What happened to Harold Holt?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt, the immensely popular prime minister of Australia, went for a swim -- and vanished. In the decades since, his family and the public still have questions about what exactly happened. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore a mystery that remains unsolved in the modern day, along with a meditation on empathy, and a bevy of increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories.
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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 IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:26.0 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:26.8 | My name is Noon. |
| 0:28.3 | They called me Ben. |
| 0:29.9 | We're joined as always with our super producer, Andrew the Triforce Howard. |
| 0:34.3 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:36.2 | You are here. |
| 0:36.9 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:41.1 | You know, guys, we were talking, oh, a little while back off air. We've spent quite a bit of time recently |
| 0:48.6 | exploring present and future conspiracies and folks with so many bizarre and troubling events occurred, |
| 0:57.0 | who can blame us? |
| 0:58.2 | Like, uh, Noel, Matt, Andrew, have you guys checked the stock market recently? |
| 1:03.2 | Nope. |
| 1:04.8 | I looked at it this morning. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm good. |
| 1:07.4 | As of April 7th, it was way down. |
| 1:12.4 | You know what, though, y'all? |
| 1:14.7 | Sorry, I hate to be silver lining guy. |
| 1:16.9 | It's very bad. |
| 1:18.0 | But we have lived through these kinds of corrections and recessions before. |
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