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News You Do Not Need

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"News You Do Not Need is your go-to podcast for hilariously absurd and completely unnecessary headlines! Join us as we dive into the bizarre, quirky, and downright ridiculous stories that make you laugh, scratch your head, and wonder why you’re even listening. Perfect for anyone who enjoys humor, satire, and escaping the serious side of the news cycle, this show delivers pure entertainment. Subscribe now for weekly episodes filled with oddball trivia, strange facts, and news you never knew you

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2:25

When Feng Shui Meets Fender Benders: The Woman Who...

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2026/02/07

This is your News You do not Need podcast.Picture this: I'm cruising down a curvy Shanghai road, minding my own business, when bam—another car wreck right in front of my house. This makes, what, the fifth crash this month? And it's all my fault. Or at least, that's what the cops are saying. Let me back up, because this tale of feng shui gone wildly wrong is peak "you can't make this up."Two months ago, my life hits the skids. Money woes, bad vibes, the works. I call in a feng shui master—because

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2:17

Paradise Lost: Hawaiian Prison's Great Toilet Paper...

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2026/02/06

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, minding my own business, scrolling through the news on a quiet Thursday night, when I stumble upon the most gloriously pointless headline of the week: a Hawaiian prison has run out of toilet paper, leaving inmates with a measly six squares per day—if they're lucky. Yeah, you heard that right. In Hawaii, paradise of beaches and poke bowls, grown adults are rationing TP like it's the apocalypse, and this broke on February 5th, fresh as a

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1:45

Firefighters Rope Across Frozen River to Free Swan...

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2026/02/04

This is your News You do not Need podcast.# Swan Rescue on the Frozen Connecticut RiverPicture this: it's the middle of winter in Connecticut, and firefighters in Norwalk are suiting up in cold water rescue gear. But they're not responding to a sinking ship or a drowning swimmer. No, they're heading out onto the frozen Norwalk River because a swan has essentially become a popsicle.The bird's feet were literally frozen into the ice. Just completely locked in place. So here come these brave

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2:02

Groundhog Showdown: When Fuzzy Forecasters Feud and...

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2026/02/02

This is your News You do not Need podcast.Picture this: it's Groundhog Day 2026, and I'm huddled in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, shivering like a popsicle in a blender, waiting for Punxsutawney Phil to make his big prediction. The crowd's buzzing, top hats everywhere, and I'm thinking, do I really need to know if a woodchuck sees his shadow? Spoiler: he did. Six more weeks of winter. Yippee. But hold the phone, because over in Wiarton, Ontario, Wiarton Willie—the Canadian groundhog counterpoint—pops

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2:34

Toddler vs ICE: Judge Quotes Jesus, Roasts Feds, and...

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2026/02/01

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, minding my own business, scrolling through the news on a lazy Sunday evening, when I stumble upon this absolute gem from the past 24 hours: a federal judge in Texas just unleashed a biblical smackdown on ICE over a five-year-old kid named Liam Ramos. Yeah, you heard that right—a toddler got detained in Minnesota during some anti-ICE church protest chaos, shipped off like a misrouted Amazon package, and now he's finally waddling back home

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1:41

Catherine O'Hara's Mystery Exit: Did She Pull One...

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2026/01/31

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, minding my own business, scrolling through the news on a perfectly good Friday night, when bam—legendary Canadian comedy queen Catherine O'Hara drops dead at 71. Not from some epic Schitt's Creek pratfall or a Beetlejuice haunt gone wrong, but a "brief illness" at her Los Angeles home. I mean, come on, the woman who made awkward family dinners hilarious in Home Alone and turned vampire mom into gold in that Tim Burton flick? Gone? And

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2:48

The Great Montreal Bus Heist: How a 78-Year-Old...

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2026/01/30

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, standing at the bus stop in Montreal, 78 years young, feeling spry as a fox in spring, when this yellow beast of a bus roars up and—zoom!—the driver zooms right past me like I'm yesterday's poutine. Me, Jean Pierre Lucier, waving my arms like a deranged windmill, yelling "Attends!" but nope, he keeps rolling, probably chuckling into his Tim Hortons. I mean, who does that? In Canada? Where politeness is basically our national sport?I wasn't

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2:29

NASA's Belly Flop Bonanza: When a Million-Dollar...

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2026/01/28

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, minding my own business on a perfectly ordinary Tuesday, when my phone buzzes with this video that's blowing up social media. Flames shooting out like a rejected fireworks display, right from the belly of a NASA plane. Yeah, you heard that right—a fancy government research jet just decided, "Screw the landing gear," and slid down the runway at Ellington Airport near Houston like it was auditioning for a bad action movie remake.[5] No wheels,

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2:46

Alberta Wants a Divorce: 30 Percent Ready to Ghost...

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2026/01/26

This is your News You do not Need podcast.Okay, picture this: I'm sitting in my Calgary basement, sipping Tim Hortons that's gone cold, scrolling news on my phone because insomnia is my spirit animal. It's January 25, 2026, and bam—headline hits me like a rogue hockey puck: three out of ten Albertans want to ditch Canada and go solo. Separatism! In Alberta! The land of oil rigs, rodeos, and people who say "aboot" unironically. Who needs this info? Nobody. But here we are, because apparently, my

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1:46

Masked Bandit's Liquor Store Heist Ends in Bathroom...

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2026/01/25

This is your News You do not Need podcast.# A Raccoon's Guide to Retail TheftSo picture this: it's the weekend, you're a raccoon, and you've discovered what might be the greatest loophole in store security ever devised. A Virginia liquor store left its doors unlocked, and instead of doing what most self-respecting trash pandas do—rummaging through dumpsters—this particular raccoon decided to upgrade its life choices dramatically.The furry bandit broke into the closed liquor store and went absolutely

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2:02

From Halfpipe to Handcuffs: The Olympic Snowboarder...

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2026/01/24

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, minding my own business, scrolling through the news on a freezing Friday night, when I stumble across the wildest "did we really need to know this?" headline: Ryan Wedding, former Canadian Olympic snowboarder from the 2002 Salt Lake Games, finally surrenders in Mexico City after a decade on the lam as an alleged cocaine kingpin. Yeah, you heard that right—snowboarder by day, Elfe, Giant, or Public Enemy by night, smuggling tons of coke into

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1:42

Buck Stops Here: When Rudolph Tried to Rob a Bank and...

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2026/01/23

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, minding my own business on a quiet evening, scrolling through the news like any normal person avoiding real life, when I stumble on this absolute gem from Long Island, New York. A deer—yes, a full-on buck with antlers like a bad hair day—decides to play Ocean's Eleven at a bank. Picture this: Sunday rolls around, bank's probably closed, tellers sipping coffee somewhere, and BAM! Bambi's wild cousin crashes the party. Security cameras catch

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2:02

Six Bucks and a Ceiling Fan: Indian Youths Turn...

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2026/01/21

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So, picture this: I'm scrolling through the news last night, coffee in hand, thinking the world's gone mad enough with politics and AI doomers at Davos. Then bam—youths in Agra, India, drop a video that's peak "why did I watch that?" They're in a dingy hotel room, paying just 500 rupees—about six bucks—for the night. Smart, right? Budget travel. But no, these geniuses decide to "fully utilize" their investment by turning the place into a demolition derby.One

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2:04

When Fancy Trains Play Chicken: Spain's High-Speed...

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2026/01/19

This is your News You do not Need podcast.Picture this: I'm chilling on my couch, scrolling news like any normal Monday, when I stumble on the weirdest train wreck story since that time I tried to microwave a burrito still in its foil wrapper. Over in Spain, near Córdoba to be exact, a high-speed train from Málaga to Madrid—fancy new ride, less than four years old, on freshly renovated flat track—decides it's had enough of the straight-and-narrow. The tail end derails at 7:45 p.m., jumps the track

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1:59

Ice Ice Baby: January 6th Rioter Leads Frozen...

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2026/01/18

This is your News You do not Need podcast.# Minnesota Ice Cream Truck Incident Takes Bizarre Turn as Protesters Brave Subzero TemperaturesSo picture this: it's brutally cold in Minneapolis, we're talking well below zero, the kind of cold that makes your eyelashes freeze to your face. But that doesn't stop a group of protesters from hitting the streets on January seventeenth to demonstrate about ICE operations. Now here's where it gets weird.Leading the charge is Jake Lang, a January sixth rioter who

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2:34

Ghost Busted for Missing Hand Rolls: The Moses Lake...

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2026/01/17

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, minding my own business in Moses Lake, Washington, rolling up what I like to call my artisanal herbal stress-relief sticks—hand-rolled cigarettes, if you will, because factory ones are for amateurs. I'd just finished a perfect batch, each one a masterpiece of tobacco and dreams, tucked neatly on my coffee table. I step away for literally two seconds to grab a soda, and poof! Gone. Vanished. Like they'd been beamed up by some interdimensional

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2:11

The Midnight Moonwalker: When Your Ring Doorbell...

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2026/01/16

This is your News You do not Need podcast.Picture this: it's 3 a.m. in East St. Louis, and I'm jolted awake by my Ring doorbell chiming like a deranged ice cream truck. I grab my phone, squint at the screen, and there's this guy—let's call him Midnight Moonwalker—boogying on my porch like he's auditioning for a low-budget Michael Jackson reboot. Arms flailing, hips swaying, he's doing the robot mixed with the chicken dance, right there under my porch light.I hit the talk button. "Hey, buddy, what do

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1:57

When Your Pecorino Romano Becomes a Potential Murder...

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2026/01/14

This is your News You do not Need podcast.Picture this: I'm minding my own business, slicing into a wedge of Pecorino Romano for my pasta night, when suddenly my phone buzzes with a news alert. FDA upgrades cheese recall to highest risk—potentially deadly Listeria! I freeze, fork mid-air, thinking, whoa, did my Italian grandmother's spirit just curse this block? Turns out, it's real, from yesterday's chaos, and now it's class one, the big red flag for possible death by dairy.I'm no cheese expert,

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1:39

Lost European Robin Crashes Montreal Like a Tiny...

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2026/01/12

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, sipping my morning coffee in chilly Montreal, when the news hits me like a rogue snowball: a European robin, of all things, decided to crash the Canadian party. Yeah, you heard that right—this tiny, plump little bird from across the pond fluttered into the city over the weekend, and bird nerds are losing their minds because it's the first one ever spotted here. First ever! In a place where winter means igloos and excuses to stay inside, this

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3:25

The Truck That Broke the Internet: How a Mangled...

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2026/01/11

This is your News You do not Need podcast.I spent my morning trying to catch up on wars, elections, economic crises… and instead I got stuck on the most gloriously useless headline of the day: “Indiana man becomes local celebrity for driving a pickup truck that looks like it lost a fight with a black hole.” This truck, owned by a guy named Mo Riles in South Bend, is so mangled it basically qualifies as modern art. The front end is crushed, panels are twisted, and yet somehow this thing is still

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