Strange News: "Freedom Cities" are the New Company Towns, Sackler Family Doesn't Go To Jail

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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A phenomenally powerful international lobbying group -- Freedom Cities -- pushes the idea of US communities run by corporations. An opioid update reveals the Sackler family will pay money rather than prison time. A threat in Antarctica, while astronauts finally return home. 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. Welcome back to the show.
0:26.2	My name is Matt.
0:27.0	My name is Noel.
0:28.0	They called me, Ben.
0:29.3	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Faget.
0:34.2	Most importantly, you are you.
0:36.4	You are here.
0:37.3	That makes this the stuff they don't want
0:40.5	you to know. Fellow conspiracy realists, friends and neighbors, if you are listening to our
0:46.7	strange news segment the week or the day it publishes, let us be the first to welcome you to Monday,
0:53.2	March 24th.
0:55.1	How's it going, guys?
0:56.3	How are we feeling?
0:57.0	Welcome to the middle of the film.
0:59.7	Sorry, that's Monty Python.
1:01.6	That's going good.
1:02.3	I'm feeling like a giant nerd today, as usual.
1:05.5	Nice.
1:06.1	I am just, for some reason, craving Nutella.
1:09.7	I just want Nutella right now.
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