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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Oh, DOGE!

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Despite being neither an official government department nor, arguably, all that efficient, Elon Musks's "Department of Government Efficiency" has made a lot of waves over its short life span. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore the origin of DOGE... and why so many people are convinced there's a conspiracy at play.

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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.

0:27.2

My name is Matt.

0:28.1

My name is Noel.

0:29.1

They call me Ben.

0:30.7

We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.

0:35.1

Most importantly, you are you.

0:36.9

You are here. That makes this the stuff they Most importantly, you are you. You are here.

0:38.0

That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:42.0

And we are pleased as punch that you are joining us tonight, folks.

0:47.4

This is going to be an exploration of memes, an exploration of conspiracies, and the, uh, just the ridiculous, surreal situation

0:57.4

of something called doge.

1:00.0

That's the stuff they doge wants you to know.

1:02.0

Mm-hmm.

1:02.5

We're going to play a bit of doge ball as we're talking off air.

1:06.1

Uh, okay.

1:07.2

Uh, Department of Government Efficiency.

1:10.6

We've heard of it.

1:11.9

I love it when you like walk backwards into the acronym, you know?

1:15.1

A backronym. That's the word for it.

1:16.5

Is that really true?

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