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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Strange News: Hacking Traffic Cameras, Kansas vs. the Innocent, China Reacts to Iran, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Strange News segment, Ben, Matt and Noel dive into assassinations, the erosion of rights, China's reaction to the war against Iran, and more. Recents reveal Israeli spies hacked the entirety of Tehran's traffic cameras for years in the lead-up to the assassination of the Ayatollah. Infamous Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes had been murdered, and buried in a gold coffin. Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences. The U.S. fired the FBI's counterintelligence just days before Uncle Sam struck Iran. Tune in to learn about all this and more.

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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.

0:27.8

My name is Matt.

0:28.7

My name is Noel.

0:29.7

They call me Ben.

0:30.9

We're joined as always with our super producer, Dillett, the Tennessee pal Fagin.

0:35.1

Most importantly, you argue you are here.

0:38.5

That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know if you are tuning in to our

0:43.7

strange news program, the evening it publishes.

0:47.0

Welcome to March 9th.

0:49.7

It's a Monday.

0:50.6

It's not quite the aides of March, but it is a time to celebrate because we're here.

0:57.1

You are here. How are you guys doing? Equally portentious. Portentous? Portentous?

1:02.6

Portentious. You nailed it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Since the last time we recorded, we recorded

1:09.7

strange news that you heard last week, I guess. You know, there's basically World War III happening. Yay. Well, when you put it like that, Matt. I don't think it's... You're not wrong, dude. You're not wrong. It's hot. You don't think it's yay?

1:28.8

I think it's nay.

1:30.5

It's, it's nay. Also, just, you know, World War III, it ain't quite yet, but it's, it's got the flavor.

1:36.8

Did World War II ever end, right?

1:39.8

Are we seeing the tail end of it?

1:42.1

We also know, look, this is, to your point, Matt, this is yay for some people.

1:49.0

This is yay for some investors.

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