Strange News: The Mystery Drones, AI Granny Versus Scammers, Santa as a "Foreign Agent," YMCA, Grocery Store Monopolies, DRC Mystery Disease, Elite Russian Goats and More.

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

An AI-generated Granny baffles and bedevils phone scammers across the UK. The US collectively freaks out as unidentified swarms of drones appear over multiple cities. Some Russian politicians want to declare Santa a foreign agent. The largest supermarket merger in history goes sour in court, with Albertsons calling off the merger and suing Kroger. Russia sends an elite force to North Korea -- not 100 soldiers, but 100 top-tier goats. 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.
0:26.2	My name is Matt.
0:27.1	My name is Noel.
0:28.7	They call me Ben.
0:32.8	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Andrew Triforce Howard.
0:34.9	Most importantly, you are you.
0:36.2	You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:39.9	If you are tuning in the evening, this publishes, welcome to December 16th. You guys, we're so close to
0:49.4	2025. Not even the project, just the calendar year. I think 2025 is already in effect.
0:56.1	Yeah, full effect. No, no.
0:59.3	We'll see.
1:00.9	We'll see.
1:02.1	Quick updates.
1:03.6	The U.S. courts have rejected the onions bid to buy Info Wars for now.
1:09.4	Another court ruled that boneless chicken wings can still be,
1:13.9	you know, pieces of food that have bones in them. One thing that is on everybody's mind,
1:21.1	we have taken some time for our personal lives. So you'll hear some classic episodes coming up in the next few weeks.
1:30.1	And like the rest of the United States, dare I say the world,
1:34.3	we have been paying attention to the recent assassination of a CEO.
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