Strange News: China Says Influencers Need Bonafides, a Bunch of the Usual Epstein Stuff, Space Food From Pee, and Even More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Congress finally cosigns the release of a bunch of emails from Jeffrey Epstein, which confirm earlier conversation. Europe aims to feed astronauts through a pretty fascinating process using human urine (yes, it is as weird as it sounds). Over in China, Uncle Xi demands all online influencers speaking about finance, law or medicine verify that they do, in fact, have some sort of expertise in their purported fields, prompting Ben, Matt and Noel to examine the nature of free speech. 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, welcome back to the show.
0:28.6	My name is Matt.
0:29.4	My name is Noel.
0:30.3	They called me Ben.
0:31.5	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:35.9	Most importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes
0:39.3	this the stuff they don't want you to know. It's our weekly strange news program. So let us welcome
0:46.6	you to Monday, November 17th, 2025. Raise your hand if you're not in prison. Oh, God.
0:54.2	Not in a U.S. official prison.
0:57.3	I guess we're all in a prison of existence.
0:59.1	An existential prison of the mind, yes.
1:01.5	There are a few people listening to this on a cell block who just went, oh.
1:06.8	Raise your hand.
1:07.9	We're here with you.
1:09.0	We're all in it together.
1:10.7	That's our segue because we have been super tuned in to a lot of strange news as we hurt all headlong toward 2026.
1:21.7	And Galane Maxwell from earlier is apparently getting some very special treatment in incarceration.
1:29.6	We're talking neck massages, snacks.
1:32.8	What do we, what are we talking?
1:34.0	Deference.
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