Strange News: Strange News: Spy Nuns, Fart Cures, Cow Tools and More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
A scandal rocks Europe as an international group of nuns is exposed as a secret Russian spy ring. You can pay a million dollars for a hotel on the moon. Farts might save you from Alzheimer’s, and cows may be the newest confirmed non-human tool users. The Bank of England is worried about aliens. 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. |
| 0:28.1 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:29.0 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.3 | They call me, Ben. |
| 0:31.8 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagin. |
| 0:36.1 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:38.4 | You are here. |
| 0:39.3 | That makes this, the stuff they don't want you to know around the world, folks. |
| 0:44.6 | Welcome to Monday, January 26th. |
| 0:48.0 | Behind the curtain, we're recording on Wednesday, January 21st, and we couldn't be more excited to hang out with you. |
| 1:00.3 | Guys, one of my favorite things, and I hope it's all of our favorite things, right before we start |
| 1:06.4 | rolling on strange news or listener mail, is just talking through different stuff that we might or might |
| 1:14.2 | not cover. |
| 1:15.8 | I don't know if you guys have heard about this way. |
| 1:19.2 | We've got a lot of serious stuff, obviously, because the world is burning down. |
| 1:23.0 | But did you guys hear about that GameStop hack that just got prevented? |
| 1:29.7 | GameStokes? |
| 1:29.8 | Oh, no. |
| 1:30.7 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:31.7 | So this is so dumb. |
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