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 IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.

My name is Matt.

My name is Noel.

They call me Ben.

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

Most importantly, you are you.

You are here. That makes this you are you, you are here.

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

Guys, I got to tell you, for everybody tuning in the evening, this strange news program publishes,

it is August 11th, a date of weirdly personal importance to us.

But we're recording it on the 6th.

We're recording it on the 6th. It's publishing on the 11th, by which point several of us will be on the road.

Just real quick, some important things that happened on August 11th.

This is so dumb. I never know if this is going to work.

Of course, everybody remembers this is the beginning of the Mesoamerican long count calendar.

Never forget.

Never forget that led to the belief that what was it, that the world was going to end in

2012? 12, 21, 2012. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Spoiler, it either did not happen or the world dead end,

and we're all just sort of circling around. Joe Rogan performed that night in Atlanta, and that is when the world changed.

It was that night.

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