Strange News: The Steroid Olympics, Viral Neck Shadows, Your WiFi is Watching You, Chemical Disasters, and More

About this episode

This episode covers bizarre news stories including the first Steroid Olympics, a chemical disaster, and dystopian WiFi surveillance.

The first Steroid Olympics -- officially the 'Enhanced Games' took place in Las Vegas. The bizarre story of an Admiral's neck on Fox. A terrifying chemical disaster in Washington leaves one dead and nine missing. Also: fatal umbrellas, dystopian WiFi surveillance, and some real dodgy real estate grifts. Tune in for all this and more in this week's strange news segment. They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topics covered

• Strange News
• Steroid Olympics
• Chemical Disasters
• WiFi Surveillance
• Real Estate Grifts

Keywords

• Steroid Olympics
• Enhanced Games
• chemical disaster
• WiFi surveillance
• real estate grifts
• fatal umbrellas
• strange news

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Las Vegas, Washington

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