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What Next TBD: The Dark Web of Online Spider Sales

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Researchers have untangled a world of illicit trade that threatens ecosystems and endangers species. Guest: Dr. Alice Hughes, Richard Stewart Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

We were Liars.

0:08.0

A new series on Prime Video.

0:10.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:12.0

Based on the best-selling novel.

0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers.

0:25.2

We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.

0:33.7

My name is Richard Stewart.

0:35.6

I run a YouTube channel called the Tarantula Collective,

0:38.1

where I make videos about tarantula, scorpions, and other invertebrates.

0:43.2

Back in college, Richard was actually scared of spiders.

0:47.2

And I had a professor that kind of challenged me and said that my fear isn't actually of the spiders.

0:52.9

It's just the fear of the unknown.

0:55.0

And so to conquer his fear, Richard got a tarantula.

0:59.0

His roommate wasn't thrilled.

1:01.0

But 20 years later, he's still keeping tarantulas.

1:05.0

He's part of what you might call the spider internet.

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