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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.
As you stretch in the morning
Up to 10 minutes
Short Stuff: The Killing Stone
While preparing your breakfast
Up to 15 minutes
Short Stuff: Redacted!
Short Stuff: Mystery of the Sarah Jo
Short Stuff: Flower Power
Short Stuff: The SS Ourang Medang
Short Stuff: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
Short Stuff: Rescuing Mistreated Pets
Short Stuff: Skid Row (not the band)
Short Stuff: Pruney Skin
Short Stuff: ZIP Codes!
Short Stuff: The Ritchie Boys
Short Stuff: Milk Wars
Short Stuff: POW Olympics
Short Stuff: James Dean's Car
Short Stuff: Hostile Architecture
Short Stuff: Amber Alerts
Short Stuff: Hobo Signs
Short Stuff: Zambonis!
Short Stuff: Getting Winded
Short Stuff: The Sad, Strange Tale of Margaret Schilling
Short Stuff: The Amazing Tale of Juliane Koepcke
Short Stuff: Straitjackets
Short Stuff: Knock on Wood
Short Stuff: Ramree Island Crocodile Massacre
Short Stuff: Skittles and TIO2
Short Stuff: Roly Poly...Bugs?
Short Stuff: Smudging: Not just for hippies
Short Stuff: Benin Bronzes
Short Stuff: The Original Snake Oil Salesman
Short Stuff: School Bus Yellow
Short Stuff: Hot Cold Plunge
Short Stuff: Frozen Dead Guy
Short Stuff: NYT Bestseller List
Short Stuff: Blueprints
Short Stuff: Scheele's Green
Short Stuff: Christmas Lights
Short Stuff: Magnetic Pole Switcheroo
Short Stuff: Liberty Bell
Short Stuff: Petrified Wood
Short Stuff: White Dog Poop
How Andy Warhol Worked
Short Stuff: Rhodium
Short Stuff: Origin of Math Signs
Short Stuff: Why Spilling Salt is Unlucky
Short Stuff: Evil Eye
While tidying up your living room
Up to 20 minutes
Short Stuff: Sitzpinklers Unite
Short Stuff: Titanic Survivors!
Short Stuff: Pickles
Short Stuff: Boba Tea
Short Stuff: The Zipper Merge
Short Stuff: Bed Sheet Ghosts
Short Stuff: Candy Corn
Short Stuff: Longyou Caves
Short Stuff: The Dakota
Short Stuff: History of OK
Perfect for a quick yoga session
Up to 30 minutes
Selects: How Vomit Phobia Works
On your way to work
Up to 45 minutes
Selects: Porcupines: Little Stabby Cutie Pies
Kudzu: The Vine That Just Won't Stop
The Anarchist Cookbook: Funny but Dangerous
Swatches!
The Strange Story of Lysol
The Shadow Biosphere: Is There Other Life on Earth?
Would A Love Drug Be Ethical?
Selects: The Manson Family Murders Part 2
Henry Ford: The Good, Bad and Ugly
Selects: How Futurology Works
The Strange Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon
Selects: Body Language!
The Call of the Void: Don’t Pick Up!
The Story of Rudolf Diesel
Who was Dr. Bronner?
HPV and You
Salute to Women Inventors
Selects: How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work, Part I
J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt. 1
Selects: Who is The Man of the Hole?
Selects: How Dyslexia Works
The Smiley, Stubborn Llama
The Story of the Nuclear Boy Scout
Like, here's the episode on "like"
Selects: History's Greatest Traitors
Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method
Selects: How Floods Work
Great for a lunch break escape
Up to 60 minutes
Selects: How Paramedics Work
Gobekli Tepe
Selects: How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked
Selects: Rosa Parks: Agent of Change
The Judas Priest Suicide Trial
Four Eyes Good: The History of Glasses
Selects: How Government Shutdowns Work
Tom Slick: Not the Cartoon
Celebration Florida: The Story of a Utopia that Never Was
Ludwig II: The Only Real King of the 19th Century
The History of Streaming Music
Selects: The Manson Family Murders Part 1
How Bomb Disposal Works
The One About Car Washes
Selects: The Tulsa 'Race Riots'
The KILLDOZER Rampage
Phone Phreaking: The Advent of Hacking
Selects: The Duality of Caffeine
The Puritans in America
Selects: Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Feminist Physician
Salsa: NOT THE DANCE
How Dopamine Works
Selects: How Restaurant Health Inspections Work
EXTRA! EXTRA! The Newsboy Strike Episode!
Whistling!
The Big Episode on Wikipedia
Why Must Widowhood Be So Difficult?
Coercive Control, the Invisible Basis of Abuse
Selects: Sunburn, Suntans and Sunscreen
The Ballad of Grit
Conductors: What the heck is going on there?
Selects: What are think tanks all about?
J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt. 2
Selects: The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth
The Silurian Hypothesis
NYC Trash: A study in persistence
Selects: How Stuttering Works
10 - Yes, 10! - Dumb Criminals
Misophonia: More Than an Annoyance
Selects: The Legends of Lost Nazi Gold
Atomic Clocks, Ahoy!
The Village People Episode
Selects: How the Beagle Brigade Works
The Awful Crimes of Georgia Tann
The Power of the Wind
Selects: Special Effects: A Short History
Hitchhiking: Two thumbs out!
The Dubious Science of Arson Investigation
Selects: How Famines Work
Testosterone and Estrogen: Wondrous Hormones
The 1977 Women's Conference That Changed America
Selects: All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh
The Everglades: Wowee
Greedflation Is Real
The Pulitzer Prize: A major award!
Love Canal: Even Dirtier Than It Sounds
Selects: MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood
Peanuts (the comic) Part I
The Alien Abduction Phenomenon of the Mid-20th Century
Leave Brutalism Alone!
Selects: The Science of Break-Ups
Mulititasking: Working slower with worse results
Multitasking: Working slower with worse results
Selects: The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Wireless Electricity: When Can We Unplug Our TVs?
Haile Selassie: Statesman, Colonizer, God?
Selects: How Zero Population Growth Works
Ray and Charles Eames: More than Chairs
Selects: Geodesic Domes: The Wave of the Future That Wasn't
What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws
Selects: The Unabomber: Misguided to say the least
Clue(do): Third Best Board Game Ever
Selects: How Disgust Works
The Harrowing Story of the North Hollywood Shootout
Selects: A List Of Games You Would Surely Lose to a Computer
Esperanto: Tre Mojosa
Jonestown
Dry Cleaning: Not Really Dry(!)
How Cranes Work
The 2000 Presidential Election: A Real Cluster
Selects: Nuclear Semiotics: How to Talk to Future Humans
How Primitive Will Our Descendants Find Us?
How Snails Work
Selects: How Fireplaces Work
The 2023 SYSK Ho-Ho-Holiday Spectacular!
Beanie Babies: Reigning Toy Craze Champion
Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular
Selects: How Dictators Work
What was the Skeleton Army?
The Matewan Massacre
Selects: What were the Freedom Schools?
The Murder of John Lennon
Selects: Beavers: Tail Slapping Fun
You Down With OED?
Plate Tectonics Are What Makes Earth Inhabitable
Selects: NYC Water: An Engineering Marvel
The Wreck of the Costa Concordia
Legs! Legs! Legs! (The Periodic Table)
Selects: E.T.: Is It Really the Worst Video Game of All Time?
Diners: The Most American Establishment?
The Tragic Death of Natalie Wood
Selects: Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
The Harlem Globetrotters: American Treasures
Selects: How Mummies Work
Naked Mole Rats: A Face Only a Mother Could Love
The Compton Cafeteria Riot
Kindness: Do It
Selects: Pain Scales: Yeeeow!
Selects: How Motion Sickness Works
Night of the Grizzlies
Selects: Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You'd Think
Revenge: Bitter, Not Sweet
The Amazing Life of Christine Granville
Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish
Kombucha: Fizzy Goodness
The Hyatt Regency Skywalk Disaster
Axolotls: The Smiling Salamander from Mexico
Selects: How Space Stations Work
The Made-up Disease of Syndrome K
Selects: Body Odor: You Stink
Laurens Hammond: The Non-Musical Genius Who Changed Popular Music
Fordlandia: Brazil Isn't Michigan
While gardening in your backyard
Up to 75 minutes
Selects: Timber! How Timber Works
SYSK Live in Nashville: The Biosphere II Experiment
The Life and Works of J.D. Salinger
How Scuba Works
Selects: Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting?
The 14th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!
The Criminal Father of Criminology
How Intellectual Property Works
Parasocial Relationships: That Podcaster is Your Friend!
Native American Reservations