Strange News: The Power Goes Out, Fluoridation, Rampant Masturbation, Disney, anti-Narcocorridos, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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What caused the massive power blackout in Spain and Portugal? Anti-fluoridation activists gain ground in the wake of RFK Jr's newest statement. A former Disney employee gets in hot water for hacking menus. Mexico hopes to popularize anti-narcocorridos. The tariff controversy surrounding Amazon and the White House. The FBI may be close to eating its own. 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.
0:25.8	Hello and welcome back to the show.
0:26.6	My name is Matt.
0:27.4	My name is Noel.
0:28.8	They call me Ben.
0:33.3	We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:35.5	Most importantly, you are you.
0:36.4	You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:40.7	If you are here in our strange news program, the evening it publishes, let us welcome you to May 5th, 2025, as Justin Timberlake so often says, it's going to be May.
0:53.4	May the 5th be with you.
0:54.8	May the fifth be with you indeed. Guys, how are we feeling?
0:59.8	Super great. So stoked? No issues. No complaints. 10-10. No notes.
1:04.3	10-toes down. I love it when people say 10 toes down. Matt, how are we? Just check it in. How are we feeling?
1:11.1	Feeling very punch-bully this morning. Punch-bully?
1:15.0	Mm-hmm. Well, I'll tell you about it.
1:16.7	All right. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. We're going to talk a little bit about a lot of things right now.
1:24.4	Before we do anything, maybe we dip our toes in with this one for the headline alone.
1:30.9	You guys remember Seattle, the city?
1:33.2	Yeah, heard of it.
1:34.2	Yeah.
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