Strange News: The Great US Science Exodus, Exotic Support Animals, New Mexico Childcare Revolution and More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
A new Brain Drain: funding cuts and political chaos cause scientists to leave the US -- and other countries love it. Wal-Mart bans an emotional support alligator. Protestors get in hot water in the UK. New Mexico may make childcare free. And one scientist may have just cracked the code on space travel. All this and more -- including the first bot minister -- 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. |
| 0:27.9 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:28.9 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.0 | They call me bed. |
| 0:31.3 | We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:36.1 | Most importantly, you are you are you you are here that makes |
| 0:39.5 | this the stuff they don't want you to know it's September 22nd as we're publishing this |
| 0:46.3 | it's the 17th as we're recording it welcome to strange news, we wanted to, |
| 0:56.1 | we got so much stuff to get to. |
| 0:57.8 | This is a science-heavy exploration. |
| 1:02.4 | I don't know where we want to start, you guys. |
| 1:05.9 | You ever get tired of human politicians? |
| 1:07.4 | Nah, they're great. |
| 1:09.2 | 10-10, no notes. |
| 1:09.7 | Big fan. |
| 1:14.4 | Fully over it. Let's bring on all of the robots. |
| 1:22.7 | Tight, yes. That is our pal Matt Frederick speaking on behalf of Albania's tourism board, which we're all unofficial members of. Yeah, one thing we wanted to open the show with here is that Albania has officially appointed an AI bot as a minister to tackle corruption. |
| 1:37.8 | Wow. |
| 1:38.6 | Mixed feelings, but not entirely negative. |
| 1:42.1 | Yeah, we put that out there. |
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