Listener Mail: Knife Cults, Rituals of the Nacirema, The Radioactive Horrors of Coldwater Creek

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Killdeer Fake-out inspires Ben, Matt and Noel to create an episode on the radioactive scandal of Coldwater Creek. Chef Ben asks whether he crossed paths with a knife cult. Sydney prompts an anthropological exploration of the Nacirema. 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. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:27.9	My name is Matt.
0:28.8	My name is Noel.
0:30.2	They call me Ben.
0:31.5	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
0:39.6	this the stuff they don't want you to know. Longtime listeners, new listeners, friends and
0:45.7	neighbors alike. Welcome to September 25th, 2025. We can't wait to hear from you. This is our weekly listener mail program, which means
0:58.2	it's time. Guys, the fans demand it. We need an update on the Ruta Begas. Dylan, if you could.
1:04.6	We're they at. Health Minute with Donnie LaBoy is filmed in front of a live studio audience.
1:10.5	Hey, everybody, it's me, Donnie, your favorite TV host.
1:13.8	You might also remember my hit song, Honk, honk, I'm grooving here.
1:19.0	Today on Health Minute, we're speaking with Dr. Gregory Funston,
1:22.5	who wants to tell us about a nutritious, delicious vegetable called the Ruta Bega. Now, I've never heard of these, are they new? Well, Donnie, they've actually been around for a long time. Hmm. Must be pretty under the radar if I've never heard of them. Well, I think you'd really like them. Good in a soup or just mashed up like potatoes. Interesting. And it says here there are a root vegetable. Yes, like a turnip or a radish. Well, now you're just making up words. Come on, Craig. Oh, and that's our time. Join us tomorrow when farmer Tammy is going to show us how to find a rootabega. Supposedly, you just dig him up. I can't. I refuse to. Better and better.
2:01.6	I won't do it.
2:08.6	Knowing that you spend the effort and the time to create something like that, Dylan, warms our hearts greatly.
2:09.5	Amazing.
2:15.8	Phenomenal, a word I've been overusing often, but it is appropriate in this conversation.
2:24.2	Dylan, can you tell us, please, look, I know the, I know the answer already, but could you share with the audience a little bit of the backstory of the legendary Donnie LaBoy?
2:28.6	Yeah, I believe that Donnie LaBois is a name that came from this show like seven or eight
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