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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Listener Mail: Faith Healing, Christmas Conspiracies, Africville, a Letter from Malaysia, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It's our first listener mail segment of 2026! The Grease Weasel gives an inside look at faith healing. Bonita C. provides more context on the terrifying hidden history of Africville. Alpha Flight and Betty share strange Christmas stories. Inspired by Noah, the guys vow to do a full episode on oligarchs. William writes a beautiful letter all the way from Malaysia. 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.

0:06.9

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. My name is Noel.

0:28.9

They call me, Ben. We're joined with our guest super producer, Max, the Freight Train Williams.

0:34.7

Most importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes this whole thing

0:39.6

the stuff they don't want you to know. Fellow conspiracy realist friends and neighbors

0:45.6

Venezuelans and non-Venezuelans alike. This is our first listener mail segment of

0:51.6

26. Welcome to Thursday, January 15th. We are recording this on Wednesday,

0:58.7

January 7th. And I've got to tell you guys, gents, it feels good to be back. We got new cameras.

1:04.3

We got these different setups. We're on Netflix.

1:07.0

It's true. What's weird to even say out loud, I guess by the time this comes out, we will be?

1:12.0

Not yet. No, not yet. It's coming. It's a thing. You can go to Netflix right now if you are, if you're on Netflix, you can go there right now. You can click a little, a bell button, bell icon that says, remind me. And I was joking with some of our folks backstage.

1:30.8

Our current category, you guys, is New Zealand.

1:34.9

No, not really.

1:36.2

Yes, really.

1:37.0

Go to Netflix now.

1:38.0

You'll see it.

1:39.3

We've been known to talk of New Zealand from time to time.

1:43.3

We do love the Kiwis. Yeah, I guess the reminder thing is sort of like when you see a new show that's about to drop and it lets you sort of pre-subscribe or whatever. It just sends you a little reminder. So do that for the video podcast. And you can see us as real human people. I'm excited. Everyone looks great.

2:01.5

Well, it's, it's pretty great because you can find us. You can find stuff to blow your mind.

2:06.5

Stuff you missed in history class. It's pictures of us from like 2014.

2:11.0

Right, right. So it's a work in progress. We wanted to, the new headshots. We wanted to go live.

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