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Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
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Selects: Plant Migration
Climate change is having sweeping effects on our climate and this is changing the world, not just for humans and other animals, but plants too. Will t...
What's the deal with Swiss neutrality?
We all know Switzerland is neutral. But why? Listen in and you might learn something.
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Short Stuff: Sardines!
Josh implored Chuck to try sardines. Did he? Listen in to find out.
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The Tobacco Master Settlement: That Time We Got Em
By the 1990s, cigarette makers had been hooking and killing off their customers for about a century. And they’d gotten good at both as well as coverin...
Selects: The Soul Train Episode
In this classic episode, Chuck and Josh dive into the funky, cool world of the classic TV show, Sooooooooul Train.
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White Boy Rick
Would you believe that Detroit’s crack epidemic in the mid-80s was overseen by one 16 year-old white kid who supplied all the coke? No? Well, that’s n...
Short Stuff: The Voice of God
Today we salute the great Don LaFontaine, aka The Voice of God in movie and TV trailers.
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You Are Not Alone With Postpartum Depression
Most new moms get the baby blues soon after giving birth. Postpartum depression is something much different - the symptoms are similar, but their inte...
Selects: The First Road Trip
Back when cars were a brand new thing, before people even knew they'd stick around, two men and a dog drove from San Francisco to New York. This class...
Eleanor Roosevelt: Best First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt was something else. We can't get into it here, but just wait until you listen to this episode.
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Short Stuff: Great Britain
Now that it’s been 250 years since America split from England, we figure enough time has passed that we can finally learn the difference between the U...
Kola: The World’s Deepest Hole
During the Cold War all eyes were on the Space Race between the US and USSR. But there was another, overlooked race too and it went in the opposite di...
Selects: Chopsticks > Forks
In this classic episode, Chuck and Josh sit and converse on the simple, elegant chopstick.
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Alaska Earthquake of 1964
When a 9.2 quake shoook Alaska in 1964 it was the 2nd largest earthquake ever recorded. This is that story.
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Short Stuff: Toronto Clown Riot
Those are three words you probably never thought you’d see together. And the true story is just as interesting as it sounds.
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The Hillsborough Disaster
When a crush of football fans killed 97 people in England in 1989, police and officials engaged in a massive cover-up to blame it on drunken fans. Tod...
Selects: How Enron Fooled the World
Until 2007, the largest single corporate bankruptcy was Enron, a $67 billion energy trading company. Its decline was breathtaking, and while it’s a fa...
Freetown Christiania
The sort of commune of Freetown Christiania in Denmark may not be what it used to be, but it's still true to many of its original values. Learn all ab...
Short Stuff: Why does it feel good to be scared?
Fear is different than being scared, most notably because fear is generally a negative thing and being scared can cause an enjoyable thrill. We'll get...
Some Interesting Curses
Even though curses aren’t real – and we go to great pains to make that clear – they are pretty interesting, especially ones you haven’t heard of befor...
Selects: Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil
It’s a pretty safe assumption that people have been born with birthmarks since humanity began, and between then and now we’ve come up with some wacky,...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
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The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Global Warming Works
It's a confusing part of climate change when it seems winter is as cold as ever, but as global temperatures creep ever so slightly higher, a cascade o...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How the Scientific Method Works
It evolved over centuries to become the gold standard for conducting scientific inquiry. Yet many people - including some scientists - don't fully und...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are a number of theories for how the universe evolved but none are more widely accepted than the Big Bang theory. Learn about the mind-boggling...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method
It’s easy to think of people in the distant past as kinda dumb for believing things like that mice could spontaneously generate from old grain. But if...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Occam's Razor Works
You know the rule that says the simplest explanation is probably the correct one? That’s called a razor and it’s meant to guide logic. But over time i...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?
The world's energy consumption is ruining the planet but for decades physicists have been working on what could solve the world's energy and climate c...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Elastics: Where God and Science Smooch
You could be forgiven for thinking the story behind elastics was boring. You’d still be wrong, though. The story of what’s holding up your underwear i...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How X-Rays Work
Like many huge discoveries, X-rays were accidentally stumbled upon. That serendipity led to a medical breakthrough still in use today. Learn about how...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Legs! Legs! Legs! (The Periodic Table)
If you’ve ever wanted to listen to two totally untrained, non-chemists who are fully unqualified to explain how the periodic table works nervously exp...
M*A*S*H: The Story of the 4077th
Chuck loved M*A*S*H. Josh didn't. Listen in as they fight to the death.
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Short Stuff: Does singing make you happy?
Does singing make you happy? Yes, yes it does.
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Did 24-Hour Cable News Kill America?
You can make a pretty good case that the rise of opinion “news” and filter bubbles on cable tv created the current cultural and political schism that...
Selects: How the Fairness Doctrine Worked
Back in the day, broadcasters were bound by law to provide contrasting opinions on political matters. Why? Because of the Fairness Doctrine. What happ...
The NY Subway Vigilante
Today we dive into the unremorseful life of NYC Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz.
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Short Stuff: Rain Barrels!
Harvesting rainwater has tons of upsides and not many downsides – you just need to take a few precautions first. Don’t miss this episode, which featur...
Smile
They say that smiling requires fewer muscles than frowning, so why not smile? That doesn’t seem to be true, or at least unproven, and there is lots mo...
Selects: 911 Is Not a Joke
Josh and Chuck delve into the world of 911 in this classic episode.
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Three Mile Island
The disaster at Three Mile Island thankfully did not cost any lives directly, but the notion that it didn't harm people is very much up in the air. Le...