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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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Graffiti: So Cool It’s A Pillar of Hip Hop
Graffiti – the good kind, done with lots of style and skill – developed when some kids in NYC took up cans of spray paint and started to figure out ho...
Short Stuff: Victorian Flower Language
What do you do when you want to tell someone you’re smitten with them but you live in a society so repressive decorum prevents you from even speaking...
AM Radio: Solid Gold
The era of AM radio isn't over, but it's well past its heyday. Dive in today for a trip down memory lane.
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Selects: How Personality Tests Work
For millennia, we have tried to put human personalities into neat types, an effort psychology took up early in its history in an effort to legitimize...
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary
Pop Tarts are a legendary breakfast treat in the United States. They're fruit-filled toaster pastries with very little fruit. But who cares right? It'...
Short Stuff: Third Man Syndrome
People who’ve found themselves in life-or-death situations with their endurance at its limit have reported sensing another presence with them, urging...
Eco-Disasters 101: The Salton Sea
In 1905, an engineering mistake created a brand new 400-square-mile sea (lake?) in the California desert. People made the most of it at first, but it...
Selects: How Conversion Therapy Doesn't Work
Conversion therapy is a misguided attempt by religious zealots to convert people from gay to straight. News flash - it doesn't work. Learn all about t...
The Mystery of the Death Valley Germans
In 1996, a small group of German tourists disappeared in Death Valley National Park without a trace. Fifteen years later, the tenacity of one man solv...
Short Stuff: "Peace" Pipes
Did Native Americans really smoke peace pipes? Well yes and no. They smoked pipes for many reasons, sometimes to commemorate peace. But they never cal...
What To Do With All This Nuclear Waste?
You can make a case that it’s a little off-putting to learn the world doesn’t really have any idea what to do with the nuclear waste we’ve been genera...
Selects: How Extinction Works
Scientists believe that 99% of the estimated 50 billion species that have ever lived on Earth have disappeared through extinction. This is a natural p...
SYSK's 2025 Shocktober Halloween Spooktacular
Co-producer Ben knocked it out of the park again, taking the two classic horror stories we read for our annual Spooktacular - Caterpillars and The Dee...
Short Stuff: The Bell Witch
A legend in Tennessee tells of the real-life Bell family, who were haunted back in 1817 by a ghost witch - arguably the worst kind of either of those...
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: Masterpiece
There aren’t too many independent horror movies that make the British Film Institute’s 250 Best Films Ever Made list – AND – make an appearance in the...
Selects: The Great Finger in the Wendy’s Chili Caper
In 2005 a woman named Anna Alaya discovered a length of human finger – nail and all – in her Wendy’s chili. Her cries of disgust would set off a media...
THE HUMAN SCREAM
Have you ever thought much about screaming? Well we have, and today you'll learn everything we learned.
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Short Stuff: Curse of Broken Mirrors
It's seven years' bad luck for you if you break a mirror, buddy, sorry. But have you ever wondered why? People have come up with all sorts of great re...
[Insert Your Own Catchy Title About Younger Dryas Here]
Quick, name your favorite geological mystery. You can’t do it! Well, don’t worry. In this episode we’re going to tell you all about what will surely b...
Selects: How ESP Works (?)
Even though almost half of Americans believe in it, ESP usually is treated as a load of bull by skeptics. But some respected researchers have dared to...
VH-1: MTV for Your Parents
Today we complete our music video duology with a dive into the mellow pool of VH-1.
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Short Stuff: China's Corpse Walkers
If you died away from home but wanted to be buried there, don’t worry – Taoist priests had you covered. They’d just have your animated corpse walk its...
We want our MTV!
If you've ever wanted to hear a couple of Gen X'ers wax nostalgic about MTV, then you're in luck.
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Selects: How Schoolhouse Rock Rocked: Featuring Bob Nastanovich of Pavement
Schoolhouse Rock is possibly the best children's program of all time. Join Josh and Chuck in this classic episode as they tell the story of SR, featur...
Everyone Deserves A Good Death
The concept of hospice was created as a way to help people with only a few weeks to live spend their last days comfortable an surrounded by friends an...
Short Stuff: The Call is Coming... FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE
Did you know that the "the call is coming from inside the house" urban legend may be based on a very grisly murder case from the 1950s?
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The Happy Place of Saturday Morning Cartoons
The greatest period in the history of humankind took place in the short era between 1970 and 1995. During that time kids could tune in every Saturday...
Selects: How Mail Order Marriages Work
Everybody knows mail order marriages are at best a last resort for jerks looking to boss a foreign spouse around or, at worst, a front for human traff...
The Mystery of the Sleepy Sickness
Back in the early 1900s, a new pandemic happened out of nowhere with odd symptoms, that was never solved or cured. It just went away. Which means it's...
Short Stuff: La Lechuza - The Witch Owl
Today we kick off the scariest month with the legend of La Lechuza - The Witch Owl.
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Why Would Anyone Want to Appease Hitler?
It seems ridiculously irresponsible with the benefit of hindsight, but the concept of giving Hitler everything he wanted was the policy among the UK a...
Selects: How Area 51 Works
The secret military base Area 51 is inextricably linked to every secret, shady project the US government is rumored to be involved in – from reverse-e...
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Hinterkaifeck Axe Murders
In 1922, a little farm in the woods of Bavaria became the site of what would become Germany’s most famous unsolved murder, when six people were brutal...
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: SYSK Live: The DB Cooper Heist
Join Josh and Chuck live from Seattle as they (sky)dive into one of the most brazen robberies in the annals of crime and the only unsolved airline hij...
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: Who Committed the 1912 Villisca Ax Murders?
In a small town in Iowa in 1912 eight people were murdered in the grisliest of ways while they slept. Local reputations were ruined when accusations f...
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Tylenol Murders, Part I
On one terrible day in Chicago in 1982, seven people died suddenly and mysteriously. In just a matter of hours, it becomes clear, someone has poisoned...
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping
The largest ever kidnapping case in the United States went down in the small town of Chowchilla, CA. Learn all about it today.
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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Tylenol Murders, Part II
The panic that began in Chicago spreads and begins to change the world. The investigation into the murders turns up leads and suspects, but still no o...
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Tale of the Bloody Benders
Long before we knew what serial killers were, a family in remote Kansas was disposing of victims at their family farm. Listen in to the Tale of the Bl...
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Harvey’s Casino Bombing of 1980
In August of 1980 a bomb containing 1,000 pounds of dynamite was quietly delivered to Harvey’s, a casino and resort at Lake Tahoe. This kicked off a w...