Summary
What is Geedis? Endless Thread revisits an episode from 2019 in which the team joined the internet's two-year-long quest to answer this question. The strange, furry character and his buddies in The Land of Ta had been a mystery of 80’s fantastical proportions. Follow us down the rabbit hole for an exciting discovery...
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| 0:00.0 | Support for endless thread comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink software for technical computing and model-based design. |
| 0:09.1 | MathWorks, accelerating the pace of discovery in engineering and science. Learn more at mathworks.com. |
| 0:17.2 | Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR, Boston. |
| 0:24.1 | What is your favorite episode of Endless Thread? This is a question Ben and I have been asked many times before, and it's a tough one to answer in some ways, because they're all so different. We cover a range of topics and emotions and experiences |
| 0:39.9 | on this show, and it's part of why we love making it. The episodes are like our children, |
| 0:45.4 | and we couldn't possibly pick a favorite, right? Wrong. Gides, hands down, Getus is my |
| 0:53.5 | favorite episode. And if you haven't heard it and you're like, W-T-F-F- is Getus, you're about to find out because we're listening back today. Need I say more? I won't. Let's go. Once Once upon a time, in 2017, there was a comedian. |
| 1:19.6 | So one thing about me, I was a bit of a late bloomer. |
| 1:23.0 | I didn't lose my virginity until college was paid off. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm Nate Fernald. I live in Los Angeles by way of Boston, New York, and Chicago. |
| 1:35.9 | I currently write for The Late Late Show with James Corden. |
| 1:39.0 | And in 2017, Nate was about to embark on a quest. |
| 1:43.7 | Like all great quests, our protagonist had no idea his quest was about to begin. |
| 1:48.4 | He just knew that he liked to collect enamel pins of his favorite bands, which brought him, |
| 1:53.6 | naturally, to the legendary treasure trove of enamel pins, eBay. |
| 1:59.1 | And I found this one user who had a couple of these very old, probably like 70s or 80s |
| 2:04.8 | enamel pins. |
| 2:06.3 | And I clicked over to their profile to see what else they had. |
| 2:10.3 | And they were just thousands and thousands of vintage pins. |
| 2:15.1 | I bought one that said, like, |
| 2:20.1 | I'm so horny, even the crack of dawn looks good because it was just so strange. |
| 2:24.0 | Just all sorts of just random slogans on pins, |
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