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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.

Stuff You Should Know

Quick, name your favorite geological mystery. You can’t do it! Well, don’t worry. In this episode we’re going to tell you all about what will surely be your favorite (albeit only) one when we get into one weird millennium that happened not that long ago.

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[Insert Your Own Catchy Title About Younger Dryas Here]

Even though almost half of Americans believe in it, ESP usually is treated as a load of bull by skeptics. But some respected researchers have dared to apply the scientific method to investigate ESP and a few have found some surprising results. Find out all about it with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.
 
 

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Selects: How ESP Works (?)

Today we complete our music video duology with a dive into the mellow pool of VH-1.

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VH-1: MTV for Your Parents

If you died away from home but wanted to be buried there, don’t worry – Taoist priests had you covered. They’d just have your animated corpse walk itself back home.

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Short Stuff: China's Corpse Walkers

If you've ever wanted to hear a couple of Gen X'ers wax nostalgic about MTV, then you're in luck. 

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We want our MTV!

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.

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Selects: How Schoolhouse Rock Rocked: Featuring Bob Nastanovich of Pavement

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.

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Everyone Deserves A Good Death

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?

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Short Stuff: The Call is Coming... FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

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.

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The Happy Place of Saturday Morning Cartoons

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.

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Selects: How Mail Order Marriages Work

In 1962, three ordinary criminals transcended into folk heroes when they crawled out of their cells in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary took to the water in a homemade raft and were never heard from again. Could they have possibly survived? Find out more in this classic episode.

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Selects: How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked

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