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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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1:43

Robotaxi Roulette: Mystery Man in the Trunk Has Cops...

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2025/12/17

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, minding my own business on a Tuesday night, scrolling through the news like any normal person avoiding real responsibilities, when I stumble on this headline that made me spit out my coffee: a woman orders a Waymo self-driving cab, pops open the trunk to toss in her groceries, and bam—there's a full-grown man trapped inside, looking like he just lost a wrestling match with a pretzel factory. This went viral faster than a cat video, and cops

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3:31

Neighborhood Holds Funeral for Pothole... and It...

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2025/12/15

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So, you know how the internet is full of important headlines like “global crisis” and “historic summit” and “please stop putting cheese in your car’s engine”? This is not one of those stories. This is the exact opposite. This is a story no one needs, and yet here we are, together, about to put it directly into your brain.In the past day, while normal humans were doing sensible things, a group of very determined people in England held a funeral for… a

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2:02

Kiwi Cops Foil $19K Fabergé Heist: Suspect's 6-Day...

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2025/12/14

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there I was, minding my own business in New Zealand, window-shopping for some bling when I spot this shiny Fabergé pendant straight out of a James Bond flick—$19,000 worth of egg-shaped fabulousness, all sparkly and smug. I think, "Self, you deserve this," and in a move smoother than 007 dodging lasers, I pop it in my mouth and swallow. Gulp. Instant jewelry heist, right? Wrong. Turns out, Auckland cops aren't fans of my gourmet smuggling technique.They

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2:55

DoorDash Driver Spices Up Delivery with Pepper Spray,...

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2025/12/13

This is your News You do not Need podcast.Let me tell you about a breaking news story you absolutely do not need, but now your brain will insist on keeping forever.Somewhere in Indiana, where the weather is doing its best impression of a refrigerated meat locker at about 35 degrees, a DoorDash driver was caught on a doorbell camera delivering dinner like a normal human… and then lovingly misting the food with pepper spray. Not a garnish, not a drizzle of aioli. Pepper. Spray.The customer, who

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3:40

Hermès Heist: The Case of the Vanishing $200 Bandage...

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2025/12/12

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So, in the vast carnival of human achievement, today’s standout headline is not about peace, progress, or curing anything. No, it’s about a bandage. A very, very fancy bandage.Hermès, the luxury brand known for selling handbags that cost more than a used car, briefly offered what was essentially a designer Band-Aid: a tiny adhesive strip priced around two hundred dollars, marketed as a “Band-Aid accessory.” Yes, that’s right. Somewhere in Paris, someone

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4:04

From Petri Dishes to Peanut Butter: Oklahoma's...

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2025/12/10

This is your News You do not Need podcast.You know that feeling when you realize the human species has invented space travel, mapped the genome, and yet… today’s big headline is: “Oklahoma dog earns Guinness World Record for longest tongue”?Somewhere in Oklahoma, there is now a perfectly ordinary-looking rescue dog who just happens to have a red carpet of slobber hanging out of his mouth like a necktie that missed the memo about business casual. This dog’s tongue is so long, it needs its own parking

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3:38

Teens in Care Bear Onesies Arrested for Trespassing...

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2025/12/08

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So I woke up today, checked the news, and immediately learned something that absolutely nobody needs to know: two teenagers in Wisconsin have now become the first Care Bears to be arrested in the line of non-duty.Police in Wauwatosa responded to reports of trespassers inside an abandoned Radisson hotel. Already, this sounds like the start of a low-budget horror movie: empty rooms, echoing corridors, mysterious footsteps, and then… a squad car pulls up and

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2:52

Kilauea's Revenge: Volcano 1, Webcam 0 in Epic Lava...

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2025/12/07

This is your News You do not Need podcast.I woke up today thinking, “Surely there is nothing new I need to know about molten rock,” and Kilauea volcano in Hawaii immediately took that as a personal challenge. So here I am, a full-grown adult, reporting to you about the tragic, fiery demise of a webcam.At Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Kilauea has been in one of those long-running lava moods scientists politely call an “ongoing eruption.” Yesterday’s installment, charmingly labeled Episode 38, went

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4:05

Bizarre Saga: Town Weighs Giant Cheese Sculpture,...

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2025/12/06

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So, here’s a sentence you never expected to care about: somewhere in the world, in the last 24 hours, people have been passionately arguing about… how to weigh a giant block of cheese.Not eat it. Weigh it.Picture a small European town that has decided the best way to get on the map is to create the world’s largest cheese sculpture. Not a respectable wheel, not something that fits in a fridge. No. This thing needs its own weather forecast. It’s part tourist

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0:07

Art Attack: Quirky Installation Sparks Neighborhood...

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2025/12/05

This is your News You do not Need podcast.Let me fetch more details about the art installation since that seems like the most bizarre and entertaining story.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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2:03

Feline Feud: The $20K Cat Custody Battle That'll Make...

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2025/12/03

This is your News You do not Need podcast.You know, I came across this absolutely wild story that I just had to share because it perfectly captures the kind of news that makes you wonder what's happening in the world. So picture this: there's a guy named Gary, and Gary is a cat. Not just any cat, mind you, but apparently the subject of a legal battle that would make any daytime court show producer weep with joy.Back in December of last year, a woman named Yang decided she'd had enough and sued

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2:08

Cranberry Sauce Catastrophe: Ocean Spray's Watery...

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2025/12/01

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So picture this: It's the day after Thanksgiving, people are still digesting turkey, and somewhere in America, a cranberry sauce crisis is unfolding that absolutely nobody asked for. Ocean Spray, the company that's been putting those cylindrical cans of jiggly cranberry sauce on dinner tables since basically forever, is now investigating reports that some of their cans contain nothing but water. Just water. Pure, disappointing water where the crimson sauce

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1:50

Eagle Drops Cat Bombshell: Raining Felines on the...

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2025/11/30

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So there's this thing that happened in North Carolina, and I have to tell you, it's the kind of story that makes you question the entire natural order of things. A woman was just driving along, minding her own business, when suddenly a cat carcass came crashing through her windshield. But here's the kicker – it wasn't dropped by some freak accident or a random vehicle. A bald eagle did it. An actual bald eagle, America's national bird, apparently decided to

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1:51

Spin Cycle for Your Soul: Japan's Human Washing...

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2025/11/29

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So picture this. It's November 2025 and Japan, the country that brought us everything from sushi to robots that can fold your laundry, has now unveiled something truly bizarre. They've invented a human washing machine. Yes, you read that right. An actual machine designed to wash people like they're a load of laundry.Now, I don't know about you, but when I wake up and think about my day, somewhere between brushing my teeth and making coffee, I'm not usually

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1:41

Bald Eagle's Bizarre Thanksgiving Delivery: Raining...

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2025/11/28

This is your News You do not Need podcast.So picture this: it's Thanksgiving, a day when most people are thinking about turkey and cranberry sauce, but a woman in North Carolina got a very different kind of surprise delivery. She's driving along, minding her own business, probably thinking about what leftovers she's going to demolish later, when suddenly a bald eagle decides to perform the worst door-to-door delivery service imaginable. The bird drops a dead cat straight through her windshield. Yes,

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3:11

From Coffin Knocker to AI Shocker: Wild Stories of...

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2025/11/26

This is your News You do not Need podcast.Do you ever get the feeling that the universe is trying to tell you something about your life choices, but instead of sending a wise old sage, it dispatches a Thai woman who wakes up inside a coffin moments before cremation? Because that’s exactly what happened yesterday—a 65-year-old woman in Thailand, bedridden for years, decided to break the world record for Most Dramatic Return to Consciousness. Just as the family and temple staff were booking her

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5:01

Hulk Hues, Lying Champs, & Secret Millions: Quirky...

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2025/11/24

This is your News You do not Need podcast.Did you know that not all heroes wear capes, some just wear an unfortunate shade of green for days? Let’s take a moment to celebrate one of this week’s most unintentionally colorful individuals: a man who tried to Hulk out for an event in Thailand and ended up, well, stuck in his own transformation. Picture this: you get invited to a pop culture festival with a dress code that says "comic book characters," and you decide, hey, it’s my moment—the Hulk it is

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1:41

Florida Man's Wild Night: Manatee Statue Molester...

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2025/11/24

This is your News You do not Need podcast.# The Great Manatee Statue Incident: A Florida TaleSo picture this. It's last weekend in Florida, and a twenty-three-year-old man decides that what the world really needs is for him to molest a manatee statue. Not a real manatee, mind you, but a statue. Outside a bar. Because apparently that seemed like a reasonable life choice at the time.But wait, it gets better. After completing his artistic assault on this innocent fiberglass sea cow, he apparently

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3:47

Mount Rainier's Imaginary Meltdown: The Volcano...

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2025/11/19

This is your News You do not Need podcast.If you’re tuning into this podcast with the hope of gaining some profound wisdom or essential life advice, let me assure you—you’re about to embark on the opposite journey. Today’s story is one hundred percent in the “You don’t need to know this, but now you will” category, and it’s delightfully bizarre. Pull up your favorite chair and let’s get weird.On this fine November day, perhaps while you were sensibly ignoring the news in favor of doing literally

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3:32

From Singing Sands to Zebra Rodeos: Your Wildest News...

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2025/11/17

This is your News You do not Need podcast.There are things in the universe that are profound, mysterious, and life-changing—and then there’s what I’m about to share. So, settle in for a journey into breaking news that you probably don’t need in your cerebral hard drive, but will now never forget. In the past 24 hours, the world has seen wars, pumpkin contests, and the usual parade of geopolitics. But also, and here’s where we swerve into the surreal, this weekend the internet was treated to a news

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