Reddit Detectives, Algorithm Hype & Apocalypse Costco

 Andy opens the hour breaking down the wild power of the internet, explaining how online communities, Reddit users, and everyday citizens sharing Ring and dashcam footage helped identify the suspect in the Brown University and MIT professor killings. Andy and Rahner talk about how “see something, say something” has evolved in the digital age — and why crowdsourced sleuthing now plays a real role in modern investigations.The hour then turns lighter as Andy dissects a familiar LA phenomenon: restaurants going viral by claiming “no one is talking about this” or “everyone is talking about this,” and why that phrasing works so well with social media algorithms. Things get even more relatable as last-minute Christmas shopping chaos takes over, with Rahner describing Costco as “apocalypse busy,” before Andy shares the unbelievable story of a missing Kentucky woman found alive with a new identity more than four decades later — a case straight out of peak America’s Most Wanted era. Andy wraps the hour by opening the phone lines ahead of an upcoming game with his friend and show “music man,” Jack Primavera.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.