Snacktime: Spiders Are Bros

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WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.1 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Spiders... even the word is unsettling for some of us. But the r/spiderbro community on Reddit is a place where you just might gain a new appreciation for arachnids -- from the petite and unassuming, to the big and hairy.

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0:00.0	Produced by the iLab at WBWR Boston.
0:07.0	Amory.
0:09.0	Ben.
0:12.0	I'm already laughing because I know something the listener doesn't know.
0:20.0	I guess we're doing it.
0:21.0	We're doing it.
0:23.0	It's some spider bro week on endless thread.
0:30.0	I mean, I just... I want to be a bro.
0:35.0	But it's hard because I'm terrified of spiders.
0:37.0	I've always not liked spiders.
0:40.0	You know, the spider bro community on Reddit?
0:44.0	It's not actually about you being a bro.
0:47.0	It's about the spiders being bros.
0:51.0	Non-gender specific bros.
0:54.0	And that's why it's important for us to do this episode.
0:58.0	I try to get you around to the idea that spiders are actually bros.
1:04.0	No, I... Listen, here's the thing is I know that.
1:08.0	But if a spider is on me or near me,
1:13.0	I'm not operating with my intellectual mind.
1:17.0	I'm operating with my fricking lizard brain.
1:22.0	And I just want to throw... I want to... I will throw a chair at a spider.
1:27.0	That's how much I don't like spiders.
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