Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know
Society & Culture
From ghostly hitchhikers to tales of insidious alien conspiracies, everyone loves a good spooky campfire story. But where do modern legends come from? Why do they all seem to have certain common threads? In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel don't just break down how these stories work: they teach you, step by step, how to build your own -- and, most importantly, how the same storytelling process has been weaponized against you, with dangerous results.
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Introducing: The Girlfriends: Our Lost Sister
Universe 25: The Parable of Rodent Utopias and Behavioral Sinks
Listener Mail: Real Telepathy, Bird Flu and Cows, Voting Age, A Wholesome Conspiracy
Drugs As Weapons, Part II: Cannabis-induced Psychosis
CLASSIC: Is MI5 a Criminal Organization?
Strange News: New Orleans Archdiocese Scandal, Explosions in Clinton Township, The US Campus Protests Make History
CLASSIC: The Truth Behind the Salem Witch Trials, with Aaron Mahnke
Listener Mail: Breaking Physics? Firefighters and PFAs, Superfund Sites and Baseball.
What was Operation Northwoods?
CLASSIC: What the F*ck is up with Florida?
Strange News: Colorado Protects Brainwaves, Chechnya's Weird Music Ban, A Man Sets Himself On Fire.
The Sirhan Sirhan Story
Listener Mail: Dog Farts or Ghosts? The Korean 4B Movement. Growing Mini-livers.
Disclosure: The Epstein Files
CLASSIC: How Jeffrey Epstein Broke The Law and Got Away
Strange News: The Cybertruck Debacle, Historic Conviction in International Psychic Scam, Loans for the Dead, the Secret World of Extra Passports
Drugs as Weapons
Listener Mail: Best/Worst Candy, Human Cloning Puns, Eclipse Headaches and a Full Body Taste
Oh, Man. It's The Supplement Episode.
CLASSIC: The Mysterious Death of Biohacker Aaron Traywick
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