Technology is Making Legends Real
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Ben, Matt, and Noel love folklore. After all, stories are one of humanity's first technologies -- and they continue to shape the world today. Most of the modern world accepts that tales of the undead, spirits, oracles and so on are just that: stories. Yet as the guys discover in tonight's trippy thought experiment, there's a growing argument that modern technological breakthroughs aren't just leading to new advancements: when you think about it, technology is increasingly making some of these legends, in practice, real.
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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. |
| 0:28.5 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:29.5 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.6 | They call me Ben. |
| 0:32.0 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagin. |
| 0:36.4 | Most importantly, you are you. You are here. |
| 0:39.7 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. We are recorded on Monday, March 30th. |
| 0:47.4 | This should come out a little bit after that, and frankly, we're not sure how much this is going to, how much this informational change over time. |
| 0:57.5 | This is a thought experiment. |
| 0:59.2 | This is a really weird one that's captivated us for a while now. |
| 1:03.6 | Gentlemen, I ask you, do you have a favorite monster? |
| 1:08.1 | Do you have a favorite legend, fairy tale, tall tale? It changes week to week. |
| 1:12.8 | Okay. Depending. I'm just a monster of the week reference. No, favorite monster. Jeez Louise. |
| 1:18.8 | I really like that guy. You know that guy? The pale man? I know that guy. Yeah, from earlier. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like him. |
| 1:27.2 | He's a little del Toro creation for what? That is Pan's Labyrinth. I would have accepted. Thank you. Thank you. Also, whatever the death demon kind of grim reaper guy at the end of that is with the crazy wings, love that one. Also love a lot of the monsters in Scrooge. I just really dig the design of the Scroogeed |
| 1:47.1 | monsters. Scrooge is great. I guess they're ghosts. Can't go wrong with practical effects. |
| 1:51.1 | Okay, so ghost. What about you, Matt? Does something like the philosopher's stone fit as like a |
| 1:57.0 | legendary thing? Yeah, absolutely. It's alchemical. There's a crossover for sure. |
| 2:01.9 | And those ancient concepts of alchemy that you could somehow through man's ingenuity |
| 2:08.7 | and a little bit of magic change one substance into another. |
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