About the show
Felt notices patterns. Cotton notices Felt. Each week they take whatever everyone suddenly believes and follow it back to where it started, which is rarely where everyone thinks.
His past calls live on a scorecard. She keeps it. Loose Threads pulls apart what people online are already saying about it, and Felt Tips gets the last word.
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Felt
Felt has a theory about most things and the good grace to be wrong about some of them. Australian, professionally suspicious, and the only host with a public record of his own bad calls. He does not keep that record himself. Conflict of interest.
Cotton
Cotton does the reading. American, alarmingly cheerful about primary sources, and keeper of Felt's scorecard, a job she calls light admin and plainly enjoys more than that. Her mother sends her screenshots. About one in five survives contact with a search bar.
Segments
Cold Open
Life among puppets. Starts mid-argument, as if you walked in late. Nobody stops to explain who anyone is.
Loose Threads
What the internet said about it, taken seriously. Sometimes more seriously than it was meant.
Felt Tips
Gets the last word. One fact with no bearing on anything you just heard. Felt has been saving it.
The Wire
The week's offcuts. Too small for a deep dive, too good to leave lying around.