Strange News: Laser-guided Lightning, Election Fraud, and Putin Wants to Give Himself Lifetime Immunity?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Humans may soon be able to control lightning, pointing it at targets. Voter fraud (but not the vote you're thinking of). Russian President Vladimir Putin is giving himself lifetime legal immunity from, well... anything. All this and more in this week's Strange News.
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| 0:00.0 | Alphabet Boys is a new podcast series that goes inside undercover investigations. |
| 0:05.0 | In the first season, we're diving into an FBI investigation of the 2020 protests. |
| 0:10.0 | It involves a cigar smoking mystery man who drives a silver hers. |
| 0:14.0 | And in Sava's house we'll like a lot of guns. |
| 0:16.0 | But are federal agents catching bad guys or creating them? |
| 0:19.0 | He was just waiting for me to set the date, the time, and then for sure he was trying to get it to happen. |
| 0:24.0 | Listen to Alphabet Boys on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or Reverend AirPods. |
| 0:30.0 | In 1967, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, flees Russia for her new home, America. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, everybody. I am very happy to be here. |
| 0:40.0 | That story alone is worthy of a podcast, but Spedlana Spedlana is about what comes next. |
| 0:47.0 | And it's the craziest story I've ever heard. |
| 0:50.0 | It has KGB agents, a Frank Lloyd Wright commune, weird sex stuff, three Olga's two Spedlana's and one neurotic gay playwright. |
| 0:58.0 | That's me. |
| 0:59.0 | Listen to Spedlana Spedlana on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:05.0 | When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her again. |
| 1:12.0 | So I followed her into the train yard. |
| 1:15.0 | This is what it sounds like inside the box bar. |
| 1:18.0 | And into the city of the rails. |
| 1:21.0 | There I found a surprising world, so brutal and beautiful, that it changed me. |
| 1:26.0 | But the rails do that to everyone. |
| 1:28.0 | There is another world out there. |
| 1:30.0 | And if you want to play with the devil, you're going to find them down in the rail yard. |
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