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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.
PodSkip has analyzed 35 episodes of Stuff You Should Know, averaging 9.5 ads per episode (11% of runtime).
Short Stuff: All about BPAs
May 20, 2026
Are BPAs safe? Of course not. Does the FDA care? Of course not. Learn all about what and why today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Eels Alive!
May 19, 2026
Eels are pretty much objectively unsettling. They’re not quite fish (although they are) and if they’re snakes, they’re messed up snakes (they aren’t). But they’re fascinating too! There are even…
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Selects: Did Mallory Make it to the Top of Everest First?
May 16, 2026
George Mallory was a member of the first three European expeditions to Everest, world’s tallest mountain. He wanted to summit it so badly, he gave his life trying. Since that fateful day in 1924…
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The Hindenburg Disaster
May 14, 2026
Hard to believe we haven't covered this one yet, but here we are. Why did the Hindenburg crash and burn? We still don't really know. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Short Stuff: Did Tippi Hedron start the Vietnamese manicure industry?
May 13, 2026
Strange but true, actor Tippi Hedron kickstsarted the Vietnamese manicure industry in the United States in the 1970s. This is that story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Humanists, the Happy Heathens
May 12, 2026
If you don’t believe in any kind of god or afterlife - or even that there’s a meaning to life – does that mean you’re doomed to a life of gloom and doom? Heck no!, say humanists. Their philosophical…
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Selects: Can movies be cursed?
May 09, 2026
First of all, movies can't be cursed because curses aren't real. However, that can't stop Josh and Chuck from taking a look at some movies throughout history that have had a disturbing number of bad…
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Let's Go to Camp... David!
May 07, 2026
Camp David is awesome. But not all presidents have liked it. We'll dig into this historic property in today's episiode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Short Stuff: Why do kangaroos hop?
May 06, 2026
Kangaroos are the only marsupial to hop, which is pretty weird. We'll investigate why. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Boeing's Nosedive: The 737-MAX
May 05, 2026
Boeing used to be one of the most respected engineering firms in the world. Then it changed its focus from making great airplanes to increasing its stock value. The result was the 737-MAX, a plane…
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Selects: Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis
May 02, 2026
Psychologist Julian Jaynes came up with a stunning hypothesis in 1976, that human consciousness only developed in the last 3000 years. And he seemed to have proof in ancient texts. Scholars have been…
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How to Drink a Tree's Blood
Apr 30, 2026
Of course we're talking all about maple syrup today - the tapping, the processing, the eating. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Short Stuff: Wisdom Teeth
Apr 29, 2026
By all rights there should be three sets of molars in your mouth. But it turns out that our skulls aren’t really set up to accommodate that many anymore. Exactly why depends on who you ask. See…
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Save the Whales!
Apr 28, 2026
In the 1970s, conservation groups around the world rose up to protect dwindling whale populations, some on the verge of extinction. They all worked under the same banner: Save the Whales! It turned…
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Selects: How Fever Dreams Work
Apr 25, 2026
Fever dreams can be unsettling experiences. These ramped up nightmares are vivid, detailed and only happen when the human body experiences a fever. What is it about the combination of fevers and…
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UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity
Apr 23, 2026
Humanity’s created a lot of neat things over the eons and starting in the 1940s, the UN created an agency focused on preserving those things for the whole world and future people. But that mission is…
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Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird
Apr 22, 2026
There’s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird’s defense, it’s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation…
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Some Silly Inventions That Became Wildly Popular
Apr 21, 2026
Once in a while someone comes up with a solution for a problem we didn’t know we had, and maybe even a problem that didn’t even exist. Even more rarely, the stars align just right so that some…
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Selects: Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure
Apr 18, 2026
In this classic episode Josh and Chuck sit down and detail the complicated life of the late, great Sammy Davis Jr. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Sewol Ferry Disaster
Apr 16, 2026
In 2014 a ferry carrying hundreds of South Korean high school students on a field trip sunk, killing almost everyone on board. Hauntingly, their deaths were fully avoidable: everyone from the dock…
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Short Stuff: Cherry Blossoms
Apr 15, 2026
The Japanese Cherry Blossom is a sight to behold. But how did they get to Washington D.C.? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Are Generations Even a Thing?
Apr 14, 2026
We all love to tour our generation's superiority, but who decides where the split occurs and what to name it? And is this even a thing or just an arbitrary division? See omnystudio.com/listener for…
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Selects: What is a Numbers Station?
Apr 11, 2026
If you think secretly coded messages sent via short wave radio is Cold War relic, think again. In this classic episode, Chuck and Josh are here to dispel that myth, along with many others relating to…
How Worker Co-ops Work
Apr 09, 2026
The worker co-op has a rich tradition and can work a variety of ways. Join us as we dig into the nuts and bolts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Short Stuff: History of Spring Break
Apr 08, 2026
If you think Spring Break started with northern college kids heading to Florida to party, you'd be correct. But there's slightly more to it than that. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
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Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made?
Apr 07, 2026
Jump in today to hear all about the disaster that was the movie ROAR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Selects: The Skinny on Lyme Disease
Apr 04, 2026
If you live in the Northeastern U.S. then you may know someone who has had Lyme disease. But it's spreading all over the country and parts of the world. Learn all about this tick-borne disease in…
The Colorado River Compact
Apr 02, 2026
Deciding how to share water is pretty important stuff when there isn't much of it around. Today we dive into the Colorado River Compact. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Short Stuff: Simple Spelling Movement
Apr 01, 2026
Pretty much everyone agrees that English is a chaotic language. There are nutso rules of grammar and spelling other languages don’t have. More than once, movements have emerged to simplify English…
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine
Mar 31, 2026
Lots of nations gauge the health of their country by how the middle class is doing. There’s just one issue with that – no one can say exactly what defines the middle class. But even when you take a…