Can you hack the emergency alert system?
If you live in the US, you've heard the tone before: a staccato series of beeps followed by an oddly neutral voice disclosing any number of warnings or disasters. This is known as the Emergency Alert ...
24 Jul 20241h 1min
CLASSIC: What will humanity be like in 1,000 years?
If you met a person from the year 1019, they would be, in many ways, much like you. But what if you met a person from 3019? How different will human beings be one thousand years from today? Will human...
23 Jul 20241h 17min
Strange News: Horrifying Discovery of a Kenyan Serial Killer, Oceangate Cofounder Pitches Lunar Colony, Fentanyl Robbery Gang
33 year-old Collins Jumaici Khalusha has been arrested in connection to multiple murders in Kenya -- he himself has testified to killing 42 women in the past two years. Guillermo Söhnlein, the co-foun...
22 Jul 20241h 1min
Do fish ever really rain from the sky?
It's a weird -- and weirdly common -- story throughout history: a storm that carries not just rain and thunder, but any number of strange animals dropping along in the ground. In tonight's episode, Be...
19 Jul 202459min
Listener Mail: The Good Fork, Microgeneration, FedEx Teams Up with the Cops, Nazi Drugs and UAP Sightings
Do you anthropormorphize inanimated objects? Ben has a pantheon of them. Side Pocket Kid writes in about the concept of alternative power and microgeneration. On Instagram, Rebel reveals Nazi-branded ...
18 Jul 202455min
STDWYTK: Breaking: Someone Tried To Kill A President
On 13 July, 2024, a person later identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former US President and current Republican Presidential candidate Donald J Trump at a rally held on the Bu...
17 Jul 20241h
CLASSIC: The death of Panama Papers journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
The Panama Papers are a collection of over 11 million leaked documents exposing shady financial dealings from more than 200,000 offshore entities, some dating as far back as the 1970s. When Maltese jo...
16 Jul 202442min
Strange News: History's Biggest Password Hack, Mandatory Speed Limiters, and the First Robot Suicide.
A massive password hack compromises 10 BILLION passwords -- and no one's sure what will happen next. As of July 7th, all new cars sold in the EU and in Northern Ireland will require mandatory speed li...
15 Jul 202459min
