Strange News: Peter and the Antichrist, Hegseth's Stand-up Bombs, Crypto Heists and More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
The world's largest crypto-related heists poses a bizarre dilemma for authorities in London. The perplexing meeting of US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and America's generals has everyone -- including the generals -- scratching their heads. The billionaire Peter Theil is raising eyebrows and serious concerns with his technocratic take of the End of Days, and his speech series arguing regulation will inevitably lead to the rise of the Antichrist. Join Ben, Matt and Dylan for 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. |
| 0:28.3 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:29.3 | Our colleague Noel is still on an adventure, but we'll be back soon. |
| 0:33.1 | They call me Ben. |
| 0:34.3 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:39.3 | Most importantly, folks, you argue you are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:46.4 | If you are listening to our strange news program, the evening it publishes, welcome to October 6th, 2025. |
| 0:59.5 | We almost cribbed a page from our buddy Miles' book over on Daily's Igeist, where we check in with the national or international days that occur on the |
| 1:06.6 | calendar. Matt, I don't know if you do that, but I do it every evening when I wake up. It's just |
| 1:12.3 | such a, it's such a cool way to learn about the world. You know what I mean? Yeah, last time we |
| 1:17.5 | were doing this, which was yesterday, it's now October 1st and the government is shut down. |
| 1:22.6 | It would be recording yesterday, and we noted it was International Podcasting Day when we |
| 1:26.3 | recorded. What is today? Do you have one? |
| 1:28.7 | Oh, yeah, man. We got tons. Not all are created equally, to be honest. This is the 279th day of the year. |
| 1:39.1 | Some holidays you might recognize would be World Space Week. I'm working so hard to be positive. |
| 1:46.1 | Space is so freaking cool. World Space Week here in the United States, it's a German-American |
| 1:52.0 | Day, and we'll see why that's an interesting reference as this program continues. Also, shout |
| 1:57.5 | out to Sri Lankan Teachers. It is Teachers Day in Sri Lanka. And again, shout |
| 2:01.8 | out to Miles, who came up with that idea. It's just such a beautiful way to learn about the |
| 2:06.8 | world. Matt, we're going to have a bit of a cognitive roller coaster because there are some |
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