Stuff You Should Know

SYSK's 2025 Holiday Extravaganza Christmas Special

Deck your tidings and get your halls nice and gladded because it’s time for maybe the best episode of the year, where SYSK loosens our ties, puts on our smoking jackets and Santa hats and create holiday nostalgia in real time. Happy holidays, everybody! See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Selects: PT Barnum: More Complicated Than You've Heard

When your life is as outsized as the World’s Greatest Showman PT Barnum it’s pretty easy to - you know - gloss over the grimmer aspects when you turn it into an uplifting musical movie. But the way to understand a person is to look at them, warts and all. Josh and Chuck take a full accounting in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Doggerland: Lost at Sea

The story of Doggerland is pretty fascinating. The idea is that mainland Europe and the UK were connected not only by a land bridge, but a place where plants, animals and even humans, thrived.  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Short Stuff: Battle of Itter Castle

At the end of WWII in Europe, one of the strangest battles of the war took place between German troops fighting alongside Americans and French to beat back an assault by the Nazi SS. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Battle Royale: Optimists vs Pessimists

Everybody’s always bagging on pessimists and telling everybody they should be more optimistic. Well, nuts to that! There are plenty of benefits from being a pessimist. Although being an optimist still wins in basically every category ☹ See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.