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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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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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Episodes
Selects: How ESP Works (?)
10/18/2025
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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Duration:00:55:11
VH-1: MTV for Your Parents
10/16/2025
Today we complete our music video duology with a dive into the mellow pool of VH-1.
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Duration:00:51:29
Short Stuff: China's Corpse Walkers
10/15/2025
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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Duration:00:12:49
We want our MTV!
10/14/2025
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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Duration:01:06:08
Selects: How Schoolhouse Rock Rocked: Featuring Bob Nastanovich of Pavement
10/11/2025
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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Duration:01:05:04
Everyone Deserves A Good Death
10/9/2025
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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Duration:00:51:29
Short Stuff: The Call is Coming... FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE
10/8/2025
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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Duration:00:15:14
The Happy Place of Saturday Morning Cartoons
10/7/2025
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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Duration:00:52:44
Selects: How Mail Order Marriages Work
10/4/2025
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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Duration:00:50:37
The Mystery of the Sleepy Sickness
10/2/2025
Back in the early 1900s, a new pandemic happened out of nowhere with odd symptoms, that was never solved or cured. It just went away. Which means it's right up our alley.
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Duration:00:47:46
Short Stuff: La Lechuza - The Witch Owl
10/1/2025
Today we kick off the scariest month with the legend of La Lechuza - The Witch Owl.
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Duration:00:11:59
Why Would Anyone Want to Appease Hitler?
9/30/2025
It seems ridiculously irresponsible with the benefit of hindsight, but the concept of giving Hitler everything he wanted was the policy among the UK and France as a way to keep the world from sliding into a second world war. Turns out it didn’t work.
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Duration:00:46:48
Selects: How Area 51 Works
9/27/2025
The secret military base Area 51 is inextricably linked to every secret, shady project the US government is rumored to be involved in – from reverse-engineering alien technology to coordinating a one-world government. The truth is much more mundane. Listen to this classic episode as Josh and Chuck break it down.
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Duration:00:50:50
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Hinterkaifeck Axe Murders
9/26/2025
In 1922, a little farm in the woods of Bavaria became the site of what would become Germany’s most famous unsolved murder, when six people were brutally killed with a pick axe. What led up to it and followed is nothing short of bizarre.
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Duration:00:46:52
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: SYSK Live: The DB Cooper Heist
9/26/2025
Join Josh and Chuck live from Seattle as they (sky)dive into one of the most brazen robberies in the annals of crime and the only unsolved airline hijacking in American history.
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Duration:01:30:32
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: Who Committed the 1912 Villisca Ax Murders?
9/26/2025
In a small town in Iowa in 1912 eight people were murdered in the grisliest of ways while they slept. Local reputations were ruined when accusations flew, but could a drifting serial killer working across the Midwest have been behind it?
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Duration:00:46:25
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Tylenol Murders, Part I
9/26/2025
On one terrible day in Chicago in 1982, seven people died suddenly and mysteriously. In just a matter of hours, it becomes clear, someone has poisoned bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol, one of the most trusted and widely-used products in America.
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Duration:00:44:19
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping
9/26/2025
The largest ever kidnapping case in the United States went down in the small town of Chowchilla, CA. Learn all about it today.
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Duration:00:55:06
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Tylenol Murders, Part II
9/26/2025
The panic that began in Chicago spreads and begins to change the world. The investigation into the murders turns up leads and suspects, but still no one has ever been charged with the murders. It remains unsolved to this day. Find out the extent of what we know in this classic episode.
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Duration:00:45:54
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Tale of the Bloody Benders
9/26/2025
Long before we knew what serial killers were, a family in remote Kansas was disposing of victims at their family farm. Listen in to the Tale of the Bloody Benders if you dare!
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Duration:00:48:55