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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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The advent of nuclear weapons and the Cold War kicked off a craze in the US for building rec rooms with foot-thick reinforced walls and outfitted with survival rations and board games. Would they work? Probably not. Find out (but not really) in this classic episode.

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Selects: Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)

Throughout the history of the world, there have been many cases of what is known as collective hysteria - groups of people, usually young women, who all exhibit the same physical symptoms of non-existent conditions. Is it psychosomatic? Is it group think?

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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What is Collective Hysteria?

In 1960 physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that in the hunt for alien life, we should search for evidence of massive engineering projects that encapsulate stars with solar arrays to harness their energy. Could we humans ever make one ourselves?

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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?

The famous blue people of Kentucky are no longer blue. But why were they like that in the first place?

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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What's the deal with blue people?

The Philadelphia Experiment is a bad movie from the 1980s, and also the conspiracy theory that refuses to die, despite virtually zero evidence of its occurrence. Learn all about this strange non-event in today's show.

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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What was the Philadelphia Experiment?

When the Mary Celeste was discovered floating and abandoned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean one day in 1872, the legend of the ghost ship was born. Why did the Mary Celeste’s crew disappear? Was it pirates? Mutiny? UFOs? Well, probably not that last one.

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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

In 1987, a very strange broadcast intrusion occurred in the city of Chicago. For just a couple of minutes, the odd TV character Max Headroom appeared onscreen in the middle of an episode of Dr. Who. He spoke in garbled tones, brandished a marital aid, and was spanked on the rear with a fly swatter by a person dressed in Annie Oakley garb. If this sounds weird, it is. It's the Max Headroom Incident.

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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Max Headroom Incident

The Hotel Cecil in downtown Los Angeles has had no less than 16 unnatural deaths, from suicides to murders and everything in between. Listen in to the history of this decidedly creepy hotel. 

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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Creepy Legacy of the Hotel Cecil

Mermaids aren't real. That much we know. But the history and lore of these magical and sometimes menacing creatures of the sea is pretty interesting stuff. Learn all about these half women/half fish today.

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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Mermaids: Not a real thing

Dragons are like mermaids in that they're not real. And that's about where the comparison ends. Learn all about dragons today.

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SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Dragons: As Real as Mermaids

What is Hell? It's complicated and depends on which religion you're talking about. We dive into this fiery mess and do our best to explain it.

 
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