Strange News: Crickets Are Back on the Menu, RFK and Bear Corpse Litter, the EPA versus Herbicide, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Singapore approves insects as a food source -- and the reasoning behind this may surprise you. The EPA (finally) bans an incredibly dangerous herbicide known as DCPA. Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. comes clean about dropping a bear carcass in New York's Central Park. Plus: the Scottish corpse shortage, a questionable suicide, and weekly spy updates. 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.
0:06.7	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:11.6	A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They called me Ben. We're
0:29.4	joined with our guest super producer Max the Freightrained most importantly you are you you are here that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know
0:40.0	we're at the beginning of birthday month as we call it here on this show and for anybody with an August birthday
0:48.0	We wish you well and Grand Adventure we have so much stuff to get to. The EPA is getting on message with some things
0:57.1	that we talked about a few years ago. We've got some notable politicians in the news,
1:02.4	but maybe not in the way you think we promise
1:04.8	We did want to start we're talking off air, but with one quick update a while back
1:12.0	We reported on a Kansas City small town newspaper rate. Do you guys remember that one?
1:19.3	Oh yes. So that was a big deal.
1:22.8	Someone died in, someone died in connection
1:26.1	with the raid on the newspaper or the house, right?
1:30.4	Yes, yeah.
1:31.9	The big news, the big update is that the former police chief who led the raid on this Kansas City newspaper for doing their journalistic duty.
1:42.9	His name is Gideon Cody.
1:45.0	He is going to be charged in the Marion County District Court.
1:49.5	And the report says that this guy, a actual police chief at the time, committed the crime of obstruction of justice by knowingly or intentionally inducing a witness to withhold or unreasonably delay the production of testimony,
2:07.0	info, or documents. You can read more about this on multiple outlets, but I think we're all very happy to see that there were consequences for this.
2:16.2	Because like cast your memory back just last year, it felt like this could be a harbinger of other
2:22.0	crackdowns on the press right?
2:23.4	Oh 100% I mean it really does feel like a kind of bullying tactic to make the
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