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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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7Whether it's oral, scrawled in blood or signed on a deathbed everyone should have a will. But how do they actually work? Join Chuck and Josh as they explain that "of sound mind" thing in this classic episode. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Special effects have been around since the first movies. In fact, the techniques the earliest filmmakers created are still around today, we just use computers to do them faster and cheaper. Put on your beret and get ready for SYSK film class. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Oh, the papasan. What a chair! But where did it come from? And what does the name mean? The answers lie within. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Every year Congress decides how the federal government will spend money. Simple enough, but in practice politics tend to mess it up. Sometimes it gets so messy the budget doesn’t get passed and parts of the government shut down. Then the hurting begins. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Although most people who've used Ouija boards don't think they're communicating with the beyond, there is something mysterious about how it works. Learn the ins and outs of the popular parlor game that sprang directly from the 19th-century spiritualism movement in this classic episode. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
MSG got a bad rap in the 70s and 80s. But what is it exactly and how bad is it for you? The answers to those questions lie within. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Barbed wire changed the Western US as much as the railroad and the six-shooter. Before barbed wire arrived, the West was free and open; after, the West became concentrated in the hands of a few big ranchers. No wonder it was called “devil’s rope.” Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Any movie featuring a deranged killer who’s perversely devoted to his mother and makes things out of human skin has a real-life person named Ed Gein to thank for inspiration. He was Buffalo Bill, Norman Bates, and Leatherface all rolled into one. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Icebergs: floating chunks of ice. True, but whoa there. Scientists are learning that there's a lot more to icebergs. Appropriately enough, we've only come to understand the tip of the iceberg and recent research shows there's plenty more to uncover. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Rubik's Cubes. Ronald Reagan. Jerry Falwell. Just Say No. One of these things was awesome. Take a guess and hop on board the 80s train. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
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kris knows
he he it it but
Orkaganon of Torkaganon
it was so incredibly bizarre that Chuck is such a coward that he can't even comment on Star Wars aircraft... dude... legit, what in the world is with you? you won't comment on even Star Wars?? I'm rather astounded how candidly you can speak on SO much, yet so little. to be forever "neutral" is as annoying as being so.. "mo" about other things. serious, dude so weak
John Runstrom Sterett
Orkaganon of Torkaganon low T listening
Wozzi
Charles L. Smith Jr. im with charles.. Calm Down cheeses you gonna get a cramp or something
chicken faith
pancake diversity
Jonah Light
I love you guys, but jeez "how government shutdowns work" is not at all appealing
Sarah Tomlin
Ice is a crystalline structure
Yvette Sienkiewicz
I have a real food sensitivity to MSG and have to ask in Chinese food restaurants. I can't eat oysters (or any shell fish for that matter.) My hubby has zero issues with it.
Kim Jones
Ryan Persaud Maybe read my entire post ..
Ryan Persaud
Kim Jones Of course you would. No one wants to admit the placebo effect works *on them.*
Camron Adair
That is roughly 2,777,280,000 Big Macs!
John Hodge
The Last Podcast on the Left did it better.
Mike Harv
Alli Hockin Well said Alli
Alli Hockin
John Hodge Well duh. That podcast is specifically made for these topics to go in depth about; whereas SYSK is a family friendly general knowledge podcast that gives you a condensed version of a topic.
Samuel Charl Marais
hectic.
Magus DiFazio
Great GoT joke.
Sophia
Magus DiFazio nice
Magus DiFazio
Les Stroud always said that a smoker had a better chance of survival because of the lighter.
Sophia
Magus DiFazio 👍👍👍
Clinton Crick
Ice cubes in Chardonnay? Redneck. Ice cubes in Scotch? A-okay!
Joshua
Clinton Crick 👍👍👍
Mike D.
Actually there are a few substances that form a solid that is less dense than it is in its liquid state. Sillicon, bismuth, antimony and gallium are some good examples. It has to do with the fact the molecule is polar, meaning they have a bias in which way they want to sit in their crystal lattice. This bias results in there being a lot of empty space between the molecules, causing the solid phase to have a lower density than you would see in the liquid phase.
Mike D.
Hey! Pharmacologist here, interesting podcast! Just wanted to clarify something for you guys about that part about how you can "super die" from being addicted to crack even if you developel a high tolerance. Tolerance to a drug has been linked to environment. Meaning if you go to a certain place to get high all the time, or use a certain delivery method, your body will auto-regulate your dopamine/receptors in anticipation of the drug (you will have increased tolerance before you even take it). BUT if you go and do the same high dosage you're used to in a new environment, you body won't take those tolerance measures before hand, and so that high doseage you always take can actually cause you to overdose, even though it's the same dose you always take.
Greg Moore
This episode cuts off strangely.
Chris Ramsey
rife with errors in the first 20 minutes: LSD is a tryptamine not a trptaphan. ALexander Shulgin did not create MDMA, it was patented in the earyl 20th century in Germany. Alduos Huxley did not coin the term psychedelic. Humphrey Osmond did. for a podcats with this name, this is bad research
Alisha D
Haha the Children of Atom
Jacob
Alisha D 😂
Zengie
Ok it's my new favourite animal..
Zengie
How Zeppelins Work please?
Sarah Tomlin
I 100% agree that ventriloquism is absolutely horrible and basic. in fact, I have conversations about this very fact, like "who finds this funny? i am not fooled. at all. this is just....bad"😅
Dea Applegate
Sarah Tomlin my parents absolutely love Terry Fator and I cannot stand him. I don't understand the appeal.