Stuff You Should Know

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. What is it about the combination of fevers and dream...

2026-04-25

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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 whole world and future people. But that missi...

2026-04-23

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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 way. Find out why it has such a ...

2026-04-22

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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 rarely, the stars align just right so that ...

2026-04-21

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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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2026-04-18

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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 deaths were fully avoidable: everyone from the dock ins...

2026-04-16

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Short Stuff: Cherry Blossoms

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.

2026-04-15

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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 arbitrary division? See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

2026-04-14

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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 dispel that myth, along with many others relating to ...

2026-04-11

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How Worker Co-ops Work

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.

2026-04-09

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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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

2026-04-08

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Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made?

Jump in today to hear all about the disaster that was the movie ROAR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2026-04-07

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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 world. Learn all about this tick-borne disease in this...

2026-04-04

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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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2026-04-02

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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 once, movements have emerged to simplify Engli...

2026-04-01

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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 defines the middle class. But even when y...

2026-03-31

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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 be heard from again. This classic episode tells t...

2026-03-28

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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-reliance and separateness in American society and tha...

2026-03-26

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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 best explanation makes the story even weirder tha...

2026-03-25

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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's sure fun to speculate! See omnystudio.com/liste...

2026-03-24

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