The League of Extraordinary Trolls

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

An elite unit of trolls is engaged in an existential battle against hate speech on the internet. This is their story.

This episode originally aired on Endless Thread, a co-production of WBUR and Reddit. It's a show about Reddit (also known as the front page of the internet), hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson, produced by Josh Swartz, and mixed by Paul Vaitkus.

Nancy theme by Alexander Overington.

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0:00.0	Tobin.
0:01.0	Kathy.
0:02.0	We have some guests today.
0:04.3	Guests that we love.
0:06.3	You want to introduce yourselves?
0:07.5	Oh, man, we love you too.
0:10.3	This has been Brock Johnson.
0:11.7	I'm Amory Severton.
0:13.5	Tobin, you have some history with Ben.
0:16.5	I used to be his intern, it's true.
0:18.8	Ben, what was Tobin like as an intern?
0:21.6	He was almost as good as he is now.
0:25.8	Aww.
0:26.8	Wait, what's that a compliment?
0:28.5	Yes.
0:29.5	Yes.
0:30.5	Wait, I'm trying it.
0:31.5	He was almost as good as he is.
0:33.2	Oh, it is a compliment.
0:35.2	Oh, thank you.
0:36.2	Thank you.
0:37.2	You've always been great.
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