Strange News: Your Gut Predicts the Future; Quesadilla versus Flat Earth Theory, Wanted: Boomerang! And So Much More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this week's strange news segment, Ben, Noel and Dylan explore how a human gut biome may predict linear future. Conversations about social media ephemera. Ben cops to his "missing: boomerang" posters, shouts out The Daily Zeitgeist, and asks Noel to explain "6-7." Dylan shares a weird story about returning to the United States as the U.S. asks to read your phone at the border. All this and more in this week's strange news segment -- tune in!
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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 and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:28.3 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.0 | Our colleague Matt is on adventures and will be returning soon. |
| 0:34.4 | They call me Ben. |
| 0:35.7 | We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, |
| 0:38.5 | the Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes this, the stuff |
| 0:45.1 | they don't want you to know. If you are tuning in to our strange news program, the evening it |
| 0:51.0 | publishes, welcome to December 15th, 2025. |
| 0:56.7 | We have so much stuff to show you. |
| 0:59.1 | Right, dead smack middle of the month. |
| 1:01.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.1 | And the middle of the last month, which English being such a weird language, |
| 1:08.0 | probably has a specific word for the middle of the last month of a year. |
| 1:13.6 | It's like the penult, the penult. No, that doesn't work. We'll have to figure it. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, we'll figure it out. We will report back and we'll report back to you because you'll be listening in the future. We're so glad you joined us. |
| 1:29.0 | If you want to give us a little end-of-the-year holiday gift, we would love a review on your podcast platform of choice. |
| 1:40.3 | That feels like the easiest thing to do. |
| 1:44.9 | We also have so many strange things. |
| 1:49.0 | Noel, it's good to have you back on strange news. |
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