Strange News: Mysterious Deaths Ignored, Landmark Assault Trial in France, Banning Junk Fees

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji is found dead in what US officials deem a "suicide." French national Gisèle Pelicot takes an heroic stand in an assault trial fundamentally rocking the nation. Over in the US, a new federal policy may ban 'junk fees.' Also -- spoiler -- remember when Ben, Matt, and Noel bragged, in slightly frightened language, about the brilliance of fungal life? Turns out a species of fungi has evolved to thrive off the radiation at Chernobyl. 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.
0:25.5	Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:26.3	My name is Matt.
0:27.2	My name is Noel.
0:28.8	They called me Ben.
0:33.3	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:35.5	Most importantly, you are you.
0:36.6	You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:41.6	Fellow conspiracy realist, let us be the first to officially welcome you to Monday, December 23rd,
0:48.7	2024.
0:50.2	This is a pretty big week for adherents of Christianity, people who celebrate Christmas.
0:56.9	This is also a big week for cyborg cockroach armies.
1:02.1	Wow.
1:03.1	Yeah, Christmas.
1:04.4	Eve, Eve with the cockroaches.
1:06.6	Oh, man, I've been waiting for their arrival as our new cockroach overlords.
1:11.0	Well, this is just what we can do pretty quickly.
1:14.0	You can now take a single cockroach, one of the most resilient creatures on the planet,
1:21.0	and you can give them a little cyborg backpack.
1:25.9	You can do it in a little less than two minutes now, way less than two
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