Stuff You Should Know
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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: Did Shakespeare really write all that stuff?
The question of Shakespeare's authorship has been around since at least the mid-1800s. Is there anything to it? In this classic episode, we dig in to...
Howard Hughes in Las Vegas
From 1968 to 1972 Howard Hughes holed up in a suite in the Desert Inn casino in Las Vegas. Addicted to morphine and living on candy bars and milk, he...
Short Stuff: Knuckle Cracking
Does knuckle cracking give you arthritis? It doesn't appear to. But that doesn't mean it's harmless.
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The Story of Starvation Heights
There are quacks and then there is Linda Hazzard. Not only did she starve her patients to death, but she took their family fortunes as she did it. Thi...
Selects: How Flight Attendants Work
Flight attendants have come a long way. From having to put up with rampant sexism, to the current incarnation as your first line of defense in case of...
The 1993 Waco Siege
One of the darkest days in the history of American law enforcement came on April 19, 1993, when the FBI’s 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian religiou...
Short Stuff: All about BPAs
Are BPAs safe? Of course not. Does the FDA care? Of course not. Learn all about what and why today.
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Eels Alive!
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)....
Did Mallory Make it to the Top of Everest First?
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...
The Hindenburg Disaster
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.
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Short Stuff: Did Tippy Hedron start the Vietnamese manicure industry?
Strange but true, actor Tippi Hedron kickstsarted the Vietnamese manicure industry in the United States in the 1970s. This is that story.
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Humanists, the Happy Heathens
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 do...
Selects: Can movies be cursed?
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...
Let's Go to Camp... David!
Camp David is awesome. But not all presidents have liked it. We'll dig into this historic property in today's episiode.
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Short Stuff: Why do kangaroos hop?
Kangaroos are the only marsupial to hop, which is pretty weird. We'll investigate why.
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Boeing's Nosedive: The 737-MAX
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 st...
Selects: Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis
Psychologist Julian Jaynes came up with a stunning hypothesis in 1976, that human consciousness only developed in the last 3000 years. And he seemed t...
How to Drink a Tree's Blood
Of course we're talking all about maple syrup today - the tapping, the processing, the eating.
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Short Stuff: Wisdom Teeth
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 anymo...
Save the Whales!
In the 1970s, conservation groups around the world rose up to protect dwindling whale populations, some on the verge of extinction. They all worked un...
Selects: How Fever Dreams Work
Fever dreams can be unsettling experiences. These ramped up nightmares are vivid, detailed and only happen when the human body experiences a fever. Wh...
UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity
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 w...
Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird
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...
Some Silly Inventions That Became Wildly Popular
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 rarel...
Selects: Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure
In this classic episode Josh and Chuck sit down and detail the complicated life of the late, great Sammy Davis Jr.
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The Sewol Ferry Disaster
In 2014 a ferry carrying hundreds of South Korean high school students on a field trip sunk, killing almost everyone on board. Hauntingly, their death...
Short Stuff: Cherry Blossoms
The Japanese Cherry Blossom is a sight to behold. But how did they get to Washington D.C.?
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Are Generations Even a Thing?
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 arbi...
Selects: What is a Numbers Station?
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 dis...
How Worker Co-ops Works
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.
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Short Stuff: History of Spring Break
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....
Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made?
Jump in today to hear all about the disaster that was the movie ROAR.
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Selects: The Skinny on Lyme Disease
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 worl...
The Colorado River Compact
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.
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Short Stuff: Simple Spelling Movement
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 on...
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?
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 def...
Selects: The Disappearance of Lars Mittank
In 2014, a young German man walked into an airport in Bulgaria with a flight booked, then suddenly ran out leaving all his posessions behind, never to...
Malcom X
Malcolm X was one of the most revered, feared leaders of the civil rights movement. In contrast to Martin Luther King, Jr., X advocated black self-rel...
Short Stuff: Kentucky Meat Shower
In 1876 it rained meat out of the clear blue sky on a homestead in Bath County, Kentucky. While the mystery of what happened will never be solved, the...
The History of Fire
The first fires came from lightning strikes. After that, no one is super sure when we started controlling it and then later, starting our own. But it'...