Strange News: The US Raids Reporters, the Death of von Däniken and Dilbert, Apps Want to Know if Your Loved Ones Die, and Much More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The FBI crosses an historic Rubicon by raiding the home of a journalist. Ben, Matt and Noel miss Erich von Däniken. In China, an app renames itself. 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. |
| 0:06.9 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.0 | A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:27.7 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:28.9 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.1 | They call me, Ben, we're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Faking. |
| 0:36.3 | He's back. |
| 0:36.8 | Most importantly, you are you, you are here. |
| 0:39.7 | That makes this, the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:44.0 | Now, before we begin, we're recording this on Wednesday, January 14th. |
| 0:49.6 | You're going to be hearing this on Monday, January 19th. |
| 0:53.3 | Before we begin, uh, I think it'd be super cool to hear from |
| 0:59.1 | you, Tennessee, because you've been traveling, you've been on the road and off the road, |
| 1:05.7 | and we've been sending you weirdly Ruebauga coded messages, coded as, thank you, Noel, as Noel would say. Coated or coded. Yeah, we like to, all the messages we send are dusted in Ruta Bega. So, Dylan, how you doing, man? I'm good. I know it's two weeks into the new year, but happy new year. Oh, happy New you. You can say happy New Year to us anytime. Oh, thank you. Yeah. You can always say it in August, by the way. I hear you've been eating a lot of conch. Yeah, yeah. Conch? Is it conch or conch? Okay. Yeah, I was in the Virgin Islands, and I did lobster. |
| 1:45.9 | They do not skimp on the lobster there. |
| 1:47.7 | So that's nice. |
| 1:48.4 | Nice. |
| 1:49.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.8 | And also, Virgin Islands don't get it twisted folks, not owned by Richard Branson at this time. |
| 1:57.1 | It's one of them owned by Richard Branson? |
| 1:59.7 | I think you might be right. |
| 2:01.3 | I think one is. |
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