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Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The secret military base Area 51 is inextricably linked to every secret, shady project the US government is rumored to be involved in – from reverse-engineering alien technology to coordinating a one-world government. The truth is much more mundane. Listen to this classic episode as Josh and Chuck break it down.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.9	Hello, everybody. Chuck here. Take me to your leader.
0:09.9	Other things ETs might say.
0:13.2	Happy Saturday. This episode is called how Area 51 works.
0:17.7	It's from June 13th, 2019.
0:20.2	And, you know, we get into it.
0:21.7	We chop it up, as they say.
0:23.2	All about Area 51.
0:24.9	I hope you enjoy.
0:31.4	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:42.5	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:46.0	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Brian over there.
0:48.0	And there's Dylan, the guest producer again.
0:54.2	And this is, the podcast about Chuck, some pretty heady stuff. Stop what you should know. The podcast. Mm-hmm.
0:58.0	About Chuck, some pretty heady stuff.
1:00.9	Yeah, I could have sworn we did this one.
1:02.4	No.
1:03.4	What did we do, Roswell?
1:04.3	No.
1:05.1	UFOs?
1:06.0	Yes.
1:08.1	We did that at a Comic-Con or something, right?
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