Stuff You Should Know (2015)

Stuff You Should Know is a free podcast and video series published by the HowStuffWorks website and hosted by Josh Clark and Charles W. "Chuck" Bryant, both writers at HowStuffWorks. The podcast educates listeners on a wide variety of topics, often using popular culture as a reference giving the podcast comedic value. Episodes are normally around 45 minutes in length, although for more in-depth topics the show has run longer than an hour.

The winner of the 2014^[1] and the 2016^[2] People's Voice Webby Award,^[3] the show is downloaded more than 1 million times per week and is consistently on iTunes’ Top 10 podcast rankings.^[4] Stuff You Should Know's "beautifully, beautifully done" production has set "the audio standard," according to podcast reviewers Pod on Pod. They added that the audio quality "could not be improved" on the NPR-level production.^[5] One reviewer said of it: "It is never not fun to listen to."^[5]

2015 season

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Length	Original air date
706[6]	1	"SYSK Live: How Bars Work"	51 minutes	January 1, 2015
707[7]	2	"How Jim Henson Worked"	43 minutes	January 6, 2015
708[8]	3	"How Online Gambling Works"	41 minutes	January 8, 2015
709[9]	4	"How the Scientific Method Works"	1 hour 3 minutes	January 13, 2015
710[10]	5	"Juggling: What the Heck"	51 minutes	January 15, 2015
711[11]	6	"How the March on Washington Worked"	45 minutes	January 20, 2015
712[12]	7	"Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much."	41 minutes	January 22, 2015
713[13]	8	"How Poison Ivy Works"	38 minutes	January 27, 2015
714[14]	9	"How Hot Wheels Work"	45 minutes	January 29, 2015
715[15]	10	"Rainbows: Delighting humanity since forever"	32 minutes	February 3, 2015
716[16]	11	"How Ice Cream Works"	45 minutes	February 5, 2015
717[17]	12	"How Feng Shui Works"	44 minutes	February 10, 2015
718[18]	13	"What is folklore?"	46 minutes	February 12, 2015
719[19]	14	"Is there treasure on Oak Island?"	40 minutes	February 17, 2015
720[20]	15	"How Perfume Works"	1 hour	February 19, 2015
721[21]	16	"Why Do Lefties Exist?"	43 minutes	February 24, 2015
722[22]	17	"Some Movies That Changed Filmmaking"	1 hour	February 26, 2015
723[23]	18	"How ESP Works(?)"	57 minutes	March 3, 2015
724[24]	19	"How Stonehenge Works"	45 minutes	March 5, 2015
725[25]	20	"How Fleas Work"	41 minutes	March 10, 2015
726[26]	21	"How Tea Works"	54 minutes	March 12, 2015
727[27]	22	"How Anesthesia Works"	54 minutes	March 17, 2015
728[28]	23	"Earwax: Live With It"	38 minutes	March 19, 2015
729[29]	24	"10 Bizarre Medical Treatments"	46 minutes	March 24, 2015
730[30]	25	"How Desalination Works"	39 minutes	March 26, 2015
731[31]	26	"Does the body replace itself?"	40 minutes	March 31, 2015
732[32]	27	"Thanks, Easter Bunny! Bock Bock!"	44 minutes	April 2, 2015
733[33]	28	"Polyamory: When two just won’t do"	46 minutes	April 7, 2015
734[34]	29	"What’s the deal with blood types?"	1 hour 2 minutes	April 9, 2015
735[35]	30	"How Slinky Works"	53 minutes	April 14, 2015
736[36]	31	"How Zero Population Growth Works"	52 minutes	April 16, 2015
737[37]	32	"How Clowns Work"	49 minutes	April 21, 2015
738[38]	33	"Oh No, Snakes!"	51 minutes	April 23, 2015
739[39]	34	"How Water Slides Work"	39 minutes	April 28, 2015
740[40]	35	"How Spiders Work"	1 hour 1 minute	April 30, 2015
741[41]	36	"How Therapeutic Hypothermia Works"	52 minutes	May 5, 2015
742[42]	37	"Josh and Chuck Make It Through Male Puberty"	53 minutes	May 7, 2015
743[43]	38	"Does the FDA Protect Americans?"	1 hour	May 12, 2015
744[44]	39	"How Pinewood Derbies Work"	47 minutes	May 14, 2015
745[45]	40	"How Internet Censorship Works"	46 minutes	May 19, 2015
746[46]	41	"How Color Works"	45 minutes	May 21, 2015
747[47]	42	"How Junk Food Works"	49 minutes	May 26, 2015
748[48]	43	"How Tupperware Works"	40 minutes	May 28, 2015
749[49]	44	"How Street Gangs Work"	49 minutes	June 2, 2015
750[50]	45	"How Ocean Currents Work"	41 minutes	June 4, 2015
751[51]	46	"How the Wow! Signal Works"	36 minutes	June 9, 2015
752[52]	47	"Bridges: Nature Abhors Them"	1 hour	June 11, 2015
753[53]	48	"How BASE Jumping Works"	56 minutes	June 16, 2015
754[54]	49	"Are You My Mother?: How Animal Imprinting Works"	39 minutes	June 18, 2015
755[55]	50	"How Landfills Work"	43 minutes	June 23, 2015
756[56]	51	"Mosquitoes: The Worst"	44 minutes	June 25, 2015
757[57]	52	"How Audience Testing Works"	45 minutes	June 30, 2015
758[58]	53	"How Circus Families Work"	46 Minutes	July 2, 2015
759[59]	54	"How Egypt’s Pyramids Work"	51 Minutes	July 7, 2015
760[60]	55	"How Brickfilm Works"	34 Minutes	July 9, 2015
761[61]	56	"How the Terracotta Army Works"	34 Minutes	July 14, 2015
762[62]	57	"The Time Nazis Invaded Florida"	59 Minutes	July 16, 2015
763[63]	58	"How Citizen’s Arrests Work"	39 Minutes	July 21, 2015
764[64]	59	"Road Rage: GRRRR!!!"	55 Minutes	July 23, 2015
765[65]	60	"How Profiling Works"	50 Minutes	July 28, 2015
766[66]	61	"How Bats Work"	47 Minutes	July 30, 2015
767[67]	62	"How Earth-Like Planets Work"	33 Minutes	August 4, 2015
768[68]	63	"How Droughts Work"	53 Minutes	August 6, 2015
769[69]	64	"How Auto-Tune Works"	55 Minutes	August 11, 2015
770[70]	65	"Hula-Hoops: The Toy That’s A Shape"	42 Minutes	August 13, 2015
771[71]	66	"Pigeons: Homing, Passenger, Carrier and Otherwise"	53 Minutes	August 18, 2015
772[72]	67	"How Umami Works!"	38 Minutes	August 20, 2015
773[73]	68	"How Hot Air Balloons Work"	50 Minutes	August 25, 2015
774[74]	69	"Nirvana: Not The Band"	35 Minutes	August 27, 2015
775[75]	70	"How to Donate Your Body to Science"	45 Minutes	September 1, 2015
776[76]	71	"How Alcoholism Works"	52 Minutes	September 3, 2015
777[77]	72	"How Police Dogs Work"	39 Minutes	September 8, 2015
778[78]	73	"How Chili Peppers Work"	56 Minutes	September 10, 2015
779[79]	74	"How Publicists Work"	46 Minutes	September 15, 2015
780[80]	75	"The Great Nuclear Winter Debate of 1983"	58 Minutes	September 17, 2015
781[81]	76	"How Cult Deprogramming Worked"	40 Minutes	September 22, 2015
782[82]	77	"Geothermal Energy: Earth’s Gift to Mankind"	38 Minutes	September 24, 2015
783[83]	78	"Chuck and Josh Make It Through Female Puberty"	58 Minutes	September 29, 2015
784[84]	79	"How PEZ Works"	45 Minutes	October 1, 2015
785[85]	80	"How Lobbying Works"	56 Minutes	October 6, 2015
786[86]	81	"What was the Philadelphia Experiment?"	50 Minutes	October 8, 2015
787[87]	82	"How Vestigial Organs Work"	46 Minutes	October 13, 2015
788[88]	83	"How Wine Fraud Works"	49 Minutes	October 15, 2015
789[89]	84	"Please Listen to How Plasma Waste Converters Work"	37 Minutes	October 20, 2015
790[90]	85	"Vocal Fry and Other Speech Trends"	38 Minutes	October 22, 2015
791[91]	86	"How Passports Work"	39 Minutes	October 27, 2015
792[92]	87	"Josh N Chuck’s Hallowe’en Spooky Scarefest"	53 Minutes	October 29, 2015
793[93]	88	"The Dark Origins of Fairy Tales"	44 Minutes	November 3, 2015
794[94]	89	"How Dementia Works"	50 Minutes	November 4, 2015
795[95]	90	"How Grimm’s Fairy Tales Work"	54 Minutes	November 5, 2015
796[96]	91	"Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out"	40 Minutes	November 10, 2015
797[97]	92	"How The Voynich Manuscript Works"	43 Minutes	November 12, 2015
798[98]	93	"What’s the Deal With Staring?"	37 Minutes	November 17, 2015
799[99]	94	"How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA"	58 Minutes	November 18, 2015
800[100]	95	"The Lowdown on Anonymous"	48 Minutes	November 24, 2015
801[101]	96	"Live in Chicago: How Public Relations Works"	1 hour 17 Minutes	November 26, 2015
802[102]	97	"How HIV/AIDS Works, Part I"	56 Minutes	December 1, 2015
803[103]	98	"How HIV/AIDS Works, Part II"	44 Minutes	December 3, 2015
804[104]	99	"Carl Sagan: American Hero"	41 Minutes	December 8, 2015
805[105]	100	"How Reverse Psychology Works"	36 Minutes	December 10, 2015
806[106]	101	"How the Antikythera Mechanism Works"	35 Minutes	December 15, 2015
807[107]	102	"The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978"	57 Minutes	December 17, 2015
808[108]	103	"How Gossip Works"	39 Minutes	December 22, 2015
809[109]	104	"The Stuff You Should Know 2015 Jolly Christmas Extravaganza"	44 Minutes	December 24, 2015
810[110]	105	"The Great Wall of China Episode"	44 Minutes	December 29, 2015
811[111]	106	"How Lizzie Borden Worked"	45 Minutes	December 31, 2015

References

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2. "2016 Peoples Voice Awards". Webby Awards. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
3. "2014 People's Voice". International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-02-06.
4. Kafka, Peter (May 21, 2012). "Discovery Plans Science TV Show for "Stuff You Should Know" Podcast". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
5. Josh and Joel (September 30, 2014). "Pod on Pod on Stuff You Should Know". ProCreate (Podcast). Retrieved 2014-12-20.
6. SYSK Live: How Bars Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
7. How Jim Henson Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
8. How Online Gambling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
9. How the Scientific Method Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
10. Juggling: What the Heck. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
11. How the March on Washington Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
12. Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much.. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
13. How Poison Ivy Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
14. How Hot Wheels Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
15. Rainbows: Delighting humanity since forever. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
16. How Ice Cream Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
17. How Feng Shui Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
18. What is folklore?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
19. Is there treasure on Oak Island?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
20. How Perfume Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
21. Why Do Lefties Exist?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
22. Some Movies That Changed Filmmaking. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
23. How ESP Works(?). HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
24. How Stonehenge Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
25. How Fleas Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
26. How Tea Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
27. How Anesthesia Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
28. Earwax: Live With It. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
29. 10 Bizarre Medical Treatments. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
30. How Desalination Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
31. Does the body replace itself?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
32. Thanks, Easter Bunny! Bock Bock!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
33. Polyamory: When two just won’t do. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
34. What’s the deal with blood types?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
35. How Slinky Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
36. How Zero Population Growth Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
37. How Clowns Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
38. Oh No, Snakes!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
39. How Water Slides Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
40. How Spiders Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
41. How Therapeutic Hypothermia Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
42. Josh and Chuck Make It Through Male Puberty. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
43. Does the FDA Protect Americans?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
44. How Pinewood Derbies Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
45. How Internet Censorship Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
46. How Color Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
47. How Junk Food Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
48. How Tupperware Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
49. How Street Gangs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
50. How Ocean Currents Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
51. How the Wow! Signal Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
52. Bridges: Nature Abhors Them. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
53. How BASE Jumping Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
54. Are You My Mother?: How Animal Imprinting Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-28.
55. How Landfills Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-28.
56. Mosquitoes: The Worst. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-06-28.
57. How Audience Testing Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
58. How Audience Testing Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
59. How Egypt’s Pyramids Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
60. How Brickfilm Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
61. How the Terracotta Army Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
62. The Time Nazis Invaded Florida. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
63. How Citizen’s Arrests Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
64. Road Rage: GRRRR!!!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
65. How Profiling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
66. How Bats Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
67. How Earth-Like Planets Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
68. How Droughts Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
69. How Auto-Tune Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
70. Hula-Hoops: The Toy That’s A Shape. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
71. Pigeons: Homing, Passenger, Carrier and Otherwise. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
72. How Umami Works!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
73. How Hot Air Balloons Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
74. Nirvana: Not The Band. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
75. How to Donate Your Body to Science. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
76. How Alcoholism Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
77. How Police Dogs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
78. How Chili Peppers Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
79. How Publicists Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
80. The Great Nuclear Winter Debate of 1983. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
81. How Cult Deprogramming Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
82. Geothermal Energy: Earth’s Gift to Mankind. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
83. Chuck and Josh Make It Through Female Puberty. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
84. How PEZ Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
85. How Lobbying Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
86. What was the Philadelphia Experiment?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
87. How Vestigial Organs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
88. How Wine Fraud Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
89. Please Listen to How Plasma Waste Converters Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
90. Vocal Fry and Other Speech Trends. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
91. How Passports Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
92. Josh N Chuck’s Hallowe’en Spooky Scarefest. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
93. The Dark Origins of Fairy Tales. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
94. How Dementia Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
95. How Grimm’s Fairy Tales Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
96. Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
97. How The Voynich Manuscript Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
98. What’s the Deal With Staring?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
99. How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
100. The Lowdown on Anonymous. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
101. Live in Chicago: How Public Relations Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
102. How HIV/AIDS Works, Part I. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
103. How HIV/AIDS Works, Part II. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
104. Carl Sagan: American Hero. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
105. How Reverse Psychology Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
106. How the Antikythera Mechanism Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
107. The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
108. How Gossip Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
109. The Stuff You Should Know 2015 Jolly Christmas Extravaganza. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
110. The Great Wall of China Episode. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-01-01.
111. How Lizzie Borden Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-01-01.

External links

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