Episodes we love: Welcome to the Jam
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.1 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Everybody get up, it's time to slam now... again! Yes, we're revisiting our episode about the website for the 1996 movie "Space Jam," which is still up and functioning nearly 30 years later.
Amory and Ben talk to the hilarious team behind this digital artifact and hear the unlikely story of its continued existence.
Show notes:
- The Space Jam website
- 'Space Jam' Forever: The Website That Wouldn't Die (Rolling Stone)
- The TIL post on Reddit
- Hollywood in Pixels
- SpaceJamCheck on X
- Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in 14 Days
- Welcome to the Space Jam, Again (The New York Times)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sean has had some good ideas over the years, but using Canva was a really good one. |
| 0:08.0 | Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale. |
| 0:13.0 | They looked good, really, really good. |
| 0:17.0 | Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the loft, including the car. Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks, Canva. Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken? A podcast from BU's Mayrotra Institute that explores questions like, |
| 0:38.1 | Why Are Executives Paid So Much? Do they deserve it? |
| 0:42.2 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:46.2 | Amrey Sievertson. |
| 0:48.7 | Ben Brock Johnson. |
| 0:51.2 | Are you ready for the jam? |
| 0:55.2 | I was born ready for the jam? I was born ready for the jam then. |
| 0:59.5 | You really were. |
| 1:02.3 | Listeners, you may have heard this one before, or you may not because you might be new to the feed coming in from hidden levels. |
| 1:11.0 | And we just wanted to share one of our favorites, a greatest hit, a slam dunk, if you will, of an endless thread episode. |
| 1:20.7 | And I'm here to give Amory the Ale You as she flies through the air because this episode was |
| 1:28.1 | all hers and she crushed it. |
| 1:31.1 | Thanks, Ben. |
| 1:32.2 | What happens at the beginning of a basketball game? |
| 1:34.3 | Is there like a starting buzzer? |
| 1:35.8 | Tip off? |
| 1:36.8 | Tip off? |
| 1:37.6 | Yeah. |
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