Strange News: The Onion vs. Alex Jones, Pasta Heists, AI Zuckerberg, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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4.2 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In this week's strange news segment, Ben, Matt and Noel discuss: the Onion's all-but-certain acquisition of Alex Jones's Infowars, pasta heists and pasta surveillance, zoonotic threats on the horizon, fuel concerns in the EU, and the hilarious fact of Meta/Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg creating his own AI avatar to skip meetings.

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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. My name is Matt.
0:28.4	My name is Noel.
0:29.4	They call me Ben.
0:30.8	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:35.1	Most importantly, you are you.
0:37.3	You are here. That makes this the stuff they Most importantly, you are you. You are here.
0:38.4	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:41.9	If you are tuning in to our strange news program, the evening it publishes.
0:46.1	Welcome to April 27th, 2000 and 26 year of our lord, et cetera.
0:54.4	Guys, quick check in.
0:55.8	How are we feeling?
0:57.4	Well, you know, fair to Midland.
1:00.2	Mm-hmm.
1:00.9	Yeah.
1:01.9	Yeah.
1:03.2	Uh, just, just watching as the Strait of Hormuz opens and closes and
1:07.4	ships get fired upon and blockades.
1:10.2	A real revolving door. Yeah. It's, it's really crazy just to watch. and ships get fired upon and blockades go in and out.
1:12.8	It's really crazy just to watch the global elite make tons of money on stock markets as the insanity ensues.
1:22.0	Market manipulation for sure.
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