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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

CLASSIC: Secrets of the Founding Fathers, Chapter Two: Seriously, Weird Dudes

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It's true that the founders of the United States all too often failed to live up to the values they espoused in the Constitution and other related documents -- but it appears they were up to even stranger things. In the second episode of this two-part series, the guys delve deeper into some of the strangest, most obscure alleged secrets of the founding fathers, including one terrifying story that is absolutely true.

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0:00.0

And we are back.

0:01.3

Fellow Conspiracy Realists, we hope you enjoyed secrets of the Founding Fathers Part 1.

0:06.6

It sounded to be a rollicking good time, then.

0:08.7

We did, because we can't change the past.

0:11.8

So what else can we do but learn from it?

0:14.4

We continued this.

0:15.9

I think originally we did not anticipate this being a two-chapter series, but we have more secrets

0:22.6

of the founding fathers, including, gosh, I think we have Benjamin Franklin as his own episode,

0:31.6

right, because of all the bodies.

0:33.2

Yeah, he knows where the bodies were buried because they're in his house.

0:36.7

They were in a house where he stayed once.

0:40.8

Okay, fair, fair, fair, fair, fair, fair.

0:42.9

Okay, all right.

0:44.1

Your Honor, I plead I'm a dope guy who does interesting stuff.

0:51.9

Okay, Kanye.

0:53.3

He probably also knew the judge at this point, but it's true that, you know, the founders of the U.S. often failed to live up to the values they espoused in their personal lives, right?

1:05.7

They would talk about liberty and equality. They would practice channel slavery. They had some very rules for the not me

1:12.8

approaches to a lot of things, but they were up to stranger stuff that didn't make it into your

1:18.1

history books. You know they did some Epstein's. You know they did an Epstein back then.

1:23.8

A guarantee. There was its own kind of, I'm sorry, I don't mean to besmirch the name of our founding fathers.

1:29.2

Stolen human teeth.

1:30.6

They were into a lot of stuff.

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