
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


This episode of TLDR contains some explicit language.
On September 11th, 2012, gunmen attacked two American compounds in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans. Sean Smith, one of the four killed in the attack, was an IT manager in the real world, but online, he was Vile Rat, a hugely influential diplomat in the video game Eve Online. Alex talks to Sean's friend Alex "The Mittani" Gianturco about who Sean was both in Eve and in the real world.
By WNYC Studios4.1
350350 ratings
This episode of TLDR contains some explicit language.
On September 11th, 2012, gunmen attacked two American compounds in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans. Sean Smith, one of the four killed in the attack, was an IT manager in the real world, but online, he was Vile Rat, a hugely influential diplomat in the video game Eve Online. Alex talks to Sean's friend Alex "The Mittani" Gianturco about who Sean was both in Eve and in the real world.

43,987 Listeners

6,874 Listeners

27,377 Listeners

26,256 Listeners

9,247 Listeners

1,581 Listeners

7,719 Listeners

14,447 Listeners

6,455 Listeners

4,200 Listeners

16,655 Listeners

2,681 Listeners

2,116 Listeners

519 Listeners

16,407 Listeners

1,186 Listeners

16,898 Listeners

4,553 Listeners

9,411 Listeners

1,644 Listeners

314 Listeners

567 Listeners

703 Listeners