The Terrible Thing People Say When They Think No One Is Listening (with Ben Palmer)
Mission Implausible
iHeartPodcasts
3.9 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Ben Palmer (Palmer Trolls) does sort-of-pranks that have evolved from satire to social experiment. Using aliases, fake websites and a “deportation hotline,” Palmer reveals how easily ordinary people are drawn into exposing their own bad behavior and unabashed racism (he would make a terrific CIA case officer). Watch his video about pretending to be the social media person for three months for Republican Congressman Ted Yoho. Palmer’s work reveals truths about human behavior and predatory systems, exposing the parallels of American’s current experience to that of authoritarian regimes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Mission Implausible is now something you can watch. |
| 0:07.6 | Just go to YouTube and search Mission Implausible Podcasts or click on the link to our channel in our show notes. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm John Seifer. |
| 0:16.5 | And I'm Jerry O'Shea. |
| 0:18.0 | We have over 60 years of experience as clandestine officers in the CIA, |
| 0:22.3 | serving in high-risk areas all around the world. |
| 0:24.9 | And part of our job was creating conspiracies to deceive our adversaries. |
| 0:29.5 | Now we're going to use that experience to investigate the conspiracy theories everyone's talking about, |
| 0:34.5 | as well as some you may not have heard. |
| 0:36.0 | Could they be true, or are we being manipulated? We'll find out now on mission implausible. So today's guest is comedian Ben Palmer, |
| 0:47.0 | whose deadpan prank style has made him one of the sharpest satirical voices online, |
| 0:51.3 | whether he's exposing the absurdity of political culture, trolling public figures, |
| 0:55.4 | or turning a simple phone call into a miniature social experiment, Ben's head is a way of making |
| 0:59.7 | people laugh first and then realize they've also been thinking about something much bigger. |
| 1:03.5 | So, Ben, thank you so much for being here with us. |
| 1:05.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:07.4 | Man, so I don't know if people are following you and they should follow you online, |
| 1:10.7 | but you have |
| 1:11.1 | this incredible ability as a comedian to sound completely calm while the world around you |
| 1:15.8 | is morally on fire. |
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