Something Wicked

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We dive into a famous Reddit mystery involving creepy post-it notes, an iffy landlord, and a stranger who saves the day.

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0:00.0	We are in our studio and we don't know who's calling who.
0:03.3	Wow.
0:04.4	Okay.
0:05.4	Well, are we rolling?
0:06.6	Turns out Ken Roach is calling us.
0:08.7	Ken Roach is from Seattle.
0:10.2	He's an engineer and Ken lives on a houseboat.
0:13.1	Or really, it's called a live-a-board.
0:15.6	This is an important fact to know in our story today.
0:19.0	It is also the reason that Ken gets to tell stories about his life
0:22.3	that are related to the movie that hunts pretty much anyone
0:25.4	who grew up near Seattle.
0:27.4	Sleepless in Seattle.
0:29.3	There was a Korean tourist guide that purported to show people
0:34.1	coming from Korea where the sleep is since Seattle Houseboat was.
0:37.6	But they gave my address instead.
0:40.2	So I horribly disappointed dozens of Korean tourists.
0:45.6	Okay.
0:46.1	He may have disappointed some tourists,
0:48.1	but on Reddit, Ken Roach saved someone's life.
0:51.8	We think.
0:53.1	Ken Roach, username, Kackerlack, is part of a now famous mystery on Reddit.
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