The End of Ownership
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
For most of modern history, the concept of ownership was pretty simple. You paid for something, either all at once or over time, and boom: you owned it. However, as Ben, Matt and Noel discover in today's episode, powerful forces are conspiring to push consumers away from owning stuff, and into a world of constant, unending subscriptions. "You will own nothing," says the World Economic Forum, "and you will be happy." So what does this mean for the future? How long do we have before we live in a world without ownership?
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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. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.4 | They called me dead. We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagin. |
| 0:36.8 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:38.6 | You are here. |
| 0:39.7 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:43.7 | Proud to not be paywalled for the better part of a decade plus now. |
| 0:50.4 | Guys, let's start. |
| 0:51.4 | Unlike everything else in life. |
| 0:52.6 | Right. |
| 0:53.2 | As this video is currently paywalled. |
| 0:56.0 | Right. |
| 0:56.5 | Let's start it this way. |
| 0:58.8 | Thanks for tuning in if you're on Netflix to that point. |
| 1:01.7 | Thanks for listening to this episode on your podcast platform of choice question for the gallery here. |
| 1:09.0 | How many subscriptions do you have? Matt, Dylan, Nolan, I were |
| 1:14.9 | talking about that a little bit briefly off air. And Tennessee is the only guy in that conversation |
| 1:22.0 | who could name all of his subscriptions. Tennessee, are you comfortable hitting this with it? |
| 1:27.2 | I believe I currently have nine. |
| 1:28.8 | I like to keep a list so that I'm not paying extra for anything. |
| 1:32.3 | Smart. |
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