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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Strange News: Do you recall ice cream? AI Religion, Campbell's Soup, New Pesticides and More.

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Recent changes in social media reveal a vast network of trolls, prompting Ben to ask the gang, once again, about the dilemma of anonymity. The FDA folds on new pesticides. As predicted, AI launches a religion. There's this whole thing about Campbell's soup. 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. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.

0:28.9

My name is Noel.

0:29.9

They call me Ben. We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.

0:35.5

Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

0:38.7

That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know,

0:42.2

friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realists.

0:44.7

It's time for some strange news.

0:47.0

If you're hanging with us the evening, our program publishes,

0:51.0

welcome to December.

0:53.6

Gentlemen, it's December 1st as we're going live with this.

0:58.1

Oh, yeah, right now it's November 26th, and Thanksgiving is like tomorrow, I think, right?

1:03.0

That's the one that moves around, the movable feast.

1:05.7

Yeah, here in the United States.

1:08.1

It's a problematic holiday for a lot of reasons, but it's also,

1:13.5

it's also a time when, you know, it's like the kickoff of that part of the year at the

1:19.3

states where people tend to be a little bit nicer to each other. That halcyon period between

1:27.2

Thanksgiving all the way up to the end of the year.

1:31.1

So we hope that you, as you're hearing this, if you're in the States, you have already celebrated

1:36.1

Thanksgiving. We hope that you had an okay time. You know, we hope you got to hang with your

1:43.0

family, your friends, your chosen loved ones,

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