From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events.

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. Our colleague Noel is still on an

adventure but we'll be returning very soon.

They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control Decant.

Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. Let's begin tonight's exploration with a fantastic,

if arguably a bit pretentious quotation from the excellent writer David Foster Wallace.

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way who nods at them and says,

Martin boys, how's the water?

And the two young fish swim on for a bit,

and then eventually one of them looks over at the other

and goes, what the hell is water?

That's by, this is water, David Foster Wallace.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

That describes exactly what each and every one of us does when we open our eyes in the morning.

Right. And we have to participate in this thing that civilization has decided to call reality.

spoiler, no one knows how it works.

It's a question that's haunted philosophers, profits and scientists

throughout the span of known history a conundrum that probably to be honest predates technology like fire or the written word

we're still tried to figure it out and in tonight's episode we are returning to

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