Crop Circles: Fact and Fiction

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Have you ever seen a weird pattern in a field? Grain, grass, swamp or wheat, all bent toward some sort of spiritual-mathematical attempt at communication? Since ancient human times, primates built all sorts of strange stories about how, where, and why unseen beings would create crop circles. In tonight's episode, Ben and Matt delve into this strange agricultural phenomena -- sifting the chaff of fiction from the wheat of fact.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:07.0	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of I-Heart Radio.
0:14.0	Welcome back to the show, my name is Matt.
0:25.0	Our colleague Noel is on Adventures and shall be returning forthwith.
0:31.0	They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer,
0:34.4	all mission control deck and most importantly you are you, you are here. That
0:40.1	makes this the stuff they don't want you to know and fellow conspiracy realist for your
0:47.4	faithful correspondence.
0:49.3	This is a bit of a homecoming not too long ago. We were brainstorming as we do different future
0:58.7	episodes and investigations and it hit us that we have never done a podcast episode on the phenomenon known as
1:07.8	crop circles but Matt as you and I were talking about off air. We did some videos. Yeah we did. Yeah we did.
1:17.0	When we were young boys. Oh, back in 2011. How weird is that? September 2011. We put out our first crop circle video on the old
1:30.3	how stuff works. YouTube channel, but actually before then it was on iTunes video so I don't know when it
1:36.0	published then versus on YouTube but we still I think at that point we didn't have our own channel yet right?
1:43.4	No no no that was the How Stuff Works Proper Channel.
1:46.6	It got on our channel May 12, 2014 as a classic.
1:51.8	Oh wow it was a classic 2014.
1:55.0	We didn't have the, we didn't have the dialogue that we'll have here now.
2:00.0	We have more time by the nature of an audio medium to really dive into some stuff I
2:05.1	think we're both surprised that we had not done a podcast on this but
2:08.8	Matt I don't think I've I think maybe in 2011 we talked about this where we're working on
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