What is diplomatic immunity? Part III: Shadow Diplomacy

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Everyone knows that diplomatic positions come with a variety of perks and protections, as well as serious responsibilities. But what if you were able to enjoy some of the benefits of being a diplomat, without all those pesky rules and regulations? While it may sound thoroughly illegal, shadow diplomats are very much real -- and a subject of growing concern. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel discover the troubling secrets of a hidden world rife with crime, corruption and conspiracy.

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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.
0:29.0	My name is Matt.
0:30.0	My name is Noel.
0:31.4	They called me bed here.
0:33.9	We're joined as always with our super producer, producer Dylan the Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly,
0:39.9	you are you, you are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:46.1	Guys, we all remember our recent two-part series on diplomatic immunity, right?
0:51.8	Who could forget? It was a golden time for the podcast.
0:55.4	We don't want to have plausible deniability on that.
0:58.3	Oh, man, I already messed it up.
0:59.9	It's too late.
1:01.3	Cover blown!
1:04.1	Yeah, we dove deep into fact fiction, corruption, and controversy surrounding these strange, this strange sort of rubric
1:14.6	we collectively call diplomacy and modern civilization. Please check out the series. We get weird
1:22.8	with it, but folks, remember this. Everything we talked about in those previous two chapters,
1:30.4	that applies to the formal official stuff.
1:33.4	As we teased earlier in part two,
1:36.3	there's an entirely different layer of diplomacy.
1:40.6	The public does not know about largely.
1:44.1	So what do you guys think?
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