Strange News: Bear Fraud, Iraq and Child Marriage, The Onion Buys Infowars, China's Peruvian Megaport and More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A Swedish leader is terrified of bananas. A group of ne'er-do-wells get busted for bear fraud. Some Iraqi politicians want to lower the legal age of consent to 9 years old. The Onion buys Infowars. A US defense contractor pays out 43 million USD for its role in torturing Abu Ghraib detainees. Over in Peru, China's building a megaport - and no one's sure what will happen next. 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 IHeart Radio. Hello. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:28.8 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:29.9 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:31.2 | They call me, Ben. |
| 0:32.5 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:37.3 | Most importantly, you are you, |
| 0:39.5 | you are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. If you are hearing this strange |
| 0:47.2 | news segment on the day it publishes or the evening, let us be the first to welcome you to November 25th, |
| 0:57.1 | 24. As people reckon the calendar, we have so many updates. We have so much strange news from across the globe. Maybe one |
| 1:04.4 | that would be interesting for us to kick off with here is, do you guys hear that about that Swedish leader who's terrified of bananas |
| 1:13.1 | uh no but i can i can relate i don't trust the shape and the peel and you slip on them you're dead |
| 1:22.7 | i mean come on if mario card has taught us anything. Yeah, but they're also radioactive. |
| 1:28.3 | They are. |
| 1:29.9 | Yes, that is true. |
| 1:36.7 | You know, the story of the banana is fascinating on its own, given the fact that, you know, |
| 1:42.7 | the reason banana candy, banana flavor candy doesn't taste the same as bananas in your grocery stores entirely because the gross |
| 1:44.6 | Michelle almost got wiped out, right, and replaced by the Cavendish banana. |
| 1:49.9 | It's a nuts-o story, maybe more for ridiculous history. |
| 1:53.7 | We do have to give a quick trigger warning to our palina Brandberg, who is a Swedish minister with an intense |
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