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If you've ever wanted to hear a couple of Gen X'ers wax nostalgic about MTV, then you're in luck. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 14, 2025•1 hr 6 min
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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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, featuring an interview with Pavement's Bob Nastanovich, contributor to the '90s Schoolhouse Rock tribute record. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 11, 2025•1 hr 5 min
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 and family in the hope they can pass away peacefully. It’s kind of crazy hospice was ever a radical idea. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 09, 2025•51 min
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? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 08, 2025•15 min
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 morning between 8 and noon and find the most amazing cartoons ever created, plus tons and tons of ads. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 07, 2025•53 min
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 trafficking. Or are they? Yes and no. Mail order marriage comes with nuance and a surprisingly long history. Learn all about it in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 04, 2025•51 min
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 right up our alley. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 02, 2025•48 min
Short Stuff: La Lechuza - The Witch Owl
Today we kick off the scariest month with the legend of La Lechuza - The Witch Owl. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 01, 2025•12 min
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 and France as a way to keep the world from sliding into a second world war. Turns out it didn’t work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 30, 2025•47 min
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-engineering alien technology to coordinating a one-world government. The truth is much more mundane. Listen to this classic episode as Josh and Chuck break it down. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 27, 2025•51 min
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 brutally killed with a pick axe. What led up to it and followed is nothing short of bizarre. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•47 min
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 hijacking in American history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•1 hr 31 min
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 flew, but could a drifting serial killer working across the Midwest have been behind it? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•46 min
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 bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol, one of the most trusted and widely-used products in America. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•44 min
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•55 min
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 one has ever been charged with the murders. It remains unsolved to this day. Find out the extent of what we know in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•46 min
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 Bloody Benders if you dare! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•49 min
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 whirlwind caper that lasted 30 hours and ended up nearly demolishing the 11-story resort. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•41 min
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy
The murder of Ken McElroy comes off like a story from a cheap paperback book you’d get to read on a plane. But this is a true crime story, set in Missouri in the early 80s. And boy does it pack a punch. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•46 min
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Harrowing Story of the North Hollywood Shootout
Tune in today to listen to the story of when North Hollywood became a war zone after a brazen bank robbery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•52 min
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Unsolved Indiana Dunes Disappearances
In July 1966, three women out for a day at the beach waded into the water of Lake Michigan, got onto a boat and were never heard from again. To this day, not a trace of them has ever turned up and theories of what became of them abound. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•41 min
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: How The Great Train Robbery Worked
In 1963, 15 men got together in England to pull off one of the most daring heists in history. The Great Train Robbery was the crime of the century, capturing the public's attention and leaving them torn on who to root for - the cops or the robbers. Learn all about England's greatest heist in today's episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•44 min
A Tribute To The Far Side
The Far Side is one of the greatest cartoons in history. Today we go to great lengths to convince you of that. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 25, 2025•44 min
Short Stuff: Death Cap Mushroom
The death cap mushroom lives up to its name. It’s a mushroom cap that causes death. Find out why. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 24, 2025•12 min
Tdhtdhtdhtdhtdh: Sound Effects!
Sound effects are one of the unsung parts of any movie or TV show – they’re best when you don’t even notice them making what you see on screen even more real, and when they’re off you notice immediately. Learn how hard this amazing craft is in this episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 23, 2025•50 min
Selects: Slime Mold: 0% Mold, 100% Amazing
If you’ve ever wandered past what looked like a pile of dog barf on a log during a hike in the woods, you’d just seen slime mold - one of the most perplexing organisms on Earth. Listen to this classic episode and get as amazed as Josh and Chuck were when they recorded it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 20, 2025•49 min
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
As part of our shameful history series, today we dive into the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments of the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and into the 70s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 18, 2025•41 min
Short Stuff: Killing a Dead Body
If you try to kill someone who was already dead is that a bad thing? Yeah? How bad? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 17, 2025•14 min
What was the Four Pests Campaign?
Say one thing about Mao's communist China, they could kill some sparrows. Learn why and how in today's episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 16, 2025•39 min
Selects: What's the deal with subpoenas?
Subpoenas are all the rage. But what do they even mean if someone can just ignore it? Learn this and a lot more in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 13, 2025•52 min
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