Strange News: Venezuela, Food Conspiracies, and More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Oh, come on! We take a couple weeks off for the holidays, and the world goes nuts? Ben, Matt and Noel welcome you back to the first strange news segment of 2026. Tune in as the guys explore the unfolding chaos in Venezuela and abroad, the debate about the McRib, Uncle Sam's new interest in Russia's shadow fleet -- and so much more.
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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. |
| 0:27.4 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:28.7 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:29.5 | They call me Ben. |
| 0:30.6 | We're joined, as always, with our guest, super producer, Max, the Freight Train Williams. |
| 0:35.5 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:37.4 | You are here. That makes this the Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:38.3 | You are here. |
| 0:42.0 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:50.2 | And we are returning friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realists for our first strange news segment of 2026. |
| 0:56.6 | If you are hearing this, when it publishes, we can't wait to welcome you to January 12th. |
| 1:00.3 | Spoiler, we're recording on January 7th. |
| 1:02.4 | Is it too late to say Happy New Year? |
| 1:03.2 | I think it's too late. I think you get a month. |
| 1:04.0 | You get a month. |
| 1:05.7 | If you haven't talked to someone prior, like if you, the last time you spoke to someone in 2025, if you speak to them |
| 1:14.0 | from now until January 31st, you can still say happy New Year. |
| 1:18.8 | Fair game. |
| 1:19.4 | Okay. |
| 1:19.7 | I can't remember if Larry David had a shorter cutoff than that. |
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