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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Strange News: Regeneron Bought Your DNA, CA Birdpocalypse, AI Job Cuts, Free El Gato

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Roundup pesticides get a pass from Georgia. CrowdStrike joins the AI craze. A mysterious birdpocalypse in California. Regeneron buys the bankrupt 23andMe, prompting concerns over consumer's DNA. Free El Gato. 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. Hello, welcome back to the show.

0:27.7

My name is Matt.

0:28.9

My name is Noel.

0:30.0

They call me, Ben.

0:31.3

We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Andrew, the Triforce Howard.

0:35.5

Most importantly, you are you.

0:38.4

You are here.

0:42.1

That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:45.8

And, of course, it's the top of the week.

0:49.5

So if you are hearing this strange news, the evening it publishes,

0:53.3

let us be the first to welcome you to May 26th.

0:55.0

Also, Free El Gato. The 26. Also, free El Gato.

0:59.3

The cat? Yeah, free El Gato. Let our man go.

1:02.5

I don't think I know about it. Who's the cat?

1:07.1

Why we got to let him go? Get this. Over at Costa Rica, we always like to start with something that's not immediately terrible. Over in Costa Rica, prison officials have caught a cat smuggling drugs into the facility.

1:17.9

An officer at the...

1:19.5

Noddy boy.

1:20.0

Yeah, at the Pocchi prison in northeastern Costa Rica, spotted the cat and it's like, hey, what's this cat doing in lockup?

1:30.2

And why does he have a cute little saddlebag?

1:32.9

A little pouch?

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