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506 - Close Encounters of the Hexagonal Kind

Untold histories, unsolved mysteries, and other jaw-dropping stories online and IRL. Hosted by Ben Brock Johnson & Amory Sivertson.

506 - Close Encounters of the Hexagonal Kind

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Untold histories, unsolved mysteries, and other jaw-dropping stories online and IRL. Hosted by Ben Brock Johnson & Amory Sivertson.

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Episodes

Close Encounters of the Hexagonal Kind

A Beige New World

How Afroman turned lemons into lemon pound cake

Rewind: Digging Deep with TikTok's "tunnel girl"

Beautiful, Terrible Internet

Sexy spines or literary red flags?

Digging Up Lily's Garden

What it's like to be undressed by Grok without your consent

Obscure music is good and nice!

Fresh, stale, or politics? The Melania doc's Rotten Tomatoes score, explained

Rewind: Love In Transition

You're Wrong About the Satanic Panic

Hot (and not) fruit takes

The Alpha Male Myth

The Anvillain

Algospeak

Rewind: Today You, Tomorrow Me: Why A Decade-Old Reddit Comment Still Resonates Today

Encore: Never Gonna Give You Up

Lost Without You

Ukraine's expanding drone web

Ruby Tandoh, the World's Best Lasagna,and how the internet is collectively changing what we all want to eat

Episodes we love: Sandwiches of History

Chiveman and a mountain of margarine

Fryders and Alligator Alcatraz tours: When trolls get inventive

Episodes we love: Lofi Girl

So Cute!

Episodes we love: Welcome to the Jam

Endless Dread: Haunted Hayride

Episodes we love: Artist Known

Hidden Levels Ep. 6: Segagaga

Hidden Levels Ep. 5: Press B to Touch Grass

Hidden Levels: Surgical Precision (Side Quest)

Hidden Levels Ep. 4: Machinima

Hidden Levels: Choose Your Player (Side Quest)

Hidden Levels Ep. 3: This Game Wants YOU

Hidden Levels Ep. 2: Stick It to 'Em

Hidden Levels Ep. 1: Mr. Boomshakalaka

Announcing 'Hidden Levels': how the videogame world has changed the world beyond videogames

A fork (still) in the road

Bridezillas and Quiz Traps

Losing Our Marbles

Message In A Laptop

Encore: The Internet's Most Hated Bird

Introducing "Jaws Island"

AI and Relationships, Part 2: AI Therapists and Bot Boyfriends

AI and Relationships, Part 1: Into the Woods

Bootcamp for Men: from betas to alphas

Kisscams, ratcams, Barbra Streisand

Thinking Outside the Dox: What 'consensual doxing' can teach us about internet privacy

There's a new emoji for sadness :(

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