Strange News: Robots, the Louvre Heist is Hilarious, Your Grocery Store Conspires Against You, and Way More

Strange News: Robots, the Louvre Heist is Hilarious, Your Grocery Store Conspires Against You, and Way More

The great game for robots escalates; updates on Elon Musk. The Louvre heist is hilarious. Your grocery store conspires against you. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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CLASSIC: The Modern Vampire: Longer Life Through Younger Blood

CLASSIC: The Modern Vampire: Longer Life Through Younger Blood

We’ve heard the legends of vampires for thousands of years, and while the vast majority of modern humans relegate the stories to the domain of myth and folklore, more and more experts are wondering if...

16 Mai 202358min

Strange News: The Nashville Toe Sucker, the Canadian Drug Pop-up, and the Rise of Three-Parent Kids

Strange News: The Nashville Toe Sucker, the Canadian Drug Pop-up, and the Rise of Three-Parent Kids

A Nashville hotel employee is arrested on charges of assaulting a guest's toes. A Canadian man attempts to start a pop-up selling all manner of illegal drugs. In an historic first for the United Kingd...

15 Mai 202350min

A Bridge in Scotland Kills Dogs

A Bridge in Scotland Kills Dogs

For decades, residents of Dumbarton, Scotland have been convinced something's deeply wrong with the Overtoun Bridge. According to local lore, something about this bridge causes dogs to take their own ...

12 Mai 202354min

Listener Mail: Spy Balloons Have a "Season," A Temporal Tizzy, and What Happens When Banks Fail

Listener Mail: Spy Balloons Have a "Season," A Temporal Tizzy, and What Happens When Banks Fail

Flummoxed calls in to report a baffling temporal tizzy. A fellow Conspiracy Realist asks what happens when banks fail. Balloon Boy writes in with an astonishing revelation about high-altitude science ...

11 Mai 202348min

Wrongful Conviction, with Jason Flom

Wrongful Conviction, with Jason Flom

Nowadays virtually everyone can agree the US Justice system has profound, serious issues -- the problem is people just don't agree on how to address them. In this special interview, Ben, Matt and Noel...

10 Mai 20231h 23min

CLASSIC: How The US Secretly Tracked UFOs with Jeremy Corbell

CLASSIC: How The US Secretly Tracked UFOs with Jeremy Corbell

In 2018, the New York Times broke a story that baffled most ordinary readers -- until about 2012, the Pentagon had run a multi-million dollar, secretive program to collect numerous reports of unexplai...

9 Mai 202359min

Strange News: White House Meets on AI Concerns, Woman Orgasms During Orchestra Performance -- and It's a Bad Time to be a Spy

Strange News: White House Meets on AI Concerns, Woman Orgasms During Orchestra Performance -- and It's a Bad Time to be a Spy

The White House holds a meeting with tech luminaries to discuss concerns about the potential of "AI." A concertgoer apparently experienced an orgasm during an orchestral performance. Around the world,...

8 Mai 202346min

La Llorona is Older Than You Think

La Llorona is Older Than You Think

It's a common campfire tale -- a mysterious, ghostly entity roams the land, lamenting the loss of her children... and perhaps kidnapping living children to replace her own. In today's episode, Ben and...

5 Mai 202356min

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