Listener Mail: Australian Cinema, The Barksdale Bubble, El Salvador and Dictators

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Cake writes in with recommendations for Australian cinema. Spooky Pants prompts a conversation about the infamous Barksdale Bubble. Starship Home (aka Sugar Homie, aka Supercool Homie) prompts a far-reaching exploration of dictatorships, El Salvador, the US's responsibility for the booming illegal drug trade. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.5	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:27.0	My name is Matt.
0:27.8	My name is Noel.
0:29.2	They call me Ben.
0:30.8	We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:35.9	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:39.1	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:42.9	If you are listening to our weekly listener mail segment, the evening it publishes,
0:49.1	let us be the first to welcome you to Thursday, May 1st, 2025, and what better way to welcome us all to
0:58.6	May than to talk a little bit about Ruta Bacas?
1:01.8	Why not?
1:06.5	Rudebaker!
1:10.7	No. No, the best one yet.
1:13.6	Best one yet.
1:14.3	Best your might.
1:15.6	Best one yet.
1:17.1	Unbelievable.
1:17.6	I was swaying hypnotically in my scene.
1:21.6	I am pumped, you guys.
1:23.6	Sound cue for, like, applause for Dylan, whether you're riding in your car or whether you're
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