State Militias: Fact and Fiction

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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What does the Consitution say about self-armed paramilitary forces? Can a state create its own defense force, functioning under the supervision of a governor rather than the command of the larger armed forces? Inspired by an earlier conversation with Conspiracy Realist Anonymous Owl, the guys explore the bizarre position of state militias in the U.S. -- and what this odd legal arrangement may mean for the future of the country.

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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.
0:12.1	A production of IHeart Radio. Hello and welcome back to the show.
0:26.2	My name is Noel.
0:27.7	Our colleague Matt is on an adventure and shall be returning soon.
0:32.3	They call me Ben.
0:34.0	We are joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagin. Most importantly, you are you. You are joined as always with our super producer Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. Most
0:39.0	importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:46.7	Noel, tonight you and Dylan and I are embarking on the first part of what may be a continuing series. Remember a while back in our
0:58.5	listener mail program, we received a letter from a conspiracy realist who was going to,
1:06.2	she was going to jury duty. She was auditioning for jury duty.
1:14.7	And she received, I can't not think of it that way.
1:15.1	It's true.
1:15.9	It's true.
1:18.7	Yeah, I passed one and I failed one.
1:22.2	So, you know, I guess that's not too bad.
1:25.4	Yeah, I always want the callback, though, right?
1:27.2	The approval, the validation. I am a good juror. Sort of until you realize what it entails. Yeah, always what the callback, though, right? The approval, the validation.
1:29.7	Sort of until you realize what it entails.
1:31.9	Yeah, exactly.
1:47.4	So this conspiracy realist received a weird question in her jury duty process, and they asked her if she had ever been in a state militia,
1:50.3	which prompted her to write to us. And we found that this is a concept worth exploring in an episode or possibly a series thereof
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