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4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We go on a mission to find out why there are so many Mattress Firm stores. How do they end up next door and across the street from each other? Are the mattresses full of money? Reddit users started a conspiracy theory, so we teamed up with WBUR and Reddit’s Endless Thread podcast to put these questions to bed.

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0:00.0

Turns out people get pretty excited about mattress conspiracies, so this episode contains a little foul language.

0:07.0

Amory!

0:09.0

Dan!

0:10.0

You host a show about Reddit called Endless Thread.

0:13.0

And you host a show about brands and culture called Household Name.

0:17.0

And we found a story that touches all those things.

0:20.0

Our story starts, of course, with a Reddit thread.

0:23.0

The question being discussed, what conspiracy theory do you 100% buy into and why?

0:30.0

There are a bunch of different unfounded conspiracies posted to this thread.

0:34.0

Like Bill and Hillary Clinton have an open marriage.

0:36.0

Something about Walmart sharing security cameras with the government.

0:40.0

Adam Sandler makes movies as an excuse to go on vacations with his friends.

0:44.0

That one's probably true.

0:45.0

But where the thread really gets going, where it really gets heated, is when it gets to this comment.

0:51.0

Mattress firm is some sort of giant money laundering scheme.

0:55.0

This is from a redditor who goes by the username Crazy Potatoes.

0:58.0

It's red here by one of our colleagues.

1:01.0

They're fucking everywhere and always empty.

1:03.0

And remember seeing four mattress firms all on each corner of an intersection once?

1:08.0

There is no way there is such a demand for mattresses.

1:11.0

This thread has thousands of replies and people get into it.

1:15.0

Doing back of the envelope math about mattress pricing.

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