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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Strange News: Is the Hantavirus a New Pandemic? Corruption in Georgia, Data Centers, Chinese Spies, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The world follows the bizarre saga of a hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius. Is a new pandemic on the way? A small-town mayor in Georgia attempts to fire the entire police force. The ongoing data center controversy. 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. My name is Matt.

0:28.6

My name is Noam. They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

0:38.5

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

0:41.8

if you are tuning in to our strange news program.

0:44.8

The evening it publishes, welcome one and all,

0:47.7

to May 18th, 2026th.

0:51.9

It's a time to be alive. I don't know if it's a great time, but it's definitely a time where

0:58.4

people are alive. And we wanted to talk about a couple of things at the open before we get

1:05.0

to some very important updates and some very strange news that is largely being ignored.

1:11.3

First things first, guys, you know how when people work in local politics,

1:17.1

they often have a number of side gigs, right?

1:21.2

Like your comptroller, your county commissioner, your school board people,

1:26.2

even your mayors might have another job as an investor.

1:30.0

Oh, I was going to say driving for Uber.

1:32.1

Or driving for Uber.

1:33.1

That's comptroller stuff, yeah.

1:34.8

Maybe I was just unaware of that.

1:36.4

I didn't, I don't think about that when I think about local government.

1:39.4

I imagine them in an office like all the time.

1:42.2

Right.

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