Strange News: Peanut the Squirrel, Nashville Drone Attack, Mystery Song Identified, IKEA Finally Pays East German Prisoners
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The tragic saga of Peanut the Squirrel becomes oddly politicized. The Feds prevent a massive drone attack on a power station in Nashville. IKEA agrees to pay 6 million euros to East German prisoners. Hackers demand payment in baguettes, and the guys tease a mysterious scandal out in Oklahoma. 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. |
| 0:06.9 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:11.9 | A production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:26.7 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:27.6 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:29.2 | They call me Ben. |
| 0:34.0 | We are joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:36.2 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:37.4 | You are here. And that makes this the stuff they don't |
| 0:40.4 | want you to know if you are listening to our strange news program. The evening, it comes out. |
| 0:46.4 | Welcome to Monday, November 11th. We have a lot of strange news to get to tonight. |
| 0:54.5 | Thought maybe we could start with a little bit of good news for our cold open. |
| 0:59.8 | Did you guys remember our earlier brief conversation about the mystery song that was played in Germany? |
| 1:07.7 | I do not recall. |
| 1:09.6 | All right. |
| 1:10.4 | So decades ago, a German teen recorded a song that they heard on a radio, right? |
| 1:18.6 | You know how listeners of a certain age might have a cassette tape that you use to record radio broadcast live. This has become the most mysterious song on the internet, |
| 1:31.4 | and it was finally solved quite recently by a couple of intrepid researchers on Reddit. |
| 1:39.0 | The name of the song, to spoil it, is Subways of the Mind by a band named F-E-X. |
| 1:48.1 | And I don't know if you guys just real quick for a cold open, |
| 1:51.7 | if you guys are okay with it, can we play a brief clip of this song? |
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