Strange News: Massive Pager Attacks in Lebanon, Japan's Resignation Industry, CIA Denies Plotting to Kill Venezuela's Maduro
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
One of the largest covert operations in history occurred in Lebanon, where exploding pagers and walkie-talkies injured thousands - prompting disturbing, dangerous questions. Japan's corporate culture makes it so difficult to resign that people are hiring third-party 'resignation experts.' The US denies allegations that the CIA may have masterminded a failed plot to murder Venezualan leader Nicolás Maduro. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.7 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:11.6 | A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They call me Ben. We are joined with our guest super producer Dylan the Tennessee |
| 0:33.2 | pal Fagan most importantly you are you you are here that makes this the stuff they |
| 0:39.2 | don't want you to know it is quite a week for strange news. We're going to visit some folks |
| 0:47.4 | across the Pacific. We're going to go on air with some conversations we had had in the past about different |
| 0:57.4 | ambitious attempts at grassroots regime change we'll call it we'll see some bribery, we'll call it. |
| 1:02.6 | We'll see some bribery. |
| 1:03.7 | We'll also just, for anybody listening right now, |
| 1:07.8 | if you have a pager, no judgment. |
| 1:10.0 | If you have a pager, move it across the room. |
| 1:13.6 | A pager, what is it, 1995? |
| 1:16.2 | All over again? |
| 1:17.8 | I had one. |
| 1:18.8 | I had a bright green translucent Motorola pager. Yes. |
| 1:24.0 | Hopefully you don't need to be worried about your pager if you know... |
| 1:28.0 | If you're a doctor or a drug dealer or work production. |
| 1:32.0 | My never, my never injured me, you know, physically anyway. |
| 1:36.3 | My, the ones I had injured me emotionally. |
| 1:39.3 | Exactly. |
| 1:40.0 | That's clear. |
| 1:42.1 | All those mean-spirited pager codes that were flying around. |
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