Listener Mail: Gas Station Ding Dings, Synthetic Estrogen and Fish Populations, Palantir and Train Hopping (and More)

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Anne Ominous shares their own experience with sketchy gas stations, and introduces the guys to a new slang phrase for gambling machines. Maximus weighs in with a true story about synthetic estrogen, waste water and fish populations. Following up on news about Palantir and train hoppers, Mr. Delay calls in to ask whether the growing surveillance society may drive some people off the grid. 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.
0:27.7	My name is Matt.
0:28.5	My name is Noel.
0:29.9	They call me Ben.
0:31.2	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:36.0	Most importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes
0:40.2	this the stuff they don't want you to know if you are joining us for tonight's listener mail program.
0:48.0	Let us be the first to welcome you to June 26th. Guys, it's almost the end of June, which means we are once again in
0:59.7	Ruta Vega season. Oh, thank goodness. Finally. Matt, I heard you got a Ruta Bega hanging out in your
1:05.3	fridge that you're going to dice up and delightfully roast, perhaps. I do indeed, but I needs some more Ruta Bega's, so let's see if we can find one.
1:15.6	Okay, sounds good.
1:17.3	Can you do some digging, Dilling?
1:20.4	Oh, I'm sorry.
1:22.4	We were looking for, what is Ruta Vega?
1:26.8	Wow, Will Hill.
1:28.0	What is Ruda Vega is the question?
1:30.1	I believe, Ben, you got some correspondence to shed some light on just that very question.
1:35.4	All right.
1:36.0	Since it's just the five of us and millions of other people, we will share the following correspondence from our pal that I hope we can identify.
1:48.8	His title is chef.
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