From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

A production of I Heart Readie.

Hello and welcome back to the show. My name is Noel.

Our writer, Die, compatriot and colleague, our better third, that Frederick is on adventures,

somewhat off the grid, but will be returning soon.

So say hello if you see him in the wild.

They call me Ben. We are joined today with our super producer, Alexis Codembe,

Doc Holiday Jackson. Most importantly, you are you, you are here, and that makes this stuff they

don't want you to know. Before we begin today's episode, take a take a second if you're in a safe

place and not driving and look around. Just your immediate area. Don't think outside of your room,

don't you just the stuff you can see or the stuff you can touch. Try counting how many things you

can identify as being made of plastic. Just take a second and think about it. Yeah, man, just on my

desk right here, I've got like, I've got this tiny little plastic gummy bear that my kid uses to

make necklaces. So there's one, like a McDonald's cup. I've got a bunch of little trinkets.

You know, I've got a little plastic squirrel with a beanie like this guy.

Is this the camera focusing on this cute little world face? Yeah, I'm really bad at

centering on this because it's off to the side. Got a bunch of like a bottle of hand sanitizer.

Cords, you know, like I've got an ethernet core that's wrapped in rubber with plastic ends on

it at the very least. Yeah, man, a lot of this camera that we're recording into, these little

lots of cameras, the keyboard. I live with a life-size plastic skeleton because that's where I'm at in

life. Don't spoil. I wanted to believe that agent scully was in fact a real skeleton.

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