All You Can Eat

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All You Can Eat

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28 minutes

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Dec 13, 2018

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Chicken patrol. Tiny plates. Purses lined with plastic bags. We peek behind the curtain of the strange world of all-you-can-eat buffets, from the strategies buffet owners use to protect their profits, to the hungry customers who try to game the system.

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Dec 13, 2018

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Titles in the series (20)

The front page of the Internet--also known as Reddit--is making noise. Hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson dig into the site's vast and curious ecosystem of online communities, collaborating with Reddit's 330 million users and over 140 thousand communities to find all kinds of jaw-dropping narratives. A collaboration between WBUR and Reddit.

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Endless Thread: The Musical: As Shakespeare once said...all the internet is a stage, and all keyboard warriors merely players. In this episode of Endless Thread, the members of the Nashville-based musical improv group Cherry Bomb stage an homage to their very active neighborhood Facebook group, and put some posts inspired by the Endless Thread subreddit to song. by Endless Thread
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Half a million eyes are on TikTok's "tunnel girl": In 2022, a TikTok creator who identifies herself as "Kala" began digging. What followed was a viral series of TikToks chronicling the efforts of Kala, who the internet dubbed as "tunnel girl". Her almost half-million followers weighed in with support, suggestions and at times, concern. That is until a stop-work order halted the project in its tracks late last year. by Endless Thread
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Recess Therapy's Julian Shapiro-Barnum is skeptical of kids becoming social media stars: The point of Julian Shapiro-Barnum's Recess Therapy, a video series where he interviews kids about life's bigger questions, was never to make the kids social media superstars. But with one video in the summer of 2022, that's exactly what happened. by Endless Thread
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The Music Man, Part 1: He says he'll turn you into a virtuoso. Critics say he'll make you a Scientologist. by Endless Thread
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All You Can Eat

All You Can Eat

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