Listener Mail: Big Tobacco, Kaikōura Lights Theories, Post-Snuff Messages and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The Chef calls in with a fascinating theory on the Kaikōura lights. Nemesis shares an inside look at Big Tobacco, answering Ben's earlier question about smoking inside (and much more). In the wake of the infamous Snuff episode, multiple Conspiracy Realists reach out with jokes, puns, well-wishes, kind words and pet pics. 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 IHeartRadie. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:26.8	My name is Matt.
0:27.7	My name is Noel.
0:28.6	They call me Ben.
0:29.7	We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:34.0	Most importantly, you are you.
0:36.0	You are here.
0:36.8	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know, you are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want
0:39.7	you to know if you are listening to our program for Listener Mail. The evening it publishes.
0:45.6	Welcome to Thursday, October 10th. Now, we're recording this on October 7th. So by the time
0:51.4	you hear this, we'll be at sea and we'll be singing the same chant we
0:55.2	always sing during listener mail. When we say Ruta, you say sea shanty?
1:01.4	Begus!
1:03.0	Yeah, Begas. When we say Ruta, you say...
1:06.3	Begas! Begars!
1:08.5	We'll have to word that out when we're at sea.
1:11.4	Sure.
1:12.0	I've got to do a sea shanty.
1:13.0	My attempt for a Ruta Bega call of response cheer did not work, but luckily...
1:17.6	Yes, it did.
	...

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