Stuff You Should Know (2012)

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]

2012 season

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Length	Original air date
386[6]	1	"How Yo-Yos Work"	31 minutes	January 3, 2012
387[7]	2	"Was there a curse on King Tut’s tomb?"	38 minutes	January 5, 2012
388[8]	3	"Can you vacation in Antarctica?"	36 minutes	January 10, 2012
389[9]	4	"What’s the deal with the Bermuda Triangle?"	44 minutes	January 12, 2012
390[10]	5	"Are contrails actually chemtrails?"	32 minutes	January 17, 2012
391[11]	6	"How Mexican Wrestling Works"	40 minutes	January 19, 2012
392[12]	7	"How Human Trafficking Works"	34 minutes	January 24, 2012
393[13]	8	"How Floods Work"	32 minutes	January 26, 2012
394[14]	9	"How Magic Mushrooms Work"	50 minutes	January 31, 2012
395[15]	10	"What’s the 10,000 Year Clock?"	46 minutes	February 2, 2012
396[16]	11	"Pickpockets: Artists or Crooks?"	32 minutes	February 7, 2012
397[17]	12	"How Coral Reefs Work"	35 minutes	February 9, 2012
398[18]	13	"How Zero Works"	30 minutes	February 14, 2012
399[19]	14	"How Autopsies Work"	49 minutes	February 16, 2012
400[20]	15	"How Spies Work"	43 minutes	February 21, 2012
401[21]	16	"Fasting: deadly or what?"	34 minutes	February 23, 2012
402[22]	17	"How Crying Works"	39 minutes	February 28, 2012
403[23]	18	"How SETI Works"	38 minutes	March 1, 2012
404[24]	19	"Duels: A guide to throwing down the gauntlet"	42 minutes	March 6, 2012
405[25]	20	"How Noah’s Ark Worked"	31 minutes	March 8, 2012
406[26]	21	"Should chimps be used for medical testing?"	32 minutes	March 13, 2012
407[27]	22	"How the Donner Party Worked"	36 minutes	March 15, 2012
408[28]	23	"How Comic Books: Live from SXSW"	56 minutes	March 20, 2012
409[29]	24	"How Tipping Works"	50 minutes	March 22, 2012
410[30]	25	"10 Big Cases of Revenge"	44 minutes	March 27, 2012
411[31]	26	"How Music Sampling Works"	44 minutes	March 29, 2012
412[32]	27	"How Diamonds Work"	40 minutes	April 3, 2012
413[33]	28	"How Beer Works"	48 minutes	April 5, 2012
414[34]	29	"Was Atlantis a real place?"	32 minutes	April 10, 2012
415[35]	30	"Body Odor: You Stink"	45 minutes	April 11, 2012
416[36]	31	"How Whaling Works"	35 minutes	April 17, 2012
417[37]	32	"Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You’d Think"	38 minutes	April 19, 2012
418[38]	33	"How Air Traffic Control Works"	39 minutes	April 24, 2012
419[39]	34	"How Medical Marijuana Works"	33 minutes	April 26, 2012
420[40]	35	"How did language evolve?"	27 minutes	May 1, 2012
421[41]	36	"How Bullfighting Works"	44 minutes	May 3, 2012
422[42]	37	"Did the Dutch trade Manhattan for nutmeg?"	34 minutes	May 8, 2012
423[43]	38	"What is a shotgun house?"	23 minutes	May 10, 2012
424[44]	39	"Interpol: World Police"	32 minutes	May 15, 2012
425[45]	40	"What is the future of Earth?"	33 minutes	May 17, 2012
426[46]	41	"How Labor Unions Work"	48 minutes	May 22, 2012
427[47]	42	"Are we obsessed with goals?"	40 minutes	May 24, 2012
428[48]	43	"Do video games produce real-life violence?"	32 minutes	May 29, 2012
429[49]	44	"Can it rain frogs?"	25 minutes	May 31, 2012
430[50]	45	"How Moss Works"	32 minutes	June 5, 2012
431[51]	46	"Fractals: Whoa"	34 minutes	June 7, 2012
432[52]	47	"Should we have a fat tax?"	35 minutes	June 12, 2012
433[53]	48	"Whatever happened to acid rain?"	30 minutes	June 14, 2012
434[54]	49	"How Icebergs Work (Very Cool)"	38 minutes	June 19, 2012
435[55]	50	"10 Accidental Inventions: By the Numbers"	36 minutes	June 21, 2012
436[56]	51	"Lying Liars: How Lying Works, Liar"	50 minutes	June 26, 2012
437[57]	52	"What’s the deal with Executive Orders?"	34 minutes	June 28, 2012
438[58]	53	"Is the Dead Sea dead?"	26 minutes	July 3, 2012
439[59]	54	"How Tabloids Work"	50 minutes	July 5, 2012
440[60]	55	"Geysers: Nature’s Innuendo"	28 minutes	July 10, 2012
441[61]	56	"How Lightning Works"	39 minutes	July 12, 2012
442[62]	57	"How Disco Works"	48 minutes	July 17, 2012
443[63]	58	"Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?"	28 minutes	July 19, 2012
444[64]	59	"How White-collar Crime Works"	44 minutes	July 24, 2012
445[65]	60	"How Time Travel Works (Live at SD Comic-Con)"	27 minutes	July 26, 2012
446[66]	61	"How the Musketeers Worked"	29 minutes	July 31, 2012
447[67]	62	"Can we build an elevator to space?"	30 minutes	August 2, 2012
448[68]	63	"How Ramadan Works"	31 minutes	August 7, 2012
449[69]	64	"How Shark Attacks Work"	39 minutes	August 9, 2012
450[70]	65	"The Shark Diaries"	40 minutes	August 14, 2012
451[71]	66	"Did Reagan’s Star Wars program win the Cold War?"	34 minutes	August 16, 2012
452[72]	67	"Why You Probably Have a Criminal Record"	31 minutes	August 21, 2012
453[73]	68	"What happens to abandoned mines?"	26 minutes	August 23, 2012
454[74]	69	"How the Electoral College Works"	41 minutes	August 28, 2012
455[75]	70	"How Flesh-eating Bacteria Work"	27 minutes	August 30, 2012
456[76]	71	"Can you test a nuclear weapon without a fallout?"	29 minutes	September 4, 2012
457[77]	72	"Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish"	36 minutes	September 6, 2012
458[78]	73	"How Asexuality Works"	34 minutes	September 11, 2012
459[79]	74	"How Book Banning Works"	30 minutes	September 13, 2012
460[80]	75	"Are we all Martians?"	28 minutes	September 18, 2012
461[81]	76	"Why does music provoke emotion?"	1 hour 4 minutes	September 20, 2012
462[82]	77	"Q: Are we in the midst of cyberwar? A: Yes"	28 minutes	September 25, 2012
463[83]	78	"Subways: HUH! What are they good for?"	43 minutes	September 27, 2012
464[84]	79	"How Whiskey Runners Worked"	30 minutes	October 2, 2012
465[85]	80	"How Fire Works"	28 minutes	October 4, 2012
466[86]	81	"How Rainforests Work"	40 minutes	October 9, 2012
467[87]	82	"How Pizza Works!"	51 minutes	October 11, 2012
468[88]	83	"How Black Holes Work"	31 minutes	October 16, 2012
469[89]	84	"How Lion Taming Works"	28 minutes	October 18, 2012
470[90]	85	"How Commercial Jingles Work"	35 minutes	October 23, 2012
471[91]	86	"Exoskeletons: How’s it coming?"	31 minutes	October 25, 2012
472[92]	87	"SYSK’s Halloween Horror Fiction Winner!"	24 minutes	October 30, 2012
473[93]	88	"Is Stockholm Syndrome real?"	34 minutes	November 1, 2012
474[94]	89	"Yakuza: From Samurai to Slot Machines"	37 minutes	November 6, 2012
475[95]	90	"What will happen when we reach the Singularity?"	40 minutes	November 8, 2012
476[96]	91	"How close are we to holographic environments?"	24 minutes	November 13, 2012
477[97]	92	"How Meth Works"	48 minutes	November 15, 2012
478[98]	93	"Should we be designing our children?"	35 minutes	November 20, 2012
479[99]	94	"Philanthropy: Humankind and Loving It"	46 minutes	November 22, 2012
480[100]	95	"Why do leaves change colors in the fall?"	24 minutes	November 27, 2012
481[101]	96	"How Caving Works"	50 minutes	November 29, 2012
482[102]	97	"How Vampires Work"	49 minutes	December 4, 2012
483[103]	98	"Will we reach peak oil?"	38 minutes	December 6, 2012
484[104]	99	"Why isn’t the U.S. on the metric system?"	37 minutes	December 11, 2012
485[105]	100	"How Condoms Work"	1 hour 2 minutes	December 13, 2012
486[106]	101	"Lab-grown meat: Order up!"	29 minutes	December 18, 2012
487[107]	102	"How Barbie® Doll Works"	1 hour 2 minutes	December 20, 2012
488[108]	103	"Josh and Chuck’s Christmas Extravaganza 2012"	46 minutes	December 21, 2012
489[109]	104	"How Dog Shows Work"	41 minutes	December 27, 2012

References

1. "2014 Peoples Voice Awards". Webby Awards. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
2. "2016 Peoples Voice Awards". Webby Awards. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
3. "2014 People's Voice". International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-02-06.
4. Kafka, Peter (May 21, 2012). "Discovery Plans Science TV Show for "Stuff You Should Know" Podcast". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
5. Josh and Joel (September 30, 2014). "Pod on Pod on Stuff You Should Know". ProCreate (Podcast). Retrieved 2014-12-20.
6. How Yo-Yos Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
7. Was there a curse on King Tut’s tomb?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
8. Can you vacation in Antarctica?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
9. What’s the deal with the Bermuda Triangle?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
10. Are contrails actually chemtrails?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
11. How Mexican Wrestling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
12. How Human Trafficking Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
13. How Floods Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
14. How Magic Mushrooms Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
15. What’s the 10,000 Year Clock?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
16. Pickpockets: Artists or Crooks?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
17. How Coral Reefs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
18. How Zero Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
19. How Autopsies Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
20. How Spies Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
21. Fasting: deadly or what?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
22. How Crying Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
23. How SETI Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
24. Duels: A guide to throwing down the gauntlet. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
25. How Noah’s Ark Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
26. Should chimps be used for medical testing?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
27. How the Donner Party Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
28. How Comic Books: Live from SXSW. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
29. How Tipping Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
30. 10 Big Cases of Revenge. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
31. How Music Sampling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
32. How Diamonds Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
33. How Beer Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
34. Was Atlantis a real place?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
35. Body Odor: You Stink. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
36. How Whaling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
37. Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You’d Think. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
38. How Air Traffic Control Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
39. How Medical Marijuana Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
40. How did language evolve?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
41. How Bullfighting Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
42. Did the Dutch trade Manhattan for nutmeg?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
43. What is a shotgun house?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
44. Interpol: World Police. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
45. What is the future of Earth?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
46. How Labor Unions Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
47. Are we obsessed with goals?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
48. Do video games produce real-life violence?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
49. Can it rain frogs?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
50. How Moss Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
51. Fractals: Whoa. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
52. Should we have a fat tax?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
53. Whatever happened to acid rain?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
54. How Icebergs Work (Very Cool). HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
55. 10 Accidental Inventions: By the Numbers. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
56. Lying Liars: How Lying Works, Liar. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
57. What’s the deal with Executive Orders?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
58. Is the Dead Sea dead?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
59. How Tabloids Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
60. Geysers: Nature’s Innuendo. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
61. How Lightning Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
62. How Disco Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
63. Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
64. How White-collar Crime Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
65. How Time Travel Works (Live at SD Comic-Con). HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
66. How the Musketeers Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
67. Can we build an elevator to space?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
68. How Ramadan Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
69. How Shark Attacks Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
70. The Shark Diaries. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
71. Did Reagan’s Star Wars program win the Cold War?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
72. Why You Probably Have a Criminal Record. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
73. What happens to abandoned mines?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
74. How the Electoral College Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
75. How Flesh-eating Bacteria Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
76. Can you test a nuclear weapon without a fallout?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
77. Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
78. How Asexuality Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
79. How Book Banning Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
80. Are we all Martians?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
81. Why does music provoke emotion?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
82. Q: Are we in the midst of cyberwar? A: Yes. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
83. Subways: HUH! What are they good for?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
84. How Whiskey Runners Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
85. How Fire Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
86. How Rainforests Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
87. How Pizza Works!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
88. How Black Holes Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
89. How Lion Taming Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
90. How Commercial Jingles Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
91. Exoskeletons: How’s it coming?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
92. SYSK’s Halloween Horror Fiction Winner!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
93. Is Stockholm Syndrome real?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
94. Yakuza: From Samurai to Slot Machines. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
95. What will happen when we reach the Singularity?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
96. How close are we to holographic environments?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
97. How Meth Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
98. Should we be designing our children?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
99. Philanthropy: Humankind and Loving It. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
100. Why do leaves change colors in the fall?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
101. How Caving Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
102. How Vampires Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
103. Will we reach peak oil?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
104. Why isn’t the U.S. on the metric system?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
105. How Condoms Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
106. Lab-grown meat: Order up!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
107. How Barbie® Doll Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
108. Josh and Chuck’s Christmas Extravaganza 2012. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
109. How Dog Shows Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.

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