Strange News: Sperm Racing, the Death of Ted Turner and Spirit Airlines, Media Freedom is in Trouble, the Voting Rights Act Conspiracy, and More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this week's strange news segment: you can officially enter your sperm in an international race! The legendary, divisive Ted Turner is dead, as is Spirit Airlines. Media freedom is trouble. The Supreme Court has again turned on the US public, gutting the Voting Rights Act and allowing for new levels of Suessian gerrymandering -- and endangering your right to actually vote. Tune in for all this and more.
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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. |
| 0:29.2 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.4 | They call me, Ben. |
| 0:32.0 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal fake. |
| 0:36.3 | And if you are listening or tuning in to our |
| 0:39.3 | strange news program, the evening it publishes, welcome to May 11th and fare the well. Best of |
| 0:47.8 | luck to anybody who is racing their sperm for the grand prize of $100,000 in San Francisco. |
| 0:57.4 | Hell yeah. |
| 0:58.4 | You guys heard about this way? |
| 1:00.1 | I want to make a bet. |
| 1:01.3 | Is it on Polly Market yet? |
| 1:02.2 | Of course it is. |
| 1:03.9 | It's interesting. |
| 1:06.2 | I swear one of you guys brought this up a while back that it was a thing. |
| 1:10.4 | The potentiality |
| 1:11.2 | yeah it is real it's like a legit race right yeah i did mention this one about a previous uh strange |
| 1:20.4 | news segment uh the this project is created by the entrepreneurs eric shoe garrett nic Nieko, Nick Small, and Shane Fan. |
| 1:31.1 | Their idea is to raise public health awareness rather than to do original research. |
| 1:39.4 | So part of the issue is to draw attention to declining male fertility rates across the world, human males. |
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