Interview: Absolute, with Nick Berardini, Part 2

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As Taser International rolls out increasingly powerful and sophisticated tasers, they also massively expand sales to law enforcement agencies across the United States. In step with this expansion, more and more people end up dying as a result of these "non-lethal" weapons. In the second part of this two-part interview with journalist and filmmaker Nick Berardini, the guys learn more about the past, present and future conspiracies surrounding the alleged 'safety' of tasers.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies,
0:08.8	history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:11.5	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:16.7	A production of IHeart Radio.
0:30.8	Thank you. A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:32.5	My name is Matt.
0:33.6	My name is Noel.
0:34.7	They call me, Ben.
0:35.9	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:40.1	Most importantly, you are you.
0:42.0	You are here.
0:42.9	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:46.3	This is the second part of a two-part interview with the creator of Absolute.
0:53.7	The journalist, documentarian, filmmaker, author,
0:57.2	podcaster, Nick Baradini.
0:59.3	We're midway through the show in media arrests, so why don't we just pick up where we left
1:04.6	off?
1:05.2	Let's do it.
1:06.2	This is an I-Heart podcast.
1:10.6	In sitcoms, when someone has a problem, they just blurt it out and move on.
1:15.2	Well, I lost my job and my parakeet is missing.
1:19.3	How is your day?
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