Strange News: Octopus Civilization, Newark Goes Dark, Habeas Corpus, and the New Resource Arms Race
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Afghanistan suspends chess due to religious concerns. Newark goes dark -- for just long enough to prompt serious questions. The world witnesses new escalations in the Great Game, as various corporations and countries race to acquire precious mineral resources. Since Ben and Matt always like to end on a good note, this week's strange news segment concludes with an optimistic discussion about octopus civilization, and how ethically fraught brain surgery might extend the known lifespan of that species.
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.9 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:11.9 | A production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:26.6 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:30.8 | Our colleague Noel is still on an adventure, but we'll be returning shortly. |
| 0:32.5 | They call me bed. |
| 0:37.0 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:40.3 | Most importantly, you are you. you are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know, friends and neighbors, fellow |
| 0:45.5 | conspiracy realist. |
| 0:46.7 | If you are tuning in the evening this publishes, let us be the first to welcome you to Monday, |
| 0:53.3 | May 19th. Now, our friends over at |
| 0:57.1 | Daily Zeitgeist, the legendary Miles and Jack, often like to begin their show by naming off |
| 1:03.8 | a number of national days, right? Remember, we, Matt, you and I talked about this over the years. I think we were both |
| 1:14.1 | befuddled by how ambiguous the process of creating a national day is in the United States, right? |
| 1:23.2 | You just have to, like, catch Congress at, you know, the end of a session yeah say everybody you guys |
| 1:30.1 | like sandwiches yeah yeah it is a little weird because there are levels of official holiday |
| 1:39.5 | in this country right right right we have very few holidays where the American worker actually gets |
| 1:46.6 | the day off. And I do want to give respect to reluctant, but objective respect to the United Kingdom, |
| 1:53.9 | where they straight up have holidays that are just called bank holidays. There's no religious |
| 1:59.6 | implication. There's no, you know, nationalistic holidays. There's no religious implication. |
| 2:04.0 | There's no, you know, nationalistic implication. |
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