Encore: Dear Anon

Endless Thread

WBUR

Technology, Reddit

4.1 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What do Bill Gates, finding your soul mate, and charting a new life path have in common? Reddit Gifts! The world's largest anonymous gift exchange has led to some unexpected outcomes.

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0:00.0	Produced by the island at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	Merry happy everything and list thread listeners.
0:13.0	Yeah, we are off this week enjoying some much needed family time.
0:17.0	Yeah, right away from Ben Brock Johnson.
0:19.0	Away from Amory Severson.
0:22.0	I kid.
0:23.0	I don't.
0:26.0	Believe it or not, we do have family other than you wonderful people.
0:30.0	That includes you, Amory.
0:32.0	We'll be back with new episodes in 2020.
0:34.0	But we are not abandoning you completely.
0:36.0	We would never.
0:37.0	We've decided to spin an old hit from last holiday season.
0:41.0	It's called Dear Anon.
0:43.0	And it tells three truly incredible stories from the world's largest secret Santa gift exchange.
0:49.0	Enjoy.
0:55.0	A few weeks back, Amory and I were deporting a plane in Washington, D.C. at Ronald Reagan International Airport to meet a Reddit user who runs a very specialized business.
1:05.0	We thought we knew what we were getting into.
1:08.0	And then something happened.
1:10.0	Okay, we literally just walked out that part of the airport where it says if you go past this point, it's the point of no return you have to exit.
1:18.0	Yes.
1:19.0	And some guy who I've never seen before.
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