Rapa Nui: The Mystery of Easter Island
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Located in the eastern Pacific ocean, thousands of miles from other civilizations, Rapa Nui is home to an enduring mystery: hundreds of giant, stone sculptures called maoi. For centuries, outsiders had no idea how these were built, when, why or -- most importantly -- what happened to make the construction stop. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel dive deep into hidden history and the latest research... and just may, finally, find the answers.
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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 IHeartRadie. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:28.2 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:29.1 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:29.9 | They call me Bed. |
| 0:31.4 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:35.8 | Most importantly, you are you, you are here. That makes |
| 0:39.2 | this the stuff they don't want you to know. Thank you for joining us tonight, folks. We had a |
| 0:46.0 | bit of a rough ride with a previous episode on Chicago's Ripper Crew, so we're thinking of this one |
| 0:52.0 | as a bit of a palate cleanser. Man, I'm both bummed and not bummed that I missed that one. Yeah, and welcome back. You know, I've been using a new street name for you, Copenhagen Brown. I appreciate it. I just hope people don't think that I'm, like, doing dips all the time, you know? The Copenhagen, isn't that like a chewing tobacco brand? Oh, I think it is. I think it is. It might be. Yeah. I'm not the demographic, but I think it sounds cool. I don't think they're. No, no, no, I love it. I love it. I'm here for it and people can think whatever they want. And I had a really lovely time in Copenhagen, despite Radiohead canceling their show that I was there for. Dang. Speaking of conspiracy theories, |
| 1:27.6 | now Tom York had apparently a real bad throat infection, |
| 1:31.0 | and my show got rescheduled, |
| 1:33.5 | and I'm not going back. |
| 1:34.5 | But I had a great time. |
| 1:35.6 | Lovely Christmas markets. |
| 1:36.7 | Great time of year to be in that part of the world. |
| 1:39.0 | Simply having a wonderful Christmas time. |
| 1:41.9 | No, no. |
| 1:43.7 | As a bar humbug. No, I didn't say that. That's Paul McCartney. Sir Paul? Yeah. Paul McCartney is simply having a wonderful Christmas time. It's not my idea. At all times. Wonderful Christmas time at all times. The phrase is fine. Just please don't say it in that way. You know what I mean? There's a great conspiracy about this that I enjoy, |
| 2:07.7 | which is the narrative that that song is entirely a bunch of people |
| 2:14.6 | having pagan celebrations and lying to the authorities. |
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