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

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season
Title Length Original air date
490[6]1"How Bigfoot Works"35 minutesJanuary 1, 2013 (2013-01-01)
491[7]2"What was America’s first terrorist threat?"27 minutesJanuary 3, 2013 (2013-01-03)
492[8]3"Can you outrun an alligator in a zig-zag?"25 minutesJanuary 8, 2013 (2013-01-08)
493[9]4"Why do men have nipples?"23 minutesJanuary 10, 2013 (2013-01-10)
494[10]5"How Death Masks Work"31 minutesJanuary 15, 2013 (2013-01-15)
495[11]6"Does the five-second rule work?"33 minutesJanuary 17, 2013 (2013-01-17)
496[12]7"How Alien Hand Syndrome Works"15 minutesJanuary 19, 2013 (2013-01-19)
497[13]8"How the Frick Fracking Works"45 minutesJanuary 22, 2013 (2013-01-22)
498[14]9"Fecal Transplants: You Gonna Drink That Poop?"32 minutesJanuary 24, 2013 (2013-01-24)
499[15]10"How Bees Work"43 minutesJanuary 27, 2013 (2013-01-27)
500[16]11"How Stuntmen (and -women) Work"39 minutesJanuary 29, 2013 (2013-01-29)
501[17]12"How Gold Works"45 minutesFebruary 1, 2013 (2013-02-01)
502[18]13"How Garbage-powered Cars Could Work"25 minutesFebruary 5, 2013 (2013-02-05)
503[19]14"How Willpower Works"31 minutesFebruary 8, 2013 (2013-02-08)
504[20]15"How Weather Modification Works"32 minutesFebruary 9, 2013 (2013-02-09)
505[21]16"How Jet Lag Works"34 minutesFebruary 12, 2013 (2013-02-12)
506[22]17"Myths About the Brain"24 minutesFebruary 14, 2013 (2013-02-14)
507[23]18"How Surfing Works"49 minutesFebruary 19, 2013 (2013-02-19)
508[24]19"What Would Happen If the World Stopped Spinning?"20 minutesFebruary 21, 2013 (2013-02-21)
509[25]20"How CPR Works"29 minutesFebruary 26, 2013 (2013-02-26)
510[26]21"How the Papacy Works"34 minutesMarch 1, 2013 (2013-03-01)
511[27]22"What Makes a One-hit Wonder?"29 minutesMarch 5, 2013 (2013-03-05)
512[28]23"Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?"21 minutesMarch 7, 2013 (2013-03-07)
513[29]24"Can We Build an Elevator to Space?"30 minutesMarch 9, 2013 (2013-03-09)
514[30]25"How Police Sketches Work"39 minutesMarch 12, 2013 (2013-03-12)
515[31]26"How the U.S. Postal Service Works"45 minutesMarch 13, 2013 (2013-03-13)
516[32]27"How Apartheid Worked"37 minutesMarch 18, 2013 (2013-03-18)
517[33]28"Gesundheit! How Allergies Work"27 minutesMarch 21, 2013 (2013-03-21)
518[34]29"What was the most peaceful time in history?"28 minutesMarch 26, 2013 (2013-03-26)
519[35]30"How No-fly Zones Work"27 minutesMarch 28, 2013 (2013-03-28)
520[36]31"How the Panama Canal Works"33 minutesApril 1, 2013 (2013-04-01)
521[37]32"How Grief Works"42 minutesApril 1, 2013 (2013-04-01)
522[38]33"What’s the deal with duckbill platypuses?"25 minutesApril 9, 2013 (2013-04-09)
523[39]34"Do men and women have different brains?"26 minutesApril 11, 2013 (2013-04-11)
524[40]35"How Marriage Works"41 minutesApril 16, 2013 (2013-04-16)
525[41]36"Uses of the Insanity Defense"31 minutesApril 18, 2013 (2013-04-18)
526[42]37"How Magnets Work"36 minutesApril 23, 2013 (2013-04-23)
527[43]38"What makes us yawn?"29 minutesApril 25, 2013 (2013-04-25)
528[44]39"Is there such a thing as a truth serum?"37 minutesApril 30, 2013 (2013-04-30)
529[45]40"How Dungeons and Dragons Works"48 minutesMay 2, 2013 (2013-05-02)
530[46]41"How Fair Trade Works"30 minutesMay 7, 2013 (2013-05-07)
531[47]42"How Foot Binding Worked"28 minutesMay 9, 2013 (2013-05-09)
532[48]43"How Electroconvulsive Therapy Works"26 minutesMay 14, 2013 (2013-05-14)
533[49]44"How Aerosol Cans Work"24 minutesMay 16, 2013 (2013-05-16)
534[50]45"How Cicadas Work"30 minutesMay 21, 2013 (2013-05-21)
535[51]46"How PTSD Works"40 minutesMay 23, 2013 (2013-05-23)
536[52]47"How Police Chases Work"27 minutesMay 28, 2013 (2013-05-28)
537[53]48"How Coffins Work"41 minutesMay 30, 2013 (2013-05-30)
538[54]49"What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke?"34 minutesJune 4, 2013 (2013-06-04)
539[55]50"How do trees affect the weather?"28 minutesJune 6, 2013 (2013-06-06)
540[56]51"How Drag Queens Work"43 minutesJune 11, 2013 (2013-06-11)
541[57]52"Capgras Syndrome: You Are Not Who You Think You Are"26 minutesJune 13, 2013 (2013-06-13)
542[58]53"How Bitcoin Works"37 minutesJune 18, 2013 (2013-06-18)
543[59]54"How Ghosts Work"43 minutesJune 20, 2013 (2013-06-20)
544[60]55"What’s the deal with Rasputin’s death?"32 minutesJune 25, 2013 (2013-06-25)
545[61]56"How Burning Man Works"33 minutesJune 27, 2013 (2013-06-27)
546[62]57"How Pollen Works"29 minutesJuly 2, 2013 (2013-07-02)
547[63]58"How Miranda Rights Work"30 minutesJuly 5, 2013 (2013-07-05)
548[64]59"10 Medieval Torture Devices"36 minutesJuly 9, 2013 (2013-07-09)
549[65]60"How Hip-hop Works"52 minutesJuly 11, 2013 (2013-07-11)
550[66]61"How Building Implosions Work"36 minutesJuly 16, 2013 (2013-07-16)
551[67]62"Who owns an abandoned house?"31 minutesJuly 18, 2013 (2013-07-18)
552[68]63"Why should you never scare a vulture?"32 minutesJuly 23, 2013 (2013-07-23)
553[69]64"How Maps Work"41 minutesJuly 25, 2013 (2013-07-25)
554[70]65"How LARP Works"35 minutesJuly 30, 2013 (2013-07-30)
555[71]66"How Fingerprinting Works"35 minutesAugust 1, 2013 (2013-08-01)
556[72]67"How Horseshoes Work"31 minutesAugust 6, 2013 (2013-08-06)
557[73]68"The Shark Diaries"40 minutesAugust 7, 2013 (2013-08-07)
558[74]69"How does a diving bell work?"31 minutesAugust 8, 2013 (2013-08-08)
559[75]70"Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier?"37 minutesAugust 13, 2013 (2013-08-13)
560[76]71"How Cockroaches Work"44 minutesAugust 15, 2013 (2013-08-15)
561[77]72"How Ejection Seats Work"39 minutesAugust 20, 2013 (2013-08-20)
562[78]73"History’s Greatest Traitors"45 minutesAugust 22, 2013 (2013-08-22)
563[79]74"How Broken Bones Work"43 minutesAugust 27, 2013 (2013-08-27)
564[80]75"How did 168 conquistadors take down the Inca empire?"40 minutesAugust 29, 2013 (2013-08-29)
565[81]76"How the Rosetta Stone Works"38 minutesSeptember 3, 2013 (2013-09-03)
566[82]77"How much money is in the world?"36 minutesSeptember 5, 2013 (2013-09-05)
567[83]78"How Breast Implants Work"1 hourSeptember 10, 2013 (2013-09-10)
568[84]79"Can you die of a broken heart?"29 minutesSeptember 12, 2013 (2013-09-12)
569[85]80"How IEDs Work"35 minutesSeptember 17, 2013 (2013-09-17)
570[86]81"How Dying Works"1 hour 4 minutesSeptember 19, 2013 (2013-09-19)
571[87]82"How Crack Works"49 minutesSeptember 24, 2013 (2013-09-24)
572[88]83"Does owning a gun change your behavior?"33 minutesSeptember 26, 2013 (2013-09-26)
573[89]84"What’s the deal with diplomatic immunity?"41 minutesSeptember 30, 2013 (2013-09-30)
574[90]85"Can NASA predict natural disasters?"28 minutesOctober 3, 2013 (2013-10-03)
575[91]86"Did Archimedes build a death ray?"36 minutesOctober 8, 2013 (2013-10-08)
576[92]87"How Handwriting Analysis Works"43 minutesOctober 10, 2013 (2013-10-10)
577[93]88"How the Maori Work"40 minutesOctober 14, 2013 (2013-10-14)
578[94]89"10 Easy Ways to Save Money"45 minutesOctober 17, 2013 (2013-10-17)
579[95]90"How Guide Dogs Work"40 minutesOctober 21, 2013 (2013-10-21)
580[96]91"How Revisionist History Works"45 minutesOctober 24, 2013 (2013-10-24)
581[97]92"How Ouija Boards Work"34 minutesOctober 29, 2013 (2013-10-29)
582[98]93"The Empty House"40 minutesOctober 30, 2013 (2013-10-30)
583[99]94"What’s with the Winchester Mystery House?"34 minutesOctober 31, 2013 (2013-10-31)
584[100]95"How Chess Works"49 minutesNovember 5, 2013 (2013-11-05)
585[101]96"How Lewis and Clark Worked"55 minutesNovember 7, 2013 (2013-11-07)
586[102]97"Some Interesting Things You Didn’t Know About Stephen Hawking"33 minutesNovember 12, 2013 (2013-11-12)
587[103]98"How Werewolves Work"35 minutesNovember 14, 2013 (2013-11-14)
588[104]99"How Chocolate Works"41 minutesNovember 19, 2013 (2013-11-19)
589[105]100"Who killed JFK?"47 minutesNovember 21, 2013 (2013-11-21)
590[106]101"Is there a scientific formula for funny?"43 minutesNovember 25, 2013 (2013-11-25)
591[107]102"How Black Friday Works"40 minutesNovember 27, 2013 (2013-11-27)
592[108]103"How Castration Works"42 minutesDecember 3, 2013 (2013-12-03)
593[109]104"How Maglev Trains Work"33 minutesDecember 5, 2013 (2013-12-05)
594[110]105"How HeLa Cells Work"27 minutesDecember 10, 2013 (2013-12-10)
595[111]106"How Underwater Tunnels Work"34 minutesDecember 11, 2013 (2013-12-11)
596[112]107"How Manhunts Work"35 minutesDecember 16, 2013 (2013-12-16)
597[113]108"Is lethal injection humane?"45 minutesDecember 19, 2013 (2013-12-19)
598[114]109"Josh and Chuck’s Warm and Cozy Christmas Extravaganza 2013"45 minutesDecember 24, 2013 (2013-12-24)
599[115]110"How Fire Breathing Works"32 minutesDecember 26, 2013 (2013-12-26)
600[116]111"Will solar sails take us to the stars?"25 minutesDecember 30, 2013 (2013-12-30)

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  3. "2014 People's Voice". International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-02-06.
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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.
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