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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

CLASSIC: The Control Group with Bret Wood

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In the era of the Cold War, intelligence agencies on both sides of the iron curtain desperately raced to secure any possible technological advantage, even if it meant breaking the law along the way. Join the guys as they interview filmmaker Bret Wood, the creator of The Control Group podcast, about the real-life events that inspired the first fiction podcast by HowStuffWorks.

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0:00.0

Tune into the new podcast, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, like Easy Listening, but for fiction.

0:08.0

If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness in everyday life are all around you.

0:16.0

I'm Catherine Nikolai and I'm an architect of Cozy.

0:20.0

Come spend some time where everyone is welcome and the default is kindness.

0:24.0

Listen, relax, enjoy.

0:27.0

Listen to stories from the Village of Nothing Much,

0:29.0

on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

0:32.0

or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.0

Walter Isaacson set out to write about a world-changing genius in Elon Musk and found a man addicted

0:40.8

to chaos and conspiracy.

0:42.3

I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks.

0:49.0

The book launched a thousand hot takes, so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise.

0:53.6

I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on musk as I should be are always

0:58.2

using anecdotes from my book to show why we should be tough on musk.

1:02.0

Join me Evan Ratliff, for On Musk with Walter Isixon.

1:06.0

Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:10.0

My name is Theo Henderson, hosting creator of the podcast called Weyon House.

1:16.2

My lived experience in housesness is extensive.

1:18.9

I was one of over 75,000 experiencing houses on a given night in Los Angeles.

1:24.0

Here is a simple truth.

1:26.0

Houselessness is everywhere.

1:28.0

It affects over a half a billion people in the United States alone.

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