CLASSIC: You're Getting A Vibe: The Strange Science of Auras

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.2 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

For millennia, people in civilizations across the planet have claimed to perceive intangible energy emanating from people, animals, plants -- and even inanimate objects. And, in recent centuries, scientists and mystics alike have sought to explain this phenomenon. As you might imagine, not everyone agrees on what an aura could be -- or whether it exists -- in the modern day.

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Fellow conspiracy realist, we're celebrating the holidays.
0:03.9	We hope you're having a great time with your loved ones, maybe some cousins that you don't see all that often.
0:10.9	And more than anything, we hope you're catching some vibes.
0:15.3	We hope they're good.
0:16.9	We hope they're good vibes.
0:18.2	And we hope that you took the, if you needed to improve the vibes, you take the famed cousin walk.
0:23.0	The excursion.
0:24.3	The safety meeting?
0:25.6	Uh-oh.
0:25.9	You know the one.
0:26.9	Don't do that.
0:27.8	Don't do that.
0:28.7	No.
0:30.1	We're all safe here.
0:31.4	We don't need to go on a walk.
0:32.8	Just have an excursion.
0:35.0	It's good to meet the world around you. And maybe come back in a better mood.
0:41.4	Glassy your eyes.
0:43.6	More of an interest in reggae.
0:45.6	So for thousands of years, as we learned in 2020, human beings in civilizations,
0:53.2	regardless of culture, geography, or time, they have claimed to perceive some sort of intangible energy, not just from their fellow primates, but from other flora and fauna as well.
1:08.8	And sometimes even inanimate objects.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.