Stuff You Should Know (2013)

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]

2013 season

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Length	Original air date
490[6]	1	"How Bigfoot Works"	35 minutes	January 1, 2013
491[7]	2	"What was America’s first terrorist threat?"	27 minutes	January 3, 2013
492[8]	3	"Can you outrun an alligator in a zig-zag?"	25 minutes	January 8, 2013
493[9]	4	"Why do men have nipples?"	23 minutes	January 10, 2013
494[10]	5	"How Death Masks Work"	31 minutes	January 15, 2013
495[11]	6	"Does the five-second rule work?"	33 minutes	January 17, 2013
496[12]	7	"How Alien Hand Syndrome Works"	15 minutes	January 19, 2013
497[13]	8	"How the Frick Fracking Works"	45 minutes	January 22, 2013
498[14]	9	"Fecal Transplants: You Gonna Drink That Poop?"	32 minutes	January 24, 2013
499[15]	10	"How Bees Work"	43 minutes	January 27, 2013
500[16]	11	"How Stuntmen (and -women) Work"	39 minutes	January 29, 2013
501[17]	12	"How Gold Works"	45 minutes	February 1, 2013
502[18]	13	"How Garbage-powered Cars Could Work"	25 minutes	February 5, 2013
503[19]	14	"How Willpower Works"	31 minutes	February 8, 2013
504[20]	15	"How Weather Modification Works"	32 minutes	February 9, 2013
505[21]	16	"How Jet Lag Works"	34 minutes	February 12, 2013
506[22]	17	"Myths About the Brain"	24 minutes	February 14, 2013
507[23]	18	"How Surfing Works"	49 minutes	February 19, 2013
508[24]	19	"What Would Happen If the World Stopped Spinning?"	20 minutes	February 21, 2013
509[25]	20	"How CPR Works"	29 minutes	February 26, 2013
510[26]	21	"How the Papacy Works"	34 minutes	March 1, 2013
511[27]	22	"What Makes a One-hit Wonder?"	29 minutes	March 5, 2013
512[28]	23	"Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?"	21 minutes	March 7, 2013
513[29]	24	"Can We Build an Elevator to Space?"	30 minutes	March 9, 2013
514[30]	25	"How Police Sketches Work"	39 minutes	March 12, 2013
515[31]	26	"How the U.S. Postal Service Works"	45 minutes	March 13, 2013
516[32]	27	"How Apartheid Worked"	37 minutes	March 18, 2013
517[33]	28	"Gesundheit! How Allergies Work"	27 minutes	March 21, 2013
518[34]	29	"What was the most peaceful time in history?"	28 minutes	March 26, 2013
519[35]	30	"How No-fly Zones Work"	27 minutes	March 28, 2013
520[36]	31	"How the Panama Canal Works"	33 minutes	April 1, 2013
521[37]	32	"How Grief Works"	42 minutes	April 1, 2013
522[38]	33	"What’s the deal with duckbill platypuses?"	25 minutes	April 9, 2013
523[39]	34	"Do men and women have different brains?"	26 minutes	April 11, 2013
524[40]	35	"How Marriage Works"	41 minutes	April 16, 2013
525[41]	36	"Uses of the Insanity Defense"	31 minutes	April 18, 2013
526[42]	37	"How Magnets Work"	36 minutes	April 23, 2013
527[43]	38	"What makes us yawn?"	29 minutes	April 25, 2013
528[44]	39	"Is there such a thing as a truth serum?"	37 minutes	April 30, 2013
529[45]	40	"How Dungeons and Dragons Works"	48 minutes	May 2, 2013
530[46]	41	"How Fair Trade Works"	30 minutes	May 7, 2013
531[47]	42	"How Foot Binding Worked"	28 minutes	May 9, 2013
532[48]	43	"How Electroconvulsive Therapy Works"	26 minutes	May 14, 2013
533[49]	44	"How Aerosol Cans Work"	24 minutes	May 16, 2013
534[50]	45	"How Cicadas Work"	30 minutes	May 21, 2013
535[51]	46	"How PTSD Works"	40 minutes	May 23, 2013
536[52]	47	"How Police Chases Work"	27 minutes	May 28, 2013
537[53]	48	"How Coffins Work"	41 minutes	May 30, 2013
538[54]	49	"What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke?"	34 minutes	June 4, 2013
539[55]	50	"How do trees affect the weather?"	28 minutes	June 6, 2013
540[56]	51	"How Drag Queens Work"	43 minutes	June 11, 2013
541[57]	52	"Capgras Syndrome: You Are Not Who You Think You Are"	26 minutes	June 13, 2013
542[58]	53	"How Bitcoin Works"	37 minutes	June 18, 2013
543[59]	54	"How Ghosts Work"	43 minutes	June 20, 2013
544[60]	55	"What’s the deal with Rasputin’s death?"	32 minutes	June 25, 2013
545[61]	56	"How Burning Man Works"	33 minutes	June 27, 2013
546[62]	57	"How Pollen Works"	29 minutes	July 2, 2013
547[63]	58	"How Miranda Rights Work"	30 minutes	July 5, 2013
548[64]	59	"10 Medieval Torture Devices"	36 minutes	July 9, 2013
549[65]	60	"How Hip-hop Works"	52 minutes	July 11, 2013
550[66]	61	"How Building Implosions Work"	36 minutes	July 16, 2013
551[67]	62	"Who owns an abandoned house?"	31 minutes	July 18, 2013
552[68]	63	"Why should you never scare a vulture?"	32 minutes	July 23, 2013
553[69]	64	"How Maps Work"	41 minutes	July 25, 2013
554[70]	65	"How LARP Works"	35 minutes	July 30, 2013
555[71]	66	"How Fingerprinting Works"	35 minutes	August 1, 2013
556[72]	67	"How Horseshoes Work"	31 minutes	August 6, 2013
557[73]	68	"The Shark Diaries"	40 minutes	August 7, 2013
558[74]	69	"How does a diving bell work?"	31 minutes	August 8, 2013
559[75]	70	"Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier?"	37 minutes	August 13, 2013
560[76]	71	"How Cockroaches Work"	44 minutes	August 15, 2013
561[77]	72	"How Ejection Seats Work"	39 minutes	August 20, 2013
562[78]	73	"History’s Greatest Traitors"	45 minutes	August 22, 2013
563[79]	74	"How Broken Bones Work"	43 minutes	August 27, 2013
564[80]	75	"How did 168 conquistadors take down the Inca empire?"	40 minutes	August 29, 2013
565[81]	76	"How the Rosetta Stone Works"	38 minutes	September 3, 2013
566[82]	77	"How much money is in the world?"	36 minutes	September 5, 2013
567[83]	78	"How Breast Implants Work"	1 hour	September 10, 2013
568[84]	79	"Can you die of a broken heart?"	29 minutes	September 12, 2013
569[85]	80	"How IEDs Work"	35 minutes	September 17, 2013
570[86]	81	"How Dying Works"	1 hour 4 minutes	September 19, 2013
571[87]	82	"How Crack Works"	49 minutes	September 24, 2013
572[88]	83	"Does owning a gun change your behavior?"	33 minutes	September 26, 2013
573[89]	84	"What’s the deal with diplomatic immunity?"	41 minutes	September 30, 2013
574[90]	85	"Can NASA predict natural disasters?"	28 minutes	October 3, 2013
575[91]	86	"Did Archimedes build a death ray?"	36 minutes	October 8, 2013
576[92]	87	"How Handwriting Analysis Works"	43 minutes	October 10, 2013
577[93]	88	"How the Maori Work"	40 minutes	October 14, 2013
578[94]	89	"10 Easy Ways to Save Money"	45 minutes	October 17, 2013
579[95]	90	"How Guide Dogs Work"	40 minutes	October 21, 2013
580[96]	91	"How Revisionist History Works"	45 minutes	October 24, 2013
581[97]	92	"How Ouija Boards Work"	34 minutes	October 29, 2013
582[98]	93	"The Empty House"	40 minutes	October 30, 2013
583[99]	94	"What’s with the Winchester Mystery House?"	34 minutes	October 31, 2013
584[100]	95	"How Chess Works"	49 minutes	November 5, 2013
585[101]	96	"How Lewis and Clark Worked"	55 minutes	November 7, 2013
586[102]	97	"Some Interesting Things You Didn’t Know About Stephen Hawking"	33 minutes	November 12, 2013
587[103]	98	"How Werewolves Work"	35 minutes	November 14, 2013
588[104]	99	"How Chocolate Works"	41 minutes	November 19, 2013
589[105]	100	"Who killed JFK?"	47 minutes	November 21, 2013
590[106]	101	"Is there a scientific formula for funny?"	43 minutes	November 25, 2013
591[107]	102	"How Black Friday Works"	40 minutes	November 27, 2013
592[108]	103	"How Castration Works"	42 minutes	December 3, 2013
593[109]	104	"How Maglev Trains Work"	33 minutes	December 5, 2013
594[110]	105	"How HeLa Cells Work"	27 minutes	December 10, 2013
595[111]	106	"How Underwater Tunnels Work"	34 minutes	December 11, 2013
596[112]	107	"How Manhunts Work"	35 minutes	December 16, 2013
597[113]	108	"Is lethal injection humane?"	45 minutes	December 19, 2013
598[114]	109	"Josh and Chuck’s Warm and Cozy Christmas Extravaganza 2013"	45 minutes	December 24, 2013
599[115]	110	"How Fire Breathing Works"	32 minutes	December 26, 2013
600[116]	111	"Will solar sails take us to the stars?"	25 minutes	December 30, 2013

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4. Kafka, Peter (May 21, 2012). "Discovery Plans Science TV Show for "Stuff You Should Know" Podcast". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
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6. How Bigfoot Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
7. What was America’s first terrorist threat?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
8. Can you outrun an alligator in a zig-zag?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
9. Why do men have nipples?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
10. How Death Masks Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
11. Does the five-second rule work?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
12. How Alien Hand Syndrome Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
13. How the Frick Fracking Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
14. Fecal Transplants: You Gonna Drink That Poop?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
15. How Bees Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
16. How Stuntmen (and -women) Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
17. How Gold Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
18. How Garbage-powered Cars Could Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
19. How Willpower Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
20. How Weather Modification Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
21. How Jet Lag Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
22. Myths About the Brain. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
23. How Surfing Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
24. What Would Happen If the World Stopped Spinning?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
25. How CPR Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
26. How the Papacy Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
27. What Makes a One-hit Wonder?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
28. Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
29. Can We Build an Elevator to Space?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
30. How Police Sketches Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
31. How the U.S. Postal Service Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
32. How Apartheid Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
33. Gesundheit! How Allergies Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
34. What was the most peaceful time in history?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
35. How No-fly Zones Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
36. How the Panama Canal Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
37. How Grief Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
38. What’s the deal with duckbill platypuses?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
39. Do men and women have different brains?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
40. How Marriage Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
41. Uses of the Insanity Defense. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
42. How Magnets Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
43. What makes us yawn?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
44. Is there such a thing as a truth serum?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
45. How Dungeons and Dragons Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
46. How Fair Trade Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
47. How Foot Binding Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
48. How Electroconvulsive Therapy Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
49. How Aerosol Cans Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
50. How Cicadas Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
51. How PTSD Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
52. How Police Chases Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
53. How Coffins Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
54. What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
55. How do trees affect the weather?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
56. How Drag Queens Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
57. Capgras Syndrome: You Are Not Who You Think You Are. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
58. How Bitcoin Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
59. How Ghosts Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
60. What’s the deal with Rasputin’s death?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
61. How Burning Man Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
62. How Pollen Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
63. How Miranda Rights Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
64. 10 Medieval Torture Devices. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
65. How Hip-hop Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
66. How Building Implosions Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
67. Who owns an abandoned house?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
68. Why should you never scare a vulture?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
69. How Maps Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
70. How LARP Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
71. How Fingerprinting Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
72. How Horseshoes Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
73. The Shark Diaries. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
74. How does a diving bell work?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
75. Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
76. How Cockroaches Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
77. How Ejection Seats Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
78. History’s Greatest Traitors. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
79. How Broken Bones Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
80. How did 168 conquistadors take down the Inca empire?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
81. How the Rosetta Stone Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
82. How much money is in the world?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
83. How Breast Implants Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
84. Can you die of a broken heart?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
85. How IEDs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
86. How Dying Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
87. How Crack Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
88. Does owning a gun change your behavior?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
89. What’s the deal with diplomatic immunity?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
90. Can NASA predict natural disasters?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
91. Did Archimedes build a death ray?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
92. How Handwriting Analysis Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
93. How the Maori Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
94. 10 Easy Ways to Save Money. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
95. How Guide Dogs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
96. How Revisionist History Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
97. How Ouija Boards Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
98. The Empty House. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
99. What’s with the Winchester Mystery House?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
100. How Chess Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
101. How Lewis and Clark Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
102. Some Interesting Things You Didn’t Know About Stephen Hawking. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
103. How Werewolves Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
104. How Chocolate Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
105. Who killed JFK?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
106. Is there a scientific formula for funny?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
107. How Black Friday Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
108. How Castration Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
109. How Maglev Trains Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
110. How HeLa Cells Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
111. How Underwater Tunnels Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
112. How Manhunts Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
113. Is lethal injection humane?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
114. Josh and Chuck’s Warm and Cozy Christmas Extravaganza 2013. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
115. How Fire Breathing Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
116. Will solar sails take us to the stars?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.

External links

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