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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Machines Are Watching You | And They Know Everything (Compilation)

5/17/20262 hr 56 min

Secret listening posts sit inside ordinary buildings in major cities. Numbers stations still broadcast coded messages over shortwave radio — and no one officially admits why. This compilation traces the full arc of modern surveillance, from hidden urban infrastructure and sonic weapons to subliminal influence campaigns and a computer virus that nearly started a world war. Havana Syndrome left diplomats with brain injuries and no official explanation. A wire encircles New York City that most residents have never heard of. And at the end of it all sits the quantum computer — a machine powerful enough to crack every encrypted secret humanity has ever kept. Nothing stays hidden forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

    [upbeat music] Hear the roar comes out. Now streaming on Paramount Plus. Beth and Rip are back in Dutton Ranch.

  2. AJ Gentile· Host0:05

    [dramatic music] This life here is gonna work, isn't it?

  3. Speaker 30:09

    We'll make it work.

  4. Speaker 10:10

    [upbeat music] Hear the roar comes out. Starring Kelly Reilly- A legacy is a beautiful thing, but only if it survives ... Cole Hauser- Let's go to work ... Ed Harris- Family is the only thing worth fighting for ... and Annette Bening.

  5. Speaker 60:21

    I can make this a lot harder for all y'all.

  6. AJ Gentile· Host0:23

    Then peace will have to wait.

  7. Speaker 10:25

    Dutton Ranch, new series now streaming on Paramount Plus.

  8. Hecklefish· Host0:29

    [upbeat music] Every move we make. Every vow we break. Every smile we fake. Every claim we stake. They'll be watching us. Holy flux. You scared the crap out of me. Welcome to my Faraday cage. I'm calling it Cage Against the Machine, where we chew the wire and damn the current. Trademark pending. Wait, how did you find us? The human and the fish have been compromised. So I didn't tell them, but maybe... Uh, um, Wyatt, stop telling people about the cage. You've got the survival skills of a crawfish at Harry Connick Jr.'s baptism. If there was a zombie apocalypse, I swear to God you'd be zombie number two. Quick, get inside. It's dangerous out there. We beavers

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