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.

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Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Met.

My name is Noel. They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer,

Alexis Codemamed, Doc Holiday Jackson. Most importantly, you are you, you are here,

and that makes this stuff they don't want you to know. Let's start in January of 1961.

Well, although this isn't really where our story begins, on January 17th, 1961,

an outgoing US president named Dwight D Eisenhower spoke to the American nation in his

farewell address. Now, as history buffs know, Eisenhower was a military guy. He wasn't a diplomat,

he wasn't kind, you know, like a lawyer or something. He wasn't given to pervarication.

He didn't guild the lily very well. He was pretty blunt in his speech that day,

and he issued the following warning.

In the Councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted

influence whether sought or unsought by the military industrial complex.

So we've heard that phrase. That phrase has come up in our show pretty often before,

right guys? The military industrial complex. Oh, yeah. It's a bit of a buzz phrase at this point

in history, I would say. Yeah, and it means a great number of things. And to have Dwight D Eisenhower,

a man who knew his stuff, speaking about it in that way, was certainly a warning.

Yeah, a warning that would go on to become infamous and tremendously impactful,

especially as more and more of the public became aware of the truth behind the 34th

president's words, because for a long time, you know, the heads of business and the heads of

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