Strange News: Iran, Hidden History, Ghana, Corruption in Office, and More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Things are heating up in the Middle East -- as the world studies a possible correlation between pizza orders and US military activity, the United States Air Force and Navy launch the largest B-2 operation in history, striking multiple sites in the nation of Iran. A curious trade group in Ghana protests a new tax regime. Over in Chicago, a long-serving legislator gets popped for frankly cartoonish levels of corruption. 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. Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:27.8 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:28.8 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.0 | They call me bed. |
| 0:31.3 | We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:35.8 | Most importantly, you are you, you are here. That makes |
| 0:39.1 | this the stuff they don't want you to know. Folks, there are a ton of things happening in the |
| 0:46.1 | news and around the world today. We are recording on Wednesday, June 18th. This strange |
| 0:52.3 | news program will publish on June 23rd. And it's going to be |
| 0:57.0 | diplomatically put. It's going to be interesting to see what Monday looks like. And I'm |
| 1:03.7 | trying to be positive when we say that. Yeah. |
| 1:07.7 | Not looking good. Maybe everything will work out. |
| 1:11.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:12.6 | I like to try to live by those words, but it doesn't always work out. |
| 1:16.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:17.6 | One thing I think we all kind of predicted but found confirmed by recent research is that if you're learning about news outside of this show, then statistically |
| 1:31.2 | in the United States, you're learning about it through social media. So a shout out to the |
| 1:37.3 | recent article by Ian Young's over at the BBC. Please check it out for a read. And guys, |
| 1:43.3 | I think we all just kind of assumed that social media was a bigger and |
| 1:47.4 | bigger source of, quote unquote, news for most of the U.S., right? |
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