The Church of Speedrun!
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.1 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Try reading this description as fast as you can: Ben and Amory zoom through two internet stories connected to speed running, including a look at a mysterious object on Reddit and an online trend directed at the Church of Scientology.
Show notes:
- Found in my son’s room (Reddit)
- Storming Scientology Buildings: TikTok Trend or Hate Crime? (The New York Times)
- What is a ‘Scientology speedrun’ and why is social media suddenly obsessed with it? (The Guardian)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back. |
| 0:04.4 | Mom! |
| 0:05.0 | Up the stairs for something. |
| 0:07.8 | Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for. |
| 0:12.0 | Mom, what's for dinner? |
| 0:13.6 | Chop, sizzle, done. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier. |
| 0:23.4 | So its phones down, forks up. |
| 0:25.5 | Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time. |
| 0:29.8 | Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken? |
| 0:33.4 | A podcast from the Marotra Institute at BU Questrum School of Business. |
| 0:37.9 | A recent episode explores the challenges and opportunities |
| 0:40.9 | in decarbonizing one of the world's most carbon-intensive industries, |
| 0:45.3 | ocean freight shipping. |
| 0:46.6 | Stick around until the end of this podcast to preview the episode. |
| 0:51.3 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 1:02.0 | Amory, have you ever done a speed run? |
| 1:04.6 | Sounds like some gaming shenanigans. |
| 1:06.9 | It's definitely some gaming shenanigans. You're going through a level as fast as humanly possible, or sometimes the whole game as fast as humanly possible, aka it is a speed run. |
| 1:17.9 | You're not like going through all the parts of the game. |
| 1:21.0 | You are just getting from point A to point B in the fastest, fastest way possible. |
| 1:26.4 | Today we're speed running prison escape simulator. |
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