Strange News: Uncle Sam Wants You To Venmo Him, Sex Slavery in Alabama, Blackmailed Monks in Thailand, A Missing Grenade in Los Angeles, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Note: this week's strange news segment may not be appropriate for all audiences.

Authorities have uncovered a sophisticated sexual abuse and slavery ring in Alabama, including biological parents abusing their own children. The United States wants you to help pay the national debt by venmoing Uncle Sam directly. A scandal erupts in Thailand as police arrest a woman who allegedly seduced and blackmailed Buddhist monks. A grenade has gone missing from the scene of an explosion that killed 3 Los Angeles deputies. Plus a low-key plan to (finally) dim the sun.

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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.
0:29.5	My name is Noel.
0:30.6	They call me Ben. We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee
0:35.4	pal Fagan. Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:39.7	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:43.4	Exciting news for us and hopefully for you as well, folks.
0:47.0	If you are listening to this strange news program,
0:50.2	the evening it publishes it is August 4th.
0:54.0	It is officially August this is
0:57.4	gonna be crazy for us you know this is always a month that has a lot in
1:01.7	store for the three of us Leo season yay rar shout out to all our Leo nines in the
1:10.7	crowd I remember having a discussion of the word
1:15.1	Leonine. That's new to me. Well, you know how we would say like someone is lionized?
1:21.4	Leonine is a complimentary word. Having the qualities of a line.
1:28.0	Right. Yeah.
1:28.8	And we wanted to celebrate our August recording here by, of course, starting with a heist
1:38.3	following up on our earlier excellent story about a con man involved in the world of sports memorabilia.
1:47.3	Thank you for bringing that one to us.
1:48.8	Matt, there is a new heist in the news, millions of dollars worth of Miami heat memorabilia,
1:56.5	including jerseys people wore at the finals, have been stolen and sold on the black market.
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