Listener Mail: Mobile Phone Tracking, the Psychology of Healthcare, The U.S. is Firing So Many People

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Anonymous Fed provides a chilling first-hand experience with the US government's recent and sudden moves to fire, lay off, or buy out numerous federal employees amid a flurry of other intensely bizarre moves -- Ben shares aspects of the now-infamous "Fork In The Road" email. Cosmic asks about favorite Magic:The Gathering cards, as well as the psychological effects of private healthcare. Curt prompts a deeper conversation about the fact and fiction surrounding mobile phone surveillance, Faraday grifts, and the nature of secret government programs. 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.
0:26.6	My name is Matt.
0:27.7	My name is Noel.
0:28.8	They call me Ben.
0:30.0	We are joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:34.7	Most importantly, you are you.
0:36.8	You are here. That makes this, the stuff they don importantly, you are you. You are here.
0:37.8	That makes this, the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:41.6	If you are tuning in the evening, this listener mail program publishes,
0:47.1	let us welcome you to February 6th, 2025.
0:52.1	We talked about it earlier this week. It's amazing that January 2025 went by so quickly and took so long to do so.
1:06.0	We've got a lot of correspondence to get to a true embarrassment of riches.
1:12.8	We're going to hear from people all across the world.
1:16.7	We're going to talk about some of the disturbing news occurring in the United States.
1:23.7	We're going to hear from a firefighter or an exotic landscaper out west.
1:29.4	We're going to talk about telepathy.
1:31.5	We're going to talk about private health care.
1:33.2	Before we do any of that, guys, do you have your mobile phones on your person as we record?
1:41.2	All three.
1:42.3	Whoa, you got a secret cell phone like Walter White?
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