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 82: More Russians Die Falling Out Of Windows, Pennsylvania Home Bleeds Honey, Science Reveals Just How Many Hots Dogs You Can Eat
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 perso ... Show More
12m 30s
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
Aug 2020
Strange News: Gaming and Death, Facebook has Censorship Problem, and North Korea's Leader May Be in a Coma
<p>A tragic homicide seems linked to online gaming. Facebook continues to be under fire for its long-running, previously established issues with censorship, or lack thereof. In North Korea, new reports claim that Kim Jong Un has been in a coma for some time -- and that all of his ... Show More
1h 7m
Mar 2022
Strange News: Bringing Brains Back From The Dead, Deep Fake Update, Benzene Is In Everything
<p>Scientists partially resurrect the brains of long-dead pigs, paving the way for potentially astonishing (and terrifying) breakthroughs in neuroscience. Hackers post a deepfake video that appears to show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky surrendering. A comprehensive study ... Show More
46 m
Aug 2020
Strange News: Derechos Ravage the US, the Okinawan Sleeping Epidemic, and Someone May Have Solved the Mystery of 'CROATOAN.'
<p>A brutal derecho has caused somewhere around 4 billion dollars' worth of damage in Iowa. In Okinawa, multiple residents appears to fall sound asleep in active roadways -- and experts don't seem to know why. In the US, author Scott Dawson claims to have finally, conclusively so ... Show More
56m 20s
Feb 2022
Listener Mail: Grandfathers on America's Most Wanted, North Korean Museums, and... is Facebook in your head?
<p>A listener learns their grandfather was on America's Most Wanted. Will shares his adventures at museums in North Korea and Tehran. Anon calls in to relate her own spooky experience with Facebook somehow knowing her thoughts, and selling ads off them -- without her speaking int ... Show More
1h 9m
Dec 2021
‘Kids Are Dying. How Are These Sites Still Allowed?’
<p><i>This episode contains details about suicide deaths and strong language. </i></p><p>A few years ago, a website about suicide appeared. On it, not only do people talk about wanting to die, but they share, at great length, how they are going to do it.</p><p>Times reporters wer ... Show More
33m 36s
A hospital in India has been caught selling fake negative COVID-19 results for the equivalent of a little more than 33 US dollars. Linguists examine just how much language will change as humans begin to travel to distant moons and planets. In Seoul, South Korea, the Mayor recently disappeared for several hours, only to be found dead in what some allege was a ... Show More