Jul 2020
Episode 83: Borders Closed To US Residents, Summer Growing Too Hot For Humans, Opening Of Infectious Disease Museum Delayed By... Infectious Disease
Countries across the world are reopening, but borders remain closed to US residents. Science indicates coming summers may, one day soon, literally be too hot for human beings. A European infectious disease museum found its opening delayed by... oddly enough, an infectious disease ... Show More
27m 54s
Jul 2020
Episode 81: Fertility Rates Crashing, AirB&B Wants Customers To Donate To Hosts, Online Protest Sweeps Iran
Fertility rates across the planet are dropping at an unprecedented rate, causing experts to raise serious concerns about the state of humanity in 2100. AirBnB has infuriated customers by asking them to donate to hosts of the short-term rental platform. Online protests have swept ... Show More
13m 30s
Jul 2020
Episode 80: Elephants Hate Disco Lights, New Wave Of Robots Headed To Mars, 80 Corporations Using Forced Uygher Labor
Researchers in Botswana have found a new solution to deterring elephants -- something very much like disco lights. Three separate countries are sending new robots to Mars -- but the clock's ticking, and if they don't launch soon, they'll have to wait until 2022. An Australian rep ... Show More
15m 55s
Oct 2024
Strange News: Potato/Blood Space Bricks, The Waffle House Index, Taxing Hostages, APD Investigator Shot
Answering a question... someone must have asked, scientists confirmed potatoes are better than human blood when it comes to building space bricks. The IRS may require hostages to pay back taxes unless Congress intervenes. An APD investigator is shot after breaking into a Douglas ... Show More
58m 39s
Jul 2025
Strange News: A Sports Memorabilia Scandal, Delta and AI Flights, Don't Move To Russia, The Fast Food Conversation, and More
45-year-old Brett Lemieux exposes his multi-year sports memorabilia con game -- and apparently dies by his own hand. The aviation giant Delta airlines roles out an intensely controversial "AI super-analyst" to change the price you pay for tickets, from one second to the next. Two ... Show More
1h 6m
Dec 2024
Gaza journalists killed, Trump’s Panama pick, Costco egg warning & more
Russia’s Christmas morning attack on Ukraine is being condemned, as half a million homes were left without heating. A Gaza news outlet says an Israeli strike has killed 5 of its journalists. Trump has again brought up the Panama Canal while announcing another pick for his incomin ... Show More
6m 59s
Feb 2025
Strange News: Chinese Corgi Cops, Massive Tuberculosis Outbreak, ICE Cream Trucks, The Doomsday Clock, DeepSeek, and More
A Chinese Corgi Cop loses his bonus. The largest tuberculosis outbreak in US history is occurring, right now, in Kansas. A Las Vegas ice cream truck is mistaken for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- or ICE -- truck. The AI company DeepSeek sparks a massive stock selloff. ... Show More
1h 7m
Sep 2021
This Week's Top Stories - Coronavirus Deaths Surpass Spanish Flu, New Zealanders Smuggle KFC & More
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 surpasses that of the 1918 Spanish flu, New Zealand police arrest men suspected of smuggling fried chicken, and a belief in ghosts skyrockets.
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25m 37s
Oct 2024
Strange News: Oligarch Goes Splat, Fake Whale Sharks, Bank Shenanigans, Boeing Satellites, North Korea and Abercrombie
Another Russian oligarch is found dead after an 'unfortunate fall.' North Korea declares holy war on South Korea as it loans out soldiers to Russia. A fake whale makes controversial waves in China (get it?), TD Bank fined $3bn in historic money laundering settlement. Boeing satel ... Show More
54m 6s
Apr 2022
Side Stories: The Leprechaun Flu
<p>Ben 'n' Henry break down this week's true crime news including updates on the truth about airplanes, IF smaller animals are better at falling, last week's Swiss family suicide, a severed human penis found on the streets on Boston, government documents revealing the physical ef ... Show More
51m 18s
A police major in Russia dies falling out of a window, adding another tragic event in the strange pattern of Russians mysteriously dying in the same manner. A 100-year old home in Pennsylvania begins leaking honey. Scientists have finally determined just how many hot dogs a person can eat in 10 minutes -- or have they? Join Ben Bowlin and Dylan Fagan for mor ... Show More
