The Elf On The Shelf Is Part of the Surveillance State!
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Ben, Matt and Noel have a special, spoiler-filled episode just for you, fellow Conspiracy Realists! You see, something strange happened over recent years: Santa, Rudolph and all the usual characters of Christmas have been joined by a new entity... a little Elf, hanging around your house from Thanksgiving to Christmas Day, and reporting your behavior to Santa Claus every single night. At first blush, this is wholesome and delightful. But... why are so many parents, experts and journalists concerned about the Elf on the Shelf? Is the Elf normalizing an Orwellian surveillance state?
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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 IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. |
| 0:29.7 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.5 | They call me Ben. We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee |
| 0:35.3 | pal Fagan. Most importantly, you are you, you are here. |
| 0:39.6 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:43.4 | Little bit of a Christmas freestyle. |
| 0:45.8 | He sees you when you're sleeping. |
| 0:48.3 | He knows when you're awake. |
| 0:50.5 | He knows if you've been bad or good. |
| 0:52.9 | It's a new surveillance state. |
| 0:54.9 | Hey! |
| 0:56.8 | Opa, right? |
| 0:57.8 | Did we pay for that? |
| 1:00.2 | No. |
| 1:01.6 | So it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and we have a special spoiler-filled episode |
| 1:07.4 | just for you, fellow conspiracy realist. |
| 1:10.7 | We were talking about this off air for |
| 1:12.9 | quite some time. Something strange happened over recent years, right? We've all heard of Santa Claus, |
| 1:19.8 | of Rudolph and the reindeer at all. But around the United States and around the world, |
| 1:25.1 | numerous children have been introduced to a new character. |
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