Summary
When Endless Thread producer Nora Saks learned that a "toxic, self-cloning worm that poops out of its mouth" was invading Maine, she started sounding the alarm about the impending eco-doom.
Until, that is, state experts clued her into the "real threat" : A different creepy crawly wriggling towards The Pine Tree State's gardens and precious forests, and fast. In this rebroadcast from January 2023, Endless Thread tunnels down a wormhole, encountering a long history of xenophobic rhetoric about so-called invasive species, and some hard truths about the field of invasion biology itself.
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| 0:17.0 | 149 at McDonald's gets you a mini Oreo McFlurry. |
| 0:21.2 | 149 on a big night out gets you... |
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| 0:36.4 | Hey, endless friends. |
| 0:40.1 | It's Benny Ben. I hope you're doing very well. If you are like me, you are spending lots of time in the garden right now. And most of the time, |
| 0:49.2 | that's a lovely, lovely time unless there's a mysterious, terrible monster in your garden. |
| 0:59.5 | And this episode is about that. |
| 1:02.3 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:04.7 | Worm Wars. |
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| 1:13.1 | Norrisax, this story starts like all good and terrible, |
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