Strange News: Renaming Greenland, AI Running the Government, Eric Adams Goes Free, Drone DUIs, Fatbergs, and More
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
A massive olive oil heist. Some US politicians apparently genuinely want to annex Greenland, and rename it to "Red, White and Blueland." New York Mayor Eric Adams -- who's huge in Türkiye -- will have all corruption charges dropped. An update on Mangione's legal crowdfunding. Corporate chemical giant Bayer fights back against anti-pesticide activists. Sweden rolls out DUI laws for drone pilots. Fatberg updates. 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. |
| 0:06.9 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:11.9 | A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. |
| 0:26.2 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:27.2 | They call me, Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:32.8 | Most importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:40.0 | It is time for some strange news. |
| 0:43.2 | If you are listening in the evening, this program publishes, |
| 0:46.0 | welcome to February 17th. |
| 0:49.1 | This is the week of our big show at National Sawdust in Brooklyn as part of On Air Fest. So get over |
| 0:57.7 | that way if you are interested. I can't believe it's coming up so soon. Oh, it's crazy, but it's |
| 1:03.0 | going to be a good time. Make sure to get your tickets. It is a separate ticketed event from On Air Fest |
| 1:08.3 | itself. So you can check that out on the On Air Fest website or I believe |
| 1:12.3 | at National Sawdust's website. You can just show up at the National Sawdust and say, let me in to see |
| 1:17.4 | stuff they don't want you to know. Just say you know, Ben. Oh, you might have even better luck. |
| 1:24.0 | I appreciate that. No, you might have even better luck if you say you're there to see our special guest, Justin Richmond, who is classing up the show with us. From Broken Record, |
| 1:34.0 | you may know the show. The podcast, the music podcast, featuring Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin |
| 1:39.7 | on the Pushkin Network, a really great source for all things, music. And we're going to talk about |
| 1:46.7 | some hidden messages in your favorite records with Justin, among other things. It's going to be fun. |
| 1:51.9 | There's going to be live modular synth music, and we're using this immersive sound system |
| 1:56.0 | the National Sawdust has to have a really good time with some immersive audio so check it out it'll be a good time |
| 2:02.5 | and we're also crossing the borders of fact and fiction uh conspiracy and speculation yes |
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