Encore: The Great Glitter Mystery

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.1 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Much like rewatching a favorite TV show in its entirety, it can be comforting to listen back to something from "the beforetimes." So this week, we're doing just that. We're revisiting an episode from 2019 that solved one of the internet’s most compelling mysteries. Inspired by a 2018 New York Times feature about glitter, people obsessed over identifying the mysterious industry buying huge amounts of glitter – information which glitter-makers have refused to divulge. No one had been able to find any answers … until the ET team took the case and dropped a glitter bomb on the whole mystery.

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0:00.0	WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let
0:11.5	mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season three.
0:15.2	Out now.
0:16.2	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:20.0	Endless Thread Heads.
0:21.0	Here's a question for you.
0:23.5	During the pandemic, have you rewatched a favorite show of yours?
0:27.4	And was it great?
0:30.7	Was it a trip down memory lane to a simpler time that comforted and transported you far from
0:33.9	the troubles of the last 16ish months?
0:37.3	Well today, we are hoping to do the same.
0:40.3	We're listening back to a favorite mystery episode from the Endless Thread Archives that
0:44.7	hopefully will add a little sparkle to your life.
0:48.3	Okay, here's the show.
1:15.3	You also noticed that comedian Dimitri Martin has something on the same topic?
1:28.2	The herpes of craft supplies is the topic of an insanely popular Reddit post from almost
1:37.0	a year ago about a mystery that hasn't been solved.
1:41.8	I mean, it might get solved today.
1:44.6	Don't get ahead of yourself, glitter boy.
1:46.8	I will accept this new moniker as a compliment for today's episode, all only answered a glitter
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