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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Listener Mail: Lasers, Barack Obama on Aliens, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Does laser technology explain the recent US government airport shutdowns? What did the former President Barack Obama imply in a recent conversation about extraterrestrials? All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.

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Transcript

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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. My name is Matt.

0:28.9

My name is Noel and our compatriot. Ben is out on adventures today. And this is, uh, this is listener mail.

0:39.2

That's correct, this is listener mail.

0:40.6

We are joined, as always, we have to say, by our Tennessee pal, Dylan Fagan.

0:45.6

What a pal he is.

0:46.5

As well as you.

0:47.1

Uh-huh.

0:48.0

I remember Tennessee growing up being a tricky state to spell, and we had to have a bit of a, not a neomenonic, but like a T-E-N-N-E-S-S-E, right? Isn't that right? Double-E-S-S-S? Too many double-S-E-D-E-S. Okay, double-S-s, yeah. A lot of E's and S's. How you doing, man? Man, I'm doing good.

1:18.4

We just recorded an episode where I was eating a whole bunch of these Thai red chilies, and I'm finally feeling okay.

1:21.6

What was you, what are you trying to prove, man?

1:32.1

Well, in my mind, I had a bigger thing to it, and I was going to announce, hey, I'm going to eat these peppers during the episode and see if I can keep my cool as like a mental.

1:35.3

Well, yeah, but I was going to do it the whole time and eat.

1:39.1

I only ate like a third of four peppers.

1:42.4

So I have a 1.3 peppers.

1:47.2

What's the Scoville scale for these peps? It's somewhere between 50 and 100K.

1:47.2

I love that you know that.

1:48.6

I was bluffing.

1:50.4

Not bluffing, but no, well done.

1:52.5

That's high, right?

1:54.8

It's pretty high.

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