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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Strange News: The Massive Tennessee Meat Heist, Roblox and Privacy, the CIA and the Ark of Covenant, Chemicals in Your Food and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

A massive meat heist in Tennessee leaves Ben, Matt and Dylan asking: "Who needs 80,000 pounds of off-the-books meat?" A babysitter learns there really is a monster under the bed. Back in the day, the CIA seemed genuinely convinced they discovered the Ark of the Covenant. Sucralose conspires against you! The US abducts an innocent US resident and sends him to a prison in El Salvador. 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.

0:25.7

Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.

0:29.3

Our colleague Noel is on an adventure, but we'll be returning shortly.

0:36.6

They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan the Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

0:40.0

That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. Folks, if you are hearing this strange

0:47.6

news segment on the evening it publishes, let us be the first to welcome you to Monday, April 7th, 2025.

0:57.3

We've got a cat shouting at us in the background, probably because there are so many things we need to get to.

1:07.5

Matt, we may at some point need to just do a thing called cat news. Yes, can we?

1:14.3

Please. I would do that. I'm sure we'd have a certain demographic for that one, right?

1:21.9

For any cats and doggoes in the audience? Matt, how is Meadow doing?

1:34.0

She's very happy laying down over there being sleepy, not bringing a toy to me right now.

1:36.3

She heard about the cats that we're going to be on the show today.

1:38.7

She gets a little nervous around the kitty cats.

1:43.4

But hey, guys, as we come to you today, it is Wednesday, April 2nd.

1:46.9

It is officially a new American holiday today yeah liberation day right the first of its kind in less than an hour tariffs from here

1:54.0

will join others from around the world and will be launching the largest trade war in the history of mankind

2:00.3

perhaps it's fate that today is

2:03.3

the second of April when we'll once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression,

2:08.6

or persecution, but from non-reciprocal trade relationships. We're fighting for our right to tax,

2:15.9

to tax others, and ultimately ourselves.

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