CLASSIC: A World Without Cash

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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The last time you bought something, did you use a card, cash or something else? If you automatically thought "who uses cash nowadays", you're far from alone. More and more people are eschewing physical currency for digital dollars, and this move seems largely supported by big banks as well some countries. Proponents argue a cashless society has no shortage of benefits for everyone involved, but critics suspect there are more than a few dangerous possibilities at play -- and something sinister may be afoot.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to our classic episode, friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realists.
0:05.4	You know, guys, one thing that I love about New York City and Japan in particular is that in areas of both of those societies, there's still very much a cash-is-king mentality.
0:21.7	Interesting. Well, you know, the problems. societies, there's still very much a cash is king mentality. Hmm.
0:22.6	Interesting.
0:23.8	But you know, the problem with cash, it takes a long time to trace, even with those
0:29.1	little numbers on the sides of each one.
0:31.6	Right.
0:32.3	Traceability.
0:33.4	A lot of us listening to this episode automatically thought, who uses cash nowadays?
0:39.3	Now, me.
0:41.3	Right, right.
0:42.3	I use cash pretty frequently, as I believe you do as well, Matt.
0:48.3	We know that the move toward the digital currency and digital dollar
0:54.2	is supported by big banks as well as some countries.
0:58.6	So in this classic episode,
1:00.4	we are going to explore a world without cash.
1:08.3	It's the early days of COVID, April 2020.
1:11.6	A woman in a small town in Oklahoma makes a strange post to Facebook and then disappears.
1:19.6	I'm on day nine of this virus and I am pretty sure it has reached my lungs.
1:25.6	I made the decision at the onset that if it got bad enough, I would not go to the hospital.
1:33.0	Pretty quickly, a rag-tag group of women on the internet start their own investigation.
1:39.3	It felt like I was living out one of like my fantasy dreams of being a detective.
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