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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.
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- Yesterdayconversational13 min4-min read
Short Stuff: Weather Balloons
Josh and Chuck take a breezy, joke-filled tour of weather balloons: what's inside them, how high they fly, why meteorologists launch tens of thousands of them a year, and the legendary lawn chair guy who tried to ride them to the Rockies.
- 2 days agoconversational46 min8-min read
Ba-Dum-Bum Goes Your Heart!
In this episode of Stuff You Should Know, hosts Josh and Chuck deliver a comprehensive anatomy lesson on the human heart, covering its physical structure, the mechanics of the heartbeat, blood flow through the circulatory system, the electrical system that drives it, and the major ways hearts fail — along with the medical technologies, from pacemakers to artificial hearts, that keep failing hearts beating. The episode mixes rigorous physiology with personal anecdotes about cardiac screenings and concludes with a public health plea that heart disease is not just a man's problem.
- 5 days agonarrative50 min7-min read
Selects: Salem Witchcraft Trials: More Bonkers Than You Know
This Halloween special episode of Stuff You Should Know revisits the Salem witch trials of 1692, arguing that beyond the familiar pop-culture imagery lies a genuinely frightening American horror story: an isolated village that turned on itself, where executions were murder plain and simple, enabled by leaders who failed to stop a panic they could have halted.
- 1 weeks agonarrative51 min7-min read
The SYSK Annual Halloween Freaky Spooktacular 2026!
In the annual Stuff You Should Know Halloween Spooktacular (ad-free, per 'our contract'), Josh and Chuck perform two stone-cold classic British horror shorts: W.W. Jacobs' 'The Monkey's Paw' and W.F. Harvey's 'August Heat,' with Jerry on recording, Ben on spooky sound design, and Josh doing his reliably questionable British accents.
- 1 weeks agoconversational13 min3-min read
Short Stuff: The Enfield Monster
A Halloween-themed episode of The Short Stuff dives into the bizarre 1973 Enfield Monster sighting in Illinois—a cryptid tale involving clawed three-legged creatures, panicked kids, and a man with a .22 pistol. While the story spiraled into local hysteria and media frenzy, skeptics suggest it was either a hoax, mass hysteria, or possibly a runaway pet kangaroo named Macy.
- 1 weeks agoconversational48 min5-min read
(Don't Fear) The (Grim) Reaper
The Grim Reaper, a staple of Western Halloween imagery, is surprisingly devoid of deep mythology compared to other global personifications of death. Josh and Chuck explore how death has been visualized across cultures—from psychopomps like Greek Thanatos to bureaucratic reapers like Anku—and trace the Grim Reaper’s evolution from medieval plague art to modern pop culture.
- 1 weeks agoconversational43 min5-min read
Selects: John Lennon and the FBI
In December 2020, the podcast Stuff You Should Know explored the FBI’s surveillance of John Lennon in the early 1970s, driven by political fears from the Nixon administration and J. Edgar Hoover, who saw Lennon’s anti-war activism and celebrity influence as a threat to national order and Nixon’s re-election.
- 2 weeks agonarrative46 min5-min read
The Twilight Zone Episode
The Twilight Zone, created by the visionary Rod Serling, revolutionized television by blending science fiction with sharp social commentary, using allegory to bypass censorship and deliver powerful messages about racism, war, and human nature. More than just a cult classic, it remains a cultural touchstone that elevated TV storytelling to an art form.
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