Fryders and Alligator Alcatraz tours: When trolls get inventive

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Amory share two stories about some out-of-the-box internet trolling. First, Amory tries to untangle a web of rumors surrounding an unusual dish from New Zealand. Then, Ben takes us aboard Terri's Tourz, an alleged Everglade tourist attraction claiming to offer the nation's first ever tours of the South Florida Detention Center known as Alligator Alcatraz.

Show notes:

3 Facts About New Zealand I Didn’t Know Until I Moved Here (Medium)
Was this post a joke? (r/newzealand)
Terri's Tourz

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken, a podcast from the Marotra Institute at BU Questrum School of Business. A recent episode asks, are boardrooms ready for the new geopolitical reality? Stick around until the end of this podcast to preview the episode.
0:18.1	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:28.5	Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
0:30.7	Sorry, I can't hear you.
0:32.8	Shut up, yes, you can.
0:34.9	What?
0:37.7	I'm not buying it, Johnson. You're trolling me.
0:40.7	This is some inventive trolling, isn't it? It's inventive.
0:44.2	I feel like working on this episode has made me question everything.
0:49.2	Wow. What's today's question everything? Hit me.
0:53.3	I guess I'll start with a simple question, a humble question.
0:59.3	Mm-hmm.
0:59.9	Pied and butter and jelly.
1:01.4	Wow, you're in the right headspace, I got to say.
1:04.0	Wrong answer, but right headspace, which is I was going to ask you about something you've eaten.
1:08.7	Okay.
1:09.7	Have you ever eaten a frider? Frider? Yes. Don't know what a frider is. I was going to ask you about something you've eaten. Okay. Have you ever eaten a frider? Frider? Yes. Don't know what a frider is. It's a fried spider. A what? No. A fried spider. Nope. No, I will not. My story this week. It's a tribute to you because I know. Find someone else. Find someone else to co-host this episode with you.
1:30.2	Immediately find someone else.
1:32.0	No.
1:35.4	Today on Endless Thread from WBUR, we're talking trolling.
1:40.8	Inventive trolling. We are trying to answer a thing. Are Friders a thing in New Zealand? Can you read some of this AI overview summary for me for, do they eat spiders in New Zealand?
2:03.4	Okay, the AI overview, which really is an interesting disruption to the way that we exist now.
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