What's Happening in Iran?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As global tensions rise and the world order seems increasingly imperiled, the nation of Iran is suffering a massive crisis of legitimacy. A collapsing currency, economic chaos, exploding prices, a water crisis and brutal government oppression have led to an unprecedented wave of protests. The government responded by blacking out the internet, and cracking down on civilians with torture, arrests, live fire and murder. In today's episode, the guys make contact with Conspiracy Realists in the country to learn more about what's really going on in Iran -- and what may happen next.
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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. |
| 0:12.0 | A production of IHeartRadie. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:28.5 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:29.5 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.2 | They call me, Ben. |
| 0:31.6 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:36.7 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:38.9 | You are here. |
| 0:39.9 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:43.8 | And welcome, welcome, welcome back. |
| 0:45.9 | We are recording this episode on, oh, guys, I had it in the notes as Friday, February 6th. |
| 0:53.9 | Now we're 9 February Monday. Anyway, we're traveling to |
| 0:58.9 | Iran. |
| 0:59.6 | Figuratively, in our minds and definitely in our hearts. Stuff is not going super well over there. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, but it's going great over here, guys. Don't you think? We just had a Super Bowl? |
| 1:11.5 | It was super, that's for sure. |
| 1:32.0 | Apparently, with a very offensive halftime show. It's not superb owl. Did you guys watch the halftime show? I just saw the clips. I did. Yeah, you said it was pretty cool, right? It was like quite the spectacle. I watched both of them. Yeah, the one that played, you know, on the television on NBC only on NBC, just like the Olympics. |
| 1:35.3 | Apparently, they're really, wow, they're getting the programming over there, aren't they? |
| 1:36.9 | That one was really cool. It, especially if you watch some of the analysis afterwards, just the symbolic nature of what was shown on the sets, you know, in particular. |
| 1:46.9 | Sugar cane, very wholesome exploration of history of what it means to be an American in Puerto Rico. |
| 1:54.8 | So why the, why all the beef? I just don't, I've never, I mean, not even to politicize any of it, but I just, it seems like |
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