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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Can You Smell Death?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

If you are human, you do not consciously clock most odors. Yet these molecules still inform, influence, and inspire your unconscious behaviors. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore a question most folks are too frightened to ask: Can you smell death?

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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 IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.

0:27.5

My name is Matt.

0:28.7

My name is Noel.

0:29.8

They call me, Ben.

0:31.2

We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.

0:35.9

Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

0:39.2

And that makes this, the stuff they don't want you to know, let's all pause for a moment,

0:45.0

and give ourselves a sniff, a sniff test.

0:48.3

How are we smelling, guys?

0:49.5

How we smell?

0:50.4

Fresh out of the shower, baby, with a little perfumage going going on did you put some of those pheromones on

0:57.9

i did some of those musk sense that you described directly into my pits all right arm and otherwise

1:05.4

i can smell from here your crevasives get the australia make happens. Yeah, and I still smell like an airplane. Do

1:13.2

with that what you will, folks. Like jet fuel? No, the inside of an airplane. Okay, cool, cool,

1:18.8

the passenger part. We've all encountered someone who, for one reason or another, doesn't smell

1:26.1

amazing.

1:30.6

And we're not, look, we're not better than anybody else.

1:35.9

We're not immune to this either after a workout or enough time without a shower or toothbrush encounter.

1:38.1

Pretty much everybody acquires some kind of not entirely pleasant odor.

1:44.1

I got to ask you is, without pulling out specifics,

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