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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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57:46

Selects: MC Escher and His Trippy Art

Stuff You Should Know ·

2026/01/03

We love us some MC Escher. Turns out his story is pretty fascinating too. Tune in to this classic episode and find out all about it with Josh and Chuck.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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45:13

TV Moments That Changed The World

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2026/01/01

Whatever you think of TV, you have to admit it has shaped the world (maybe more than the internet, according to Josh). There have been moments here or there in TV history where the world took a new course and we go over some of them in this episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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12:56

Short Stuff: All About Porcelain

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2025/12/31

What exactly is this durable ceramic anyway?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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40:26

What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

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2025/12/30

Home economics seems antiquated – a class that teaches high school kids how to bake a cake and sew doesn’t sound super useful. But would you believe that everything from the obesity epidemic to student debt can be chalked up to home ec disappearing?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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48:04

Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

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2025/12/27

Playing miniature golf is a very fun thing to do and, you’re about to find, learning about its origin and history is very fun as well. Join Josh and Chuck in this classic episode as they tee off on the mini golf story!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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49:58

Dolls and Dolls, Guys!

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2025/12/25

In this special Christmas Day episode, we get cuddly with one of the all-time great holiday gifts, dolls! Where did they come from? Why are the so cute? Why are they sometimes creepy? Why do they tell us to do things we don’t want to with their minds?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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11:26

Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?

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2025/12/24

Holly is waxy and super sharp, not exactly the kind of thing you'd want all over your house. Yet it happens every holiday season. Today we dig in to discover why.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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50:41

SYSK's 2025 Holiday Extravaganza Christmas Special

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2025/12/23

Deck your tidings and get your halls nice and gladded because it’s time for maybe the best episode of the year, where SYSK loosens our ties, puts on our smoking jackets and Santa hats and create holiday nostalgia in real time. Happy holidays, everybody!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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58:56

Selects: PT Barnum: More Complicated Than You've Heard

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2025/12/20

When your life is as outsized as the World’s Greatest Showman PT Barnum it’s pretty easy to - you know - gloss over the grimmer aspects when you turn it into an uplifting musical movie. But the way to understand a person is to look at them, warts and all. Josh and Chuck take a full accounting in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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39:00

Doggerland: Lost at Sea

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2025/12/18

The story of Doggerland is pretty fascinating. The idea is that mainland Europe and the UK were connected not only by a land bridge, but a place where plants, animals and even humans, thrived.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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14:39

Short Stuff: Battle of Itter Castle

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2025/12/17

At the end of WWII in Europe, one of the strangest battles of the war took place between German troops fighting alongside Americans and French to beat back an assault by the Nazi SS.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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55:35

Battle Royale: Optimists vs Pessimists

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2025/12/16

Everybody’s always bagging on pessimists and telling everybody they should be more optimistic. Well, nuts to that! There are plenty of benefits from being a pessimist. Although being an optimist still wins in basically every category ☹See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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54:21

Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular

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2025/12/13

Long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, George Lucas allowed the Star Wars Holiday Special to be made. What happened on the night of November 17, 1978 can never be fully explained, but we make our best effort in our annual special edition of SYSK. May the force be with us all.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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49:17

SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a...

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2025/12/12

Ever since Cabbage Patch Kids came along in 1983, there’s been an annual holiday frenzy around one particular toy – the must-have Christmas toy of the year. But what makes a toy a must-have toy? Josh and Chuck investigate (and kick off the holidays).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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41:57

SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Hot Wheels Work

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2025/12/12

If you're an American who had a childhood, you probably have some nostalgia for Hot Wheels. Get your engines revved for this trip down memory lane as we discuss these fun and iconic toys.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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51:50

SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Cabbage Patch...

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2025/12/12

Surprisingly, Cabbage Patch Kids have turned up on SYSK almost as much as the Nazis or Seinfeld. It’s finally time to dive all the way into CPKs, from their controversial origins to the Christmas craze of ‘83 to their alter egos, Garbage Pail Kids.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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58:02

SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo...

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2025/12/12

For the holidays in 1986 (and ’87) (and ’88) the most stupendous, most wanted, most amazing thing any kid could possibly get – outside of a pony, *maybe* – was the NES. That year, video games came back from the dead and changed forever.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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49:46

SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Beanie Babies:...

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2025/12/12

The world has seen a lot of weird investment bubbles in its time, but few of them rival the fever that gripped the world in the 90s after Beanie Babies took off. Let’s visit this strange chapter in toy history together.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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57:22

SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works

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2025/12/12

Since more than 1 billion people have played it, you're probably familiar with the board game Monopoly, but we bet you don't know its secret origins as a left-wing socialist teaching tool. Learn about the history, rules and cultural impact of Monopoly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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39:54

SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Hula-Hoops: The...

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2025/12/12

We've covered our fair share of pop-culture icons and here is another - Hula-Hoops. They've been around since ancient time in some form or another, but made their name in during the Hoop Boom of the 1950s. Learn all about this popular fad and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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