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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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4.2 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The world's trade system is cartoonishly complex, and it depends on multiple factors: one of the most important being trucks. Without semis and truckers, the global economy will immediately collapse -- and, unfortunately, trucking is in trouble. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore a catastrophe on the horizon. A spiraling economy, skyrocketing inflation, and disruptive new technology combine to put one of the world's most essential industries is on the verge of collapse. So what happens next?

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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. Welcome back to the show, fellow conspiracy realist.
0:28.8	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:32.2	They called me Ben, our colleagues Matt and Noel are on adventures, but will be returning soon. We're joined, as always, Matt and Noel, are on adventures, but we'll be returning soon.
0:39.3	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:44.4	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:47.5	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:51.2	Now, if you are tuning in to our weekly strange news segment, the evening
0:55.8	it publishes, welcome to April 20th. And Dylan, I was trying to figure out the most diplomatic way to
1:03.9	say this, but maybe we leave it with a happy April 20th to all who celebrate. Yes, that is very diplomatic and PG.
1:14.5	PGS, a little bit of parental guidance there.
1:19.4	Now, as we're getting into this sort of for our cold open, Dylan, you and I would like to share a little bit of history behind the scenes about how
1:31.1	stuff they don't want you to know began a strange news segment years ago at this point.
1:39.0	Longtime listeners, you may not be aware that many moons passed.
1:50.8	Dylan and I worked together on a different show called Strange News Daily.
1:57.4	This was a double dragon type thing, a dynamic duo type thing for both of us.
2:04.6	Every day, for quite some time, we would put out a pretty small focused podcast on three news stories that we thought were weird. And man, I can't thank you enough
2:12.2	for hatching that idea with me. And it is so bizarre to me looking back in our older ages. It is so bizarre that we
2:21.8	manage to put out an episode of Strange News Daily every single day, Monday through Friday.
2:29.6	Yeah, that was six years ago at this point. It was the summer of the pandemic. It was 20-20.
2:35.2	Oh, wow. Yeah. And I really look forward to it because it was a semblance of regularity for me
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