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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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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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Episodes
The Guinness Book of Records
5/30/2024
If you grew up in the 70s and 80s in America, you probably have the image of your tattered Guinness Book of Records. The book was ubiquitous then, but is still thriving today in despite the internet.
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Duration:00:51:03
Short Stuff: What's a mudlarker?
5/29/2024
Mudlarking is a uniquely British hobby, though you can dig through river mud anywhere there's a river. But the Thames has the good stuff.
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Duration:00:14:13
The shameful and harrowing story Unit 731
5/28/2024
Unit 731 was a secret group within the Japanese Army in WWII that committed unspeakable atrocities against humans in the name of scientific research. Listen with caution.
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Duration:00:48:03
Selects: How Vomit Phobia Works
5/25/2024
No one - no one - likes to vomit, but there are some people who would prefer to die rather than vomit, people who spend their days worrying they will vomit at any moment and become so obsessed they curtail their lives to prevent it from happening. Learn all about it with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.
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Duration:00:29:48
J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt. 2
5/23/2024
In the exciting conclusion of our two-part episode on Hoover, we come in at the Cold War and end on a strange note.
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Duration:00:45:43
Short Stuff: Hobo Signs
5/22/2024
By definition hobos are people who travel from town to town taking odd jobs as they go. But some towns are friendlier than others, and hobos developed a system of symbols they left one another to know what to expect from a town.
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Duration:00:14:35
J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt. 1
5/21/2024
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that J. Edgar Hoover was perhaps the most powerful American of the 20th century. By the time he established the FBI as America’s police force, presidents were afraid of him. Just exactly how did he get to be so puissant?
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Duration:00:40:18
Selects: The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth
5/18/2024
On Halloween 1938 young radio star Orson Welles scared the pants off of America with a fictional news bulletin claiming Martians had landed and were destroying the country. People across the nation ran wild with panic in the streets – or did they? Listen to this classic episode to find out.
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Duration:00:46:33
The Silurian Hypothesis
5/16/2024
The idea that we aren’t the first advanced civilization to live on Earth sounds like a fringe theory, but it raises a good question: How can we be so sure that a civilization didn’t arise and die on Earth so long ago that any trace of it has been erased?
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Duration:00:49:10
Short Stuff: Zambonis!
5/15/2024
Even the dullest hockey game is worth seeing when the Zamboni comes out to resurface the ice.
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Duration:00:13:08
NYC Trash: A study in persistence
5/14/2024
Taking care of 12,000 tons of residential trash every day is a hard job. But how does that even work? Listen in to marvel at the NYC sanitation system.
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Duration:00:50:29
Selects: How Stuttering Works
5/11/2024
Despite as much as one percent of the adult population having the condition, science doesn't actually know how stuttering works. The best it's come up with so far: there seems to be an issue between the physical process of speaking and the thought process that underlies it. Find out what science means by this in this classic episode.
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Duration:00:50:45
10 - Yes, 10! - Dumb Criminals
5/9/2024
Sometimes you just have to turn it off for a while – all the thinking, and overthinking, analyzing, and figuring out. Sometimes it’s nice to just breathe through your mouth and talk about dumb things criminals do for an episode.
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Duration:00:45:49
Short Stuff: Titanic Survivors!
5/8/2024
We all know the story of the Titanic and the tragedy of lives lost. So hey, let's talk about the survivors for a change!
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Duration:00:16:15
Misophonia: More Than an Annoyance
5/7/2024
Misophonia is a condition in which certain sounds trigger people in very negative ways that can really disrupt someone's life. Listen in today to learn all about this fairly recently recognized condition.
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Duration:00:47:50
Selects: The Legends of Lost Nazi Gold
5/4/2024
As if being murdering SOBs weren’t enough, the Nazis were also thieving rats. During WWII, they stole billons in gold from countries they overran and moved it to Germany. But at the end of the war, only part of it was recovered. Where’s the rest? Find out the extent of our knowledge in this classic episode.
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Duration:00:46:34
Atomic Clocks, Ahoy!
5/2/2024
The only thing more complicated than an atomic clock is researching how they work and then figuring out how to explain it to other people. But believe us, they are fascinating. Even if you don’t care about clocks or atoms you’ll still like this episode.
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Duration:00:51:59
Short Stuff: Getting Winded
5/1/2024
Getting the wind knocked out of you is scary, but passes quickly. Learn exactly what's happening with all that today.
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Duration:00:11:53
The Village People Episode
4/30/2024
The Village People were a smash hit singing group that came and went in under two years. Then other people performed under that name for several decades. This is their story.
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Duration:00:53:17
Selects: How the Beagle Brigade Works
4/27/2024
If you've ever been to an international airport, you've probably seen one of the keenest spotters of illegal contraband - The Beagle Brigade! These cute dogs aren't after drugs or bombs, they're carefully trained to sniff out agricultural products. Learn all about this furry group of crime stoppers in this classic episode.
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Duration:00:48:38