Strange News: A Terrifying New York Mystery, Peeing in Theaters, Pentagon Wiling Out, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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As world leaders convene for the United Nations General Assembly, the US Secret Service uncovers a massive telecom conspiracy -- and has no idea who created it. People are out here peeing in theatres, it's Fat Beer Week as we record, and the Pentagon declares journalists must tow the party line. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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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. Welcome back to the show.
0:27.5	My name is Matt.
0:28.3	My name is Noel.
0:29.2	They call me, Ben.
0:30.3	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:34.8	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:37.3	That makes this the stuff they
0:39.3	don't want you to know with a returning special guest, Dr. Vankman here. If you are tuning in the
0:46.4	evening, our strange news publishes, welcome to September 29th, the last strange news of September 2025.
0:57.0	We're coming back and we wanted to open the show with a very old joke that we love that just came back into the zeitgeist, as I was saying, quoting Jimmy Kimmel here.
1:12.4	Already, yeah, joining our commentary already in progress from when we were rudely interrupted.
1:16.6	Not us, but the royal we.
1:19.0	Yeah, it only lasted a weekend and a day.
1:21.1	And it's still not a total reemergence or restitution because, as we know, several of the syndication networks
1:31.6	that control various outfits or regional distribution rights for Jimmy's show still have refused
1:39.9	to air his broadcast.
1:42.5	But he is officially back despite the protestations of Sinclair and Next Star. I found out, guys, where you live, you could have watched it live on ABC. Where I live, I was unable to watch it anywhere live. I was not allowed to.
2:01.5	Because they, yeah, you would have to do something crazy, like go to the internet.
2:06.0	Well, on the internet, I would have to do something illegal to watch it or to buy, I guess,
2:11.7	Hulu Live plus Apple, Disney TV.
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