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Are You Sh!#ing Me? (AYSM) is the hilarious, no-holds-barred podcast where hosts Brett & Chuck uncover the weirdest facts, funniest stories, and WTF moments from history, science, music, beer, or pop culture. From bizarre poop science to forgotten presidents, strange sports to songs that almost didn’t make it, each episode delivers absurd and totally useless, fascinating knowledge you didn’t know you needed. We pair a beer with each topic, because... why not? It's just like sitting around with your friends and discussing whatever comes up—best enjoyed with a beer in hand. www.aysm.show
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- Jul 18, 20260 min
Britain Invented the Word Soccer, Then Blamed America For It (AYSM)
Yep. "Soccer" is a British word. Oxford students coined it in the 1800s. Britain used it for over 100 years. Then America kept it, Britain dropped it, and somehow it became America's fault.That's not history. That's gaslighting with a cup of tea. ☕Cheers!#soccer #footballvsoccer #soccerfacts #britishhistory #didyouknow #funfacts #sportshistory #wordorigins #etymology #aysm #aysmpodcast #AreYouShittingMe #shorts #youtubeshorts
- Jul 10, 20263 min
The Princess Bride: Behind the Scenes (Are You S!#ing Me?)
A 1987 flop about a farm boy, a giant, and a Sicilian swordsman became one of the most quotable movies ever made. Here's why that almost didn't happen.It made $25.5 million. Ranked 41st at the box office that year. By every normal metric, it flopped.Then VHS happened — and it became immortal.Behind the camera was a different story: a giant who physically couldn't lift anyone, a leading man who filmed half the movie secretly in agony, an actor genuinely knocked unconscious on set, and a sword fight so good it was choreographed by the guy behind Darth Vader's lightsaber duels.This is Are You Shitting Me? — something I learned while avoiding real responsibilities. Hope you're drinking a beer.🎧 New episodes every week or so. Subscribe so you never miss the next "wait, WHAT?" story.
- Jul 1, 20265 min
Area 51: The Government Lied... But Not About Aliens? (Are You Sh!#ing Me?)
Everyone knows Area 51. Everyone thinks aliens.But the real story is somehow even stranger.This week on Are You Shitting Me?, Brett uncovers the truth behind America's most famous secret military base—from decades of government secrecy to one Facebook joke that nearly convinced 2 million people to storm it.Were they hiding extraterrestrials... or something even more unbelievable?Grab a beer and join us for another episode of Something I Learned While Avoiding Real Responsibilities.👽 Subscribe for more bizarre history, conspiracy theories, weird facts, and unbelievable true stories that make you ask...Are You Shitting Me?#Area51 #UFO #Aliens #BobLazar #Conspiracy #CIA #StormArea51 #History #WeirdFacts #ComedyPodcast #Podcast #AYSM #MilitarySecrets #GovernmentSecrets #aysmpodcast
- Jun 25, 20262 min
People Were Terrified of Tomatoes for 200 Years (Are You Sh!#ing Me?)
People Were Terrified of Tomatoes for 200 Years (Are You Sh!#ing Me?)For 200 years, Europeans and early Americans were convinced tomatoes were deadly. They called them "poison apples" and wouldn't touch them. Turns out the tomato was innocent the entire time — and the real culprit is a lot more embarrassing.In this episode of Are You Shitting Me?, host Brett breaks down the bizarre true history behind the tomato poisoning myth - and nobody ever stopped to ask why. Along the way, Italy built an entire cuisine around tomato sauce and pizza while everyone else treated the same fruit like a biological weapon.It's a story about food history, class bias, and poisoning all colliding to frame one very innocent fruit for two centuries.Grab a beer and find out: are you shitting me?🍅 In this episode:Why tomatoes were called "poison apples" in Europe and early AmericaThe real reason wealthy tomato-eaters got sick (it wasn't the tomato)and why poor communities ate tomatoes safely the whole timeNew episodes of Are You Shitting Me? drop regularly — weird history, strange science, and "wait, that's actually true?" facts, one beer at a time.🔗 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2SrYmUdiCM5PWOCNonDqIW#AreYouShittingMe #TomatoHistory #FoodHistory #DidYouKnow #HistoryPodcast #WeirdHistory #FoodFacts #LeadPoisoning #TrueFacts #HiddenHistory #aysmpodcast
- Jun 24, 20263 min
Finland: The Happiest Country on Earth (And makes me Question things) | (Are You Sh!#ing Me?)
Finland has 5.5 million people, 188,000 lakes, five months of darkness, January temperatures around 20°F... and somehow it's been ranked the happiest country on Earth for nine straight years running. Not Switzerland. Not Denmark. Finland.In this episode of Are You Shitting Me?, host Brett digs into what's actually going on in Finland: a country with more saunas than cars (3.3 million saunas for 5.5 million people), lawmakers who conduct official government business in saunas, an education system that skips standardized testing until age 18 and still produces some of the highest-scoring students in the world, and a national concept called "sisu" — a gut-level, refuse-to-quit resilience that once held off a Soviet invasion force ten times Finland's size.It's a deep dive into lakes, saunas, sisu, short school days, and why the happiest country on Earth might be doing almost everything the opposite of how everyone else does it.Grab a beer and find out: are you shitting me?🇫🇮 In this episode:Why Finland has been ranked the happiest country on Earth for 9 years straightThe Finnish concept of "sisu" and how it held off a Soviet invasionWhy Finland has more saunas than cars — and why lawmakers use them for businessHow Finland's low-testing, low-homework education system outperforms the worldWhere Santa Claus actually (officially) livesNew episodes of Are You Shitting Me? drop regularly — weird history, strange science, and "wait, that's actually true?" facts, one beer at a time.🔗 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2SrYmUdiCM5PWOCNonDqIW#AreYouShittingMe #Finland #HappiestCountry #Sisu #Sauna #FinlandFacts #WeirdFacts #DidYouKnow #TrueFacts #HistoryPodcast #ScienceFacts #TravelFacts
- Jun 19, 20264 min
(Are You Sh!#ing Me?) One Game Almost Killed the Entire Video Game Industry
What do greed, bad business decisions, a terrible movie tie-in, and a New Mexico landfill have in common?The Video Game Crash of 1983.In this episode of Are You Sh!#ing Me?, Brett dives into one of the biggest business disasters in entertainment history. Atari was printing money, arcades were packed, and video games seemed unstoppable. Then the industry collapsed almost overnight.Discover how a flood of low-quality games, too many competing consoles, and the infamous E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game helped wipe out nearly 97% of the North American gaming market. Learn why millions of unsold Atari cartridges ended up buried in the New Mexico desert and how Nintendo used the industry's biggest failure to build a gaming empire.It's a story filled with corporate arrogance, rushed deadlines, spectacular mistakes, and one of the greatest comebacks in pop culture history.Grab a beer and join Brett for another edition of Something I Learned While Avoiding Real Responsibilities.Are you sh!#ing me? Nope. This one actually happened.Cheers!SEO Keywords:Video Game Crash of 1983, Atari crash, Atari E.T., E.T. video game, Nintendo NES, video game history, gaming history, Atari landfill, Alamogordo New Mexico, Howard Warshaw, retro gaming, video game industry collapse, Nintendo Seal of Quality, classic video games, gaming documentary, Atari 2600, 1980s gaming, gaming facts, business failures, pop culture history#AreYouShittingMe #AYSM #VideoGameCrash1983 #Atari #Nintendo #ETAtari #RetroGaming #GamingHistory #VideoGames #NES #SuperMarioBros #Atari2600 #GeekHistory #PopCulture #HistoryPodcast #AYSMPodcast #GamingPodcast #DidYouKnow #FunFacts #SomethingILearnedWhileAvoidingRealResponsibilities
- Jun 18, 20264 min
"Dirty Words" -The War on Music Lyrics (Are You Sh!#ing Me?)
The Parental Advisory sticker on your favorite album? Yeah — that came from four Washington wives, a Senate hearing, and one very unfortunate Prince song. In this SILWARR, Brett breaks down the moment the U.S. government decided words in music were a national threat — who started it, which artists got caught in the crosshairs, and why the whole thing spectacularly backfired. Short, sharp, and slightly unbelievable. This one happened. All of it.Are You Sh!#ing Me? — Something I Learned While Avoiding Real Responsibilities.Cheers!#️⃣ HASHTAGS#AreYouShitingMe #AYSM #SILWARR #Podcast #MusicHistory #MusicCensorship #ParentalAdvisory #PMRC #FilthyFifteen #RockHistory #HipHopHistory #80sMusicHistory #90sMusicHistory #FreedomOfSpeech #TipperGore #DeeSnider #FrankZappa #2LiveCrew #IceT #NWA #Spotify #NewEpisode #Podcasting #FunFacts #TodayILearned #TIL
- May 15, 20262 min
The Guy Who Invented Roller Skates Crashed Into a Mirror (Are You Sh!#ing Me?)
A Belgian inventor walks into a fancy London party in the 1770s with a world-changing invention, a master plan, and absolutely zero regard for physics. What happens next is either the greatest product launch fail in recorded history — or the most spectacular party entrance anyone has ever attempted. Either way, someone's paying for the damage.Are You Sh!#ing Me is the show where history's most unbelievable true stories get the appreciation they deserve. Host Brett raises a glass to the legends who swung big, missed spectacularly, and somehow never made it into the textbooks.Cheers!
About Are You Sh!#ing Me?
Are You Sh!#ing Me? (AYSM) is the hilarious, no-holds-barred podcast where hosts Brett & Chuck uncover the weirdest facts, funniest stories, and WTF moments from history, science, music, beer, or pop culture. From bizarre poop science to forgotten presidents, strange sports to songs that almost didn’t make it, each episode delivers absurd and totally useless, fascinating knowledge you didn’t know you needed. We pair a beer with each topic, because... why not? It's just like sitting around with your friends and discussing whatever comes up—best enjoyed with a beer in hand. www.aysm.show
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