Strange News: The California Wildfires Update, Jack the Ripper Breakthroughs, Banning Food Coloring Additives, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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As California continues to struggle with raging wildfires, the guys explore a proliferation of strange and disturbing allegations related to the ongoing disaster. Cloud-connected sex toys become a new, profitable target for hackers. Recently-discovered DNA evidence in the case of Jack the Ripper may lead to a new inquest -- perhaps finally solving the crimes. The FDA moves to ban certain food coloring additives in a (long-overdue) win for the public. 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.
0:12.0	A production of IHeart Radio.
0:25.4	Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:26.1	My name is Matt.
0:27.3	My name is Noel. They call me Ben.
0:28.6	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Andrew Triforce Howard.
0:32.6	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:35.6	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know if you are hearing our strange news program. The evening it publishes, let us officially welcome you to Monday, January 20th, 2025. Happy MLK Day, guys. Indeed. Heck yeah, go back and listen to the MLK tapes if you get a chance.
0:54.9	It's a podcast.
0:56.1	Top-notch pod.
0:57.7	And check out our earlier episodes on this show for CointelPro and several civil rights-era-related conspiracies.
1:07.0	We've got a pretty deep catalog there.
1:10.1	There's so many things, ongoing things happening in the world today.
1:16.0	The president of South Korea, they mentioned earlier we talked a bit about, just got arrested in an incredibly high-stakes operation.
1:25.8	He has impeached.
1:27.0	His own security force was fighting against
1:29.6	the military forces of South Korea. We're going to talk about wildfires, a breakthrough in the
1:37.5	Jack the Ripper case, Pizza Gate, a little bit of nuclear material trafficking. Before we do any of that, we're talking a little bit
1:45.8	off air, guys. Excited to share this story because it pertains to some discussions we had had in the
1:52.1	past. The government of the United Kingdom has officially warned people that sex toys are a
2:00.1	tempting target for hackers and can be potentially weaponized. Remember
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