Let's Thank Universal Pictures for Monster Movies!
Basically everything you think of when you think of vampires, mummies, werewolves, and Frankenstein all come from a spate of films made in t...
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Short Stuff: The Retirement Curse
Is retirement bad for your health? Well it certainly can be if you don't take steps to prevent it. Listen in to learn more about the "retire...
A Good Walk Ruined: The History of Golf
The history of golf is a bit muddled, but once it was truly born in Scotland, it started the beginning of lifelong obsessions for people dum...
Selects: Wetlands! Wetlands! Wetlands!
It's time to get jazzed up for some Earth science of the waterlogged variety. Join Chuck and Josh in this classic episode as they tour some...
Introducing 3 Putt Bogey
3 Putt Bogey is a golf podcast hosted by Chuck Bryant and Adam Pranica, two mid handicappers who are just good enough to know exactly how ba...
Emily Post: Ettiquette Queen
In today's episode, we detail the life and times of ettiquette queen Emily Post.
Short Stuff: Mabon
Mabon is often called the Pagan Thanksgiving but though it seems like it's as ancient as Halloween, it's actually only around 50 years old....
Our Big Fat Dream Episode
No you're no dreaming – go ahead, pinch yourself – we've finally made an episode on dreams! We've done episodes on lucid dreamin...
Selects: Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)
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 outf...
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What is Collective Hysteria?
Throughout the history of the world, there have been many cases of what is known as collective hysteria - groups of people, usually young wo...
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What was the Philadelphia Experiment?
The Philadelphia Experiment is a bad movie from the 1980s, and also the conspiracy theory that refuses to die, despite virtually zero eviden...
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Mermaids: Not a real thing
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 int...
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
In 1960 physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that in the hunt for alien life, we should search for evidence of massive engineering projects tha...
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
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 shi...
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Max Headroom Incident
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...
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Dragons: As Real as Mermaids
Dragons are like mermaids in that they're not real. And that's about where the comparison ends. Learn all about dragons today.
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Creepy Legacy of the Hotel Cecil
The Hotel Cecil in downtown Los Angeles has had no less than 16 unnatural deaths, from suicides to murders and everything in between. Listen...
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What's the deal with blue people?
The famous blue people of Kentucky are no longer blue. But why were they like that in the first place?
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Doppelgängers: Hey you, you're me!
Seeing your near twin is probably pretty weird. But could there be a genetic commonality as well? You bet there could!
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Story of the Nuclear Boy Scout
David Hahn was a kid who was really into science. So much that he built a nuclear reactor in his mother's potting shed. And it worked.