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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

What Just Happened In Venezuela -- And Why?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

While the relationship between the United States and Venezuela has been tense in recent decades, things massively escalated earlier this year. The U.S. unilaterally invaded Venezuela, abducting sitting President Nicolás Maduro, along with his spouse, to face drug and terrorism charges. Yet the American public is increasingly skeptical about the official reasoning here. Could this really be about drugs? Oil? Something else? Join Ben and Matt to learn more.

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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. My name is Matt. Our colleague Noel is on an adventure, but we'll be returning shortly.

0:31.7

They call me Ben, and you can too. We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.

0:40.9

Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

0:44.3

That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know now.

0:49.2

Friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realists, travelers and hometown kids alike, we could admit the world is in

0:58.2

kind of a dicey place, right? Kind of a dicey place. As we're recording this, the Oscars

1:06.0

occurred last night and Conan O'Brien got up there on the stage and was being joky and joking and joking

1:11.3

around and then at one moment just before the monologue finished he said now let me be real for a

1:16.8

second and he just pointed out how insane everything feels and how nice it is to celebrate

1:22.9

storytelling and dreaming at the Oscars which just warmed my heart a little bit, Conan.

1:28.0

Yeah, we're big fans, you Conan. Keep it up. Actually, I recently ranked you as the number one

1:36.5

Conan. So sorry to Conan the Barbarian. Oh, that's a tough sell for me, but okay. It's a tough one, but you earned it, O'Brien, and we'd love to hang out with you in the

1:48.0

future.

1:48.7

The thing is so much keeps happening.

1:51.4

It is honestly difficult now for the average person to keep track of every new allegation

1:58.7

or conspiracy that pops up nowadays, not to mention the old conspiracies

2:04.0

that turn out to have more truth to them than initially thought.

2:07.9

Cough Cough Cove, Havana Syndrome, Cough, Cough, Cough, Jack O'Brien, I was right.

2:12.3

Cough Cough Cough.

2:15.5

Sorry, I had a cough there.

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