The Illuminati of Online Dating, Chapter One: The Game of Love
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Prior to the emergence of chronically-online civilization, people often met romantic partners through geographical, socioeconomic, or religious proximity. In recent evening, a proliferation of internet-powered websites and applications promise to connect you with someone you will absolutely love... perhaps for life, perhaps for a night. And, while all these venues of romance may seem distinct, Ben reveals the truth to Matt and Noel: there is a real -- and dangerous -- conspiracy afoot.
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.9 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.1 | A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:26.3 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:27.3 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:28.6 | They call me, Ben. |
| 0:30.1 | We are joined as always with our super producer, Andrew Triforce Howard. |
| 0:34.6 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:36.8 | You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want |
| 0:41.2 | you to know. Folks, we are at the end of the calendar year of 2024. A lot of people are dealing |
| 0:49.9 | with love, hard won, love hard lost, and it's often said, the course of true love never did |
| 0:58.5 | run smooth. We didn't make that up. That's Shakespeare. |
| 1:01.4 | Oh, man, he's no slouch. Or maybe he didn't make it up either. Isn't there a whole thing that |
| 1:05.4 | maybe he didn't write any of his own stuff? I think that's been pretty well debunked, though, right? |
| 1:09.3 | Right. We have an episode on that as well, but it's something everybody can agree with, |
| 1:15.6 | Noel. It's one of the few consistent patterns across all of humanity's strange experiment. |
| 1:22.7 | You know, most of us tuning in tonight have at one point or another sadly encountered heartbreak. And it's, |
| 1:30.8 | it's weird to think about how privileged we are here in the modern age because back in the day, |
| 1:37.8 | romance, like the person you would spend your life with, it was primarily decided by your |
| 1:44.0 | physical and socioeconomic proximity. |
| 1:47.9 | Oh, how things have changed. No, not, not. Well, in your family, right? They just say, |
| 1:53.1 | this other family, it's going to be strategic for us. So you're going to take one for the team. |
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