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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

The Post-Pandemic Price Hike Conspiracy

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

During the height of the Covid lockdown, prices for all sorts of things skyrocketed -- global supply chains broke, numerous companies (and, more importantly, families) struggled to survive. Economists, CEOs and politicians alike assured the public that after the pandemic passed, prices would return to 'normal.' Fast forward to 2025: it's post-lockdown... and, if anything, prices have continued to rise. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel ask what's going on -- and discover a very real conspiracy at play.

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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.

0:27.3

My name is Matt.

0:28.6

My name is Noel.

0:29.6

They call me, Ben.

0:31.2

We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.

0:36.2

Most importantly, you are you are you you are here that makes

0:40.2

this the stuff they don't want you to know apologies for my intro there guys I'm laughing

0:46.1

because I'm imagining how this episode will go uh we travel a lot uh we're just regular entities, like we were saying in an early episode.

0:57.8

I don't know about you guys.

0:59.3

I wake up at sunset just like everybody else, put my skin on one leg at a time, and venture

1:05.5

off into the night.

1:07.4

Like, we're approachable entities, right?

1:09.8

So it's sunset. Got it got it okay venturing into the

1:13.0

yeah because of the you know how it is picturing your routine do you do a skincare regimen before

1:17.6

you've been around since the ages past before you've crossed oceans of time

1:26.8

before uh before uh the thing is before you put the skin Before. You've crossed oceans of time. Oh, no.

1:35.7

Before, the thing is, before you put the skin away, right, for your torpor stage, you got to wash it first.

1:38.0

So everybody remember that, okay?

1:39.0

Just a little hygiene. It starts to smell, right?

1:41.4

So what we're saying is we're approachable regular entities. And we go to

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