Strange News: The Looming Hunger Crisis, Mass Layoffs, Strange Stuff in the Skies, Monkeys, Minks and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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As the government shutdown continues, an estimated 42 million US residents may go hungry. Mushrooms may be the next memory chips. Ben, Matt and Noel continue to obsess over 3I/Atlas. Cameos by minks and monkeys. All this and more in our weekly 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.
0:28.3	My name is Matt.
0:29.2	My name is Noel.
0:30.6	Nicole, me, Ben.
0:31.8	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dillon, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:36.2	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:39.3	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know if you are joining us.
0:44.4	The evening, our weekly strange news program publishes, welcome to Monday, November 3rd.
0:50.9	Spoiler, we're recording this on October 29th, just a few days before, the most
0:56.8	wonderful holiday of the year, Halloween.
1:00.2	Yeah.
1:00.9	Have you all watched the new It TV series yet?
1:03.7	Welcome to Dairy, yeah.
1:05.2	Of course.
1:05.6	So the first episode?
1:06.7	I did, yeah.
1:07.6	I think I'm into it.
1:09.1	It's a lot, but it's very Halloweeny.
1:11.8	I think the second one drops on Halloween day, so I'm looking forward to him.
1:16.6	HBO's been, or Max, excuse me, has been really knocking out of the park.
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