Listener Mail: Chinese Spyware, The Amish, DC, and Letters From Home

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Don Vee shares on-the-ground experience with Amish millionaires. Wonko the Sane reaches out on the story of Chinese tech espionage. A Phlounder reacts to Ben's earlier question about social media, and the gang gives Dupont Dave some choice recommendations for tourism in Washington, DC. All this and more in tonight's listener mail segment, hurtling headward toward the American celebration of Thanksgiving.

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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. Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
0:27.9	My name is Noel.
0:28.9	They call me Ben.
0:30.1	We are joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:34.8	Most importantly, you are you.
0:36.6	You are here.
0:39.4	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. Welcome to our weekly listener mail segment where we get to hear
0:44.5	directly from you. If you're hearing this, the evening it comes out. Also, welcome to November
0:50.3	14th. Thanksgiving, kind of a big deal here in the U.S. is on the way.
0:55.7	And we wish everybody hearing this the best, just the absolute best when you have to hang out with your family members and your loved ones as you go toward that big dinner.
1:08.1	And especially, you know, given divisive times, we know it can be difficult
1:13.1	if people at Thanksgiving maybe differ in opinions or politics. So I would posit that maybe just
1:19.4	leave politics at home for the Thanksgiving holidays, if at all possible. It'll probably be good
1:24.5	for your mental health. I will add, yeah, that's the point I wanted to get to.
1:28.5	We can always feel that we are in a situation where you have to hang out with people.
1:32.8	You don't see them all that often.
1:34.5	They've got a big info download on stuff that's been going on with them.
1:38.1	They want to hear from you.
1:39.3	So make sure there's some give and take.
1:40.8	Be curious, as Ted Lassow said.
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