Strange News: Julian Assange is "Free," the Pentagon went Anti-Vaxx, Social Media as Cigarettes, Telehealth Busted Peddling ADHD Medication

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange secures "freedom" in Australia. The Pentagon planned a massive anti-vaccination scheme to discredit China. The US Surgeon General wants warning labels on social media. Private health companies get busted peddling medicine -- and some folks are going to jail. 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.
0:07.0	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They call me
0:28.6	Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer Alexis the Brit Jackson most importantly you are you you
0:36.0	are here that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know fellow
0:40.6	conspiracy realist long time, it feels so great to be back now.
0:47.0	Like, hopefully, the majority of America, we took Juneteenth off.
0:52.6	We treated it as the holiday it deserves to be treated as.
0:56.7	And as a result, we had a couple of classic episodes
1:00.1	in place of our Strange News and listener mail programs last week.
1:03.5	We hope you enjoyed them and we hope they freaked you out as much as they freaked us out
1:08.9	when we recorded them.
1:10.8	Back in 1947.
1:14.0	Yes, as the human calendars reckon.
1:17.0	We have a lot, we have a lot of cool stuff to get to because, well, I say cool.
1:22.4	It's interesting stuff, it is strange news, and what we found was that,
1:27.4	weirdly enough, last week when we were going to, previously on stuff they don't want you to know, when we were going to record
1:35.3	strange news, we had a bevy, a literal cavalcade of different stories.
1:41.6	A lot of things happened in the interim between our time now
1:46.0	and our time then and we cannot wait to share them with you.
1:49.3	And the good news is some of them have developed even further since that time and others have just remained
1:54.4	delightfully evergreen.
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