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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

3I/Atlas: We are Obsessed with the Newest (or Oldest?) Instellar Object

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

While humanity's local solar system appears huge from Earth, it's actually a pretty tiny piece of real estate in the grand scheme of things. And, in recent years, technological breakthroughs have allowed astronomers and physicists to learn more about the things traveling to us from outside our patch of space. In today's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel dive into the story of 3I/Atlas -- along with the experts who believe this thing may not be a natural accident, but manufactured, and perhaps purposely sent, directly to us.

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0:00.0

From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.

0:06.5

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:12.0

A production of IHeartRadie. Hello, welcome back to the show.

0:28.5

My name is Matt.

0:29.8

My name is Noel.

0:30.9

They call me, Ben.

0:32.2

We're joined with our guest super producer, Max, the Interstellar Freight Trade Williams. Most importantly, you are you,

0:40.9

you are here, that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. fellas, look, up there,

0:47.4

in the sky. Is it an interstellar freight train?

0:51.1

Is it a bird? Because that'd be terrifying. Is it, is it a dirigible? Is it, bird? Terrify. Is it, is it, uh, is it a dirigible?

0:56.3

Is it, um, mua, moa, moa?

0:59.1

I don't know, but it's really bright and it's hurting my eyes.

1:02.1

I know when it's turning colors.

1:03.7

Don't look directly into the light.

1:05.4

Okay.

1:06.4

Put on your special sunglasses, guys.

1:17.6

We're, uh, we're asking a question that a lot of people have been asking more and more often in recent years.

1:25.5

A long time, friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realists, there's been this ever-present hope of disclosure.

1:29.6

There have been breakthroughs and technology. Shout out James Webb.

1:36.5

There have been aviation experts coming forward. And I think it's fair for us to say that humanity is investigating the heavens and the ink anew. Would we agree with that? I mean, yeah,

1:43.5

if you're paying attention in astrophysics world,

1:48.1

I don't know, just over the past two years that we've really been turned on to, I mean,

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