4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel travel back to the chaotic days of World War II. The newly-minted Office of Strategic Services, which would later evolve into the CIA, conspired to pull off something as brilliant as it was evil: they created the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual," a secret textbook aimed to turn the average civilian into an active saboteur. The guys read the book, and give it rave reviews.
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0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
0:06.9 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
0:12.1 | A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
0:27.1 | My name is Matt. |
0:28.1 | My name is Noel. |
0:29.2 | They call me Ben. |
0:30.6 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Andrew the Tri-Force Howard. |
0:35.3 | Most importantly, you are you. |
0:56.0 | You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. Friends and neighbors, conspiracy realist, workers of the world, unite. We can all agree on this. At some point in your life, good question. Have you ever met someone who seems almost purposely bad at their job? Yes. Like, not just in over their head, but like beyond the |
1:04.0 | point of incompetence. I mean, I guess the old cliche is associated with like government jobs |
1:08.5 | and people that are like unfirable but that seems to no longer |
1:12.5 | be the case um just running the clock on the pension 100% or you know there's a certain level of |
1:20.4 | potentially entitlement that comes along with people who have been in a job for a really really |
1:24.9 | long time and they just start to kind of get bitter and resentful |
1:27.7 | and maybe kind of just give up, you know? |
1:32.2 | I've been in some restaurants where I'm pretty sure there's at least someone in the managerial |
1:38.0 | level that is specifically attempting to sabotage their own business, just because of the way the restrooms look, because of how unclean everything is. |
1:47.5 | You're just going, who is running this place? |
1:51.0 | Not even phoning it in, right? |
1:52.5 | Just like not even making the call. |
1:54.7 | I also love to that point, this happens at a few restaurants in Atlanta, and I'm sure |
2:00.3 | it's throughout the world, |
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