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If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

Stuff You Should Know

Of course we're talking all about maple syrup today - the tapping, the processing, the eating.

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How to Drink a Tree's Blood

By all rights there should be three sets of molars in your mouth. But it turns out that our skulls aren’t really set up to accommodate that many anymore. Exactly why depends on who you ask.

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Short Stuff: Wisdom Teeth

In the 1970s, conservation groups around the world rose up to protect dwindling whale populations, some on the verge of extinction. They all worked under the same banner: Save the Whales! It turned out to be one of the most successful campaigns ever.

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Save the Whales!

Fever dreams can be unsettling experiences. These ramped up nightmares are vivid, detailed and only happen when the human body experiences a fever. What is it about the combination of fevers and dreams that make these night terrors so hellish? Learn all that and more in this classic episode.

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Selects: How Fever Dreams Work

Humanity’s created a lot of neat things over the eons and starting in the 1940s, the UN created an agency focused on preserving those things for the whole world and future people. But that mission is in danger of becoming only about branding and money.

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UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity

There’s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird’s defense, it’s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation among bird lovers in this Short Stuff.

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Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird

Once in a while someone comes up with a solution for a problem we didn’t know we had, and maybe even a problem that didn’t even exist. Even more rarely, the stars align just right so that some crackpot invention captures everyone’s imagination.

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Some Silly Inventions That Became Wildly Popular

In this classic episode Josh and Chuck sit down and detail the complicated life of the late, great Sammy Davis Jr.

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Selects: Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure

In 2014 a ferry carrying hundreds of South Korean high school students on a field trip sunk, killing almost everyone on board. Hauntingly, their deaths were fully avoidable: everyone from the dock inspector to the Coast Guard to the president failed them.

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The Sewol Ferry Disaster

The Japanese Cherry Blossom is a sight to behold. But how did they get to Washington D.C.?

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Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird

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