Strange News: CERN Wants a New Collider, Deepfake Scam, Bears on Crack, A Toothbrush Hack, and More

Strange News: CERN Wants a New Collider, Deepfake Scam, Bears on Crack, A Toothbrush Hack, and More

CERN wants to spend the next two decades -- and twenty billion euro -- building a new collider. AI seems to escalate warfare in strange, unpredictable ways. A deepfake scam. Claims of a massive botnet army of toothbrushes seem terrifying -- but there's more to the story. South Carolina claims executions don't need to be painless. Florida pushes for a bill that makes it easier to hunt and kill bears, on the off chance they may be doing crack cocaine. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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The Subterranean Secrets of Denton, Texas

The Subterranean Secrets of Denton, Texas

Less than 40 miles or so north of Dallas-Fort Worth, the town of Denton, Texas is famous for all sorts of stuff: its universities, music, and arts scene have garnered it the nickname "Little Austin". ...

11 Helmi 1h 4min

CLASSIC: The Hidden History of Assassins, Chapter Two: The Modern Day

CLASSIC: The Hidden History of Assassins, Chapter Two: The Modern Day

Almost a thousand years after the reign of the original Order of Assassins, you might think assassination tactics would be universally illegal -- however, that's not the case. Assassination is a valua...

10 Helmi 53min

CLASSIC: The Hidden History of Assassins, Chapter One: An Origin Story

CLASSIC: The Hidden History of Assassins, Chapter One: An Origin Story

What's the difference between an assassination and a garden-variety murder? Where does the term 'assassin' actually come from, and how did an obscure sect founded almost one thousand years ago fundame...

9 Helmi 1h

The Legacy Program, Chapter Two: How Aliens (Could) Work

The Legacy Program, Chapter Two: How Aliens (Could) Work

Could the United States really have a multi-generational, 'above-top-secret' operation to retrieve and reverse-engineer extraterrestrial technology? In the second chapter of this special two-part seri...

6 Helmi 58min

CLASSIC: Plastics, Microplastics and Conspiracy

CLASSIC: Plastics, Microplastics and Conspiracy

Look around -- how many objects in your immediate vicinity contain plastic? This malleable, durable material has become ubiquitous -- you can find in the depths of the oceans, at the summits of the hi...

5 Helmi 51min

The Legacy Program, Chapter One: Fact and Fiction

The Legacy Program, Chapter One: Fact and Fiction

Late last year, a documentary called The Age of Disclosure captivated the world with its claims that high-level members of America's military, intelligence, business and political circles have -- for ...

4 Helmi 1h 20min

CLASSIC: The Flordelis Cult

CLASSIC: The Flordelis Cult

Flordelis dos Santos de Souza is a politician and cultural icon in Brazil. For a time, she and her husband Anderson do Carmo were an evangelical power couple - along with their more than 50 adopted an...

3 Helmi 53min

Strange News: The Deep State Wants to Stop Elections, ICE Hunts Children, Weird Shrooms, Iran and More

Strange News: The Deep State Wants to Stop Elections, ICE Hunts Children, Weird Shrooms, Iran and More

ICE hunts children.The guys warn the Deep State is aiming to halt midterm elections in the United States, weird shrooms make people see tiny figures, the guys explore events in Iran. All this and more...

3 Helmi 1h

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