Strange News: New Statues on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Plane Heists, Allegations of Brain Rot in English Dictionaries
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Chinese scientists construct a robot capable of carrying a human fetus to term -- will the government allow this in the public sphere? A California man finds his recreational Cessna repeatedly stolen. Dictionary boffins are criticized for canonizing recent phrases and words. 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. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:27.7 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:28.7 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:29.9 | They call me, Ben. |
| 0:31.1 | We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:35.4 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:37.4 | You are here. That makes this you are you, you are here. |
| 0:38.3 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:42.4 | We have so much strange news to share with you if you are tuning in. |
| 0:45.9 | The evening our program publishes August the 25th, 2025. |
| 0:51.8 | Oh man, there's brain rot. |
| 0:54.1 | There's some true crime going on in Vegas that has |
| 0:59.0 | encountered some geopolitical interests that I know we're fascinated to get into. Before we do any of |
| 1:07.3 | that, along with a couple other strange stories. |
| 1:14.6 | Guys, remind me, you guys eat pork, right? |
| 1:16.8 | I ate pork for dinner last night. |
| 1:18.2 | That's some delicious pork ribs. |
| 1:19.8 | On occasion. |
| 1:20.8 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:21.4 | Mm-hmm. |
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