PARKS! Pt. 3: Close Encounters with Mato Tipila

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As of late, Endless Thread co-host Ben Brock Johnson has been obsessed with a rock in Wyoming, a lot like the protagonist of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But you won't find Ben in the kitchen, making a replica of the rock out of mud and chicken wire. Instead you'll find him and co-host Amory Sivertson in this episode, traversing Reddit and TikTok and YouTube and Wyoming to find out why hundreds of thousands of people have been drawn to a monolith that has so many names and meanings.

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0:36.8	Does this mean anything to you, my fine musically inclined friend, Ray Me Do Do So, are you
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0:46.2	Ray Me Do Do So, that was pretty good.
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0:55.1	I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.
1:04.7	Does that mean anything to you?
1:07.2	No, I've never heard it.
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1:24.4	It's got to be like something from the 80s, like in 80s movie.
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