Snacktime: The Cebu Swiper

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WBUR

Technology, Reddit

4.1 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this Snacktime episode, we explore a post made on r/HobbyDrama about how some local plant-trading Facebook groups have had their wholesome hobby corrupted by an alleged scammer.

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0:00.0	Produced by the ILAB at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	Amory, what's up?
0:11.0	What's up?
0:13.0	Spring has sprung.
0:15.0	That's what it did where I live anyway.
0:20.0	Is that what it sounds like?
0:21.0	Spring sprung?
0:22.0	Yeah.
0:23.0	We missed you guys while working on our new exciting things that we're working on.
0:28.0	Also, one of our listeners sent us a story that we wanted to talk about.
0:33.0	So we just, you know, we blew the dust off the old computer keyboard, fired up those microphones.
0:45.0	And here we are.
0:47.0	Our sound effect game has fallen by the wayside.
0:52.0	We can no longer afford a sound designer.
0:56.0	We have to do it, you know, we got to do it like the guy, that guy from Police Academy.
1:02.0	What's that?
1:04.0	Oh my god, just never mind.
1:07.0	Just your, your monthly reminder that Ben is very old.
1:19.0	Amory, you kind of know what this is about.
1:21.0	And you're a millennial and I've seen the hanging plants in your house on Zoom calls that we do every day.
1:26.0	Like while you're eating breakfast and I'm actually hard at work at my desk.
1:31.0	I have one hanging plant, but it's, you've just boosted its ego quite a bit that you think.
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