Uncontacted Tribes: Fact and Fiction
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt at Noel separate fact from the fiction surrounding uncontacted peoples: Who's the most off-grid person you know? Have you ever fantasized about clocking out of the modern rat race, heading for the boonies, and living off the land with your loved ones? While 'uncontacted' communities are a huge part of film and fiction, it seems increasingly difficult for these folks to exist amid the breakneck pace of progress, pollution and the Information Age.
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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. |
| 0:11.9 | A production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:26.8 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:27.7 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:29.5 | They called me, Ben. |
| 0:33.8 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal fake. |
| 0:36.0 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:37.1 | You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:41.4 | Let's begin this way. Who is the most off-the-grid person you've ever met? |
| 0:47.0 | You? |
| 0:48.9 | Is that true? |
| 0:50.1 | Yeah. Yeah, I think so. |
| 0:52.6 | I think it's a fair assessment. You're an off-the-grid-esque individual, wouldn't you say? |
| 0:57.4 | I would here on the Internet. |
| 0:59.3 | Okay, there we go. Well, you know, I mean, you are shrouded in mystery, Ben. That's very kind of. I don't know. No, I mean, you're definitely the most go-baggy type person that I know, very prepared, very aware of all the threats that face us |
| 1:13.5 | from the corporate and governmental overlords. Oh gosh, thank you, man. I appreciate that. |
| 1:20.7 | I'm not the most off-the-grid person I know by any means. Of course, off-the-grid people, |
| 1:26.0 | no other off-the-grid people. Right. Sure. What about you, Matt? |
| 1:30.9 | A friend of mine from high school moved out kind of in the middle of nowhere to a farm, which is, I guess, the |
| 1:39.8 | closest thing that I know, but it doesn't mean they don't have internet or they don't go to stores |
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