Strange News: Trump and Aliens, Andrew Gets Arrested, The Story of Takeru Kobayashi and More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Competitive eating legend Takeru Kobayashi (long suspected to perhaps have superpowers) discloses why he retired. Ben and Matt learn that, not to be outdone by former US President Obama, current US President Trump vows to expose evidence of aliens. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is arrested -- but not for the Epstein files. Join Ben and Matt for 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. |
| 0:06.5 | 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. |
| 0:28.7 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:29.9 | Our colleague Noel is on an adventure, but we'll return shortly. |
| 0:33.7 | They call me, Ben. |
| 0:35.3 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:40.0 | Most importantly, you are you, you are here. |
| 0:43.1 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:47.1 | It's time for our weekly strange news segment. |
| 0:50.7 | So if you are tuning in the evening, this program publishes welcome friends and |
| 0:55.9 | neighbors to February 23rd, 26. Matt, Dylan, if we could, I'd like to start out with a |
| 1:06.2 | bittersweet, fond farewell. Is that all right? |
| 1:12.3 | Okay. |
| 1:13.3 | Awesome. |
| 1:13.9 | Okay. |
| 1:14.1 | So remember that time, Matt, uh, was a period, uh, you and I were hanging out and I got |
| 1:19.6 | super weirdly into competitive eating. |
| 1:23.1 | I remember your, your talks about the Black Widow specifically. |
| 1:27.8 | Yes. Yes. |
| 1:29.1 | Yes, yeah, you remember. |
| 1:31.3 | So we have to bid a fond farewell to one of the best in the game. |
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