribbon
0:41.0	of pristine sand.
0:43.0	And then dunes dotted with green
0:46.0	beach grass rolling down the coast
0:49.0	for miles and miles.
0:51.0	What are some words that come to mind?
0:53.0	You've already given me a few.
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