But he knows a lot about the business. AMA!”Ben: As it turns out, the Coburn family business has a pretty strange and winding story — a story that’s intertwined with the history of glitter and the history of Glitter was invented by a New Jersey cattle rancher in 1934. It was hard to get Alex on the line from ... ah …Amory: And we asked him about his mysterious fleet of glitter making machines.Amory: We asked Alex why he wouldn’t tell us what the devil machine cuts.

And he builds a glitter company in Germany with a fleet of new machines.Ben: Of the handful of companies making glitter, Joe describes his own family's business as the black sheep of the group. And even though the industry’s more competitive now, you can still make good money.

Sure.

They declined to comment. They use something called “effect pigments.”Ben: Effect pigments, glitter, turns out it’s mostly semantics. ""As a professional artist I use a lot of supplies and I've been shopping at Jerry's since 1996! He said it was a single customer product and he just couldn’t say. Not good for anybody.

And well done, Caity, because there's this one intriguing moment in her piece that launched this whole discussion on Reddit with thousands and thousands of comments.Amory: Caity Weaver is describing getting a tour of a glitter making company in New Jersey called Glitterex, which people at the company were really hesitant to give in the first place.

There’s just not enough complicated societal sexual feelings in the world to make it rain for glitter!Ben: Dumping glitter into resort beach sand to make your Instagram posts sparkle?

But we’re talking about an industry where the final product isn’t obviously made of glitter.

…an effect! Strike one.Amory: In this front office by the way is a big glass case proudly displaying all of the products that Glitterex’s glitter is in. Because, even though most people might not think a lot about glitter, it’s a widely used product.

The 1oz and 8oz squeeze bottles come with a convenient flip-top cap for easy dispensing. But going to the source of the mystery seemed like the fastest, most direct solution.Ben: Glitterex is in this little office park in the middle of a high density but sleepy feeling suburb. Too expensive. Nope.Amory: Currency?

After 3 days Porcelain is dishwasher safe or……paints.

Joe’s dad didn’t know where these machines came from. Another mystery. But he wouldn’t let them get close enough to understand how the machine worked. This is odd. So, maybe the company’s biggest customer isn’t really such a big mystery after all. The song reached Number 2 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1973, his thir... "Do You Wanna Touch Me?
Or a food product. Nah. This guy was really secretive, which might be part of the reason that there are a really limited number of companies making glitter, even today.Amory: Joe’s family is rooted in the Northeast with connections to The Garden State or, shall we say, the glitter state.Amory: His grandfather and his father were both in the business of manufacturing various reflective materials — but not glitter. I was hoping it was going to be in our food, maybe.Ben: I don't know. And even with all of our prep from David Boeri, Amory and I kind of make a couple of rookie mistakes right off the bat.Amory: We go there on a Monday. Affordable outstanding discounts & better paints!

Effect pigments are basically highly engineered glitter in powder or flake form that add depth and complexity to whatever paint they’re in.

Or his son, Jeet.Ben: The woman on our list has left for the day. It's just funny? As a cloaking agent or paint for vehicles.Amory: The “me” in this case is Richard Aboulafia.
All of which were theories floated in the thread.Ben: And that seems to be as far as anyone has gotten on this story. And you’re listening to Endless Thread.Ben: The show featuring stories found in the vast ecosystem of online communities called Reddit.Amory: We’re coming to you from WBUR, Boston’s NPR station.Ben: Okay, I wanna shoutout former Endless Thread Intern Noah Baustin who found this Reddit post and the resulting comment thread.Amory: Zach had found this article that a lot of people read in Ben: The answer to the last question is apparently, everywhere, which we will talk more about. No one has been able to find any answers … until now!We want to hear from you!

John is pretty excited about a new pigment made from glass.Amory: Foiled again. And, in fact, he described glitter as an industry that was insular in part because it was in trouble. So Amory, what have we learned?Amory: We’ve learned that, yet again, sometimes the journey is much more intriguing than the destination.

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