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We Need More Sustainable Packaging, Like, Yesterday Aug 30, 2022

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Since the advent of single-use plastics, we’ve become awash in waste. Barrels of petroleum are extracted, turned into plastics that contain products, which are then opened and the containers thrown away. It’s a bonehead process start to finish.

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Selects: Knife Throwing: Super Cool Aug 27, 2022

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Sure knives can cut through a steak or slash through jungle vines, but probably the coolest thing you can do with a knife is throw it. At a person mounted to a wooden wheel. Spinning around. While you’re blindfolded. Learn all about the impalement arts in this classic episode.

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Kissing Cousins: A History of Marrying Family Aug 25, 2022

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Despite the overall creepiness of it, marrying family members is way more common than you might think, both historically and today. Ewwww!

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Short Stuff: Marrying Up Aug 24, 2022

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The idea of "marrying up" is as old as the hills, but things are, and have been, changing for quite a while. And this episode explains it all.

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Introvert or Extravert: Which are you? (Probably both) Aug 23, 2022

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The world isn’t divided into cat people and dog people, or Beatles fans and Rolling Stones fans (or neither). What really divides us is introversion or extraversion, right? Turns out people just aren’t that binary and all of us are a little of both.

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Selects: How Gossip Works Aug 20, 2022

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You know what I heard? That Josh and Chuck hate each other and they're just faking being friends for the show. That's called gossip, folks and it can do serious damage. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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How Enemas Work Aug 18, 2022

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If you think about it, enemas are kind of gross. And if you don’t now you definitely will by the end of this wild ride of an episode. All who make it through the whole way earn SYSK bragging rights. We now wonder why we ever chose to record it.

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Short Stuff: Selling the Brooklyn Bridge Aug 17, 2022

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You've heard the phrase "If you believe that I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you." But did you know it's based in truth?

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Mariachi: The Rodney Dangerfield of Music Aug 16, 2022

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Mariachi bands have a bad rap as nothing more than "restaurant music." But there is a rich and long cultural tradition many people are missing and the music deserves our respect. Listen in today!

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Selects: Desert Survival: Josh and Chuck Save Your Tookus Aug 13, 2022

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The chances are pretty low that you’ll find yourself lost in the desert, but on the off chance you do you’ll thank yourself that you listened to this classic episode, where we guide you to safety.

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