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Endless Thread

Encore: Unsent Letters

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The unsent letter. We all have one, half-composed in our heads or fully-formed as an email draft. Whatever form these letters take, they go unsent because they might be better left unsent, or because we wouldn’t know how to send them. In this favorite episode from the archives, we discuss a place online where these letters find an audience.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, endless thread homies. It's Ben Brock Johnson coming at you in between the Christmas

0:05.2

and New Year's holiday and bringing you an episode from our back catalog. But one that

0:10.8

you may not have heard, we put it out in September of 2020 and it is about all of those many,

0:16.6

many, many, many, many drafts sitting in your drafts box that may never be sent for good

0:23.4

reason. And here it is. It's called the Unsent Letters and we're wishing you a happy New Year

0:31.8

and we'll talk to you in 2023. Hey guys, this episode deals with some difficult subject

0:38.9

matter, including death and abuse. Just wanted to give you a heads up.

0:43.3

WBR Podcasts Boston.

0:57.0

Hey Macho man, just wanted to say I'm so sorry for killing you in the shower. I noticed

1:01.8

you crawling up the wall and damn dude, you're a big guy. At first I wasn't super worried

1:06.6

about it, but then you started heading for my bar of soap and that just wasn't cool man.

1:11.2

I deeply apologize for cupping the water and splashing it on you not once for three times.

1:16.7

You were relentless for that bar of soap. As soon as you felt the tub and started washing

1:20.9

away towards the drain, I felt pretty sad. The rest of my shower I spent wondering what

1:25.4

you would have become or if you were coming back to your bug kids back home. But the truth

1:29.8

is, you probably would have made it to that bar of soap and died from soap poisoning or

1:33.8

something else. Rest in peace, Macho man.

1:38.8

The Unsent Letter. We all have one. Half composed in our heads or fully formed as an email

1:45.3

draft. Whatever form it takes, the letter goes unsent because it's better left to unsent

1:52.1

or because we wouldn't know how to send it even if we wanted to. But there is a place

1:57.5

where these letters find an audience.

2:03.8

I had an unsent letter and I just wanted to put it out there and just searching through

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